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| J W PettitSummaryAffiliation: University of Houston Country: USA Publications
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Pilot sample of very early onset bipolar disorder in a military population moderates the association of negative life events and non-fatal suicide attemptJeremy W Pettit
Department of Psychology, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77204 5022, USA
Bipolar Disord 8:475-84. 2006..To examine the moderating effects of very early onset diagnostic status (<or= 13 years) upon the association between life events and non-fatal suicide attempt...- Factor structure and psychometric properties of the Modified Scale for Suicidal Ideation among suicidal youthJeremy W Pettit
Department of Psychology, University of Houston, Houston, Texas 77204 5022, USA
Depress Anxiety 26:769-74. 2009..This study presents data on the psychometric properties and factor structure of the brief, layperson-administered Modified Scale for Suicidal Ideation (MSSI) among suicidal youth... - Thought suppression and suicidal ideation: preliminary evidence in support of a robust associationJeremy W Pettit
Department of Psychology, University of Houston, Houston, Texas, USA
Depress Anxiety 26:758-63. 2009..Based on the ironic process theory, we hypothesized that the suppression of unwanted thoughts, especially suicidal thoughts, would associate with a higher frequency and a greater intensity of suicidal ideation... - Intergenerational transmission of internalizing problems: effects of parental and grandparental major depressive disorder on child behaviorJeremy W Pettit
Department of Psychology, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77204 5022, USA
J Clin Child Adolesc Psychol 37:640-50. 2008..These effects were robust to statistical adjustments for status variables and parental relationship measures but not to adjustment for concurrent parental depressive symptoms... - The long-term course of depression: development of an empirical index and identification of early adult outcomesJ W Pettit
Department of Psychology, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77204 5022, USA
Psychol Med 39:403-12. 2009..The aims of this study were to derive an empirical index of MDD course, to examine its predictive validity, and to identify the adulthood outcomes associated with a chronic course... - Propagation of major depressive disorder: relationship between first episode symptoms and recurrenceJeremy W Pettit
Department of Psychology, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77204 5022, USA
Psychiatry Res 141:271-8. 2006..First episode depressed mood, increased appetite, and female gender may serve as specific risk factors for recurrence. The centrality of depressed mood to major depressive disorder is highlighted... - The stability of axis I diagnoses in youth across multiple psychiatric hospitalizationsJeremy W Pettit
Department of Psychology, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77204 5022, USA
Child Psychiatry Hum Dev 36:53-71. 2005..Potential explanations for and implications of these findings are discussed... - Kindling and behavioral sensitization: are they relevant to recurrent suicide attempts?Jeremy W Pettit
Department of Psychology, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77204 5022, USA
J Affect Disord 83:249-52. 2004.... - Ratings of early major depressive disorder symptom change during a brief psychiatric hospitalizationJeremy W Pettit
Department of Psychology, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77204 5022, USA
Psychiatr Q 76:33-48. 2005..The association between a shorter length of stay and greater symptom reduction may reflect a distinction between treatment responders and nonresponders... - Influence of parental and grandparental major depressive disorder on behavior problems in early childhood: a three-generation studyThomas M Olino
Department of Psychology, State University of New York at Stony Brook, NY 11794 2500, USA
J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 47:53-60. 2008..This aim of this study was to examine the influence of grandparental (G1) and parental (G2) major depressive disorder (MDD) and other forms of psychopathology on behavior problems in very young offspring (G3)... - Implications of the DSM's emphasis on sadness and anhedonia in major depressive disorderJulia D Buckner
Department of Psychology, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32312 1270, USA
Psychiatry Res 159:25-30. 2008..Differential symptom expression could have important implications for the etiology, prevention, and treatment of MDD... - Co-morbidity between major depressive disorder and anxiety disorders: shared etiology or direct causation?A R Mathew
University of Houston, Houston, TX, USA
Psychol Med 41:2023-34. 2011..The present study compared these etiological models of MDD-ANX co-morbidity in a large, prospective, non-clinical sample of adolescents tracked through age 30... - The interpersonal consequences of inflated self-esteem in an inpatient psychiatric youth sampleM Perez
Department of Psychology, Florida State University, Tallahassee 32306-1270, USA
J Consult Clin Psychol 69:712-6. 2001..Thus, the high self-esteem group was rejected by their peers but did not themselves report interpersonal problems. These findings provide further support for Baumeister et al.'s theory and generalize the theory to a clinical setting... - Problem solving moderates the effects of life event stress and chronic stress on suicidal behaviors in adolescenceKelly E Grover
University of Houston, USA
J Clin Psychol 65:1281-90. 2009..The interactive effects decreased to non-significance after controlling for depressive symptoms and hopelessness. Clinical implications are discussed... - Measuring hedonic capacity in depression: a psychometric analysis of three anhedonia scalesAdam M Leventhal
Department of Psychology, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77204 5022, USA
J Clin Psychol 62:1545-58. 2006..These findings suggest that further research is needed to clarify the meaning of and relationships among scales that are putative indicators of hedonic capacity and anhedonia... - Effect of maternal depression on child behavior: a sensitive period?Daniel M Bagner
Department of Psychology, Florida International University, 11200 S W 8th Street, Miami, FL 33199, USA
J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 49:699-707. 2010..The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of maternal depression during the child's first year of life (i.e., sensitive period) on subsequent behavior problems... - The role of interdependence and perceived similarity in depressed affect contagionAmber L Paukert
Departmentof Psychology, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77204 5022, USA
Behav Ther 39:277-85. 2008..It appears that participants with more interdependent self-construals were more likely to "catch" the low positive affect displayed by the depressed target only if they perceived themselves as highly similar to the target... - Affective and attributional features of acculturative stress among ethnic minority college studentsAmber L Paukert
Departmeny of Psychology, University of Houston, TX 777204 5022, USA
J Psychol 140:405-19. 2006..Positive affect and stable and internal attributional styles were not related to acculturative stress. The authors discuss implications for reducing stress associated with acculturation... - Worst-point suicidal plans: a dimension of suicidality predictive of past suicide attempts and eventual death by suicideThomas E Joiner
Department of Psychology, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306 1270, USA
Behav Res Ther 41:1469-80. 2003..These findings bear on the trajectory of suicidal behavior over time, as well as inform the clinical assessment of suicidal patients... - Suicidal ideation and anxiety disorders: elevated risk or artifact of comorbid depression?Peter J Norton
University of Houston, Houston, TX 77096, USA
J Behav Ther Exp Psychiatry 39:515-25. 2008..Results generally supported the conclusions that anxiety disorders convey risk for suicidal ideation above and beyond any co-occurring depressiveness, and anxiety and depression together conveyed an additional interactive risk... - Interpersonal reactions to suicide attempt: the role of respondent causal attributionsAmber L Paukert
Department of Psychology, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77204 5022, USA
Suicide Life Threat Behav 37:641-7. 2007..Mediation hypotheses were supported. Findings suggest that a suicide attempt may promote less negative attributions toward depressed individuals, which in turn dampen negative interpersonal reactions... - Anxiety sensitivity as a specific and unique marker of anxious symptoms in youth psychiatric inpatientsThomas E Joiner
Department of Psychology, Florida State University, Tallahassee 32306 1270, USA
J Abnorm Child Psychol 30:167-75. 2002..Implications for the construct validity of anxiety sensitivity were discussed... - Relative left-frontal activity is associated with increased depression in high reassurance-seekersJennifer A Minnix
Department of Psychology, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306 1270, USA
Biol Psychol 67:145-55. 2004..Perhaps those who seek reassurance excessively do so because of their inability to alter their behavior even when environmental cues are no longer reinforcing, which can maintain or exacerbate their depressive symptoms... - The role of acculturative stress and body dissatisfaction in predicting bulimic symptomatology across ethnic groupsMarisol Perez
Department of Psychology, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida 32306-1270, USA
Int J Eat Disord 31:442-54. 2002.... - Evidence-based assessment of depression in adultsThomas E Joiner
Department of Psychology, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306 1270, USA
Psychol Assess 17:267-77. 2005..The authors conclude that no one extant procedure is ideal and suggest that the combination of certain interviews and self-report scales represents the state of the art for evidence-based assessment of depression... - Patterns of hemispheric perceptual asymmetries: left hemispatial biases predict changes in anxiety and positive affect in undergraduate womenZ R Voelz
Department of Psychology, Florida State University, Tallahassee 32306-1270, USA
Emotion 1:339-47. 2001..The possibility that hemispatial biases represent a vulnerability to future anxiety and depression is discussed... - Characterizing major depression phenotypes by presence and type of psychomotor disturbance in adolescents and young adultsAdam M Leventhal
Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Brown Medical School, Providence, Rhode Island 02912, USA
Depress Anxiety 25:575-92. 2008..Retarded depression evidenced little stability or heritability. These findings offer partial support of the phenotypic status of agitated and agitated-retarded depression in youths... - Prospective relations between melancholia and substance use disordersAdam M Leventhal
Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island 02912, USA adam
Am J Drug Alcohol Abuse 34:259-67. 2008..Associations were robust when controlling for clinical severity/chronicity. Alcohol and cannabis use disorders were not robustly associated with melancholia... - The symptomatic expression of major depressive disorder in adolescents and young adultsPeter M Lewinsohn
Oregon Research Institute, Eugene 97403 1983, USA
J Abnorm Psychol 112:244-52. 2003..Age did not significantly influence the symptom picture. Stability of specific symptoms and episode severity across episodes was low. The results are discussed within the context of a stressor-symptom matching model... - Birth month and depressive and suicidal symptoms in an elderly Australian sample born in the Southern or Northern HemisphereJon J Pfaff
Unit of Geriatric Psychiatry, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
Psychiatry Res 144:217-9. 2006..Date and country of birth were recorded for each participant. Those in utero during the Northern or Southern Hemisphere flu peak were expected to show the highest depressive and suicidal symptoms. Hypotheses were partially supported...
Research Grants
- Longitudinal Course and Impact of DepressionJEREMY PETTIT; Fiscal Year: 2007....