Acta PsychologicaPub Date : 2025-04-15DOI: 10.1016/j.actpsy.2025.104993
César Merino-Soto , Sergio Dominguez-Lara , Lucas Marcelo Rodriguez , Guillermo M. Chans , Manuel Marti-Vilar
{"title":"Cross-cultural measurement invariance of the BFI-15p in university students from Argentina, Spain, and Peru","authors":"César Merino-Soto , Sergio Dominguez-Lara , Lucas Marcelo Rodriguez , Guillermo M. Chans , Manuel Marti-Vilar","doi":"10.1016/j.actpsy.2025.104993","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.actpsy.2025.104993","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The Big Five Inventory–15p (BFI-15p) is a relatively new 15-item version developed for Hispanic populations; however, evidence of its cross-cultural equivalence is lacking. This study examined the clarity of item phrasing (Study 1) and measurement invariance (Study 2) in university students from Argentina, Spain, and Peru. Two studies were conducted: one to assess perceived item clarity (<em>n</em> = 70) and another to evaluate the internal structure (<em>n</em> = 737), including dimensionality, reliability, and measurement invariance. In Study 1, consistent item clarity was observed across the three groups, though one item required minor revision. In Study 2, the five-factor structure showed a good fit in the confirmatory factor analysis (CFA), while exploratory structural equation modeling (ESEM) provided slightly better results. However, differences between CFA and ESEM were not substantial, as cross-loadings were close to zero. Omega reliability varied across country groups but was predominantly acceptable for three-item subscales (approximately 0.60). Differential item functioning (DIF) by sex within each country was predominantly negligible. Measurement invariance was supported at the configural, metric, and scalar levels. The findings highlight the implications of measuring the Big Five model in university students across diverse cultural contexts.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":7141,"journal":{"name":"Acta Psychologica","volume":"256 ","pages":"Article 104993"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-04-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143835064","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}
Acta PsychologicaPub Date : 2025-04-15DOI: 10.1016/j.actpsy.2025.105012
Mohannad Obeid Al Shbail , Hashem Alshurafat , Waed Ensour , Hamzeh Al Amosh , Huthaifa Al-Hazaima
{"title":"Exploring the impact of internal CSR on auditor turnover intentions: The mediating and moderating roles of job satisfaction, organisational commitment, and job complexity","authors":"Mohannad Obeid Al Shbail , Hashem Alshurafat , Waed Ensour , Hamzeh Al Amosh , Huthaifa Al-Hazaima","doi":"10.1016/j.actpsy.2025.105012","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.actpsy.2025.105012","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study investigates the relationship between internal corporate social responsibility (CSR) and the intention of internal auditors to leave their positions across 15 Jordanian banks. This article examines internal CSR, organisational commitment, job satisfaction, task complexity, and internal auditor turnover intention using a moderated mediation model. In the present research, data from 148 individuals were analysed quantitatively using partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM). According to the findings, job satisfaction and organisational commitment are positively correlated with internal CSR. However, no relationship was found between turnover intention and internal CSR. Internal CSR may not directly influence turnover intention but instead affect it through mediators such as job satisfaction and organisational commitment. The research also demonstrates how work satisfaction and organisational commitment may mitigate the impact of task complexity, which interacts with internal CSR to influence turnover intention. This study has implications for companies seeking to enhance employee retention, given the intricate nature of these relationships.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":7141,"journal":{"name":"Acta Psychologica","volume":"256 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-04-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143829909","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}
Acta PsychologicaPub Date : 2025-04-15DOI: 10.1016/j.actpsy.2025.105008
Yue Jiang, Xufei An
{"title":"Speech differences between aged women with and without early Alzheimer's Disease: linguistic indicators of cognitive decline","authors":"Yue Jiang, Xufei An","doi":"10.1016/j.actpsy.2025.105008","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.actpsy.2025.105008","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Despite extensive research on language impairments of individuals with Alzheimer's disease (AD), little is known about whether women with mild cognitive impairment (MCI), an early stage of AD, differ in their language use from healthy controls. To address this gap, the present study investigates speech differences between 22 older women with early AD and 22 age- and education-matched controls with lexical-semantic and disfluency linguistic features, comparing their performance on the Cookie Theft picture description and Cinderella story retelling tasks from the Delaware corpus. Results reveal that, compared with the control group, women with early AD i) produced a smaller average number of tokens and types, with the differences in the Cinderella retelling task reaching statistical significance; ii) exhibited more pronouns and higher anomia values, with both features showing significant differences in recalling the Cinderella story; and iii) produced more disfluencies such as lexical fillers, repeats, and false starts, with a significant difference in lexical fillers in the Cinderella retelling task. These patterns suggest that complex language tasks prove to be more capable of revealing pre-existing cognitive changes in women with early AD, as manifested in their reduced lexical retrieval abilities, higher anomia levels, and increased speech disfluency compared to healthy controls. These findings provide empirical evidence of speech differences between aged women with and without early AD, underscoring the importance of linguistic analysis as a valuable tool in the early detection of AD-related language, memory, and cognitive impairments and timely intervention in the AD continuum.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":7141,"journal":{"name":"Acta Psychologica","volume":"256 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-04-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143829913","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}
Acta PsychologicaPub Date : 2025-04-15DOI: 10.1016/j.actpsy.2025.105003
Águeda Fuentes-Guerra Toral, Fabiano Botta, Juan Lupiáñez, Carlos González-García , Elisa Martín-Arévalo
{"title":"Exogenous attention and its relationship with working memory contents: beyond spatial selection","authors":"Águeda Fuentes-Guerra Toral, Fabiano Botta, Juan Lupiáñez, Carlos González-García , Elisa Martín-Arévalo","doi":"10.1016/j.actpsy.2025.105003","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.actpsy.2025.105003","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>To successfully perform everyday activities, cognitive functions such as working memory (WM) and selective attention are necessary. Specifically, when environmental demands are dynamic, exogenous attention is crucial. However, its ability to select and prioritize not only perceptual spatial locations, but also novel stimulus-response (S-R) bindings held in WM remains largely unexplored. By implementing a retro-cueing paradigm on a task that capitalized on WM, the present experiment's aim was two-fold: i) to evaluate whether exogenous cueing effects would not only impact spatial processing but also WM content, and ii) to explore how meta-control states induced by the manipulation of an intervening event (IE) would modulate these effects. We observed (N = 50) that exogenous attention led to selection of space, as it is usually observed in spatial exogenous attention paradigms, but also the content associated with that location. Moreover, space selection was modulated by the IE manipulation, which was thought to induce two meta-control states (persistent vs. flexible). As such, the presence of the IE also modulated participants' performance regarding novel vs. repeated stimulus-response mappings, again hinting at an important role of content in this task. This pattern of findings fits well with the concept of event file; a mental representation of all relevant components assembled at the beginning of a trial (i.e., cue, target, lateralization, meta-control state, etc.), which are retrieved together once one or more of its elements are encountered. Although preliminary, this evidence of exogenous attentional selection of WM through event file activation paves the way for a promising research line.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":7141,"journal":{"name":"Acta Psychologica","volume":"256 ","pages":"Article 105003"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-04-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143829916","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}
Acta PsychologicaPub Date : 2025-04-15DOI: 10.1016/j.actpsy.2025.104975
Juanjuan Wang , Yi Sun
{"title":"Time perspectives and precrastination: Understanding early task completion in a time-moving perspective","authors":"Juanjuan Wang , Yi Sun","doi":"10.1016/j.actpsy.2025.104975","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.actpsy.2025.104975","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study examines the relationship between precrastination—a tendency to complete tasks early—and the time-moving perspective. Given the opposing nature of precrastination and procrastination, we hypothesize that precrastination correlates positively with a time-moving perspective, based on the finding that procrastination correlates with an ego-moving tendency. To test this, we conducted a survey with 366 participants (172 females aged 17 to 68), assessing their tendencies toward precrastination and their responses to the classic “ambiguous meeting question” (<span><span>McGlone & Harding, 1998</span></span>). Participants who selected “Monday” as the answer to the ambiguous time-related question displayed higher precrastination scores than those who chose “Friday,” supporting the hypothesis. To address the potential subjectivity of self-reported data, we included an objective measurement by recording participants' arrival times for a scheduled test in a controlled setting involving 84 students (42 females aged 18 to 25). The results showed that participants who arrived early were more likely to choose “Monday” in a modified version of the “ambiguous meeting question,” further validating our hypothesis. This study highlights the significant role of precrastination in shaping time perception.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":7141,"journal":{"name":"Acta Psychologica","volume":"256 ","pages":"Article 104975"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-04-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143835063","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}
Acta PsychologicaPub Date : 2025-04-15DOI: 10.1016/j.actpsy.2025.104987
Ramsha Arshad , Ahmad Nabeel Siddiquei , Muhammad Sajid Tufail , Zeeshan Khosa , Javaria Abbas
{"title":"Standing on the shoulders of giants: Predictors of perceived overqualification and its impact on adaptive behavior","authors":"Ramsha Arshad , Ahmad Nabeel Siddiquei , Muhammad Sajid Tufail , Zeeshan Khosa , Javaria Abbas","doi":"10.1016/j.actpsy.2025.104987","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.actpsy.2025.104987","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Utilizing affective event theory, the study investigates the roles of perceived organizational politics and boredom proneness as antecedents of perceived overqualification and its impact on adaptive behavior. Further, this research examines the mediating role of perceived overqualification between antecedents and adaptive behavior and the moderating role of meaningful work between POQ and adaptive behavior. This research obtained 289 responses from university lecturers and heads of departments of public and private sector universities in Pakistan using quantitative time lag study design and convenience sampling. Results indicate that perceived organizational politics and boredom proneness contribute to perceived overqualification. It has been found that the direct association of perceived overqualification with adaptive behavior is negative. This research found that perceived overqualification mediates the relationship between antecedents and adaptive behavior. Moreover, this research discovered that the relationship between perceived overqualification and adaptive behavior is positive when work is perceived as meaningful but negative when work lacks meaningfulness. The theoretical and practical implications, limitations, and recommendations for upcoming researchers are discussed.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":7141,"journal":{"name":"Acta Psychologica","volume":"256 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-04-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143829914","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 dynamics of affective experiences with wheelchair use during rehabilitation: A qualitative study through physiotherapists' perspectives","authors":"Mohsen Rasoulivalajoozi , Carmela Cucuzzella , Morteza Farhoudi","doi":"10.1016/j.actpsy.2025.105022","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.actpsy.2025.105022","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The interaction between users and mobility aids, including emotional attachment and functional expectations, influences their perceptions and decisions on acceptance and continued use during rehabilitation. Tracking interactions during rehabilitation helps identify key intervention points, leading to effective therapeutic relationships and user-centered mobility aid designs. This study aims to track the dynamics of affective experiences (DAE) of wheelchair users (WUs) during a planned rehabilitation timeframe and recommend how to manage these dynamics. To this end, initially, the product experience framework was applied for the development of interview guidelines and analysis. Next, adopting a qualitative approach, semi-structured, in-depth interviews with 12 experienced physiotherapists were conducted in Iran. Transcripts were then analyzed using a thematic analysis framework to identify themes. A total of three themes have been identified which include: 1) Coping in Using the Wheelchair, 2) Reluctant Acceptance of the Wheelchair: Adjusting to the New Normal, and 3) Approaching Recovery: Challenges in Over-reliance. Additionally, two diagrams illustrating the dynamics of the affective experience of WUs and its influencing factors during rehabilitation have been provided. This study shows that the affective experience of WUs is not static and changes through various stages of rehabilitation. This dynamic is influenced by factors of emotional and functional importance, both of which often grow after initial resistance but follow varied patterns. However, emotional attachment can sometimes lead to over-reliance even after recovery, posing challenges in the rehabilitation. Physiotherapists can help balance this attachment, influencing users' affective experiences with their wheelchairs.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":7141,"journal":{"name":"Acta Psychologica","volume":"256 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-04-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143829915","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}
Acta PsychologicaPub Date : 2025-04-14DOI: 10.1016/j.actpsy.2025.105001
Vakode Vani, Pooja Ojha, Mahesh Arjundan Gadhvi, Abhinav Dixit
{"title":"Impact of artificial colored lights on performance in working memory task","authors":"Vakode Vani, Pooja Ojha, Mahesh Arjundan Gadhvi, Abhinav Dixit","doi":"10.1016/j.actpsy.2025.105001","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.actpsy.2025.105001","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The contemporary lifestyle obligates exposure to artificially illuminated environments often with a variation in spectral composition of light. The wavelength of light, perceived as the color, differentially stimulates the short, medium, and long wavelength cones. Through the non-image-forming pathways, light possibly affects cognitive functions including working memory. Commensurately, this warrants an evaluation of the effects of exposure to colored lights of specific wavelength, on the performance in cognitive task. A within-subject approach was planned to ascertain the impact of light in white, red, green, and blue wavelengths (corresponding to the retinal cone cells) on performance in the Forward Digit Span Task (FDST) and Backward Digit Span Task (BDST) in four randomized sessions. Each light exposure session was preceded by 15 min of dark state and performances were assessed using percent accuracy. The mean age of participants (<em>N</em> = 50) was 28.8 years. A statistically significant difference was found in performance in FDST (<em>P</em> < 0.0005) and BDST (P < 0.0005) with exposure to different colored light (specific wavelengths) when compared to white light (broad-spectrum). Performance in FDST was better than the performance in BDST in all light conditions. The results suggest that working memory performance was affected by the color of light and performance in DST was better under red light than other lights. Therefore, the color of light plays an important role in cognitive performance and ambient light color needs to be adjusted while testing cognitive functions. Red lights may enhance memory recall compared to blue and green lights.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":7141,"journal":{"name":"Acta Psychologica","volume":"256 ","pages":"Article 105001"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-04-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143825879","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}
Acta PsychologicaPub Date : 2025-04-14DOI: 10.1016/j.actpsy.2025.104956
Yajing Shi , Hang Yang
{"title":"Development, revision, and validation of a Self-Regulated Learning Questionnaire for Chinese undergraduate students","authors":"Yajing Shi , Hang Yang","doi":"10.1016/j.actpsy.2025.104956","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.actpsy.2025.104956","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Self-control is a critical aspect of learning, and a key factor for Chinese undergraduates transitioning from high school to university. This study aims to develop a questionnaire based on the existing theory of SRL while emphasizing self-control to better support educational research among Chinese undergraduates. By integrating open-ended surveys, interviews, expert evaluation with the theoretical framework of SRL, we generate 92 items for pilot test on 362 undergraduates in China. Further re-tests involved 409 students for item analysis, factor analysis, reliability, and validity. Item analysis removed 18 items from the pilot-test based on statistical and psychometric criteria, retaining 38 items across 10 factors, explaining 63.71 % of variance. The proposed Chinese-Self-Regulated Learning (C-SRL) Questionnaire showed strong reliability of the total scores ranging from 0.81 to 0.90 and subscales ranging from 0.64 to 0.80. Construct validity was supported by moderate to strong correlations (ranging from 0.51 to 0.59) within the subscales. Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) results revealed that the two-stage, three-factor model fit better than the one-stage model, aligning with the theoretical framework. Additionally, convergent validity was confirmed through significant correlations with self-control and academic achievement, validating the relevance of the proposed questionnaire. The C-SRL Questionnaire, developed using a mixed-method approach, demonstrates strong reliability and validity, making it a valuable tool for studying self-regulation and predicting academic performance among Chinese undergraduates.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":7141,"journal":{"name":"Acta Psychologica","volume":"256 ","pages":"Article 104956"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-04-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143825880","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}
Acta PsychologicaPub Date : 2025-04-13DOI: 10.1016/j.actpsy.2025.105021
Rui Yan , Muhammad Adnan , Ammar Ahmed , Rana Tahir Naveed , Warda Naseem , Volkan Çakir
{"title":"Introducing cyber-loafing as a coping mechanism for suicidal ideation resulting from social isolation, and domestic violence, among employees","authors":"Rui Yan , Muhammad Adnan , Ammar Ahmed , Rana Tahir Naveed , Warda Naseem , Volkan Çakir","doi":"10.1016/j.actpsy.2025.105021","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.actpsy.2025.105021","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Cyberloafing, commonly viewed as the misuse of the internet at work, results in significant financial losses estimated at about $85 billion annually. Workers engage in cyberloafing, spending approximately two hours daily on non-work-related internet activities, which is traditionally seen as counterproductive. However, recent studies suggest that cyberloafing might also yield positive workplace outcomes, particularly in mitigating negative emotions and behaviors that could lead to suicidal ideation. This study explores the potential of cyberloafing as a coping mechanism in contexts of social isolation, and domestic violence, as contributors to suicidal thoughts. Utilizing a cross-sectional quantitative design, the research involved 467 participants from a mental health and rehabilitation center, assessed via closed-ended questionnaires. Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) was employed to analyze the data. Findings indicate that social isolation, and domestic violence, significantly contribute to suicidal ideation, cyberloafing negatively moderates the relationships between both social isolation, domestic violence, and suicidal thoughts. These results highlight a complex perspective on cyberloafing, suggesting that it could be strategically used to alleviate negative emotional states. The implications are substantial for organizational management, providing a nuanced understanding that could inform strategies to harness cyberloafing's potential benefits, thereby reducing counterproductive behaviors and enhancing employee wellbeing.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":7141,"journal":{"name":"Acta Psychologica","volume":"256 ","pages":"Article 105021"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-04-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143824111","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}