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Behavioral Sciences, Volume 14, Issue 3

2024 March - 114 articles

Cover Story: With focus being placed on emotional arousals, attitudes towards advertisements, and donation anxiety, this study utilizes the Theory of Planned Behaviors to uncover the determinants of donation intention. After surveying 414 participants across Greek society, and through use of structural equation modeling, we found that attitudes and anxiety have direct impacts on the behavioural intention to donate, while emotional arousals act as partial mediators, implying that both cognitive assessments and emotional responses influence donation intentions. These findings underscore the barriers that anxieties impose while highlighting the potential of positive attitudes and advertising. Our results advocate the use of emotionally resonant marketing strategies to enhance donor recruitment. View this paper
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Articles (114)

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,449 Views
14 Pages

21 March 2024

Background: Equitable access to healthcare is a priority of many healthcare systems, aiming to ensure access is driven by need and not minority groups such as those defined by sexual orientation. However, there are healthcare areas where inequity in...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Contemporary Perspectives on LGBTQ Psychology and Health)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
6,227 Views
14 Pages

21 March 2024

With the rise of digital devices, gaming has become both a pastime and part of the culture for young people. Teenagers use games to communicate, enjoy leisure time, and relieve stress. However, the maladaptive use of gaming can lead to difficulties i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,060 Views
15 Pages

The Relationship between Executive Functions and Body Weight: Sex as a Moderating Variable

  • Ciro Rosario Ilardi,
  • Antonietta Monda,
  • Alessandro Iavarone,
  • Sergio Chieffi and ,
  • Maria Casillo,
  • Antonietta Messina,
  • Ines Villano,
  • Giovanni Federico,
  • Vincenzo Alfano and
  • Marco La Marra
  • + 10 authors+ 5 authors

21 March 2024

This study explores the interplay between executive functions and body weight, examining both the influence of biological factors, specifically sex, and methodological issues, such as the choice between Body Mass Index (BMI) and waist circumference (...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Neural Correlates of Cognitive and Affective Processing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,819 Views
17 Pages

21 March 2024

Drawing on social learning theory, this study presents a moderated mediation model to examine the role of proactive behavior and conformity value in the positive relationship between creative leadership and employees’ creativity. Two-wave data...

(This article belongs to the Section Organizational Behaviors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
8,722 Views
16 Pages

21 March 2024

Based on social information processing theory, this research examines whether and how an employee’s proactive personality influences intrinsic and extrinsic career growth. It also examines the mediating effects of two types of proactive behavio...

(This article belongs to the Section Organizational Behaviors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
6,332 Views
10 Pages

21 March 2024

The climate change emergency is one of the most important challenges of our time, and its impact on mental health has been evident for years. It is very important for clinicians to delve deeper into these manifestations. There are a wide variety of c...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue The Shaping of Services for Health Promotion)
  • Review
  • Open Access
32 Citations
18,893 Views
14 Pages

20 March 2024

Sports injuries have historically been addressed and treated from a purely physical perspective. Nevertheless, like in many other aspects of sports, it has become evident during the last decades that psychological considerations and consequent interv...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,323 Views
15 Pages

20 March 2024

Previous studies on child development have emphasized universal developmental stages and socialization, overlooking a direct investigation of young children’s subjective understanding of growing up. This study explored the perspectives of presc...

(This article belongs to the Section Educational Psychology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,611 Views
12 Pages

20 March 2024

Mood Lifters (ML) is a dimensional, group-based, peer-led mental health program that has shown efficacy in mitigating psychopathology and promoting wellness within a variety of populations. There is not yet evidence for mechanism(s) driving these cha...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,269 Views
11 Pages

A 6-Item Family Resilience Scale (FRS6) for Measuring Longitudinal Trajectory of Family Adjustment

  • Catherine So Kum Tang,
  • Tiffany Sok U Siu,
  • Tak Sang Chow and
  • Sin Hang Kwok

20 March 2024

Two studies were conducted in Hong Kong to validate a brief measure of family resilience based on the three-factor CPR model. The CPR model stipulates that family resilience comprises three major factors: Communication and Connectedness (C), Positive...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Resilience Psychology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,060 Views
17 Pages

19 March 2024

Focusing on two goal orientations (the learning and performance prove-goal orientation), this study proposed a different mechanism for dealing with the knowledge-sharing dilemma. We analyzed data from 257 employee–coworker dyads, finding that t...

(This article belongs to the Section Organizational Behaviors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
37 Citations
8,494 Views
19 Pages

19 March 2024

This investigation delves into the pervasive yet insufficiently examined phenomenon of “cyberloafing”, characterized by employees engaging in non-work-related internet activities during office hours. Despite its frequent occurrence in con...

(This article belongs to the Section Organizational Behaviors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
9,284 Views
21 Pages

19 March 2024

The purpose of this study is to carry out the scale development of occupational well-being (OWB) (affective, professional, social, cognitive, psychological and psychosomatic well-being) in Laos. Using multiple sampling data, we developed a valid OWB...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Managing Organizational Behaviors for Sustainable Wellbeing at Work)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
5,124 Views
21 Pages

19 March 2024

Constructive play is a creative process-oriented activity that promotes children’s engaged learning through building and designing with materials. This study investigated a parent-implemented intervention to promote active engagement in constru...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,295 Views
9 Pages

An Investigation of Employment Hope as a Key Factor Influencing Perceptions of Subjective Recovery among Adults with Serious Mental Illness Seeking Community Work

  • Marina Kukla,
  • Alan B. McGuire,
  • Kenneth C. Weber,
  • Jessi Hatfield and ,
  • Nancy Henry,
  • Eric Kulesza and
  • Angela L. Rollins
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

19 March 2024

Introduction: Employment is an important contributor to recovery in people with serious mental illness (SMI), yet studies have not explored how subjective elements of employment hope contribute to perceptions of global recovery in this population. Me...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Prevention and Recovery in People with Schizophrenia and Related Disorders)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,368 Views
15 Pages

Empathy and Schizotypy: A Network Comparison of the Interpersonal Reactivity Index in High and Low Schizotypy Groups

  • Lillian A. Hammer,
  • Aleksandr Karnick,
  • Kendall Beals,
  • Lauren Luther and
  • Kelsey A. Bonfils

18 March 2024

Empathy is a multifaceted concept that is vital to effective social functioning; yet, it is impaired in high schizotypy groups. Furthermore, empathy has been found to be a mediator in the relationship between schizotypy and social functioning, highli...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Prevention and Recovery in People with Schizophrenia and Related Disorders)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
7,606 Views
17 Pages

Attentional Bias of Individuals with Social Anxiety towards Facial and Somatic Emotional Cues in a Holistic Manner

  • Yuetan Wang,
  • Jingjing Liang,
  • Ziwen Zhu,
  • Jingyi Gao and ,
  • Qiuyan Yao and
  • Xiaobin Ding
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

18 March 2024

Attentional bias towards threatening information is a crucial factor contributing to the development and persistence of social anxiety. However, the attentional bias towards threat information and the preferential processing pattern of emotional cues...

(This article belongs to the Section Psychiatric, Emotional and Behavioral Disorders)
  • Review
  • Open Access
43 Citations
55,426 Views
25 Pages

A Comprehensive Overview of Micro-Influencer Marketing: Decoding the Current Landscape, Impacts, and Trends

  • Jie Chen,
  • Yangting Zhang,
  • Han Cai,
  • Lu Liu and ,
  • Miyan Liao and
  • Jiaming Fang
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

18 March 2024

This research provides a comprehensive overview of micro-influence marketing, analyzing the characteristics of influencers and the mechanisms of their impact. A systematic review was conducted, encompassing 2091 citing articles and references across...

(This article belongs to the Section Behavioral Economics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
8,541 Views
21 Pages

17 March 2024

Blood donation is essential in health-care systems worldwide, dealing with the demand for transfusions, and for the treatment of a variety of medical conditions. A major obstacle is raising the rate of blood donations by recruiting and retaining dono...

(This article belongs to the Section Psychiatric, Emotional and Behavioral Disorders)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,749 Views
12 Pages

17 March 2024

Substance use among adolescents is a major emerging health problem worldwide. Although loneliness and depression are major risk factors for substance use, few studies have examined the relationship between loneliness, depression, and substance use in...

  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,437 Views
13 Pages

15 March 2024

This study delves into the importance and consequences of gratitude promotion programs for South Korean college students. It uses meta-analyses to evaluate the effects of such programs on this demographic, shedding light on their significance and imp...

(This article belongs to the Section Social Psychology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
6,032 Views
15 Pages

15 March 2024

Increased awareness of negative psychological symptoms and the negative impact of the pandemic has led to a rising demand for wellness-related travel experiences. There is a need for research on tourists’ experiential and reflective engagement...

(This article belongs to the Section Social Psychology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
8,368 Views
12 Pages

15 March 2024

Objective: The present study aimed to explore the relationship between insecure attachment (attachment anxiety and avoidance) and depressive symptoms in Chinese young adults as well as the mediating roles of positive and negative self-compassion. Met...

  • Case Report
  • Open Access
1 Citations
8,140 Views
7 Pages

Successful Pharmacologic Treatment of Self-Bloodletting with Factitious Chronic Anemia (Lasthénie de Ferjol Syndrome) with High-Dose Serotonergic Medication: A Case Report

  • Stefan Mestermann,
  • Laura Rudtke,
  • Razvan-Marius Brazdis,
  • Thanos Tsaktanis and ,
  • Johannes Kornhuber and
  • Norbert Thürauf
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

14 March 2024

Self-induced bloodletting (SBL) is a very rare form of self-injury (SI) seen primarily in adolescents and young adults with personality and eating disorders. It can result in complications like malaise, fatigue, or iron-deficiency anemia (Lasth&eacut...

(This article belongs to the Section Psychiatric, Emotional and Behavioral Disorders)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
6,886 Views
20 Pages

14 March 2024

Due to the increasing competition in the market and the limited availability of high-quality employment opportunities, an increasing number of employees struggle to maintain a balance between their physical conditions and performance demands, resulti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
6,059 Views
14 Pages

Influence of Personality Traits and Organizational Justice on Job Satisfaction among Nurses

  • Marin Mamić,
  • Tihomir Jovanović,
  • Slavka Galić,
  • Ivana Jelinčić and ,
  • Štefica Mikšić,
  • Božica Lovrić,
  • Ivanka Zirdum,
  • Kristijan Matković,
  • Goran Zukanović and
  • Ivan Vukoja
  • + 8 authors+ 3 authors

14 March 2024

The purpose of this research was to examine whether demographic variables, personality traits, and workplace variables (working in shifts, job tenure, and perceived organizational justice) contribute the most to the prediction of job satisfaction in...

(This article belongs to the Section Organizational Behaviors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,873 Views
12 Pages

Stress Control in Older People through Healing Garden Activities

  • Sun-Hee Kim,
  • Joo-Bong Seo and
  • Byung-Yeol Ryu

13 March 2024

This study, conducted on a group older than 60-years-of-age, sought to verify if healing garden activities control stress in older people. The experimental group performed garden activities once a week for 12 weeks, for 2 h each day, and the control...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,892 Views
19 Pages

The Effect of Time Monitoring on the Development of Time-Based Prospective Memory among Children Aged 7–11 Years Old

  • Yinya Wang,
  • Zhi Ren,
  • Yaqi Yue,
  • Xi Zheng and ,
  • Xinyuan Zhang and
  • Lijuan Wang
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

13 March 2024

Time-based prospective memory (TBPM) refers to the ability of an individual to successfully execute an expected plan in the future at a certain time point or after a definite period of time. This study investigated the potential developmental mechani...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,805 Views
17 Pages

13 March 2024

This paper examines the relationships between the consumption of ‘bad’ or ‘good’ digital economic news and attitudes toward immigrant and ethnic minorities during the crisis that developed during the COVID-19 pandemic. The stu...

(This article belongs to the Section Social Psychology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,335 Views
12 Pages

Neurite Orientation Dispersion and Density Imaging (NODDI) of Brain Microstructure in Adolescent Cannabis and Nicotine Use

  • Alexander L Wallace,
  • Kelly E. Courtney,
  • Natasha E. Wade,
  • Laura E. Hatz and ,
  • Rachel Baca,
  • Aaron Jacobson,
  • Thomas T. Liu and
  • Joanna Jacobus
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

13 March 2024

Introduction: Despite evidence suggesting deleterious effects of cannabis and nicotine tobacco product (NTP) use on white matter integrity, there have been limited studies examining white matter integrity among users of both cannabis and nicotine. Fu...

  • Editorial
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,728 Views
5 Pages

12 March 2024

During the socialization process in family and school contexts, children display a wide variety of social behaviors with parents and peers. Yet the developmental trajectory, the predictors and outcomes, and the neural basis of those social behaviors...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue The Developmental Trajectory of Children's Social Behaviors and Their Cognitive Neural Mechanisms)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
6,465 Views
18 Pages

Teachers’ Perceptions and Position Regarding the Problem of Bullying and Its Socio-Educational Prevention

  • Sara Martínez-Carrera,
  • Cristina Sánchez-Martínez,
  • Isabel Martínez-Carrera and
  • Miguel Ángel Díaz Dieguez

12 March 2024

The problems that arise with coexistence between schoolchildren are a challenge when it comes to carrying out the teaching–learning process. In recent years, the presence of bullying has increased in schools. The aim of this study is to identif...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Behaviors in Educational Settings)
  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
9,787 Views
15 Pages

12 March 2024

Background: This study aims to investigate the role of empathy in fostering emotional resilience and the impact of social activity on adolescents’ mental health. Methods: A survey was conducted on 1666 adolescents aged from 11 to 15 across seve...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
6,008 Views
12 Pages

12 March 2024

Past studies have shown that spontaneous electroencephalography indicators—namely, the theta/beta power ratio and alpha oscillation—may measure individuals’ attentional control processes. However, there is lack of research distingui...

(This article belongs to the Section Cognition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,934 Views
18 Pages

11 March 2024

Learning from work failures is not only beneficial for individual development but also crucial for improving organizational performance and achieving sustainable development. We hypothesize that leader bottom-line mentality, which is commonly used by...

(This article belongs to the Section Organizational Behaviors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,169 Views
10 Pages

Exploring the Role of First-Person Singular Pronouns in Detecting Suicidal Ideation: A Machine Learning Analysis of Clinical Transcripts

  • Rong Huang,
  • Siqi Yi,
  • Jie Chen,
  • Kit Ying Chan and ,
  • Joey Wing Yan Chan,
  • Ngan Yin Chan,
  • Shirley Xin Li,
  • Yun Kwok Wing and
  • Tim Man Ho Li
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

11 March 2024

Linguistic features, particularly the use of first-person singular pronouns (FPSPs), have been identified as potential indicators of suicidal ideation. Machine learning (ML) and natural language processing (NLP) have shown potential in suicide detect...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
5,477 Views
18 Pages

10 March 2024

Analyzing the sustainable decision-making mechanism between household consumption and education investment can theoretically develop education. This study uses the continuous-time utility model to demonstrate the independent characteristics of consum...

(This article belongs to the Section Behavioral Economics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
6,522 Views
13 Pages

The Influence of Mindful Parenting on Children’s Creative Tendencies: The Chain Mediating Effect of Parent–Child Intimacy and Connectedness to Nature

  • Jingyu He,
  • Ziming Wang,
  • Yue Zhang,
  • Shuo Feng and ,
  • Jinxia Han,
  • Hehong Quan and
  • Chun Li
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

10 March 2024

(1) Objectives: The aim of this study was to examine the relationship between mindful parenting and children’s creative tendencies and to investigate the mediating role of parent–child intimacy and connectedness to nature in the relations...

(This article belongs to the Topic Understanding Scientific Creativity)
  • Review
  • Open Access
11 Citations
7,183 Views
17 Pages

9 March 2024

Panic buying poses significant challenges for individuals and societies. This paper provides a literature review on the process by which a pandemic crisis evolves into panic buying behavior. The review offers a comprehensive perspective on studies re...

  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
23,232 Views
18 Pages

8 March 2024

This study aims to understand how socioeconomic status and the family environment impact students’ academic achievement through the mediation of parental involvement in rural China. To achieve this, a cross-sectional design was adopted, and a t...

(This article belongs to the Section Educational Psychology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,381 Views
14 Pages

8 March 2024

Emotional intelligence is a health predictor as it has an effect on quality of life, given that it affects a person’s capacity to use and regulate emotions and consequently has an influence on their physical and mental condition. The aim of thi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Behavioral and Psychological Intervention for Long Term Health Conditions)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
14,131 Views
16 Pages

Effectiveness of Group Physical Exercise in Treating Major Depressive Disorder: An Analysis of Secondary Data from an Aborted Randomized Trial

  • Hossam Elgendy,
  • Reham Shalaby,
  • Belinda Agyapong,
  • Deanna Lesage and ,
  • Lacey Paulsen,
  • Amy Delday,
  • Sherianna Duiker,
  • Shireen Surood,
  • Yifeng Wei and
  • Vincent Israel Opoku Agyapong
  • + 6 authors+ 1 author

8 March 2024

Background: Depression is highly prevalent and a significant cause of mortality and morbidity across the globe. Although antidepressants and/or psychotherapy are often used to treat depression, some recent studies indicate that exercise may play an i...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Male Depression and Therapy)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,184 Views
27 Pages

7 March 2024

Social trust is derived from the interaction of environmental and social factors, which has important significance for the sustainable development of society and social governance. In particular, in the post-pandemic era, tourist activity will receiv...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Action Research, Methods and Measures in Community Psychology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
5,307 Views
14 Pages

Leveraging Artificial Intelligence to Predict Health Belief Model and COVID-19 Vaccine Uptake Using Survey Text from US Nurses

  • Samaneh Omranian,
  • Alireza Khoddam,
  • Celeste Campos-Castillo,
  • Sajjad Fouladvand and ,
  • Susan McRoy and
  • Janet Rich-Edwards
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

7 March 2024

We investigated how artificial intelligence (AI) reveals factors shaping COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy among healthcare providers by examining their open-text comments. We conducted a longitudinal survey starting in Spring of 2020 with 38,788 current an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
6,364 Views
15 Pages

6 March 2024

Research indicates that music can influence human cognitive functions. Diverse musical settings can affect alertness, orientation, and executive control of attention in various populations. Exploring the relationship between designers with highly cre...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,639 Views
20 Pages

6 March 2024

A positive child–teacher relationship is a crucial means of addressing problem behaviors in young children. In recent years, there has been an increase in factors triggering problem behaviors in young children. It is particularly important to e...

(This article belongs to the Section Educational Psychology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,412 Views
16 Pages

Examining the Antecedents of Novice STEM Teachers’ Job Satisfaction: The Roles of Personality Traits, Perceived Social Support, and Work Engagement

  • Zhaochun Wang,
  • Haozhe Jiang,
  • Wu Jin,
  • Jin Jiang and ,
  • Jiahong Liu,
  • Jia Guan,
  • Yangxi Liu and
  • Enlin Bin
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

6 March 2024

It is reported that teachers’ satisfaction levels are lower and stress levels are higher than other professional groups in many countries. This is especially true for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) teachers. Considerin...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Burnout, Mental Health and Work-Family Interface in Today’s Workplaces)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
5,493 Views
15 Pages

Narrative Forewarnings: A Qualitative Analysis of the Themes Preceding Disorganized Speech in Schizophrenia

  • Robert J. Bettis,
  • Laura A. Faith,
  • Ashlynn M. Beard,
  • Brailee A. Whan and ,
  • Ceouna M. Hegwood,
  • Mahogany A. Monette,
  • Evan J. Myers,
  • Imani S. Linton,
  • Bethany L. Leonhardt and
  • Kyle S. Minor
  • + 6 authors+ 1 author

6 March 2024

Disorganized speech is a critical barrier to recovery in schizophrenia, with profound negative impacts on one’s ability to engage with the world. Despite the limited efficacy of existing treatments in addressing disorganization, a qualitative a...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Prevention and Recovery in People with Schizophrenia and Related Disorders)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
7,456 Views
14 Pages

The Hidden Impact of ADHD Symptoms in Preschool Children with Autism: Is There a Link to Somatic and Sleep Disorders?

  • Dario Esposito,
  • Katerina Bernardi,
  • Arianna Belli,
  • Valentina Gasparri and ,
  • Sara Romano,
  • Letizia Terenzi,
  • Maria Elena Zanatta,
  • Sara Iannotti and
  • Mauro Ferrara
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

6 March 2024

Neurodevelopmental disorders, such as autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), do often present in comorbidity among them and with other medical conditions, including sleep and gastrointestinal (GI) disorder...

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