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Efficacy of behavioral interventions for reducing problem behavior in persons with autism: An updated quantitative synthesis of single-subject research KU Leuven
Problem or challenging behaviors are highly prevalent among persons with autism and bring along major risks for the individual with autism and his/her family. In order to reduce the problem behavior, several behavioral interventions are used. We conducted a quantitative synthesis of single-subject studies to examine the efficacy of behavioral interventions for reducing problem behavior in persons with autism. Two hundred and thirteen studies ...
Psychometric data of a questionnaire to measure cyberbullying bystander behavior and its behavioral determinants among adolescents Vrije Universiteit Brussel University of Antwerp KU Leuven Ghent University
This paper describes the items, scale validity and scale reliability of a self-report questionnaire that measures bystander behavior in cyberbullying incidents among adolescents, and its behavioral determinants. Determinants included behavioral intention, behavioral attitudes, moral disengagement attitudes, outcome expectations, self-efficacy, subjective norm and social skills. Questions also assessed (cyber-)bullying involvement. Validity ...
Transactional links between teacher-student relationship quality and adolescent rule-breaking behavior and behavioral school engagement: The moderating role of a dopaminergic genetic profile score KU Leuven
Throughout adolescence, there is an increase in rule-breaking behavior and a decrease in behavioral school engagement. The role of teacher-student relationship quality in the development of these adjustment problems remains understudied. This study examined how adolescent-reported teacher-student affiliation and dissatisfaction and parent-reported rule-breaking behavior and behavioral engagement impact one another throughout adolescence. In ...
Enhancing Behavior Change Technique Coding Methods: Identifying Behavioral Targets and Delivery Styles in Smoking Cessation Trials. KU Leuven
Background: The behavior change technique (BCT) taxonomy v1 is often used in systematic reviews for identifying active components of interventions. Its utility could be enhanced by linking BCTs to specific target behaviors and qualifying BCT delivery style. Purpose: To determine whether behavioral targets and delivery styles of BCTs can be coded reliably and to determine the utility of coding these characteristics. Methods: As part of a large ...
The behavioral intervention 'positive cueing' : altering self-perception, increasing green awareness, or undermining the signaling value of costly green behavior? Ghent University
The social marketing technique "positive cueing" has been suggested to help increase pro-environmental behavior by changing perceptions of the self to which consumers want to align their behavior. However, posi-tive cueing may also draw attention to the pro-environmental nature of previous decisions that people typically do not interpret as such. Therefore, we argue that positive cueing effects occur by making people aware that many (common) ...
Judicial Behavior under Austerity: An Empirical Analysis of Behavioral Changes in the Portuguese Constitutional Court, 2002–2016 University of Antwerp
The austerity policies pursued in several countries during the Eurozone crisis began to call attention to the role played by courts as relevant actors in the context of budgetary and financial stress. The case of the Portuguese Constitutional Court has often been singled out in national and international forums as one characterized by particularly intense activism in this respect. Allegedly, political conflict around austerity policies and the ...