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{"title":"Family emotional climate, depressive symptoms, and pain prevalence: Testing mediation pathways among midlife and older Black Americans","authors":"Sarah B. Woods ,&nbsp;Bhaskar Thakur ,&nbsp;Staja Booker ,&nbsp;Beatrice Wood ,&nbsp;Patricia N.E. Roberson","doi":"10.1016/j.jpsychores.2025.112509","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jpsychores.2025.112509","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Objective</h3><div>Family relationship quality has been linked to pain outcomes, recently for aging Black adults, yet possible mechanisms of effect remain heretofore untested. Guided by the Biobehavioral Family Model, this study tested whether depressive symptoms mediate prospective associations between family emotional climate and pain prevalence, and whether associations are moderated by baseline chronic pain status.</div></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><div>We tested hypothesized associations among Black American participants of the nationally representative Midlife in the United States study (second [2004–2006] and third [2013–2015] waves) who reported on pain prevalence (<em>N</em> = 471; 65.2 % women; μ[age] = 50.45), using mediation and moderated mediation models.</div></div><div><h3>Results</h3><div>Greater family strain was linked to a greater likelihood of chronic pain 10 years later via greater depressive symptoms. Greater family support was associated with a decreased likelihood of chronic pain via decreased depressive symptoms. Baseline chronic pain status moderated this indirect effect via its moderation of the direct link between family support and depressive symptoms, such that this effect was significantly stronger for individuals reporting baseline chronic pain.</div></div><div><h3>Conclusion</h3><div>Depression is well-supported as a chronic pain antecedent. This study provides initial evidence it may also serve as a mutable mechanism linking family emotional climate to pain for aging Black Americans. Primary care-based assessments of family emotional climate to intervene on family strain while mitigating depressive symptoms which reflect chronic strain may be pain-protective. Interventions may also benefit from enhancing family support especially for patients experiencing chronic pain. Additional within-group, longitudinal research is needed to further support the tested mechanism.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":50074,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Psychosomatic Research","volume":"202 ","pages":"Article 112509"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2026-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145886110","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"EAPM 2026 Florence","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/S0022-3999(26)00056-5","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S0022-3999(26)00056-5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":50074,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Psychosomatic Research","volume":"202 ","pages":"Article 112572"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2026-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146189165","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Risk factors for fatigue symptoms in the general population over 7 years: Findings from the Cooperative Health Research in the Region of Augsburg F4 and FF4 studies","authors":"Seryan Atasoy ,&nbsp;Heribert Sattel ,&nbsp;Constanze Hausteiner-Wiehle ,&nbsp;Ina-Maria Rückert-Eheberg ,&nbsp;Birgit Linkohr ,&nbsp;Margit Heier ,&nbsp;Karl-Heinz Ladwig ,&nbsp;Annette Peters ,&nbsp;Peter Henningsen","doi":"10.1016/j.jpsychores.2025.112511","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jpsychores.2025.112511","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Background</h3><div>To examine sex-specific risk factors of elevated fatigue symptoms over 7 years in a large community cohort.</div></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><div>Data were drawn from 1700 adults (52.3 % women; mean age = 49.6 ± 9.4 years) participating in the KORA F4 study and its 7-year follow-up (FF4) in Augsburg, Germany. Fatigue symptoms (0−12) were assessed at both time points using four items from the Depression and Exhaustion Scale. Sex-stratified generalized estimating equation (GEE) models examined associations with sociodemographic, behavioural, medical (BMI, medical illness, hemoglobin, C-reactive protein, thyroid-stimulating hormone [TSH], Epstein–Barr virus), psychological (depression, anxiety, childhood trauma), and bodily distress factors (somatization, self-rated health, pain, sleep complaints).</div></div><div><h3>Results</h3><div>Women reported significantly higher fatigue levels than men at both assessments. Cross-sectionally, higher baseline fatigue was associated with physical inactivity, medical illness, and multiple psychological and bodily distress factors. Several associations differed descriptively by sex: psychological distress and medical utilization showed stronger links in women, whereas sociodemographic factors and selected biomarkers were more relevant in men. Longitudinally, fatigue levels were stable over the follow-up, with baseline fatigue emerging as the main predictor of subsequent fatigue (men: OR = 1.65[1.55–1.77]; women: OR = 1.72 [1.59–1.86]). Physical inactivity and somatization predicted fatigue in both sexes. Depression symptoms, childhood trauma, and lower TSH predicted fatigue only in women, whereas sleep complaints were uniquely predictive in men. Medical measures showed limited value.</div></div><div><h3>Conclusion</h3><div>Baseline fatigue was linked to behavioural, medical, and psychosocial risk profiles, while longitudinal analyses revealed distress and prior fatigue as the key predictors of elevated fatigue symptoms over time.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":50074,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Psychosomatic Research","volume":"202 ","pages":"Article 112511"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2026-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145886109","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The interplay between benefit finding and quality of life in maintenance hemodialysis patients: A cross-sectional network analysis","authors":"Shuang Zhou ,&nbsp;Zhiwu Tian ,&nbsp;Qin Wu ,&nbsp;Fuzhen Li ,&nbsp;Hongmei Tao ,&nbsp;Meifang Mai ,&nbsp;Meifen Zhang","doi":"10.1016/j.jpsychores.2026.112533","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jpsychores.2026.112533","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Objective</h3><div>Maintenance hemodialysis (MHD) patients experience significant impacts on their quality of life (QoL). Benefit finding (BF) may influence QoL, but the specific structural relationships between BF dimensions and QoL domains remain unclear. The aim of this study was to identify core components of BF and QoL networks and bridging pathways linking them in MHD patients.</div></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><div>A cross-sectional study was conducted among 290 MHD patients from a tertiary hospital in China (January–June 2021). BF was assessed using the 22-item Benefit Finding Scale, and QoL was measured with the KDQOL-36™. Network analysis was employed to construct the BF-QoL network, estimate node centrality (strength, closeness, betweenness), and identify bridge connections. Stability was assessed using bootstrap methods (1000 samples).</div></div><div><h3>Results</h3><div>The BF network identified Personal Growth (strength = 2.367) as the most central node. In the QoL network, Effects of Kidney Disease (strength = 0.558) was central. Between-network analysis revealed Acceptance and Mental Composite Score as critical bridge nodes (highest betweenness: 1.592 and 1.298, respectively). Significant edges connected Acceptance to Mental Composite Score (<em>r</em> = 0.134, <em>P</em> &lt; 0.05) and Health Behaviors to Physical Composite Score (<em>r</em> = 0.119, <em>P</em> &lt; 0.05). Network sparsity was 0.4. Centrality stability was robust (correlation-stability coefficient &gt; 0.5 for strength/closeness).</div></div><div><h3>Conclusion</h3><div>BF and QoL form an interconnected network in MHD patients. Personal Growth and Effects of Kidney Disease are central to their respective constructs, while Acceptance and mental health bridge BF and QoL. Interventions targeting these core nodes may optimize multidimensional QoL outcomes.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":50074,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Psychosomatic Research","volume":"202 ","pages":"Article 112533"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2026-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145978786","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Postsystolic shortening as indicator of regional myocardial dysfunction in patients with bipolar disorder","authors":"Cheng-Yi Hsiao ,&nbsp;Tzu-Yu Hsu ,&nbsp;Kevin Li-Chun Hsieh ,&nbsp;Hsin-Yi Lai ,&nbsp;Yen-Kuang Lin ,&nbsp;Kuo-Hsuan Chung ,&nbsp;Shang-Ying Tsai ,&nbsp;Pao-Huan Chen","doi":"10.1016/j.jpsychores.2026.112528","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jpsychores.2026.112528","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Background</h3><div>Patients with bipolar disorder (BD) have a high risk of heart failure. Postsystolic shortening has been proposed as a novel indicator of early cardiac dysfunction. In this exploratory study, postsystolic shortening and its potential association with BD characteristics, cardiometabolic risk factors, and inflammatory markers were evaluated in young adults with BD and mentally healthy individuals.</div></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><div>This study included 77 and 72 individuals in BD and mentally healthy control groups aged ≤45 years, respectively. The participants underwent two-dimensional speckle-tracking echocardiography, with postsystolic shortening index values calculated from the strain curve by using the following equation: ((maximum strain in cardiac cycle − peak systolic strain)/maximum strain in cardiac cycle) × 100. Cardiometabolic risk factors and inflammatory markers were derived from standard examinations in the hospital.</div></div><div><h3>Results</h3><div>Postsystolic shortening index values for the myocardial regions supplied by the left anterior descending artery (LAD; Cohen's <em>d</em> = 0.22, <em>p</em> = 0.057), left circumflex artery (LCX; Cohen's <em>d</em> = 0.34, <em>p</em> = 0.017), and right coronary artery (Cohen's <em>d</em> = 0.30, <em>p</em> = 0.003) were greater in patients with BD than in mentally healthy individuals of a similar age. Correlation analysis revealed that cardiometabolic risk factors and inflammatory markers in the BD group were positively correlated with higher postsystolic shortening index values for the LAD and LCX regions.</div></div><div><h3>Conclusion</h3><div>Postsystolic shortening is a potential indicator of regional myocardial dysfunction in patients with BD. Future replication studies should verify the current findings and investigate the mechanisms underlying the observed associations in this study.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":50074,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Psychosomatic Research","volume":"202 ","pages":"Article 112528"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2026-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145967669","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Emotional outcomes are poorer in adults with developmental coordination disorder: A systematic review and meta-analyses","authors":"Jorge Lopes Cavalcante-Neto ,&nbsp;Matthew Bourke ,&nbsp;João Mateus Carneiro Silva ,&nbsp;John Cairney","doi":"10.1016/j.jpsychores.2026.112537","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jpsychores.2026.112537","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Background</h3><div>Evidence of the relationship between emotional problems and developmental coordination disorder (DCD) in adulthood remains scarce. The aim was to conduct a systematic review and meta-analysis to compare emotional outcomes in adults with and without DCD, controlling for outcome type, age and method of DCD identification.</div></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><div>Emotional outcomes were categorised into five categories: (i) anxiety; (ii) depression; (iv) psychological domain of quality of life; (v) stress, and (vi) subjective wellbeing. The Newcastle-Ottawa Quality Assessment Scale (NOS) assessed study quality. Cluster robust variance meta-analyses estimated a pooled standardized mean difference in emotional problems between adults with and without DCD. Subgroup analyses determined if effect sizes differed between outcome types, age groups and the method of DCD identification.</div></div><div><h3>Results</h3><div>From 5025 retrieved articles, 12 met the inclusion criteria. From these articles, 1890 participants (1025 with DCD and 865 with TD), aged 18–66 years, were included in the meta-analysis. No studies were classified as high quality, though most were of moderate quality (8/12). Adults with DCD reported significantly more emotional symptoms (SMD = 0.79, 95%CI = 0.51, 1.07) than their peers. Large effects sizes were maintained after excluding low quality studies and controlling for age, outcomes, and DCD identification method.</div></div><div><h3>Conclusion</h3><div>This review highlights the burden of emotional outcomes problems in adults with DCD and may support the identification of the condition in adulthood, as high levels of anxiety, depression, and stress, along with low psychological quality of life and self-esteem, are key features associated with the condition in this population.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":50074,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Psychosomatic Research","volume":"202 ","pages":"Article 112537"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2026-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145967614","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The protective role of resilience in mitigating psychological distress in inflammatory bowel diseases: A critical review","authors":"Khairiyah Khadijah ,&nbsp;Rizky Andana Pohan ,&nbsp;Ririn Dwi Astuti","doi":"10.1016/j.jpsychores.2025.112507","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jpsychores.2025.112507","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":50074,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Psychosomatic Research","volume":"201 ","pages":"Article 112507"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2026-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145866375","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Does symptom perception after negative affect induction differ between physically ill and healthy individuals? An experimental study within SOMA.CK","authors":"Birte Jessen ,&nbsp;Christian Schmidt-Lauber ,&nbsp;Tobias B. Huber ,&nbsp;Bernd Löwe ,&nbsp;Omer Van den Bergh ,&nbsp;Michael Witthöft ,&nbsp;Meike Shedden-Mora","doi":"10.1016/j.jpsychores.2025.112508","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jpsychores.2025.112508","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Introduction</h3><div>Symptom perception is highly subjective and shaped by complex biopsychosocial factors. This study examined whether negative affect induction using the Affect and Symptoms Paradigm (ASP) influences symptom perception in patients with non-dialysis chronic kidney disease (ND-CKD) and healthy controls.</div></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><div>Participants watched three picture series (positive, negative, neutral) from the International Affective Picture System (IAPS). After each series, participants rated symptom levels (10-item-symptom-checklist), affective state (Positive and Negative Affect Schedule) and arousal (Self-Assessment-Manikin-System). Associations of the ASP effect with symptom burden at 6 and 12 months was analysed in the CKD group.</div></div><div><h3>Results</h3><div>In N = 115 individuals with ND-CKD from the SOMA.CK study (mean age = 62.95, SD = 12.60) and 100 age- and sex-matched healthy controls (mean age = 60.00, SD = 12.80) negative pictures significantly increased negative affectivity and arousal. Symptom levels were higher after viewing negative versus positive/neutral pictures in both groups, but no significant interaction emerged, indicating a comparable response in both groups. Habitual symptoms did not moderate symptom levels after affect induction, although high habitual symptom reporters showed higher symptom levels across all picture categories. In the CKD group difficulties in identifying feelings moderated symptom levels after affect induction. The ASP effect predicted CKD-specific symptom burden at 6 months.</div></div><div><h3>Conclusion</h3><div>Negative affect induction increases symptom levels in a chronic illness such as CKD. These results align with the predictive processing model which suggests that symptom perception develops from a complex inferential process of somatosensory input in light of pre-existing symptom representations in memory.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":50074,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Psychosomatic Research","volume":"201 ","pages":"Article 112508"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2026-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145846887","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Journal of Psychosomatic Research 2025 year in review","authors":"Fiammetta Cosci","doi":"10.1016/j.jpsychores.2025.112506","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jpsychores.2025.112506","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":50074,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Psychosomatic Research","volume":"201 ","pages":"Article 112506"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2026-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145858919","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"EAPM 2026 Florence","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/S0022-3999(26)00010-3","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S0022-3999(26)00010-3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":50074,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Psychosomatic Research","volume":"201 ","pages":"Article 112526"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2026-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145925362","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}