The aim of this study was to show how different coping mechanisms influence the prevalence of anxiety and depression in people suffering from multiple sclerosis. We also aimed at showing how different coping mechanisms contribute to subjective prosperity of the patients emphasizing general health, cognitive functions and fatigue. A questionnaire was given to attendants of the VI Symposium of Pa...

The study explored experiences of adolescents aged 15-19 with alopecia areata (AA) and investigated their accounts of coping behaviours. Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis was used to provide an in-depth and holistic perspective of their accounts. Semi-structured interviews were undertaken with a volunteer sample of eight respondents diagnosed with AA. Four key themes were identified: los...

Stressful life events in response to a psychosocial trigger have been reported to negatively affect the course of infections. This study was based on patients with clinical manifestations of human papillomavirus (HPV) infection and a control group of patients with psoriasis who were admitted over a period of one year to the Dermatology Department of Karlovac General Hospital. A total of 122 pat...

The planning fallacy, i.e., people’s tendency to underestimate the time required to complete a project despite past failures, is ubiquitous and resistant to coping strategies. We propose scenarios where visualizations may help alleviate this problem, motivated by previous research in psychology. We hope that with the help of visualizations, people will become more reliable in their judgments an...

Imperfect knowledge of the world is one of the main issues AI systems have to deal with. In recent years there has been much interest in coping with such imperfections in planning systems. However, most works only emphasize one side of the problem, namely uncertainty. We argue that vagueness (or imprecision) is a fundamental issue which planning systems should also take into account. With this ...

In the era of globalization, concepts such as individualization and personalization become more and more important in virtual systems. With the goal of creating a more familiar interaction between human and machines, it makes sense to create a consistent and believable model of personality. This paper presents an explicit model of personality, based in the Five Factor Model, which aims at the c...

The paper presents a framework for tracked vehicle 3D path planning in rough areas, with dynamic obstacles. The framework provides methods for real-time point cloud interpretation, segmentation and traversabilty analysis tacking also into account changes such as dynamic obstacles and provides a terrain structure interpretation. Moreover the paper presents R2A an extended version of randomized A...

Motion planning has evolved from coping with simply geometric problems to physics-based ones that incorporate the kinodynamic and the physical constraints imposed by the robot and the physical world. Therefore, the criteria for evaluating physics-based motion planners goes beyond the computational complexity (e.g. in terms of planning time) usually used as a measure for evaluating geometrical p...

Custody planning among parents living with HIV or AIDS (PLHAs) can buffer the negative impact of parental death. The formal and informal custody plans for 594 children by 253 PLHAs and the relationships among custody plans, parental health, and psychosocial status were examined. About one-half of the parents had no formal custody plan. Parents were more likely to make plans for younger children...

Brickman et al.'s (Brickman, P., Rabinowitz, V. C., Coates, D., Cohn, E., Kidder, L. (1982). Models of helping and coping. American Psychologist 37:364-384.) models of helping and coping provided a framework by which to compare clinicians' attributions of blame and control among several hypothetical patients. Sixty-one mental health clinicians (MHCs) and addiction clinicians (ACs)--mostly maste...