Hélène Jalin , Camille Chandès , Abdel-Halim Boudoukha , Anne Jacob , Rollon Poinsot , Anne Congard
{"title":"Better understanding eco-anxiety: Creation and validation of EMEA scale","authors":"Hélène Jalin , Camille Chandès , Abdel-Halim Boudoukha , Anne Jacob , Rollon Poinsot , Anne Congard","doi":"10.1016/j.erap.2024.101010","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.erap.2024.101010","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Introduction</h3><div>Climate change represents an unprecedented threat to humanity. In addition to the palpable consequences in terms of climate, it can generate psychological effects, such as eco-anxiety.</div></div><div><h3>Objective</h3><div>The aim of the present study was to validate a French-language scale (EMEA) measuring eco-anxiety, in order to contribute to the latter's understanding and characterization. To fully reflect the diversity of its manifestations, the construction of the items was based on a qualitative study involving in-depth interviews with 18 eco-anxious people. This study also analyzed the relationships between eco-anxiety, intolerance to uncertainty, and perception of climate risk.</div></div><div><h3>Method</h3><div>A total of 691 individuals participated in the two phases of this research: 262 in Phase 1 (selection of scale items) and 429 in Phase 2 (psychometric validation). In addition to the items contained in the EMEA, Phase 2 included a climate anxiety scale, a climate risk perception scale, and a scale measuring intolerance to uncertainty. The research was conducted online after being approved by a research ethics board.</div></div><div><h3>Results</h3><div>Results reveal a hierarchical model with one main factor and three subfactors (anxiety-depressive manifestations, relational disturbances, and obsession with ecology). There were positive correlations between eco-anxiety, intolerance of uncertainty, and climate risk perception, and negative correlations between obsession with ecology (third EMEA subdimension) and intolerance of uncertainty.</div></div><div><h3>Conclusion</h3><div>The EMEA's psychometric qualities will allow it to be used for further research, but also as an assessment and care decision aid for health professionals to help patients with severe or paralyzing eco-anxiety. It will also be useful for studying the efficiency of psychotherapeutic interventions.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":46883,"journal":{"name":"European Review of Applied Psychology-Revue Europeenne De Psychologie Appliquee","volume":"75 1","pages":"Article 101010"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143350821","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}
R. Lacerte , S. Rochette , A.-A. Dumas , C. Tanguay , G. Lavigne , E. Ferdais , N. Carbonneau
{"title":"Perceived body acceptance by parents, body image, and intuitive eating in adolescent girls: A look at each parent's role","authors":"R. Lacerte , S. Rochette , A.-A. Dumas , C. Tanguay , G. Lavigne , E. Ferdais , N. Carbonneau","doi":"10.1016/j.erap.2024.101044","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.erap.2024.101044","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Introduction</h3><div>The perception that one's body is accepted by others is crucial in the development and maintenance of a positive body image and healthy eating behaviors in youth. However, no research has examined the relationship between perceived body acceptance by each parent and adolescent girls’ relationships with their bodies and with food.</div></div><div><h3>Objectives</h3><div>The present research examined whether perceived body acceptance by the father and by the mother are independently related to different facets of adolescent girls’ body image (i.e., self-objectification, body appreciation, and social appearance comparison) and to their intuitive eating.</div></div><div><h3>Method</h3><div>Three hundred and forty-four adolescent girls from Quebec (Canada) aged 14 to 17<!--> <!-->years completed an online questionnaire.</div></div><div><h3>Results</h3><div>Perceived body acceptance by the father and by the mother were both positively and uniquely associated with adolescents’ intuitive eating and body appreciation, and negatively related to self-objectification (i.e., perceiving their bodies as objects that exist for the gaze of others). Perceived body acceptance by the mother (but not by the father) was also negatively related to social appearance comparison. Results also showed that self-objectification, social appearance comparison, and body appreciation partially mediated the association between perceived body acceptance by each parent and intuitive eating. Finally, results showed that perceived body acceptance by the father and by the mother interact in the prediction of body appreciation.</div></div><div><h3>Conclusions</h3><div>Perceived body acceptance by each parent is related to indicators of a positive body image and a healthy relationship with food in adolescent girls.</div></div><div><h3>Public interest</h3><div>The results of this study, conducted among 344 adolescent girls (14–17<!--> <!-->years old) in the province of Quebec, show that perceived body acceptance by each parent relates to several indicators of a positive relationship with the body and food. Adolescents who perceive that their parents accept their bodies are likely to report greater appreciation of their bodies, less tendency toward self-objectification, less tendency toward social appearance comparison, and more intuitive eating behaviors. The results support the importance of examining both maternal and paternal body acceptance given their additive and interactive effects.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":46883,"journal":{"name":"European Review of Applied Psychology-Revue Europeenne De Psychologie Appliquee","volume":"75 2","pages":"Article 101044"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-01-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143328457","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":"Perform a mammography: Motives’ inventory","authors":"Mathilde Lochmann , Myriam Guedj , María Teresa Muñoz Sastre , Étienne Mullet","doi":"10.1016/j.erap.2024.100985","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.erap.2024.100985","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Introduction</h3><div>This study examines the motives of women for agreeing or refusing to have a mammogram.</div></div><div><h3>Method</h3><div>Three hundred and ten participants were recruited. Two questionnaires listing the motives for undergoing or refusing to undergo a mammogram were developed. Intolerance of uncertainty, worry, anxiety, personality were respectively rated by: EII, QIPS, GAD-7, BHI-24.</div></div><div><h3>Result</h3><div>Seven facilitators were interpreted within the framework of Reversal Theory: Interest of early diagnosis, Quality of care, Habit, Collectivist perspective, Following the doctor's advice, Cancer(s) in entourage, Hypochondriac beliefs. Six barriers were revealed: Absence of cancer in entourage, Anxiety, Physical and moral pain, Lack of information, Spatiotemporal difficulties, Aspiration for freedom. The frequency of mammography was positively linked to the age, number of children, Habit, and negatively to Physical and moral pain, Lack of information and Spatiotemporal difficulties. Age and Habit had a positive effect on the frequency of screening while the Spatiotemporal difficulties had a negative effect.</div></div><div><h3>Conclusion</h3><div>This study provides a better understanding of the motives that lead women to accept or refuse performing this examination. It could be useful to the medical profession and more broadly to the field of public health.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":46883,"journal":{"name":"European Review of Applied Psychology-Revue Europeenne De Psychologie Appliquee","volume":"75 2","pages":"Article 100985"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-01-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143328773","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":"The foundational role of attachment in shaping individuals' psychological well-being across relationships","authors":"Chantal Cyr","doi":"10.1016/j.erap.2025.101067","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.erap.2025.101067","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46883,"journal":{"name":"European Review of Applied Psychology-Revue Europeenne De Psychologie Appliquee","volume":"74 6","pages":"Article 101067"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143181281","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}
Geneviève Bouchard, Sabrina Filice, Geneviève Richard, Andréanne Charbonneau, Jean Saint-Aubin
{"title":"Relationship status-mental health concerns association: An examination of attachment and attention","authors":"Geneviève Bouchard, Sabrina Filice, Geneviève Richard, Andréanne Charbonneau, Jean Saint-Aubin","doi":"10.1016/j.erap.2024.101045","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.erap.2024.101045","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Introduction</h3><div>Past studies have revealed an advantage of marriage over singlehood, but the role of relationship status in mental health concerns needs further investigation.</div></div><div><h3>Objective</h3><div>This paper examined the connection between relationship status and mental health concerns and explored the cognitive and affective mechanisms explaining it, using a multi-method approach.</div></div><div><h3>Method</h3><div>Study 1 was an online study with equal groups of married (<em>n</em> <!-->=<!--> <!-->125) or single individuals (<em>n</em> <!-->=<!--> <!-->125), whereas Study 2 was a probabilistic laboratory study with two natural groups of individuals that were either single (<em>n</em> <!-->=<!--> <!-->21) or in a relationship (<em>n</em> <!-->=<!--> <!-->89).</div></div><div><h3>Results</h3><div>Path analyses showed that attachment avoidance and attentional control could act as mediators explaining the role of relationship status in mental health concerns.</div></div><div><h3>Conclusion</h3><div>We showed that being in a relationship or being married was associated with better mental health and that the benefits of marriage and couple life on mental health were explained by attachment and attention.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":46883,"journal":{"name":"European Review of Applied Psychology-Revue Europeenne De Psychologie Appliquee","volume":"74 6","pages":"Article 101045"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142657775","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":"Attachment insecurity, bullying victimisation in the workplace, and the experience of burnout","authors":"Antigonos Sochos , Louise Rossiter","doi":"10.1016/j.erap.2024.101046","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.erap.2024.101046","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Introduction</h3><div>Although burnout is perhaps the most frequently reported work-related correlate of attachment insecurity, the role of mitigating variables in that link is less well researched.</div></div><div><h3>Objective</h3><div>The paper investigates the mediational role of workplace bullying and perceived social support in the link between attachment insecurity and burnout. It was hypothesised that insecurely attached employees would develop burnout via three pathways: (a) by becoming the victims of workplace bullying, (b) by perceiving relatively low support from managers and colleagues due to their attachment insecurity, and (c) by perceiving lower support from managers and colleagues due to them having been bullied.</div></div><div><h3>Method</h3><div>Two hundred and twenty-two employees from various completed the following questionnaires: Experiences in Close Relationships Questionnaire – Revised, Revised Negative Acts Questionnaire, Social Support Scale, Maslach Burnout Inventory – General Survey.</div></div><div><h3>Results</h3><div>SEM analysis suggested that the two models tested had a good fit, indicating different pathways from bullying to burnout depending on type of attachment insecurity.</div></div><div><h3>Conclusion</h3><div>Findings could inform interventions empowering victims of bullying and help organisations deal with this serious problem.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":46883,"journal":{"name":"European Review of Applied Psychology-Revue Europeenne De Psychologie Appliquee","volume":"74 6","pages":"Article 101046"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142706533","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":"Study of the psychometric properties of the French version of the Caregiving System Scale","authors":"Valérie Simard , Marina Moënner , Andrea Rajotte , Claude-Marie Nolet , Camille Gilbert-Geoffrion , Camille Savoie , Claud Bisaillon","doi":"10.1016/j.erap.2024.101049","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.erap.2024.101049","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Introduction</h3><div>While attachment theory has driven decades of empirical research, few studies have focused on the reciprocal behavioral, caregiving, system, defined as the innate motivational system that guides adult responses to people in distress or in need of help. The Caregiving System Scale (CSS) is one of the few tools for measuring sub-optimal caregiving strategies, i.e. hyperactivation and deactivation.</div></div><div><h3>Objective</h3><div>The aim of this study was to study the psychometric properties of the French version of the CSS and confirm its factor structure. Method: Adult women (N = 201) completed the French version of the CSS online, along with questionnaires to test convergent validity (attachment, empathy, emotion regulation).</div></div><div><h3>Results</h3><div>Confirmatory factor analyses replicated Colledani et al.'s (2021) three-factor solution: deactivation, anxious hyperactivation, intrusive hyperactivation. Deactivation correlated with avoidant attachment and lower self-reported empathy, while hyperactivation correlated with abandonment anxiety (attachment), regulation difficulties and empathic concern and distress, suggesting good convergent validity. Anxious, but not intrusive, hyperactivation was associated with being a mother and having a helping profession.</div></div><div><h3>Conclusion</h3><div>This study proposes a 17-item French version of the CSS, organized into three factors that appear to have good fidelity and validity. It also contributes to the conceptualization of the caregiving system by supporting a recent model distinguishing two dimensions of hyperactivation.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":46883,"journal":{"name":"European Review of Applied Psychology-Revue Europeenne De Psychologie Appliquee","volume":"74 6","pages":"Article 101049"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142706534","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}
Hsien-Chun Chen , Chin Tung Stewart Ng , I-Heng Chen , Cyong-Ru Liu
{"title":"Guilt-proneness and self-management behaviour: The moderating role of sense of belonging","authors":"Hsien-Chun Chen , Chin Tung Stewart Ng , I-Heng Chen , Cyong-Ru Liu","doi":"10.1016/j.erap.2023.100909","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.erap.2023.100909","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Introduction</h3><p>To explore the link between the personality predisposition of guilt and self-management behaviours, and from a contingent perspective, the boundary condition for the above relationship is also examined.</p></div><div><h3>Objective</h3><p>This article examines the relation of guilt-proneness to self-management behaviours and the moderating effects of a sense of belonging on the relationships between guilt-proneness and self-management behaviour.</p></div><div><h3>Method</h3><p>Data are collected from 368 employees from different organizations in Taiwan.</p></div><div><h3>Results</h3><p>The results of this study show that guilt-proneness is positively correlated with self-management behaviour. Furthermore, regression analyses indicate that sense of belonging plays a significant moderating role in the relationships between guilt-proneness and self-management behaviour.</p></div><div><h3>Conclusion</h3><p>Finally, based on the results, the implications and limitations of this study and the directions for future research are discussed.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":46883,"journal":{"name":"European Review of Applied Psychology-Revue Europeenne De Psychologie Appliquee","volume":"74 5","pages":"Article 100909"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142229032","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":"Effects of emotional demands on work outcomes: A diary study among Malaysian counsellors","authors":"Siti Balqis Md. Nor , Mohd Awang Idris","doi":"10.1016/j.erap.2023.100934","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.erap.2023.100934","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Introduction</h3><div>This study examined the effects of emotional demands on psychological health among counsellors in Malaysia. Drawing from the job demands–resources (JD-R) model, the research tested the effects of counsellors’ daily emotional demands on their turnover intention, mainly via emotional exhaustion and depressive symptoms.</div></div><div><h3>Objectives</h3><div>A within-individual design was used to examine the effects of counsellors’ emotional demands on their turnover intention, especially via emotional exhaustion and depressive symptoms.</div></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><div>The study was conducted among counsellors (<em>n</em> <!-->=<!--> <!-->47) over a period of four days in two consecutive weeks. The diary survey was collected for two days (Monday and Friday) each week for two consecutive weeks, measuring individuals’ self-reports of emotional demands, week-level emotional exhaustion, depressive symptoms and turnover intention (<em>n</em> <!-->=<!--> <!-->188 data points). To test all hypotheses, data were analysed using hierarchical linear modelling (HLM).</div></div><div><h3>Results</h3><div>Counsellors’ daily emotional demands were found have a direct effect on their levels of emotional exhaustion and depressive symptoms. Emotional exhaustion, but not depressive symptoms, was found to mediate the association of daily emotional demands with turnover intention.</div></div><div><h3>Conclusion</h3><div>Overall, the study revealed that the daily level of emotional exhaustion, but not of depressive symptoms, was positively related to counsellors’ turnover intention. Emotional exhaustion was found to mediate the relationship between counsellors’ emotional demands and their turnover intention. Counsellors with a high level of emotional demands as well as emotional exhaustion tended to have a high level of turnover intention.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":46883,"journal":{"name":"European Review of Applied Psychology-Revue Europeenne De Psychologie Appliquee","volume":"74 5","pages":"Article 100934"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142653849","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":"Justice sensitivity's impact on strike outcomes in Germany and France","authors":"Denise Vesper , Cornelius J. König, Laura Pöschel","doi":"10.1016/j.erap.2024.101008","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.erap.2024.101008","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Introduction</h3><div>Injustices are often described as causes for strikes.</div></div><div><h3>Objective</h3><div>With this study, we aimed to test if trait justice sensitivity (victim and observer sensitivity) was related to strike attitudes, willingness to strike, and non-normative strike behavior and if these relations were mediated by the traits of anger or empathy. Additionally, we compared samples from two countries (Germany and France) in the respective measures.</div></div><div><h3>Method</h3><div>We collected data from 424 participants (231 were German, 193 were French) using an online questionnaire and established scales. Hypotheses were tested using structural equation modeling.</div></div><div><h3>Results</h3><div>We observed that the effect of victim justice sensitivity on willingness to strike and non-normative strike behavior was mediated by anger. Furthermore, empathy mediated the effect of observer justice sensitivity on the legitimacy of strikes and the support of strikers. The overall model was not moderated by country.</div></div><div><h3>Conclusion</h3><div>We showed for the first time that trait variables also play a significant role in strike outcomes. Our results imply that national differences in industrial relations systems did not influence our model significantly. Results also indicated (unexpectedly) that French participants reported significantly lower willingness to strike, significantly more negative reactions towards strikes, less legitimacy of strikes, and less support of strikers compared to the German sample – differences that warrant further research examining potential reasons.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":46883,"journal":{"name":"European Review of Applied Psychology-Revue Europeenne De Psychologie Appliquee","volume":"74 5","pages":"Article 101008"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142323615","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}