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
