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Title: A meta-analysis of the roles and resources model of support giving's health effects
Author: LaPorte, Thomas
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Social psychology, Psychology, Medical sciences
Description: Giving social support is lauded in society and regarded as contributing to the development and maintenance of social relationships, but research has typically focused on the benefits of receiving such support and the costs of giving. An emerging l...

Title: An Examination of Family and Health Risks and Services on Permanency Outcomes for Multisystem Youth
Author: Behrendt-Mihalski, Jaimelee
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Psychology
Description: Multisystem youth, or youth involved with the juvenile court and child welfare systems, are a high-need population about which research is still-emerging. These youth tend to experience considerable adversity and risk across domains (e.g., health ...

Title: Bicultural Context and Metabolic Health
Author: Rodriguez Diaz, Michelle
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Clinical psychology
Description: Cardiovascular disease and diabetes are among the leading causes of death in the United States (NCHS, 2016), making the metabolic syndrome (MetS) an important target for research and intervention. In addition, there seems to be a disproportionate ...

Title: Cognitive, Attitudinal, and Behavioral Predictors of College Sleep and Health
Author: Peach, Hannah
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Psychology, Medical sciences
Description: College students are one of the top at-risk groups for chronic sleep loss and poor sleep quality, therefore research devoted to the identification of cognitive, attitudinal, and behavioral predictors of sleep is essential. The present study examin...

Title: Do video games reduce or induce stress? The effect of challenge and threat appraisals on stress and aggression when playing violent and nonviolent video games
Author: Porter, Anne
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Psychology, Medical sciences
Description: Video game players report using video games for stress reduction, but previous studies have found mixed results when examining stress and video games, and fail to comprehensively measure all relevant psychological, emotional, and physiological str...

Title: Examining Policy, Enabler And Access Factor Effects On U.S State Medicaid Pharmaceutical Utilization And Expenditures
Author: EGHAN, EMMANUEL
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Economics, Health services administration, Industrial management
Description: Prescription drug expenditures and utilization are the fastest growing and most widely varying expenditures within Medicaid programs across US states. The passage of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) in 2010 and the subsequent Medicaid state expansion...

Title: Reappraisal and Health: An Investigation into Reappraisal Ability and Stressful Life Events as the Missing Links
Author: Roos, Lydia
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Psychology
Description: Inadequate emotion regulation may underlie the development of psychopathology as well as worsened physical health, particularly in the context of stress. Cognitive reappraisal is typically considered an adaptive strategy to manage negative emotion...

Title: THE EFFECT OF ANGER RUMINATION ON CARDIOVASCULAR RESPONSES DURING SELF-ANGER AND OTHER-ANGER
Author: Myers, Charlsie
Date Created: 2011
Subjects--Topical: Psychology
Description: The high morbidity and mortality associated with cardiovascular (CV) disease have led to a profusion of research into its etiology. With only 50% of the variance in risk associated with traditional risk factors, research has begun to focus more on...