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Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Georgia Panayiotou, Tonia-Flery Artemi, Marios Theodorou, Christiana Theodorou, Klavdia Neophytou
Summary: This study examines emotion regulation difficulties as predictors of gambling severity, and finds that poor emotion regulation and avoidance of emotional awareness are related to the maintenance of gambling addiction. Improvement of emotional awareness, expression, and acceptance may provide a pathway for reducing such behaviors.
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Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Ji-Young Choi
Summary: Despite the rapid increase in South Korea's older population, their quality of life remains low with a high suicide rate. This study examined how participation in productive activities affects suicidal ideation among older South Korean women using data from 2012 to 2020. The findings show that participating in productive activities can reduce the likelihood of experiencing suicidal ideation, especially in daily life-related activities. Additionally, the more productive activities one engages in, the lower the likelihood of suicidal ideation. Health status had a greater impact on suicidal ideation compared to economic status. This study contributes to academia and has policy implications for public health.
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Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Danyal Farsani, Greg Oates
Summary: This study was conducted in a primary school in Santiago, Chile, where 18 randomly selected first-grade students wore video cameras during their math lessons. Analysis of the recordings show that high and low achieving students differed in their visual attention during math lessons, especially when the teacher used gestures. Furthermore, high and low achieving students engaged visually with the teacher's instructional information in different ways and at different times. These findings indicate the importance of early identification and intervention for lower achievers in math.
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Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Anne Meier-Credner, Michael Linden, Beate Muschalla
Summary: This study examines the difference in wisdom-related attitudes between the general population and patients with mental disorders. The results show that mental disorder patients are more likely to perceive an unfair situation and identify with the victim. There were no significant differences between the two groups in terms of agreement with wisdom-related attitudes, except for the idea of changing perspectives. This suggests that wisdom may be independent of psychopathology.
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Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Jennifer Schweiger, Delesha M. Carpenter, Kathleen C. Thomas, Nacire Garcia, Abena A. Adjei, Charles Lee, Gail Tudor, Betsy Sleath
Summary: The objective of this study was to develop short educational videos to increase teen involvement during pediatric ADHD visits. The videos were theoretically guided by Social Cognitive Theory. Focus groups were conducted with teens, parents, and providers to gather feedback, and the videos were produced based on the revisions. The videos, narrated by an animated teen newscaster, cover various themes related to ADHD and emphasize the importance of discussing key messages with providers.
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Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Esra Hassan, Ben Hicks, Naji Tabet, Nicolas Farina
Summary: Dementia-related stigma negatively affects the well-being of people living with dementia, and it is crucial to address these attitudes among adolescents who will become future caregivers and healthcare workers. This study aimed to identify predictors of dementia attitudes in adolescents and found that being female, having more contact with dementia, and higher levels of empathy were associated with more positive dementia attitudes. Empathy was found to play a mediating role between contact and dementia attitudes. Interventions should focus on promoting empathetic responses to shape dementia attitudes.
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Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Kazuto Yamaguchi, Kazunori Akizuki, Ryohei Yamamoto, Jun Yabuki, Yukari Ohashi
Summary: In sports and rehabilitation settings, the influence of verbal instruction on motor learning remains unclear when using haptic guidance. This study investigated the influence of verbal instruction on a novel visuo-motor task using haptic guidance. The results showed that verbal instructions significantly influenced the improvement in the visuo-motor task performance, even when the same haptic guidance was implemented.
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Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Kiu Lam Chan, Alyssa Sawyer, Amanda Taylor
Summary: Previous research on risk factors associated with eating disorders has been limited to cross-sectional data or adult populations, leaving a gap in our understanding of risk factors in early adolescence for the subsequent development of eating disorder symptoms.
AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF PSYCHOLOGY
(2023)
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Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Basel Khashab, Mansour Alraja, Rami Ayoubi, Mahmood Shah
Summary: This study examines the impact of technological-personal factors on university students' intention to continue using the online services provided by the Ministry of Education in Oman. The results show that self-efficacy is a crucial factor in influencing students' decision to continue using the online services, which is influenced by technology task fit, facilitating conditions, and system quality.
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Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Phillip Dangaiso
Summary: This study examines the relationship between organic food adoption behavior and perceived consumer longevity in post-peak COVID-19 Zimbabwe. The findings indicate that green attitudes, subjective norms, and perceived behavioral control significantly influence consumer intentions to adopt organic foods and their subsequent adoption behavior. Additionally, the study reveals that green adoption behavior has a positive impact on perceived consumer longevity.
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Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Miriam O'Callaghan
Summary: This paper explores the relationship between decision intelligence, job characteristics, meaningful work, and employees' intentions to leave the organization. Through data collection and statistical analysis, it found that there is a positive relationship between decision intelligence and intention to leave, but this relationship turns negative when mediated by job characteristics and meaningful work.
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Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Alfredis Gonzalez Hernandez, Jasmin Bonilla Santos, Tatiana Padilla-Garcia
Summary: Internal armed conflicts have a negative impact on vulnerable populations, particularly children, affecting their mental health and well-being. A study in Colombia aimed to examine the cognitive, emotional, and social cognition states of child victims of forced displacement caused by armed conflict. The findings showed that the victim group had higher risks of cognitive impairments compared to a comparison group, but they also exhibited better performance in executive functioning tasks and theory of mind. These findings highlight the significant cognitive difficulties faced by children affected by displacement due to armed conflict.
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Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Sania Sohail, Gulnaz Anjum, Mudassar Aziz
Summary: This study aims to fill the research gap on Muslim-majority countries and explore interpersonal attitudes toward hijab-wearing and non-hijab-wearing women in Pakistan. The findings suggest that participants have higher perceptions of competence, warmth, and social and task attraction toward hijab-wearing women compared to non-hijab-wearing women.
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Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Alena Michel-Kroehler, Stefan Berti
Summary: Athletes' behavior, thoughts, and feelings are influenced by whether they achieve their personal goals or not. This experiment aimed to assess the application of using unresolved goals to induce state rumination in athletes. Results showed that cueing unresolved goals significantly increased state rumination in athletes compared to a control condition. The study also found temporal changes in athletes' mood and affect, with no significant group differences.
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Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Khaled A. Al-Dassean
Summary: This study aimed to evaluate the psychometric properties of an Arabic-adapted version of the TEIQue-SF. The findings validated the proposed structure and indicated factor equivalence across genders. The TEIQue-SF demonstrated good internal consistency and no significant differences were observed between women and men in terms of trait emotional intelligence. The correlations with the big five dimensions were consistent with theoretical predictions. It can be concluded that the Arabic version of the TEIQue-SF is psychologically sound and appropriate for research and practice in Jordan.
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Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Laura Carter, Jane Ogden
Summary: This research shows that symptoms are influenced by various psychological factors. However, the broader context of bodily states, including emotions, sensations, and pre-symptoms, is not well understood. Additionally, little is known about how bodily states are experienced and translated into symptoms. Through semi-structured interviews with 12 participants, this study explores how individuals experience, describe, and understand their bodily states, as well as how these states transition into symptoms. The findings reveal four main themes: the subjective experience of bodily states, attention to bodily states, the process of becoming symptoms, and the communication of symptoms. A transcending theme, a series of thresholds, demonstrates how bodily states surpass a threshold to become a symptom and how individual differences play a role in this transition.
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Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Kristen Hagen, Stian Solem, Anne Kristin Stavrum, Jarle Eid, Gerd Kvale, Oddrun Samdal, Stephanie Le Hellard
Summary: The study aimed to examine changes in mental health symptoms in Norway from April to December 2020. A total of 6017 participants completed surveys at both time points, measuring symptoms of anxiety and depression. The results showed a slight increase in anxiety and depression, with larger increases observed in the general population compared to those with pre-existing mental health issues. Risk factors included baseline symptom levels, female gender, student status, pre-existing mental health problems, increased tobacco use, job loss, and lack of trust in the government. The longitudinal findings supported previous research, suggesting that the number of risk factors experienced is associated with symptom severity. Overall, mental health symptoms remained relatively stable during this period, with a slight increase in subclinical symptoms observed in April. The study received ethical approval from the Regional Committee for Medical and Health Research (REK Nord, 123,324).
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Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Fernanda Sampaio de Carvalho, Monique van Dijk, Irwin Reiss, Nicole Vliegen
Summary: This study aims to gain insight into the development of parenthood six months after delivery of a preterm infant due to the mother's preeclampsia or HELLP syndrome. In this qualitative interview study, we conducted individual interviews with the Working Model of the Child Interview to tap into the subjective experiences of parents who went through preterm delivery due to preeclampsia or HELLP. The interview data were analyzed using thematic analysis. Many statements made clear that these parents are undergoing a distinctive development, and psychological support should help parents regulate the shock, process traumatic experiences and integrate the frightening life event into parenthood development.
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Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Noor Al-Wattary, Michael Wyness
Summary: This paper presents a study on the impact of a practitioner-designed social emotional program on students' wellbeing in a public secondary school in Qatar. The study involved a cluster randomized controlled trial, with one group receiving the intervention and another group acting as control. The results showed a significant improvement in students' wellbeing after participating in the social emotional program.
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Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Jack W. Klein, Garrett Tyler-Parker, Brock Bastian
Summary: This study found that psychological distress has increased during the COVID-19 pandemic, and identified predictors of distress. These factors include stress attributed to COVID-19, feeling the pandemic management is out of control, and vaccine hesitancy. The results also showed that women, youth, and Melbourne residents were most vulnerable to the negative effects of COVID-19 on wellbeing.
AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF PSYCHOLOGY
(2023)