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Behavioral Sciences, Volume 11, Issue 2

February 2021 - 16 articles

Cover Story: An infectious disease pandemic can lead to an iatrogenic pandemic of panic or pandemic-related psychological distress in the general population. The objective of this study was to examine factors associated with symptoms of depression and psychological distress during the COVID-19 pandemic among adults living in China. Symptoms of depression and psychological distress were elevated during the COVID-19 pandemic. Social distancing and the amount of time spent daily on social media searching for and reading information on COVID-19 were independently associated with increases in psychological distress. Findings suggest psychological distress is an unintended aftereffect of social distancing. Public health and clinical intervention models are needed not only to mitigate the mental health consequences of COVID-19 but to concurrently mitigate the psychological aftereffects of social distancing. View this paper
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Articles (16)

  • Article
  • Open Access
49 Citations
13,748 Views
14 Pages

Binge-Watching: Development and Validation of the Binge-Watching Addiction Questionnaire

  • Giuseppe Forte,
  • Francesca Favieri,
  • Domenico Tedeschi and
  • Maria Casagrande

23 February 2021

The approach to the vision of TV series has deeply changed in the last years, and watching multiple episodes of TV content in a single session becomes a popular viewing pattern referred as binge-watching. Early studies defined binge-watching as a pot...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,269 Views
23 Pages

15 February 2021

We investigated preschool-aged children’s understanding of early fractional tasks and how that performance correlates with fine motor skills and use of gestures while counting. Participants were 33 preschoolers aged 4 to 5 in two Southeastern public...

  • Review
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,724 Views
16 Pages

11 February 2021

Over the last 20 years, numerous interventions have been developed and evaluated for use with children exposed to mass trauma with six publications reporting meta-analyses of randomized controlled trials of child mass trauma interventions using inact...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
8,143 Views
32 Pages

Aroused and Impulsive Effects of Colour Stimuli on Lateral and Logical Abilities

  • Guobin Xia,
  • Muzi Li,
  • Philip Henry,
  • Stephen Westland,
  • Francisco Queiroz,
  • Qiwei Peng and
  • Luwen Yu

7 February 2021

The purpose of this study was to explore the influence of environmental colour on people’s lateral and logical abilities. This was done by evaluating study participants’ response time and error rate when completing six types of psychometric tests tha...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,388 Views
12 Pages

Attention-Dependent Physiological Correlates in Sleep-Deprived Young Healthy Humans

  • Valentina Cesari,
  • Elena Marinari,
  • Marco Laurino,
  • Angelo Gemignani and
  • Danilo Menicucci

5 February 2021

Cognitive functions could be specifically altered but masked from the unspecific effect of workload, a common factor affecting cognitive functions that modulate peripheral outputs. To identify workload-related and specific, task-dependent components,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,210 Views
11 Pages

5 February 2021

Poor mental health is common among older adults with pain, resulting in high economic burden and impaired quality of life. This retrospective, cross-sectional database study aimed to identify characteristics associated with good mental health status...

  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
13 Citations
11,879 Views
19 Pages

4 February 2021

Gender affirmative action (AA) in management remains a controversial topic among scholars, practitioners, and employees. While some individuals may support the use of AA policies as a means of increasing representation of women, others are not suppor...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,593 Views
10 Pages

Predictors of Anxiety-Induced Sleep Disturbance among in-School Adolescents in Ghana: Evidence from the 2012 Global School-Based Health Survey

  • Bright Opoku Ahinkorah,
  • Richard Gyan Aboagye,
  • Francis Arthur-Holmes,
  • Abdul-Aziz Seidu,
  • James Boadu Frimpong,
  • Eugene Budu,
  • Bernard Mensah Amoako and
  • John Elvis Hagan

1 February 2021

(1) Background: Psychological problems of adolescents have become a global health and safety concern. Empirical evidence has shown that adolescents experience diverse mental health conditions (e.g., anxiety, depression, and emotional disorders). Howe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,161 Views
9 Pages

Problems and Needs Persist for Oklahoma City Bombing Survivors Many Years Later

  • Phebe Tucker,
  • Betty Pfefferbaum,
  • Kevin Watson,
  • Landon Hester and
  • Christopher Czapla

29 January 2021

Background: This study assesses long-term physical and emotional symptoms and unmet needs in direct survivors of the 1995 Oklahoma City terrorist bombing 18 ½ years after the event. Methods: A telephone questionnaire assessed psychiatric symptoms, he...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,375 Views
13 Pages

28 January 2021

Workers of the ant Myrmica sabuleti have been previously shown to be able to add and subtract numbers of elements and to expect the time and location of the next food delivery. We wanted to know if they could anticipate the following quantity of elem...

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