Browsing Arts (Faculty of) by Supervisor "McAuley, Tara"
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Do cognitive processes mediate the relationship between adverse childhood experiences and health related outcomes?
(University of Waterloo, 2019-08-22)Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) are stressful life events that occur during development. It is well-established that ACE exposure has negative downstream implications for a broad range of health-related behaviors, ... -
Emotional Reactivity, Negative Affect, and Executive Functioning: Does Physiology Matter?
(University of Waterloo, 2020-08-12)Emotional reactivity reflects the activation, intensity, and duration of an emotional event. Although it is well-established that emotional reactivity has negative implications on psychological functioning, studies have ... -
Examining the Impact of Motivation on Working Memory Training in Youth with ADHD
(University of Waterloo, 2018-08-22)Background: Working memory (WM), the ability to temporarily store and manipulate information, has been noted as a deficit in children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and may be causally related to ... -
Exploring associations between response inhibition and emotion: Effects of valence, motivation, information processing style and emotional reactivity
(University of Waterloo, 2021-08-27)Several theoretical accounts postulate an influence of mood on response inhibition, a central component of executive function (EF) that refers to withholding pre-potent responses that are inappropriate within a particular ... -
Self-regulatory Processes: Relationships between executive function, emotion regulation, the experience of emotions and psychological distress
(University of Waterloo, 2015-12-22)Although executive function (EF) and emotion regulation (ER) are both self-regulatory abilities which share common neural substrates and have been linked to common mental health outcomes, few research studies have looked ... -
The Unique Influence of Executive Functioning and Grit on Goal-Oriented Behaviours
(University of Waterloo, 2016-08-25)Within the social psychology literature, four different behaviours have been highlighted as playing a particularly salient role in goal-motivation: promotion, prevention, locomotion, and assessment. Personality traits and ... -
"Will I Be Happy in High School?” Exploring How Interpersonal and Executive Functions Influence Adolescent Subjective Well-Being Across the Transition to High School
(University of Waterloo, 2022-08-11)The transition to high school is a stressful life event, with teenagers typically facing increased demands for independent academic work coupled with the need to establish new social networks. Students who successfully ...