Adolescent dating violence may lead to adverse health behaviors. We examined associations between sexual teen dating violence victimization (TDVV) and sexual risk behaviors among U.S. high school students using 2013 and 2015 National Youth Risk Behavior Survey data (combined n = 29,346). Sex-stratified logistic regression models were used to estimate these associations among students who had dated or gone out with someone during the past 12 months (n = 20,093). Among these students, 10.5% experienced sexual TDVV. Sexual TDVV was positively associated with sexual intercourse before age 13, four or more lifetime sexual partners, current sexual activity, alcohol or drug use before last sexual intercourse, and no pregnancy prevention during last sexual intercourse. Given significant findings among both sexes, it is valuable for dating violence prevention efforts to target both female and male students.

Jealousy can be seen as rational or undisturbed when people strongly desire love and affection from others but do not dogmatically insist that they absolutely must have it. When they are irrationally or self-defeatingly jealous, they usually have a number of irrational beliefs leading to their feelings of insecurity, rage, and low frustration tolerance. These are described in this article and several cognitive, emotive, and behavioral methods are presented that are commonly used in rational emotive behavioral therapy (REBT) to reduce irrational jealousy.

Insomnia chronically affects 1 in 9 individuals. It causes sufferers severe distress as well as social, interpersonal, and occupational impairment. One of the most replicated findings in the insomnia literature is that people who suffer from insomnia attribute their sleep disturbance to unwanted and excessive intrusive thoughts and worries whilst trying to get to sleep. This article aims to provide an overview of published studies relating to unwanted worry and intrusions in insomnia and to establish the extent to which unwanted worry and intrusions, and the management of them, contribute to the maintenance of insomnia. It is argued that a key mechanism underpinning excessive negatively toned cognitive activity is the strategy by which the unwanted thoughts are managed. Preliminary research is presented in support of this proposal and the clinical implications of it are discussed. It is concluded that investigations of the mechanisms underpinning excessive and unwanted pre-sleep intrusions and worry are in their infancy, but that it is a promising area for future research.

It is usually assumed that cognitive therapy helps patients to reassess the validity of the content of their thinking, resulting in thoughts which are more realistic and less negative, thereby alleviating emotional distress. This paper proposes that negative cognitions may be dysfunctional, not only in terms of inaccurate propositional content, but also through fostering unhelpful or maladaptive intentions. Some benefits of cognitive therapy may result from helping patients to give up unhelpful intentions or adopt novel intentions in situations where they are experiencing distress. The process of adopting new intentions is facilitated by development of awareness of thoughts as mental events, here called meta-awareness. The effects of different components of cognitive therapy on intentions and on meta-awareness are described. Making intentional effects explicit clarifies the process of action of cognitive therapy, and may facilitate clinical practice, empirical investigation and training.

Computer programs designed to collect clinical information from patients have been extant for a number of years. Recent efforts, however, have focused on the development of computerized forms of psychotherapy. Cognitive therapy has been modified for use in such computerized psychotherapy programs, primarily because of its structured format, logical approach to therapy, and its empirically demonstrated efficacy. We present a case study in which a computerized form of cognitive psychotherapy was used to treat a depressed, hospitalized patient. The interactions between the patient, the computer, and the personnel involved in assisting the patient with the computerized psychotherapy suggest that the interpersonal context in which the computerized therapy takes place is essential to the treatment process. Moreover, the case suggests that the interpersonal processes which occur during the delivery of CT in any form are essential to its effective delivery.

This study presents a community-based financial literacy program offered to low-income families in the heart of Silicon Valley. Leveraging local financial institutions and organizations, it provided financial education and encouraged habit formation, hoping for lasting outcomes toward financial well-being. Program impact was assessed in the areas of financial knowledge gain, behavioral tendencies in financial decision-making, and self-reported personal finances. Participants showed significant improvement in key knowledge areas, with positive impact observed in behavioral tendencies such as financial goal setting. Improvements in financial outcomes were not significant. The results of this intervention illustrate that maintaining long-term impact and applying sophisticated evaluation methods present key challenges for community-based efforts focused on financial education.

Recent research has shown that two forms of education intervention significantly improve financial outcomes: rigorous, in-depth personal finance courses and additional mathematics coursework. This suggests that a mathematics course that offered systematic, in-depth applications to personal finance could be particularly effective. In this article, we summarize the results from a pilot of such a course, and demonstrate how it is motivated by recent literature, despite being a type of course that has so far not been studied thoroughly. We then present the results of our preliminary impact assessment and show how financial knowledge and confidence improve significantly after taking the course. We discuss how this indicates that such an approach is a promising strategy for improving financial outcomes.

This study examines the degree to which the customer risk profiling measure (CRPM), commonly used by financial institutions to determine loss tolerance of investors, is psychometrically valid in assessing risk tolerance and predicting anxiety after experiencing a significant investment loss. Data were collected online from 91 respondents with various investment experience. Results suggest that CRPM is significantly correlated with the Grable and Lytton's Financial Risk Tolerance Scale (G/L-RTS), a validated financial risk tolerance measure. CRPM is also able to predict anxiety after experiencing a significant investment loss. Furthermore, CRPM also demonstrates incremental predictive validity above and beyond G/L-RTS in predicting anxiety after investment loss.

This article investigates the credit card debt puzzle. Simultaneously holding credit card debt and liquid assets is puzzling given the sizeable difference between interest rates of debt and assets. However, this behavior is common—about 31% of households in the 2016 Survey of Consumer Finances. The cost of co-holding may be justified if consumers anticipate future restrictions in credit or if they need to maintain liquidity. Other existing explanations for co-holding include impulsive spending and low financial literacy. This research reveals a new explanation for the credit card debt puzzle: consumers' overconfidence of their financial knowledge. Using a Coarsened Exact Matching method, we found that overconfident consumers were 20%–40% more likely to co-hold credit card debt and liquid assets.