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The study investigates young Romanians' perception of the international trend known as food porn, based on the hypothesis that, in a predominantly Christian Orthodox cultural context, the term is rejected or avoided, despite intense exposure to digital content of this type. While in socio-economically developed and culturally open countries, the term “food porn” has undergone a process of democratization and normalization, becoming a natural part of visual culture and consumer behaviour, in Romania it continue...

Terror Management Theory (TMT) research demonstrates that exposure to mortality salient (MS) content—reminders of death—can influence consumers to prefer high-status brands and effects of MS occur even when MS content is only peripherally present. Peripheral information in Web shopping may have a similar effect: people exposed to MS banner ads should choose high-status brands more often than people who are exposed to non-MS banner ads, especially when they are "banner blind" (i.e., when they do not consciously...

The present study investigates the relationship between emotional and cognitive coping strategies and personal autonomy among teachers, aiming to understand how adaptive regulation of emotions and thoughts supports professional well-being and resilience in educational contexts. The main objective was to identify the extent to which emotional and cognitive coping predict teachers’ perceived autonomy and their capacity for self-directed decision-making in stressful situations. A quantitative, cross-sectional corre...

Concealment behavior involves complex cognitive and emotional processes that can be quantified using electroencephalography (EEG). This study investigates neural differences between states of sincerity and lying in 39 participants, using the Unicorn Hybrid Black system (8 sensors). EEG data were filtered, normalized and statistically analyzed in SPSS. Paired t-tests revealed significant increases in beta and gamma power in frontal (Fz), central (Cz, C4) and parietal (Pz) regions during lying. These patterns sugges...

When confronted with an ambiguous abstract painting, individuals may initially experience subtle negative emotions such as confusion or uncertainty. However, once such negative emotions are resolved, a sense of interest that fosters positive emotions can arise. Contemporary psychological accounts of aesthetic experience propose that the formation of aesthetic experience entails an interaction between rapid and deliberative processing stages. However, direct empirical support for this hypothesis remains limited and...

This study examines the interaction between personality traits, social skills and inclusive teaching practices in Romanian primary classrooms. Personality profiles were measured using the age-adapted Big Five Inventory for Children (BFI-C), while social competence was assessed with the Social Skills Rating System (SSRS). Inclusive classroom practices differentiated instruction, emotional support and collaborative routines were evaluated through a structured teacher questionnaire. The mixed-methods design included ...

Gender-based violence (GBV) remains a critical public health concern and a profound violation of human rights across the globe. It encompasses a wide spectrum of abusive behaviors, including physical and sexual violence, emotional manipulation, economic control, intimidation, and harassment. The impact of GBV extends beyond the individuals directly involved, influencing societal norms and institutional responses. Public perceptions and representations of GBV can contribute to the marginalization of victims, profes...

This study investigates the relationship between self-esteem and employment transitions, focusing on voluntary turnover and involuntary dismissals. Utilizing a quantitative methodology, data were collected via Computer-Assisted Telephone Interviewing (CATI) between August and September 2024 (N = 1,400), targeting job advertisement respondents across Poland’s 15 largest cities, from which n-242 subjects fully participated in the study. Self-esteem was measured using the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale (SES), Polish a...

In the context of rising university dropout rates in Romania, this study investigates how emotional and motivational characteristics differentiate student profiles associated with different levels of dropout intention. The main objective was to identify distinct psychological profiles based on neuroticism, fear of failure, intrinsic motivation, extrinsic motivation and amotivation, as well as to analyse the relationship between these and dropout intention. The sample consisted of 107 Romanian students who complete...

The aim of this study is to conduct a psychological analysis of three of the most controversial and interesting historical figures of the second half of the Nineteenth century, forerunners of their time, linked not only by their parental point of view, but by the same ideals aimed at the pursuit of dreams, tenderness and the impossible freedom they never managed to find in life: Empress Elisabeth of Austria, King Ludwig II of Bavaria and Crown Prince Rudolf of Habsburg. The work aims to relate these three personal...

The paper discusses the global trends of gender inequality in the labor market and gender discrimination in the Georgian labor market; the importance of approaches to eliminate gender inequality and promote inclusiveness. The world’s best practices for promoting gender equality in the labor market are discussed. The research aimed to reveal the directions for overcoming the main challenges that hinder gender equality in the labor market. Mixed research methods were used: combination of quantitative and qualitati...

Many Romanian parents leave their families behind in search of a better life, resulting in thousands of abandoned children. The absence of parents and disrupted attachments adversely affect the socioemotional development of these children, leading to lower psychological well-being. Existing data primarily focus on children and negative aspects and are less known about the effects of parental absence on adolescents’ wellbeing. Purpose: This study aims to examine the psychological well-being of left-behind adolesc...

The teacher of English as a foreign/ second language (EFL, ESL), in general and the one for specific purposes (ESP), in particular needs to bring specialty knowledge to the classroom to adjust to the requirements of the students’ specialism. Alongside comes the (cap)ability to pass on language skills to learners and sensitize them in matters of intercultural communication. In this sense, Medical English classes (mainly addressed to students in General Medicine but also fitting Nursing and Nutrition ones) could p...

Background: Childhood maltreatment (including sexual abuse, physical abuse, and neglect) is a significant risk factor for substance use and drug-related problems in adolescents and young adulthood. Objective: This study aimed to examine the associations between social support, forms of abuse experienced in childhood, and subsequent alcohol and drug use in young adulthood. Method: Data were drawn from a large-scale, nationally representative longitudinal sample of N=1,497. Hierarchical and logistic regressions were...

The theory of attachment brought to front stage the need of the child to form stableconnections with persons capable to offer protection, love, acceptance. Sometimes,during this process, the child has give up parts of his/her authentic self in a lenghtyprocess of adapting to the harsh reality he/she lives in. The pattern of attachment,formed in early childhood, relative to the representative persons in his/her life, tends tobe maintained also during the lifetime and to influence the manner of interacting withother...

The study of child growth has been and still is the object of attention and analysis byexperts in psychological theories and beyond. The first to describe childhooddevelopment was S. Freud, to which other scholars have joined such as Erikson,Winnicott, Spitz, Bowlby, A. Freud, M. Klein, Piaget (for intelligence), Vygotskij (fordevelopment cognitive), Chomsky (for language) and, among the pedagogists, as wellas Montessori, Pati. The latter, from a mere pedagogical point of view, was interested inthe growth levels o...

Becoming a psychologist requires more than just acquiring the necessary competences.The emotional labour undergone when preparing for this job may be higher than in anyother specialty as it mainly requires one to solve their own personal issues beforehelping others deal with their own so as to dispute the counter-transfer. Allpsychotherapy schools start with at least one year of personal development. Knowing allthese, there is a large number of students enrolled in Psychology study programmes whostart their univer...

The objective of this study is to examine the interactive effect of risk-taking propensityand previous emigration experience on the emigration attitudes of young Bulgarians.The relationship between risk-taking propensity and emigration attitudes has not beenexplored in the prism of prior emigration behavior in Eastern European countries likeBulgaria - a sending rather than receiving country. Additionally, risk propensity isexamined as both a generic and domain-specific construct. A national survey,representative o...

The main purpose of this correlation study is to examine the relationship of attachmentstyles with life satisfaction and place attachment in university students at University ofCatania, Italy. We used the following measures: the State Adult Attachment Measure,the Life Satisfaction Scale, and two versions of the Place Attachment Inventory for the“living place” and for the “affective place”, respectively. Results indicated that: 1) themore the students showed secure attachment and the less avoidant attachmen...

The objective of the study is to identify the differences between the use of social copingmethods used by adults, determined by the presence of verbal abuse until the age ofeighteen, and the presence of an alcoholic parent during childhood and adolescence.The instruments used in the research were: The SACS Strategic Coping Scale, constructedby Stevan E. Hobfoll, Carla L. Dunahoo, Jeannine Monnier, Michael R. Hulsizer, andRobert Johnson in 1993 and revised in 1998, and the ACE (Adverse ChildhoodExperiences) .The re...

The principal purpose of the study is to analyze the role of coping strategies in lifesatisfaction, resilience, and perceived self-efficacy in life skills in 89 Italian adolescentsduring the post pandemic by Covid-19. We used the self-report and anonymousquestionnaire consisting of the following scales: a) Perceived Self-efficacy in Life SkillsScale; b) Satisfaction with Life Scale; c) Resilience Scale for Adolescents; d) CopingInventory for Stressful Situation. Results showed that: task-oriented coping strategypo...

Aim: The purpose of the study was to explore whether the mother's autonomy in decision making during birth and the mother's respect during birth are associated with the symptoms of postpartum depression. Methods: The study participants included 240 women 6-8 weeks postpartum (mean age 30.4, SD=4.8; 47.1% primiparas; 75.4% vaginal birth). The online questionnaire was used in the data collection process, consisting of the MADM scale (Mother's Autonomy in Decision Making), Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS),...

Definition, theories, characteristics, specifiers, learning and support methods for autism are the elements on which we have focused in this paper. The aim of the work is to compose a synthesis of the main theories on the subject, giving greater priority to the qualitative method. Thanks to the theoretical reference and the knowledge acquired through the studies selected and conducted so far, and in the certainty of positive answers, we intend to draw suggestions, guide and promote interventions and aids for learn...

In this study we aimed to highlight a possible association between the phenomenon of burnout and the self-esteem of medical personnel, as well as to identify some differences between assistants and doctors, as well as between men and women in terms of the phenomenon of burnout, but and identifying the same differences in selfacceptance. The research was carried out on a sample of 62 participants ,employees of the County Clinical Hospital "St. Andrei" Emergency Department from Constan?a. The general objective of th...

Inspirations refers to an evoked state of creativity, which implies motivation, evocation, and transcendence. Traditionally in the literature inspiration is divided to two states such as being inspired by or inspired to. Inspiration is influenced by information and knowledge, nevertheless several studies indicate a positive association between academic major and inspiration occurrence frequency. Previous study results indicate that domain specific knowledge such as visual art has a major impact on visual stimuli p...

Most empirical studies on mindfulness-based interventions’ effects on alcohol use problems are carried out in the Western, and very few in the Hungarian population. In this randomized-controlled pilot study, we aimed to investigate the effects of the Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Training’s mindfulness exercises on Alcohol Use Disorder symptoms. We hypothesized that the mindfulness intervention would significantly reduce the AUD symptoms. Our sample consists of Hungarian adults at risk for alcohol use di...

The present work aims to address the literary genre of fairy tales on the basis of their psychologicaland educational value aimed at satisfying the psychological-emotional and cognitive-ethical aspects. The objectives will be to present the conscious and unconscious aspects of the characters and to reveal the creative abilities that fairy tales contain: what are the main characteristics and their psychological value. The fairy tale represents an important point both in the field of imagination and creativity and y...

The issues of comfortable human existence in the Arctic region arise in the context of growing interest in the Arctic, active development of its resources, with geopolitical problems at once. The external visual environment is essential, which is lacking in color and detail. The vast expanses of snow, the absence of visible elements, and the colorless palette (from white to blue) form a monotonous, uncomfortable field of view. The mechanisms of visual perception do not work correctly and can lead to the developmen...

This research concerns the relationship between hand movements, as they occur in the act of freehand drawing, and creativity. Since ancient times it was observed that hand movements were linked with intelligence. This issue has gained importance particularly in the field of architectural imagery because automated drawing techniques with computer aided design (CAD) have replaced the hand drawings. This has risen concerns about the impairment of creative ideas that may ensue. The working hypothesis of this research ...

Background: The birth of a child is a physically and mentally challenging situation not only for the mother, but also for the whole couple. Sufficient support from close people, and especially partner, can positively affect the mental well-being of the mother and thus protect her from mood disorders, including postpartum depression (PPD). The aim of this study was therefore to identify the relationship between different aspects of social support (level of perceived social support, satisfaction with couple life, sa...

Several studies point to the relationship between callous-unemotional (CU) traits and symptoms of conduct disorder (CD) across different age groups. In case of young children and adolescents, it was found that in the presence of CU traits, externalizing behaviors are significantly more severe, as opposed to children who do not show CU traits. Integrating results from 11 studies, we analyzed data collected from n = 4381 participants from different age groups, ranging from toddlers to adolescents, to draw attention ...

In recent years, the topic of executive functions has been in the focus of clinical psychology because of the associations that have been observed between the appearance of several clinical symptoms and the underdevelopment of executive functions. The Behavior Rating Inventory of Executive Functions - Adult Version (BRIEF - A) is a self-reporting questionnaire which aims to measure constructs of the executive functions, such as shifting, inhibitory control, emotion regulation, self-monitoring, initiating, working ...

Previously published studies show a clear difference between the eye movement patterns of artists and non-artists. However, the findings of some studies show that the duration of eye fixation increases as a result of artistic expertise, while other studies show the opposite. In this meta-analysis, we included the findings from 14 studies in which the effect of artistic expertise on the duration of eye fixation was examined. We also examined the potential moderating effect of task type, level of expertise, the type...

Self-harm is a frequent and very problematic behavior that expresses the adolescent's specific relationship to himself and especially to his/her body. The present study focuses on the ambivalent relationship between art and self-harm. The subject of the research is the analysis of selected factors of illustration and artistic expression of self-harm in society (especially in art or on social networks) and their influence on the growth of self- harm, especially in the young generation. We present psychological conc...

Students’ critical thinking ability includes deductive and inductive thinking, the ability to pla experiments, precise assumption identification, all of which are essential cognitive abilities for prosperity in everyday life and for further career success. Previous studies concluded that students, who participated in extracurricular activities, such as competitions, have higher levels of critical thinking abilities than their non-attending peers. The im of this study is the investigation of the predictive power ...

Metacognitive processes influence not only success in learning, but also contribute to career success. One of the main aims of education is the improvement of higher-order cognitive abilities like metacognition. Earlier studies demonstrated that extracurricular activities, such as experiences acquired during competitions, improve metacognitive skills. The aim of our correlational, cross-sectional study is the establis ment of the explanatory power of different types and levels of competitions for the variability o...

Aim: Aim of this study was to explore the self-perceived quality of sleep and sleep- related problems among women during the postpartum period. Method: Together 131 postpartum women participated in the research (mean age 29.31, SD=5.99), 52.7% primiparas, 66.4% after physiological birth. The data collection was conducted using a self-constructed questionnaire focused on quality of sleep and sleep- related factors in the ostpartum period. The questionnaires were distributed in pediatric ambulances in northern Slova...

Background: The postpartum period is a challenging life experience for a woman, durin which the mother has to cope with a new role and the changes that motherhood brings. One of the important factors that can influence the process of adaptation is al o sufficient and adequate support from loved ones. One of the main sources of such upport is the spouse/partner of the new mother. The main goal of our research was to identify the social support of mothers provided by the partner in the postpartum period and to verif...

There is a growing body of literature evidencing the link between studentsВ’ fixed intelligence mindset and different mental health indicators (i.e., negative emotions) [1] however, little is known about the nature of this relationship. DweckВ’s theory emphasizes that mindsets exert their greatest effect on behavior and emotions when self-threat is imminent [2], suggesting that self-evaluations might also be implicated in conveying mindsetsВ’ effect. Thus, the present study (N = 276) proposed to investigate two se...

Apart from intelligence, motivational and emotional factors, what else can promote the achievement of higher academic performance – that is an intriguing question. It is possible that a highly motivated student with advanced cognitive skills cannot meet the requirements of certain school subjects and performs lower than their own expectations. Metacognitive awareness, metacognitive knowledge, which is the knowledge of cognitive processes and the ability of applying them properly, i.e. metacognitive regulation, t...

Academic and labour market success are determined not only by higher academic performance but also by participation in extra-curricular activities and the results achieved there. The involvement in different competitions related to specific school subjects or fields of study does not only contribute to deepening oneВ’s knowledge in that particular field. Competing with the top representatives of a certain field also promotes the improvement of higher level cognitive processes. Participation in competitions has a d...

Giftedness is inherent in man, distinguishes him from other living beings. Learning the natural foundations of giftedness, we approach the understanding of the origin of man, the conditionality of development and freedom. This paper uses practice-based research, critical analysis of literature and observations to investigate the various issues involved with the application of contemporary art in the study of child's giftedness. The methodology of the study was to use the method of variance analysis to process empi...

Aim: Aim of this study was to examine the association between the occurrence of postpartum depressive symptoms and the characteristics associated with the infant sleep. Method: Participants for a web-based study were recruited from two hospital birth centers in Slovakia, the convenient sampling method was used. Together 204 women 6-8 weeks postpartum filled out an online questionnaire (mean age 30.9В±4.8, age range: 20-44; 78.9% vaginal births; 56.9% primiparas). Slovak version of the Edinburgh Postnatal Depressio...

The progress of society today depends on people who are able to solve business problems creatively, be creative in science and art. The acuteness of the problem of creativity raises it to the rank of "the problem of the century". The authors turn to the analysis of fundamental works on the study of the child's creativity, which is manifested in various types of activities, including visual art. According to the ideas of V.P. Glaveanu and D. B. Bogoyavlenskaya, creativity and giftedness are closely related, so the ...

It is estimated that around 15% of children aged 3 to 17 have some sort of developmental disabilities, while less than 50% of children with disabilities are recognized by paediatricians before entering the primary school. Screening plays a significant role in the recognition of those children, providing the ground for early intervention and support for families. Ages and stages-3 Questionnaire (ASQ-3), as the most used screening tool for children aged 2 months to 66 months, was recently translated in the Croatian ...

Over the past two decades, research on the impact of global environmental change has underscored the increasing effects of climate change and the associated natural disasters on mental health. The present article aims to highlight the correlation between the mental health of the studied population and the way in which the subjects relate to climate change. The objective of the research was to investigate whether people with high scores on the Romanian version of the Depression, Anxiety and Stress Scales (DASS-21R)...

Introduction: Postpartum period is a period of risk for the development of mood disorders, including postpartum depression. The onset and persistence of postpartum distress and depressive symptoms may be influenced by several obstetric and psychosocial factors. A body of research studies has shown an association between quality and satisfaction with the partner support and postpartum depression. Aim of this study was to examine relationship between selected obstetric (e.g. type of labour, complications during labo...

Background: Infertility is consistently associated with reduced quality of life. This brings about a negative impact on emotional, social, and physical functioning. Moreover, the infertile individual is often faced with feelings of resentment, anxiety, uncertainty, or grief. So far, various psychological interventions have validated their effects on the psychological functioning of infertile participants, yet very few creative-expressive techniques have been documented. Accordingly, art therapeutic interventions t...

Background. Due to globalization and rapid economic changes the job insecurity is becoming more and more common for the contemporary labor market in most countries. There are many investigations devoted to the consequences of an job insecurity for individual and organization in the international scientific literature. But there is still little research on this theme in the Russian context. So, the aim of our study is to fill this gap. In our previous studies (Chuykova, Sotnikova, 2016); (Chuykova, 2018) we found t...

The main aim of the research is to raise awareness of some of the most intractable eating disorders of the last two centuries – anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa. In accordance with this aim in mind, the following sub-aims were also pursued by the authors: 1) to highlight the most typical feature of both diseases, 2) to compare them with a view to establishing convergent and subevent features, 3) to track some of the possible causes and consequences of these disorders, 4) to suggest possible treatment, 5) to ...