Translational Issues in Psychological Science最新文献

{"title":"Flourishing as resilience: Flourishing among Hispanic/Latino adolescents during the COVID-19 pandemic.","authors":"Kate Ryan Kuhlman, Neda Semsar, Elizabeth Antici, Nazly Restrepo","doi":"10.1037/tps0000435","DOIUrl":"10.1037/tps0000435","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The COVID-19 pandemic disturbed the lives of adolescents during a well-established, sensitive period of development, and further disadvantaged communities already burdened with limited resources. Although there has consistently been discourse on human suffering during and since the COVID-19 pandemic, very little attention has been given to flourishing during this time of extraordinary adversity. Flourishing is a construct that describes a group of individuals who are concurrently reporting high or frequent hedonic (positive emotions) and eudaimonic (purpose, fulfilment) experiences. In the present study we modeled resilience as indexed by the association between early life adversity (ELA) and flourishing, as well as the mediating role of two indices of psychosocial resources (cumulative and compensatory) as a function of individual differences in the impact of COVID-19 in their lives. To do so, we used data collected from 223 predominantly Hispanic/Latino youth (age 11-18) assessed between April 2021 and April 2022 as part of a community-engaged partnership. Based on adolescent self-report on the Mental Health Continuum (MHC-SF), 36.3% of the sample met criteria for flourishing. Parallel moderated mediation showed that having more exposure to ELA was associated with a lower likelihood of flourishing (<i>p</i> < .001), and that this association was differentially explained by compensatory psychosocial resources depending on COVID-19 impact. Specifically, among adolescents experiencing high COVID-19 impact, ELA was associated with a lower likelihood of flourishing via lower compensatory psychosocial resources, indirect effect at high COVID-19 impact <i>b</i> = -0.01 (<i>SE</i> = 0.007), <i>95%CI</i>[-0.03, -0.002]. These results underscore the importance of considering ELA and recent stress in conceptualizations of adolescent flourishing and demonstrate the potential advantages of identifying interventions that increase compensatory psychosocial resources among ELA-exposed youth.</p>","PeriodicalId":29959,"journal":{"name":"Translational Issues in Psychological Science","volume":"11 2","pages":"195-205"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12453147/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145132109","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"From Cueless to Cue-Full: Understanding Health Care Cues' Impact on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Disclosure.","authors":"Michelle A Stage, Mollie A Ruben","doi":"10.1037/tps0000442","DOIUrl":"10.1037/tps0000442","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ+) individuals face health care disparities, highlighting the need for inclusive and affirming health care environments. Critical to this issue is the willingness to disclose sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI) in health care settings, as it can significantly influence the quality of care. Despite prior literature emphasizing affirming spaces, the link between the physical health care office environment and SOGI disclosure remains underexplored. This study investigates the impact of health care office environments on the disclosure of SOGI in a diverse sample of <i>N</i> = 399 participants (LGBTQ+ <i>n</i> = 196; cisgender and heterosexual: cishet <i>n</i> = 203). Findings reveal that affirming health care settings enhance willingness to disclose SOGI status, particularly among sexual minorities who identify as cisgender (LGBQ) individuals, while transgender and gender diverse individuals exhibit less willingness to disclose compared to LGBQ and cishet individuals. Individual factors (e.g., outness, internalized stigma) significantly influence willingness to disclose SOGI status. Affirming health care environments mitigated the negative impact of internalized LGBTQ+ stigma on willingness to disclose. These results highlight the need for affirming spaces, addressing both external discrimination and internalized LGBTQ+ stigma to mitigate LGBTQ+ health disparities.</p>","PeriodicalId":29959,"journal":{"name":"Translational Issues in Psychological Science","volume":"11 1","pages":"42-55"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12345974/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144856588","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"\"If They Don't Drink, They Can Die of Stress\": Motivations for and Effects of Substance Use Among Gay and Bisexual Men and Other Men Who Have Sex With Men in Kenya.","authors":"Myla Lyons, Gary W Harper, Elijah Ochieng Odhiambo, Laura Jadwin-Cakmak, Felix Okuta, K Rivet Amico, Teddy Aloo, Adrian Beyer, Edwin Gumbe, Kennedy Olango, Susan M Graham","doi":"10.1037/tps0000432","DOIUrl":"10.1037/tps0000432","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Given the multiple layers of intersectional stigma and discrimination faced by gay and bisexual men and other men who have sex with men (GBMSM) in Kenya, substances may be used to cope with minority stressors. The majority of research on substance use for this population has focused on reporting rates of substance use and its association with HIV risk and mental health. This study provides an in-depth and nuanced exploration of what motivates substance use and substance use reduction, and how substance use impacts various aspects of Kenyan GBMSM's lives. Individual in-depth interviews were conducted with 60 GBMSM (ages 20-45) in Western Kenya as part of a larger study focused on developing an HIV prevention and sexual health promotion intervention. Thematic qualitative analyses were conducted by a diverse team of analysts. Substance use was perceived to have positive and negative effects within three primary thematic areas of functioning: sexual health, physical health, and economic well-being. Motivations or reasons for using substances included coping with stigma, increasing social connectedness, increasing sexual confidence, lowering sexual inhibitions, and peer pressure. Various motivations or reasons to reduce substance use were discussed, including improving sexual health, improving mental well-being, having better sex, maintaining power during sex work, and maintaining physical good looks. These data provide a more complex understanding of the role that substance use plays in Kenyan GBMSM's lives, and provide valuable information for community-based interventions to prevent negative health outcomes from substance use.</p>","PeriodicalId":29959,"journal":{"name":"Translational Issues in Psychological Science","volume":"11 1","pages":"31-41"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12158435/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144286646","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"How EASI can it be? Closing the research-to-practice gap via population-based validation of the MAPS-EASI 2.0 early childhood irritability screener for translation to clinical use.","authors":"Lauren S Wakschlag, Yudong Zhang, Marie E Heffernan, Leigha A MacNeill, Erin O Peterson, Susan Friedland, Aliza Jaffe Sass, Justin D Smith, Matthew M Davis, Jillian Lee Wiggins","doi":"10.1037/tps0000428","DOIUrl":"10.1037/tps0000428","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Dysregulated irritability is the most robust early childhood transdiagnostic predictor of psychopathology. However, this evidence has failed to translate to practice due to a dearth of efficient, developmentally-based screening tools. Drawing on the well-validated Multidimensional Assessment Profiles (MAPS) Temper Loss Scale, early feasibility testing of a preliminary clinical screener (MAPS-Early Assessment Screener for Irritability; MAPS-EASI 1.0) was well-received. However, large-scale clinical implementation requires enhanced precision, with age-banded norms psychometrically derived in a large representative sample. Here, we aim to optimize MAPS-EASI for routine pediatric care via psychometric validation of the MAPS-EASI 2.0 Irritability Screener and Impact Rating. Data on 2-5-year-old children (N=1,508) were utilized to derive generalizable thresholds for MAPS-EASI 2.0. Analyses were guided by timing of toddler (<i>n</i>=463) and preschool (<i>n</i>=1045) age well-child visits, generating two Irritability Screener forms: (<b>1</b>) 3 items for toddlers (18-33 months); and (<b>2</b>) 4 items for preschoolers (34-66 months). Irritability Screener severity cut-points were established with good-to-excellent classification (areas under the curve=0.84, 0.88), sensitivity (0.83, 0.82), and specificity (0.72, 0.79), for toddlers and preschoolers respectively. Over-identification was reduced by including impairment in the screening algorithm via the MAPS-EASI 2.0 Impact Rating. The clinical threshold for this integrative algorithm identified 15% and 18% of toddlers and preschoolers, respectively; these rates align with established population prevalence. Pragmatic, transdiagnostic developmental screening tools for routine care may accelerate real-world impact of irritability science for early mental health.</p>","PeriodicalId":29959,"journal":{"name":"Translational Issues in Psychological Science","volume":"10 4","pages":"435-448"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12456273/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145138375","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Early Childhood Emotion Regulation Strategy Articulation, its Neurophysiological Correlates, and Association with Psychopathology.","authors":"Zachary Bivins, Adam Grabell","doi":"10.1037/tps0000439","DOIUrl":"10.1037/tps0000439","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Deliberate Emotion Regulation (ER), the effortful regulation of emotions, is strongly linked to psychopathology. In adults, deliberate ER is often experienced as a self-narrative, such as reappraising a negatively perceived scenario. However, researchers have yet to study how young children articulate deliberate ER strategies, whether these strategies relate to real-time ER neurophysiological processes, and how these strategies are associated with psychopathology. We examined preschool-aged children's verbally articulated ER strategies prior to a frustration challenge, and related these strategies to subsequent real-time neural and physiological responses to frustration and psychopathology in a sample of 59 children. We categorized children's responses into two groups: those who articulated any emotion regulation strategy (i.e., \"strategy\") and those who did not articulate a strategy (i.e., \"no strategy\"). We found that about 70% of children in our sample were able to articulate an emotion regulation strategy. Children who articulated a strategy had lower psychophysiological stress during a frustration task compared to children who did not articulate a strategy. Children who articulated a strategy also had fewer ADHD symptoms compared to peers who did not, but also significantly smaller variability of symptoms, and when these unequal variances were taken into account the difference was outside of the traditional p < .05 threshold for significance. To our knowledge, this pilot study is the first to show that emotion regulation strategy articulation may be an emerging skill in early childhood connected to successful modulation of physiological stress and fewer symptoms of psychopathology.</p>","PeriodicalId":29959,"journal":{"name":"Translational Issues in Psychological Science","volume":"10 4","pages":"417-434"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12459667/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145151161","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Lot Assessment of Neighborhood Disorder Virtual Audit Tool: A Valid and Reliable Five-Item Physical Neighborhood Disorder Measure.","authors":"Elizabeth A Shewark, S Alexandra Burt, C J Sivak, Amber L Pearson","doi":"10.1037/tps0000404","DOIUrl":"10.1037/tps0000404","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Neighborhood physical disorder is linked to deleterious resident physical and mental health. It is thus critical to develop low-cost, reliable methods that utilize publicly available imagery (e.g., Google Street View; GSV) to comprehensively audit neighborhoods. We aimed to create a reliable, efficient, and scale-flexible virtual audit of neighborhood disorder (Lot Assessment of Neighborhood Disorder; LAND) that can be aggregated to larger geographical units. A total of 710 block faces on 355 street segments were coded in Detroit, MI. We tested reliability between coders on 20% of the sample (71 segments (i.e., two sides of the street); 146 block faces (i.e., one side of the street) and found reliability was adequate at the individual lot (Kappas ranged from .60 - 1), block face (ICCs ranged from .94 -.98), and segment (ICCs ranged from .96-.98) levels, with the sole exception of graffiti (for which ICCs were typically in the .56 to .57 range). Moreover, LAND's score was positively correlated with number of vacant lots, area deprivation, and resident perceptions of their neighborhood. Overall, LAND evidence higher levels of reliability than previous physical neighborhood disorder virtual audits and evidenced significant correlations across several known correlates of physical neighborhood disorder, thus highlighting LAND as an effective virtual audit tool in the study of physical neighborhood disorder.</p>","PeriodicalId":29959,"journal":{"name":"Translational Issues in Psychological Science","volume":"10 3","pages":"262-275"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12459647/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145151195","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Differentiating compliance and verbal coercion: A mixed methods content validity study.","authors":"Victoria-Jane Welk, RaeAnn Anderson, Brittany Mancha, Zackary Anderson, Lilly Christen","doi":"10.1037/tps0000421","DOIUrl":"10.1037/tps0000421","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Verbal coercion, a form of sexual violence, is a common problem that is related to various psychological and physical outcomes. Cognitive interviewing is an important technique used to understand how people perceive items on a questionnaire. The current study utilized cognitive interviewing and sought to examine the content validity of a potentially ambiguous item, \"my partner insisted on sex\", from the Revised Conflict Tactics Scales, a measure of intimate partner violence. Participants were mostly college students at a local Midwestern University (N = 39). Participants responses were qualitatively coded, and the following themes emerged: coercion (42.68%) (physical (4.88%) and verbal (37.80%)), consent (30.49%), compliance (4.88%), hesitancy to have sex (13.41%), personal experiences (6.10%), and perpetrator's intent (2.44%). The results show that most participants viewed the item, \"partner insisted on sex\" as a verbally coercive tactic; this theme was mentioned more often than non-coercive themes. Participants were also asked to rate quantitatively how consensual they considered the insistence item, and comparison items representing other tactic types. Three tactics were rated as clearly nonconsensual using a <i>p</i> < .05 standard, including the insistence item (<i>M</i> = 1.946, <i>SD</i> = 1.70) with a range from \"0-not consensual at all\" to \"7-completely consensual\". This suggests evidence of consent validity since the item was perceived as representing coercive behavior.</p>","PeriodicalId":29959,"journal":{"name":"Translational Issues in Psychological Science","volume":"10 3","pages":"290-299"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12490731/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145233463","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Navigating the Modern Landscape of Social Media: Ethical Considerations for Research With Adolescents and Young Adults.","authors":"Julie V Cristello, Megan Strowger, Megan A Moreno, Elisa M Trucco","doi":"10.1037/tps0000408","DOIUrl":"10.1037/tps0000408","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Engagement on social media among adolescents and young adults (AYAs) is almost universal. AYAs use social media for socialization, connection, and expression, as well as to obtain news and information. Adolescence and young adulthood also represent developmental periods characterized by the emergence of risk behaviors and many forms of psychopathology. Given that risk behaviors and mental health depictions are often displayed and observed online, social media platforms have become an optimal research tool to examine AYA behaviors that may not be visible offline. Social media platforms have the potential to increase recruitment and retention, especially among hard-to-reach, and understudied youth, and to connect AYA with resources for risk behaviors and mental health in a more naturalistic setting. Despite these advantages, the limited consensus on social media ethics across institutions and internal review boards, and the rapidly evolving features on each platform has made it difficult to develop study protocols, navigate and adapt to platform changes, and predict ethical issues that may arise in the context of research. Thus, the purpose of this manuscript is to discuss ethical considerations specific to AYA in social media research. Two research approaches, self-report and observational, are discussed with a focus on informed consent, privacy, and confidentiality. The goal of this manuscript is to highlight the nuances associated with social media research, and the implications for the promotion of ethical practices when adopting social media as a research tool to improve our understanding of AYA behavior.</p>","PeriodicalId":29959,"journal":{"name":"Translational Issues in Psychological Science","volume":"10 2","pages":"123-134"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11784637/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143081119","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Our group is worth the fight: Group cohesion is embedded in willingness to fight or die for relatively deprived political groups during national elections.","authors":"Lily Syfers, Zoe Royer, Benjamin Anjierwerden, David E. Rast, Amber M. Gaffney","doi":"10.1037/tps0000381","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/tps0000381","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":29959,"journal":{"name":"Translational Issues in Psychological Science","volume":"60 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-12-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138952095","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Addressing mass incarceration amid a pandemic: Psychology informing\u0000 decarceration as a racial justice and public health response.","authors":"Apryl A. Alexander, Hannah Klukoff, Claire Gaglione","doi":"10.1037/tps0000386","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/tps0000386","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":29959,"journal":{"name":"Translational Issues in Psychological Science","volume":"14 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-12-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138971558","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}