Myra Cooper
Biographic Data
| ID | 5861114 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Myra Cooper |
| GIVEN NAMES | Myra |
| FAMILY NAME | Cooper |
| SIGNATURE | COOPER M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Missouri |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 128 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Contingencies of Self-Worth in College Students: Theory and Measurement
The Contingencies of Self-Worth Scale assesses 7 sources of self-esteem in college students: academics, appearance, approval from others, competition, family support, God's love, and virtue. In confirmatory factor analyses on data from 1,418 college students, a 7-factor model fit to the data acceptably well and significantly better than several plausible alternative models. The subscales all have high internal consistency, test-retest reliability…
A Motivational Perspective on Risky Behaviors: The Role of Personality and Affect Regulatory Processes
The present study tested a motivational model in which personality influences on risky behaviors were hypothesized to be primarily indirectly mediated, by shaping the nature and quality of emotional experience as well as characteristic styles of coping with these emotions. This model was tested in a representative community sample of 1,666 young adults, aged 18 to 25 years old. Results revealed strong support for the model, indicating that broad …
Personal resilience, cognitive appraisals, and coping: An integrative model of adjustment to abortion
We hypothesized that the effects of personality (self-esteem, control, and optimism) on postabortion adaptation (distress, well-being, and decision satisfaction) would be fully mediated by preabortion cognitive appraisals (stress appraisals and self-efficacy appraisals) and postabortion coping. We further proposed that the effects of preabortion appraisals on adaptation would be fully mediated by postabortion coping. Results of a longitudinal stu…
The Effects of Pregnancy Experience on Contraceptive Practice
Mixed messages: Implications of social conflict and social support within close relationships for adjustment to a stressful life event
The authors examined the impact of women's perceptions of negative (conflict) and positive (support) exchanges with their mothers, partners, and friends before having an abortion on negative (distress) and positive (well-being) indexes of adjustment after the abortion. Preabortion conflict and support from the partner predicted postabortion adjustment in the same affective domain: Conflict uniquely predicted distress, whereas support uniquely pre…
Perceived social support, self-efficacy, and adjustment to abortion
Prior to their having a 1st trimester abortion, women's perceptions of social support from their partner, family, and friends and self-efficacy for coping were assessed. Depression, mood, physical complaints, and anticipation of negative consequences were measured after the 30-min recovery period. As predicted, perceived social support enhanced adjustment indirectly through its effects on self-efficacy. Women who perceived high support from their…
Role of specific postingestional effects and medicinal context in the acquisition of liking for tastes
Contingencies of Self-Worth in College Students: Theory and Measurement
The Contingencies of Self-Worth Scale assesses 7 sources of self-esteem in college students: academics, appearance, approval from others, competition, family support, God's love, and virtue. In confirmatory factor analyses on data from 1,418 college students, a 7-factor model fit to the data acceptably well and significantly better than several plausible alternative models. The subscales all have high internal consistency, test-retest reliability…
Perceived social support, self-efficacy, and adjustment to abortion
Prior to their having a 1st trimester abortion, women's perceptions of social support from their partner, family, and friends and self-efficacy for coping were assessed. Depression, mood, physical complaints, and anticipation of negative consequences were measured after the 30-min recovery period. As predicted, perceived social support enhanced adjustment indirectly through its effects on self-efficacy. Women who perceived high support from their…
Personal resilience, cognitive appraisals, and coping: An integrative model of adjustment to abortion
We hypothesized that the effects of personality (self-esteem, control, and optimism) on postabortion adaptation (distress, well-being, and decision satisfaction) would be fully mediated by preabortion cognitive appraisals (stress appraisals and self-efficacy appraisals) and postabortion coping. We further proposed that the effects of preabortion appraisals on adaptation would be fully mediated by postabortion coping. Results of a longitudinal stu…
Mixed messages: Implications of social conflict and social support within close relationships for adjustment to a stressful life event
The authors examined the impact of women's perceptions of negative (conflict) and positive (support) exchanges with their mothers, partners, and friends before having an abortion on negative (distress) and positive (well-being) indexes of adjustment after the abortion. Preabortion conflict and support from the partner predicted postabortion adjustment in the same affective domain: Conflict uniquely predicted distress, whereas support uniquely pre…
Role of specific postingestional effects and medicinal context in the acquisition of liking for tastes
The Effects of Pregnancy Experience on Contraceptive Practice
Role of specific postingestional effects and medicinal context in the acquisition of liking for tastes
Perceived social support, self-efficacy, and adjustment to abortion
Prior to their having a 1st trimester abortion, women's perceptions of social support from their partner, family, and friends and self-efficacy for coping were assessed. Depression, mood, physical complaints, and anticipation of negative consequences were measured after the 30-min recovery period. As predicted, perceived social support enhanced adjustment indirectly through its effects on self-efficacy. Women who perceived high support from their…
The Effects of Pregnancy Experience on Contraceptive Practice
Mixed messages: Implications of social conflict and social support within close relationships for adjustment to a stressful life event
The authors examined the impact of women's perceptions of negative (conflict) and positive (support) exchanges with their mothers, partners, and friends before having an abortion on negative (distress) and positive (well-being) indexes of adjustment after the abortion. Preabortion conflict and support from the partner predicted postabortion adjustment in the same affective domain: Conflict uniquely predicted distress, whereas support uniquely pre…
Personal resilience, cognitive appraisals, and coping: An integrative model of adjustment to abortion
We hypothesized that the effects of personality (self-esteem, control, and optimism) on postabortion adaptation (distress, well-being, and decision satisfaction) would be fully mediated by preabortion cognitive appraisals (stress appraisals and self-efficacy appraisals) and postabortion coping. We further proposed that the effects of preabortion appraisals on adaptation would be fully mediated by postabortion coping. Results of a longitudinal stu…
A Motivational Perspective on Risky Behaviors: The Role of Personality and Affect Regulatory Processes
The present study tested a motivational model in which personality influences on risky behaviors were hypothesized to be primarily indirectly mediated, by shaping the nature and quality of emotional experience as well as characteristic styles of coping with these emotions. This model was tested in a representative community sample of 1,666 young adults, aged 18 to 25 years old. Results revealed strong support for the model, indicating that broad …
Contingencies of Self-Worth in College Students: Theory and Measurement
The Contingencies of Self-Worth Scale assesses 7 sources of self-esteem in college students: academics, appearance, approval from others, competition, family support, God's love, and virtue. In confirmatory factor analyses on data from 1,418 college students, a 7-factor model fit to the data acceptably well and significantly better than several plausible alternative models. The subscales all have high internal consistency, test-retest reliability…
Psychology (7 works) · Developmental psychology (6 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Clinical Psychology (4 works) · Personality (3 works) · Pregnancy (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works) · Social support (3 works) · Abortion (2 works) · Behavioral Health and Interventions (2 works)