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{"title":"Risk Perceptions of Air Pollution and Climate Anxiety in Residents of High Andean Urban Hillsides: A Hierarchical Regression Analysis.","authors":"Enma T Huaman-Chulluncuy, Verónica Luna-Ccoa, Arturo Zuñiga-Blanco, Máximo Córdova Huamaní, Juan Huillca Ochoa","doi":"10.3390/ejihpe16090145","DOIUrl":"10.3390/ejihpe16090145","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Risk perception regarding air pollution in Andean urban environments poses significant challenges to psychological well-being, highlighting the emergence of climate anxiety. Despite this, evidence on how cognitive appraisals of environmental and health risks predict this distress in vulnerable communities remains scarce. This study analyzed the explanatory capacity of environmental risk perceptions and perceived health effects on the variance of climate anxiety among residents of hillside communities in an Andean region of Peru. Using a quantitative, cross-sectional, and analytical design, 205 participants selected by quota sampling were assessed. Validated scales were applied to measure risk perception (individual and social), perceived health effects, climate anxiety, and sociodemographic factors. Hierarchical linear regression analyses revealed that individual risk perception, perceived symptoms and discomfort, as well as health concerns and the adoption of preventive measures, exhibited positive and statistically significant associations with climate anxiety, demonstrating greater explanatory power than sociodemographic variables. The final model explained 34.3% of the variance in climate anxiety (<i>R</i>² = 0.343; adjusted <i>R</i>² = 0.316), representing a moderate explanatory capacity. Furthermore, significant differences were identified based on gender, educational level, and type of residence (native vs. migrant). It is concluded that climate anxiety in vulnerable urban communities is not an abstract concern, but rather an internalized emotional response. This distress is intensified by immediate somatic experience, the proximal interpretation of atmospheric threats, and the subjective experience of risk at the individual level.</p>","PeriodicalId":30631,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Investigation in Health Psychology and Education","volume":"16 9","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2026-09-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13605110/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149041019","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":"A Multidimensional Assessment of the Impact of Healthcare Volunteering in a War-Affected Setting.","authors":"Latefa Ali Dardas, Amal Abuabada, Amjad Al-Khayat, Firas Al-Mahasneh, Belal Aldabbour","doi":"10.3390/ejihpe16090144","DOIUrl":"10.3390/ejihpe16090144","url":null,"abstract":"&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Background&lt;/b&gt;: Medical students who volunteer during armed conflict may help sustain overwhelmed health services while experiencing concurrent social, academic, psychological, and physical consequences. However, no context-sensitive instrument has been available to assess these multidimensional benefits and burdens in active conflict settings. This study primarily aimed to develop and conduct an initial psychometric evaluation of the Volunteering Impact Scale (VIS) among medical students volunteering in Gaza and, secondarily, to characterize their volunteering experiences. &lt;b&gt;Methods:&lt;/b&gt; A cross-sectional survey was conducted among 169 medical students who volunteered in hospitals in Gaza during the ongoing war. An initial 28-item pool was generated from a focused literature review, relevant theoretical frameworks, and consultations with Gaza-based medical students and clinicians. A multidisciplinary team reviewed the items for relevance, clarity, redundancy, and contextual appropriateness. Following item refinement and psychometric evaluation, the final 16-item VIS comprised five domains: social impact, mental burden, physical burden, academic development, and wellbeing and fulfillment. Its structure was assessed using exploratory factor analysis with principal axis factoring and Promax rotation, followed by confirmatory factor analysis. Internal consistency and convergent and discriminant validity were also examined. Domain scores and their associations with participant, volunteering, and war-exposure characteristics were subsequently analyzed. &lt;b&gt;Results&lt;/b&gt;: Exploratory factor analysis revealed a five-factor structure explaining 51.2% of the variance. Parallel analysis favored three factors, whereas a theoretically informed five-domain solution was retained for further evaluation. Primary factor loadings ranged from 0.23 to 0.89. Most items met the prespecified loading criterion of 0.40; however, three Social items demonstrated weaker loadings and were retained provisionally because of their conceptual relevance to the construct. Confirmatory analysis provided support for the proposed measurement structure (RMSEA = 0.059, SRMR = 0.075, CFI = 0.911, and TLI = 0.888). Cronbach's alpha coefficients ranged from 0.64 to 0.75, and discriminant validity was supported by heterotrait-monotrait ratios below 0.85. Participants reported perceived social (M = 4.31/5), academic (M = 4.19), and wellbeing-related (M = 3.96) benefits. Mean reverse-scored Mental and Physical scores were 2.71 and 2.60, respectively, with lower scores indicating greater burden. Longer volunteering was associated with greater physical strain but also with stronger academic and wellbeing outcomes. &lt;b&gt;Conclusions&lt;/b&gt;: The VIS demonstrated a conceptually coherent five-domain structure and promising initial psychometric properties for assessing the concurrent benefits and burdens of healthcare volunteering in a war-affected setting. Further validation in independent and mo","PeriodicalId":30631,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Investigation in Health Psychology and Education","volume":"16 9","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2026-09-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13605970/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149040953","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":"Artificial Intelligence Literacy and the Responsible Use of Generative AI Among University Students in Peru: The Mediating Role of Self-Regulated Learning and the Moderating Effect of Technostress.","authors":"Sandra Lizzette León Luyo, Heyner Yuliano Marquez-Yauri, Christian David Corrales Otazú, Sarita Jessica Apaza Miranda, César Pol Arévalo-Aranda, Marcos Marcelo Flores Castillo, Luisa Angélica Orejuela Guerrero, César Augusto Guzmán Valle, Marco Agustín Arbulú Ballesteros, Ana Elizabeth Paredes Morales","doi":"10.3390/ejihpe16090143","DOIUrl":"10.3390/ejihpe16090143","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>University students' adoption of generative artificial intelligence has become nearly universal, yet institutional guidance has not kept pace, leaving responsible use dependent on students' own self-regulation. Drawing on social cognitive theory, this study examined whether self-regulated learning accounts for the association between AI literacy and self-reported responsible use of generative AI, and how technostress relates to that association. A cross-sectional survey of 820 Peruvian undergraduates from public and private universities was analyzed using covariance-based structural equation modeling; a two-stage moderated mediation model with latent interactions was estimated using latent moderated structural equations. Measurement invariance held across gender and university type, and the available diagnostics did not indicate a dominant common-method factor. AI literacy predicted self-regulated learning (β = 0.626) and responsible use (β = 0.243), and self-regulated learning predicted responsible use (β = 0.445). The indirect effect was significant, β = 0.278, 95% CI [0.226, 0.337], accounting for 53.4% of the total effect. Technostress showed no significant moderation of the first stage or the direct path, but the second-stage path was significantly weaker at higher levels of technostress (<i>b</i>₂ = -0.211, <i>p</i> < 0.001): the conditional indirect effect was 0.344 at low and 0.111 at high technostress and was not statistically distinguishable from zero above the estimated region-of-significance boundary of +1.40 SD. Technostress was not associated with weaker self-regulation, but with a weaker association between self-regulation and its behavioural expression. Because the design is cross-sectional, all estimates are reported as associations.</p>","PeriodicalId":30631,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Investigation in Health Psychology and Education","volume":"16 9","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2026-09-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13605633/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149040687","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":"Educational and Professional Development Interventions to Strengthen Empathy, Compassion, and Relational Care Among Healthcare Professionals: A Systematic Review.","authors":"Alexis Serna-Menor, Juan Pablo Hervás-Pérez, José Antonio Guerra-Guirao, Cibeles Serna-Menor, Gema Mata-González, Andrés García-Notario, María Arnazazu Sánchez-Calabuig, Ivan Herrera-Peco","doi":"10.3390/ejihpe16090142","DOIUrl":"10.3390/ejihpe16090142","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Humanized healthcare depends on professionals' capacity to communicate empathically, respond compassionately, and establish therapeutic relationships. This globally focused systematic review aimed to synthesize comparative evidence on educational and professional development interventions designed to strengthen humanistic and relational practice among patient-facing healthcare professionals across international healthcare contexts. MEDLINE via PubMed, Scopus, Web of Science Core Collection, and the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL) were searched. Comparative intervention studies involving practicing healthcare professionals were included. Findings were synthesized narratively by relational domain and assessment source. Risk of bias was evaluated using the revised Cochrane risk-of-bias tool for randomized trials (RoB 2), its extension for cluster-randomized trials, and the Risk Of Bias In Non-randomized Studies of Interventions Version 2 (ROBINS-I V2). Thirty-five reports representing 33 independent studies were included. Reports addressed clinical empathy and emotional responsiveness (n = 22); compassion, caring, and humanistic practice (n = 7); and trust, rapport, and therapeutic relationships (n = 6). Favorable effects were most consistent for proximal professional outcomes, including self-reported empathy, compassion, caring competence, confidence, and self-efficacy. Several studies also reported improvements in specific observed communication behaviors. However, patient- and family-reported outcomes were less frequently assessed and showed less consistent favorable between-group differences. Longer-term maintenance was also uncertain. Most individually randomized trials raised some concerns about risk of bias (13/19), while the two cluster-randomized trials were judged as having some concerns and high risk, respectively; all 12 nonrandomized comparative studies were at serious risk of bias. Educational interventions may strengthen selected relational competencies, but evidence of sustained transfer to routine practice, patient experience, trust, and therapeutic alliance remains limited and heterogeneous.</p>","PeriodicalId":30631,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Investigation in Health Psychology and Education","volume":"16 9","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2026-09-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13605427/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149040849","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":"Always Connected, Not Always Well: The Moderating Role of Sleep Quality in the Relationship Between Nomophobia and Mental Health Among University Students in Saudi Arabia.","authors":"Ibrahim A Elshaer, Alaa M S Azazz, Chokri Kooli","doi":"10.3390/ejihpe16090140","DOIUrl":"10.3390/ejihpe16090140","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>As smartphones become progressively embedded in students' social, academic, and personal lives, concerns have been raised about the emotional consequences of nomophobia (no-mobile-phone phobia). Although previous research has shown an overall correlation between nomophobia and increased mental health symptoms, little is known about whether its main dimensions exerted differential associations with different mental health symptom dimensions or whether sleep quality can influence these relationships. Addressing these gaps, this research tested the associations between four dimensions of nomophobia-Not Being Able to Communicate (NBAC), Losing Connectedness (LC), Not Being Able to Access Information (NBAI), and Giving Up Convenience (GUC)-and three mental health symptoms: depression (Dprtn), anxiety (Enzt), and stress (Strs), while testing the moderating role of sleep quality (SQ) among university students. Drawing upon Conservation of Resources (COR) Theory and Self-Determination Theory (SDT), a quantitative cross-sectional survey was conducted among 980 university students. The proposed research model was analyzed using Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modeling (PLS-SEM). The results demonstrated that the psychological consequences of nomophobia are dimension-specific rather than homogeneous. LC emerged as the most consistent predictor, showing significant positive associations with depression, anxiety, and stress. In contrast, NBAC was not significantly associated with any of the three mental health outcomes. NBAI showed mixed effects, with a significant positive association with depression, a significant negative association with anxiety, and no significant association with stress. GUC was significantly and positively associated with depression, anxiety, and stress. Furthermore, sleep quality functioned as a selective moderator, with significant interaction effects for SQ × NBAC on depression and anxiety, SQ × NBAI on depression, and SQ × GUC on depression and stress. No significant moderation effects were observed for the remaining hypothesized interactions. These findings highlight the dimension-specific nature of nomophobia and indicate that the role of sleep quality varies across the specific nomophobia dimension and the mental health outcome considered.</p>","PeriodicalId":30631,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Investigation in Health Psychology and Education","volume":"16 9","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2026-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13605747/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149040695","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":"Person, Affective, Cognitive, and Executive Dimensions Associated with Problematic Social Media Use, Internet Gaming Disorder, and Their Co-Occurrence in Young Adults.","authors":"Melany León-Méndez, Iván Padrón, Ascensión Fumero, Lilisbeth Perestelo-Pérez, Rosario J Marrero","doi":"10.3390/ejihpe16090141","DOIUrl":"10.3390/ejihpe16090141","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p><b>Background</b>: Problematic Social Media Use (PSMU) and Internet Gaming Disorder (IGD) are online behaviors associated with adverse psychosocial outcomes in young adults. However, person, affective, cognitive, and executive correlates of these behaviors remain insufficiently examined. This study examined I-PACE (Interaction of Person-Affect-Cognition-Execution) model dimensions associated with PSMU and IGD, and their co-occurrence in young adults from dimensional and categorical perspectives. <b>Methods</b>: A total of 1586 students (68.9% female; M = 20.42 years, SD = 2.41) completed self-report measures assessing PSMU, IGD, personality traits, emotion regulation difficulties, decision-making styles, and executive functioning. <b>Results</b>: Overall, 17.97% screened positive for PSMU, 16.02% for IGD, and 10.65% for both behaviors. In the entire sample, PSMU and IGD were both related to lower conscientiousness, difficulties in goal-directed behavior, non-acceptance of negative emotions, and emotional and executive control deficits. PSMU was additionally related to extraversion, limited access to effective emotion regulation strategies, and dependent decision-making style, whereas agreeableness, impulse control difficulties, and social behavior control deficits were related to IGD. From a categorical perspective, executive deficits were associated with higher PSMU symptomatology, whereas lower agreeableness and conscientiousness, greater difficulties in goal-directed behavior, and a lower tendency to use an intuitive decision-making style were related to higher IGD symptomatology. Among participants with co-occurring PSMU and IGD, lower agreeableness, lower openness to experience, and greater difficulties in goal-directed behavior were associated with higher PSMU and IGD symptoms. Dependent decision-making was additionally associated with higher PSMU symptoms. Furthermore, mean comparisons revealed that the PSMU and IGD co-occurring group showed higher levels of neuroticism, emotion dysregulation, spontaneous/avoidant decision-making styles, and executive, emotional, and social behavior control deficits than single-behavior groups. <b>Conclusions</b>: The findings suggest partially distinct patterns of association between person, affective, cognitive, and executive dimensions, depending on whether problematic online behaviors were considered from a dimensional or categorical perspective. These exploratory results require longitudinal replication and validation in clinical samples and in samples from other cultures, or from different developmental stages.</p>","PeriodicalId":30631,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Investigation in Health Psychology and Education","volume":"16 9","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2026-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13605489/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149040855","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":"Assessing Emotional and Social Intelligence in Portuguese Youth: Structural Validity of the EQ-i:YV.","authors":"Adelinda Araújo Candeias","doi":"10.3390/ejihpe16090139","DOIUrl":"10.3390/ejihpe16090139","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The Emotional Quotient Inventory: Youth Version (EQ-i:YV) assesses how young people perceive their emotions, relationships, coping with pressure, adaptability, and general mood. We evaluated whether its five domains provide a coherent yet differentiated representation of emotional-social functioning in 931 Portuguese participants aged 8-16 years. Responses to 54 substantive items were analysed as ordered categories in stratified exploratory and confirmatory subsamples. A restrictive five-factor confirmatory factor analysis did not adequately represent the response pattern, whereas a five-domain Target-ESEM that allowed small associations with related competencies provided a better and internally replicated representation. Domain reliability was adequate to strong (ordinal α = 0.744-0.865; ω = 0.760-0.866). Although the overall composite was reliable, variance attributable to one general factor was only moderate (ωH = 0.592), and the higher-order solution was unstable. The Portuguese EQ-i:YV should therefore be interpreted primarily through its five-domain profile. A global score, when required for descriptive continuity, should be presented only as a secondary multidimensional summary alongside the domain scores.</p>","PeriodicalId":30631,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Investigation in Health Psychology and Education","volume":"16 9","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2026-09-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13605546/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149040692","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":"Leadership and Employees' Mental Health Under Disruption: A Scoping Review and Critical Interpretive Synthesis.","authors":"Carlos Santiago-Torner, Elisenda Tarrats-Pons, José-Antonio Corral-Marfil","doi":"10.3390/ejihpe16090138","DOIUrl":"10.3390/ejihpe16090138","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This scoping review examines how leadership shapes employees' mental health in disruptive, uncertain organizational contexts between 2020 and 2025. Following PRISMA-ScR guidelines, a systematic search across Web of Science, Scopus, PubMed, and PsycINFO yielded 43 eligible sources (30 empirical, 13 conceptual/theoretical). Data were extracted and synthesized through critical interpretive synthesis. Findings indicate that transformational, ethical, servant, inclusive, and health-oriented leadership are associated with favorable well-being outcomes and with psychosocial resources including psychological safety, trust, and psychological capital. Conversely, authoritarian, toxic, destructive, and laissez-faire leadership are associated with burnout, psychological distress, organizational silence, and turnover intentions. Building on these observed associations, the interpretive synthesis generates three theoretically plausible propositions: leaders' emotional regulation may condition the protective potential of prosocial leadership; resource depletion under disruption may contribute to the intensification of dysfunctional leadership; and psychological safety, trust, and psychological capital may operate as interconnected mechanisms linking leadership with emotional exhaustion and resilience. These propositions represent synthesis-generated relationships requiring direct empirical testing rather than effects established by the reviewed evidence. Synthesizing these insights, this review proposes a dynamic emotional regulation framework of leadership under disruption. Rather than viewing leadership through static styles, the framework conceptualizes it as a relational, context-sensitive process whose implications for occupational mental health depend on psychosocial and contextual conditions.</p>","PeriodicalId":30631,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Investigation in Health Psychology and Education","volume":"16 9","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2026-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13605710/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149040913","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":"Translation and Validation of the Functionality Satisfaction and the Functionality Intent Scales in a French Sample.","authors":"Eva Roy, Alain Guerrien, Claire Arnaud, Rachel F Rodgers, Amélie Rousseau","doi":"10.3390/ejihpe16090137","DOIUrl":"10.3390/ejihpe16090137","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Body functionality is a promising target for the promotion of positive body image. However, research on body functionality in French-language contexts is currently limited due to the lack of validated assessment tools. This study aims to translate and evaluate the psychometric properties of the French versions of the Functionality Satisfaction Scale (FSS) and the Functionality Intent Scale (FIS). Exploratory factor analyses were conducted in a sample of 528 French adults (study 1), revealing a two-factor structure for both the FSS and FIS. Participants also completed validated measures of positive body image (functionality appreciation, body appreciation, and body esteem). A subsample (<i>n</i> = 150) completed the FSS and FIS again, three weeks later. Results supported convergent and divergent validity, good internal consistency, and satisfactory test-retest reliability. A second sample of 272 French adults was recruited for confirmatory factor analyses (study 2). Results confirmed the eight-item, two-factor solution for the FSS. However, support was found for a unidimensional structure of the FIS, which was ultimately retained as a four-item, one-factor scale. Measurement invariance analyses supported gender and age invariance up to the scalar level, but not at the strict level, for the FSS. The FIS also showed configural, metric, and scalar invariance across gender, whereas the scale was invariant across age only up to the metric level. This study provides support for the FSS as a useful tool for research focused on body functionality in French populations. Although the FIS demonstrated promising psychometric properties, it still requires further independent cross-validation to confirm its unidimensional structure.</p>","PeriodicalId":30631,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Investigation in Health Psychology and Education","volume":"16 9","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2026-09-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13605285/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149041027","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":"Happiness, Life Satisfaction and Emotional Exhaustion Among University Students in Spain and Germany: Exploratory Between-Sample Comparisons.","authors":"Ana María Morales-Rodríguez, Francisco Manuel Morales-Rodríguez","doi":"10.3390/ejihpe16090135","DOIUrl":"10.3390/ejihpe16090135","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>University students are increasingly exposed to academic and emotional demands associated with burnout and psychological distress in contemporary higher education contexts.</p><p><strong>Objective: </strong>This study examined academic-context well-being indicators, multidimensional happiness and global life satisfaction among university students in Spain and Germany, as well as their associations with burnout and compassion-related variables.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>A quantitative, cross-sectional study with exploratory between-sample comparisons was conducted using a convenience sample of university students from both countries. Measures assessing academic-context well-being indicators, global life satisfaction, multidimensional happiness, burnout-related dimensions and compassion-related variables were administered. Analyses included descriptive statistics, Pearson correlations, gender comparisons and exploratory between-sample observed-score comparisons using Welch's independent-samples <i>t</i>-tests with Holm adjustment for multiple comparisons.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Descriptive findings indicated positive scores on several well-being indicators alongside burnout-related strain. Global life satisfaction was positively associated with dimensions of happiness and inversely associated with burnout-related indicators. No significant gender differences were observed. After Holm adjustment, statistically significant observed-score differences between the two samples remained for 10 of the 17 indicators examined. The largest differences were observed for compassion satisfaction, ProQOL burnout and expected job satisfaction.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>The exploratory comparisons indicated a domain-specific pattern of observed-score differences between the Spanish and German samples rather than a general well-being advantage for either group. The results highlight the relevance of promoting student well-being and addressing burnout-related strain while considering the contextual characteristics of different university settings.</p>","PeriodicalId":30631,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Investigation in Health Psychology and Education","volume":"16 9","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2026-09-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13605438/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149040892","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}