The anxiety-buffer hypothesis in the time of COVID-19: when self-esteem protects from the impact of loneliness and fear on anxiety and depression

A Rossi, A Panzeri, G Pietrabissa, GM Manzoni… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Introduction The coronavirus (COVID-19) disease has spread worldwide, generating intense
fear of infection and death that may lead to enduring anxiety. At the same time, quarantine …

Social media exposure, risk perception, preventive behaviors and attitudes during the COVID-19 epidemic in La Paz, Bolivia: A cross sectional study

DR Zeballos Rivas, ML Lopez Jaldin, B Nina Canaviri… - PloS one, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Social media has an important role in diffusion of information, during COVID-19 pandemic it
could help to promote preventive behaviors, however its role and the pathway is still unclear …

Univariate and multivariate skewness and kurtosis for measuring nonnormality: Prevalence, influence and estimation

MK Cain, Z Zhang, KH Yuan - Behavior research methods, 2017 - Springer
Nonnormality of univariate data has been extensively examined previously (Blanca et al.,
Methodology: European Journal of Research Methods for the Behavioral and Social …

Psychometric properties of the climate change worry scale

AE Stewart - International Journal of Environmental Research and …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Climate change worry involves primarily verbal-linguistic thoughts about the changes that
may occur in the climate system and the possible effects of these changes. Such worry is …

Platform affordances and political participation: how social media reshape political engagement

Y Theocharis, S Boulianne, K Koc-Michalska… - West European …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Political participation opportunities have been expanding for years, most recently through
digital tools. Social media platforms have become well integrated into civic and political …

Environmental sensitivity in children: Development of the Highly Sensitive Child Scale and identification of sensitivity groups.

M Pluess, E Assary, F Lionetti, KJ Lester… - Developmental …, 2018 - psycnet.apa.org
A large number of studies document that children differ in the degree they are shaped by
their developmental context with some being more sensitive to environmental influences …

[HTML][HTML] Management skills and organizational culture as sources of innovation for firms in peripheral regions

JA Pedraza-Rodríguez, A Ruiz-Vélez… - … Forecasting and Social …, 2023 - Elsevier
The existing literature shows that the knowledge and skills of managers and organizational
culture are key elements to innovate. We present a model that explores the relationship of …

Influence of soil properties, topography, and land cover on soil organic carbon and total nitrogen concentration: A case study in Qinghai-Tibet plateau based on …

L Dai, J Ge, L Wang, Q Zhang, T Liang, N Bolan… - Science of the Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
The effects of topography, land cover type, and soil physicochemical properties on the
distribution of soil organic carbon (SOC) and total nitrogen (TN) have drawn growing …

Psychometric validation of the Persian Bergen Social Media Addiction Scale using classic test theory and Rasch models

CY Lin, A Broström, P Nilsen, MD Griffiths… - Journal of behavioral …, 2017 - akjournals.com
Background and aims The Bergen Social Media Addiction Scale (BSMAS), a six-item self-
report scale that is a brief and effective psychometric instrument for assessing at-risk social …

Association between midlife obesity and its metabolic consequences, cerebrovascular disease, and cognitive decline

F Morys, M Dadar, A Dagher - The Journal of Clinical …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Context Chronic obesity is associated with several complications, including cognitive
impairment and dementia. However, we have only piecemeal knowledge of the mechanisms …