Through the application of life course theory to the study of sexual orientation, this paper specifies a new paradigm for research on human sexual orientation that seeks to reconcile divisions among biological, social science, and humanistic paradigms. Recognizing the historical, social, and cultural relativity of human development, this paradigm argues for a moderate stance between essentialis...

Objectives. To study the need-motivational component of communicative activities medical students VSMU and to analyze dynamics gender differences in indices levels need motivational orientation communication. Material methods.We examined 527 faculty, there were 386 second-year (117 boys 269 girls); 141 sixth-year (28 113 girls) from all them. The for communication was carried out using methodol...

growing number of evidence indicates that individuals' motivational structure - the patterning of an individual's way of relating to goals - plays an important role in increasing the risk of alcohol use. adaptive motivational structure which includes pursuit of important, subjectively attainable, alcohol-unrelated goals is inversely related to substance use. the strength of this relationship in...