{"title":"Implementation of the Evidence-Based Practice in Psychology in Ukraine: Prediction Model Development.","authors":"Mariana Velykodna, Gelena Lazos, Liudmyla Karamushka, Ivan Klymenko, Vladyslav Deputatov, Tetiana Pysarenko","doi":"10.5964/ejop.14559","DOIUrl":"10.5964/ejop.14559","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p><b>Objective</b>: By 2021, researchers reported limited access to evidence-based mental health interventions in Ukraine, which became more crucial after the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. Evidence-based practice in psychology (EBPP) requires professionals to consider equal contributions of the best available research, practical experience, and the context of the unique client. This study aimed to reveal the possible predictors of EBPP implementation among Ukrainian psychologists (<i>n</i> = 366) by developing and testing multivariable prediction models. <b>Methods</b>: The research design followed the methodology of \"Transparent reporting of a multivariable prediction model for individual prognosis or diagnosis\" - TRIPOD checklist. The online survey included a questionnaire on sociodemographic characteristics, educational and professional background, and a purposely developed part regarding the knowledge, attitudes, and utilization of the EBPP approach. <b>Results</b>: Regression analysis revealed different prediction models for the belief that the respondent implements EBPP and the intensity of EBPP elements implementation, explaining 24.4% and 18.5% of their variance with 3 and 5 predictors, respectively. <b>Conclusion</b>: Psychologists believed they were implementing EBPP when they used interventions/methods with proven efficacy, were members of psychological associations, and assessed their knowledge regarding EBPP higher. However, more intensive use of EBPP elements was predicted by a psychologist's experience in personal therapy and supervision, a positive attitude toward EBPP elements, membership in a psychological association, and a perceived level of knowledge regarding EBPP. The belief that the psychologist's practice aligns with the EBPP requirements and the intensity of using EBPP elements had a rather moderate correlation.</p>","PeriodicalId":47113,"journal":{"name":"Europes Journal of Psychology","volume":"22 1","pages":"67-88"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2026-02-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12958400/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147366945","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}
Elena García-Morales, Cristina Cuesta-Zamora, Fernán Arana, Natalia Olmeda, Alberto Tapia-Bernal, Jorge Javier Ricarte
{"title":"Digital Addiction Scale for Children (DASC): Age, Gender, Sleep and Emotional Correlates.","authors":"Elena García-Morales, Cristina Cuesta-Zamora, Fernán Arana, Natalia Olmeda, Alberto Tapia-Bernal, Jorge Javier Ricarte","doi":"10.5964/ejop.17937","DOIUrl":"10.5964/ejop.17937","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Nowadays, digital devices (DD) overuse is an increasing risk factor to develop anxiety, depression and sleep disturbances in young population. <b>Objectives:</b> This study aims to validate the Digital Addiction Scale for Children (DASC) in Spanish, the second most spoken language globally, and to examine its relationship with anxiety, depression, and sleep patterns in children and adolescents. <b>Methods:</b> A sample of 977 children aged 9 to 14 completed self-reported measures of sleep duration, the Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System (PROMIS) and the DASC. The statistical analyses, including confirmatory factor analysis, Cronbach's alpha, McDonald's omega, and Pearson correlations, revealed that the DASC has a bifactorial structure and good reliability. <b>Results:</b> Higher problematic DD levels were associated with increased anxiety and depression symptoms and reduced sleep hours. Although the DASC-Spanish version shows only partial gender and age invariance, it demonstrates strong psychometric properties, supporting its use in psychological practice and research. <b>Conclusions:</b> The observed correlates of the Spanish-DASC with anxiety, depression, and sleep; emphasize its relevance in the presence of negative emotional symptoms and for the promotion of psychological well-being and health in late childhood and adolescence.</p>","PeriodicalId":47113,"journal":{"name":"Europes Journal of Psychology","volume":"22 1","pages":"46-66"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2026-02-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12958410/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147366893","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":"Predictors of Volunteering Rates in the Local Authority Districts (LADs) of England: Neuroticism, Socioeconomic Grade, Trust, and Racial/Ethnic Diversity.","authors":"Stewart J H McCann","doi":"10.5964/ejop.17375","DOIUrl":"10.5964/ejop.17375","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p><b>Objective</b>: The purpose of this study was to examine relations of formal volunteering (FV) rates to neuroticism, socioeconomic grade (SEG), trust of neighbors, and racial/ethnic diversity (RED) in 316 local authority districts (LADs) in England to determine the replicability of earlier research on the US states. <b>Method</b>: A national indicator dataset provided the percentage of adults who engaged in FV in each LAD during 2008. LAD neuroticism scores were based on internet responses of 386,375 UK residents to the Big Five Inventory. SEG was based on four occupation grades from the 2011 UK census. RED was based on 2011 UK census data and the premise that maximum diversity occurs when each racial/ethnic group has equal proportions. Based on 2009 to 2015 data, the neighbor trust variable indicates the percent of persons in each LAD who believe they can trust their neighbors. The present research employed correlation and multiple regression strategies. It also evaluated the impacts of spatial autocorrelation. <b>Results</b>: LAD FV rates correlated negatively with neuroticism and RED, and positively with SEG and trust. The most important finding is that the significant negative relation between RED and FV was rendered nonsignificant or was greatly reduced when trust was controlled in sequential multiple regressions. Adjusting for spatial autocorrelation or not, the results were <i>substantively</i> the same. <b>Conclusions</b>: These results essentially replicate those of two earlier analyses using US states. Findings strongly suggest that trust is a <i>mediator</i> between RED and FV. <i>Speculative</i> interpretations focus on relations between homophily, RED, and trust.</p>","PeriodicalId":47113,"journal":{"name":"Europes Journal of Psychology","volume":"22 1","pages":"129-154"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2026-02-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12958402/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147366891","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":"Does Patient Care Depend on Patients' Health Behaviors? A Study Investigating the Impact of Empathy Among Future Healthcare Professionals on Their Willingness to Help.","authors":"Julian A Nasello, Jean-Marc Triffaux","doi":"10.5964/ejop.15323","DOIUrl":"10.5964/ejop.15323","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objectives: </strong>This study examines the impact of patients' healthy and unhealthy behaviors on future healthcare professionals' willingness to help. Additionally, it also investigates how empathy among future healthcare professionals shapes their willingness to help.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Three hundred future healthcare professionals completed sociodemographic and empathy questionnaires and evaluated 12 clinical vignettes assessing their willingness to help. The vignettes depicted patients engaging in either healthy or unhealthy behaviors.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Participants reported a greater willingness to help patients displaying healthy behaviors compared to those exhibiting unhealthy behaviors (small effect). A moderate positive association was also observed between empathy and willingness to help. Notably, while affective empathy remained a significant correlate, cognitive empathy showed a stronger association with willingness to help in scenarios involving unhealthy behaviors. Although both gender and grade significantly predicted empathy (with moderate and small effects, respectively), neither variable significantly predicted willingness to help.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>The findings demonstrate that patients' health behaviors influence willingness to help and highlight the role of empathy in shaping these intentions. The study therefore supports integrating targeted empathy-focused training into academic curricula to strengthen empathic and related interpersonal skills among future healthcare professionals.</p>","PeriodicalId":47113,"journal":{"name":"Europes Journal of Psychology","volume":"21 4","pages":"392-403"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2025-11-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12923194/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147272436","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 Melody: A Psychobiography of Rezső Seress, Composer of \"Gloomy Sunday\".","authors":"Virág Rab","doi":"10.5964/ejop.19131","DOIUrl":"10.5964/ejop.19131","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Rezső Seress (1899-1968), the composer of the world-famous song \"Gloomy Sunday,\" whose life ended in suicide, is analyzed using a psychobiographical approach. The research question is how can suicide be read through Seress's self-narrations, embedded in the Hungarian cultural, social, and historical context? To answer this question, we integrate Kézdi's theory of the negative code, Wallerstein's world-systems theory, and McAdams's narrative identity theory, linking language, structure, and the self. We analyzed nine song lyrics: counted explicit and narrowly defined implicit negations, calculated negation density (per 100 words), and coded narrative tone and plot, key life events, and agency/communion cues. Throughout the analysis, interpretation is hermeneutic and context-sensitive, with numbers serving as guides. Peaks in negation density appear in the songs \"Nobody Has Ever Loved Me\" (1930) and especially, \"Just Drink, Drink\" (1940), aligning with personal and historical crises. Agency markers are minimal or defensive, while communion is consistently framed as loss. No redemptive arc is identifiable; the life story follows a contamination sequence beginning in adversity. These patterns motivate the introduction of the tragic semiperipheral self (TSS) as a culturally and structurally situated narrative type.</p>","PeriodicalId":47113,"journal":{"name":"Europes Journal of Psychology","volume":"21 4","pages":"346-365"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2025-11-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12928672/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147285635","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}
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":"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":2.7,"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":"Psychobiographical Reflections on Marilyn Yalom's Experience of Death and Dying.","authors":"Carla Nel","doi":"10.5964/ejop.19089","DOIUrl":"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":2.7,"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":"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":"10.5964/ejop.19961","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47113,"journal":{"name":"Europes Journal of Psychology","volume":"21 4","pages":"263-276"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"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":"Heroic Death: A Melancholic Existentialist Psychobiography of Jacques De Molay.","authors":"Paul J P Fouché","doi":"10.5964/ejop.17755","DOIUrl":"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":2.7,"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":"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}