OBJECTIVE The goal of this study was to determine whether family and individual psychopathology mediate the relationship between unwanted sexual experiences and bulimic eating behavior. METHOD Sixty-one women diagnosed with bulimia nervosa and 92 women students and university staff who had never met critia for an eating disorder completed standardized questionnaires on eating behavior, sexual...

This cross-sectional study examined the hypothesis that parental psychopathology in Interparental Violence (IPV) families crosses over to children, because parental psychopathology spills over to parental functioning. In a high-risk sample of IPV exposed families, we tested whether parental psychopathology spills over to parental availability, which, in turn, shows a crossover effect to childre...

Exposure to parental depression and anxiety is known to heighten the risk of internalizing symptoms and disorders in children and adolescents. Ample research has focused on the influence of maternal depression and anxiety, but the contribution of psychopathology in fathers remains unclear. We studied the relationships of perceived maternal and paternal psychopathology with adolescents' depressi...

Research on psychopathology is at a historical crossroads. New technologies offer the promise of lasting advances in our understanding of the causes of human psychological suffering. Making the best use of these technologies, however, requires an empirically accurate model of psychopathology. Much current research is framed by the model of psychopathology portrayed in current versions of the Di...

Several decades of research have shown that people who experience parentification in childhood are at an increased risk of experiencing psychopathology in adulthood. A meta-analysis was conducted to examine the magnitude of the relation between self-reported parentification experienced in childhood and psychopathology evidenced in adulthood. Results from 12 nonoverlapping studies (N = 2,472), w...

This longitudinal study examined psychopathology as a predictor and outcome of organized activity involvement during high school among 198 adolescents who varied in risk for psychopathology as a function of their mother's depression history. Higher levels of internalizing and externalizing symptoms in eighth grade significantly predicted lower levels of involvement in academic clubs during high...

objectives: violence is a widespread problem that occurs all over the word among all ages, genders, races, educational level and socio- economic groups.  the aim of this study was to investigate modeling of different processes that could account for the link between experiencing spouse abuse in women and psychology, psychopathology, social and demographic factors. methods: data were gathered th...

recently, tremendous studies have been made on psychopathology and treatment of social anxiety disorder. according these studies, several models of etiology have been developed for sad. some concepts that studied include temperamental and genetic factors, environmental factors and learning experiences, social skill deficits, cognitive factors, cultural issues and evolutionary factors. etiologic...

OBJECTIVE To explore the timing, specificity, accumulation, gradient, and moderation of contextual risk in psychopathology and prosocial behavior in late adolescence. METHOD In 2006, three hundred eighty-one 16- to 18-year-olds in Britain reported on the number and type of adverse life events experienced in the past month, when they were age 15, and when they were age 10, and on their concurr...