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Abnormal Psychology in Lord Jim: Jim and Narcissism [PDF]

open access: greenTeaching English Language, 2007
One impression a reader may get after reading Conrad’s Lord Jimis that Jim is an abnormal kind in psychology. The most likely disorder seems to be narcissism; therefore, enumerating the attributes of people with this disorder is helpful in verifying this
Hossein Talebzadeh
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Abnormal psychology by another name [PDF]

open access: goldDiscover Psychology
Stigma adds a significant burden for persons with mental illness, and extant research supports multifaceted efforts to reduce that stigma. Stigma reduction is the goal of a recent push to change the name of the college course, Abnormal Psychology, but ...
Timothy K. Daugherty   +3 more
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The Power of Fiction: Reading Stories in Abnormal Psychology

open access: diamondInternational Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2011
We compared the instructional efficacy of a narrative text (i.e., a story) and an expository text (i.e., a textbook excerpt). Students enrolled in Abnormal Psychology classes read about the disorder, dissociative fugue from a story, a textbook, or both ...
Adrian Janit   +2 more
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Abnormal Psychology [PDF]

open access: greenThe Sociological Review, 1914
William Brown
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Group and Macro-Social Interventions in Health-Related Behavior Change Programs: Opportunities and Limitations [PDF]

open access: yesКлиническая и специальная психология, 2021
The goal of changing health-related lifestyles and behaviors in prevention and rehabilitation does not currently have a single solution and requires a combination of different interventions and different levels of interventions.
Rasskazova E.I.   +3 more
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Validation of the Factor Structure and Gender-Related Measurement Invariance of the Inventory of Socially Supportive Behaviors (Short Form): Proposing an Alternative Design

open access: yesSocial Sciences, 2022
The aim of this paper was to validate the factor structure and gender-related measurement invariance of the short form of the Inventory of Socially Supportive Behaviors (ISSB). The study sample consisted of 710 undergraduate students aged 19–55 years.
Jan Sebastian Novotný   +2 more
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Preschoolers’ Attitudes, School Motivation, and Executive Functions in the Context of Various Types of Kindergarten

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2022
European policy has seen a number of changes and innovations in the field of early childhood preschool education over the last decade, which have been reflected in various forms in the policies of individual EU countries.
Jana Kvintova   +10 more
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The Vygotsky–Sakharov Method for Concept Learning. Approbation in a Healthy Sample [PDF]

open access: yesКлиническая и специальная психология, 2021
The present article addresses the initial phase of the testing of the Vygotsky–Sakharov method for concept learning. This study involved 150 persons of the group of healthy subjects (no diagnosis registered) at the age of 18 to 45 years old (M=35.2, SD=8.
Petukhova A.V., Kovyazina M.S.
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The effect of mobile phone addiction on perceived stress and mediating role of ruminations: Evidence from Chinese and Czech university students

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2022
IntroductionThe rise in the capabilities of mobile devices and the associated increase in the proportion of time we spend on them has not only positive benefits but also several risks, including mobile phone addiction and its consequences.
Hongyang Liu   +3 more
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