{"title":"The circular effects between adolescent anxiety and benign/malicious envy: evidence from a longitudinal study and experience-sampling method.","authors":"Shuangqiang Liu, Yanhui Xiang, Xiaojun Li","doi":"10.1080/09638237.2024.2426996","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09638237.2024.2426996","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Prior research has shown a strong association between anxiety and envy (i.e. benign/malicious envy). However, empirical evidence is lacking regarding their predictive connection.</p><p><strong>Aims: </strong>To examine how benign/malicious envy impacts anxiety and how anxiety affects both types of envy respectively from a developmental viewpoint.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>In Study 1, a three-wave longitudinal survey of 998 teenagers was conducted to examine the link between trait anxiety and trait benign/malicious envy. Cross-lagged panel analyses were used. In Study 2, 117 adolescents engaged in an experience-sampling method study to track their state anxiety and state benign/malicious envy. Hierarchical linear models were used.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Study 1 showed a positive bidirectional relationship between trait malicious envy and trait anxiety, a negative reciprocity between trait benign envy and trait anxiety, constituting a circular effect across time respectively. Study 2 supported the results of Study 1. The relationship between variables at the state level was consistent with that at the trait level.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Benign envy may help alleviate anxiety, while malicious envy has the opposite effect. These findings offer a reliable framework for comprehending the connection between envy and anxiety, which extends current knowledge about the development of such relations across adolescent.</p>","PeriodicalId":48135,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Mental Health","volume":" ","pages":"1-10"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2025-01-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142933005","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Journal of Mental HealthPub Date : 2024-12-01Epub Date: 2023-11-10DOI: 10.1080/09638237.2023.2278102
Xi Gao, Jia Li, Xueli Zhang, Wanyanhan Jiang, Jiaqiang Liao, Lian Yang
{"title":"Short-term ambient ozone exposure increases the risk of hospitalization with depression: a multi-city time-stratified case-crossover study.","authors":"Xi Gao, Jia Li, Xueli Zhang, Wanyanhan Jiang, Jiaqiang Liao, Lian Yang","doi":"10.1080/09638237.2023.2278102","DOIUrl":"10.1080/09638237.2023.2278102","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Depression, the most common mental illness worldwide, has been studied and air pollution has been found to increase the risk of depression hospitalization, but research results on ozone (O<sub>3</sub>) remain limited. In this context, we investigated the relationship between short-term O<sub>3</sub> exposure and depression-related hospital admissions (HAs).</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>The 10,459 records of HAs for depression from medical institutions across in 9 cities, China, were collected between 1 January 2017, and 31 December 2018. Air pollutants and meteorological data was obtained from provincial ecological environment monitoring stations in the study area. Conditional Poisson regression was employed to estimate the association between O<sub>3</sub> and hospitalizations for depression, with data stratification by sex, age, weather, and economic level.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Short-term O<sub>3</sub> exposure was positively associated with the number of depression-related hospitalizations (Relative risk: 1.04 [95% CI: 1.02, 1.05]). O<sub>3</sub> had a significant effect on the risk of depression-related hospitalizations on warm days (<i>P</i> = 0.021, Relative risk: 1.05 [1.03, 1.08]). The high gross domestic product group was more likely to be affected by O<sub>3</sub> exposure-associated depression-related hospitalizations (<i>P</i> = 0.005, Relative risk: 1.03 [1.01, 1.05]).</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Short-term changes to O<sub>3</sub> exposure may increase the risk of depression related hospitalizations, especially on warm days.</p>","PeriodicalId":48135,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Mental Health","volume":" ","pages":"706-713"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72211367","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Journal of Mental HealthPub Date : 2024-12-01Epub Date: 2022-05-09DOI: 10.1080/09638237.2022.2069703
Robin Edward Gearing, Kathryne B Brewer, Patrick Leung, Monit Cheung, Wanzhen Chen, L Christian Carr, Arlene Bjugstad, Xuesong He
{"title":"Mental health help-seeking in China.","authors":"Robin Edward Gearing, Kathryne B Brewer, Patrick Leung, Monit Cheung, Wanzhen Chen, L Christian Carr, Arlene Bjugstad, Xuesong He","doi":"10.1080/09638237.2022.2069703","DOIUrl":"10.1080/09638237.2022.2069703","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>In China, mental health disorders are considered the leading causes of disability, yet treatment-seeking behaviors among individuals with mental health problems are deficient.</p><p><strong>Aims: </strong>This study sought to examine attitudes and participant characteristics associated with help-seeking among adults residing in China's Shanghai metropolitan area.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>This study employed a convenience cross-sectional sampling strategy and recruited 500 participants in public places in Shanghai. The survey administered in Mandarin was comprised of two sections: a series of demographic questions and standardized instruments measuring stigma and help-seeking attitudes.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Findings indicate that beliefs about seeking professional help for mental health are influenced by knowing someone with a mental health problem. In addition, men who were older, had a child, and were married endorsed more openness to help-seeking for mental health needs, underscoring the importance of life experience as an essential variable when considering attitudes toward help-seeking.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Findings support future research identifying the mechanisms by which these life experiences impact individuals' help-seeking attitudes.</p>","PeriodicalId":48135,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Mental Health","volume":"1 1","pages":"731-738"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41948719","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Journal of Mental HealthPub Date : 2024-12-01Epub Date: 2023-08-17DOI: 10.1080/09638237.2023.2245894
Elizabeth McDermott, Alex Kaley, Eileen Kaner, Mark Limmer, Ruth McGovern, Felix McNulty, Rosie Nelson, Emma Geijer-Simpson, Liam Spencer
{"title":"Reducing LGBTQ+ adolescent mental health inequalities: a realist review of school-based interventions.","authors":"Elizabeth McDermott, Alex Kaley, Eileen Kaner, Mark Limmer, Ruth McGovern, Felix McNulty, Rosie Nelson, Emma Geijer-Simpson, Liam Spencer","doi":"10.1080/09638237.2023.2245894","DOIUrl":"10.1080/09638237.2023.2245894","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>LGBTQ+ young people have elevated rates of poor mental health in comparison to their cisgender heterosexual peers. School environment is a key risk factor and consistently associated with negative mental health outcomes for LGBTQ+ adolescents.</p><p><strong>Aims: </strong>To examine how, why, for whom and in what context school-based interventions prevent or reduce mental health problems in LGBTQ+ adolescents.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>A realist review methodology was utilised and focused on all types of school-based interventions and study designs. A Youth Advisory Group were part of the research team. Multiple search strategies were used to locate relevant evidence. Studies were subject to inclusion criteria and quality appraisal, and included studies were synthesised to produce a programme theory. Seventeen studies were included in the review.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Eight intervention components were necessary to address LGBTQ+ pupils mental health: affirmative visual displays; external signposting to LGBTQ+ support; stand-alone input; school-based LGBTQ support groups; curriculum-based delivery; staff training; inclusion policies; trusted adult. Few school-based interventions for this population group were identified.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>The programme theory indicates that \"to work\" school-based interventions must have a \"whole-school\" approach that addresses specifically the dominant cis-heteronormative school environment and hence the marginalisation, silence, and victimisation that LGBTQ+ pupils can experience.</p>","PeriodicalId":48135,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Mental Health","volume":" ","pages":"768-778"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11789706/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10426364","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Common mental health problems in medical students and junior doctors - an overview of systematic reviews.","authors":"Sameera Aljuwaiser, Miriam Brazzelli, Imran Arain, Amudha Poobalan","doi":"10.1080/09638237.2023.2278095","DOIUrl":"10.1080/09638237.2023.2278095","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Common mental health problems (CMHP) are prevalent among junior doctors and medical students, and the COVID-19 pandemic has brought challenging situations with education disruptions, early graduations, and front-line work. CMHPs can have detrimental consequences on clinical safety and healthcare colleagues; thus, it is vital to assess the overall prevalence and available interventions to provide institutional-level support.</p><p><strong>Aims: </strong>This overview summarises the prevalence of CMHPs from existing published systematic reviews and informs public health prevention and early intervention practice.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Four electronic databases were searched from 2012 to identify systematic reviews on the prevalence of CMHPs and/or interventions to tackle them.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Thirty-six reviews were included: 25 assessing prevalence and 11 assessing interventions. Across systematic reviews, the prevalence of anxiety ranged from 7.04 to 88.30%, burnout from 7.0 to 86.0%, depression from 11.0 to 66.5%, stress from 29.6 to 49.9%, suicidal ideation from 3.0 to 53.9% and one obsessive-compulsive disorder review reported a prevalence of 3.8%. Mindfulness-based interventions were included in all reviews, with mixed findings for each CMHP.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>The prevalence of CMHPs is high among junior doctors and medical students, with anxiety remaining relatively stable and depression slightly increasing during the COVID-19 pandemic. Future research on mindfulness-based interventions is required for a resilient and healthy future workforce.</p><p><strong>Prisma/prospero: </strong>the researchers have followed PRISMA guidance. This overview was not registered with PROSPERO as it was conducted as part of an MSc research project.</p>","PeriodicalId":48135,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Mental Health","volume":" ","pages":"779-815"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71487544","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Journal of Mental HealthPub Date : 2024-12-01Epub Date: 2023-11-08DOI: 10.1080/09638237.2023.2278101
Jo Ellins, Lucy Hocking, Mustafa Al-Haboubi, Jennifer Newbould, Sarah-Jane Fenton, Kelly Daniel, Stephanie Stockwell, Brandi Leach, Manbinder Sidhu, Jennifer Bousfield, Gemma McKenna, Catherine Saunders, Stephen O'Neill, Nicholas Mays
{"title":"Implementing mental health support teams in schools and colleges: the perspectives of programme implementers and service providers.","authors":"Jo Ellins, Lucy Hocking, Mustafa Al-Haboubi, Jennifer Newbould, Sarah-Jane Fenton, Kelly Daniel, Stephanie Stockwell, Brandi Leach, Manbinder Sidhu, Jennifer Bousfield, Gemma McKenna, Catherine Saunders, Stephen O'Neill, Nicholas Mays","doi":"10.1080/09638237.2023.2278101","DOIUrl":"10.1080/09638237.2023.2278101","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Between 2018 and 2025, a national implementation programme is funding more than 500 new mental health support teams (MHSTs) in England, to work in education settings to deliver evidence-based interventions to children with mild to moderate mental health problems and support emotional wellbeing for all pupils. A new role, education mental health practitioner (EMHP), has been created for the programme.</p><p><strong>Aims: </strong>A national evaluation explored the development, implementation and early progress of 58 MHSTs in the programme's first 25 'Trailblazer' sites. This paper reports the views and experiences of people involved in MHST design, implementation and service delivery at a local, regional and national level.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Data are reported from in-depth interviews with staff in five Trailblazer sites (n = 71), and the programme's regional (n = 52) and national leads (n = 21).</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Interviewees universally welcomed the creation of MHSTs, but there was a lack of clarity about their purpose, concerns that the standardised CBT interventions being offered were not working well for some children, and challenges retaining EMHPs.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>This study raises questions about MHSTs' service scope, what role they should play in addressing remaining gaps in mental health provision, and how EMHPs can develop the skills to work effectively with diverse groups.</p>","PeriodicalId":48135,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Mental Health","volume":" ","pages":"714-720"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11627202/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71487545","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Journal of Mental HealthPub Date : 2024-12-01Epub Date: 2023-08-16DOI: 10.1080/09638237.2023.2245898
Ejercito Mangawa Balay-Odao, Jonas Preposi Cruz, Junel Bryan Bajet, Nahed Alquwez, Jennifer Mesde, Khalaf Al Otaibi, Abdulellah Alsolais, Cherryl Danglipen
{"title":"Influence of student nurses' perceived caring behavior of their instructors on their psychological well-being: a cross-sectional study.","authors":"Ejercito Mangawa Balay-Odao, Jonas Preposi Cruz, Junel Bryan Bajet, Nahed Alquwez, Jennifer Mesde, Khalaf Al Otaibi, Abdulellah Alsolais, Cherryl Danglipen","doi":"10.1080/09638237.2023.2245898","DOIUrl":"10.1080/09638237.2023.2245898","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Aim: </strong>This study aimed to understand the influence of clinical instructors' caring behavior on the psychological well-being of student nurses.</p><p><strong>Design: </strong>This study survey used the quantitative cross-sectional research design.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>The sample comprised 405 Saudi nursing students studying at Shaqra University. The study used two instruments: the \"Nursing Students' Perceptions of Instructor Caring\" and the \"Student Well-being Process Questionnaire.\" Convenience sampling was used to collect data from November 2021 to February 2022.</p><p><strong>Result: </strong>The students' perceived Instructor caring was high. The psychological well-being of students was high. There were significant variations in the students' perceived Instructor's caring in terms of year level. A very weak positive correlation existed between the student nurses' rank in their families and their perceived Instructor's caring. Furthermore, gender, year level, family structure, and the Instructor's caring subscales \"supportive learning climate,\" \"appreciation of life's meaning,\" and \"control versus flexibility\" were significant predictors of the student's psychological well-being.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>The study's results support studies that nursing students' psychological well-being is influenced by their gender, family structure, year level, and perceived Instructor's caring behavior.</p>","PeriodicalId":48135,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Mental Health","volume":" ","pages":"694-700"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10367843","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Journal of Mental HealthPub Date : 2024-12-01Epub Date: 2024-03-25DOI: 10.1080/09638237.2024.2332801
Guido Veronese, Fayez Mahamid, Hania Obaid, Dana Bdier, Federica Cavazzoni
{"title":"Positive and negative effects of child's agency on trauma symptoms and psychological difficulties in war-like conditions. The mediating role of hope and life satisfaction.","authors":"Guido Veronese, Fayez Mahamid, Hania Obaid, Dana Bdier, Federica Cavazzoni","doi":"10.1080/09638237.2024.2332801","DOIUrl":"10.1080/09638237.2024.2332801","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Children affected by war and political violence deploy agentic competencies to cope with trauma symptoms and psychological difficulties. However, it does not always act as a protective factor to help them adjust to potentially traumatic events.</p><p><strong>Aims: </strong>We expected to explore the association between agency, trauma symptoms and psychological difficulties and the mediating role of hope and life satisfaction in a group of child victims of military violence in Palestine.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>965 children aged 8 to 14 were assessed with self-reported measures, War Child Agency Assessment Scale, Children Revised Impact of events scale, Strengths and difficulties scale, Child Hope Scale and Brief Multidimensional Students Life Satisfaction Scale. Structural Equation Modelling was performed having Agency as a predictor, trauma symptoms, psychological difficulties as an outcome variable and life satisfaction and hope as a mediator.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>We found a direct and positive effect of agency on trauma symptoms, psychological difficulties, and life satisfaction and hope on the two dependent variables. Life satisfaction and hope mediated the association between agency and the outcome variables.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Agency can help defend children from trauma and psychological maladaptation when it acts on life satisfaction and hope. At the same time, it might worsen psychological dysfunctions when working directly on trauma symptoms and difficulties. Clinical interventions must help children to foster agentic resources in activating hope and life satisfaction.</p>","PeriodicalId":48135,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Mental Health","volume":" ","pages":"749-758"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140207956","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Journal of Mental HealthPub Date : 2024-12-01Epub Date: 2024-12-04DOI: 10.1080/09638237.2024.2432800
Alison Bates
{"title":"Thank you to Reviewers.","authors":"Alison Bates","doi":"10.1080/09638237.2024.2432800","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09638237.2024.2432800","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48135,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Mental Health","volume":"33 6","pages":"i"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143081302","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}