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There is also a Spanish version and Swedish scale designed for children, for these scales the ages range from 11 to 15 and 12 to 15 respectively. [7] A study conducted on children using a Brief Sensation Seeking Scale for Children (BSSS-C) suggested that children high on sensation seeking would run a high risk of engaging in risky behavior at a ...
Critical reception of the novel has been positive. In Chile, it won the Altazor Award in 2005. The New York Times Book Review included it in the list of "10 Best Books of 2008" [1] and later ranked it as the sixth best book of the 21st century; [2] Time named it Best Fiction Book of 2008; and the novel won the 2008 National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction.
This article discusses scholarly treatments of boredom in the disciplines of psychology and philosophy, but in the past decade or so there has been the growth of what the sociologist Michael Gardiner has called "boredom studies" in its own right - an "emerging" interdisciplinary field [1] Gardiner and colleague Julian Jason Haladyn have an ...
Different scholars use different definitions of boredom, which complicates research. [11] Boredom has been defined by Cynthia D. Fisher in terms of its main central psychological processes: "an unpleasant, transient affective state in which the individual feels a pervasive lack of interest and difficulty concentrating on the current activity."
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A wintry blast is slamming the Great Lakes region with 3 to 5.5 feet of snow -- and more lake effect snow is in the forecast for later this week. Monday's intense lake effect snow band from Lake ...
The only inflectionally irregular adjectives in Spanish are those that have irregular comparative forms, and only four do. Spanish adjectives are generally postpositive, that is, they come after the noun they modify. Thus el libro largo ("the long book"), la casa grande ("the big house"), los hombres altos ("the tall men"), etc.
By the time he was nine, Salvatore Ferragamo had already figured out what he wanted to do with his life. As the story goes, it was the eve of his sister’s first communion, and she didn’t have ...