Sentences with phrase «influencing psychological functioning»

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Parents» level of warmth / acceptance and permissiveness / restrictiveness is influenced by the way they interpret and react to their child's behaviours, their expectations about their child's ability, and their own psychological functioning.

Because of widespread distribution of its cells, it is believed to influence a variety of psychological and body functions.

However, behavior is very complex because it not only reflects the functioning of the whole physical and psychological organism, but it changes as a result of environmental influences.

Although the study of psychological genetics is in its infancy and much is still to be learned, in this article, we present data suggesting that variation in several genes known to affect brain function appear to influence the degree to which one is emotionally responsive to the social environment.

Given the influence of positive affect both on resilience and perceived self - efficacy in life skills and the significance of educational programs focused on the increasing of self - efficacy in life skills, future investigations could better understand the functioning of «protective factors» actively involved in the transition from childhood to adolescence, in line with the flourishing approach developed by Positive Psychology (Seligman, 2011) in supporting the promotion of psychological well - being and the increasing of individual's bio-psycho-social skills.

It is possible that this association could influence other psychological outcomes included in our path analysis, since fatigue may contribute to depression by reducing physical function as a result of lack of energy.46 These associations support a complex interaction among physical outcomes, depressive symptoms and fatigue.

Ajdukovic and Ajdukovic's (1993) study of the influence of maternal mental health on children's stress reactions and stress indexes emphasised the emotional and behavioural state of mothers as major mediators between children's traumatic experience and psychological functioning.

The relation between perceived acceptance - rejection and parental control, and the joint, interactive, and singular influence of each form of parenting on youths» behavioral and psychological functioning.

Finally, parents» own psychological functioning can influence their caregiving approach.

While a genetic basis for the findings is possible, altered parenting likely has a significant mediating role.15 For example, a recent meta - analysis found that maternal depression and psychological distress were associated with increased negative and coercive parenting behaviors and disengagement from the child.36 A father may then attenuate the influence of a mother's depression with increased caring behavior directed to the children.37, 38 Alternatively, a healthy father may offer support directly to the affected mother.14 Future work may explicate these mechanisms by examining specific measures of mothers» and fathers» role functioning.

Aim: In this study the relationship between the levels of dental anxiety, psychological functioning and earlier experience with dental injections are examined and the possible influence of these factors on children's behaviour before and during a local anaesthesia injection.

General indices regarding mental health of mothers have been associated with their children's sleep, and less well - organized sleep patterns have been noted in children from poorly functioning families.113) Mothers of children with sleep disturbances exhibited much higher psychological stress than did controls, obtaining increased scores on all factors of the General Health Questionnaire (GHQ).114) Children's sleep quality significantly predicted that of their mothers, with maternal sleep quality associated with stress and fatigue.115) Moreover, infants of mothers with low levels of depression and anxiety were more likely to recover from sleep problems than those with high levels of depression and anxiety after controlling for the influence of attachment patterns.116) Sleep disturbances in early childhood were positively related to negative maternal perceptions of their child, 117) potentially interfering with the development of beneficial parent - child interactions.