Jeanette A. Chacón-Candia, Juan Lupiáñez, Maria Casagrande, Andrea Marotta
{"title":"The Effect of Sex and Gender-Role on Social Attention: Investigating the Association With Social Skills and Academic Preferences","authors":"Jeanette A. Chacón-Candia, Juan Lupiáñez, Maria Casagrande, Andrea Marotta","doi":"10.1002/ijop.70238","DOIUrl":"10.1002/ijop.70238","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The literature has shown that both eye-gaze and arrow cues elicit quantitatively similar attentional orienting effects. Nonetheless, a qualitative dissociation between the orienting of attention triggered by these two types of stimuli has been observed under specific methodological conditions. It has been found that, while eye-gaze retains attention at the specific looked-at location, with arrows attention is spread towards broader parts of the environment. However, to date, it remains unclear whether this dissociation may be directly related to individual differences in personal attributes typically associated with higher or lower social skills. The aim of the present study was to explore whether the orienting effects of eye-gaze and arrow cues differ among observers based on their sex, gender-role, academic background and/or social skills. To ensure transparency, the hypotheses and analysis plan for this research were pre-registered. The results showed that although the anticipated arrow–gaze dissociation and the expected relationships among the measured personal attributes were observed, they did not correlate. However, additional analyses revealed a selective association between gaze–driven attentional effects and autistic traits. Overall, these findings suggest that, under the present methodological approach, differences between eye-gaze and arrow orienting effects are not uniformly linked to individual differences in social cognition.</p>","PeriodicalId":48146,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Psychology","volume":"61 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2026-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ijop.70238","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148279327","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":"Does Compassion Always Lead to Forgiveness? Impact of the Mechanism of Compassion Before Service Failure on Consumer Forgiveness","authors":"Yi Zhang, Xingbei Jiang","doi":"10.1002/ijop.70236","DOIUrl":"10.1002/ijop.70236","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>There are few studies involving the mechanism of the emotions that consumers experience before a service failure on their willingness to forgive. This research intends to explore the effect of two different types of compassion on the willingness to forgive under uncontrollable and controllable service failure, examine the mediating role of empathy and the moderating role of the type of service failure. This research designed two experiments. Experiment 1 involved 450 voluntary participants and adopted a between-group design (spontaneous compassion vs. neutral emotions) × (controllable service failure vs. uncontrollable service failure). Experiment 2 involved 431 voluntary participants and used a between-subject experimental design (merchant-induced compassion vs. neutral emotions) × (controllable service failure vs. uncontrollable service failure). Results demonstrated that consumers with spontaneous compassion still “treat others as themselves” and showed a higher willingness to forgive. However, the compassion induced by merchants is a “double-edged sword”, which will have positive and negative effects on consumers' willingness to forgive under uncontrollable and controllable service failure situations. This research deepens the research on the impact of compassion as a self-transcendent emotion on consumer forgiveness and provides empirical support for the transformation of service recovery from “after-the-fact recovery” to “pre-intervention”.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":48146,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Psychology","volume":"61 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2026-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148273561","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":"Inhibitory Effects of Imagery on Perceptual Interference and Forgetting in the Enactment Effect","authors":"Jialin Ma, Lingen Lu, Yongxin Li","doi":"10.1002/ijop.70228","DOIUrl":"10.1002/ijop.70228","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This study reveals that imagery plays a key role in facilitating the production of action memory. However, memory processes are often accompanied by various types of interference. Whether imagery can effectively inhibit multiple forms of interference in the encoding and retrieval stages and thus facilitate the enactment effect is unclear. The present study is aimed at addressing this issue. In experiment 1, the inhibitory effect of imagery on irrelevant perceptual interference in the encoding stage was explored under visual, motor, and visual + motor interference conditions. The results revealed that the enactment effect decreased in both the visual and motor interference conditions but disappeared only in the visual + motor interference condition, which confirms that imagery encoding in action memory formation has a certain inhibitory effect on irrelevant perceptual interference. In experiment 2, the inhibitory effect of imagery encoding on the forgetting of action memory was explored using a directed forgetting paradigm. The results revealed that in contrast to the verbal encoding condition, the directed forgetting effect disappeared in the imagery encoding condition, suggesting that imagery encoding has an inhibitory effect on forgetting. These results confirm that imagery encoding has certain inhibitory effects on irrelevant perceptual interference and forgetting.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":48146,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Psychology","volume":"61 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2026-06-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148220419","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}
Yan Liu, Chi-Sum Wong, Junbang Lan, Yina Mao, Kelly Z. Peng
{"title":"Effects of Personality Profiles on Career Development: The Case of Hong Kong Young Adults","authors":"Yan Liu, Chi-Sum Wong, Junbang Lan, Yina Mao, Kelly Z. Peng","doi":"10.1002/ijop.70233","DOIUrl":"10.1002/ijop.70233","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Studies in western countries have adopted the person-centred approach to study personality (i.e., combinations of various personality traits). Among young adults, three typical profiles are found: resilients, who are self-confident, self-directed and emotionally stable; undercontrollers, who are stubborn, impulsive and disobedient; overcontrollers, who are sensitive, introverted and dependable. However, relatively few studies on young adults in contexts out of western countries were conducted using this approach. Drawing on career development theory and research on personality profiles, we develop hypotheses about the associations of resilients with some career-related outcomes among Hong Kong young adults at their career developmental stage. As resilients are flexible about external demands from their lives and career development, the profile of resilience would associate with emotional intelligence, employment status and life satisfaction. We test these hypotheses using two independent samples (<i>n</i> = 4955, average age of 20.08 and standard deviation of 3.62; <i>n</i> = 396, university freshmen at age 19 or 20) in Hong Kong. Data on these two samples were separately analysed with latent profile analysis. The results support the proposed hypotheses about resilents. Different from overcontrollers and undercontrollers found in western countries, the fragile, neurotic and conservative also emerged. The importance of contexts in studying personality profiles is discussed.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":48146,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Psychology","volume":"61 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2026-06-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148213067","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}
Muhammad Bilal Zafar, Abbas J. Ali, Mohd Fauzi Abu-Hussin
{"title":"Diverging Paths to Well-Being: A Cross-National Hierarchical Analysis of Islamic Work Ethic Among Working Muslims","authors":"Muhammad Bilal Zafar, Abbas J. Ali, Mohd Fauzi Abu-Hussin","doi":"10.1002/ijop.70232","DOIUrl":"10.1002/ijop.70232","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This study examines how Islamic Work Ethic (IWE) relates to well-being among working Muslims, emphasizing the roles of socio-economic, cultural, and demographic conditions rather than assuming uniform benefits. Using hierarchical mixed-effects models on 13,561 employed Muslims in 46 countries from the 7th Wave of the World Values Survey (2017–2022), we analyse IWE in relation to five facets of well-being: happiness, subjective health, freedom of choice and control, life satisfaction, and financial satisfaction. The results show that IWE is positively associated with overall well-being and with each facet, with stronger links for subjective health and perceived freedom of choice and control, and more modest associations for happiness and life satisfaction. Subgroup analyses indicate that the IWE–well-being association is statistically robust in Muslim-majority countries but weaker and not significant in non-Muslim-majority contexts, consistent with a cultural fit interpretation. Across income, gender, and marital-status groups, the association between IWE and well-being remains positive, although its magnitude varies. The study situates IWE within a multidimensional well-being framework, shows that its benefits are generally favourable but modest and context dependent, and highlights the importance of aligning organizational and policy initiatives with both Islamic work values and structural conditions that support health, agency, and financial security.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":48146,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Psychology","volume":"61 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2026-06-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148213064","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}
Boqiang Zhao, Changlin Liu, Palizhati Muhetaer, Ping Hu
{"title":"Through the Cultural Prism: The Influence of a Distinctive Chinese Personality—Junzi Personality—On Psychosocial Adjustment in China","authors":"Boqiang Zhao, Changlin Liu, Palizhati Muhetaer, Ping Hu","doi":"10.1002/ijop.70231","DOIUrl":"10.1002/ijop.70231","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Grounded in a Chinese indigenous cultural perspective, this study examines how Junzi personality—a culturally grounded personality construct rooted in Confucian philosophy—relates to the psychosocial adjustment of Chinese individuals. It further examines the mediating role of self-control and the moderating role of cultural confidence. Three substudies collected data from 2259 Chinese participants. Study 1 used longitudinal data (<i>n</i> = 205) to examine the effects of Junzi personality on psychosocial adjustment as both a state and a process. Study 2 employed cross-sectional data (<i>n</i> = 1589) to examine whether the associations among Junzi personality, self-control and psychosocial adjustment were consistent with the proposed pathway. Study 3 used longitudinal data (<i>n</i> = 465) to validate the overall model and examine the moderating effect of cultural confidence. The results show that Junzi personality is associated with better psychosocial adjustment; longitudinal evidence further supports the mediating role of self-control and the moderating role of cultural confidence. These findings highlight Junzi personality as a culturally grounded resource for psychosocial adjustment and clarify a multilevel pathway from culture to individual adjustment. By integrating contemporary psychological theories with Eastern Confucian thought, this study offers an indigenous cultural perspective for future research on personality and adjustment.</p>","PeriodicalId":48146,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Psychology","volume":"61 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2026-06-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ijop.70231","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148206724","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":"Rasch Analysis and Interval-Level Scaling of the Positive and Negative Affect Schedule (PANAS) Across Cultures","authors":"Peter Adu","doi":"10.1002/ijop.70230","DOIUrl":"10.1002/ijop.70230","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Affective state investigation requires precise measurement that satisfies parametric statistical assumptions for reliable and valid cross-data comparisons. The psychometric properties of the 20-item Positive and Negative Affect Schedule (PANAS) are satisfactory, but provide scores on an ordinal scale, which could be unsuitable for parametric statistics. The present study employed the Rasch model to assess the psychometric statistics of the PANAS, enhancing the scale's precision using community samples from four countries. I analysed responses from a randomly selected sample of 1000 individuals (250 from each country) out of a total sample of 1822 recruited from Germany (475), Ghana (523), India (411), and New Zealand (413). The analyses indicated that both the positive affect and negative affect subscales demonstrated satisfactory model fit after applying the testlet creation approach. Each subscale reflected a clear, single underlying construct with strong reliability and structural validity. Both scales also functioned equivalently across demographic groups, suggesting that the items measured affective states consistently, regardless of participants' sociodemographic backgrounds. The scales further exhibited strong convergent and discriminant validity. The study developed an algorithm to convert ordinal scores to interval data, enhancing precision and validity in parametric analyses.</p>","PeriodicalId":48146,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Psychology","volume":"61 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2026-06-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ijop.70230","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148206731","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":"What You Have Determines What You Want to Feel: The Influence of Social Class on Ideal Affect","authors":"Hao Xie, Wanli Mo, Chanyan Li, Qingwang Wei","doi":"10.1002/ijop.70229","DOIUrl":"10.1002/ijop.70229","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Ideal affect reflects the emotional states which an individual desires to experience. Although existing research has highlighted the influence of cultural values on ideal affect, few studies have explored individual factors such as social class as antecedents of ideal affect. Study 1 (<i>N</i> = 335) used structural equation modelling to test a mediation model, while Study 2 (<i>N</i> = 200) experimentally manipulated participants' subjective social class. The results revealed that upper-class individuals valued ideal high-arousal positive affect (HAP) more and ideal low-arousal positive affect (LAP) less than lower-class individuals did. These findings establish social class as a key antecedent of ideal affect and suggest that daily emotional experiences play a mediating role and have practical implications for understanding how affective biases might arise in crucial cross-class interactions.</p>","PeriodicalId":48146,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Psychology","volume":"61 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2026-06-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ijop.70229","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148151842","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":"Empowerment or Pressure? Exploring the Impact of Female Body Depictions in Body Positivity Instagram Posts on Self-Objectification.","authors":"Nina Krizova, Nikol Kvardova, Hana Machackova","doi":"10.1002/ijop.70208","DOIUrl":"10.1002/ijop.70208","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Although Body Positivity content (BoPo) has been criticised for emphasising physical appearance and promoting self-objectification, the specific features driving these effects remain unclear. The present study examined whether depictions of female bodies act as triggers for self-objectification in BoPo on Instagram. In a between-subjects online experiment involving 158 women aged 18-29 (M = 21.6, SD = 2.4), exposure to female bodies in BoPo posts did not heighten state self-objectification. Trait self-objectification and negative mood did not moderate these effects; however, women with negative attitudes towards BoPo reported higher levels of state self-objectification. These findings underscore the potential importance of subjective appraisals in shaping the impacts of BoPo content. Overall, the study contributes to the ongoing debate about the potentially negative effects of BoPo on Instagram, suggesting that body depictions alone may not reinforce self-objectification. Future research should examine the distinct influence of different types of body portrayals to further clarify the impact of BoPo content on body image. From a practical perspective, prevention efforts and social media campaigns should aim to raise awareness of BoPo features that continue to overemphasise appearance, helping women better protect their body image from potential adverse effects.</p>","PeriodicalId":48146,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Psychology","volume":"61 3","pages":"e70208"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2026-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13083542/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147692884","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":"Sociocultural Influences on Cognitive Mechanisms Underlying Obsessive-Compulsive Symptoms: The Role of Fear of Losing Out, Conformity, and Religiosity.","authors":"Minglee Yong, Jacqueline L Tilley","doi":"10.1002/ijop.70217","DOIUrl":"10.1002/ijop.70217","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Sociocultural factors are known to influence the phenomenology of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). However, less is known about how these factors could be related to the underlying mechanisms of OCD. This study aimed to explore the influence of sociocultural factors, namely, conformity, religiosity, and fear of losing out on obsessive-compulsive (OC) symptoms and their underlying cognitive processes. A total of 2364 young adults (18-29 years), comprising undergraduate students and recent graduates from a public university in Singapore, completed three online surveys over 1.5 years. Path analysis was used to model temporal relationships among OC symptoms and other variables in this longitudinal dataset, while controlling for previous levels of symptoms and their covariances, including with depressive and anxiety symptoms. The results showed that fear of losing out predicted perfection/certainty, which in turn predicted OC symptoms; however, this indirect effect was small. Conformity and religiosity did not show similar predictive associations. Our findings suggest that sociocultural factors may indirectly shape an individual's vulnerability through their attitudes and appraisals. Culturally driven norms and beliefs can reinforce maladaptive cognitive tendencies and increase one's susceptibility to OC symptoms, highlighting the importance of cultural competency practices that address the possible role of culturally driven beliefs in cognitive misappraisals.</p>","PeriodicalId":48146,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Psychology","volume":"61 3","pages":"e70217"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2026-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147730407","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}