Igor Areh , Fanny Verkampt , Alfred Allan , Christian N.L. Olivers
{"title":"A social and cognitive psychological perspective on the assumptions underlying the Rorschach inkblot test","authors":"Igor Areh , Fanny Verkampt , Alfred Allan , Christian N.L. Olivers","doi":"10.1016/j.erap.2025.101097","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.erap.2025.101097","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Introduction/literature findings</h3><div>The century-old Rorschach test is as controversial as it is well-known, and the subject of an ongoing, but still inconclusive debate about its validity and reliability. This debate is not inconsequential, as the test is still frequently used in clinical and forensic work. In addition to the psychometric aspects, there are social and cognitive psychological assumptions that underlie the test and that have hitherto been underexposed. We identify some of these assumptions and examine them with reference to contemporary social and cognitive psychological research.</div></div><div><h3>Discussion</h3><div>Despite empirical evidence for some of the assumptions underlying the Rorschach test, most of them are not scientifically supported, thereby calling into question the scientific foundations of the test.</div></div><div><h3>Conclusion</h3><div>Practitioners and academics should therefore critically reconsider the use of the Rorschach test given the heightened risk of errors in decision-making that it may cause.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":46883,"journal":{"name":"European Review of Applied Psychology-Revue Europeenne De Psychologie Appliquee","volume":"76 1","pages":"Article 101097"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2026-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147412054","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":"Validation of the French version of the Interpersonal Emotion Regulation for Couples Scale","authors":"Valentine Rattaz , Sarah Cairo Notari , Estefanía Mónaco , Alain Lacroix , Antje Horsch","doi":"10.1016/j.erap.2025.101113","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.erap.2025.101113","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Introduction</h3><div>This study aimed to validate the French version of the Interpersonal Emotion Regulation for Couples Scale (SIERC). The SIERC is a 22-item scale consisting of two forms: The SIERC-A assesses the perception of one’s own ability to regulate the partner’s emotions and the SIERC-B assesses the perception of the partner’s ability to regulate one’s own emotions.</div></div><div><h3>Method</h3><div>A total of 259 French-speaking participants (19–67 years, 215 females) from Switzerland completed the French version of the SIERC.</div></div><div><h3>Results</h3><div>Confirmatory factor analysis showed that the factorial structure of the original scale was confirmed in the French version. The Swiss sample was compared to the Spanish sample, on which the scale was originally developed, to test for measurement invariance. Results showed that strong invariance was achieved for the first- and second-order factors of the SIERC-A and the SIERC-B. Convergent and discriminant validity was obtained by correlating both forms of the SIERC with other variables known to be associated with interpersonal emotion regulation, such as emotional competence, attachment, or marital satisfaction.</div></div><div><h3>Discussion</h3><div>According to the results, the French version of the SIERC is a valid instrument to assess interpersonal emotion regulation in couples.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":46883,"journal":{"name":"European Review of Applied Psychology-Revue Europeenne De Psychologie Appliquee","volume":"76 1","pages":"Article 101113"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2026-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147412052","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":"Attentional capture by angry faces: insights from a visual search paradigm","authors":"Tarik N. Mohamed","doi":"10.1016/j.erap.2024.101047","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.erap.2024.101047","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Introduction</h3><div>The phenomenon of attention capture by faces has been extensively studied, revealing that faces are a unique visual category capable of capturing attention. This study aimed to investigate how emotional faces, specifically happy and angry faces, capture attention.</div></div><div><h3>Hypotheses</h3><div>This study hypothesized that angry faces would capture attention more effectively than neutral or happy faces, resulting in longer response times. Additionally, it was expected that angry faces would be categorized more quickly than neutral or happy faces due to the perceived threat they represent.</div></div><div><h3>Method</h3><div>Two experiments were conducted using a visual search paradigm based on <span><span>Langton et al. (2008)</span></span>. Participants were instructed to locate butterflies among a circular array of stimuli, with emotional faces (happy, angry, and neutral) randomly displayed as one of the distractors in different locations. The stimuli were presented both upright (Experiment 1a) and inverted (Experiment 1b). In the second experiment, participants were asked to locate faces regardless of their emotional expression or location, despite the presence of butterflies in the circular array.</div></div><div><h3>Results</h3><div>In the first experiment, upright angry faces led to increased response times, suggesting that they captured attention more effectively than neutral or happy faces. This attentional advantage was not observed for neutral or happy faces. In the second experiment, angry faces were categorized more quickly than neutral or happy faces, indicating that they were processed more efficiently.</div></div><div><h3>Discussion</h3><div>The findings suggest that angry faces capture attention and are processed more efficiently than other facial expressions, supporting the notion that emotional threat-related stimuli, such as angry faces, hold a special status in attention mechanisms.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":46883,"journal":{"name":"European Review of Applied Psychology-Revue Europeenne De Psychologie Appliquee","volume":"76 1","pages":"Article 101047"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2026-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147412053","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":"Mesurer l’acquisition de la pensée informatique : conception et validation de deux instruments","authors":"K. Sigayret , A. Tricot , N. Blanc","doi":"10.1016/j.erap.2025.101116","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.erap.2025.101116","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Introduction</h3><div>The learning of programming and the development of computational thinking are now part of the educational objectives in many school systems around the world. However, the lack of consensus on the definition of computational thinking complicates the assessment of its acquisition in a school context.</div></div><div><h3>Objective</h3><div>The aim of this article is to propose two assessment instruments for computational thinking adapted to the French-speaking school context, with a clear distinction between two fundamental dimensions: mastery of programming concepts and the ability to solve algorithmic problems.</div></div><div><h3>Method</h3><div>Two tests were designed: the Mastery of Computational Concepts Test, focusing on knowledge of programming concepts, and the Algorithmic Test, assessing the ability to solve algorithmic problems. These instruments were developed in French and validated using psychometric analyses.</div></div><div><h3>Results</h3><div>Both tests were found to have good psychometric properties, both in terms of reliability and validity.</div></div><div><h3>Conclusion</h3><div>These two instruments offer a relevant alternative to existing tools, which are often ill-suited to French-speaking contexts or too demanding in terms of test-taking time. They can contribute to a more refined assessment of computational thinking in the school context.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":46883,"journal":{"name":"European Review of Applied Psychology-Revue Europeenne De Psychologie Appliquee","volume":"75 6","pages":"Article 101116"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145120331","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":"A French Version of the Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale Short Form (F-DERS-SF): Validation in an adolescent sample","authors":"Marbella Pérez-Peña, Pierre Philippot","doi":"10.1016/j.erap.2025.101119","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.erap.2025.101119","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Introduction</h3><div>Emotion dysregulation (ED) is the inability to cope with emotional experiences and leverage them in line with one’s goals. The short version of the Difficulties in Emotion Regulation scale (DERS-SF) is a commonly used measure of ED that has not yet been validated in a francophone adolescent sample.</div></div><div><h3>Objective</h3><div>The aim of the present study is to validate a French version of the DERS-SF (F-DERS-SF) and assess its psychometric properties in a sample of adolescents.</div></div><div><h3>Method</h3><div>To achieve this, 139 adolescents aged 14 to 18 (<em>M</em> = 16.58; <em>SD</em> = 0.80) completed the F-DERS-SF, a mindfulness, and an emotional distress questionnaire. A sub-sample of participants (<em>n</em> = 33) completed the F-DERS-SF a second time after 15 days. Factor structure, test-retest reliability, internal consistency reliability, and convergent validity were assessed. Two alternative models were run for comparison purposes.</div></div><div><h3>Results</h3><div>The correlated six-factor model of the original version displayed good model fit and excellent reliability and validity for all subscales except for the Awareness subscale. The alternative five-factor model excluding Awareness showed the best model fit and psychometric properties among the models tested.</div></div><div><h3>Conclusion</h3><div>The F-DERS-SF can be used for research and clinical purposes in a population of adolescents. The present study’s results suggest that all subscale scores can be used reliably except for the Awareness subscale. If the Awareness subscale is used, we advise a cautious interpretation of its results.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":46883,"journal":{"name":"European Review of Applied Psychology-Revue Europeenne De Psychologie Appliquee","volume":"75 6","pages":"Article 101119"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145159981","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}
François Vigneau , Philippe Rousselle , Dalton Breno Costa
{"title":"Psychometric properties of the 10-item English-language Social Provisions Scale","authors":"François Vigneau , Philippe Rousselle , Dalton Breno Costa","doi":"10.1016/j.erap.2025.101098","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.erap.2025.101098","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Introduction</h3><div>One of the most widely used self-report questionnaires to assess perceived social support is the Social Provisions Scale (SPS; <span><span>Cutrona & Russell, 1987</span></span>). This 24-item scale was designed to measure six dimensions of social support. A brief, 10-item version of the SPS was developed by Caron (SPS-10; <span><span>Caron, 2013</span></span>).</div></div><div><h3>Objectives</h3><div>This study examined the reliability, dimensionality and criterion validity of the English-language SPS-10.</div></div><div><h3>Method</h3><div>SPS-10 data from 19,656 respondents (8,928 men and 10,728 women) of the Canadian Community Health Survey (CCHS) were subjected to exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis. The external validity of the total score and the suggested dimension scores was assessed through correlations with three criterion health variables: psychological distress, positive mental health, and perceived health.</div></div><div><h3>Results</h3><div>Principal component analysis of the SPS-10 revealed a single dimension of social support. Confirmatory factor analyses of various models were also consistent with a unidimensional interpretation of the SPS-10 scores. Although the reliability of the total score was satisfactory (Cronbach’s alpha coefficient of 0.93), the reliabilities of the suggested dimension scores were moderate. The dimension scores do not show evidence of differential validity with respect to the health variables examined.</div></div><div><h3>Conclusion</h3><div>In light of the results of various factor analyses and given the lack of external validity exhibited by the suggested dimensions, SPS-10 scores are best conceptualized as unidimensional. The use of SPS-10 dimension scores is not recommended.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":46883,"journal":{"name":"European Review of Applied Psychology-Revue Europeenne De Psychologie Appliquee","volume":"75 6","pages":"Article 101098"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145159983","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}
François Vigneau , Philippe Rousselle , Dalton Breno Costa
{"title":"Psychometric properties of the 10-item English-language Social Provisions Scale","authors":"François Vigneau , Philippe Rousselle , Dalton Breno Costa","doi":"10.1016/j.erap.2025.101098","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.erap.2025.101098","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Introduction</h3><div>One of the most widely used self-report questionnaires to assess perceived social support is the Social Provisions Scale (SPS; <span><span>Cutrona & Russell, 1987</span></span>). This 24-item scale was designed to measure six dimensions of social support. A brief, 10-item version of the SPS was developed by Caron (SPS-10; <span><span>Caron, 2013</span></span>).</div></div><div><h3>Objectives</h3><div>This study examined the reliability, dimensionality and criterion validity of the English-language SPS-10.</div></div><div><h3>Method</h3><div>SPS-10 data from 19,656 respondents (8,928 men and 10,728 women) of the Canadian Community Health Survey (CCHS) were subjected to exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis. The external validity of the total score and the suggested dimension scores was assessed through correlations with three criterion health variables: psychological distress, positive mental health, and perceived health.</div></div><div><h3>Results</h3><div>Principal component analysis of the SPS-10 revealed a single dimension of social support. Confirmatory factor analyses of various models were also consistent with a unidimensional interpretation of the SPS-10 scores. Although the reliability of the total score was satisfactory (Cronbach’s alpha coefficient of 0.93), the reliabilities of the suggested dimension scores were moderate. The dimension scores do not show evidence of differential validity with respect to the health variables examined.</div></div><div><h3>Conclusion</h3><div>In light of the results of various factor analyses and given the lack of external validity exhibited by the suggested dimensions, SPS-10 scores are best conceptualized as unidimensional. The use of SPS-10 dimension scores is not recommended.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":46883,"journal":{"name":"European Review of Applied Psychology-Revue Europeenne De Psychologie Appliquee","volume":"75 6","pages":"Article 101098"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145160057","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":"A French Version of the Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale Short Form (F-DERS-SF): Validation in an adolescent sample","authors":"Marbella Pérez-Peña, Pierre Philippot","doi":"10.1016/j.erap.2025.101119","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.erap.2025.101119","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Introduction</h3><div>Emotion dysregulation (ED) is the inability to cope with emotional experiences and leverage them in line with one’s goals. The short version of the Difficulties in Emotion Regulation scale (DERS-SF) is a commonly used measure of ED that has not yet been validated in a francophone adolescent sample.</div></div><div><h3>Objective</h3><div>The aim of the present study is to validate a French version of the DERS-SF (F-DERS-SF) and assess its psychometric properties in a sample of adolescents.</div></div><div><h3>Method</h3><div>To achieve this, 139 adolescents aged 14 to 18 (<em>M</em> = 16.58; <em>SD</em> = 0.80) completed the F-DERS-SF, a mindfulness, and an emotional distress questionnaire. A sub-sample of participants (<em>n</em> = 33) completed the F-DERS-SF a second time after 15 days. Factor structure, test-retest reliability, internal consistency reliability, and convergent validity were assessed. Two alternative models were run for comparison purposes.</div></div><div><h3>Results</h3><div>The correlated six-factor model of the original version displayed good model fit and excellent reliability and validity for all subscales except for the Awareness subscale. The alternative five-factor model excluding Awareness showed the best model fit and psychometric properties among the models tested.</div></div><div><h3>Conclusion</h3><div>The F-DERS-SF can be used for research and clinical purposes in a population of adolescents. The present study’s results suggest that all subscale scores can be used reliably except for the Awareness subscale. If the Awareness subscale is used, we advise a cautious interpretation of its results.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":46883,"journal":{"name":"European Review of Applied Psychology-Revue Europeenne De Psychologie Appliquee","volume":"75 6","pages":"Article 101119"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145160053","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}
Lu Cheng , Qingguo Ma , Yulin Tan , Yijin He , Guanxiong Pei , Wenwei Qiu
{"title":"Questioning the beauty premium: The substitution effect of trust on facial attractiveness","authors":"Lu Cheng , Qingguo Ma , Yulin Tan , Yijin He , Guanxiong Pei , Wenwei Qiu","doi":"10.1016/j.erap.2025.101117","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.erap.2025.101117","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Introduction</h3><div>Beauty premium belongs to an innate human behaviour bias and has severely affected social justice and social development. It is an interesting question that how much beauty is actually worth. The more interesting point that has not been studied is whether the effect of beauty can be substituted by social influence, such as trust. This study investigated these issues by using a modified trust game.</div></div><div><h3>Method</h3><div>314 male participants were recruited as trustees determined what proportion of the investment income would be returned to female trustors who had different attractiveness levels. Three investment levels, i.e., CNY 1, 3, and 5 (meaning low, medium, high trust levels), were designed to explore the influence of trust level on return rate. The marginal effect of beauty was calculated at each of three trust levels, and the marginal rate of substitution (MRS) between beauty and trust was explored based on a mixed-effect model.</div></div><div><h3>Results</h3><div>Regression models implied a strongly positive linear relationship between facial attractiveness and reciprocal behaviour. And results showed an increase of one unit in facial attractiveness leads to a 24.0%, 21.2%, 21.9% increase in return rate for low, medium and high trust levels respectively. Results also indicated that the effect of attractiveness on return rates is moderated by trust. The MRS of trust for facial attractiveness was also calculated to represent the rate at which trust can substitute for attractiveness while maintaining the same return rate.</div></div><div><h3>Discussion</h3><div>This study suggested that the value of beauty can be reflected in the specific amount of money and that the marginal effect of beauty varies with trust levels. This study also found a substitution effect of trust for beauty and proposed the marginal rate of beauty-trust substitution.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":46883,"journal":{"name":"European Review of Applied Psychology-Revue Europeenne De Psychologie Appliquee","volume":"75 6","pages":"Article 101117"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145614254","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":"Mesurer l’acquisition de la pensée informatique : conception et validation de deux instruments","authors":"K. Sigayret , A. Tricot , N. Blanc","doi":"10.1016/j.erap.2025.101116","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.erap.2025.101116","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Introduction</h3><div>The learning of programming and the development of computational thinking are now part of the educational objectives in many school systems around the world. However, the lack of consensus on the definition of computational thinking complicates the assessment of its acquisition in a school context.</div></div><div><h3>Objective</h3><div>The aim of this article is to propose two assessment instruments for computational thinking adapted to the French-speaking school context, with a clear distinction between two fundamental dimensions: mastery of programming concepts and the ability to solve algorithmic problems.</div></div><div><h3>Method</h3><div>Two tests were designed: the Mastery of Computational Concepts Test, focusing on knowledge of programming concepts, and the Algorithmic Test, assessing the ability to solve algorithmic problems. These instruments were developed in French and validated using psychometric analyses.</div></div><div><h3>Results</h3><div>Both tests were found to have good psychometric properties, both in terms of reliability and validity.</div></div><div><h3>Conclusion</h3><div>These two instruments offer a relevant alternative to existing tools, which are often ill-suited to French-speaking contexts or too demanding in terms of test-taking time. They can contribute to a more refined assessment of computational thinking in the school context.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":46883,"journal":{"name":"European Review of Applied Psychology-Revue Europeenne De Psychologie Appliquee","volume":"75 6","pages":"Article 101116"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145120330","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}