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Behavioral Sciences, Volume 15, Issue 11

November 2025 - 166 articles

Cover Story: Timely identification and treatment are crucial for eating disorders. First Episode Rapid Early Intervention for Eating Disorders (FREED) is an early intervention service model for 16–25-year-olds with recent-onset eating disorders. Implementation fidelity research is needed to understand if services are delivering the model as intended. We pilot tested a new fidelity tool in six English FREED services to assess its feasibility and the quality of FREED delivery. The tool was efficient and showed high inter-rater agreement. Average service fidelity fell in the ‘medium’ range. Key areas for development include speeding up access to treatment and increasing accessibility for all diagnoses. Investment is needed to improve adherence and support timely, high-quality early intervention. View this paper
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Articles (166)

  • Article
  • Open Access
395 Views
23 Pages

Development and Validation of a New Risk-Taking Game: Helsinki Aiming Task (HAT)

  • Ilmari Määttänen,
  • Jussi Palomäki,
  • Juha Vepsäläinen and
  • Emilia Makkonen

20 November 2025

We introduce and describe a new risk-taking game, Helsinki Aiming Task (HAT), and test its construct (internal) and convergent (external) validity. HAT is a shooting game, in which the participants aim at a target under varying levels of “gun&r...

  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
416 Views
24 Pages

Entertainment Media and Gender Norm Transformation Interventions for Young Women and Girls in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Systematic Review

  • William Douglas Evans,
  • Elizabeth A. Larson,
  • Courtney J. McLarnon,
  • Michael Hauer,
  • Marian Marian,
  • Sohail Agha,
  • Rajiv Rimal,
  • Beniamino Cislaghi,
  • Elizabeth Costenbader and
  • Amy Henderson Riley
  • + 5 authors

20 November 2025

Adolescent girls and young women are particularly vulnerable to the influence of social and gender norms. This systematic review builds on a broader review of social and gender norms interventions, with the overall aim of identifying and mapping empi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
502 Views
14 Pages

20 November 2025

Exposure to campus suicide poses a significant threat to adolescent mental health. While childhood psychological abuse (CPA) is a known vulnerability factor for depression, the mechanisms linking this early adversity to depressive symptoms (DS) follo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
546 Views
14 Pages

20 November 2025

The current study investigates how high school students’ perceived teacher support relates to their academic engagement, drawing on Job Demands–Resources (JD-R) and Conservation of Resources (COR) Theories. It further examined academic se...

  • Article
  • Open Access
295 Views
18 Pages

20 November 2025

The linguistic system relies on both syntactic and semantic cues to derive the meaning of sentences. Although this process is shaped by cognitive factors, little is known about how mood influences reliance on these cues and whether such effects are m...

  • Article
  • Open Access
378 Views
23 Pages

20 November 2025

This study centers on retirement planning achievement, examining its impact mechanism on older adults’ mental health and its boundary conditions. Drawing on self-determination theory (SDT) and conservation of resources (COR) theory, we tested a...

  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
1 Citations
712 Views
29 Pages

20 November 2025

A systematic review was conducted to examine interventions designed to reduce the influence of implicit bias on professional judgements, with the aim of identifying strategies relevant to forensic and legal contexts. These decisions are often made un...

  • Article
  • Open Access
427 Views
17 Pages

Development and Validation of the Future Career Insecurity Scale (FCIS) in Law Students

  • Cuiyu Lan,
  • Xinying Weng,
  • Qi-Lu Huang,
  • Liqian Yu,
  • Ruizhe Wang,
  • Jie Su,
  • Tianshu Zhou,
  • Tingjian Lou,
  • Yinlin Li and
  • Wei Li

20 November 2025

The transition from university to the workforce is a major developmental milestone that can generate significant psychological distress, especially for students in high-stakes professional programs such as law. Traditional measures of career-related...

  • Article
  • Open Access
353 Views
16 Pages

19 November 2025

Learning burnout, a prevalent condition among adolescents characterized by emotional exhaustion and academic disengagement, has been increasingly recognized as a critical risk factor for Internet Gaming Disorder. This study investigates the chain-med...

  • Article
  • Open Access
190 Views
16 Pages

Design and Validation of the Multidimensional School Social Climate Inventory for Adolescents (MSSCI-A) in Chile

  • Mónica Bravo-Sanzana,
  • Oscar Terán-Mendoza,
  • Rafael Miranda,
  • Xavier Oriol,
  • Jorge Varela and
  • Manuel Mieres-Chacaltana

19 November 2025

In Latin America, there is a critical need for validated instruments that capture the multidimensionality of school social climate from an ecological perspective. To fill this gap, this study developed and validated the Multidimensional School Social...

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