Health psychology and behavioral medicine
November 19, 2021
Tosca D Braun, Kristen E Riley, Zachary J Kunicki et al.
Purpose: Internalized weight stigma (IWS) is common in the United States of America across body weight categories, and is implicated in the development of distress and unhealthy eating behaviors (e.g. overeating, disordered eating) that can foster poor cardiometabolic health. While emerging intervention research shows early promise in reducing IWS, long-term efficacy is unclear and novel...
International Journal of Yoga Therapy
November 1, 2018
Crystal L Park, A Rani Elwy, Meghan Maiya et al.
Yoga interventions are heterogeneous and vary along multiple dimensions. These dimensions may affect mental and physical health outcomes in different ways or through different mechanisms. However, most studies of the effects of yoga on health do not adequately describe or quantify the components of the interventions being implemented. This lack of detail prevents researchers from making...
Anxiety, Stress, and Coping
September 6, 2018
Lucy Finkelstein-Fox, Crystal L Park, Kristen E Riley
Background and objectives: Managing stress is very important for first-year college students adjusting to undergraduate life. Aspects of emotion regulation, including mindfulness and the ability to regulate distressing emotion adaptively, often correlate positively with well-being. However, little research has examined overlapping and/or distinct effects of these constructs in predicting...
Emotion
August 23, 2018
Lucy Finkelstein-Fox, Crystal L Park, Kristen E Riley
Dispositional mindfulness is often linked to higher positive affect and lower negative affect, and coping with stress has been hypothesized to mediate these links. However, few studies have explicitly tested the ways in which stress appraisals, coping strategies, or coping flexibility (i.e., fit of coping to controllability appraisals) uniquely relate to mindfulness and well-being. Drawing on a...