Affect Levels (affect + level)

Distribution by Scientific Domains


Selected Abstracts


An examination of willingness to self-disclose in women with bulimic symptoms considering the context of disclosure and negative affect levels

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EATING DISORDERS, Issue 3 2002
Lynette Evans
Abstract Objective This study explored the relationship between bulimic symptoms and self-disclosure. It examined whether women who reported greater bulimic symptomatology were generally less willing to self-disclose in intimate relationships or whether reluctance to disclose was confined to eating and weight concerns. Method Women with high and low scores on the Bulimia Test Revised (BULIT-R) were compared on self-disclosure about three topics (daily activities, eating, and weight) and sexual and relationship issues to three targets (mother, friend, and partner). Results There were significant main and interaction effects for BULIT-R score, target, and topic of self-disclosure. When depression was controlled for, it partially explained the association between bulimic behavior and self-disclosure. Discussion Results supported a contextual model of self-disclosure. Compared with nonbulimic women, women with bulimic symptoms were less willing to self-disclose certain topics to particular targets. Levels of depression explained low willingness to disclose on topics unrelated to eating and weight to some targets. © 2002 by Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Int J Eat Disord 31: 344,348, 2002; DOI 10.1002/eat.10020 [source]


"Divided Government" in State Executive Branches

POLITICS & POLICY, Issue 2 2003
Fred Monardi
The study of "divided government" has focused on the split partisan control of executive and legislative branches. The concept of divided government can also be applied to the study of state executive branches. There is no plausible reason for state electorates to prefer one party for governor and the opposing party for other state executive branch officials, yet many states have a governor of one party, while several of the state executive branch officers are of the opposing party. This study examines the extent of divided executive branches in state politics. Incumbency, state partisanship, and the changing nature of Southern politics affect levels of divisiveness in state executive branches. Electoral features do not affect levels of divisiveness. The data comprises states that have separately elected state executive officers between the years 1968 and 1993. [source]


Influence of recorder affect on the content of behavioural diaries and the recall of behaviours

APPLIED COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY, Issue 4 2001
Patrick H. Raymark
Two experiments are described. In Experiment 1, supervisors (N,=,4) kept daily performance diaries for each of four subordinates over an eight-week period. In Experiment 2, students (N,=,48) kept behavioural diaries for their instructor over a three-week period. Daily measures of positive and negative affect were used to predict the favourability, person-typicality and behavioural specificity of diary entries. Diary-keepers tended to record behaviours that were consistent with their affect levels. Analyses of the variability of the favourability and person-typicality ratings further suggested that high negative affect induced diary-keepers to make fine discriminations among events, while high positive affect induced diary-keepers to perceive events as similar. Diary-keeper affect and the three diary content variables were used to predict memory for the diary entries. Diary-keepers in Experiment 1 reported higher recall for negative behaviours than for positive behaviours, particularly if the behaviours were typical of others. This same negativity effect in recall emerged in Experiment 2, but only when there was low consistency in the positive affect experienced by diary-keepers at encoding and recall. Copyright © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source]


Modulation of Alp4 function in Schizosaccharomyces pombe induces novel phenotypes that imply distinct functions for nuclear and cytoplasmic ,-tubulin complexes

GENES TO CELLS, Issue 4 2006
Hirohisa Masuda
The ,-tubulin complex acts as a nucleation unit for microtubule assembly. It remains unknown, however, how spatial and temporal regulation of the complex activity affects microtubule-mediated cellular processes. Alp4 is one of the essential components of the S. pombe,-tubulin complex. We show here that overproduction of a carboxy-terminal form of Alp4 (Alp4C) and its derivatives tagged to a nuclear localization signal or to a nuclear export signal affect localization of ,-tubulin complexes and induces novel phenotypes that reflect distinct functions of nuclear and cytoplasmic ,-tubulin complexes. Nuclear Alp4C induces a Wee1-dependent G2 delay, reduces the levels of the ,-tubulin complex at the spindle pole body, and results in defects in mitotic progression including spindle assembly, cytoplasmic microtubule disassembly, and chromosome segregation. In contrast, cytoplasmic Alp4C induces oscillatory nuclear movement and affects levels of cell polarity markers, Bud6 and Tip1, at the cell ends. These results demonstrate that regulation of nuclear ,-tubulin complex activity is essential for cell cycle progression through the G2/M boundary and M phase, whereas regulation of cytoplasmic ,-tubulin complex activity is important for nuclear positioning and cell polarity control during interphase. [source]