Browsing by Subject "Distress"
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Coping and experiential avoidance: Unique or overlapping constructs?
(Elsevier Science, 2011)The present study examined associations between coping as measured by the Brief COPE and experiential avoidance as measured by the AAQ-II and the role of both constructs in predicting psychological distress and well-being. ...
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Earnings behaviour of financially distressed firms: The role of institutional ownership
(2007)Using a sample of 859 U.S. bankruptcy-filing firms over the period 1986-2004, we examine the earnings behaviour of managers during the distressed period by looking at sources of abnormal accruals prior to the bankruptcy-filing ...
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Indirect and direct associations between personality and psychological distress mediated by dispositional coping
(2014)The present study examines the association between coping and personality, by testing the hypothesis that dispositional coping mediates the relationship between personality and psychological distress. Canonical correlations ...
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Managerial discretion in distressed firms
(2007)This study examines the earnings management behaviour of 455 distressed US firms that filed for bankruptcy during the period 1986-2001. We examine (a) possible earnings management during the years prior to bankruptcy-filing, ...
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Psychophysiological and self-reported reactivity associated with social anxiety and public speaking fear symptoms: Effects of fear versus distress
(2017)This study examines psychophysiological and subjective reactivity to anxiety-provoking situations in relation to social anxiety and public speaking fear. We hypothesized that social anxiety symptoms would be associated ...
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Self-consciousness and psychological distress: A study using the Greek SCS
(Elsevier Science, 2006)This study examined the psychometric properties and factor structure of the Greek Self-Consciousness Scale (SCS), and investigated the role of self-consciousness (SC), and personality in psychological distress. Factor ...