Applying Psychological Research to Understand and Promote the

Well-being of Clinical and Non-clinical Populations

Edited by Kostas Andrea Fanti

ISBN: 978-960-6672-55-2, 350 pages

First published in 2009 by ATINER

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Table of Contents

List of Contributors

 

 

 

1.

Introduction

Kostas Andrea Fanti

1

 

 

 

Part 1: Understanding Human Behavior, Abilities, and Emotions

 

2.

Unconscious Determination of Human Action:

Adding Behavior Analysis to the Emerging Convergence

Harold L. Miller, Jr.

9

3.

Indicators of Aggression in Draw-A-Man Test in 9 years Boys

Ali Farhadi and Hamid-Reza Pouretmad

19

4.

Decoding Behaviour and Connectivity Mental System in Second Language Context: Critical Period and the Lateralization of Language Function

Sandra Andrade de Bastos Figueiredo and Carlos Fernandes da Silva

29

5.

Color Preferences and Symbolism

Asja Nina Kovacev

41

6.

Gender Differences in Adolescents Problem Behaviors from the Power-control Theory Perspective

Katarzyna Okulicz-Kozaryn

57

7.

The Relationship between Fear of Failure and Academic Procrastination: The Mediating Effects of Avoidance Goal and Cognitive Volition Control, and the Moderating Effects of Parental Psychological Control and Parental Achievement Pressure

Sang Youp Choo and Sung Moon Lim

75

8.

Fear of Flying

Christos Papalekas

89

9.

Qualitative Analysis on the Concept of Assertiveness

Paula Vagos and Anabela Pereira

99

10.

Sexual Strategies Theory and Emotion Management

Paula W. Potter

113

11.

Teachers’ Social Representations between Well Being and Burnout at School

Roberto Bonetto and Alberta Contarello

117

12.

Subjective Well-being of Teacher Candidates

Zafer Bekirogullari, Aylin Mentesogullari and Arzu Somay

139

13.

Training and Knowledge Management in Organisations.

A New Sense to Human Resources Management

Leonor Cardoso and Samuel Monteiro

149


14.

Knowledge Management and Total Quality

Elisabete Brito and Leonor Cardoso

161

15.

Different Types of Organization, Different Cultural Orientations towards Learning: What Factors explain this?

Teresa Rebelo and Adelino Duarte Gomes

175

16.

The Relation between Professional Training and Knowledge Management Moderated by Socio-demographic Variables

Andreia Meireles and Leonor Cardoso

187

Part 2: Interventions and Therapy

17.

Cognitive Aspects in One-year Follow-up of Adult Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Clients

Nara Lucia Poli Botelho, Maria Luiza de Mattos Fiore and Latife Yazigi

203

18.

Preliminary Investigation of Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices Regarding Obesity in African American College Students

Denise M. Gaither-Hardy and Delroy Louden

211

19.

Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy of Women with Chronic Pain: A Prospective Case Study Research

Norma Lottenberg Semer, Roberta Katz Abela,

Terezinha de Carvalho Amaro, Simone Godinho,

Kátia Semeraro Jordy, Luciana Sobirai Diaz and Salua Salama

225

20.

HIV/AIDS Among Women: A International Profile

Sarla Sharma

233

21.

Personality Aspects of Adult Psychotherapy Clients of a Public University Psychological Clinic in São Paulo, Brazil

Terezinha de Carvalho Amaro, Latife Yazigi, Thaís Marques

and Luciana Sobirai Diaz

249

22.

The Relation between Sensation Seeking, Fear of Failure, Perfectionism, and Chronic Procrastination of College Students: The Mediating Effect of Self-efficacy

Youl Pyo Hong and Sung Moon Lim

257

23.

Effects of Horticutural Therapy Activities for Aged People that was Implemented Every Day Concentricall

Seigo Koura, Noriyuki Ogawa and Takeshi Oshikawa,

Mitsuo Nagatomo,Kenji Higashi, Tomohiro Inagaki

and Chieko Nishikawa

271

24.

Effects of Horticultural Therapy Activities on Psychological Mood in Students of Occupational Therapy Department

Noriyuki Ogawa, Seigo Koura, Takeshi Oshikawa, Kenji Higashi,

Tomohiro Inagaki and Akinori Matsuzaki

281

25.

Absolute Pitch-A Nature Potential for Talented, Mainstreamed and Special Educational Needs Students under Lau Chiu Kay Music Educatherapy

Chiu Kay Lau

289

26.

An Arterial Model of Innovation:

Opportunities for Psychological Interventions

Johan Malan

303

27.

Mediation Process of the Rorschach Comprehensive System: Comparison between Non-psychiatric Cases and Psychiatric Patients

Regina Sonia Gattas Fernandes do Nascimento, Latife Yazigi, and Terezinha de Carvalho Amaro

315

28.

The Rorschach Comprehensive System in Brazilian Children

Rosangela Kátia Sanches Mazzorana Ribeiro, Latife Yazigi and Norma Lottenberg Semer

321

29.

Psychotherapy and the Rorschach

Latife Yazigi, Terezinha de Carvalho Amaro,

Norma Lottenberg Semer, Thais Marques, Luciana Sobirai Diaz,

Maria Luiza de Mattos Fiore and Julieta Freitas Ramalho da Silva

331

30.

An Evaluation Design for the Smokefree Class Competition Program in Greece

Efstathios Polychronopoulos, John C. Morris,

Stella Barberis Bondi, Angeliki Polychronopoulou and Christopher Nicholas

337