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{"title":"Corrigendum to \"Paths to resilience: Exploring risk and protective factors among gender and sexually diverse youth\" [Acta Psychologica 270 (2026) 107845].","authors":"Nanchatsan Sakunpong, Cody Freeman, Kawin Tiansuwan, Kulvadee Thongpibul, Peeranee Suparak, Pilaiporn Sukcharoen, Priyoth Kittiteerasack, S A Rajalakshmi, Sakol Sopitarchasak, Timo T Ojanen","doi":"10.1016/j.actpsy.2026.108096","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2026.108096","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":7141,"journal":{"name":"Acta Psychologica","volume":" ","pages":"108096"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2026-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149357039","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":"Overloaded and Overconfident: The Hidden Cognitive Drivers of Impulsive Investment Behaviour","authors":"Sudarshana Sharma,&nbsp;Mansi Tiwari","doi":"10.1016/j.actpsy.2026.108071","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.actpsy.2026.108071","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Continuous notifications and social media-bombarded financial content have put growing pressure on investors, who are now more likely to be impulsive in their investing behaviour with the growing digitization of retail investing. This study investigates the effect of notification fatigue and the credibility of fin-fluencer on impulsive investing via investment information overload and decision justification bias. A total of 121 active retail investors of major cities of Gujarat (India) participated in the cross sectional survey and data were analysed using the PLS-SEM technique with the aid of SmartPLS 4. Results show that the decision justification bias is a significant driver of the impulsive investment behaviour, whereas the credibility of fin-fluencers is indirectly associated with the investment behaviour by improving the decision justification. Due to notification fatigue, investors get too much investment information and end up taking impulsive investment decisions. The findings indicated that the cognitive overload and psychological rationalisation are more important factors in impulsive investing than direct exposure to digital stimuli. This study proposes a dual-path cognitive theoretical approach that incorporates digital fatigue and social influence, which adds to the body of knowledge in behavioural finance and provides practical implications for regulators, FinTech platforms, and investor education programs to minimize behavioural biases in digital financial markets.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":7141,"journal":{"name":"Acta Psychologica","volume":"271 ","pages":"Article 108071"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2026-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149317042","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Differences in creative evaluations of AI-generated works among individuals with different levels of AI anxiety: The mediating role of creative self-efficacy","authors":"Jing-Jing Zhang,&nbsp;Bo-Ren Bai,&nbsp;Xiang Zhou,&nbsp;Xin-Yao Li","doi":"10.1016/j.actpsy.2026.108085","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.actpsy.2026.108085","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Creative evaluations of AI-generated works are influenced by multiple factors. Existing research has primarily focused on how AI system characteristics and evaluators' perceptions of these characteristics influence such evaluations, while relatively little attention has been paid to the role of evaluators' own psychological characteristics. To address this gap, we focused on AI anxiety, a representative evaluator-related psychological characteristic in the AI era. Three preregistered studies (<em>N</em> = 689) were conducted to examine differences in creative evaluations of AI-generated works among individuals with different levels of AI anxiety and to investigate the mediating role of creative self-efficacy. Results showed that: (1) under AI creator identity cue, individuals with high AI anxiety gave significantly lower creative evaluations than those with low AI anxiety; however, under human creator identity cue, no significant differences were observed. (2) Creative self-efficacy emerged as a potential mediator between AI anxiety and creative evaluations of AI-generated works. (3) Enhancing creative self-efficacy reduced differences in creative evaluations between high- and low-AI-anxiety individuals. These findings enrich the literature on evaluator-related factors in AI creativity evaluation, provide insights into the potential psychological processes underlying creative evaluations, and offer practical implications for understanding how individuals evaluate the creativity of AI-generated works.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":7141,"journal":{"name":"Acta Psychologica","volume":"271 ","pages":"Article 108085"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2026-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149332082","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Farmers' intention process toward forming water users associations: A psychological analysis","authors":"Pouria Ataei,&nbsp;Hamid Karimi,&nbsp;Afshin Mottaghi Dastenaei,&nbsp;Samira Behroozeh,&nbsp;Naser Valizadeh","doi":"10.1016/j.actpsy.2026.108067","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.actpsy.2026.108067","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Sustainable management of water resources in Iran's arid regions requires farmers' active participation in water users associations (WUAs). However, understanding the process of farmers' intention to participate in WUAs is limited. This study aimed to analyze the psychological and situational mechanisms associated with farmers' intention to form WUAs in the Kavar Plain of Fars Province, using the Comprehensive Action Determination Model (CADM). As a multidimensional framework, this model allows for the simultaneous examination of intentional, normative, habitual, and situational processes. Data were collected from 303 selected farmers using stratified random sampling, and analyses were conducted using structural equation modeling with AMOS software. The results indicated that attitude toward WUAs was the strongest predictor of farmers' behavioral intention (β = 0.501). Subsequently, associations and perceived structural constraints and subjective constraints had positive and significant association with intention. It was also shown that awareness of need was the only significant predictor of personal norms, while subjective constraints were the only factor associated with habit formation. The final model accounted for 36.8% of the variance in behavioral intention. Overall, the results indicate that in the context of the water crisis, cognitive-functional factors and perceived barriers were more strongly associated with participation intention than social norms. The practical implications of the research emphasize that policymakers should focus on strengthening positive attitudes, increasing awareness of need, and reducing perceived and structural barriers in order to provide a basis for farmers' sustainable participation in WUAs.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":7141,"journal":{"name":"Acta Psychologica","volume":"271 ","pages":"Article 108067"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2026-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149317030","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Spanish translation, cross-cultural adaptation, and psychometric validation of the CATQ-S and FATQ-S: assessing motivational functions of online and face-to-face aggression in secondary school students","authors":"Pablo Rojo-Ramos,&nbsp;María Alcalá-Cerrillo,&nbsp;Álvaro García-Prieto,&nbsp;Jorge Rojo-Ramos","doi":"10.1016/j.actpsy.2026.108106","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.actpsy.2026.108106","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Background</h3><div>Peer aggression, both face-to-face and online, is a growing public health concern that affects adolescents' emotional wellbeing, social participation, and academic functioning. Understanding the motivational functions that sustain these behaviours is essential for designing effective school-based interventions.</div></div><div><h3>Objective</h3><div>This study aimed to translate, culturally adapt, and psychometrically validate the short Spanish versions of the Cyber Aggression Typology Questionnaire (CATQ-S) and the Face-to-Face Aggression Typology Questionnaire (FATQ-S), which assess four motivational functions of aggression in secondary school students.</div></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><div>An instrumental, cross-sectional design was used. Following international guidelines for translation and cross-cultural adaptation, the instruments were translated, back-translated, and reviewed by an expert committee. Comprehensibility and perceived difficulty were examined in a sample of 96 secondary school students (ages 12–16). Psychometric validation was conducted in a separate sample of 1443 compulsory secondary education students (ages 11–16) from public schools in Extremadura, Spain. Confirmatory factor analyses, internal consistency indices, convergent validity, and measurement invariance across gender were assessed.</div></div><div><h3>Results</h3><div>Both the CATQ-S and FATQ-S replicated the original four-factor structure with acceptable to good fit indices. Internal consistency and AVE-based convergent validity were satisfactory across factors, whereas discriminant validity was not uniformly supported because of substantial overlap between some motivational dimensions. Multigroup analyses showed configural, metric, scalar, and strict invariance by gender, indicating that the instruments function equivalently for boys and girls.</div></div><div><h3>Conclusions</h3><div>The Spanish versions of the CATQ-S and FATQ-S are brief, conceptually grounded instruments showing generally adequate psychometric properties for assessing motivational functions of peer aggression in Spanish-speaking secondary school students. Their use may support research and educational assessment of the motives underlying aggressive behaviour in school settings.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":7141,"journal":{"name":"Acta Psychologica","volume":"271 ","pages":"Article 108106"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2026-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149340294","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Words under the skin: Physiological responses to interoceptive metaphors","authors":"Martina Montalti,&nbsp;Valentina Cazzato,&nbsp;Valentina Cuccio","doi":"10.1016/j.actpsy.2026.107958","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.actpsy.2026.107958","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Embodied accounts of language propose that linguistic meaning is grounded in sensorimotor systems. While previous research has focused on the central nervous system, the involvement of the autonomic nervous system (ANS) in language comprehension remains underexplored. To fill this gap, we investigated whether processing interoceptive metaphors, namely figurative expressions referring to internal bodily sensations (e.g., ‘I feel butterflies in my stomach’), modulates the ANS. Forty-five healthy participants read interoceptive metaphors and non-bodily-related literal sentences while cardiac, electrodermal, and respiratory signals were continuously recorded. We further distinguished between two types of interoceptive metaphors, depending on whether the interoceptive element served as the target (INT-target, e.g., ‘I feel butterflies in my stomach’) or source domain (INT-source, e.g., ‘I thirst for success’ to convey ambition) of the metaphor. Results revealed subtle but measurable effects: compared to non-bodily-related literal sentences, interoceptive metaphors were associated with higher heart rate variability and longer inspiratory duration. No significant differences emerged between INT-target and INT-source metaphors. These findings provide the first evidence that language grounded in internal bodily experience is associated with subtle differences in selected autonomic indices relative to non-bodily-related literal sentences.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":7141,"journal":{"name":"Acta Psychologica","volume":"271 ","pages":"Article 107958"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2026-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149284602","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Associations of paternal positive and harsh parenting practices with bullying involvement and self-reported academic performance among Chinese middle school students","authors":"Xueting Xia,&nbsp;Jue Tang,&nbsp;Jie Feng","doi":"10.1016/j.actpsy.2026.108077","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.actpsy.2026.108077","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Paternal parenting encompasses distinct forms of practices, each potentially exhibiting heterogeneous as-sociations with adolescent outcomes. Using cross-sectional survey data from 483 students from one middle school in China, this study examines how two composite indicators, capturing paternal harsh parenting and positive parenting practices, were associated with school bullying involvement and self-reported academic performance. Our empirical estimation indicate that paternal harsh parenting was associated with greater bullying perpetration and victimization, together with a weak positive association with self-reported academic performance that was significant only at the 10% level. Paternal positive parenting was associated with lower bullying involvement and, unexpectedly, with lower self-reported academic performance. These associations varied across some subgroups in exploratory moderation analyses. Exploratory analyses of potential pathways further suggest that father–child emotional closeness and adolescent rebelliousness are associated with paternal parenting practices and with bullying involvement, but not with self-reported academic performance. The findings highlight the complex role of fathers in adolescent development and indicate that any association between harsh parenting and perceived academic performance cannot offset its behavioral and relational risks.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":7141,"journal":{"name":"Acta Psychologica","volume":"271 ","pages":"Article 108077"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2026-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149340276","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Educational level stratifies clinical profiles and oxygen desaturation index-associated factors in middle-aged and elderly Chinese patients with sleep-disordered breathing","authors":"Yang Yang,&nbsp;Yingjie Hou,&nbsp;Xiaoyu Wang,&nbsp;Chaoqun Wang,&nbsp;Chunrong Zhang,&nbsp;Fulong Xiao","doi":"10.1016/j.actpsy.2026.108089","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.actpsy.2026.108089","url":null,"abstract":"&lt;div&gt;&lt;h3&gt;Background&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;div&gt;This study aimed to explore differences in demographic, clinical, and psychological characteristics among middle-aged and elderly Chinese patients with moderate-to-severe sleep-disordered breathing (SDB) across educational levels, and to identify factors associated with the oxygen desaturation index (ODI) as well as potential statistical indirect effects. We further examined whether educational level moderates the relationship between psychological symptoms and ODI.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;h3&gt;Methods&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;div&gt;A total of 306 patients with moderate-to-severe SDB were recruited with strict exclusion criteria. All participants underwent overnight monitoring with a wrist pulse oximeter to calculate ODI (oxygen desaturation events ≥3% lasting ≥3 s per hour). Demographic information, medical history, and questionnaire scores (sleepiness, insomnia, anxiety, depression, fatigue, quality of life) were collected. Patients were divided into lower (primary school or unschooled) and higher (junior high school or above) educational level groups. A predefined multivariable linear regression model and statistical mediation analysis were used. Age- and sex-adjusted group comparisons were performed.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;h3&gt;Results&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;div&gt;Among 306 patients, 178 were in the lower educational level group and 128 in the higher educational level group. After age and sex adjustment, the higher educational level group had higher ODI, BMI, monthly income, alcohol use, daytime sleepiness, insomnia, anxiety, and depression scores, but less fatigue. Educational level was not independently associated with ODI after multivariable adjustment. In the overall sample, BMI (standardized beta = 0.252, &lt;em&gt;P&lt;/em&gt; &lt; 0.001) and average monthly income (standardized beta = 0.24, &lt;em&gt;P&lt;/em&gt; = 0.001) were independent correlates of ODI. BMI statistically accounted for 27.3% of the association between average monthly income and ODI. Subgroup analyses using the predefined regression model showed that GAD-7 anxiety score was positively associated with ODI in the lower educational level group (standardized beta = 0.372, &lt;em&gt;P&lt;/em&gt; &lt; 0.05), while BMI (standardized beta = 0.324, &lt;em&gt;P&lt;/em&gt; = 0.002) and average monthly income (standardized beta = 0.219, &lt;em&gt;P&lt;/em&gt; = 0.048) were positively associated with ODI in the higher educational level group. The higher education subgroup findings were consistent with the overall sample results.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;h3&gt;Conclusion&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;div&gt;Educational level is not directly associated with ODI but stratifies distinct clinical and psychological profiles and heterogeneous ODI-associated factors in patients with SDB. In the lower education group, anxiety (GAD-7) emerges as an independent correlate of ODI, while in the higher education group, BMI and income predominate, findings consistent with the overall sample. BMI and income are independent correlates with ODI, with BMI statistically accounting for a portion of the income-ODI association. T","PeriodicalId":7141,"journal":{"name":"Acta Psychologica","volume":"271 ","pages":"Article 108089"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2026-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149340292","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Associations among interleukin-6, superior frontal gyrus thickness, and executive control in long-term high-altitude migrants","authors":"Hao Li,&nbsp;Wenjie Liu,&nbsp;Linyu Shi,&nbsp;Lei Jin,&nbsp;Yonghe Hu,&nbsp;Xin Chen,&nbsp;Zhaohui Zhao,&nbsp;Hailin Ma,&nbsp;Yuan Li","doi":"10.1016/j.actpsy.2026.108111","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.actpsy.2026.108111","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study examined how systemic inflammation, prefrontal cortical structure, and executive control performance are related in long-term high-altitude residents. A total of 129 healthy Han Chinese adults who had relocated from low-altitude regions and were living and working in Lhasa, Xizang (3650 m) underwent hematological testing, structural MRI, and an Attention Network Test (ANT). Serum interleukin-6 (IL-6) concentration was obtained from clinical blood reports, cortical thickness of the left superior frontal gyrus (SFG) was extracted using FreeSurfer, and executive control efficiency was indexed by the conflict effect in the ANT (lower scores indicating better performance). Partial correlations and mediation analyses (PROCESS Model 4) were conducted, controlling for age, gender, and hypoxic exposure duration. IL-6 concentration was significantly negatively correlated with executive control scores (<em>r</em> = −0.22, <em>p</em> = 0.04), indicating that higher IL-6 levels were associated with better executive control efficiency, whereas no significant associations were found with alerting or orienting. Mediation analysis showed a significant indirect effect of IL-6 on executive control via left SFG thickness (indirect effect = −0.024, 95% CI [−0.093, −0.003]), with a significant total effect (−0.218, 95% CI [−0.429, −0.007]) and a nonsignificant direct effect (−0.194, 95% CI [−0.403, 0.014]). These findings suggest that relatively higher IL-6 concentrations within the physiological reference range are associated with better executive control performance, with left SFG cortical thickness showing a significant statistical indirect association. Together, these results highlight a potential immune–structure–cognition relationship in long-term high-altitude migrants, although comparative and longitudinal studies are needed to determine whether these associations are specifically related to high-altitude exposure.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":7141,"journal":{"name":"Acta Psychologica","volume":"271 ","pages":"Article 108111"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2026-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149351990","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"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 interaction of pragmatics and predictability in sentence negation","authors":"Pietro Mingardi,&nbsp;Chiara Finocchiaro,&nbsp;Francesco Vespignani","doi":"10.1016/j.actpsy.2026.108097","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.actpsy.2026.108097","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>A widely accepted view in psycholinguistics is that language comprehension occurs incrementally, with each word integrated into the listener's mental representation as it is encountered. However, substantial evidence suggests that negation may be an exception to this pattern. Studies suggest that comprehenders often first construct an affirmative representation of a sentence before later incorporating the negation. However, other research indicates that negation can be integrated immediately when supported by the pragmatic context. Yet, the factors enabling such rapid integration remain poorly understood - specifically, whether it arises from the discourse-pragmatic properties of negation, the predictability and interpretation of the negated word, or an interaction between these dimensions. This uncertainty may stem from the difficulty of disentangling these factors in experiments using natural language stimuli. Across three experiments, we used simple geometric shapes in a closed-set paradigm to systematically manipulate different sources of predictability while holding the discourse-pragmatic properties of negation constant. Our findings show that discourse-pragmatic effects can be distinguished from those driven by predictability. Moreover, these two factors jointly facilitate negation processing. These results are considered within current models of negation comprehension.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":7141,"journal":{"name":"Acta Psychologica","volume":"271 ","pages":"Article 108097"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2026-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149351597","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}