Background:
Two theoretical frameworks, the cumulative stress and match-mismatch model, propose that patterns of maternal depressive symptoms over early periods of offspring development predict outcomes in opposing ways....
Schmeer, Kammi K., Christine Guardino, Jessica L. Irwin, Sharon Ramey, Madeleine Shalowitz, and Christine Dunkel Schetter. "Maternal Postpartum Stress and Toddler Developmental Delays: Results from a Multisite Study of Racially...
BACKGROUND: Stress in pregnancy predicts adverse birth outcomes. Stressors occurring prior to conception may also pose risk for the mother and child. The few published studies on preconception stress test a single stress...
Background:
Although score reliability is a sample-dependent characteristic, researchers often only report reliability estimates from previous studies as justification for employing particular questionnaires in their...
Narrative research systematically codes individual differences in the ways in which participants story crucial events in their lives to understand the extent to which they create meaning and purpose (McAdams, 2008). These...
Both gender and narrative are foundational to the ways in which humans engage in meaning-making. Arguing from evolutionary, psychological and feminist theoretical perspectives, we posit that narratives and gender are culturally...
Coherent personal narratives employed for self-understanding (self function) and social proximity (social function) are theorized to inform life and the sense of self with meaning. Yet, it has not been tested whether this...
Editorial (Volume 37 Issue 2, December 2017):The following two issues of Imagination, Cognition, and Personality (Volume 37, issues 2 and 3) together comprise a special issue co-edited by Azriel Grysman and Cade Mansfield on...
Objective:
Etiological and maintenance models for disordered eating highlight the salience of negative affect and interpersonal dysfunction. This study employed a 14-day experience sampling procedure to assess the impact...