BACKGROUND The anonymity in the cyberspace environment, as well as the rapid advent of and improvements to online activities has increased cybercrime. OBJECTIVES The aim of this paper was to survey the relationship between attachment styles, self-monitoring and cybercrime in social network users. PATIENTS AND METHODS The Collins and Read Adult Attachment Scale, and the Snyder self-monitorin...

Attachment theory describes how people emotionally bond with others, utilize their social interactions to regulate affective needs, and how they differ in their attachment style. However, it remains unknown whether anxious or avoidant attachment is linked to more general differences in emotional processing for negative and positive stimuli, and whether such differences depend on stimulus conten...

Objectives: Previous research studies examining parental influences on children’s physical activity (PA) have focused primarily on parents’ own PA behavior, as well as their PA-related beliefs and socially supportive behaviors. The present study, although aligned with this mainstream parental influence research, was grounded in a broader child development perspective to examine the influence of...

This study identified stable components of Type A behavior as usually defined, and examined their relationships with more traditional psychological constructs. Overall scores on the most popular Type A measure (a version of the Jenkins Activity Survey) were moderately associated with ambition but largely unrelated to measures of adjustment. An item analysis yielded s~~bcomponents of Drivenness ...

objective: the present study has been carried out to compare the social competence in two groups of students with autism disorder (ad) and learning disorders (ld). methods: this research was a kind of descriptive research with 2 comparative groups. 90 learning and autistic disorder students aged 10 to 13 years (45 ld & 45 ad) were selected randomly as a statistical sample. for the assessment of...

Recommended Citation Hertsberg, Naomi. "Self-perceived competence and social acceptance of children who stutter. ii ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I would like to extend my heartfelt gratitude to Dr. Tricia Zebrowski for her thoughtful and persistent guidance throughout the entire thesis-writing process. She encouraged me to think deeply and critically about the topics included in this work, and motivated me ...

Interactivity has been identified as a core concept of new media, yet despite nearly three decades of study and analysis, we scarcely know what interactivity is, let alone what it does, and have scant insight into the conditions in which interactive processes are likely to be consequential for members of a social system. This article attempts to address this deficiency by critiquing three self-...