Petru Lucian Curșeu, Arcadius Florin Muntean, Mihai Tucaliuc
{"title":"\"It All Comes Down to the Teens\": An Actor-Partner-Interdependence Model of Trust, Engagement and Satisfaction With the School in Parent-Adolescent Dyads.","authors":"Petru Lucian Curșeu, Arcadius Florin Muntean, Mihai Tucaliuc","doi":"10.5964/ejop.15335","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5964/ejop.15335","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objectives: </strong>Our study underscores the relevance of focusing on parent-adolescent dyads in order to understand the interplay between school trust, engagement and satisfaction with the school by testing a model in which school engagement mediates the association between trust in the school and satisfaction with the school.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>We use an actor-partner-interdependence-model to test the mediating role of school engagement between trust and satisfaction with the school in 506 parent-adolescent dyads in Romania.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The results show that when these variables are jointly evaluated in parent-adolescent dyads, only student engagement is a significant dyadic (couple) mediator, such that it is positively predicted both by student and parental trust in the school and predicts both student and parental satisfaction with the school. Our results also reveal a partner only effect on parental school engagement that is positively predicted by student trust in the school. Moreover, our results also reveal that parental trust in the school has a positive association with parental as well as student satisfaction with the school. An emergent result is that female students report a higher engagement and satisfaction with the school than male students do.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>In line with our results, we urge school administrators to provide resources and create platforms for a joint involvement of parents and adolescents in relevant school-related activities.</p>","PeriodicalId":47113,"journal":{"name":"Europes Journal of Psychology","volume":"21 4","pages":"366-377"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-11-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12923192/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147272326","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Heroic Death: A Melancholic Existentialist Psychobiography of Jacques De Molay.","authors":"Paul J P Fouché","doi":"10.5964/ejop.17755","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5964/ejop.17755","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This psychobiography aimed to reconstruct the life and death of Jacques de Molay (1243-1314), with particular focus upon his heroism as a mitigating psychological mechanism against the terror of death. Jacques de Molay was purposively sampled as subject. He was the Grand Master of the Knights Templar, an order of knighthood founded during the Crusades and dedicated to the mission of protecting Christian pilgrims and defending the Holy Land. He was confronted by betrayal; arrest; torture; confessions of heresy under duress; and public execution. Jacques de Molay's life offers an exemplary illustration of the melancholic existentialist theory of Ernest Becker, who posited that mortality creates profound existential anxiety. This drives individuals to seek meaning in a 'heroic struggle', as an anxiety-buffering mechanism, to stifle the terror of death and dying. This psycho-historical analysis was conducted via the methodology of psychobiography. Publicly available historical and biographical data sources were utilized, and significant evidence across the lifespan of de Molay were extracted using the indicators of biographical salience promulgated by Irving Alexander. Salient themes and events were interpreted via Becker's melancholic existential theory, with particular emphasis upon heroism. Jacques de Molay's role as Grand Master represented his heroic dedication to the Knights Templar and their mission. The torture he endured and his refusal to betray the Templars' ideals exemplified a heroic struggle against mortality. Instead of capitulating to terror and falsehood, de Molay faced his death maturely, thereby achieving existential authenticity and symbolic immortality.</p>","PeriodicalId":47113,"journal":{"name":"Europes Journal of Psychology","volume":"21 4","pages":"277-289"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-11-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12928674/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147285667","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Existential Psychobiography: On Death and Dying Across the Life Span. Or How Extraordinary Individuals and Their Environments Deal With the End of Life.","authors":"Claude-Hélène Mayer, Paul J P Fouché","doi":"10.5964/ejop.19961","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5964/ejop.19961","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47113,"journal":{"name":"Europes Journal of Psychology","volume":"21 4","pages":"263-276"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-11-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12928671/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147285669","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Psychobiographical Reflections on Marilyn Yalom's Experience of Death and Dying.","authors":"Carla Nel","doi":"10.5964/ejop.19089","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5964/ejop.19089","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The universal awareness of death is central to the framework of existential psychology. However, its subjective confrontation remains deeply personal. Marilyn Yalom (1938-2019), distinguished feminist scholar and cultural historian, documented her intimate reflections on dying in a book co-authored with her husband, Irvin Yalom, renowned existential psychotherapist and author. This single-case psychobiography sought to examine her experience, focusing on her diarised reflections on living with and dying from a terminal illness in this book as the primary data source. Data analysis examined Marilyn's reflections through the lens of Irving Yalom's existential psychotherapy propositions to construct a theoretically informed overview of her experiences. Given her observation of feeling prepared to face death as a concept, as opposed to dying as a process, thematic analysis uncovered additional insights regarding this transition. Traditionally, psychobiographies explore the lives of significant figures in their entirety, and few have focused specifically on an individual's confrontation with death. The findings are presented within the framework of the four existential concerns, and additional experiential themes are conceptualised as end-of-life variations of lifelong existential concerns. These illuminated underexplored concerns, such as the process of detaching from loved ones, physician-assisted suicide as an expression of autonomy, and the potential for pain and impairment to re-awaken the crises of isolation and meaninglessness. Practice recommendations are made from the findings, in line with Marilyn and Irving Yalom's goal of contributing to a broader discourse on end-of-life concerns, as Marilyn endeavoured to fight against despair and live meaningfully until the very end.</p>","PeriodicalId":47113,"journal":{"name":"Europes Journal of Psychology","volume":"21 4","pages":"309-318"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-11-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12928669/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147285673","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Lawrence Kohlberg's Suicide: An Analysis of His Final Life Stage.","authors":"Vikki Botes, Roelf van Niekerk","doi":"10.5964/ejop.17971","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5964/ejop.17971","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>This article focuses on the last stage of Kohlberg's life, his career success years, between ages of 41 to 59 years. The aim of the study was to explore and describe how an accomplished moral development expert reached the point of taking his own life. The objectives of this article were to illuminate Kohlberg's life story through (a) formulating a comprehensive and contextualised description of Kohlberg's last stage of his life and (b) interpreting part of Kohlberg's life story according to Bronfenbrenner's Bioecological Theory of Human Development Framework.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>The psychobiographical analysis used a qualitative paradigm, longitudinal single-case research design from a descriptive-interpretive approach. Bronfenbrenner's Bioecological Theory of Human Development, incorporating its enmeshed, most recent scientific research design, the Proximal-Person-Context-Time Model was used as the theoretical framework.</p><p><strong>Results/findings: </strong>The findings illustrate the direct influence of the Context, Person and Time components on Kohlberg's Proximal processes' functioning levels and their outcomes. Kohlberg's Proximal processes were impacted by several areas. These were his interpersonal relationships, career, challenges versus protective factors and visionary qualities.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>This article underscores the critical importance of suicide awareness and advocates for a comprehensive, holistic approach to addressing mental health challenges. It also stresses the need to investigate intricate and multifaceted factors that can influence suicidal behaviour, along with identifying protective factors that may help prevent suicidal ideation and intent. Understanding the complex factors that contribute to the risk of suicide allows for the effective identification and management of challenges, ultimately supporting greater mental health and well-being.</p>","PeriodicalId":47113,"journal":{"name":"Europes Journal of Psychology","volume":"21 4","pages":"319-330"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-11-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12928670/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147285683","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Self-Compassion Facets as Mediators of the Relationship Between Self-Esteem and Well-Being: A Path Analysis Approach.","authors":"Jaime Navarrete, Corel Mateo-Canedo, Adrián Pérez-Aranda, Selena Russo, Stefano Ardenghi, Federico Zorzi, Giulia Rampoldi, Maria Grazia Strepparava, Jesús Montero-Marín, Marco Bani","doi":"10.5964/ejop.17201","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5964/ejop.17201","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Self-esteem and self-compassion are both associated with psychological well-being, but they differ in their underlying mechanisms. Some studies have found that self-compassion mediates the relationship between self-esteem and well-being, yet they have overlooked the distinct roles of its cognitive, affective, and behavioral components. This study examined whether specific self-compassion facets mediate the relationship between self-esteem and well-being, using the Italian adaptation of the Sussex-Oxford Compassion Scales (SOCS), whose psychometric properties were also assessed. A cross-sectional survey was conducted among 408 Italian high school and undergraduate healthcare students. Participants completed the SOCS, the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale, and the Short Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Well-being Scale. The Italian SOCS was psychometrically evaluated through confirmatory factor analyses and showed good validity and reliability. Correlations and path analyses were used to examine the mediating roles of cognitive, affective, and behavioral self-compassion facets. Emotional and behavioral components of self-compassion - such as \"feeling for one's suffering\", \"tolerating uncomfortable feelings\", and \"acting to alleviate suffering\" - significantly mediated the link between self-esteem and well-being. These facets accounted for 39% of its variance, while cognitive components did not show significant effects. These findings highlight the importance of affective and behavioral self-compassion in therapeutic interventions, emphasizing their role in enhancing well-being.</p>","PeriodicalId":47113,"journal":{"name":"Europes Journal of Psychology","volume":"21 4","pages":"378-391"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-11-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12923188/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147272408","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Socrates' Voluntary Death - An Essential Voice Against the Pathologisation of Suicide.","authors":"Amadeusz Citlak","doi":"10.5964/ejop.19085","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5964/ejop.19085","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objectives: </strong>The article focuses on the death of the Greek philosopher Socrates from the 5<sup>th</sup> century BCE as a significant inspiration for contemporary discourse on suicide (an essential voice against the pathologisation of suicide). It aims to highlight how an individual and their socio-cultural environment interact when dealing with the problem of death.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>The psychobiographical approach used a single-case analysis as the starting point for theoretical discussion on suicide. The essential feature of the presented study is an interpretive-descriptive approach.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>An analysis reveals Socrates' motivations in the context of ancient Greek culture, particularly regarding the concept of honour-shame, which played an important role in the organisation of social and mental life in the Mediterranean world. However, the honour-shame dimension is not limited to ancient Greek culture; it is closely related to the universal concept of 'social status'. Honour-shame and social status can identify and explain the motivational processes behind the suicidal decision.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>The example of Socrates (who chooses death to avoid shame and preserve his honour) allows us to receive an alternative perspective on suicide, especially concerning the right to suicide and the problem of its medicalisation and pathologisation. In this light, we should also ask for an alternative design of preventive programs and legal assessments of suicide.</p>","PeriodicalId":47113,"journal":{"name":"Europes Journal of Psychology","volume":"21 4","pages":"331-345"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-11-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12928673/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147285627","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Death and Dying in Camille Rosalie Claudel's Life and Work: A Psychobiography.","authors":"Claude-Hélène Mayer","doi":"10.5964/ejop.19297","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5964/ejop.19297","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This article examines the topic of death and dying in the life and creative work of the French sculptress Camille Rosalie Claudel who lived from 8 December 1864 to 19 October 1943. Claudel was a talented artist and sculptress who learned from and worked with Alfred Boucher and Auguste Rodin. Rodin became her professional and intimate partner for more than 10 years. Claudel was one of the few women sculptresses of the 19<sup>th</sup> century to gain a reputation for the originality and quality of her work. The aim of the article is to explore death and dying in the life of Claudel. This psychobiography uses four theoretical approaches, namely existential psychology theories on death and dying, symbolic death theory, Lacanian death theory and Jung's perspectives on death, dying and <i>ars moriendi.</i> The research methodology applied is psychobiography within a hermeneutic-interpretivist research paradigm. The subject of research, Camille Rosalie Claudel, was purposefully chosen. Findings show that Claudel expressed her inner life and journey, her search for meaning, her artistic talent and in-depth philosophical interest, but also her views on life and death, through her art. As a person, she experienced different forms of death and dying throughout her life which are outlined in this psychobiography based on the four introduced theories. Conclusions are drawn and recommendations are given.</p>","PeriodicalId":47113,"journal":{"name":"Europes Journal of Psychology","volume":"21 4","pages":"290-308"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-11-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12928675/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147285694","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"In Search of the Lost Interaction: A Theoretical and Methodological Framework for Researching Interactions.","authors":"Geoffrey Schweizer, Maximilian Köppel","doi":"10.5964/ejop.14957","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5964/ejop.14957","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>We suggest that psychological research into interaction effects might benefit from analyzing potential interactions from the perspective of the Positive Predictive Value (PPV). The PPV denotes the post-study probability that a claimed effect is true, based on the pre-study probability that said effect exists, the power of the respective test and the significance level used for testing. We use the PPV in order to propose a framework structuring potential interaction effects based on their (theoretical) plausibility and their shape. Specifically, the position of a hypothesized interaction in the proposed framework may inform sample-size planning and the choice of alpha levels prior to a study; and it may inform confidence into results after a study. Finally, we present a heuristic approach for planning research on interactions based on R (the pre-study probability that an effect exists), the PPV (the post-study probability that a claimed effect is true) and α (the significance level used for significance testing). In doing so, we aim to provide a nuanced view on the feasibility of investigating into interactional hypotheses, a view that is critical where needed but that at the same time does not discourage research on interactions.</p>","PeriodicalId":47113,"journal":{"name":"Europes Journal of Psychology","volume":"21 3","pages":"249-262"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-08-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12923185/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147272406","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Vladimir Kosonogov, Kirill Efimov, Olga Kuskova, Isak B Blank
{"title":"One-Minute Silent Video Clips: A Database of Valence and Arousal.","authors":"Vladimir Kosonogov, Kirill Efimov, Olga Kuskova, Isak B Blank","doi":"10.5964/ejop.14685","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5964/ejop.14685","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Researchers in the behavioral and social sciences use linear discriminant analysis (LDA) for predictions of group membership (classification) and for identifying the variables most relevant to group separation among a set of continuous correlated variables (description). In these and other disciplines, longitudinal data are often collected which provide additional temporal information. Linear classification methods for repeated measures data are more sensitive to actual group differences by taking the complex correlations between time points and variables into account, but are rarely discussed in the literature. Moreover, psychometric data rarely fulfill the multivariate normality assumption. The article introduces a dataset consisting of 160 one-minute affective video clips with normative values of valence and arousal. Each video was evaluated by 30 subjects, while each subject evaluated at least 20 videos. Compared to previous attempts to collect affective videos, the dataset has several advantages. Firstly, the high number of videos in different valence categories allows researchers to compile appropriate subsets for their studies. Secondly, the approximately equal and conventional duration of videos makes it possible to use them in psychophysiological studies applying EEG, fMRI, peripheral polygraphy, posturography, TMS, etc. Thirdly, the exclusion of sound or speech that might provoke culture-dependent interpretation makes the dataset useful in different cultures. The relationship between valence and arousal showed a typical quadratic pattern, with very negative and very positive videos receiving higher levels of arousal. Several negative videos received greater arousal scores than the most positive ones, reflecting negativity bias. The dataset encompasses more than 50 videos of different valence (negative, neutral, and positive ones). We believe that it will permit researchers to select corresponding subsamples of videos from different categories for their studies.</p>","PeriodicalId":47113,"journal":{"name":"Europes Journal of Psychology","volume":"21 3","pages":"152-159"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-08-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12923196/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147272448","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}