AssessmentPub Date : 2025-10-01Epub Date: 2024-11-23DOI: 10.1177/10731911241289249
Lindsay N Gabel, Thomas M Olino, Brandon L Goldstein, Daniel N Klein, Kasey Stanton, Elizabeth P Hayden
{"title":"Latent Structure and Item Functioning of Self-Referent Encoding Task Word Stimuli in Preadolescent Youth.","authors":"Lindsay N Gabel, Thomas M Olino, Brandon L Goldstein, Daniel N Klein, Kasey Stanton, Elizabeth P Hayden","doi":"10.1177/10731911241289249","DOIUrl":"10.1177/10731911241289249","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The Self-Referent Encoding Task (SRET) can be used to measure self-concept via endorsement of trait words, a robust metric associated with depression severity. Our study is the first to investigate the structural validity and item functioning of SRET endorsement scores using confirmatory factor analysis and item response theory. Community-dwelling preadolescent youth (<i>N</i> = 508; <i>M</i><sub>age</sub> = 12.39 years, <i>SD</i><sub>age</sub> = .72) were shown a list of positive and negative trait adjectives and made binary ratings of whether words were self-descriptive. The SRET exhibited a two-factor structure, comprising positive and negative factors. Positive items were endorsed by most children and best estimated information about positive self-concepts below average levels of positivity. Conversely, negative items were unendorsed by most children and best estimated information about negative self-concepts above average levels of negativity. We identify standardized, psychometrically sound, and developmentally sensitive SRET items for assessing youth self-concept and its associations with depression risk.</p>","PeriodicalId":8577,"journal":{"name":"Assessment","volume":" ","pages":"1103-1119"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12397560/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142695241","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":"Late positive potentials elicited by negative self-referential processing predict increases in social anxiety, but not depressive, symptoms from age 11 to age 12.","authors":"Pan Liu, Jaron X Y Tan","doi":"10.1017/S0954579424001548","DOIUrl":"10.1017/S0954579424001548","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Social anxiety and depression exacerbate in early adolescence. Maladaptive self-referential processing confers risk for both conditions and can be assessed by the Self-Referent Encoding Task (SRET). Our cross-sectional findings indicated that the SRET-elicited anterior late positive potential (LPP) was uniquely associated with social anxiety symptoms, whereas behavioral SRET scores were uniquely associated with depressive symptoms. Expanding this work, this study investigated whether the SRET-generated behavioral and LPP indices differentially predicted changes of social anxiety or depressive symptoms over time. At baseline, 115 community-dwelling youths (66 girls; Mean age/SD = 11.00/1.16 years) completed an SRET with EEG. Youths reported social anxiety and depressive symptoms at baseline and ∼six and ∼ 12 months later, based on which the intercept and slope of symptoms were estimated as a function of time. A larger anterior LPP in the negative SRET condition uniquely predicted a larger slope (faster increase) of social anxiety (but not depressive) symptoms. Greater positive behavioral SRET scores marginally predicted a smaller slope (slower increase) of depressive (but not social anxiety) symptoms. We provided novel evidence concerning the differential, prospective associations between self-referential processing and changes of social anxiety and depressive symptoms in early adolescence.</p>","PeriodicalId":11265,"journal":{"name":"Development and Psychopathology","volume":" ","pages":"1985-1995"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2025-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142977931","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}
S E Paul, N M Elsayed, S M C Colbert, R Bogdan, A S Hatoum, D M Barch
{"title":"Family income and polygenic scores are independently but not interactively associated with cognitive performance among youth genetically similar to European reference populations.","authors":"S E Paul, N M Elsayed, S M C Colbert, R Bogdan, A S Hatoum, D M Barch","doi":"10.1017/S0954579424001573","DOIUrl":"10.1017/S0954579424001573","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Cognitive abilities are heritable and influenced by socioeconomic status (SES). It is critical to understand the association between SES and cognition beyond genetic propensity to inform potential benefits of SES-based interventions and to determine if such associations vary across (i) cognitive domains, (ii) facets of SES, and/or (iii) genetic propensity for different aspects of cognition. We examined the contributions of neighborhood socioeconomic advantage, family income, and polygenic scores (PGS) for domains of cognition (i.e., general cognitive ability, executive function, learning and memory, fluid reasoning) in a sample of children (ages 9-10; <i>n</i> = 5549) most genetically similar to reference populations from Europe. With some variability across cognitive outcomes, family income and PGS were independently significantly associated with cognitive performance. Within-sibling analyses revealed that cognitive PGS associations were predominantly driven by between-family effects suggestive of non-direct genetic mechanisms. These findings provide evidence that SES and genetic propensity to cognition have unique associations with cognitive performance in middle childhood. These results underscore the importance of environmental factors and genetic influences in the development of cognitive abilities and caution against overinterpreting associations with PGS of cognitive and educational outcomes as predominantly direct genetic effects.</p>","PeriodicalId":11265,"journal":{"name":"Development and Psychopathology","volume":" ","pages":"2011-2025"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2025-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12186736/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142575587","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}
Camille Bordeau, Florian Scalvini, Cyrille Migniot, Julien Dubois, Maxime Ambard
{"title":"Localization abilities with a visual-to-auditory substitution device are modulated by the spatial arrangement of the scene.","authors":"Camille Bordeau, Florian Scalvini, Cyrille Migniot, Julien Dubois, Maxime Ambard","doi":"10.3758/s13414-025-03065-y","DOIUrl":"10.3758/s13414-025-03065-y","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Visual-to-auditory substitution devices convert visual images into soundscapes. They are intended for use by blind people in everyday situations with various obstacles that need to be localized simultaneously, as well as irrelevant objects that must be ignored. It is therefore important to establish the extent to which substitution devices make it possible to localize obstacles in complex scenes. In this study, we used a substitution device that combines spatial acoustic cues and pitch modulation to convey spatial information. Nineteen blindfolded sighted participants had to point at a virtual target that was displayed alone or among distractors to evaluate their ability to perform a localization task in minimalist and complex virtual scenes. The spatial configuration of the scene was manipulated by varying the number of distractors and their spatial arrangement relative to the target. While elevation localization abilities were not impaired by the presence of distractors, the ability to localize the azimuth of the target was modulated when a large number of distractors were displayed at the same elevation as the target. The elevation localization performance tends to confirm that pitch modulation is effective to convey elevation information with the device in various spatial configurations. Conversely, the impairment to azimuth localization seems to result from segregation difficulties that arise when the spatial configuration of the objects does not allow pitch segregation. This must be considered in the design of substitution devices in order to help blind people correctly evaluate the risks posed by different situations.</p>","PeriodicalId":55433,"journal":{"name":"Attention Perception & Psychophysics","volume":" ","pages":"2184-2206"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144040968","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"How prevalence expectations and feedback impact decision-making in person searches.","authors":"Chenxin Yu, Kara N Moore, Dara U Zwemer","doi":"10.3758/s13414-025-03107-5","DOIUrl":"10.3758/s13414-025-03107-5","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Searching for missing or wanted persons is a challenging task that requires sustained attention and active scanning for a difficult-to-recognize stimulus (i.e., an unfamiliar face). Given the naturally low prevalence of missing or wanted persons, people may have low expectations of encountering them in their midst. Understanding how their expectations, combined with feedback and experience, influence search performance is critical for improving real-world search efforts. We manipulated prevalence expectations (40% vs. 2%) and trial-level performance feedback (present vs. absent) in a visual search task for unfamiliar target faces. Critically, the target persons never appeared during the task. We examined how performance changed over time. Among participants who did not receive feedback, those with high-prevalence expectations made more false alarms and terminated their searches earlier than those with low-prevalence expectations. In contrast, participants who received feedback were not affected by prevalence expectations. While prevalence expectations had limited impact on search behavior, feedback enhanced participants' ability to align their expectations with the true prevalence rate more effectively.</p>","PeriodicalId":55433,"journal":{"name":"Attention Perception & Psychophysics","volume":" ","pages":"2146-2164"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144310870","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Aleksei U Iakovlev, Vladislav A Khvostov, Árni Gunnar Ásgeirsson, Igor S Utochkin, Árni Kristjánsson
{"title":"Amplification from saliency affects explicit but not implicit ensemble representations.","authors":"Aleksei U Iakovlev, Vladislav A Khvostov, Árni Gunnar Ásgeirsson, Igor S Utochkin, Árni Kristjánsson","doi":"10.3758/s13414-025-03121-7","DOIUrl":"10.3758/s13414-025-03121-7","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The visual system can encode multiple objects in the form of ensemble representations. Such representations can be accessed with either explicit or implicit reports, but depending on the type of report, the observed properties of the ensemble representation can differ in detail. Previous studies have suggested that the saliency of individual items biases the perceived mean of ensembles (the so-called amplification effect). It is unclear, however, whether saliency affects implicit representations of the whole feature distribution (beyond mean and variance). Our observers were presented with sets of lines varying in orientation and size where size was a task-irrelevant salient feature. To estimate explicit representations, observers adjusted the mean orientation. To access the implicit representation of the feature distribution, we used a visual search task (Feature Distribution Learning) for an oddly oriented line among heterogeneous distractors and measured the search times. The results revealed a strong saliency-induced bias in the explicit report task, with mean orientation estimates biased toward the more salient items. However, no such amplification effect was observed for the implicit report. Our results support the hypothesis that distinct mechanisms may underlie the implicit and explicit ensemble representations.</p>","PeriodicalId":55433,"journal":{"name":"Attention Perception & Psychophysics","volume":" ","pages":"2059-2068"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144610410","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Volitional Change in Pathological Traits: Can People Change Their Maladaptive Traits?","authors":"Sierra M Rufino, Nathan W Hudson, Julia L Briskin","doi":"10.1177/01461672241235737","DOIUrl":"10.1177/01461672241235737","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Research suggests people want to change their normative personality traits-and they can volitionally do so. However, studies have not yet addressed volitional change in pathological personality. Consequently, the current study examined (a) people's desires to change pathological traits, (b) whether these change goals predict subsequent trait change, (c) whether this withstands controlling normative traits, and (d) the extent to which pathological trait change predicts relevant outcomes. College students (<i>N</i> = 463) self-reported their pathological traits weekly for up to 16 weeks. People with elevated pathological traits generally desired to decrease these traits. Furthermore, goals to change negative affectivity and disinhibition predicted corresponding trait change. Thus, people want to reduce their pathological traits-and they may be able to do so for some traits.</p>","PeriodicalId":19834,"journal":{"name":"Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin","volume":" ","pages":"1815-1829"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2025-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140140583","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":"Prototypes of Victims of Workplace Harassment.","authors":"Ignazio Ziano, Evan Polman","doi":"10.1177/01461672241235388","DOIUrl":"10.1177/01461672241235388","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>What do people think of when they think of workplace harassment? In 13 pre-registered studies with French, British, and U.S. American adult participants (<i>N</i> = 3,892), we conducted a multi-method investigation into people's <i>social prototypes</i> of victims of workplace harassment. We found people imagined such victims in physically, socially, psychologically, and economically different ways compared with non-victims: for example, as less attractive, more introverted, and paid less. In addition, we found ambiguous harassment leveled against a prototypical (vs. non-prototypical) victim was more likely to be classified as harassment, and perceived to cause the victim more psychological pain. As such, both lay-people and professionals wanted to punish harassers of victims who \"fit the prototype\" more. Notably, providing people with instructions to ignore a victim's personal description and instead assess the harassment behavior did not reduce the prototype effect.</p>","PeriodicalId":19834,"journal":{"name":"Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin","volume":" ","pages":"1830-1846"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2025-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12361685/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140140582","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":"Family shapes child development: The role of codevelopmental trajectories of interparental conflict and emotional warmth for children's longitudinal development of internalizing and externalizing problems.","authors":"Martina Zemp, Shichen Fang, Matthew D Johnson","doi":"10.1017/S0954579424001524","DOIUrl":"10.1017/S0954579424001524","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study aimed (1) to identify distinct family trajectory profiles of destructive interparental conflict and parent-child emotional warmth reported by one parent, and (2) to examine whether these codevelopmental profiles were associated with the longitudinal development of children and adolescents' self-reported internalizing and externalizing problems. Six longitudinal data waves from the German Family Panel (pairfam) study (Waves 2-7) from 722 parent-child dyads were used (age of children and adolescents in years: <i>M</i> = 10.03, <i>SD</i> = 1.90, range = 8-15; 48.3% girls; 73.3% of parents were native Germans). Data were analyzed using growth mixture and latent growth curve modeling. Two classes, harmonious and conflictual-warm families, were found based on codevelopmental trajectories of interparental conflict and emotional warmth. These family profiles were linked with the development of externalizing problems in children and adolescents but not their internalizing problems. Family dynamics are entangled in complex ways and constantly changing, which appears relevant to children's behavior problems.</p>","PeriodicalId":11265,"journal":{"name":"Development and Psychopathology","volume":" ","pages":"1971-1984"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2025-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142343573","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":"A longitudinal study on moral emotions and psychosocial functioning among preschool children with and without hearing loss.","authors":"Zijian Li, Boya Li, Yung-Ting Tsou, Liyan Wang, Wei Liang, Carolien Rieffe","doi":"10.1017/S0954579424001408","DOIUrl":"10.1017/S0954579424001408","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Moral emotions such as shame, guilt and pride are crucial to young children's social-emotional development. Due to the restrictions caused by hearing loss in accessing the social world, deaf and hard of hearing (DHH) children may encounter extra difficulties in their development of moral emotions. However, little research so far has investigated the development trajectory of moral emotions during preschool years in DHH children. The present study used a longitudinal design to explore the development trajectories of shame, guilt, and pride, in a sample of 259 Chinese DHH and typically hearing (TH) preschoolers aged 2 to 6 years old. The results indicated that according to parent reports, DHH children manifested lower levels of guilt and pride compared to their TH peers, yet the manifested levels of shame, guilt, and pride increased throughout the preschool time at a similar pace in all children. Moreover, whilst guilt and pride contributed to increasing levels of psychosocial functioning over the preschool years, shame contributed to lower social competence and more externalizing behaviors in DHH and TH preschoolers. The outcomes imply that early interventions and adjustment to hearing loss could be useful to safeguard the social development of children with severe hearing loss, and cultural variances shall be taken into consideration when studying moral emotions in a Chinese cultural background.</p>","PeriodicalId":11265,"journal":{"name":"Development and Psychopathology","volume":" ","pages":"1821-1832"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2025-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142343509","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}