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{"title":"Factors affecting treatment adherence among patients with hypertension based on the PRECEDE model: A cross-sectional study from a delay discounting perspective","authors":"Zhiqing Hu ,&nbsp;Huiying Zhang ,&nbsp;Yanjun Sun ,&nbsp;Yiping Wang ,&nbsp;Rui Meng ,&nbsp;Ke Shen ,&nbsp;Jiali Chen ,&nbsp;Yuan He","doi":"10.1016/j.ijchp.2025.100553","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ijchp.2025.100553","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Background</h3><div>Hypertension is a significant global public health concern, and research shows that treatment adherence plays an important role in hypertension control. This study incorporated a novel factor in behavioral economics, delay discounting, into the predisposing factors within the PRECEDE model to explore the factors influencing adherence to treatment of patients with hypertension.</div></div><div><h3>Design</h3><div>This cross-sectional study was conducted in Jiangsu Province, China, in 2023 and included 1,123 patients with hypertension.</div></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><div>Data collection tools included demographic variables and predisposing, reinforcing, and enabling factors. Delay discounting was assessed using a self-designed computer program. The collected data were analyzed using descriptive statistics and hierarchical regression. This study used the STROBE Reporting Checklist.</div></div><div><h3>Results</h3><div>The variables accounted for 30.4% of the total variance in adherence to treatment of patients with hypertension. Hierarchical regression analyses revealed that the predisposing (knowledge, delay discounting, and self-efficacy), reinforcing, and enabling factors were significantly associated with treatment adherence.</div></div><div><h3>Conclusions</h3><div>Delay discounting was associated with hypertension treatment adherence. Enhancing the predisposing, enabling, and reinforcing factors may lead to increased adherence among patients with hypertension. It is recommended that hospitals and healthcare providers offer educational lectures and training sessions, and that some simple delayed discount interventions be added to supplement this. Additionally, government and institutional efforts should be made to increase the availability of community-level resources for patients with hypertension.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47673,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Clinical and Health Psychology","volume":"25 1","pages":"Article 100553"},"PeriodicalIF":5.3,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143349151","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Altered hippocampal effective connectivity predicts BMI and food approach behavior in children with obesity","authors":"Wei Li ,&nbsp;Ximei Chen ,&nbsp;Xiao Gao ,&nbsp;Qingge Pang ,&nbsp;Cheng Guo ,&nbsp;Shiqing Song ,&nbsp;Yong Liu ,&nbsp;Pan Shi ,&nbsp;Hong Chen","doi":"10.1016/j.ijchp.2024.100541","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ijchp.2024.100541","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Objective</h3><div>The vicious circle model of obesity proposes that the hippocampus plays a crucial role in food reward processing and obesity. However, few studies focused on whether and how pediatric obesity influences the potential direction of information exchange between the hippocampus and key regions, as well as whether these alterations in neural interaction could predict future BMI and eating behaviors.</div></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><div>In this longitudinal study, a total of 39 children with excess weight (overweight/obesity) and 51 children with normal weight, aged 8 to 12, underwent resting-state fMRI. One year later, we conducted follow-up assessments of eating behaviors and BMI. Resting-state functional connectivity and spectral dynamic casual modeling (spDCM) technique were used to examine altered functional and effective connectivity (EC) of the hippocampus in children with overweight/obesity. Linear support vector regression, a machine learning method, was employed to further investigate whether these sensitive hippocampal connections at baseline could predict future BMI and eating behaviors.</div></div><div><h3>Results</h3><div>Compared to controls, children with excess weight displayed abnormal bidirectional inhibitory effects between the right hippocampus and left postcentral gyrus (PoCG), that is, stronger inhibitory hippocampus→PoCG EC but weaker inhibitory PoCG→hippocampus EC, which further predicted BMI and food approach behavior one year later.</div></div><div><h3>Conclusion</h3><div>These findings point to a particularly important role of abnormal information exchange between the hippocampus and somatosensory cortex in pediatric obesity and future food approach behavior, which provide novel insights into the neural hierarchical mechanisms underlying childhood obesity and further expand the spDCM model of adult obesity by identifying the directionality of abnormal influences between crucial circuits associated with appetitive regulation.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47673,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Clinical and Health Psychology","volume":"25 1","pages":"Article 100541"},"PeriodicalIF":5.3,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11773239/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143061800","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Dissociable ventral and dorsal sensorimotor functional circuits linking the hypomanic personality traits to aggression via behavioral inhibition system","authors":"Wei Ge ,&nbsp;Yuanyuan Gao ,&nbsp;Xiang Li ,&nbsp;Jinlian Wang ,&nbsp;Hohjin Im ,&nbsp;Wenwei Zhu ,&nbsp;Guang Zhao ,&nbsp;Ying Hu ,&nbsp;Pinchun Wang ,&nbsp;Xia Wu ,&nbsp;Qiong Yao ,&nbsp;Xin Niu ,&nbsp;Xiongying Chen ,&nbsp;Qiang Wang","doi":"10.1016/j.ijchp.2024.100537","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ijchp.2024.100537","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Hypomanic personality traits (HPT) are susceptibility markers for psychiatric disorders, particularly bipolar disorder, and are strongly associated with aggressive behaviors. However, the neuropsychological mechanisms underlying this association remain unclear. This study utilized psychometric network analysis and <em>Inter-Subject Representation Similarity Analysis</em> (IS-RSA) to explore the neuropsychological circuits that link HPT to aggression in a large non-clinical population. Psychometric network analysis (n = 716) identified two key nodes: the Behavioral Inhibition System (BIS) and mood volatility, a core dimension of HPT. We observed a positive correlation between mood volatility and aggression, with BIS serving as a mediating factor. Task-based functional imaging (n = 53) further revealed a double dissociation between the dorsal (dSMC) and ventral (vSMC) sensorimotor cortices to HPT, specifically during the processing of reward magnitude and delay in a delayed reward paradigm. Functional patterns within these regions mediated the relationship between individual differences in mood volatility and aggression, with BIS acting as a mediator through parallel pathways. Resting-state functional imaging (n = 505) replicated this functional segregation and revealed distinct integrative patterns: the dSMC was functionally connected to the frontoparietal network (FPN) and the vSMC to the sensorimotor network (SMN). These circuits collectively mediated the associations among mood volatility, aggression, and BIS. These findings highlight the critical role of sensorimotor circuits and BIS in understanding the neuropsychological pathways linking HPT-related mood volatility to aggression.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47673,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Clinical and Health Psychology","volume":"25 1","pages":"Article 100537"},"PeriodicalIF":5.3,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11773241/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143061807","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Restless nights, cold hearts: Poor sleep causally blunts empathy","authors":"Tom Gordon-Hecker ,&nbsp;Shoham Choshen-Hillel ,&nbsp;Eti Ben-Simon ,&nbsp;Matthew P. Walker ,&nbsp;Anat Perry ,&nbsp;Alex Gileles-Hillel","doi":"10.1016/j.ijchp.2025.100548","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ijchp.2025.100548","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Poor sleep is pervasive in modern society. Poor sleep is associated with major physical and mental health consequences, as well as with impaired cognitive function. Less is known about the relationship between sleep and emotional and interpersonal behavior. In this work, we investigate whether poor sleep impairs empathy, an important building block of human interaction and prosocial behavior. We aimed to capture the effects of poor sleep on the various aspects of empathy: trait and state, affect and cognition.</div><div>Study 1 (n = 155) assessed daily habitual sleep over several days, and global sleep quality in the past month. Participants who reported worse sleep quality exhibited lower empathic caring and perspective-taking traits. Study 2 (n = 347) induced a one-night disruption of sleep continuity to test a causal relationship between sleep and empathy. Participants in the sleep disrupted condition had to briefly wake up five times over the night, whereas the sleep-rested controls slept normally. In the next morning, participants’ empathy and prosocial intentions were assessed. Participants in the sleep disruption condition exhibited lower empathic sensitivity and less prosocial decision-making than sleep-rested controls.</div><div>The main contribution of this work is in providing a robust demonstration of the multi-faceted detrimental effects of poor sleep on trait and state empathy. Our findings demonstrate that poor sleep causally impairs empathic response to the suffering of others. These findings highlight the need for greater public attention to adequate sleep, which may impact empathy on a societal level.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47673,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Clinical and Health Psychology","volume":"25 1","pages":"Article 100548"},"PeriodicalIF":5.3,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143290519","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A short screen for lifetime sexual victimization experiences: Expanding research on the Sexual Abuse History Questionnaire (SAHQ) across cultures, genders, and sexual identities","authors":"Léna Nagy ,&nbsp;Sophie Bergeron ,&nbsp;Mónika Koós ,&nbsp;Ateret Gewirtz-Meydan ,&nbsp;Marie-Pier Vaillancourt-Morel ,&nbsp;Shane W. Kraus ,&nbsp;Marc N. Potenza ,&nbsp;Zsolt Demetrovics ,&nbsp;Félix Dupuis-Fortier ,&nbsp;Beáta Bőthe ,&nbsp;International Sex Survey Consortium","doi":"10.1016/j.ijchp.2024.100535","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ijchp.2024.100535","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The Sexual Abuse History Questionnaire (SAHQ), a widely used screening tool for childhood sexual abuse (CSA) and adolescent/adult sexual assault (AASA) experiences, has limited examination of its psychometric properties in diverse populations. Our study assessed the SAHQ's psychometric properties (i.e., structural validity and measurement invariance across demographic groups, know-group validity, and internal consistency) and estimated the frequencies of various types of sexual victimization across 42 countries and in diverse gender-, trans-status-, and sexual-identity-based groups that were previously missing from measurement-focused studies. We used a large, non-representative sample (<em>N</em> = 81,465; 57 % women, 3.4 % gender-diverse individuals, <em>M_age</em>=32.34 years, <em>SD</em>=12.48) from the International Sex Survey, a 42-country cross-sectional, multi-language, online survey. The SAHQ demonstrated excellent structural validity in all country-, gender-, sexual-identity-, and trans-status-based groups, as well as acceptable reliability and known-group validity. Occurrence estimates for six CSA and AASA types were reported across sociodemographic groups, corroborating previous evidence that women and gender- and sexual-minority individuals are at greater risk of CSA and AASA. Pansexual and queer individuals emerged as a particularly vulnerable group. Associations between different types of CSA and AASA revealed that participants who experienced any form of CSA were at least twice as likely to experience AASA. The findings have significant implications for policy and interventions, especially for marginalized groups.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47673,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Clinical and Health Psychology","volume":"25 1","pages":"Article 100535"},"PeriodicalIF":5.3,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11773023/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143061761","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Greater neural delay discounting on reward evaluation in anhedonia","authors":"Chenlu Guan ,&nbsp;Shiyu Zhou ,&nbsp;Zhao Wang ,&nbsp;Bo Gao ,&nbsp;Ya Zheng","doi":"10.1016/j.ijchp.2024.100542","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ijchp.2024.100542","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Background/objective</h3><div>Recent years have witnessed a surge of interest in dissecting the anticipatory and the consummatory aspects of anhedonia in terms of temporal dynamics. However, few research has directly examined reward valuation as a function of time in anhedonia.</div></div><div><h3>Method</h3><div>Using a delay discounting task, this event-related potential study examined the neural representation of rewards available immediately or in six months in a high-anhedonia group (<em>N</em> = 40) and a low-anhedonia group (<em>N</em> = 40) recruited from a nonclinical sample.</div></div><div><h3>Results</h3><div>We found that anhedonia was associated with greater neural delay discounting during reward evaluation. This was evidenced by a blunted effect of reward magnitude on the reward positivity (RewP) in the high-anhedonia compared to the low-anhedonia group when the rewards would be delivered six months later. Representation similarity analysis revealed that the aberration in processing delayed rewards is further corroborated by enhanced neural coding of reward time during the RewP period in the high-anhedonia versus low-anhedonia group.</div></div><div><h3>Conclusions</h3><div>These findings provide empirical evidence to show that anhedonia is driven by a blunted neural representation of future rewards instead of immediate rewards, suggesting an inability to form mental representations of future positive experiences in anhedonia.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47673,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Clinical and Health Psychology","volume":"25 1","pages":"Article 100542"},"PeriodicalIF":5.3,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11773226/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143061809","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Longitudinal relationship between posttraumatic growth and distress in lung cancer patients during neoadjuvant immunotherapy","authors":"Qiao Chu ,&nbsp;Fenghuan Sun ,&nbsp;Xinsheng Zhu ,&nbsp;Haoran Xia ,&nbsp;Dongliang Bian ,&nbsp;Gan He ,&nbsp;Jinhuan Yang ,&nbsp;Peng Zhang ,&nbsp;Yaping He","doi":"10.1016/j.ijchp.2025.100549","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ijchp.2025.100549","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Purpose</h3><div>Posttraumatic growth (PTG) has been recognized as beneficial for the emotional well-being of cancer patients. However, the longitudinal relationship between PTG and emotional distress remains unclear and has rarely been investigated among patients undergoing neoadjuvant therapy. We investigated the linear and quadratic longitudinal associations between distress (depression, anxiety, and negative affect) and PTG in lung cancer patients undergoing neoadjuvant immunotherapy. We also tested individual variations in the longitudinal associations.</div></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><div>Data were pooled from three clinical trials (<em>n</em> = 231) evaluating the efficacy of neoadjuvant immunotherapy in lung cancer patients. At the beginning of each treatment cycle, patients completed questionnaires assessing PTG and distress. Cross-lagged panel analysis was used to evaluate longitudinal associations, and multi-group structural equation modeling was conducted to examine individual variations in these relationships.</div></div><div><h3>Results</h3><div>A unidirectional linear relationship was observed, with lower levels of distress predicting greater PTG over time. The impact of anxiety on PTG was more pronounced in patients with higher education or lower financial burdens, while the effect of negative affect was more salient in older patients. No significant quadratic effects of distress on PTG were observed.</div></div><div><h3>Conclusions</h3><div>Lower emotional distress may facilitate the development of PTG over time. The longitudinal effect of distress on PTG varied on age, education, and financial burdens.</div></div><div><h3>Implications</h3><div>Psychosocial interventions to promote PTG may be more effective by incorporating stress management and emotion regulation strategies, and need to be tailored to patients’ socioeconomic characteristics.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47673,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Clinical and Health Psychology","volume":"25 1","pages":"Article 100549"},"PeriodicalIF":5.3,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143152673","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Transdiagnostic study of dynamic brain activity and connectivity among people with gambling and internet gaming disorders","authors":"Hui Zhou ,&nbsp;Yuwen He ,&nbsp;Lulu Liu ,&nbsp;Jingwen Yin ,&nbsp;Anita Yingxin Xiong ,&nbsp;Ka Heng Leong ,&nbsp;Anise M.S. Wu ,&nbsp;Marc N. Potenza","doi":"10.1016/j.ijchp.2025.100547","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ijchp.2025.100547","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Despite both internet gaming disorder (IGD) and gambling disorder (GD) being officially recognized as medical conditions by the World Health Organization, controversies persist. A transdiagnostic study may help inform classification and intervention approaches. IGD and GD may share or have distinct neural and behavioral features. To investigate, resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and self-reported behavioral data were collected from 58 individuals with GD, 31 with IGD, and 83 healthy control (HC) participants. After controlling for demographics, both GD and IGD groups scored lower on measures of gambling-related positive play. Neural data revealed reduced brain connectivity in the right rectus/orbital frontal gyrus in GD and IGD groups compared to HC participants. IGD participants displayed increased dynamic brain activity in the left triangular inferior frontal gyrus compared with GD and HC participants. Relatively decreased modular flexibility was also observed in GD but not IGD participants, relative to HC participants. Multiclass classification results showed that the indicators of gambling-related positive play, as well as dynamic brain activity and connectivity patterns, were useful for classifying GD, IGD, and HC participants, outperforming the use of either neural signals or self-report indicators alone. The shared phenotypes of GD and IGD groups provide insight into common features of behavioral addictions, and the combination of self-report and neural measures may provide the most robust approach for classification of diagnostic groups.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47673,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Clinical and Health Psychology","volume":"25 1","pages":"Article 100547"},"PeriodicalIF":5.3,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143153329","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Cognitive interventions for healthy older adults: A systematic meta-review","authors":"Vitória Velloso ,&nbsp;Sofia Latgé-Tovar ,&nbsp;Iris Bomilcar ,&nbsp;Daniel C. Mograbi","doi":"10.1016/j.ijchp.2024.100538","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ijchp.2024.100538","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Objectives</h3><div>With increasing global life expectancy, cognitive interventions hold promise in mitigating cognitive decline and fostering healthy aging. Despite the demand for evidence-based interventions, there have been few attempts to summarize existing evidence. This study aims to assess the effectiveness and feasibility of unimodal and multimodal cognitive interventions for cognitively healthy older adults.</div></div><div><h3>Method</h3><div>Systematic meta-review, selecting articles from four databases: PubMed, Web of Science, Embase, and Cochrane Library. Quality assessment carried out with AMSTAR2. Findings were summarized and discussed narratively.</div></div><div><h3>Results</h3><div>Thirty-nine articles were included, with 21 meta-analyses and 18 qualitative systematic reviews. The total number of reviews was 38 for cognitive training, 4 for cognitive stimulation, and 1 for multicomponent interventions. Most reviews had low or critically low quality.</div></div><div><h3>Conclusions</h3><div>The prevailing evidence supports cognitive training. Continued research into cognitive stimulation and multicomponent protocols is encouraged. Longer follow-ups are important for identifying combined and clinically significant results. Rigorous risk of bias and quality assessment is necessary to enhance the evidence base.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47673,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Clinical and Health Psychology","volume":"25 1","pages":"Article 100538"},"PeriodicalIF":5.3,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11770512/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143061802","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Validating the questionnaire of achievement of developmental task (QADT) to measure achieving mental wellness in school-aged children","authors":"Iwona Grzegorzewska ,&nbsp;Paweł Kleka ,&nbsp;Agnieszka Felińska","doi":"10.1016/j.ijchp.2024.100540","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ijchp.2024.100540","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Introduction</h3><div>This article presents a verification of the factor structure and validation of the Questionnaire of Achievement of Developmental Task (QADT), designed to measure children's social expectations in early childhood. Three tasks, important from the point of view of both children's functioning at a given life stage and preparation for the next developmental phase, were selected. These are school skills, cooperation with others and a sense of competence. The research aimed to verify the tool's psychometric validity and establish relationships between developmental tasks and indicators of children's mental health.</div></div><div><h3>Method</h3><div>The study was conducted in primary school's 4th, 5th and 6th grades (<em>N</em> = 453). The QADT, Brief Multidimensional Students' Life Satisfaction Scale and Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale for Children were used.</div></div><div><h3>Results</h3><div>The tool shows sufficient validity and reliability. The hypothesis regarding associations between the level of developmental task completion and life satisfaction and depressive symptoms was also confirmed.</div></div><div><h3>Conclusions</h3><div>The QADT tool can be used in scientific research. This work contributes to the growing body of literature on factors influencing children's mental health and underscores the importance of measuring social expectations of children in early childhood. It also highlights the need to consider developmental tasks in clinical practice and interventions to improve children's mental health. Ultimately, the findings of this study can inform the development of effective preventive and intervention strategies to promote children's mental health and well-being.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47673,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Clinical and Health Psychology","volume":"25 1","pages":"Article 100540"},"PeriodicalIF":5.3,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11773211/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143061814","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}