PsichologijaPub Date : 2023-09-06DOI: 10.15388/psichol.2023.60
Indrė Gaižiūtė, Greta Kaluževičiūtė-Moreton, Vaiva Klimaitė
{"title":"The Experience of Disclosure and Concealment of One’s Mental Disorder","authors":"Indrė Gaižiūtė, Greta Kaluževičiūtė-Moreton, Vaiva Klimaitė","doi":"10.15388/psichol.2023.60","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15388/psichol.2023.60","url":null,"abstract":"Although disclosure of one’s experience of mental disorders is an important factor in the recovery process, this topic is not well understood or studied in scientific research. This study seeks to describe and analyse the experience of disclosing and concealing information about mental disorders. The participants were 5 men and 5 women (age 24–53) experiencing a form of mental disorder and receiving treatment for at least one year. Data was collected through semi–structured interviews and analysed using thematic analysis. The results showed that the decision to disclose information about one’s mental disorder is motivated by the desire to make oneself feel better, the need to justify oneself, and as a way to educate others. In contrast, concealment is used as a way to avoid stigmatising reactions and inflicting discomfort in other people. Our study results reflect a tendency among the participants to be selective about the information disclosed as well as the people it is disclosed to; however, the latter aspects of disclosure are open to change throughout time. Finally, participants in the study reported the positive value of both disclosing and concealing information about their mental disorder. The results of this study contribute to a better understanding of disclosure and concealment of one’s mental disorder and may be useful for those who interact with or provide support to people with mental disorders.","PeriodicalId":33049,"journal":{"name":"Psichologija","volume":"4 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78479052","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}
PsichologijaPub Date : 2023-06-27DOI: 10.15388/psichol.2023.57
Tatjana Dragan, J. Sondaitė
{"title":"Phenomenological Attitude in Descriptive Phenomenological Psychological Research","authors":"Tatjana Dragan, J. Sondaitė","doi":"10.15388/psichol.2023.57","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15388/psichol.2023.57","url":null,"abstract":"Phenomenological approach is one of the leading approaches in the practice of qualitative psychological research. Two perspectives can be distinguished in it: descriptive phenomenology and interpretive phenomenology. A researcher intending to apply a phenomenological strategy is expected to be able to practice the phenomenological attitude, which plays a key role both in the process of data collection and analysis. This article focuses on the field of descriptive phenomenology based on E. Husserl’s philosophy and represented by A. Giorgi and F. Wertz in the context of phenomenological psychology. The purpose of the article is to reveal the essential characteristics of the phenomenological attitude, to unfold theoretical emphases and to provide certain practical insights for those researchers who decided to conduct a descriptive phenomenological study. Literature analysis is used to achieve the goal. The phenomenological attitude is described using two contexts – E. Husserl’s phenomenological philosophy and the phenomenological psychology based on its assumptions – briefly presenting both, revealing their connections and distinguishing features.","PeriodicalId":33049,"journal":{"name":"Psichologija","volume":"28 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76271402","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":"„You Won’t Break the Ice and Won’t Talk about It“: Mental Health Professionals’ Difficulties in Providing Assistance to Individuals who Later Suicide","authors":"Jurgita Rimkevičienė, Dovilė Grigienė, Odeta Gelezelyte, Eglė Mažulytė-Rašytinė","doi":"10.15388/psichol.2023.56","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15388/psichol.2023.56","url":null,"abstract":"Accessible and effective mental health services for people at risk of suicide are one of the cornerstones of suicide prevention. However, some people suicide while receiving such help, and it is important to understand the reasons for this. In the absence of a direct way to reveal the experiences of people who have received services and subsequently suicided, the professionals providing mental health services are an important source of information on this process. The main aim of this study was to describe the main difficulties experienced by professionals supporting people who later suicided. The sample included 15 mental health professionals (7 psychiatrists, 6 medical psychologists, and 2 social workers) who experienced patient suicide. The data were collected using semi-structured interviews, which were then analysed using thematic analysis. The following themes were identified in the stories of the participants: lack of collaboration from the patient, specific topics that were challenging to work with, treatment limitations, difficulties in assessing suicide risk, reactions experienced when working with the suicidal patient, and the role of the patient’s relatives. Therefore, the results of this study speak about the challenge of being with a patient in a suicidal crisis, who is not inclined to accept help, while bearing the limitations of the system and oneself as a specialist. This causes intense experiences of helplessness and anger.","PeriodicalId":33049,"journal":{"name":"Psichologija","volume":"29 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79186740","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}
PsichologijaPub Date : 2023-03-06DOI: 10.15388/psichol.2023.55
Loreta Bukšnytė-Marmienė, Agnė Brandišauskienė, J. Česnavičienė, A. Daugirdiene
{"title":"The Importance of the School Functioning as an Organization and Teachers’ Work-Related Well-Being for Teachers’ Organizational Commitment","authors":"Loreta Bukšnytė-Marmienė, Agnė Brandišauskienė, J. Česnavičienė, A. Daugirdiene","doi":"10.15388/psichol.2023.55","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15388/psichol.2023.55","url":null,"abstract":"The successful functioning of any organization depends on one of the most important factors – employees’ organizational commitment. As the modern education system strives to establish the school as an effective organization, it is important to investigate what psychological factors are associated with greater teachers’ organizational commitment. The aim of this study was to determine the implications of the school functioning as an organization and teachers’ wok related well-being for teachers’ organizational commitment. In this study participated 292 teachers. The factors of the school functioning were measured by the Organisational Diagnosis Questionnaire (Preziosi, 1980). Teachers’ work-related well-being was analysed as a continuum of job satisfaction and job insecurity. One of the subscales of the Michigan Organizational Assessment Questionnaire (Cammann et al., 1975) was used to measure job satisfaction. Job insecurity was measured with the Job Insecurity Scale (De Witte, 2000). Teachers’ organizational commitment was measured by the Organisational Commitment Scale (Balfour & Wechsler, 1996). The correlation analysis of the variables revealed that all the factors of the organizational functioning have statistically significant strong positive relationships. It was found that teachers’ work-related well-being is related to the school functioning factors. Teachers’ organizational commitment is related to both teachers’ work-related well-being and organizational functioning factors. A multivariate linear regression analysis found that 35.2 % of teachers’ organizational commitment was predicted by their job satisfaction, relationships, principals’ leadership and teachers’ perceived job insecurity.","PeriodicalId":33049,"journal":{"name":"Psichologija","volume":"41 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86465655","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}
PsichologijaPub Date : 2023-01-27DOI: 10.15388/psichol.2022.61
N. Grigutytė, Vita Mikuličiūtė, Karolina Petraškaitė, Antanas Kairys
{"title":"Beck Scales (BDI-II, BAI, BHS, BSS, and CBOCI): Clinical and Normative Samples’ Comparison and Determination of Clinically Relevant Cutoffs","authors":"N. Grigutytė, Vita Mikuličiūtė, Karolina Petraškaitė, Antanas Kairys","doi":"10.15388/psichol.2022.61","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15388/psichol.2022.61","url":null,"abstract":"This article aims to evaluate 5 Beck scales – Beck Depression Inventory-II (BDI-II), Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI), Beck Hopelessness Scale (BHS), Beck Suicidal Ideation Scale (BSS), and Clark–Beck Obsession-Compulsion Inventory (CBOCI) – comparing clinical and normative samples, and to determine clinically relevant cutoffs. The clinical sample consisted of 242 persons aged 18–74; 39 percent were men and 61 percent were women. The normative sample consisted of 1296 persons aged 18–95; 44 percent were men and 56 percent were women. In order to compare the estimates of the normative and clinical samples of the Beck scales, a paired data study sample was formed – 230 participants from the clinical and normative groups each. The clinical sample was divided into four groups according to the primary diagnoses: 107 (46.5%) patients were diagnosed with mood (affective) disorder (F30–F39), 38 (16.5%) with neurophysical stress and somatoform disorders (F40–F49), 51 (22.2%) with disorders due to the use of psychoactive substances (F10–F19), 34 (14.8%) with high risk of suicide (X60–X84; Z91.5; R45.81). 27 percent of patients had comorbid diagnoses. The results show high internal consistency of the Beck scales in all samples. The discrimination abilities of all five Beck scales are good; the cutoffs for each Beck scale in four clinical groups are estimated. Both the total clinical sample and the 4 clinical sample groups had significantly higher BDI-II, BAI, BHS, BSS, and CBOCI scores than the normative sample. In conclusion, the Beck scales alone are not sufficient for making a decision about the clinical diagnosis.","PeriodicalId":33049,"journal":{"name":"Psichologija","volume":"2013 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82672383","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}
PsichologijaPub Date : 2022-12-30DOI: 10.15388/psichol.2022.59
Kexin Li, Aitao Lu, Ruchen Deng, Hui Yi
{"title":"The Unique Cost of Human Eye Gaze in Cognitive Control: Being Human-Specific and Body-Related?","authors":"Kexin Li, Aitao Lu, Ruchen Deng, Hui Yi","doi":"10.15388/psichol.2022.59","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15388/psichol.2022.59","url":null,"abstract":"This study investigated the eye gaze cost in cognitive control and whether it is human-specific and body-related. In Experiment 1, we explored whether there was a cost of human eye gaze in cognitive control and extended it by focusing on the role of emotion in the cost. Stroop effect was found to be larger in eye-gaze condition than vertical grating condition, and to be comparable across positive, negative, and neutral trials. In Experiment 2, we explored whether the eye gaze cost in cognitive control was limited to human eyes. No larger Stroop effect was found in feline eye-gaze condition, neither the modulating role of emotion. In Experiment 3, we explored whether the mouth could elicit a cost in Stroop effect. Stroop effect was not significantly larger in mouth condition compared to vertical grating condition, nor across positive, negative, and neutral conditions. The results suggest that: (1) There is a robust cost of eye gaze in cognitive control; (2) Such eye-gaze cost was specific to human eyes but not to animal eyes; (3) Only human eyes could have such eye-gaze costs but not human mouth. This study supported the notion that presentation of social cues, such as human eyes, could influence attentional processing, and provided preliminary evidence that the human eye plays an important role in cognitive processing.","PeriodicalId":33049,"journal":{"name":"Psichologija","volume":"2 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81266617","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}
PsichologijaPub Date : 2022-12-30DOI: 10.15388/psichol.2022.60
Agnė Dzimidienė, Dalia Bagdžiūnienė
{"title":"The Effect of Employee Agility and Self-Efficacy on Innovative Behavior at Work","authors":"Agnė Dzimidienė, Dalia Bagdžiūnienė","doi":"10.15388/psichol.2022.60","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15388/psichol.2022.60","url":null,"abstract":"In order for organizations to remain competitive and successful in the contemporary business environment, one of the fundamental prerequisites is innovative behavior of employes. Therefore, research analyzing the organizational and personal factors of this behavior is relevant, in which increasing attention is paid to the agility of employees. In general, agility can be described as a person’s ability to adapt quickly and efficiently to normal or new work situations, accept changes and respond appropriately to them. The study aimed to determine the relationship between employees agility, self-efficacy, and innovative behavior in the organization and to evaluate the mediating role of self-efficacy for the relations between agility and innovative behavior. The cross-sectional survey was conducted in the sample of 172 employees. 78% of them were women, the average age of the participants was 33.8 years. Scales measuring employee agility, innovative behavior and self-efficacy were applied in the study. For this study, a Lithuanian employee agility scale consisting of twenty items was prepared. The results were processed using correlational, regression, and mediation analysis. Main results: firstly, more expressed employee agility and self-efficacy predicts their higher involvement in innovative behavior, and secondly, self-efficacy acts as a mediator for the relationship between agility and innovative behavior. The importance of the employee’s personal characteristics – agility and self-efficacy – in predicting innovative behavior was confirmed, and the role of self-efficacy as a mediator for the relationship between agility and innovative behavior was revealed. Theoretical and practical implications of the study results are discussed.","PeriodicalId":33049,"journal":{"name":"Psichologija","volume":"12 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76699706","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}
PsichologijaPub Date : 2022-12-30DOI: 10.15388/psichol.2022.62
J. Lazauskaitė-Zabielskė, Arūnas Žiedelis, I. Urbanavičiūtė
{"title":"Successful Remote Work: What Employees’ Skills are Essential for It?","authors":"J. Lazauskaitė-Zabielskė, Arūnas Žiedelis, I. Urbanavičiūtė","doi":"10.15388/psichol.2022.62","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15388/psichol.2022.62","url":null,"abstract":"As remote work becomes a custom way of work organization, there is a need to research the factors that determine its effectiveness. Based on remote work research conducted in Europe and Lithuania, the article presents the differences between remote work and office work, based on which several employee skills are distinguished for effective remote work. First, due to longer working hours and the constant availability of electronic communication and information tools, the psychological skills of detaching from work are discussed. Second, due to the blurring of boundaries between work and personal life, the time-spatial job crafting is presented, i.e. the ability to choose a suitable place and time for work, to change the location of work, to change time or task if they do not match with each other, and to adjust work tasks to the current place and time of work, and his role in remote work. Thirdly, due to the increased autonomy to plan and perform one’s activities and the absence of factors that externally structure the work process and methods of performing tasks, the importance of self-leadership skills, which include the ability to act independently, plan one’s activities, set goals and achieve them, is highlighted. Finally, the article also presents the practical possibilities of psychological detachment from work, mastery of distance work and self-leadership development in the organization.","PeriodicalId":33049,"journal":{"name":"Psichologija","volume":"121 2 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88764113","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}
PsichologijaPub Date : 2022-12-30DOI: 10.15388/psichol.2022.58
Saulė Raižienė, Ingrida Gabrialavičiūtė, Renata Garckija
{"title":"Towards the Effective Motivation: The Main Results of DoIT3 Study and Recommendations","authors":"Saulė Raižienė, Ingrida Gabrialavičiūtė, Renata Garckija","doi":"10.15388/psichol.2022.58","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15388/psichol.2022.58","url":null,"abstract":"The Circumplex perspective on (de)motivating teaching styles based on Self-determination theory is presented in this paper. Based on the findings of the research project “Towards the effective teaching: the evaluation of (de)motivating teaching strategies and their effects on students’ using Circumplex model” (funded by the Research Council of Lithuania under the National Research Programme Welfare Society, Grant No. S-GEV-21-2) recommendations on how to nourish students’ motivational resources and well-being are provided for professionals working in education.","PeriodicalId":33049,"journal":{"name":"Psichologija","volume":"25 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89854615","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}
PsichologijaPub Date : 2022-12-19DOI: 10.15388/psichol.2022.57
Marija Aušraitė, K. Žardeckaitė-Matulaitienė
{"title":"The Relationship between Psychosocial Factors and Affiliate Stigma in Parents of Children with ADHD: Systematic Literature Review","authors":"Marija Aušraitė, K. Žardeckaitė-Matulaitienė","doi":"10.15388/psichol.2022.57","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15388/psichol.2022.57","url":null,"abstract":"The aim of this study is to identify the psychosocial factors which are related with affiliate stigma in parents of children with ADHD through a systematic literature review. This review includes English publications from 2008 to 2022, which present the results of quantitative studies on the relationship between psychosocial factors and affiliate stigma in parents of children with ADHD. According to eligibility criteria, 7 articles were included in the review. The results showed that higher parental affiliate stigma is associated with lower parents’ psychosocial functioning (higher expressed depression, anxiety, lower self-esteem). It was also found that higher parental affiliate stigma is related to unfavorable behavior towards a child (higher expressed negativity/ less constructive parenting). The results also showed that higher parental affiliate stigma is associated with more expressed child's difficulties (ADHD symptoms/ internalizing and externalizing difficulties).","PeriodicalId":33049,"journal":{"name":"Psichologija","volume":"35 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85422641","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}