Article
Family Studies
Lydia Davenport, Eric Halford
Summary: Kenya has a high prevalence of child protection issues, and existing law enforcement practices may not be capable of effectively dealing with them. This study explores the establishment of an overseas initiative to support the development of a child protection function in the National Police Service of Kenya and analyzes the conditions for implementing the project. The findings emphasize the importance of understanding the cultural and operating context, assessing the current and potential capabilities, and securing leadership and governance support from relevant stakeholders both internally and externally when building child protection capabilities overseas.
CHILD ABUSE & NEGLECT
(2024)
Article
Family Studies
Md Jahirul Islam, Masahiro Suzuki, Paul Mazerolle
Summary: This study investigates the variations in police officers' responses to intimate partner violence incidents involving children, highlighting the importance of considering child safety, emotional impact, and breaking the cycle of violence.
CHILD ABUSE & NEGLECT
(2024)
Article
Psychology, Social
Janine Stollberg, Johannes Klackl, Eva Jonas
Summary: This study provides evidence that anxiety is elicited after a threat but before defense, and defense activates approach motivation after it has been implemented. The results indicate that both solvable and unsolvable threats activate anxiety through increased need and expectancy discrepancies. Defense behavior enhances approach motivation, but only in the presence of a threat.
JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY
(2024)
Article
Family Studies
Tre D. Gissandaner, Andrew K. Littlefield, Adam T. Schmidt, Sarah E. Victor, Shinye Kim, Amber J. Morrow, Joaquin Borrego Jr
Summary: This study examined the impact of caregiver factors on preschool externalizing problems (PEP) and found that positive caregiver childhood experiences were associated with a decrease in PEP. However, this association became non-significant when considering caregiver adverse childhood experiences. Therefore, assessing caregiver adverse childhood experiences is crucial when working with caregivers seeking help for child behavior problems.
CHILD ABUSE & NEGLECT
(2024)
Article
Family Studies
Samuel J. A. Scaggs, Stacey Cutbush Starseed, Marianne Kluckman, Stephen Tueller, Lilly Yu
Summary: This study depicts the characteristics and experiences of child victims of sex and labor trafficking who are involved with one or both systems in one state.
CHILD ABUSE & NEGLECT
(2024)
Article
Psychology, Social
Tom Gordon-Hecker, Ilan Yaniv, Anat Perry, Shoham Choshen-Hillel
Summary: This article investigates empathic reactions towards groups and proposes that empathy is more focused on the impact on each individual rather than the number of individuals. Through five experiments, it is shown that individuals empathize with the pain experienced by each individual in the group, rather than the number of individuals.
JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY
(2024)
Article
Family Studies
Sara Ahmad Taha, Manal Anabtawi
Summary: This study explores the experiences of unaccompanied refugee children in Jordan, highlighting their unique challenges and needs. The findings reveal that these children often face abuse and violations in foster families, supervised groups, and institutional care settings.
CHILD ABUSE & NEGLECT
(2024)
Article
Psychology, Social
Linh Vu, Catherine Molho, Ivan Soraperra, Susann Fiedler, Shaul Shalvi
Summary: People are more willing to help those in need when they know the person's identity. Altruistic behavior may stem from genuine concern or from a desire to alleviate guilt. Two experiments were conducted to investigate the impact of transparency and identification on altruistic giving.
JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY
(2024)
Article
Psychology, Social
Lindy-Lou Boyette, Frederike Schirmbeck, Jentien M. Vermeulen, Els van der Ven, Evelyne van Aubel, Thomas Vaessen, Annelie Beijer-Klippel, Tim Batink, Ruud van Winkel, Mark van der Gaag, Lieuwe de Haan, Ulrich Reininghaus, Inez Myin-Germeys
Summary: This study aimed to examine the change of Neuroticism and Extraversion through intervention in individuals at clinical high risk for psychosis or first-episode psychosis, and whether Acceptance and Commitment Therapy in Daily Life (ACT-DL) is more successful in this regard compared to treatment as usual (TAU). The findings suggest that treatment may have a fast and persistent impact on Neuroticism, while Extraversion increased at 6-month follow-up. There was no significant difference between ACT-DL and TAU in personality change.
PERSONALITY AND INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES
(2024)
Article
Psychology, Social
Mohamed A. Hussein, Zakary L. Tormala
Summary: This research investigates the impact of pronoun use in language on the perception of receptiveness. The study finds that, in adversarial contexts, messages with second-person pronouns (you pronouns) are perceived as less receptive compared to messages with first-person plural pronouns (we pronouns). Additionally, the perceived receptiveness influences important outcomes such as persuasion, interest in future interaction, sharing intentions, and censorship likelihood.
JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY
(2024)
Article
Psychology, Social
Danielle Sulikowski, Melinda Williams, Gautami Nair, Brittany Shepherd, Anne Wilson, Audrey Tran, Danielle Wagstaff
Summary: Intrasexual competition between women is often covert and focuses on rivals' appearance. This research investigates how appearance advice serves as a means of female intrasexual competition. The results show that women's intrasexual competitiveness positively predicts how much hair they recommend clients to have cut off, especially when the hair is in good condition and the clients desire minimal haircuts. When considering both studies collectively, women tend to recommend cutting the most hair off clients they perceive to be as attractive as themselves.
PERSONALITY AND INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES
(2024)
Letter
Family Studies
A. El-Khani, R. Calam, L. Cluver, S. Rakotomalala, W. Maalouf
CHILD ABUSE & NEGLECT
(2024)
Article
Family Studies
Philip Hyland, Chris R. Brewin, Marylene Cloitre, Thanos Karatzias, Mark Shevlin
Summary: This article provides a critical review of the International Trauma Questionnaire (ITQ) as a measure of ICD-11 Complex Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (CPTSD). It clarifies misunderstandings about the nature of CPTSD and the function of the ITQ. The article highlights the clinical utility of the ICD-11 descriptions of PTSD and CPTSD and discusses the use of the ITQ in accurately describing and understanding psychological distress resulting from traumatic life events.
CHILD ABUSE & NEGLECT
(2024)
Article
Psychology, Social
Alina Tilner, Hans -Peter Erb
Summary: This study investigated the association between sexual fantasies and the need for uniqueness. The results showed a significant positive correlation between private need for uniqueness, the subdimension of public need for uniqueness (Not follow rules), and the extent of sexual fantasies. Individuals with a high private need for uniqueness and a high desire to not follow rules tend to have a wide variety of sexual fantasies.
PERSONALITY AND INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES
(2024)
Article
Psychology, Social
Haihong Li, Xiaofei Xie, Yawen Zou, Tianhong Wang
Summary: Personal decision-makers and advisors have different preferences in passive risk-taking, with personal decision-makers giving more weight to feasibility and advisors giving more weight to risk prevention. This difference is reduced when feasibility is higher.
JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY
(2024)
Article
Psychology, Social
Laura E. Wallace, Maureen A. Craig, Duane T. Wegener
Summary: Stigmatized and non-stigmatized advocates do not differ in their effectiveness and persuasiveness, but stigmatized advocates are perceived as more knowledgeable on social justice issues and perceived bias undermines their effectiveness.
JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY
(2024)
Article
Psychology, Social
Joseph J. Siev, Daniel R. Rovenpor, Richard E. Petty
Summary: The contemporary political domain is characterized by widespread negativity, largely generated by strong partisans. However, research suggests that political independents are more likely to hold negative preferences and frame their preferences in oppositional terms. Independents also tend to agree more with opposition-based messages. This pattern is consistent across different domains, indicating a broader tendency towards negativity.
JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY
(2024)
Article
Psychology, Social
Alexa Weiss, Pascal Burgmer, Sarah C. Rom, Paul Conway
Summary: Individuals who reject sacrificial harm to maximize overall outcomes are perceived as warmer, more moral, and more trustworthy. However, these deontological judgments may convey strict adherence to moral rules. The study also found that judgments based on rules, rather than emotions, promote self-righteousness perceptions.
JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY
(2024)
Article
Psychology, Social
Cindel J. M. White, Chloe M. Dean, Kristin Laurin
Summary: This study found that American Christians believe that God will protect them in risky activities, and this expectation is related to their willingness to take risks. Additionally, when participants explicitly think about God's influence over what happens in their lives, they are more willing to take non-moral risks.
JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY
(2024)
Article
Psychology, Social
Emily E. Jones, Flora Blandl, Kayla A. Kreutzer, Craig J. Bryan, Nicholas P. Allan, Stephanie M. Gorka
Summary: Exposure to adverse childhood experiences is associated with suicidality in adolescence and young adulthood, potentially through alterations in cognitive and affective processes. This study found significant associations between ACEs, intolerance of uncertainty, and suicide risk, with intolerance of uncertainty mediating the relationship between ACEs and suicide risk.
PERSONALITY AND INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES
(2024)
