The author examined the association between emotional autonomy and problem behavior among Chinese adolescents living in Hong Kong. The respondents were 512 adolescents, 16 to 18 years of age, who were interviewed for a cross-sectional study. Three dimensions of emotional autonomy including individuation, nondependency on parents, and de-idealization of parents were significantly and positively correlated with the amount of problem behavior the participants engaged in during the past 6 months. Using a simple linear multiple regression model, the author found that problem behavior was associated with only one aspect of emotional autonomy-individuation. Results indicated that the relationship between problem behavior and three aspects of emotional autonomy was similar in both individualistic and collectivistic societies. 相似文献
The Brief Symptom Inventory-18 (BSI-18) is widely used to assess psychiatric distress but has not been verified in the Chinese population. From March to April 2019, 293 hospitalized cancer patients, aged 20–87, completed the cross-sectional survey with demographics questionnaire, BSI-18, and PHQ-9. We analyzed the single suicide-related item of PHQ-9 with the full score clinical outpoint for BSI-18 and PHQ-9 using SPSS 22.0 and R 2.15, including Pearson's χ2 test and ROC curve analyses. A Pearson's χ2 test was carried out to compare the three different methods with the gold screening criteria. The p-value was correspondingly to .006, .066, .838. When the PHQ-9?≥?10 criteria for the BSI-18, receiver operating characteristic analysis revealed that AUC values were 0.839, optimal cut-off points for both BSI-18?≥?50, the sensitivity of 85.8%, and 62.5%, respectively. The BSI-18 is suitable for a screening tool for psychological distress and could also be used in clinical settings for preliminary screening of hospitalized cancer patients.
The ability to distinguish among heterospecific individuals has been reported in only a few animal species. Humans can be
viewed as a special type of heterospecifics because individuals differ widely in behavior, ranging from non-threatening to
very threatening toward animals. In this study, we asked whether wild magpies can recognize individual humans who had accessed
their nests. We compared the behavior of breeding pairs toward individual humans before and after the humans climbed up to
the birds’ nests, and also toward climbers and non-climbers. We have evidence for (i) aggressive responses of the magpie pairs
toward humans who had repeatedly accessed their nests (climbers) and a lack of response to humans who had not accessed the
nest (non-climbers); (ii) a total lack of scolding responses toward climbers by magpie pairs whose nests had not been accessed;
(iii) a selective aggressive response to the climber when a climber and a non-climber were presented simultaneously. Taken
together, these results suggest that wild magpies can distinguish individual humans that pose a threat to their nests from
humans that have not behaved in a threatening way. The magpie is only the third avian species, along with crows and mockingbirds,
in which recognition of individual humans has been documented in the wild. Here, we propose a new hypothesis (adopted from
psychology) that frequent previous exposure to humans in urban habitats contributes to the ability of birds to discriminate
among human individuals. This mechanism, along with high cognitive abilities, may predispose some species to learn to discriminate
among human individuals. Experimental tests of these two mechanisms are proposed. 相似文献