Kayla D. Skinner

TL;DR: For example, this article found that negative affect intensity indirectly predicted drinking to cope through lack of emotional clarity and limited emotional strategies, with no moderation by sample, and that problems in clearly identifying specific emotional experiences appear to be important in predicting drinking-to-cope for people who experience intense negative emotions.

TL;DR: The aim of the current study was to provide a method for assessing momentary distress tolerance using ecological momentary assessment to capture both within- and between-individual information and discuss the importance of construing distress tolerance from a dynamic perspective.

TL;DR: Effects of smoking, food and alcohol cues on behavior are compared to elucidate generalizations about the effects of cue exposure as well as methodological differences that may serve the study of craving in the future.

TL;DR: In this paper, the utility of affect balance as a predictor of emotions experienced during daily life was validated by an ecological momentary assessment study with prompts 7 times per day assessing current emotional state and recently experienced emotional events, where negative emotional events also included assessment of emotion regulation strategies.

TL;DR: Results suggest that targeting experiential avoidance and helping those who have a history of engaging in suicidal behaviors and/or NSSI develop regulation strategies to use during times of distress may be of utmost importance for treatment and prevention of eating pathology.