American PsychologistPub Date : 2025-07-01Epub Date: 2024-07-11DOI: 10.1037/amp0001361
David L Blustein, Patrick R Grzanka, Michael Gordon, Camille M Smith, Blake A Allan
{"title":"The psychology of precarity: A critical framework.","authors":"David L Blustein, Patrick R Grzanka, Michael Gordon, Camille M Smith, Blake A Allan","doi":"10.1037/amp0001361","DOIUrl":"10.1037/amp0001361","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This article presents the rationale and a new critical framework for precarity, which reflects a psychosocial concept that links structural inequities with experiences of alienation, anomie, and uncertainty. Emerging from multiple disciplines, including anthropology, cultural studies, sociology, political science, and psychology, the concept of precarity provides a conceptual scaffolding for understanding the complex causes of precarious life circumstances while also seeking to identify how people react, adapt, and resist the forces that evoke such tenuous psychosocial experiences. We present a critical conceptual framework as a nonlinear heuristic that serves to identify and organize relevant elements of precarity in a presumably infinite number of contexts and applications. The framework identifies socio-political-economic contexts, material conditions, and psychological experiences as key elements of precarity. Another essential aspect of this framework is the delineation of interrelated and nonlinear responses to precarity, which include resistance, adaptation, and resignation. We then summarize selected implications of precarity for psychological interventions, vocational and organizational psychology, and explorations and advocacy about race, gender, and other systems of inequality. Future research directions, including optimal methodologies to study precarity, conclude the article. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":48468,"journal":{"name":"American Psychologist","volume":" ","pages":"757-770"},"PeriodicalIF":12.3,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141591781","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
American PsychologistPub Date : 2025-07-01Epub Date: 2025-02-27DOI: 10.1037/amp0001499
Mark A Staal, David M Corey, Paul J Dean, David DeMatteo, Daniel A Krauss, Larry K Lewis, Christopher A Myers, Daniel J Neller, James A Stephenson, Philip S Trompetter, Jeffrey N Younggren
{"title":"Professional practice guidelines for operational psychology: An executive summary.","authors":"Mark A Staal, David M Corey, Paul J Dean, David DeMatteo, Daniel A Krauss, Larry K Lewis, Christopher A Myers, Daniel J Neller, James A Stephenson, Philip S Trompetter, Jeffrey N Younggren","doi":"10.1037/amp0001499","DOIUrl":"10.1037/amp0001499","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Operational psychologists provide a variety of psychological services in support of national security, national defense, and public safety. Their work may include the assessment of personnel for high-risk positions, consultation to investigations and crisis negotiations, support to military or intelligence training and operations, or other types of psychological and behavioral assessments. The practice of operational psychology differs in important ways from other practice areas and has developed significantly over the past 20 years. Given developments in the field, debate about the proper roles of psychologists in national security settings, and psychologists' ongoing need for guidance, these <i>Professional Practice Guidelines for Operational Psychology</i> are provided to benefit operational psychologists, the recipients of their services, and other affected parties. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":48468,"journal":{"name":"American Psychologist","volume":" ","pages":"844-855"},"PeriodicalIF":12.3,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143524832","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
American PsychologistPub Date : 2025-07-01Epub Date: 2025-03-27DOI: 10.1037/amp0001515
Yijie Wang, Youchuan Zhang, Daeun Kim, Elizabeth Jelsma
{"title":"Racism and resilience in daily life: A psychosocial, cultural, and neurobiological model of daily resilience among ethnically and racially minoritized young people.","authors":"Yijie Wang, Youchuan Zhang, Daeun Kim, Elizabeth Jelsma","doi":"10.1037/amp0001515","DOIUrl":"10.1037/amp0001515","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Adolescents and emerging adults from ethnically and racially minoritized groups are at increased risk for racism and discrimination but also demonstrate remarkable strengths and resilience. Recent research has increasingly focused on understanding how resilience factors benefit these young people's well-being as they navigate daily exposure to racism, using intensive longitudinal methods like daily diaries and ecological momentary assessment methods. This article reviewed empirical evidence and proposed a theoretical model that specifies daily resilience factors across psychosocial (e.g., coping, social support), cultural (e.g., ethnic-racial identity, ethnic-racial socialization), and neurobiological (e.g., sleep) domains within the context of racism. The model delineates multiple mechanisms (direct, moderating, and mediating effects) through which daily resilience factors are associated with well-being in the context of racism. It simultaneously considers how these daily processes are situated within stable individual, developmental, contextual, and historical factors and associated with long-term developmental outcomes. Based on the empirical review, we made some conceptual and methodological recommendations to move this research forward. We also consider its unique implications for practices and programs aimed at improving resilience among ethnically and racially minoritized young people in daily life. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":48468,"journal":{"name":"American Psychologist","volume":" ","pages":"798-811"},"PeriodicalIF":12.3,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12289429/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143732433","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
American PsychologistPub Date : 2025-07-01Epub Date: 2025-03-27DOI: 10.1037/amp0001380
Maureen C McHugh, Beverly Greene
{"title":"Ruth Hall (1948-2023).","authors":"Maureen C McHugh, Beverly Greene","doi":"10.1037/amp0001380","DOIUrl":"10.1037/amp0001380","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Ruth Hall, born on June 7, 1948, grew up in Painesville, Ohio and died after a prolonged illness on June 22, 2023. Ruth was a clinician, a university professor, and a scholar. In each role, she advocated for inclusion and diversity. Her scholarship addressed mental health issues of women of color, and she was very frequently invited to consult and provide diversity training to varied groups. Ruth had a lifelong interest in exercise and athletics. Midcareer, she earned a second master's degree in sports psychology at Temple University (1996). Ruth was a leader and advocate for diversity in multiple professional associations and won many awards for her contributions. Ruth was a serious and creative scholar and teacher, generous mentor, insightful clinician, and gracious leader. She was a consummate professional but should also be remembered as a spirited, fun-loving, adventurous woman with an infectious sense of humor. Hers is a light that will be sorely missed. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":48468,"journal":{"name":"American Psychologist","volume":" ","pages":"858"},"PeriodicalIF":12.3,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143732491","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
American PsychologistPub Date : 2025-07-01Epub Date: 2024-03-18DOI: 10.1037/amp0001322
Frank J Infurna, Nutifafa E Y Dey, Tita Gonzalez Avilés, Kevin J Grimm, Margie E Lachman, Denis Gerstorf
{"title":"Loneliness in midlife: Historical increases and elevated levels in the United States compared with Europe.","authors":"Frank J Infurna, Nutifafa E Y Dey, Tita Gonzalez Avilés, Kevin J Grimm, Margie E Lachman, Denis Gerstorf","doi":"10.1037/amp0001322","DOIUrl":"10.1037/amp0001322","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Loneliness is gaining attention globally as a public health issue because elevated loneliness increases one's risk for depression, compromised immunity, chronic illness, and mortality. Our objective is to zoom into how loneliness has historically evolved through midlife and investigate whether elevations in loneliness are confined to the United States or are similarly transpiring across peer European nations. We use harmonized data on loneliness from nationally representative longitudinal panel surveys from the United States and 13 European nations to directly quantify similarities and differences in historical change of midlife loneliness trajectories. Compared with any other European nation/region, overall levels of loneliness in the United States are consistently higher by a magnitude of 0.3-0.8 <i>SDs</i>. Middle-aged adults in the United States, England, and Mediterranean Europe today report higher levels of loneliness than earlier born cohorts, whereas no historical changes (if not historically lower levels) were observed in Continental and Nordic Europe. Our discussion focuses on possible reasons for cross-national differences in midlife loneliness, including cultural factors, social and economic inequalities, and differences in social safety nets. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":48468,"journal":{"name":"American Psychologist","volume":" ","pages":"744-756"},"PeriodicalIF":12.3,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11758892/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140144351","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
American PsychologistPub Date : 2025-07-01Epub Date: 2025-04-07DOI: 10.1037/amp0001523
Deinera Exner-Cortens, Andrea Delaney, Peter Jaffe, Kathy Short, Sharon Hoover, Wendy Craig, Lana Wells
{"title":"Claire Crooks (1973-2024).","authors":"Deinera Exner-Cortens, Andrea Delaney, Peter Jaffe, Kathy Short, Sharon Hoover, Wendy Craig, Lana Wells","doi":"10.1037/amp0001523","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/amp0001523","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Memorializes Claire Crooks (1973-2004), a distinguished clinical child psychologist who dedicated her life's work to advancing the well-being of children and youth through the development, implementation, and evaluation of evidence-based interventions. Claire's well-known work on healthy youth relationships promotion began as a postdoctoral fellow, continuing as a research scientist, and then associate director, at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health's Centre for Prevention Science in London, Ontario. The caliber of Claire's career contributions was recognized by the receipt of an Order of Ontario shortly before her passing, the province's highest civilian honor. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":48468,"journal":{"name":"American Psychologist","volume":"80 5","pages":"863"},"PeriodicalIF":12.3,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144709484","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Warren K. Bickel (1956–2024).","authors":"Stephen T. Higgins","doi":"10.1037/amp0001572","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/amp0001572","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48468,"journal":{"name":"American Psychologist","volume":"8 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":16.4,"publicationDate":"2025-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144520327","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Mercedes Santana, Gitika T., Thema Bryant, Lillian Comas-Díaz, Carolyn Zerbe Enns, Shelly P. Harrell, Liza Hita, Iva GreyWolf, Maryam Kia-Keating, B. Andi Lee, Helen A. Neville, Karen L. Suyemoto
{"title":"Reclaiming love, wisdom, and healing through decolonial and liberation psychologies: A call to action.","authors":"Mercedes Santana, Gitika T., Thema Bryant, Lillian Comas-Díaz, Carolyn Zerbe Enns, Shelly P. Harrell, Liza Hita, Iva GreyWolf, Maryam Kia-Keating, B. Andi Lee, Helen A. Neville, Karen L. Suyemoto","doi":"10.1037/amp0001527","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/amp0001527","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48468,"journal":{"name":"American Psychologist","volume":"269 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":16.4,"publicationDate":"2025-06-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144340928","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Devin G. Atallah, Nihaya M. Abu-Rayyan, Hana R. Masud, Caesar Hakim
{"title":"Supervision as decolonial love: Toward a transformative training process for Palestinian community health workers.","authors":"Devin G. Atallah, Nihaya M. Abu-Rayyan, Hana R. Masud, Caesar Hakim","doi":"10.1037/amp0001364","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/amp0001364","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48468,"journal":{"name":"American Psychologist","volume":"25 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":16.4,"publicationDate":"2025-06-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144340932","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Black, indigenous, and people of color trans and nonbinary liberation: A transcestral journey of critical consciousness, reckoning, and healing.","authors":"Anneliese Singh, Tochukwu Awachie","doi":"10.1037/amp0001388","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/amp0001388","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48468,"journal":{"name":"American Psychologist","volume":"51 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":16.4,"publicationDate":"2025-06-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144340933","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}