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| Cynthia A BergSummaryAffiliation: University of Utah Country: USA Publications
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Emotional processing and self-control in adolescents with type 1 diabetesAmy E Hughes
380 S 1530 E, Department of Psychology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA
J Pediatr Psychol 37:925-34. 2012....
Role of parental monitoring in understanding the benefits of parental acceptance on adolescent adherence and metabolic control of type 1 diabetesCynthia A Berg
Department of Psychology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA
Diabetes Care 31:678-83. 2008....- Perceptions of the cognitive compensation and interpersonal enjoyment functions of collaboration among middle-aged and older married couplesCynthia A Berg
Department of Psychology, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA
Psychol Aging 26:167-73. 2011..Greater marital satisfaction was associated with greater interpersonal enjoyment. These two functions related to reports of more frequent use of collaboration and perceptions of spousal affiliation in a collaborative task... - Parental involvement and adolescents' diabetes management: the mediating role of self-efficacy and externalizing and internalizing behaviorsCynthia A Berg
Department of Psychology, University of Utah, 380 S 1530 E, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA
J Pediatr Psychol 36:329-39. 2011..To examine mediating processes linking parental involvement to diabetes management (adherence and metabolic control) during adolescence... 
A developmental-contextual model of couples coping with chronic illness across the adult life spanCynthia A Berg
Department of Psychology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA
Psychol Bull 133:920-54. 2007..The developmental-contextual model to dyadic appraisal and coping has numerous research implications for the field, and the authors conclude with specific recommendations for future research...- Adolescents' and mothers' perceptions of the cognitive and relational functions of collaboration and adjustment in dealing with type 1 diabetesCynthia A Berg
Department of Psychology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112
J Fam Psychol 22:865-74. 2008..Enjoying collaboration at an interpersonal level may be an important avenue for successful diabetes management during adolescence... - Task control and cognitive abilities of self and spouse in collaboration in middle-aged and older couplesCynthia A Berg
Department of Psychology, University of Utah, 380 South 1350 East, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA
Psychol Aging 22:420-7. 2007..For women only, the fit between control and abilities was associated with better performance. The results indicate no age differences in couple expertise but point to gender as a factor in optimal collaboration... - The fit between stress appraisal and dyadic coping in understanding perceived coping effectiveness for adolescents with type 1 diabetesCynthia A Berg
Department of Psychology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA
J Fam Psychol 23:521-30. 2009..g., shared stressors together with collaborative coping). Stress and coping is embedded within a relational context and this context is useful in understanding the coping effectiveness of adolescents... - Mother child appraised involvement in coping with diabetes stressors and emotional adjustmentCynthia A Berg
Department of Psychology, University of Utah, 380 South 1530 East, Room 502, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112, USA
J Pediatr Psychol 32:995-1005. 2007..To examine how children's and mother's appraisals of each other's involvement in coping with diabetes events are associated with emotional adjustment... - Collaborative coping and daily mood in couples dealing with prostate cancerCynthia A Berg
Department of Psychology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA
Psychol Aging 23:505-16. 2008..The results suggest that older couples may benefit from collaborative coping in dealing with problems surrounding illness... - Affect covariation in marital couples dealing with stressors surrounding prostate cancerCynthia A Berg
Department of Psychology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
Gerontology 57:167-72. 2011.... - Conflict and collaboration in middle-aged and older couples: I. Age differences in agency and communion during marital interactionTimothy W Smith
Department of Psychology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA
Psychol Aging 24:259-73. 2009..During collaboration, older couples displayed a unique blend of warmth and control, suggesting a greater focus on emotional and social concerns during problem solving... - Conflict and collaboration in middle-aged and older couples: II. Cardiovascular reactivity during marital interactionTimothy W Smith
Department of Psychology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA
Psychol Aging 24:274-86. 2009..g., collaboration among older couples) may also contribute to this mechanism... - Affiliation and control during marital disagreement, history of divorce, and asymptomatic coronary artery calcification in older couplesTimothy W Smith
Department of Psychology, University of Utah, 380 South 1530 East, Room 502, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA
Psychosom Med 73:350-7. 2011..Inconsistencies might reflect limitations of self-reports of marital quality compared with behavioral observations. Also, aspects of marital quality related to CAD might differ for men and women... - Parent-adolescent discrepancies in adolescents' competence and the balance of adolescent autonomy and adolescent and parent well-being in the context of Type 1 diabetesJonathan Butner
Department of Psychology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA
Dev Psychol 45:835-49. 2009..The results are interpreted within a developmental perspective that views discrepancies as reflecting normative developmental processes of autonomy but as being associated with disruptions in well-being in the short term... - Associations of self-reports versus spouse ratings of negative affectivity, dominance, and affiliation with coronary artery disease: where should we look and who should we ask when studying personality and health?Timothy W Smith
Department of Psychology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA
Health Psychol 27:676-84. 2008..Using structural models of these personality domains, we tested associations of self-reports and spouse ratings of anxiety, depressive symptoms, anger, affiliation and dominance with coronary artery disease (CAD)... - Longitudinal trajectories of metabolic control across adolescence: associations with parental involvement, adolescents' psychosocial maturity, and health care utilizationPamela S King
University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
J Adolesc Health 50:491-6. 2012..To predict trajectories of metabolic control across adolescence from parental involvement and adolescent psychosocial maturity, and to link metabolic control trajectories to health care utilization... - Mothers', fathers', and children's perceptions of parental diabetes responsibility in adolescence: examining the roles of age, pubertal status, and efficacyDebra L Palmer
Department of Psychology, University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point, WI 54481, USA
J Pediatr Psychol 34:195-204. 2009.... - Children's appraisals of maternal involvement in coping with diabetes: enhancing our understanding of adherence, metabolic control, and quality of life across adolescenceDeborah J Wiebe
Department of Psychology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City 84112, USA
J Pediatr Psychol 30:167-78. 2005..To examine how children's appraisals of maternal involvement in coping with diabetes are associated with adherence, metabolic control, and quality of life across adolescence... - The structure of parental involvement and relations to disease management for youth with type 1 diabetesDebra L Palmer
Department of Psychology, University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point, WI 54481, USA
J Pediatr Psychol 36:596-605. 2011..To test structural models of parental involvement in type 1 diabetes and to examine associations of parental involvement with adherence and metabolic control... - Profiles of successful aging in middle-aged and older adult married couplesKelly J Ko
Department of Psychology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA
Psychol Aging 22:705-18. 2007..Profiles of successful aging did discriminate on external measures of well-being. The results point to the value of a multidimensional notion of successful aging in couples across the life span... - Positive and negative characteristics of marital interaction and their association with marital satisfaction in middle-aged and older couplesNancy J M Henry
Department of Psychology, University of Utah, 380 South 1350 East, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA
Psychol Aging 22:428-41. 2007..Findings suggest that, in some contexts, both positive and negative characteristics are more salient for older adults... - Perceived diabetes task competence mediates the relationship of both negative and positive affect with blood glucose in adolescents with type 1 diabetesKatherine T Fortenberry
Department of Psychology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
Ann Behav Med 37:1-9. 2009..Adolescents dealing with type 1 diabetes experience disruptions in affect and diabetes management that may influence their blood glucose... - The role of parental monitoring in metabolic control: effect on adherence and externalizing behaviors during adolescenceDwayne Horton
Department of Psychology, 380 S 1530 E, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA
J Pediatr Psychol 34:1008-18. 2009..We examined the role of parental monitoring (general and diabetes specific) on metabolic control through better adherence and lower externalizing behaviors for adolescents with type 1 diabetes... - Maternal parenting style and adjustment in adolescents with type I diabetesJorie M Butler
Department of Psychology, University of Utah, 380 South 1530 East, Room 502, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA
J Pediatr Psychol 32:1227-37. 2007..To investigate the cross-sectional relationship between maternal parenting style and indicators of well-being among adolescents with diabetes... - Parental negative affect and adolescent efficacy for diabetes managementJorie M Butler
Department of Psychology, University of Utah, 380 South 1530 East, Salt Lake City, UT 84102, USA
J Fam Psychol 23:611-4. 2009..Parental negative affect should be considered when evaluating perceptions of adolescents' efficacy... - Age, marital satisfaction, and optimism as predictors of positive sentiment override in middle-aged and older married couplesT Nathan Story
Department of Psychology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA
Psychol Aging 22:719-27. 2007..The results are consistent with theories of emotion regulation, such as socioemotional selectivity theory, that suggest that older adults are biased toward the positive aspects of close relationships... - Interpersonal circumplex descriptions of psychosocial risk factors for physical illness: application to hostility, neuroticism, and marital adjustmentTimothy W Smith
Department of Psychology, University of Utah, 380 South 1530 East Room 502, Behavioral Sciences Building, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA
J Pers 78:1011-36. 2010..Findings identify interpersonal processes reflecting low affiliation or high hostility as a common component of risk and indicate distinctions among risk factors along the dominance dimension... - Are older adults less or more physiologically reactive? A meta-analysis of age-related differences in cardiovascular reactivity to laboratory tasksBert N Uchino
Department of Psychology, University of Utah, 380 S 1530 E, Room 502, Salt Lake City, UT 84112 0251, USA
J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci 65:154-62. 2010..These data are discussed in light of existing self-regulatory models and important future research directions... - The role of autonomy and pubertal status in understanding age differences in maternal involvement in diabetes responsibility across adolescenceDebra L Palmer
Department of Psychology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, 84112, USA
J Pediatr Psychol 29:35-46. 2004..The reasons for transferring responsibility from mother to child suggest many avenues for intervention... - Marital discord and coronary artery disease: a comparison of behaviorally defined discrete groupsTimothy W Smith
Department of Psychology, University of Utah, 380 South 1530 East, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA
J Consult Clin Psychol 80:87-92. 2012..To determine if a categorical representation of marital discord was also related to CAD, discordant and nondiscordant groups were identified via cluster analysis in further analyses of the T. W. Smith et al. (2011) study... - Age-related differences in ambulatory blood pressure during daily stress: evidence for greater blood pressure reactivity with ageBert N Uchino
University of Utah, Department of Psychology, Salt Lake City, UT 84112 0251, USA
Psychol Aging 21:231-9. 2006..The results of this study are consistent with the age-related increase in cardiovascular risk but highlight the complex links between stress and different facets of the aging process... - Parent-adolescent collaboration: an interpersonal model for understanding optimal interactionsRyan M Beveridge
Department of Psychology, University of Utah, 380 S 1530 E, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA
Clin Child Fam Psychol Rev 10:25-52. 2007..The structural analysis of social behavior (SASB) is presented as a model for studying the complex reciprocal processes that occur in parent-adolescent interpersonal processes... - Hostile personality traits and coronary artery calcification in middle-aged and older married couples: different effects for self-reports versus spouse ratingsTimothy W Smith
Department of Psychology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112 0251, USA
Psychosom Med 69:441-8. 2007.... - What mom and dad don't know can hurt you: adolescent disclosure to and secrecy from parents about type 1 diabetesPeter Osborn
Department of Psychology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA
J Pediatr Psychol 38:141-50. 2013..To examine how adolescent disclosure to and secrecy from parents were related to parental knowledge of diabetes management behaviors, and to adolescent adherence, metabolic control, and depressive symptoms... - Perceptions of treatment control moderate the daily association between negative affect and diabetes problems among adolescents with type 1 diabetesKatherine T Fortenberry
Department of Psychology, University of Utah, 380 South 1530 East, Room 502, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA
Psychol Health 27:294-309. 2012..Results suggest that perceived treatment control may help to buffer detrimental associations between negative affect and adolescents' ability to successfully manage their diabetes... - Subjective social status: construct validity and associations with psychosocial vulnerability and self-rated healthJenny M Cundiff
Department of Psychology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA
Int J Behav Med 20:148-58. 2013.... - Intrusion, avoidance, and daily negative affect among couples coping with prostate cancer: a dyadic investigationChristopher P Fagundes
Fagundes, Institute for Behavioral Medicine Research, The Ohio State University School of Medicine, 460 Medical Center Drive, Room144B, Columbus, OH 43210, USA
J Fam Psychol 26:246-53. 2012..The current investigation adds to our understanding of how people within a marital dyad affect each other as they adjust to a cancer diagnosis... - Physician recommendations about maternal involvement in adolescent diabetes managementDeborah J Wiebe
Department of Psychiatry, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, 5323 Harry Hines Blvd, Dallas, TX 75390, USA
Diabetes Care 31:690-2. 2008....