Aggression continues to be a problematic, ill-defined concept for most contemporary analysts. Questions about the nature and origin of aggression remain unanswered. On the one hand, aggression is conceived of as an instinctual drive; on the other, it is thought to originate as an instrument of reaction to external sources of frustration and environmental failures to meet developmental needs. Ag...

Self-organizing-system approaches have shed significant light on the mechanisms underlying synchronized movements by large groups of animals, such as shoals of fish, flocks of birds, or herds of ungulates. However, these approaches rarely consider conflicts of interest between group members, although there is reason to suppose that such conflicts are commonplace. Here, we demonstrate that, wher...

Counseling services that are effective and on target needed by counselors. Ideally, counselors should have insight, skills in implementing creative innovative counseling techniques. There still who minimal knowledge regarding One of them is the assertiveness training technique group format, which one recommended behavior techniques to improve individual interpersonal competence. The steps for (...

The authors made an attempt to reduce the number of items on A26 questionnaire by improving factor structure assertiveness questionnaire. Thepreviously carried out development a reliable and valid Russian-language it possible obtain large results, including partially repeating foreign ones, but also showing significant differences in properties assertion among Russian-speaking research particip...

Preparing and validating character strength training package its effectiveness on assertiveness skills of adolescents

Background & Aims: Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) is a functional intestinal system disorder defined with specific intestinal symptoms and no organic cause. Since mental problem is one of the main factors in etiology of this syndrome, studying the impact of psychological therapies on IBS seems to be useful. The aim of this study was to investigate the efficacy of problem solving and assertivene...