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Help-seeking for social anxiety symptoms in Ghana: Looking through the lens of sexist attitudes
Current Psychology. 2024. Vol. 43. No. 29. P. 24544–24556.
Background: While health research has demonstrated the influence of cultural disparities on health outcomes, the impact of Ambivalent Sexism on mental health help-seeking has not been well understood. We investigated the links between gender stereotypes, Mental Health Literacy (MHL), sociodemographic variables, and help-seeking for Social Anxiety among Ghanaians. Method: In 2021, we recruited 601 Ghanaians to participate in an online vignette-based experimental study. Respondents were randomly assigned to two conditions (i.e., male, and female vignettes) depicting the biomedical symptoms of Social Anxiety for a hypothetical person. Participants provided their impression of the hypothetical person and further completed self-report measures. Results: Regarding help-seeking for the biomedical view of Social Anxiety, our results revealed that age positively predicted professional help-seeking among men assigned to the male condition, while age negatively predicted social support among women in the same condition. Education was found to relate positively to professional and social support help-seeking options but was negatively linked with spiritual help-seeking. Benevolent Sexism (BS) towards women was related to the endorsement of professional help-seeking, but participants with BS towards men were less likely to recommend social support. Conclusion: Findings imply that optimal interventions for mental health could benefit from understanding help-seeking patterns, idioms of psychological distress and the cultural settings of individuals.
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This work is devoted to a theoretical explanation of the Easterlin paradox, according to which long-term economic growth does not make average level of people's happiness increasing. By happiness, we mean the intensity of emotions people experience while comparing their new income with its expected value, or the target income with its original value. In the first case, ...
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Ван Г., Торопова А. В., Музыкальное искусство и образование 2025 Т. 13 № 4 С. 73–91
Contemporary vocal pedagogy faces a complex set of methodological challenges that encompass not only the search for ways to improve technical vocal skills for the realization of artistic vision, but also the development of self-control and self-regulation in future singers, as well as the entire creative process. A successful artist cannot function without the ability ...
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The development of musical abilities, including absolute pitch, musical memory, rhythm sense, and musicality, at a high degree is determined by a hereditary component (up to 68 %). The studies implementing a genome-wide linkage and association approach to musical aptitude have revealed more than 100 genetic loci. This spectrum is comprised of the genes encoding ...
Added: May 29, 2026
Давидович А. С., Shestakova A., Arzumanyan N. et al., Frontiers in Psychology 2026 Vol. 17 - 2026 P. 1–18
Background:
Delay discounting refers to the tendency to choose sooner, smaller rewards over larger, later rewards. Many previous studies link this tendency positively to reward sensitivity, yet the specific mechanisms behind this association remain poorly understood. Reward sensitivity may relate to delay discounting through at least three possible pathways: increased sensitivity to reward size, increased sensitivity ...
Added: May 27, 2026
Kolachev N., Kovaleva G., Behavior Genetics 2026
Functional literacy—the ability to apply reading, mathematical, and scientific knowledge in authentic contexts as operationalized by the PISA framework—is a key predictor of educational attainment, labour-market outcomes, and economic growth. Despite extensive behavioral-genetic research on cognitive ability, the heritability of competency-based literacy measures remains largely unexamined, particularly outside Western populations. The present study addresses this ...
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Dorri Sedeh S., Kosonogov V., Kerimova N. et al., Frontiers in Psychology 2026 Vol. 17 Article 1710257
Introduction:
As cities continue to grow, access to natural environments is becoming more limited, contributing to increased stress levels in urban populations. Panoramic 360° videos provide a creative and scalable means of simulating natural environments, potentially reducing stress in city residents under controlled settings. Here, we examined whether short immersive experiences in different urban environments support ...
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Kochetkova Ekaterina, Kostanian D., Martynova O. et al., Brain Topography 2026 Vol. 39 No. 4 Article 51
Letter recognition is assumed to involve several levels of analysis, including coarse tuning for category and novelty and more fine tuning for specific features, related to letter orientation. We employed an oddball fast periodic visual stimulation (FPVS) paradigm with magnetoencephalography (Elekta VectorView, 306 sensors) to study neural discrimination responses in the source space. Using contrasts ...
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Zaikin A., Sviridov I., Sosedka A. et al., Technologies 2026 Vol. 14 No. 2 Article 84
High-dimensional tabular data are common in biomedical and clinical research, yet conventional machine learning methods often struggle in such settings due to data scarcity, feature redundancy, and limited generalization. In this study, we systematically evaluate Synolitic Graph Neural Networks (SGNNs), a framework that transforms high-dimensional samples into sample-specific graphs by training ensembles of low-dimensional pairwise ...
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Kadieva D., Blagoveshchensky E., Agranovich O. et al., Frontiers in Psychology 2026 Vol. 17 Article 1832623
Embodied and embedded cognition (EEC) theory proposes that language and cognitive development emerge from bodily interactions with the environment, yet empirical tests of this claim in clinical developmental populations remain rare. This mini-review synthesizes behavioral, electrophysiological, and structural neuroimaging evidence from children with serious early motor disorders—obstetric brachial plexus palsy and arthrogryposis multiplex congenita—which restrict ...
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Кияненко И. К., Клиническая и специальная психология 2026 Т. 15 № 1 С. 7–19
Context and relevance. The problem of the impact of urban stress factors on mental health is becoming increasingly relevant in the context of urbanization. Living in cities is accompanied by increased psychophysiological stress, which leads to an increase in the prevalence of mental disorders among urban residents. Objective. The purpose of the article is to ...
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Alenina E., Kristina Terenteva, Kosonogov V., Behavioral Sciences 2026 Vol. 16 No. 5 Article 806
Anxiety is a multidimensional construct that influences cognitive performance in complex ways, yet its factor structure and domain-specific effects remain unclear. This study examined (1) the psychometric structure of general and specific anxiety measures, (2) their associations with cognitive performance across different domains, and (3) the predictive power of machine learning models in classifying cognitive ...
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«Деньги. Энциклопедия российского школьника» кратко и емко расскажет:
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· Как выглядели первые деньги, из чего их делали и где хранили
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· Как работает банк
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· И еще сотни интересных научно-обоснованных фактов
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Андреева О. С., Просвещение, 2024.
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Bobrova A., Poddiakov A., Aksiotis V., Вопросы психологии 2025 Т. 71 № 4 С. 96–106
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Kolachev N., Kovaleva G., Educational Research and Evaluation 2026 P. 1–24
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Tikhonova N. E., Социологическая наука и социальная практика 2026 Т. 14 № 1 С. 81–107
Taking into account the relevance of the problem of euthanasia in the context of the
increase in severe cancer and genetic diseases, the article shows, based on the data of the Monitoring of the IS FCTAS RAS 2024 (N = 2000) and the World Values Survey (2006 and
2017–2022), that in their attitude towards euthanasia, Russians are divided ...
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Adu P., Grigoryev D., Holm Adzovie R. et al., Mental Health and Prevention 2025 Vol. 37 Article 200406
Objective: Mental health literacy evidence on promoting mental health prevention at the population level in Ghana is limited. We explored factors, including, sociodemographic variables, prejudice, sexist attitudes, and previous experience of mental disorders, related to the endorsement of prevention strategies for social anxiety in Ghana.
Methods: A total of 601 individuals participated in an online vignette-based ...
Added: January 30, 2025
Alenina E., Терентьева К. С., Kosonogov V., Proceedings of the IEEE 2024
Social anxiety is characterized by fear in various socially related situations. Research demonstrates that people with high social anxiety have lower self-esteem and experience negative impacts from this state. The current pilot study aimed to investigate neural responses to social stimuli in individuals with high and low social anxiety. Fifty-seven participants completed an online screening ...
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Zolotareva A., Maltseva N., Belousova S. et al., Psychology in Russia: State of the Art 2024 Vol. 17 No. 2 P. 23–33
Background. Mental health stigma and mental health literacy can be potential targets of public education and health development. These areas are culturally specific and have so far been almost unexplored in Russia. Objective. This study aimed at examining mental health stigma and mental health literacy in Russia, their prevalence, and their associations with somatic, anxiety, ...
Added: September 14, 2024
Adu P., Jurcik T., Demah E. et al., International Journal of Social Psychiatry 2024 Vol. 70 No. 2 P. 271–281
Background: Mental health literacy (MHL) research has been of substantial interest internationally. Nevertheless, the interplay between beliefs, attitudes, previous experience with mental disorders, and knowledge of Ghanaians on specific mental disorders remains to be understood. The present study explored the interconnectedness between gender stereotypes, prejudice, previous experience with social phobia, and MHL among the general population ...
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Антонова Н. А., Eritsyan K., Tsvetkova L., Психология человека в образовании 2021 Т. 3 № 2 С. 208–217
There is an international consensus regarding the need to develop psychological services in education institutions, including tertiary education. This study evaluates pedagogical university students’ readiness to apply for professional psychological counselling and describes the reasons to seek psychological help among this population.The sample included 1,343 students of Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia (Saint Petersburg). ...
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Антонова Н. А., Eritsyan K., Казанцева Т. В. et al., Психологическая наука и образование 2022 Т. 27 № 4 С. 77–87
Optimization of the models for the provision of professional psychological assistance to students is one of the priority tasks of the Concept for the development of psychological services in the education system of the Russian Federation. The aim of this study was to identify the barriers and facilitators in seeking psychological help among Russian secondary ...
Added: March 24, 2023
Adu P., Jurcik T., Grigoryev D., Mental Health, Religion and Culture 2023 Vol. 26 No. 2 P. 107–130
There is paucity of research about the beliefs and attitudes regarding specific mental disorders in Ghana. A vignette study was conducted to examine the relationship between causal attributions, help-seeking, and stigma towards depression and schizophrenia using lay Ghanaians (N = 410). This adapted questionnaire presented two unlabelled vignettes about a hypothetical person with the above ...
Added: November 30, 2022
Cavanagh D., Jurcik T., Charkhabi M., International Journal of Social Psychiatry 2021 Vol. 68 No. 8 P. 1561–1570
Background:
Depression is a major contributor to the global burden of disease that affects more than 300 million people worldwide. Cross cultural studies find that culture influences levels of trust which can impact upon an individual’s likelihood to seek psychological help when experiencing Depression.
Aims:
Help seeking is essential for improved mental health outcomes. This study aims to consider ...
Added: November 1, 2021