BMC PsychologyPub Date : 2026-09-17DOI: 10.1186/s40359-026-05586-z
Zekai Çakır, Ülfet Erbaş, Mevlüt Gönen, Ahmet Naci, Sema Güzel
{"title":"Correction: examination of trauma levels and earthquake stress coping strategies of university students who exercise and do not exercise after an earthquake.","authors":"Zekai Çakır, Ülfet Erbaş, Mevlüt Gönen, Ahmet Naci, Sema Güzel","doi":"10.1186/s40359-026-05586-z","DOIUrl":"10.1186/s40359-026-05586-z","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37867,"journal":{"name":"BMC Psychology","volume":"14 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2026-09-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13587381/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148991838","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}
BMC PsychologyPub Date : 2026-09-16DOI: 10.1186/s40359-026-05472-8
Lucía Cortés, Julia García-Escalera, Irene Casanova, Alberto Segura, Rosa M Valiente, Paloma Chorot
{"title":"Development and preliminary evaluation of a group adaptation of the Unified Protocol for Transdiagnostic Treatment of Emotional Disorders in adolescents (UP-A) in a Spanish public mental health center.","authors":"Lucía Cortés, Julia García-Escalera, Irene Casanova, Alberto Segura, Rosa M Valiente, Paloma Chorot","doi":"10.1186/s40359-026-05472-8","DOIUrl":"10.1186/s40359-026-05472-8","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Anxiety and depression frequently co-occur during adolescence. The Unified Protocol for Transdiagnostic Treatment of Emotional Disorders in Adolescents (UP-A) targets shared emotional mechanisms and has shown promise in individual formats. This study adapted the UP-A to a group format and evaluated its feasibility, acceptability, and preliminary effectiveness in a public outpatient mental health setting in Spain.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Thirty-one adolescents (M = 14.03; 87.1% female) participated in a 16-session group intervention, which included 3 group sessions for parents.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>A total of 80.65% of participants completed the treatment. Adolescents and parents reported high satisfaction and therapeutic alliance. Significant improvements were observed in adolescent-reported emotional symptoms and emotion regulation strategies, along with parent-reported reductions in depressive symptoms. Clinician ratings indicated reduced diagnostic severity and improved functioning.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>These findings suggest that the group-based UP-A is feasible, well accepted, and associated with clinical improvement in public mental health care. Further randomized studies are needed to confirm these results. TRIAL REGISTRATION NUMBER (CLINICALTRIALS.GOV): NCT06894368. Date of registration: March 12, 2025 (retrospectively registered).</p>","PeriodicalId":37867,"journal":{"name":"BMC Psychology","volume":"14 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2026-09-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13651149/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149138605","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}
BMC PsychologyPub Date : 2026-09-15DOI: 10.1186/s40359-026-05590-3
Haoqian Li, Bei Zhang, Yingli Luo, Jin Zou, Mingtao Chen, Fankang Li, Zheng Zhang, Jian Sun
{"title":"Beyond avoidance: negative lying flat and emotional distress among Chinese youth in a 10-day daily diary study.","authors":"Haoqian Li, Bei Zhang, Yingli Luo, Jin Zou, Mingtao Chen, Fankang Li, Zheng Zhang, Jian Sun","doi":"10.1186/s40359-026-05590-3","DOIUrl":"10.1186/s40359-026-05590-3","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Negative lying flat (NLF) is a culturally salient form of withdrawal among Chinese youth. In this study, NLF was operationalized as diminished goal pursuit and reduced willingness to expend effort. We examined whether daily NLF is distinguishable from experiential avoidance (EA) and how both are temporally related to anxiety and depressive symptoms.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Participants were 201 Chinese university students (34.8% male; Mage = 21.04 years, SD = 1.40) who provided 1,863 valid observations across 10 scheduled weekday assessments over two weeks. Three DSEM models examined NLF and EA (Model A), anxiety with both withdrawal constructs (Model B), and depressive symptoms with both withdrawal constructs (Model C), while adjusting between-person components for age and gender. Corresponding NLF and EA paths were compared using posterior contrasts. Calendar-day sensitivity analyses represented the two weekend days as systematically missing within a 12-day calendar.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Model A showed no reliable within-person cross-lagged associations between NLF and EA (NLF→EA: β = 0.030, 95% CrI [-0.046, 0.099]; EA→NLF: β = 0.053, 95% CrI [-0.010, 0.115]). In the joint emotional-distress models, anxiety predicted subsequent NLF (β = 0.113, 95% CrI [0.050, 0.184]) and NLF predicted subsequent anxiety (β = 0.082, 95% CrI [0.023, 0.153]); depressive symptoms predicted subsequent NLF (β = 0.085, 95% CrI [0.015, 0.152]) and NLF predicted subsequent depressive symptoms (β = 0.075, 95% CrI [0.006, 0.134]). Corresponding EA paths included zero, and posterior contrasts did not establish differences between corresponding NLF and EA paths. Calendar-day estimates were similar in direction and magnitude, but the NLF-to-anxiety and NLF-to-depressive-symptoms credible intervals marginally included zero.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Primary models identified reciprocal short-lag associations between NLF and emotional distress that were not observed for EA. Taken together, these findings support continued investigation of NLF as a goal-and-effort withdrawal process in daily emotional adjustment, without establishing stronger effects than EA.</p>","PeriodicalId":37867,"journal":{"name":"BMC Psychology","volume":"14 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2026-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13676002/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149207985","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}
BMC PsychologyPub Date : 2026-09-15DOI: 10.1186/s40359-026-05196-9
Dimitrios Chasapis, Thanos Touloupis
{"title":"Non-consensual sexting among adolescents from ethnocultural minority backgrounds: the role of native peer pressure, self-control, and sexual preoccupation.","authors":"Dimitrios Chasapis, Thanos Touloupis","doi":"10.1186/s40359-026-05196-9","DOIUrl":"10.1186/s40359-026-05196-9","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>The non-consensual dissemination of sexually explicit electronic messages (non-consensual sexting) among adolescents from ethnocultural minority backgrounds is a severe form of digital aggression that remains internationally under-researched.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>Integrating Ecological Systems and Social Cognitive theories, the present study examined the prevalence of non-consensual sexting roles (sending, receiving, and forwarding) and the predictive contribution of perceived native peer pressure (i.e., peers from the Greek majority without a migrant background), self-control, and sexual preoccupation. The sample consisted of 293 students (59% self-identified as boys; M<sub>age</sub> = 14.9, SD = 0.93) from ethnocultural minority groups, primarily originating from Albania (35.8%), Bulgaria (35.2%), and a consolidated group (29%) of other countries (Russia, Ukraine, Israel, Armenia). Students attended the third grade of randomly selected public junior high schools located in the two largest regions of Greece.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Findings revealed that adolescents were predominantly involved in the sending and receiving of non-consensual sexual content, whereas unauthorized forwarding occurred at a significantly lower frequency. Adolescents of Albanian and Bulgarian origin were identified as the most vulnerable subgroups for direct digital involvement. Gender did not emerge as a statistically significant factor in differentiating involvement. Regarding predictive pathways, perceived native peer pressure emerged as the most potent positive predictor, followed by self-control as a secondary protective factor and sexual preoccupation as the weakest positive factor.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Overall, the findings suggest that digital risk in youth from minority backgrounds is driven by the interplay between host-country social integration and internal self-control, necessitating culturally sensitive interventions that target social-integrative motives while bolstering individual protective mechanisms. While these findings provide a specialized perspective on the digital ecology of minority youth, they should be viewed as exploratory regarding the unique influence of ethnocultural background, as the study did not include a native-born comparison group.</p>","PeriodicalId":37867,"journal":{"name":"BMC Psychology","volume":"14 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2026-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13579905/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148978143","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}
BMC PsychologyPub Date : 2026-09-15DOI: 10.1186/s40359-026-05427-z
Mattias Nordstrand, Samuelle Fajutrao Falk, Magnus Johansson, Rebecka Pestoff, Kristiina Tammimies
{"title":"Assessing Swedish genetic counselling outcome measures for autism and general use: Rasch findings highlight the need for improved measures.","authors":"Mattias Nordstrand, Samuelle Fajutrao Falk, Magnus Johansson, Rebecka Pestoff, Kristiina Tammimies","doi":"10.1186/s40359-026-05427-z","DOIUrl":"10.1186/s40359-026-05427-z","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Genetic counselling outcome measures are increasingly adapted for diverse clinical contexts. While the Genetic Counselling Outcome Scale (GCOS-24) is available in Swedish, no autism-specific version has been developed.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>We adapted the Swedish GCOS-24 using the English version of the modified GCOS-24 (mGCOS-24) to create a Swedish autism-specific mGCOS-24. Thereafter, we evaluated both the Swedish autism mGCOS-24 and the Swedish general GCOS-24 using Rasch analysis to assess their psychometric properties.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Both instruments exhibited structural challenges, including multidimensionality, disordered thresholds, local item dependence, and invariance issues. For the Swedish autism mGCOS-24, we were able to identify subscales with acceptable measurement properties. However, applying the same structure to the Swedish general GCOS-24 did not resolve its broader limitations.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>This study introduces the first Swedish autism‑specific mGCOS‑24 and represents the first Rasch‑based evaluation of any GCOS‑24 or mGCOS‑24 in Swedish. Our findings highlight important opportunities for outcome measure refinement but also indicate that new or more substantially adapted tools may be needed to capture outcomes of genetic counselling in autistic populations.</p>","PeriodicalId":37867,"journal":{"name":"BMC Psychology","volume":"14 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2026-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13602552/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149041210","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}
BMC PsychologyPub Date : 2026-09-15DOI: 10.1186/s40359-026-05450-0
Cristhian George Alave Mamani, Esteban Tocto-Cano, Ronny Ivan Gonzales Medina, Javier Linkolk López-Gonzales, Josue Edison Turpo-Chaparro
{"title":"Multivariate modeling of organizational dynamics and faculty well-being in higher education.","authors":"Cristhian George Alave Mamani, Esteban Tocto-Cano, Ronny Ivan Gonzales Medina, Javier Linkolk López-Gonzales, Josue Edison Turpo-Chaparro","doi":"10.1186/s40359-026-05450-0","DOIUrl":"10.1186/s40359-026-05450-0","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Leadership styles are increasingly recognised as strategic organizational resources for faculty well-being, yet the evidence remains fragmented: prior studies have examined leadership, workplace harassment-systematic, recurrent negative acts that constrain the target's capacity for self-defence-and psychological resources in isolation, and rarely within a single explanatory model. Whether these processes operate equivalently for male and female faculty has been largely untested, despite its direct relevance for equitable university management.</p><p><strong>Aim: </strong>To test an integrated structural model relating transformational and servant leadership to workplace harassment, teacher self-efficacy, and life satisfaction among Peruvian university teachers; to formally test the mediating role of self-efficacy against directly estimated residual effects; and to examine whether the structural relations differ by gender.</p><p><strong>Design: </strong>A quantitative, non-experimental, cross-sectional study with explanatory scope.</p><p><strong>Participants: </strong>506 university teachers from Peru (49.6% men, 50.4% women; 61.66% from public institutions).</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Structural Equation Modelling with robust WLSMV estimation on ordinal indicators, including directly estimated residual paths from both leadership styles to life satisfaction. Indirect effects were evaluated with the product-of-coefficients method and bootstrap bias-corrected accelerated confidence intervals ( <math><mi>B</mi> <mn>=5000</mn></math> ; ML sensitivity analysis). Measurement invariance across gender was tested with a configural-metric-scalar (threshold) sequence under WLSMV, and structural gender differences were assessed with a formal likelihood-ratio comparison of free versus constrained multigroup models, followed by Wald tests of path differences. Robustness to age, university type, and region was verified through a covariate-adjusted sensitivity model.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Both transformational ( <math><mi>β</mi> <mo>=</mo> <mo>-</mo> <mn>0.123</mn></math> , <math><mi>p</mi> <mn>0.01</mn></math> ) and servant ( <math><mi>β</mi> <mo>=</mo> <mo>-</mo> <mn>0.186</mn></math> , <math><mi>p</mi> <mn>0.001</mn></math> ) leadership were negatively associated with workplace harassment. Servant leadership showed the strongest effect on self-efficacy ( <math><mi>β</mi> <mn>=0.505</mn></math> , <math><mi>p</mi> <mn>0.001</mn></math> ), which in turn predicted life satisfaction ( <math><mi>β</mi> <mn>=0.429</mn></math> , <math><mi>p</mi> <mn>0.001</mn></math> ; <math> <msup><mrow><mi>R</mi></mrow> <mn>2</mn></msup> <mn>=0.393</mn></math> ). Servant leadership exhibited complementary partial mediation: both its indirect effect via self-efficacy ( <math> <msub><mrow><mi>β</mi></mrow> <mrow><mi>std</mi></mrow> </msub> <mn>=0.217</mn></math> , BCa CI <math><mo>[</mo> <mrow><mn>0.146</mn> <mo>,</mo> <mn>0.354</mn></mro","PeriodicalId":37867,"journal":{"name":"BMC Psychology","volume":"14 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2026-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13613840/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149041173","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}
BMC PsychologyPub Date : 2026-09-14DOI: 10.1186/s40359-026-05389-2
Anya Williamson, J Bruno Debruille, David M Dunkley
{"title":"Considerations regarding article on parental psychological control, socially prescribed perfectionism, depression, and suicidal ideation among university students.","authors":"Anya Williamson, J Bruno Debruille, David M Dunkley","doi":"10.1186/s40359-026-05389-2","DOIUrl":"10.1186/s40359-026-05389-2","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Suicidal ideation (SI) and, by extension, suicide, represent a leading cause of death among university students. The study conducted by Wu et al. [1] addresses this crucial topic by identifying a significant partial chain mediation model linking parental psychological control (PPC) to SI via socially prescribed perfectionism (SPP) and depression. The article makes a genuine contribution to the understanding of mental health risks in a population facing markedly rising rates of psychopathology [2]. However, we address three concerns we believe affect the strength of the authors' conclusions: the use of causal language, certain measurement decisions, and analytic reporting choices. This commentary is intended as constructive and collaborative, towards further improving an already important contribution to the field.</p>","PeriodicalId":37867,"journal":{"name":"BMC Psychology","volume":"14 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2026-09-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13573323/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148971699","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}
BMC PsychologyPub Date : 2026-09-12DOI: 10.1186/s40359-026-05598-9
Jin-Long Liang, Xin-Ling Cui
{"title":"Longitudinal associations between memory and emergent literacy from 3 to 6 years of age: a four-wave random-intercept cross-lagged panel study.","authors":"Jin-Long Liang, Xin-Ling Cui","doi":"10.1186/s40359-026-05598-9","DOIUrl":"10.1186/s40359-026-05598-9","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Memory and emergent literacy are foundational to children's early learning. However, it remains unclear whether their longitudinal association reflects stable differences between children, developmental fluctuations within children, or both. The present study examined their bidirectional associations from 36 to 72 months while distinguishing between-child and within-child variation.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>This secondary analysis used four waves of caregiver-reported data from the KIT longitudinal study, collected when children were approximately 36, 48, 60, and 72 months old. The analytic sample comprised 1,694 children. A traditional cross-lagged panel model (CLPM) was used to estimate overall longitudinal associations, and a random-intercept cross-lagged panel model (RI-CLPM) was used to separate stable between-child differences from time-specific within-child deviations.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Mean scores for both constructs increased with age, and memory and emergent literacy were positively correlated within and across waves. In the CLPM, memory was prospectively associated with subsequent emergent literacy across all three intervals, whereas emergent literacy was prospectively associated with subsequent memory in two of the three intervals. In the RI-CLPM, the correlation between the stable between-child components of memory and emergent literacy was 0.81. At the within-child level, deviations in each construct were positively associated with subsequent deviations in the other across all three intervals. The largest estimated emergent-literacy-to-memory coefficient was observed from 60 to 72 months.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Memory and emergent literacy were bidirectionally associated at the within-child level from 36 to 72 months, while the prospective association from memory to emergent literacy was more consistent across the CLPM and RI-CLPM. Their longitudinal relation involved both stable between-child differences and time-specific within-child variation.</p>","PeriodicalId":37867,"journal":{"name":"BMC Psychology","volume":"14 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2026-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13576274/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148971661","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}
BMC PsychologyPub Date : 2026-09-11DOI: 10.1186/s40359-026-05548-5
Yang He, Ting Pan, Songyue Hong, Tao Xu, Lili Liu, Shuang Liu, Ping Xiong, Xuna Yang, Dong Wang, Wenqin Chen, Wei Liu
{"title":"Correction: Unveiling symptom-level pathways: a network analysis of fear of missing out and mobile phone addiction among Chinese college students.","authors":"Yang He, Ting Pan, Songyue Hong, Tao Xu, Lili Liu, Shuang Liu, Ping Xiong, Xuna Yang, Dong Wang, Wenqin Chen, Wei Liu","doi":"10.1186/s40359-026-05548-5","DOIUrl":"10.1186/s40359-026-05548-5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37867,"journal":{"name":"BMC Psychology","volume":"14 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2026-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13563870/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148956639","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}