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    COMT Val158Met genotüübi seos söömishäirete sümptomite ja söömishäiretega
    (Tartu Ülikool, 2019) Soodla, Helo Liis; Akkermann, Kirsti, juhendaja; Tartu Ülikool. Sotsiaalteaduste valdkond; Tartu Ülikool. Psühholoogia instituut
    Käesoleva uurimistöö eesmärk oli uurida Eesti laste isiksuse-, käitumise- ja terviseuuringu (ELIKTU) valimil, kas COMT Val158Met polümorfism on seotud söömishäirete sümptomite ning diagnoosiga. Töös leiti COMT peamõju söömishäire sümptomitele mõõdetuna EDI-2 küsimustikuga – Val/Val homosügootide skoorid kõhnuseihaluse ja kehaga rahulolematuse alaskaaladel olid kõrgemad kui Met/Met homosügootide omad. Lisaks leiti COMT x neurootilisus ja COMT x meelekindlus koosmõjud söömishäirete sümptomitele ning tuvastati soolised erinevused. Logistilise regressiooni tulemustest ilmnes, et Val/Val genotüüp ennustab söömishäire kujunemist. Uurimistöö panustab söömishäirete geneetilise aluse uurimisse ning annab suuna tulevasteks uuringuteks – hinnates COMT Val158Met polümorfismi mõju söömishäiretele, võiks arvesse võtta teisi katehhoolamiinide töötlust reguleerivaid geene ning negatiivseid elusündmusi.
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    Slur or False Friend? An Assessment of "False Friends” Arguments
    (Tartu Ülikool, 2019) Soodla, Helo Liis; Davies, Alexander Stewart, juhendaja; Tartu Ülikool. Humanitaarteaduste ja kunstide valdkond; Tartu Ülikool. Filosoofia osakond
    Finally, in this thesis I have shown that four accounts of slurs consider the social context of both Estonia and anglophone countries to be such that it satisfies the criteria for a word in said context to be a slur. However, besides a brief note on the omitted theories, I have not touched upon why accounts centred around CIs or presuppositions have not been explicitly addressed in this thesis. One reason for this is that the ‘tests’ these two accounts use to assess slurs include comparing how their derogatory aspect scopes out under negation, in conditionals, etc. However, it is unclear whether the linguistic constructions in Estonian straightforwardly model those in English (e.g. kui…siis vs if…then). This poses a larger question for analytical philosophy done in different languages. According to Pérez (2018, p. 10), “language is not a neutral vehicle for our thoughts”. It might be the case that in my analysis of Estonian and English words I have not paid enough attention to how the different languages themselves affect the ideas, concepts and proposals put forward. Altogether these remarks point to a necessity for refining our understanding of formal semantics for Estonian in the future. Comparing slur-like words could be of help in clarifying these distinctions.
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    Söömishäirete sümptomaatika seosed internaliseerimise ja eksternaliseerimise spektri isiksusejoontega
    (2023) Kört, Eva Margareeta; Akkermann, Kirsti; Soodla, Helo Liis; Tartu Ülikool. Psühholoogia instituut; Tartu Ülikool. Sotsiaalteaduste valdkond
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    Towards dimensional classification of psychopathology: a latent profile analysis of personality traits
    (Tartu Ülikool, 2021) Soodla, Helo Liis; Akkermann, Kirsti, juhendaja; Tartu Ülikool. Sotsiaalteaduste valdkond; Tartu Ülikool. Psühholoogia instituut
    Personality-based profiling can help elucidate associations between pathological symptomatology and address shortcomings of current diagnostic systems. Furthering these aims, this thesis investigated personality-based profiles within a female sample that included both patients (n = 313) and healthy controls (n = 114). It was hypothesised based on eating disorder (ED) and transdiagnostic studies that 3–5 classes resembling high functioning, undercontrolled and overcontrolled profiles would emerge. Anxiety, stress susceptibility, mistrust, detachment, irritability and embitterment were expected to, in addition to impulsivity and perfectionism, distinguish between profiles. Using latent profile analysis, a 5-class solution proved best-fitting and the extracted profiles included a high-functioning, a well-adapted, a moderately impulsive and socially dysregulated, an anxious-perfectionistic, and an emotionally and behaviourally dysregulated class. Statistically significant differences in depression, state anxiety and disturbed eating occurred, and diagnostic distribution across classes was also meaningful with a large number of bulimia nervosa patients falling in the impulsive and socially dysregulated class and the anxious-perfectionistic class displaying depression and generalised anxiety. The emotionally and behaviourally dysregulated class exhibited the most comorbidity and severe psychopathology. This hints at profiles’ clinical relevance in predicting current symptomatology. Due to over-representation of EDs in the sample, future studies are warranted to replicate the found profiles. Additionally, longitudinal studies are needed to assess treatment outcome and classification stability.