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Time perspective and smartphone addiction among college students: the mediating role of perceived stress. 大学生时间观与智能手机成瘾:感知压力的中介作用
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Current Issues in Personality Psychology Pub Date : 2025-12-18 eCollection Date: 2026-01-01 DOI: 10.5114/cipp/213404
Wenhan Yang, Michael Rönnlund
{"title":"Time perspective and smartphone addiction among college students: the mediating role of perceived stress.","authors":"Wenhan Yang, Michael Rönnlund","doi":"10.5114/cipp/213404","DOIUrl":"10.5114/cipp/213404","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Smartphone addiction (SA) is a prevalent behavioral concern among college students, with evidence of serious consequences for mental health and academic performance. Research has established stress as a major risk factor of SA. Two prior studies also indicated that time perspective, i.e., views of past, present, and future, is a factor behind SA. The present research aimed to further examine the association between time perspective and SA, and the potential role of perceived stress as a mediator of this relationship.</p><p><strong>Participants and procedure: </strong>In total, 186 Chinese college students completed an online survey that included a short-version of the Smartphone Addiction Scale, a 30-item, six-dimensional version of the Zimbardo Time Perspective Inventory (S-ZTPI) and the Perceived Stress Scale.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Path analyses were consistent with a model where the association between deviations from the balanced time perspective (DBTP) and SA is mediated by stress. Analyses involving separate S-ZTPI dimensions indicated that Past Negative and Future Negative were uniquely associated with increased risk of SA via stress, while Future Positive may have a protective role. Unexpectedly, Past Positive showed a significant positive direct effect on SA.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>The results reinforce prior findings that time perspective biases are a risk factor of SA, mainly through increased levels of perceived stress. Longitudinal studies in diverse cultural settings are required to validate the links among the study variables. Based on the current results, reducing past negative and future negative attitudes, while supporting a positive future perspective, may form part of interventions targeting smartphone addiction.</p>","PeriodicalId":43067,"journal":{"name":"Current Issues in Personality Psychology","volume":"14 2","pages":"91-98"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2025-12-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13392670/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148580481","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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I am so wise: agentic narcissism, communal narcissism, and overclaiming among Polish and Italian students. 我很聪明:在波兰和意大利学生中,我有主观的自恋、集体的自恋和夸大其词。
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Current Issues in Personality Psychology Pub Date : 2025-11-26 eCollection Date: 2026-01-01 DOI: 10.5114/cipp/211373
Weronika Zyskowska, Calogero Lo Destro, Artur Sawicki, Michał Sękowski, Magdalena Żemojtel-Piotrowska
{"title":"I am so wise: agentic narcissism, communal narcissism, and overclaiming among Polish and Italian students.","authors":"Weronika Zyskowska, Calogero Lo Destro, Artur Sawicki, Michał Sękowski, Magdalena Żemojtel-Piotrowska","doi":"10.5114/cipp/211373","DOIUrl":"10.5114/cipp/211373","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Self-enhancement is the tendency to maintain a positive self-concept, often linked to narcissism. While agentic narcissists enhance their self-image through competence and status, communal narcissists do so through perceived morality and altruism. This study examined the relationship between four forms of grandiose narcissism - admiration, rivalry, sanctity, and heroism - and two self-enhancement strategies: overclaiming and the better-than-average (BTA) effect.</p><p><strong>Participants and procedure: </strong>We investigated these relations in Polish and Italian university students (<i>N</i> = 306), considering cross-cultural differences in agency and communion. Participants completed a series of validated self-report measures assessing narcissistic traits, overclaiming tendencies, and self-perceived superiority. The study design incorporated a randomized presentation of variables and ensured measurement invariance across cultural contexts. Furthermore, to mitigate potential collinearity concerns and delineate shared and distinct variance components, we performed commonality analyses.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Initially, we examined the zero-order correlations between narcissistic dimensions and self-enhancement variables, including domain-specific (agentic and communal) overclaiming, actual knowledge, and the BTA effect. To account for the substantial intercorrelations among narcissism subtypes, we subsequently employed multiple regression models to isolate their unique contributions.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Our findings revealed that within agentic narcissism only admiration was positively related to self-enhancement, whereas communal narcissists employed both sanctity and heroism. However, in Italy, communal self-enhancement was expressed only in the BTA effect, suggesting that cultural norms may influence the expression of narcissistic self-enhancement. These findings contribute to the literature on domain-specific self-enhancement, emphasizing the interplay between narcissism, culture, and self-perception.</p>","PeriodicalId":43067,"journal":{"name":"Current Issues in Personality Psychology","volume":"14 2","pages":"82-90"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2025-11-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13392667/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148580370","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Developmental Crisis Questionnaire (DCQ-12): psychometric characteristics of the Czech version among adult respondents. 发展危机问卷(DCQ-12):捷克语版成人被调查者的心理测量特征。
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Current Issues in Personality Psychology Pub Date : 2025-10-21 eCollection Date: 2025-01-01 DOI: 10.5114/cipp/207003
Katarína Millová, Karel Rečka, Anna Khvalitska
{"title":"Developmental Crisis Questionnaire (DCQ-12): psychometric characteristics of the Czech version among adult respondents.","authors":"Katarína Millová, Karel Rečka, Anna Khvalitska","doi":"10.5114/cipp/207003","DOIUrl":"10.5114/cipp/207003","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>This study examined the psychometric properties of the Czech version of the Developmental Crisis Questionnaire (DCQ-12), assessing its internal consistency, factor structure, and associations with psychosocial variables such as self-esteem, social support, life satisfaction, negative emotionality, and perceived stress.</p><p><strong>Participants and procedure: </strong>The sample included 761 participants aged 19-59 years, primarily women (68.4%), recruited online. DCQ-12, along with measures for self-esteem, self-efficacy, life satisfaction, perceived stress, and negative emotionality, was administered. Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) and McDonald's omega were employed to evaluate the questionnaire's structure and reliability. Age and gender differences were assessed through two-way ANOVA.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>DCQ-12 demonstrated high internal consistency (ω = .89 for the total scale), though one subscale (Transition and Turning Point) showed lower reliability (ω = .63). A three-factor model with minor modifications exhibited good fit (CFI = .956, RMSEA = .068). DCQ-12 correlated positively with stress and negative emotionality, and negatively with self-esteem, self-efficacy, life satisfaction, social support, and meaning in life. Developmental crisis was more prevalent among younger adults and women. Crisis prevalence declined with age and varied by gender, with notable differences observed in younger and middle adulthood.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>The Czech version of DCQ-12 is a reliable tool for assessing developmental crisis across adulthood. The current findings align with existing literature on psychosocial predictors of crisis. Future studies should explore the utility of DCQ-12 in diverse age groups and cultural contexts.</p>","PeriodicalId":43067,"journal":{"name":"Current Issues in Personality Psychology","volume":"13 4","pages":"271-280"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2025-10-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12690360/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145745017","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Examination of the role of dispositional and state suspicion in deceptive ratings and veracity judgments. 检查性格和国家怀疑在欺骗性评级和真实性判断中的作用。
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Current Issues in Personality Psychology Pub Date : 2025-09-26 eCollection Date: 2025-01-01 DOI: 10.5114/cipp/204034
Yuta Takiguchi, Mariko Kikutani
{"title":"Examination of the role of dispositional and state suspicion in deceptive ratings and veracity judgments.","authors":"Yuta Takiguchi, Mariko Kikutani","doi":"10.5114/cipp/204034","DOIUrl":"10.5114/cipp/204034","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>How suspicious individuals are about some information affects how they judge whether the information is truthful. Being suspicious increases the possibility of one making a lie judgment about others (judging that others are lying); however, previous research has rarely distinguished between two types of suspicion: dispositional and state. This study examined how dispositional suspicion affects deceptiveness impressions and veracity judgments under different levels of state suspicion. Also, the relationship between the two types of suspicion and the amount of information people gather for truth-lie judgments was explored.</p><p><strong>Participants and procedure: </strong>Participants (<i>N</i> = 260) watched videos of someone telling either the truth or a lie, and immediately rated how deceptive the speaker looked, then made a final veracity judgment about him/her. Participants were assigned to two conditions: in one, they were informed that the speaker in the video might have committed a crime (suspicious condition), while in the other, they were not (non-suspicious condition). Participants were allowed to watch a maximum of five videos before making the final decision, and they all reported their level of dispositional suspicion.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The results indicated that participants with high dispositional suspicion perceived the speaker as more deceptive than those with less suspicion but did not necessarily make more lie judgments. Although not statistically significant, there was a clear trend that the effect of dispositional suspicion was evident only under low-state suspicion. It was also found that more suspicious participants gathered less information.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>The finding that dispositional suspicion and state suspicion interactively influence deception perception has practical implications for judgments under low suspicion (e.g., fraud).</p>","PeriodicalId":43067,"journal":{"name":"Current Issues in Personality Psychology","volume":"13 4","pages":"245-253"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2025-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12690355/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145744978","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Narcissistic admiration and rivalry, Machiavellianism and willingness to engage in unethical pro-organisational behaviour (UPB). 自恋崇拜和竞争,马基雅维利主义和参与不道德的亲组织行为(UPB)的意愿。
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Current Issues in Personality Psychology Pub Date : 2025-09-19 eCollection Date: 2026-01-01 DOI: 10.5114/cipp/207002
Damian Grabowski, Patrycja Stawiarska, Katarzyna Stapor, Agata Chudzicka-Czupała
{"title":"Narcissistic admiration and rivalry, Machiavellianism and willingness to engage in unethical pro-organisational behaviour (UPB).","authors":"Damian Grabowski, Patrycja Stawiarska, Katarzyna Stapor, Agata Chudzicka-Czupała","doi":"10.5114/cipp/207002","DOIUrl":"10.5114/cipp/207002","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>This survey of Polish employees replicates research on the relationship between narcissism, Machiavellianism and unethical pro-organisational behaviour (UPB) that was previously conducted in other countries such as China, Pakistan and the US. Positive associations between narcissism, Machiavellianism and UPB were expected to occur.</p><p><strong>Participants and procedure: </strong>The survey covered 250 people working in large corporations across Poland. The sample included 163 women (65%) and 87 men (35%). Narcissism was measured with the NARQ questionnaire, developed as an operationalisation of the narcissistic admiration and rivalry concept (NARC). The MACH-4 scale was used to measure Machiavellianism. Readiness for UPB, on the other hand, was measured using the Polish version of the UPB Scale.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The research showed statistically significant positive relationships between narcissistic admiration, rivalry and Machiavellianism and the readiness to engage in UPB. At the same time, narcissistic rivalry and its components aggressiveness and striving for supremacy, and Machiavellianism correlate most strongly with UPB. Regression and mediation analyses showed that the significant variables to predict higher levels of readiness to engage in UPB are rivalry (aggressiveness) and Machiavellianism. Machiavellianism, moreover, appears as a mediator in the positive relationship of rivalry and its components (devaluation of others, striving for supremacy) with UPB.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Significant predictors of UPB are narcissistic rivalry, including aggressiveness, and Machiavellianism. A Machiavellian strategy may enable UPB to be undertaken by those with a tendency to dominate and devalue others.</p>","PeriodicalId":43067,"journal":{"name":"Current Issues in Personality Psychology","volume":"14 1","pages":"45-54"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2025-09-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13006982/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147515363","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Resilience, sense of self-efficacy, and risk-taking in the context of task performance during ship simulator training. 船舶模拟器训练中任务表现的弹性、自我效能感和冒险行为。
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Current Issues in Personality Psychology Pub Date : 2025-09-09 eCollection Date: 2026-01-01 DOI: 10.5114/cipp/204038
Andrzej Piotrowski, Ewa Sygit-Kowalkowska, Iwona Królikowska, Agnieszka Suchocka
{"title":"Resilience, sense of self-efficacy, and risk-taking in the context of task performance during ship simulator training.","authors":"Andrzej Piotrowski, Ewa Sygit-Kowalkowska, Iwona Królikowska, Agnieszka Suchocka","doi":"10.5114/cipp/204038","DOIUrl":"10.5114/cipp/204038","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Educating sailors requires intensive training, which involves highly specialized ship simulators. This is due to the crew's responsibility for the safety of the people on board and the simultaneous risk of making improper decisions under time pressure and with insufficient data. Thus far, empirical data on the role of personal psychological resources in the process of sailor skills training have been lacking.</p><p><strong>Participants and procedure: </strong>Fifty cadets of the Navigation and Naval Weapons Faculty and 51 cadets of the Mechanical and Electrical Engineering Faculty of the Polish Naval Academy in Gdynia, Poland, participated in the study. Task performance during ship simulator training was assessed. Additionally, the participants completed the General Self-Efficacy Scale, the Brief Resilience Scale, the Questionnaire of Stimulating and Instrumental Risk, and the Status-Driven Risk Taking Scale.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Three subgroups were distinguished based on their levels of task performance and the psychological variables measured. Cadets who achieved the highest task performance during simulator training simultaneously reported the highest sense of self-efficacy and resilience, average acceptance of instrumental risk, status-driven risk and its subdimensions, as well as the highest acceptance of stimulating risk.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Individual differences such as resilience, sense of self-efficacy, and risk acceptance have a different configuration among individuals who achieved the highest task performance on ship simulators. Identifying individuals with the optimal configuration of these variables may be useful for designing education and development processes for officers, although this requires further studies.</p>","PeriodicalId":43067,"journal":{"name":"Current Issues in Personality Psychology","volume":"14 1","pages":"37-44"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2025-09-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13006986/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147515328","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Coping strategies and well-being among young Polish adults: the mediating role of inner dialogues. 波兰年轻人的应对策略和幸福感:内心对话的中介作用。
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Current Issues in Personality Psychology Pub Date : 2025-06-23 eCollection Date: 2025-01-01 DOI: 10.5114/cipp/204035
Małgorzata Puchalska-Wasyl
{"title":"Coping strategies and well-being among young Polish adults: the mediating role of inner dialogues.","authors":"Małgorzata Puchalska-Wasyl","doi":"10.5114/cipp/204035","DOIUrl":"10.5114/cipp/204035","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>In previous research, the fourteen coping strategies proposed by Carver have been assigned to two categories: adaptive (planning, active coping, positive reframing, acceptance, using emotional and instrumental support, religion, and humor) and maladaptive (self-blame, denial, self-distraction, venting, behavioral disengagement, and substance use). Some studies have shown that the former correlate positively, while the latter correlate negatively with psychological well-being. The initiation of coping strategies seems to co-occur with the experience of uncertainty, which is typically accompanied by an inner dialogue. Different types of inner dialogues are related to well-being in different ways. This study aims to test whether identity and ruminative inner dialogues mediate the relationship between coping strategies and well-being.</p><p><strong>Participants and procedure: </strong>Convenience sampling was used. The study was conducted through an online survey. Participants were 337 young adults (181 women and 156 men) aged 20-35 years. They completed the Brief-COPE Inventory, Psychological Well-Being Scale, and Internal Dialogical Activity Scale-Revised.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>It was found that ruminative inner dialogues mediate negative relationships between maladaptive coping strategies and well-being. Identity inner dialogues are mediators of positive relationships between adaptive coping strategies and well-being, with the exception of humor and using emotional support.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>These findings can be used by mental health professionals in counseling and therapy. To enhance clients' well-being, it is essential to strengthen their identity internal dialogues (associated with adaptive coping) and reduce their ruminative internal dialogues (associated with maladaptive strategies).</p>","PeriodicalId":43067,"journal":{"name":"Current Issues in Personality Psychology","volume":"13 4","pages":"235-244"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2025-06-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12690362/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145745014","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Connecting the dots between narcissism and fame appeal: the role of imaginary audience fantasies. 连接自恋和名望吸引力之间的点:虚构的观众幻想的作用。
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Current Issues in Personality Psychology Pub Date : 2025-06-12 eCollection Date: 2025-01-01 DOI: 10.5114/cipp/197263
Dara Greenwood, Qiana Archer, Sydney Ash, Julian Keenan
{"title":"Connecting the dots between narcissism and fame appeal: the role of imaginary audience fantasies.","authors":"Dara Greenwood, Qiana Archer, Sydney Ash, Julian Keenan","doi":"10.5114/cipp/197263","DOIUrl":"10.5114/cipp/197263","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Although prior research has found a significant association between narcissistic tendencies and fame interest, details regarding the particular nature of this relationship remain to be elucidated. The present online survey study (<i>N</i> = 355) replicates and extends prior research examining the links between two subtypes of narcissism and fame appeal. Specifically, we distinguish between grandiose and vulnerable narcissism, as predictors of Visibility, Status, and Prosocial domains of fame appeal. Further, we examine the potential mediating role of imaginary audience fantasies.</p><p><strong>Participants and procedure: </strong>Participants were drawn from a student sample (74% female-identifying) aged 18 to 25 who completed an online survey for course credit.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Both grandiose and vulnerable narcissism predicted the Visibility appeal of fame, but only vulnerable narcissism predicted the Status appeal of fame. An inverse relationship emerged between grandiose narcissism and Prosocial appeal. Importantly, the frequency of imaginary audience fantasies mediated between both forms of narcissism and the Visibility and Prosocial appeals of fame.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>For those with grandiose or vulnerable narcissistic tendencies, whose self-image incorporates fantasies of being noticed and admired, celebrity and fame may be particularly appealing.</p>","PeriodicalId":43067,"journal":{"name":"Current Issues in Personality Psychology","volume":"13 3","pages":"202-210"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2025-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12427004/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145065545","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Development and psychometric properties of the short Polish version of the Pictorial Scale of Perceived Competence and Social Acceptance for Young Children (PSPCSA). 波兰语版幼儿感知能力与社会接纳图式量表(PSPCSA)的编制及其心理测量学特征。
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Current Issues in Personality Psychology Pub Date : 2025-06-06 eCollection Date: 2025-01-01 DOI: 10.5114/cipp/200664
Agata Trzcińska, Wojciech Podsiadłowski, Jowita Wieleszczyk
{"title":"Development and psychometric properties of the short Polish version of the Pictorial Scale of Perceived Competence and Social Acceptance for Young Children (PSPCSA).","authors":"Agata Trzcińska, Wojciech Podsiadłowski, Jowita Wieleszczyk","doi":"10.5114/cipp/200664","DOIUrl":"10.5114/cipp/200664","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>The Pictorial Scale of Perceived Competence and Social Acceptance for Young Children (PSPCSA) is an instrument widely used among researchers to assess young children's self-perceptions. In two studies, we aimed to develop and validate a shortened version of the PSPCSA in Polish.</p><p><strong>Participants and procedure: </strong>In Study 1, 133 preschoolers aged 4 to 6 years participated. The goal was to shorten the scale by selecting the best-performing items and to verify the factor structure of both the full-length and shortened Polish versions of the PSPCSA. Study 2 involved 344 children aged 4 to 7 years, aiming to validate the factor structure, reliability, and validity of the shortened version within the Polish cultural context.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The shortened PSPCSA demonstrated good internal consistency and test-retest reliability. Confirmatory factor analysis supported a two-factor model (Competence and Acceptance) for the shortened scale, with satisfactory fit indices. Additional, theoretically and psychometrically reasonable modifications further improved the model fit. Our results confirmed the validity of the scale and supported both configural and metric measurement invariance across age groups.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>The Polish short version of the PSPCSA offers a reliable tool for assessing preschoolers' self-perceptions of competence and acceptance. Its validation ensures robust psychometric properties, supporting its utility in research studies to understand early self-esteem development. The shortened version reduces the fatigue associated with the longer scale, making it more suitable for young children.</p>","PeriodicalId":43067,"journal":{"name":"Current Issues in Personality Psychology","volume":"13 4","pages":"281-290"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2025-06-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12690357/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145745046","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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The role of perfectionism, procrastination, and self-discipline in depression. 完美主义、拖延症和自律在抑郁症中的作用。
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Current Issues in Personality Psychology Pub Date : 2025-06-04 eCollection Date: 2026-01-01 DOI: 10.5114/cipp/202434
Aneta Przepiórka, Agata Błachnio, Andrzej Cudo, Nicolson Yat-Fan Siu, Zoe Violet Lam
{"title":"The role of perfectionism, procrastination, and self-discipline in depression.","authors":"Aneta Przepiórka, Agata Błachnio, Andrzej Cudo, Nicolson Yat-Fan Siu, Zoe Violet Lam","doi":"10.5114/cipp/202434","DOIUrl":"10.5114/cipp/202434","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>The aim of the study was threefold: first, to test the associations between perfectionism (adaptive and maladaptive), procrastination (general and decisional), and depression; second, to examine the mediating role of self-discipline between perfectionism and procrastination; and third, to examine gender differences.</p><p><strong>Participants and procedure: </strong>The participants in the study were 347 individuals aged 16 to 48 (<i>M</i> = 22.77, <i>SD</i> = 6.14). The following measures were used: the General Procrastination Scale, the Decisional Procrastination Scale, the Brief Self-Control Scale, the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale, and the Polish Adaptive and Maladaptive Perfectionism Questionnaire.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>As a result, maladaptive perfectionism positively contributed to depression, whereas adaptive perfectionism contributed to it negatively. In both the female and male groups, self-discipline was a mediator between maladaptive perfectionism and general and decisional procrastination. Only in the female group was self-discipline a mediator between adaptive perfectionism and general and decisional procrastination. Decisional procrastination mediated the link between perfectionism (adaptive and maladaptive) and depression only in the male group. Likewise, the relationship between maladaptive perfectionism and depression was mediated by self-discipline and decisional procrastination in the male group.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>As a result, maladaptive perfectionism positively contributed to depression, whereas adaptive perfectionism contributed to it negatively. In both the female and male groups, self-discipline was a mediator between maladaptive perfectionism and general and decisional procrastination. Only in the female group was self-discipline a mediator between adaptive perfectionism and general and decisional procrastination. Decisional procrastination mediated the link between perfectionism (adaptive and maladaptive) and depression only in the male group. Likewise, the relationship between maladaptive perfectionism and depression was mediated by self-discipline and decisional procrastination in the male group.</p>","PeriodicalId":43067,"journal":{"name":"Current Issues in Personality Psychology","volume":"14 1","pages":"10-18"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13006985/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147515311","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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