Kathi Diel, Wilhelm Hofmann, Sonja Grelle, Lea Boecker, Malte Friese
{"title":"Prepare to Compare: Effects of an Intervention Involving Upward and Downward Social Comparisons on Goal Pursuit in Daily Life.","authors":"Kathi Diel, Wilhelm Hofmann, Sonja Grelle, Lea Boecker, Malte Friese","doi":"10.1177/01461672231219378","DOIUrl":"10.1177/01461672231219378","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In a preregistered ecological momentary intervention study, we alternately instructed participants to adopt an upward and downward comparison focus. In all, 349 participants reported 8,137 social comparison situations across 6 days and three comparison conditions (baseline, upward, downward). For each comparison, participants reported social comparison direction, motivation, effort intentions, and emotions in five daily reports and one daily end-of-day summary. As predicted, an upward comparison focus resulted in more self-improvement motivation (pushing) and more negative emotions, whereas days with a downward comparison focus resulted in decreased motivation (coasting) but more positive emotions (vs. baseline). However, at the end of the day, people experienced lower goal approach on upward but higher goal approach on downward comparison days. Hence, engaging in strategic upward comparison was motivating in the short term but resulted in surprisingly opposite effects at the end of the day. We offer possible explanations from cognitive and motivational perspectives.</p>","PeriodicalId":19834,"journal":{"name":"Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin","volume":" ","pages":"1523-1537"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139576384","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Personality Trait Change Across a Major Global Stressor.","authors":"Kalista M Kyle, Brett Q Ford, Emily C Willroth","doi":"10.1177/01461672241228624","DOIUrl":"10.1177/01461672241228624","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The current research examined three related questions in a 21-month longitudinal study of a diverse sample of U.S. participants (<i>N</i> = 504): (a) How did Big Five traits change during the COVID-19 pandemic? (b) What factors were associated with individual differences in trait change? and (c) How was Big Five trait change associated with downstream well-being, mental health, and physical health? On average, across the 21-month study period, conscientiousness increased slightly, and extraversion decreased slightly. Individual trajectories varied around these average trajectories, and although few factors predicted these individual differences, greater increases in conscientiousness, extraversion, and agreeableness, and greater decreases in neuroticism were associated better well-being and fewer mental and physical health symptoms. The present research provides evidence that traits can change in the context of a major global stressor and that socially desirable patterns of trait change are associated with better health.</p>","PeriodicalId":19834,"journal":{"name":"Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin","volume":" ","pages":"1716-1730"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139932295","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Personality and Well-Being Across and Within Relationship Status.","authors":"Elaine Hoan, Geoff MacDonald","doi":"10.1177/01461672231225571","DOIUrl":"10.1177/01461672231225571","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Trends of increasing singlehood call for understanding of well-being correlates across and within relationship status. While personality is a major predictor of well-being, descriptive trait profiles of singles have not been developed. In the present research (<i>N</i> = 1,811; 53% men; <i>M</i><sub>age</sub> = 29), single and partnered individuals completed measures of personality and well-being, including life, relationship status, and sexual satisfaction. Results revealed effects whereby single individuals were lower in extraversion and conscientiousness but higher in neuroticism. Additional facet analyses showed that singles were lower across all extraversion facets, but specifically lower in productiveness (conscientiousness facet) and higher in depression (neuroticism facet). Largely, personality was associated with well-being similarly for single and partnered people. Furthermore, relationship status accounted for variance in well-being above and beyond personality traits. Our results suggest individual differences in personality could play an important role in understanding well-being's link with relationship status.</p>","PeriodicalId":19834,"journal":{"name":"Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin","volume":" ","pages":"1648-1663"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12276397/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139698071","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AssessmentPub Date : 2025-09-01Epub Date: 2024-09-09DOI: 10.1177/10731911241275327
Anna Talkkari, Tom H Rosenström
{"title":"Non-Gaussian Liability Distribution for Depression in the General Population.","authors":"Anna Talkkari, Tom H Rosenström","doi":"10.1177/10731911241275327","DOIUrl":"10.1177/10731911241275327","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Unlike depression sum scores, the underlying risk for depression is typically assumed to be normally distributed across the general population. To assess the true empirical shape of depression risk, we created a continuous-valued estimate of the latent depression density, using the Davidian-Curve Item Response Theory (DC-IRT) and the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) cohorts from 2005 to 2018 (<i>n</i> = 36,244 on the Nine-item Patient Health Questionnaire; PHQ-9). We conducted simulations to investigate the performance of DC-IRT for large samples and realistic items. The method can recover complex latent-risk distributions even when they are not evident from sum scores. However, estimation accuracy for different sample sizes depends on the method of model selection. In addition to full-data analysis, random samples of a few thousand observations were drawn for analysis. The latent shape of depression was left-skewed and bimodal in both investigations, indicating that the latent-normality assumption does not hold for depression.</p>","PeriodicalId":8577,"journal":{"name":"Assessment","volume":" ","pages":"978-991"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2025-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142153074","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Paul E Teas, Brittany E Hanson, Ana Leal, Lindsay M Novak, Linda J Skitka
{"title":"Values in Context: The (Dis)connections Between Moral Foundations and Moral Conviction.","authors":"Paul E Teas, Brittany E Hanson, Ana Leal, Lindsay M Novak, Linda J Skitka","doi":"10.1177/01461672231224992","DOIUrl":"10.1177/01461672231224992","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Moral foundations theory (MFT) argues that liberals and conservatives form different moral positions because liberals emphasize the values of harm and fairness, whereas conservatives emphasize the values of group loyalty, authority, and purity. In five studies (total <i>N</i> = 3,327), we investigated whether political orientation moderated the relationship between the perceived relevance of each moral foundation and moral conviction (i.e., the extent to which one perceives their attitude as based on morality) across four issues. Political differences in this relationship emerged but were inconsistent across issues and did not always align with the predictions of MFT or several other theoretical explanations. Our findings together with previous research indicate that MFT may do a better job predicting attitude position than it does predicting whether people perceive that their attitudes are moral convictions, and that some foundations may reflect conventional rather than moral values (e.g., authority).</p>","PeriodicalId":19834,"journal":{"name":"Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin","volume":" ","pages":"1587-1605"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139698074","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Financial Mindfulness: A Scale.","authors":"Emily N Garbinsky, Simon J Blanchard, Lena Kim","doi":"10.1177/01461672241265995","DOIUrl":"10.1177/01461672241265995","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The concept of mindfulness has enjoyed much resonance among researchers. Despite this past work, we argue there is a need for a domain-specific conceptualization and measure of <i>financial</i> mindfulness (FM). We first define FM as \"the tendency to be highly aware of one's current objective financial state while possessing an acceptance of that state,\" and, second, develop and validate an eight-item scale to measure individual differences in FM. This article has nine studies, including a field survey administered by a financial services provider to examine actual behavior. Importantly, the FM-Scale is associated with financial behaviors (i.e., sunk cost bias) above and beyond related scales (i.e., money management stress, self-control, and general mindfulness). To the best of our knowledge, our work is the first to provide a succinct way to measure FM that incorporates elements of both awareness and acceptance, highlighting the role of financial acceptance specifically.</p>","PeriodicalId":19834,"journal":{"name":"Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin","volume":" ","pages":"1793-1809"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141793013","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"How inflexible is the attentional bias toward recently selected locations?","authors":"Daniel Toledano, Dominique Lamy","doi":"10.1037/xlm0001452","DOIUrl":"10.1037/xlm0001452","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Attention is strongly biased toward the location where a previous target was recently found. This priming-of-location (PoL) effect is taken to indicate that selecting an object automatically and proactively enhances the attentional priority at its location. This account predicts that PoL should be unaffected by changes in task context. Here, we tested this prediction. In Experiments 1 and 2, we manipulated task context by interleaving <i>search</i> trials (2/3) where participants searched for a shape target, <i>search-probe</i> trials where they reported letters briefly superimposed on the search display after a short delay, and <i>probe</i> trials where only the to-be-reported letters appeared. We measured PoL on probe reports when the task context repeated (search → search-probe sequences) and when it changed (search → probe sequences). We found PoL to be insensitive to task changes, indicating that attention is proactively guided to previously selected locations by default, even in variable task environments. We then examined whether expectations about the upcoming task modulate PoL by inverting the task probabilities (2/3 probe trials and 1/3 search trials) in Experiment 3 and by informing participants with 100% validity as to what their next task would be, in Experiment 4. We found PoL to decline sharply as the expectation of a task change increased. We conclude that PoL is proactive but flexible. We discuss two possible mechanisms to explain these findings: proactive attenuation and proactive retrieval, both of which entail that priorities from previous selections are reduced as a by-product of participants' reconfiguring their task set. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":50194,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Experimental Psychology-Learning Memory and Cognition","volume":" ","pages":"1363-1375"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143415512","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Need Support and Need Thwarting: A Meta-Analysis of Autonomy, Competence, and Relatedness Supportive and Thwarting Behaviors in Student Populations.","authors":"Joshua L Howard, Gavin R Slemp, Xiao Wang","doi":"10.1177/01461672231225364","DOIUrl":"10.1177/01461672231225364","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In this meta-analysis, we review the nomological networks of six need-supportive and need-thwarting categories, as defined by self-determination theory (SDT), and as they apply to students in educational contexts. We conducted a synthesis of 8693 correlations from 637 samples (<i>N</i> = 388,912). A total of 72 covariates were examined, resulting in 183 meta-analytic effects reported. Results indicate that teachers and parents who experience psychological need satisfaction and well-being are seen as more supportive. Supportive teacher behaviors correlated positively with a range of desired student outcomes, including performance, engagement, and well-being. Thwarting behaviors tended to display the opposite pattern. Our results are consistent with the theoretical expectations of SDT, yet questions remain concerning the incremental validity of these constructs. We highlight the need for further research on (a) factors that cause teachers to provide support and (b) the specific behaviors within each category to distinguish these categories and increase practical utility.</p>","PeriodicalId":19834,"journal":{"name":"Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin","volume":" ","pages":"1552-1573"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12276404/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139642666","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Separate storage mechanisms of absolute depth and relative depth in working memory: Encoding, maintenance, consolidation, and attention engagements.","authors":"Kaiyue Wang, Wenting Lin, Xiaoyu Wang, Jiehui Qian","doi":"10.1037/xlm0001444","DOIUrl":"10.1037/xlm0001444","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Most research on visual working memory (WM) focuses on 2D objects and spatial locations; however, the storage mechanism of depth information-another important dimension in a 3D environment-remains largely unknown. The present study conducted seven experiments to systematically investigate how absolute depth (metric distance) and relative depth (ordinal relations among depth planes) are encoded, maintained, and consolidated in WM. In Experiments 1a and 1b, we found that memory accuracy for relative depth was higher than that for absolute depth, and verbal WM seemed to be automatically involved in encoding relative depth in the form of numerals even though memory stimuli were presented visually, and verbal suppression was applied. Experiments 2a and 2b showed memory for fine absolute depth information gradually declined over time, while memory for coarse depth information and relative depth showed no temporal decay. By manipulating the stimuli-mask onset latency, Experiment 3a revealed that memory for absolute depth remained to be fragile across retention, while Experiment 3b showed that relative depth information could be consolidated into robust memory. By inserting an additional visual search task into the memory task, Experiment 4 showed that attention was required for the maintenance of absolute depth information, while relative depth memory involved minimal attention engagement. These findings indicate separate storage mechanisms for the two types of depth information: Absolute depth, especially fine information, is poorly maintained in a fragile visual store, whereas relative depth, which is encoded coarsely, involves both a robust verbal store and a visual store. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":50194,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Experimental Psychology-Learning Memory and Cognition","volume":" ","pages":"1392-1411"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143416017","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Michèle Schmitter, Mikael Rubin, Jasper A J Smits, Sofie E Reijnen, Elianne D de Ruiter-Blijdorp, Miriam M A van den Berg, Revi de Jong-Dinar, Jan Spijker, Janna N Vrijsen
{"title":"Exercise prior to cognitive behavior therapy sessions for depression: a feasibility pilot study.","authors":"Michèle Schmitter, Mikael Rubin, Jasper A J Smits, Sofie E Reijnen, Elianne D de Ruiter-Blijdorp, Miriam M A van den Berg, Revi de Jong-Dinar, Jan Spijker, Janna N Vrijsen","doi":"10.1080/16506073.2024.2449088","DOIUrl":"10.1080/16506073.2024.2449088","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Exercise directly improves mood and cognition. Providing exercise immediately before cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) sessions may therefore enhance the clinical responsiveness to CBT. The present pilot study examined the feasibility and direction of effect of exercise+CBT versus CBT in depressed outpatients using a stepped wedged design. Thirty-three patients received either group-based CBT (12-16 weeks) or group-based exercise+CBT within specialized mental healthcare settings. Weekly therapist-supervised exercise sessions (45 min, moderate intensity, running/indoor cycling) were provided directly before the CBT sessions, with encouragement for home-exercise. Feasibility was assessed through recruitment, retention, and safety, alongside treatment adherence and treatment effects on clinically relevant outcomes. Recruitment yielded 37% of eligible patients with similar retention rates across conditions. No adverse events were reported. The exercise+CBT condition attended 63% of supervised exercise sessions (72% at moderate/vigorous intensity) and fewer CBT sessions (42%) compared to the CBT condition (54%). The conditions showed similar improvements in depressive symptoms, rumination, and CBT skills over time. Our study shows in a specialized mental health care routine practice population that providing exercise before CBT sessions is feasible, warranting a future randomized controlled trial.</p>","PeriodicalId":10535,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Behaviour Therapy","volume":" ","pages":"613-625"},"PeriodicalIF":4.3,"publicationDate":"2025-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142982983","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}