Summary: Relocation into a nursing home or into residential care means substantial stress and strain for elderly people with sometimes plain impairment in psychological well-being. A pilot study was designed for the implementation of a psychological ...
This study deals with the sociocognitive organization of the self-schema in alcoholic patients. It was aimed at understanding how the self-schema takes shape within the framework of social judgments known to be determinants of personality. Alcoholic ...
Abstract.Aims: To discuss and review the latest research related to gambling expansion. Method: We completed a literature review and empirical comparison of peer reviewed findings related to gambling expansion ...
German Adaptation of the Neuropsychological Assessment Battery (NAB)Standardized tests are crucial for the neuropsychological assessment. In the German speaking countries there is a need for an assessment battery with homogeneous normative data. The ...
Resiliente Kinder, Jugendliche und Erwachsene sind dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass ihnen eine funktionale Adaptation an widrige, oftmals traumatische Umgebungsbedingungen in einer Weise gelingt, so dass langfristig ein kompensiertes, gesundes psychologisches ...
Abstract. The study examined the profiles of basic psychological needs satisfaction (BPNS) and frustration (BPNF) in a sample of older people living in French nursing homes. It is also addresses the relationships of these profiles with ...
Abstract.Background: Although there is mounting evidence of dyadic interdependencies between patients with dementia (PWD) and their caregivers, predictors of resilience among PWD and their caregivers are generally regarded in isolation. We therefore ...
Abstract. Informal caregivers of people living with dementia (PwD) are at increased risk for the development of stress-related physical and mental illness. Nevertheless, because of differing resilience, they show interindividual differences in their ...
The achievement-oriented climate in families with chronically ill adolescents: Functional or dysfunctional for medical adjustment?Abstract. The present contribution analysed changes in family relations perceived by members of families with chronically ...
Coping with the physical strains of HIV infection and AIDSAbstract. As part of a meta-analytical study, we selected, summarized and weighted 32 results of 32 primary studies focussing on how well persons with physical problems due to HIV infection and ...
Paradigms of Resilience Research. A Short Inventory and an OutlookAbstract: Psychological resilience in the face of stressors has received much research attention in various fields of psychology. Different definitions emphasize ...
The Expert-Novice Paradigm and the Crisis of Confidence in PsychologyAbstract. The goal of the present paper is to evaluate whether the crisis of confidence in psychology might also affect the field of sport psychology by focusing on the widely used ...
This article asserts the claim for linking methods to phenomena—and not vice versa—in research on individual development. It is argued that proper application of theory, design, and methodological tools in studies of specific problems requires strict ...
The immune system and the nervous system are connected in a dynamic network that has important implications for psychology. First, if analyzed in functional terms, the immune system and the nervous system are not distinctly separated: The immune system ...
Neuronal adaptation is a ubiquitous property of the cortex. This review presents evidence from MMN studies that show ERP components with similar adaptive properties. Specifically, I consider the empirical evidence from the perspective of a predictive ...
Performance monitoring which is a core component of the executive functions has been found to be altered in older adults. Specifically, older adults showed smaller amplitudes of the error-related negativity (Ne/ERN) but increased amplitudes of the correct-...
Abstract. Adaptive behavior involves rapid error processing and action evaluation. However, it has not been clarified how errors contribute to automatic behaviors that can be retrieved to successfully adapt to our complex environment. Automatic behaviors ...
Justice sensitivity (JS) was introduced as a personality construct that contributes to the explanation of individual differences in justice judgment and behavior. Schmitt, Gollwitzer, Maes, and Arbach (2005) developed scales for measuring three types of ...
This study developed and validated a French version of the Adult Temperament Questionnaire short form (ATQ; Evans & Rothbart, 2007). The ATQ is a self-report instrument that evaluates four temperamental dimensions: negative affect, effortful control, ...
Abstract. This is the second of two reports using semistructured interviews to explore the current and recollected experiences of Irish people for the period before, during, and after the introduction of Euro notes and coins (1 January 2002). A total of ...