Victoria Ismatullina

• PhD
• Senior Researcher at Psychological Institute of Russian Academy of Education

p>The results of a study of psychological well-being and educational outcomes of first-year students depending on their university admission strategy – based on the results of the Unified State Examinations, winners and prize-winners of school Olympic competitions, within the framework of targeted recruitment, after graduating from secondary vocati...

The purpose of this study was to compare the prevalence of math anxiety in Russian and Chinese schoolchildren across genders and ages. The Abbreviated Math Anxiety Scale (AMAS) was used as a measurement tool for assessing math anxiety. The factor structure of the AMAS and item invariance between Russian and Chinese schoolchildren were also examined...

Life satisfaction is associated with adolescents’ adaptability, academic achievement, and mental health, and it reflects the profile of a country’s economic development. In this study, we assessed the psychometric properties of the Russian version of the Multidimensional Students’ Life Satisfaction Scale (MSLSS). The initial adaptation of the MSLSS...

p>Global socio-economic crises, new pandemics, climate disasters, and other large-scale factors create an unfavorable background for humanity, often involving painful processes that lead to significant changes in personality and the social situation of development. Students, as they navigate personal and professional development during their univer...

Network neuroscience explores the brain's connectome, demonstrating that dynamic neural networks support cognitive functions. This study investigates how distinct cognitive abilities—working memory and cognitive inhibitory control—are supported by unique brain network configurations constructed by estimating whole‐brain networks using mutual inform...

Network neuroscience investigates the brain’s connectome, revealing that cognitive functions are underpinned by dynamic neural networks. This study investigates how distinct cognitive abilities—working memory and inhibition—are supported by unique brain network configurations, which are constructed by estimating whole-brain networks through mutual...

Background . Math anxiety is a state of fear and anxiety that an individual experiences when interacting with mathematical problems. Currently, there is a lack of questionnaires to measure mathematical anxiety for Russian-speaking schoolchildren. The aim. The study analyzed the factor structure and psychometric properties of the Abbreviated Math An...

This study involved a psychometric analysis of the 10-item Perceived Stress Scale (PSS-10). To investigate the Russian version of the PSS-10 for adolescents, 3530 adolescents aged 13–17 years were recruited. Confirmatory factor analysis revealed that the data corresponded to the expected two-factor configuration. Psychometric properties and factor...

This study is the first to assess the internal consistency and factor validity of the Abbreviated Math Anxiety Scale (AMAS) in a sample of Russian adolescents as well as gender differences and gender invariance. The study included 4,218 adolescents in grades 7–9 (M = 14.23, SD = 0.92). Internal consistency, measured with Cronbach’s alpha, was high....

Background The quality of sleep significantly impacts children’s day-to-day performance, with at least 20% reporting issues with sleepiness. Valid tools for assessing the quality of sleep are needed. Objective In this study, we assessed the psychometric properties of the Russian version of the Pediatric Daytime Sleepiness Scale (PDSS). The initial...

The COVID-19 pandemic has had a dramatic impact on the mental state of teachers and students, who faced the necessity to teach and study online because of lockdown. The current study aimed to establish the association between attitudes toward the pandemic and the degree of stress, anxiety and depression among teachers and students. A total of 8051...

This study involved a psychometric analysis of the 10-item Perceived Stress Scale (PSS-10). To investigate the Russian version of the PSS-10 for adolescents, 3530 adolescents aged 13 to 17 years were recruited. Confirmatory factor analysis revealed that the data corresponded to the expected two-factor configuration. Psychometric properties and fact...

The study used a large sample of elementary schoolchildren in Russia (N = 3,448, 51.6% were girls, with a mean age of 8.70 years, ranging 6–11 years) to investigate the congruency, format and heterogeneity effects in a nonsymbolic comparison test and between-individual differences in these effects with generalized linear mixed effects models (GLMMs...

In this paper, the results of a psychometric analysis of a Brief Russian-language version of the COPE-A inventory for adolescents are presented. The inventory was designed for identifying coping strategies used in stressful situations and is comprised of 31 items. The study involved 3530 adolescents aged 13 to 17 years old. Using exploratory factor...

Mathematics is an important subject to study. But the presence of mathematical and gender stereotypes affects the self-perception of mathematical abilities for boys and girls. In the future it may be associated with the choice of educational and career trajectories. In turn, the teacher acts as a guide in the formation of these ideas and motivation...

Cognitive effort is intrinsically linked to task difficulty, intelligence, and mental toughness. Intelligence reflects an individual’s cognitive aptitude, whereas mental toughness (MT) reflects an individual’s resilience in pursuing success. Research shows that parietal alpha oscillations are associated with changes in task difficulty. Critically,...

This study investigates the psychometric properties of brief COPE in Russian schoolteachers. A total of 773 (91% female; M = 43, SD = 9.79) teachers participated in the study. Principal component analysis (PCA) and confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) were applied to assess the psychometric properties of the brief COPE. The Perceived Stress Scale (PS...

Background: Spatial ability (SA) was shown to be important for success in different fields, including STEM. Recent research suggested that SA is a unitary construct, rather than a set of related skills. However, it is not clear how individual differences in different facets of SA emerge, and how they relate to variance in general cognitive ability...

Adolescents face many barriers on the path towards a STEM profession, especially girls. We examine the gender stereotypes, cognitive abilities, self-perceived ability and intrinsic values of 546 Russian school children from 12 to 17 years old by sex and STEM preferences. In our sample, STEM students compared to no-STEM have higher cognitive abiliti...

The student is a co-author of education that expands the possibilities for the development of his personality. He independently and with the support of a teacher not only repeats the path of mankind but also discovers the laws of nature, society and personality, invents methods and algorithms, realizes big ideas – the basis for his orientation in t...

Web surveys are an integral part of the feedback of Internet services, a research tool for respondents, including in the field of health and psychology. Web technologies allow conducting research on large samples. For mental health, an important metric is reaction time in cognitive tests and in answering questions. The use of mobile devices such as...

Citation: Feklicheva, I.; Zakharov, I.; Chipeeva, N.; Maslennikova, E.; Korobova, S.; Adamovich, T.; Ismatullina, V.; Malykh, S. Assessing the Relationship between Verbal and Nonverbal Cognitive Abilities Using Resting-State EEG Functional Connectivity. Brain Sci. 2021, 11, 94. The present study investigates the relationship between individual dif...

The procedure of thresholding for graph construction is one of the common steps in calculating networks of brain connections. However, this procedure can lead to incomparable results from different studies. In the present study we aim to test the effect of thresholding or algorithmic reduction of the number of connected nodes on the construction of...

This article is devoted to the development of a model of an artificial neural network for predicting the level of nonverbal intelligence according to the EEG of the brain. Cognitive functioning relies on the synchronization between different brain structures. However, it is still unclear how individual differences in intelligence are related to the...

Background. The COVID-19 pandemic has subjected people around the world to severe stress, evoking a variety of coping responses. Coping responses can be broadly classified into four strategies: 1) problem-focused coping; 2) emotion-focused coping; 3) socially supported coping; and 4) avoidance. While there is a wide variability of individual coping...

Web-surveys are one of the most popular forms of primary data collection used for various researches. However, mass surveys involve some challenges. It is required to consider different platforms and browsers, as well as different data transfer rates using connections in different regions of the country. Ensuring guaranteed data delivery in these c...

Web-surveys have their own characteristics, including the need to consider various platforms and browsers, as well as different data transfer rate over networks in regions and territories of the country. Ensuring guaranteed data delivery under these conditions should determine the right choice of technologies for implementing web surveys. A solutio...

Aim. The purpose of the article is to study the correlation between physical activity and functional connectivity (FC) of the brain based on EEG data. Materials and methods. The study sample included 43 healthy persons aged from 17 to 35 years (26 women). The participants were divided into two groups. The first group (21 persons) was engaged in phy...

The paper presents result of the development of the open digital platform (DigitalPsyTools.ru), which provides support for conducting the large-scale psychological research. Development of the dedicated information and data analysis instrument has a goal to consolidate the efforts of the professional interdisciplinary specialists in the area of psy...

В статье представлены результаты разработки открытой цифровой платформы (DigitalPsyTools.ru), предназначенной для масштабных психологических исследований. Создание специализированного информационно-аналитического инструментария направлено на консолидацию на единой платформе усилий специалистов в области междисциплинарных психологических исследовани...

Background. Recent research has suggested a unifactorial structure of spatial ability (SA). However, further studies are needed to replicate this finding in different populations. Objective. This study aims to explore the factorial structure of SA in samples of 921 Russian and 229 Chinese university students. Design. A gamified spatial abilities...

Background. Spatial ability (SA) has long been the focus of research in psychology, because it is associated with performance in science, technologies, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). Research has shown that males consistently outperform females in most aspects of SA, which may partially explain the observed overrepresentation of male students...

The paper studies the possibility of Big Five technique implementation using questionnaires standard for the web-based platform. It is noted that the use of online tools for research in the field of psychology is becoming more relevant. Therefore, an experiment was set up. In this experiment, the technique was described in the JSON format for the u...

Исследования в сфере образования становятся междисциплинарными и всё чаще используются подходы и методы целого ряд других наук. Популяционные исследования позволяют дать адекватную оценку индивидуально-психологических и возрастных особенностей современных школьников в разные периоды обучения. Они являются основой для определения современных возраст...

A web platform for psychological research needs a single format of questionnaire tests to ensure interaction between its components. The study proposes a general test structure, variant questions, variations in response types, and an embedded domain-specific language for computations. The use of JSON is proposed and justified to store the hierarchi...

The paper reviews results of the studies that were aimed to investigate spatial abilities as well as gender and cross-cultural differences in spatial abilities. Biological, social and personal factors contributing to the development of these abilities are analyzed. Fundamental approaches towards understanding of spatial abilities structure are revi...

In this article we present the results of a cross-cultural study of non-verbal intelligence in primary school students. Significant differences with the effect size of 9% were found in non-verbal intelligence scores of 1057 students from Russia and Kyrgyzstan. The differences were also found for city and countryside residents (effect size of 10%)....

The article presents the results of the pilot study of the relationships between personality traits and intelligence in Russian boys and girls of high school age. We focused on the Big Five personality traits–Neuroticism, Extraversion, Openness to experience, Agreeableness and Conscientiousness –and the structure of their relationships with non-ver...

Identification of genetic and environmental factors of the relationship between temperament and the planning ability is essential for future interventions aimed at self-regulation in adolescents. Participants included 612 twin pairs aged 10 to 14 years. All participants filled out Rothbart's Early Adolescent Temperament Questionnaire and were teste...

This article is devoted to contemporary methods of risk management under the conditions of crisis on financial markets. The article deals with developing the new approaches to studying finance and financial markets. It outlays new methods to compare fundamental events and their technical interpretation shown on quotation charts. It also introduces...

The study examines the relationship between intelligence and visual recognition processes in adolescents from Russia and Kyrgystan (n=327). We used “Raven Progressive Matrices” test to measure IQ and “Pattern Recognition memory” subtest of neuropsychological battery CANTAB to measure visual recognition. After adjusting for age effects number and la...

In this article we presented the computerized tools for psychological studies of memory. The importance of implementing computerized automated tools for psychological studies is discussed. It has been shown that this tools can be used both for cross-cultural and genetically informative studies. The validity of these tools for cross-cultural and gen...

Structural equation modelling (SEM) has become an important tool in behaviour genetic research. The application of SEM for multivariate twin analysis allows revealing the structure of genetic and environmental factors underlying individual differences in human traits. We outline the framework of twin method and SEM, describe SEM implementation of a...

In the current study we investigated the contribution of genetic and environmental factors to the relationship between the Big Five personality traits and nonverbal intelligence assessed with Raven’s Standard Progressive Matrices. The sample included a total of 290 people: 59 monozygotic (MZ) and 86 dizygotic (DZ, 58 same-sex and 28 opposite-sex) t...

Current study aimed to estimate the impact of genetic and environmental factors in the individual differences in non-verbal ability in Russian adolescents. The sample included 580 twins. Non-verbal ability was assessed by means of Standard Raven’s Progressive Matrices. Individual differences in non-verbal ability were explained almost entirely by f...

The objective. To study the effect of preventive cranial radiation therapy on the cognitive functions and behaviour in children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) who completed treatment according to protocol ALL MB-2008. Patients and methods. The study included 81 children aged 2.2 to 14.9 years at the moment of making the diagnosis and 5 to...

The aim of our study was to investigate the cross-cultural differences in working memory. The sample included 289 adolescents from Russia and Kyrgyzstan. Working memory was measured using the Spatial Working Memory task from the CANTAB battery. We have not found any significant differences in working memory measures by culture reference. At the sam...

The present study evaluated 626 5–7-year-old children in the UK, China, Russia, and Kyrgyzstan on a cognitive test battery measuring: (1) general skills; (2) non-symbolic number sense; (3) symbolic number understanding; (4) simple arithmetic – operating with numbers; and (5) familiarity with numbers. Although most inter-population differences were...

The study, based on a sample of Russian twins (34 pairs of monozygotic twins and 33 pairs of dizygotic twins aged 7-8 years), shows that genetic factors make a significant contribution to the development of individual differences in nonverbal intelligence. Eighty nine percents of phenotypic variance of nonverbal intelligence are explained by the ge...

The research task was to give a more complete picture of the phenomenon of gender differences in mathematical, spatial, and general cognitive ability. By focusing on the social factors we examined the influence of «sibling effect» and stereotypes on the performance in these abilities. The study was conducted using an online test administration. The...