Recent research has established online social lives as a significant aspect of adolescents’ lives and development. The current study considered the relationship between adolescents’ offline (i.e., ‘real life’) and online social worlds and their self-concept, which is a broad indicator of well-being during adolescence. In this quantitative study, 733 adolescents between the ages of 10 and 18 (M ...

This study analyzes the effects of a mindfulness program on a group of students in the first year of Compulsory Secondary Education from three public schools. A total of 61 students participated. A group comparison design (randomized controlled trial) with pretest-posttest measurement was used on an experimental and a control group. The statistical analyses show a significant improvement of aca...

Using cooperative behavior in economic decision-making settings, we predicted and found that people’s susceptibility to priming influences is moderated by two factors: people’s chronic accessibility to a behavioral repertoire and people’s self-concept activation. In Experiment 1, we show that individuals highly consistent in their social value orientation (SVO) assimilate their behavior to thei...

This article summarizes the psychometric evaluation of the Chronic Illness Assessment Interview for Sickle Cell Disease (CIAI-SCD), an instrument based on a model of self-care for adult patients with chronic medical conditions. The CIAI-SCD was administered to 104 adults with sickle cell disease. A factor analysis identified three factors that reflected the psychological constructs of Personal ...

Eating disorders are a significant public health problem that carries huge health implications for the individuals it affects. Eating disorders are extremely prevalent with about 15% of women having a diagnosable eating disorder at some point in their life (Fursland et al., 2012). These disorders are dangerous and if untreated can lead to death. In fact, anorexia has the highest mortality rate ...

With the acceleration of the divorce rate from the mid1960s to the early 1980s, the number of nontraditional families (such as single-parent families and reconstituted families) have increased relative to intact, first-time nuclear families, This article reviews empirical evidence addressing the relationship between divorce, family composition, and children's well-being. Although not entirely c...

This proposed study applies the idea of consumer-brand relationships to child consumers. Longitudinal brand loyalty studies have shown that brand preferences in consumers persist into adulthood. This study adds on earlier work by Ji (2000) and draws on Fournier’s (1998) work in applying relationship theory to consumer-brand relationships. It combines this with other theoretical strands to propo...

and concrete statements A rudimentary analysis of the qualities of the self-concept generated compared abstract and concrete statements. Echoing the findings of Kuhn and McPartland (1954), 80% of participants’ first selfconcepts were concrete (e.g. I am a singer; I am a daughter). There were no significant differences in fluency or personal importance based on concrete/abstract analysis (p > .4...

This article explores theoretical and applied questions that are relevant to social scientists’ efforts to understand and confront sexual stigma. A framework is presented for conceptualizing such stigma as a cultural phenomenon with structural and individual manifestations. The latter include enacted stigma and felt stigma, as well as internalized stigma, which encompasses self-stigma among sex...

Choices are often identity-based but the linkage to identity is not necessarily explicit or obvious for a number of reasons. First, identities feel stable but are highly sensitive to situational cues. Second, identities include not only content but also readiness to act and to use procedures congruent with the identity. Third, identities can be subtly cued without conscious awareness. Fourth, w...