Research

Current Areas of Focus

Motivation and Goals

Our research is focused on the ways in which individuals think about and pursue their important personal goals (a process called self-regulation) and the role of motivational factors in cognition, affect, and behavior. We are particularly interested in how these constructs influence, and are influenced by, depression. In addition to trying to gain knowledge about these basic processes, we are also interested in applying that knowledge clinically - that is, to help treat depression through motivationally-based approaches to psychotherapy such as self-system therapy.

Mental Health Stigma and Identity

Members of the DTRP lab are currently working on a project examining aspects of mental health stigma as well as how people incorporate their mental health status into their sense of "self." This project was inspired by (1) conversations with many different students about their own observations of stigmatizing attitudes toward mental health problems within their families or communities and (2) listening to clients talk about how they perceive their mental health problems in relation to their identity (who they are and who they want to be). We are excited about this new addition to our research agenda!

Recent Presentations

Society of Clinical Psychology (APA Division 12) Conference, Atlanta (2024)

Eddington, K.M., Badillo-Winard, E., Strickland, S., et al. Training and supervision of community health workers in a culturally adapted, empirically-based mental health intervention.
Badillo-Winard, E. & Eddington, K.M. Measuring mental illness identity using an adapted measure of illness identity.
Rubacka, J., Poindexter, C., Eddington, K.M., & Stein, G. Addressing suicidality in a CHW-delivered intervention.
Strickland, C. & Eddington, K.M. The role of rural religiosity in predicting help seeking attitudes.
White, M., & Eddington, K.M. Multiple goals and well-being: A novel approach to analyzing and quantifying goal diversity.

ADAA Conference, Denver (2023):

White, M., & Eddington, K.M. Goal adjustment and depression as longitudinal predictors of COVID-19 impact and stress.
Badillo-Winard, E., & Eddington, K.M. Examining a novel measure of mental health disability identity and behaviors.

Selected Publications

Eddington, K.M. & Badillo-Winard, E. (in press). Mental illness identity: A scoping review. Accepted for publication in Identity. https://doi.org/10.1080/15283488.2024.2379412
Stiles, L., Frazier, A., & Eddington, K.M. (2023). What were you thinking? A comparison of rater coding and word counts for content analysis of thought samples in depression. Journal of Rational Emotive Cognitive Behavior Therapy.
Silvia, P., Harper, K., Eddington, K.M., Kwapil, T. (2021). Self-reflection, insight, and mood disorder symptoms: evaluating the short form of the self-reflection and insight scale with clinical interviews and self-reports. Current Psychology.
Silvia, P.J., Eddington, K.M., Maloney, K., Harper, K.L., Lunsford, J., & Kwapil, T.R. (2021). Self-report measures of anhedonia and approach motivation weakly correspond to anhedonia and depression assessed via clinical interviews. Personality and Individual Differences.
Harper, K., Eddington, K.M., & Silvia, P.J. (2020). Perfectionism and causal attribution: An experience sampling approach. Journal of Research in Personality, 87, 1-7.
Harper, K. & Eddington, K.M., Lunsford, J.L., & Hoet, A. (2019). Perfectionism and the impact of intrinsic and extrinsic motivation in daily life: A brief report. Journal of Individual Differences. https://doi.org/10.1027/1614-0001/a000310
Hoet, A. , Burgin, C., Eddington, K.M., & Silvia, P.J. (2018). Reports of therapy skill use and their efficacy in daily life in the short-term treatment of depression. Cognitive Therapy and Research, 42(2), 184-192.

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