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Behavioral Sciences, Volume 8, Issue 9

2018 September - 8 articles

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Articles (8)

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,732 Views
8 Pages

19 September 2018

The professional activity in shifts in the Arctic contributes to the development of unfavorable functional status and destructive personal qualities of workers, which leads to a decrease in the level of mental health and efficiency of labor activity....

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Selected Papers from the 2018 Singapore Conference on Applied Psychology (SCAP 2018))
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
6,902 Views
10 Pages

Motivational Climate in Youth Football Players

  • Manuel Castro-Sánchez,
  • Félix Zurita-Ortega,
  • José Luis Ubago-Jiménez,
  • Irwin A. Ramírez-Granizo and
  • Ramón Chacón-Cuberos

15 September 2018

(1) Background: In recent decades, the psychology of sport has gained special relevance in this field, due to the influence of psychological variables on sports performance and the regularity of sports practice. The aim of this research is to analyse...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Effects of Sport Activity on Health Promotion)
  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
7,807 Views
21 Pages

12 September 2018

Happiness, psychological hardiness, and humor (“the 3Hs”) are useful ways of assessing resilience to stress in positive psychology. The literature analyzing their confluence regarding sports is scarce. This study aims to analyze the participants’ 3H...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,948 Views
8 Pages

Safety of Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation of Frontal, Parietal, and Cerebellar Regions in Fasting Healthy Adults

  • Abdullah Almousa,
  • Reema Alajaji,
  • Malak Alaboudi,
  • Fahad Al-sultan and
  • Shahid Bashir

10 September 2018

(1) Background: Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) is a non-invasive brain stimulation modality that has been investigated in a large number of studies in terms of it is effects on brain function, safety of use, and future implications. T...

  • Article
  • Open Access
47 Citations
8,238 Views
8 Pages

Understanding the Demographic Predictors and Associated Comorbidities in Children Hospitalized with Conduct Disorder

  • Rikinkumar S. Patel,
  • Neelima Amaravadi,
  • Harkeerat Bhullar,
  • Jay Lekireddy and
  • Honey Win

4 September 2018

Objective: To determine the demographic predictors and comorbidities in hospitalized children with conduct disorder. Methods: A retrospective analysis was performed using the Nationwide Inpatient Sample (2012–2014). All patients were ≤18 yea...

  • Review
  • Open Access
21 Citations
10,864 Views
18 Pages

Ethical Concerns in Sport: When the Will to Win Exceed the Spirit of Sport

  • Nancy Vargas-Mendoza,
  • Tomás Fregoso-Aguilar,
  • Eduardo Madrigal-Santillán,
  • Ángel Morales-González and
  • José A. Morales-González

3 September 2018

Background: The need to advance and achieve success is deeply ingrained in human evolution. As a species, humans developed instincts that allowed them to survive and transmit their genes along generations. The will to win is an instinct that has been...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
5,310 Views
13 Pages

3 September 2018

As the problems of mood measurements during alcohol consumption of alcoholic beverages do not necessarily evoke interpretable physiological responses, explicit reports may be contaminated by various cognitive biases or expectations. The present study...

  • Concept Paper
  • Open Access
12 Citations
6,844 Views
10 Pages

28 August 2018

This theoretical paper explores the need to use posttraumatic growth (PTG) as a framework when studying sexual minority women (SMW) who are survivors of intimate partner violence (IPV) to examine the relationship between risk factors such as stress,...

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