Publications by authors named "Jana Urbild"
Governmental agencies and the medical and psychological professions are calling for a greater focus on the negative mental health effects of climate change (CC). As a first step, the field needs measures to distinguish affective/emotional distress due to CC from impairment that requires further scientific and diagnostic attention and that may require treatment in the future. To this end, we constructed the climate change distress and impairment scale, which distinguishes CC distress (spanning anger, anxiety, and sadness) from impairment.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFChildhood maltreatment is associated with distrust and negatively biased emotion processing.
Borderline Personal Disord Emot Dysregul
February 2021
Article Synopsis
- The study investigates the impact of childhood maltreatment (CM) on distrust and perceived threat in individuals, aligning with cognitive models of PTSD.
- Participants with higher CM levels exhibited greater distrust even after positive feedback, indicating a resistance to changing their perceptions.
- Additionally, those with elevated CM provided more negative emotional ratings for faces, further suggesting an enduring impact of early adverse experiences on social cognition.