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Reliability and validity of the Chinese version of the retrospective family unpredictability scale [PDF]

Frontiers in Psychology
ObjectiveThis study aimed to revise the Chinese version of the Retrospective Family Unpredictability Scale (Retro-FUS-C) and evaluate its psychometric properties.MethodsTwo independent samples were collected through convenience sampling.
Wei Qi, Chumeng Xing, Luojin Ding, Jingli Wang, Dong Guo, Yiye Xu   +5 more
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Scale of Family Unpredictability During Childhood: Validity Evidence [PDF]

Paidéia (Ribeirão Preto), 2014
The aim of this study was to examine evidence of validity for the Brazilian version of the Scale of Family Unpredictability during childhood. A total of 740 people participated in the study. The first sample was composed of 121 women over 40 years of age
Anna Beatriz Carnielli Howat-Rodrigues, Rosana Suemi Tokumaru   +1 more
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Harshness and unpredictability during childhood: an approach from life-history theory to understanding risk behaviors [PDF]

Frontiers in Psychology
IntroductionPrevious studies have investigated the relationship between childhood experiences of harshness and unpredictability and risky adult behaviors from a life-history theory perspective.
Eugenio J. Guzmán-Lavín, Oriana Figueroa, Oriana Figueroa, José Antonio Muñoz-Reyes, Nerea Aldunate, Pablo Polo   +5 more
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Childhood Demographics and Socioeconomic Conditions Predict Reproduction 15 Years Later [PDF]

Evolutionary Psychology
Psychosocial acceleration theory (PAT) posits that experiencing harsh and unpredictable environments during childhood cues the development of earlier and more frequent reproductive events.
Vinícius Betzel Koehler, M.D. Rutherford   +1 more
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The effect of childhood environmental unpredictability on problematic gaming among Chinese college students: a moderated mediation model [PDF]

BMC Psychology
Background Childhood environmental unpredictability (CEU) is recognized as a contributing factor to the maintenance and development of problematic gaming (PG) in adulthood by undermining individuals’ psychological well-being.
Zinuo Wang, Yifan Wang, Caiyan Chen, Zhan Gao, Shuai Lu, Chenggong Wang   +5 more
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Associations of interpersonal and socioeconomic early life adversity dimensions with adolescents’ corticolimbic circuits, cognition, and mental health [PDF]

Translational Psychiatry
Early life adversity (ELA) is highly prevalent and has significant detrimental effects on children’s brain development and behavioral outcomes. However, associations of threat, unpredictability, and deprivation in dimensional models of ELA with ...
Yumeng Yang, Tianjiao Kong, Ran Liu, Liang Luo   +3 more
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Are you willing to cooperate? The role of childhood adversities, family unpredictability and physiological self-regulation

Physiology and Behavior
Cooperation is a universal phenomenon involving individuals working together to achieve a shared goal. Little attention has been given to how harsh environments in terms of childhood adversities and family unpredictability might be linked to individual's engagement in cooperative behaviors and on how the persons' physiological ability to adapt to the ...
Libera Ylenia Mastromatteo, Sara Scrimin   +1 more
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Coping with the enduring unpredictability of opioid addiction: An investigation of a novel family-focused peer-support organization

Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment, 2017
Opioid overdose deaths have become a major public health crisis. While efforts have focused mostly on helping opioid-addicted individuals directly, family members suffer also from the grave and enduring unpredictability associated with opioid addiction and often play a vital role in helping addicted loved ones access care.
John F Kelly, Julie V Cristello, Brandon G Bergman   +2 more
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Turkish adaptation of the Scale of Unpredictability Beliefs: A validity and reliability study

Klinik Psikoloji Dergisi, 2023
Unpredictability beliefs are related to an evaluation of inconsistency of oneself, other people, and the world. It emerged on the basis of attachment theory, learned helplessness theory, life history theory, and appraisal theory of emotion.
Fatma Oktay, İhsan Dağ
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Family support during childhood as a predictor of mate retention and kin care in adults during the COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil: an exploratory study

Frontiers in Psychology, 2023
IntroductionExperiences during development help to explain behavior expression in adulthood.AimsIn this study, we explored how unpredictability and harshness experienced during childhood may have impacted the occurrence of reproductive milestones in ...
Natália de Araújo Miranda Tasso, Felipe Nalon Castro   +1 more
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