Most children will engage in sexual behaviors at some time during childhood. These behaviors may be normal but can be confusing and concerning to parents or disruptive or intrusive to others. Knowledge of age-appropriate sexual behaviors that vary with situational and environmental factors can assist the clinician in differentiating normal sexual behaviors from sexual behavior problems. Most si...

On March 11, 2020 COVID-19 was declared a pandemic. As the virus spread, governments called on citizens to comply with handwashing and social distancing behaviors. We use survey data from Finland United States examine whether collaborative dimensions help predict compliance health protective behaviors related combatting COVID-19. also investigate these factors’ influence varies between market r...

This research aims to provide precise data on risk behaviors and protective factors for the health of secondary high school students at a Colombian educational institution. The study has quantitative approach with descriptive scope, convenience sampling was carried out thattook as sample 656 who received authorization from their parents agreed answer voluntary, anonymous, confidential survey. 1...

Web-based Doodle polls, where respondents indicate their availability for a collection of times provided by the poll initiator, are an increasingly common way of selecting a time for an event or meeting. Yet group dynamics can markedly influence an individual’s response, and thus the overall solution quality. Via theoretical worst-case analysis, we analyze certain common behaviors of Doodle pol...

Natural mentors may play an important role in the lives of adolescents. We interviewed 770 adolescents from a large Midwestern city. Fifty-two percent reported having a natural mentor. Those with natural mentors were less likely to smoke marijuana or be involved in nonviolent delinquency, and had more positive attitudes toward school. Natural mentors had no apparent effect on anxiety or depress...

Until relatively recently, one of the major impediments to effective preventive interventions was the absence of a framework for empirically based prevention. Prevention efforts often failed because they were based on models of adolescent problem behaviors, including substance abuse, which were inconsistent with the empirical evidence. However, tremendous strides have been made in identifying s...

This study applied an attachment framework to explore whether shared everyday decisions (SHARED) and constructive communication during conflicts serve as protective factors for relationship quality and stability in a sample of 971 individuals in long-distance relationships (LDRs). The behaviors were found to partially and differentially mediate the association between attachment orientations an...

Background. Through real-time behavioral observation systems, pain behaviors are commonly used by clinicians to estimate pain intensity in patients with low back pain. However, little is known about how clinicians rely on pain-related behaviors to make their judgment. According to the Information Integration Theory (IIT) framework, this study aimed at investigating how clinicians value and inte...