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Adaptation and Psychological Disorders

2016
This chapter reviews the issues of adaptation and psychological disorders. First, the definitions of adaptation and psychological disorders are stated, and the criteria for psychological disorders are given. Depression is introduced as a common and typical example of psychological disorder.
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Psychological Reactions to Adaptive Testing

International Journal of Selection and Assessment, 2000
The purpose of the study was to examine how specific aspects of adaptive testing influence test‐takers pre‐test reactions. Specifically, three different psychological reactions were examined in the study: perceived fairness of the test, attitude toward the test, and expectations about the test.
Scott Tonidanel, Miguel A. Quiñones
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Compassion and Skillful Means: Cultural Adaptation, Psychological Science, and Creative Responsiveness

Mindfulness, 2021
P. Condon, John Makransky
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Social Adaptation-Psychological of Youth and Propensity to Risk

Izvestiya of Saratov University. Philosophy. Psychology. Pedagogy, 2010
In the article results of the analysis of a place and a role of risk in system of social adaptation-psychological of the person of representatives of young generation are discussed.
M. A. Klenova
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Psychological Adaptiveness and Sales Performance

Journal of Personal Selling & Sales Management, 1992
The impact of adaptive psychological traits on sales performance is not well understood. In spite of sound theoretical foundations, initial research efforts have yielded inconsistent, inconclusive and generally disappointing results. In this paper, we examine how three adaptiveness traits (self-monitoring, androgyny and intrinsic reward orientation ...
Jerry R. Goolsby, Michael L. Boorom, Rosemary R. Lagace   +2 more
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Chinese international students’ psychological adaptation process in Korea: the role of tourism experience in the host country

Asia Pacific Journal of Tourism Research, 2018
This study aims to shed light on the effect of international students’ lifelong learning and dining experience during the trip in a host country on their psychological adaptation, place attachment, and sharing of tourism experience.
Joonhyeong Joseph Kim, Insin Kim
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Refugees: Adaptation and Psychological Interventions

2016
Refugees are a special migration group and their counseling needs tend to be different from immigrants. The chapter identifies the primary task for therapists is to focus on resolving trauma, and posttraumatic effects of relocation, and providing coping strategies, along with attending to basic needs such as housing, acquisition of language and job ...
Jianna R. Heuer, Farah A. Ibrahim
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Aging and Socio-Psychological Adaptation

1990
Socio-psychological adaptation constitutes a process of man’s adaptation to the changing conditions of life, depending on his psycho-physiological personality features. In aging there takes place an essential biological restructuring of the organism. Dramatic life events, e.g., retirement, occur to the aged.
A. M. Polyukhov, N. N. Sachuk, N. Yu. Bachinskaya, V. Bezrukov, D. F. Chebotarev   +4 more
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Psychological Adaptation of Nurses Post-Disaster

Issues in Mental Health Nursing, 1992
Disasters have the potential to cause major disruptions in lifeline services and family support systems. As caregivers, nurses are required to make difficult choices during national emergencies and may be at risk for experiencing psychological distress following a disaster.
Kathleen A. Waters, Jeanne Selander, Gail W. Stuart   +2 more
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Adaptive Models of Psychological Testing

Zeitschrift für Psychologie / Journal of Psychology, 2008
Psychological tests with a conventional format present the same set of items to each test taker. Such tests have been popular because they are easy to administer in paper-andpencil form to large groups of test takers at the same time. When testing became computerized in the early 1990s, the initial applications had the same linear format, though it did
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