Hang Yuan, Qin Duan, Yue Zhang, Shangyi Chen, Siyang Luo
{"title":"From Reopening to the New Normal: The Impact of COVID-19 on Intergroup Conflict Behaviour","authors":"Hang Yuan, Qin Duan, Yue Zhang, Shangyi Chen, Siyang Luo","doi":"10.1002/ijop.70249","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/ijop.70249","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Intergroup conflict threatens human survival and social development, often triggered by environmental changes such as pandemics. Understanding individual behaviour in intergroup conflict during crises is critical for explaining shifts in intergroup relations. Using COVID-19 as a major environmental threat, the present study combined behavioural experiments and questionnaire measures with 1167 participants from 34 Chinese provinces across three stages: before the pandemic, after the reopening policy was announced and after the pandemic ended. We examined temporal changes in self-interest, ingroup cooperation and outgroup aggression, along with the moderating role of cultural values. Results showed that shortly after reopening, self-interest and ingroup cooperation first decreased and then increased, patterns moderated by interdependent self-construal. Conversely, outgroup aggression first increased and then decreased, jointly influenced by cultural tightness–looseness and infection status. Across the broader pandemic stages, self-interest remained higher and outgroup aggression remained lower than the pre-pandemic baseline, while cultural values exerted moderating effects only at specific stages. These findings suggest that pandemic-related environmental threats do not simply increase cooperation or conflict but reshape individuals' trade-offs among personal, ingroup and outgroup interests. This study provides psychological evidence for understanding intergroup conflict behaviour under environmental threat and offers implications for crisis governance.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":48146,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Psychology","volume":"61 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2026-07-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148534497","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Anastasia Ruban, Paweł Orłowski, Michał Bola, Magdalena Żemojtel-Piotrowska
{"title":"Relationship Between Naturalistic Psychedelic Use and Grandiose Narcissism: An Online Cross-Sectional Study","authors":"Anastasia Ruban, Paweł Orłowski, Michał Bola, Magdalena Żemojtel-Piotrowska","doi":"10.1002/ijop.70237","DOIUrl":"10.1002/ijop.70237","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>The present study examined the relationship between naturalistic psychedelic use and two distinct forms of grandiose narcissism: <i>admiration</i> and <i>rivalry</i>. Using data from an online survey, we compared psychedelic users (<i>N</i> = 630), non-users (<i>N</i> = 100) and individuals planning to use psychedelics in the future (<i>N</i> = 141) on levels of admiration and rivalry. Additionally, we explored how these two forms of narcissism related to the intensity of past ego dissolution and mystical experiences. Psychedelic users reported higher admiration and lower rivalry than non-users who did not intend to use psychedelics. No significant differences emerged between users and those intending to use psychedelics. Among users, ego dissolution experiences were associated with lower rivalry, while mystical experiences were linked to higher admiration. Notably, effect sizes in all analyses were small, warranting caution when interpreting the relevance of the reported effects. By highlighting these opposing patterns in admiration and rivalry, our findings contribute to the understanding of how specific personality traits relate to psychedelic use. Future longitudinal and experimental studies are needed to clarify the direction of these relationships and to investigate contextual and individual factors shaping psychedelic experiences and their psychological outcomes.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":48146,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Psychology","volume":"61 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2026-07-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148438387","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Dominika Adamczyk, Adam Karakula, Dominika Maison, Zuzanna Molenda, Marta Marchlewska
{"title":"Radical Ideas for Radical Self-Importance? Exploring the Links Between Narcissism, Extreme Political Views, and Negative Attitudes Towards Political Opponents","authors":"Dominika Adamczyk, Adam Karakula, Dominika Maison, Zuzanna Molenda, Marta Marchlewska","doi":"10.1002/ijop.70242","DOIUrl":"10.1002/ijop.70242","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>In three studies (Study 1; UK, <i>N</i> = 402; Study 2; US, <i>N</i> = 511; Study 3; Poland, <i>N</i> = 1143), we examined links between narcissism and extreme left- and right-wing political views. Across studies, grandiose narcissism consistently predicted stronger support for political extremes. Study 1 showed that grandiose (but not vulnerable) narcissism was linked to support for extreme right-wing views, while Study 2 and 3 that grandiose narcissism was linked to support for right-wing and left-wing political views. In Studies 2 and 3, we found that grandiose narcissism was associated with greater support for extreme political views, which, in turn, was associated with more negative attitudes towards political out-group members. The results indicate that grandiose narcissists do not prefer one extreme; they are drawn to extreme views.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":48146,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Psychology","volume":"61 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2026-07-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148392055","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mediating Effect of Perseverative Coping on the Association Between Self-Compassion and Depressive Symptoms in College Students: A Longitudinal Study","authors":"Tsukasa Kato","doi":"10.1002/ijop.70245","DOIUrl":"10.1002/ijop.70245","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Perseverative coping refers to the continued use of an ineffective strategy or reimplementation of a strategy that had been abandoned. Self-compassion refers to being supportive of oneself when experiencing suffering. However, little is known about the mechanisms underlying the association between self-compassion and depressive symptoms. In stress research, self-compassion can be regarded as a coping resource that influences coping strategy selection, while coping affects depressive symptoms (i.e., stress response). This study aimed to examine the hypothesis that perseverative coping mediates the relationship between self-compassion and depressive symptoms. The participants were 303 Japanese college students who completed questionnaires on self-compassion, perseverative coping and depressive symptoms. Eight months later, they completed a questionnaire exclusively on depressive symptoms. Structural equation modelling analyses revealed that higher levels of perseverative coping mediated the association between lower levels of self-compassion and greater depressive symptoms. This result was consistent with the predictions of a typical psychological stress model (i.e., transactional stress model). Our findings suggest that the stress model contributes to our understanding of the role of higher levels of self-compassion in decreasing depressive symptoms.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":48146,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Psychology","volume":"61 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2026-07-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148392117","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Xudong Zhao, Shuang Ma, Xuehua Xu, Xinyi He, He He, Jiameng Li, Wendian Shi
{"title":"Cybernetic Dynamics of Autistic Traits: A Temporal Network Analysis Approach to Plasticity, Stability, and Future-Oriented Adaptations","authors":"Xudong Zhao, Shuang Ma, Xuehua Xu, Xinyi He, He He, Jiameng Li, Wendian Shi","doi":"10.1002/ijop.70243","DOIUrl":"10.1002/ijop.70243","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Built upon the core tenets of Cybernetic Big Five Theory, the present research explores how Autistic Traits operate dynamically within a unified network encompassing personality meta-traits (Plasticity and Stability) and multiple facets of prospective cognition. Based on three-wave longitudinal data of 570 non-clinical young adults, temporal network analysis was implemented to model cross-domain temporal interplay. Results revealed an interconnected system: Social Camouflaging negatively predicted subsequent Social Autistic Traits and formed mutually reinforcing bidirectional pathways with Future Imagination. Far-Target Orientation buffered Cognitive Rigidity but induced a notable “paradox of planning”, as it concurrently suppressed Future Action Agency and Purpose Consciousness. Future Action Agency exerted positive prospective effects on later Purpose Consciousness, and Future Imagination maintained reciprocal positive temporal associations with Purpose Consciousness. Stability exhibited dual concurrent outcomes: it boosted Future Imagination while simultaneously increasing Rigidity. These findings provide the first within-person evidence that Autistic Traits develop dynamically through interactive processes across personality and future cognition. Practically, supportive strategies should strengthen Future Action Agency and Purpose Consciousness, redirect Future Imagination toward functional planning, and apply Far-Target Orientation to alleviate Rigidity while safeguarding present agency.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":48146,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Psychology","volume":"61 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2026-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148383026","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Uzi Bechor, Maayan Shacham, Ron Kedem, Jacob Rotschield, Leah Shelef
{"title":"Trends in PTSD Among IDF Soldiers in Combat Over the Years: A Representative Cohort Study","authors":"Uzi Bechor, Maayan Shacham, Ron Kedem, Jacob Rotschield, Leah Shelef","doi":"10.1002/ijop.70227","DOIUrl":"10.1002/ijop.70227","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This study aims to analyse trends in PTSD over time among combat veterans who participated in war or major military operations. This retrospective cohort study included 4376 veterans (4027 males; 97.9%) of the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) who sought assistance from the army's Combat Stress Reactions Unit (CSRU) between January 1, 2000 and June 30, 2024. Background and service data were obtained from CSRU electronic records, along with PTSD self-report questionnaires (PTSD Checklist [PCL-5]). We found PTSD levels lowest during two specific periods of major warfare: 2014 (average score 38.9, SD = 20.15) and 2024 (average score 36.8, SD = 18.13). Conversely, between 2015 and October 2023, years with intermittent lower-intensity military operations, levels were higher, ranging from 43.0 (SD = 18.59) to 50.1 (SD = 17.72). Data analysis also highlights a significant increase in applications to the CSRU from 2014 onward. This continued in 2024, with 703 soldiers (16.1% of sample) applying to the unit—the highest number in a single year. PTSD levels were neither higher nor consistent in times of intense warfare. The relatively low levels of PTSD recorded during these times suggest complex factors influence PTSD development, beyond time since exposure to traumatic events.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":48146,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Psychology","volume":"61 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2026-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148363169","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jingyao Wang, Weiyu Yan, Lina Bo, Xinyin Chen, Keman Yuan, Yan Li
{"title":"Paternal and Maternal Collectivistic Orientations and Preschoolers' Prosocial Behaviour in Chinese Families: The Mediating Role of Authoritative Parenting","authors":"Jingyao Wang, Weiyu Yan, Lina Bo, Xinyin Chen, Keman Yuan, Yan Li","doi":"10.1002/ijop.70240","DOIUrl":"10.1002/ijop.70240","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Understanding the relations and mechanisms between parental cultural orientations and preschoolers' prosocial behaviour is crucial for helping parents to engage in effective interactions with children during the preschool period. This study explored the relations between parental collectivistic values, authoritative parenting, and the prosocial behaviour of preschool children (<i>M</i><sub>age</sub> at Time 1 = 53.28 months, SD = 10.10; 52.60% boys) in a sample of 787 families in Shanghai, China. Parental collectivistic values and authoritative parenting were assessed by fathers and mothers at Time 1, whereas children's prosocial behaviour was reported by mothers at both Time 1 and Time 2. The results showed that maternal collectivistic orientation was positively related to children's prosocial behaviour at Time 2 (controlling for Time 1), with authoritative parenting playing a mediating role. Although paternal collectivistic orientation showed no direct relation to children's prosocial behaviour at Time 2, it was positively associated with authoritative parenting of both fathers and mothers, which in turn were related to more prosocial behaviour in children. The results indicate how fathers and mothers might play different roles in preschool children's social adjustment, offering a new perspective on the process of family socialisation.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":48146,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Psychology","volume":"61 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2026-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148354450","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Rachel Sing-Kiat Ting, Jane Terpstra-Tong, May Kyi Zay Hta, Zhong-Yao Xie, Yi-Fan Chen, Michael Harris Bond, Kuang-Hui Yeh, Louise Sundararajan
{"title":"Strong-Ties and Weak-Ties Rationalities: Predicting Public Stigma, Support Networks, and Health Behaviours During the COVID-19 Pandemic Across Four Societies","authors":"Rachel Sing-Kiat Ting, Jane Terpstra-Tong, May Kyi Zay Hta, Zhong-Yao Xie, Yi-Fan Chen, Michael Harris Bond, Kuang-Hui Yeh, Louise Sundararajan","doi":"10.1002/ijop.70235","DOIUrl":"10.1002/ijop.70235","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In this study, we test the theory of strong-ties and weak-ties rationalities (STWTR) (Sundararajan 2020) and the criterion validity of its measures using strong-ties rationality and weak-ties rationality scales to predict COVID-19 related perceptions and behaviours. These include public stigma, help-seeking networks, and health behaviours across four societies (Han-Chinese, Chinese-Malaysians, Malay-Malaysians, and White-Australians, <i>n</i> = 918). The standardized coefficient results indicate that strong-ties rationality, compared with weak-ties rationality, has a stronger positive association with public stigma, help-seeking from strong ties, and personal care behaviours. In contrast, weak-ties rationality, compared with strong-ties rationality, has a stronger positive association with public health behaviours. Between the Han-Chinese and White-Australians samples, the impact of strong-ties rationality on public stigma is weaker among the Han Chinese, while the impact of weak-ties rationality on public health behaviour is stronger among the White Australians. We attribute our nuanced analysis of these results to the explanatory power of STWTR theory, which decomposes culture into three units of analysis—rationality, ecological niche, and behaviour, enabling an examination of the match or mismatch among these cultural components characterizing any society. Indigenous features of a cultural system can then be more fully represented in cross-cultural psychological research.</p>","PeriodicalId":48146,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Psychology","volume":"61 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2026-06-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ijop.70235","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148303571","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Overestimating the Prevalence of Vegans, Vegetarians and Reducetarians Reflects Basic Psychological Biases in Estimating Proportions","authors":"John B. Nezlek","doi":"10.1002/ijop.70239","DOIUrl":"10.1002/ijop.70239","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In two studies, people estimated the percent of vegans, vegetarians, those following a reduced meat diet and omnivores for specific populations. In a study of Polish adults (<i>n</i> = 1038), participants provided estimates of the diets of Poles and of residents of the US. In a US student sample (<i>n</i> = 2538), participants provided estimates of the diets of their fellow students and of the US population. With a few exceptions, participants overestimated the sizes of dietary minorities (vegans, vegetarians, and reducetarians) and underestimated size of the dietary majority (omnivores). Moreover, these under- and overestimates did not vary systematically as a function of participant diet or vegetarian threat. Although women's estimates of the size of dietary minorities were larger than men's and women's estimates of the size of the omnivorous majority were smaller than men's, both men and women overestimated the percent of dietary minorities and underestimated the percent of omnivores. These misestimates reflect the operation of a general cognitive bias called ‘Uncertainty-Based Rescaling’, that has been found to explain why people consistently underestimate the sizes of majorities and overestimate the sizes of minorities without the need to infer the operation of biases due to similarity, threat and so forth.</p>","PeriodicalId":48146,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Psychology","volume":"61 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2026-06-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ijop.70239","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148296871","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Values and Trust: Multilevel Analyses of the Relationship of Basic Values With General and Institutional Trust in Europe","authors":"Alexander Tatarko, Georgi Dragolov, Klaus Boehnke","doi":"10.1002/ijop.70234","DOIUrl":"10.1002/ijop.70234","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Existing research has not systematically examined how basic human values relate to different forms of trust, namely generalised interpersonal and institutional trust, at both the societal and individual levels. This study addresses the question: How do Openness to Change, Self-Transcendence, Conservation, and Self-Enhancement values relate to trust (generalised and institutional) at the macro and micro levels? Using data from Round 10 of the European Social Survey covering 22 European countries, we investigate these associations via a multilevel regression analysis. Our findings provide three key contributions. The first contribution of our research is that generalised and institutional trust are associated with distinct value preferences at the individual level. The second contribution is the opposing effect of conservation values on institutional trust across the societal and individual levels. Whereas the individual endorsement of conservation values is positively associated with institutional trust, in countries with a higher average endorsement of conservation values, institutional trust is lower. Third, at the country level, values have no impact on generalised or institutional trust, except for conservation values, which may hinder the growth of both types of trust. At the individual level, however, values play a crucial role for both types of trust, yet in different constellations.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":48146,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Psychology","volume":"61 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2026-06-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148296790","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}