School Psychology Article Feed

May 24th, 2025

May 23rd, 2025

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: 40406615

The 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: 40406614

Leaving 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: 40406613

This 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.

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: 40400757

The 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.

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: 40400755

The 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.

The Illusory Health Beliefs Scale: validation using exploratory structural equation modeling and multidimensional Rasch analysis.

Denovan A; Dagnall N; Drinkwater KG pubmed id: 40400751

The 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.

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: 40400748

Playing 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: 40400747

Researchers 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: 40400746

The 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: 40400745

This 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.

May 21st, 2025

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: 40396146

This 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.

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: 40396142

The 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: 40395719

Students 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: 40395718

The 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

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: 40391111

The 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.

Who excels in online learning in Japan?

Tokiwa E pubmed id: 40391108

This 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.

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: 40386883

The 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.

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: 40386675

This 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.