Sadia Zaman, Hanna Spychalska-Waszek, Johannes T Doerflinger, Peter M Gollwitzer, Katarzyna Byrka
{"title":"Outfits Serve as Symbols for Overlapping Feminine and STEM Identity Goals.","authors":"Sadia Zaman, Hanna Spychalska-Waszek, Johannes T Doerflinger, Peter M Gollwitzer, Katarzyna Byrka","doi":"10.1111/sjop.13093","DOIUrl":"10.1111/sjop.13093","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Women in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) juggle between their feminine and professional identity goals. The present research views these struggles from the perspective of identity goal pursuits. Women in STEM may use different, sometimes even symbolic, ways to strive for the two identity goals, for example, by wearing outfits that reflect femininity, their profession, or both. In two studies, we tested to what extent these two goals overlap (are seen as similar) and whether the higher overlap between feminine and STEM professional identity goals is related to the preference for outfits that may serve two goals at the same time or only one of them. In Study 1 (N = 232), we found that willingness to wear an outfit serving both identity goals was positively related to the participant's identity goal overlap. Study 2 (N = 226) showed that overlap was related to the evaluation of the chosen outfits. Participants evaluating the chosen outfits as more multifinal reported higher overlap between the two identity goals.</p>","PeriodicalId":21435,"journal":{"name":"Scandinavian journal of psychology","volume":" ","pages":"411-428"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143080962","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}
Daniel J Phipps, Milla Saarinen, Joni Kuokkanen, Jan-Erik Romar
{"title":"Investigating the Roles of Gender, Age, and Sport Characteristics on School and Sport Burnout in Finnish Lower Secondary School Student Athletes.","authors":"Daniel J Phipps, Milla Saarinen, Joni Kuokkanen, Jan-Erik Romar","doi":"10.1111/sjop.13092","DOIUrl":"10.1111/sjop.13092","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>School sport programs for lower secondary school in Finland (i.e., Grades 7-9) show great promise in helping student athletes prepare for careers in both sport and academic pursuits. However, it has also been found that participation in these programs is highly competitive and demanding and may result in poor mental health outcomes like burnout for some students. The purpose of the current study was to investigate how burnout in sport and school in Finnish lower secondary school students was associated with gender, age, training loads, level of competition, and sport type. A sample of 856 lower secondary school students (Grades 7-9, ages 13-15 years old) completed measures of sport and school burnout and provided information on their demographics and sport. Gender, age, training loads, level of competition, and sport type predicted a small but significant portion of variance in sport-related exhaustion, cynicism, and inadequacy, and in school-related exhaustion, but not school cynicism or inadequacy. Females and student athletes with higher training loads generally reported higher levels of burnout, while only a small number of effects related to age, competition level, and type of sport were observed. Lower secondary sports schools in Finland might aim to understand the difficulties encountered by student athletes, particularly females and those with higher training loads. This understanding can guide them in taking informed, practical measures to safeguard the mental health of these students and optimize their performance both academically and athletically.</p>","PeriodicalId":21435,"journal":{"name":"Scandinavian journal of psychology","volume":" ","pages":"390-398"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142954257","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}
{"title":"A Mixture Modeling of the Behavioral Activation System and Problematic Internet Use in Adolescents: The Role of Metacognition, Online Dissociation, and Insomnia.","authors":"Oğuzhan Çelik, Ragıp Ümit Yalçın, Mustafa Eşkisu","doi":"10.1111/sjop.13091","DOIUrl":"10.1111/sjop.13091","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Due to the rapidly developing technological advancements, the overuse of the Internet has led to the emergence of problematic Internet use, which has become a part of our daily lives. This study aims to investigate the relationships between problematic Internet use, Behavioral Activation System (BAS), metacognition, online dissociative experiences, and insomnia. Participants were 341 Turkish adolescents aged between 15 and 19 years (Mean = 15.49, SD = 1.03), of whom 63% were female. Participants responded to the Behavioral Inhibition/Behavioral Activation System Scale, Metacognition Questionnaire, Van Online Dissociative Experiences Schedule, Insomnia Severity Index, and Chen Internet Addiction Scale. The mixture structural equation modeling approach was used to analyze the data. We found a positive relationship between BAS and metacognition, as well as insomnia, and a negative relationship with online dissociation. Furthermore, BAS was indirectly related to problematic Internet use via metacognition, online dissociation, and insomnia. The mixture analysis grouped participants into two latent classes. The first class (76%) had low levels of metacognition, online dissociation, insomnia, and problematic Internet use and high levels of behavioral activation while the second class (24%) had low levels of behavioral activation and high levels of metacognition, online dissociation, insomnia, and problematic Internet use. These findings indicate that individuals with high impulsivity, a tendency toward fun-seeking, and reward sensitivity are predisposed to excessively use the Internet and that metacognition, online dissociative experiences, and insomnia play a determining role in this behavior.</p>","PeriodicalId":21435,"journal":{"name":"Scandinavian journal of psychology","volume":" ","pages":"355-369"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142838582","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}
Victoria Sennerstam, Erik Hedman-Lagerlöf, Gustav Nilsonne, Mats Lekander, Christian Rück, John Wallert, Erland Axelsson, Elin Lindsäter
{"title":"Exhaustion Disorder in Primary Care: A Comparison With Major Depressive Disorder and Adjustment Disorder.","authors":"Victoria Sennerstam, Erik Hedman-Lagerlöf, Gustav Nilsonne, Mats Lekander, Christian Rück, John Wallert, Erland Axelsson, Elin Lindsäter","doi":"10.1111/sjop.13087","DOIUrl":"10.1111/sjop.13087","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Exhaustion disorder (ED) was introduced to the Swedish version of the International Classification of Diseases, 10th edition (ICD-10) 2005. Primarily characterized by general fatigue and cognitive deficits, ED has become one of the most common mental health diagnoses in Sweden. Little is still known regarding the discriminative validity of the ED diagnosis and how it relates to other diagnostic constructs. The study aimed to investigate the discriminative validity of ED compared with two similar diagnoses, major depressive disorder (MDD) and adjustment disorder (AD). Using data from a sample of patients with a principal diagnosis of either ED (n = 352), MDD (n = 99), or AD (n = 302), we compared demographic and clinical variables and scores on self-report symptom scales. Results showed that ED patients were of a higher age and had a higher frequency of sickness absence than MDD and AD patients. There was a substantial overlap of symptoms between ED and MDD, only differing on two of nine self-report symptom scales, with ED patients rating lower work ability d = -0.37 and alcohol consumption d = -0.57. Compared with AD patients, ED patients reported more severe symptoms in every symptom domain. Given the prevalent use of ED diagnosis, its diagnostic validity and clinical usefulness merit further attention.</p>","PeriodicalId":21435,"journal":{"name":"Scandinavian journal of psychology","volume":" ","pages":"315-326"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12042728/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142795025","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}
{"title":"Development and Validation of the Invisibility Scale.","authors":"Christopher Kehlet Ebbrecht, Preben Bertelsen","doi":"10.1111/sjop.13080","DOIUrl":"10.1111/sjop.13080","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The concept of social invisibility describes the devaluation of the perceived social and personal worth of an individual. This paper presents the theoretical foundation for this construct, and the development and validation of the \"Invisibility Scale\" capturing experiences of and needs for social (in)visibility within (i) intimate, (ii) legal, and (iii) communal relations. We developed and validated the Invisibility Scale in two studies. In Study I (n = 944), we formulated 80 items and tested their underlying factor structure using Exploratory Factor Analyses (EFA). In Study II (n = 846), we aimed to replicate the factor structure identified in Study I on a novel sample using Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA), and establish criterion-related validity and construct validity using Structural Equation Modeling (SEM). Our results supported the development of two separate scales for measuring experiences of social invisibility (\"Invisibility Scale<sub>EXP</sub>\") and needs for social visibility (\"Invisibility Scale<sub>NEED</sub>\") Each scale consisted of 12 items (four items for each subfactor of intimate, legal, and communal relations). Evidence for construct validity between the Invisibility Scales and relevant constructs like Moral Disengagement, Sense of Coherence, and Violent Extremist Attitudes was mixed. Based on our findings, we present the two Invisibility Scales as preliminary validated measures of social invisibility. We encourage future research to replicate our findings, as well as looking more into other potentially mediating and moderating factors between social invisibility and its emotional, cognitive, and behavioral correlates.</p>","PeriodicalId":21435,"journal":{"name":"Scandinavian journal of psychology","volume":" ","pages":"370-389"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142922798","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}
{"title":"RETRACTION: Do Conservatives Really Have an Advantage in Mental Health? An Examination of Measurement Invariance.","authors":"","doi":"10.1111/sjop.13109","DOIUrl":"10.1111/sjop.13109","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Retraction: E. Dutton, and E. Kirkeggard, \"Do Conservatives Really Have an Advantage in Mental Health? An Examination of Measurement Invariance,\" Scandinavian Journal of Psychology 66, no. 1 (2025): 76-84, https://doi.org/10.1111/sjop.13065. The above article, published online on 24 August 2024 in Wiley Online Library (wileyonlinelibrary.com), has been retracted by agreement between the journal Editor-in-Chief, Leif Edward Ottesen Kennair; The Scandinavian Psychological Associations; and John Wiley & Sons Ltd. Following publication of this article, concerns were raised by third parties about the conclusions drawn by the authors based on the data provided. The publisher and the journal have investigated these concerns and have concluded that the article contains major errors involving methods, theory, and normatively biased language. These errors bring into doubt the conclusions drawn by the authors. Therefore, the parties agree that the article must be retracted. The authors disagree with the decision.</p>","PeriodicalId":21435,"journal":{"name":"Scandinavian journal of psychology","volume":" ","pages":"458"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143721536","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}
Rebecca Landquist, Caisa Öster, Martina Isaksson, Martina Wolf-Arehult
{"title":"The Path to Loneliness for Psychiatric Patients: A Qualitative Study of a Journey Marked by Pain, Hopelessness, Prosocial Signaling Deficits, and Coping Strategies That Are Not Effective.","authors":"Rebecca Landquist, Caisa Öster, Martina Isaksson, Martina Wolf-Arehult","doi":"10.1111/sjop.13089","DOIUrl":"10.1111/sjop.13089","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Enduring loneliness has serious physical and mental health implications. Patients with mental health problems are at risk of experiencing problems related to loneliness. Therefore, it is important to increase knowledge about how loneliness is experienced and managed in this particular group. The aim of the study was to explore (1) psychiatric patients' experiences of different forms of loneliness, (2) associated problems, including difficulties with prosocial signaling, and (3) strategies used to combat loneliness, to better understand how loneliness affects psychiatric patients and how patients manage their loneliness. A total of 110 psychiatric patients were recruited at eight outpatient clinics in Region Stockholm for a larger study of loneliness. The first fifteen patients who also agreed to participate in the present substudy were invited to meet a trainee psychologist who conducted a semi-structured interview. A reflexive thematic analysis with a codebook approach was used to analyze the transcripts. The described experiences of loneliness were primarily examples of social and emotional loneliness with one prominent theme: \"Hopelessly lonely\". Associated problems were summarized in two themes: \"The inevitable road to loneliness\" and \"Social signals are confusing and push others away\". Regarding patients' strategies for combating loneliness, one theme emerged: \"Using strategies that focus on the current moment\". The results also included a total of sixteen subthemes. Loneliness was described as something painful that is inevitable and unchangeable, with a self-reinforcing loneliness loop leading to social and emotional loneliness, and as something that is intertwined with mental health problems. These results are in accordance with research. In addition, patients described a variety of prosocial signaling deficits and feelings of being disconnected from others. They also reported using strategies that primarily alleviated their immediate suffering when they were alone, rather than focusing on approaches with long-term effects on reducing loneliness, such as participating in social activities combined with effective social signaling. Future research should investigate whether increased awareness of social signaling, as well as social activities combined with improved prosocial signaling and strengthened self-belief, would constitute effective steps for patients to combat enduring loneliness. It also seems important to help patients reduce hopelessness related to loneliness.</p>","PeriodicalId":21435,"journal":{"name":"Scandinavian journal of psychology","volume":" ","pages":"399-410"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12042727/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143010953","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}
{"title":"Cognitive-Emotional Impact of Negative Interpretations of Ambiguous Social Information and Fear of Negative Evaluation on the Association Between Intolerance of Uncertainty and Social Anxiety Subtypes: A Cross-Sectional Mediation Analysis.","authors":"Flavia I Spiroiu, Kathryn Amanda Maranzan","doi":"10.1111/sjop.13115","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/sjop.13115","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study investigated whether negative interpretations of ambiguous social information and fear of negative evaluation (FNE) mediate the relationship between intolerance of uncertainty (IU) and social anxiety subtypes, specifically social interaction anxiety and performance anxiety. Sixty-six participants completed measures examining IU, social interaction anxiety, social performance anxiety, fear of negative evaluation, and negative interpretation bias in the context of ambiguous social scenarios. As expected, fear of negative evaluation mediated the association between IU and social interaction anxiety, and the relationship between IU and performance anxiety. Negative interpretation bias, as measured by a higher likelihood of having negative interpretations of ambiguous social content come to mind, mediated the association between IU and both social anxiety subtypes; however, participants' belief in those negative interpretations did not. Results of this study suggest that difficulty tolerating uncertainty about perceived negative evaluation and about the meaning and possible consequences of ambiguous social situations may be a critical element in the development, maintenance, and/or exacerbation of social anxiety. Future studies should incorporate longitudinal designs using serial moderation models to examine the complex causal relations between IU, FNE, negative appraisals of ambiguous social content, and social anxiety subtypes.</p>","PeriodicalId":21435,"journal":{"name":"Scandinavian journal of psychology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2025-05-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144161860","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}
Isabel Vicario-Molina, Andrés A Fernández-Fuertes, Antonio Fuertes, M Begoña Orgaz-Baz
{"title":"Attachment, Power/Influence, Conflict Management Strategies, and Sexual Aggression in Emerging Adult Romantic Relationships.","authors":"Isabel Vicario-Molina, Andrés A Fernández-Fuertes, Antonio Fuertes, M Begoña Orgaz-Baz","doi":"10.1111/sjop.13125","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/sjop.13125","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Sexual aggression among young people is a public health concern. Although many episodes take place in a couple's relationship, few studies have explored the importance of relational variables in this interpersonal context. Of special interest may be the variables in a couple's functioning related to connectedness, power/influence, and conflict management. This dyadic longitudinal study aimed to examine the relationship between relational variables and sexual aggression in emerging adult romantic relationships. The sample consisted of 133 young heterosexual Spanish couples (mean age = 19.44; SD = 1.41) who completed an online questionnaire. At time 1 (T1), romantic attachment, partner's attempt to influence, perception of actual partner influence, conflict management strategies, and sexual aggression (perpetration and victimization) were assessed; 9 months later (T2), sexual aggression was assessed again. The data were analyzed following the Actor-Partner Interdependence Model (APIM). Males reported higher levels of perpetration than females, and females reported more victimization. Attachment-related anxiety predicted perpetration and victimization in both males and females (T1). In addition, males reported more perpetration when they perceived their partners as attempting to gain power in the relationship (T1) or having more actual influence in the romantic relationship (T2); whereas in females, victimization was more likely when they perceived more partner influence (T1 and T2), and their partners reported more female attempts at influence (T2). Negative conflict management strategies also explained male perpetration (T1 and T2) and female victimization (T1 and T2). These findings suggest the need to develop interventions aimed at promoting equity and relationship skills for emerging adults.</p>","PeriodicalId":21435,"journal":{"name":"Scandinavian journal of psychology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2025-05-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144151577","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}
Sophia Appelbom, Anna Finnes, Rikard K Wicksell, Aleksandra Bujacz
{"title":"Symptoms of Psychological Stress and Sickness Absence Among Healthcare Workers During a Persistent Crisis.","authors":"Sophia Appelbom, Anna Finnes, Rikard K Wicksell, Aleksandra Bujacz","doi":"10.1111/sjop.13127","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/sjop.13127","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Elevated psychological stress reactions among healthcare workers during the COVID-19 pandemic necessitated a need to better understand their possible impact on sickness absence (SA). The study aimed to describe the relation between SA related to mental health problems and symptoms of psychological stress among healthcare workers during the COVID-19 pandemic. We further aimed to identify whether latent profiles of psychological stress reactions exist within the same population. In this observational registry-based study, survey data between May 2020 and March 2021 and SA register data between May 2019 and February 2023 were collected from 1245 Swedish healthcare workers. Differences between symptoms of burnout, depression, anxiety, PTSD, sleep disturbance, lack of detachment, and lack of recovery among groups with no, few (< 90), or many (≥ 90) SA days were analyzed with Kruskal-Wallis tests. Interrelations between symptoms of psychological stress were identified using latent profile analysis. Compared to healthy participants, participants with SA days (in total 6.3%) reported more severe symptoms of psychological stress, were younger, and more likely to work as assistant nurses. Furthermore, they displayed a higher degree of previous SA (prior to the pandemic). No statistically significant differences between groups with few (< 90) and many (≥ 90) days of SA in symptoms were noted. Four latent profiles of psychological stress were identified, but they differed only in the level of experienced symptoms. We conclude that different symptoms of psychological stress are highly interrelated among healthcare workers during a crisis. Although many healthcare workers may experience elevated symptoms in relation to the crisis, it will not necessarily lead to serious mental health problems requiring SA.</p>","PeriodicalId":21435,"journal":{"name":"Scandinavian journal of psychology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2025-05-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144151588","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}