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  • Article
  • Open Access
5,049 Views
20 Pages

Self-esteem is a central part of personality, related to self-perceptions and evaluation of oneself compared to other people. Self-esteem could be global self-esteem, concerning the whole personality, or partial self-esteem, concerning the different...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,604 Views
14 Pages

17 October 2022

Peer relationships play an important role in the growth of children. This study offers insights about feelings of fear and inferiority in children’s peer relationships. Based on a national survey, the 2018 Construction for Social Policy Support...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,596 Views
18 Pages

18 November 2022

Inferiority is a complex emotion of helplessness and self-deprecation. A lack of timely and effective treatment may cause serious consequences to people who experience inferiority. People with different occupational and educational backgrounds displa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
6,944 Views
14 Pages

3 August 2018

This study aims at exploring the reasons that drive many Facebookers to share negative posts on Facebook, with a special focus on their gender and age. It also aims at identifying the negative attitudes and feelings that negative Facebook posts might...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
8,313 Views
12 Pages

Striving to Avoid Inferiority and Procrastination among University Students: The Mediating Roles of Stress and Self-Control

  • Peter-Yee-Lap To,
  • Barbara-Chuen-Yee Lo,
  • Ting-Kin Ng,
  • Bernard-Pak-Ho Wong and
  • Anna-Wai-Man Choi

The current study intended to examine whether the relationship between university students’ striving to avoid inferiority (SAI) and procrastination was serially mediated by stress and self-control. The sample consisted of 154 Hong Kong university stu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,810 Views
33 Pages

This study argues that Vision 2030 and social housing should consider the elements of the sociocultural dimension of urban design (SDUD) to alleviate urban poverty-induced feelings. By examining public spaces in the context of Vision 2030 and the imp...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
15,244 Views
18 Pages

15 August 2016

While Latinos face high levels of segregation, there is scant research specifically addressing whites’ attitudes towards Latinos regarding their preferences. This study draws from 40 in-depth interviews with whites in Orange County California, an are...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,713 Views
9 Pages

15 December 2023

As recipients of healthcare, patients provide invaluable contributions when assessing quality. The aim of this qualitative study was to explore and describe how patients experienced quality of care during their stay in a Norwegian hospital. In this s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
6,008 Views
10 Pages

Why Negative or Positive, If It makes Me Win? Dark Personality in Spanish Competitive Athletes

  • Juan González-Hernández,
  • Ricardo Cuevas-Campos,
  • María Isabel Tovar-Gálvez and
  • Lucía Melguizo-Rodríguez

Research on the dark triad traits (narcissism, Machiavellianism and psychopathy) is increasingly focusing on the functional or dysfunctional influences of personality traits on cognitive, behavioural and emotional responses. Thus, studies in sport co...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,804 Views
22 Pages

17 September 2020

The aim of this paper is to correct an historical error: the ancient claim, grounded in a flawed understanding of the reproductive act, that woman is inferior to man. I will show that the lineage of this can be traced as far back as the pre-Socratic...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,745 Views
17 Pages

19 August 2024

Taking the debate about cultural appropriation as a starting point, this article explores the relationship different members of the South Asian Australian diaspora have to the Australian multicultural project. Specifically, this article employs an ar...

  • Brief Report
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,381 Views
6 Pages

An Ancient Science to Improve Today’s Clinical Practice: Oral Surgery Meets Human Anatomy

  • Roberto Pistilli,
  • Lorenzo Bonifazi,
  • Carlo Barausse,
  • Alessandra Ruggeri,
  • Michele Covelli,
  • Maryia Karaban and
  • Pietro Felice

Human body dissection was a ubiquitous practice in the past, to better understand anatomy and to develop medicine. Today, its role could still be important to answer everyday clinical queries and help surgeons. The example of the possible lack of ane...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,582 Views
14 Pages

7 March 2023

Acknowledging an undeniable need for innovation, this paper offers a qualitative assessment for recognition and policy advocacy for superior innovations—for new wood products and processes offering more benefits and fewer drawbacks than other i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
5,333 Views
15 Pages

University Students’ Perceptions of Peer Assessment in Oral Presentations

  • Diego Gudiño,
  • María-Jesús Fernández-Sánchez,
  • María-Teresa Becerra-Traver and
  • Susana Sánchez-Herrera

22 February 2024

Peer assessment has been shown to be useful in a variety of educational contexts, but there is a scarcity of research on how prior experience affects university students’ perceptions of this form of assessment. This study evaluates whether expe...

  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
12 Citations
5,625 Views
13 Pages

The Role of Immersive Virtual Reality Interventions in Pediatric Cerebral Palsy: A Systematic Review across Motor and Cognitive Domains

  • Maria Grazia Maggio,
  • Maria Chiara Valeri,
  • Rosaria De Luca,
  • Fulvia Di Iulio,
  • Irene Ciancarelli,
  • Morena De Francesco,
  • Rocco Salvatore Calabrò and
  • Giovanni Morone

Background: In recent years, new technologies have been applied in cerebral palsy. Among these, immersive virtual reality is one with promising motor and cognitive effects along with the reduced costs of its application. The level of immersion of the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,897 Views
15 Pages

23 August 2024

In this article, I emphasize the importance of maintaining and transmitting indigenous languages to the next generations, and I explore the motivations and difficulties of indigenous language speakers to do so when living far away from their native l...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,614 Views
19 Pages

Managing Expatriate Employment Contracts with Blockchain

  • Yazeed Alabdulkarim,
  • Abdulmajeed Alameer,
  • Mohammed Almukaynizi,
  • Nasser Allheeib,
  • Fahad Alkadyan and
  • Abdulaziz Almaslukh

Expatriates, or migrant workers, are employees who work outside their home country and reside in a foreign country for the purpose of work. They are often subject to job fraud, employment contract violations, and poor working conditions. These calami...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,591 Views
16 Pages

8 November 2021

Nonprofessional hosts in the P2P accommodation-sharing markets have been demonstrated to be inferior in pricing. The sharing market is increasingly recruiting more professional hosts but is bothered by the disharmony from nonprofessionals’ feelings o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
5,347 Views
20 Pages

The Role of the Left Inferior Frontal Gyrus in Introspection during Verbal Communication

  • Ayumi Yoshioka,
  • Hiroki C. Tanabe,
  • Eri Nakagawa,
  • Motofumi Sumiya,
  • Takahiko Koike and
  • Norihiro Sadato

7 January 2023

Conversation enables the sharing of our subjective experiences through verbalizing introspected thoughts and feelings. The mentalizing network represents introspection, and successful conversation is characterized by alignment through imitation media...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,378 Views
11 Pages

Facial and Emotion Recognition Deficits in Myasthenia Gravis

  • Maddalen García-Sanchoyerto,
  • Monika Salgueiro,
  • Javiera Ortega,
  • Alicia Aurora Rodríguez,
  • Pamela Parada-Fernández and
  • Imanol Amayra

9 August 2024

Myasthenia gravis (MG) is a neuromuscular disease of autoimmune etiology and chronic evolution. In addition to the muscle weakness and fatigue that characterize MG, in some studies patients show an inferior performance in cognitive tasks and difficul...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,628 Views
16 Pages

13 August 2021

This paper examines language attitudes of South Tyroleans towards German varieties used in educational institutions by means of a questionnaire survey with 55 university students. The aim of this paper is to provide an insight into subjects’ attitude...

  • Review
  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,210 Views
15 Pages

12 December 2023

Background: Children and adolescents with psychiatric disorders frequently experience hospital treatment as coercive. In particular, for patients with severe anorexia nervosa (AN), clinical and ethical challenges often arise if they do not voluntaril...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,071 Views
11 Pages

Background: Child obesity rates are increasing worldwide. In Korea, the proportion of overweight students has steadily increased from 21.8% in 2015 to 25.8% in 2019. Childhood obesity causes mental problems, such as depression and social phobia, due...

  • Article
  • Open Access
656 Views
16 Pages

24 October 2025

Allergen-free (AF) baked goods usually show inferior texture and mouth-feel due to lack of functional proteins. This study evaluated the quality characteristics of AF muffins incorporated with three different sources of chickpea protein isolate (CPI)...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,403 Views
24 Pages

2 September 2025

By 2030, the world population is projected to reach approximately 9.7 billion. One of the core objectives of the global sustainable development goals (SDGs), adopted from the 1996 World Food Summit, is to eradicate hunger by that time, meaning ensuri...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3,138 Views
15 Pages

Suicide and Self-Harming Among Young Women: A Qualitative Exploratory Study in Southern Punjab, Pakistan

  • Farooq Ahmed,
  • Eileen Yuk Ha Tsang,
  • Razia Anjum,
  • Najma Iqbal Malik,
  • Sidra Zia,
  • Rashed Nawaz,
  • Jeffrey S. Wilkinson and
  • Yueyao Fang

Background: Suicide and self-injury are serious public health concerns, especially in young populations, owing to multiple social, cultural, and gender determinants. Qualitative evidence exploring narratives regarding the factors behind suicide among...

  • Review
  • Open Access
1,218 Views
35 Pages

Do Contemplative Practices Promote Trauma Recovery? A Narrative Review from 2018 to 2023

  • Francesca Scafuto,
  • Rossella Mattea Quinto,
  • Graziella Orrù,
  • Alessandro Lazzarelli,
  • Rebecca Ciacchini and
  • Ciro Conversano

7 November 2025

Background: Contemplative practices encompass a variety of static and dynamic practices. These practices, by fostering insights, heightened awareness, and a deeper connection to a broader framework of meaning, may play a crucial role in significantly...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,816 Views
14 Pages

5 April 2023

Catfish (Ictalurus punctatus) skins, as filleting byproduct, were developed into a crispy snack food via air-frying. Consumers rated catfish skin chips (CSC) across sensory modalities (9-point hedonic scales, a just-about-right scale, and “yes/...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,170 Views
23 Pages

Approaching or Decentering? Differential Neural Networks Underlying Experiential Emotion Regulation and Cognitive Defusion

  • Yulin Wang,
  • Iris Vantieghem,
  • Debo Dong,
  • Johan Nemegeer,
  • Johan De Mey,
  • Peter Van Schuerbeek,
  • Daniele Marinazzo and
  • Marie Vandekerckhove

9 September 2022

The current study investigated the bottom-up experiential emotion regulation in comparison to the cognitiveve top down-approach of cognitive defusion. Rooted in an experiential- and client-centered psychotherapeutic approach, experiential emotion reg...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
5,090 Views
15 Pages

Since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, global food production and transportation have been largely impacted. Meanwhile, consumers have purchased and stockpiled large quantities of foods due to panic in the early stage of the pandemic, which has...