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Interrelationships of symptomatic and relational distress: Improvements in interpersonal problems predict subsequent improvement in depressive symptoms during open-ended psychotherapy for adults with depression. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2025-06-01 Andreas Høstmælingen,Helene Amundsen Nissen-Lie,Jon Trygve Monsen,Ole André Solbakken
OBJECTIVE Depressed patients often experience interpersonal distress. Understanding how interpersonal distress and depressive symptoms are associated may have implications for understanding the etiology and maintenance of depression, as well as for treatment. In this naturalistic psychotherapy study, we explored whether change in depressive symptoms predicted subsequent change in interpersonal distress
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Exploring the matching effect: The association between preference accommodation, the working alliance, and outcome in psychotherapy. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2025-06-01 Celia Faye Jacobsen,Fredrik Falkenström,Karen-Inge Karstoft,Libby Igra,Susanne Lunn,Jan Nielsen,Line Lauritzen,Stig Poulsen
OBJECTIVE This study investigated two proposed change mechanisms in preference accommodation, thought to improve psychotherapy outcomes: a direct effect of a match between clients' initial preferences and their subsequent experiences of the therapy activities, or a mediated "matching effect" operating through the working alliance. Furthermore, the study explored whether the effect of a preference-experience
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Efficacy of cognitive behavioral therapies with a trauma focus for posttraumatic stress disorder: An individual participant data meta-analysis. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2025-06-01 Simonne L Wright,Eirini Karyotaki,Marit Sijbrandij,Pim Cuijpers,Jonathan I Bisson,Davide Papola,Anke B Witteveen,Sudie E Back,Dana Bichescu-Burian,Liuva Capezzani,Marylene Cloitre,Grant J Devilly,Thomas Elbert,Marcelo Feijo Mello,Julian D Ford,Damion Grasso,Richard Gray,Moira Haller,Nigel Hunt,Rolf J Kleber,Julia König,Claire Kullack,Jonathan Laugharne,Rachel Liebman,Christopher William Lee,Jeannette
OBJECTIVE This individual participant data meta-analysis aimed to investigate the effectiveness of cognitive behavioral therapy with a trauma focus (CBT-TF) for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Furthermore, we examined the effect of moderators on PTSD symptom severity. METHOD This study included randomized controlled trials comparing CBT-TF to an inactive or active comparison group for adults
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The effect of mindfulness interventions on couple relationship satisfaction: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2025-06-01 Andreas Voldstad,Ananda Zeas-Sigüenza,Anton Skolzkov,Mari Walthaug,Jesús Montero-Marín,Willem Kuyken
OBJECTIVE Mindfulness interventions (MIs) train nonjudgmental attention to present-moment experience and aim to improve mental health and well-being. The evidence for their effect on interpersonal relationships is promising but uncertain. This study examines the effect of MIs on couple relationship satisfaction (RS). METHOD Randomized controlled trials of MIs including RS were selected based on systematic
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"It's More Important Than Ever for Men to Play a Role": Women's Perspectives on Safe Sex Responsibilities Following the Dobbs Decision. Journal of Sex Research (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2025-05-16 Erin Nolen,Kyla Cary,Rebecca R Mendoza,Shetal Vohra-Gupta,Catherine Cubbin
The Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization decision in June 2022 revoked the constitutional right to abortion and left abortion policy jurisdiction up to the states. Data were collected in November 2022 through Prolific, a research participant recruitment service, to assess participants' perspectives on safe sex responsibilities in light of the Dobbs decision. Participants were 339 U.S. cisgender
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Sensory Responsiveness, Sexual Mindful Awareness, and Sexual Satisfaction Among Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse: A Cross-Sectional Mediation Analysis. Journal of Sex Research (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2025-05-16 Rachel Hasson,Ada Talmon,Karni Ginzburg
Previous studies have demonstrated that a history of childhood sexual abuse (CSA) is associated with reduced sexual satisfaction among adult survivors. Recent studies have suggested that survivors of traumatic experiences may display sensory modulation dysfunction, manifested as either over- or under-responsiveness to sensory stimuli. In this study we examined a moderated mediation model according
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Beyond total scores: Enhancing psychotherapy outcome prediction with item-level scores. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2025-05-15 Juan Segundo Pena Loray,Miriam Ina Hehlmann,Juan Martín Gomez Penedo,Henning Schöttke,Julian A Rubel
OBJECTIVE This study aims at improving dropout and treatment nonresponse prevention by optimizing the performance of models for their prediction through the integration of item-level data. METHOD Routine data from 1,277 patients (Mage = 36.95, SDage = 13.64; 64.77% female) treated at Osnabrück University was used to train and evaluate 20 machine-learning algorithms and five ensemble models. Measures
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Single-item patient-rated helpfulness and improvement as an alternative to standardized questionnaires for establishing anxiety and depression treatment efficacy. Psychological Assessment (IF 3.3) Pub Date : 2025-05-15 Patrycja Sewerynek,Caroline Wagner,Thomas McGregor,Megan Skelton,Thalia C Eley
Evidence-based psychological treatments for anxiety and depression are widely used, yet roughly half of those treated do not respond. Treatment response prediction could help to optimize patient outcomes and use of clinical resources. However, existing longitudinal studies with potentially valuable predictors are unlikely to include comprehensive, prospective measures of symptoms throughout therapy
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A Systematic Review of Guided, Parent-Led Digital Interventions for Preadolescent Children with Emotional and Behavioural Problems Clin. Child Fam. Psychol. Rev. (IF 5.5) Pub Date : 2025-05-11 Emily Whitaker, Chloe Chessell, Maxwell Klapow, Cathy Creswell
Emotional and behavioural problems (EBP) are prevalent amongst children, and guided, parent-led digital interventions offer one method of improving access to effective treatments. This systematic review (PROSPERO: CRD42023484098) aimed to examine the evidence base for, and characteristics of, these types of interventions through a narrative synthesis. Systematic searches were conducted using Medline
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Investigating the effect of experience sampling study design on careless and insufficient effort responding identified with a screen-time-based mixture model. Psychological Assessment (IF 3.3) Pub Date : 2025-05-08 Esther Ulitzsch,Wolfgang Viechtbauer,Oliver Lüdtke,Inez Myin-Germeys,Gabriel Nagy,Steffen Nestler,Gudrun Vera Eisele
When using the experience sampling method (ESM), researchers must navigate a delicate balance between obtaining fine-grained snapshots of phenomena of interest and avoiding undue respondent burden, which can lead to disengagement and compromise data quality. To guide that process, we investigated how questionnaire length and sampling frequency impact careless and insufficient effort responding (C/IER)
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Economic Inequality and Mental Health: Causality, Mechanisms, and Interventions Annu. Rev. Clin. Psychol. (IF 17.8) Pub Date : 2025-05-07 Divyangana Rakesh, Koichiro Shiba, Michèle Lamont, Crick Lund, Kate E. Pickett, Tyler J. VanderWeele, Vikram Patel
Almost all countries in the world have witnessed a rapid increase in levels of economic inequality, a measure of the distribution of income and wealth across the population, since the advent of neoliberal economic policies in the 1970s. In this review, we conceptualize inequality as an ecological construct and discuss why it matters for the mental health of populations and for individual clinical outcomes
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Longitudinal invariance of the Children's Depression Rating Scale-Revised in adolescents. Psychological Assessment (IF 3.3) Pub Date : 2025-05-05 Lilian Y Li,Madeline M McGregor,Sarah E Sarkas,Aishwarya Sritharan,Lili Massac,Marissa Valdespino,Allison M Letkiewicz,Katherine Durham,Randy P Auerbach,Stewart A Shankman
The Children's Depression Rating Scale-Revised (CDRS-R) is a widely used interview measure of adolescent major depression (major depressive disorder), with sum scores and their changes over time interpreted as changes in one underlying construct. This interpretation assumes that the CDRS-R measures a single construct of depression (unidimensionality) in the same way across time (longitudinal invariance)-assumptions
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Psychometric study of the revised Mood Rhythm Instrument (MRhI-r) in major depressive disorder. Psychological Assessment (IF 3.3) Pub Date : 2025-05-05 Adile Nexha,Melissa Alves Braga de Oliveira,Euclides José de Mendonça Filho,Ana Adan,Maria Paz Hidalgo,Benicio N Frey
Major depressive disorder (MDD) affects over 300 million people globally. The etiology of MDD is linked to circadian rhythm disruption, including the diurnal pattern of mood, cognition, and physiological processes. The revised Mood Rhythm Instrument (MRhI-r) was developed to assess self-perceived rhythmicity of symptoms and has previously been tested in nonclinical populations. This study evaluates
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Uncovering urgency in daily life: Testing a novel method for assessing emotion-impulsivity co-occurrence in momentary data. J. Psychopathol. Clin. Sci. (IF 3.1) Pub Date : 2025-05-05 Janan Mostajabi,Sarah H Sperry,Kevin M King,Aidan G C Wright
Impulsivity is a personality trait with broad health implications. Urgency is a facet of impulsivity defined as the tendency to engage in rash action when experiencing strong emotions. Thus, as defined, urgency is a dynamic, if … then process. However, urgency has mostly been studied using cross-sectional dispositional scales and laboratory-based tasks. Recent work modeling urgency dynamically as the
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The rise of normality in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders: Causes and implications for diagnosis, practice, and validity. J. Psychopathol. Clin. Sci. (IF 3.1) Pub Date : 2025-05-05 Afonso Fernandes,Matilde Gomes,Pedro Morgado
The use of "normal" and related terms has increased across successive editions of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), from DSM-I to DSM-5. Despite its widespread use, "normal" remains an ambiguous and context-dependent term, reflecting statistical frequency and sociocultural expectations. "Normal" is also commonly understood as indicative of health. This Viewpoint examines
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Using the experience sampling methodology to measure anhedonia and its correlates in mental health research: A systematic review Clin. Psychol. Rev. (IF 13.7) Pub Date : 2025-05-04 Joanne R. Beames, Lotte Uyttebroek, Clementine J. Edwards, Gudrun V. Eisele, Nian D.F. Kemme, Olivia Collier, Eeske van Roekel, Thomas R. Kwapil, Olivia J. Kirtley, Inez Myin-Germeys
Anhedonia is a lack or loss of pleasure in daily life. This is the first systematic review to investigate anhedonia in mental health research with a focus on experience sampling methodology (ESM). The review aimed to identify how anhedonia is conceptualized and measured in ESM research, how it is experienced during daily life, and the quality of reporting in the published literature. To generate a
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Dyadic coping and relationship satisfaction among couples with a chronic illness: A meta-analytical actor–partner interdependence model Clin. Psychol. Rev. (IF 13.7) Pub Date : 2025-05-04 Jianhua Hou, Mariana Karin Falconier, Wilson Tam, Mike W.-L. Cheung, Rong Fu, He Bu, Nancy Xiaonan Yu
Chronic illness (CI) burdens both the patient and their romantic partner. CI management has been viewed as a dyadic process by theorists and clinical practitioners. Dyadic coping (DC) refers to the processes where one partner aids the other or both partners work together to cope with stress. We used the meta-analytical actor–partner interdependence model and its extension of actor–partner interdependence
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Characterizing predictors of response to behavioral interventions for children with autism spectrum disorder: A meta-analytic approach Clin. Psychol. Rev. (IF 13.7) Pub Date : 2025-05-03 Lacey Chetcuti, Mirko Uljarević, Rachel K. Schuck, Antonio Y. Hardan, Grace W. Gengoux, David Trembath, Yagnesh Vadgama, Kandice J. Varcin, Giacomo Vivanti, Andrew J.O. Whitehouse, Maria Helton, Thomas W. Frazier
A comprehensive understanding of specific factors contributing to variability in responsiveness of children with autism to interventions is paramount for making evidence-based clinical and policy decisions. This meta-analysis examined child and family characteristics, as well as intervention design factors, associated with outcomes of behavioral interventions for children with autism. A systematic
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Risk factors for depression, anxiety, and PTSS after loss: A systematic review and meta-analysis Clin. Psychol. Rev. (IF 13.7) Pub Date : 2025-05-03 C. Buur, R. Zachariae, M.M. Marello, M. O'Connor
Bereavement can lead to complicated grief reactions including clinically significant symptoms of depression, anxiety, and post-traumatic stress (PTSS) post-loss. Gaining insight into specific and shared risk factors for these complicated grief reactions can help identify individuals needing support.
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The Impact of Modifiable Parenting Factors on the Screen Use of Children Five Years or Younger: A Systematic Review Clin. Child Fam. Psychol. Rev. (IF 5.5) Pub Date : 2025-05-01 Blake Pyne, Olifa Asmara, Alina Morawska
Most children under age 5 exceed recommended screen time guidelines, with lifelong implications for children’s psychosocial, cognitive, socio-emotional, and physiological outcomes. Socio-ecological models point towards the important contribution of parental knowledge, modelling, practices, self-efficacy and style on child screen use. This study aimed to determine the extent to which these parenting
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Cognitive restructuring before exposure therapy or behavioral experiments? How the timing of expectancy violation and magnitude of expectancy change influence exposure therapy outcomes. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2025-05-01 Carly J Johnco,Melissa Norberg,Viviana M Wuthrich,Ronald M Rapee
OBJECTIVE Inhibitory learning models emphasize the central role of threat expectancy violation during exposure therapy. However, exposure is often implemented alongside cognitive restructuring, which reduces threat expectancies before exposure, reducing the potential for expectancy violation. This study examined whether the timing of expectancy violation (before/during exposure) and magnitude of expectancy
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Building toward a text-based intervention for parents of suicidal adolescents seeking emergency department care: A pilot randomized controlled trial. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2025-05-01 Ewa Czyz,Inbal Nahum-Shani,Cynthia Ewell Foster,Valerie Micol,Amanda Jiang,Nadia Al-Dajani,Alejandra Arango,Maureen Walton,Victor Hong,Sheikh Iqbal Ahamed,Cheryl King
OBJECTIVE The growing demand for emergency department (ED) care for suicidal ideation and attempts in adolescents calls for effective interventions preventing post-ED recurrence of suicidal crises. Parents are tasked with implementing postdischarge suicide prevention recommendations, often with little support. To address this need, this study examined a parent-facing texting intervention targeting
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Differential effect of early response on outcomes in person-centered experiential therapy and cognitive behavioral therapy for the treatment of adult moderate or severe depression. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2025-05-01 Kerry Ardern,Scott A Baldwin,David Saxon,Ben Lorimer,Gillian E Hardy,Michael Barkham
OBJECTIVE To investigate if Sessions 1-4 Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9) scores are associated with treatment outcome and if there is a differential effect between person-centered experiential therapy (PCET) and cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT). METHOD A secondary data analysis of a prospectively registered and ethically approved pragmatic, noninferiority randomized controlled trial comparing
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Almost 90 years of common factors: Are they still useful in research and practice? Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2025-05-01 Sigal Zilcha-Mano
Traditionally, psychotherapy distinguishes between "common factors" and "specific mechanisms." Common factors can be defined as "unrecognized factors in any therapeutic situation-factors that may be even more important than those being purposely employed." Specific mechanisms, by contrast, are deliberately targeted by given therapeutic approaches as the primary drivers of change. This distinction is
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"It was the Best Sex of My Life": A Qualitative Analysis of Black Women's Most Pleasurable Sexual Experiences. Journal of Sex Research (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2025-04-30 Praise Iyiewuare,Kaylee A Palomino,Brenice Duroseau,Shemeka Thorpe
Sexual pleasure is an integral component of sexual health, human rights, and overall wellbeing and can be a helpful lens for understanding the agency and freedom present at the individual, relational, and community level. Further, one's most pleasurable sexual experience can be a pivotal moment that allows for expanded understandings of pleasure and can change how one structures future sexual experiences
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Masturbation Trajectories from Late Adolescence into Mid-Adulthood: A Population-Based Longitudinal Study. Journal of Sex Research (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2025-04-29 Anna Ivanova,Sam Fluit,Nantje Fischer,Tilmann von Soest,Michal Kozák
Masturbation with its numerous health benefits is an integral aspect of most people's sexuality and is typically observed across all stages of life. However, longitudinal studies exploring the frequencies of masturbation across major life phases are lacking. We examined the development of masturbation frequencies from ages 19-50 via multilevel growth curve modeling with a longitudinal population-based
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For clinical translation, the Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology (HiTOP) must stand on its own two feet. J. Psychopathol. Clin. Sci. (IF 3.1) Pub Date : 2025-04-28 Jai Carmichael,Darren Haywood
TThe Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology (HiTOP) offers an empirically derived, dimensional framework for conceptualizing mental health difficulties, designed with both research and clinical applications in mind. Although the HiTOP Consortium has made meaningful progress in developing clinical tools and training resources, current messaging frames HiTOP primarily as a corrective to shortcomings
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Moving toward transdiagnostic dimensional models of neurodiversity and mental health (and away from models of psychopathology). J. Psychopathol. Clin. Sci. (IF 3.1) Pub Date : 2025-04-28 Isabelle Morris,Giorgia Michelini,Sylia Wilson
Increasing recognition that neurodiversity is part of human diversity prompts reconsideration of the current dominant conceptualization of neurodivergence as inherently atypical or pathological. We propose a distinction between neurodevelopmental conditions and mental health conditions such that DSM neurodevelopmental disorders should no longer be subsumed under the mental disorder classification but
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A Survey of the United Kink-dom: Investigating Five Paraphilic Interest Groups and Their Demographic and Psychological Correlates. Journal of Sex Research (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2025-04-28 Ashley Brown,Edward D Barker,Stella Friedrich,Qazi Rahman
We explored demographic, psychological, and behavioral characteristics of five paraphilic interest groups in the UK: BDSM, pet play, age play/ABDL, furries, and balloon fetishists - chosen for their prevalence, power dynamics, and varied activities. Through an anonymous survey (N = 470), we assessed role identities, engagement patterns, and relational dynamics. Groups were more likely to have non-heterosexual
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Evaluation of assessment instruments for working alliance in psychological interventions with adolescents: A systematic review Clin. Psychol. Rev. (IF 13.7) Pub Date : 2025-04-27 Mariana Veloso Martins, Zorana Jolić Marjanović, Nuno Ferreira, Camellia Hancheva, Emma Motrico, Jose M. Mestre, Nele A.J. De Witte, Sibel Halfon, Sidse Arnfred, Margarida Rangel Henriques, Nina Petričević, Marcin Rzeszutek, Jana Volkert, Randi Ulberg, Fredrik Falkenström
The working alliance is one of the most robust predictors of outcomes in adult psychotherapy. Since the alliance is often challenging to establish and maintain in psychotherapy with adolescents, conducting high-quality assessments of the alliance using sound measures in this population is critical. Still, measurement instruments developed for adults cannot be directly transferred to adolescent samples
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Scientific Progress in Mapping the Relational Ecology of Early Child Development: A Systematic Scoping Review Clin. Child Fam. Psychol. Rev. (IF 5.5) Pub Date : 2025-04-25 Siobhan O’Dean, Elizabeth Spry, Tracy Evans-Whipp, Kayla Mansour, Rebecca Glauert, Craig A. Olsson, Tim Slade
The development of secure relationships between children and their adult carers, across the earliest years of life, emerges within a multifaceted and complex relational ecology. Here we present findings from a systematic scoping review designed to map the extent to which the relational ecology of child-caregiver relationships across early life (from conception to age 3 years) has been studied. A first
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The Parenting Practices of Parents with Psychosis: A Systematic Integrative Review Clin. Child Fam. Psychol. Rev. (IF 5.5) Pub Date : 2025-04-23 Hannah Collins, Anja Wittkowski, Lynsey Gregg
Parental psychosis has been reliably associated with adverse outcomes for both parents and children. Despite this, support for these families remains limited. Understanding the everyday parenting practices of parents with psychosis, and whether they differ from parents without psychosis is crucial for developing suitable, evidence-based interventions. We therefore aimed to synthesise quantitative and
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Reproducible structure with measurement invariance for the Parent-Report Early Adolescent Temperament Questionnaire: Findings from three independent samples. Psychological Assessment (IF 3.3) Pub Date : 2025-05-01 Michael B Kozlowski,Hannah E Morton,Joel T Nigg,Sarah L Karalunas
Differences in adolescent temperament are associated with innumerable psychological outcomes in the developmental literature and can help link adult personality-based nosology to earlier development. The Early Adolescent Temperament Questionnaire-Revised is one important measure of adolescent temperament designed to capture constructs within the influential Rothbart temperament model. Yet conflicting
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Development, psychometric properties, and cutoff scores of the Polish version of the 20-item Pain Anxiety Symptoms Scale (PASS-20) in a chronic pain sample. Psychological Assessment (IF 3.3) Pub Date : 2025-05-01 Joanna Kłosowska,Daryna Rubanets,Karolina Wiercioch-Kuzianik,Elżbieta A Bajcar,Magdalena Żegleń,Magdalena Niedbał,Julia Badzińska,Helena Bieniek,Justyna Brączyk,Izabela A Łaska,Anna Przeklasa-Muszyńska,Lance M McCracken,Przemysław Bąbel
Fear and avoidance remain important concepts for understanding chronic pain. The objective of our research was to develop and evaluate a Polish version of a measure to assess these concepts: the 20-item Pain Anxiety Symptoms Scale (PASS-20). The goal also included establishing a cutoff score to differentiate between individuals with a high level of pain-related disability and those with lower levels
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Caught in the Web of the Net? Part I: Meta-analyses of Problematic Internet Use and Social Media Use in (Young) People with Autism Spectrum Disorder Clin. Child Fam. Psychol. Rev. (IF 5.5) Pub Date : 2025-04-23 Peter Muris, Henry Otgaar, Franc Donkers, Thomas H. Ollendick, Anne Deckers
This article examined the internet and social media usage among (young) individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Two meta-analyses were conducted to quantify (1) the relation between ASD/autistic traits and problematic internet use (PIU, which included generalized PIU, problematic gaming, excessive smartphone use), and (2) the relation between ASD/autistic traits and social media use. The results
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Dismantling Stereotypes About Being Top, Versatile, or Bottom: Sexual Minority Men's Anal Sex Position Identity as It Relates to Attraction, Sexual Behavior, and Anthropomorphic Characteristics. Journal of Sex Research (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2025-04-23 Drew A Westmoreland,Samia Sultana,Meredith A Ray,Jacob Bleasdale,Kira Argenio,Evan A Krueger,Christian Grov
Many sexual minority men (SMM) use sex position self-labels, including "top," "bottom," "versatile," as well as combinations like "vers/top" and "vers/bottom" to describe engagement in anal intercourse. Despite the use of these labels, there is limited literature identifying various aspects that may impact SMM's chosen sex position label. The purpose of this study was to examine factors (i.e. sexual
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Reframing the Victim–Offender Overlap: Moral Injury and Adolescent Offending Clin. Child Fam. Psychol. Rev. (IF 5.5) Pub Date : 2025-04-22 Ava R. Alexander, Patricia K. Kerig
It is well established within the literature that early childhood trauma and maltreatment increase risk for adolescent offending behaviors. However, the mechanisms underlying this association are not currently well understood. The construct of moral injury, or distress and psychopathology stemming from events that violate an individual’s deeply held moral beliefs, has most frequently been studied in
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The Association Between Parent-to-Child Fear Learning Pathways and Anxiety Sensitivity: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis Clin. Child Fam. Psychol. Rev. (IF 5.5) Pub Date : 2025-04-21 Ena Alcan, Jana Gessner, Giulia Stangier, Christoph Benke, Jonas Busin, Hanna Christiansen, Christiane A. Melzig
Although anxiety sensitivity (AS), or the fear of anxiety-related symptoms, has been identified as a risk factor for the development of anxiety psychopathology, the pathways through which this fear is learned have not been fully elucidated. In the current review and meta-analysis, we aimed to systematically examine the association between parent-to-child fear learning pathways (vicarious learning,
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Exploring Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) Symptomatology in Relation to Women's Orgasmic Consistency. Journal of Sex Research (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2025-04-21 Tina Jensen-Fogt,Cory L Pedersen
This well-powered, pre-registered online study examined differences in orgasmic consistency among women both with and without ADHD symptomatology while controlling for sexual assertiveness and sexual attitudes, constructs yet to be explored in this context. A convenience sample of 815 (Mage = 28.93, SDage = 9.23) cisgender females, at least 18 years of age and sexually active with at least one partner
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Give Me More, and More Variety: Sexual Satisfaction Among BDSM and Kink Practitioners in Chile. Journal of Sex Research (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2025-04-21 Manuel Catalán Águila,Inmaculada Fernández Agis,Jenna Marie Strizzi
Previous research has shown a positive association between BDSM/kink behaviors and sexual satisfaction. The present study further explored this relationship within a Chilean population of BDSM practitioners. A total of 543 participants responded to an online questionnaire about BDSM/kink roles, practices, and overall sexual satisfaction. The main regression analyses evaluated the associations between
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Artificial Intelligence Software to Accelerate Screening for Living Systematic Reviews Clin. Child Fam. Psychol. Rev. (IF 5.5) Pub Date : 2025-04-18 Matthew Fuller-Tyszkiewicz, Allan Jones, Rajesh Vasa, Jacqui A. Macdonald, Camille Deane, Delyth Samuel, Tracy Evans-Whipp, Craig A. Olsson
Systematic and meta-analytic reviews provide gold-standard evidence but are static and outdate quickly. Here we provide performance data on a new software platform, LitQuest, that uses artificial intelligence technologies to (1) accelerate screening of titles and abstracts from library literature searches, and (2) provide a software solution for enabling living systematic reviews by maintaining a saved
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Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Queer+ Patients' Preferences for Contraceptive Counseling and Experiences of Coercion in Contraceptive Care. Journal of Sex Research (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2025-04-18 Madison Lands,Lindsay M Cannon,Jenny A Higgins,Laura E T Swan
Although one in three U.S. contraceptive clients identify as something other than heterosexual, research has overlooked associations between sexual identity and experiences of provider-based contraceptive coercion - that is, pressure from a healthcare provider to use or not use birth control. In 2023, we used the online Prolific panel to survey U.S. reproductive-age people assigned female at birth
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A Theoretical Model for Predicting the Derivation of Sexual Satisfaction in Gay Men. Journal of Sex Research (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2025-04-18 Rusi Jaspal,Anthony Gifford,Udo Scheinpflug
This study tests a theoretical model of sexual satisfaction in gay men that incorporates self and self-with-other schemata, identity processes, and sexual communication behaviors. Structural equation modeling based on cross-sectional correlational survey data from 199 gay men in the United Kingdom and Germany examined associations between the self-schema of internalized homonegativity, the self-with-other
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We need to personalize (mental) health, not only psychopathology. J. Psychopathol. Clin. Sci. (IF 3.1) Pub Date : 2025-05-01 Sigal Zilcha-Mano
In their introduction to the special issue on addressing clinical heterogeneity in psychopathology through brain science, Damme and Mittal (see record 2025-40884-001) highlighted the transformative potential of using brain data to uncover variability in mental health diagnoses and their underlying mechanisms. The articles in this issue exemplify this, such as Reimann et al. (see record 2025-40884-008)
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Tailoring clinical goals to the individual is a good idea, and lessons from brain science can help. J. Psychopathol. Clin. Sci. (IF 3.1) Pub Date : 2025-05-01 Katherine S F Damme,Vijay A Mittal
Zilcha-Mano (see record 2026-05243-001) provided several important insights relating to our recent special issue on utilizing data from brain science to better manage clinical heterogeneity (Damme & Mittal, 2024) and expanded on these ideas by emphasizing that individualized definitions of what "healthy" is an important consideration as well. We agree that tailoring treatment planning to an individual
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"You're Gonna Need Way More Variables:" What Trans Masculine, Nonbinary, and Agender Individuals Want Sex Researchers to Understand. Journal of Sex Research (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2025-04-17 Louis Lindley,Annalisa Anzani,Yusuf Barburoğlu,Savannah Lynn,Lyuchen Ben,Beneli Andert
Cis-heteronormative frameworks have inadequately addressed the complexity of trans masculine, nonbinary, and agender (TMNB) individuals' sexual attitudes, beliefs, behaviors, and experiences, often marginalizing these perspectives. To fully capture the richness of TMNB sexuality, it is essential for researchers to resist the constraints of cis-heteronormativity by employing participatory research methods
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Recruitment Issues in Research with People Who are Attracted to Children: A Systematic Review. Journal of Sex Research (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2025-04-16 Kailey Roche,Joelle Pagacz,Martin L Lalumière,Michael C Seto
There has been an increase in research using online forums for individuals who are attracted to children. This research is beneficial because it allows the study of individuals attracted to children recruited from the community, in contrast to individuals recruited from clinical or forensic samples. The aim of the present review was to explore who researchers are recruiting from online forums and how
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Using the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2 restructured form to predict functioning after treatment for borderline personality disorder: A machine learning approach. Psychological Assessment (IF 3.3) Pub Date : 2025-04-14 Carlijn J M Wibbelink,Martin Sellbom,Raoul P P P Grasman,Arnoud Arntz,Roland Sinnaeve,Jan H Kamphuis
Insight into predictors of functioning after treatment for borderline personality disorder (BPD) is limited, despite growing recognition that more focus on other aspects of recovery, especially psychosocial functioning, is warranted. The present study explored the utility of a widely used omnibus assessment instrument, the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2 Restructured Form (MMPI-2-RF)
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Improving the accuracy of the Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Checklist (PCL-5) and Life Events Checklist (LEC-5) as diagnostic tools for posttraumatic stress disorder. Psychological Assessment (IF 3.3) Pub Date : 2025-04-14 Jorge A Cao-Noya,Lorraine T Benuto
The large impact and sequelae of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) place the development of accurate assessment tools a top priority. The latest version of the PTSD Checklist (PCL-5) is commonly administered in conjunction with the Life Events Checklist (LEC-5) to categorize a person as having or not having PTSD. Despite this being a common approach, researchers have yet to investigate to what degree
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Emotion regulation, depressive symptoms, and sleep problems in adolescents: A four-wave random-intercept cross-lagged panel model. J. Psychopathol. Clin. Sci. (IF 3.1) Pub Date : 2025-04-14 Sihan Liu,Jiefeng Ying,Anan Feng,Qian Shi,Jutta Joormann
Depressive symptoms and sleep problems are detrimental for adolescents, with emotion regulation related to both problems. The present study explores emotion regulation as a potential mediator of the reciprocal associations between depressive symptoms and sleep problems and examines gender differences. A total of 1,535 adolescents (47.4% girls; baseline Mage = 13.19 years) were included in this four-wave
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Updating patient perceptions with intensive longitudinal data for enhanced case conceptualizations: An approach with Bayesian informative priors. J. Psychopathol. Clin. Sci. (IF 3.1) Pub Date : 2025-04-14 Saskia Scholten,Lars Klintwall,Julia Anna Glombiewski,Julian Burger
Addressing the persistent heterogeneity in psychopathology, treatment outcomes, and the science-practice gap requires a systematic approach to personalizing psychotherapy. Case conceptualization seeks to understand a patient's unique psychopathology by generating and continuously updating hypotheses about predisposing, precipitating, and maintaining factors. This study introduces a new data-driven
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Disentangling the effects of daily physical activity and natural white light exposure on affect. J. Psychopathol. Clin. Sci. (IF 3.1) Pub Date : 2025-04-14 Stewart A Shankman,James E Glazer,Brent I Rappaport,Lilian Y Li,Florian Wüthrich,Lauren N Grzelak,Sebastian Walther,Vijay A Mittal
Physical activity has a well-known positive effect on mood and often occurs outside in natural light. The specific effects of natural light exposure on mood are understudied, but clinically significant as it may reflect a widely accessible method to enhance mood. This study thus aimed to disentangle the effects of (a) physical activity and (b) natural light exposure on daily mood. For 2 weeks, 131
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Clusters of healthy lifestyle behaviours are associated with symptoms of depression, anxiety, and psychological distress: A systematic review and meta-analysis of observational studies Clin. Psychol. Rev. (IF 13.7) Pub Date : 2025-04-11 Matthew Bourke, Hiu Fei Wendy Wang, Sarah A. McNaughton, George Thomas, Joseph Firth, Mike Trott, John Cairney
Engagement in healthy and unhealthy lifestyle behaviours are related to a range of mental health outcomes. Most existing research has focussed on individual lifestyle behaviours, so it is not clear the extent to which clusters of healthy lifestyle behaviours relate to mental health outcomes. Therefore, this study aimed to systematically review and quantitatively synthesise research which have examined
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Validation of the Moral Injury Outcome Scale in Canadian health care workers. Psychological Assessment (IF 3.3) Pub Date : 2025-04-10 Rachel A Plouffe,Stephanie A Houle,Michelle Birch,Natalie Ein,Anthony Nazarov,J Don Richardson
Moral injury (MI), characterized by distress stemming from exposure to events that transgress one's moral beliefs, has gained prominence as a focal point of study in military and Veteran populations. In recent years, researchers and clinicians have acknowledged that MI carries substantial significance within health care settings. However, existing measures of MI may not adequately address the experiences
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Past suicide attempt is associated with a weaker decision-making bias to actively escape from suicide-related stimuli. J. Psychopathol. Clin. Sci. (IF 3.1) Pub Date : 2025-04-10 Adam C Jaroszewski,Alexander J Millner,Samuel J Gershman,Peter J Franz,Kate H Bentley,Evan M Kleiman,Matthew K Nock
Theory and evidence suggest that people attempt suicide to escape acute distress. However, little is known about why people select suicide instead of other ways to escape (e.g., alcohol/drug use). One possibility is that suicide-related stimuli in one's environment (e.g., suicide methods) bias this decision, particularly when such stimuli elicit little aversion. We tested whether suicide-related stimuli
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What's strength centrality got to do with it? Examining the stability of central symptoms across symptom ensembles and time in idiographic networks. J. Psychopathol. Clin. Sci. (IF 3.1) Pub Date : 2025-04-10 Claire E Cusack,Luis E Sandoval-Araujo,Juan C Hernández,Jamie-Lee Pennesi,Gal Lazarus,Cheri A Levinson,Aaron J Fisher
Network analysis is a popular method researchers use to characterize the structure of psychopathology and inform personalized treatments. Typically, applied researchers, based on network theory, interpret symptoms with the highest strength centrality as most important to network structure and represent amenable treatment targets. This study examines the stability of strength centrality in idiographic
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Semantic signals in self-reference: The detection and prediction of depressive symptoms from the daily diary entries of a sample with major depressive disorder. J. Psychopathol. Clin. Sci. (IF 3.1) Pub Date : 2025-04-10 Amanda C Collins,Damien Lekkas,Matthew D Nemesure,Tess Z Griffin,George D Price,Arvind Pillai,Subigya Nepal,Michael V Heinz,Andrew T Campbell,Nicholas C Jacobson
Individuals with major depressive disorder (MDD) experience fewer positive and more negative emotions and use fewer positive words to describe themselves. Natural language processing techniques have been used to predict depression, with pronoun and emotion usage being identified as important features. However, it is unclear how depressed individuals use positive and negative words when writing about
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Pathways to alcohol use and problems in adulthood for children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD): The role of common impairments above and beyond ADHD symptom persistence. J. Psychopathol. Clin. Sci. (IF 3.1) Pub Date : 2025-04-10 Brooke S G Molina,Christine A P Walther,Frances L Wang,Traci M Kennedy,Patrick J Curran,Elizabeth M Gnagy,Sarah L Pedersen
Childhood attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a known risk factor for later alcohol-related outcomes, such as drinking at young ages or developing alcohol use disorder by adulthood. However, research has yet to determine whether common ADHD-related impairments (e.g., lower educational attainment) in early adulthood play a role in this outcome above and beyond ADHD symptom persistence
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Using behavioral economics to understand reinforcement mechanisms of loss-of-control eating: An ecological momentary assessment approach. J. Psychopathol. Clin. Sci. (IF 3.1) Pub Date : 2025-04-10 Emily K Burr,Lidia Z Meshesha,Robert D Dvorak,Quinn Allen,Tatiana Magri,Callie L Wang,Emma R Hayden,Nadia E Rodriguez,Angelina V Leary,Madison Maynard,Stephen A Wonderlich,Glen Forester,Lauren M Schaefer
Loss-of-control eating (LOCE) is the subjective inability to stop eating once one has started or to refrain from food consumption. State-level affect, food craving, and reward dysfunction have all been implicated as vulnerabilities to recurrent LOCE, mostly studied in the context of binge eating (i.e., LOCE with objective overeating). Hypothetical purchase tasks are a behavioral economic approach to
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Exploring Sexual Reminiscing After the Death of a Romantic Partner. Journal of Sex Research (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2025-04-10 Robyn K Cumben,Christopher Quinn-Nilas,Courtney Loveless,Noah Pevie,Ceilidh Eaton Russell
The death of a romantic partner results in major changes to the surviving partner's psychological and physical well-being, yet post-bereavement sexual experiences are often disregarded in both research and clinical settings. Continuing bonds theory suggests that an internal emotional bond can persist between the bereaved and the memory of the deceased after the physical end of the relationship; that