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{"title":"Weaponizing the Appraisal: Justice Violations, Psychological Safety, and Employee Voice in a Saudi Multinational Organization.","authors":"Mohamed Mohiya","doi":"10.5334/pb.1519","DOIUrl":"10.5334/pb.1519","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Conduct that degrades employees - belittling speech, the coercive use of rank, and treatment stratified by contractual or national category - ranks among the most consequential and least tractable problems confronting the human resource (HR) function, which authors the policies prohibiting such conduct, administers the channels through which it is reported, and answers for the outcome when a report yields nothing. This study asks how such conduct persists within an organization that formally forbids it, and where HR can intervene, by reconstructing the fairness appraisals and safety calculations that employees use to decide whether to speak. Evidence bearing on that question has accumulated overwhelmingly in Anglophone, individualist economies, leaving scholarship and practice alike thinly provisioned for hierarchical Gulf workplaces, where deference norms, kinship obligation, and stratified expatriate labor markets condition what employees regard as sayable.</p><p><strong>Purpose: </strong>This theory-driven exploratory study investigates three questions of a single large Saudi-headquartered multinational: how personnel interpret the unacceptable conduct they encounter or witness, why so few translate that interpretation into a formal complaint, and which organizational arrangements hold the resulting pattern in place.</p><p><strong>Theoretical framework: </strong>Two established lenses are combined. Organizational Justice Theory (OJT; Colquitt, 2001; Greenberg, 1987) supplies the vocabulary through which employees appraise the fairness of outcomes, procedures, and interpersonal treatment. Psychological Safety Theory (PST; Edmondson, 1999; Kahn, 1990) provides the vocabulary for perceived risk associated with speaking. Read jointly, the two treat harmful conduct not as isolated incivility but as a fairness appraisal that simultaneously recalibrates the felt cost of voice.</p><p><strong>Methodology: </strong>Evidence was assembled within a single bounded case and drawn from two registers of employee talk. The first comprises 197 unsolicited postings left by staff on a company-wide internal communication platform. The second comprises thirty-nine semi-structured conversations held privately with employees across operational, professional, supervisory, and senior grades, and across permanent and agency contracts, spanning four nationality groupings. Both corpora were interpreted through reflexive thematic analysis (Braun & Clarke, 2006, 2019), double-coded on a stratified subsample, and read against one another for convergence.</p><p><strong>Key findings: </strong>The analysis produced five categories. Supervisory authority was misused, most consequentially when appraisal ratings were used as leverage over compliance. Concerns were then withheld as a reasoned response to observed retaliation rather than as passive acceptance. Beneath both lay structural arrangements - contractual standing and personal connection - th","PeriodicalId":46662,"journal":{"name":"Psychologica Belgica","volume":"66 1","pages":"130-156"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2026-09-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13614248/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149065128","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Maintaining Self-Control in Chaos: The Protective Role of Sense of Power.","authors":"Yifei Feng, Xinyuan Guo, Xinya Huang, Sujie Meng, Ning Liu","doi":"10.5334/pb.1497","DOIUrl":"10.5334/pb.1497","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>As a crucial mechanism for regulating human behavior, self-control is influenced by both internal individual factors and external environmental factors. Existing research has established that disordered environments can impair an individual's self-control, but exploration of moderating factors remains insufficient. This paper proposes that the sense of power is a significant moderating factor in the relationship between disordered environments and self-control. Through experiments employing an intertemporal choice task, a breath-holding task, and a Stroop task, this study verified both the impairing effect of disordered environments on self-control and the moderating role of the sense of power. The results demonstrate that disordered environments harm the willingness to exert self-control, behavioral performance, and inhibitory control. The self-control of individuals with a high trait sense of power was not negatively affected by disordered environments. Furthermore, elevating the state sense of power can protect self-control from the detrimental effects of disordered environments. These findings provide a new perspective for understanding the boundary conditions of, and interventions for, the impairing effect of disordered environments on self-control.</p>","PeriodicalId":46662,"journal":{"name":"Psychologica Belgica","volume":"66 1","pages":"114-129"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2026-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13588218/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149008642","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Household Labour During the Workday in Remote Work Contexts. Who Integrates It, and Why?","authors":"Nathan Pudles, Marine Willeput, Sabine Pohl, Catherine Hellemans","doi":"10.5334/pb.1477","DOIUrl":"10.5334/pb.1477","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Remote work is often presented as a means to balance out work and family domains, by giving the ability to integrate the two domains. Using border theory and social role theory as a framework, the present study aims to uncover the relationships of autonomy, job demands, work engagement, and the involvement with domestic tasks, with doing household labour during the workday (HLW), and how these relationships may differ depending on gender. The study was conducted among a sample of 1309 workers (65.77% women), who worked remotely at least once a week. Hypotheses were tested with a logistic regression and fractional polynomials. Results were in contradiction with the hypothesized relationships. Job demands and work engagement increased the probability of doing HLW. Autonomy decreased the probability of doing HLW. Involvement in domestic tasks was non-linearly associated with HLW. Specifically, workers who had to deal with domestic tasks mostly by themselves were more likely to resort to HLW, whereas others were less likely to do so. The relationships of autonomy, job demands, work engagement and IDT with HLW did not differ depending on gender.</p>","PeriodicalId":46662,"journal":{"name":"Psychologica Belgica","volume":"66 1","pages":"81-97"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2026-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13330990/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148392045","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Analysis of the Emotional Dynamics Associated with the Affective, Cognitive, and Behavioral Dimensions of Empathy among Adolescent Bystanders of Bullying Situations in Physical Education Classes.","authors":"Aurélien Besseling, Aurélie Wagener, Marc Cloes, Maurine Remacle, Alexandre Mouton, Elena Gemoets, Céline Stassart","doi":"10.5334/pb.1479","DOIUrl":"10.5334/pb.1479","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Bullying represents a major issue in physical education (PE) contexts. The role of bystanders is crucial, with their empathy being an essential lever to react to such situations. However, this empathy does not always seem to be a sufficient condition for action. This study examines highly empathic students, who are more likely to engage in helping behaviors, in order to analyze the emotions related to the different dimensions of empathy as well as the factors that facilitate or hinder bystander helping behaviors toward victims in the context of PE. The study is based on a qualitative approach involving interviews with 20 students aged 12 to 14. Each interview consists of recalling a critical incident of bullying observed during PE classes, as well as two open-ended questions on factors influencing bystander intervention in this context. The findings indicate that emotions related to affective empathy can influence the type of response adopted. They also reveal that the emotional vocabulary used to describe victims' emotions is still developing, and that early adolescence represents a particularly favorable period for its enrichment. Moreover, although students may display high levels of empathy, certain characteristics of PE classes could nevertheless generate fear, thereby hindering empathic processes and limiting their translation into helping behaviors. This research provides a better understanding of the relationships between empathy, the characteristics of PE classes, and reactions to bullying in this context, while offering directions for future research and a foundation for researchers to design interventions that can be implemented in PE classes.</p>","PeriodicalId":46662,"journal":{"name":"Psychologica Belgica","volume":"66 1","pages":"98-113"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2026-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13330851/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148391987","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Testing Longitudinal Measurement Invariance of the Dutch PSS-10, MBI-ES, and PANAS in a Bimonthly 6-Month Panel.","authors":"Justine Van de Velde, Bert Weijters, Katia Levecque","doi":"10.5334/pb.1528","DOIUrl":"10.5334/pb.1528","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Monitoring teacher well-being over time is essential in both research and practice to understand changes, evaluate interventions, and support occupational health. This study examines the longitudinal measurement invariance of the Dutch versions of three commonly used scales related to well-being: the Perceived Stress Scale (PSS-10), the Emotional Exhaustion subscale of the Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI), and the Positive and Negative Affect Schedule (PANAS). Utilizing three bimonthly waves of data collected from a cohort of elementary school teachers in Flanders (n = 237), we evaluated the scales' configural, metric, scalar, and residual invariance over time. Confirmatory factor analyses indicated that all three scales demonstrate adequate longitudinal measurement invariance, supporting their stability and reliability for repeated measurement. Notably, this is among the first studies to test longitudinal measurement invariance of these widely used scales over a 6-month period in an applied occupational setting. These findings strengthen confidence in their use for monitoring well-being over time.</p>","PeriodicalId":46662,"journal":{"name":"Psychologica Belgica","volume":"66 1","pages":"65-80"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2026-05-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13220742/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148139210","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"On the Construct Validity of Performance-Based Emotion Recognition Tests: Correlations with Social-Emotional Functioning and Cognitive Skills.","authors":"Emalie Hendel, Marc Brysbaert","doi":"10.5334/pb.1443","DOIUrl":"10.5334/pb.1443","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study examined the construct validity of performance-based emotion recognition tests. We recruited 227 adults (30-60 years old) through Prolific to complete four emotion recognition tasks in addition to measures of self-reported empathy, crystallised intelligence, social confidence, loneliness/well-being, interest in people versus things, and reading enjoyment (all measured with at least two indicators). Consistent with previous research, performance-based emotion recognition tasks were positively correlated and formed a separate cluster. This cluster correlated with crystallised intelligence but not with self-reported emotion recognition skills, social-emotional functioning, interest in people vs. things, or reading pleasure. Overall, our findings suggest that performance-based emotion recognition tests primarily assess skills related to those measured by performance-based tests of cognitive intelligence, rather than skills related to the social-emotional functioning as experienced by the participants. This may partially explain the low correlation between subjective and performance-based measures of emotion recognition.</p>","PeriodicalId":46662,"journal":{"name":"Psychologica Belgica","volume":"66 1","pages":"47-64"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2026-05-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13220741/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148139300","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"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-Objectification, Body Surveillance, and Body Shame Across Countries: A Comparison Between US, UK, Belgian, Israeli, and Thai Women.","authors":"Robin Wollast, Liesje Coertjens, Philippe Bernard, Anat Talmon, James J Gross, Olivier Klein","doi":"10.5334/pb.1387","DOIUrl":"10.5334/pb.1387","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Cross-national research on self-objectification remains notably limited. The present study investigated the associations between self-objectification, body surveillance, and body shame among women in Belgium (<i>N</i> = 239), the United Kingdom (<i>N</i> = 213), and the United States of America (<i>N</i> = 159) in Study 1, and in Belgium (<i>N</i> = 209), Israel (<i>N</i> = 299), and Thailand (<i>N</i> = 230) in Study 2. In Study 1, employing the Likert version of the Self-Objectification Questionnaire (LSOQ), we demonstrated that self-objectification indirectly predicts body shame through body surveillance in the case of Belgian, UK, and US women. In Study 2, we successfully replicated these indirect effects among Belgian, Israeli, and Thai women. This research stands as one of the first empirical, cross-national investigations of the improved self-objectification scale, evidencing the robust association between self-objectification, body surveillance, and body shame across countries.</p>","PeriodicalId":46662,"journal":{"name":"Psychologica Belgica","volume":"66 1","pages":"32-46"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2026-03-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12962253/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147379061","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Conscious and Resilient? Associations Between Temperament, Emotional Awareness, and Emotion Regulation Strategies in Youth.","authors":"Sarah Struyf, Ernst H W Koster, Marie-Lotte Van Beveren, Caroline Braet","doi":"10.5334/pb.1399","DOIUrl":"10.5334/pb.1399","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Introduction: </strong>Emotion regulation (ER) plays a crucial role in children and adolescents' emotional well-being. However, the use of adaptive strategies often remains challenging during early adolescence, partly because cognitive functions that support adaptive ER, such as executive functions, are still developing. In addition, individual differences, such as temperament (positive and negative emotionality) and emotional awareness, play a key role in shaping how youth engage with ER strategies. This study investigated how temperament and emotional awareness are associated with the use of adaptive and maladaptive ER strategies in youth, and whether emotional awareness moderates these relationships.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>In a cross-sectional design, 220 children and adolescents (age 8-15) from the general population completed self-report questionnaires measuring temperament, emotional awareness, and ER strategy use.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Analyses revealed a significant interaction between negative emotionality and emotional awareness in predicting maladaptive ER strategies. Contrary to expectations, emotional awareness did not act as a consistent protective factor in youth: those high in both negative emotionality and emotional awareness still reported greater use of maladaptive strategies.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>These findings suggest that emotional awareness plays a complex role in ER among youth with temperamental vulnerability. Rather than functioning as a uniformly protective factor, its influence appears to depend on emotional context and temperament.</p>","PeriodicalId":46662,"journal":{"name":"Psychologica Belgica","volume":"66 1","pages":"18-31"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2026-02-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12947817/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147327775","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Reconceptualizing Workplace Thriving and Setting Future Research Agenda.","authors":"M M Sulphey","doi":"10.5334/pb.1416","DOIUrl":"10.5334/pb.1416","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Workplace Thriving empowers individuals to thrive in their jobs and flourish in their careers. It is conceptualized as a psychological state in which individuals experience vitality and learning. Limiting thriving to these two has reduced its applicability despite the concept being interconnected, multi-dimensional, and holistic. This work examines thriving, identifies the shortcomings of the existing literature, and proposes a fresh perspective for reconceptualizing it. After defining the construct as \"a state of positive engagement and well-being derived when employees are mindful, resourceful, and resilient, enabling them to navigate organisational challenges and achieve effectiveness,\" the study proposes a fecund conceptual model. The study focuses on contextual, proximal, and resource factors, such as deriving mindfulness, resourcefulness, and resilience. This reconceptualization presents arguments for understanding thriving, enabling individuals to navigate their organizational lives more effectively.</p>","PeriodicalId":46662,"journal":{"name":"Psychologica Belgica","volume":"66 1","pages":"1-17"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2026-02-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12922682/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147272417","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Stand-Alone Mobile Mindfulness App for People Experiencing Infertility: A Pilot Randomised Controlled Trial (MoMiFer-RCT).","authors":"Tessy Boedt, Nele Willaert, Sharon Lie Fong, Eline Dancet, Filip Raes, Katleen Van der Gucht","doi":"10.5334/pb.1375","DOIUrl":"10.5334/pb.1375","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objectives: </strong>Infertility and its treatments result in considerable emotional burden. This study aimed to examine the impact of a stand-alone mobile mindfulness application (MoMiFer-app).</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>A pilot RCT was conducted with participants randomized into an intervention group (n = 34) using the MoMiFer-app, and a wait-list control group (n=38). Outcomes were collected at baseline, 1.5 months, and 3 months post-randomization using experience sampling method (ESM) and self-report questionnaires. Primary outcomes included symptoms of emotional distress (DASS-21+ESM) and fertility-related quality of life (FertiQoL). Secondary outcomes assessed repetitive negative thinking (PTQ), self-compassion (SCS-SF), and mindfulness skills (CHIME-SF+ESM). App usage was evaluated through app-tracking.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Multilevel analysis showed no significant improvement in primary outcomes. However, the MoMiFer-app significantly enhanced self-compassion and mindfulness skills, as assessed by self-report questionnaires. A significant condition×time effect was observed for mindfulness skills at 1.5 months (T1; p = .02) and 3 months (T2; p = .02), and for self-compassion at 3 months (T2; p = .006). No effect was observed on repetitive negative thinking. The app was rated as good quality, but nearly half of the participants (47%) practiced mindfulness with the app once a week or less.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Online mindfulness-based interventions can be valuable in fertility care providing easily accessible low-intensive mental support, even if they do not directly improve emotional distress or quality of life in the short term. The trial's timing during the COVID-19 pandemic and low app usage may have influenced outcomes. Further research on potential stressors and ways to increase user adherence is needed to better understand the app's impact.</p>","PeriodicalId":46662,"journal":{"name":"Psychologica Belgica","volume":"65 1","pages":"202-216"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-10-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12513356/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145281359","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}