Clinicians and textbooks may attribute unsuccessful reassurance to patients' abnormal illness behaviour, i.e. persistence of illness behaviour despite medical reassurance [ 13, 17- 19].
Confidence in personal ability to carry out a behaviour (i.e., self-efficacy) plays a central role in behaviour change and influences the direction, intensity and persistence of the behaviour [ 23].
This belief is based on a notion that the psychopathic traits are associated with the development and persistence of conduct disorders and antisocial behaviour in adolescents and adults.
The results point to a persistence of honest behaviour that cannot be explained by criteria of pure economic rationality.
The persistence of agonistic behaviour 48 h after a change suggests that the effects of our social disturbance remained important throughout the experiment.
Thus it is possible that these experiences impact on intrinsic motivation and, as a result, on persistence of attendance behaviour.
However, examining the bi-directionality of relations between the child and his or her environment is key to understanding the persistence of problem behaviour.
21 Consistent with other studies, childhood physical and sexual abuse, in particular, emerged as risk factors for the emergence and persistence of suicidal behaviour, especially in adolescence.
Childhood adversities, especially sexual abuse, physical abuse and parental divorce, are associated with the onset and persistence of suicidal behaviour with the risk greatest in children and adolescents.
Childhood adversities, especially sexual abuse, physical abuse and parental divorce, are important risk factors for the onset and persistence of suicidal behaviour, with this risk being greatest in childhood and adolescence.
