Psychological characteristics, including personality traits and psychological skills, have been shown to be relevant predictors of soccer performance. In research, general and sport specific standardized self-report questionnaires have been applied in psychological diagnostics of sports talent. However, with regard to the assessment of psychological characteristics of talented soccer players, a...

Healthy people generally underestimate the self-reported well-being of people with disabilities and serious illnesses. The cause of this discrepancy is in dispute, and the present study provides evidence for 2 causes. First, healthy people fail to anticipate hedonic adaptation to poor health. Using an ecological momentary assessment measure of mood, the authors failed to find evidence that hemo...

Background and Objectives: Among the clinical skills needed by all physicians, history taking is one of the most important. The teaching model for peer-assisted history-taking groups investigated in the present study consists of small-group courses in which students practice conducting medical interviews with real patients. The purpose of this pilot study was to investigate the expectations, ex...

INTRODUCTION The objective of this study was to determine contextual antecedents to smoking among Korean American emerging adult (KAEA) smokers using ecological momentary assessment. Based on extant theory and data documenting the importance of negative affect (NA) and social context, we examined the extent to which being with friends and NA independently and concomitantly were associated with ...

OVERVIEW OF THE BEHAVIORAL ASSESSMENT VOLUME 3 OVERVIEW AND DEFINITION OF BEHAVIORAL ASSESSMENT 6 APPLICABILITY, UTILITY, AND GOALS OF BEHAVIORAL ASSESSMENT 7 OVERLAP OF BEHAVIORAL WITH NONBEHAVIORAL ASSESSMENT PARADIGMS 8 ETHICS AND PRACTICE STANDARDS OF BEHAVIORAL ASSESSMENT 9 BEHAVIORAL ASSESSMENT, PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSESSMENT, AND PRINCIPLES OF SCIENCE 9 TENETS OF THE BEHAVIORAL ASSESSMENT PARA...

This study compared the outcomes of three descriptive analysis methods-the ABC method, the conditional probability method, and the conditional and background probability method-to each other and to the results obtained from functional analyses. Six individuals who had been diagnosed with developmental delays and exhibited problem behavior participated. Functional analyses indicated that partici...

Extinctions are a part of life on earth. Indeed, over 99.9% of all species that once existed have gone extinct. However, humans are doing a good job in helping species into early extinction. In this talk, I fist review some classic mass extinction, and then review ecology and genetic risk factors for extinction. I finish by discussing how to assess (and defend) a species risk assessment and wit...

Background: Studies investigating the possible role of personality and emotional factors in acne vulgaris patients have yielded inconsistent and sometimes contradictory results. Objective: The purpose of this study was to assess personality and psychological functioning in women with acne vulgaris and compare them with normal women. Patients and Methods: Forty-seven consecutive female pat...