All subjects were administered standard psychiatric interviews as well as self-report questionnaires for aggression, irritability and anger-related traits.
The BYI were designed as self-report instruments for assessing maladaptive cognitions and behaviors of children ages 7 to 14.
Language-appropriate versions of the CLQ, as well as self-report measures of phobic, anxious and depressive symptomatology were distributed to undergraduate students at three Montréal, Québec universities.
We hypothesized that participants who had committed to spending their endowment on others would behave more generously in the decision-making task as well as self-report greater increases in happiness as compared to the control group.
Participants also completed tasks designed to load on the phonological loop and visuo-spatial sketch pad working memory systems, as well as self-report measures of depressed affect and preoccupying cognitions.
There was a significant pre- to post-reduction in subjective speech distress across groups, but behavioral and physiological reactivity to speech, as well as self-report social anxiety symptoms, remained unchanged.
A subliminal and supraliminal Stroop task was administered to 49 women entering IVF or ICSI treatment as well as self-report measures of neuroticism, trait anxiety and state anxiety.
Abstinence was defined as self-report of no smoking from the quit date on, confirmed by expired-air carbon monoxide.
The items were phrased as self-report statements and children's approval of the statements was assessed using a 4-point rating scale.
