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Behavioral Sciences, Volume 10, Issue 5

2020 May - 12 articles

Cover Story: Sincere patient–healthcare professional communication (truth-telling) is still far from being a routine practice in many countries. This qualitative research explored the experiences of 47 Italian palliative care nurses and nursing students who confronted lack of truth-telling, highlighting the consequent serious impairment of their relationships with patients and their painful ethical dilemmas and emotional burdens. Lack of truth-telling often arises from conflicting belief systems among other colleagues and the patients’ relatives who fail to consider the patient’s wishes. End-of-life conversations may evoke their existential anxieties, fear of harming the patient or not knowing how to manage the resultant emotional content. Palliative care must adopt a patient-centered approach towards dying, respecting the patient’s right to self-determination. Healthcare providers need training in honest communication. View this paper.
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Articles (12)

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
5,710 Views
12 Pages

Eye Movements in Response to Pain-Related Feelings in the Presence of Low and High Cognitive Loads

  • Ramtin Zargari Marandi,
  • Camilla Ann Fjelsted,
  • Iris Hrustanovic,
  • Rikke Dan Olesen and
  • Parisa Gazerani

20 May 2020

The affective dimension of pain contributes to pain perception. Cognitive load may influence pain-related feelings. Eye tracking has proven useful for detecting cognitive load effects objectively by using relevant eye movement characteristics. In thi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
6,592 Views
13 Pages

Instability of Personality Traits of Teachers in Risk Conditions due to Work-Related Stress

  • Ruggero Andrisano Ruggieri,
  • Anna Iervolino,
  • PierGiorgio Mossi,
  • Emanuela Santoro and
  • Giovanni Boccia

13 May 2020

The following study aims to verify whether psychosocial risk conditions determine a variation in personality traits. The sample consisted of 301 teachers, comprising 84 men (27.1%) and 217 women (72.9%). The Big Five Questionnaire (BFQ) was used to m...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,574 Views
16 Pages

Survey for Assessment of a Person’s Legal Consciousness: Development and Preliminary Validation

  • Victoria Molotova,
  • Alexander Molotov,
  • Dmitry Kashirsky and
  • Natalia Sabelnikova

12 May 2020

The results of the development and preliminary assessment of the psychometric properties of the questionnaire of legal consciousness of a person are presented. Theoretical justification is given for the structure of the questionnaire containing six s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
7,108 Views
10 Pages

12 May 2020

Previous research investigated the linkage between the Dark Triad traits and subjective well-being, but the factors explaining individual differences in terms of cognitive strategies for achieving happiness remained poorly understood. This study (N =...

  • Article
  • Open Access
33 Citations
12,528 Views
13 Pages

Lack of Truth-Telling in Palliative Care and Its Effects among Nurses and Nursing Students

  • Ines Testoni,
  • Michael Alexander Wieser,
  • Dafni Kapelis,
  • Sara Pompele,
  • Marino Bonaventura and
  • Robert Crupi

11 May 2020

Unclear communication of inauspicious prognoses may disorientate both patients and their relatives, drastically jeopardizing the planning of palliative care. This paper considers the issue of truth-telling in the communicative problems of nurses and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
5,986 Views
10 Pages

The study investigated young adults’ perceptions of their parents and romantic partners with respect to the quality of attachment to the loved ones. The sample consisted of 78 young Russian men and women aged 19–25 involved in a romantic...

  • Article
  • Open Access
72 Citations
49,317 Views
13 Pages

Nowadays films occupy a significant portion of the media products consumed by people. In Russia, cinema is being considered as a means of individual and social transformation, which makes a contribution to the formation of the Russian audience’...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
6,351 Views
12 Pages

Comparing Psychopathological Symptoms in Portuguese Football Fans and Non-fans

  • Ângela Leite,
  • Ana Ramires,
  • Rui Costa,
  • Filipa Castro,
  • Hélder Fernando Pedrosa e Sousa,
  • Diogo Guedes Vidal and
  • Maria Alzira Pimenta Dinis

The present study aims to characterize football fans and non-fans and to compare their psychopathological symptoms with the latest normative values for the Portuguese population from Canavarro in 2007. Results showed that football fans and non-fans a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
6,120 Views
9 Pages

28 April 2020

This study examines the relationship between (a) the size of groups and the number of informal subgroups in them with conflicts in the context of the group, and (b) the size of the informal subgroups with conflicts in the context of the subgroup. A m...

  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
8,046 Views
18 Pages

27 April 2020

The recent transformation of the workplaces and labor market, characterized by rapid technological changes, social and economic instability, has greatly influenced the construction of people’s career paths. These paths cannot be viewed more as...

  • Review
  • Open Access
33 Citations
8,486 Views
13 Pages

Hidden Realities of Infant Feeding: Systematic Review of Qualitative Findings from Parents

  • Anne M. Dattilo,
  • Ryan S. Carvalho,
  • Rubens Feferbaum,
  • Stewart Forsyth and
  • Ai Zhao

27 April 2020

A growing, global conversation, regarding realities and challenges that parents experience today is ever-present. To understand recent parent’s attitudes, beliefs, and perceptions regarding infant feeding, we sought to systematically identify a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,415 Views
16 Pages

26 April 2020

Over the last two decades, evidence has accrued that at least some nonhuman animals possess metacognitive abilities. However, of the carnivores, only domestic dogs have been tested. Although rarely represented in the psychological literature, foxes a...

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