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Always look on the bright side of life: Individual differences in visual attentional breadth for understanding temperament and emotion regulation in adolescents Ghent University
IntroductionCognitive-affective models of depression show that negative and positive emotionality differentially confer risk for depression through maladaptive and adaptive emotion regulation (ER) strategies respectively. Yet, no research has examined the mechanisms through which these temperament traits shape individual differences in ER. The current study explored the mediating role of attentional breadth for emotional information in the ...
Psychopathic traits in adolescence: Associations with temperament and personality KU Leuven
The research presented in this PhD dissertation focuses on psychopathic traits in adolescence. Assessing potential precursors to psychopathy in youth is essential in obtaining a better understanding of the etiology and developmental processes that may lead to psychopathy in adulthood. Psychopathic traits in youth are composed of behavioral, interpersonal and affective components.Several authors have considered temperamental/personality traits to ...
Temperament and character traits of female eating disorder patients with (out) non-suicidal self-injury Vrije Universiteit Brussel KU Leuven University of Antwerp
Eating disorder (ED) patients show alarmingly high prevalence rates of Non-Suicidal Self-Injury (NSSI). Adolescents seem to be particularly at risk, as EDs and NSSI both have their onset in mid-adolescence. It has been suggested that personality could be a transdiagnostic mechanism underlying both EDs and NSSI. However, little attention has been given to adolescent clinical samples compared to adult and/or community samples. Therefore, the ...
Temperament Based Personality Types in Community-Dwelling Older Adults: A Latent Profile Analysis Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Three adaptive trait-based personality types have been replicated across ages,
cultures, clinical problems and clustering methods: Resilient, Undercontrolled and Overcontrolled type (RUO). Recently there is growing interest in and importance of biopsychosocial transdiagnostic factors underlying personality types, such as temperamental reactivity and self-regulation. Latter can be understood in terms of Behavioural Inhibition (BIS), ...
cultures, clinical problems and clustering methods: Resilient, Undercontrolled and Overcontrolled type (RUO). Recently there is growing interest in and importance of biopsychosocial transdiagnostic factors underlying personality types, such as temperamental reactivity and self-regulation. Latter can be understood in terms of Behavioural Inhibition (BIS), ...
Temperament and Problematic Alcohol Use in Adolescence: an Examination of Drinking Motives as Mediators KU Leuven University of Antwerp
The present study investigated the associations between temperamental reactivity, drinking motives, alcohol consumption and alcohol-related consequences. Furthermore, it investigated whether drinking motives mediate the relations between temperamental reactivity and the alcohol use variables. The sample consisted of 188 adolescents (64.9% boys) between the ages of 13-20 years (M age=16.9, SD=1.32). Results revealed that the temperament factors ...
Non-Suicidal Self-Injury and Pathological Buying in Community Adults and Patients with Eating Disorders: Associations with Reactive and Regulative Temperament KU Leuven
The present study investigated the (co-)occurrence of non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) and pathological buying (PB) and their associations with reactive/regulative temperament in a sample of female patients with eating disorders (ED) and in a sample of community adults. Our samples consisted of 254 community adults (48.8% female) and 60 female patients with ED. All participants filled out self-report questionnaires to assess NSSI, PB, and ...
Subtypes in borderline patients based on reactive and regulative temperament KU Leuven University of Antwerp Ghent University
© 2016 Elsevier Ltd Considerable heterogeneity is observed among patients with a Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD). In the present study, we investigated whether we could identify and validate different personality subtypes in 150 BPD inpatients based on reactive and regulative temperament. We identified four BPD subtypes by means of cluster analysis on the Behavioral Inhibition and Behavioral Activation Scales (BISBAS) and the Effortful ...
Reactive and regulative temperament and non-suicidal self-injury in Flemish adolescents: The intervening role of identity formation KU Leuven University of Antwerp
In the present study, we combined temperamental and identity models to investigate the influence of these two constructs on the vulnerability to non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI).We assessed NSSI, reactive [behavior inhibition system(BIS)/ behavior activation system(BAS)] and regulatory temperament [effortful control (EC)], and identity synthesis and confusion using self-report questionnaires in 528 high school students (Mean age = 15 years, ...
Reactive and self-regulatory temperament dimensions in relation to alcohol use in adolescence KU Leuven
The present study investigated the cross-sectional relations of reactive [Behavioral Inhibition System (BIS) and Behavioral Activation System (BAS)] and self-regulatory [effortful control (EC)] temperament dimensions with alcohol use in a community sample of adolescents aged 14 to 20years. Participants completed the BIS/BAS Scales (Carver & White, 1994), the Effortful Control Scale of the Early Adolescent Temperament Questionnaire Revised ...