Unethical pro-supervisor behavior and employees' family satisfaction: The roles of workplace ostracism and work-home segmentation preference
Curr Psychol. 2023 Jun 8:1-11. doi: 10.1007/s12144-023-04724-9. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTThe present study proposes a moderated mediation model that examines how and when unethical pro-supervisor behavior is related to employees' family satisfaction. The two-wave study design consisted of 207 full-time employees in China. The study results indicate that unethical pro-supervisor behavior is negatively related to family satisfaction, and that workplace ostracism mediates the influence of unethical pro-supervisor behavior on family satisfaction. In addition, the relationship between workplace ostracism and family satisfa...
Source: Current Psychology - June 26, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Baofang Zhang Dongliang Xu Source Type: research

How final year high school students' depression develop during COVID-19 in China? A latent class growth modeling analysis
This study helps to characterize differential depression trajectories among adolescents throughout the COVID-19 pandemic and establish several related predictors of the trajectory of depression.PMID:37359688 | PMC:PMC10150153 | DOI:10.1007/s12144-023-04686-y (Source: Current Psychology)
Source: Current Psychology - June 26, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Xinyu Zhang Guangdong Zhou Source Type: research

Conditional role of parental controlling mediation on the relationship between escape, daily game time, and gaming disorder
This study aimed to examine the conditional effect of parental controlling mediation on the relationship between escape motivation and gaming disorder, mediated by daily game time. The following research questions were investigated: whether escape motivation has an indirect effect on gaming disorder through daily game time, and whether parental controlling mediation moderates the relationship between gaming disorder and daily gaming time. The convenience sample included 501 mid-school students (251 male and 250 female) in grades 5-7. The conditional indirect effects model was developed using Hayes's model 14 and Process Ma...
Source: Current Psychology - June 26, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Zeynep G örgülü Arif Özer Source Type: research

Self-forgiveness, Guilt, Shame, and Parental Stress among Parents of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder
Curr Psychol. 2023 Mar 10:1-16. doi: 10.1007/s12144-023-04476-6. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTA mixed-method approach was used to explore and compare self-forgiveness, guilt, shame, and parental stress in parents of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and parents of neurotypical (NT) children. The data were obtained by the Heartland Forgiveness Scale (Thompson et al., 2005), Guilt and Shame Experience Scale (Maliňáková et al., 2019), Parental Stress Scale (Berry & Jones, 1995) and by open-ended questions. The research sample consisted of 143 parents of children with ASD and 135 parents of NT children from ...
Source: Current Psychology - June 26, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Denisa Marcinechov á Lucia Z áhorcová Katar ína Lohazerová Source Type: research

Risk-efficacy framework - a new perspective on threat and efficacy appraisal and the role of disparity
Curr Psychol. 2023 May 31:1-14. doi: 10.1007/s12144-023-04813-9. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTThe current study aims to provide a more nuanced understanding of threat and efficacy appraisal and account for the influence of disparity in the accessibility to risk prevention resources in predicting attitudes and behaviors. We propose a Risk-Efficacy Framework by integrating theories, including the extended parallel process model, health belief model, social cognitive theory, and construal level theory of psychological distance to achieve such a goal. An online survey targeting the U.S. population was conducted to empirically...
Source: Current Psychology - June 26, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Haoran Chu Sixiao Liu Source Type: research

Therapists' practical implementation and preparation of online counseling in the post-pandemic era
Curr Psychol. 2023 Apr 6:1-13. doi: 10.1007/s12144-023-04614-0. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTIn recent years, COVID-19 has led to a blossoming of online counseling (OC) as an important and alternative way to help people in need. In this regard, the present study aims to explore and clarify therapists' practical implementation and preparation of OC in the post-pandemic era by developing scales. In total, 306 Taiwanese licensed therapists participated in this study and filled out the developed scales (75 males and 231 females, 246 of whom have provided OC to clients). The psychometric analysis revealed that the two scales d...
Source: Current Psychology - June 26, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Chen Wan-Chen Chan Hsun-Yu Yu-Hsien Sung Chen Po-Lin Hung Ya-Feng Huang Kuo-Chang Hsu Shi-Sen Source Type: research

"You can't wash your hands in a house without running water": pandemic precautionary behaviors after Hurricane Laura
Curr Psychol. 2023 May 3:1-12. doi: 10.1007/s12144-023-04677-z. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTHurricane Laura made landfall in southwestern Louisiana in August 2020 while the world was several months into the COVID-19 pandemic. In the present research, we examined pandemic precautionary behaviors in a sample of adults who varied in exposure and damage due to Hurricane Laura, a destructive Category 4 hurricane. A total of 127 participants responded to an online survey that assessed pandemic worry and precautionary behaviors, hurricane exposure and damage, and health-related quality of life. We found that Hurricane Laura vic...
Source: Current Psychology - June 26, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: C écile M F Girard Katie E Cherry Laura Sampson Source Type: research

Parental exhaustion during COVID-19 pandemic: links to relationship outcomes and dyadic coping
This study aimed to analyze couples? experiences of parental exhaustion during the lockdown and to understand its links to relationship satisfaction and conflict frequency. It also explored how couples' internal resources (e.g., dyadic coping) buffered these effects. We examined data from 210 individuals in a romantic relationship who were cohabiting with their partners, teleworking, and had children under 18. Absolute values of parental exhaustion and relationship quality were not severe, but there was evidence that parental exhaustion contributed to decreasing relationship satisfaction and increasing conflict. Positive f...
Source: Current Psychology - June 26, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Matilde Carvalho Marisa Matias Source Type: research

Workers' whole day workload and next day cognitive performance
Curr Psychol. 2023 Mar 3:1-14. doi: 10.1007/s12144-023-04400-y. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTWorkload experienced over the whole day, not just work periods, may impact worker cognitive performance. We hypothesized that experiencing greater than typical whole day workload would be associated with lower visual processing speed and lower sustained attention ability, on the next day. To test this, we used dynamic structural equation modeling to analyze data from 56 workers with type 1 diabetes. For a two-week period, on smartphones they answered questions about whole day workload at the end of each day, and completed cognitiv...
Source: Current Psychology - June 26, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Raymond Hernandez Haomiao Jin Elizabeth A Pyatak Shawn C Roll Stefan Schneider Source Type: research

Role of adaptive leadership in learning organizations to boost organizational innovations with change self-efficacy
Curr Psychol. 2023 Apr 27:1-20. doi: 10.1007/s12144-023-04669-z. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTThe present study investigates the direct impact of learning organizations on organizational innovations and investigates the mediating mechanism of change self-efficacy between learning organizations and organizational innovations. Furthermore, this study proposes adaptive leadership as a moderator between learning organizations, change self-efficacy, and organizational innovations. Three hundred seventy-three permanent employees from the pharmaceutical industry voluntarily participated. Data was collected using a simple random ...
Source: Current Psychology - June 26, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Muhammad Salman Chughtai Fauzia Syed Saima Naseer Nuria Chinchilla Source Type: research

Examining the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on life through interviews conducted by nursing students: a qualitative study
This study was aimed to determine the effects of the pandemic on life. This is a qualitative descriptive study and data were collected through semi-structured interviews (n = 200). The data were obtained by retrospectively examining the interviews made by the students between January and May 2021. The researchers prepared 'Participant Information Form' and 'Semi-Structured Interview Form', which were utilised as data collection tools during the interviews. The qualitative data acquired from the semi-structured interview using descriptive analysis. In the interviews, nursing students are in the role of interviewers. Partici...
Source: Current Psychology - June 26, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Feride Ercan Merve I şık Semra Seyhan Şahin Elif Altun Didar Karakas Ince Sat ı Demir Source Type: research

The effects of moral norms and anticipated guilt on COVID19 prevention behaviors
Curr Psychol. 2023 Mar 24:1-13. doi: 10.1007/s12144-023-04477-5. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTStudies have shown that older adolescents have a low perceived personal risk of COVID-19, and yet their ability and willingness to engage in COVID-19 prevention behaviors is imperative for community health. Thus, health communication scholars need to consider alternative psycho-social predictors of prevention behaviors that will assist in protecting others in a pandemic. Based on Schwartz's Norms Activation Model (NAM; Schwartz, 1977), we examined the relationship between moral norms and COVID-19 prevention behaviors (mask wearin...
Source: Current Psychology - June 26, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Monique Mitchell Turner Youjin Jang Rachel Wade Ruth Jinhee Heo Qijia Ye Larry A Hembroff Jong In Lim Source Type: research

Depression, anxiety, and stress symptoms and coping strategies in the context of the sudden course modality shift in the Spring 2020 semester
Curr Psychol. 2023 Apr 13:1-12. doi: 10.1007/s12144-023-04566-5. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTThe COVID-19 pandemic created a host of difficulties for college students. There is research noting the unique vulnerability of this population's DASS symptoms and further connections of coping strategies. The current study aims to provide a snapshot of this unique time in higher education by examining the relationship between perceived difficulty, retrospectively, in the Spring 2020 semester and DASS symptoms in the Fall 2020 semester, and moderators of coping strategies in a sample of USA university students (n = 248; Mage = 21...
Source: Current Psychology - June 26, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jerry L Mize Source Type: research

Trust game, survey trust, are they correlated? Evidence from China
Curr Psychol. 2023 Mar 9:1-11. doi: 10.1007/s12144-023-04448-w. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTTrust Game and survey trust are the two most popular measurements in the field of trust research, but most studies conducted in developing countries have found low or even insignificant correlations between them, we therefore validated this phenomenon in the cultural context of the largest developing country, China. Within-country differences can be of the same magnitude as the between country differences, especially in a culturally diverse China. Thus, we focus on comparing the characteristics of trust in the South and North regi...
Source: Current Psychology - June 26, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Yujie Tang Zhe Gong Source Type: research

To share or not to share: How perceived institutional empowerment shapes employee perceived shared leadership
Curr Psychol. 2023 May 3:1-12. doi: 10.1007/s12144-023-04701-2. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTThe present study aims to expand the existing research by uncovering the overlooked role of situational factors in shaping employee perceived shared leadership. To further advance this field of research, our study introduces a novel situational phenomenon called perceived institutional empowerment. Based on social information processing theory and adaptive leadership theory, we assume that perceived institutional empowerment may have a positive impact on perceived shared leadership via a chain mediating mechanism of perceived orga...
Source: Current Psychology - June 26, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Yaping Mi Xue Zhang Liang Liang Guyang Tian Yezhuang Tian Source Type: research