Frontiers in PsychologyPub Date : 2025-02-18eCollection Date: 2025-01-01DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1457165
Xu Han, Haozhen Li, Ling Niu
{"title":"How does physical education influence university students' psychological health? An analysis from the dual perspectives of social support and exercise behavior.","authors":"Xu Han, Haozhen Li, Ling Niu","doi":"10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1457165","DOIUrl":"10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1457165","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>Physical education, as a central component of educational systems, plays a unique role in enhancing the psychological well-being of university students. This study investigates the impacts of physical education on students' mental health and examines the mediating roles of social support and exercise behavior.</p><p><strong>Methodology: </strong>A cross-sectional survey was conducted using the Physical Education Satisfaction Scale, SCL-90, the Social Support Questionnaire, and the International Physical Activity Questionnaire. A total of 1,437 university students were assessed.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The research found a positive correlation between physical education at universities and students' mental health, with a direct significant effect (<i>β</i> = 0.622, <i>p</i> < 0.001). Moreover, physical education positively influenced social support and exercise behavior (<i>β</i> = 0.523, <i>p</i> < 0.001; <i>β</i> = 0.473, <i>p</i> < 0.001). In turn, social support significantly fostered exercise behavior and improved mental health (<i>β</i> = 0.578, <i>p</i> < 0.001; <i>β</i> = 0.277, <i>p</i> < 0.001). Additionally, enhanced exercise behavior positively contributed to better mental health (<i>β</i> = 0.357, <i>p</i> < 0.001).</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Physical education is a crucial influencing factor for university students' psychological health and also indirectly impacts mental well-being through improved social support and increased exercise behavior.</p>","PeriodicalId":12525,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Psychology","volume":"16 ","pages":"1457165"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-02-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11877448/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143556491","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Frontiers in PsychologyPub Date : 2025-02-18eCollection Date: 2025-01-01DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1484943
Iris Schüller, V Vanessa Wergin, Filip Mess
{"title":"Strengthening social skills: developing a social competence intervention for physical education using intervention mapping-protocol paper.","authors":"Iris Schüller, V Vanessa Wergin, Filip Mess","doi":"10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1484943","DOIUrl":"10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1484943","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Introduction: </strong>The promotion of social competences using multi-method approaches is an understudied area in education and psychology. This study addresses the gap by developing and presenting a program to enhance social competences using theory-derived program and assessment designs.</p><p><strong>Materials and equipment: </strong>Bartholomew's Intervention Mapping (IM) approach, initially used for health promotion, was innovatively applied to a psychological and educational context. The development process and implementation challenges are presented in this article.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>The six-step IM process was adapted to create a comprehensive program design that models social behavior, specifically for Physical Education in schools. The program targets perceptive-cognitive, emotional-motivational, and behavioral components of social competence, along the social competence model by Kanning. Results on effect sizes have yet to be calculated.</p><p><strong>Discussion: </strong>The IM process was time-consuming and extensive but provided a systematic structure, methodological quality, and traceability of effects. Future adaptations of this program could include extensions to different situational contexts and specific need groups, such as classes with a history of bullying or psychological conditions. This study contributes valuable insights into using the IM approach for promoting behavioral change in a systematic and evidence-based manner.</p>","PeriodicalId":12525,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Psychology","volume":"16 ","pages":"1484943"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-02-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11876426/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143556507","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Frontiers in PsychologyPub Date : 2025-02-18eCollection Date: 2025-01-01DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1542880
Sara Palermo, Chiara Di Fazio, Eugenio Scaliti, Mario Stanziano, Anna Nigri, Marco Tamietto
{"title":"Cortical excitability and the aging brain: toward a biomarker of cognitive resilience.","authors":"Sara Palermo, Chiara Di Fazio, Eugenio Scaliti, Mario Stanziano, Anna Nigri, Marco Tamietto","doi":"10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1542880","DOIUrl":"10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1542880","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This perspective article addresses the potential use of cortical excitability (CE) as an indicator of cognitive health in aging people. Changes in CE may be considered a sign of resilience to cognitive decline in old age. The authors describe research on CE and its link to cognitive function in older adults and emphasize that it is a promising, non-invasive measure of healthy aging. They also address the current challenges in its implementation, the need for standardized measurement protocols and possible future avenues of research. If properly considered, CE could pave the way for early detection of cognitive decline and facilitate targeted interventions to promote cognitive resilience.</p>","PeriodicalId":12525,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Psychology","volume":"16 ","pages":"1542880"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-02-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11878273/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143556488","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Frontiers in PsychologyPub Date : 2025-02-18eCollection Date: 2025-01-01DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1438422
Monika Lohani, Samuel Dutton, Zac E Imel, Patrick L Hill
{"title":"Real-world stress and control: integrating ambulatory physiological and ecological momentary assessment technologies to explain daily wellbeing.","authors":"Monika Lohani, Samuel Dutton, Zac E Imel, Patrick L Hill","doi":"10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1438422","DOIUrl":"10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1438422","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The current study sought to advance our understanding of the connections between stress, perceived control, affect, and physiology in daily life. To achieve this goal, we integrated hourly ambulatory physiological and experiential data from young adult participants who experienced work or academic stressors over the course of a day. Participants wore a cardiovascular monitor that recorded heart rate data continuously for 8 h while hourly random Ecological Momentary Assessment (EMA) data were collected in personally relevant settings via mobile phones to learn about stress, perceived control, and affect. The current findings provide a critical advance by demonstrating clear evidence for moderation by perceived control, wherein affective wellbeing was strongly associated with heart rate when one experienced a stressor outside their control. The innovative approach utilized in the current study in real-world settings provides further support for the value of integrating individuals' self-report and physiological experiences (e.g., the role of perceived control), as the information gained can provide critical insights into stress physiology (e.g., heart rate) and wellbeing (e.g., negative affect) connections. The present study thus provides a critical advance to the literature by connecting the literature on daily affect, perceived control, and physiological data streams. This innovation is particularly noteworthy given the general paucity of work that employs ambulatory assessments of physiological responses to daily life.</p>","PeriodicalId":12525,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Psychology","volume":"16 ","pages":"1438422"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-02-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11876395/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143556499","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Frontiers in PsychologyPub Date : 2025-02-18eCollection Date: 2025-01-01DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1522098
Laura Miola, Francesca Pazzaglia
{"title":"Perceived restorativeness and environment quality in relation to well-being, residential satisfaction, and sense of community: an analysis in Northeast Italy.","authors":"Laura Miola, Francesca Pazzaglia","doi":"10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1522098","DOIUrl":"10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1522098","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Introduction: </strong>Residential satisfaction consists of pleasure derived from living in a place according to one's needs, expectations, and outcomes. The present study examines the role of sociodemographic variables, perceived residential quality indicators, and restorativeness in predicting i) well-being, ii) residential satisfaction, and iii) sense of communities in northeast Italy.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>A total of 100 residents (47 women) in various cities in northeast Italy and 211 (112 women) residents in Piazzola sul Brenta (PD) took part in two studies. They answered demographic questions about self-reported restorativeness, residential environment quality, residential satisfaction, mental well-being, and sense of community.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>After accounting for age, gender, and income, the results showed that perceived restorativeness enhances sense of community in the Northeast and Piazzola sul Brenta samples and predicts psychological well-being and residential satisfaction in Piazzola sul Brenta. Architectural and functional aspects contribute, respectively, to residential satisfaction and sense of community in both samples, and functional factors predict residential satisfaction for the Northeast sample. Place attachment plays a positive role in residential satisfaction and sense of community in the Northeast and Piazzola sul Brenta.</p><p><strong>Discussion: </strong>The study reveals a link between perceived restorativeness and residential satisfaction and well-being, providing insight for professionals and policy to improve urban quality.</p>","PeriodicalId":12525,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Psychology","volume":"16 ","pages":"1522098"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-02-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11876131/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143556496","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Frontiers in PsychologyPub Date : 2025-02-18eCollection Date: 2025-01-01DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1517718
Donatella Di Corrado, Patrizia Tortella, Marinella Coco, Maria Guarnera, Matej Tusak, Maria Chiara Parisi
{"title":"Mental imagery and stress: the mediating role of self-efficacy in competitive martial arts athletes.","authors":"Donatella Di Corrado, Patrizia Tortella, Marinella Coco, Maria Guarnera, Matej Tusak, Maria Chiara Parisi","doi":"10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1517718","DOIUrl":"10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1517718","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Introduction: </strong>Martial arts are diverse systems of combat practices, each with its unique techniques, philosophies, and histories. Mental imagery is a multisensory experience that integrates various senses to create vivid mental representations, evoking the physical attributes of people, places, or objects not currently within our perception. In sports contexts, studies have indicated that martial arts often use imagery to enhance performance.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>This study aimed to investigate the mediating role of self-efficacy in the relationship between static (visualizing still scenes or concepts) and dynamic (focusing on motion and action) vividness, controllability (manipulating the imagery experience), and the degree of stress, in a group of 110 martial arts athletes (61 males and 49 females), aged between 21 and 23 years old (<i>M</i> = 22.47, <i>SD</i> = 0.75). Participants were competitive athletes of karate, taekwondo and judo, having a minimum of 13 years of training skill in the sport. They completed the Vividness of Visual Imagery Questionnaire, the Vividness of Movement Imagery Questionnaire-2, the Mental Image Transformation Task, The General Self-Efficacy Scale, and Measuring Psychological Stress Test.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>A 2 × 3 (gender × sport type) between groups MANOVA showed significant differences in imagery dimensions by sport type. The results of the mediation analysis showed that self-efficacy plays a mediating role between imagery and stress.</p><p><strong>Discussion: </strong>The study advanced exploration in the field of mental imagery training, providing additional evidence for its importance in improving performance and managing stress in athletes.</p>","PeriodicalId":12525,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Psychology","volume":"16 ","pages":"1517718"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-02-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11876373/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143556494","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Frontiers in PsychologyPub Date : 2025-02-18eCollection Date: 2025-01-01DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1558664
Enrique H Riquelme, Silvia Cristina da Costa Dutra, Dario Paez
{"title":"Editorial: Culture and emotion in educational dynamics, volume II.","authors":"Enrique H Riquelme, Silvia Cristina da Costa Dutra, Dario Paez","doi":"10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1558664","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1558664","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":12525,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Psychology","volume":"16 ","pages":"1558664"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-02-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11876550/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143556489","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Frontiers in PsychologyPub Date : 2025-02-18eCollection Date: 2025-01-01DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1508324
Nir Rozmann
{"title":"Understanding intergroup violence justification: the role of ethnicity and perceived threat in Israeli society.","authors":"Nir Rozmann","doi":"10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1508324","DOIUrl":"10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1508324","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Research has shown that perceived realistic and symbolic threats are linked with negative attitudes and prejudice toward out-group members. Additionally, levels of perceived group threat regarding out-groups can affect intergroup violence justification. Based on the Integrated Threat Theory (ITT), the current study aimed to expand existing knowledge by examining a conceptual model in which perceived threat mediates the relationship between ethnicity and intergroup violence justification among Jews and Arabs in Israel. The study involved 324 Israeli-Jewish and 325 Israeli-Arabs, who answered questions regarding perceived out-group threat and intergroup violence justification. Findings revealed that (a) Jews were more likely to justify intergroup violence than Arabs, and (b) perceived realistic threat mediates the relationship between ethnic affiliation and intergroup violence justification only among Jews. These results underscore the importance of understanding intergroup conflicts in the field of criminology.</p>","PeriodicalId":12525,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Psychology","volume":"16 ","pages":"1508324"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-02-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11877392/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143556525","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Frontiers in PsychologyPub Date : 2025-02-18eCollection Date: 2025-01-01DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1472259
Azadeh EghbalManesh, Abbas Ebadi, Mohammad Zoladl, Zahra Rasoul Zadeh Haghighi
{"title":"Psychometric properties of the Persian version of the electroconvulsive related anxiety questionnaire for psychiatric patients.","authors":"Azadeh EghbalManesh, Abbas Ebadi, Mohammad Zoladl, Zahra Rasoul Zadeh Haghighi","doi":"10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1472259","DOIUrl":"10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1472259","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Introduction: </strong>ECT is one of the most effective treatments for psychiatric patients. The results of several studies have reported ECT-related anxiety, which makes the patients ignore the advantages of the treatment and subsequently avoid it. Adopting an appropriate instrument to evaluate and manage this anxiety is so significant. Since there is no valid questionnaire to assess the patients' anxiety for ECT in Persian, we aimed to translate the EARQ into Persian and evaluate its validity and reliability in the present study.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>In this methodological study, 170 patients with MDD, BMD, and schizophrenia aged 20-73 were recruited through convenience sampling and completed the 17-item EARQ in 2023. We used all aspects of face, content, and construct validity for the questionnaire. McDonald's Omega was calculated for the domains and 17 items to assess the reliability of the questionnaire.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis revealed three factors, death anxiety, physical concern, and mental concern. Confirmatory factor analysis indicated moderate fit indices to support the three domains: CMIN/DF = 4.8 (<i>p</i> < 0/05), RMSEA = 0.152, CFI = 0.92, and NFI = 0.91; GFI = 0.72. In our study, McDonald's Omega was 0.965 for death anxiety, 0.91 for physical concerns, 0.964 for brain concerns, and a total of 0.98.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>The EARQ has acceptable validity and reliability, so specialists can use it to assess patients' anxiety before ECT and, according to the score, use suitable interventions to eliminate it.</p>","PeriodicalId":12525,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Psychology","volume":"16 ","pages":"1472259"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-02-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11876117/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143556498","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Frontiers in PsychologyPub Date : 2025-02-17eCollection Date: 2025-01-01DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1490203
Onur Oktaysoy, Ethem Topcuoglu, Asli Ozge Ozgen-Cigdemli, Erdogan Kaygin, Gozde Kosa, Burcu Turan-Torun, Mehmet Selman Kobanoglu, Selen Uygungil-Erdogan
{"title":"The mediating role of job satisfaction in the effect of green transformational leadership on intention to leave the job.","authors":"Onur Oktaysoy, Ethem Topcuoglu, Asli Ozge Ozgen-Cigdemli, Erdogan Kaygin, Gozde Kosa, Burcu Turan-Torun, Mehmet Selman Kobanoglu, Selen Uygungil-Erdogan","doi":"10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1490203","DOIUrl":"10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1490203","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Introduction: </strong>The literature on leadership has evolved in accordance with changing global expectations over time and the significance of new leadership approaches which are based on environmental sustainability has increased day by day. Green transformational leaders, one of the results of this evolution, are different from other leadership approaches in terms of their role in motivating employees and increasing their environmental awareness by integrating their environmental sensitivities into the organizational culture.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>This study, which aims to determine the mediating role of job satisfaction in the effect of green transformational leadership on intention to leave, was conducted with 391 people working in 4 and 5 star hotels in Antalya region. Data obtained by convenience sampling method was examined with Smart-PLS program. The study was shaped on the axis of structural equation modeling.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The findings showed that green transformational leadership has a negative effect on intention to leave and job satisfaction plays a mediating role in this relationship. In addition, green transformational leaders were found to increase employees' job satisfaction, strengthen their commitment to the organization and reduce intention to leave.</p><p><strong>Discussion: </strong>The study shows that green transformational leadership has an effective structure not only in terms of green and environmental concepts but also in terms of organizational behavior. According to the Social Exchange Theory, green transformational leadership is thought to shape the job satisfaction of employees by interacting with them in accordance with moral and organizational norms.</p>","PeriodicalId":12525,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Psychology","volume":"16 ","pages":"1490203"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-02-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11875075/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143540938","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}