Michael A Gara
Biographic Data
| ID | 4233165 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael A Gara |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael A |
| FAMILY NAME | Gara |
| SIGNATURE | GARA M A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Institute |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 64 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Assessing an interpersonal-cognitive risk factor for depression: Preliminary validation of the Social Feedback Questionnaire
Past research has found support for an interpersonal-cognitive model of depression which suggests that a newly identified subtype of social support, inferential feedback, plays an important role in the development of depression. Inferential feedback from friends and family members addresses the cause, meaning, and consequences of negative life events and may influence depression through its effect on depression-inducing cognitions. The purpose of…
Measuring identity multiplicity and intersectionality: Hierarchical Classes Analysis (Hiclas) of sexual, racial, and gender identities
We propose an innovative approach for measuring identity multiplicity and intersectionality—Hierarchical Classes Analysis (HICLAS) of an Assessment of Multiple Identities. This method allows researchers to assess characteristics of individual identities and model implicit interrelationships between multiple identities held by an individual. We found support for the validity of this approach through analysis of sexual, racial, and gender identitie…
The Value of Pseudoneurological Symptoms for Assessing Psychopathology in Primary Care
OBJECTIVE: This study sought to examine the relationship between pseudoneurological symptoms (PNS) and somatic and psychiatric symptom severity, physical functioning, and psychiatric comorbidity. METHODS: Interview and questionnaire data were obtained from 120 patients with somatization who participated in a study assessing the efficacy of cognitive-behavioral therapy. Measures elicited information on psychiatric diagnoses, anxiety and depressive…
Psychosocial Treatments for Multiple Unexplained Physical Symptoms: A Review of the Literature
Objective Patients presenting with multiple medically unexplained physical symptoms, termed polysymptomatic somatizers, often incur excessive healthcare charges and fail to respond to standard medical treatment. The present article reviews the literature assessing the efficacy of psychosocial treatments for polysymptomatic somatizers. Methods Relevant articles were identified by scanning Medline and PsychLit. Thirty-four randomized, controlled st…
Immigration and Mental Health: Mexican Americans in the United States
The Hispanic population in the United States continues to expand rapidly due primarily to a large flow of immigrants from Mexico. Historical observations of disadvantage in the immigrant population, when compared to the native population, had helped to shape prevailing theories on immigration and mental health. However, data emerging from new research on Mexican Americans have come to challenge the old idea that immigrants are necessarily disadva…
Abridged Somatization: A Study in Primary Care
OBJECTIVE: We examined the prevalence, correlates, and predictive value of an abbreviated somatization index, based on specific symptom thresholds, in primary care patients using services at a university-affiliated clinic. METHOD: We interviewed 1456 patients with a survey instrument that included the Composite International Diagnostic Interview (CIDI) to elicit symptoms and diagnoses of several psychiatric disorders as well as demographic inform…
Self-complexity, self-evaluation, and depression: An examination of form and content within the self-schema
Six studies examined the relationship between self-complexity and variables related to self-evaluation. Self-complexity was found to comprise two components: positive self-complexity and negative self-complexity. Positive self-complexity was sensitive to methodological factors, namely, variations in stimulus materials used for self-ratings. Negative self-complexity was relatively stable in the face of different rating stimuli and tasks and was re…
The relationship of bystander intervention variables to adolescents' responses to suicidal peers
The abused child as parent: Perception of self and other
Although not all abused children grow up to be abusive parents, it is well known that people who were severely mistreated by their parents as compared to those who were not are at higher risk for mistreating their children. It has also been shown that abusive parents often have unrealistic expectations for their children—expectations based on distorted perceptions of their children's needs, feelings, and abilities. In this paper, we examine the u…
Self-structure in borderline personality disorder
Self-structural theory is applied to the interpersonal aspects of borderline personality disorder. The notion of interpersonal contrasting, a cognitive maneuver, is introduced to account for the sharp changes between divergent self-states characteristic of the disorder. The theory and three prototypical self-states are illustrated with data from a borderline patient by means of a procedure derived from the theory
The promotion of social competence: Longitudinal study of a preventive school-based program
A Set-Theoretical Model of Person Perception
A set-theoretical structural model of person perception is presented in which self and other people that the individual knows are partitioned into person classes and the attributes that are perceived to describe self and others are partitioned into attribute classes. A novel feature of the model is that superset-subset relationships among person classes and among attribute classes are explicitly represented. The model was tested empirically by fi…
Children's responses to interpersonal obstacles as a predictor of social competence
Impact of a preventive social problem solving intervention on children's coping with middle‐school stressors
Children receiving 1 year or 1/2 year of a preventive social problem solving program in elementary school were compared with each other and with a no-treatment group upon entry into middle school. One year of training was significantly related to reductions in the severity of a variety of middle-school stressors. Most importantly, a clear mediating role for social problem solving (SPS) skills was found. Children lacking in SPS skills were more li…
Contemporary perspectives and future directions of personality and social psychology
Linguistic factors in implicit personality theory
The identification of persons as supersets and subsets in free-response personality descriptions
Measuring identity multiplicity and intersectionality: Hierarchical Classes Analysis (Hiclas) of sexual, racial, and gender identities
We propose an innovative approach for measuring identity multiplicity and intersectionality—Hierarchical Classes Analysis (HICLAS) of an Assessment of Multiple Identities. This method allows researchers to assess characteristics of individual identities and model implicit interrelationships between multiple identities held by an individual. We found support for the validity of this approach through analysis of sexual, racial, and gender identitie…
Impact of a preventive social problem solving intervention on children's coping with middle‐school stressors
Children receiving 1 year or 1/2 year of a preventive social problem solving program in elementary school were compared with each other and with a no-treatment group upon entry into middle school. One year of training was significantly related to reductions in the severity of a variety of middle-school stressors. Most importantly, a clear mediating role for social problem solving (SPS) skills was found. Children lacking in SPS skills were more li…
Linguistic factors in implicit personality theory
Children's responses to interpersonal obstacles as a predictor of social competence
Assessing an interpersonal-cognitive risk factor for depression: Preliminary validation of the Social Feedback Questionnaire
Past research has found support for an interpersonal-cognitive model of depression which suggests that a newly identified subtype of social support, inferential feedback, plays an important role in the development of depression. Inferential feedback from friends and family members addresses the cause, meaning, and consequences of negative life events and may influence depression through its effect on depression-inducing cognitions. The purpose of…
Contemporary perspectives and future directions of personality and social psychology
The identification of persons as supersets and subsets in free-response personality descriptions
The identification of persons as supersets and subsets in free-response personality descriptions
Linguistic factors in implicit personality theory
Contemporary perspectives and future directions of personality and social psychology
Impact of a preventive social problem solving intervention on children's coping with middle‐school stressors
Children receiving 1 year or 1/2 year of a preventive social problem solving program in elementary school were compared with each other and with a no-treatment group upon entry into middle school. One year of training was significantly related to reductions in the severity of a variety of middle-school stressors. Most importantly, a clear mediating role for social problem solving (SPS) skills was found. Children lacking in SPS skills were more li…
Children's responses to interpersonal obstacles as a predictor of social competence
A Set-Theoretical Model of Person Perception
A set-theoretical structural model of person perception is presented in which self and other people that the individual knows are partitioned into person classes and the attributes that are perceived to describe self and others are partitioned into attribute classes. A novel feature of the model is that superset-subset relationships among person classes and among attribute classes are explicitly represented. The model was tested empirically by fi…
The promotion of social competence: Longitudinal study of a preventive school-based program
The abused child as parent: Perception of self and other
Although not all abused children grow up to be abusive parents, it is well known that people who were severely mistreated by their parents as compared to those who were not are at higher risk for mistreating their children. It has also been shown that abusive parents often have unrealistic expectations for their children—expectations based on distorted perceptions of their children's needs, feelings, and abilities. In this paper, we examine the u…
Self-structure in borderline personality disorder
Self-structural theory is applied to the interpersonal aspects of borderline personality disorder. The notion of interpersonal contrasting, a cognitive maneuver, is introduced to account for the sharp changes between divergent self-states characteristic of the disorder. The theory and three prototypical self-states are illustrated with data from a borderline patient by means of a procedure derived from the theory
The relationship of bystander intervention variables to adolescents' responses to suicidal peers
Self-complexity, self-evaluation, and depression: An examination of form and content within the self-schema
Six studies examined the relationship between self-complexity and variables related to self-evaluation. Self-complexity was found to comprise two components: positive self-complexity and negative self-complexity. Positive self-complexity was sensitive to methodological factors, namely, variations in stimulus materials used for self-ratings. Negative self-complexity was relatively stable in the face of different rating stimuli and tasks and was re…
Abridged Somatization: A Study in Primary Care
OBJECTIVE: We examined the prevalence, correlates, and predictive value of an abbreviated somatization index, based on specific symptom thresholds, in primary care patients using services at a university-affiliated clinic. METHOD: We interviewed 1456 patients with a survey instrument that included the Composite International Diagnostic Interview (CIDI) to elicit symptoms and diagnoses of several psychiatric disorders as well as demographic inform…
Immigration and Mental Health: Mexican Americans in the United States
The Hispanic population in the United States continues to expand rapidly due primarily to a large flow of immigrants from Mexico. Historical observations of disadvantage in the immigrant population, when compared to the native population, had helped to shape prevailing theories on immigration and mental health. However, data emerging from new research on Mexican Americans have come to challenge the old idea that immigrants are necessarily disadva…
Psychosocial Treatments for Multiple Unexplained Physical Symptoms: A Review of the Literature
Objective Patients presenting with multiple medically unexplained physical symptoms, termed polysymptomatic somatizers, often incur excessive healthcare charges and fail to respond to standard medical treatment. The present article reviews the literature assessing the efficacy of psychosocial treatments for polysymptomatic somatizers. Methods Relevant articles were identified by scanning Medline and PsychLit. Thirty-four randomized, controlled st…
The Value of Pseudoneurological Symptoms for Assessing Psychopathology in Primary Care
OBJECTIVE: This study sought to examine the relationship between pseudoneurological symptoms (PNS) and somatic and psychiatric symptom severity, physical functioning, and psychiatric comorbidity. METHODS: Interview and questionnaire data were obtained from 120 patients with somatization who participated in a study assessing the efficacy of cognitive-behavioral therapy. Measures elicited information on psychiatric diagnoses, anxiety and depressive…
Assessing an interpersonal-cognitive risk factor for depression: Preliminary validation of the Social Feedback Questionnaire
Past research has found support for an interpersonal-cognitive model of depression which suggests that a newly identified subtype of social support, inferential feedback, plays an important role in the development of depression. Inferential feedback from friends and family members addresses the cause, meaning, and consequences of negative life events and may influence depression through its effect on depression-inducing cognitions. The purpose of…
Measuring identity multiplicity and intersectionality: Hierarchical Classes Analysis (Hiclas) of sexual, racial, and gender identities
We propose an innovative approach for measuring identity multiplicity and intersectionality—Hierarchical Classes Analysis (HICLAS) of an Assessment of Multiple Identities. This method allows researchers to assess characteristics of individual identities and model implicit interrelationships between multiple identities held by an individual. We found support for the validity of this approach through analysis of sexual, racial, and gender identitie…
Psychology (15 works) · Social Psychology (11 works) · Psychiatry (9 works) · Clinical Psychology (8 works) · Social Psychology (8 works) · Developmental psychology (7 works) · Medicine (7 works) · Cognitive psychology (4 works) · Interpersonal communication (4 works) · Personality (4 works)