These study analysed gender specificity in coping behaviours by taking into account the types of problem faced by Spanish adolescents attending school. It was focused on the ten problems most frequently reported by participants (828 adolescents, 355 boys, and 473 girls; Mage = 14.07, SD = 1.34), which were classified using a multi-axial classification system. Coping was examined as a two separa...

OBJECTIVE To assess the discriminative capacity of the Kenny Music Performance Anxiety Inventory (K-MPAI), in its version adapted for Brazil, in a sample of 230 Brazilian adult musicians. METHOD The Social Phobia Inventory (SPIN) was used to assess the presence of social anxiety indicators, adopting it as the gold standard. The Mann-Whitney U test and the receiver operating characteristic (RO...

Recently, there have been some important changes in the laboratory diagnosis of patients with acute coronary syndrome, due to introduction into routine practice new high- and ultra-sensitive techniques for detection myocardial damage biomarkers — cardiac troponins. Each method troponins’ detection, among existing wide variety troponin immunoassays, has different analytical characteristics allow...