School Psychology Article Feed
April 4th, 2025
Case Report: From disordered eating to an eating disorder-a case study of an orienteering athlete with anorexia nervosa and the shortcomings of the multidisciplinary approach.
Kovács RE; Boros S pubmed id: 40181891A 23-year-old athlete had troubles with eating that got worse over time, leading to an eating disorder called anorexia nervosa. She worked with doctors, dietitians, and psychologists to get better, but when she stopped seeing the psychologist, her health got worse again. This study shows how important it is to have a team of helpers and to keep an eye on health for athletes with eating problems.
Exploring the role of teacher empathy in student mental health outcomes: a comparative SEM approach to understanding the complexities of emotional support in educational settings.
Ampofo J; Bentum-Micah G; Xusheng Q; Sun B; Mensah Asumang R pubmed id: 40181890This study looks at how teacher understanding and kindness can help students feel better. It uses a special math method to compare results. With many students facing mental health issues, it's important to know how a caring teacher can make a difference.
Impact of the menstrual cycle and barriers to football and futsal performance in Portuguese players: a survey-based cross-sectional study.
Santos C; Lopes M; Brito J; Kryger KO; Wilke C; Travassos B pubmed id: 40181889This study looked at how the different parts of the menstrual cycle affect playing football and futsal for Portuguese women. It also tried to find what makes it hard for them to play better or participate in these sports.
Factors modulating perception and production of speech by AI tools: a test case of Amazon Alexa and Polly.
Song JY; Rojas C; Pycha A pubmed id: 40181888Researchers studied how two AI tools, Alexa and Polly, understand and speak words compared to humans. They found that Alexa did better with common words and slower speaking but didn't get used to a speaker over time like humans do. Polly's speech wasn't affected by word features like it is for humans.
Characterizing the functioning of the attentional networks in state and trait anxiety: the role of affective information.
Pacheco-Unguetti AP; Acosta A; Lupiáñez J pubmed id: 40181887This research looked at how feelings affect attention in people with high and low anxiety. It studied how emotions, like being alerted by something, might change how we pay attention.
April 3rd, 2025
Trait anger is related to the ability to recognize facial emotions-but only in men.
Montag A; Kersting A; Suslow T pubmed id: 40177056The study looked at how well people with different levels of anger could recognize emotions in faces. Men with more anger had a harder time recognizing fear and disgust on people's faces, but this was not the case for women. Women showed more anger than men, but their ability to recognize emotions was not affected by their anger level.
The impact of aesthetic education on university students' psychological wellbeing: exploring mediating and moderating effects.
Ye L; Li Y; Zhang N pubmed id: 40177055This study looks at how art education can help college students feel better mentally. It shows that art classes make students feel more independent, skilled, and connected to others. The study found that art classes are linked to better mental health and the way students feel about their needs being met can affect this.
Your fitness-sharing is a reminder for my poor body: how fitness posts exposure on social media harms female body esteem.
Yan X; Yan J; Tan C; Fu Y; Wang S pubmed id: 40177054Seeing fitness posts on social media can make girls feel worried about how their bodies look. But not much research has been done on how these posts affect how girls feel about their bodies overall.
Examining the mental health symptoms of neurodivergent individuals across demographic and identity factors: a quantitative analysis.
Kroll E; Lederman M; Kohlmeier J; Ballard J; Zant I; Fenkel C pubmed id: 40177053Some people have minds that work differently, called neurodivergence. This research found that these people often have other special parts of their identity, like race or gender, that make their experiences and healthcare needs different. But there's still a lot left to learn about how all these parts of a person's identity work together.
Masturbation parameters: their relation to sexual arousal in young people who engage in same-sex relationships.
Sánchez-Pérez GM; Granados R; Mangas P; Sierra JC pubmed id: 40177052The study looked at different aspects of masturbation, like how often people do it and what they think about it, in people who have same-sex relationships. They tested these things in a lab to learn more about sexual arousal.
The effect of stress mindset on psychological pain: the chain mediating roles of cognitive reappraisal and self-identity.
Qiang S; Wu J; Zheng D; Xu T; Hou Y; Wen J; Liu J pubmed id: 40177051The most important reason people think about suicide is psychological pain. But we don't really know what causes this pain in medical students.
The dual role of empathy in clinical trial decisions.
Chichua M; Filipponi C; Mazzoni D; Marinucci M; Masiero M; Pravettoni G pubmed id: 40177050The study looked at how empathy makes people want to help others, like by joining clinical trials. It explored how much people with different levels of empathy would decide to join the trial themselves or if they thought about someone else joining.
Cucumber or grapes?-Context effects in multimedia learning.
Seufert T; Magner U; von Randow J pubmed id: 40177049The multimedia principle says that we learn better with both words and pictures than with words alone. But, it might also matter what others around us are learning with, especially if their materials seem more exciting.
The specifics of applying systemic psychotherapy to team sports games.
Piepiora PA; Petre LM; Vveinhardt J pubmed id: 40177048Playing sports in teams can be hard, especially if some players have big egos. This study looks at how using a special kind of therapy, called systemic psychotherapy, can help teams work better together by treating the team as one group. It finds that this therapy helps teams, but how well it works depends on different things.
Influence of digital transformation on employee innovative behavior: roles of challenging appraisal, organizational culture support, and transformational leadership style.
Bindel Sibassaha JL; Pea-Assounga JBB; Bambi PDR pubmed id: 40177047The study looks at how digital change, leadership style, supportive workplace, and how challenges are seen can all help workers in Brazzaville's banks be more creative. It uses two theories to understand how these things work together to make banks more innovative during digital transformations.
Performing a task with a friend does not change semantic processes but preparation: a social N400 and CNV event-related potential study.
Sinha S; Chau-Morris A; Kostova M; Debruille JB pubmed id: 40177046Researchers studied how people process words when someone else is nearby. They found that having a friend around makes people more prepared but also more nervous and less sure of their answers.
Age and gender differences in Brazilian adolescents' vocational interests.
De Fruyt F; Crispim AC; Martins GH; Primi R; Ambiel RAM; Scheirlinckx J; John OP pubmed id: 40177045The study looked at Brazilian middle and high school students and found that boys were more interested in Realistic activities, while girls liked Social and Artistic activities more. Older kids were more interested in Enterprising activities, and this study showed some differences from other studies because it used a short test and was done in Brazil after the pandemic.
Paternal involvement and peer competence in young children: the mediating role of playfulness.
Liang C; Bi X pubmed id: 40177044The study looks at how dads being involved with their kids affects how well kids make friends in China. It also checks if kids' playfulness helps explain this link.
Assessment of the factor structure of the EPDS in Chinese perinatal women: a longitudinal study using multigroup confirmatory factor analysis.
Guan H; Sun B; Yang L; Zhang Y pubmed id: 40177042Perinatal depression can make it hard for new mothers to feel good and take care of their babies. This study looks at how well a tool called the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale works to measure depression in new moms in China at different times.
The relationship between proactive personality and migrant workers' perception of technical unemployment risk under the impact of artificial intelligence in China.
Xu G; Xue M pubmed id: 40177041This study looks at how a migrant worker's personality affects their worries about losing their job because of robots and AI. It also checks if learning about AI and feeling confident with AI can change how worried they are.
Vocabulary interventions for children with developmental language disorder: a systematic review.
Ansari R; Chiat S; Cartwright M; Herman R pubmed id: 40177040Children with Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) have trouble with vocabulary, affecting school and social life. This study looks at how different methods help these kids learn new words.
Decision-making and performance in the Iowa Gambling Task: recent ERP findings and clinical implications.
Latibeaudiere A; Butler S; Owens M pubmed id: 40177039The Iowa Gambling Task (IGT) is used to study how people make decisions. Some decks of cards in the task give good rewards and others give penalties. This study looks at how brain activity helps us understand decision-making and emotions, especially in people with depression.
Contextualizing marital dissatisfaction: examining profiles of discordant spouses across life domains.
Regan A; Walsh LC; Horton C; Rodriguez A; Kaufman VA pubmed id: 40177037Some married people aren't happy, and a study looked at why this happens. They found that some people in unhappy marriages can still feel happy with friends, family, and life in general, while others feel unhappy in all areas. This shows that unhappy marriages can be different for everyone.
The longitudinal relationship between loneliness and problematic social networking site use in college students: the mediating role of trait- and state-fear of missing out.
Wang Y; Sun Y; Li T pubmed id: 40177036This study looked at why Chinese college students might use social media too much. It focused on how feeling lonely and being scared of missing out could be part of the problem.
Multidimensional scale of meaningful work: construction and validation.
Batuchina A; Iždonaitė-Medžiūnienė I; Lecaj R pubmed id: 40177034The paper talks about how when people find their work meaningful, they feel happier and can handle tough times better. It introduces a new tool to measure how meaningful someone’s work is by looking at five different parts, which helps companies understand and improve their work environment.
Eye movements and user emotional experience: a study in interface design.
Sun N; Jiang Y pubmed id: 40177033The study looked at how people's eyes move when they use different computer interfaces and how this relates to their feelings. It found that design changes can affect how people feel, like making them happier or more excited, which also changes how their eyes move, like how long they look at something or how quickly they move their eyes. Designers can use this information to make interfaces that make users feel better.
Application of the end-of-life demands card game and mindfulness-based cancer recovery program for reducing negative emotion in patients with advanced lung cancer: a randomized controlled trial.
Luo X; Miao X; Ding N; Fu Z; Wang X; Li Y pubmed id: 40177032Lung cancer is the main cause of cancer deaths around the world and the most common cancer in China, creating big health problems. Talking about death is hard because it is not discussed often in China due to cultural beliefs.
Enhanced conceptual understanding through formative assessment: results of a randomized controlled intervention study in physics classes.
Lichtenberger A; Hofer SI; Stern E; Vaterlaus A pubmed id: 40176874The study looked at how a special kind of teaching called "formative assessment" helps students learn better in physics. Teachers who used this method after some training found their students understood and remembered concepts better and did just as well in math problems. This shows that a little training for teachers can really help students learn tough subjects.
Cross-cultural adaptation and validation of cognitive emotion regulation questionnaire: a systematic review.
Fekar Gharamaleki F; Fathipour-Azar Z pubmed id: 40176871The study talks about a tool called the Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (CERQ) that helps understand how well people handle their emotions. This tool has been changed into many languages. The research looks at how these different versions were made and how good they are.
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.