Concern Over Mistakes and Emotion Regulation are Uniquely and Synergistically Associated with Eating Disorder Symptoms

Concern Over Mistakes and Emotion Regulation Skills are Uniquely and Synergistically Associated with Eating Disorder Symptoms in Adolescence Madison Ortman*, Mattison J. Hale*, Aleena Saifullah*, Sara Clark*, Taylor Porter*, Maritza Lazo B.A. *, Caroline Christian M.S. †, Claire E. Cusack M.A.†, Rachel Butler, Ph.D., Cheri A. Levinson, Ph.D. † *Authors contributed equally to this work. † Provided supervision. University of Louisville, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences Perfectionism and emotion dysregulation are transdiagnostic risk and maintenance factors implicated in eating disorders (EDs). Specifically, increased perfectionism and poorer emotional regulation skills have been associated with increased risk for ED behaviors and symptom severity. Though perfectionism and emotional regulation difficulties are implicated in EDs in adults, little is known about the associations across EDs, perfectionism, and emotional regulation difficulties in adolescents. In the current study, we analyzed the relationship between three unique perfectionism dimensions (e.g., concern over mistakes, parental criticism, pure personal standards), emotional regulation skills, and their interaction on ED symptoms severity. We found a significant relationship between concern over mistakes and ED symptoms (p \u3c .001), a significant relationship between emotion regulation difficulties and ED symptoms (p \u3c .001), and a significant relationship between their interaction and ED symptoms (p = .018). Parental criticism and pure personal standards were not associated with ED symptom severity, when accounting for emotion regulation difficulties (ps \u3e .05). A simple slopes analysis revealed the relationship between concern over mistakes and ED symptom severity was strengthened for those with average to poor emotion regulation skills, but not for individuals with high emotion regulation skills. Thus, it is important to assess for ED symptoms among adolescents with elevated emotion regulation difficulties and perfectionism symptoms, as greater challenges with emotion dysregulation may exacerbate the relationship between perfectionism and ED symptoms

Eucharistic Creation: Symbol, Meaning, Infinity

Christian theology finds in the Eucharist its most ancient and primary intercessory link to the presence of Christ. It is here, the Faith teaches, that the risen Lord can be ritually and truly encountered. The precise nature of the encounter, however, has been explored and explained variously over the past two millennia. Louis-Marie Chauvet in Symbol and Sacrament has proposed a postmodern account of being rooted in Eucharistic symbolic exchange. However, Chauvet's position inherits certain weaknesses from his sources, Heidegger and Derrida. Certain of these can be amended by approaching the question from the perspective of theological aesthetics. This paper attempts to raise possible aesthetic contributions to Eucharistic theology in light of Chauvet by drawing on David Bentley Hart’s work, The Beauty of the Infinite: The Aesthetics of Christian Truth. While Chauvet rightly highlights the symbolic mediacy of human access to being, Hart's aesthetic theology can be used to supplement Chauvet's account particularly in its explanation of gift and desire. Beginning with the analogia entis, Hart proceeds to explain creation in terms of analogia delectationis and finally analogia verbi. This provides a basis for understanding all of being Eucharistically; the mirror of being is the Sacrament itself. Thus “creation” describes not only a former event at the beginning of time, but a particular relation to the Creator.

Abolins etal 2022 EE AMRO BP data

Data associated with Abolins-Abols et al. 2022. Patterns of stress response to foreign eggs by a rejecter host of an obligate avian brood parasite. Ecology and Evolution. The document contains two separate datasets: one for analyzing the effect of parasitic egg color on baseline corticosterone, the other for analyzing the effect of parasitic egg color on heart rate.  </p