Published in Journal of Medical Internet Research
Background Misinformation about COVID-19 is common and has been spreading rapidly across the globe through social media platforms and other information systems. Understanding what the public knows about COVID-19 and identifying beliefs based on misinformation can help shape effective public health communications to ensure efforts to reduce viral tr...
Published in Theatrical Colloquia
With a selection of both themes and delicate topics of the present, the Myths Reinterpreted in Contemporary Francophone Dramatury Anthology brings together established voices and young spirits around texts focused on young audiences. Jean-Pierre Dopagne, Axel Cornil, Marine Bachelot Nguyen, Veronica Mabardi, Gustave Akakpo, Jean- François Guibault ...
Published in International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
Sexual violence is a worldwide health and social issue. However, little is known about the sexual violence that occurs in the context of romantic relationships. This study analyzes the existence of sexual violence in adolescents’ romantic relationships, the possible associations between such violence (both committed and suffered) and myths about se...
Les vampires de la série télévisée Vampire Diaries et son spin-off The Originals sont des représentants modernes de cette figure mythique. Ce sont des vampires humains ayant des sentiments et des capacités extraordinaires qui luttent contre leur côté monstrueux. Les mythes nordiques se mêlent cependant à cet imaginaire du vampire. Cet article relèv...
Колективната монография „Управление на масовите възприятия“ обобщава научните резултати от изследванията на докторантите по „Убеждаваща комуникация“ в докторската програма „Медии и комуникации” на Факултета по журналистика и масова комуникация при Софийски университет „Св. Климент Охридски“. Издава се с помощта на Фонд „Научни изследвания” на Софий...
Published in Journal of child sexual abuse
Child sexual abuse myths legitimize abusive behaviors, involving high levels of victim blame and low levels of offender liability. The present study aims to: (i) adapt a measure of endorsement of child sexual abuse myths to the Portuguese context (i.e., Child Sexual Abuse Myth Scale - CSAMS); and (ii) provide validity and reliability evidence for t...
Published in Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care
Background: Suicide remains a psychiatric emergency, tragedy, a public health burden, and for those aged 15-29, is the second leading cause of death globally. Stigma attached to psychiatric disorders and suicide means many people feel unable to seek help. Aim of Work: We highlighted confusing nosology, psychopathology, neurobiological underpinnings...
Published in International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
Population aging is a great human achievement, but the economic literature normally addresses its effects in a narrow way and as a “problem” to be solved. The objective of this paper is to provide a more balanced approach to aging by calling into question some widespread ideas in the economic literature on aging, such as its supposed negative influ...
“Poverty strikes dead the very souls of all who come within sight, sound or smell of it.” G.B. Shaw, Major Barbara This paper explores the popular and political myths and language used about poverty and those who are poor. These are viewed through three historical periods: the Victorian era, the period of the 1930s great depression and the contempo...
Cet article retrace le suivi psychothérapeutique d’un jeune garçon porteur d’une malformation faciale qui le défigure et impacte son développement psychoaffectif, comme en témoignent ses interrogations sur son identité sexuelle, son désir double de subir la chirurgie réparatrice souhaitée par son entourage, mais aussi d’être aimé tel qu’il est. Le ...
