When suffering contradicts belief: measuring theodical struggling
Curr Psychol. 2023 May 3:1-13. doi: 10.1007/s12144-023-04642-w. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTGlobal meaning systems help people make sense of their experiences, but suffering can violate global meaning and create distress. One type of potential violation is conflict between one's experience of suffering and one's deeply-held beliefs about God as loving, powerful, and just. The problem of theodicy-why an all-powerful and all-loving God would allow suffering-has long been an important theological and philosophical concern, but little is known about how theodicy plays out psychologically for religious individuals facing seri...
Source: Current Psychology - June 26, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Crystal L Park Eric J Silverman Shane J Sacco Dahee Kim M Elizabeth Lewis Hall Jason McMartin Kelly Kapic Laura Shannonhouse Adam B David Jamie Aten Source Type: research
The relationship between parental role expectations and sibling jealousy: the mediating effect of first-born children's role cognition
This study aimed to explore the relationship among parental role expectations, the firstborns' sibling jealousy and their role cognition. A sample of 190 two-family firstborns aged 3-7 years old and their parents from China participated in the study by using experimental methods, questionnaires, and interviews. The results showed: (1) Parental role expectations had a significant positive effect on firstborns' role cognition. (2) The dispositional sibling jealousy of the first-born children was positively correlated with their parents' role expectations. (3) Firstborns' role cognition mediated the relation between parental ...
Source: Current Psychology - June 26, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Guoying Qian Ruonan Li Fangbing Qu Yu An Xianmei Guo Source Type: research
Impact of perceived scarcity on delay of gratification: meditation effects of self-efficacy and self-control
This study employed the perceived scarcity, self-control, self-efficacy, and delayed gratification scales to explore the relationship among perceived scarcity, self-efficacy, self-control, and delayed gratification as well as the mediating role of self-efficacy and self-control between perceived scarcity and delayed gratification. A cross-sectional survey was conducted via an online survey platform with 1,109 Chinese college students. The results showed that perceived scarcity was negatively correlated with individual self-efficacy, self-control, and delayed gratification, while self-efficacy and self-control played a part...
Source: Current Psychology - June 26, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Liang Yu Jie Gao Yan Kong Long Huang Source Type: research
Experiences of moving an older parent into a care home or nursing home in the UK: a qualitative study
Curr Psychol. 2023 Mar 24:1-12. doi: 10.1007/s12144-023-04538-9. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTThe study explored the personal experiences of individuals making the decision to move an older parent into a residential care facility via retrospective narrative. It aimed to gain an understanding of how individuals experienced this transition, the emotions they felt at specific moments throughout the transition, and the perceived effect it had on their psychological wellbeing. 13 semi-structured video interviews were conducted online with individuals who had been active in the decision of moving an older parent into a care hom...
Source: Current Psychology - June 26, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Oliver Robinson Amy Fisher Source Type: research
The serial mediation effect of prospective imagery vividness and anxiety symptoms on the relationship between perceived stress and depressive symptoms among Chinese vocational college students during the COVID-19 pandemic
This study aimed to survey the mental health of Chinese vocational college students and explore the mediation effect of prospective imagery vividness and anxiety symptoms on the relationship between perceived stress and depressive symptoms. A total of 2, 381 vocational college students (Mage = 18.38 years, range: 16-21, SD = 0.92) provided self-report data on perceived stress, anxiety and depressive symptoms and prospective imagery vividness. Two potential serial mediation models were postulated regarding the roles of prospective imagery vividness and anxiety symptoms in the relationship between perceived stress and depres...
Source: Current Psychology - June 26, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Mingfan Liu Yuanyuan Deng Biyun Wu Li Zhou Yao Zhang Source Type: research
Daily arousal variation has little effect on sustained attention performance
This study aimed to investigate the effects of arousal on sustained attention performance in humans using two approaches-a small-N study with an inbuilt replication to test within-participant variation, and a larger sample assessing between-participant variation. The Sustained Attention to Response Task (SART) was used to measure sustained attention performance and the Karolinska Sleepiness Scale (KSS) was used to measure arousal. In the small-N study five participants completed the SART and KSS once an hour between 7 a.m. and 7 p.m., repeated two weeks later. Significant, curvilinear variation in KSS across time-of-day wa...
Source: Current Psychology - June 26, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Isobel G Bond Keitaro Machida Katherine A Johnson Source Type: research
Coping Strategies, well-being and inequalities during the COVID-19 pandemic period
This study examines people's subjective well-being, such as the perception of the economic situation and mental well-being, who made adjustments to cope with the earning losses. We estimate the well-being cost, which is the money required to compensate people because of the reduction in earnings or employment loss and the coping strategy followed to bring their well-being to the levels of those who have not adopted any coping strategy. We examine two outcomes; the perception of the economic situation and a mental well-being index. We employ data from the ERF COVID-19 MENA Monitor Surveys for Egypt, Jordan, Morocco and Tuni...
Source: Current Psychology - June 26, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Eleftherios Giovanis Oznur Ozdamar Source Type: research
The role of online game usage in the relationship between initial daily negative moods and subsequent positive moods: The moderating role of hedonistic motivation
This study explores the relationship between initial daily negative mood, online game usage and subsequent positive mood; and examine the moderating roles of hedonistic motivation on the perspective of mood regulation theory. To gather data over five consecutive workdays, this study used the experience sampling method. We then obtained 800 valid daily data from 160 participants. The results of multilevel path analysis show that: (i) initial daily negative mood increases the usage of online games and further enhances subsequent positive mood; (ii) students with higher hedonic motivation will show a stronger positive correla...
Source: Current Psychology - June 26, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Ching-Wen Yeh Tser-Yieth Chen Source Type: research
Must one take the bitter with the sweet? Sensory processing sensitivity and factors associated with resilience among artistically inclined individuals
Curr Psychol. 2023 May 30:1-16. doi: 10.1007/s12144-023-04759-y. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTSensory processing sensitivity (SPS), linked with a penchant for the arts and creativity, exerts its bivalent influences, contingent on context, on individuals' health-related outcomes. But little is known about how it interacts with creative self-concept (CSC). Focusing on the role of SPS, this study identified risk and protective factors of resilience among artistically inclined individuals from middle to later life during the coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) restriction period and examined the interaction effect between SPS and CSC...
Source: Current Psychology - June 26, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Ying-Yi Patricia Chou Source Type: research
Dark Triad and COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy: the role of conspiracy beliefs and risk perception
Curr Psychol. 2023 Mar 31:1-13. doi: 10.1007/s12144-023-04609-x. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTWith the spread of the Coronavirus Disease-2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, the mass vaccination plan represents the primary weapon to control the infection curve. Unfortunately, vaccine hesitancy also spread out worldwide. This led to exploring the critical factors that prevent vaccination from improving the efficacy of vaccine campaigns. In the present study, the role of the Dark Triad (psychopathy, Machiavellianism, and narcissism) in vaccine hesitancy was investigated, considering the sequential mediating effects of conspiracy belie...
Source: Current Psychology - June 26, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Marco Giancola Massimiliano Palmiero Simonetta D'Amico Source Type: research
Effects of gamma frequency binaural beats on attention and anxiety
Curr Psychol. 2023 May 4:1-8. doi: 10.1007/s12144-023-04681-3. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTBinaural beats (BB) are an auditory phenomenon produced from a combination of two sine waves with slightly different frequencies presented to each ear. Previous research has implicated the role of BBs through brainwave entrainment in potentially giving rise to benefits ranging from enhanced memory and attention to reduced anxiety and stress. Here, we investigated the effect of gamma (40-Hz) BBs on attention using the attention network test (ANT), a previously unused task that assesses three subtypes of attention: Alerting, Orientin...
Source: Current Psychology - June 26, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Natalya Marie Leistiko Louay Madanat Wing Kwan Antonia Yeung James M Stone Source Type: research
An exploratory psychometric network analysis of loneliness scales in a sample of older adults
Curr Psychol. 2023 May 13:1-15. doi: 10.1007/s12144-023-04697-9. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTTo examine the relationships within and between commonly used measures of loneliness to determine the suitability of the measures in older adults. Further, to determine whether certain items in these measures are more psychometrically robust in terms of capturing different types of loneliness across this population. Data were obtained from 350 older adults via completion of an online survey. Four measures of loneliness were completed. These were the University of California Los Angeles Loneliness Scale 4 (Version 3), the de Jong ...
Source: Current Psychology - June 26, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Alexandra Thompson Thomas V Pollet Source Type: research
Experience of loneliness on well-being among young individuals: A systematic scoping review
Curr Psychol. 2023 Mar 3:1-21. doi: 10.1007/s12144-023-04445-z. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTA systematic scoping review was conducted to explore the current evidence on the experience of loneliness influencing well-being among youths. The electronic databases Scopus, APA PsycINFO, Emerald Insight and One Search were used to identify relevant studies, followed by an analysis of the text words contained in the title and abstract, and of the index terms used to describe the article. Reference lists of all shortlisted articles were searched for additional studies. 20 studies (quantitative, qualitative and mixed) published in...
Source: Current Psychology - June 26, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Nuryn Aqidah Binte Mohammad Adib Jagdeep Kaur Sabharwal Source Type: research
Understanding the cultivation mechanism for mental health education of college students in campus culture construction from the perspective of deep learning
Curr Psychol. 2023 Feb 28:1-18. doi: 10.1007/s12144-023-04320-x. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTNowadays, there is an increase in attention to the college student's mental health, and to enhance the awareness related to college students' mental health, colleges and universities have executed an immense range of mental health publicity activities. In order to better combine deep learning with classroom teaching, this paper puts forward a deep learning algorithm formulated on convolutional neural networks. The purpose of this research is to investigate the development and use of a cultivation mechanism for mental health educa...
Source: Current Psychology - June 26, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Qingsong Gao Yongxia Wei Source Type: research
The application of artificial intelligence technology in education influences Chinese adolescent's emotional perception
This study aimed to explore whether AIEd affects adolescents' emotional perception. Combined with the actual teaching situation and the result of the questionnaire, 1332 students recruited through random sampling from AI Curriculum Reform Demonstration Schools in Guangzhou participated in this study. Different emotional priming stimulative materials (sentences and situational pictures) were used in the experiments. The task was designed to investigate adolescents' reaction time to emotional faces (positive, negative). After eliminating blank data and invalid data with response time greater than 150 ms, 977 and 962 valid da...
Source: Current Psychology - June 26, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Tinghong Lai Xianqin Zeng Bin Xu Chuyin Xie Yanxiu Liu Zheng Wang Hong Lu Shimin Fu Source Type: research
