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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
5 Citations
3,552 Views
17 Pages

6 March 2024

In the realm of open innovation, users have emerged as a significant external source of innovation that enterprises cannot afford to overlook. Implemented ideas play a pivotal role in driving the iterative innovation of products within enterprises. H...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,696 Views
17 Pages

Devastating Wildfires and Mental Health: Major Depressive Disorder Prevalence and Associated Factors among Residents in Alberta and Nova Scotia, Canada

  • Wanying Mao,
  • Reham Shalaby,
  • Belinda Agyapong,
  • Gloria Obuobi-Donkor and ,
  • Raquel Da Luz Dias and
  • Vincent I. O. Agyapong
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

5 March 2024

Background: Since March 2023, hundreds of fires have burned from coast to coast throughout the country, placing Canada on track to have the worst wildfire season ever recorded. From East to West, provinces such as Quebec, Ontario, Nova Scotia, Albert...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
5,166 Views
10 Pages

Sedentary Behaviors and Eating Habits in Active and Inactive Individuals: A Cross-Sectional Study in a Population from Southern Italy

  • Patrizia Calella,
  • Mirella Di Dio,
  • Concetta Paola Pelullo,
  • Gabriella Di Giuseppe and ,
  • Fabrizio Liguori,
  • Giovanna Paduano,
  • Giuliana Valerio,
  • Giorgio Liguori and
  • Francesca Gallè
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

5 March 2024

The aim of this study was to analyze sedentary behaviors and dietary habits assumed by individuals regularly practicing exercise in a gym, sports athletes and inactive individuals. The Sedentary Behavior Questionnaire and the Healthy Dietary Habits I...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Bridging Behavioral Sciences and Sports Sciences)
  • Review
  • Open Access
16 Citations
7,937 Views
14 Pages

5 March 2024

Motor imagery training is a common mental strategy used by tennis players and coaches to improve learning and performance; however, the effect of motor imagery training on service performance in tennis players is questionable. This review aims to con...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Bridging Behavioral Sciences and Sports Sciences)
  • Article
  • Open Access
47 Citations
26,327 Views
13 Pages

4 March 2024

The feeling of emotional self-efficacy helps people understand how to handle positive and negative emotions. Emotion regulation is the process that helps people control their emotions so that they can adapt to the demands of the environment. This stu...

(This article belongs to the Topic Personality, Health and Well-Being among Different Age Groups)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
6,212 Views
12 Pages

4 March 2024

Loving-kindness meditation (LKM) has been widely used in promoting mental health, with positive emotions as an important mechanism. The current study explored the impact of background music on the effects and difficulties of LKM practice. Two hundred...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
11,165 Views
11 Pages

Effects of Myofascial Release Technique along with Cognitive Behavior Therapy in University Students with Chronic Neck Pain and Forward Head Posture: A Randomized Clinical Trial

  • Sahreen Anwar,
  • Junaid Zahid,
  • Cristina Ioana Alexe,
  • Abdullah Ghazi and ,
  • Gabriel Mareș,
  • Zainab Sheraz,
  • Rubén Sanchez-Gomez,
  • Wajida Perveen,
  • Dan Iulian Alexe and
  • Qais Gasibat
  • + 5 authors+ 0 author

4 March 2024

The purpose of this randomized controlled trial was to evaluate the effectiveness of the Myofascial Release Technique (MRT) along with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) on pain, craniovertebral angle (CVA), and neck disability in university students...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Behavioral and Psychological Intervention for Long Term Health Conditions)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
6,607 Views
22 Pages

4 March 2024

Against the backdrop of a global emphasis on supporting local businesses and fostering domestic consumption, this study aims to shed light on the influence of personal values on the intentions behind domestic-product consumption. Drawing from the Sch...

(This article belongs to the Topic Consumer Psychology and Business Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
5,394 Views
12 Pages

Intervention Effect of Group Sensory Integration Training on Social Responsiveness and N170 Event-Related Potential of Children with Autism

  • Deming Shu,
  • Gongliang Zhang,
  • Chang Xue,
  • Qiqi Lai and ,
  • Yueyao He,
  • Yifei Feng,
  • Jianxin Zhang,
  • Fengqin Jia and
  • Dianzhi Liu
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

2 March 2024

The objective of this study was to examine the intervention effect of group sensory integration training on social responsiveness, and the latency and amplitude of N170 event-related potential of children with autism. The social responsiveness scale...

(This article belongs to the Section Child and Adolescent Psychiatry)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,258 Views
13 Pages

2 March 2024

Objective: This study aims to identify content variables that theoretical research suggests should be considered as strategic approaches to facilitate science communication with the public and to assess their practical effects on user engagement metr...

(This article belongs to the Topic Online User Behavior in the Context of Big Data)
  • Hypothesis
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,909 Views
9 Pages

1 March 2024

Contemporary mind and brain sciences provide theories and data that seem to confirm a hypothesis about human nature that we might formulate as follows. Human life is conditioned by a need that is no less important than elementary biological needs (su...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Conceptual and Empirical Connections between Self-Processes)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,998 Views
16 Pages

Investigating Unhealthy Behaviors Associated with SF-36 Domains in Women with Endometriosis—Findings from a Web-Based Survey Data Set

  • Mario Muselli,
  • Martina Mancinelli,
  • Erika Limoncin,
  • Chiara Lolli and ,
  • Erika Pelaccia,
  • Maurizio Guido,
  • Leila Fabiani,
  • Stefano Necozione and
  • Vincenza Cofini
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

1 March 2024

Unhealthy behaviors may contribute to the development and the progression of chronic diseases with negative consequences on patients’ quality of life. The present study aimed to investigate the relationship between unhealthy behaviors (physical...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
6,124 Views
16 Pages

1 March 2024

Tax evasion is a major issue for authorities worldwide. Understanding the factors that influence individuals’ intrinsic motivation to pay taxes, known as their tax morale, is important for improving tax compliance. This study investigated gende...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue The Influencing Factors of Prosociality: How Humans Cooperate with Others)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,149 Views
14 Pages

29 February 2024

Bipolar disorder (BD) is a high-suicide-risk mental disorder. The purpose of this study was to identify the relationship between temperament and character traits with suicide probability, suicide attempts, and perceived stress level in patients with...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,580 Views
10 Pages

29 February 2024

This research investigated the relation between the need for cognitive closure (i.e., a desire for epistemic certainty) and attitudes toward women as managers among men and women. In a cross-sectional study (total N = 241) collected in Italy, we foun...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Intergroup Relations and Social Cognition: Promoting Social Harmony)
  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
11,536 Views
12 Pages

28 February 2024

Self-concept clarity is considered a crucial indicator of mental health. Although several studies have examined the correlation between self-concept clarity and loneliness, few studies have investigated the underlying mechanism. Based on the evolutio...

(This article belongs to the Section Social Psychology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
7,602 Views
19 Pages

The Greek Jefferson Scale of Empathy—Medical Student Version (JSE-S): Psychometric Properties and Its Associated Factors

  • Polychronis Voultsos,
  • Petros Galanis,
  • Marianna-Foteini A. Dafni,
  • Venetia-Sofia Velonaki and ,
  • Georgia-Neta Andreou and
  • Leda Kovatsi
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

28 February 2024

The present study aimed to evaluate the psychometric properties of the Greek version of the Jefferson Scale of Empathy—Student version (JSE-S) and its association with potential predictors among Greek-speaking undergraduate medical students. Th...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue The Influencing Factors of Prosociality: How Humans Cooperate with Others)
  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
10,815 Views
18 Pages

28 February 2024

To evaluate the limitations of the traditional parenting model in the cultural transition period, this study investigated the relationship between parenting behaviors and adolescents’ well-being, in which the moderating role of consistency in p...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Parenting and Positive Development for Children and Adolescents)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,256 Views
14 Pages

Relationships between Sleep Quality, Introspective Accuracy, and Confidence Differ among People with Schizophrenia, Schizoaffective Disorder, and Bipolar Disorder with Psychotic Features

  • Cassi R. Springfield,
  • Amy E. Pinkham,
  • Philip D. Harvey,
  • Raeanne C. Moore and ,
  • Robert A. Ackerman,
  • Colin A. Depp and
  • Kelsey A. Bonfils
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

28 February 2024

People with schizophrenia-spectrum and bipolar disorders have difficulty accurately estimating their abilities and skills (impaired introspective accuracy [IA]) and tend to over- or underestimate their performance. This discrepancy between self-repor...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Prevention and Recovery in People with Schizophrenia and Related Disorders)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,177 Views
25 Pages

28 February 2024

Problem solvers often need to choose between adapting a current solution and exchanging it for a new one. However, previous studies have not considered how such decisions might depend on structural and surface features of the task. Therefore, the pre...

(This article belongs to the Section Cognition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
12,104 Views
25 Pages

28 February 2024

As an innovative marketing pattern, live-streaming e-commerce supplies advantages over traditional e-commerce in stimulating impulsive purchases. This study developed a theoretical model that examines how perceived live streamers’ abilities (pe...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue The Emotional Antecedents and Consequences of Buying and Consuming: A Multidisciplinary Perspective on Consumers’ Emotions)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,593 Views
20 Pages

28 February 2024

School dropout may have important negative consequences for the individual as well as for society. Because school grades in lower secondary education are essential for the completion of upper secondary school, remotivating demotivated ninth graders w...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Wellbeing and Mental Health among Students)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
5,336 Views
17 Pages

27 February 2024

The purpose of the study was to describe what types of abuse of older adults the healthcare providers in hospital emergency departments are currently able to identify. The study aimed at producing new information about the identification of abuse to...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Social Participation and Mental Health among Older Adults)
  • Brief Report
  • Open Access
3 Citations
8,011 Views
9 Pages

27 February 2024

Multidimensional models of perfectionism postulate the existence of various perfectionism traits, with different effects on mental health. In order to suggest parsimonious targets in psychological interventions for university students, this study aim...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Wellbeing and Mental Health among Students)
  • Review
  • Open Access
13 Citations
5,345 Views
25 Pages

Measuring Attributions 50 Years on: From within-Country Poverty to Global Inequality

  • Franco Bastias,
  • Nadja Peter,
  • Aristobulo Goldstein,
  • Santiago Sánchez-Montañez and ,
  • Anette Rohmann and
  • Helen Landmann
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

26 February 2024

Fifty years after Feagin’s pioneering 1972 study, we present a systematic review of the measurement of attributions for poverty and economic inequality. We conducted a search for articles published from 1972 to 2023 in APA PsycArticles, Psychol...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Living in a Time of Change and Uncertainty—New Developments in Applied Social Psychology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,105 Views
14 Pages

Can Perceivers Differentiate Intense Facial Expressions? Eye Movement Patterns

  • Leyu Huang,
  • Tongtong Zhu,
  • Jiaotao Cai,
  • Yan Sun and
  • Yanmei Wang

26 February 2024

Recent research on intense real-life faces has shown that although there was an objective difference in facial activities between intense winning faces and losing faces, viewers failed to differentiate the valence of such expressions. In the present...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
6,827 Views
11 Pages

26 February 2024

The study of the relationship between key psychological attributes of learners and their engagement in second language (L2) learning helps to understand the critical personality mechanisms influencing language learning. The present study examined the...

(This article belongs to the Topic Personality, Health and Well-Being among Different Age Groups)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
5,003 Views
11 Pages

26 February 2024

This study aims to explore the mediating role of mental imagery in the relationship between alexithymia and parental psychological control among Chinese university students. Conducted between March and April 2023, this descriptive study involved 282...

(This article belongs to the Section Developmental Psychology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,808 Views
17 Pages

25 February 2024

In this paper, we use an evolutionary game theory approach to build a relationship model of students and clubs for the purpose of improving student enthusiasm for participating in club activities. First, the process of the model building is introduce...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Behaviors in Educational Settings)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
5,752 Views
12 Pages

Influence of Relative Age on Physical Condition and Academic Performance in Adolescents

  • Luis Miguel Fernández-Galván,
  • Noelia Belando-Pedreño,
  • Benito Yañez-Araque and
  • Jorge Sánchez-Infante

25 February 2024

Annual age grouping is a common organizational strategy in academics and sports. This strategy could promote the relative effects of age, which refers to the (dis)advantages that subjects who were born in the first or last months of the year may suff...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue The Effects of Sports on Individual Cognition, Motivation and Mental Health)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
5,540 Views
16 Pages

Preventive Effect of a 7-Week App-Based Passive Psychoeducational Stress Management Program on Students

  • Elisabeth M. Weiss,
  • Siegmund Staggl,
  • Bernhard Holzner,
  • Gerhard Rumpold and ,
  • Verena Dresen and
  • Markus Canazei
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

25 February 2024

Passive psychoeducation is an easily accessible and cost-effective self-guided intervention that does not use elements of active psychotherapies or require homework. The present study aimed to investigate the acceptability and efficacy of a 7-week ap...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Psychoeducation and Early Intervention)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
5,774 Views
20 Pages

25 February 2024

This study investigates the impact of digital textbooks, which play an important role in post-COVID-19 digitalized education, on the development of elementary school students’ affective and social competencies. The study quantitatively analyzed...

(This article belongs to the Section Educational Psychology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
5,066 Views
14 Pages

25 February 2024

This study investigates individual differences in protective and risk factors among rescue workers (RWs), particularly Red Cross members, to optimize well-being and job performance under high-stress conditions. Employing a person-centered approach, t...

(This article belongs to the Topic Employee Quality of Life, Well-Being and Wellness: A Pathway to Organizational Performance, Efficiency, and Sustainability)
  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
12 Citations
6,375 Views
24 Pages

24 February 2024

Objectives: With the increasing prevalence of dementia worldwide, there is a growing need for an integrated approach to dementia care. Little is known at present about the benefits of educational interventions for informal caregivers of people living...

  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
14,178 Views
14 Pages

Dating Violence and Emotional Dependence in University Students

  • Mayra Castillo-Gonzáles,
  • Santiago Mendo-Lázaro,
  • Benito León-del-Barco,
  • Emilio Terán-Andrade and
  • Víctor-María López-Ramos

24 February 2024

The aim of this study was to analyse the relationship between dating violence and emotional dependence in young university students in Ecuador by identifying differences based on sex. Using purposive non-probabilistic sampling, 3203 students were sel...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
5,990 Views
14 Pages

23 February 2024

This research examined the effects of principal transformational leadership on teachers’ inclusive teaching behaviour, with a particular inquiry into the mediating effects of teachers’ inclusive role identity and efficacy for inclusive pr...

(This article belongs to the Topic Diversity, Identity, and Inclusion in Education, Health, and Work: Ensuring No One Is Left Behind)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,332 Views
16 Pages

23 February 2024

Physical activity (PA) is crucial for preventing chronic diseases, but in Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries (Oman, Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates), PA levels are lower than in developed countries. The Gulf H...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,175 Views
18 Pages

Evolution of Anxiety, Emotional Intelligence, and Effective Personality after COVID-19 among Spanish University Students

  • Andrea González Rico,
  • Cristina Di Giusto Valle,
  • María-Camino Escolar-Llamazares,
  • Tamara de la Torre Cruz and ,
  • Isabel Luis Rico and
  • María Eugenia Martín Palacio
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

23 February 2024

The repercussions of the pandemic caused by the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus over recent years have posed an unprecedented challenge for the whole of society, affecting the well-being of everyone. Among all the variables affected in relation to well-being,...

(This article belongs to the Section Child and Adolescent Psychiatry)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,007 Views
13 Pages

Adaptation and Validation of the Perception of Anomie Scale in Chilean University Students

  • Fredy Cea-Leiva,
  • Sonia Salvo-Garrido and
  • Sergio Dominguez-Lara

23 February 2024

The Perception of Anomie Scale (PAS) is a measure used to evaluate the state of society and whether it is disintegrated and deregulated. Although widely used, the psychometric properties of reliability, validity, and measurement invariance according...

(This article belongs to the Section Social Psychology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
7,084 Views
15 Pages

The Empire of Affectivity: Qualitative Evidence of the Subjective Orgasm Experience

  • Pablo Mangas,
  • Mateus Egilson da Silva Alves,
  • Ludgleydson Fernandes de Araújo and
  • Juan Carlos Sierra

23 February 2024

The subjective orgasm experience (SOE) refers to its perception and/or assessment from a psychological viewpoint. Few works have approached this construct from a qualitative perspective and have never taken a consolidated theoretical model as a refer...

(This article belongs to the Section Health Psychology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3,000 Views
14 Pages

23 February 2024

Improvements in mental health through real-time feedback on emotions have consequences for productivity and employee wellness. However, we find few extant studies on how real-time feedback on emotions can influence subsequent behavior modification in...

(This article belongs to the Section Behavioral Economics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,164 Views
11 Pages

23 February 2024

Uncertainty in cancer survivorship poses a substantial challenge to survivors’ coping mechanisms and psychological well-being. This study investigated the intricate interplay among family function, uncertainty, self-care, and depression in this...

(This article belongs to the Section Health Psychology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
6,622 Views
17 Pages

23 February 2024

Drawing on insights from the conservation of resources theory and the job demands–resources theory, our study investigates the association between two types of emotional labor—surface and deep acting—and the psychological well-being...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,625 Views
10 Pages

23 February 2024

The COVID-19 outbreak has posed an unprecedented global challenge. However, despite the large amount of evidence on the psychological consequences of the pandemic, very few studies have focused on psychologists themselves. (1) Background: The present...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
10,214 Views
12 Pages

Unraveling the Complexity: Exploring the Intersection of Panic Disorder, Dissociation, and Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

  • Martina D’Angelo,
  • Marta Valenza,
  • Anna Maria Iazzolino,
  • Grazia Longobardi and ,
  • Valeria Di Stefano,
  • Elena Lanzara,
  • Giulia Visalli,
  • Luca Steardo,
  • Caterina Scuderi and
  • Luca Steardo
  • + 5 authors+ 0 author

22 February 2024

Background: Patients with panic disorder (PD) may experience increased vulnerability to dissociative and anxious phenomena in the presence of repeated traumatic events, and these may be risk factors for the development of complex post-traumatic stres...

(This article belongs to the Section Psychiatric, Emotional and Behavioral Disorders)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,511 Views
16 Pages

22 February 2024

Positive psychology has attracted increasing attention from many scholars worldwide. There is a considerable body of knowledge on the relationship between optimism and subjective well-being (SWB). However, their mediation mechanism has not been fully...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
5,786 Views
15 Pages

22 February 2024

Background: Regular physical activity is an effective means to enhance university students’ subjective well-being. However, current research needs to understand how physical activity enhances the subjective well-being of Chinese university students....

(This article belongs to the Special Issue The Impact of Sport and Physical Activity on the Mental Health of Adolescents and Children)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
7,085 Views
16 Pages

22 February 2024

Volleyball spiking requires defenders to possess exceptional anticipatory skills. However, most volleyball defense video eye-tracking studies have used fixed or off-court perspectives, failing to replicate real-world environments. This study explored...

(This article belongs to the Topic Interdisciplinary Approaches to Sports in the 21st Century)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
6,091 Views
10 Pages

22 February 2024

Focus back effort, concentration effort, and focus back state are factors associated with mind wandering. Focus back effort, proposed in alignment with the definition of focus back state, has been previously regarded as one manifestation of concentra...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
14,383 Views
12 Pages

22 February 2024

Research on parental burnout has focused more on its antecedents than on its consequences. Burned-out parents may experience a series of behavioral changes, negatively affecting their children’s physical and mental development. This study exami...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Parenting and Positive Development for Children and Adolescents)

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