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Alexandra A. M. Zuiker; Marise Ph. Born; Jan W. Van Strien – Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 2025
Stimulating outperformance has been increasingly emphasized in educational policies. Although personally satisfying, outperformance can also lead to interpersonal strain, which is often overlooked in the educational excellence discourse. Exline and Lobel (1999, "Psychological Bulletin, 125"(3), 307-337) coined Sensitivity about being the…
Descriptors: Preadolescents, Fear of Success, Interpersonal Relationship, Emotional Response
Alexis Lynnette Wilkerson – ProQuest LLC, 2020
It is estimated that 16% of men and 26% of women have experienced child sexual abuse (CSA), and studies have shown a strong association with long-term psychosocial consequences. The use of psychoeducational groups with survivors of CSA has been found to produce favorable outcomes; however, no meta-analyses have been conducted on studies assessing…
Descriptors: Sexual Abuse, Psychopathology, Group Therapy, Children
Clayton, Robert E. – Journal of College Student Psychotherapy, 2015
Inhibition of emotional experience is a widely acknowledged characteristic of many Western-raised men. While this affective inhibition may impact men chronically in many ways, it becomes particularly salient when men are bereaved or otherwise grieving and are unable fully to experience normative emotional responses to loss. This article briefly…
Descriptors: Males, Grief, Inhibition, Emotional Experience
Mazzone, Angela; Camodeca, Marina; Salmivalli, Christina – Journal of Moral Education, 2016
We examined the moderating effect of guilt on the associations between moral disengagement and bullying, defending and outsider behaviors in a sample of 404 students (203 boys; M[subscript age] = 11.09 years; SD = 1.48). Bullying, defending and outsider behavior were assessed through peer nominations, whereas guilt and moral disengagement were…
Descriptors: Bullying, Psychological Patterns, Moral Values, Correlation
Hui, Victoria Ka-Ying; Coleman, Peter G. – Death Studies, 2012
The aim of this exploratory survey study was to develop and validate a Buddhist reincarnation beliefs scale and explore the relation between Buddhist reincarnation beliefs and personal death anxiety in 141 older adult Hong Kong Chinese Buddhists. Buddhist reincarnation beliefs were unrelated to personal death anxiety. This suggests that not all…
Descriptors: Older Adults, Anxiety, Foreign Countries, Buddhism
Maina, Faith; Burrell, Marcia; Hampton, Bonita – Online Submission, 2011
University students in general experience stressful situations once they leave home and begin to adjust to the new life on a college campus with its related academic and social demands. However, students of color often have the additional burden of coping with race-related stress. Data from a focus group interview with 18 alumni of color, found…
Descriptors: Coping, Minority Group Students, Alumni, College Graduates
Hayes, Joseph; Schimel, Jeff; Arndt, Jamie; Faucher, Erik H. – Psychological Bulletin, 2010
Terror management theory (TMT) highlights the motivational impact of thoughts of death in various aspects of everyday life. Since its inception in 1986, research on TMT has undergone a slight but significant shift from an almost exclusive focus on the manipulation of thoughts of death to a marked increase in studies that measure the accessibility…
Descriptors: Death, Behavioral Science Research, Anxiety, World Views
Gormley, Barbara; Lopez, Frederick G. – Journal of College Counseling, 2010
This study examined the contributions of gender, adult romantic attachment orientations (i.e., avoidance, anxiety), defense mechanisms (i.e., narcissism, other-splitting), and stressors to college student psychological abuse perpetration (dominance). Men with higher levels of attachment avoidance, narcissistic entitlement, and stressful problems…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Dating (Social), Defense Mechanisms, Correlation
Livneh, Hanoch – Rehabilitation Counseling Bulletin, 2009
The concept of denial has been an integral part of the psychological and disability studies bodies of literature for over 100 years. Yet, denial is a highly elusive concept and has been associated with mixed, indeed conflicting theoretical perspectives, clinical strategies, and empirical findings. In part II the author reviews empirical findings,…
Descriptors: Intervention, Chronic Illness, Defense Mechanisms, Disabilities
Cashwell, Craig S.; Glosoff, Harriet L.; Hammond, Cheree – Counseling and Values, 2010
The phenomenon of spiritual bypass has received limited attention in the transpersonal psychology and counseling literature and has not been subjected to empirical inquiry. This study examines the phenomenon of spiritual bypass by considering how spirituality, mindfulness, alexithymia (emotional restrictiveness), and narcissism work together to…
Descriptors: Religious Factors, Depression (Psychology), Anxiety, College Students

Sandstrom, Marlene J. – Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 2004
This study examines the reliability and validity of a newly developed self-report measure designed to assess children's coping strategies in response to everyday rejection experiences. The Survey for Coping with Rejection Experiences (SCORE) was administered to 225 children and factor analysis of responses resulted in the conceptually meaningful…
Descriptors: Sociometric Techniques, Rejection (Psychology), Factor Analysis, Depression (Psychology)
Araujo, Katy B.; Medic, Sanja; Yasnovsky, Jessica; Steiner, Hans – Child Psychiatry and Human Development, 2006
This study used the Response Evaluation Measure-Youth (REM-Y-71), a self-report measure of 21 defense reactions, among school-age children. Participants were elementary and middle school students (n=290; grades 3-8; age range: 8-15; mean=11.73). Factor analysis revealed a 2-factor defense structure consistent with structure among high school and…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Measurement Techniques, Factor Analysis, Predictor Variables
Martz, Erin – Death Studies, 2004
Because the onset of a spinal cord injury may involve a brush with death and because serious injury and disability can act as a reminder of death, death anxiety was examined as a predictor of posttraumatic stress levels among individuals with disabilities. This cross-sectional study used multiple regression and multivariate multiple regression to…
Descriptors: Injuries, Defense Mechanisms, Death, Anxiety
Shepherd, Robin-Marie – College Quarterly, 2006
This study administered the Academic Volitional Strategy Inventory to investigate volitional strategies amongst socially anxious college students. Volitional strategies regulate motivation and emotion to aid in the achievement of academic tasks. It was important to examine this phenomenon based upon the premise that socially anxious students have…
Descriptors: College Students, Self Efficacy, Anxiety, Stress Management

Klingman, Avigdor – School Psychology International, 2000
Examines the response of children in the Golan Heights to the ambiguous situation during the continuing peace talks between Israel and Syria concerning a possible evacuation of the region's settlers. Results suggest that social support, defensiveness, religion, and living in smaller settlements predicted better coping, whereas less social support…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Anxiety, Children, Collective Settlements
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