{"title":"POSITIVE PSYCHOLOGY: GENESIS, STATUS, AND PROSPECTS. INTERVIEW WITH PROF. RUMEN STAMATOV, PH.D., D.SC.","authors":"Stoil Mavrodiev","doi":"10.37708/psyct.v16i2.907","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37708/psyct.v16i2.907","url":null,"abstract":"The text examines the genesis and main characteristics of positive psychology, its place among other areas of psychology. Emphasis is placed on the achievements and importance of positive psychology for modern man. Main topics of research are outlined. Biographical information is given about the founder of the movement - Martin Seligman. Introducing Prof. Rumen Stamatov, Ph.D., D.Sc. - one of the most focused and established researchers in the field of positive psychology in Bulgaria, his scientific work and an interview in which he shares his insights about positive psychology.","PeriodicalId":37380,"journal":{"name":"Psychological Thought","volume":"63 ","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135977019","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}
Tomás Caycho-Rodríguez, José M. Tomás, José Ventura-León, Pablo D. Valencia, Michael White, Lindsey W. Vilca, Carlos Carbajal-León, Karla Azabache-Alvarado
{"title":"VALIDATION STUDY OF THE SPANISH VERSION OF THE PANDEMIC (COVID-19) ANXIETY TRAVEL SCALE IN PERU","authors":"Tomás Caycho-Rodríguez, José M. Tomás, José Ventura-León, Pablo D. Valencia, Michael White, Lindsey W. Vilca, Carlos Carbajal-León, Karla Azabache-Alvarado","doi":"10.37708/psyct.v16i2.707","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37708/psyct.v16i2.707","url":null,"abstract":"The COVID-19 pandemic has changed tourists' thoughts, feelings and ways of travelling. In this regard, the aim of the present study was to evaluate the psychometric properties of the Pandemic Anxiety Travel Scale (PATS) using CTT and IRT. A total of 454 participants, with a mean age of 31.4 years (SD = 15.7), completed the PATS, a sociodemographic questionnaire, a measure of perceived health risk, and the Preventive COVID-19 Infection Behaviors Scale. CFA models, Cronbach's alpha and the Composite Reliability Index coefficients were used to estimate reliability. In addition, Item Response Theory (IRT) methods were employed, specifically, the Graded Response Model. The results of the CFA indicated the presence of a single factor for the PATS and high reliability. The IRT results suggest that the PATS items may significantly differentiate responses based on trait level and that a person with low frequency of travel anxiety symptoms during the pandemic will tend to choose the lower response alternatives. Likewise, age, gender, health risk perception, and COVID-19 preventive behaviors significantly predict travel anxiety. In conclusion, the PATS is a brief and reliable measure that appears to be a valid measure of travel anxiety symptoms in the general Peruvian population during the pandemic.","PeriodicalId":37380,"journal":{"name":"Psychological Thought","volume":"7 10","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135977169","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":"BURNOUT, BOROUT AND MOBBING AMONG TEACHERS POST COVID-19 RESTRICTIONS","authors":"Yanka Ruseva Totseva, Margarita Stefanova Bakracheva","doi":"10.37708/psyct.v16i2.789","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37708/psyct.v16i2.789","url":null,"abstract":"A questionnaire was adapted to measure the negative predictors of teachers' job satisfaction and performance after the pandemic restriction, imposing learning in e-environment,. For this purpose, burnout scale with components of perceived stress, administrative support and attitude towards students and professional satisfaction was combined with the experienced demotivation and lack of incentives in the professional routine presented in the concept of boreout and perceived mobbing by management, colleagues, students and parents. The study involved 800 teachers, 460 teachers in kidergartens and 339 in the secondary education system. The results demonstrate good psychometric properties and discriminability of the administered scales. This justifies the implementation of the questionnaire and its use for analyses and comparisons in the process of effective self-regulation and prevention of perceived stress, the recognition of routine and negative perceived attitudes by participants in the educational process. Overall, the results demonstrate optimal self-regulation of respondents and confirm the expected relationships between perceived occupational stress, job satisfaction and communication in the workplace.","PeriodicalId":37380,"journal":{"name":"Psychological Thought","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135977363","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}
T. Caycho-Rodríguez, J. Tomás, J. Ventura-León, Cirilo H. Garcia Cadena, Mario Reyes-Bossio, Rodrigo Moreta-Herrera, J. L. Maguiña, L. W. Vilca
{"title":"MEASUREMENT INVARIANCE OF THE SHORT UCLA LONELINESS SCALE IN SPANISH AND PERUVIAN OLD PEOPLE: LATENT MEAN DIFFERENCES AND EVIDENCE FOR DIFFERENTIAL EFFECTS ON PERCEIVED HEALTH","authors":"T. Caycho-Rodríguez, J. Tomás, J. Ventura-León, Cirilo H. Garcia Cadena, Mario Reyes-Bossio, Rodrigo Moreta-Herrera, J. L. Maguiña, L. W. Vilca","doi":"10.37708/psyct.v16i1.712","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37708/psyct.v16i1.712","url":null,"abstract":"The objectives of this study are to evaluate the measurement invariance of the University of California Los Angeles Loneliness Scale (UCLA-LS) three-item version (UCLA-LS-3) in older adults in Peru and Spain, to compare the latent means of loneliness, and to evaluate the psychometric properties of the scale with Item Response Theory (IRT) models, and evaluate the possible moderating effects of the country on loneliness-health relationships. Peruvian sample was composed of 235 old adults from the city of Lima. The Spanish sample was composed of 443 old adults. The three-factor structure of RUCLA-3 anchored to the health measure fitted the data reasonably well in Spain and Peru. The R-UCLA-3 may be considered invariant for these two samples. The latent means of loneliness are different, the Peruvian average of loneliness being greater than that of Spain. The R-UCLA-3 is an invariant measure in older adults in Peru and Spain, with adequate psychometric properties through IRT models. ","PeriodicalId":37380,"journal":{"name":"Psychological Thought","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48318863","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":"HEALTH PROFESSIONS STUDENTS' MENTAL WELL-BEING AND PERCEIVED HEALTH - ТHE IMPACT OF OPTIMISM, RESILIENCE, RELIGIOSITY AND STRESS","authors":"Kremena Miteva","doi":"10.37708/psyct.v16i1.701","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37708/psyct.v16i1.701","url":null,"abstract":"The study explored the impact of optimism, resilience and religiosity on the mental well-being and perceived health as well as their role in the perceived stress and mental well-being relation in health professions’ students. The study was carried out online with a total of 123 students in medicine, nursing, assistant-pharmacists and social workers. Analyses suggest that optimism and resilience were associated with the stress appraisal as less intensive, less threatening and more controllable. Religiosity was not associated with perceived stress. The mental well-being was predicted positively by optimism, resilience and religiosity and negatively by stress, but perceived health – only by stress. Resilience enhanced mental well-being both directly and indirectly through the perceived stress (partial mediator). Optimism acted as a moderator of stress and mental well-being relationship. Optimism, resilience and religiosity contribute to high levels of students' positive functioning in the mental health domain, but not in physical health domain as far as the subjective general physical health is concerned. Positive impact of optimism and resilience on psychological functioning is related to their associations with favorable stress appraisals and the buffering effect of optimism on stress. The positive influence of subjective level of religiosity on mental well-being is unrelated to how stress is perceived. Stress management programs as well as appropriate interventions and educational approaches to enhance resilience could be offered to health professions’ students.","PeriodicalId":37380,"journal":{"name":"Psychological Thought","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47085279","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":"REVIEW OF THE BOOK: HANDBOOK OF POSITIVE YOUTH DEVELOPMENT: CRITICAL INSIGHTS ON YOUTH POTENTIAL FROM THE MAINSTREAM TO THE GLOBAL SOUTH","authors":"L. Orellana, C. I. Orellana","doi":"10.37708/psyct.v16i1.777","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37708/psyct.v16i1.777","url":null,"abstract":"The Positive Youth Development (PYD) framework promotes a vision of youth based on their strengths. This paper is a review the Handbook of positive youth development. Advancing research, policy, and practice in global contexts. This review expands on the core themes of the Handbook by delving into challenges for PYD research as it moves forward to reach populations that have been systematically excluded from mainstream academia. It is proposed that the publication of this book, and its valuable contributions to youth research and policy, is a timely opportunity to highlight the mismatch between youth possibilities in developed and developing contexts, as it is the Handbook’s aim to decrease the gap between mainstream and Global South youth psychology. ","PeriodicalId":37380,"journal":{"name":"Psychological Thought","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45929155","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":"THE NEW TECHNOLOGIES AND PSYCHOTHERAPY","authors":"N. V. Angelova","doi":"10.37708/psyct.v16i1.757","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37708/psyct.v16i1.757","url":null,"abstract":"The usage of technologies, such as biofeedback and neurofeedback methods, are an attractive approach for all those looking for a different, non-invasive, drug-free therapy. Through these methods, the mental and emotional state of a person is influenced by means of a change in the physiological processes of the body. The article summarizes numerous studies of the relationship between biofeedback and the acquisition of new and desired behaviors. The main part of the research discussed is in the field of training a new psycho-physiological response in a stressful situation, as well as for dealing with anxiety and depressive symptoms. As a conclusion from the review of a numerous scientific studies, it emerges that the new way of responding is related to the value and importance that is attached to the stimulus. Thus, by changing the evaluation of the stimulus or the scheme for interpreting the stimulus, an emotional change is induced, which also leads to a new psycho-physiological response.","PeriodicalId":37380,"journal":{"name":"Psychological Thought","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44544297","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":"VICARIOUS EMBARRASSMENT SCALE: MORE OF CULTURE THAN EMPATHY","authors":"Yohanes Budiarto, Faturochman Faturochman, Galang Lufityanto","doi":"10.37708/psyct.v16i1.739","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37708/psyct.v16i1.739","url":null,"abstract":"Traditionally, the vicarious embarrassment scale (VES) is developed by involving a protagonist with no relationship with the observer. This condition becomes problematic, especially in collectivistic contexts with interdependence in personal social relations. The protagonists of the original VES were modified from strangers to friends and family and were compared their psychometric properties and associations with empathy and self-construals. A total of 112 university students in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, filled out the online questionnaires voluntarily. Tests with Unrestricted Factor Analysis showed the retrieved eigenvalues of VES Other, VES Friend, and VES Family accounted for 61.54, 68.29, and 77.05, respectively. All VES were unidimensional, according to the parallel analysis with robust parallel using 500 random polychoric correlation matrices. Good internal consistency reliability was achieved, and fit criteria were met. This study supported previous findings of VES disassociation with empathy. The importance of cultural values reflected in self-construal showed interdependent self-construal relations with different protagonists with all VE scales. In contrast, independent self-construal was associated only with vicarious embarrassment with an unknown protagonist.","PeriodicalId":37380,"journal":{"name":"Psychological Thought","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44122956","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":"13th AUTISM EUROPE INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS CRACOW 7-9 OCTOBER 2022. A HAPPY JOURNEY THROUGH LIFE","authors":"Irina Roncaglia","doi":"10.37708/psyct.v16i1.823","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37708/psyct.v16i1.823","url":null,"abstract":"This review from the 13th Autism Europe International Congress held in Cracow as a hybrid event, has the ambition to showcase three perspectives on the newest scientific trends in the autistic community: perspectives from researchers/academics, practitioners, autistic people and their family members. ","PeriodicalId":37380,"journal":{"name":"Psychological Thought","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48188719","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}
J. Ventura-León, T. Caycho-Rodríguez, Brian Norma Peña-Calero, Michael White
{"title":"MEASURING BOREDOM DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC","authors":"J. Ventura-León, T. Caycho-Rodríguez, Brian Norma Peña-Calero, Michael White","doi":"10.37708/psyct.v16i1.720","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37708/psyct.v16i1.720","url":null,"abstract":"The aim of this study was to translate into Spanish and validate the Boredom Proneness Scale-Short (SBPS) in a sample of young people and adults in Peru during the COVID-19 pandemic. A total of 588 people between 17 and 53 years of age (M = 21.70; SD = 5.22) was selected as a sample. The methodology used combined Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) and Item Response Theory (IRT) to determine the internal structure, factor weights and reliability, which was estimated by means of the omega coefficient test information functioning and empirical or marginal reliability. Evidence of convergent validity of the SBPS was explored based on its relationship with the Generalized Anxiety Disorder Scale (GAD-2) and Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-2). Results reveal that the SBPS is a measure that should be interpreted uni-dimensionally. Reliability was excellent and convergence with the GAD-2 and PHQ-2 presented the expected relationship in both magnitude and direction.","PeriodicalId":37380,"journal":{"name":"Psychological Thought","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47513064","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}