Smoking leads to the development of automatic tendencies that promote approach behavior toward smoking-related stimuli which in turn may maintain addictive behavior. The present study examined whether automatic approach tendencies toward smoking-related stimuli can be measured by using an adapted version of the Approach-Avoidance Task (AAT). Given that progression of addictive behavior has been...

BACKGROUND CERTAIN MODES OF TRAUMA DISCLOSURE HAVE BEEN FOUND TO BE ASSOCIATED WITH MORE SEVERE SYMPTOMS OF POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS (PTS) IN DIFFERENT TRAUMA POPULATIONS: the reluctance to disclose trauma-related thoughts and feelings, a strong urge to talk about it, and physical as well as emotional reactions during disclosure. Although social-contextual influences gain more and more interest in ...

This study examined the relationship between components of pathological narcissism and types of depressive tendencies among a sample of 117 psychiatric outpatients. Findings revealed that depressive themes concerning dependency were associated with narcissistic grandiosity. Depressive tendencies concerning self-criticism were positively associated with narcissistic vulnerability.

INTRODUCTION The problem of high levels of stress among medical students is a real problem and its prevalence and mechanisms have not yet been fully explored. It was found that there are only a few publications concerning the influence of urban and rural settings of the medical students in relation to stress, coping styles and personality tendencies. AIM Analysis of the coping mechanisms and ...

INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVES Previous community research has shown differences in depression and depressive symptoms across different socioeconomic and demographic groups. However, very few population-based studies on depression have been conducted in Poland. The purpose of the present study is to assess depressive episodes and depressive tendencies, and associations of the latter with selected ...

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The subject can be broadly classified under two headings: Water Treatment and Combustion. It is not the object of this paper to elaborate the methods of running efficiency tests and their attendant calculations, but rather to discuss the laboratory and factory work of the chemist in this more or less engineering subject. I think we can safely say that the day is past when accidents and expensiv...

Training science in the european countries has emerged from two main sources: the sports medicine and the methodology of training. But already within the next ten years, the discipline grew more and more independent, so that in the Soviet Union training science was soon accepted as the core of sports science. Soviet training scientists started to determine the state of the art in that new scien...

This paper reviews recent developments and progress in the restructuring of the Russian economy. Great emphasis is placed on industrial policy and creating the necessary legal and regulatory framework to enable the development of new enterprises, markets and the restructuring of existing state-owned enterprises.

Today, the important facts such as the globalization, the changes in population movements, the transformation into an information society, the increasing competition in economics, the changes and progresses in information and communication technologies have an ongoing impact on all fields of life, including higher education. The areas that these factors affect in higher education range from the...