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Behavioral Sciences, Volume 9, Issue 12

2019 December - 44 articles

Cover Story: Exercise represents the single most effective nonpharmacological approach for managing symptoms and improving the health-related quality of life of people suffering from multiple sclerosis. Moreover, exercise self-efficacy has been proven to be a relevant mediator of the relationship between exercise and health-related quality of life. Unlike exercise, which is a specific, structured, and supervised form of physical activity, lifetime physical activity must be selected by the person, consciously planned, and accumulated in short bouts over the day as part of one’s life. Our results suggest that self-efficacy in goal setting can play a pivotal role in the relationship between lifetime physical activity and mental-health-related quality of life, contributing to overcoming the daily barriers to the maintenance of physical activity. View this paper
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Articles (44)

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
5,312 Views
9 Pages

Strategies of Speech Interaction between Adults and Preschool Children with Typical and Atypical Development

  • Elena Lyakso,
  • Olga Frolova,
  • Aleksey Grigorev,
  • Viktor Gorodnyi and
  • Aleksandr Nikolaev

16 December 2019

The goal of this research is to study the speech strategies of adults’ interactions with 4–7-year-old children. The participants are “mother–child” dyads with typically developing (TD, n = 40) children, children with aut...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,434 Views
8 Pages

Family and Child Characteristics Associated with Foster Care Breakdown

  • Liliya A. Aslamazova,
  • Rifkat J. Muhamedrahimov and
  • Elena A. Vershinina

16 December 2019

Studies examining the experience of children returned from foster care can reveal its causes and the severity of the psychological consequences, as well as the positive effect of psychological support on family functioning. Our research was aimed at...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,439 Views
10 Pages

15 December 2019

The underdeveloped conscious self-regulation of actions plays a primary role in the disorder-related character of children with developmental delay (DD). This study aimed to analyze and systematize specific occurrences of conscious self-regulation in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
7,138 Views
11 Pages

14 December 2019

Hope is a future-oriented reasoning that influences psychological assets of individuals. A hopeful standing towards the future can positively influence individual well-being. Different standings in terms of hopefulness may create variations in psycho...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3,963 Views
9 Pages

14 December 2019

In this experiment, we tried to measure personality by reaction time (RT) to stimuli of personality trait words. There were interindividual and intraindividual differences in the factors that caused the reaction time to fluctuate. The intraindividual...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,603 Views
9 Pages

Examining the Convergent Validity of the Triarchic Psychopathy Measure Using a Sample of Incarcerated and on Probation Lithuanian Juveniles

  • Laura Ustinavičiūtė,
  • Alfredas Laurinavičius,
  • Virginija Klimukienė,
  • Ilona Laurinaitytė and
  • Mykolas Baltrūnas

14 December 2019

The Triarchic Psychopathy Measure (TriPM) is based on the triarchic psychopathy model proposed by Patrick, Fowles, and Krueger in 2009. This paper assesses the convergent validity of TriPM using a number of measures for a sample of adolescents who ar...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,920 Views
7 Pages

Designing a Scale to Assess Dialectical Thinking: Link to ECERS-R Items

  • Nikolay Veraksa,
  • Olga Shiyan and
  • Ekaterina Sviridova

14 December 2019

Dialectical thinking is gaining wide circulation as part of personal and social preschool child development in modern society, which makes all the more urgent the task of designing a tool to evaluate the extent to which the educational environment in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
5,474 Views
8 Pages

12 December 2019

The objective of the research is to ascertain whether emotional and volitional characteristics of the individual affect the frequency of punishment in the family (for example, prohibition to watch TY for some time, pocket money reduction, request for...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,011 Views
14 Pages

Profession Loss Crisis at an Old Age: Specific Features, Factors, and Mechanisms of Coping

  • Elvira Symanyuk,
  • Georgy Borisov,
  • Daria Berdnikova,
  • Olga Tomberg and
  • Alexandra Ryabukhina

11 December 2019

This article discusses the specific characteristics of profession loss crisis at an old age. Profession loss crisis is the last normative crisis of personal professional development that is caused by the completion of one’s professional biograp...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,227 Views
9 Pages

10 December 2019

Little is known about the public’s attitudes towards applying genetic information in the justice system. This study aimed to extend previous research to explore this among the general public and those with training in law. Data were collected f...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,490 Views
10 Pages

10 December 2019

Background: Literature presents little examination on the learning styles and sensorial preferences of immigrants during decoding of different tasks in testing contexts. Methods: In this cross-sectional study, non-native children (between 2nd and 12t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,896 Views
10 Pages

Professional Longevity as a Problem of the Value-Semantic Regulation of Teacher Activity

  • Natalia G. Zotova,
  • Svetlana A. Peredelskaya and
  • Mikhail Yu. Tikhomirov

10 December 2019

The aim of this research is to establish proper external and internal conditions for conducting pedagogical activity that reveal the value basis of professional education. The research justifies the need to analyse the guidelines of a person’s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
5,698 Views
12 Pages

9 December 2019

This article is devoted to the statistical analysis of security and safety frequency in the context of categories connected with social institutions and personality features in research works from 2004–2019. Research was based on the following...

  • Article
  • Open Access
48 Citations
15,017 Views
9 Pages

Digital Storytelling in Language Education

  • Hamzeh Moradi and
  • Hefang Chen

9 December 2019

Modern technology provides lots of opportunities in order to connect classrooms with the world. Technology provides a greater and better source of information, yet solutions are needed to be mediated through the appropriate remedy. The emergence of n...

  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
9,085 Views
13 Pages

The Role of Parental Communication and Emotional Intelligence in Child-to-Parent Violence

  • Paula López-Martínez,
  • David Montero-Montero,
  • David Moreno-Ruiz and
  • Belén Martínez-Ferrer

9 December 2019

In recent years, cases of child-to-parent violence (CPV) have increased significantly, prompting greater scientific interest in clarifying its causes. The aim of this research was to study the relationship between styles of family communication (open...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,297 Views
9 Pages

8 December 2019

Road safety is one of the main priorities for the European Union. Different strategies and policies strive to increase the level of road safety across Europe and although this level has increased in the last couple of years the number of injuries and...

  • Review
  • Open Access
20 Citations
6,546 Views
24 Pages

Effectiveness and Characterization of Severely Energy-Restricted Diets in People with Class III Obesity: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

  • Gabrielle Maston,
  • Alice A. Gibson,
  • H. Reza Kahlaee,
  • Janet Franklin,
  • Elisa Manson,
  • Amanda Sainsbury and
  • Tania P. Markovic

7 December 2019

Severely energy-restricted diets are used in obesity management, but their efficacy in people with class III obesity (body mass index ≥40 kg/m2) is uncertain. The aims of this systematic review and meta-analysis were to determine the effectiveness...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
7,411 Views
43 Pages

6 December 2019

What triggered the emergence of uniquely human behaviors (language, religion, music) some 100,000 years ago? A non-circular, speculative theory based on the mother-infant relationship is presented. Infant “cuteness” evokes the infant sche...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,425 Views
10 Pages

Sport Activity as Risk or Protective Factor in Feeding and Eating Disorder

  • Salvatore Iuso,
  • Antonello Bellomo,
  • Tiziana Pagano,
  • Raffaella Carnevale,
  • Antonio Ventriglio and
  • Annamaria Petito

6 December 2019

Emerging evidence suggests controversial results on the associations between sport activity and eating disorders (EDs). The aim of the present study was to investigate the relationship between sport activity in general, weight-dependent/independent s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,861 Views
8 Pages

Creating Positive Work Experiences Through Task Self-Redesign

  • Severin Hornung,
  • Thomas Höge,
  • Christian Seubert,
  • Jürgen Glaser and
  • Denise M. Rousseau

5 December 2019

Complementing the traditional focus in work design on “top-down” organizational interventions, research into proactive work behavior suggests that “bottom-up” processes, based on the “micro-emancipatory” actions em...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,003 Views
11 Pages

5 December 2019

Under current conditions, the scientific request for the study of both internal and external factors of socio-psychological safety becomes important. In the literature there are very contradictory data on the role of contextual factors in ensuring th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
8,219 Views
10 Pages

Dynamic Psychotherapy: The Therapeutic Process in the Treatment of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

  • Joana Proença Becker,
  • Rui Paixão,
  • Simone Silva,
  • Manuel João Quartilho and
  • Eda M. Custódio

5 December 2019

Dynamic Psychotherapy (DP) was developed to overcome the limitations of traditional psychoanalysis, responding to a broader demand of patients who seek help to cope with specific problems in the short term, such as Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4,203 Views
11 Pages

4 December 2019

The last years have seen a paradigm shift concerning addictive disorders, indicating the necessity to study alternative therapeutic models. In this longitudinal study, the objective was to explore the impact of the Change & Grow® therapeutic...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,659 Views
7 Pages

4 December 2019

This article is devoted to the development of a new phenomenon in the field of social psychology of the city—satiety with living conditions in a metropolis. The study involved 87 people aged 18–30 years. The aim of the study was to identi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,663 Views
10 Pages

Attachment and Adulthood in a Sample of Southeastern Mexico

  • Gabriela Isabel Pérez-Aranda,
  • Vianey Peralta-López,
  • Sinuhé Estrada-Carmona,
  • Liliana García Reyes and
  • Miguel Angel Tuz-Sierra

3 December 2019

The main purpose of this research is to analyze the attachment styles of men and women from 20 to 40 years old (early adulthood) and from 40 to 65 years old (middle adulthood) who are in a romantic relationship and live in the City of San Francisco C...

  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
10,015 Views
9 Pages

3 December 2019

Bearing in mind the characteristics of an academic setting, as well as the developmental tasks young people inevitably face, there is a need to identify and study the factors that play an important role in the development and maintenance of psycholog...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
7,575 Views
9 Pages

3 December 2019

Job crafting refers to physical and cognitive changes in task or relational work boundaries, enacted by individuals to recreate their work experience in a more motivating and rewarding way, and to realize self-actualization, growth, and meaning at wo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,653 Views
10 Pages

30 November 2019

The problem of improving the quality of life of people with lesions of the musculoskeletal system is relevant to modern society. However, the circumstances of disabled people in modern Russia are characterized by the presence of many problems, includ...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,422 Views
12 Pages

28 November 2019

During behavioral experiments, humans placed in a situation of having to choose between a more valuable but risky reward and a less valuable but guaranteed reward make their decisions in accordance with external situational factors and individual cha...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
5,423 Views
8 Pages

Features of Media Multitasking in School-Age Children

  • Galina Soldatova,
  • Svetlana Chigarkova and
  • Anna Dreneva

27 November 2019

The paper addresses the phenomenon of media multitasking that is being widely spread among children and adolescents in the context of digital socialization. The previous research has revealed its strong connection with cognitive control, executive fu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,403 Views
11 Pages

Visual Perception of Facial Emotional Expressions during Saccades

  • Vladimir A. Barabanschikov and
  • Ivan Y. Zherdev

27 November 2019

The regularities of visual perception of both complex and ecologically valid objects during extremely short photo expositions are studied. Images of a person experiencing basic emotions were displayed for as low as 14 ms amidst a saccade spanning 10...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
7,401 Views
8 Pages

27 November 2019

This article deals with issues relating to the social and moral education and development of preschool children. The theoretical understanding of the current state of this field is reflected in the modern normative documents “On education in th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
8,131 Views
17 Pages

26 November 2019

In the United States, undocumented immigrants often encounter complex challenges that impact their emotional well-being. Existing literature has primarily focused on Latino immigrants. Thus, little is known about the mental health needs of undocument...

  • Article
  • Open Access
34 Citations
9,682 Views
9 Pages

26 November 2019

The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of metacognitive strategies on self-regulated learning processes, focusing on the mediating effects of self-efficacy. The surveys were conducted in December 2016 (Time 1) and January 2017 (Time 2)....

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,920 Views
8 Pages

Validation of a Rubric to Evaluate Open Educational Resources for Learning

  • Anabel de la Rosa Gómez,
  • José Manuel Meza Cano and
  • Germán Alejandro Miranda Díaz

25 November 2019

Open Educational Resources (OERs) include different web formats, such as audio, video, images and text that can be modified, redistributed and used for learning about a specific topic, however, it became pertinent to create an OER evaluation tool wit...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
8,026 Views
17 Pages

23 November 2019

Recent literature on positive psychology underlines the crucial role of schools to create a psychologically healthy environment and to set programs and strategies fostering adolescents’ well-being. The aim of the present study is to validate a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
4,552 Views
14 Pages

22 November 2019

The study of diagnostic associations entails a large number of methodological problems regarding the application of machine learning algorithms, collinearity and wide variability being some of the most prominent ones. To overcome these, we propose an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
6,072 Views
9 Pages

22 November 2019

University students, as ‘digital natives’, use the internet for learning in the classroom. However, the availability of internet access in the classroom becomes a challenge, because students also engage in non-academic internet access dur...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
7,554 Views
12 Pages

22 November 2019

Internationally, a great number of researchers have pointed out the significance of school–family relationship in the process of children’s transition to primary schools. However, only recently has it been a subject of research in Greece....

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,329 Views
10 Pages

The Study of Network Community Capacity to be a Subject: Digital Discursive Footprints

  • Anatoly N. Voronin,
  • Taisiya A. Grebenschikova,
  • Tina A. Kubrak,
  • Timofey A. Nestik and
  • Natalya D. Pavlova

21 November 2019

The article is devoted to the assessment of the network community as a collective subject, as a group of interconnected and interdependent persons performing joint activities. According to the main research hypothesis, various forms of group subjectn...

  • Editorial
  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,498 Views
9 Pages

21 November 2019

This editorial is an introduction to the special issue ‘Individual variation and the bilingual advantage—factors that modulate the effect of bilingualism on cognitive control’ [...]

  • Article
  • Open Access
32 Citations
7,796 Views
9 Pages

21 November 2019

Regular physical activity (PA) can enhance the physical and mental health of people with Multiple Sclerosis (MS) because of its impact on muscular strength, mobility, balance, walking, fatigue, pain and health-related quality of life (HRQoL). Previou...

  • Review
  • Open Access
31 Citations
8,640 Views
10 Pages

20 November 2019

Guilt appeals in the field of persuasion are quite common. However, the effectiveness of these messages is sometimes ambivalent. It is widely acknowledged that guilt leads people to engage into prosocial behaviors, but the effects of guilt can also b...

  • Article
  • Open Access
32 Citations
9,692 Views
10 Pages

Social and Psychological Predictors of Youths’ Attitudes to Cryptocurrency

  • Maria Gagarina,
  • Timofey Nestik and
  • Tatiana Drobysheva

20 November 2019

The objectives of the study were to verify the “Attitudes Toward Cryptocurrencies Questionnaire” and to identify predictors of attitudes toward Bitcoin. Sample: 262 participants aged 17 to 30, of which 45% were male. Methods: Associations...

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