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Margaret Stroebe, Henk Schut, and Maaike H. Nauta
Homesickness, when severe, is associated with feelings of anxiety, loneliness, depression, and social isolation. It can spur or exacerbate mood disorders, insomnia, memory problems, and immune deficiencies. When people move to a new place, they often experience problems associated with separation from their old life and with adjusting to their new environment. Many models of homesickness have conflated these two factors, but a new model proposed by the authors -- the dual process model of coping with homesickness (DPM-HS) -- distinguishes between them. The model identifies separate complications associated with each factor and describes how interactions of the two can lead to the development of incremental difficulties. This new model suggests new avenues for the development of interventions and lines of research into homesickness.
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Rebecca G. Fortgang, Christina M. Hultman, and Tyrone D. Cannon
Although schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and depression are distinct disorders, they share some clinical features. One feature in need of additional study is the similarity -- or dissimilarity -- in coping style among people with these disorders. Monozygotic and dizygotic twin pairs were given a clinical evaluation and were assessed for different types of coping behavior. The researchers found some overlap in coping styles among disorders -- for example, all participants showed low levels of productive problem-focused coping and high levels of disengagement coping. Despite these similarities, however, each disorder was associated with a specific and unique profile of coping. Understanding the differences in coping style across disorders could help researchers identify mechanisms involved in the development and maintenance of these disorders in the face of stress.
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Philip H. Smith, Lindsay M. S. Oberleitner, Kathryn M. Z. Smith, and Sherry A. McKee
The stress sensitization model suggests that people with a history of childhood adversity are more reactive to stress and are therefore more sensitive to stress later in life -- something that puts them at risk for mental health and substance-abuse problems. The researchers studied whether stress sensitization is related to smoking cessation by examining data on childhood adversity, past-year stressful life events, and smoking status and cessation taken from Wave 1 and Wave 2 of the U.S. National Epidemiologic Survey on Alcohol and Related Conditions. The researchers found that stressful life events were more strongly related to a lower likelihood of quitting smoking for women who had experienced childhood adversity than they were for women who had not, indicating that the stress sensitization model may be applicable for female -- but not male -- smokers.
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Leah S. Richmond-Rakerd, Kimberly A. Fleming, and Wendy S. Slutske
Understanding patterns and development of polysubstance use will require the ability to model the occurrence of multiple interrelated events. Unfortunately, many survival analytic methods cannot incorporate more than two substances. In this study, the researchers used a new model -- the multiple event process survival mixture (MEPSUM) model -- that does not have this limitation. Data on age of alcohol, cannabis, and tobacco initiation; alcohol, cannabis, and nicotine dependence; and measures of delinquency and personality were examined from all four waves of the U.S. National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health. The pattern of data suggested a four-class model, in which each group differed mainly in their period of peak initiation risk. Demographic variables, externalizing psychopathology, and personality were found to significantly predict class membership.
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Lisa M. Jaremka, Martha A. Belury, Rebecca R. Andridge, Monica E. Lindgren, Diane Habash, William B. Malarkey, and Janice K. Kiecolt-Glaser
To examine whether appetite dysregulation might be one way that unhappy marriages lead to less optimal health outcomes, the researches had couples eat a standardized meal and then participate in a discussion on a topic over which they had had a disagreement. Participants' ghrelin (an appetite hormone that promotes food consumption) and leptin (an appetite hormone that inhibits food intake) levels were measured before and 2, 4, and 7 hours after the meal, and the couples' conversations were used to determine their level of marital distress. Couples in more distressed marriages had higher post-meal ghrelin levels compared with those in less distressed marriages -- but this effect emerged only for participants with a low body mass index. Studies have found that appetite-relevant hormones are dysregulated in obese individuals, potentially explaining why this association was seen only in non-obese participants.
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Katharina Kircanski, Douglas C. Johnson, Maria Mateen, Robert A. Bjork, and Ian H. Gotlib
People with generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) often experience intrusive thoughts and have a bias for threat-related information. One reason proposed for this is that people with GAD may have impaired retrieval inhibition for threat material. Participants with and without GAD were assessed for anxiety and completed a retrieval-induced forgetting paradigm. The researchers found that participants with GAD showed less retrieval-induced forgetting for threat targets than for neutral targets. This pattern was not seen in people without GAD, suggesting that deficits in inhibitory control over threat-relevant information may contribute to the pathology of GAD.
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Samantha F. Anderson, Scott M. Monroe, Paul Rohde, and Peter M. Lewinsohn
The kindling model, as it relates to depression, suggests that as the number of reoccurrences of depression increases, the time between episodes (i.e., the intermorbid interval) decreases. Although this model has generally been supported, the data from these studies reveal a potential flaw known as Slater's fallacy. This statistical artifact arises because people with highly recurrent depression have consistently shorter intervals between episodes and make up a larger portion of the sample population with each reoccurrence. The authors utilized data from a longitudinal study that followed adolescents between the ages of 14 and 19 through age 30, examining major depressive disorder reoccurrence and intermorbid-interval length. They found a pattern of decreasing intermorbid intervals; however, this pattern disappeared once they corrected for Slater's fallacy.
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