Publications by authors named "J Felt"
Objective: Drinking intention is a predictor of heavy-drinking episodes and could serve as a real-time target for preventive interventions. However, the association is inconsistent and relatively weak. Considering the affective context when intentions are formed might improve results by revealing conditions in which intention-behavior links are strongest and the predictive power of intentions is greatest.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: Evaluate compliance, symptom reactivity, and acceptability/experience ratings for an ecological momentary assessment (EMA) protocol involving ultra-brief ambulatory cognitive assessments in adolescent and young adult patients with concussion.
Setting: Outpatient concussion clinic.
Participants: 116 patients aged 13 to 25 years with concussion.
Objectives: Establish the longitudinal cross-lagged associations between maltreatment exposure and child behavior problems to promote screening and the type and timing of interventions needed.
Methods: The Longitudinal Studies of Child Abuse and Neglect, a multiwave prospective cohort study of maltreatment exposure, enrolled children and caregivers (N = 1354) at approximately age 4 and followed them throughout childhood and adolescence. Families completed 7 waves of data collection with each wave occurring 2 years apart.
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- Perceived discrimination can impact cognitive health, specifically working memory, among different racial groups, and the relationship may be influenced by depressive symptoms.
- A study examined older Black and White adults, finding that while discrimination did not affect working memory directly for either group, it was linked to increased depressive symptoms among Black adults, leading to more working memory errors.
- The findings suggest that understanding how discrimination affects cognitive health requires exploring the role of depressive symptoms, especially in Black adults, and calls for further research in this area to address cognitive health disparities.
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- Contamination in child maltreatment research can undermine the validity of findings by misrepresenting the effects of maltreatment on children's behavior.
- By employing a dual-measurement strategy, this study effectively identified and controlled for contamination, leading to more accurate causal effect size estimates related to child behavior problems.
- Results showed that controlling for contamination significantly improved the statistical significance and size of effect estimates for internalizing behaviors, emphasizing the need for proper methods in such research.