Disentangling general and sport-specific risk factors for anxiety and depression in a mixed sample of athletes and non-athletes.

The present study was designed to assess whether competitive athletes and non-athletes differ in terms of certain personality traits linked to atypicalities in emotion awareness and regulation, and whether being an athlete accounts for unique variance in symptoms of anxiety and depression when these traits and exposure to childhood emotional abuse are held constant. In order to address these questions, we had 483 undergraduates (M = 19.7 years; 75.

Traits linked to sensory processing sensitivity mediate the relationship between externally oriented thinking and fantasizing.

Introduction: Alexithymia is characterized by difficulties identifying and describing feelings but expression of externally oriented thinking (EOT) and difficulty fantasizing is more variable. In two studies, we investigated whether links between EOT and fantasizing are mediated by sensory processing sensitivity (SPS).

Methods: University students completed measures of alexithymia, SPS, and fantasizing.

Isolating unique variance in mental health outcomes attributable to personality variables and childhood emotional abuse.

Introduction: University students are at high risk for anxiety and depression. Our main objective was to tease apart variance in symptom severity that was uniquely attributable to four associated variables that are frequently confounded: exposure to childhood emotional abuse, alexithymia, sensory processing sensitivity (SPS), and anxiety sensitivity (AS).

Methods: University students ( = 410) completed an online survey designed to measure our four key study variables along with several other potentially relevant variables including sex, physical activity levels, and perceived COVID-19 impacts.

Trait Impulsivity Impedes Maturing Out of Problem Drinking Among Socially Anxious Undergraduates.

Aims: Alcohol use follows a developmental trajectory-steadily increasing and peaking in the early stages of emerging adulthood (e.g. first year of university) and declining thereafter.