PsihologijaPub Date : 2021-01-01DOI: 10.2298/PSI201115009S
A. Stojanov, M. J. Bering, J. Halberstadt
{"title":"Perceived lack of control and conspiracy theory beliefs in the wake of political strife and natural disaster","authors":"A. Stojanov, M. J. Bering, J. Halberstadt","doi":"10.2298/PSI201115009S","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2298/PSI201115009S","url":null,"abstract":"While lack of control is one plausible explanation for conspiracy beliefs, the experimental evidence is mixed. We present two naturalistic studies that offer some limited support for the control hypothesis. In the first, Macedonians living in (North) Macedonia (N = 116) completed a conspiracy ideation scale immediately after a national referendum on the country?s name change from ?Macedonia? to ?North Macedonia,? and one year after. The opposition, whose control was lowered after the name change, increased their conspiracy beliefs, but supporters did not. Study 2, conducted with Americans (N = 266) in the wake of a series of devastating tornadoes, replicated and expanded the first study: the effects were evident only for the threatening event-related conspiracy beliefs. These studies suggest a possible link between lack of control and conspiracy beliefs in the real world.","PeriodicalId":45301,"journal":{"name":"Psihologija","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68657625","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
PsihologijaPub Date : 2021-01-01DOI: 10.2298/PSI200723006K
A. Kozina, M. Vidmar, Manja Veldin, Tina Pivec, Igor Peras
{"title":"The role of emotional competencies in psychological responding to covid-19 pandemic","authors":"A. Kozina, M. Vidmar, Manja Veldin, Tina Pivec, Igor Peras","doi":"10.2298/PSI200723006K","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2298/PSI200723006K","url":null,"abstract":"With stress related to the COVID-19 pandemic, an increase in anxiety and a decrease in overall mental well-being is expected. We investigated the role of emotional competencies (mindfulness and emotional self-efficacy) for psychological responding (mental well-being, general anxiety, and COVID-19 anxiety) during the COVID-19 pandemic. We also examined whether practising mindfulness with inner (meditation-based) and body (yoga-based) exercises supports emotional competencies. Our sample consisted of 364 participants (83.5% females, M = 37.21 years, SD = 12.92 years). Findings showed that emotional competencies are a viable source of support in psychological responses to COVID-19, with Emotional self-efficacy and Accept without judgement playing the strongest roles. Moreover, practising mindfulness was shown to foster several aspects of emotional competencies (i.e., Observe, Describe, and Emotional self-efficacy). There is an ambiguous finding regarding Observe scale that was also found problematic in other studies. The implications for possible interventions are discussed.","PeriodicalId":45301,"journal":{"name":"Psihologija","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68655878","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
PsihologijaPub Date : 2020-01-01DOI: 10.2298/psi190107018h
A. Hajnal, J. Vonk, Virgil Zeigler‐Hill
{"title":"Peer influence on conformity and confidence in a perceptual judgment task","authors":"A. Hajnal, J. Vonk, Virgil Zeigler‐Hill","doi":"10.2298/psi190107018h","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2298/psi190107018h","url":null,"abstract":"Undergraduate college students were presented with two arrays of dots varying in numerosity on a computer screen and asked to indicate if the arrays differed in number. They also rated their level of confidence in their responses. Trials varied in difficulty based on the size of the arrays. On half of the trials, participants were shown the ostensible responses of confederates to test the effect of peer influence on numerosity judgments and participant confidence. On the other half of the trials, participants received no information about the responses of the confederates to provide a measure of baseline performance. Higher levels of conformity were observed for the difficult trials, on which participants were both less accurate and less confident. However, confidence ratings were influenced by peer judgments for easy trials but not for difficult trials. These data suggest that task difficulty influences conformity when making perceptual judgments.","PeriodicalId":45301,"journal":{"name":"Psihologija","volume":"53 1","pages":"101-113"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68654377","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
PsihologijaPub Date : 2020-01-01DOI: 10.2298/psi190414001m
Elham Mazaheri-tehrani, V. Nejati, A. Seyed, O. Dadras, A. Cossarizza, C. Mussini, Nasab Ahsani Sara, L. Sadeghi, M. Gholami, Hanieh Golchehregan, M. Mohraz
{"title":"Prevalence of HIV-associated neurocognitive disorder (HAND) and its subgroups among HIV-positive persons on anti-retroviral therapy in Iran","authors":"Elham Mazaheri-tehrani, V. Nejati, A. Seyed, O. Dadras, A. Cossarizza, C. Mussini, Nasab Ahsani Sara, L. Sadeghi, M. Gholami, Hanieh Golchehregan, M. Mohraz","doi":"10.2298/psi190414001m","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2298/psi190414001m","url":null,"abstract":"This study aimed to determine the prevalence and determinants of HIV-associated neurocognitive disorder (HAND) and its subgroups in HIV-positive patients in Tehran, Iran. Ninety-three HIV-positive individuals were assessed; the majority were male (60%) and the mean age of patients was 36.5 years (SD = 9), with 8 years as the median duration of HIV infection. The relationship between demographic and clinical variables was examined using logistic regression analysis. The overall prevalences of HAND and cognitive complaints were 50.5% and 73%, respectively. Lower nadir CD4 counts (? 200), lower educational levels (? 12 years), longer disease duration (? 5years), and higher depression rates were positively associated with the presence of HAND. This study shows that the prevalence of HANDs in Iran is high, but similar to the prevalence levels found in Western societies. Further studies are needed to longitudinally evaluate the presence of HAND, in particularly to recognize new biomarkers and specific neurocognitive domains in HIV.","PeriodicalId":45301,"journal":{"name":"Psihologija","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68654482","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
PsihologijaPub Date : 2020-01-01DOI: 10.2298/psi190421015s
D. Stevanović, Ana Djoric, Y. Balhara, Nikola Ćirović, S. Arya, R. Ransing, T. Thi, T. Hương, I. Tadić, J. Jovic, S. Radovanovic, Yilmaz Kafali, G. Erzin, Vally Zahir, Mita Rani Chowdhury, Pawan Sharma, R. Shakya, Paulo A. S. Moreira, A. Olayinka, Avicenna Mohamad, Monteiro Luis Antonio Campos, Pedro Campos, Silva Moreira, J. Tavares, M. Buoli, J. Burkauskas, I. Ivanović, A. Szczegielniak, R. Knez
{"title":"Assessing the symptoms of Internet Gaming Disorder among college/university students: An international validation study of a self-report","authors":"D. Stevanović, Ana Djoric, Y. Balhara, Nikola Ćirović, S. Arya, R. Ransing, T. Thi, T. Hương, I. Tadić, J. Jovic, S. Radovanovic, Yilmaz Kafali, G. Erzin, Vally Zahir, Mita Rani Chowdhury, Pawan Sharma, R. Shakya, Paulo A. S. Moreira, A. Olayinka, Avicenna Mohamad, Monteiro Luis Antonio Campos, Pedro Campos, Silva Moreira, J. Tavares, M. Buoli, J. Burkauskas, I. Ivanović, A. Szczegielniak, R. Knez","doi":"10.2298/psi190421015s","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2298/psi190421015s","url":null,"abstract":"The present study evaluated the psychometric properties of a self-report scale for assessing Internet Gaming Disorder (IGD) symptoms according to the DSM–5 and ICD–11 among 3270 college/university students (2095 [64.1%] females; age mean 21.6 [3.1] years) from different countries worldwide. Croatian, English, Polish, Portuguese, Serbian, Turkish, and Vietnamese versions of the scale were tested. The study showed that symptoms of IGD could be measured as a single underlying factor among college/university students. A nine item symptom scale following DSM–5, and a short four-item scale representing the main ICD–11 symptoms, had sound internal consistency and construct validity. Three symptom-items were found non-invariant across the language samples (i.e., preoccupation with on-line gaming, loss of interests in previous hobbies and entertainment, and the use of gaming to relieve negative moods). This study provides initial evidence for assessing IGD symptoms among college/university students and will hopefully foster further research into gaming addiction in this population worldwide especially with taking into account language/cultural differences. [Project of the Serbian Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development, Grant no. 179002]","PeriodicalId":45301,"journal":{"name":"Psihologija","volume":"53 1","pages":"43-63"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68654558","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
PsihologijaPub Date : 2020-01-01DOI: 10.2298/psi200413036r
Maryam Rabeinia, E. Saemi, R. Abedanzadeh
{"title":"The effect of overweight stereotype threat on children’s motor learning","authors":"Maryam Rabeinia, E. Saemi, R. Abedanzadeh","doi":"10.2298/psi200413036r","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2298/psi200413036r","url":null,"abstract":"The purpose of the present study was to investigate the effect of overweight stereotype threat on children?s motor learning. Twenty-four children (Mage = 9.25 ? 0.53 years) were conveniently selected and randomly assigned into two groups of stereotype threat (with emphasis on individual characteristics, namely, overweight) and control group. The task consisted of maintaining the balance on the stabilometer during 30-second trials. One trial in the pre-test, 10 trials in the acquisition phase and 5 trials in the retention test were run. The findings revealed lower motor learning among the overweight stereotype group compared to the control group. Therefore, it is suggested that in similar situations, coaches can reduce stereotype threat emphasizing on the ineffectiveness of individual characteristics, i.e., overweight on motor performance of children thereby prevent performance and learning disruptions.","PeriodicalId":45301,"journal":{"name":"Psihologija","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68655546","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
PsihologijaPub Date : 2020-01-01DOI: 10.2298/psi191029017a
Mohamed Basel Almourad, J. McAlaney, T. Skinner, M. Pleya, Raian Ali
{"title":"Defining digital addiction: Key features from the literature","authors":"Mohamed Basel Almourad, J. McAlaney, T. Skinner, M. Pleya, Raian Ali","doi":"10.2298/psi191029017a","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2298/psi191029017a","url":null,"abstract":"Within recent years there has been increasing societal concern around the compulsive and excessive use of digital and Internet-enabled devices, such as the use of social media or online video gaming, and associated psychological and physical harms. However, problematic use or addictive behaviours are not yet included as diagnosable mental health issues in any major diagnostic system in Western countries and the conceptualisations of the phenomena are still inconsistent. To address this issue, the present study reviewed the current conceptualisations of digital addiction used within the research literature and identified common features of the definition of digital addiction. Definitions of the phenomenon were extracted from 47 studies, and they were analysed using a content analysis approach. The initial process assessed definitions for features of digital addiction within Internet, gaming and smartphone addiction. Two higher-order themes were identified, which focused on the harm caused by the phenomenon and on the user’s behaviours associated with the phenomenon. It was also found that key constructs are not specific to the usage domain, i.e. whether it is related to gaming, Internet or smartphone use. Several core features were found across different conceptualisations of digital addiction within the literature; however, it was also noted that some features are subjective and inconsistently applied. If a decision is to be reached on whether the phenomenon is a mental health disorder, then clearer definitions must be created.","PeriodicalId":45301,"journal":{"name":"Psihologija","volume":"53 1","pages":"237-253"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68655694","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
PsihologijaPub Date : 2020-01-01DOI: 10.2298/psi190928031g
Isidora Gatarić, Sanja Srdanović, Anja Kovac
{"title":"The processing of process and result deverbal nominals in Serbian and English","authors":"Isidora Gatarić, Sanja Srdanović, Anja Kovac","doi":"10.2298/psi190928031g","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2298/psi190928031g","url":null,"abstract":"Process and result deverbal nominals are two types of nouns derived from related verbs. These two types of deverbal nominals exhibit different behavior in a number of aspects. The aim of this study was to test the differences of process and result deverbal nominals, in both Serbian and English, with respect to their cognitive processing. Two self-paced reading experiments were conducted. Experiment 1 was conducted in Serbian, with target constructions, process and result deverbal nominals (e.g., drhtaj/drhtanje [EN trembling]), embedded in the sentence contexts, whereas Experiment 2 dealt with the equivalent constructions in English. Data were analyzed with the Generalized Additive Mixed Models - GAMMs (Wood, 2006, 2011) measuring reading times (RTs) at the word level (deverbal nouns) and the sentence level (the whole sentence, including the deverbal nominal) in both languages. The final results in general suggested that result deverbal nominals were processed faster than process deverbal nominals. It was assumed that these differences were obtained because process deverbal nominals are syntactically more complex than result deverbal nominals.","PeriodicalId":45301,"journal":{"name":"Psihologija","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68654794","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mediating role of emotion regulation difficulties in the relationship between social anxiety and problematic internet use","authors":"Kursad Sertbas, Selman Çutuk, F. Soyer, Çutuk Akkuş Zeynep, Rukiye Aydoğan","doi":"10.2298/psi190730013s","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2298/psi190730013s","url":null,"abstract":"This study aimed to examine whether there is a mediating role of emotion regulation difficulties in the relationship between social anxiety and problematic Internet use (PIU). The sample consisted of 297 participants (147 [49%] males; aged from 18 to 24 years), who were university students studying sport sciences in four universities in Turkey. Data were obtained using the Liebowitz Social Anxiety Scale, Internet Addiction Scale, and Scale of Difficulties in Emotional Regulation. Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) was used to analyze the data. According to the results obtained, emotion regulation difficulty has a full mediating role in the relationship between social anxiety and PIU. As a result, social anxiety affects emotion regulation difficulties and this effect could increase PIU.","PeriodicalId":45301,"journal":{"name":"Psihologija","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68654806","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
PsihologijaPub Date : 2020-01-01DOI: 10.2298/psi190801002s
Daniela Šincek, I. Duvnjak, Jasmina Tomašić-Humer
{"title":"Empathy and gender effects on cyber-violence among Croatian youth","authors":"Daniela Šincek, I. Duvnjak, Jasmina Tomašić-Humer","doi":"10.2298/psi190801002s","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2298/psi190801002s","url":null,"abstract":"This paper explores the effects of gender and affective and cognitive empathy on cyberviolence in youth. Data were available from 396 adolescents (202 [51%] females), aged 12 to 19 years, who completed questionnaires for empathy and cyber-violence. Analyses (2x2x2; committing and experiencing cyber-violence as dependent variables) showed that participants with a low level of empathy (either affective or cognitive) commit more, while those with a low level of cognitive empathy experience more cyber-violence. Males with a low level of empathy committed more cyber-violence than the other three groups (male with high level of empathy and female participants with both high and low level of empathy). The results indicate that both types of empathy may be protective factors from committing cyber-violence, with a higher level of cognitive empathy being connected with a lower level of experiencing cyber-violence.","PeriodicalId":45301,"journal":{"name":"Psihologija","volume":"70 5 1","pages":"377-392"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68654867","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}