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This study examined parental depression and parental reflective functioning (PRF) as predictors of parental proficiency in relational savoring (RS), the association between RS proficiency and a marker of children's physiological self-regulation, respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA), during a stressor, and indirect effects of parental depression and PRF on children's RSA via parents' RS. At Time 1 (T1), parents of 8- to 12-year-old children ( = 139) reported on their depressive symptoms and completed a parenting interview, coded for PRF. After 1.5 years (Time 2; T2), parents savored a positive relational memory that involved their children, which was coded for savoring proficiency. Children's RSA was measured during a stressful task (a series of impossible puzzles). Depressive symptoms (inversely) and PRF (positively) were associated with RS proficiency. Higher parental RS proficiency was associated with children's higher mean levels of RSA during the stressor. Indirect effects models supported that T2 RS proficiency mediated the negative association between parental T1 depressive symptoms and children's T2 RSA, and between T1 PRF and children's T2 RSA. We discuss these findings in terms of implications for parents' emotion regulation, children's emotion regulation, children's mental health, and intervention.
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Arch Gerontol Geriatr
August 2025
Aerospace Center Hospital, Peking University Aerospace School of Clinical Medicine, Beijing 100049, China. Electronic address:
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Methods: Data were drawn from five cohort studies in the United States, England, Europe, China, and Mexico.
J Med Internet Res
September 2025
Center for Healthy Minds and Department of Counseling Psychology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, United States.
Background: Ecological momentary assessment (EMA) is increasingly being incorporated into intervention studies to acquire a more fine-grained and ecologically valid assessment of change. The added utility of including relatively burdensome EMA measures in a clinical trial hinges on several psychometric assumptions, including that these measure are (1) reliable, (2) related to but not redundant with conventional self-report measures (convergent and discriminant validity), (3) sensitive to intervention-related change, and (4) associated with a clinically relevant criterion of improvement (criterion validity) above conventional self-report measures (incremental validity).
Objective: This study aimed to evaluate the reliability, validity, and sensitivity to change of conventional self-report versus EMA measures of rumination improvement.
Appl Neuropsychol Adult
September 2025
Facultad de Estudios Superiores Iztacala, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.
Negative symptoms, depression, and cognitive impairments of the schizophrenia spectrum have been associated with difficulties in daily functioning. Compensatory Cognitive Training (CCT) has shown positive effects on cognition, negative symptoms, and functioning in this population. The main objective of this pilot study was to analyze the effects of CCT on cognition and functioning in a group schizophrenia spectrum outpatients in Mexico.
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September 2025
Facultad de Farmacia y Nutrición de la Universidad de Navarra, Irunlarrea, 1, 31008 Pamplona.
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September 2025
Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University, Augusta, GA.
Objective: To evaluate depression in postmenopausal women and to explore the relationship between age at menopause, hormone therapy, and depression, while also identifying potential mediators that may explain these associations.
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