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Toivo Aavik

Researcher at University of Tartu

Publications -  32
Citations -  3303

Toivo Aavik is an academic researcher from University of Tartu. The author has contributed to research in topics: Personality & Medicine. The author has an hindex of 11, co-authored 26 publications receiving 2953 citations. Previous affiliations of Toivo Aavik include University of Göttingen.

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Parenting Practices and Personal Values: Comparison between Parents of Institutionalized and Non-Institutionalized Adolescents

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the relationship between personal values, parenting practices and adolescents' institutionalization and found that benevolence was positively associated with parenting practices, but self-enhancement and hedonism had negative correlations with parent's practices.
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Predictors of enhancing human physical attractiveness: Data from 93 countries

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TL;DR: In this article , a large cross-cultural sample of 93,158 human participants across 93 countries provided evidence that behaviors such as applying makeup or using other cosmetics, hair grooming, clothing style, caring for body hygiene, and exercising or following a specific diet for the specific purpose of improving ones physical attractiveness are universal.
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HIV and STI Testing and Related Factors Among Men Who Have Sex with Men in Estonia

TL;DR: The results demonstrate the need to develop gay-friendly health services and to recognize the role of personal values and individual differences in values when designing attractive interventions to increase HIV/STI testing rates among MSM.
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Using principal component scores reduces the effect of socially desirable responding

TL;DR: In this paper, a reanalysis of these data showed that a similar effect is achieved when factor scores are used instead of unit-weight scores and that factor scores were also closer to being orthogonal even though they were computed using the coefficients published in the questionnaire's manual.
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Personal values and self-reported child-rearing activities of estonian and russian parents in estonia

TL;DR: Bornstein and Cheah as discussed by the authors found that Russian parents in Estonia were less collectivistic than Russian parents living in Russia, and that Russian adults in Estonia adopted an Estonian identity.