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Development and validation of the Inventory of Depression and Anxiety Symptoms (IDAS)David Watson
Department of Psychology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242 1407, USA
Psychol Assess 19:253-68. 2007..They show strong short-term stability and display excellent convergent validity and good discriminant validity in relation to other self-report and interview-based measures of depression and anxiety...- The long-term stability and predictive validity of trait measures of affectD Watson
Department of Psychology, University of Iowa, Iowa City 52242 1407, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 70:567-77. 1996..Thus, trait affect scales were substantially stable--and maintained significant predictive power--even across extended time spans... - Rethinking the mood and anxiety disorders: a quantitative hierarchical model for DSM-VDavid Watson
Department of Psychology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242 1407, USA
J Abnorm Psychol 114:522-36. 2005..The optimal placement of other syndromes (e.g., obsessive-compulsive disorder) needs to be clarified in future research... - Personality development in emerging adulthood: integrating evidence from self-ratings and spouse ratingsDavid Watson
Department of Psychology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, 52242 1407, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 91:959-74. 2006..These results highlight the value of collecting multimethod data in studies of adult personality development... 
Hierarchical structures of affect and psychopathology and their implications for the classification of emotional disordersDavid Watson
Department of Psychology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa 52242 1407, USA
Depress Anxiety 25:282-8. 2008..An empirically based system of this type will facilitate differential diagnosis and encourage the ultimate development of an etiologically based taxonomy...- Further validation of the IDAS: evidence of convergent, discriminant, criterion, and incremental validityDavid Watson
Department of Psychology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242 1407, USA
Psychol Assess 20:248-59. 2008..T. Beck, R. A. Steer, & G. K. Brown, 1996) and the Beck Anxiety Inventory (A. T. Beck & R. A. Steer, 1990)... - Structures of personality and their relevance to psychopathology: II. Further articulation of a comprehensive unified trait structureDavid Watson
Department of Psychology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, 52242 1407, USA
J Pers 76:1545-86. 2008.... - Locating anger in the hierarchical structure of affect: comment on Carver and Harmon-Jones (2009)David Watson
Department of Psychology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242 1407, USA
Psychol Bull 135:205-8; discussion 215-7. 2009..e., its unique qualities that distinguish it from other negative affects) has a stronger link to the appetitive or approach system. The author concludes by considering the broader implications of these data for affective structure... - Differentiating the mood and anxiety disorders: a quadripartite modelDavid Watson
Department of Psychology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA
Annu Rev Clin Psychol 5:221-47. 2009..I illustrate the value of this approach by reviewing the properties of the major symptom dimensions within posttraumatic stress disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and major depression... - Development and validation of the Schedule of Compulsions, Obsessions, and Pathological Impulses (SCOPI)David Watson
Department of Psychology, University of Iowa, Iowa City 52242 1407, USA
Assessment 12:50-65. 2005..The two remaining scales-Hoarding and Pathological Impulses-appear to tap different (but related) constructs... 
On the specificity of positive emotional dysfunction in psychopathology: evidence from the mood and anxiety disorders and schizophrenia/schizotypyDavid Watson
Department of Psychology, E11 Seashore Hall, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242 1407, USA
Clin Psychol Rev 30:839-48. 2010..Finally, we summarize evidence indicating that elevated positive affect is both a risk factor for bipolar disorder and a concomitant of manic symptoms...- Self-other agreement in personality and affectivity: the role of acquaintanceship, trait visibility, and assumed similarityD Watson
Department of Psychology, University of Iowa, Iowa City 52242 1407, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 78:546-58. 2000.... - General traits of personality and affectivity as predictors of satisfaction in intimate relationships: evidence from self- and partner-ratingsD Watson
Department of Psychology, University of Iowa, Iowa City 52242 1407, USA
J Pers 68:413-49. 2000..These traits jointly predicted as much as 34% (self-ratings) and 26% (partner-ratings) of the variance in satisfaction. In contrast, the partner's personality played a lesser role in satisfaction... - Dissociations of the night: individual differences in sleep-related experiences and their relation to dissociation and schizotypyD Watson
Department of Psychology, University of Iowa, Iowa City 52242 1407, USA
J Abnorm Psychol 110:526-35. 2001..These results suggest that measures of dissociation, schizotypy, and sleep-related experiences all define a common domain characterized by unusual cognitions and perceptions... - Global self-esteem in relation to structural models of personality and affectivityDavid Watson
Department of Psychology, University of Iowa, Iowa City 52242 1407, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 83:185-97. 2002..82) and Study 3 (r = -.86). Taken together, the data suggest that global self-esteem measures define one end of a bipolar continuum, with trait indicators of depression defining the other... - Investigating the construct validity of the dissociative taxon: stability analyses of normal and pathological dissociationDavid Watson
Department of Psychology, University of Iowa, Iowa City 52242 1407, USA
J Abnorm Psychol 112:298-305. 2003..These results challenge the existence of a pathological dissociative taxon. More generally, these data demonstrate that statistically identified taxa need to be explicated through the normal process of construct validation... - Match makers and deal breakers: analyses of assortative mating in newlywed couplesDavid Watson
Department of Psychology, E11 Seashore Hall, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, 52242 1407, USA
J Pers 72:1029-68. 2004..e., similarity at the time of marriage) rather than convergence (i.e., increasing similarity with time). Finally, marital satisfaction primarily was a function of the rater's own traits and showed little relation to spousal similarity... - Symptom subtypes of obsessive-compulsive disorder and their relation to dissociationDavid Watson
Department of Psychology, University of Iowa, E11 Seashore Hall, Iowa City, IA 52242 1407, USA
J Anxiety Disord 18:435-58. 2004..Taken together, our results (a) establish a strong link between dissociation and OCD, and (b) illustrate the importance of analyzing different types of OCD symptoms separately... - Relationship between hypochondriacal concerns and personality dimensions and traits in a military populationRussell Noyes
Department of Psychiatry, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City, Iowa 52242-100, USA
J Nerv Ment Dis 193:110-8. 2005..It remains for future research to show whether negative temperament is a vulnerability factor for hypochondriasis or hypochondriasis is itself a personality disorder... - Distinguishing between hypochondriasis and somatization disorder: a review of the existing literatureRussell Noyes
Department of Psychiatry, Carver College of Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, USA
Psychother Psychosom 75:270-81. 2006..A review of the literature indicates those domains where differences are most likely to be found. Research assessing these may serve to refine and validate these key somatoform categories and/or dimensions... - A reconceptualization of the somatoform disordersRussell Noyes
Dept of Psychiatry, Carver College of Medicine, IA City, IA, USA
Psychosomatics 49:14-22. 2008..This formulation is based on the interpersonal model of somatization. The authors propose testing of this conceptualization and indicate how this might be done... - A three-factor model of trait anger: dimensions of affect, behavior, and cognitionR Martin
Department of Psychology, University of Iowa, Iowa City 52242, USA
J Pers 68:869-97. 2000..Cynical Cognition represented a blend of neurotic and disagreeable characteristics. Modest mean-level differences were observed between the genders for each factor... - Obsessive and compulsive symptoms in prediagnosed Huntington's diseaseLeigh J Beglinger
University of Iowa, Department of Psychiatry, MEB 1 321, Iowa City, IA 52242 1000, USA
J Clin Psychiatry 69:1758-65. 2008..Although psychiatric symptoms have been reported in individuals with the HD gene expansion prior to clinical diagnosis (pre-HD), little is known about OCS in this phase of disease... - Risk factors for hypochondriacal concerns in a sample of military veteransRussell Noyes
Department of Psychiatry, Roy J and Lucille A Carver College of Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA
J Psychosom Res 57:529-39. 2004.... - Comorbidity of anxiety and unipolar mood disordersS Mineka
Department of Psychology, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, USA
Annu Rev Psychol 49:377-412. 1998..This work has focused on both the cognitive content of anxiety and depression and on the effects that anxiety and depression have on information processing for mood-congruent material... - A nested-cell approach for in situ remediationJian Luo
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305 4020, USA
Ground Water 44:266-74. 2006..The system is applied at the Field Research Center in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, where experiments on microbial in situ reduction of uranium (VI) are under way... - A reaction-based paradigm to model reactive chemical transport in groundwater with general kinetic and equilibrium reactionsFan Zhang
Environmental Science Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN 37831, USA
J Contam Hydrol 92:10-32. 2007....
Research Grants
- Structure and Assessment of Symptoms of DepressionDavid Watson; Fiscal Year: 2007..g., adolescents, pregnant and postpartum women, and older adults) and to modify the instrument as necessary for use with these populations. ..