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Dimensionality of coping: An empirical contribution to the construct validation of the Brief-COPE with a Greek-speaking sample
(2010)The construct of coping has received increasing attention over the past years in relation to psychological and physical health, yet its dimensional and conceptual understanding is not consistent across theoretical models. ...
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The dimensionality of phonological abilities in Greek
(2009)The purpose of the present study was twofold: (a) to examine the unidimensionality of phonological abilities in Greek, a language with a transparent orthography, and (b) to compute the reliabilities and test the construct ...
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Dimensions of Juvenile Psychopathy Distinguish "Bullies," "Bully-Victims," and "Victims"
(2013)Objective: Psychopathy is a multidimensional construct comprising traits of narcissism, impulsivity, and callous-unemotionality (CU). Prior cross-sectional research supports an association between the CU dimension of ...
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Direct and indirect predictors of social anxiety: The role of anxiety sensitivity, behavioral inhibition, experiential avoidance and self-consciousness
(2014)Using mediated and moderated regression, this study examined the hypothesis that anxiety sensitivity, the tendency to be concerned about anxiety symptoms, and behavioral inhibition, the tendency to withdraw from novel and ...
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Discrete capacity limits and neuroanatomical correlates of visual short-term memory for objects and spatial locations
(2017)Working memory is responsible for keeping information in mind when it is no longer in view, linking perception with higher cognitive functions. Despite such crucial role, short-term maintenance of visual information is ...
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Disentangling the factorial structure of the Greek Big Five Questionnaire for Children – Short Form
(2020)The Greek Big Five Questionnaire for Children – Short Form measures the Five Factor Model in childhood and early adolescence. Although the Big Five has been theoretically conceptualized as containing orthogonal dimensions, ...
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Dispositional coping in individuals with anxiety disorder symptomatology: Avoidance predicts distress
(2014)Anxiety disorders entail avoidance of feared situations and anxious experiences, which is believed to maintain anxiety pathology. It remains unclear if predominant coping styles, like avoidance, are similar across anxiety ...
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The Disruptive Adolescent as a Grown-Up: Predicting Adult Startle Responses to Violent and Erotic Films from Adolescent Conduct Problems and Callous-Unemotional Traits
(2016)The current study aimed to identify heterogeneous groups of adolescents differing on their levels of conduct problems (CP) and callous-unemotional (CU) traits, and compare them on startle reactivity to emotional videos ...
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Distinct Empathy Profiles in Callous Unemotional and Autistic Traits: Investigating Unique and Interactive Associations with Affective and Cognitive Empathy
(2019)Empathy deficits are a hallmark of both callous-unemotional (CU) and autistic traits. However, it is unclear whether each trait is associated with deficits in distinct empathy subcomponents. The aim of the current study ...
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Distortions in Time Perception: How the Production Rate of Linguistic Stimuli Influences the Perception of Elapsed Time
(2020)In this study we examined whether the exposure to speed-altered audio clips of speech-like stimuli can distort systematically the subjective sense of time. Participants listened to stimuli of varying durations and speeds ...
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Distribution and Characteristics of Symbolic Universes Over the European Societies
(Springer International Publishing, 2019)This chapter reports the analysis of the distribution and characteristics of the segments of people associated with the symbolic universes. Analyses comprise seven countries are in Cyprus, Denmark, Estonia, Greece, Italy, ...
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Diverse learning episodes: Naturalistic observation in an early mathematics classroom
(2009)This applied paper is a report of a naturalistic observation in a mathematics classroom focusing on two second-graders. Following an exploratory visit to understand the setting and develop more specific questions for the ...
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Do alexithymic individuals avoid their feelings? Experiential avoidance mediates the association between alexithymia, psychosomatic, and depressive symptoms in a community and a clinical sample
(2015)Objective Alexithymia is defined as the trait associated with difficulty in identifying and describing feelings as well as poor fantasy and imagery. While alexithymia is related to psychopathology in general, it has been ...
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Do Aligned Bodies Align Minds? The Partners’ Body Alignment as a Constraint on Spatial Perspective Use
(2020)In a direction-giving task, we examine whether a high-level constraint—the task partners’ relative body alignment—influences spatial language use and task accuracy. In 32 pairs, task partners interacted in two conditions: ...
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Do environmental characteristics predict spatial memory about unfamiliar environments?
(2020)Using Space Syntax techniques, we examined the relationship between environmental properties and spatial memory following navigation in a virtual environment. Participants navigated two main routes as well as two connector ...
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Do mothers know? Longitudinal associations between parental knowledge, bullying, and victimization
(2015)The purpose of the present study was to investigate the direction of effects between parents’ sources of knowledge and children’s involvement in bullying and victimization at school. The participants were 348 early adolescents ...
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Do neurocognitive deficits in decision making differentiate conduct disorder subtypes?
(Dr. Dietrich Steinkopff Verlag GmbH and Co. KG, 2016)The present study aimed to test whether neurocognitive deficits involved in decision making underlie subtypes of conduct-disorder (CD) differentiated on the basis of callous-unemotional (CU) traits. Eighty-five participants ...
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Does body orientation matter when reasoning about depicted or described scenes?
(2008)Two experiments were conducted to assess whether the orientation of the body at the time of test affects the efficiency with which people reason about spatial relations that are encoded in memory through symbolic media. ...
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