Advances in Psychology Research

This book focuses on the latest developments in psychology research. The chapters included in this book examine the relationship between identity, ideology, victimization and ideological segregation and diverse emotional variables; personality traits of spitefulness in humans and non-humans; the theoretical panorama on the experience of guilt; the interpretation of guilt in adolescents from the perspective…

This book focuses on the latest developments in psychology research. The author of Chapter One contends that lucid control across states of consciousness can be used to change the negative aspects of mental processes such as nightmares, phobic anxiety, addictions, obsessive compulsive symptoms and hallucinations. Chapter Two reviews how to identify loneliness in intimate relations.…

Scholars have suggested that narcissism may be underpinned by feelings of humiliation. It is possible that grandiosity is a coping strategy aimed at avoiding the painful emotional and mental states associated with feeling inadequate. To test this hypothesis, Chapter One assesses the interactions among cognitive avoidance (measured using the Cognitive Avoidance Scale), feelings of humiliation…

In Advances in Psychology Research. Volume 132, the authors seek to explore relatives’ beliefs about family therapy in the long term concerning schizophrenia, as relatives’ opinions about schizophrenia may influence expressed emotions, family burden and patients’ adherence to Behavioural Family Intervention Therapies, or FITs. Continuing, this compilation provides a summary of the existing literature on…

This book focuses on the latest developments in psychology research. In Chapter One, the author argues that teaching psychobiography as a method in universities would be very useful, and that similar idiographic methods are important in psychotherapy research. Chapter Two analyzes a comprehensive model for a possible new clinical condition called “studyholism.” Chapter Three studies…

This book focuses on the latest developments in psychology research. Chapter One reviews literature regarding sleep, nutrition, and weight status, addresses the dearth of research related to the interplay of these topics, and discusses interventions. Chapter Two studies frequent and recent aggression in individuals with high and low trait anger. Chapter Three presents a new,…

This book focuses on the latest developments in psychology research. Chapter One reviews Vygotsky’s view on tools, signs and the spoken word, which are elaborated through a comparison of his early anthropological writings with his later works. Chapter Two describes facial emotion recognition in a group of juvenile offenders and compares it with a group…

This book focuses on the latest developments in psychology research. Chapter One analyzes the self-objectification scale. Chapter Two reviews the personal self-determination of high school students. Chapter Three discusses altruism and prosocial behaviors in LGBT older adults, who had encountered adversity and lack of acceptance in society based on their sexual orientation. Chapter Four proposes…

In Chapter One, Masayo Uji PhD presents a study conducted with the goal of identifying characteristics of narcissism and its related issues which impair adults’ mental lives, in particular, focusing on interpersonal relationships.” Next, Chapter Two by Carlo Lazzari discusses a study on borderline personality disorder and mental health professionals’ expertise on significant themes regarding…

This book focuses on the latest developments in psychology research. Chapter One reverses this trend by focusing on the extent to which discrimination leads to enhanced levels of identity. Chapter Two aims to identify barriers and facilitators affecting the social participation of adults with ASD with a view to improving interventions designed for them. Chapter…