This study tested a cognitive appraisal model that examines the variance in publics' emotional responses, strategies of coping with crises, and acceptance of different organizational crisis responses, as a function of publics' appraisal of crisis predictability and controllability.
If someone insults me and I become angry, his impertinence will be the aspect of his behavior that fits the formal object of anger: I only become angry once I construe the person's remark as a slight; the specific nature of my emotion's formal object is a function of my appraisal of the situation.
Subsequently, LC modulates cortical sites as a function of the appraisal processes, thus selectively adjusts subjects' mental set towards task- or stimulus-specific processes.
In sum, any response to a QOL item can be understood as a function of an appraisal process.
More importantly, we extended previous findings that showed modulation of empathic brain responses in insular cortices as a function of contextual appraisal and affective link (Singer et al., 2006; Lamm et al., 2007 a, b; Hein and Singer, 2008) to the domain of individual trait characteristics.
Future experience-sampling studies using more elaborate measures of ruminative self-focus may be able to assess these adaptive and maladaptive cognitive styles and analyse them as a function of goal appraisals, person-level traits and their interaction.
To our knowledge, this is the first experience-sampling study to examine negative affect and ruminative self-focus simultaneously as a function of goal appraisals and individual differences in depressive symptoms and trait rumination.
Martin and White (2005) have made a significant contribution to understanding the interpersonal function of lexical metaphors from the perspective of appraisal framework.
This subscale had strong empirical associations with cognitive functioning and appraisal of psychopathological symptoms.
As discussed earlier, this involves the executive mental functions of memory, recognition, appraisal and judgment.
