Bullying, Cyberbullying, Anxiety, and Depression in a Sample of Youth during the Coronavirus Pandemic

While we know that the pandemic and its social isolation, loss of school experiences, increased screen use, and financial stress have likely had a psychological impact upon children and teens, little research has been done directly with youth to assess social and emotional factors during the pandemic and in its immediate aftermath. In this study, a sample of 240 youth reported on their experiences with bullying, fighting, sexting, cyberbullying, anxiety, and depression during the period from March 2020 to April 2021. The results indicated that bullying, cyberbullying, sexting, and fighting showed only small or no increases, but anxiety and depression were dramatically increased relative to before the pandemic. Female and LGBTQ youth were particularly vulnerable during the months since March 2020. The results suggest that youth will need positive social experiences and, in some cases, psychological interventions and treatment to restore emotional equilibrium in the months ahead.

Attachment Security

This chapter provides an overview of the construct of attachment security and describes the threat to this security that may arise in response to the diagnosis or progression of advanced disease. The heightened mortality salience that occurs in this context activates the attachment system, and increased dependency and caregiving needs frequently require an adjustment or renegotiation of attachment security. Attachment security protects from death anxiety and other forms of distress, and so the renegotiation of attachment relationships is often an urgent task that is needed to maintain or restore emotional equilibrium. This chapter explains the central role of attachment security in the Managing Cancer and Living Meaningfully (CALM) intervention, in which the therapeutic relationship can provide a secure base to process distressing thoughts and feelings and to face the challenges that inevitably occur.

Review of Vasil Simonenko's work

In the paper the work of Vasyl Symonenko (lyric poetry, lyro epic, short stories) is integrally analysed. Attention to collections "Bank of expectations" and "For itself" is paid. The romantic features of lyric poetry, preparation of lyric hero to adult life, feeling of responsibility are marked. The verses of these collections help an author to attain an emotional equilibrium, perform the original psychotherapy duty. First printed collection "Silense and thunder" educed the updating of poetic maintenance at maintenance of classic forms. The poles of "silense" (intimate lyric poetry) and "thunder" (civil lyric poetry) are analysed, didacticism and gnomic are marked. The posthumous collection "Earthly gravitation" strikes the "overpopulation" of the verse line, the concentration of idea, the transparency of ideas, the faith in the future. The features of address verses, facilities of fight against the negative public phenomena are studied. During the study of lyric poetry of V. Symonenko non-verbalized motives of aspiring to the changes, aspiration and spiritual way are educed. Romanticism of lyric poetry is consonant with short stories of V. Symonenko, collected in a book "Wine from roses". The plot organization and ideological level of short stories "He interfered with her to sleep", "Wine from roses", "Black horseshoe" are analysed. An accent on the open finales of works is done. The fairy-tales of the sixty contain a political implication, but they could be addressed to the junior reader. For more complete understanding of the artistic world of author it is necessary to know his literary-critical work, foremost the article "Beauty without beauties ", sanctified to the poetry of L. Kostenko. V. Symonenko appears in the hypostasis of professional reader that analyses collection "Trip of heart". V. Symonenko noticed beauty, wisdom, thin heartfelt sensitiveness and good taste, could be said about a critic. The conclusion, that a poet kept straight in life, and in work, as well as majority of sixties is drawn.

“The future of an illusion”: a paradoxes of CSR

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to explore the psychological strategies as well as the rhetorical and discursive arguments developed in organizations and by individuals when they have to cope with the paradoxes and changes related to CSR.Design/methodology/approachThis study uses the perspective of the paradox as an analytical framework to parse strategies developed in organizations as they cope with tensions and changes related to CSR. The authors conducted 50 semi-structured interviews with stakeholders and the authors performed a qualitative analysis with the information compiled.FindingsThe main strategies for dealing with CSR paradoxes and changes consist of developing perceptual and motivational biases as well as explicative heuristic ones through which, from a discursive perspective, a coherent and conciliatory framework is presented with rhetoric that play a fundamental role in justifying CSR as a present hope over a future illusion regardless of the past reality.Originality/valueThe lesson to be drawn from the exploration is the following: managers and CSR officers need to leave behind fear, anxiety and defensive attitudes and accept the paradox by re-contextualizing the tension as a stimulus for conscious and reflexive confrontation with emotional equilibrium, this being defiantly motivating as a sensemaker. In this way, the approach to the present inconsistencies in CSR should not involve a dismissal of conflictive situations but rather the development of the capacity to transcend the tension emanating from them and to learn to manage organizations from this paradoxical reality.

The pivotal thinking skills in the subject of physics and its relation to the emotional balance among students in the fourth grade scientific

The research aims to answer the following question: Is there a relationship between the pivotal thinking skills in physics and the emotional balance among students in the fourth grade?In order to achieve this objective, the researcher constructed a test to measure the skills of pivotal thinking and emotional equilibrium. The two scales were applied in a randomly selected random sample of 181 students. After collecting and processing the data statistically, the researcher reached the following results: 1- The fourth grade students suffer from a weakness in the level of central thinking skills. 2 - The students of the fourth grade of scientific enjoy a level of emotional balance to a good degree. 3 - There is a positive relationship between the thinking skills pivotal in physics and emotional balance in the fourth grade scientific students

Comparative Study of the Frontal EGG Activity After Superficial Neuro-stimulation Application, Mindfulness and Other Attentional Techniques

IntroductionChanges in the electrical cerebral activity, especially in frontotemporal regions, have been described after using the Superficial Neurostimulation Application (SNSA) in upper and lower limbs. The use of this technique is associated with emotional equilibrium and predisposition for a positive mood. Its application clinically improves hostility and anxiety symptoms.AimsTo compare the electrical changes observed after the use of SNSA with other techniques of mental concentration: Mindfulness (mental attention without judgment) and a technique based on the emission of a sound.Materials and methodsSNSA topology system: uses electricity through superficial electrodes placed on feet and hands and an electrode over the 7th cervical vertebra; Digital encephalogram; Faraday cage.ResultsMindfulness and SNSA techniques show similarities regarding the alpha rhythm's frequency in frontal regions (Figs. 1 and 2) compared to a different mental concentration technique (Fig. 3).ConclusionFurther analysis would be required.Disclosure of interestThe authors have not supplied their declaration of competing interest.

Superficial neurostimulation application, alpha rhythm and clinical effects

IntroductionThe alpha rhythm (EEG) in prefrontal regions has been related with the emotional equilibrium, predisposition for a positive mood (Urry et al., 2004) and the activation of the approximation system (Davidson and Irwin, 1999). Superficial neurostimulation application (SNSA) provokes an increase of such rhythm in prefrontal and temporal areas (Bardasano et al., 2010).AimsTo demonstrate that the increase of alpha synchronization is a common factor in the satisfactory evolution of patients with different pathologies.MethodsThirty patients with different symptoms (hostility, anxiety, bruxism and obsessive symptoms) received 20 weekly sessions of 45 minutes long using the SNSA.Materials–SNSA topology system: it is a machine for superficial stimulation that uses electricity through superficial electrodes which are placed on feet and hands and an electrode over the 7th cervical vertebra;–digital encephalogram;–Faraday cage.ResultsThe alpha rhythm was incremented in 85% of the cases in anterior regions of the brain, related with the improvement of scale's punctuation.ConclusionThe alpha rhythm has been showed to be presented in all individuals that improved their symptoms after the application of SNSA (Fig. 1).Disclosure of interestThe authors have not supplied their declaration of competing interest.