{"title":"Measurement Equivalence and Behavioral Heterogeneity of Problematic Short Video Use: A Cross-Stage and Gender Comparative Study Among Adolescents Based on the Physiological-Psychological-Social Model.","authors":"Zheng Mao, Yongzhi Jiang, Yisheng Yang","doi":"10.1177/00332941251390426","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00332941251390426","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study validates the measurement equivalence of the Problematic Short Video Use Scale (PSVU) through multi-group confirmatory factor analysis among high school (<i>n</i> = 1277) and college students (<i>n</i> = 733). The scale demonstrates form, weak, strong, and strict equivalence across educational stages and genders (ΔCFI≤0.01, ΔTLI≤0.05), establishing cross-group stability of a three-factor structure (behavioral change, physiological discomfort, social viscosity). College students scored significantly higher than high school students in total scores (d = 0.55) and across dimensions, particularly in behavioral change (d = 0.70) and physiological discomfort (d = 0.54). Females consistently scored higher than males across all dimensions (d = 0.32-0.52). Based on the theory of planned behavior and social compensation theory, these findings provide methodological support for identifying high-risk groups and developing differentiated intervention strategies for adolescent digital behavior.</p>","PeriodicalId":21149,"journal":{"name":"Psychological Reports","volume":" ","pages":"332941251390426"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-10-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145302910","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}
Sonja Protić, Sonja Banjac, Lutz Wittmann, Ana Altaras
{"title":"Security of Attachment to Mother vs Father is Differently Associated With Emotion-Reading Ability and Trait Emotional Intelligence in Preadolescents.","authors":"Sonja Protić, Sonja Banjac, Lutz Wittmann, Ana Altaras","doi":"10.1177/00332941251383390","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00332941251383390","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study aimed at extending the knowledge on the relationship between attachment and emotional intelligence (EI) in preadolescents by considering differences in the figure of attachment (mother/father) and in the child's gender. Participants were 267 preadolescents (52.8% girls) aged 8 to 13 (<i>M</i> = 10.52, <i>SD</i> = 1.25), who filled in measures of attachment anxiety and avoidance in relation to each parent; trait EI; and emotion-reading ability (ERA). Overall, higher attachment security was associated with higher trait EI and ERA. In regression analyses, ERA was predicted by lower anxiety related to the mother in the total sample, and, additionally, by lower avoidance related to the father in the subsample of girls; no significant predictors of ERA in boys were observed. Trait EI, on the other hand, was predicted by avoidance in relation to the father in both the full sample and the subsamples of girls and boys.</p>","PeriodicalId":21149,"journal":{"name":"Psychological Reports","volume":" ","pages":"332941251383390"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-10-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145225601","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}
Psychological ReportsPub Date : 2025-10-01Epub Date: 2023-08-29DOI: 10.1177/00332941231198057
Leonie Schelp, Tanja Bipp, Sabrina Gado, Martin Daumiller
{"title":"Fostering Learning Goals at Work: The Interplay of Dispositional and Workplace Learning Goal Orientation and Supervisor Appraisal Behavior.","authors":"Leonie Schelp, Tanja Bipp, Sabrina Gado, Martin Daumiller","doi":"10.1177/00332941231198057","DOIUrl":"10.1177/00332941231198057","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A workplace that emphasizes personal learning and task mastery fosters employee development and performance. However, it is yet unclear which specific factors support such a learning goal-oriented workplace. Based on research in the educational domain, we investigated the reciprocal effects of dispositional learning goal orientation, supervisor's appraisal behavior, and a learning goal-oriented workplace. In a study with a repeated measurement design (<i>N</i> = 144 employees), we did not find support for an effect of supervisor's appraisal behavior (operationalized by the perceived use of self-reference norms and constructive handling of errors by employees) on workplace learning goal orientation over time. However, we found that a dispositional learning goal orientation of employees supports a learning goal-oriented work environment. Furthermore, workplace learning goal orientation had a cross-lagged effect on dispositional learning goal orientation and supervisor's appraisal behavior. By comparing our results from work to findings from the educational context, our results convey important theoretical implications about the construct of workplace goal orientation and suggest practical applications to foster a learning goal-oriented workplace in terms of personnel development and performance management.</p>","PeriodicalId":21149,"journal":{"name":"Psychological Reports","volume":" ","pages":"3599-3619"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12394770/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10484906","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Psychological ReportsPub Date : 2025-10-01Epub Date: 2023-10-10DOI: 10.1177/00332941231204306
Sylvia M L Cox, Robyn J McQuaid, Ayotola Ogunlana, Natalia Jaworska
{"title":"Associating Internalizing and Externalizing Symptom Features With the Personality Inventory for DSM-5 Brief Form (PID-5-BF) in a Large Community Sample.","authors":"Sylvia M L Cox, Robyn J McQuaid, Ayotola Ogunlana, Natalia Jaworska","doi":"10.1177/00332941231204306","DOIUrl":"10.1177/00332941231204306","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The Personality Inventory for DSM-5-Brief Form (PID-5-BF) is a relatively novel measure assessing maladaptive personality traits. We examined whether PID-5-BF traits are associated with non-personality measures of wellbeing in <i>N</i> = 661 Canadian adults in the community. Depression, anxiety, and perceived stress measures were obtained, as were indices of alcohol and cannabis use. Symptoms of depression and perceived stress were associated with all PID-5-BF dimensions, except for antagonism. Anxiety symptoms were associated with negative affectivity (NA) and, to a lesser extent, psychoticism. A younger age and female sex were related to higher depression and stress scores. In contrast to the models assessing depressive, anxiety and stress symptoms, in which NA was the strongest contributor, no significant contribution of internalizing traits (i.e., PID-5-BF NA) on substance use outcomes was found when externalizing traits were included in the models. Specifically, binge drinking and cannabis use were associated with higher disinhibition scores and lower psychoticism scores. Regression models were substantially weaker for substance use than for the mood and stress symptoms. Younger individuals used more cannabis and males engaged in more binge drinking. These findings largely confirm PID-5-BF's construct validity, and indicate that various indices of wellbeing (not necessarily personality-associated measures) are associated with personality traits, as measured with the brief from of PID-5-BF.</p>","PeriodicalId":21149,"journal":{"name":"Psychological Reports","volume":" ","pages":"3357-3376"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41183494","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}
Psychological ReportsPub Date : 2025-10-01Epub Date: 2023-09-29DOI: 10.1177/00332941231203576
Annelise M Klettner, Shanhong Luo, Tyler D White, Talia B Elkin, Grace C Hersey, Hao Wu
{"title":"Predicting Chinese Adolescents' Depressive Symptoms from Their Cultural Orientations and Perceived Parental Psychological Control.","authors":"Annelise M Klettner, Shanhong Luo, Tyler D White, Talia B Elkin, Grace C Hersey, Hao Wu","doi":"10.1177/00332941231203576","DOIUrl":"10.1177/00332941231203576","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Research on adolescents across cultures has suggested a positive link between parental psychological control and adolescent depression. While a few studies have examined psychological outcomes of adolescents in collectivist groups compared to individualist groups, much less is known about the role of cultural orientations in the parental control-depression link at the individual level. The current study examined: (1) both mother and father psychological control as predictors of depressive symptoms in Chinese adolescents, (2) adolescents' cultural orientations of individualism and collectivism as predictors of their depressive symptoms, and (3) the moderating effects of adolescents' cultural orientations on the association between parental control and depressive symptoms. The sample included 3255 adolescents located in southern China. Adolescents reported on their orientations of individualism and collectivism, perceived mothers' and fathers' psychological control, and their depressive symptoms. Analyses revealed that both mother and father psychological control as well as adolescents' individualism were positive predictors of adolescent depressive symptoms, whereas collectivism was a negative predictor of depressive symptoms. Furthermore, the results indicated that cultural orientations had weak moderating effects on the link between parental control and adolescent depressive symptoms. Theoretical and practical implications are discussed.</p>","PeriodicalId":21149,"journal":{"name":"Psychological Reports","volume":" ","pages":"3282-3306"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41132189","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":"Enhancing Self-Reported Assessment of Working Conditions in Policing: Revisiting the Psychometric Properties and Applications of the Police Stress Questionnaire.","authors":"Lillis Rabbing, Bjørn Lau, Knut Inge Fostervold, John Blenkinsopp, Brita Bjørkelo","doi":"10.1177/00332941231207957","DOIUrl":"10.1177/00332941231207957","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>ObjectivesPolicing is recognized as a highly stressful occupation, encompassing stressors not commonly encountered in other fields. In response, police-specific stress scales have been developed and used when studying police work. Despite changes in the composition of police personnel, most studies examining police working conditions focus on sworn police officers (SPO), excluding employees without police education (EWPE). To advance research and practice on stress in the police, align results, and increase the possibilities for comparisons across studies using police-specific measures (PSMs) we conducted a psychometric evaluation of the two scales in the Police Stress Questionnaire (PSQ). We examined whether adding \"Not Applicable\" to the response scales would reduce vulnerability and make the PSQ more robust.MethodBased on a survey with a randomised sample (<i>N</i> = 560) of SPO and EWPE in the Norwegian Police, we tested the original factor structures of the PSQ through Confirmatory Factor Analysis including tests of factor structures from previous studies.ResultsFor all models, the indicators of fit indicated a poor fit with either our whole or stratified sample. The response choice 'Not Applicable' provided extended information for SPOs and EWPEs on the PSQ.ConclusionsTo promote aligning results and enabling comparisons across studies using the PSQ, we suggest treating the PSQ scales as formative indexes, rather than reflective scales. Adding \"Not Applicable\" to the response scale offers an influential elaboration of the PSQ with beneficial and extended information. Generalised studies of stress in the police should include the entire population working there.</p>","PeriodicalId":21149,"journal":{"name":"Psychological Reports","volume":" ","pages":"3898-3916"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12394780/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71413665","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Psychological ReportsPub Date : 2025-10-01Epub Date: 2023-11-07DOI: 10.1177/00332941231214504
Hong He, Hong Li
{"title":"The Influence of Probe Frequency on Self-Reported Mind Wandering During Tasks With Different Cognitive Loads.","authors":"Hong He, Hong Li","doi":"10.1177/00332941231214504","DOIUrl":"10.1177/00332941231214504","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The use of thought-probe methodologies during tasks with varying loads has become commonplace. The current study aimed to investigate whether there exists an interaction between probe frequency and task load on responses of mind wandering episodes, using within-subject designs. In Experiment 1, We performed 0-back, 1-back, and 3-back tasks, in which low-frequency and high-frequency thought probes were presented to the participants. The results indicated that fewer probes led to more reported mind wandering episodes during 0-back and 1-back tasks. Conversely, a significant increase in mind wandering was observed in the 3-back task when higher-frequency probes were used. Experiment 2 introduced the probe relatedness dimension to the medium- and high-load tasks. Both experiments demonstrated that increasing probe frequency reduced mind wandering during the low- and medium-load tasks, but increased it during the high-load task. Additionally, Experiment 2 revealed that higher probe frequency resulted in more probe-related mind wandering during the high-load task, but not during the medium-load task. The current findings reveal the interaction effect of probe frequency and task load on mind wandering and offer possible explanations.</p>","PeriodicalId":21149,"journal":{"name":"Psychological Reports","volume":" ","pages":"3581-3598"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71485528","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}
Psychological ReportsPub Date : 2025-10-01Epub Date: 2023-08-22DOI: 10.1177/00332941231197610
Maria Teresa Muñoz Sastre, Lonzozou Kpanake, Paul Clay Sorum, Etienne Mullet
{"title":"Patients' Positions on the Degree of Trust to be Placed in Physicians.","authors":"Maria Teresa Muñoz Sastre, Lonzozou Kpanake, Paul Clay Sorum, Etienne Mullet","doi":"10.1177/00332941231197610","DOIUrl":"10.1177/00332941231197610","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Patient-physician relationship is ideally based on mutual trust. Trust usually takes times to build but can quite instantaneously be destroyed as a result of a single action or a single misperception. This study examined the way patients conceptualize the relationship between trust in a physician and perceived competency, honesty and openness, and personal involvement in care. One hundred sixty-seven patients aged 18-85 years were presented with a set of 27 three-item realistic vignettes that described situations in which participants could find themselves if hospitalized because of illness or accident. These scenarios resulted from the complete crossing of the three factors mentioned above. Participants were asked to assess the level of trust they would feel in each case. Through cluster analysis, three positions were found. For a minority of participants, trust was either unconditionally high (4%) or always quite low (8%). For a majority (75%), however, trust depended interactively on competency and honesty, on the one hand, and involvement, on the other hand; that is, the impact of competency and honesty on trust always depended on the level of involvement in care. In particular, when involvement had a low level, trust was always quite low, irrespective of the levels of both other factors. These findings are fully consistent with the view that, for a majority of patients, trust is inherently brittle: A breach in any one of participants' expectations regarding physicians' professionalism is enough to result in a more than proportional reduction in trust level.</p>","PeriodicalId":21149,"journal":{"name":"Psychological Reports","volume":" ","pages":"3129-3142"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12394773/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10041895","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Psychological ReportsPub Date : 2025-10-01Epub Date: 2023-10-03DOI: 10.1177/00332941231203563
Niamh Gaynor, Lisa Fitzgerald
{"title":"Mind-Wandering and Its Relationship With Psychological Wellbeing and Obsessive-Compulsive Symptomatology in the Context of Covid-19.","authors":"Niamh Gaynor, Lisa Fitzgerald","doi":"10.1177/00332941231203563","DOIUrl":"10.1177/00332941231203563","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Mind-wandering (MW) as a research topic has received considerable attention over the last several decades. The recent differentiation between spontaneous and deliberate MW has suggested a particular effect of the former on psychopathology; in that increased spontaneous MW may precede mental illness. The present study sought to explore MW as a potential contributing factor to poor mental health in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic. More specifically, we sought to determine firstly, whether the effects of MW frequency, type and content on subjective psychological wellbeing was consistent with previous findings after controlling for the impacts of Covid-related stress. Secondly, previous research has demonstrated an effect of both Covid-stress and spontaneous MW on the experience of obsessive-compulsive symptomatology (OCS), and so the present study explored this relationship further by assessing whether Covid-stress mediated the relationship between spontaneous MW and OCS. Participants completed measures of MW, OCS and psychological wellbeing through an online questionnaire. The results indicated that increased spontaneous MW was indicative of both poorer subjective psychological wellbeing and OCS, with Covid-stress partially mediating the relationship between spontaneous MW and OCS. Our findings provide further support for the adverse effect of unintentional MW on psychological wellbeing, as well as for the differentiation between both forms of the cognitive phenomenon. Additionally, they provide an important insight into one of the factors that may have preceded poor mental health among the Irish population during Covid-19. Future research may build upon the present study by exploring similar relationships among clinical populations.</p>","PeriodicalId":21149,"journal":{"name":"Psychological Reports","volume":" ","pages":"3307-3334"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12394777/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41149589","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Psychological ReportsPub Date : 2025-10-01Epub Date: 2023-10-05DOI: 10.1177/00332941231204299
Qin Zhao, Tao Chen
{"title":"Objective Relative Income Impacts Life Satisfaction and Positive Affect Only When Subjective Absolute Income is High.","authors":"Qin Zhao, Tao Chen","doi":"10.1177/00332941231204299","DOIUrl":"10.1177/00332941231204299","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Given the crucial role of money in individuals' daily life and the potential societal impact of income inequality, it is not surprising that the income-subjective well-being (SWB) link has been a topic of great research interest. The present study extends past research by examining the independent and interactive effects of three personal income factors. An experiment was conducted where subjective income (both absolute and relative) were manipulated and objective relative income was measured. Subjective relative income impacted perceived deprivation, negative affect, and state hostility, whereas the other two income factors showed a main effect on perceived deprivation only. Regarding interaction effects, objective relative income impacted life satisfaction and positive affect only for individuals in the high (vs. low) subjective absolute income condition, i.e., those who perceived their income as adequate for needs/wants. We proposed that the relative deprivation theory (Smith et al., 2012), which primarily focuses on the impact of low relative income (or income inequality), should be expanded to account for <i>both</i> perceived deprivation \"relative to others\" <i>and</i> perceived deprivation \"relative to one's own needs/wants.\"</p>","PeriodicalId":21149,"journal":{"name":"Psychological Reports","volume":" ","pages":"3335-3356"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41150647","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}