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Journal of Intellectual Disability - Diagnosis and Treatment

The Development of Creative Abilities as a Factor of the Social Maturity of Adolescents  - Pages 124-132

Olga Emishyants, Andrii Trofimov, Antonina Hrys, Mariia Pavliuk, Olena Shopsha, Angelina Tereshchuk and Svetlana Polishchuk

DOI: https://doi.org/10.6000/2292-2598.2020.08.02.6
Published: 15 May 2020

 


Abstract: The article considers the concept of the social maturity of adolescents in the context of the development of creative abilities. The relationships of social maturity with socialization, social creativity and innovative thinking of adolescents are researched. It is found that girls are more likely to move from the previous to the next level of social maturity. It is found that with age, the ability to social creativity develops. There is a connection between the level of social creativity and the levels of social autonomy, social morality and social activity of adolescents.

Keywords: Social maturity, adolescence, creativity, socialization, social creativity.

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Journal of Intellectual Disability - Diagnosis and Treatment

The Relationship between Problematic Use of Smartphones and Social Anxiety  - Pages 133-141

Inokentii O. Korniienko and Beata V. Barchi

DOI: https://doi.org/10.6000/2292-2598.2020.08.02.7
Published: 15 May 2020

 


Abstract: This study investigated the smartphone use as the indicators of smartphone addiction and their associations with social anxiety as related variables. Problematic use of smartphones which is well known to be associated with anxiety might act as a common underlying factor explaining social anxiety disorder. This study aims to analyze the associations between mobile phone dependence and social anxiety disorder and to find possible predictors of social anxiety.

Methods: Smartphone addiction assessed using the 20-item Nomophobia Questionnaire (NMP-Q) and Smartphone addiction scale (SAS). Liebowitz Social Anxiety Scale (LSAS) was used to determine social anxiety. The correlational analysis used to investigate the relationship between smartphone addiction and social anxiety. Linear regression conducted to calculate the predictors of social anxiety based on smartphone addiction parameters.

Results: It is revealed that the level of social anxiety and smartphone addiction scales are positively correlated. Linear regression models for male and female participants showed different predictors of social anxiety.

Conclusions: The study provides deeper insights into smartphone use and smartphone addiction as predictors of social anxiety in young people and concluded lesser dependence of males’ social anxiety on smartphone addiction level than the females’.

Keywords: Smartphone addiction, nomophobia, smartphone dependence, social anxiety.

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Journal of Intellectual Disability - Diagnosis and Treatment

Autonomic Dysfunction in Preschool Children with Neurotic Disorders  - Pages 142-147

Zaryana Olexyuk, Aiman Konkabayeva, Gulnaziya Alshynbekova, Gulmira Tykezhanova, Sholpan Nugumanova and Manara Mukasheva

DOI: https://doi.org/10.6000/2292-2598.2020.08.02.8
Published: 15 May 2020

 


Abstract: In the last decades of the 21st century, the problem of a significant increase in the number of children with disorders in mental and somatic development has become particularly acute. Often there are neurotic conditions caused by the influence of various psycho-traumatic factors: the growth of scientific and technological progress and related changes in all areas of human life activity. In this regard, shifts occurred in the structure of the incidence among the population towards an increase in the proportion of diseases associated with nervous and psychic overstrain. One of the most vulnerable age groups is children of preschool and primary school age. Untimely diagnosed neurotic disorders in children, as a rule, turn into protracted forms of neurotic conditions and subsequently become chronic. This, of course, affects the adaptation of the individual in society and the further quality of life.

This study, aimed at assessing autonomic regulation in preschool children with different psychological status, allowed to reveal the activity of the sympathetic and parasympathetic link of the autonomic nervous system (ANS) by the method of cardiointervalography according to R.M. Baevskii. We examined 127 children aged 4-5.5 years old. The average statistical indicators characterizing the regulation of heart rate (HR, HF, LF, VLF, LF/HF, TP, SI) in preschool children in various groups (neurosis, pre-neurosis, anxiety, and normal) were determined. The study revealed changes in the regulation of heart rhythm in children with neurotic disorders, which indicates an increase in the influence of the sympathetic circuit of autonomic regulation and a decrease in parasympathetic influences. Overstrain of vegetative centres in children with neurosis and pre-neurotic conditions is determined by high psychoemotional stresses.

Keywords: Preschool children, neurosis, pre-neurosis, anxiety, heart rate variability, sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous system.

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Journal of Intellectual Disability - Diagnosis and Treatment

Consumers’ Psychological Perception of Antibacterial Drugs Use  - Pages 148-158

Gulmira M. Muldaeva, Aizhan R. Beisenayeva, Almagul B. Kuzgibekova, Leila I. Arystan, Anel R. Beisenayeva and Leila S. Haydargaliyeva

DOI: https://doi.org/10.6000/2292-2598.2020.08.02.9
Published: 15 May 2020

 


Abstract: Objective: The purpose of this article is to analyse consumers' psychological perception of antibacterial drugs use (ABD). For this purpose, the authors conducted a study in the form of a survey among patients, doctors and pharmacists.

Background: Currently, antibiotic resistance is increasing globally due to unreasonable prescriptions of antibacterial drugs. This issue is also urgent, as this method of treatment is the most expensive and common among patients.

Method: The main method of research in the article is a method of analysis and survey of general practitioners, pharmacists and patients in Karaganda.

Results: It was established that the majority of study participants acquired ABDs through doctors’ prescriptions. The respondents aged 45 to 59 years are more reasonable in purchasing antibiotics. The results of the study also showed a low level of consumer knowledge of antibacterial drugs.

Conclusion: Therefore, the results of the study will be of interest to anyone who is interested in a reasonable prescription of antibacterial drugs, as well as in the reduction of their prescriptions.

Keywords: Antibiotics, treatment, prescription drugs, drug prescription, free purchase of antibiotics.

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