School Psychology Article Feed
May 24th, 2025
Design of generative AI-powered pedagogy for virtual reality environments in higher education.
Hemminki-Reijonen U; Hassan NMAM; Huotilainen M; Koivisto JM; Cowley BU pubmed id: 40410214This research talks about using new technology to help teachers and students learn better. They made computer characters, Tero and Madida, to help teachers teach and students understand more. These characters worked well, meeting most of the needs identified.
May 23rd, 2025
Altered microstate C and D dynamics in high social anxiety: a resting-state EEG study.
Zhang H; Peng B; Liu Y; Xi Y; Lei Y pubmed id: 40406619This study looks at how our brains work when people feel really nervous around other people. Scientists used a special test called EEG to check the brain waves of people with social anxiety. They are trying to find out how the brain changes in tiny time frames during these feelings.
The impact of learner background variables on academic burnout in online vs. face-to-face classes among students of Shiraz University of Medical Sciences having English courses.
Kashefian-Naeeini S; Zarifsanaiey N; Mehrabi M pubmed id: 40406618This study looked at how tired students felt from school work when learning online versus in person at Shiraz University of Medical Sciences. It also checked if things like age, grades, and type of degree changed how tired the students felt.
Association between wooden toy engagement and cognitive function among Chinese older adults: a cross-sectional study.
Wang H; Cheng Q; Mei P; Cui M; Wang Q; Li L pubmed id: 40406617This study looks at how playing with wooden toys might help older people's brains work better. As more older adults face problems with memory and thinking, the researchers want to see if these toys can make a difference.
Examining the degree to which paranormal belief and conspiracy endorsement influence meaning in life: sequential mediating effects of creativity and self-esteem.
Dagnall N; Denovan A; Drinkwater KG pubmed id: 40406615The study found that people who believe in paranormal things and conspiracy ideas, and have certain personality traits, often feel their life has more meaning. These beliefs might lead to more creativity and self-confidence, which help these people feel better about themselves. People with stronger beliefs searched less for meaning and felt more that their life was meaningful already.
Fallout: the psychosocial harms of negative military discharge experiences.
Grant C; Woodyatt L; Bowen H; Lane J pubmed id: 40406614Leaving the military can be really hard for veterans because they lose their sense of purpose and belonging. When the discharge process is negative, veterans feel betrayed and hurt, making it even tougher to adjust to civilian life. It's important to handle these situations carefully to help veterans feel supported and valued.
A scoping review of integrated arts therapies and neuroscience research.
Bokoch R; Hass-Cohen N; Espinoza A; O'Reilly T; Levi E pubmed id: 40406613This research paper talks about how different types of art, like painting, dancing, and music, can be used to help people feel better. The researchers looked at studies that use these arts to understand more about our brains, and they talked about what they found and what they think should be studied next.
Improving career readiness in middle school students: a systematic review of intervention approaches.
Wang D; Wang G pubmed id: 40406612This study looks at ways to help middle school students with their future job choices as careers change quickly. The researchers review different methods to guide and support these students.
Do regular exercise, gender, and age influence smartphone addiction? Analyzing screen time and smartphone deprivation symptoms.
Pirwani N; Somogyi A; Szabo A pubmed id: 40406611The study looks at whether regular exercise helps with smartphone addiction and using phones too much. It also checks if age and gender affect this problem. Exercise might be a way to help, but scientists are still trying to understand it better.
May 22nd, 2025
The neural underpinnings of repeated skill transfer in human cultural evolution.
Øhrn H; Sjursen EP; Specht K; Hugdahl K; Straffon LM; Bender A pubmed id: 40400757The study looked at how people get better at passing down skills like tying knots through different generations. They used brain imaging to see how the brain works when people learn and show that the part of the brain called the prefrontal cortex gets more active as people learn over time. The research suggests brain imaging can help us understand how we share and improve skills across generations.
What makes an individual inclusive of others? Development of the individual inclusiveness inventory.
Josten C; Lordan G pubmed id: 40400756This study looks at how being inclusive at work helps everyone do better. An inclusive person makes sure everyone is part of the group and appreciates different ideas and backgrounds. The researchers created a new way to measure how inclusive someone is.
Drawing the mind: assessing cognitive decline through self-figure drawings.
Goldner L; Pery A; Czamanski-Cohen J; Jaroenkajornkij AN; Ben-Bassat A; Avraham G; Binson B; Lev-Wiesel R pubmed id: 40400755The study looks at how drawing involves seeing, thinking about space, planning movements, and making decisions. It also explores if drawing can tell us something about memory problems and diseases like dementia.
Free psychology? Why psychological research is incompatible with the requirements of clockwork determinism.
Lau S; Baumeister RF pubmed id: 40400754This paper talks about how strict rules that try to explain everything exactly, like a clock, don't work well in psychology. In psychology, it's hard to measure everything perfectly, so these strict rules aren't very useful.
Comorbidity of depression and test anxiety among Vietnamese and Chinese undergraduates: cross-cultural insights from latent profile and network analyses.
Quach TPT; Zhou R pubmed id: 40400753Many Chinese students feel both test anxiety and depression, but in Vietnam, even though test anxiety is common, nobody has studied if it comes with depression.
Enhancing memory retrieval in generative agents through LLM-trained cross attention networks.
Hong C; He Q pubmed id: 40400752Scientists are working on making computers smart like people, but training them costs a lot. They need better ways for computers to remember things so each one can act differently.
The Illusory Health Beliefs Scale: validation using exploratory structural equation modeling and multidimensional Rasch analysis.
Denovan A; Dagnall N; Drinkwater KG pubmed id: 40400751The Illusory Health Beliefs Scale (IHBS) is a tool to check if people believe in certain health ideas that aren't proven by science. It looks at different beliefs like religious or superstitious ideas and how they relate to health. The study found that most of these beliefs link with other health ideas, except for skepticism, which needs better ways to measure.
Family life under strain: the impact of forced migration on refugee parenting in reception centers.
Drummond Johansen J; Varvin S; Sagbakken M pubmed id: 40400749Many refugees are facing hard times after leaving their homes, and this study looks at how living in special centers in Norway affects refugee parents. It also examines the challenges that parents face and how these places can impact how they take care of their children.
Contributors to caregiver burden, depression, and anxiety in the partners of professional American-style football players: a cross-sectional study.
Konstantinides N; Atkeson PS; DiGregorio H; Dairi I; Brown C; Noriega K; Baker J; Taylor V; Glass C; Kazis LE; Terrill R; Speizer FE; Zafonte RD; Taylor HA; Baggish AL; Weisskopf MG; Whittington AJ; Grashow R pubmed id: 40400748Playing American football might affect a player's health negatively, but it is not clear how this affects their family members' stress and feelings like sadness or worry. Families of football players might face special challenges, such as concerns about a brain condition called CTE.
Emotional factor matters in language learning? A meta-analysis of emotional intelligence on language achievement.
Peng Q; Shuhong L pubmed id: 40400747Researchers looked at how emotional intelligence, or EI, affects how well people learn languages. They found that EI has a small positive effect on how people feel about learning a language and a bigger effect on how well they actually learn it. The study suggests that having a supportive and emotional learning environment is important for language education.
Analysing gender disparities in youth sports coaching: an international survey (FEMCoach project).
Dias V; Calleja-Gonzalez J; López-Ros V; Font-Lladó R; Arede J; Cunha L; Douka S; Rosa B; Pinto G; Leite N pubmed id: 40400746The research paper talks about how gender inequality affects sports, especially for women coaches. It focuses on a project called FEMCoach that looks into helping women coaches get better training and support. The goal is to make coaching programs that treat everyone fairly in youth sports.
Gray hair influences perceived age and social perceptions.
Nutt KM; Thorstenson CA; Yorzinski JL pubmed id: 40400745This study found that people with gray hair are seen as older and less attractive. Men think gray-haired faces are less trustworthy, but gray hair doesn't change opinions about social status or aggression.
Impact factors of Arctic research stations on the mental health of team members.
Li H; Zou G pubmed id: 40400743People working in Arctic research stations face challenges that affect their mental health. The station environment design can help, but studies have not fully explored how team members feel about it all together.
Agentive linguistic framing affects responsibility assignments toward AIs and their creators.
Petersen D; Almor A pubmed id: 40400741The study looked at how people think about AI's responsibility when using different words to describe it. When AI was talked about like a person, people with less experience with AI thought it was more responsible for problems. People with more experience didn't think this as much.
Identification of heavy work investment antecedents: a research on digital leadership.
Turan-Torun B; Oktaysoy O; Kobanoglu MS; Topcuoglu E; Yenikaya MA; Topcuoglu V; Uygungil-Erdogan S pubmed id: 40400739Digital leaders help employees do better at their jobs and feel happier with their work and careers. The study also looks at how much time and energy employees give to their work and how leaders can guide them.
May 21st, 2025
Gender differences in artificial intelligence: the role of artificial intelligence anxiety.
Russo C; Romano L; Clemente D; Iacovone L; Gladwin TE; Panno A pubmed id: 40396147This study looks at how boys and girls might have different experiences when using AI, like computers and robots. It checks if feeling nervous about AI affects how much they like using it, depending on if they're a boy or a girl.
The influence of emotional stimuli on response inhibition: a systematic review in non-clinical adults.
Rincón-Pérez I; Sánchez-Carmona AJ; Levy D; López-Martín S; Hinojosa JA; Albert J pubmed id: 40396146This paper looks at how emotions affect people's ability to stop themselves from doing something, like when playing a game. It says that happy things might make it harder to stop, but it's not sure about exciting things. The paper suggests that different feelings might change how well people stop and start doing tasks, and that more research is needed to understand this better.
Adolescents' agency toward climate change: development and validation of scales for individual, proxy, and collective modes.
Cunha J; Martins J; Núñez JC; Vallejo G; Rosário P pubmed id: 40396145This research talks about how people, especially kids, can help with climate change. It describes special tests made to see how young people want to help. The tests have been checked to make sure they work well.
The structural relationship between achievement goal orientation and perceived performance among swimmers: a chain multiple mediation model.
Zhu Y; Zhang W; Liu H; Song H pubmed id: 40396144The research paper talks about how athletes' goals can affect how well they think they are doing. But there aren't many studies that look closely at this connection using detailed methods.
The development and face validity of the music therapy sensory instrument for cognition, consciousness, and awareness (MuSICCA).
Pool JW; Magee WL; Siegert RJ; Wood CL pubmed id: 40396143This study looked at a new way to help kids with severe brain injuries who have trouble being aware of things. The tool uses music to see how conscious they are, and lots of people thought it was useful and helpful.
Exploring shared and unique benefits of passive and active prenatal intervention protocols on maternal wellbeing and neonatal outcomes: a combined quali-quantitative approach.
Arioli M; Consales A; Savoldi M; Mastroianni I; Gianni ML; Colombo L; Giovannini N; Sacchi C; Macchi Cassia V pubmed id: 40396142The study looks at how two new treatments for mothers during the last part of pregnancy affect them and their babies. The researchers wanted to see the different ways these treatments help or change things at the time of birth.
Longitudinal Patterns of Special Education/Inclusive Classroom Placement of Children with Conduct Problems: Correlates and Risk of School Dropout.
Garon-Carrier G; Martin-Storey A; Cloutier G; Fitzpatrick C; Lapalme M; Déry M pubmed id: 40395719Students with behavior problems often need special help in school and might drop out more. This study looked at how staying in special classrooms affects dropping out. Helping these students do better in school and keeping them in regular classes could help them stay in school.
Trauma Symptomology During COVID-19 Among Youth with a Learning, Cognitive or Psychological Disorder Diagnosis: Exploring Moderation by Social Support.
Rempel K; Schwartz KD; Exner-Cortens D pubmed id: 40395718The study looked at kids with mental health issues during the COVID-19 pandemic to see if they had more stress and if having support from family or friends helped. It found that kids with existing mental health problems did feel more stressed, but support from family or friends didn't make a difference. These kids need help from school psychologists to stay well.
May 20th, 2025
Integrating mind-body processes and motivational interviewing in health coaching: enhancing support for health behavior change.
Wolever RQ; Weinand R pubmed id: 40391116The paper talks about using Health and Wellness Coaching (HWC) to help people stay healthy by using mind-body science. It shows how things like mindfulness and making good goals help people change their habits. The paper also shares a program from Vanderbilt that helps coaches learn to support others to stay healthy.
Outdoor thermal comfort and cognition impact pro-environmental behaviors: evidence from a field experiment in the tropics.
Borzino N; Chng S; Schubert R pubmed id: 40391115The study looks at how climate change and heat in cities can be harmful, especially in hot places like Singapore. It explores how people's thinking and actions about helping the environment can be influenced by these heat conditions.
Foreign language enjoyment in language learning from a positive psychology perspective: a scoping review.
Wu W; Kabilan MK pubmed id: 40391114This paper looks at how learning a new language is emotional and focuses on the fun part, called foreign language enjoyment (FLE). It reviews 36 studies to see how this fun feeling helps people learn better and feel good, and gives ideas for future studies.
A hope intervention for adolescents: a randomized controlled trial delivered by paraprofessionals.
Scioli A; MacPherson N; Murphy R; Gooding T; Love M; Lyons KD; Adachi-Mejia AM pubmed id: 40391113A workshop was made to help teenagers feel more hopeful. It's for leaders or regular people to run and focuses on feeling connected, safe, skillful, and spiritual.
The relationship between training and competition load characteristics of female boxers-a case study based on collegiate boxers.
Xu Q; Wang Z; Liu L; Mao R; Xi C; Shi G pubmed id: 40391112This study looks at how hard female college boxers train and compete, especially when they are on their period or not. It also checks which ways of keeping track of training are best, helping coaches and boxers manage their workouts better.
Examining cognition in action: laboratory-based attentional control tasks predict performance on combat-relevant tasks in an augmented reality training environment.
Zanesco AP; Denkova E; Barry J; Alessio C; Jha AP pubmed id: 40391111The study looks at how differences in thinking skills can impact how well someone does in the military. By testing these skills in a lab and comparing them to tasks done in a military training setting that uses augmented reality, researchers hope to find useful ways to train and prepare soldiers better.
Evaluating pain outcomes in Chinese ophthalmology patients using the APS-POQ-R-C: a Rasch analysis.
Huang M; Chen Z pubmed id: 40391110This study tested how well a Chinese version of a pain questionnaire works for people who had eye surgery. The goal was to make sure it gives accurate information about their pain.
Workplace bullying and its relationship with spiritual climate: a latent profile analysis.
Huang R; Ran X; Tang C; Wei Y pubmed id: 40391109The study looks at how bullying happens among nurses in training and what different types there are. It also examines how the spirit or mood at work affects this bullying. This helps to understand better and fix the problems nurses face at work.
Who excels in online learning in Japan?
Tokiwa E pubmed id: 40391108This study looks at how personality traits affect learning in online classes. It is important to know how different personalities learn, especially in Japan where online education is growing.
Effectiveness of preventive interventions on adolescents' depression and suicidal tendency: a systematic review of randomized controlled trials.
Ghazal L; Cui N; Fenglin C; Froelicher ES; Shimbrer MS pubmed id: 40391107The study looked at how well programs work to help stop depression and thoughts of suicide in young people aged 11 to 19.
Navigating uncertainty: taking methodological cues from relatives and care professionals for researching the perspectives of people with profound intellectual and multiple disabilities.
Bredewold F; van der Weele S pubmed id: 40390318The research looks at people with serious intellectual and multiple disabilities, which can be complicated and unsure. Regular research methods might miss these complexities because they focus too much on logic and being objective.
What is it like to be a twin of a person with profound intellectual and multiple disabilities?
Niedbalski J pubmed id: 40390315This study looked at how happy twin brothers and sisters feel when they have a sibling with serious disabilities living in Poland.
Positive behaviour support in Irish residential services: Perspectives of frontline staff, management and clinicians on implementation challenges.
Brady L; Padden C; McGill P pubmed id: 40390312The study looked at what staff think about when working with adults who have intellectual disabilities and show challenging behaviors. It aimed to understand how these staff use rules and the problems they face when helping these adults.
May 19th, 2025
Data Missingness and Equity Implications in the Nation's Largest Student Fitness Surveillance System: The New York City School Based Physical Fitness Testing Programs, 2006-2020.
Thompson HR; Ricks-Oddie JL; Schneider M; Day S; Argenio K; Konty K; Radom-Aizik S; Guo Y; Cooper DM pubmed id: 40386883The study talks about how missing data can make it hard to understand and use information correctly. It looks closely at missing data in a long-running system that checks on kids' fitness in the US from 2006 to 2020.
Belonging through values: ethical leadership, creativity, and psychological safety with ethical climate as a moderator.
Qasim M; Laghari AA pubmed id: 40386677The research looks at how well employees feel they belong in organizations with strong ethics. It studies how leaders who act ethically can boost creativity, with belonging and feeling safe playing important roles. The study also checks how the workplace environment affects this.
Enhancing psychological health and cognitive inhibition in college students: insights from mindfulness training and high-intensity interval training.
Bao Y; Sun J; Zhang X pubmed id: 40386676This study looked at how mindfulness training and high-intensity exercise might help college students feel better and improve their thinking skills.
Is scenery mandatory for restoration? Attention restoration without visual nature elements.
Sakimura H; Sugawara T; Watatsu K; Watanabe R; Tanaka K; Wakana A; Konuma K; Niimi Y; Kurahashi T; Sakai H; Kohda K; Muramoto N pubmed id: 40386675This study looks at how things in nature that we can't see might help us pay better attention. Other research usually focuses on what we can see, but this one checks if not seeing anything can also help us focus better.
Impact of mental fatigue on tennis players' attention and groundstroke performance.
Öztürker C; Şahan A; Erman KA pubmed id: 40386674This study looked at how being mentally tired affects tennis players' focus and their ability to hit accurate shots.