Everett L. Worthington

Bio: Everett L. Worthington is an academic researcher from Virginia Commonwealth University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Forgiveness & Humility. The author has an hindex of 64, co-authored 340 publications receiving 19789 citations. Previous affiliations of Everett L. Worthington include National Institutes of Health & University of Missouri.

A dyadic model of the work-family interface: a study of dual-earner couples in China.

Abstract: This study adopted a spillover-crossover model to examine the roles of personality and perceived social support as antecedents of the work-family interface among dual-earner couples in China. Married couples (N = 306) from 2 major cities in China (Shanghai and Jinan) completed questionnaires measuring a relationship-oriented personality trait (i.e., family orientation), perceived family and work support, and work-family conflict and enhancement. The results showed that family orientation and perceived family support was positively associated with family-to-work enhancement and negatively associated with family-to-work conflict for both husbands and wives. Perceived work support was positively associated with family-to-work enhancement for wives and negatively associated with work-to-family conflict for husbands. Similarities in family orientation between partners were positively correlated with the individual's family-to-work enhancement. This study also illustrated the crossover of the work-family interface between dual-earner couples by using the actor-partner interdependence model. The pattern of associations between personality trait and perceived social support varied by gender. Husbands' family orientation was negatively correlated with work-to-family enhancement experienced by wives, and husbands' perceived work support was positively correlated with work-to-family enhancement experienced by wives. Wives' perceived work support was positively correlated with family-to-work conflict experienced by husbands.

Effectiveness of religiously tailored interventions in Christian therapy

Abstract: Christian therapy is sought by many clients, yet the existing research examining its effectiveness is sparse. Clients (n=220) and their therapists (n=51) in 6 Christian agencies and 1 secular agency across the United States participated in a study of Christian therapy. Clients and therapists in Christian therapy generally believed that religiously tailored interventions were appropriate. Clients in Christian therapy and secular therapy reported feeling equally close to their therapists and equal (and appreciable) improvements in their presenting problems over time. Compared with therapists in the secular agency, those in Christian agencies used secular interventions as frequently and religious interventions more frequently. Across all agencies, clients with high religious commitment reported greater closeness with their therapists and greater improvement in their presenting concerns when receiving religious interventions than did clients with low religious commitment.

The effects of imagery content, choice of imagery content, and self-verbalization on the self-control of pain

Abstract: Ninety female students in a general psychology class at the University of Missouri-Columbia volunteered to be exposed to pre- and posttests of ice water tolerance. They were divided into eight experimental groups in a 2 × 2 × 2 design and one attention-placebo control group. The main independent variables were imagery content (pleasant versus neutral scenes), choice of imagery content (choice versus yoked), and self-verbalization (SV) (preplanned explicit SV versus no SV). The two main dependent variables were changes from pre- to posttests in actual tolerance and in self-reported pain. After both pre- and posttests, subjects rated their involvement in imagery (percent of time spent in imagery and vividness of imagery). A three-way ANOVA revealed that for increases in tolerance, significant main effects were found for choice of content (choice greater than yoked) and for SV (SV greater than no SV). Imagery content (pleasant versus neutral) was not significant. No ANOVA interactions were significant. For decreases in selfreported pain the only significant effect was choice (choice greater than yoked). Only two experimental groups had greater changes in tolerance than the attention-placebo group; no group had greater changes in selfreported pain than the control group. For vividness of posttest imagery, pleasant imagery was greater than neutral imagery, choice was greater than yoked, and SV was greater than no SV. A measure of vividness of visual imagery, completed by subjects prior to their exposure to ice water, was a weak predictor of changes in tolerance and self-reported pain from pre- to posttests.

Forgiveness and the bottle: Promoting self-forgiveness in individuals who abuse alcohol

Abstract: In the current article, the authors explore the efficacy of a 4-hour self-forgiveness intervention. Participants (n = 79) undergoing a routine alcohol treatment protocol were randomly assigned to an intervention or treatment as usual condition. Those in the intervention condition completed the self-forgiveness intervention. All participants completed measures of self-forgiveness, drinking refusal self-efficacy, and guilt and shame over an alcohol-related transgression. Participants in the intervention condition reported more positive gains on measures of self-forgiveness and drinking refusal efficacy, as well as guilt and shame over alcohol-related offenses. Implications of the self-forgiveness intervention for individuals who misuse alcohol are discussed.

Forgiveness and spirituality in psychotherapy: A relational approach.

Abstract: http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/14712-001 Forgiveness and Spirituality in Psychotherapy: A Relational Approach, by E. L. Worthington, Jr. and S. J. Sandage Copyright ©2016 by the American Psychological Association. All rights reserved. Luisa has a problem—several, really. She and her partner—“We’re not married, but we’ve been together for 14 years”—are embedded in deep conflict that has recently gotten worse. They hurt each other often, and they are bitter toward each other. Their 13-year-old son (Jamie) and 10-year-old daughter (Maria) are being affected, and the 13-year-old is demanding more independence and playing off Luisa against her partner, Carlos. Jamie was recently suspended from middle school for looking at pornography on the school computer and, as subsequent school investigation showed, exchanging naked pictures of himself with several young women in his class. Below is an exchange between Luisa and her psychotherapist.

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In a Different Voice. Psychological Theory and Women’s Development. Cambridge, MA (Harvard University Press) 1982.

Abstract: Introduction 1. Woman's Place in Man's Life Cycle 2. Images of Relationship 3. Concepts of Self and Morality 4. Crisis and Transition 5. Women's Rights and Women's Judgment 6. Visions of Maturity References Index of Study Participants General Index

Medscape

Abstract: Secret History: Return of the Black Death Channel 4, 7-8pm In 1348 the Black Death swept through London, killing people within days of the appearance of their first symptoms. Exactly how many died, and why, has long been a mystery. This Secret History documentary follows experts as they pick through the evidence and reveal why the plague killed on such a scale. And they ask, what might be coming next?

Acute stressors and cortisol responses: a theoretical integration and synthesis of laboratory research.

Abstract: This meta-analysis reviews 208 laboratory studies of acute psychological stressors and tests a theoretical model delineating conditions capable of eliciting cortisol responses. Psychological stressors increased cortisol levels; however, effects varied widely across tasks. Consistent with the theoretical model, motivated performance tasks elicited cortisol responses if they were uncontrollable or characterized by social-evaluative threat (task performance could be negatively judged by others), when methodological factors and other stressor characteristics were controlled for. Tasks containing both uncontrollable and social-evaluative elements were associated with the largest cortisol and adrenocorticotropin hormone changes and the longest times to recovery. These findings are consistent with the animal literature on the physiological effects of uncontrollable social threat and contradict the belief that cortisol is responsive to all types of stressors.