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Associations of stressful life events with stress symptoms and well-being of adolescent refugees: mediation by post-migration stressors and protective resources? 生活压力事件与青少年难民的压力症状和幸福感之间的关系:移民后压力因素和保护性资源的调节作用?
IF 2.4 3区 心理学
Psychology & Health Pub Date : 2024-11-07 DOI: 10.1080/08870446.2024.2422822
Arnold Lohaus, Jana-Elisa Rueth, Usama El-Awad, Hannah Nilles, Denny Kerkhoff, Johanna Braig, Pia Schmees, Heike Eschenbeck
{"title":"Associations of stressful life events with stress symptoms and well-being of adolescent refugees: mediation by post-migration stressors and protective resources?","authors":"Arnold Lohaus, Jana-Elisa Rueth, Usama El-Awad, Hannah Nilles, Denny Kerkhoff, Johanna Braig, Pia Schmees, Heike Eschenbeck","doi":"10.1080/08870446.2024.2422822","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08870446.2024.2422822","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>This paper focuses on the relationship between stressful life events experienced by young refugees and their reports of psychological and somatic stress symptoms and well-being. It examines whether this relationship is mediated by personal and social resources and by acculturation hassles experienced in the host country.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Path analyses were calculated based on data from 147 adolescents aged 11 to 18 years from the Middle East after their flight to Germany to test the proposed mediation model.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The number of experienced stressful life event types was directly linked to current psychological and somatic stress symptoms. The association with psychological stress symptoms was partially mediated by acculturation hassles experienced in the host culture. Well-being was not related to stressful life events but showed significant associations with available social resources. A closer inspection of the mediation by acculturation hassles showed that discrimination hassles and socio-cultural adaptation hassles are important mediators in the relationship between stressful life events and the included outcome variables.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>The results indicate that stressful life events as well as resources and acculturation hassles should be considered in measures to improve the adjustment of young refugees.</p>","PeriodicalId":20718,"journal":{"name":"Psychology & Health","volume":" ","pages":"1-20"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142605968","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Clarifying the importance and moderating roles of temporal self-regulation theory across behaviour types. 明确时间自我调节理论在不同行为类型中的重要性和调节作用。
IF 2.4 3区 心理学
Psychology & Health Pub Date : 2024-11-03 DOI: 10.1080/08870446.2024.2422828
Indita Dorina, Barbara Mullan, Mark Boyes
{"title":"Clarifying the importance and moderating roles of temporal self-regulation theory across behaviour types.","authors":"Indita Dorina, Barbara Mullan, Mark Boyes","doi":"10.1080/08870446.2024.2422828","DOIUrl":"10.1080/08870446.2024.2422828","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objectives: </strong>The aim of this study was to explore the utility of temporal self-regulation theory across four behaviours differing in complexity and approach or avoidance nature. Specifically, we explored if intention, habit, cues, self-regulation (disorganisation, coping planning, task switching, present orientation, sensation seeking, automaticity, planning and distractibility) and interactions between constructs could account for variance in fruit consumption, unhealthy snacking, walking and recycling.</p><p><strong>Methods and measures: </strong>Two hundred and fifty-four participants completed a two-part online survey measuring theory constructs at time one and behaviours at time two. Data was analysed using hierarchical multiple regression and binary logistic regression analyses.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Findings partially support the theory with differential importance of constructs across behaviours. Intention, habit, sensation seeking and automaticity significantly predicted fruit consumption. Intention and cues significantly predicted unhealthy snacking. There were no significant predictors of walking. Habit, present orientation, sensation seeking, and interactions between intention and sensation seeking, and intention and planning significantly predicted recycling.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Findings may help develop future frameworks to guide research and tailored interventions using the theory according to behaviour type. Behavioural pathways suggested in the theory may be reconsidered, or other constructs could be included as extensions of the model to improve the theory's utility.</p>","PeriodicalId":20718,"journal":{"name":"Psychology & Health","volume":" ","pages":"1-19"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-11-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142568217","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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'I didn't feel like I was a doctor': a qualitative interview study exploring the experiences and representations of healthcare professionals' capacity to deliver compassionate care and to practice self-care during the Covid-19 pandemic. 我不觉得自己是一名医生":一项定性访谈研究,探讨在 Covid-19 大流行期间医护专业人员提供同情护理和自我护理能力的经验和表述。
IF 2.4 3区 心理学
Psychology & Health Pub Date : 2024-11-01 Epub Date: 2023-02-09 DOI: 10.1080/08870446.2023.2174260
Helen Egan, Kathrina Connabeer, Rebecca Keyte, Angela Tufte-Hewett, Sophia Kauser, Misba Hussain, Harvey Regan, Karen McGowan, Michail Mantzios
{"title":"'I didn't feel like I was a doctor': a qualitative interview study exploring the experiences and representations of healthcare professionals' capacity to deliver compassionate care and to practice self-care during the Covid-19 pandemic.","authors":"Helen Egan, Kathrina Connabeer, Rebecca Keyte, Angela Tufte-Hewett, Sophia Kauser, Misba Hussain, Harvey Regan, Karen McGowan, Michail Mantzios","doi":"10.1080/08870446.2023.2174260","DOIUrl":"10.1080/08870446.2023.2174260","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>The increased demand on healthcare professionals (HCPs) during the Coronavirus Disease (Covid-19) pandemic reduces opportunities for HCPs to deliver compassionate care to patients and to maintain self-care. This study explored how HCPs understand and experience compassionate working practices during the Covid-19 pandemic to better support HCPs' wellbeing and to sustain quality of care.</p><p><strong>Design: </strong>All nineteen participants worked as an HCP during the Covid-19 pandemic, resided in the United Kingdom (UK) and took part in individual semi-structured interviews.</p><p><strong>Main outcome measures: </strong>Using a thematic analysis approach, we developed three themes: (a) The art of compassionate care: Feeling and action, (b) The impact of Covid-19 on compassionate care and (c) Suffering during Covid-19: The importance of self-compassion and self-care.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Overall, the analysis illustrated the strong and negative impact that Covid-19 had on the ability to deliver compassionate care, resulting in moral injury and psychological and behavioural difficulties for HCPs, particularly in terms of self-care.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>This research demonstrates an imperative need for organisations to better support HCPs' health and wellbeing, through a self-care system that promotes self-compassionate and self-care practices.</p>","PeriodicalId":20718,"journal":{"name":"Psychology & Health","volume":" ","pages":"1521-1539"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10685213","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Deliberate ignorance-a barrier for information interventions targeting reduced meat consumption? 故意无知--减少肉类消费的信息干预的障碍?
IF 2.4 3区 心理学
Psychology & Health Pub Date : 2024-11-01 Epub Date: 2023-03-01 DOI: 10.1080/08870446.2023.2182895
Philipp Kadel, Ira E Herwig, Jutta Mata
{"title":"Deliberate ignorance-a barrier for information interventions targeting reduced meat consumption?","authors":"Philipp Kadel, Ira E Herwig, Jutta Mata","doi":"10.1080/08870446.2023.2182895","DOIUrl":"10.1080/08870446.2023.2182895","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>Despite abundant information about negative consequences of consuming meat, consumption in many Western countries is many times higher than recommended. One possible explanation for this discrepancy is that people consciously decide to ignore such information-a phenomenon called deliberate ignorance. We investigated this potential barrier for information interventions aiming to reduce meat consumption.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>In three studies, a total of 1133 participants had the opportunity to see 18 information chunks on negative consequences of meat consumption or to ignore part of the information. Deliberate ignorance was measured as the number of ignored information chunks. We assessed potential predictors and outcomes of deliberate ignorance. Interventions to reduce deliberate ignorance (i.e., self-affirmation, contemplation, and self-efficacy) were experimentally tested.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The more information participants ignored, the less they changed their intention to reduce their meat consumption (<i>r</i> = -.124). This effect was partially explained by cognitive dissonance induced by the presented information. While neither self-affirmation nor contemplation exercises reduced deliberate ignorance, self-efficacy exercises did.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Deliberate ignorance is a potential barrier for information interventions aiming to reduce meat consumption and needs to be considered in future interventions and research. Self-efficacy exercises are a promising approach to reduce deliberate ignorance and should be further explored.</p>","PeriodicalId":20718,"journal":{"name":"Psychology & Health","volume":" ","pages":"1656-1673"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9363606","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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The effect of a multi-component school-based social network intervention on children's body mass index: a four-arm intervention study. 多成分校本社交网络干预对儿童体重指数的影响:一项四臂干预研究。
IF 2.4 3区 心理学
Psychology & Health Pub Date : 2024-11-01 Epub Date: 2023-02-19 DOI: 10.1080/08870446.2023.2179084
Marloes A A Polman, Desi Beckers, William J Burk, Crystal R Smit, Moniek Buijzen, Jacqueline M Vink, Nina van den Broek, Junilla K Larsen
{"title":"The effect of a multi-component school-based social network intervention on children's body mass index: a four-arm intervention study.","authors":"Marloes A A Polman, Desi Beckers, William J Burk, Crystal R Smit, Moniek Buijzen, Jacqueline M Vink, Nina van den Broek, Junilla K Larsen","doi":"10.1080/08870446.2023.2179084","DOIUrl":"10.1080/08870446.2023.2179084","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p><b>Methods:</b> Four schools were randomly allocated to one of four conditions: a social network intervention using influence agents focusing on water consumption, physical activity, a combination of the two, or a passive control condition. Participants included a total of 201 6- to-11-year-old children (53.7% girls; <i>M</i><sub>age</sub> = 8.51, <i>SD</i><sub>age</sub> = 0.93). At baseline, 149 (76.0%) participants had a healthy weight, 29 (14.8%) had overweight and 18 (9.2%) had obesity.</p><p><p><b>Results:</b> Linear mixed effect models indicated that a multi-component school-based social network intervention targeting both water consumption and physical activity was most effective in decreasing children's <i>z</i>BMI.</p><p><p><b>Conclusion:</b> This study suggests that schools can contribute to the intervention of childhood obesity-even without involving the parents-by targeting <i>both</i> children's water consumption and physical activity through influential peers, but more research is needed to identify mechanisms of change.</p>","PeriodicalId":20718,"journal":{"name":"Psychology & Health","volume":" ","pages":"1503-1520"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10757868","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Improving antibiotic use in hospitals: development of a digital antibiotic review tracking toolkit (DARTT) using the behaviour change wheel. 改善医院的抗生素使用情况:利用行为改变轮开发数字化抗生素审查跟踪工具包 (DARTT)。
IF 2.4 3区 心理学
Psychology & Health Pub Date : 2024-11-01 Epub Date: 2023-02-28 DOI: 10.1080/08870446.2023.2182894
Gosha Wojcik, N Ring, D S Willis, B Williams, K Kydonaki
{"title":"Improving antibiotic use in hospitals: development of a digital antibiotic review tracking toolkit (DARTT) using the behaviour change wheel.","authors":"Gosha Wojcik, N Ring, D S Willis, B Williams, K Kydonaki","doi":"10.1080/08870446.2023.2182894","DOIUrl":"10.1080/08870446.2023.2182894","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>To develop a theory-informed behaviour change intervention to promote appropriate hospital antibiotic use, guided by the Medical Research Council's complex interventions framework.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>A phased approach was used, including triangulation of data from meta-ethnography and two qualitative studies. Central to intervention design was the generation of a robust theoretical basis using the Behaviour Change Wheel to identify relevant determinants of behaviour change and intervention components. Intervention content was guided by APEASE (Acceptability, Practicability, Effectiveness, Affordability, Side-effects, and Equity) criteria and coded using a Behaviour Change Technique Taxonomy. Stakeholders were involved throughout.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>From numerous modifiable prescribing behaviours identified, active 'antibiotic time-out' was selected as the target behaviour to help clinicians safely initiate antibiotic reassessment. Prescribers' capability, opportunity, and motivation were potential drivers for changing this behaviour. The design process resulted in the selection of 25 behaviour change techniques subsequently translated into intervention content. Integral to this work was the development and refinement of a Digital Antibiotic Review Tracking Toolkit.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>This novel work demonstrates how the Behaviour Change Wheel can be used with the Medical Research Council framework to develop a theory-based behaviour change intervention targeting barriers to timely hospital antibiotic reassessment. Future research will evaluate the Antibiotic Toolkit's feasibility and effectiveness.</p>","PeriodicalId":20718,"journal":{"name":"Psychology & Health","volume":" ","pages":"1635-1655"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10806506","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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"My job is to keep my body healthy": biopedagogies, beauty and institutional greed in professional ballet. "我的工作就是保持身体健康":职业芭蕾舞中的生物教学法、美和制度性贪婪。
IF 2.4 3区 心理学
Psychology & Health Pub Date : 2024-11-01 Epub Date: 2023-02-21 DOI: 10.1080/08870446.2023.2181364
María Del Río Carral, Andrea LaMarre, Marco Gemignani
{"title":"\"My job is to keep my body healthy\": biopedagogies, beauty and institutional greed in professional ballet.","authors":"María Del Río Carral, Andrea LaMarre, Marco Gemignani","doi":"10.1080/08870446.2023.2181364","DOIUrl":"10.1080/08870446.2023.2181364","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Context: </strong>The ballet institution is known for its aesthetic and performative standards. In professional dancers' everyday lives, self-improvement and body awareness entwine with striving for artistic excellence. In this context, 'health' has primarily been explored in relation to eating disorders, pain, and injuries.</p><p><strong>Aim: </strong>This paper explores dancers' health practices, namely how they are shaped by the ballet institution and how they relate to broader health discourses.</p><p><strong>Methodology: </strong>A reflexive thematic analysis was conducted upon interviews with nine dancers (each interviewed twice) using a theoretical framework based on the concepts of greedy institutions and biopedagogies.</p><p><strong>Analyses: </strong>Two themes were developed: <i>What it takes to be an 'insider' of the ballet institution</i> and <i>Learning to develop an acute embodied self-awareness</i>. Dancers described ballet as a 'lifestyle' rather than a 'job'; practices of self-care defined by continuous self and body work were framed as necessary to meet the demands of this lifestyle. Participants 'played with' institutional and societal norms, often resisting docile bodies promoted within the ballet institution.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Dancers' constructions of health and the art of ballet as not fitting neatly into 'good' nor 'bad' make room to consider the tensions between adopting and resisting dominant health discourses in this institution.</p>","PeriodicalId":20718,"journal":{"name":"Psychology & Health","volume":" ","pages":"1617-1634"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10757875","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Understanding children's voices about enablers of obesity from a causal attribution's stance: a vignette study. 从因果归因的角度了解儿童对肥胖诱因的看法:小故事研究。
IF 2.4 3区 心理学
Psychology & Health Pub Date : 2024-11-01 Epub Date: 2023-02-21 DOI: 10.1080/08870446.2023.2180151
Beatriz Pereira, Paula Magalhães, Catarina Vilas, Pedro Rosário
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The interplay between ovarian cancer and social relationships: an analysis of patients' metaphors. 卵巢癌与社会关系之间的相互作用:对患者隐喻的分析。
IF 2.4 3区 心理学
Psychology & Health Pub Date : 2024-11-01 Epub Date: 2023-02-21 DOI: 10.1080/08870446.2023.2180149
Lorenzo Montali, Joanne Brooker, Elisabetta Camussi, Parris Davenport, Elisabetta Ronco, Lyndel Shand, Edoardo Zulato, Tess Knight
{"title":"The interplay between ovarian cancer and social relationships: an analysis of patients' metaphors.","authors":"Lorenzo Montali, Joanne Brooker, Elisabetta Camussi, Parris Davenport, Elisabetta Ronco, Lyndel Shand, Edoardo Zulato, Tess Knight","doi":"10.1080/08870446.2023.2180149","DOIUrl":"10.1080/08870446.2023.2180149","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>Research showed that ovarian cancer poses unique challenges to patients' care experiences and that patients' social networks could affect their care path significantly. The present study aimed to analyse the metaphors that patients used to signify the impact of the illness on their social relationships and the role of relationships in dealing with cancer.</p><p><strong>Design: </strong>Following a qualitative description approach we conducted 38 semi-structured interviews with Australian (14) and Italian (24) women diagnosed at different stages of ovarian cancer.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The analysis identified four themes bringing together the meanings expressed by participants' metaphors: Lack of comprehension and communication; Isolation, marginalisation, and self-isolation; Discrepancy between the private and public self; and Social relationships as empowerment resources.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>The polysemic nature of patients' metaphors captures both the empowering and especially disempowering role of social relationships in dealing with ovarian cancer. Results also show that metaphors are used to make sense of the impact of ovarian cancer on social relationships and to express different strategies for managing patients' networks.</p>","PeriodicalId":20718,"journal":{"name":"Psychology & Health","volume":" ","pages":"1575-1594"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10753004","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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'I feel like I was born for something that my body can't do': a qualitative study on women's bodies within medicalized infertility in Italy. 我感觉自己生来就注定要做一些我的身体无法做到的事情":一项关于意大利医学不孕症妇女身体的定性研究。
IF 2.4 3区 心理学
Psychology & Health Pub Date : 2024-11-01 Epub Date: 2023-02-17 DOI: 10.1080/08870446.2023.2180148
Chiara Fusco, Chiara Masaro, Vincenzo Calvo
{"title":"'I feel like I was born for something that my body can't do': a qualitative study on women's bodies within medicalized infertility in Italy.","authors":"Chiara Fusco, Chiara Masaro, Vincenzo Calvo","doi":"10.1080/08870446.2023.2180148","DOIUrl":"10.1080/08870446.2023.2180148","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>In the context of infertility, women's bodies have a central physical, psychological, and social role. Medically assisted reproduction (MAR) treatment includes highly intrusive procedures targeting women's bodies. This study aimed to develop a preliminary understanding of women's core meanings around their bodies within their experiences of medicalized infertility in Italy.</p><p><strong>Design: </strong>104 Italian women dealing with infertility and MAR treatments answered open-ended questions, which were part of a broader online survey. A reflexive thematic analysis was performed.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Three themes were identified: (a) the paradox of the body: 'I feel like I was born for something that my body can't do'; (b) 'Something only mothers can do': meanings attributed to the physical body; (c) Internalized 'clinical gaze': medicalized body representations.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>This work provides insights into the meanings assigned to their bodies by Italian women dealing with MAR. This study outlined women's ambivalence towards their bodies, describing them as 'fragmented' into parts and as 'deposits' of their reproductive hopes. Results suggest that Italian pronatalist culture may have potential fallouts for women's gendered sense of self and the integration between their biological and psychosocial body experiences. Study limitations, future research directions, and clinical implications are presented.</p>","PeriodicalId":20718,"journal":{"name":"Psychology & Health","volume":" ","pages":"1555-1574"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10739382","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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