Rejection can convey that one is seen as inferior and not worth bothering with. Is it possible for people to feel vicariously rejected in this sense and have reactions that are similar to those following personal rejection, such as feeling humiliated, powerless, and angry? A study on personal rejection was followed by two main studies on vicarious group-based rejection. It was found that merely...

OBJECTIVES To investigate beliefs about medications held by people with rheumatoid arthritis (RA), what factors are related to these specific medication beliefs, and whether these beliefs influence adherence. METHODS The design was a cross-sectional postal questionnaire survey of people with RA. The Beliefs about Medicines Questionnaire was used to assess beliefs about the necessity of medica...

Background: Social networking has a dramatically increasing trend among adolescents. By creating novel models of content production, distribution, and reception, this space has introduced opportunities and threats for adolescents, which must be understood in relation with their health status. This study was conducted with the aim of describing the psychosocial experiences of Iranian adolescents...

OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to comprehensively examine the syndrome of indirect self-destructiveness in homosexual individuals. METHODS 156 homosexual individuals (111 males, 45 females) aged 25-35 (mean age of 29.6) and 561 heterosexual individuals (400 males, 161 females) aged 24-36 (mean age of 28.2) were studied with regard to indirect self-destructiveness. The research instrumen...

Search activity (SA) is the behavioral and mental activity that is oriented to changes of the environment or of the subject's view and approach to the environment according to personal needs without the definite probability forecast of the outcomes of such activity, but with a regular consideration of the outcomes in the process of active behavior. Dream's lucidity (the subject's realization th...

This study compared the responses of Americans surveyed before (N = 198) and after (N = 208) the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in regard to their beliefs about their personal worlds, their American national group, and their perceptions of the American national group’s shared beliefs about itself. Examining the five belief domains highlighted by Eidelson and Eidelson (2003)—that is, vuln...

In this paper the main outcomes of four researches carried out from 2014 to 2021 in three Italian regions (Abruzzo, Marche and Tuscany) will be shown, focused on migrant's integration processes. these social workers, educators, schools L2 teachers, Intercultural mediators who work field migration were interviewed about their difficulties daily work. The reading key use understand was street lev...

The emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic initiated major disruptions to higher education systems. Physical spaces that previously supported interpersonal interaction and community were abruptly inactivated, faculty largely took on responsibility accommodating classroom structures in rapidly changing situations. This study employed interviews examine how undergraduate Science, Technology, Engineer...

The following study analysed online articles in German media discussing protests Ukraine 2014 and Belarussian 2020. A mixed-methods approach of combining qualitative quantitative content analyses was used to examine frames frame sources utilised the articles. There were 489 for analysis. also examined statistically significant differences between frequency by country. indicated each story coded...