Bettina F. Piko

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Exploring fear of happiness among university students: The role of perfectionism, academic burnout, loneliness, and hopelessness

Bianka Dobos, David Mellor, Bettina F. Piko

Scandinavian Journal of Psychology > 65 > 3 > 559 - 567

Due to its impact on mental health and well‐being, fear of happiness is beginning to receive more attention in research. This study, conducted in Hungary, explored the relationship between fear of happiness, perfectionism, loneliness, hopelessness, and academic burnout. Participants aged between 18 and 35 years (N = 1,148, M = 22 years, SD = 4.5) completed an online questionnaire that included self‐report...

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What makes university students perfectionists? The role of childhood trauma, emotional dysregulation, academic anxiety, and social support

Bianka Dobos, Bettina F. Piko, David Mellor

Scandinavian Journal of Psychology > 62 > 3 > 443 - 447

While most studies concentrate on the negative psychological consequences of perfectionism, we know less about its antecedents. This study examined the relationship between adverse childhood experiences, difficulties in emotion regulation, academic anxiety and social support and maladaptive perfectionism among university students. A large sample of 1,750 students (81% female; M = 21.6 years, SD = 4...

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Hungarian Adaptation of the Sport Commitment Questionnaire-2 and Test of an Expanded Model with Psychological Variables

Tamás Berki, Bettina F. Pikó, Randy M. Page

Physical Culture and Sport. Studies and Research > 2020 > 86 > 1 > 15-26

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Problematic Internet Use, Social Needs, and Social Support Among Youth

Dora K. Prievara, Bettina F. Piko, Aleksandra Luszczynska

International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction > 2019 > 17 > 4 > 1008-1019

The Internet is essential for the teenagers and young adults who are spending hours online every day. In an effort to better understand the role of the Internet in their lives, we hypothesized that users increased their online time for social reasons. In this online survey, 408 (204 girls and 204 boys; aged between 14 and 24 years) participants were recruited from high schools and universities. The...

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Aggressive and stressed? Youth's aggressive behaviors in light of their internet use, sensation seeking, stress and social feelings

Bettina F. Piko, Dora K. Prievara, David Mellor

Children and Youth Services Review > 2017 > 77 > C > 55-61

Aggressive behavior and its consequences are a serious mental health problem for youth all over the world. In this study we investigated how problematic internet use, sensation seeking and social/dispositional factors are related to three forms of aggression: physical, verbal, and anger in a sample of Hungarian youth. In total 408 (50% females) aged between 14 and 24years (M=20.8years, SD=2.6) completed...

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Existential Attitudes and Eastern European Adolescents’ Problem and Health Behaviors: Highlighting the Role of the Search for Meaning in Life

László Brassai, Bettina F. Piko, Michael F. Steger

The Psychological Record > 2012 > 62 > 4 > 719-734

Although the role of existential attitudes in adolescent health-related behavior has received increased attention recently, historically it has been underinvestigated in the field. The present study focuses on existential attitudes related to meaning in life and hopelessness. Relations of presence of meaning, search for meaning, and hopelessness with past and anticipated future involvement in problem-...

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Do High- and Low-Active Adolescents Have Different Prototypes of Physically Active Peers?

Noémi Keresztes, Bettina F. Piko, Frederick X. Gibbons, Charles D. Spielberger

The Psychological Record > 2009 > 59 > 1 > 39-52

Previous studies have investigated social images in health-risk behaviors, suggesting that these images are important factors in adolescents’ health-related decisions. In this study, 548 secondary school students (aged 14-21 years, M = 16.5 years, SD = 1.3) in Szeged, Hungary, were tested to determine how social attitudes influence the development of exercise prototypes. Physical activity behavior...

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Are adolescents with high self-esteem protected from psychosomatic symptomatology?

Bettina F. Piko, Szabolcs Varga, David Mellor

European Journal of Pediatrics > 2016 > 175 > 6 > 785-792

This study investigated the role of self-esteem, social (need to belong, loneliness, competitiveness, and shyness), and health (smoking, drinking) behaviors in Hungarian adolescents’ psychosomatic symptoms. Our sample of 490 students (ages 14–19 years) from Debrecen (Hungary) completed the questionnaires. Besides descriptive statistics, correlation and multiple regression analyses were applied to...

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A Study of Motives for Tobacco and Alcohol Use Among High School Students in Hungary

Bettina F. Piko, Szabolcs Varga, Thomas A. Wills

Journal of Community Health > 2015 > 40 > 4 > 744-749

Motives may be an important influence for substance use among youth. The goal of this research was to study the relation of social, self-enhancement, boredom relief and affect regulation motives to smoking and drinking in a sample of Eastern European high school students and to examine variation in the effects of these motives by gender. Our sample involved 500 students (ages 14–20 years) from three...

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Being lonely or using substances with friends? A cross-sectional study of Hungarian adolescents’ health risk behaviours

Szabolcs Varga, Bettina F. Piko

BMC Public Health > 2015 > 15 > 1 > 1-9

Background Studying adolescents’ health risk behaviours is oddly significant in Central and Eastern European countries, where the prevalence of smoking and drinking among 14–18 year old students is significantly high. The goal of our study is to examine the role of social psychological and social behavioural variables in health risk behaviours among Hungarian adolescents. Methods Our sample was...

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Impulsivity, depression and aggression among adolescents

Bettina F. Piko, Tamás Pinczés

Personality and Individual Differences > 2014 > 69 > Complete > 33-37

The main goal of the present study was to examine interrelationships among adolescent depressive symptomatology, types of aggressive behaviors (verbal, physical, psychic), impulsivity and other aspects of one’s personality (venturesomeness, empathy and self-efficacy). Data collection occurred in Debrecen (Hungary) during the first semester of the year 2012, using classes from three high schools (N=413),...

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Authoritative parenting style and adolescent smoking and drinking

Bettina F. Piko, Máté Á. Balázs

Addictive Behaviors > 2012 > 37 > 3 > 353-356

While peer influences have often found to be a risk factor in terms of adolescent substance use, parental variables may continue to serve as an adaptive and protective function, although the role of parents is more latent and controversial. Therefore, the main goal of this paper was to investigate the role of authoritative parenting style and other family variables in adolescents' smoking and drinking...

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Social normative beliefs regarding cigarette smoking in Hungarian adolescents

Randy M. Page, Bettina F. Piko, Mate A. Balazs, Tamara Struk

Pediatrics International > 53 > 5 > 662 - 668

Background: Hungary will continue to experience a high burden of disease and death from lung cancer and other tobacco‐induced disease unless there is a significant reduction in youth smoking. Social factors have been found to be among the most important determinants of adolescent smoking, yet few studies have investigated social normative beliefs in Hungarian youth. The purpose of the current study...

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Meaning in Life: Is It a Protective Factor for Adolescents’ Psychological Health?

László Brassai, Bettina F. Piko, Michael F. Steger

International Journal of Behavioral Medicine > 2011 > 18 > 1 > 44-51

Background Searching for a coherent meaning in life has long been proposed to be a protective factor in adolescent development. Purpose The present study aimed to examine meaning in life as a protective factor in a largely unstudied population: Romanian adolescents. Additionally, we sought to provide a novel, multidimensional assessment of several health-related variables (substance abuse, health...

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Parent, school and peer-related correlates of adolescents' life satisfaction

Bettina F. Piko, Csaba Hamvai

Children and Youth Services Review > 2010 > 32 > 10 > 1479-1482

The main goal of the present study was to examine social correlates of adolescents' life satisfaction and to explore gender differences in the role of parent, school and peer-related variables. Using a sample of 881 high school students in Szeged, Hungary (N=881, ages 14–20, 44.6% female), findings supported the claim that parents continued to be an important correlate of adolescents' well-being....

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Representations of the relationship among physical activity, health and perceived living environment in Hungarian urban children's images

Zsuzsanna F. Pluhar, Bettina F. Piko, Annamária Uzzoli, Randy M. Page, more

Landscape and Urban Planning > 2010 > 95 > 4 > 151-160

Physical activity has a great influence on our health. Because of the environmental prerequisites of physical activity and health it would be important to explore what children think of this relationship. Therefore, this paper aims to highlight the connection among environment/urban planning and physical activity and the importance of them for health.The primary goal of the present study was to determine...

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Do parents and school matter? Protective factors for adolescent substance use

Bettina F. Piko, Eszter Kovács

Addictive Behaviors > 2010 > 35 > 1 > 53-56

Protective factors may promote successful development by neutralizing the effects of negative risk factors. This paper is focused on possible protective factors of adolescent substance in a sample of high school students (N=881) in Szeged, Hungary. Data were collected in 2008. Self-administered questionnaires were applied that measured smoking, binge drinking, marijuana use and parental and school-related...

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“Air pollution is bad for my health”: Hungarian children's knowledge of the role of environment in health and disease

Zsuzsanna F. Pluhar, Bettina F. Piko, Szilvia Kovacs, Annamaria Uzzoli

Health and Place > 2009 > 15 > 1 > 239-246

This study describes beliefs and knowledge of harmful environmental factors and environment-borne disease in 9- to 11-year-olds’ (N=448) using the “draw-and-write” technique as a method of data collection. Most respondents described the man-made environmental risks (such as car transportation or noise pollution) as direct effects; however, in their interpretations, lifestyle (e.g., smoking) and other...

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Sociodemographic and socioeconomic variations in leisure time physical activity in a sample of Hungarian youth

Bettina F. Piko, Noémi Keresztes

International Journal of Public Health > 2008 > 53 > 6 > 306-310

SummaryObjectives:The main goal of the present study is to detect the relationship between youth’s leisure time physical activity and a set of sociodemographic (age, gender, family stucture) and socioeconomic variables (SES and parental schooling).Methods:Data were collected among Hungarian youth (middle and high school students, N = 1662) aged between 10–20 years using a self-administered questionnaire...

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Behavioral and psychosocial influences of risk perception among Hungarian adolescents

Bettina F. Piko, Frederick X. Gibbons

International Journal of Public Health > 2008 > 53 > 3 > 131-138

Summary Objective: The main goal of the present study was to assess adolescents’ risk perception, namely, their estimates of the likelihood of smoking and alcohol-related illnesses and accidents. Methods: The survey was conducted among high school students in Szeged (N = 560, aged between 14–19 years; mean: 16.7; S.D.: 1.4 years). The self-administered questionnaire contained items on sociodemographics,...

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Exploring fear of happiness among university students: The role of perfectionism, academic burnout, loneliness, and hopelessness

What makes university students perfectionists? The role of childhood trauma, emotional dysregulation, academic anxiety, and social support

Hungarian Adaptation of the Sport Commitment Questionnaire-2 and Test of an Expanded Model with Psychological Variables

Problematic Internet Use, Social Needs, and Social Support Among Youth

Aggressive and stressed? Youth's aggressive behaviors in light of their internet use, sensation seeking, stress and social feelings

Existential Attitudes and Eastern European Adolescents’ Problem and Health Behaviors: Highlighting the Role of the Search for Meaning in Life

Do High- and Low-Active Adolescents Have Different Prototypes of Physically Active Peers?

Are adolescents with high self-esteem protected from psychosomatic symptomatology?

A Study of Motives for Tobacco and Alcohol Use Among High School Students in Hungary

Being lonely or using substances with friends? A cross-sectional study of Hungarian adolescents’ health risk behaviours

Impulsivity, depression and aggression among adolescents

Authoritative parenting style and adolescent smoking and drinking

Social normative beliefs regarding cigarette smoking in Hungarian adolescents

Meaning in Life: Is It a Protective Factor for Adolescents’ Psychological Health?

Parent, school and peer-related correlates of adolescents' life satisfaction

Representations of the relationship among physical activity, health and perceived living environment in Hungarian urban children's images

Do parents and school matter? Protective factors for adolescent substance use

“Air pollution is bad for my health”: Hungarian children's knowledge of the role of environment in health and disease

Sociodemographic and socioeconomic variations in leisure time physical activity in a sample of Hungarian youth

Behavioral and psychosocial influences of risk perception among Hungarian adolescents

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