Journal of PsychologyPub Date : 2025-01-01Epub Date: 2024-07-09DOI: 10.1080/00223980.2024.2366882
Francis T McAndrew, Jonathan E Doriscar, Nicolette T Schmidt, Chris Niebauer
{"title":"Explorations in Creepiness: Tolerance for Ambiguity and Susceptibility to \"Not Just Right Experiences\" Predict the Ease of Getting \"Creeped Out\".","authors":"Francis T McAndrew, Jonathan E Doriscar, Nicolette T Schmidt, Chris Niebauer","doi":"10.1080/00223980.2024.2366882","DOIUrl":"10.1080/00223980.2024.2366882","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study was designed to explore the role played by ambiguity in the experience of creepiness, as well as the relevance of personality traits for predicting individual differences in susceptibility to getting \"creeped out,\" In an online study, a mixed sample of 278 college undergraduates and adults (60 males, 206 females, 12 nonbinary or chose not to report; Mean age = 31.43, range 18-68) recruited through social network platforms filled out scales measuring their tolerance for ambiguity and their susceptibility to having \"Not Just Right Experiences.\" They then rated 25 images (12 normal, 13 prejudged to be creepy or confusing) on creepiness and several other adjective dimensions. The findings indicated that individuals who were less tolerant of ambiguity and those highly susceptible to not just right experiences perceived ambiguous or creepy persons, places, and objects to be more creepy, confusing and disturbing. Both measures were negatively related to time spent looking at confusing or creepy images, and females were generally more easily creeped out by creepy and confusing images than were males. The results support the conclusion that current models of creepiness are correct; the emotional experience of getting \"creeped out\" does indeed appear to be triggered by the need to resolve ambiguity.</p>","PeriodicalId":48218,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"36-55"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141564838","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Journal of PsychologyPub Date : 2025-01-01Epub Date: 2024-06-27DOI: 10.1080/00223980.2024.2369618
Martin Sedlár, Jitka Gurňáková
{"title":"Decision-Making Styles in Medical Students and Healthcare Professionals: The Roles of Personality Traits and Socio-Emotional Intelligence Factors.","authors":"Martin Sedlár, Jitka Gurňáková","doi":"10.1080/00223980.2024.2369618","DOIUrl":"10.1080/00223980.2024.2369618","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Intuitive and deliberative styles can be considered the best-known decision-making styles, which are thought to be linked to actual workplace performance. However, there is a limited research on individual differences in these styles among individuals who provide healthcare. Therefore, adopting the self-report approach, this study examines the roles of the Big Five personality traits and socio-emotional intelligence factors in intuitive and deliberative decision-making styles among medical students and healthcare professionals. The research sample consists of 203 participants (50 medical students, 153 healthcare professionals) who completed the Big Five Inventory, the Trait Meta-Mood Scale, the Tromsø Social Intelligence Scale, and the Preference for Intuition and Deliberation Scale. The regression analyses revealed that attention to one's emotions and social information processing were positively related to intuitive decision-making style, while the clarity of one's emotions and social awareness were negatively related to intuitive decision-making style. It was further shown that conscientiousness, neuroticism, repair of one's emotions, and social information processing were positively related to deliberative decision-making style. The findings highlight the importance of personality and socio-emotional intelligence in understanding decision-making. Specifically, they point out that Big Five personality traits better explain deliberative style, while socio-emotional intelligence factors better explain intuitive style.</p>","PeriodicalId":48218,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"71-91"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141471669","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Journal of PsychologyPub Date : 2025-01-01Epub Date: 2024-08-19DOI: 10.1080/00223980.2024.2368231
Shenli Peng, Yajing Peng
{"title":"Family Function and Problematic Social Media Use Among Adolescents in Vocational Schools: A Moderated Mediation Model.","authors":"Shenli Peng, Yajing Peng","doi":"10.1080/00223980.2024.2368231","DOIUrl":"10.1080/00223980.2024.2368231","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>With the outburst of social medias in current life, problematic use is prevalent in adolescents and has become a contemporary concern. Although family environment has been identified as a risk factor, little is known how family environment is associated with problematic social media use (PSMU). Drawing on Snyder's hope theory and Davis's cognitive-behavioral model, this study examines how family function is linked with PSMU <i>via</i> hope. The study also investigates the moderating effect of perceived social support (PSS) by analyzing how PSS, interacts with family function, affects hope and further influences PSMU. The moderated mediation analyses of data from 1373 adolescents from vocational schools (343 boys and 1030 girls, M<sub>age</sub> = 15.56) reveal family function is negatively associated with adolescents' PSMU, and the association is partially mediated by hope. Furthermore, PSS buffers the negative relation between family function and hope.</p>","PeriodicalId":48218,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"56-69"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142005589","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Journal of PsychologyPub Date : 2025-01-01Epub Date: 2024-06-25DOI: 10.1080/00223980.2024.2363538
Kiran Sakker Sudha, M Ghazi Shahnawaz, Zuby Hasan
{"title":"Do Narcissist Phubs or Get Phubbed? Analyzing the Role of Motivational Systems.","authors":"Kiran Sakker Sudha, M Ghazi Shahnawaz, Zuby Hasan","doi":"10.1080/00223980.2024.2363538","DOIUrl":"10.1080/00223980.2024.2363538","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Phubbing is a common sight, but it is not merely a technological faux pas. The present study aims to explore phubbing (phubbing others and getting phubbed) through the lens of two types of personalities (grandiose and vulnerable narcissism). Moreover, the study also aimed to evaluate the indirect role of motivational systems (BAS/BIS) between these two sets of variables. The sample of the study comprised 525 Indian college students. Data were analyzed through Hayes Process Macro (Hayes) in SPSS (Version 26). Vulnerable narcissism was found to be positively related to phubbing others and getting phubbed. Grandiose narcissism was found to be related to phubbing others but not to getting phubbed. BAS and BIS were significantly and positively related to phubbing and getting phubbed. BAS indirectly affected the relationship between two kinds of narcissism (vulnerable and grandiose) and phubbing (phubbing others and getting phubbed); however, BIS failed to influence the relationship between narcissism and phubbing. The results of the present study challenge the notion that all phubbing behaviors are truly deviant as narcissistic personality played an important role in phubbing behavior. The study also highlighted the importance of rewards and punishment on phubbing behaviors, and therefore there is a need to focus on BAS and BIS while dealing with phubbing behaviors.</p>","PeriodicalId":48218,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"17-35"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141451907","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Journal of PsychologyPub Date : 2025-01-01Epub Date: 2024-10-16DOI: 10.1080/00223980.2024.2404934
Haiping Liao, Rebecca L Monk, James Gaskin, Jin-Liang Wang
{"title":"Risk Perception, Cooperation, and Emotional Distress During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Exploring Adaptive Risk Perception.","authors":"Haiping Liao, Rebecca L Monk, James Gaskin, Jin-Liang Wang","doi":"10.1080/00223980.2024.2404934","DOIUrl":"10.1080/00223980.2024.2404934","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>During the COVID-19 pandemic, while risk perception may promote public cooperation with pandemic prevention, it may also increase emotional distress and thus endanger mental health. This study aimed to examine whether there is an adaptive risk perception pattern that fits both needs of pandemic control and mental health protection. Two waves of Chinese participants (<i>N</i> <sub>sample 1</sub> = 1633, <i>N</i> <sub>sample 2</sub> = 1899) completed the Scale of Pandemic Risk Perception, the Scale of Public Cooperation with Pandemic Prevention, the Epidemic Worry Scale, and the Positive and Negative Affective Schedule during Feb 3rd to 5th, and during Feb 18<sup>th</sup> to 20<sup>th</sup>, 2021 respectively. Four risk perception profiles were identified by using latent profile analysis based on pandemic risk perception. Regression mixture models found that individuals in the perceived-controllable-high-perceived-risk profile were the most cooperative and reported the least worries and negative affect. The perceived-uncontrollable-high-perceived-risk profile demonstrated high cooperation but serious worry and negative affect. Individuals in the ignoring-risk profile reported the least levels of cooperation and worry but the highest levels of negative affect. Finally, the perceived-moderate-perceived-risk profile reported moderate levels of both cooperation and emotional distress. These results were well repeated in two samples. Present findings point towards an adaptive risk perception pattern (the controllable-high-perceived-risk profile) which may optimize cooperation while also avoid serious emotional distress.</p>","PeriodicalId":48218,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"289-307"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142477937","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Journal of PsychologyPub Date : 2025-01-01Epub Date: 2024-08-07DOI: 10.1080/00223980.2024.2387039
Isabella Leandra Silva Santos, Carlos Eduardo Pimentel
{"title":"Superhero Films' Impacts on Prosocial Behavior: The Mediating Role of State-Empathy and Violence Justification.","authors":"Isabella Leandra Silva Santos, Carlos Eduardo Pimentel","doi":"10.1080/00223980.2024.2387039","DOIUrl":"10.1080/00223980.2024.2387039","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The present research aimed to observe superhero films' impacts on prosocial behavior, mediated by state-empathy (cognitive, affective and associative empathy) and moral justification. To achieve this goal, two online experiments were conducted, each with 200 Brazilian volunteers (Study 1: 70.5% women, mean age = 28.82, SD = 9.22. Study 2: 52.5% men, mean age = 27.63, SD = 9.25). We used a scene from Batman v Superman as the stimulus in the experimental groups. Prosocial behavior was measured using a food allocation task. Data from both studies showed that even when featuring violent elements, superhero films positively impacted prosocial behavior. These effects were indirect, mediated by associative empathy in Study 1 and moral justification in Study 2. Results highlight the complex relationship between prosocial violent media (aggressive content with prosocial goals) and behavior. We also emphasize the research's novelty, as studies that investigate media content that is both negative and positive are still scarce.</p>","PeriodicalId":48218,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"192-206"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141903227","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"What Can we Learn About Human Nature from Interacting with Strangers? Relationship Type Determines Behavior in the Dictator Game.","authors":"Peter Kardos, Bernhard Leidner, Sanjay Nawalkha","doi":"10.1080/00223980.2024.2437380","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00223980.2024.2437380","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Behavioral decision-making research has been exceptionally useful in the quest of the social sciences to understand human nature. A frequent assumption of this research is that using strangers as anonymous interaction partners allows for the clearest demonstration of <i>basic</i> human nature. But a diverse array of literature - from social and clinical psychology to ethology - suggests that a stranger is far from a \"baseline partner.\" We argue against the overreliance on strangers in economic games and that instead of one baseline partner, typical relationships should fall into <i>basic types</i> of partners, all eliciting different behaviors. Two high-powered experiments (<i>N</i>s = 848 and 2400) in which participants played a hypothetical dictator game with one of sixteen partners (e.g., mother, friend, stranger) found particular clusters of interaction partners in which the possible partners were grouped into different and intuitively meaningful relationship types (i.e., loved ones, intimate partners, companions, contractual partners, infrahumanized others). The clusters suggest a typology of basic human relationships and predict behavior even when controlling for relationship distance. The findings help to calibrate the outcomes of past dictator games utilizing strangers and offer an interpretative context with a system of relationship types.</p>","PeriodicalId":48218,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"1-23"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-12-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142865756","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Effects of COVID-19 on Anxiety and Depressive Symptoms Among Chinese College Students: Chain Mediation of Three Long COVID-19 Symptoms.","authors":"Yuanyuan Deng, Yifan Tong, Yao Zhang, Mingfan Liu","doi":"10.1080/00223980.2024.2437382","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00223980.2024.2437382","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Long COVID has become a public health issue, and anxiety and depressive symptoms have been on the rise among young people since the COVID-19 pandemic. The primary purpose of this study was to survey the status of COVID-19 infection, long COVID, and mental health among Chinese college students after China lifted the dynamic zero-COVID policy on December 7, 2022. The secondary purpose was to explore the mediation effect of long COVID on the relationship between COVID-19 and anxiety and depressive symptoms. A total of 958 Chinese college students (<i>M</i><sub>age</sub> = 18.68, ages 16-22, 78.2% were female) completed measures of the severity of COVID-19, long COVID somatic symptom, insomnia, fatigue, anxiety, and depressive symptoms. Four potential chain mediation models was used to examine the role of long COVID somatic symptoms, insomnia, and fatigue as mediators between COVID-19 and anxiety and depressive symptoms. The results showed that ∼80% of Chinese college students suffered COVID-19 in late 2022 and early 2023, and 47.8, 35.4, 43.8, 37, and 54.3% of the participants had at least one somatic symptom, insomnia, fatigue, anxiety, and depressive symptoms, respectively, about 2-3 months after onset. This study revealed that the influence of COVID-19 on anxiety and depressive symptoms is not determined by the severity of COVID-19 in acute phase but by long COVID. Long COVID somatic symptoms, insomnia, and fatigue played mediation effects in different degree between COVID-19 and anxiety and depressive symptoms. Interventions that target long COVID may improve anxiety and depressive symptoms of Chinese college students who have had COVID-19.</p>","PeriodicalId":48218,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"1-19"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-12-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142856173","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ana Rita Conde, Claúdia Sousa, Frederico Silva, Teresa Souto, Maria Inês Fernandes, Maria José Ferreira
{"title":"Psychological Distress and Well-Being in Emerging Adult Women: The Role of Positivity and Coping Strategies.","authors":"Ana Rita Conde, Claúdia Sousa, Frederico Silva, Teresa Souto, Maria Inês Fernandes, Maria José Ferreira","doi":"10.1080/00223980.2024.2431204","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00223980.2024.2431204","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Women in emerging adulthood face increased challenges. Positive Life Orientation (PLO) and Coping have proved essential for successfully adapting individuals to developmental challenges affecting mental health. Using a quantitative, cross-sectional methodology, the study aims to (i) analyze the primary sources of stress of emerging adult women and the coping strategies most used; (ii) analyze the levels of well-being and psychological distress; (iii) analyze the role of PLO and coping strategies in predicting well-being and psychological distress. A total of 240 emerging women aged between 18 and 25 years participated in the study. PLO was measured using the Positivity Scale, coping using the Brief Cope, well-being using the Mental Health Continuum Scale, and psychological distress using The Anxiety, Depression, and Stress Scale. Studies constituted the primary stress factor, followed by interpersonal relationships and work. The most used coping strategies were planning, active coping, acceptance, positive reframing, self-distraction, emotional and instrumental support, and venting. Women presented moderate levels of anxiety, mild levels of stress, and mild to moderate levels of depression. All well-being scores were lower than the reference means for the Portuguese population. Results from hierarchical multiple linear regressions show the predictive role of PLO and coping strategies in well-being and psychological distress. PLO is a positive predictor of all dimensions of well-being and a negative predictor of depression. Active coping strategies predict higher levels of well-being and lower levels of psychological distress, mainly depression. In other directions, avoidance strategies predict lower psychological distress and higher well-being levels. Results highlight PLOs and coping strategies' crucial role in promoting emerging adult flourishing.</p>","PeriodicalId":48218,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"1-23"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-12-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142789743","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Why Do People with High Mindfulness Experience Greater Eudaimonic Well-Being? Integrating Self-Determination Theory and the Mindfulness Reperceiving Model.","authors":"Qi He, Xiaoming Liu, Fan Jiang","doi":"10.1080/00223980.2024.2431198","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00223980.2024.2431198","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Although previous studies have found that mindfulness positively predicts eudaimonic well-being, the underlying mechanism remains to be explored and verified from a theoretical perspective. By integrating self-determination theory and the mindfulness reperceiving model, this study explored the mediating roles of decentering, intrinsic goals, and autonomous motivation in the relationship between mindfulness and eudaimonic well-being among 497 undergraduate students aged 17 to 30 (359 females and 138 males). Structural equation modeling analyses showed that decentering, intrinsic goals, and autonomous motivation mediated the relationship between mindfulness and eudaimonic well-being. Moreover, mindfulness was linked to eudaimonic well-being through the sequential pathways of \"decentering → intrinsic goals\" and \"decentering → autonomous motivation.\" These findings deepen our insights into how mindfulness is linked to eudaimonic well-being from a self-regulation perspective and provide a reference for the targeted application of mindfulness training to enhance eudaimonic well-being.</p>","PeriodicalId":48218,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"1-19"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-12-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142789758","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}