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  1. The Association Between Everyday Discrimination and Symptoms of Depression in Adolescents Moderated by Dysfunctional Attitudes

    Article • Journal of Counseling & Development, January 2026, Wiley

    Patrick Possel

  2. Perceived Everyday Discrimination, Dysfunctional Attitudes, and Their Influence on Depressive Symptoms and Inflammation in Youth

    Article • Research in Nursing & Health, August 2025, Wiley

    Patrick Possel

  3. Universal school-based depression prevention: what makes psychologists more effective than teachers?

    Article • Current Psychology, June 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Patrick Possel

  4. Equity and inclusion in prevention: Depression prevention in Black and White American youth.

    Article • Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, April 2025, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Patrick Possel

  5. Prayer and Closeness to God

    Article • January 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Patrick Possel

  6. Distress Disclosure in Prayer

    Article • December 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Patrick Possel

  7. God-Mediated Control

    Article • December 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Patrick Possel

  8. Trust-Based Beliefs About Prayer

    Article • December 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Patrick Possel

  9. The Middle School Blues: Temporal Directionality Between Teaching Behavior and Students’ Affect

    Article • Child & Youth Care Forum, October 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Patrick Possel

  10. Similarities and Differences in the Architecture of Cognitive Vulnerability to Depressive Symptoms in Black and White American Adolescents: A Network Analysis Study

    Article • Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology, June 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Patrick Possel

  11. Relationships among repetitive negative thinking types, change in employment, and mental health

    Article • Current Psychology, May 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Patrick Possel

  12. Discrimination, cognitive styles, and their associations with adolescents' mental and physical health

    Article • Research in Nursing & Health, March 2024, Wiley

    Patrick Possel

  13. The Impact of a Gamified Mobile Mental Health App (eQuoo) on Resilience and Mental Health in a Student Population: Large-Scale Randomized Controlled Trial

    Article • JMIR Mental Health, July 2023, JMIR Publications Inc.

    Patrick Possel

  14. Role of Dysfunctional Attitudes in the Association Between Discrimination and Adolescents’ Mental and Physical Health

    Article • Psychological Reports, June 2023, SAGE Publications

    Patrick Possel

  15. The Impact of a Gamified Mobile Mental Health App (eQuoo) on Resilience and Mental Health in a Student Population: Large-Scale Randomized Controlled Trial (Preprint)

    Article • March 2023, JMIR Publications Inc.

    Patrick Possel

  16. Comprehensive Prevention: An Evaluation of Peripheral Outcomes of a School-based Prevention Program

    Article • Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology, March 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Patrick Possel

  17. Temporal Directionality Between Teaching Behavior and Affect in High School Students

    Article • Journal of Youth and Adolescence, March 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Patrick Possel

  18. Associations Between Parenting Behavior and Positive and Negative Affect in Elementary Age Children

    Article • Journal of Child and Family Studies, October 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Patrick Possel

  19. Perceived discrimination and depressive symptoms: What role does the cognitive triad play?

    Article • Journal of Clinical Psychology, October 2022, Wiley

    Patrick Possel

  20. Using exploratory structural equation modeling to examine and validate the psychometric properties of Multidimensional Prayer instruments in new and diverse groups: an illustration with the Prayer Frequency Scale

    Article • Mental Health Religion & Culture, September 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Patrick Possel

  21. Intersections of Health, Economic, and Social Concerns During the COVID-19 Pandemic in the United States

    Article • International Perspectives in Psychology, July 2022, Hogrefe Publishing Group

    Patrick Possel

  22. PATH 2 Purpose: Design of a comparative effectiveness study of prevention programs for adolescents at-risk for depression in the primary care setting

    Article • Contemporary Clinical Trials, June 2022, Elsevier

    Patrick Possel

  23. The Associations Between Everyday Discrimination, Brooding, Reflection, and Symptoms of Depression in Adolescents

    Article • Journal of Child and Family Studies, April 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Patrick Possel

  24. Association of cancer caregiver stress and negative attribution style with depressive symptoms and cortisol: a cross-sectional study

    Article • Supportive Care in Cancer, February 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Patrick Possel

  25. Migration Background, Gender, and the Prevention of Depressive Symptoms: A Secondary Analysis

    Article • The Counseling Psychologist, February 2022, SAGE Publications

    Patrick Possel

  26. Does closeness to God mediate the relationship between prayer and mental health in Christian, Jewish, and Muslim samples?

    Article • Mental Health Religion & Culture, January 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Patrick Possel

  27. Association of Cancer Caregiver Stress and Negative Attribution Style With Depressive Symptoms and Cortisol: A Cross-Sectional Study

    Article • November 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Patrick Possel

  28. Exploring the Relation between Adolescents’ Number of Perceived Reasons for Discrimination and Depressive Symptoms

    Article • Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology, October 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Patrick Possel

  29. Are negative views of the self, world and future, mediators of the relationship between subjective social status and depressive symptoms?

    Article • Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy, September 2021, Cambridge University Press

    Patrick Possel

  30. Relations of cognitive styles, depressive symptoms, and blood pressure in community college students

    Article • Journal of American College Health, July 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Patrick Possel

  31. Depressive Symptoms Among Adolescents: Testing Vulnerability-Stress and Protective Models in the Context of COVID-19

    Article • Child Psychiatry & Human Development, July 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Patrick Possel

  32. The Architecture of Cognitive Vulnerability to Depressive Symptoms in Adolescence: A Longitudinal Network Analysis Study

    Article • Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology, November 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Patrick Possel

  33. The Conceptualization of the Positive Cognitive Triad and Associations with Depressive Symptoms in Adolescents

    Article • Child Psychiatry & Human Development, October 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Patrick Possel

  34. Explanatory Style

    Article • January 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Patrick Possel

  35. Depressive Cognitive Triad

    Article • January 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Patrick Possel

  36. Learned Helplessness

    Article • January 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Patrick Possel

  37. Integrating Beck’s Cognitive Theory of Depression and the Hopelessness Model in an Adolescent Sample

    Article • Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, December 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Patrick Possel

  38. Perceived Discrimination and Depressive Symptoms: Is the Cognitive Triad a Moderator or Mediator?

    Article • Child & Youth Care Forum, December 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Patrick Possel

  39. The impact of cognitive styles and depressive symptoms on the relation between perceived everyday discrimination and blood pressure in adolescents.

    Article • Translational Issues in Psychological Science, December 2019, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Patrick Possel

  40. Repetitive Negative Thinking, Depressive Symptoms, and Cortisol in Cancer Caregivers and Noncaregivers

    Article • Oncology Nursing Forum, November 2019, Oncology Nursing Society (ONS)

    Patrick Possel

  41. The architecture of cognitive vulnerability to depressive symptoms in adolescence: A longitudinal network analysis study

    Article • September 2019, Center for Open Science

    Patrick Possel

  42. Perceived Everyday Discrimination and Depressive Symptoms: Does Cognitive Style Mediate?

    Article • Journal of Counseling & Development, September 2019, Wiley

    Patrick Possel

  43. Measuring Reading Self-Perceptions and Enjoyment: Development and Psychometric Properties of the Reading and Me Survey

    Article • Journal of Advanced Academics, April 2019, SAGE Publications

    Patrick Possel

  44. Relations of Subjective Social Status and Brooding with Blood Pressure

    Article • International Journal of Behavioral Medicine, April 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Patrick Possel

  45. Does frontal brain activity mediate the effect of depression prevention in adolescents? A pilot study

    Article • International Journal of Psychology, February 2019, Wiley

    Patrick Possel

  46. Explanatory Style

    Article • January 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Patrick Possel

  47. Does Rumination Mediate the Association of Private Prayer, Stress, and Their Interaction with Depression among Christians? A Cross-Sectional Study

    Article • Psychological Studies, September 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Patrick Possel

  48. Teaching Behavior and Emerging Adults’ Depressive Symptoms: Effect of Perceived Observer-Model Similarity

    Article • Journal of Child and Family Studies, September 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Patrick Possel

  49. LARS&LISA: a universal school-based cognitive-behavioral program to prevent adolescent depression

    Article • Psicologia Reflexão e Crítica, August 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Patrick Possel

  50. The Mediating Effects of Parentification on the Relation Between Parenting Behavior and Well-Being and Depressive Symptoms in Early Adolescents

    Article • Journal of Child and Family Studies, August 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Patrick Possel

  51. Integrating the Hopelessness Model and the Response Style Theory in an Adolescent Sample

    Article • Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, August 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Patrick Possel

  52. Meta-analyses of cardiovascular reactivity to rumination: A possible mechanism linking depression and hostility to cardiovascular disease.

    Article • Psychological Bulletin, December 2017, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Patrick Possel

  53. An investigation of African American and European American students' perception of teaching behavior

    Article • Journal of School Psychology, December 2017, Elsevier

    Patrick Possel

  54. Prayer Type, Disclosure, and Mental Health Across Religious Groups

    Article • Counseling and Values, October 2017, Wiley

    Patrick Possel

  55. Factor Structure and Psychometric Properties of the Cognitive Error Questionnaire in a Sample of Iranian College Students

    Article • International Journal of Cognitive Therapy, September 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Patrick Possel

  56. Teaching Behavior and Positive and Negative Affect in High School Students: Does Students’ Race Matter?

    Article • School Mental Health, July 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Patrick Possel

  57. Associations between Social Support from Family, Friends, and Teachers and depressive Symptoms in Adolescents

    Article • Journal of Youth and Adolescence, July 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Patrick Possel

  58. Can the Hopelessness Model of Depression and Response Style Theory Be Integrated?

    Article • Journal of Counseling & Development, March 2017, Wiley

    Patrick Possel

  59. Associations of depression status and hopelessness with blood pressure: a 24-year follow-up study

    Article • Psychology Health & Medicine, January 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Patrick Possel

  60. Kognitive Interventionen

    Article • January 2017, Hogrefe Publishing Group

    Patrick Possel

  61. Understanding Student Drinking Patterns

    Article • Journal of Drug Education Substance Use Research and Prevention, December 2016, SAGE Publications

    Patrick Possel

  62. Buchbesprechungen

    Article • Praxis der Kinderpsychologie und Kinderpsychiatrie, November 2016, De Gruyter

    Patrick Possel

  63. Comparing Different Sequential Mediational Interpretations of Beck’s Cognitive Model of Depression in Adolescents

    Article • Journal of Youth and Adolescence, August 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Patrick Possel

  64. Associations between perceived teaching behaviours and affect in upper elementary school students

    Article • Early Child Development and Care, June 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Patrick Possel

  65. Associations Between Teacher-Reported School Climate and Depressive Symptoms in Australian Adolescents: A 5-Year Longitudinal Study

    Article • School Mental Health, April 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Patrick Possel

  66. Associations of depression status and hopelessness with breast cancer: A 24-year follow-up study

    Article • Journal of Health Psychology, February 2016, SAGE Publications

    Patrick Possel

  67. Petitionary Prayer: Immature but Common in Christians? A Descriptive and Exploratory Study

    Article • January 2016, Brill

    Patrick Possel

  68. Depressive Cognitive Triad

    Article • January 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Patrick Possel

  69. Cognitive Distortions

    Article • January 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Patrick Possel

  70. Self-Referent Cognitions

    Article • January 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Patrick Possel

  71. Learned Helplessness

    Article • January 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Patrick Possel

  72. Depressive Schemata

    Article • January 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Patrick Possel

  73. Closeness and Control: Exploring the Relationship Between Prayer and Mental Health

    Article • Counseling and Values, November 2015, De Gruyter

    Patrick Possel

  74. TEACHING BEHAVIOR QUESTIONNAIRE: VERIFYING FACTOR STRUCTURE AND INVESTIGATING DEPRESSIVE SYMPTOMS IN CATHOLIC MIDDLE AND HIGH SCHOOLS

    Article • Psychology in the Schools, September 2015, Wiley

    Patrick Possel

  75. Poloma and Pendleton’s (1989) Prayer Types Scale in Christian, Jewish, and Muslim praying adults: One scale or a family of scales?

    Article • Psychology of Religion and Spirituality, August 2015, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Patrick Possel

  76. Do Depressive Symptoms Mediate the Relationship Between Hopelessness and Diurnal Cortisol Rhythm?

    Article • International Journal of Behavioral Medicine, December 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Patrick Possel

  77. Teachers or Psychologists: Who Should Facilitate Depression Prevention Programs in Schools?

    Article • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, May 2014, MDPI AG

    Patrick Possel

  78. Disclosure During Private Prayer as a Mediator Between Prayer Type and Mental Health in an Adult Christian Sample

    Article • Journal of Religion and Health, February 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Patrick Possel

  79. Integrating Beck’s Cognitive Model and the Response Style Theory in an Adolescent Sample

    Article • Journal of Youth and Adolescence, January 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Patrick Possel

  80. Associations between teacher emotional support and depressive symptoms in Australian adolescents: A 5-year longitudinal study.

    Article • Developmental Psychology, November 2013, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Patrick Possel

  81. Do depressive symptoms predict the incidence of myocardial infarction independent of hopelessness?

    Article • Journal of Health Psychology, August 2013, SAGE Publications

    Patrick Possel

  82. Teacher support mediates concurrent and longitudinal associations between temperament and mild depressive symptoms in sixth grade

    Article • Early Child Development and Care, August 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Patrick Possel

  83. Assessments of Student–Teacher Relationships in Residential Treatment Center Schools

    Article • Journal of Education for Students Placed at Risk (JESPAR), July 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Patrick Possel

  84. Hopelessness the “Active Ingredient”? Associations of Hopelessness and Depressive Symptoms with Interleukin-6

    Article • The International Journal of Psychiatry in Medicine, July 2013, SAGE Publications

    Patrick Possel

  85. Testing Three Different Sequential Mediational Interpretations of Beck's Cognitive Model of the Development of Depression

    Article • Journal of Clinical Psychology, June 2013, Wiley

    Patrick Possel

  86. Do Trust-Based Beliefs Mediate the Associations of Frequency of Private Prayer with Mental Health? A Cross-Sectional Study

    Article • Journal of Religion and Health, February 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Patrick Possel

  87. A randomized controlled trial of a cognitive-behavioral program for the prevention of depression in adolescents compared with nonspecific and no-intervention control conditions.

    Article • Journal of Counseling Psychology, January 2013, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Patrick Possel

  88. The Combined Effects of Self-Referent Information Processing and Ruminative Responses on Adolescent Depression

    Article • Journal of Youth and Adolescence, October 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Patrick Possel

  89. Depression as a risk factor for breast cancer: investigating methodological limitations in the literature

    Article • Cancer Causes & Control, June 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Patrick Possel

  90. Frontal brain activity pattern predicts depression in adolescent boys

    Article • Biological Psychology, February 2012, Elsevier

    Patrick Possel

  91. Psychische Auffälligkeiten und Stressverarbeitung im Jugendalter

    Article • Zeitschrift für Gesundheitspsychologie, January 2012, Hogrefe Publishing Group

    Patrick Possel

  92. Depression und Suizidalität im Kindes- und Jugendalter

    Article • January 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Patrick Possel

  93. A randomized trial to evaluate the course of effects of a program to prevent adolescent depressive symptoms over 12 months

    Article • Behaviour Research and Therapy, December 2011, Elsevier

    Patrick Possel

  94. Promoting Adaptive Emotion Regulation and Coping in Adolescence

    Article • Journal of Health Psychology, March 2011, SAGE Publications

    Dr. Andrea B. Horn, Patrick Possel

  95. A school-based universal programme to prevent depression and to build up life skills

    Article • Journal of Public Health, February 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Patrick Possel

  96. Bidirectional relations of religious orientation and depressive symptoms in adolescents: A short-term longitudinal study.

    Article • Psychology of Religion and Spirituality, February 2011, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Patrick Possel

  97. Can Beck's theory of depression and the response style theory be integrated?

    Article • Journal of Counseling Psychology, January 2011, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Patrick Possel

  98. Cognitive triad as mediator in the hopelessness model? a three‐wave longitudinal study

    Article • Journal of Clinical Psychology, November 2010, Wiley

    Patrick Possel

  99. Die Skala dysfunktionaler Einstellungen für Jugendliche (DAS-J)

    Article • Zeitschrift für Klinische Psychologie, October 2010, Hogrefe Publishing Group

    Patrick Possel

  100. Bridging the Gaps: An Attempt to Integrate Three Major Cognitive Depression Models

    Article • Cognitive Therapy and Research, July 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Patrick Possel

  101. Cognitive Triad Inventory (CTI): Psychometric properties and factor structure of the German translation

    Article • Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, June 2009, Elsevier

    Patrick Possel

  102. Depression/Suizidalität

    Article • January 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Patrick Possel

  103. Depression

    Article • January 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Patrick Possel

  104. Individual response differences in spider phobia: Comparing phobic and non-phobic women of different reactivity levels

    Article • Anxiety Stress & Coping, January 2009, Taylor & Francis

    Patrick Possel

  105. Cognitive Error Questionnaire (CEQ): Psychometric Properties and Factor Structure of the German Translation

    Article • Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment, December 2008, Springer Science + Business Media

    Patrick Possel

  106. Evaluation eines deutschsprachigen Instrumentes zur Erfassung positiver und negativer automatischer Gedanken bei Kindern und Jugendlichen

    Article • Zeitschrift für Klinische Psychologie, October 2008, Hogrefe Publishing Group

    Dr. Andrea B. Horn, Patrick Possel

  107. An experimental test of the maintenance and vulnerability hypothesis of depression in consideration of the cognitive hierarchy

    Article • Depression and Anxiety, September 2008, Hindawi Publishing Corporation

    Patrick Possel

  108. A longitudinal study of cortical EEG activity in adolescents

    Article • Biological Psychology, May 2008, Elsevier

    Patrick Possel

  109. Impact of comorbidity in prevention of adolescent depressive symptoms.

    Article • Journal of Counseling Psychology, January 2008, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Patrick Possel

  110. Testing the Causal Mediation Component of Dodge's Social Information Processing Model of Social Competence and Depression

    Article • Journal of Youth and Adolescence, July 2006, Springer Science + Business Media

    Patrick Possel

  111. Effekte pharmakologischer und psychotherapeutischer Interventionen auf Depressionen bei Kindern und Jugendlichen

    Article • Zeitschrift für Kinder- und Jugendpsychiatrie und Psychotherapie, July 2006, Hogrefe Publishing Group

    Patrick Possel

  112. Test of the dual‐belief system in women with and without phobic fear of spiders: a pilot study

    Article • Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy, July 2006, Wiley

    Patrick Possel

  113. Vergleich zweier schulbasierter Programme zur Prävention depressiver Symptome bei Jugendlichen

    Article • Zeitschrift für Klinische Psychologie, April 2006, Hogrefe Publishing Group

    Dr. Andrea B. Horn, Patrick Possel

  114. Psychologische Probleme

    Article • January 2006, Elsevier

    Patrick Possel

  115. Effekte und Kosten universaler Prävention von Internalisierungsstörungen bei Kindern und Jugendlichen

    Article • Verhaltenstherapie, January 2006, Karger Publishers

    Patrick Possel

  116. Influence of cosmetics on emotional, autonomous, endocrinological, and immune reactions

    Article • International Journal of Cosmetic Science, November 2005, Wiley

    Patrick Possel

  117. Influence of general self-efficacy on the effects of a school-based universal primary prevention program of depressive symptoms in adolescents: a randomized and controlled follow-up study

    Article • Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, September 2005, Wiley

    Dr. Andrea B. Horn, Patrick Possel

  118. Verhaltensbeurteilung durch Gleichaltrige

    Article • Zeitschrift für Experimentelle Psychologie, July 2005, Hogrefe Publishing Group

    Patrick Possel

  119. Evaluation eines deutschsprachigen Instrumentes zur Erfassung positiver und negativer automatischer Gedanken

    Article • Zeitschrift für Klinische Psychologie, January 2005, Hogrefe Publishing Group

    Patrick Possel

  120. School-Based Prevention of Depressive Symptoms in Adolescents: A 6-Month Follow-up

    Article • Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, August 2004, Elsevier

    Dr. Andrea B. Horn, Patrick Possel

  121. Übersetzungs- und Validierungsansätze der deutschen Version des «Teenage Inventory of Social Skills»

    Article • Zeitschrift für Kinder- und Jugendpsychiatrie und Psychotherapie, January 2004, Hogrefe Publishing Group

    Patrick Possel

  122. Dysthymia and Major Depression: Distinct Conditions or Different Stages Along a One-Dimensional Continuum?

    Article • Journal of Cognitive Psychotherapy, October 2003, Springer Publishing Company

    Patrick Possel

  123. Dysfunktionale Überzeugungen bei Spinnenangst

    Article • Zeitschrift für Klinische Psychologie, January 2003, Hogrefe Publishing Group

    Patrick Possel