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Behavioral Sciences, Volume 15, Issue 4

April 2025 - 162 articles

Cover Story: For the past 50 years, Dungeons & Dragons has established itself a genre-defining force in tabletop gaming by merging strategy, collaborative storytelling, and role-playing. This paper explores the therapeutic potential of tabletop role-playing games through individual and group case studies addressing anxiety, trauma, identity development, and social skills. Once relegated to basements, D&D is now played in clinical settings, acting as a healing word, thereby helping clients dispel fear, identify their strengths, and level up their mental health while casting light on new paths to growth. View this paper
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Articles (162)

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
6,002 Views
23 Pages

The Impact of Physical Exercise on College Students’ Physical Self-Efficacy: The Mediating Role of Psychological Resilience

  • Wentao Qiu,
  • Xishuai Wang,
  • Hongcheng Cui,
  • Wenxue Ma,
  • Haibin Xiao,
  • Guofeng Qu,
  • Rong Gao,
  • Fangbing Zhou,
  • Yuyang Nie and
  • Cong Liu

17 April 2025

The mental health of college students has become a key focus in higher education, and physical activity may play a crucial role in promoting positive psychology among college students. This study explores the relationship between physical activity an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
9,053 Views
16 Pages

16 April 2025

(1) Background: This study investigates the relationship between the moral maturity levels of individuals who have experienced parental divorce or loss and their adjustment to the divorce process, considering various factors. (2) Methods: A total of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,095 Views
22 Pages

16 April 2025

This study aimed to investigate the relationship between proactive personality and career-related decision-making self-efficacy, with generative artificial intelligence acceptance serving as a mediating factor. Additionally, the study examined the mo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,000 Views
10 Pages

An Initial Examination of Couple Therapy for PTSD Outcomes Among Black/African American Adults: Findings from an Uncontrolled Trial with Military Dyads

  • Steffany J. Fredman,
  • Alyssa A. Gamaldo,
  • August I. C. Jenkins,
  • Yunying Le,
  • Jacqueline A. Mogle,
  • Candice M. Monson,
  • Charlene E. Gamaldo,
  • Roland J. Thorpe,
  • Brittany N. Hall-Clark and
  • Tabatha H. Blount
  • + 14 authors

16 April 2025

Black/African American individuals experience high rates of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), which is frequently chronic and undertreated in this population. Intimate relationships are a salient resource for Black/African American adults’...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,823 Views
13 Pages

16 April 2025

Parental and peer support has been documented as an important factor in physical activities among high school students. Likewise, coach support has an important impact on physical activity among high school students. Meanwhile, many studies show that...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,103 Views
22 Pages

Healing Through Support: Beneficial and Detrimental Practices in Parental Grief—A Qualitative Study

  • Lucía Pelacho-Ríos,
  • Samuel Mayoral,
  • María José Jorques-Infante and
  • Gloria Bernabe-Valero

15 April 2025

This qualitative study explores the experiences of 24 parents who have experienced the death of a child, focusing on identifying practices that either facilitated or hindered their grieving process. In-depth interviews revealed key supportive practic...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,342 Views
26 Pages

15 April 2025

As generative AI services become increasingly integrated into consumer decision making, concerns have grown regarding their influence on consumer autonomy—the extent to which individuals retain independent control over AI-assisted decisions. Al...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,060 Views
20 Pages

15 April 2025

Guided by family systems theory and the parenting process model, this study aimed to identify distinct profiles of parenting stress and examine their associations with parental characteristics, social–contextual factors, and child factors. A sa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
968 Views
14 Pages

Point Values on Scoring Rubrics Influence Self-Regulated Learning for STEM Material

  • Morgan D. Shumaker,
  • Michelle L. Rivers and
  • Sarah K. Tauber

15 April 2025

We examined whether point value information on a scoring rubric influences learners’ study time and concept selection when learning educationally relevant STEM information. Participants (N = 92) engaged in the self-regulated study of five conce...

  • Article
  • Open Access
813 Views
13 Pages

The Contribution of Negative Expectancies to Emotional Resilience

  • James Tough,
  • Ben Grafton,
  • Colin MacLeod and
  • Bram Van Bockstaele

15 April 2025

Anxiety reactivity, i.e., the degree to which state anxiety becomes elevated, has been used as a measure of emotional resilience in anticipation of potentially stressful events and has been found to correlate with elevations in event-related negative...

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