10 results match your criteria: "59193University of Macau[Affiliation]"

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  • Social perceptions of speakers are influenced by their vocal characteristics and the semantic content of their speech, with specific focus on vocal pitch and types of semantic cues.
  • Antisocial cues consistently led to negative evaluations of speakers, while prosocial cues didn't significantly enhance positive perceptions compared to neutral cues.
  • Vocal pitch affects warmth and competence perceptions differently, with high pitch associated with warmth but less competence, and low pitch linked to competence but reduced warmth, highlighting the complexities of how voice influences stereotypes in social contexts.
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China, as a traditional patriarchal society, provides an excellent context to examine whether and how increased financial independence of women may influence intimate partner violence. This study examines how financial independence influences Chinese women's victimization experiences of physical violence, psychological violence, controlling behavior, and sexual abuse. Data were collected from 600 married or divorced women aged between 20 and 60, who resided in a large metropolitan area in Southern China.

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Network Analysis of Depression, Anxiety, Posttraumatic Stress Symptoms, Insomnia, Pain, and Fatigue in Clinically Stable Older Patients With Psychiatric Disorders During the COVID-19 Outbreak.

J Geriatr Psychiatry Neurol

March 2022

Unit of Psychiatry, Department of Public Health and Medicinal Administration, & Institute of Translational Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Macau, Macao SAR, China.

Objectives: The Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has profound negative effects on the mental health of clinically stable older patients with psychiatric disorders. This study examined the influential nodes of psychiatric problems and their associations in this population using network analysis.

Methods: Clinically stable older patients with psychiatric disorders were consecutively recruited from four major psychiatric hospitals in China from May 22 to July 15, 2020.

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Sleep Disturbances and Their Association With Quality of Life in Older Psychiatric Patients During the COVID-19 Pandemic.

J Geriatr Psychiatry Neurol

March 2022

Faculty of Health Sciences, Unit of Psychiatry, Department of Public Health and Medicinal Administration, and Institute of Translational Medicine, 59193University of Macau, Macao SAR, China.

Aims: The negative effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on sleep quality of clinically stable psychiatric patients is unknown. This study examined the prevalence of sleep disturbances and their association with quality of life (QOL) in clinically stable older psychiatric patients during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Methods: This multicenter, cross-sectional study involved older patients attending maintenance treatment at outpatient departments of four major psychiatric hospitals in China.

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Cytogenetics at diagnosis is the most important prognostic factor for adult acute myeloid leukemia (AML), but nearly 50% of AML patients who exhibit cytogenetically normal AML (CN-AML) do not undergo effective risk stratification. Therefore, the development of potential biomarkers to further define risk stratification for CN-AML patients is worth exploring. Transcriptome data from 163 cases in the GSE12417-GPL96 dataset and 104 CN-AML patient cases in the GSE71014-GPL10558 dataset were downloaded from the Gene Expression Omnibus database for overall survival (OS) analysis and validation.

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It is puzzling why countries do not all implement stringent behavioral control measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19 even though preventive behaviors have been proven to be the only effective means to stop the pandemic. We provide a novel evolutionary life history explanation whereby pathogenic and parasitic prevalence represents intrinsic rather than extrinsic mortality risk that drives slower life history strategies and the related disease control motivation in all animals but especially humans. Our theory was tested and supported based on publicly available data involving over 150 countries.

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In this study, we investigated the relations between family interaction, gratitude, and depressive symptoms among Chinese emerging adults. It also investigated gratitude as a mediator in the relation between family interaction and depression. Data were obtained from 321 college students who completed the online questionnaire about the Family Assessment Instrument, Gratitude Questionnaire, Patient Health Questionnaire, and demographic information.

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  • - A meta-analysis was conducted to evaluate the impact of childhood emotional maltreatment on romantic relationship well-being in adulthood, examining 201 effect sizes from 23 reports published before January 2020.
  • - The analysis found a modest negative correlation between early emotional maltreatment and adult romantic relationship well-being, with a stronger impact on negative relationship outcomes compared to positive ones.
  • - Key findings indicated that the effect was larger for personal experiences (actor effects) than partner influences, was more pronounced in studies using the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire, and did not significantly change based on the type of relationship measures used.
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Life history (LH) strategies explain how organisms adapt to the environment and make the best use of their resources to fulfill bodily maintenance, growth, reproduction and other functions. The K-SF-42 is a short version of the 199-item Arizona Life History Battery for assessing seven different domains of LH strategies. This article aims to evaluate the psychometric properties of a Chinese version of the K-SF-42.

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