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{"title":"Mapping mental health complexity in esports: an exploratory psychosocial network approach.","authors":"Lucas Van Ruysevelt, Martijn Van Heel, Michael G Trotter, Matthew Watson, Ismael Pedraza-Ramirez, Iván Bonilla, Paul Davis, Jóhann Ragnarsson, Olivier Mairesse, Jolan Kegelaers","doi":"10.1186/s40359-026-05800-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s40359-026-05800-y","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>The rapid rise in popularity of esports has brought increased attention to the unique mental health challenges faced by esports players, yet research in this area remains in its infancy. Early research suggests a substantial mental health burden and has examined associations between esports-specific stressors, mental health, and sleep disturbances. However, much of this work has relied on traditional methodologies, providing limited insight into how affective, psychosocial, sleep-related, and esports-specific indicators are organised within this competitive performance environment.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>To address this gap, we developed a bespoke 17-item questionnaire tailored for Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG) network analysis, an exploratory approach for mapping the conditional dependency structure of complex multivariate systems such as mental health.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>A total of 1025 esports players from over 60 countries completed the survey. Game-related thought preoccupation, a core feature of gaming disorder, emerged as the most robust structural sink node, downstream of several psychosocial indicators, raising the hypothesis that it represents a compound indicator of broader upstream psychosocial strain. Depressed mood occupied an upstream position within the network, an observation that held more robustly for the psychopathological subnetwork as a whole than for depressed mood as the single source. Mental fatigue occupied an intermediate, connecting position between affective variables and the sleep and fatigue indicators. Its high prevalence, together with a positioning upstream of the sleep indicators, suggests that it may warrant closer examination in future research on training load, recovery, and sleep in esports, though this ordering rested on edges with moderate directional support. Emotion control and a sense of autonomy appeared to connect upstream affective distress with downstream esports-specific indicators such as esports-related stress, though was the least stable of the structural features identified.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Collectively, these findings provide an exploratory map of how mental health-relevant indicators were organised in this performance environment, and generate concrete, testable hypotheses for future longitudinal, experimental, and intervention research.</p>","PeriodicalId":37867,"journal":{"name":"BMC Psychology","volume":"14 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2026-10-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149225103","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Emotion regulation and its association with subjective memory performance among undergraduate students at port said university.","authors":"Sama Essam Ismail, Ahmed Gamal Sharaf Eldin, Nihal Sharaf Eldin, Nesrine Saad Farrag","doi":"10.1186/s40359-026-05679-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s40359-026-05679-9","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Emotion regulation (ER), particularly through cognitive reappraisal (CR) and expressive suppression (ES), plays an important role in psychological well-being and higher-order cognitive functioning. Both ER and subjective memory performance (SMP), as measured by the Prospective and Retrospective Memory Questionnaire (PRMQ), have been proposed to draw on shared executive control resources. Although memory complaints have been reported among Egyptian university students, the association between ER strategies and SMP remains largely unexplored. This study aimed to assess ER strategies and SMP among undergraduate students at Port Said University and examine the association between these constructs.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>A descriptive cross-sectional study with an analytical component was conducted among 1,287 undergraduate students from seven randomly selected faculties at Port Said University. Data were collected using a self-administered questionnaire comprising the Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (ERQ) to assess CR and ES and the PRMQ to measure SMP. Data were analyzed using Jamovi version 2.3.28 employing descriptive statistics, nonparametric tests, Spearman's rank correlation, and multiple linear regression.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Participants had a median total ERQ score of 44 and a median total PRMQ score of 50. Males reported significantly higher ES and total ER scores than females (p < 0.001 and p = 0.005, respectively), whereas females reported significantly higher PRMQ scores (p < 0.001). Faculty affiliation was significantly associated with both total ERQ and total PRMQ scores, whereas academic grade was associated only with total ERQ scores and family income only with total PRMQ scores. All ERQ subscales were significantly and negatively correlated with PRMQ scores (all p < 0.001). The largest correlation coefficient was observed between total ERQ and total PRMQ scores (ρ = -0.226), indicating a weak inverse association. In multiple linear regression adjusting for sex, faculty, and family income, both CR (B = - 0.272, 95% CI: -0.360 to - 0.184) and ES (B = - 0.270, 95% CI: -0.391 to - 0.150) were independently and inversely associated with PRMQ scores (both p < 0.001).</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>The findings suggest that greater reported use of ER strategies is associated with fewer self-reported memory complaints among undergraduate students. Although the association was statistically significant, its magnitude was weak, indicating that ER represents only one of several factors associated with SMP. This suggests that effective emotional processing may support the cognitive resources required for daily memory tasks.</p>","PeriodicalId":37867,"journal":{"name":"BMC Psychology","volume":"14 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2026-10-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149225040","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Mental health symptoms and everyday social interaction among university students: an exploratory intensive longitudinal study of relational events within bounded peer networks.","authors":"Heike Krüger","doi":"10.1186/s40359-026-05805-7","DOIUrl":"10.1186/s40359-026-05805-7","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Mental health symptoms are closely linked to social relationships, yet most research examines social connectedness through stable ties or retrospective reports. Less is known about how symptoms are associated with the unfolding micro-dynamics of everyday interaction. This exploratory study examined whether depressive symptoms, anxiety symptoms, and ADHD symptoms were differentially associated with face-to-face contact and received emotional support among university students.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Data came from the PeerSmart Network Study, an intensive longitudinal social network study combining smartphone-based ecological momentary assessment with roster-based sociometric measurement. Thirty-eight students from two bounded academic cohorts completed baseline mental health measures and participated in a seven-day assessment period with three prompts per day, contributing 657 short surveys. At each prompt, participants reported face-to-face contacts lasting at least five minutes and received emotional support since the previous survey. Given the intensive but small-scale design, the analyses were intended to model micro-level interaction processes within bounded peer contexts rather than to estimate population-level associations. Dynamic Network Actor Models were estimated separately for the bachelor and master cohorts. Received emotional support was modelled as a directed event process, whereas face-to-face contact was modelled as an undirected coordination process.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Mental health symptom levels were more consistently associated with received emotional support than with general face-to-face contact. Anxiety symptoms showed a positive association with receiving emotional support in both cohorts. Depressive symptoms were negatively associated with receiving emotional support in the bachelor cohort, and ADHD symptoms were negatively associated with receiving support in both cohorts. In contrast, face-to-face contact showed little evidence of overall involvement differences by symptom level, suggesting that general social exposure was more strongly associated with prior interaction history and opportunity structures.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>The findings provide preliminary evidence that mental health symptoms are not uniformly associated with everyday social interaction. Rather, symptom levels appeared to be most relevant for emotionally meaningful support exchanges. These findings highlight the importance of distinguishing general social contact from support-related interaction and suggest that student mental health interventions should attend not only to social connectedness, but also to the concrete contexts in which support is mobilized or missed.</p>","PeriodicalId":37867,"journal":{"name":"BMC Psychology","volume":"14 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2026-10-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13670546/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149197056","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Spiritual monachopsis and depressive symptoms among university students in Türkiye: a cross-sectional study.","authors":"Süheyb Okur","doi":"10.1186/s40359-026-05803-9","DOIUrl":"10.1186/s40359-026-05803-9","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Spiritual life can serve as a psychological resource, but it may also involve disconnection, incongruence, and non-belonging. This cross-sectional study examined whether spiritual monachopsis-a sense of displacement within one's relationship with the divine, belief system, and religious social environment-was associated with depressive symptoms beyond spiritual orientation and spiritual psychological robustness.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Participants were 550 undergraduate students at Bayburt University in Türkiye (58.0% women). They completed the Spiritual Monachopsis Scale, Spiritual Orientation Scale, Spiritual Psychological Robustness Scale, and Beck Depression Inventory-II. Scale structure and reliability were evaluated. Primary association analyses used correlations with Holm-adjusted p values and hierarchical regression with robust standard errors, bootstrap confidence intervals, and repeated cross-validation. Parcel-based structural equation modeling served as a supplementary robustness analysis.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Spiritual monachopsis showed a small positive cross-sectional correlation with depressive symptoms (r = .223, p < .001). After adjustment for demographic characteristics, spiritual orientation, and spiritual psychological robustness, its conditional association remained positive (β = 0.217, p < .001); adding spiritual monachopsis increased model R² by 0.046. Spiritual orientation and spiritual psychological robustness had no significant adjusted associations with depressive symptoms. In exploratory analyses, all three subdimensions correlated with depressive symptoms, but only Religious Social Alienation retained an adjusted association (β = 0.148, Holm-adjusted p = .043); coefficient differences were nonsignificant, and the subdimension model did not outperform the total-score model.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>The findings provide preliminary evidence of an incremental cross-sectional association relative to the demographic variables and two positive spirituality measures included in this study. The exploratory subdimension findings do not establish Religious Social Alienation as the principal component or an explanatory mechanism. The findings do not establish causality or clinical utility.</p>","PeriodicalId":37867,"journal":{"name":"BMC Psychology","volume":"14 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2026-10-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13673757/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149197061","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"FRIENDS - friendship-based regulation of individual emotions in networks in daily situations: An EMA study on partner-motive pairing and social outcomes in adult friendships.","authors":"Paula Schott, Katharina Enser, Martin Weiß","doi":"10.1186/s40359-026-05767-w","DOIUrl":"10.1186/s40359-026-05767-w","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Interpersonal emotion regulation depends not only on which strategy is used but on whom people turn to. Previous work suggests that individuals select regulation partners according to their perceived competence for a specific emotion. We examined whether this extends to regulatory motives, and whether partner-motive pairing is associated with better interaction outcomes, higher psychological well-being, and lower social loneliness.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>In a preregistered 14-day ecological momentary assessment (EMA) study, 106 adults reported on their friend contacts at four semi-random prompts per day (2,796 contact reports). For every contact, participants indicated the primary benefit they had hoped to obtain (one of six affect-improving regulation strategies), the friend involved, how far the contact had helped, and their evaluation of it. Partner-level pairing was quantified with a Specialization Score and, for interaction outcomes, with a leave-one-out residual separating motive-specific pairing from a partner's overall involvement; network-level pairing with a Network Specialization Index (NSI). Motive-specific pairing was tested against participant-level permutation nulls and with a residualized metric. The strategy a friend actually used was not assessed.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Evidence for motive-specific pairing beyond a partner's overall involvement was limited and motive-dependent: under the permutation null no motive survived correction for multiple testing, and the residualized metric indicated motive-specific channeling only for problem solving and distraction. An exploratory network-level index standardized against each participant's own permutation null exceeded chance on average (d = 0.36) but reached significance for only 18 of 104 participants. Neither the leave-one-out predictor nor the network-level indices were associated with perceived emotion regulation effectiveness, interaction evaluation, psychological well-being, or social loneliness. These null findings were robust across alternative metrics, indices, ordinal models, and random-effects structures.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Participants repeatedly paired particular partners with particular motives. Beyond the concentration of contact on a few partners, this pairing was small and was detectable mainly in an aggregate network-level test, and it was not associated with better interaction outcomes or better psychological adjustment. The findings caution against inferring functional specialization from partner-selection data alone and underline the distinction between network indices derived from self-reported contact reports and the subjective experience of support.</p>","PeriodicalId":37867,"journal":{"name":"BMC Psychology","volume":"14 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2026-10-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13670613/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149184697","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Self-reported acceptable pain intensity is associated with psychosocial burden beyond pain severity in chronic pain patients: a cross-sectional study.","authors":"Yannick Bruns, Jorge Manuel, Alexander Neumann, Mirjam Eberhardt, Matthias Karst","doi":"10.1186/s40359-026-05731-8","DOIUrl":"10.1186/s40359-026-05731-8","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Self-reported acceptable pain intensity is collected as part of intake procedures in some pain clinic settings, yet has rarely been examined in relation to psychosocial outcomes. This study investigated whether acceptable pain intensity is associated with psychosocial symptom burden (somatization, anxiety, sleep impairment, perceived stress, depression, and pain-related disability) in chronic pain patients after adjusting for pain severity and trauma history.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Secondary analysis of 822 chronic pain patients from a German university pain clinic (previously published cohort). Acceptable pain (visual analogue scale [VAS], 0-100) was examined in relation to somatization (PHQ-15), anxiety (GAD-7), sleep impairment (VAS), perceived stress (PHQ-Stress), depression (PHQ-9), and disability (Pain Disability Index) in multivariable regression models adjusted for three pain intensity measures, trauma category, age, and sex. Acceptable pain was scaled per 10-point VAS increment. Bonferroni correction was applied (α = 0.008). Post-hoc trauma × acceptable pain interactions were tested.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Higher acceptable pain was associated with greater somatization (B = 0.37, 95% CI 0.19-0.55, p < .001), anxiety (B = 0.30, 0.11-0.48, p = .002), sleep impairment (B = 1.75, 0.67-2.84, p = .002), and perceived stress (B = 0.23, 0.09-0.37, p = .002), but not with depression (p = .054) or disability (p = .82). Findings were consistent across three prespecified sensitivity analyses. An exploratory post-hoc interaction test suggested that the acceptable pain-depression association was more pronounced in higher trauma categories (Bonferroni-significant trauma × acceptable pain interaction, p < .001).</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Higher self-reported acceptable pain intensity is associated with elevated psychosocial symptom burden beyond pain severity, with significant adjusted associations for somatization, anxiety, sleep impairment, and perceived stress, but not for depression or disability. Although the incremental contribution was small, the direction of the association was consistent across the four significant outcomes. Higher acceptable pain should therefore not be interpreted as evidence of better coping. Instead, it may reflect heterogeneous processes such as low outcome expectations, resigned tolerability, or psychosocial vulnerability, particularly among patients in higher trauma categories; shared method variance cannot be excluded. Prospective validation is needed.</p>","PeriodicalId":37867,"journal":{"name":"BMC Psychology","volume":"14 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2026-10-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13663201/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149184810","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Psychometric evaluation of the persian version of the Social Self-Compassion Scale (SSCS): associations with Perceived Social Self-Efficacy, fear of negative evaluation, and loneliness among female undergraduate students.","authors":"Azadeh Taheri, Roghieh Nooripour, Mohammadreza Shabanzadeh, Hamid Barani, Alison L Rose","doi":"10.1186/s40359-026-05779-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s40359-026-05779-6","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>The Social Self-Compassion Scale (SSCS) was developed to assess self-compassion in social and interpersonal contexts. However, the psychometric properties of the SSCS have not yet been evaluated among Iranian female undergraduate students. This study aimed to translate the SSCS into Persian and examine its psychometric properties among Iranian female undergraduate students.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>A cross-sectional, correlational design was employed in 2023 using convenience sampling with a sample of 303 female undergraduate students from Alzahra University. Participants completed the Persian version of the SSCS and the Perceived Social Self-Efficacy (PSSE), Adaptive Disengagement Scale (ADS), Brief Fear of Negative Evaluation-II (BFNE-II), and Social and Emotional Loneliness Scale for Adults (SELSA-S). These additional measures were included to examine the convergent and divergent validity of the Persian SSCS by assessing its associations with theoretically related constructs. Data were analyzed using SPSS version 22 and AMOS version 24. Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) was conducted to evaluate the factor structure and model fit, while Cronbach's alpha and construct reliability (CR) were calculated to assess the internal consistency and reliability of the SSCS.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The Persian version of the SSCS demonstrated adequate face and content validity. Regarding reliability, the SSCS exhibited acceptable internal consistency, with Cronbach's alpha values exceeding 0.70 for both the positive and negative factors. Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) demonstrated acceptable model fit (CMIN/df = 1.42, CFI = 0.96, GFI = 0.93, NFI = 0.93, RMSEA = 0.03). The SSCS was positively correlated with social self-efficacy (r = 0.45, p < 0.01) and adaptive disengagement (r = 0.71, p < 0.01), and negatively correlated with fear of negative evaluation (r = - 0.67, p < 0.01) and social and emotional loneliness (r = - 0.45, p < 0.01).</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>The Persian version of the SSCS demonstrated acceptable reliability and construct validity for assessing social self-compassion among Iranian female undergraduate students.</p>","PeriodicalId":37867,"journal":{"name":"BMC Psychology","volume":"14 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2026-10-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149225187","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"From trauma to words: the effect of bibliotherapy on psychological flexibility and language skills in children affected by an earthquake.","authors":"İbrahim Doyumgaç, Ayşe Nur Akyüz, Osman Söner, Ahmet Tanhan","doi":"10.1186/s40359-026-05756-z","DOIUrl":"10.1186/s40359-026-05756-z","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Purpose: </strong>The 6 February 2023 Kahramanmaraş earthquakes caused widespread devastation across 11 provinces in southeastern Türkiye, resulting in profound psychosocial consequences for children, including increased emotional avoidance and difficulties in self-expression. This study aimed to examine changes in psychological flexibility and language-related outcomes (listening, speaking, reading comprehension, and writing) associated with participation in a bibliotherapy-based intervention among children affected by the earthquakes.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>The study employed a quasi-experimental pretest-posttest control group design. Participants were middle school students residing in the earthquake-affected region. The experimental group participated in a 12-week multicomponent ACT-based bibliotherapy program, whereas the control group continued with the regular educational curriculum. The intervention was structured around Russ Harris's The Reality Slap and incorporated guided reading, metaphor-based activities, mindfulness practices, reflective writing, and group discussions. Each session involved structured reading of designated chapters and page ranges aligned with the thematic focus and targeted ACT processes. Psychological flexibility and four language-related outcomes-listening, speaking, reading comprehension, and writing-were assessed at pretest and posttest.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Significant differential changes were observed for psychological flexibility and reading comprehension. For listening, the primary Time × Group interaction reached the conventional 0.05 significance level but did not remain statistically significant after Bonferroni correction, whereas the baseline-adjusted ANCOVA showed a statistically significant between-group difference (p = 0.008). Thus, the findings for listening were not consistent across analytical approaches and were interpreted cautiously. The Time × Group interactions for speaking and writing were not statistically significant.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>The findings suggest that participation in the multicomponent ACT-based bibliotherapy program was associated with improvements in psychological flexibility and reading comprehension among earthquake-affected adolescents. Evidence for listening skills was less consistent across analytical approaches and should therefore be interpreted cautiously. Given the quasi-experimental design, nonrandom allocation, and absence of an attention-matched active control condition, these findings should not be interpreted as definitive causal effects attributable exclusively to bibliotherapy.</p>","PeriodicalId":37867,"journal":{"name":"BMC Psychology","volume":"14 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2026-10-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13663228/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149184620","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Multiple discrimination at work and depressive symptoms in young adults.","authors":"Tobias Weinmann, Britta Herbig, Felix Forster, Laura Wengenroth, Dennis Nowak, Christian Vogelberg, Katja Radon","doi":"10.1186/s40359-026-05765-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s40359-026-05765-y","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>We aimed to estimate the implications of cumulative exposure to discrimination at work for mental health among young adults. Our specific objective was to investigate if experiencing multiple types of discrimination at work is associated with depressive symptoms.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>We analyzed cross-sectional questionnaire data from 1066 participants (56.8% female, mean age 31.3 years) of the third phase of the German Study on Occupational Allergy Risks (2017-2018, response 47.3%). Participants were asked whether during the last twelve months they had experienced one or more of seven types of discrimination at their workplace. The Patient Health Questionnaire-2 (PHQ-2) was used for screening of symptoms of depression. We performed multivariate logistic regression to estimate the association between the number of experienced types of discrimination at work and depressive symptoms.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Discrimination due to sex was the most often reported type (6.1% of participants). Experience of two or more forms of discrimination was indicated by 2.5% of the participants. One hundred four individuals (9.8%) were screened positive for depression. Before adjustment for work stress, individuals reporting two or more types of discrimination at work had more than six times the odds of depressive symptoms compared to the non-exposed reference group (Odds Ratio (OR): 6.31, 95% Confidence Interval (CI): 2.67 to 14.89). After adjustment for work stress, the OR for the association between two or more types of discrimination and depressive symptoms was 3.92 (95% CI: 1.40 to 11.01).</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Our results support the hypothesis of an association between exposure to multiple discrimination at work and poor mental health, even though our effect estimates suffer from low statistical precision. Furthermore, the design of our analysis does not permit causal statements. In view of the entire scientific body of studies in the field, we argue that measures to reduce or abolish discrimination may be seen as important means of protecting mental health and well-being.</p>","PeriodicalId":37867,"journal":{"name":"BMC Psychology","volume":"14 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2026-10-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13654232/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149169813","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A multi-model LLM framework for AI-assisted psychological scale development: initial psychometric evaluation of the Emotion Regulation Scale (ERS).","authors":"Iman Aly Almohammadi, Malak Ali Alzahrani","doi":"10.1186/s40359-026-05759-w","DOIUrl":"10.1186/s40359-026-05759-w","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Emotion regulation is a key construct in mental health, yet existing measures differ in conceptual coverage, with some focusing on specific strategies or regulatory difficulties rather than broader cognitive, behavioral, and contextual regulation processes. This study aimed to develop an Emotion Regulation Scale (ERS) grounded in Gross's Process Model, using large language models (LLMs) as assistive tools within an established psychometric framework.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>This cross-sectional study included 743 adults recruited through convenience sampling. Participants were randomly divided into two non-overlapping subsamples, one used for exploratory factor analysis and the other for confirmatory factor analysis. Multiple LLMs and AI-based tools assisted with item generation, refinement and bias screening, translation, and post-EFA construct interpretation, with human oversight throughout development. An initial pool of 25 items was generated and refined to produce the final 17-item ERS.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The ERS revealed a preliminary four-factor structure, with EFA explaining 50.85% of the variance. CFA provided preliminary support for a post hoc refined 17-item model (χ²/df = 1.95, CFI = 0.934, TLI = 0.918, IFI = 0.935, RMSEA = 0.050). Reliability was acceptable for early-stage scale development (α = 0.68-0.74; ω = 0.68-0.75). Convergent validity showed positive correlations between adaptive strategies and cognitive reappraisal (r = 0.522-0.608) and between maladaptive cognitions and suppression (r = 0.400). Concurrent validity showed associations with depression (r = 0.432), anxiety (r = 0.462), well-being (r = -0.330), and quality of life (QOL1 = -0.357; QOL2 = -0.295), while adaptive strategies correlated with depression (r = -0.184 to -0.239), anxiety (r = -0.141 to -0.211), well-being (r = 0.150 to 0.203), and quality of life (r = 0.211 to 0.375). Known-groups validity indicated significant differences across depression and anxiety levels (MCR: F(4, 738) = 39.32; 64.49, p < 0.001).</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>The findings provide preliminary psychometric evidence for the 17-item ERS and suggest that it may complement existing measures by capturing broader cognitive, behavioral, and contextual emotion regulation processes. The study illustrates the potential for LLM-assisted scale development within established psychometric procedures and human oversight. Further research using diverse samples is needed to evaluate the scale's psychometric properties, generalizability, and broader utility.</p>","PeriodicalId":37867,"journal":{"name":"BMC Psychology","volume":"14 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2026-10-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13670689/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149184388","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}