BACKGROUND Valerian root and lemon balm extracts have previously shown efficacy and excellent tolerability in children<12 years suffering from restlessness and insomnia. We now examined whether treatment with a fixed combination of both may also improve concentration, hyperactivity and impulsiveness. METHODS 169 primary school children suffering from hyperactivity and concentration difficulti...

Impulsiveness and self-control are two antagonistic choice patterns. Whereas impulsive decisions can be exemplified by the preference for a small, immediate over a large, delayed reward, self-control can be characterised as the opposite preference order. This review focuses on current developments in investigating the neuroscience of impulsiveness and self-control, with particular emphasis on t...

Background: School violence during adolescence has become a major issue worldwide. Both impulsiveness and adolescents’ attitudes toward will influence violent behavior against peers at school. Our objective is to study the of motor on school, as well assess sex age differences. Methods: Cluster sampling was performed, obtaining sample 513 adolescents between 13 19 years from four centers second...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effects values materialism on cognitive and affective impulsiveness responsible financial behavior among young adults. Design/methodology/approach A large-scale study ( n = 483) was conducted a sample adults 18 25 years age in Croatia. Findings research found that has no direct effect behaviour (RFB), however, fully mediates relationship a...

Past research has largely focused on examining self-esteem as an independent as opposed to a dependent variable. At the same time, research suggests that during adolescence, self-esteem is subject to yearly, monthly, as well as daily change, and consequently, it is important to identify underlying vulnerability factors and behaviors, which shape self-esteem lability. In the current multi-wave, ...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to identify a path diagram for the influence of family, personality, sexual abuse, drug abuse, coping strategies, and aggressive impulsiveness on aggression, and to develop a sublimation program for Korean adolescent's aggression. METHOD Data was collected by self-report questionnaires. Subjects consisted of 2,111 adolescents. A proportional stratified ra...

Sexual offenders are putatively at high risk of contracting and transmitting HIV as a result of their nonconsensual and coercive sexual practices. To identify and manage particular health and psychological needs among infected sexual offenders should be of high public interest. In this study, we aimed to compare incarcerated sexual offenders who reported with those that denied being HIV-positiv...

BACKGROUND According to previous studies, one of the common problems of everyday life of persons with tattoos is risky behavior. However, direct examination of the decision making process, as well as factors which determine women's risk-taking decisions to get tattoos, have not been conducted. This study investigates whether risk taking decision-making is associated with the self-assessment imp...

This study tested the hypothesis that corporal punishment (CP), such as spanking or slapping a child for purposes of correcting misbehavior, is associated with antisocial behavior (ASB) and impulsiveness by the child. The data were obtained through interviews with a probability sample of 933 mothers of children age 2-14 in two small American cities. Analyses of variance found that the more CP e...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the differences between serial and nonserial sexual offenders in terms of alcohol and drug consumption, impulsivity, and personal history of being sexually abused. METHOD A sectional and retrospective study carried out by the team of the outpatient clinic for the treatment of sexual disorders at Faculdade de Medicina do ABC - Santo André, Brazil. Three groups of subjects...