The relationship between physical activity and depressive symptoms in males: A systematic review and meta-analysis
CONCLUSION: Males who engage in moderate PA present lower prevalence of DS compared to no-PA reference. Such associations were not found for low or high PA. Hence, mental health benefits of PA could possibly be achieved at appropriate levels of PA. High heterogeneity between the studies should be considered when interpreting the results.PMID:38245936 | DOI:10.1016/j.actpsy.2024.104145 (Source: Acta Psychologica)
Source: Acta Psychologica - January 21, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Monika Bidzan-Wi ącek Magdalena B łażek J ędrzej Antosiewicz Source Type: research
Childhood maltreatment and insomnia in college students: The role of alexithymia and psychological distress
This study focused on the chain-mediating role of alexithymia and psychological distress in the relationship between childhood maltreatment and insomnia. An online cross-sectional survey was conducted among Chinese college students, yielding 999 valid questionnaires that included demographic information, the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire-Short Form (CTQ-SF), the Toronto Alexithymia Scale (TAS), the 21-item Depression Anxiety Stress Scales (DASS-21), and the Insomnia Severity Index (ISI). A chain-mediating model was then tested. The results revealed significant positive correlations between each pair of the four variables....
Source: Acta Psychologica - January 21, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Man Li Yidan Yuan Xinyue Cheng Yurou Wang Zhansheng Xu Source Type: research
The relationship between transliminality, hypnotic and imaginative suggestibility, and other personality traits
Acta Psychol (Amst). 2024 Jan 20;243:104125. doi: 10.1016/j.actpsy.2024.104125. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTTo our knowledge, no study has directly examined the link between hypnotic response and the personality trait of transliminality (which is underpinned, for example, by magical ideation, mystical experience, fantasy proneness, absorption, hyperaesthesia). In order to further understand the correlates of suggestibility, the aim of the current project was to investigate whether transliminality is associated with hypnotic and imaginative suggestibility (considering: objective response, subjective response and involunta...
Source: Acta Psychologica - January 21, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Abbie J Irving Niia Nikolova Susan Robinson Iris Ionita Steve W Kelly Irving Kirsch Giuliana Mazzoni Annalena Venneri William J McGeown Source Type: research
Workplace ostracism influencing turnover intentions: Moderating roles of perceptions of organizational virtuousness and authentic leadership
Acta Psychol (Amst). 2024 Jan 19;243:104136. doi: 10.1016/j.actpsy.2024.104136. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTWorkplace Ostracism is known to be a physically and emotionally painful experience. Even if it has a temporary and minor impact, it strongly predicts employee turnover intentions. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to examine the moderating effects of perceptions of Organizational Virtuousness (OV) and Authentic Leadership (AL) in explaining the relationship between Workplace Ostracism (WO) and employees' Turnover Intentions (TI). Data were collected from 686 full-time employees using a non-probabilistic conve...
Source: Acta Psychologica - January 20, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Sharda Singh A K Subramani Rajasekhar David N Akbar Jan Source Type: research
Effectiveness of music therapy in enhancing empathy and emotional recognition in adolescents with intellectual disabilities
This study involved 120 adolescents diagnosed with mild intellectual disabilities, divided into experimental and control groups. The research evaluated empathy levels and the ability to recognize emotions using photographs and pictograms before and after the experiment. Significant improvements were noted in the experimental group, particularly in empathy towards elderly individuals (p ≤ 0.05), strangers (p ≤ 0.05), cartoon and video characters (p ≤ 0.05), and animals (p ≤ 0.05). Music therapy proved effective in enhancing empathy towards peers (p ≤ 0.01), strangers (p ≤ 0.05), elderly individuals (p ≤ 0.05),...
Source: Acta Psychologica - January 19, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Chun Huang Shengyu Gu Source Type: research
Impact of sports participation on life satisfaction among internal migrants in China: The chain mediating effect of social interaction and self-efficacy
CONCLUSION: This research indicates that sports participation can significantly influence the life satisfaction of internal migrants in China through the sequential mediation of social interaction and self-efficacy.PMID:38237470 | DOI:10.1016/j.actpsy.2024.104139 (Source: Acta Psychologica)
Source: Acta Psychologica - January 18, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Binbin Kan Yu Xie Source Type: research
Social pain sharing boosts interpersonal brain synchronization in female cooperation
This study elucidates the neural basis of enhanced cooperation facilitated by shared social pain at the interbrain level. However, it is crucial to acknowledge that this study exclusively enrolled female participants. The generalizability of these findings across genders is yet to be confirmed.PMID:38237471 | DOI:10.1016/j.actpsy.2024.104138 (Source: Acta Psychologica)
Source: Acta Psychologica - January 18, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Zhibin Jiao Juan Song Xue Yang Yiyue Chen Gaoxin Han Source Type: research
Flagging insufficient effort responses in surveys: Stopping rule to prevent insufficient or excessive removal of doubtful data
This study proposes an external criterion strategy to identify the optimal cutoff values for various IER detection methods. We investigated the change in correlations between the IER-containing scale (e.g., motivation) and the external criterion (e.g., academic performance, socioeconomic status index, or another questionnaire scale) utilizing simulated and authentic international survey data. The findings revealed that the stopping rule and consequently, the optimal cutoff values for IER detection methods, can be accurately identified by locating the inflection point in the correlation plot with the external criterion. Pra...
Source: Acta Psychologica - January 18, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Melissa Dan Wang Kit-Tai Hau Source Type: research
A study on mindful agency's influence on college students' engagement with online teaching: The mediating roles of e-learning self-efficacy and self-regulation
CONCLUSIONS: By identifying the two intermediary pathways and the orderly chain structure pathways in which mindful agency influences college students' identification with online teaching, this study contributes to the theoretical research on mindfulness in online teaching contexts, the expansion of empirical research on the impact of mindful agency on identification with online teaching, and the development of practical reference materials for improving identification with online teaching.PMID:38237473 | DOI:10.1016/j.actpsy.2024.104146 (Source: Acta Psychologica)
Source: Acta Psychologica - January 18, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Xinyi Dai Source Type: research
Task-relevance and change detection in action-effect binding
Acta Psychol (Amst). 2024 Jan 17;243:104147. doi: 10.1016/j.actpsy.2024.104147. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTFeatures of actions are bound to coincidentally occurring stimuli so that re-encountering a stimulus retrieves a previous action episode. One hallmark of the purported mechanism in binding/retrieval tasks is a reliable reaction time advantage for repeating a previous response if tone stimuli repeat rather than alternate across trials. Other measures than reaction times yielded surprisingly mixed results, however. This is particularly true for continuous response features like force or response duration. We therefor...
Source: Acta Psychologica - January 18, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: S ámuel Varga Roland Pfister Bence Neszm élyi Wilfried Kunde J ános Horváth Source Type: research
Empowering teachers through principals' emotional intelligence: Unlocking the potential of organizational citizenship behavior in Taiwan's elementary schools
This study emphasizes the pivotal role of a principal's EI in fostering teachers' OT and OCB, underscoring the significance of EI in educational leadership. Investing in the EI development of school principals can nurture a positive school culture, enabling teachers to fully realize their potential and contribute to the overall well-being of the school community. However, the research results face limitations in generalizability due to the restricted sample size exclusive to Taiwan and the reliance on self-report measures in the study.PMID:38237475 | DOI:10.1016/j.actpsy.2024.104142 (Source: Acta Psychologica)
Source: Acta Psychologica - January 18, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Chuan-Chung Hsieh Hui-Chieh Li Jyun-Kai Liang Ying-Chang Chiu Source Type: research
Early development of saliency-driven attention through object manipulation
Acta Psychol (Amst). 2024 Jan 16;243:104124. doi: 10.1016/j.actpsy.2024.104124. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTIn the first years of life, infants progressively develop attention selection skills to gather information from visually clustered environments. As young as newborns, infants are sensitive to the distinguished differences in color, orientation, and luminance, which are the components of visual saliency. However, we know little about how saliency-driven attention emerges and develops socially through everyday free-viewing experiences. The present work assessed the saliency change in infants' egocentric scenes and in...
Source: Acta Psychologica - January 17, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Lichao Sun David J Francis Yukie Nagai Hanako Yoshida Source Type: research
Assessing mental demand in consecutive interpreting: Insights from an fNIRS study
Acta Psychol (Amst). 2024 Jan 16;243:104132. doi: 10.1016/j.actpsy.2024.104132. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTConsecutive interpreting involves a demanding language task where mental workload (MWL) is crucial for assessing interpreters' performance. An elevated cognitive load in interpreters may lead to the interpretation failures. The widely used NASA-TLX questionnaire effectively measures MWL. However, a global score was employed in previous interpretation studies, overlooking the distinct contributions of MWL components to the interpreters' performance. Accordingly, we recruited twenty novice interpreters who were postg...
Source: Acta Psychologica - January 17, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Hao Yan Yi Zhang Yanqin Feng Yang Li Yueting Zhang Yujun Lee Maoqing Chen Zijuan Shi Yuan Liang Yuqin Hei Xu Duan Source Type: research
Interested to start a venture but worried about the future: Investigating the role of resilience in fear of career uncertainty and entrepreneurial intention
This study aimed to extend this understanding by exploring how specific fears, such as fear of career uncertainty and fear of perceived inability, affect EI and how resilience impacts these fears and their interaction with EI. This study tested a mediation model on a sample of young university students in Bangladesh (n = 553), using a two-phase survey (before and after the COVID-19 pandemic) and applying the partial least squares - structural equation model in Smart PLS 4. The findings indicated that fear of career uncertainty had a significant negative influence, and resilience had a significant positive influence on EI. ...
Source: Acta Psychologica - January 17, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Minhajul Islam Ukil Abdullah Almashayekhi Source Type: research
Positive emotions, self-regulatory capacity, and EFL performance in Chinese senior high school students
Acta Psychol (Amst). 2024 Jan 16;243:104143. doi: 10.1016/j.actpsy.2024.104143. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTPrevious research on English as a foreign language (EFL) learning has predominantly focused on negative emotions such as anxiety and boredom, neglecting positive emotions. Self-regulation, a cognitive factor, has emerged as a key construct of positive psychology in recent years. However, few studies have examined the mechanisms by which positive emotions influence EFL performance, especially through cognitive factors. Given the high-stakes nature of Chinese college entrance examination and Chinese culture's value o...
Source: Acta Psychologica - January 17, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Shengji Li Hanwei Wu Yunsong Wang Source Type: research
