Abstract Background Cancer related infertility can have an impact on couple relationships, with evidence that communication facilitates coping. However, little is known about the ways in which couples communicate cancer-related fertility concerns. The aim of this article to examine concerns context cancer, and perceived quality such from perspective cancer survivors their partners. Methods Eigh...

Comedians are often celebrated for critically confronting their audiences, thereby upsetting deep-held beliefs of spectators and contributing to progressive change. In this article, I will use Dutch comedy as my case study demonstrate that comedians’ playful opposition the audience has serious political implications reveals a deep suspicion towards community. By analysing fear community, articl...

Objective: To assess the relationship between Children’s Fear Survey Schedule-Dental Subscale (CFSS-DS) questionnaire’s items and sex age in children with moderate high dental fear levels. Methods: Cross-sectional study carried out a municipality Northeastern region of Brazil 185 aged 8-10 years both sexes, who had minimum score 32 on CFSS-DS questionnaire, corresponding to fear. Descriptive st...

Abstract Background Fear of childbirth is reported in 13% fathers, and it may have adverse consequences for the fathers’ health as well their families. To reduce fear expectant an appropriate screening tool needed. Due to lack a valid reliable questionnaire measure childbirth, this study was conducted develop Fathers’ Childbirth Scale evaluate its psychometric properties. Methods This mixed met...

The present investigation examined the factor structure and psychometric properties of the Injection Phobia Scale-Anxiety (IPS-Anx). Principal components analysis of IPS-Anx items in Study 1 (n = 498) revealed a 2-factor structure consisting of Distal Fear and Contact Fear. However, CFA results in Study 2 (n = 567) suggest that a 1-factor structure may be more parsimonious. IPS-Anx scores demon...

This article utilises large-N panel data to compare two theories of referendum voting behaviour in order understand the ‘for’ or ‘against’ vote 2016 Dutch on EU-Ukraine Association Agreement. It studies extent which was predicted by Eurosceptic attitudes and fear upsetting Russia (issue-based theory), versus dissatisfaction with government general political discontent (second-order theory). Our...

OBJECTIVE The aim was to (1) assess the proportion of children with dental fear, to (2) compare results obtained by a single fear question to those obtained by using a set of 11 fear questions, to (3) study associations between children's dental fear and their dental health, and to (4) compare children's dental fears to those of their parents. MATERIALS AND METHODS A cross-sectional sample of...

The Brief Fear of Negative Evaluation Scale [BFNE; Leary, M. R. (1983). A brief version of the Fear of Negative Evaluation Scale. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 9, 371-375] is a self-report measure designed to assess fear of negative evaluation, a characteristic feature of social anxiety disorders [Rapee, R. M., & Heimberg, R. G. (1997). A cognitive-behavioral model of anxiety in s...