Perfectionism, the Impostor Phenomenon, Self-Esteem, and Personality Traits among Russian College Students.

Background: Perfectionism and the Impostor Phenomenon (IP) have mainly been studied in American samples, as have the associations of Perfectionism and the Impostor Phenomenon with Self-Esteem and the Big Five personality traits. However, previous studies showed that results might depend on cultural background. There is a critical lack of such research in the Russian context which might limit generalization of the previous findings to a narrow range of cultures.

Family Perfectionism among Russian College Students.

Background: Research documenting the consequences of perfectionism on psychopathology and academic achievement across diverse cultures proliferates. This paper situates the multidimensional model of perfectionism and the role of family perfectionism within a Russian context.

Objective: The main purposes are to investigate the psychometric properties of the Family Almost Perfect Scale (FAPS) among Russian college students and to explore whether the different types of perfectionistic families found in past studies are replicated in the sample.

Reducing Negative Attitudes Toward Immigrants in Russia and Taiwan: Possible Beneficial Effects of Naïve Dialecticism and an Incremental Worldview.

Greater mobility in human societies has resulted in more interactions and contact with immigrants. In the current research, we investigated how viewing the world as flexible, changing, and paradoxical (i.e.

[Features of the periodontal pathology at patients with metabolic syndrome].

The purpose of this article is to familiarize readers on the relationship between metabolic syndrome and periodontitis, as well as common pathogenetic processes underlying these diseases. The data of modern researches, devoted to the correlation of lesions of periodontal and systemic diseases associated with metabolic syndrome. In the article analyzed also the data of the original study of the interaction of periodontitis and metabolic syndrome, which also used special methods of examination like Doppler ultrasound microcirculatory vasculature of the periodontal tissues and ultrasound densitometry.

[The detection short chain fatty acids in foods by gas-liquid chromatography method].

On the basis of gas-liquid chromatography (GLC) technique of quantitative determination in food, and biologically active additives (BAA) to food short-chain fatty acids: acetic, propionic, butyric, isobutyric, valeric and isovaleric. For this purpose, we used the method of GLC with a plasma-ionization detection, which allowed us to determine the amount of these acids in dietary supplements, prepared on the basis of bacterial.