The impact of employment stress on college students: psychological well-being during COVID-19 pandemic in China
This study aims to investigate the impact of employment stress on college students' psychological well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic in China. An online survey consisting of demographic items (i.e., age, gender, subject major, type of university, and perceived severity of the current employment situation), Employment Stress scale, Employment Anxiety Scale, and Patient Health Questionnaire was employed for data collection. A total of 2,627 final year college students were recruited, with participants displayed below moderate levels of employment stress and anxiety. Approximately 13.2% of participants were depressed and...
Source: Current Psychology - June 26, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Yan Peng Shao Bo Lv Su Rou Low Suzanna A Bono Source Type: research
A network approach to the relationship between career adaptability and starting salary among graduates
Curr Psychol. 2023 Apr 21:1-15. doi: 10.1007/s12144-023-04655-5. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTCareer adaptability is a psychological resource for individuals to deal with career events, and it is a system of human-environment interaction. The components of the career adaptability concept are not independent of each other but rather an interactive network. The present study aims to shed light on the nomological network of career adaptability and the starting salary by investigating their indicators using network analysis to reveal their structural networks and interrelationships. In addition, we compared the similarities a...
Source: Current Psychology - June 26, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Yutong Liu Bin Ling Dusheng Chen Source Type: research
Associations between age, social reward processing and social anxiety symptoms
This study investigated the relationship between age, social reward processing and social anxiety in a cross-sectional sample of female participants (N = 80) aged 13-34. Participants performed two versions of a probabilistic reward anticipation task, in which a speeded response could result in different probabilities of receiving either social or monetary rewarding feedback. Participants also completed self-report assessments of social reward value, trait anxiety and social anxiety symptoms. At high reward probabilities, performance on both reward tasks showed a quadratic effect of age, with the fastest responses at around...
Source: Current Psychology - June 26, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Emma J Kilford Lucy Foulkes Sarah-Jayne Blakemore Source Type: research
Job search in a difficult labour market: linking goal orientation to job search strategies and outcomes with the moderating role of self-control
This study addresses how goal orientation relates to different job search strategies to increase the chance of finding employment and quality jobs. We integrate the goal orientation theory with self-control to examine how the orientation of goals (i.e., performance-prove goal orientation (PPGO), performance-avoid goal orientation (PAGO) and learning goal orientation (LGO)) are associated with job search strategies (i.e., Focused Job Search Strategy- FJSS, Exploratory Job Search Strategy-EJSS, and Haphazard Job Search Strategy-HJSS) and how self-control moderates the process. In a three-wave study (nT1= 859; nT2 = 720; nT3 ...
Source: Current Psychology - June 26, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Emmanuel Affum-Osei Darius K-S Chan Source Type: research
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
