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
Online learning during the Covid-19 pandemic: How university students' perceptions, engagement, and performance are related to their personal characteristics
Curr Psychol. 2023 Mar 20:1-20. doi: 10.1007/s12144-023-04403-9. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTUniversity students faced unexpected challenges in online learning during the Covid-19 pandemic. Findings from early phases of the Covid-19 pandemic and before show that online learning experiences may vary from student to student and depend on several personal characteristics. However, the relative importance of different students' personal characteristics for their online learning experiences at later phases of the Covid-19 pandemic is still unclear. This cross-sectional, correlational study investigates how personal characteri...
Source: Current Psychology - June 26, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Kai Kaspar Kateryna Burtniak Marco R üth Source Type: research
COVID-19 related stress and fears of contamination: the impact of feared self-perceptions
Curr Psychol. 2023 Apr 12:1-12. doi: 10.1007/s12144-023-04553-w. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTSpecific concerns have been raised for those suffering from obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) during the COVID-19 pandemic, particularly those suffering from contamination fear. Investigation in non-clinical and OCD samples have reported an increase in contamination symptoms in association with the severity of the COVID-19 pandemic. In particular, stress related to COVID-19 has been found to be a major predictor of an increase in contamination symptoms. It has also been suggested that these effects may be accounted for by feare...
Source: Current Psychology - June 26, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jean-S ébastien Audet Silke Jacmin-Park Sarah Kheloui Catherine Gravel Robert-Paul Juster Frederick Aardema Source Type: research
Transitioning to college with ADHD: a qualitative examination of parental support and the renegotiation of the parent-child relationship
Conclusion: Optimal levels of involvement and support from parents in the context of a strong PCR is beneficial for adjustment to college for those with ADHD. We discuss the clinical implications of our findings, such as therapists helping families transition to college, and working with college students with ADHD on an adaptive renegotiation of the PCR in their transition to adulthood.PMID:37359679 | PMC:PMC10041513 | DOI:10.1007/s12144-023-04525-0 (Source: Current Psychology)
Source: Current Psychology - June 26, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Anne E Stevens Elizabeth K Lefler Judah W Serrano Cynthia M Hartung Source Type: research
Do executive functions buffer against COVID-19 stress?: A latent variable approach
Curr Psychol. 2023 May 6:1-17. doi: 10.1007/s12144-023-04652-8. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTLevels of COVID-19 stress have soared worldwide as a result of the pandemic. Given the pernicious psychological and physiological effects of stress, there is an urgent need for us to protect populations against the pandemic's psychological impact. While there exists literature documenting the prevalence of COVID-19 stress among various populations, insufficient research has investigated psychological factors that might mitigate this worrying trend. To address this gap in the literature, the current study seeks to examine executive...
Source: Current Psychology - June 26, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Tina L Y Ng Nadyanna M Majeed Verity Y Q Lua Andree Hartanto Source Type: research
Exploring global trends and future directions in advertising research: A focus on consumer behavior
This study aims to select the physiological and neurophysiological studies utilized in advertising and to address the fragmented comprehension of consumers' mental responses to advertising held by marketers and advertisers. To fill the gap, the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) framework was employed to select relevant articles, and bibliometric analysis was conducted to determine global trends and advancements in advertising and neuromarketing. The study selected and analyzed forty-one papers from the Web of Science (WoS) database from 2009-2020. The results indicated that Spain, ...
Source: Current Psychology - June 26, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Ahmed H Alsharif Nor Zafir Md Salleh Mahmaod Alrawad Abdalwali Lutfi Source Type: research
Exposure to COVID-19 and aggression: the mediating role of anxiety and the moderating role of rumination
This study looked into the effect of exposure to COVID-19 on aggression and how anxiety may act as a mediating factor, as well as lastly how rumination could moderate a variety of indirect paths during the epidemic of COVID-19. According to the current study's findings, which included a sizable sample of Chinese college students (N = 1,518), being exposed to COVID-19 showed a positive connection with aggression and anxiety, as well as rumination. These findings clarify the role that mediators play in the relationship between anxiety and exposure to COVID-19. The results are also helpful for personalizing treatments and put...
Source: Current Psychology - June 26, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Yangxiu Hu Baojuan Ye Tingting Ma Zhihua Feng Xun Chen Dawu Huang Lu Liu Source Type: research
Toward an understanding of occupational burnout among employees with autism - the Job Demands-Resources theory perspective
This article aims to gain insight into the phenomenon of occupational burnout among employees with autism based on the theoretical framework of the Job Demands-Resources theory and the literature on employees with autism in the workplace. Firstly, we argue that although the resources and demands of the neurotypical and neurodivergent employees might be different, the theoretical mechanism of occupational burnout formation remains similar among the neurotypical and neurodivergent employees, leading to the similar burnout experience. Next, we distinguish key demands that might drain neurodiverse employees' energy, and spark ...
Source: Current Psychology - June 26, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Micha ł T Tomczak Konrad Kulikowski Source Type: research
Exploring the linkage between workplace precaution measures, covid-19 fear and job performance: The moderating effect of academic competence
Curr Psychol. 2023 May 10:1-20. doi: 10.1007/s12144-023-04728-5. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTThe coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) has created emerging mental health challenges around the world. Like other countries, Pakistan is also confronted with covid-19 calamities. The aim of the study is to examine the impacts of workplace measures (WM) on the job performance (JP) and covid-19 fears (CF) along with the moderating role of academic competence (AC) based on the organizational support theory (OST) and job demand and resources (JDR) theory. A quantitative approach was applied to collect data from 333 banking employees...
Source: Current Psychology - June 26, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Naveed Iqbal Chaudhry Samma Faiz Rasool Masooma Raza Hana Mhelska Fazal Ur Rehman Source Type: research
Researchers' strategies to cope with the covid-19 impact on their activity
This study aims to characterize the strategies researchers used to cope with Covid-19 impact and to explore the relationship between those strategies, researchers' characteristics and the pandemic impact in their lives. 721 researchers, proportionally distributed among three Spanish regions, answered an online survey on the pandemic impact on their activity. Scales referred to social support, productivity, research tasks, working conditions, and work and personal life balance. An open-ended section was included to collect the strategies they used to cope with the pandemic consequences. 1528 strategies were content analysed...
Source: Current Psychology - June 26, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Anna Sala-Bubar é Montserrat Castell ó Mariona Corcelles N úria Suñé-Soler Source Type: research
Childhood Environmental Unpredictability and Experimentally Primed Uncertainty in Relation to Intuitive versus Deliberate Visual Search
Curr Psychol. 2023 Apr 28:1-14. doi: 10.1007/s12144-023-04667-1. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTVisual search is an integral part of animal life. Two search strategies, intuitive vs. deliberate search, are adopted by almost all animals including humans to adapt to different extent of environmental uncertainty. In two eye-tracking experiments involving simple visual search (Study 1) and complex information search (Study 2), we used the evolutionary life history (LH) approach to investigate the interaction between childhood environmental unpredictability and primed concurrent uncertainty in enabling these two search strategie...
Source: Current Psychology - June 26, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Xinrui Wang Hui Jing Lu Hanran Li Lei Chang Source Type: research
