Psychometric Evaluation of the Heterosexist Harassment, Rejection, and Discrimination Scale: Identification of a Unidimensional 11-Item Scale.

Despite the Heterosexist Harassment, Rejection, and Discrimination Scale (HHRDS) being a routinely used measure of discrimination, there is no current consensus regarding its fundamental psychometric properties. This study sought to: (a) test the dimensionality of the scale using a classical test theory approach, and (b), if lacking a clear multidimensional structure, use an item response theory approach to develop a concise unidimensional measure and examine differential item and test functioning across various identity factors. In a sample of sexual minority adults ( = 1,243), evaluation of the HHRDS supported a reduced 11-item unidimensional measure.

Measurement Invariance of the Perceived Invalidation of Emotion Scale: An Examination Across Race/Ethnicity, Gender, Sexual Orientation, and Intersection of Identities.

The Perceived Invalidation of Emotions Scale (PIES), developed to measure emotional invalidation, could aid research efforts on various internalizing disorders and minority mental health. A prerequisite for its use includes its psychometric evaluation in diverse samples; thus, the current study aimed to evaluate the psychometric properties of the PIES in a combined sample of minoritized adults ( = 876). Results supported a unidimensional structure of the PIES that was invariant across the two minoritized samples, race/ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, and intersections of race/ethnicity and sexual orientation.

The Relation of Health Anxiety to Treatment Utilization Among Patients with Substance Use Disorders: The Moderating Role of Racial/Ethnic Background.

Although health anxiety is broadly related to the overutilization of healthcare, limited research has examined this relation among individuals with substance use disorders (SUDs), or the extent to which racial/ethnic differences influence this relationship. The purpose of the current study is to examine the moderating role of racial/ethnic minoritized background in the relationship between health anxiety and treatment utilization among individuals with SUDs. In the present study, patients with SUDs receiving residential treatment in Mississippi (N=118; 62% racial/ethnic minoritized status, 35.

Clarifying relations of emotion regulation, emotional avoidance and anxiety symptoms in a community-based treatment-seeking sample.

Objectives: Anxiety is a global problem that is readily treatable with psychosocial interventions, though many individuals do not benefit following participation in extant treatment protocols. Accordingly, clarification of process-related variables that may be leveraged to enhance outcomes appears warranted. Emotion regulation (ER) is a robust correlate of anxiety symptoms and is often targeted in behavioural treatments applied to anxiety-related problems.

Hypoxic incubation at 50% of atmospheric levels shifts the cardiovascular response to acute hypoxia in American alligators, Alligator mississippiensis.

We designed a series of studies to investigate whether hypoxia (10% O) from 20% of incubation to hatching, or from 20 to 50% of incubation, affects cardiovascular function when juvenile American alligators reached an age of 4-5 years compared to juveniles that were incubated in 21% O. At this age, we measured blood flows in all the major arteries as well as heart rate, blood pressure, and blood gases in animals in normoxia and acute hypoxia (10% O and 5% O). In all three groups, exposure to acute hypoxia of 10% O caused a decrease in blood O concentration and an increase in heart rate in 4-5-year-old animals, with limited effects on blood flow in the major outflow vessels of the heart.

Clarifying the relation between mother and adolescent borderline personality disorder symptoms: The roles of maternal and adolescent emotion regulation and maladaptive maternal emotion socialization.

Despite evidence for the intergenerational transmission of borderline personality disorder (BPD) pathology from mothers to offspring, the factors underlying the relation between mother and child BPD symptoms remain unclear and little is known about the pathways through which maternal BPD symptoms may relate to BPD symptoms in their offspring. One set of factors that warrants consideration in this regard is mother and child emotion regulation (ER) difficulties. In particular, theory and research suggest an indirect relation between mother and child BPD symptoms through maternal ER difficulties (and related maladaptive emotion socialization strategies) and, subsequently, child ER difficulties.

A Preliminary Investigation of Prenatal Anxiety Sensitivity and Postpartum Distress.

Introduction: Distress during pregnancy and postpartum is common and contributes to poor infant and maternal outcomes, such as developmental delays and mental health disorders, respectively. Anxiety sensitivity, or fear of the symptoms of anxiety (eg, palpitations, confusion), is a risk factor known to increase distress across psychological and health-related conditions. Given the physiologic and emotional changes that occur during the perinatal period, anxiety sensitivity may be a salient risk factor for maternal distress.

Commonalities among Dietary Recommendations from 2010 to 2021 Clinical Practice Guidelines: A Meta-Epidemiological Study from the American College of Lifestyle Medicine.

Clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) provide recommendations to clinicians based on current medical knowledge to guide and reduce variability in clinical care. With advances in nutrition science research, CPGs increasingly include dietary guidance; however, the degree of consistency in dietary recommendations across CPGs has not been investigated. Using a systematic review approach adapted for meta-epidemiologic research, this study compared dietary guidance from current guidelines developed by governments, major medical professional societies, and large health stakeholder associations owing to their often well-defined and standardized processes for guideline development.

Fear of compassion from others explains the relation between borderline personality disorder symptoms and ineffective conflict resolution strategies among patients with substance use disorders.

Background: Borderline personality disorder (BPD) pathology is common among patients with substance use disorders (SUDs) and associated with a variety of negative outcomes, including worse SUD outcomes. One particularly relevant outcome with links to substance use problems that is likely to be elevated among SUD patients with BPD symptoms is ineffective conflict resolution strategies in romantic relationships. However, no research to date has examined the relation of BPD pathology to strategies for managing conflict in romantic relationships among patients with SUDs, or the factors that may increase the use of ineffective strategies within this population.

The prospective relations of substance use frequency to social distancing behaviors and intentions during the COVID-19 pandemic: the role of social distancing self-efficacy.

To identify factors that increase risk for nonadherence to recommended health protective behaviors during pandemics, this study examined the prospective relations of substance use frequency to both adherence to social distancing recommendations and social distancing intentions during the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as the role of social distancing self-efficacy in these relations. A U.S.

Developmental oxygen preadapts ventricular function of juvenile American alligators, .

Developmental oxygen is a powerful stressor that can induce morphological and functional changes in the cardiovascular systems of embryonic and juvenile vertebrates. This plasticity has been ascribed, at least in part, to the unique status of the developing cardiovascular system, which undergoes organogenesis while meeting the tissue oxygen demands of the embryo. We have previously reported an array of functional and morphological changes in embryonic American alligators that persist into juvenile life.

An experimental investigation of the affect regulating properties of sugar consumption: Examining the roles of socially-oriented positive and negative affect.

Obesity is a major public health concern, and sugar consumption is a key risk factor for obesity. Thus, there is a need to identify factors that may increase motivation to consume sugar. One such factor may be negative affect, as research has shown that negative affect increases motivation for and engagement in appetitive behaviors, including sugar consumption.

Treatment-relevant factors among adults receiving court-mandated substance use treatment: The role of emotion dysregulation.

Despite often being mandated to substance use treatment after release, many people on probation do not complete treatment. Several historical factors have been identified as relevant to substance use treatment in this population (i.e.