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The Role of Personal Demands and Personal Resources in Enhancing Study Engagement and Preventing Study Burnout Span. J. Psychol. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-03-08 Marijntje E. L. Zeijen, Veerle Brenninkmeijer, Maria C. W. Peeters, Nicole J. J. M. Mastenbroek
Using a 1-year longitudinal design, we examined the role of personal demands and personal resources in long-term health impairment and motivational processes among master students. Based on the job demands-resources theory and transactional model of stress, we hypothesized that students’ personal demands (i.e., irrational performance demands, awfulizing and irrational need for control) predict perceived
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The Role of Subjective Socioeconomic Status in Predicting Academic Performance: Exploring the Mediating Influence of Sense of Belonging among Students in a Distance Learning University Span. J. Psychol. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-03-07 Alexandra Vázquez, Beatriz Alba, David Lois, Cristina García-Ael, Antonio Bustillos
Building upon existing research conducted in face-to-face universities, our research explored whether, in the context of a distance learning institution, the positive association between subjective socioeconomic status and academic performance can be explained by students’ sense of belonging. To that end, we conducted a three-wave correlational study with 2,261 students enrolled in Social Psychology
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Is it Time to Include Wearable Sleep Trackers in the Applied Psychologists’ Toolbox? Span. J. Psychol. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-27 Luca Menghini, Cristian Balducci, Massimiliano de Zambotti
Wearable sleep trackers are increasingly used in applied psychology. Particularly, the recent boom in the fitness tracking industry has resulted in a number of relatively inexpensive consumer-oriented devices that further enlarge the potential applications of ambulatory sleep monitoring. While being largely positioned as wellness tools, wearable sleep trackers could be considered useful health devices
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The Link between Abstract Thinking Style and Subjective Well-Being: Its Impact when People are in (Real or Perceived) Financial Scarcity Span. J. Psychol. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-22 Amparo Caballero González, Itziar Fernández Sedano, Bronwyn Laforet, Pilar Carrera Levillain
Across three studies, we explored the link between an abstract mindset and subjective well-being (SWB) in participants with real and/or perceived financial scarcity. In Studies 1 and 2, samples presented real objective financial vulnerability: Adolescents from lower-middle income districts (Study 1; N = 256), and adults without higher education and with very low incomes (Study 2; N = 210). In Studies
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The Joint Role of Focused and Molar Climates and Eudaemonic Well-being as Mediators of the Relationship between Flexible Telework and Scientific Productivity in Spanish ERC-Granted Teams Span. J. Psychol. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-14 Guido Martinolli, Alejandro Sanín Posada, Simone Belli, Inés Tomás, Núria Tordera
Flexible work arrangements, such as teleworking, have gained massive and unprecedented usage for creating work environments that foster well-being and productivity. Yet empirical evidence is still scant and not much is known about the role of organizational climate(s) in this process. Accordingly, the present study was set out to investigate the mediating mechanisms linking flexible teleworking to
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An Exploratory Study in the Portuguese Population on Writing a Suicide Note: Correlates in the Suicide Spectrum and Qualitative Analysis Span. J. Psychol. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-06 Rui C. Campos, Cátia Reixa, Paulo Cardoso, Bruna Passos
Suicide notes are an important warning sign for suicidal behaviors. The aim of this exploratory research is (a) to contribute to understanding the place of suicide notes in the spectrum of suicidal behaviors in Portugal, and (b) to analyze the content remembered by individuals regarding a suicide note. Two complementary studies were carried out. In the first, a quantitative investigation, the statistical
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Measuring Subjective Inequality: Development and Validation of the Perceived Economic Inequality Scale (PEIS) Span. J. Psychol. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-05 Roberta Rosa Valtorta, Michela Vezzoli, Silvia Mari, Federica Durante, Chiara Volpato
The main goal of the present research is to develop and validate the Perceived Economic Inequality Scale (PEIS), an instrument measuring individuals’ perceptions of economic inequality at the national level. The study was conducted on a representative sample of the Italian population (N = 1,446, 51% women). The factorial structure of the scale was assessed through cross-validated exploratory-confirmatory
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Psychometric Properties of the Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale (CD-RISC) in Spanish Adolescents Span. J. Psychol. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-05 Francisco Javier López-Fernández, Paula Morales-Hidalgo, Josefa Canals, Juan Carlos Marzo, Luis Joaquín García-López, José Antonio Piqueras
Few studies have examined the psychometric properties of the Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale (CD-RISC) in a large adolescent community sample, finding a significant disparity. This study explores the psychometric properties of the CD-RISC among Spanish adolescents by means of exploratory factor analysis (EFA), Rasch analysis, and measurement invariance (MI) across sex, as well as internal consistency
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Applying the Affective Events Theory to Explore the Effect of Daily Micro-Interruptions on Mental Health: The Mediating Role of Affect and the Moderating Role of Pets at Work Span. J. Psychol. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-01-30 Ana Junça Silva
This study relied on the affective events theory and the social exchange theory to develop a framework that explains how situational factors (daily micro-interruptions) enhance affective reactions (negative affect) and, in turn, impair health conditions (mental health) at work. We further delineate theoretical arguments to propose the pet-human’s health effect by demonstrating that pets are boundary
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Mindfulness Fills in the Blank Spaces Left by Affective Uncertainty Uplifting Adaptive Behaviors Span. J. Psychol. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2023-11-28 Ana Junça-Silva, António Caetano
Drawing on the integrative model of uncertainty tolerance, we aimed to investigate whether uncertainty relates to adaptive performance, at the within-person level. We argue that daily uncertainty at work will trigger negative affective reactions that, in turn, will minimize adaptive performance. Moreover, we focus on socio-cognitive mindfulness as a cross-level moderator of the indirect relationship
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Impact of Actor’s Initial State of Engagement in a Course of Action on Judgements of Post-decisional Regret and Joy: Revisiting Kahneman and Tversky (1982) Span. J. Psychol. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2023-11-13 Mahya Sepehrinia, Pegah Nejat, Reyhaneh Baniyaghoub
According to the phenomenon commonly known as action effect and vastly replicated across the judgment and decision-making literature, more regret is associated with decisions resulting from action than inaction. Action vs. inaction, however, might either refer to change vs. no change or doing something vs. not doing something. The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of this variation in
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Spanish adaptation of the Gender-Related Variables for Health Research (GVHR): Factorial Structure and Relationship with Health Variables Span. J. Psychol. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2023-09-29 Juan F. Díaz-Morales, Sara Esteban-Gonzalo, Natalia Martín-María, Yaiza Puig-Navarro
The aim of the present study was to conduct a preliminary study of the Stanford Gender-Related Variables for Health Research (GVHR) adapted to the Spanish population, testing its factor structure, sex factorial invariance and relationship with health variables. Participants were 438 adults between 19–73 years old (M = 31.90, SD = 12.12) who completed the GVHR and measures of health-related quality
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Comorbid Depressive and Anxiety Symptomatology in Older Adults: The Role of Aging Self-Stereotypes, Loneliness, and Feelings of Guilt Associated with Self-Perception as a Burden Span. J. Psychol. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2023-09-29 María del Sequeros Pedroso-Chaparro, Isabel Cabrera, María Márquez-González, Óscar Ribeiro, Andrés Losada-Baltar
The main objective of this study was to analyze the differences between older adults’ symptom profiles (subclinical, anxiety, depressive, and comorbid) in negative aging self-stereotypes, loneliness, and feelings of guilt associated with self-perception as a burden. Participants were 310 community-dwelling people aged 60 years and over. The sample was grouped into four symptom profiles of older adults:
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Variables Associated with Emotional Symptom Severity in Primary Care Patients: The Usefulness of a Logistic Regression Equation to Help Clinical Assessment and Treatment Decisions Span. J. Psychol. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2023-09-01 Ángel Aguilera-Martín, Mario Gálvez-Lara, Roger Muñoz-Navarro, César González-Blanch, Paloma Ruiz-Rodríguez, Antonio Cano-Videl, Juan Antonio Moriana
The aim of this study is to contribute to the evidence regarding variables related to emotional symptom severity and to use them to exemplify the potential usefulness of logistic regression for clinical assessment at primary care, where most of these disorders are treated. Cross-sectional data related to depression and anxiety symptoms, sociodemographic characteristics, quality of life (QoL), and emotion-regulation
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Obstacles and Limitations in the Use of Protocols Responding Intimate Partner Violence Against Women from the Health System in Spain Span. J. Psychol. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2023-08-25 Marta Badenes-Sastre, Miguel Lorente Acosta, Ana M. Beltrán-Morillas, Francisca Expósito
Intimate partner violence against women (IPVAW) is a public health problem that affects women worldwide. Consequently, victims frequently go to healthcare centers, usually with a cover reason. To address this problem, national and autonomic protocols to respond to IPVAW in health systems have been developed in Spain. In this regard, the role of primary care physicians (PCPs) will be essential for addressing
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Co-Active Coping Inventory: Development and Validation for the Chilean Population Span. J. Psychol. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2023-08-22 Javier Barría-González, Álvaro Postigo, Ricardo Pérez-Luco, Paulina Henríquez-Mesa, Eduardo García-Cueto
Co-active coping is a fundamental construct in organizational and work environments as it allows for the exploration of individual and group behaviors within organizations. The aim of this study was to develop a new scale called the Co-Active Coping Inventory in the Chilean context. The sample was comprised of 1,442 workers with an average age of 30.48 years (SD = 11.13). 55% were public-sector workers
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Fuzzy-Set Qualitative Comparative Analysis (fsQCA) in Organizational Psychology: Theoretical Overview, Research Guidelines, and A Step-By-Step Tutorial Using R Software Span. J. Psychol. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2023-07-27 Nicola Cangialosi
Fuzzy set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA) is a method for assessing the effects of configurations of variables leading to an outcome. The recent growth of interest in this technique in organizational psychology is proving this method to be an important tool for addressing new and decisive research hypotheses. However, the effectiveness of fsQCA is dictated not only by its general principles
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Exploring Pathways and Obstacles to Well-Being in Victims of Terrorism: A Qualitative Approach Span. J. Psychol. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2023-07-12 Andrés Pemau, Carolina Marín-Martín, Gonzalo Hervás, María del Mar Gómez-Gutiérrez, María Crespo
On March 11, 2004, Madrid suffered one of the worst terrorist attacks in the history of Spain, leaving more than 190 dead and 2,000 injured. For years, the psychological consequences of the attacks have been studied; however, its long-term effects on symptomatology and especially on well-being remains unknown. This study aims to explore, through a qualitative approach, pathways and obstacles to the
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Social Worldviews Predict the General Factor of Paranormal and Generic Conspiracist Beliefs Span. J. Psychol. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2023-06-26 Dmitry Grigoryev, Albina Gallyamova
Even though wide access to any warranted information in the modern age, the problem of unfounded belief is still relevant, since these beliefs often lead to negative consequences (e.g., vaccination refusal, homeopathic treatment, etc.). The aim of this study was testing the relationship of social worldviews with paranormal beliefs and conspiracy beliefs. We assumed dimensionality hypothesis based on
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The Moral Reasoning of Ideology: The Mediating Role of Moral Foundations, Moral Absolutism, and Consistency Norm Span. J. Psychol. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2023-06-20 Antonia Tsitseli, Gerasimos Prodromitis
Focusing on the ideological and worldview premises of moral reasoning, our study (N = 313) has as a starting point the well-known relationship between morality and distributive justice norms. We examined the serially mediating role of progressiveness on morality, moral absolutism, and consistency norm on the relationship between ideological/worldview perspectives and distributional criteria. Three
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The Role of Job Crafting and Psychological Capital in the Relationship between Job Autonomy and Work Engagement: A Serial Mediation Model Span. J. Psychol. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2023-06-12 Sonia García-Merino, Noemy Martín, Carlos-María Alcover
Work engagement is a scientifically consolidated variable, due to its fundamental role in business practice. To increase work engagement in companies, it is necessary to know which variables are antecedents and how they relate to each other. These variables include job autonomy, job crafting, and psychological capital. This research evaluates the relationships between job autonomy, job crafting, psychological
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Learning Approaches: Cross-Cultural Differences (Spain–Argentina) and Academic Achievement in College Students Span. J. Psychol. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2023-06-01 Agustín Freiberg-Hoffmann, Agustín Romero-Medina, Beatriz López-Fernández, Mercedes Fernández-Liporace
Learning approaches describe the students’ degree of cognitive commitment to learning in diverse types of academic tasks and educational environments. Even though from a micro-level perspective different profiles of approaches have been identified in high-achievement undergraduates attending several majors, such profiles have not been examined from a macro-level approach in terms of distinct educational
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Marital Satisfaction and Mental Health in Adults Over 40 Years Old. Associations with Self-Perceptions of Aging and Stress Related to the COVID–19 Pandemic Span. J. Psychol. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2023-05-29 Jose Adrián Fernandes-Pires, María del Sequeros Pedroso-Chaparro, Lucía Jiménez-Gonzalo, María Márquez-González, Isabel Cabrera, Andrés Losada-Baltar
Being married has been associated with a better attitude to aging and a buffer against stressful situations, factors that influence mental health. The study analyzes the role of self-perceptions of aging and stress related to the COVID–19 pandemic in the association between marital satisfaction and participants’ mental health. 246 people older than 40 years in a marital/partner relationship were assessed
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Sexual Functioning, Automatic Thoughts and Affective Response: The Moderation Role of Personality Traits in a Study with Heterosexual and Gay Men Span. J. Psychol. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2023-05-26 Maria Manuela Peixoto
Personality traits, automatic thoughts, and affective states during sexual activity in men have been studied; however, little is known about their interaction. The current study examines the moderation role of personality traits on the relationship between cognitive-affective dimensions and sexual behavior in men. An online sample of 497 men (227 gay men) was recruited, and participants completed a
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How do you Behave as a Psychometrician? Research Conduct in the Context of Psychometric Research Span. J. Psychol. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2023-05-17 Pablo Ezequiel Flores-Kanter, Mariano Mosquera
The identification of fraudulent and questionable research conduct is not something new. However, in the last 12 years the aim has been to identify specific problems and concrete solutions applicable to each area of knowledge. For example, previous work has focused on questionable and responsible research conducts associated with clinical assessment, measurement practices in psychology and related
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Perceived Caregiving Trajectories and their Relationship with Caregivers’ Burdens and Gains Span. J. Psychol. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2023-05-05 Josep Fabà, Feliciano Villar, Gerben Westerhof
The study explores the meanings that family caregivers of people with dementia ascribe to the past, present, and future of their role as a caregiver, and how their integration into caregiving trajectories is related to caregivers’ burdens and gains. The sample was made up of 197 family caregivers (Mage = 62.1, SD = 12.3, 70.1% females). They completed three incomplete sentences regarding their past
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Associations between Social Support Dimensions and Resilience Factors and Pathways of Influence in Depression and Anxiety Rates in Young Adults Span. J. Psychol. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2023-05-02 Patricia Mecha, Nuria Martin-Romero, Alvaro Sanchez-Lopez
Emerging adulthood is an important developmental period, associated to mental health risk. Resilience research points to both social and personal protective factors against development of psychopathology, but there is paucity with their comprehensive study in young adults. This study provides and initial integrative approach to model multiple dimensions of perceived social support (i.e., from family
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Reputation Reminders: When do Eye Cues Promote Prosocial Behavior? Span. J. Psychol. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2023-05-02 Paul A. M. Van Lange, Zoi Manesi
The watching eyes effect has gained significant attention in recent years both from scientists and from policy makers and professionals in the field. The phenomenon posits that the mere presence of eye cues can promote prosocial behavior. However, there is a growing debate about the generality of the effect across various measures and contexts. This review seeks to combine various distinct -and formerly
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Why Is It so Difficult to Investigate Violent Radicalization? Span. J. Psychol. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2023-05-01 Ángel Gómez, Alexandra Vázquez, Juana Chinchilla, Laura Blanco, Beatriz Alba, Sandra Chiclana, José Luis González-Álvarez
Imagine that you are a researcher interested in disentangling the underlying mechanisms that motivate certain individuals to self-sacrifice for a group or an ideology. Now, visualize that you are one of a few privileged that have the possibility of interviewing people who have been involved in some of the most dramatic terrorist attacks in history. What should you do? Most investigations focused on
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Disentangling the Link between Diverse Social Networks and Creativity: The Role of Personality Traits Span. J. Psychol. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2023-04-28 Elia Soler-Pastor, Magdalena Bobowik, Verónica Benet-Martínez, Lydia Repke
Past studies have shown that being exposed to ethnocultural diversity can positively impact individual creativity. Yet, little is known about the interplay between situational (i.e., diversity) and dispositional (e.g., personality) factors in predicting creativity. Taking a person-situation approach, we use social network data to test the moderating role of personality in the relationship between having
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Does Belief in Conspiracy Theories Affect Interpersonal Relationships? Span. J. Psychol. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2023-04-27 Daniel Toribio-Flórez, Ricky Green, Robbie M. Sutton, Karen M. Douglas
In recent years, researchers have begun to study the social consequences of conspiracy beliefs. However, little research has investigated the impact of conspiracy beliefs on interpersonal relationships. In this review, we draw attention to this issue by summarizing available empirical evidence and proposing potential social-psychological mechanisms to explain whether and why conspiracy theories affect
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Climate Concern and Engagement: Large Face-to-Face and Online Polls by the Dutch non-profit Milieudefensie Span. J. Psychol. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2023-04-26 Anna Bosshard, Anne Chatrou, Cameron Brick
Climate change mitigation depends on tracking public opinion across populations. Social scientists can collaborate with environmental organizations that conduct surveys among their audiences. We teamed up with the non-profit Milieudefensie, who surveyed Dutch attitudes towards climate change in 2019–2020. The large dataset had face-to-face (n = 3,102) and online interviews (n = 30,311) of urbanity
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Self-Validation Theory: Confidence can Increase but also Decrease Performance in Applied Settings Span. J. Psychol. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2023-04-20 Pablo Briñol, Richard E. Petty, Lorena Moreno, Beatriz Gandarillas
This article presents self-validation theory (SVT) as a framework predicting when mental contents guide performance. First, we illustrate how confidence can validate people’s thoughts (goals, beliefs, identity) increasing and decreasing performance, depending on what thoughts are validated. This first section reviews examples of validation processes in guiding intellectual performance in academic settings
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Attitude Strength: What’s New? Span. J. Psychol. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2023-04-17 Richard E. Petty, Joseph J. Siev, Pablo Briñol
Attitude strength (what makes attitudes durable and impactful) has become an important topic in the domain of social influence. We review three areas in which the traditional view of attitude strength has been modified or updated since the publication of Petty and Krosnick’s 1995 edited book on the topic. First, although it was widely assumed that there were different categories of strength variables
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Multi-Site Replications in Social Psychology: Reflections, Implications, and Future Directions Span. J. Psychol. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2023-04-11 Roy F. Baumeister, Brad J. Bushman, Dianne M. Tice
Social psychology findings have fared poorly in multi-site replication attempts. This article considers and evaluates multiple factors that may contribute to such failures, other than the “crisis” assumption that most of the field’s published research is so badly flawed that it should be dismissed wholesale. Low engagement by participants may reduce replicability of some findings (while not affecting
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The Influence of Psychosocial Factors according to Gender and Age in Hospital Care Workers Span. J. Psychol. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2023-03-21 Germán Cañavate, Isabella Meneghel, Marisa Salanova
Even though psychosocial risks can affect the entire working population regardless of demographic variables, multiple publications claim that women are more exposed to psychosocial risks and that psychosocial risks affect people in a different way, depending on their age. This study aims to investigate demographic differences (i.e., sex and age) in health care workers, with an aim which is twofold:
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“It is Typical of Teenagers”: When Teachers Morally Disengage from Cyberbullying Span. J. Psychol. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2023-01-25 Nádia Salgado Pereira, Paula Da Costa Ferreira, Ana Margarida Veiga Simão, Andreia Cardoso, Alexandra Barros, Alexandra Marques-Pinto, Aristides I. Ferreira, Ana Cláudia Primor, Sara Carvalhal
Teachers can contribute to preventing and solving cyberbullying situations. Therefore, it is relevant to investigate what may influence their involvement and actions concerning this phenomenon. A first study analyze teachers’ definitions of cyberbullying, how they would intervene and feel morally implicated with the phenomenon. A second study aimed to investigate the association between teachers’ being
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Executive Functions and Improvement of Thinking: An Intervention Program to Enhance Deductive Reasoning Abilities Span. J. Psychol. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2022-12-15 Juan Antonio García-Madruga, Isabel Orenes, José Óscar Vila Chaves, Isabel Gómez-Veiga
Empirical and theoretical advances and application to society are moved at different speed. Application work is frequently developed later because it requires the integration of knowledge from different research areas. In the present paper, we integrate literature coming from diverse areas of research in order to design a deductive reasoning intervention, based on the involved executive functions.
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Dyadic Coping, Dyadic Coping Based Gratitude (DC-G), and Relationship Satisfaction in Pakistani Couples Span. J. Psychol. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2022-12-02 Sultan Shujja, Guy Bodenmann, Ashley K. Randall, Adnan Adil, Farah Malik
Dyadic coping-based gratitude (DC-G) refers to the reaction of appreciation and thankfulness in response to received problem-focused and emotion-focused positive dyadic coping (DC) behaviors by the partner. The actor-partner interdependent mediation model was used to test the mediating role of DC-G between DC and relationship satisfaction in a purposive sample of 300 Pakistani married couples, which
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When More is More: Do Non-Restricted Goals Benefit Employers and the Environment Too? Span. J. Psychol. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2022-11-24 Adelaida Patrasc-Lungu, Dragoș Iliescu
Prior research on goal self-concordance (GSC) and goal attainment (GA) has studied these dimensions as transversal sections through a person’s life domains. Blending the recent developments in self-determination theory and pro-environmental behavior literature, the current study introduced the concept of non-restricted goals and explored whether work climate (WCQ) and environmental identity (EID) impact
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The Healthy Context Paradox: When Reducing Bullying comes at a Cost to Certain Victims Span. J. Psychol. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2022-11-03 Beatriz Lucas-Molina, Alicia Pérez-Albéniz, Eduardo Fonseca-Pedrero
Bullying remains one of the most serious problems affecting school systems around the world. The negative consequences of bullying in the short and long term have been widely documented, showing that victimized students are at greater risk of suffering psychosocial distress. In this paper, we first summarize the current situation of bullying prevention, adopting a contextual perspective, and briefly
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Children’s Perspectives on Fairness and Inclusivity in the Classroom Span. J. Psychol. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2022-11-02 Elise Marie Kaufman, Melanie Killen
School represents an important context for children’s social, moral, and identity development. Research indicates that supportive teacher-student relationships are significantly related to positive student academic achievement. Unfortunately, teacher bias as well as peer exclusion based on group identity (gender, race, ethnicity, and nationality) pervade many school contexts. The presence of these
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How Chronological Age, Theory of Mind, and Yield are Interrelated to Memory and Suggestion in Young Children Span. J. Psychol. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2022-10-10 Nieves Pérez-Mata, Amparo Moreno, Margarita Diges, Miriam Peláez
We investigated the interrelations between chronological age, theory of mind (ToM), Yield (as a measure of individual suggestibility), memory and acceptance of experimental suggestion in a sample of children between 3 and 7 years old (N = 106). One week after participants interacted with ‘a Teacher’, they were asked to recall activities carried out with the Teacher (direct experience) and the contents
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Validation of the Spanish Version of the Generic Conspiracist Beliefs Scale Span. J. Psychol. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2022-10-10 Angelo Fasce, Diego Avendaño, Neil Dagnall, Andrew Denovan, Álex Escolà-Gascón
Theorists acknowledge that conspiracy beliefs represent an established psychological construct. The study of conspiracy beliefs is important because allied ideation potentially influences everyday attitudes and behaviors across a range of domains (i.e., cognitive, social, cross-cultural, and political psychology). In this article, we analyze the internal structure and construct validity of the Spanish
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To be Direct or not: Reversing Likert Response Format Items Span. J. Psychol. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2022-10-10 Jaime García-Fernández, Álvaro Postigo, Marcelino Cuesta, Covadonga González-Nuevo, Álvaro Menéndez-Aller, Eduardo García-Cueto
Likert items are often used in social and health sciences. However, the format is strongly affected by acquiescence and reversed items have traditionally been used to control this response bias, a controversial practice. This paper aims to examine how reversed items affect the psychometric properties of a scale. Different versions of the Grit-s scale were applied to an adult sample (N = 1,419). The
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Self-Regulated Learning and Working Memory Determine Problem-Solving Accuracy in Math Span. J. Psychol. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2022-09-26 Paula Da Costa Ferreira, Aristides I. Ferreira, Ana Margarida Vieira Da Veiga Simão, Rui Prada, Ana Paula Paulino, Ricardo Rodrigues
This study aims to understand the role of self-regulated learning (SRL) and its different processes in the relationship between working memory (WM) and problem-solving accuracy in math in primary school children. A sample of 269 primary school children (Mage = 8.84, SD = 0.81, 58% boys) participated in this study. Tasks were used as intervention resources to assess children’s WM (i.e., reading and
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Contribution of Social Psychology Research to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Bibliometric and Content Analysis of Spanish Publications Span. J. Psychol. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2022-08-11 Flor Sánchez, Daniela De Filippo, Amalio Blanco, María Luisa Lascurain
This study analyses the publications by Spanish institutions indexed by the Web of Science in the thematic category of “Psychology, Social”. The objectives are to determine whether such publications address topics related to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and to what extent the research conducted contributes to achieving the goals proposed in each of the SDGs. Publications were classified
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Are Anti-Prostitution Advertising Campaigns Effective? An Experimental Study Span. J. Psychol. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2022-08-03 Gemma Sáez, José Antonio Muñiz-Velázquez, Guido Corradi, Alejandro J. Tapia Frade, Pilar Aguilar
Many governments invest public funds in communication interventions and campaigns against prostitution and sexual exploitation in an attempt to change attitudes toward prostitution and eventually decrease its consumption. Despite the considerable investment that public institutions have made in campaigns against prostitution and sexual slavery, no known empirical studies have evaluated the effectiveness
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Start even Smaller, and then more Random. Comment on “Start Small, not Random: Why does Justifying your Time-Lag Matter?” by Yannick Griep, Ivana Vranjes, Johannes M. Kraak, Leonie Dudda, & Yingjie Li Span. J. Psychol. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2022-06-15 Christian Dormann
The focal article by Griep and colleagues raises some highly important issues and it is timely to further advance organizational behavior (OB) and work and organizational psychology (WOP). It comes at the right time because the last two decades can be characterized by two opposing trends. On the one hand, there have been exciting developments in statistical methods to appropriately model time in statistical
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Verbal Behavior Analysis of Expert and Inexperienced Therapists Applying the Socratic Method Span. J. Psychol. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2022-06-15 Rebeca Pardo-Cebrián, Ana Calero-Elvira, María Cristina Guerrero-Escagedo
The Socratic method, as an eminently verbal procedure, will be analyzed from a behavioral perspective in order to clarify how verbal conditioning works within. This work compares the verbalizations that expert and inexperienced therapists emit during Socratic method to find out which and why certain therapist verbalizations are most successful in changing client responses. The sample consisted of 113
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Women’s Risk Perception and Responses to Intimate Partner Sexual Coercion: The Role of Type of Tactic, Previous Experience, and Myths Acceptance Span. J. Psychol. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2022-06-09 Marta Garrido-Macías, Inmaculada Valor-Segura, Francisca Expósito
Sexual coercion is among the subtlest forms of sexual violence in an intimate relationship and sometimes goes unnoticed by victims. The present study analyzed factors that potentially mitigate women’s negative perceptions of intimate partner sexual coercion (IPSC). A total of 427 women completed an online survey, in which they were shown vignettes illustrating a growing risk of sexual coercion according
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Spanish Validation of the Assessment of Recovery Capital Scale in Clinical Population with Alcohol Use Disorder Span. J. Psychol. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2022-05-03 Ana Sión, Rosa Jurado-Barba, Laura Esteban-Rodríguez, Francisco Arias, Gabriel Rubio, InRecovery Group
Recovery from alcohol use disorder involves achieving certain resources for positive lifestyle changes, well-being, and long-term abstinence. The present study aims to translate and validate the Assessment Capital Recovery (ARC) in a Spanish clinical sample of individuals with alcohol use disorder, in abstinence. The participants were 184 patients who attended outpatient treatments. They were evaluated
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Describing Callous Unemotional Traits and Stressful Life Event Trajectories: Differences on Risk Factors and Mental Health Outcomes from the Age of 3 to 10 Span. J. Psychol. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2022-05-02 Natalia Pueyo, José-Blas Navarro, Núria De La Osa, Eva Penelo, Lourdes Ezpeleta
Callous Unemotional (CU) traits are associated with different environmental risk factors, such as negative stressful life events (SLE). The most common studied SLE associated with CU trait has been childhood maltreatment, but less is known about how other SLE impact the development of CU traits. Therefore, this work examines risk factors, personal factors (executive functioning), and mental health
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Transcultural Validation of the Nordic Age Discrimination Scale for the Spanish-Speaking Working Populations Span. J. Psychol. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2022-03-28 Carlos-María Alcover, Gabriela Nazar, Mariana Bargsted, Raúl Ramírez-Vielma, Ninfa Pulido, Lucía Rodríguez
Negative stereotypes about older workers can result in different types of age discrimination. The aim of this study was to run a transcultural adaptation and validation of the Nordic Age Discrimination Scale (NADS) into Spanish. Three independent samples of Chilean (N = 301), Colombian (N = 150), and Spanish (N = 209) workers over the age of 45, from different sectors and professional categories, answered
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Locating the Dark Triad in a Multidimensional Personality Space Span. J. Psychol. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2022-03-24 Revital Naor-Ziv, Joseph Glicksohn, Anton Aluja
The Dark Triad traits of Psychopathy, Machiavellianism, and Narcissism should be clearly recognizable within a multidimensional personality space. Two such personality spaces were investigated in this study: HEXACO (Honesty-Humility, Emotionality, Extraversion, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, and Openness to Experience); and the Zuckerman-Kuhlman-Aluja Personality Questionnaire (ZKA-PQ) space (Extraversion
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Study of Positive and Negative Affect and Neurocognitive Functioning in Adolescents Span. J. Psychol. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2022-03-11 Rebeca Aritio-Solana, Eduardo Fonseca-Pedrero, Alicia Pérez-Albéniz, Oliver Mason, Javier Ortuño-Sierra
The main purpose of the present work was to study neurocognitive performance of adolescents at risk for emotional difficulties. The sample included a total of 1,509 adolescents from stratified random cluster sampling. Derived from this sample, a group of high-risk (n = 92) and a comparison group (n = 92) were selected based on the short version of the Positive and Negative Affect Schedule (PANAS) for
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Disentangling Emotions during the Coronavirus Outbreak in Spain: Inner Emotions, Descriptive Feeling Rules and Socioemotional Conventions Span. J. Psychol. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2022-03-09 Amparo Caballero, Sergio Villar, Itziar Fernández, Verónica Sevillano, Pablo Gavilán, Pilar Carrera
For constructionism, language is the link among different levels of analysis of emotional events, from individual to interpersonal and macrosocial. The interaction among these emotional levels allows us to construe an emotional episode and label it with an emotion word, coordinate with the emotions perceived in others, and represent events as a society. Across two studies, we found similarities and
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Leader Extraversion as a Boundary Condition in the Relationship between Transformational Leadership, Vitality, and Job Improvement Span. J. Psychol. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2022-03-09 Denis Lajoie, Vincent Rousseau, Jean-Sébastien Boudrias
We examine the relationship between transformational leadership and job improvement behaviors by considering the moderating effect of leader extraversion and the mediating role of employee vitality. Multi-level path analysis on data from 101 leaders and 619 subordinates provided support to the moderating effect of leader extraversion, such that the relationship between transformational leadership and
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Structural and Predictive Validity of the Spanish Short Version of Utrecht Work Engagement Scale in Educational Institutions Workers Span. J. Psychol. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2022-02-24 Zuleima Santalla-Banderali, Jesús M. Alvarado
In this paper, we evaluate the factorial validity of the Spanish short version of the Utrecht Work Engagement Scale (UWES–9) and assess its predictive validity with respect to self-assessed work performance. A total of 229 employees from educational institutions in Ecuador participated. Using a model comparison analysis, the unidimensional model exhibited an excellent goodness of fit, χ2 = 26.176 (24)
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The Relationship between the Chief Executive Officer’s (CEO) Social Capital and Dynamic Capabilities: A Meta-Analysis of its Moderators Span. J. Psychol. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2022-02-23 William Fernando Durán, David Aguado
CEO social capital has shown a positive association with dynamic capabilities, although correlations have considerable heterogeneity among them. This meta-analysis estimates the correlation between CEO social capital and dynamic capabilities, and analyses moderator variables in explaining the heterogeneity in the results. Moderators are classified across four levels from macro to micro variables: country