background: test anxiety aggravates psychological distress and reduces the motivation among graduate students. this study aimed to identify psychological intervention for test anxiety, which reduces the level of psychological distress, amotivation and increases the intrinsic and extrinsic motivation among medical students. materials and methods: westside test anxiety scale, kessler perceived st...

Individuals exposed to social stress in childhood are more predisposed to developing psychoemotional disorders in adulthood. Here we use an animal model to determine the influence of hostile social environment in adolescence on behavior during adult life. One-month-old adolescent male mice were placed for 2 weeks in a common cage with an adult aggressive male. Animals were separated by a transp...

OBJECTIVE To delineate the psychological profile of individuals prone to FD-like symptoms (FDLS). METHOD A triple questionnaire of 614 items (including psychological and medical ones) was given to 10192 respondents, the results were analyzed by means of Cronbach alpha, and Chi square test, together with an ad-hoc designed method that implied ranking and outliers detecting. RESULTS AND CONCL...

In Russia, the work of teachers at all levels education system is currently subject to increased and often contradictory frequently changing requirements. Analysis literature on research problem allowed revealing a contradiction between declaring importance teacher’s professional activity, one hand, other increasing responsibilities, reporting, psychoemotional tension pedagogical work, insuffic...