Browsing UMBC Psychology Department by Title
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Unacknowledged Miracles
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Underneath the Mask of the Strong Black Woman Schema: Disentangling Influences of Strength and Self-Silencing on Depressive Symptoms among U.S. Black Women
(Springer US, 2018-09-10)Recent investigations have elucidated the influence of the Strong Black Woman (SBW) Schema on the mental health and treatment seeking behaviors of Black women in the United States. However, the SBW schematic characteristics ... -
An Unequal Burden: Poor Patient-Provider Communication and Sickle Cell Disease
(Elsevier, 2014-05-23)Objective To assess disparities in the quality of healthcare provider communication experienced by African-American adults with and without sickle cell disease (SCD) in the U.S. Methods Poor provider communication was ... -
A Unit Price Evaluation of Severe Problem Behavior
(Wiley Online Library, 2007-08)We evaluated problem behavior exhibited by 6 individuals with developmental disabilities using the behavioral economic conceptualization of unit price. Descriptive observations were conducted during interactions between ... -
Using search engine data to gauge public interest in mental health, politics and violence in the context of mass shootings
(PLOS, 2020-08-07)Despite significant potential for providing insight to private perceptions and behaviors, search engine data has yet to be utilized as a means of gauging the U.S. public’s interest and understanding of mental health in the ... -
Using the K-SADS psychosis screen to identify people with early psychosis or psychosis risk syndromes
(SAGE Journals, 2019-05-16)Background: Current methods to identify people with psychosis risk involve administration of specialized tools such as the Structured Interview for Psychosis-Risk Syndromes (SIPS), but these methods have not been widely ... -
Validity of a two-item screen for early psychosis
(Elsevier B.V., 2018-12)Well-validated screening tools have been developed to identify people at high risk for psychosis, but these are rarely used outside of specialty clinics or research settings. The development of extremely brief and simple ... -
VASE-Containing N-CAM Isoforms Are Increased in the Hippocampus in Bipolar Disorder but Not Schizophrenia
(Elsevier, 2002-05-25)The neural cell adhesion molecule (N-CAM) is a cell recognition molecule that is involved in cellular migration, synaptic plasticity, and CNS development. In schizophrenia, a 105- to 115-kDa N-CAM protein is increased in ... -
Verbal Sexual Coercion Experiences, Sexual Risk, and Substance Use in Women
(Taylor & Francis, 2014-06-18)esearch has linked sexual assault, substance use, and sexually transmitted infection (STI) risk in women. Sexual assault by means of verbal sexual coercion (VSC) is more common than sexual assault by means of physical ... -
What Do Children Need to Know Before Kindergarten? Latinx Immigrant Parents’ Views
(2019)Understanding which skills parents consider necessary for kindergarten is essential because these beliefs drive parenting behaviors and are associated with children’s achievement. States are now evaluating kindergarten ... -
When Pandemics Call: Community-Based Research Considerations for HIV Scholars
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Which foods should a child with food allergy avoid? The role of parental knowledge in food avoidance appraisals
(Taylor & Francis, 2020-08-31)This study explored factors that influence the accuracy of caregivers’ appraisals of the foods their children with food allergy should avoid. Seventy-two caregivers of children with food allergy completed measures of ... -
Why Change Now? Cognitive Reappraisal Moderates the Relation between Anxiety and Resistance to Sunk Cost
(Springer Nature, 2021-01-06)To minimize distress associated with choices with uncertain consequences, individuals with high levels of anxiety may continue with familiar choices rather than seek out novel choices. As a result, they might be more ... -
Women's sexual arousal: Effects of high alcohol dosages and self-control instructions
(Elsevier, 2011-03-23)The basic relationship between alcohol and women’s sexual arousal – especially genital arousal –received little research attention for nearly 30 years (e.g. Wilson & Lawson, 1978) until very recently (e.g. George et al., ... -
Working Memory Training for Adolescents With Cannabis Use Disorders: A Randomized Controlled Trial
(Taylor & Francis, 2018-04-10)Adolescent cannabis use is associated with working memory impairment. The present randomized controlled trial assigned adolescents ages 14 to 21 enrolled in cannabis use treatment to receive either working memory training ... -
Wothy of Consideration
(Otter Bay Books, 2015)