Maria Kovàcs
Biographic Data
| ID | 3990892 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Maria Kovàcs |
| GIVEN NAMES | Maria |
| FAMILY NAME | Kovàcs |
| SIGNATURE | KOVÁCS M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Pittsburgh |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5274-5045 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 31 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1973 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Successful mood repair in the laboratory predicts successful mood repair in daily life for typical but not for depression-prone young adults
Successful mood repair (i.e., attenuating sad, dysphoric affect) is a critical form of emotion regulation that is necessary for healthy functioning. Laboratory-based studies have examined how well individuals can reduce sadness and how this process is affected by psychopathology like depression and cognitive mechanisms like attentional control. However, the extent to which laboratory-based findings inform about the regulation of sadness in daily …
The Development of Community Schools in Romania: Putting Policy Into Practice
If judged against prevailing understandings of community schools (CSs) in the scholarly literature, all Romanian schools should qualify as CSs in light of the regulatory framework. However, few Romanian schools are genuinely CSs. This article describes a recent NGO-led initiative to assist Romanian schools in becoming CSs and explores the nature of this transformation and its outcomes through a case study using a range of primary data, including …
Emotion Regulation Among Adolescents With Pediatric Depression As a Function of Anxiety Comorbidity
Background: Both depression and anxiety (two of the most common internalizing psychopathologies among youths) are associated with difficulties in emotion regulation (ER). Little is known about whether anxiety as a comorbid condition has an effect on the habitual use of different ER strategies in youngsters with depression histories. We aimed 1) to compare ER in adolescents with histories of childhood onset major depressive disorder (MDD) with and…
Dysregulated behavioral responses to hedonic probes among youth with depression histories and their high-risk siblings
Affect dysregulation in response to rewarding stimuli has been proposed as a vulnerability factor for major depressive disorder (MDD). However, it remains unclear how affective behavioral dynamics may be altered among individuals who are at high risk for depression but not currently depressed. We examined the dynamics of affective facial behavior during hedonic probes among 3 groups of adolescents: remitted probands who had histories of childhood…
The Association Between Major Depressive Disorder in Childhood and Risk Factors for Cardiovascular Disease in Adolescence
OBJECTIVE: Depression in adults is associated with risk factors for cardiovascular disease (CVD). It is unclear, however, when the association between clinical depression and cardiac risk factors develops or how early in life this association can be detected. METHODS: In an ongoing study of pediatric depression, we compared CVD risk factors including smoking, obesity, physical activity level, sedentary behavior, and parental history of CVD across…
Morte na família: Um Estudo Exploratório Acerca Da Comunicação À Criança
A presente pesquisa investigou a comunicação da morte de parentes à criança, objetivando verificar sua adequação ao seu nível de desenvolvimento cognitivo e compreender o papel da família na elaboração do luto no que tange às informações e sentimentos compartilhados. Participaram responsáveis por crianças que sofreram a perda de um parente próximo quando tinham entre dois e oito anos de idade. Os dados foram coletados por meio de entrevistas aber…
Interaction Between the Serotonin Transporter Gene (5-HTTLPR), Stressful Life Events, and Risk of Depression: A Meta-analysis
CONTEXT: Substantial resources are being devoted to identify candidate genes for complex mental and behavioral disorders through inclusion of environmental exposures following the report of an interaction between the serotonin transporter linked polymorphic region (5-HTTLPR) and stressful life events on an increased risk of major depression. OBJECTIVE: To conduct a meta-analysis of the interaction between the serotonin transporter gene and stress…
Desenvolvimento da Tanatologia: Estudos Sobre a Morte E O Morrer
Este artigo discute os principais temas e pesquisas na área da Tanatologia, estudos sobre a morte e o morrer. São apresentados os autores pioneiros que escreveram as primeiras obras de sistematização da Tanatologia entre os quais: Herman Feifel, Robert Kastenbaum e Elizabeth Kübler-Ross, e os principais temas de estudo: luto, violência e guerra, a morte e a TV, cuidados a pacientes gravemente enfermos, além da formação de profissionais da área de…
Alunos de Psicologia e a educação para a morte
Em 2003, foi realizada uma pesquisa com 23 alunos do 7o período do curso de Psicologia da Universidade Federal de Rondônia. Os principais objetivos foram: verificar como estão sendo tratados a morte e o morrer no curso de Psicologia pelos professores e compreender como os alunos vêem essa temática. Buscar o entendimento dessas questões poderia propiciar uma ampliação dos assuntos tratados no curso e trazer maiores informações aos discentes. Aplic…
Ambiguities of emancipation: Women and the ethnic question in Hungary
In Hungary, women's emancipation happened under paradoxical circumstances, at a time when the general trend of Hungarian political development was not toward increasing liberalism and democracy, and equality of individuals, but precisely the opposite: toward a growing ethnic and social fragmentation of Hungarian society. This paradoxical timing of women's emancipation then shaped the politics of emancipation as well as the profile of Hungarian wo…
Intellectual development and academic performance of children with insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus: A longitudinal study
Eighty-seven school-age children with insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (IDDM) were assessed repeatedly over the first 6 years of their IDDM to determine the effects of the medical disorder on intellectual development and academic performance. At the initial diagnosis, verbal and nonverbal intellectual performance and school grades were in the average ranges. Over time, verbal performance and school grades declined, whereas nonverbal intellectu…
Affective disorders in children and adolescents
Developmental stage and the expression of depressive disorders in children: An empirical analysis
Traditional hypotheses regarding developmental parameters and characteristics of the depressive disorders in children are difficult to verify empirically; in fact, the study of developmental psychopathology may require novel conceptual strategies
Cognitive Therapy in Depression
Assessment of suicidal intention: The Scale for Suicide Ideation.
Attempted Suicide by Males and Females
A study of 240 attempted suicides indicated different patterns for males and females. The attempts for females seemed motivated more by severe interpersonal friction whereas the attempts of males tended to be preceded more by job loss, difficulties with the law, and alcoholism. The female attempters were more depressed than the males, but the males were more likely to be loners
Affective disorders in children and adolescents
Desenvolvimento da Tanatologia: Estudos Sobre a Morte E O Morrer
Este artigo discute os principais temas e pesquisas na área da Tanatologia, estudos sobre a morte e o morrer. São apresentados os autores pioneiros que escreveram as primeiras obras de sistematização da Tanatologia entre os quais: Herman Feifel, Robert Kastenbaum e Elizabeth Kübler-Ross, e os principais temas de estudo: luto, violência e guerra, a morte e a TV, cuidados a pacientes gravemente enfermos, além da formação de profissionais da área de…
Alunos de Psicologia e a educação para a morte
Em 2003, foi realizada uma pesquisa com 23 alunos do 7o período do curso de Psicologia da Universidade Federal de Rondônia. Os principais objetivos foram: verificar como estão sendo tratados a morte e o morrer no curso de Psicologia pelos professores e compreender como os alunos vêem essa temática. Buscar o entendimento dessas questões poderia propiciar uma ampliação dos assuntos tratados no curso e trazer maiores informações aos discentes. Aplic…
Ambiguities of emancipation: Women and the ethnic question in Hungary
In Hungary, women's emancipation happened under paradoxical circumstances, at a time when the general trend of Hungarian political development was not toward increasing liberalism and democracy, and equality of individuals, but precisely the opposite: toward a growing ethnic and social fragmentation of Hungarian society. This paradoxical timing of women's emancipation then shaped the politics of emancipation as well as the profile of Hungarian wo…
Intellectual development and academic performance of children with insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus: A longitudinal study
Eighty-seven school-age children with insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (IDDM) were assessed repeatedly over the first 6 years of their IDDM to determine the effects of the medical disorder on intellectual development and academic performance. At the initial diagnosis, verbal and nonverbal intellectual performance and school grades were in the average ranges. Over time, verbal performance and school grades declined, whereas nonverbal intellectu…
Attempted Suicide by Males and Females
A study of 240 attempted suicides indicated different patterns for males and females. The attempts for females seemed motivated more by severe interpersonal friction whereas the attempts of males tended to be preceded more by job loss, difficulties with the law, and alcoholism. The female attempters were more depressed than the males, but the males were more likely to be loners
Assessment of suicidal intention: The Scale for Suicide Ideation.
Cognitive Therapy in Depression
Developmental stage and the expression of depressive disorders in children: An empirical analysis
Traditional hypotheses regarding developmental parameters and characteristics of the depressive disorders in children are difficult to verify empirically; in fact, the study of developmental psychopathology may require novel conceptual strategies
Affective disorders in children and adolescents
Intellectual development and academic performance of children with insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus: A longitudinal study
Eighty-seven school-age children with insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (IDDM) were assessed repeatedly over the first 6 years of their IDDM to determine the effects of the medical disorder on intellectual development and academic performance. At the initial diagnosis, verbal and nonverbal intellectual performance and school grades were in the average ranges. Over time, verbal performance and school grades declined, whereas nonverbal intellectu…
Ambiguities of emancipation: Women and the ethnic question in Hungary
In Hungary, women's emancipation happened under paradoxical circumstances, at a time when the general trend of Hungarian political development was not toward increasing liberalism and democracy, and equality of individuals, but precisely the opposite: toward a growing ethnic and social fragmentation of Hungarian society. This paradoxical timing of women's emancipation then shaped the politics of emancipation as well as the profile of Hungarian wo…
Desenvolvimento da Tanatologia: Estudos Sobre a Morte E O Morrer
Este artigo discute os principais temas e pesquisas na área da Tanatologia, estudos sobre a morte e o morrer. São apresentados os autores pioneiros que escreveram as primeiras obras de sistematização da Tanatologia entre os quais: Herman Feifel, Robert Kastenbaum e Elizabeth Kübler-Ross, e os principais temas de estudo: luto, violência e guerra, a morte e a TV, cuidados a pacientes gravemente enfermos, além da formação de profissionais da área de…
Alunos de Psicologia e a educação para a morte
Em 2003, foi realizada uma pesquisa com 23 alunos do 7o período do curso de Psicologia da Universidade Federal de Rondônia. Os principais objetivos foram: verificar como estão sendo tratados a morte e o morrer no curso de Psicologia pelos professores e compreender como os alunos vêem essa temática. Buscar o entendimento dessas questões poderia propiciar uma ampliação dos assuntos tratados no curso e trazer maiores informações aos discentes. Aplic…
Interaction Between the Serotonin Transporter Gene (5-HTTLPR), Stressful Life Events, and Risk of Depression: A Meta-analysis
CONTEXT: Substantial resources are being devoted to identify candidate genes for complex mental and behavioral disorders through inclusion of environmental exposures following the report of an interaction between the serotonin transporter linked polymorphic region (5-HTTLPR) and stressful life events on an increased risk of major depression. OBJECTIVE: To conduct a meta-analysis of the interaction between the serotonin transporter gene and stress…
Morte na família: Um Estudo Exploratório Acerca Da Comunicação À Criança
A presente pesquisa investigou a comunicação da morte de parentes à criança, objetivando verificar sua adequação ao seu nível de desenvolvimento cognitivo e compreender o papel da família na elaboração do luto no que tange às informações e sentimentos compartilhados. Participaram responsáveis por crianças que sofreram a perda de um parente próximo quando tinham entre dois e oito anos de idade. Os dados foram coletados por meio de entrevistas aber…
The Association Between Major Depressive Disorder in Childhood and Risk Factors for Cardiovascular Disease in Adolescence
OBJECTIVE: Depression in adults is associated with risk factors for cardiovascular disease (CVD). It is unclear, however, when the association between clinical depression and cardiac risk factors develops or how early in life this association can be detected. METHODS: In an ongoing study of pediatric depression, we compared CVD risk factors including smoking, obesity, physical activity level, sedentary behavior, and parental history of CVD across…
Dysregulated behavioral responses to hedonic probes among youth with depression histories and their high-risk siblings
Affect dysregulation in response to rewarding stimuli has been proposed as a vulnerability factor for major depressive disorder (MDD). However, it remains unclear how affective behavioral dynamics may be altered among individuals who are at high risk for depression but not currently depressed. We examined the dynamics of affective facial behavior during hedonic probes among 3 groups of adolescents: remitted probands who had histories of childhood…
Emotion Regulation Among Adolescents With Pediatric Depression As a Function of Anxiety Comorbidity
Background: Both depression and anxiety (two of the most common internalizing psychopathologies among youths) are associated with difficulties in emotion regulation (ER). Little is known about whether anxiety as a comorbid condition has an effect on the habitual use of different ER strategies in youngsters with depression histories. We aimed 1) to compare ER in adolescents with histories of childhood onset major depressive disorder (MDD) with and…
The Development of Community Schools in Romania: Putting Policy Into Practice
If judged against prevailing understandings of community schools (CSs) in the scholarly literature, all Romanian schools should qualify as CSs in light of the regulatory framework. However, few Romanian schools are genuinely CSs. This article describes a recent NGO-led initiative to assist Romanian schools in becoming CSs and explores the nature of this transformation and its outcomes through a case study using a range of primary data, including …
Successful mood repair in the laboratory predicts successful mood repair in daily life for typical but not for depression-prone young adults
Successful mood repair (i.e., attenuating sad, dysphoric affect) is a critical form of emotion regulation that is necessary for healthy functioning. Laboratory-based studies have examined how well individuals can reduce sadness and how this process is affected by psychopathology like depression and cognitive mechanisms like attentional control. However, the extent to which laboratory-based findings inform about the regulation of sadness in daily …
Psychology (10 works) · Clinical Psychology (8 works) · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (7 works) · Clinical Psychology (6 works) · Developmental psychology (6 works) · Medicine (6 works) · Psychiatry (6 works) · Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes (3 works) · Depression (economics (3 works) · Depression (economics) (3 works)