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Behavioral Sciences, Volume 10, Issue 2

2020 February - 20 articles

Cover Story: The article is a continuation of our work exploring biopsychosocial factors that impact the mental and physical wellbeing of college students. The current study uses a biopsychosocial approach to examine how interpersonal stressors, fear of missing out (FoMO), and insomnia interact to impact mental health. We chose these factors as important contributions to the specific social, biological, and psychological challenges experienced in the college years. Using path analysis, insomnia partially mediated significant associations of interpersonal stress and FoMO with mental health. The pathway from interpersonal stress and/or FoMO, through insomnia, significantly predicts compromises in mental health. These associations may be modifiable through behavioral interventions focusing on coping skills and sleep hygiene, and even technology-related habit changes. View this paper
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Articles (20)

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
7,833 Views
17 Pages

13 February 2020

Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a prevalent and debilitating condition associated with psychological conditions and chronic diseases that may be underpinned by dysfunction in the autonomic nervous system (ANS), the hypothalamic-pituitary-adr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
5,961 Views
10 Pages

11 February 2020

The need for research in the field of transport psychology in Bulgaria has become more tangible in recent years, due to both the increased public intolerance to aggressive driving and the very high number of injuries and fatalities in road accidents...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
11,734 Views
25 Pages

8 February 2020

Team communication plays a vital role in engineering management, however, there is a paucity of work that examines how team roles emerge as a response to the communicative processes between participants. This research explored role adoption using qua...

  • Article
  • Open Access
46 Citations
17,554 Views
10 Pages

6 February 2020

Introduction: The college years are characterized by psychosocial and biological phenomena that may impact mental health, such as heightened sensitivity to social stressors and compromises in sleep quantity and quality. The current study uses a biops...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
9,218 Views
10 Pages

Assessing Mothers’ Postpartum Depression From Their Infants’ Cry Vocalizations

  • Giulio Gabrieli,
  • Marc H. Bornstein,
  • Nanmathi Manian and
  • Gianluca Esposito

6 February 2020

Postpartum Depression (PPD), a condition that affects up to 15% of mothers in high-income countries, reduces attention to the needs of the child and is among the first causes of infanticide. PPD is usually identified using self-report measures and th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,443 Views
10 Pages

Ethno-National Attitudes as Intercultural Competence Predictors in University Students: Gender Differences

  • Irina A. Novikova,
  • Marina V. Gridunova,
  • Alexey L. Novikov and
  • Dmitriy A. Shlyakhta

6 February 2020

The search for predictors of intercultural competence (ICC) development is one of the important challenges of modern psychology in connection with globalization in all the spheres of modern life, including university education. The purpose of the pre...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
5,587 Views
12 Pages

5 February 2020

Engaging each student in learning comprises a continuous challenge and concern for the contemporary teacher. Educational research confirms the alarming increase of the disengaged students, relating student disaffection to adverse effects on students&...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
6,940 Views
11 Pages

Religiosity and Psychotic Ideation in Stable Schizophrenia: A Role for Empathic Perspective-Taking

  • Rosó Duñó,
  • Joan Carles Oliva,
  • Adolf Tobeña,
  • Diego Palao and
  • Javier Labad

5 February 2020

The relationship between religiosity and different components of empathy was explored in schizophrenia patients. A total of 81 stable schizophrenia patients and 95 controls from the nearby community completed self-reported questionnaires assessing re...

  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
9,836 Views
12 Pages

5 February 2020

This study examined the relationship between working memory capacity and narrative abilities in 5–6-year-old children. 269 children were assessed on their visual and verbal working memory and performed in a story retelling and a story creation...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,680 Views
9 Pages

4 February 2020

The article deals with the development peculiarities of the subject artistic competence of future preschool teachers in the field of artistic and aesthetic education of children by means of contextual educational technologies. The students in questio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
5,443 Views
11 Pages

Children’s Creativity and Personal Adaptation Resources

  • Vera G. Gryazeva-Dobshinskaya,
  • Yulia A. Dmitrieva,
  • Svetlana Yu. Korobova and
  • Vera A. Glukhova

3 February 2020

The study provides insights into the aspects of creativity, the structure of psychometric intelligence, and personal adaptation resources of senior preschool children. Creativity and intelligence are presented as general adaptation resources. Existin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
7,998 Views
40 Pages

2 February 2020

We introduce a typological characterization of possible human heterosexual couples in terms of the concordance-opposition of the orientations of their active and receptive areas as defined by the tie-up theory. We show that human mating incentives, a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
6,860 Views
11 Pages

Acute Sleep Curtailment Increases Sweet Taste Preference, Appetite and Food Intake in Healthy Young Adults: A Randomized Crossover Trial

  • Eri Tajiri,
  • Eiichi Yoshimura,
  • Yoichi Hatamoto,
  • Hideki Shiratsuchi,
  • Shigeho Tanaka and
  • Seiya Shimoda

1 February 2020

This study aimed to examine the effect of acute sleep curtailment on sweet taste preference, appetite and food intake, and the correlation between food intake and sweet taste preference or active ghrelin using a randomized crossover design (5 h sleep...

  • Review
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,387 Views
15 Pages

31 January 2020

Background: The disruption of a stroke can impact an individual’s sense of social identity. A comprehensive review is required to understand the factors and processes that influence changes in social identity following a stroke. Aims: To undert...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4,555 Views
13 Pages

30 January 2020

Metacognitive skills associated with reflexive actions in solving problems are an essential condition for the successful mastering of school programs and a strong indicator of the intellectual development of primary school-aged children. The purpose...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,936 Views
9 Pages

29 January 2020

The study analyzed the relationship of attitudes toward one’s appearance and appearance of the partner with attitude toward the own personality and that of the other persons’ in married men and women. The empirical object of the study inc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
8,094 Views
9 Pages

The Effect of Low-Doses of Caffeine and Taurine on Convulsive Seizure Parameters in Rats

  • Mohamed Jailani,
  • Mohamed Mubarak,
  • Mariam Sarkhouh,
  • Ahmed Al Mahrezi,
  • Habib Abdulnabi,
  • Mohamed Naiser,
  • Husain Alaradi,
  • Abdulaziz Alabbad,
  • Maram Hassan and
  • Amer Kamal

27 January 2020

Introduction: Caffeine, an adenosine-receptor blocker, is believed to have neuronal excitatory effects, while Taurine, a mammalian amino acid, was shown to have neuroinhibitory effects. Aim: The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of acu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,469 Views
9 Pages

25 January 2020

The purpose of the paper is to reveal the peculiarities of the introduction of innovative education technologies in the process of training future pre-school teachers in the field of the socialization of preschoolers, and to verify their effectivenes...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
5,923 Views
14 Pages

A Short Empathy Paradigm to Assess Empathic Deficits in Schizophrenia

  • Foteini Peveretou,
  • Sina Radke,
  • Birgit Derntl and
  • Ute Habel

24 January 2020

Empathy is important for successful social interaction and maintaining relationships. Several studies detected impairments in empathic abilities in schizophrenia, with some even indicating a broader deficit in several components, including emotion re...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,497 Views
10 Pages

22 January 2020

People’s attachment to the plant world makes a great contribution to the maintenance of psychological well-being. At the same time, little is known regarding the contribution of attitudes to plants to people’s morality; the current study...

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Behav. Sci. - ISSN 2076-328X