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Criminal behavior patterns of adolescents and young adults who have histories of sexual offenses
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
characteristics. Participants were 1,725 youths and their parents who were part of the National Youth Survey, which followed youths from adolescence through early adulthood. Individual youths completed a self-report delinquency measure in seven waves of the study...
Is maturing out of problematic alcohol involvement related to personality change?
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Problematic alcohol involvement typically peaks in the early 20s and declines with age. This "maturing out" of alcohol involvement is usually attributed ...
Validity of the hangover symptoms scale : evidence from two diary studies
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
Individual differences in hangover deserve study because they could be markers of important traits or processes such as loss of control, impulsivity, tolerance, or acute inflammatory responses. The Hangover Symptoms Scale ...
Exploring the relation between cigarette smoking and alcohol hangover frequency
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
frequent concomitant of drinking, accounts for some of the variation in self-reported hangover. Data from a longitudinal familial high-risk study (N=489; 51% with a family history of AUD) were used to assess the association of smoking with hangover. Cross...
Cost-benefit analysis of multisystemic therapy with serious and violent juvenile offenders
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
This study investigated the economics of multisystemic therapy (MST) vs. individual therapy (IT) using longitudinal rearrest data from a 13.7-year follow-up (Schaeffer & Borduin, 2005) of a randomized clinical trial with ...
Provided and received partner support in the context of HIV-related stigma : effects on couple members' daily depression and relationship satisfaction
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] The current study utilized a diary methodology to better understand whether perceiving and encountering HIV-related stigma influences the ways in which ...
Exploring personality factors associated with treatment-seeking behavior among individuals with bulimia nervosa
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] There are numerous treatments that have been developed for bulimia nervosa (BN), but few individuals with BN seek treatment. It is important to understand ...
The relations of violence exposure, trauma symptoms and aggressive cognitions to youth violent behavior
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2005)
Studies show that adolescents in the United States are disproportionately represented among both the victims and the perpetrators of violent crimes (U.S. Department of Justice, 2002). Studies also show that previous exposure ...
Acute & subchronic NMDA receptor blockade alters nicotine-evoked dopamine release
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
Blockade of ionotropic glutamate receptors can induce changes in central dopamine and glutamate circuits, which model the symptoms of schizophrenia. Nicotine evokes dopamine release through activation of nicotinic acetylcholine ...
Ecological momentary assessment of affective instability, impulsivity, and alcohol use in borderline personality disorder
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
DSM-IV-TR diagnosis of borderline personality disorder, who met the affective instability criterion, and 26 psychiatric outpatients currently experiencing a major depressive episode or dysthymia. Participants reported their moods, impulsivity...
Gene-environment interaction in alcohol problems in emerging and young adulthood : the DRD4 VNTR, DAT1 VNTR, and 5-HTTLPR polymorphisms
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
Alcohol problems at different developmental stages are associated with different genetic and environmental factors. Taking a developmentally sensitive approach, the current study characterized interaction effects between ...
How sweet it is to be loved by you : toward an understanding of why close relationships buffer existential fear
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Theory and research suggest that close relationships help to buffer against existential fears associated with the awareness of death (Mikulincer ...
Social perspective-taking in the friendships of adolescents : implications for friendship quality and emotional adjustment
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
hypotheses and indicated that girls reported higher social perspective-taking and empathetic distress in their friendships compared to boys. Future research should include longitudinal assessments to address the direction of the effects. Applied implications...
Two brief treatments based on dialectical behavior therapy for binge eating across diagnoses and thresholds : results from a preliminary randomized dismantling study
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
How can disordered eating be effectively treated? The answer is not yet clear. Although cognitive behavioral therap (CBT) is generally considered the treatment of choice, disordered eating has been show to persist and ...
College students' reasons for abstaining or limiting drinking: factor structure, predictors, and relations to abstention and alcohol-related outcomes
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] All addictive behavior can be conceptualized as a balance between impelling and inhibiting forces. Increasing knowledge of how motives (both approach ...
Boundary conditions for a visual working memory capacity model
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
working memory performance with both simple and complex stimuli. An interesting observation of experiment participants' non-rational strategy use was also reported....
Multisystemic therapy across the lifespan : a 21.9-year follow-up to a randomized clinical trial with serious and violent juvenile offenders
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
In this study, we examined the long-term criminal and civil court outcomes of 176 serious and violent juvenile offenders who had participated in either multisystemic therapy (MST) or individual therapy (IT) in a randomized ...
Does ego threat increase paranoia?
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
The goal of the current research was to test whether an ego threat increases paranoia, whether the increase in paranoia was mediated by state self-esteem, and whether the increase in paranoia was moderated by the personality ...
Adolescent suicide attempts and alcohol use : a developmental psychopathology perspective
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] The present study characterizes the extent to which the adolescent alcohol-suicide attempt relation varies across severity of suicide attempt (i.e., ...
The moderating role of maternal supervision in the social ecology of children's unintentional injuries
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
Unintentional injuries are the leading cause of death for young children in the United States. Gaining a better understanding of the ways in which maternal behaviors relate to children's injuries may help researchers develop ...