Categoria: International
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Love skills: romantic skills in adolescence
Reading time: 4 minutes Romantic competence is a construct that includes a set of cognitive, emotional and interpersonal skills that allows the individual to adaptively deal with the sentimental experience, both the positive and the more challenging and potentially critical aspects that every relationship entails. (Bouchey, 2007) Adolescence represents a period of change and transition…
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DISSOCIATIVE DISORDERS: THE HIDDEN CONSEQUENCE OF SEXUAL AND PHYSICAL ABUSE
Reading Time: 8 minutes Post-traumatic stress disorder, commonly known as PTSD, is an anxiety disorder that develops in reaction to physical injury or severe mental or emotional distress. Although this disorder is widely acknowledged, few know about other disorders that are the aftermath of a traumatic event. Dissociative disorders are mental disorders in which an…
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NOT JUST ONE TRAUMA….BUT PLENTY!
Reading time: 5 minutes People usually think of trauma as an isolated event in a person’s life, which can lead to more or less serious consequences, depending on the level of impact it has on the individual. These can vary according to the age of the individual, genetic variables, the attachment bond, and the social…
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Traumatic events: differences between simple and complex trauma
Reading time: 4 minutes With trauma we mean the alteration of the normal psychic state following adverse, painful and negative experiences experienced by the individual. The response to trauma is subjective and varies according to the individual, contextual and social resources we have. A traumatic event is a stressful event, which cannot be avoided and…
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HOW DOES THE ORDER IN WHICH YOU ARE BORN INFLUENCE ON YOUR PERSONALITY TRAITS?
Reading time: 8 minutes How does birth order affect a child’s personality traits? Can the character of an older child change with the advent of a brother or sister? And what difficulties do only children face? The answers to these questions are given further in this article. WHAT IS A ‘BIRTH ORDER’? Birth order defines…
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Terror of the Night – Taking the fear out of sleep paralysis
Reading Time: 4 minutes “I felt something in the room. I woke up and opened my eyes. When I looked around, I saw a sort of vivid image, but when I tried to focus on somewhere, it dimmed out or seemed to have vanished ethereally. I felt the weight of a kind of black coming to me. I sensed I was falling, or that I had no support from the bed due…
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AN OVERVIEW OF EFPSA DAY 2022
Reading time: 2 minutes On Friday December 2nd A.P.E. Info conducted the annual European Federation of Psychology Students’ Associations (EFPSA) Day, with the aim of raising awareness about EFPSA among the students of the Università Cattolica in Milan. EFPSA was established in 1987 with the mission to bring psychology students together and enrich their understanding…
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IMPOSTOR SYNDROME: the phenomenon of today’s society
Reading time: 5 minutes Have you ever felt that you are not good enough or deserving enough to be in the position you are in? Whether it is the university that you got in, or a job position, for which you worked so hard for, or even just your presence among a new group of…
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MENTAL ILLNESS STIGMA: POPULAR MISCONCEPTIONS NOWADAYS
Reading time: 8 minutes The term “stigma” comes from the ancient Greek verb stizo, which literally means “to carve by night”, “to cause a mark with an incandescent seal for shame or punishment”, “to carve the skin as a mark of dishonor”. In ancient Greece the stigmata was a mark carved or impressed by burning…
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THE FORER EFFECT: WHY HOROSCOPES ALWAYS HAVE IT
Reading time: 4 minutes The Forer effect (also called subjective validation effect, or Barnum effect) is a phenomenon according to which everyone, faced with any profile that he believes refers to him, tends to identify with it, considering it precise and accurate, without realizing that that profile is vague and generic enough to fit a…
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