School Psychology Article Feed
April 2nd, 2025
Pandemic perspectives: the temporal influence of COVID-19 on attitudes toward marriage and childbirth.
Campbell JT; Gesselman AN; Bennett-Brown M pubmed id: 40171085Marriage and having kids are happening less in the U.S., with people waiting longer to do these things. The pandemic made this more complicated by making people want to connect more but also making it hard to form relationships. This study looks at how people's views on marriage and having children changed in the first two years of the pandemic using two national surveys.
Task representation and individual differences affect strategy selection and problem-solving performance.
Xie X; Moss J pubmed id: 40171084The study looks at how people pick different ways to solve tasks and how changing how they see the task can create new strategies. It tries to repeat and expand on a past experiment to see if this idea is true.
Physiological stress differentially impacts cognitive performance during-and memory following-simulated police encounters with persons experiencing a mental health crisis.
Marlatte H; Di Nota PM; Andersen JP pubmed id: 40171083The study looked at how stress affects police officers' memory and decisions, especially in mental health crisis situations. It found that stress can help officers make better decisions during the moment but might hurt their memory of the event afterward. More experienced and female officers seemed to handle stress better.
Instability in the environment and children's in-school self-regulatory behaviors.
Smith KE; Dimitroff SJ; Faig KE; Silver EM; Norman GJ pubmed id: 40171082The study looks at how early stress affects kids' behavior and self-control. It checks how a stable environment might help kids deal positively with stress.
The transdiagnostic role of event-related rumination on internalizing and externalizing symptoms during the pandemic: a two-wave longitudinal study.
Kim BN; Kang HS; Park J pubmed id: 40171081This study looks at how thinking too much about past events can affect our stress and different symptoms. It wants to see how this thinking changes over time and if it acts like a bridge between feeling stressed and having symptoms.
Effects of a health-seeking behavior education program based on motivational interview techniques on health-seeking behaviors, illness self-management, and anxiety in elderly immigrant women: a randomized controlled study.
Harmancı P; Sazak Y; Bulbuloglu S pubmed id: 40171080Moving to a new place can be hard, especially for older people, women, or those who are sick. These people might need extra help and healthcare when they move.
Proposal of an alternative way of reporting the results of comparative simulation studies.
Fernández-García MP; Vallejo-Seco G; Livácic-Rojas P; Herrero-Díez FJ pubmed id: 40171079This research paper talks about a new method that helps scientists better understand and show the results from special computer tests called Monte Carlo simulations. This method helps make it easier to see and analyze all the information from these tests.
Validation of measurement scale for technostress in Peruvian university students.
Verde-Avalos E; Turpo-Chaparro JE; Palomino-Ccasa J; Requena-Cabral G; Malca-Peralta SS pubmed id: 40171077The study talks about stress from using technology in schools, affecting both teachers and students. It tested a questionnaire called TS4US with Peruvian college students to see if it works well for measuring this type of stress, and found that it is a reliable tool.
Effects of gamification on EFL learning: a quasi-experimental study of reading proficiency and language enjoyment among Chinese undergraduates.
Cheng J; Lu C; Xiao Q pubmed id: 40171076Some teachers have trouble getting students interested when teaching foreign languages in the usual way. This study looked at using games to make learning English more fun for Chinese college students.
Children's perspectives on sugary snacks through elicitation techniques - repertory grid and generative method.
Liang L; Yu Y pubmed id: 40171075This study looks at how kids in China think and feel about eating sugary snacks. It is important because not many studies focus on children's own thoughts and experiences with these kinds of foods.
Discrete early maladaptive schema subgroups in remitted bipolar disorders: association with neuropsychological performance, residual symptoms, and psychosocial functioning.
M'Bailara K; Munuera C; Weil F; Passerieux C; Roux P pubmed id: 40171073This study wanted to learn more about how bipolar disorder affects people differently. It looked at early maladaptive schemas, which are unhealthy thinking patterns, to see how they relate to disability when people with bipolar disorder are feeling stable.
April 1st, 2025
Can sleep affect destination memory? A prospective narrative review.
Rathore T; Joshi G; Verma K pubmed id: 40160558The study talks about destination memory, which helps us remember who we told something to, and how sleep might affect it. It looks at how both destination memory and another kind, called source memory, are affected by sleep, because they both help us remember things. The paper suggests more research could help people communicate better by improving sleep habits.
Effectiveness of a mindfulness-based program with virtual reality to increase safe behaviors in workers of a mining company.
Guzmán R; Chávez-Luque YF; Guzmán N; Medina GS; Valdiviezo CD; Santa-Cruz A pubmed id: 40160557The study looks at making work safer in mining through a special program using mindfulness and virtual reality. It compares this program with another called BBS to see which helps workers be safer. The research took place in a mining company in southern Peru.
Effect of exercise intervention on anxiety among college students: a meta-analysis.
Chen P; Mazalan NS; Koh D; Gu Y pubmed id: 40160556This study looked at how exercise can help reduce anxiety in college students. The researchers combined results from many studies to understand the effects better. They found that exercise tends to lower anxiety levels in students.
From collective efficacy and negative emotions toward management and conservation of wetlands: the mediating role of social identity.
Valizadeh N; Karimi V; Bazrafkan K; Azadi H; Azarm H pubmed id: 40160555This study talks about how working together can help save important wetland areas like the Helleh Wetland in Iran. By using a model called the encapsulation model of social identity, the study found that feelings and group identity help farmers want to join in protecting these areas. The study suggests decision-makers should focus on solving past problems to get people more involved.
Body as expression of psychiatric distress: insights from restrictive eating disorders, non-suicidal self-injuries, and suicide attempts.
Pratile DC; Orlandi M; Mensi MM pubmed id: 40160554Adolescence is a time when young people can feel stressed, and this can sometimes lead to problems like eating disorders, hurting themselves without wanting to die, or trying to harm themselves seriously.
The impact of gambling advertising on gambling severity: a path analysis of factors of psychological distress in individuals with gambling disorder.
Lopez-Gonzalez H; Granero R; Fernández-Aranda F; Griffiths MD; Jiménez-Murcia S pubmed id: 40160553This study looked at how ads for gambling affect people who have serious gambling problems. It used interviews with people diagnosed with gambling disorder to see how things like being impulsive and handling emotions are connected to the severity of their gambling problems.
Take a step back to see your own value: on the role of metacognition in self-esteem regulation.
Rader L; Forster SD; Gauggel S; Drueke B; Mainz V pubmed id: 40160552The study looked at how people feel better about themselves when their feelings are hurt. People who feel good about themselves usually try to boost their confidence, while those who don't feel as good focus on protecting themselves. The research asked if thinking about feelings from a distance helps them feel stronger and make better choices.
Virtual avatar communication task eliciting pseudo-social isolation and detecting social isolation using non-verbal signal monitoring in older adults.
Takemoto A; Iwamoto M; Yaegashi H; Yun S; Takashima R pubmed id: 40160551The study found a new way to detect feelings of being alone in older adults using virtual avatars on a computer. The study showed that watching how eyebrows and eyelids move, and how often someone blinks, could help tell if someone feels socially isolated.
Balancing employee flexibility and organizational performance: implications for innovation, productivity, and company attractiveness in SMEs.
Eng I; Aboagye E; Bergsten EL; Strömberg A pubmed id: 40160550The study looks at how letting people choose when and where they work affects small and medium businesses. It checks if this can help companies be more creative, get more work done, and seem like great places to work.
The mediating role of cognitive flexibility in the relationship between social support and non-suicidal self-injury among adolescents: a multicenter cross-sectional study.
Wang C; Zheng J; Shen G; Chen H; Ye X; Li CH; Wu B pubmed id: 40160549This study looked at why some teens hurt themselves on purpose, but not to end their lives. The researchers wanted to know if having support from people and being able to think in different ways could help stop this behavior. They checked if being able to think flexibly could help explain how support from others affects the behavior of self-harm.
Exploring automatic approach-avoidance tendencies: the impact of self-relevant social feedback on behavior.
Kim J; Lee M; Chae J; Lim G; Kim M; Kim H pubmed id: 40160548This study looked at how people react to different types of feedback about themselves using a touchscreen task with fish icons. People reacted faster to good feedback and slower to bad feedback, and their personality traits affected how quickly they approached or avoided feedback. This helps us understand how people might automatically react to feedback about themselves.
The relationship between belief in a just world and prosocial behavior: the role of psychological resilience and empathic capacity.
Liu C; Fan W; Tan Q; Yun K; Huang W pubmed id: 40160547The study looks at how believing the world is fair can make people more likely to help others because it makes them tough in tough times. It also checks if being able to understand others' feelings affects this process.
Cross-cultural validation of the profile of mood scale: evaluation of the psychometric properties of short screening versions.
Schmalbach I; Schmalbach B; Aghababa A; Brand R; Chang YK; Çiftçi MC; Elsangedy H; Fernández Gavira J; Huang Z; Kristjánsdóttir H; Mallia L; Nosrat S; Pesce C; Rafnsson D; Medina Rebollo D; Timme S; Brähler E; Petrowski K pubmed id: 40166405The study looked at a shorter, 16-question version of a mood test called POMS. They checked if it worked well in different languages and countries for both boys and girls, and young and old. Most of the time it worked well, except in a few languages like Chinese and Turkish.
Effect of hit rate and cognitive style on Bayesian reasoning: evidence from eye movements.
Yin L; Shi Z; Liu M; Chen H pubmed id: 40166404Researchers studied how different thinking styles and information affect decision-making. They used eye-tracking to see how students focused on different parts of a math task. They found that some students paid more attention depending on their thinking style and how information was presented.
Research prospect of human salivary cortisol: a bibliometric analysis.
Qin S; Liu J; Qin Z; Jia J pubmed id: 40166403This study looked at important papers about salivary cortisol, using special methods to find out how the research is going and what new ideas are popular.
Screening versions of the European Portuguese MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventories Short Forms: development and preliminary validation.
Filipe MG; Severino C; Vigário M; Frota S pubmed id: 40166402This study created a tool to help find kids who might need extra help with language. They tested it on different groups of children, like those who usually do fine, those who might have language problems, and those with Down syndrome. The tool worked well at telling these groups apart, so it can help doctors and teachers decide who might need more testing.
Childhood maltreatment must lead to hate? The relation between childhood maltreatment and social mindfulness among college students: the roles of self-compassion, shyness and hostile attribution bias.
Wang X; Yang G; Meng W pubmed id: 40166401Childhood maltreatment can make it hard for kids to get along with others as they grow up. The study looks at how this experience may affect a child's ability to show kindness easily.
The therapeutic relationship in EMDR therapy-A survey.
Hase M; Brisch KH; Solomon RM; Hase A pubmed id: 40166400EMDR therapy started in 1987 to help people with PTSD and has grown over time. A study asked EMDR therapists about their views on the therapist-patient relationship and found their experiences support its importance. This helps us learn more about how therapy works and could improve training and treatment.
Discrimination between schizophrenia and other psychotic conditions by clinician's difficulty in attunement: a reappraisal of the Praecox Feeling concept.
Fonzi L; Pallagrosi M; Carlone C; Picardi A pubmed id: 40166399In the 1940s, a doctor named Henricus Rümke talked about a special feeling doctors have about schizophrenia. The study tested if this feeling, called empathic failure, can help tell apart schizophrenia from other similar illnesses.
The relationship between psychological capital, stress, micro-learning environment, and professional identity in nursing interns: a structural equation modeling study.
Gong B; Chen X; Wang N; Zhan Y; Zhong H; Zhang R; Luo Y; Zhang Z; Li L pubmed id: 40166398Nursing interns are important because they help make future nurses and can affect patients' health. It's important to know what things can change how these interns see themselves as nurses.
The effect of expectancy on conditioned pain modulation: evidence from functional near-infrared spectroscopy.
Li X; Liu M; Liu B; Yue H; Cheng X; Bao H pubmed id: 40166396This study looks at how our thoughts and expectations might change how we feel pain without using medicine. Scientists used a tool called fNIRS to see how people's brains work while studying this.
Sedentary behavior and physical activity are associated with risk of depression among adult and older populations: a systematic review and dose-response meta-analysis.
Wang D; Zhang Y; Guo Z; Lu S pubmed id: 40166395This study looks at how being very inactive (sitting a lot) or being active can affect feeling depressed in adults and older people. The scientists carefully examined other studies to understand if sitting or moving around more changes the chance of getting depression.
What are the influencing factors of online learning engagement? A systematic literature review.
Hu J; Xiao W pubmed id: 40166394Since COVID-19, many schools have started using online learning more. This study looks at what makes students stay interested when learning online and finds that things like motivation, technology skills, and good learning tools help. It suggests ways to make online learning better, like setting clear goals and having great teacher support.
Preschool children's social skills, problem behaviors, academic self-esteem and teacher-child relationship: a serial mediation model.
Tutkun C; Eskidemir Meral S pubmed id: 40166393Some studies say that kids who are good at making friends and getting along with others tend to have fewer problems with their behavior. But we still need to understand better how these friendship skills help with behavior problems.
Mental simulation and compulsive buying: a multiple mediation model through impulse buying and self-control.
Duan X pubmed id: 40166392The study looked at how thinking about results or the process might lead to buying things without planning and losing self-control. They found that thinking about the process could make people buy more impulsively and compulsively, while thinking about outcomes mainly led to impulse buying. This helps marketers understand how different types of thinking can affect buying habits.
Boosting work engagement through leader tolerance: the chain mediation role of perceived organizational support and organizational identification.
Zhang Y; Zhang J; Hao K pubmed id: 40166391Many companies use strict rules and punishments to stop workers from making mistakes, but this can make employees feel bad and work poorly. This study looks at how leaders being more understanding of mistakes can help workers stay motivated and engaged at work.
On the structure of psychoeducational constructs: taxometric analysis and epistemological implications.
Stamovlasis D; Vaiopoulou J; Stavropoulou G; Papagiannopoulou T pubmed id: 40166390The researchers used a special method to find out if certain ideas or traits are like clear, separate groups or more like a sliding scale. They studied school students and teachers to see how they learn and teach, but the results were confusing and need more thinking to understand better.
Error management climate, psychological security, and employee bootleg innovation behavior: the moderating role of risk-taking traits.
Wang Q; Zhang X; Zhang N; Su J pubmed id: 40166389The study found that when a workplace encourages learning from mistakes, employees feel safer and are more likely to try new things even if they might fail. Feeling safe helps them come up with secret new ideas, and being willing to take risks makes this even better. This helps companies become more innovative.
A scoping review of financial decision-making measures in midlife and beyond: results from the advancing reliable measurement in cognitive aging and decision-making ability (ARMCADA) study.
Ho EH; Ece B; Bucko P; Karpouzian-Rogers T; Pila S; Hosseinian Z; Hussein Y; Han SD; Lichtenberg PA; Lim AC; Weintraub S; Gershon RC pubmed id: 40166388Older adults sometimes have trouble with memory and thinking, which can make decision-making harder even before serious problems are noticed. This can affect their everyday activities and how they manage money.
Exploring pathways to recovery and psychological well-being: examining the role of empathic and social self-efficacy, social support and social isolation.
Dominguez MG; Brown LD pubmed id: 40166387The study looks at how to help mental health peer workers feel better and recover by building good relationships. Social support helps, and being socially isolated doesn't, so learning to be understanding and confident in social situations can make relationships better. This helps improve support, reduce loneliness, and leads to feeling better and recovering.
Character Strengths as Coping Strategies for Daily Challenges: A Qualitative Study Among Adult Refugees.
Hendriks T; van Treeck J; Chaya R; de Jong JTVM; van Woerkom M pubmed id: 40166367This study looks at how refugees in the Netherlands use their personal strengths to handle tough times. The researchers found that strengths like patience, hope, and perseverance help them cope with stress. Refugees use different strengths at different times, and understanding this can help them do better in new places.
March 28th, 2025
Employees' experiences of personal and collective work-identity in the context of an organizational change.
Nordhall O; Hörvallius J; Nedelius M; Knez I pubmed id: 40151413The study looked at how workers felt about their job identity during changes at work. Interviews showed that workers felt proud and connected to the organization but also had mixed feelings about their identity and the changes. This shows how complicated their feelings are about the changes happening at their workplace.
March 27th, 2025
Construct-irrelevant item attributes: a framework to classifying items based on context and referent.
Widhiarso W; Steyer R; Perossa A pubmed id: 40144040The paper talks about how the way questions are written can affect answers on a test. It gives information on different types of question styles and gives advice on how to make better tests.
Developing a therapeutic app based on the emotional Stroop task for objective discovery of daily life issues for people with ADHD.
Schoenmakers S; Bos SH; Ijsselsteijn WA pubmed id: 40144039The study created an app to help figure out which problems to work on first in therapy for people with ADHD. By using special tasks, the app found that people with ADHD often have trouble with negative feelings and social issues. This helps therapists know which problems to focus on first.
Acquired language disorders beyond aphasia: foreign accent syndrome as a neurological, speech, and psychiatric disorder.
Longman RS; Schwartz FD pubmed id: 40144038This research paper looks at how people have understood "foreign accent syndrome," a condition where someone speaks with a foreign accent after brain damage or as part of mental health issues. It talks about the history of this syndrome, starting from the early 1900s, and how it has helped us learn more about how brain injuries affect the way people talk. The study also shows how ideas from the past still shape how we think about this condition today.
Assessing female call responses to syllable level details in song.
Prior NH; Fishbein AR; Garcia EM; Clough S; Elson MR; Ball GF; Dooling RJ pubmed id: 40144037Female zebra finches listen to tiny details in bird songs when choosing a mate. They make fewer calls if the song's sounds are played backward, and they can notice small changes in the song. This shows that little details in birds' songs are important for how they talk to each other.
Therapeutic communication laboratory: integrating mixed methods with digital tools and reflective professional practice.
Molinero F; Jonsson GK; Anguera MT; Hunyadi L; Szekrényes I pubmed id: 40144036This research paper is about creating a special place for studying how people talk in therapy. They are making new ways to watch therapy sessions to help both researchers and therapists learn and work better together. By doing this, they hope therapists can do a better job helping people.
Noble Humbug? Hard and soft laws on clinical placebo use.
Richard M; Ganz M; Hornstein LD; Stehlik B; Levy M; Blease CR; Annoni M; Elger BS; Gaab J pubmed id: 40144035Placebos are fake treatments used sometimes in medicine, but there are not many laws about how they should be given in different countries. This paper talks about the rules in places like France, Germany, and the United States, and shows that the laws about placebos are different everywhere. It suggests making clear rules so people understand when it's okay to use placebos.
Effect of postpartum depression, anxiety and social support on maternal self-efficacy: comparing undocumented migrant, documented migrant and Swiss-born mothers.
Sharapova A; Goguikian Ratcliff B pubmed id: 40144034This study looked at how feelings of sadness and worry after having a baby might make moms feel less confident in taking care of their babies. It found that moms who moved to a new country had more sadness and worry than moms who did not move, which might make them feel less sure about being good moms.