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| Alex M WoodSummaryAffiliation: University of Manchester Country: UK Publications
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An evolutionary based social rank explanation of why low income predicts mental distress: a 17 year cohort study of 30,000 peopleAlex M Wood
School of Psychological Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom
J Affect Disord 136:882-8. 2012..Consistent with evolutionary perspectives on disorder, income was predicted to relate to mental distress only through acting as an indirect proxy for social rank...- Gratitude influences sleep through the mechanism of pre-sleep cognitionsAlex M Wood
School of Psychology, University of Manchester, Manchester, England, UK
J Psychosom Res 66:43-8. 2009..To test whether individual differences in gratitude are related to sleep after controlling for neuroticism and other traits. To test whether pre-sleep cognitions are the mechanism underlying this relationship... - Thanks, but I'm used to better: a relative rank model of gratitudeAlex M Wood
School of Psychological Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester, England
Emotion 11:175-80. 2011..Although more help does lead to more gratitude, people appear to be sensitive to how that help compares with what others are providing, and experienced gratitude depends on these relative judgments... - Social norm influences on evaluations of the risks associated with alcohol consumption: applying the rank-based decision by sampling model to health judgmentsAlex M Wood
School of Psychological Sciences, University of Manchester, UK
Alcohol Alcohol 47:57-62. 2012.... - Positive Clinical Psychology: a new vision and strategy for integrated research and practiceAlex M Wood
School of Psychological Sciences, Oxford Road, University of Manchester, Manchester, M13 9PL, UK
Clin Psychol Rev 30:819-29. 2010.... - The absence of positive psychological (eudemonic) well-being as a risk factor for depression: a ten year cohort studyAlex M Wood
School of Psychological Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester, England M13 9PL, United Kingdom
J Affect Disord 122:213-7. 2010..This study presents the first longitudinal test of whether the absence of positive well-being forms an additional unique risk factor for depression... - Gratitude and well-being: a review and theoretical integrationAlex M Wood
University of Manchester, United Kingdom
Clin Psychol Rev 30:890-905. 2010..Gratitude is relevant to clinical psychology due to (a) strong explanatory power in understanding well-being, and (b) the potential of improving well-being through fostering gratitude with simple exercises... - Does the CES-D measure a continuum from depression to happiness? Comparing substantive and artifactual modelsAlex M Wood
School of Psychological Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom
Psychiatry Res 177:120-3. 2010.... - Trait reappraisal amplifies subjective defeat, sadness, and negative affect in response to failure versus success in nonclinical and psychosis populationsJudith Johnson
School of Psychology, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK
J Abnorm Psychol 120:922-34. 2011..Frequent use of reappraisal may confer vulnerability to subjective defeat in response to stressful life events among nonclinical and clinical populations and could be an area for relapse prevention interventions to target... - Prospective predictors of suicidality: defeat and entrapment lead to changes in suicidal ideation over timePeter James Taylor
School of Psychological Sciences, University of Manchester, UK
Suicide Life Threat Behav 41:297-306. 2011..People higher in defeat became more suicidal over time (?= .45), with baseline levels of suicidality and depressive symptoms controlled. The current results support the posited role of perceived defeat in driving suicidal ideation... - Defeat and entrapment in schizophrenia: the relationship with suicidal ideation and positive psychotic symptomsPeter James Taylor
School of Psychological Sciences, 2nd Floor, Zochonis Building, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PL, England
Psychiatry Res 178:244-8. 2010..Secondary analyses suggested that suspiciousness in particular was linked to suicidal ideation. The results support a socio-cognitive model (The Schematic Appraisals Model of Suicide: SAMS) of suicide in psychosis... - Personality prior to disability determines adaptation: agreeable individuals recover lost life satisfaction faster and more completelyChristopher J Boyce
School of Psychological Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL, United Kingdom
Psychol Sci 22:1397-402. 2011..32 standard deviations higher than those of moderately disagreeable individuals. Agreeable individuals adapt more quickly and fully to disability; disagreeable individuals may need additional support to adapt... - Resilience to suicidality: the buffering hypothesisJudith Johnson
School of Psychological Sciences, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester, UK
Clin Psychol Rev 31:563-91. 2011..These results suggest that the identification of moderators may improve estimates of suicide risk and that the development of buffering factors could be a key focus of suicide interventions... - Memory specificity as a risk factor for suicidality in non-affective psychosis: the ability to recall specific autobiographical memories is related to greater suicidalityPeter James Taylor
School of Psychological Sciences, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, UK
Behav Res Ther 48:1047-52. 2010..These results supported the main hypothesis, and suggest non-specific memory may have adaptive qualities in individuals with psychosis... - Attrition from self-directed interventions: investigating the relationship between psychological predictors, intervention content and dropout from a body dissatisfaction interventionAdam W A Geraghty
School of Psychology, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK
Soc Sci Med 71:30-7. 2010..Prediction of attrition is possible from both intervention content and psychological variables... - Extreme positive and negative appraisals of activated states interact to discriminate bipolar disorder from unipolar depression and non-clinical controlsRebecca E Kelly
University of Manchester, United Kingdom
J Affect Disord 134:438-43. 2011..This research aimed to test whether positive, negative, or conflicting appraisals about activated mood states (e.g., energetic and high states) predicted bipolar disorder... - Appraisals and suicidality: the mediating role of defeat and entrapmentPeter James Taylor
School of Psychological Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
Arch Suicide Res 14:236-47. 2010..The findings support socio-cognitive models of suicidal behavior and highlight the key role of defeat and entrapment in suicide. The clinical implications of these findings are discussed... - The role of defeat and entrapment in depression, anxiety, and suicidePeter James Taylor
School of Psychological Sciences, University of Manchester, Zochonis Building, Second Floor, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, England
Psychol Bull 137:391-420. 2011..We provide a unified theoretical model of how defeat and entrapment may contribute to these different psychopathological conditions. Clinical implications and avenues for future research are discussed...