Baocheng Pan , Jiaxuan Miao , Youli Wang , Chengli Zhao , Yizhao Gong , Bowen Xiao , Yan Li
{"title":"Paternal parenting stress, parenting styles, and early childhood development: Examining the key role of parent-child relationships","authors":"Baocheng Pan , Jiaxuan Miao , Youli Wang , Chengli Zhao , Yizhao Gong , Bowen Xiao , Yan Li","doi":"10.1016/j.paid.2025.113165","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.paid.2025.113165","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Early childhood development lays the foundation for the physical, emotional, and intellectual health of children during middle childhood, adolescence, and adulthood. This study explores the mechanisms through which paternal parenting stress may be associated with early childhood development. Methods: A nine-month cross-timepoint phased measurement design was employed, involving 289 children (<em>M</em> <sub>age</sub> = 62.54 months, <em>SD</em> <sub>age</sub> = 6.978 months)) and their fathers. Results: No evidence was found to suggest that paternal parenting stress directly predicts early childhood development. Similarly, the mediating effects of paternal authoritative and authoritarian parenting styles in this relationship were not significant. However, parent-child relationships were found to mediate the association between paternal parenting stress and early childhood development. The findings indicate that increased paternal parenting stress is associated with a tendency toward less favorable paternal parenting styles, which may indirectly affect early childhood development. Parent-child relationships emerge as a critical factor in this process, addressing a research gap and contributing to the refinement of the parenting stress model.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48467,"journal":{"name":"Personality and Individual Differences","volume":"241 ","pages":"Article 113165"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2025-04-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143768006","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Dawid Walczak , Katarzyna Wiśniowska , Julia Krakowska , Zofia Bocianowska , Seweryn Nogalski , Radosław Rogoza
{"title":"Uncovering the relationship between narcissism and identity formation","authors":"Dawid Walczak , Katarzyna Wiśniowska , Julia Krakowska , Zofia Bocianowska , Seweryn Nogalski , Radosław Rogoza","doi":"10.1016/j.paid.2025.113208","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.paid.2025.113208","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Grandiose and vulnerable narcissism are related to various intra and interpersonal consequences. The goal of the current paper is to assess how different facets of narcissism are related to the healthy and pathological identity formation modes. Aiming to address that, we assessed 479 Polish adolescents, aged between 14 and 16 years old (<em>M</em> = 14.90; <em>SD</em> = 0.55). Whereas agentic narcissism was related to healthy identity formation modes, neurotic narcissism was related to pathological ones. Furthermore, antagonistically-oriented facets of narcissism were both related to petrification, while more neurotic expressions of antagonistic narcissism were also related to pathological identity formation modes. Although exploratory in nature, our results extend the knowledge of narcissism consequences on identity formation during adolescence and suggest the need to distinguish these two faces of antagonism in further studies on narcissism.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48467,"journal":{"name":"Personality and Individual Differences","volume":"241 ","pages":"Article 113208"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2025-04-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143767971","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Zhen Liu , Cong Wei , Li Liu , Jianning Dang , Chao Li , Xiaoyan Miao
{"title":"Manipulations in intergroup dynamics: Outgroup collective Machiavellianism polarizes intergroup attitudes","authors":"Zhen Liu , Cong Wei , Li Liu , Jianning Dang , Chao Li , Xiaoyan Miao","doi":"10.1016/j.paid.2025.113199","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.paid.2025.113199","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Machiavellianism classically refers to the unscrupulous pursuit of interests through manipulations, as reflected in Machiavelli's political philosophy. However, in psychological research, Machiavellianism is conceptualized as an individual trait centered on the pursuit of personal gain. By tracing Machiavelli's original reflections on collective interests, this research extends Machiavellianism to a group characteristic, termed ‘collective Machiavellianism,’ which refers to the extent to which a group employs manipulation strategies when pursuing its collective interests. Accordingly, we examined how perceived outgroup collective Machiavellianism affects intergroup dynamics. Experiment 1 found that fictitious outgroups' collective Machiavellianism polarized participants' intergroup attitudes. Experiment 2 replicated these findings in an international context and investigated the mediating role of perceived interest conflicts. Experiment 3 further validated the mediation model using a moderation-of-process design and examined its generalizability in a different culture. As hypothesized, perceived outgroup collective Machiavellianism intensified the negative attitudes of the ingroup towards the outgroup while simultaneously fostering positive ingroup attitudes through increased perceived interest conflicts. Resonating with Machiavellian philosophy, these findings indicate that collective Machiavellianism serves as a radical ingroup achievement strategy that polarizes intergroup attitudes and has implications for interventions in international conflict.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48467,"journal":{"name":"Personality and Individual Differences","volume":"241 ","pages":"Article 113199"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2025-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143767471","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Michal Misiak , Małgorzata Sobol , Michal Mikolaj Stefanczyk , Łukasz Sakowski , Paulina Idziak , Oliver Scott Curry
{"title":"Mapping moral judgments of food waste: Moving beyond truisms","authors":"Michal Misiak , Małgorzata Sobol , Michal Mikolaj Stefanczyk , Łukasz Sakowski , Paulina Idziak , Oliver Scott Curry","doi":"10.1016/j.paid.2025.113184","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.paid.2025.113184","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Why do people see wasting food as immoral? While previous studies on food-wasting behaviour have explored its moral significance, they often lacked a clear scientific operationalisation of morality. This project bridges the gap between research on food-wasting behaviour and moral psychology by mapping folk moral intuitions about food waste onto the theory-driven Morality-as-Cooperation (MAC) framework.</div><div>Across two studies, we identified common folk moral intuitions about why food wasting behaviour is considered immoral and compared them to MAC-based moral domains. We examined how these folk intuitions relate to MAC domains and tested how both influence food-wasting behaviours. The strongest folk predictors of food waste condemnation were concerns for nature, thriftiness, and world hunger, while the key MAC-based intuitions were Fairness (resource distribution), Deference (authority and tradition), and Group Loyalty (community commitment), with Fairness underpinning most folk intuitions. Both folk and cooperative moral intuitions predicted food wasting behaviours, such as discarding unpalatable foods, overshopping, meal planning, and food sharing. Folk intuitions also mediated the link between MAC-based moral concerns (Fairness and Reciprocity) and food-wasting behaviours.</div><div>These findings ground folk moral beliefs in a scientific framework, providing a more systematic understanding of food waste morality and offering new insights for more effective interventions.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48467,"journal":{"name":"Personality and Individual Differences","volume":"241 ","pages":"Article 113184"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2025-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143760890","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Motivated ostracism and aggressive behavior: Effect of dehumanization and locus of control","authors":"Yichen Wang, Denghao Zhang","doi":"10.1016/j.paid.2025.113173","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.paid.2025.113173","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Ostracism may lead sources, those who initiate it, to exhibit more aggressive behavior, creating a downward spiral. However, little is known about the underlying reasons for this pattern and how to prevent this harmful effect. In the current research, we conducted 4 behavioral experiments and 1 longitudinal survey in three studies among Chinese college students. Study 1 (a behavioral experiment) showed that the motivated ostracism group was more aggressive toward the targets than the inclusion group. Study 2a (a behavioral experiment) found that dehumanization fully mediates the ostracism-aggression link. Study 2b further confirmed the causal relationship between dehumanization and aggression by manipulating dehumanization. Study 2c (a longitudinal survey) further confirmed the positive relationship between motivated ostracism and aggressive behavior in daily life. However, the study did not find a significant mediating effect of dehumanization toward generalized others on this relationship. Study 3 (a behavioral experiment) found that those with an external locus of control exhibited greater dehumanization and, indirectly, more aggression after ostracism. These findings demonstrate that dehumanization drives the link between ostracism and aggression while also highlighting the effectiveness of interventions that enhance an internal locus of control in mitigating dehumanization and disrupting the ostracism-aggression cycle.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48467,"journal":{"name":"Personality and Individual Differences","volume":"241 ","pages":"Article 113173"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2025-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143760888","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Chang-Jun Li , Kunjing Li , Yidong Tu , Lanyue Fan , Cheng Xu , Hui Zhang
{"title":"Getting ahead in “murky waters”: Political skill, organizational politics, and leader-rated employee promotability","authors":"Chang-Jun Li , Kunjing Li , Yidong Tu , Lanyue Fan , Cheng Xu , Hui Zhang","doi":"10.1016/j.paid.2025.113188","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.paid.2025.113188","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>While employees with political skill are more likely to be promoted, it remains unclear how they navigate promotion under organizational politics—where promotions are based not on job performance and merit but on politics and relationships. Drawing from social information processing theory, we contend that organizational politics can enhance, rather than hinder, the promotion opportunities of those politically skilled employees. We reason that when perceiving a high (vs. low) level of organizational politics, these employees may more actively cultivate desirable leader-member exchange (LMX) relationships with their leaders, thereby earning higher leader ratings of their promotability. Using data collected from a three-wave, multi-source field survey, we found that organizational politics accentuated, rather than attenuated, the positive effect of political skill on LMX, consequently elevating leader-rated promotability. These findings suggest that organizational practices conventionally perceived as hindrances to performance-based promotion, such as organizational politics, may serve as “murky waters” conducive to relationship-based promotion for certain cohorts, particularly those adept at using political skill to build close relationships with leaders.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48467,"journal":{"name":"Personality and Individual Differences","volume":"241 ","pages":"Article 113188"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2025-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143760889","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Iulia Maria Coșa , Anca Dobrean , Robert Balazsi , Costina-Ruxandra Poetar
{"title":"Indirect effects of parental and peer attachment on Internet Gaming Disorder among adolescents: The role of negative automatic thoughts","authors":"Iulia Maria Coșa , Anca Dobrean , Robert Balazsi , Costina-Ruxandra Poetar","doi":"10.1016/j.paid.2025.113193","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.paid.2025.113193","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The association between the quality of attachment to parents and peers and Internet Gaming Disorder (IGD) in adolescents shows mixed findings. Moreover, there is little research on the mechanism underlying this relationship. This study aims to investigate the indirect path between attachment to mother, father, and peers and IGD symptomatology via negative automatic thoughts. Exploratory, we tested the role of specific thought content in this relationship. A convenient sample of 697 adolescents (mean age 14,98 years old) were recruited between June and October 2019 from five Romanian high schools. Path analyses performed in Mplus reveal that attachment to both parents and peers is indirectly associated with IGD through adolescents' negative automatic thoughts. In contrast, the only non-significant indirect effects found between attachment figures and IGD were via hostility (for the father) and physical threat and failure (for peers). As results are in line with previous literature on adolescent psychopathology, prevention and intervention studies should target adolescents` cognitive vulnerabilities and also promote healthy relationships with parents and peers. Further discussions and implications are presented in the paper. Nevertheless, studies should longitudinally evaluate the causality of this linkage.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48467,"journal":{"name":"Personality and Individual Differences","volume":"241 ","pages":"Article 113193"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2025-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143746373","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The multiple facets of gratefulness in a collectivist context: Conceptualization, measurement, and well-being correlates of gratitude motives","authors":"Jesus Alfonso D. Datu , Jana Patricia M. Valdez","doi":"10.1016/j.paid.2025.113167","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.paid.2025.113167","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This research conceptualized and developed a scale to assess gratitude motives <em>–</em> a construct encompassing individuals' tendency to espouse intrinsic and extrinsic motives for expressing gratitude. Study 1 showed that the correlated five-factor model with <em>intrinsic, compensatory, interpersonal, obligatory,</em> and <em>instrumental gratitude</em> as key dimensions was the most optimal factor solution in Filipino undergraduate students. Study 2 demonstrated that the correlated five-factor model had good fit in Filipino high school students. Further, <em>intrinsic gratitude</em> had incremental validity in predicting well-being outcomes (i.e., life satisfaction and positive emotions) when controlling for age, gender, Big Five personality factors, and dispositional gratitude. Study 3 revealed that <em>compensatory</em> and <em>interpersonal gratitude</em> served as predictors of well-being outcomes in Filipino adults. Study 4 showed that Time 1 <em>interpersonal gratitude</em> positively predicted Time 2 flourishing, controlling for demographic covariates and auto-regressor effects in Malaysia undergraduate students. This research contributes to ongoing debates on enriching culturally sensitive conceptualizations of psychological strengths in non-Western societies.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48467,"journal":{"name":"Personality and Individual Differences","volume":"241 ","pages":"Article 113167"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2025-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143746371","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}