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Behavioral Sciences, Volume 15, Issue 9

September 2025 - 152 articles

Cover Story: Academic motivation frameworks have called for greater attention to the situational milieu embedded in motivational theories. This study examines how motivation values in STEM develop through responsibilities to one's family (financial and caregiving) and self-perceptions of academic ability. Utilizing a robust methodology, this study investigates academic efficacy as a mediator of two family-related obligations on the values related to the utility of a STEM degree. This longitudinal study involving 1,571 college students from two diverse public research institutions finds that academic efficacy diminishes the role of caregiving obligations. In contrast, financial obligations affect utility values indirectly through self-efficacy. The implications for future research are also discussed. View this paper
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Articles (152)

  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
2,264 Views
27 Pages

Exploring Attachment-Related Factors and Psychopathic Traits: A Systematic Review Focused on Women

  • Marina Leonor Pinheiro,
  • Ana Beatriz Machado,
  • Rui Abrunhosa Gonçalves,
  • Sónia Caridade and
  • Olga Cunha

22 September 2025

Psychopathy in women remains understudied, particularly regarding the role of early relational experiences such as attachment. This systematic review aims to synthesize the current evidence on the association between attachment-related factors and ps...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,276 Views
17 Pages

22 September 2025

Negative social feedback can cause social pain and may damage physical and mental health. In particular, negative social feedback from acquaintances deeply activates the social pain brain network between the dorsal anterior cingulate cortex (dACC), t...

  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
1,730 Views
18 Pages

22 September 2025

Providing feedback is a key instructional strategy in motor learning. Recently, interest has grown in self-controlled (SC) feedback, which allows learners to choose when to receive feedback. However, evidence on its effectiveness remains mixed, and i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
786 Views
27 Pages

22 September 2025

A cascading coaching model was used to teach bilingual speech-language pathology (SLP) graduate student clinicians and Spanish-speaking caregivers to implement naturalistic developmental behavioral intervention (NDBI) techniques with autistic prescho...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
886 Views
18 Pages

22 September 2025

The present study examined the relationship between sleep duration and eating behaviours, stress symptoms, and burnout in healthcare professionals. Objective: The present study aimed to examine whether sleep duration influenced the psychosocial well-...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,144 Views
15 Pages

Exploring Profiles and Variables Related to Burnout Amongst School Mental Health Providers

  • Ashley Rila,
  • Gerta Bardhoshi,
  • Derek Rodgers,
  • Allison Bruhn and
  • Duhita Mahatmya

21 September 2025

The purpose of this cross-sectional study was to examine burnout profiles and organizational variables that impact burnout in school mental health providers, such as school counselors, school psychologists, social workers, and interventionists. We di...

  • Article
  • Open Access
473 Views
15 Pages

The Impact of Design Factors on Drivers’ and Non-Drivers’ Comprehension of Variable Message Signs

  • Ana Hernando,
  • Antonio Lucas-Alba,
  • Andrés S. Lombas and
  • Maria Teresa Blanch

20 September 2025

This study examines differences in comprehension between drivers and non-drivers when interpreting variable message signs (VMSs) combining three elements—a pictogram, an arrow, and a city name—to indicate temporary traffic events (e.g., &...

  • Article
  • Open Access
827 Views
10 Pages

20 September 2025

Transdiagnostic psychotherapies were developed to address multiple diagnostic presentations via a single, easier-to-implement protocol. However, despite advances, these protocols are largely limited to longer formats designed for mental health settin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
803 Views
12 Pages

20 September 2025

This study examines how life satisfaction and personality traits are intergenerationally transmitted from fathers to their adolescent children. The sample comprised 144 father-child dyads (mean child age = 13.65; 55.9% male; mean father age = 43.06)....

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,136 Views
21 Pages

Treating Young Refugees with a Grief-Focused Group Therapy—A Feasibility Trial

  • Anna-Maria Rummel,
  • Anna Vogel,
  • Ruth Rossi,
  • Melanie Jacob,
  • Michael Achtner,
  • Julia Schnauder,
  • Rita Rosner and
  • Hannah Comtesse

19 September 2025

The death of a loved one has been identified as one of the most commonly reported traumatic experiences among refugees. This phenomenon can lead to the development of prolonged grief disorder (PGD), for which particularly elevated PGD rates were obse...

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