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Being the supporter: an interpretative phenomenological analysis of the role of caregivers in the self-management of type 2 diabetes. 作为支持者：照顾者在2型糖尿病自我管理中的作用的解释性现象学分析。

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Psychology & Health Pub Date : 2025-03-01 Epub Date: 2023-07-02 DOI: 10.1080/08870446.2023.2231004

Lisa Newson, Jessica E Brown, Stephanie Dugdale

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How are relying on religion and on science to make sense of the world associated with health-related resources and behaviors and well-being? 如何依靠宗教和科学来理解与健康有关的资源，行为和幸福的世界？

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Psychology & Health Pub Date : 2025-03-01 Epub Date: 2023-07-20 DOI: 10.1080/08870446.2023.2234407

Crystal L Park, Jason Kwan, Katherine Gnall

{"title":"How are relying on religion and on science to make sense of the world associated with health-related resources and behaviors and well-being?","authors":"Crystal L Park, Jason Kwan, Katherine Gnall","doi":"10.1080/08870446.2023.2234407","DOIUrl":"10.1080/08870446.2023.2234407","url":null,"abstract":"Objective: Differences in the extent to which religious and scientific perspectives inform individuals' understanding of the world may affect their health and well-being. Yet minimal research has examined the influence of religious or scientific beliefs (or their relative influences) on health-related resources, behaviors, well-being, and stress responses, the focus of the current study.Methods: A national sample of 289 U.S. adults (mean age 34.42, 62.1% female, 67.5% White) was recruited through an online platform. Participants completed baseline and 11 nightly self-report surveys.Results: Higher reliance on religion was generally associated with greater psychological well-being (i.e. higher mindfulness, locus of control, positive affect; lower negative affect), while reliance on science was related to more COVID-19 distress. Contrary to hypotheses, scientific beliefs were not generally associated with a healthier lifestyle at the between-subject level, and higher reliance on both religion and science predicted more daily comfort food consumption. However, both belief systems buffered negative impacts of daily stress on physical activity at between-person (science) and within-person (religion) levels.Conclusion: Results showed unique benefits and drawbacks of each meaning system on individuals' health behaviors and well-being. Future research is warranted to illuminate the intricate interplay between these two popular perspectives on the world.","PeriodicalId":20718,"journal":{"name":"Psychology & Health","volume":" ","pages":"454-473"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9843613","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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Physical activity planning interventions, body fat and energy-dense food intake in dyads: ripple, spillover, or compensatory effects? 体育活动计划干预、二人组的体脂和高能量食物摄入：涟漪效应、溢出效应还是补偿效应？

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Psychology & Health Pub Date : 2025-03-01 Epub Date: 2023-07-09 DOI: 10.1080/08870446.2023.2233001

Ewa Kulis, Zofia Szczuka, Anna Banik, Maria Siwa, Monika Boberska, Karolina Zarychta, Hanna Zaleskiewicz, Nina Knoll, Theda Radtke, Urte Scholz, Konstantin Schenkel, Aleksandra Luszczynska

{"title":"Physical activity planning interventions, body fat and energy-dense food intake in dyads: ripple, spillover, or compensatory effects?","authors":"Ewa Kulis, Zofia Szczuka, Anna Banik, Maria Siwa, Monika Boberska, Karolina Zarychta, Hanna Zaleskiewicz, Nina Knoll, Theda Radtke, Urte Scholz, Konstantin Schenkel, Aleksandra Luszczynska","doi":"10.1080/08870446.2023.2233001","DOIUrl":"10.1080/08870446.2023.2233001","url":null,"abstract":"Objectives: It is unclear if planning to change one behavior may prompt changes in other health behaviors or health outcomes. This study tested if physical activity (PA) planning interventions may result in (i) a body fat reduction in target persons and their dyadic partners (a ripple effect), (ii) a decrease in energy-dense food intake (a spillover effect), or an increase in energy-dense food intake (a compensatory effect).Method: N = 320 adult-adult dyads were assigned to an individual ('I-for-me'), dyadic ('we-for-me'), or collaborative ('we-for-us') PA planning intervention or a control condition. Body fat and energy-dense food intake were measured at baseline and at the 36-week follow-up.Results: No Time x Condition effects were found for target persons' body fat. There was a reduction in body fat among partners participating in any PA planning intervention, compared to the control condition. Across conditions, target persons and partners reduced energy-dense food intake over time. The reduction was smaller among target persons assigned to the individual PA planning condition compared to the control condition.Conclusions: PA planning interventions delivered to dyads may result in a ripple effect involving body fat reduction among partners. Among target persons, the individual PA planning may activate compensatory changes in energy-dense food intake.","PeriodicalId":20718,"journal":{"name":"Psychology & Health","volume":" ","pages":"433-453"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9767044","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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'Surely a little discretion isn't too difficult'? The discursive construction of discretion in users' comments on UK newspaper articles about public breastfeeding. “谨慎一点应该不会太难吧”在英国报纸关于公共母乳喂养的文章中，用户评论中自由裁量权的话语建构。

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Psychology & Health Pub Date : 2025-03-01 Epub Date: 2023-07-05 DOI: 10.1080/08870446.2023.2226688

Alexandra Kent, Joanne Meredith, Kirsty Budds

{"title":"'Surely a little discretion isn't too difficult'? The discursive construction of discretion in users' comments on UK newspaper articles about public breastfeeding.","authors":"Alexandra Kent, Joanne Meredith, Kirsty Budds","doi":"10.1080/08870446.2023.2226688","DOIUrl":"10.1080/08870446.2023.2226688","url":null,"abstract":"Objective: This paper explores how discourses of discretion are constructed in online discussions about breastfeeding in public.Method and measures: We analysed 4204 online newspaper comment threads from 15 UK-based publications using Discursive Psychology. We explored how discretion was constructed and mobilised to facilitate discourses of breastfeeding in public.Results: Indiscretion was used to construct dispositional traits of mothers typically associated with sexualised, immoral female behaviour and therefore incompatible with 'good' motherhood. Responsibility for preventing public upset was placed on breastfeeding mothers, whilst discretion was constructed as easily achievable, and therefore a reasonable expectation. By implication, women who chose not to be discreet, were constructed as deliberately provocative, and so not entitled to claim or protest negative treatment. Notably, within our data the relevance of discretion when breastfeeding in public appeared discursively difficult to reject or challenge.Conclusion: Our findings confirm empirically that support for public breastfeeding is constructed as contingent on mothers displaying discretion. Our analysis highlights the challenges for mothers and babies for whom breastfeeding is compromised by an unwillingness to feed in public, perhaps due to pervasive constructions of breastfeeding women as selfish, exhibitionist, inconsiderate and unfit mothers in public discourse. Finally, our findings demonstrate the practical accomplishment in everyday life of the type of constructions of breastfeeding women that have been powerfully conceptualised by previous researchers.","PeriodicalId":20718,"journal":{"name":"Psychology & Health","volume":" ","pages":"358-376"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10128512","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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Development and validation of a short form psychometric tool assessing the caregiving Challenge of Living with Cystic Fibrosis (CLCF-SF) in a child. 开发和验证一种简短的心理测量工具，评估患有囊性纤维化（CLCF-SF）儿童的护理挑战。

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Psychology & Health Pub Date : 2025-03-01 Epub Date: 2023-07-05 DOI: 10.1080/08870446.2023.2231489

Gareth McCray, Holly F Hope, Claire Glasscoe, Jonathan Hill, Alexandra Quittner, Kevin W Southern, Gillian A Lancaster

{"title":"Development and validation of a short form psychometric tool assessing the caregiving Challenge of Living with Cystic Fibrosis (CLCF-SF) in a child.","authors":"Gareth McCray, Holly F Hope, Claire Glasscoe, Jonathan Hill, Alexandra Quittner, Kevin W Southern, Gillian A Lancaster","doi":"10.1080/08870446.2023.2231489","DOIUrl":"10.1080/08870446.2023.2231489","url":null,"abstract":"Objective: Caring for a child with cystic fibrosis (CF) is a rigorous daily commitment for caregivers and treatment burden is a major concern. We aimed to develop and validate a short form version of a 46-item tool assessing the Challenge of Living with Cystic Fibrosis (CLCF) for clinical or research use.Design: A novel genetic algorithm based on 'evolving' a subset of items from a pre-specified set of criteria, was applied to optimise the tool, using data from 135 families.Main outcome measures: Internal reliability and validity were assessed; the latter compared scores to validated tests of parental well-being, markers of treatment burden, and disease severity.Results: The 15-item CLCF-SF demonstrated very good internal consistency [Cronbach's alpha 0.82 (95%CI 0.78-0.87)]. Scores for convergent validity correlated with the Beck Depression Inventory (Rho = 0.48), State Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI-State, Rho = 0.41; STAI-Trait, Rho = 0.43), Cystic Fibrosis Questionnaire-Revised, lung function (Rho = -0.37), caregiver treatment management (r = 0.48) and child treatment management (r = 0.45), and discriminated between unwell and well children with CF (Mean Difference 5.5, 95%CI 2.5-8.5, p < 0.001), and recent or no hospital admission (MD 3.6, 95%CI 0.25-6.95, p = 0.039).Conclusion: The CLCF-SF provides a robust 15-item tool for assessing the challenge of living with a child with CF.","PeriodicalId":20718,"journal":{"name":"Psychology & Health","volume":" ","pages":"410-432"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11809770/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9746389","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}

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Effect of source on trust of pulse nutrition information and perceived likelihood of following dietary guidance. 来源对脉搏营养信息信任度和遵循膳食指导的感知可能性的影响。

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Psychology & Health Pub Date : 2025-03-01 Epub Date: 2023-07-31 DOI: 10.1080/08870446.2023.2239278

Alese M Nelson, James N Roemmich

{"title":"Effect of source on trust of pulse nutrition information and perceived likelihood of following dietary guidance.","authors":"Alese M Nelson, James N Roemmich","doi":"10.1080/08870446.2023.2239278","DOIUrl":"10.1080/08870446.2023.2239278","url":null,"abstract":"Objective: The purpose of the present study was to examine how information source (control-no source, U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), fictitious hospital, or fictitious social media) impacts perceptions of diet information.Methods and measures: Participants (N = 537) completed an online survey in which they viewed one flyer containing dietary information and guidance on consuming pulses. The purported source of the flyer information was manipulated to create the 4 conditions. Participants rated the flyer in terms of perceived accuracy, trustworthiness, reliability, desirability for learning more from the source, and likelihood of following the advice. Attitudes, perceived control and norms, and past behavior were used to measure components of the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB).Results: ANOVA results indicated that the USDA and hospital sources were perceived as more accurate, trustworthy, reliable, and more desirable to learn more from relative to control and social media. There were no differences in likelihood of following guidance depending on source. Multiple regression showed that measures of the TPB were predictors of likelihood of following advice.Conclusion: Overall, these findings suggest that trust in the source of information does not influence perceived likelihood of following dietary recommendations for pulses.","PeriodicalId":20718,"journal":{"name":"Psychology & Health","volume":" ","pages":"345-357"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10256127","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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Autobiographical memory specificity and objective sleep quality: the role of preschool stress. 自传体记忆特异性与客观睡眠质量：学前应激的作用。

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Psychology & Health Pub Date : 2025-02-26 DOI: 10.1080/08870446.2025.2471598

Llanos Merín, Marta Nieto, Laura Ros, José Miguel Latorre

{"title":"Autobiographical memory specificity and objective sleep quality: the role of preschool stress.","authors":"Llanos Merín, Marta Nieto, Laura Ros, José Miguel Latorre","doi":"10.1080/08870446.2025.2471598","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08870446.2025.2471598","url":null,"abstract":"Autobiographical memory specificity and sleep undergo significant changes across the preschool years. This study sought to examine the association between actigraphy-measured sleep quality and autobiographical memory specificity in preschoolers. Additionally, we analyzed the mediating role of sleep in the relationship between stress and autobiographical memory. The sample comprised 67 participants (Mage = 60.39 months, SD = 9.25). To measure the study variables, we used the Autobiographical Memory Test-Preschoolers, wGT3X-BT actigraphs, an ad hoc healthy sleep questionnaire, and the Children's Daily Stress Inventory. Total sleep duration and sleep efficiency were found to be positively related to autobiographical specificity. Furthermore, the participants adhering to recommendations on sleep showed higher levels of specificity compared to those whose sleep patterns were inappropriate. The negative impact of stress on specific memory increased when the indirect effects of poorer sleep duration and efficiency were included, suggesting a moderated mediation effect, where sleep moderates the relationship between stress and specific memory. These findings could have significant implications for preschoolers' cognitive development and mental health, highlighting the role of sleep and stress in influencing memory and emotional well-being.","PeriodicalId":20718,"journal":{"name":"Psychology & Health","volume":" ","pages":"1-15"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2025-02-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143516496","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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'… but I live in hope …' how the term 'survivor' impacts identity and feelings of inclusivity in survivorship services following ovarian cancer treatment. “但我生活在希望中……”“幸存者”一词如何影响卵巢癌治疗后幸存者服务的身份和包容性。

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Psychology & Health Pub Date : 2025-02-12 DOI: 10.1080/08870446.2025.2464582

Sally-Anne Boding, Amanda Hutchinson, Tamara Butler, Stephanie Webb, Hayley Russell

{"title":"'… but I live in hope …' how the term 'survivor' impacts identity and feelings of inclusivity in survivorship services following ovarian cancer treatment.","authors":"Sally-Anne Boding, Amanda Hutchinson, Tamara Butler, Stephanie Webb, Hayley Russell","doi":"10.1080/08870446.2025.2464582","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08870446.2025.2464582","url":null,"abstract":"Objective: To understand how individuals with ovarian cancer interpret and identify with the term 'survivor' and if this impacts survivorship service uptake and whether individuals feel included or identify with these services following treatment within the Australian context.Methods: Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 18 individuals aged 40-72 (M = 57). Using a social identity theory lens, data were analysed using reflexive thematic analysis.Results: Two themes were generated, 'But I live in hope': How social constructs of the term 'survivor' impact on its meaning and inclusion into self-identity' and 'Forgotten or excluded: The realities of care after treatment' with the subtheme 'Advocacy and growth: Subversion from exclusion'. Participants rejected the 'survivor' identity due to connotations of unachievable finality. This was reinforced by the absence of support services routinely offered or available following treatment. Through exclusion, participants created their own support groups and joined advocacy groups, thereby redefine/reinterpret their identities separate to the 'survivor' narrative and providing connection and purpose.Conclusion: Support services and strategies (such as social prescribing) should be routinely offered following treatment within Australia. Terminology should be informed by individuals with ovarian cancer, thereby supporting moving forward with life in ways that are tailored to specific needs and wants.","PeriodicalId":20718,"journal":{"name":"Psychology & Health","volume":" ","pages":"1-22"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2025-02-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143410065","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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Healthcare discrimination and treatment adherence among sexual and gender minority individuals living with chronic illness: the mediating effects of anticipated discrimination and depressive symptoms. 慢性疾病患者的医疗歧视和治疗依从性：预期歧视和抑郁症状的中介作用

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Psychology & Health Pub Date : 2025-02-01 Epub Date: 2023-06-20 DOI: 10.1080/08870446.2023.2220008

Byron D Brooks, Sarah A Job, Andréa R Kaniuka, Rachel Kolb, Paloma Unda Charvel, Fabiana Araújo

{"title":"Healthcare discrimination and treatment adherence among sexual and gender minority individuals living with chronic illness: the mediating effects of anticipated discrimination and depressive symptoms.","authors":"Byron D Brooks, Sarah A Job, Andréa R Kaniuka, Rachel Kolb, Paloma Unda Charvel, Fabiana Araújo","doi":"10.1080/08870446.2023.2220008","DOIUrl":"10.1080/08870446.2023.2220008","url":null,"abstract":"Background: Sexual and gender minority (SGM) individuals are at increased risk for an array of chronic illness due to minority stress. Up to 70% of SGM individuals report healthcare discrimination, which may cause additional challenges for SGM people living with chronic illness including avoiding necessary healthcare. The extant literature highlights how healthcare discrimination is associated with depressive symptoms and treatment nonadherence. However, there is limited evidence on the underlying mechanisms between healthcare discrimination and treatment adherence among SGM people living with chronic illness.Methods: Among a sample of SGM individuals living with chronic illness (n = 149) recruited from social media, the current study examined the mediating roles of anticipated discrimination and depressive symptoms on the relation between healthcare discrimination and treatment adherence in a serial mediation model.Results: We found that healthcare discrimination was associated with greater anticipated discrimination, increased depressive symptoms, and, in turn, poorer treatment adherence. Conclusion: These findings highlight the association between minority stress and both depressive symptoms and treatment adherence among SGM individuals living with chronic illness. Addressing institutional discrimination and the consequences of minority stress may improve treatment adherence among SGM individuals living with chronic illness.","PeriodicalId":20718,"journal":{"name":"Psychology & Health","volume":" ","pages":"304-320"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9668691","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 benefits of experiencing flow through distracting activities: flow reduces preoperative anxiety in children before surgery, but not postoperative difficulties. 通过分散注意力的活动体验心流的好处：心流可以减少手术前儿童的术前焦虑，但不能减少术后困难。

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Psychology & Health Pub Date : 2025-02-01 Epub Date: 2023-06-04 DOI: 10.1080/08870446.2023.2220714

Camille Tordet, Séverine Erhel, Virginie Dodeler, Corentin Gonthier, Eric Jamet, Nicolas Nardi, Géraldine Rouxel, Eric Wodey

{"title":"The benefits of experiencing flow through distracting activities: flow reduces preoperative anxiety in children before surgery, but not postoperative difficulties.","authors":"Camille Tordet, Séverine Erhel, Virginie Dodeler, Corentin Gonthier, Eric Jamet, Nicolas Nardi, Géraldine Rouxel, Eric Wodey","doi":"10.1080/08870446.2023.2220714","DOIUrl":"10.1080/08870446.2023.2220714","url":null,"abstract":"Background: Distraction is a classic anxiety management strategy in preoperative setting with children: distracting activities take children's attention away from threatening clues. What is less clear is the differential effectiveness of this technique depending on the task, and the degree of children engagement with the distracting task. The present work examined the role of flow (state of intense concentration and absorption in the distracting task) on children's preoperative anxiety.Methods: Anxiety and flow in a distracting activity were measured in a sample of 100 children (3 to 10 years-old), at two critical moments of the preoperative period prior to ambulatory surgery under general anesthesia (phase 1: up to separation from the parents; phase 2: up to general anesthesia). Common negative postoperative outcomes were also measured.Results: As expected, the analysis showed a negative association between the mean level of flow in the distracting activity during waiting periods and the preoperative anxiety of children at critical moments in the two phases (although there was no effect on postoperative recovery).Conclusion: These findings demonstrate the importance of considering the degree of engagement in the distracting activity to understand the effectiveness of this strategy. The results may help provide guidance for better clinical application of this method.","PeriodicalId":20718,"journal":{"name":"Psychology & Health","volume":" ","pages":"321-340"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9572333","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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