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Moral submissiveness: social origin as a vulnerability for well-being on a warming planet Frontiers In Psychology (IF 4.232) Pub Date : 2024-03-15 Vanessa Weihgold
In recent years, the emotional experience of climate change has been studied extensively from fields like psychology, theology, sociology, and philosophy. It is crucial to analyze these results for possible vulnerability with regard to well-being. While climate justice research raises awareness of the current (social) situation of the participants in relation to the experience of climate change, the
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Analyzing the impact of team-building interventions on team cohesion in sports teams: a meta-analysis study Frontiers In Psychology (IF 4.232) Pub Date : 2024-03-15 Sang Hyun Kwon
IntroductionParticipation in team sports requires collaboration among multiple individuals over an extended period. Success in the game relies on more than just individual excellence; it necessitates effective teamwork. Team-building interventions have been shown to enhance team functioning, particularly in fostering cohesion among sports teams. This study aims to identify crucial factors in team-building
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Variables with a negative impact on the quality of life of gays and lesbians in Spain: evaluation of homophobic and lesbophobic indicators to guide youth education Frontiers In Psychology (IF 4.232) Pub Date : 2024-03-15 José-Rufino García-Sánchez, Francisco-Javier Gago-Valiente, María-José López-López, Adrián Segura-Camacho, Luis-Carlos Saenz-de-la-Torre, Emilia Moreno-Sánchez
BackgroundDespite the evidence about the negative impact of homophobic and lesbophobic attitudes on the quality of life of these individuals, the World Health Organisation (WHO) continues to report a lack of research and understanding regarding the health of gays and lesbians and LGTB people in general. There is a growing commitment in public health to understand and improve the health and well-being
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I understand your pain but I do not feel it: lower affective empathy in response to others’ social pain in narcissism Frontiers In Psychology (IF 4.232) Pub Date : 2024-03-15 Fatemeh Shahri, Abbas Zabihzadeh, Alireza Taqipanahi, Morteza Erfani Haromi, Mobina Rasouli, Asal Saeidi Nik, Clare M. Eddy
IntroductionWhile the relationship between narcissism and empathy has been well-researched, studies have paid less attention to empathic accuracy, i.e., appreciating the precise strength of another person’s emotions, and self-other distinction, in terms of the disparity between affective ratings for self and other in response to emotive stimuli. Furthermore, empathic responses may vary depending on
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Studying daily fluctuations of emotional effort among nurses of intensive care units: the establishment of latent profiles and its relationship with daily secondary traumatic stress and vitality Frontiers In Psychology (IF 4.232) Pub Date : 2024-03-15 Jennifer E. Moreno-Jiménez, Miriam Romero, Luis Manuel Blanco-Donoso, Mercedes Hernández-Hurtado, Eva Garrosa
IntroductionNursing professionals working in Intensive Care Units (ICU) face significant challenges that can result in secondary traumatic stress (STS). These challenges stem from witnessing patients’ suffering and managing difficult tasks (i.e. communication with patients’ relatives). Furthermore, these professionals encounter emotional demands, such as emotional effort, which is the dissonance between
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Athletic retirement: factors contributing to sleep and mental health problems Frontiers In Psychology (IF 4.232) Pub Date : 2024-03-15 Ashley Montero, John Baranoff, Robert Adams, Murray Drummond
IntroductionThe aim of this investigation was to determine which factors were associated with symptoms of sleep and mental health disorders in former athletes.MethodsFormer athletes (N = 173, 50% women) who retired from any competition level within the last 20 years participated in an online survey. The survey consisted of the Athlete Sleep Screening Questionnaire (ASSQ), Personal Wellbeing Index-Adult
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Information literacy in the digital age: information sources, evaluation strategies, and perceived teaching competences of pre-service teachers Frontiers In Psychology (IF 4.232) Pub Date : 2024-03-15 Jessica Trixa, Kai Kaspar
IntroductionInformation literacy has become indispensable in navigating today’s fast-paced media environment, with teachers playing a pivotal role in fostering reflective and critical digital citizenship. Positioned as future gatekeepers, pre-service teachers are the key to teaching media skills and especially information literacy to future generations of pupils. Given the particular challenges facing
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Entangled brains and the experience of pains Frontiers In Psychology (IF 4.232) Pub Date : 2024-03-15 Valerie Gray Hardcastle
The International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP) revised its definition of pain to “an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience.” Three recent recommendations for understanding pain if there are no clear brain correlates include eliminativism, multiple realizability, and affordance-based approaches. I adumbrate a different path forward. Underlying each of the proposed approaches and the
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Nothing less than a creative triumph: a study of children admitted to hospital for serious somatic illness or injury and their experience of art therapy Frontiers In Psychology (IF 4.232) Pub Date : 2024-03-15 Patricia Loreskär, Per-Einar Binder
BackgroundHospitalization can be an extremely distressing experience for seriously ill and injured children. Art therapy has a well-established clinical history, and recent research has begun to demonstrate its effectiveness in somatic pediatric wards. Descriptive and statistical research indicates that art therapy can alleviate anxiety and fear, improve mood, and enhance communication among children
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Naturalism and the hard problem of mysticism in psychedelic science Frontiers In Psychology (IF 4.232) Pub Date : 2024-03-15 Jussi Jylkkä
Psychedelic substances are known to facilitate mystical-type experiences which can include metaphysical beliefs about the fundamental nature of reality. Such insights have been criticized as being incompatible with naturalism and therefore false. This leads to two problems. The easy problem is to elaborate on what is meant by the “fundamental nature of reality,” and whether mystical-type conceptions
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Gamification in the classroom: Kahoot! As a tool for university teaching innovation Frontiers In Psychology (IF 4.232) Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Agustín Aibar-Almazán, Yolanda Castellote-Caballero, María del Carmen Carcelén-Fraile, Yulieth Rivas-Campo, Ana María González-Martín
ObjectivesThe purpose of this study has been to evaluate the use of gamification in the classroom, in terms of its effects on attention, concentration, creativity, and generic capabilities, for university students enrolled in a Bachelor’s degree program in Physiotherapy.MethodsAn experimental design was implemented, using three groups differentiated by their time of exposure to the game (0 min, 30
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Being a heritage speaker matters: the role of markedness in subject-verb person agreement in Italian Frontiers In Psychology (IF 4.232) Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Grazia Di Pisa, Sergio Miguel Pereira Soares, Jason Rothman, Theodoros Marinis
This study examines online processing and offline judgments of subject-verb person agreement with a focus on how this is impacted by markedness in heritage speakers (HSs) of Italian. To this end, 54 adult HSs living in Germany and 40 homeland Italian speakers completed a self-paced reading task (SPRT) and a grammaticality judgment task (GJT). Markedness was manipulated by probing agreement with both
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The Risk Screener Violence (RS-V): retrospective prediction of violent and aggressive incidents within the prison setting Frontiers In Psychology (IF 4.232) Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Marjam V. Smeekens, Michiel De Vries Robbé, Arne Popma, Maaike M. Kempes
IntroductionPhysical and verbal violence toward staff or other detained individuals is a reoccurring problem within correctional facilities. Screening for violence risk within the prison setting could provide a valuable first step in the prevention of institutional violence. The brief and compact Risk Screener Violence (RS-V) has shown to be an efficient new method for assessing concerns regarding
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Relationship among some coordinative and dynamic strength capabilities and constructive and conceptual thinking among preschool-age children Frontiers In Psychology (IF 4.232) Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Chipo Malambo, Adéla Klepačová, Kateřina Brodská, Cain Craig Truman Clark, Martin Musálek
BackgroundExisting research underscores the positive influence of consistent physical activity, fitness, and motor coordination on school-aged children’s cognitive and academic performance. However, a gap exists in fully understanding this relationship among preschoolers, a critical age group where the development of cognitive functions is significant. The study aims to expand upon existing evidence
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Psychometric properties of the modified Suicide Stroop Task (M-SST) in patients with suicide risk and healthy controls Frontiers In Psychology (IF 4.232) Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Helena Gold, Maria Stein, Heide Glaesmer, Lena Spangenberg, Maria Strauss, Georg Schomerus, Katarina Stengler, Juliane Brüdern
The Cognitive Model of Suicide proposes a suicide attentional bias in individuals with suicidal thoughts and behavior (STBs). The Suicide Stroop Task (SST) was developed as a behavioral measure to assess this attentional bias. However, prior studies demonstrated poor psychometric properties of the SST.MethodsWe developed a modified Suicide Stroop Task (M-SST) and tested its psychometric properties
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Metaphors of adolescence during COVID-19 pandemic: a mixed-method analysis in relation to well-being and alexithymia Frontiers In Psychology (IF 4.232) Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Eleonora Farina, Alessandro Pepe
IntroductionDuring the pandemic, young people experienced a general increase in stress levels in their home and school environments and in their relationships with peers and family, largely due to restrictions on freedom of movement and social isolation. The ability to identify sources of stress and respond positively to them, using both personal and environmental resources, seems to be key to maintaining
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Factors associated with prolonged COVID-related PTSD-like symptoms among adults diagnosed with mild COVID-19 in Poland Frontiers In Psychology (IF 4.232) Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Sapir Elkayam, Emilia Łojek, Marcin Sękowski, Dominika Żarnecka, Anna Egbert, Julia Wyszomirska, Karolina Hansen, Ewa Malinowska, Lucette Cysique, Bernice Marcopulos, Natalia Gawron, Marta Sobańska, Małgorzata Gambin, Paweł Holas, Agnieszka Pluta, Sylwia Hyniewska
COVID-19 has been considered a possible cause of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) or similar conditions. However, what specific disease symptoms may contribute most to prolonged PTSD-like symptoms in COVID-19 survivors is unclear. The study aimed to present the factor structure of COVID-19 symptoms and identify which symptoms of COVID-19 best explain the subsequent presence of PTSD-like symptoms
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An ethical advantage of autistic employees in the workplace Frontiers In Psychology (IF 4.232) Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Lorne Hartman, Braxton Hartman
Differences between autistic and nonautistic people are often framed as deficits. This research considers whether some of these differences might actually be strengths. In particular, autistic people tend to be less sensitive to their social environment than nonautistic people who are easily influenced by the judgments, opinions, beliefs and actions of others. Because autistic people are less susceptible
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Quantifying empirical support for theories of consciousness: a tentative methodological framework Frontiers In Psychology (IF 4.232) Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Asger Kirkeby-Hinrup
Understanding consciousness is central to understanding human nature. We have competing theories of consciousness. In interdisciplinary consciousness studies most believe that consciousness can be naturalized (i.e., consciousness depends in some substantial way on processes in — or states of — the brain). For roughly two decades, proponents of almost every theory have focused on collecting empirical
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Cognitive control in honesty and dishonesty under different conflict scenarios: insights from reaction time Frontiers In Psychology (IF 4.232) Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Hao-Ming Li, Wen-Jing Yan, Yu-Wei Wu, Zi-Ye Huang
This study investigated the role of cognitive control in moral decision-making, focusing on conflicts between financial temptations and the integrity of honesty. We employed a perceptual task by asking participants to identify which side of the diagonal contained more red dots within a square to provoke both honest and dishonest behaviors, tracking their reaction times (RTs). Participants encountered
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“Now once again this idea of yours (…) how does it sound when I say that?” – Changing the perspective: how coach’s questioning practices elicit self-reflecting processes in clients Frontiers In Psychology (IF 4.232) Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Chantal Moos, Thomas Spranz-Fogasy
Drawing upon the transformative power of questions, the paper investigates questioning sequences from authentic coaching data to examine the systematic use of a particular succession of formulation and question and its impact on inviting self-reflection processes in the client and eliciting change. The object of investigation in this paper are therefore questioning sequences in which a coach asks a
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Families adapting to COVID-19 in urban Bangladesh: “It felt like the sky fell apart and we were in shock” Frontiers In Psychology (IF 4.232) Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Ahmed Jojan Nandonik, Shangjucta Das Pooja, Zarina Nahar Kabir, Shoshannah Kiriam
BackgroundThe COVID-19 epidemic has especially impacted the urban population in Bangladesh. Studies on COVID-19 have primarily focused on the patient’s perspective. It is important to understand the experience of family members who adopt caregiving roles, as the experience of COVID-19 also impacts, and is impacted by, household members. This study aimed to explore the challenges, preventative practices
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Monolingual and bilingual infants' attention to talking faces: evidence from eye-tracking and Bayesian modeling Frontiers In Psychology (IF 4.232) Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Sophie Lemonnier, Benjamin Fayolle, Nuria Sebastian-Galles, Roland Brémond, Julien Diard, Mathilde Fort
IntroductionA substantial amount of research from the last two decades suggests that infants' attention to the eyes and mouth regions of talking faces could be a supporting mechanism by which they acquire their native(s) language(s). Importantly, attentional strategies seem to be sensitive to three types of constraints: the properties of the stimulus, the infants' attentional control skills (which
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Community case studies: an interpretative phenomenological analysis on sexual abuse in urban Chennai Frontiers In Psychology (IF 4.232) Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Niranjana Ganesan, Bhuvaneswari Gopalakrishnan
This study attempts to explore the lived experiences of sexual abuse during COVID-19 in a big metropolitan city in India, with a special interest in understanding the contemporary problems faced by teenagers. Any Phenomenological enquiry begins with identifying and determining the suitability of the participants. In this case, the participants are teenage girls and boys, who have experienced one or
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Uncovering the potential of evaluative conditioning in shaping attitudes toward sustainable product packaging Frontiers In Psychology (IF 4.232) Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Nikki Leeuwis, Tom van Bommel, Manos Tsakiris, Maryam Alimardani
IntroductionThe necessity to promote pro-environmental behavior change in individuals and society is increasingly evident. This study aimed to investigate the effect of evaluative conditioning on consumers’ perception of product packaging.MethodsWe first produced two stimulus sets: one including images of supermarket products with different packaging and the other containing affective images of healthy
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Moral identity in relation to emotional well-being: a meta-analysis Frontiers In Psychology (IF 4.232) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Marlon Goering, Carlos N. Espinoza, Alecia Mercier, Emma K. Eason, Charles W. Johnson, Caroline G. Richter
IntroductionThis meta-analytic review surveyed previous empirical studies that examined links between moral identity and indicators of emotional well-being. Additionally, this meta-analysis examined cultural origin as a moderator, testing if links between moral identity and emotional well-being differ in collectivistic vs. individualistic countries.MethodsA systematic literature review was conducted
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Evaluation of a multi-site health services psychology training program for telehealth and integrated behavioral health Frontiers In Psychology (IF 4.232) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Carly McCord, Whitney Garney, Kristen Garcia, Blanca Macareno, Meredith Williamson
IntroductionTraining future providers in telehealth and integrated care models can improve access and outcomes, especially among rural and underserved populations. The (blinded) project implemented behavioral health training for health service psychology doctoral students with three partner organizations. Trainees received both experiential and didactic training in telehealth and integrated behavioral
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Self-reported symptom occurrence and distress, and psychological well-being after liver transplantation – a descriptive cross-sectional study of Danish recipients Frontiers In Psychology (IF 4.232) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Kristine Elberg Dengsø, Andreas Dehlbæk Knudsen, Dina Leth Møller, Anna Forsberg, Susanne Dam Nielsen, Jens Hillingsø
IntroductionSymptom distress and impaired psychological well-being after liver transplantation may lead to limitations in everyday activities and lowered health-related quality of life. The aim of this nationwide, descriptive, and cross-sectional study was to explore self-reported symptom occurrence and distress, among Danish liver transplant recipients, and their association with self-reported psychological
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Social media and anti-immigrant prejudice: a multi-method analysis of the role of social media use, threat perceptions, and cognitive ability Frontiers In Psychology (IF 4.232) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Saifuddin Ahmed, Kokil Jaidka, Vivian Hsueh Hua Chen, Mengxuan Cai, Anfan Chen, Claire Stravato Emes, Valerie Yu, Arul Chib
IntroductionThe discourse on immigration and immigrants is central to contemporary political and public discussions. Analyzing online conversations about immigrants provides valuable insights into public opinion, complemented by data from questionnaires on how attitudes are formed.MethodsThe research includes two studies examining the expressive and informational use of social media. Study 1 conducted
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Growing through adversity: the relation of early childhood educator post-traumatic growth to young children’s executive function Frontiers In Psychology (IF 4.232) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Caron A. C. Clark, Holly Hatton-Bowers, Kimia Akhavein, Sarah Rasby, Gilbert R. Parra
IntroductionEarly childhood educators (ECEs) play a critical role in supporting the development of young children’s executive functions (EF). EF, in turn, underpins lifelong resilience and well-being. Unfortunately, many ECEs report adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) that may compound high stress levels associated with an emotionally and physically demanding profession. ACEs have well-established
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Attitudes towards women in the military and their relation to both quantity and quality contact with female leaders Frontiers In Psychology (IF 4.232) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Adelheid A. M. Nicol, Amélie Mayrand Nicol
Contact experiences with women in senior leadership roles are important for creating acceptance of women in organizations dominated by men, such as the military, as leadership roles are considered demanding, requiring numerous agentic qualities that are often ascribed to men. The military lacks women in leadership levels within its organization. We wished to determine whether quality and quantity contact
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On the functional independence of numerical acuity and visual working memory Frontiers In Psychology (IF 4.232) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Roberto Dell’Acqua, Paola Sessa, Sabrina Brigadoi, Judit Gervain, Roy Luria, Mattia Doro
Deciding where to direct our vehicle in a crowded parking area or where to line up at an airport gateway relies on our ability to appraise the numerosity of multitudes at a glimpse and react accordingly. Approximating numerosities without actually counting is an ontogenetically and phylogenetically primordial ability, given its presence in human infants shortly after birth, and in primate and non-primate
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Why teachers do (or do not) implement recommended teaching practices? An application of the theory of planned behavior Frontiers In Psychology (IF 4.232) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Christophe Dierendonck, Débora Poncelet, Mélanie Tinnes-Vigne
IntroductionIn Luxembourg, competency-based practices (CBP), differentiated instruction (DI), and formative assessment (FA) have been imposed by the 2009 school law. Referring to the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB), this study examined factors influencing the implementation of these practices in classrooms.MethodsTeachers participated in an online survey assessing their attitudes, subjective norm
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The dynamics of experiencing Gestalt and Aha in cubist art: pupil responses and art evaluations show a complex interplay of task, stimuli content, and time course Frontiers In Psychology (IF 4.232) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Blanca T. M. Spee, Jozsef Arato, Jan Mikuni, Ulrich S. Tran, Matthew Pelowski, Helmut Leder
IntroductionGestalt perception refers to the cognitive ability to perceive various elements as a unified whole. In our study, we delve deeper into the phenomenon of Gestalt recognition in visual cubist art, a transformative process culminating in what is often described as an Aha moment. This Aha moment signifies a sudden understanding of what is seen, merging seemingly disparate elements into a coherent
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Progressive muscle relaxation in pandemic times: bolstering medical student resilience through IPRMP and Gagne's model Frontiers In Psychology (IF 4.232) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Bhavana Nair, Sara Khan, Nerissa Naidoo, Shirin Jannati, Balamohan Shivani, Yajnavalka Banerjee
BackgroundMedical education, already demanding, has been further strained by the COVID-19 pandemic's challenges and the shift to distance learning. This context underscores the need for effective stress reduction techniques in competency-based medical curricula (CBMC).ObjectiveWe assessed the feasibility and benefits of integrating a Progressive Muscle Relaxation (PMR) module—a known effective stress-reducing
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Direct and indirect effects of father-child attachment on academic burnout in college students Frontiers In Psychology (IF 4.232) Pub Date : 2024-03-12 Zhenyun Zhang, Yuhua Wang, Huifen Wu, Yuqin Zhou, Cong Peng
The study aims to investigate the multiple mediating roles of core self-evaluation and sense of school belonging in the relationship between father-child attachment and academic burnout in college students. A sample of 418 college students completed the father-child attachment scale, the scale of sense of school belonging, core self-evaluation scale, and academic burnout scale. After controlling for
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Decoding emotional responses to AI-generated architectural imagery Frontiers In Psychology (IF 4.232) Pub Date : 2024-03-12 Zhihui Zhang, Josep M. Fort, Lluis Giménez Mateu
IntroductionThe integration of AI in architectural design represents a significant shift toward creating emotionally resonant spaces. This research investigates AI's ability to evoke specific emotional responses through architectural imagery and examines the impact of professional training on emotional interpretation.MethodsWe utilized Midjourney AI software to generate images based on direct and metaphorical
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Traits linked to sensory processing sensitivity mediate the relationship between externally oriented thinking and fantasizing Frontiers In Psychology (IF 4.232) Pub Date : 2024-03-12 Lorna S. Jakobson, Amanda M. McQuarrie, Chantal Van Landeghem, Stephen D. Smith
IntroductionAlexithymia is characterized by difficulties identifying and describing feelings but expression of externally oriented thinking (EOT) and difficulty fantasizing is more variable. In two studies, we investigated whether links between EOT and fantasizing are mediated by sensory processing sensitivity (SPS).MethodsUniversity students completed measures of alexithymia, SPS, and fantasizing
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Promoting mental health in children and adolescents through digital technology: a systematic review and meta-analysis Frontiers In Psychology (IF 4.232) Pub Date : 2024-03-12 Tianjiao Chen, Jingyi Ou, Gege Li, Heng Luo
BackgroundThe increasing prevalence of mental health issues among children and adolescents has prompted a growing number of researchers and practitioners to explore digital technology interventions, which offer convenience, diversity, and proven effectiveness in addressing such problems. However, the existing literature reveals a significant gap in comprehensive reviews that consolidate findings and
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Effects of golf instructors’ professional certification levels on amateur golfers’ perception of instructor expertise, instructor credibility, and lesson participation intention: testing placebo and nocebo effects Frontiers In Psychology (IF 4.232) Pub Date : 2024-03-12 Hye Jin Yang, Ji-Hye Yang, Si Cheol Jung, Chulhwan Choi, Chul-Ho Bum
This study investigated the differences in amateur golfers’ perceptions of instructor expertise, instructor credibility, and lesson participation intention depending on the golf instructor’s certification level to investigate whether placebo and nocebo effects exist depending on the certification level. Accordingly, the study analyzed 153 amateur golfers with at least 1 year of playing experience,
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The phenomenology of attentional control: a first-person approach to contemplative science and the issue of free will Frontiers In Psychology (IF 4.232) Pub Date : 2024-03-12 Terje Sparby, Dirk Cysarz, David Hornemann v. Laer, Friedrich Edelhäuser, Diethard Tauschel, Ulrich W. Weger
There are two basic aspects of attentional control. The ability to direct attention toward different objects is typically experienced as a fundamental indicator of attentional freedom. One can control what one attends to and directing attention is a relatively simple task. In contrast, sustaining attention on a chosen object proves to be difficult as mind-wandering seems to be inevitable. Does the
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Parents’ experiences of living with a child with cancer undergoing hematopoietic stem cell transplantation: a qualitative content analysis study Frontiers In Psychology (IF 4.232) Pub Date : 2024-03-12 Maryam Maleki, Nahid Dehghan Nayeri, Amir Ali Hamidieh, Batool Pouraboli
ObjectivesPediatric Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant (HSCT) profoundly impacts the physical, psychological, and social aspects of parents’ lives. Thus, this study aimed to explore the experiences of parents living with a child with cancer who undergoes HSCT.MethodsThis qualitative study involved 20 parents of children with cancer who were undergoing HSCT at a referral hospital in Iran. Purposive
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The dimensionality of the Conflict Resolution Styles Inventory across age and relationships Frontiers In Psychology (IF 4.232) Pub Date : 2024-03-12 Tatiana Alina Trifan, Wim Meeus, Susan Branje
Close interpersonal conflicts between parents and children, marital or romantic partners, and between friends are common, and adjustment in youth and adults depends on how these conflicts are managed. While conflict management is important for relationships and adjustment, the structure of conflict management in adults or in youths has rarely been examined. Knowing how conflict management is structured
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“You can’t really have a relationship with them because they just ask you questions”: understanding adolescent dropout – an empirical single case study Frontiers In Psychology (IF 4.232) Pub Date : 2024-03-12 Antonella Cirasola, Dora Szegedi, Peter Fonagy, Nick Midgley
IntroductionHigh dropout rates are common in youth psychotherapy, including psychoanalytic psychotherapy, yet the reasons behind this trend remain obscure. A critical focus to enhance adolescent engagement could be the therapeutic alliance, particularly in resolving alliance ruptures. This study sought to clarify the complex relationships between the therapeutic alliance, encompassing alliance ruptures
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Development and validation of an interview guide for examining the effects of sports careers on the quality of life of retired Portuguese football players Frontiers In Psychology (IF 4.232) Pub Date : 2024-03-12 Eduardo Teixeira, Carlos Silva, António Vicente
IntroductionConsidering the importance of assessing the impacts resulting from a sport career, this study aimed at developing and validating a semi-structure interview guide suitable for quantifying the sociodemographic and epidemiological profile of former professional football players.MethodsBased on the theoretical frameworks and several methodological procedures, an interview guide was developed
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Nursing students’ knowledge regarding sexuality, sex, and gender diversity in a multicenter study Frontiers In Psychology (IF 4.232) Pub Date : 2024-03-12 Conceição Santiago, Açucena Guerra, Teresa Carreira, Sara Palma, Florbela Bia, Jorge Pérez-Pérez, Ana Frias, Sagrario Gómez-Cantarino, Hélia Dias
IntroductionSexuality is an integral part of development and personality, and is important in healthcare. Nurses are among the most representative healthcare professionals. For holistic and inclusive nursing care practice and to improve equality, human rights, well-being, and health of individuals, the curricula of nursing courses must integrate broad knowledge about sexuality and its diversity. This
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Applicability and usefulness of pupillometry in the study of lexical access. A scoping review of primary research Frontiers In Psychology (IF 4.232) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Carlos Rojas, Yuri E. Vega-Rodríguez, Gabriel Lagos, María Gabriela Cabrera-Miguieles, Yasna Sandoval, Jaime Crisosto-Alarcón
Pupil dilation has been associated with the effort required to perform various cognitive tasks. At the lexical level, some studies suggest that this neurophysiological measure would provide objective, real-time information during word processing and lexical access. However, due to the scarcity and incipient advancement of this line of research, its applicability, use, and sensitivity are not entirely
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What means civic education in a digitalized world? Frontiers In Psychology (IF 4.232) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Josephine B. Schmitt, Jasmin Baake, Sandra Kero
The hope of reaching diverse and large target groups has motivated civic education practitioners to offer their content on social media. The question has therefore long ceased to be whether civic education should take place on the internet, but rather how civic education goals can be implemented digitally to foster civic literacy. At first glance, the possibility of reaching a broad audience in a short
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Visual vertical neglect in acquired brain injury: a systematic review Frontiers In Psychology (IF 4.232) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Pasquale Moretta, Nicola Davide Cavallo, Eleonora Fonzo, Antonio Maiorino, Cesario Ferrante, Pasquale Ambrosino, Cinzia Femiano, Gabriella Santangelo, Laura Marcuccio
Vertical neglect represents a visuospatial deficit occurring as a possible consequence of acquired brain injury (ABI). Differently from unilateral spatial neglect on horizontal space, vertical neglect is poorly studied in the literature and rarely assessed in clinical practice. In the available studies, the terms “radial,” “vertical,” and “altitudinal” neglect are often used interchangeably, although
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Do you say uh or uhm? A cross-linguistic approach to filler particle use in heritage and majority speakers across three languages Frontiers In Psychology (IF 4.232) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Marlene Böttcher, Margaret Zellers
Filler particles like uhm in English or ähm in German show subtle language-specific differences and their variation in form is related to socio-linguistic variables like gender. The use of fillers in a second language has been shown to differ from monolinguals' filler particle use in both frequency and form in different language contexts. This study investigates the language-specific use of filler
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Personal dispositions explain differences in physical health benefits of nature exposure: the role of restorativeness and affect Frontiers In Psychology (IF 4.232) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Claudia Russo, Luciano Romano, Giuseppina Spano, Annalisa Theodorou, Giuseppe Carrus, Stefano Mastandrea, Cinzia Angelini, Giovanni Sanesi, Angelo Panno
IntroductionUrbanization processes are constantly increasing, and most of the European population currently live in urban areas. Nevertheless, evidence is consistent in highlighting the positive association between nature exposure and human wellbeing, although individual differences might affect this association.MethodsThe present study aimed to investigate the association among nature connectedness
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Does physical activity influence health behavior, mental health, and psychological resilience under the moderating role of quality of life? Frontiers In Psychology (IF 4.232) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Ru Liu, Rashid Menhas, Zulkaif Ahmed Saqib
BackgroundPhysical activity significantly influences health-related behaviors, encompassing physical and mental well-being. Physical activity has been linked to enhancing health behavior, mental health, and psychological resilience. The current study is based on participants who were active in physical activity to improve health and well-being.ObjectivesTo examine the influences of physical activity
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The effect of anxiety on sleep disorders in medical students: a moderated mediation model Frontiers In Psychology (IF 4.232) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Chuang Yu, Zhiyi Liu, Tiehong Su, Zhongyu Li, Zinan Jiang, Wen Zhong, Zhongju Xiao
The relationship between anxiety and sleep disorders is a key research topic in the academic community. However, evidence on the mechanism through which anxiety influences sleep disorders remains limited. The purpose of this study was to investigate the roles of flourishing and neuroticism in the mechanism through which anxiety influences sleep disorders in medical students. We constructed a moderated
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The ripple effect of strain in times of change: how manager emotional exhaustion affects team psychological safety and readiness to change Frontiers In Psychology (IF 4.232) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Patrick Groulx, Francis Maisonneuve, Jean-François Harvey, Kevin J. Johnson
IntroductionManagers assume a pivotal role during periods of organizational change, yet there exists a notable gap in our understanding of how their emotional exhaustion may impact their capacity to generate readiness to change within their teams. Grounded in the conservation of resources theory (COR), this study explores the crossover effect of managers’ emotional exhaustion on team readiness to change
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Frontiers | Specificity of tilt illusion reduction through perceptual learning Frontiers In Psychology (IF 4.232) Pub Date : 2024-03-08 Na-Ri Jeong, Seungmin Han, Hoon Choi
Human perceptual ability can be improved by perceptual learning through repeated exposure or training. Perceptual learning studies have focused on achieving accurate perception of stimuli by improving perceptual sensitivity. However, eliminating illusions can also be one of the ways of accurate perception. To determine whether the illusion can be attenuated by perceptual learning, the current study
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Frontiers | Age-related changes in motor planning for prior intentions: a mouse tracking reach-to-click task Frontiers In Psychology (IF 4.232) Pub Date : 2024-03-08 Shujing Zhang, Kate Wilmut, Kaiyu Zhang, Shan Wang
When we complete sequential movements with different intentions, we plan our movements and adjust ahead. Such a phenomenon is called anticipatory planning for prior intentions and is known to decline with age. In daily life activities, we often need to consider and plan for multiple demands in one movement sequence. However, previous studies only considered one dimension of prior intentions, either
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Classic and modern models of self-regulated learning: integrative and componential analysis Frontiers In Psychology (IF 4.232) Pub Date : 2024-03-08 Carolina Tinajero, Mª Emma Mayo, Eva Villar, Zeltia Martínez-López
Self-regulated learning (SRL) is considered a construct of great heuristic value and has attracted the attention of numerous researchers and inspired influential theoretical models. The objective of the present study was to provide an up-to-date, comparative and integrated description of the theoretical models of SRL used in current empirical research. For this purpose, we conducted a critical review
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Longitudinal processes among humility, social justice activism, transcendence, and well-being Frontiers In Psychology (IF 4.232) Pub Date : 2024-03-08 Peter J. Jankowski, Steven J. Sandage, David C. Wang, Michael J. Zyphur, Sarah A. Crabtree, Elise J. Choe
IntroductionExisting research shows positive associations between humility and well-being, and between civic engagement and well-being. Rarely have humility, civic engagement, and well-being been examined together. We build off of previous cross-sectional findings and a prior longitudinal study that used three waves of data and found significant positive bivariate correlations between humility and
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Cross-level transformation of creativity from entrepreneurs to organizations Frontiers In Psychology (IF 4.232) Pub Date : 2024-03-08 Xiu Yang, Meng Zhang, Zixuan Meng, Yingxian Shen, Xiaomin Du
With the intensification of competition in the business environment, organizational creativity is increasingly becoming crucial for organizations to build competitive advantages and promote organizational development. For innovative enterprises, their entrepreneurs largely determine the development orientation of the enterprise. They are one of the most critical factors determining the level of corporate
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XR and mental wellbeing: state of the art and future research directions for the Metaverse Frontiers In Psychology (IF 4.232) Pub Date : 2024-03-08 Alexandra Taylor, M. Claudia tom Dieck, Timothy Jung, Justin Cho, Ohbyung Kwon
IntroductionThe purpose of this study is to provide an overview of extant research regarding XR technology and its effect on consumer wellbeing. With the hopes of informing marketing practitioners on XR consumer psychology, in preparation for the Metaverse.MethodsTo achieve the above aim, two types of analysis took place. Firstly, a bibliometric analysis was conducted which was then followed by a framework-based