Elena Rasskazova

• PhD
• Professor (Associate) at Lomonosov Moscow State University

With regard to negative consequences, cyberbullying is recognized as one of the most traumatic types of cyber aggression. The aim is to study the specific features of adolescents and youth’s cyberbullying experience in the role of an aggressor, victim or bystander, as well as awareness on the part of parents of adolescents. A total of 3395 adolesce...

Introduction Meaning is an important psychological resource both in situations of accomplishment and in situations of ongoing adversity and psychological crisis. Meaning in life underlies the reasons for staying alive both in everyday and in critical circumstances, fulfilling a buffering function with respect to life adversities. Aim The aim of th...

What keeps regular blood donors coming back, despite the inconvenience and discomfort, thereby maintaining the community's blood supply? We approached 494 people waiting to give blood, 229 Americans and 265 Russians, with a survey that assessed their motivations to donate, their contextual emotions, and their future donation intentions. The Russian...

While negative psychological effects of COVID-19 pandemic are actively studied, little is known about the eventual positive reactions to the pandemic including the capacity to see positive opportunities in this situation and about personality resources that may help to cope and to maintain well-being despite lifestyle restrictions. The aim of our s...

Nowadays, when most people are on the Internet and “connected” most time of the day and night, the Internet becomes a place of the socialization of modern children and adolescents, which requires a rethinking of changes in user activity, digital competence and online risks in recent years. The aim of this study was to compare user activity, online...

This article aims at identifying different preferences for gender roles in transgender persons and the associations of those preferences with well-being at the different stages of medical transition. A total of 148 Russian transgender subjects (64 in pre-treatment, 41 in hormonal therapy, and 43 in hormonal therapy after some surgery) and 120 Russi...

Most research on the pandemic today assumes that this situation is stressful and requires coping. The aim was to study subjective well-being in the situation of the pandemic and its relationship to coping and anxiety about coronavirus. 409 people filled Satisfaction With Life Scale, Scale of Positive And Negative Experiences, situational version of...

The paper studies the relationship of the anxiety of different types in the situation of the pandemic with the search for information about coronavirus and with protective actions. This research included 409 respondents uninfected by coronavirus aged 18 to 64 years old within a period of three weeks to one month from the start of self-isolation. Th...

Development of health behavior in patients is an important task of psychological rehabilitation. The models of behavior change and their application in psychological rehabilitation are analyzed. We discuss applications of the PROCEED–PROCEED model to the evaluation of rehabilitation. The value of the model is in the possibility to operationalize an...

Objective: To validate the Scale of Behavioral Factors of Sleep Disturbances is people without diagnosed sleep disorders, as well as to reveal direct and indirect effects of sleep behavior on subjective sleep quality and well-being. Material and methods: Sample 1 included 66 people, aged 19-55 years, without diagnosed sleep disturbances who comp...

The transformation of the problem of multitasking as an object of experimental cognitive psychology into a General psychological problem of constant combination of several activities, provoked by information technologies and which has become a social criterion for a successful person, requires a comparison of different approaches to definition, mod...

Регулярно обновляемая онлайновая версия учебника доступна по адресу https://handbook.mathpsy.com/. Цель данного учебника – ввести читателя в мир статистических инструментов, необходимых для профессиональной деятельности психолога. В нем на различных примерах рассматриваются основы теории вероятности и математической статистики. Главное внимание уд...

The actual problem of implementation and use of the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICFDH) in the work of clinical psychologists taking into account Russian psychological tradition discussed. There is a necessity of operationalizing the ICFDH domains for specialists of the multidisciplinary rehabilitation team, w...

Quality of life therapy proposed by M. Frisch offers to make the source of psychotherapy and ground its key goals in the life spheres that are important for the per son, but (s)he feels dissatisfied with and unfulfilled in. The aim of this study is the validation of the Russian version of M. Frisch’s Quality of Life Inventory. The study included tw...

Information technologies affect the most important problem of subjective boundaries and their privacy. Electronic gadgets are regularly used at night or in the late evening, which is associated with the complaints of sleep disturbances on the non-clinical level. The present study aims at clarifying the relationship between anxiety, depression and t...

On a sample of 262 patients with mental illnesses based on restructured clinical scales of MMPI-2 six latent personality profiles were identified. A “suppressive” profile is characterized by a tendency toward self-presentation, suppression, and is more common with adaptation disorder and schizophrenia. The “normative” profile can be combined with a...

One of the key reasons for the collision of adolescents with online risks and subsequent difficulties is the lack of prevention and assistance from adults in time. The paper is devoted to identifying of psychological factors (strategies of parental mediation, online activities and adolescents' beliefs) associated with parental unawareness about the...

Aim: To study the relationship between the use of electronic devices in the evenings and at nights and complaints on sleep disturbances. Material and methods: Two hundreds and three adults were studied. A sample was divided into two groups. Group 1 included 100 respondents without diagnosed sleep disorders who completed the Insomnia Severity Ind...

Paper is devoted to psychological self-regulation at different stages of behavior change, according to the trans-theoretical model. It was assumed that psychological factors of self-regulation are differently related to the subjective success of achieving goals, depending on the life domain and the stage of change. 127 students set goals for the ne...

From the perspective of cultural-historical approach to psychosomatics, psychogenic symptoms may increase or become chronic by acquiring meaning and functions in interpersonal communication (for example, receiving support, justification, etc.). The paper explores the functions of two common complaints — of sleep disturbances and sleepiness — and th...

Paper is devoted to the development and validation of the methodological complex for psychological diagnostic of the risk factors for involving adolescents in the use of narcotic substances. The diagnostic of people using psychoactive substances is difficult due to their defensive strategy of answers — both because of the intentional desire to keep...

Background. Diagnostics of the schoolchildren digital competence is now an important educational task that requires an index applicable to children of the early school age and brief enough for population studies. The Digital Competence Index (DCI) as a component of social competence was proposed for measuring knowledge, skills, motivation and respo...

Introduction. Mechanisms and factors for psychoactive substance dependence and also psychological methods for its treatment and prevention have been widely researched. However, early diagnostics and prevention of psychoactive substance dependence among schoolchildren remain important today. The paper presents the results of the study of (a) categor...

In three cross-cultural studies we tested the premise that psychological freedom (aka autonomy) and personal responsibility are complementary rather than conflicting, and the further premise that freedom causes responsibility, rather than vice versa. In all studies, (a) supporting autonomy in an experimental context increased responsibility-taking...

Paper summarizes the empirical studies carried out in the framework of psychology of corporeality to identity. It is hypothesized that identity as the feeling of relatedness between objects and “I” is based on self-integrity experience defined by subjective controllability. The grounds, the realism of this controllability, activity of the subject a...

The paper is devoted to an experimental comparison of two hypotheses of the genesis of bodily sensations in psychosomatics: in accordance with the hypothesis of “general somatic sensitivity”, the key role in somatization is played by the general attention to sensations, whereas in accordance with the concepts of the personal meaning, sensations dep...

Introduction According to common-sense model illness representation regulates her coping both in somatic and mental illnesses. Objectives As a personal reaction illness representation should partially depend not only on diagnosis and symptoms but also on personality. Aim is to identify direct and indirect effects of personality and psychopathologi...

Introduction Although a plenty of instruments for quality of life in mental illnesses was developed, both general and specific instruments could be biased if the process of well-being appraisal is different in different illnesses. Objectives We consider personal appraisal of quality of life as a result of the decision making process, which could h...

Introduction Cognitive perspective considers beliefs as key factors of compliance and adjustment in mental disorders (Beck, 2011) that are especially important in youth. In psychosis illness, representation is related to CBT efficacy. Objectives We suggest that in different mental disorders different illness-related beliefs are important for quali...

Introduction Cognitive insight was shown to be impaired in schizophrenia while its high level predicts improvement of psychotic symptoms. However, later studies demonstrated that in other mental disorders and healthy subjects cognitive insight might play ambiguous role being related to anxiety and lack of self-confidence. Objectives Development of...

Introduction Pictorial representation of illness and self-measure (PRISM) was developed as screening tool assessing implicit reaction to somatic illnesses. Conclusion is based on comparisons of the positions of illness-related (“Illness” and major symptoms) and unrelated (“Me”, “Family”, “Work/study”) objects on the list. Objectives Due to its eas...

Introduction Social values of health and health care are considered as important factors of health behavior as well as sources of self-regulation in health and illness. However, emphasize on medicine, health and body that is widespread in mass media nowadays may increase hypochondriac-like beliefs and behavior as well as the risk for unexplained so...

Introduction Personality disorders are rather widespread in oncology settings demanding special attention of clinician. Serious illness threatening person's life as well as severe treatment and side effects lead to specific self-regulatory emotional and cognitive efforts. Personality could both play an important role in this process predicting adju...

Introduction Despite a long psychological discussion on the inconsistency and fragmentation in self-appraisals as factors of neuroses and personality disorders (Horney, 1991, Lynch, 2014) classical psychodiagnostic considers response inconsistency as an indicator of protocol invalidity only. Objectives Using MMPI-2 True and Variable Response Incon...

In contemporary world, the digital competence of adolescents is not a separate property or capacity any longer, becoming the prerequisite and basis for many types of activities, and the Internet has become a space mediating socialization of children. Russian population study indicated that there is a «gap» in the structure of motivation to improve...

Research is devoted to incoherence in appraisals of self, others and events in health and mental illness. In healthy control (H1 = 1443) and clinical (N2 = 204) validation samples of the Russian version of MMPI-2 we demonstrated that two types of incoherence - the style-based (agreement with the opposite statement) and variable ones - are relativel...

The paper discusses rehabilitation of patients with mental disorders after brain injuries, defining the notion of rehabilitation and associated notions, stressing the complexity of the problem caused by diversity of opinions on its different aspects. Conflicting definitions can be explained by absence of clear definitions of co-relation of social m...

The paper presents a study of relationship between digital competence of Russian adolescents who make right or wrong decisions in simple tests about online situations with online risks and choice of action strategies in ambiguous social situations online. The illusion of digital competence is understood as obvious mistakes in solving everjday situa...

Widely used notion of "digital gap" between generations actualizes the problems of psychological content of this gap, possibilities of its overcoming and contribution of intergenerational interactions in user's activity, confidence in oneself as user's and digital competence. The data of all-Russian study of digital competence on a sample of 1209'...

According to Maslow’s (Psychol Rev 50:370–396, 1943) hierarchical theory of needs, people do not become sensitized to “higher” level needs until they have satisfied their “lower” level needs (a moderator hypothesis); until then, they are unprepared to benefit from higher-level satisfactions. But according to the self-determination theory (SDT) mode...

Having established the conception of digital competence consisting of four components (knowledge, skills, motivation and responsibility) implemented in four areas (content, communication, consumption, and the techno-sphere), we propose the idea of models of digital competence as a specific systems of adolescents’ beliefs about their abilities and d...

Статья посвящена критическому обсуждению проблемы статистического вывода и методологии проверки нулевой гипотезы. В ней рассматриваются основные недостатки этого подхода к статистическому оцениванию данных. Выделяются несколько уровней критики проверки нулевой гипотезы: собственно статистический, связанный с процедурами и допущениями, стоящими за э...

The article examines the opportunities and limitations of the coping behavior of children and teenagers on the Internet and the assistance that they receive from significant adults (parental mediation) in the context of the new developmental social situation, which is mediated by modern information and communication technologies, and in particular...

Illness and treatment representation in the broad sense is considered as one of the key factors of self-regulation in the situation of the illness in psychosomatics and health psychology. This work is devoted to the application of locus of control constructs (internality / externality of attribution of events) and self-efficacy (confidence of the p...

The article is devoted to the motivation to run or to end of young athletes career. This article describes the steps of sports career. "Sports Enjoyment" concept is considered as one of the motivating factors. In a sample of 225 athletes from 28 different sports, we tested the questionnaire "The Role of Enjoyment in the End of Sports Career" and id...

The paper discusses opportunities of a theoretical approach that considers choice as irreducible to the decision making. Psychological content and experience of choice are emphasized. We suggest to take into account in empirical research both formal and content characteristics of the choice as well as its development within the time, including a ch...

Aim: To determine characteristics of cognitive insight and its relationship with the severity and dynamics of symptoms in patients with ultra-high risk for schizophrenia during treatment. Material and methods: The study included 76 young patients with subpsychotic symptoms corresponding to criteria of ultra-high risk for psychosis and 55 healthy...

The focus of the paper is the contribution of personality resources (optimism, hardiness, tolerance to ambiguity, self-efficacy, purpose in life), to the dynamics of subjective well-being under the pressure of economic crisis. As expected, personality resources have both filtering and buffering functions, influencing the subjective impact of econom...

Popularity of screening scales in the assessment of cognitive functions in neuropsychological rehabilitation often involves their direct adoption in Russia without appropriate approbation and improper conclusions. In the article based on the examples of Montreal Cognitive Assessment and the Mini-Mental State Examination we consider the requirements...

Psychological analysis of some aspects of the digital gap between the generation of Russian adolescents, and that of their parents, in digital competence and ways of mastering the Internet is presented. The characteristics of various cultural forms of conveying information and interaction between generations in the IT sphere are also analyzed. The...

The paper analyzes characteristics of coping behavior connected with the use of the Internet and mobile phones, uncovering how psychological consequences of the use of technologies mediate the link between coping strategies and life satisfaction on one hand and expression of psychopathic symptoms on the other. The authors suggest four methods for t...

The place and rile of hardiness model in modern psychology of personality is theoretically analyzed as well as the means of its existential basis reveals itself in psychological studies. On the example of three empirical studies modeling "existential problem" it is shown that higher level of hardiness is linked to greater preparedness to choose unc...

Paper is devoted to comparisons of inter- and intra-individual approaches to study functional and somatic reactions of individuals to subjective stress in the normative sample. Adult participants (N=79) appraised stress level, experienced somatic symptoms and filled the test of the differentiated assessment of a functional condition within four day...

In this paper, we developed a psychological model of digital competence including four components (knowledge, skills, motivation and responsibility) and four spheres (work with online content, communication, technical activity and consumption). The Digital Competence Index (DCI) is a 52-item instrument assessing an index and an entire profile of di...

The aim of the study is to consider technology-related changes in psychological needs and boundaries that affect one's personal adaptation to the info-communication society, as well as how they relate to problematic or excessive technology use. Based on the psychological model of the consequences of technology use, we've picked two forms of technol...

The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of intention to fall asleep on sleep quality in good sleepers using polysomnographic and subjective nap parameters. We hypothesized that high intention to sleep would lead to arousal, worsening sleep quality. A counterbalanced 2 × 2 experimental design with one intra-individual (neutral versus mo...

Introduction Modern theories suggest that chronic and acute stress is one of the predisposing factors of insomnia. Anticipation of a significant event also may cause sleep problems. Materials and methods ”Mars-520â” is an international project for simulating aspects of an interplanetary manned flight, organized by Institute for Bio-Medical Problem...

The purpose of the research was to study the effects of long-term isolation on night sleep of the healthy human. The data were collected during international ground simulation of the interplanetary manned flight “Mars-500.” Polysomnography recordings of six healthy men were performed before, four times during and after 520-days confinement. During...

In this paper, based on the psychological model of consequences of info-communicational technology use [1] we study the role of two factors – change in needs (the need for development of image making by technology, the need for convenience and functionality) and transformation of psychological boundaries (subjective extension and subjective violati...

This paper analyzes opportunities of application of the self-determination theory to the compliant behavior and describes the process of development and validation scale for measuring compliance-related causality orientations in the normative sample. Experts’ appraisals demonstrated that in clinical settings controlled causality orientation could b...

Difficulties in definition of internet addiction phenomenon, its structure, assessment criteria and diagnostics are marked. The necessity to analyze content peculiarities of the Internet activity is emphasized. Leading role of social (in contrast to clinical-psychological and personal) factors in internet-addiction formation (peculiarities of moder...

Correlation of contribution of socio-demographic (sex, age, education, marital status) and organizational (position, experience) factors to satisfaction with different components of job activity (wages, conditions and job organization, team leadership, job content and achievements) in Russian industrial company is considered. According to the resul...

The author reviews models of disruption of self-regulation of behavior with respect to health and illness, analyzing ways of applying general psychological theories of self-regulation to clinical psychology and psychology of health; specific models of self-regulation and empirical findings based on the models. The author also discusses prospects of...

The results of study of the role of psychological factors of self regulation (individual style of self regulation, viability, locus of causality, self-efficiency) at the stages of educational task's choice and spontaneous changing of the choice in students (n = 100) are presented. It is shown that viability and autonomous locus of causality favour...

The psychological study is based on the clinical typology of refusal reactions (RR) in schizophrenic patients--"capitulation", "avoidance", "absenteism". Seventy patients with RR, mean age 27 years, 25 women, 45 men, were examined with the use of a number of psychological methods. The findings prove the hypothesis on the disturbances of motivation...