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Behavioral Sciences, Volume 11, Issue 1

January 2021 - 11 articles

Cover Story: LGBTQ+ emerging adults are frequently exposed to microaggressions, which can have a deleterious impact on mental health. In this paper, we explore whether and to what extent comfort from companion animals and human social support moderate the relationship between LGBTQ-related microaggressions and depressive and anxiety symptoms. Our sample includes 134 LGBTQ+ emerging adults. We found that social support buffers the association between microaggressions and depressive symptoms. Comfort from companion animals also moderates the relationship between interpersonal microaggressions and depressive symptoms. For participants with high or medium levels of comfort, interpersonal microaggressions were positively associated with depressive symptoms. Our results highlight the need to further investigate the role of relationships with companion animals on mental health in this population. View this paper.
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Articles (11)

  • Review
  • Open Access
55 Citations
14,635 Views
25 Pages

19 January 2021

The worldwide prevalence of obesity has dramatically increased, mostly in children and adolescents. The Emotional Eating theoretical model has proposed that the failure in emotional regulation could represent a risk factor for establishing maladaptiv...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,944 Views
18 Pages

19 January 2021

In this paper, we examine the effect of an organization’s multi-dimensional reputation on the external stakeholders’ preference for an organization in the notions of reputation incongruence. We propose that an organization’s incongr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,142 Views
14 Pages

DAT1 and Its Psychological Correlates in Children with Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder: A Cross-Sectional Pilot Study

  • Silvia Cimino,
  • Eleonora Marzilli,
  • Alessandra Babore,
  • Carmen Trumello and
  • Luca Cerniglia

14 January 2021

International research has underlined the role played by children’s and maternal psychopathological symptoms on the onset of avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder (ARFID) in early childhood. No study has considered the possible interplay be...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,836 Views
10 Pages

13 January 2021

Agreement has not been achieved across symptom factor studies of major depressive disorder, and no studies have identified characteristic postdisaster depressive symptom structures. This study examined the symptom structure of major depression across...

  • Perspective
  • Open Access
39 Citations
6,257 Views
14 Pages

8 January 2021

The coronavirus disease of 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic rapidly spread around the world, resulting in massive medical morbidity and mortality and substantial mental health consequences. Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is an important psychiatric di...

  • Article
  • Open Access
92 Citations
13,447 Views
11 Pages

Loneliness and Problematic Internet Use during COVID-19 Lock-Down

  • Hasah Alheneidi,
  • Loulwah AlSumait,
  • Dalal AlSumait and
  • Andrew P. Smith

6 January 2021

(1) Background: During the COVID-19 pandemic, strict lock-down and quarantine were widely imposed by most governments to minimize the spread of the virus. Previous studies have investigated the consequences of the quarantine and social isolation on m...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
5,973 Views
13 Pages

“Imagine You Have ALS”: Death Education to Prepare for Advance Treatment Directives

  • Ines Testoni,
  • Lorenza Palazzo,
  • Nicoletta Calamarà,
  • Gabriella Rossi and
  • Michael Alexander Wieser

6 January 2021

The study presents the results of qualitative research carried out within a death education project dedicated to advance treatment directives (ATDs) in which it was proposed to participants to empathize with people who had received a diagnosis of Amy...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,584 Views
10 Pages

1 January 2021

This study investigated psychosocial functioning and employment status in association with postdisaster major depression and its course in survivors of 11 different disasters in a sample of 808 directly-exposed survivors of 10 disasters and 373 survi...

  • Review
  • Open Access
14 Citations
9,617 Views
13 Pages

Interventions for Improving Reading Comprehension in Children with ASD: A Systematic Review

  • Raúl Tárraga-Mínguez,
  • Irene Gómez-Marí and
  • Pilar Sanz-Cervera

30 December 2020

Children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) often have comorbid learning difficulties in reading comprehension, an essential skill in accessing any area of the curriculum. The aim of this systematic review is to analyze the effectiveness of reading...

  • Review
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,940 Views
14 Pages

A Systematic Review of the Abdominal Surgeon’s Personality: Exploring Common Traits in Western Populations

  • Carly Nichola Bisset,
  • Tracey McKee,
  • Mary Cawley,
  • Elliot Tilling and
  • Susan Joan Moug

26 December 2020

The personality traits commonly seen in abdominal surgeons remains undefined, and its potential influence on decision-making and patient outcomes underexplored. This systematic review identified studies on abdominal surgeons who had undergone validat...

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