PROMOTING SUBJECTIVE WELLBEING THROUGH A KINDNESS INTERVENTION

The present study aimed to examine the effects of the character strength of kindness on subjective wellbeing. It was conducted through an online free forum, which was constructed for the present study. The participants (N = 54) were 34 women and 20 men, aged 18-55 years old. They were divided into two groups, an experimental and a control group, matched in age and gender. Participants in the ‘counting kindness’ intervention were asked to keep track of their kind actions every day for a week and write them on the forum along with their feelings and thoughts on those actions. Participants in the control group were asked to write their daily routine also every day for a week. Participants were also asked to complete questionnaires measuring subjective wellbeing before the intervention, a month after, and two months after the intervention (follow-up measurement). The results showed that subjective wellbeing as an overall sense of wellbeing and its specific components was enhanced for participants in the kindness intervention. Possible mechanisms for the effectiveness of the intervention are discussed

Inhibitory Control in Preschool Children. An investigation of age, gender and socioeconomic differences.

The present study aims to investigate individual differences in children’s inhibitory control firstly by attempting to answer whether we can replicate the findings of age differences in a sample of Norwegian 3-5-year-olds. Secondly, the study seeks to investigate whether children’s gender is related to their inhibitory control performance, and thirdly whether socioeconomic characteristics of parents’ income and education contribute to variation in the children’s performances. A sample of 208 preschoolers (N = 115 girls, 34-71 months) were assessed utilizing a variation of the Day-/Night task by Gerstadt et al. (1994), which is a broadly used tool for measuring inhibitory control in preschoolers, providing different outcome measures of task accuracy and time spent on the task. Details about parental socioeconomic status were collected through the Norwegian Statistics Bank (Statistics Norway, 2020). The data were analyzed by conducting a set of hierarchical multiple regression analyses. The study revealed significant improvements in children’s inhibitory control skills over the preschool period and that boys were faster on the task than girls even if not more accurate. Although, socioeconomic disparities were not related to inhibitory control scores in and of itself, girls from higher SES seemed to be at a disadvantage when it came to time spent on the task. Overall, the Day-/Night task can be a valuable resource of information about the development of children’s inhibitory control. Results from the task can highlight preschoolers’ improvement in inhibition with age and might effectively help specialists identify those children who are at risk. The current study suggests that this task can also be useful in a Norwegian context

Observations on the Mode of Action of 2-Imidazolidinone, a Female Sterilant of the Adult House Fly Musca Domestica L. (Diptera: Muscidae)

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