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{"title":"Translation and validation of the Taiwanese version of the incivility in nursing education-revised scale.","authors":"Chien Wei Liu, Elizabeth Elder, Fan-Hao Chou","doi":"10.1016/j.actpsy.2026.107981","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2026.107981","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Incivility in Taiwanese nursing education remains poorly understood owing to the lack of an appropriate instrument. This study translated and culturally adapted the Incivility in Nursing Education-Revised (INE-R) and evaluated its psychometric properties among nursing faculty and students in Taiwan. In a cross-sectional survey conducted at two nursing schools from October 2023 to April 2024, 308 of 358 distributed questionnaires were returned (86.0% response rate), and 266 were analyzed (67 faculty members and 199 students). Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA), internal consistency, and multigroup analyses were performed. The Taiwanese INE-R showed high semantic similarity to the original instrument and excellent content validity (item-level content validity index = 1.00; content validity ratio = 0.99). The hypothesized two-factor model showed weak fit under maximum-likelihood estimation. A Bollen-Stine bootstrap with 2000 resamples was used only as a supplementary robustness check of the chi-square test p-value under multivariate nonnormality. A supplementary severity-frequency product-score model provided preliminary evidence of configural, metric, and structural covariance invariance across students and faculty (ΔCFI <0.01; ΔTLI <0.05), although the small and unbalanced faculty subsample limits interpretation. Internal consistency was excellent (α = 0.944-0.966), and composite reliability exceeded 0.92; however, the lower-order factor among students showed marginal convergent validity (average variance extracted = 0.445). The Taiwanese INE-R demonstrated acceptable reliability and a tentative, interpretable two-factor structure. It may support the assessment and monitoring of incivility in Taiwanese nursing education, but further validation and intervention research with larger, more representative samples is needed.</p>","PeriodicalId":7141,"journal":{"name":"Acta Psychologica","volume":"270 ","pages":"107981"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2026-10-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149214939","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":"Cooperation needs an audience: being seen increases cooperation in public-goods decisions.","authors":"Marco Marini, Anna Gerna, Sebastiano Munini, Alessandro Sapienza, Rino Falcone, Fabio Paglieri","doi":"10.1016/j.actpsy.2026.107917","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2026.107917","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Transparency is often assumed to promote cooperation because it reveals what others are doing. Yet in social dilemmas, transparency also makes one's own behavior visible and therefore socially evaluable. Across two online experiments (N = 369), we disentangled these two structural facets of transparency - access to individuated information about others' behavior and the observability of one's own behavior - in a repeated public-goods dilemma framed around health-related collective goods. Participants decided how much of a private endowment to invest in a shared resource while the cooperation level of simulated group members and the visibility structure of feedback were experimentally manipulated. Study 1 showed that transparency did not increase investment uniformly. Instead, individual-level feedback selectively amplified conditional cooperation: participants invested more under transparent than opaque feedback only when the other group members were highly cooperative. Study 2 decomposed transparency by independently manipulating whether participants could see others' individual contributions and whether their own contribution was visible to others. The amplification of conditional cooperation was driven by being visible, not by access to individuated information about others' behavior. Perceived cooperation closely tracked the manipulation across conditions, suggesting that the effect was not due to differences in detecting others' cooperation. These findings indicate that transparency promotes cooperation more strongly when it makes one's own contribution visible to others than when it merely provides individuated information about other group members.</p>","PeriodicalId":7141,"journal":{"name":"Acta Psychologica","volume":"270 ","pages":"107917"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2026-10-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149206330","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":"Emotional facial expressions are remembered more negatively than they actually are: Robust negativity bias unaffected by affective acoustic context.","authors":"Eda Demir, Ata Deniz Kaplan, Mahnoor Atta, Efe Soyman","doi":"10.1016/j.actpsy.2026.107987","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2026.107987","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Do we remember people's faces more positively or negatively than they actually are? While the general negativity bias suggests that humans give more weight to negative over positive information, whether there is a bias to remember emotional faces more negatively than they are, and whether affective acoustic context can modulate these processes, remained unknown. We addressed these questions with a novel paradigm, in which morphed facial expressions ranging from negative (fearful) to positive (happy) were paired with acoustically rough and non-rough control contexts during the encoding phase. Following a distraction task, participants completed the retrieval phase, in which they identified the previously encoded facial expression from a full continuum of morphed faces. During retrieval, facial expressions were reported to be more negative than they actually were, as reflected by the in-depth analysis of signed errors calculated from incorrect retrievals. Importantly, this directional negativity bias persisted even for facial expressions that had been rated as neutral during encoding. None of these effects were significantly modulated by acoustic context. The negativity bias we report in long-term memory extends similar findings in the working memory literature and demonstrates the sensitivity of our novel task to various forms of negativity bias, highlighting its potential for investigating the cognitive mechanisms underlying memory for emotional facial expressions.</p>","PeriodicalId":7141,"journal":{"name":"Acta Psychologica","volume":"270 ","pages":"107987"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2026-10-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149206420","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":"Exercise-level differences in depressive symptoms among rural Chinese adolescents: Gender-specific patterns and an indirect link through body satisfaction.","authors":"Pengyang Li, Yueming Hui, Qinian Chen, Guogang Xin, Yiqing Wang, Jiaqian Xu, Peiyu Luo, Xiaohua Wang","doi":"10.1016/j.actpsy.2026.108001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2026.108001","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Physical exercise is associated with fewer depressive symptoms in adolescence, but variation by exercise volume and gender and the role of body satisfaction remain understudied among rural adolescents.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Cross-sectional data were collected from 2837 Grade 7-9 students in rural China (mean age = 14.60 years, SD = 1.08; 52.5% girls). Depressive symptoms, body satisfaction, and physical exercise were assessed using the CES-D-10, a five-item subscale of the NPSS, and the PARS-3, respectively. Exercise volume was classified as minimal, low, moderate, or high. Regression models with HC3 inference were used to examine gender differences and gender-conditioned indirect associations through body satisfaction.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Relative to minimal exercise, the low-, moderate-, and high-exercise groups showed lower depressive symptoms among both girls and boys. The pattern within the exercise groups varied by gender: girls in the high-exercise group had the lowest adjusted depressive-symptom scores, and boys in the moderate-exercise group had the lowest scores. All three exercise groups also showed higher body satisfaction than the minimal-exercise group. Higher body satisfaction was associated with fewer depressive symptoms and formed a significant conditional indirect link between exercise category and depressive symptoms in both genders, with stronger indirect associations among girls.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Minimal exercise was associated with less favorable body-satisfaction and depressive-symptom profiles among rural Chinese adolescents. Body satisfaction provided a relevant psychological link across genders and carried greater weight among girls. Low-threshold exercise opportunities and gender-sensitive support for body satisfaction warrant further evaluation in rural schools.</p>","PeriodicalId":7141,"journal":{"name":"Acta Psychologica","volume":"270 ","pages":"108001"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2026-10-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149206286","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":"Supporting bystander intervention through conversational AI: Experimental evidence from undergraduate samples.","authors":"Seoyeon Bae, Marcus Trenfield, Mengyao Zhao, Grace Bauer, Liane Young","doi":"10.1016/j.actpsy.2026.107980","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2026.107980","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Across campuses and workplaces, people are receiving bystander intervention training to empower them to support victims and mitigate situations of harm. But even after this training, many people remain insecure about their ability to intervene and hesitate to act when intervention is needed. One promising solution to bystanders' ongoing inaction is to provide a safe, judgment-free environment where people can repeatedly practice skills and receive personalized feedback. Here, we explore that solution through a chatbot-based bystander intervention practice tool, where an AI agent guides users through evidence-based training. Across two preregistered experiments with undergraduates-a pilot study conducted on a local college campus followed by a larger online study-we found preliminary evidence that chatbot-guided training may strengthen several motivational outcomes associated with bystander intervention, including bystander efficacy, attitudes, psychological safety, and norm perceptions. This work provides preliminary evidence of the impact of chatbot-guided bystander intervention training. The findings highlight the potential of AI as a pedagogical tool for supporting bystander intervention and provide an empirical foundation for future research on AI-assisted intervention training.</p>","PeriodicalId":7141,"journal":{"name":"Acta Psychologica","volume":"270 ","pages":"107980"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2026-10-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149206373","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":"Artificial neural network prediction of Indonesian mothers' emotional well-being: The role of social support, quality of life, and sharenting behavior.","authors":"Wulan Patria Saroinsong, Chinun Boonroungrut","doi":"10.1016/j.actpsy.2026.107967","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2026.107967","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Within the framework of the stress-buffering model and ecological systems theory, the increasing integration of digital engagement into motherhood underscores the need to understand how psychosocial and technological factors relate to maternal mental health. This study examined the associations of demographic factors, social support, quality of life (QoL), and sharenting behavior with Indonesian mothers' emotional well-being (EWB). A cross-sectional survey was conducted with 300 Indonesian mothers aged 21-55 years who had children aged 0-8 years. Pearson correlations were used to examine bivariate associations, and an artificial neural network (ANN) was used to classify participants into below-median and above-median EWB groups based on a median split, using demographic, psychosocial, and sharenting-related predictors. EWB was positively associated with QoL (r = 0.68, p < .01), social support (r = 0.51, p < .01), and sharenting behavior (r = 0.41, p < .01), representing large, large, and moderate associations, respectively. The ANN was used as a flexible predictive approach capable of accommodating potentially nonlinear and non-additive relationships among predictors. The model achieved classification accuracies of 84.4% in the training set, 82.9% in the testing set, and 75.9% in the holdout set. QoL, sharenting behavior, and social support showed the highest relative importance for EWB classification, with normalized importance values of 100%, 60.8%, and 58.8%, respectively. In contrast, all demographic variables had normalized importance values below 50%. Classification accuracy was higher for mothers in the above-median EWB group than for those in the below-median EWB group. Receiver operating characteristic analysis indicated discrimination above chance. These findings may inform psychoeducational and parent-education programs designed to strengthen mothers' social support, enhance adaptive coping and QoL, and promote reflective, developmentally appropriate, and privacy-conscious digital parenting practices.</p>","PeriodicalId":7141,"journal":{"name":"Acta Psychologica","volume":"270 ","pages":"107967"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2026-10-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149206346","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":"Perceived parenting styles, adult attachment, and emotional intelligence in Indian young adults: A parallel mediation approach.","authors":"Tanjil Chakarwarti, Madhu Jakhar, Navkiran Kalsi, Rajnish Kumar Gupta","doi":"10.1016/j.actpsy.2026.108003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2026.108003","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Emotional intelligence (EI) plays a vital role in how young adults navigate relationships, academic pressures, and personal growth. While family environments are widely recognized as foundational to emotional development, the associations between perceived parenting, adult attachment, and EI in adulthood remain underexplored, particularly in non-Western contexts. Therefore, this study investigated the association between perceived parenting styles and EI among Indian young adults and examined whether adult attachment dimensions explain these associations. A sample of 151 healthy young adults (aged 18-25 years; 90 females, 61 males) from educational institutions across the Indian subcontinent completed standardized self-report measures of perceived parenting style, adult attachment, and EI. Correlation analyses revealed that perceived authoritative parenting was significantly and positively associated with EI, while authoritarian and permissive parenting showed weak, non-significant negative trends. At the attachment level, EI was positively associated with the close dimension and negatively associated with the anxiety dimension, with no significant association with the depend dimension. Parallel mediation analyses indicated that authoritative parenting exerted a strong direct effect on EI; the combined indirect effect through attachment was non-significant. Notably, the depend dimension acted as a competitive suppressor, weakening the positive parenting-EI path. Authoritarian parenting had no significant total or indirect effects on EI. These findings suggest that growing up with warm, structured, and communicative parenting lays a meaningful foundation for emotional competence in adulthood. In collectivist societies like India, where family bonds are central to identity, promoting authoritative parenting alongside secure relational patterns may be a particularly powerful way to enhance EI in the next generation.</p>","PeriodicalId":7141,"journal":{"name":"Acta Psychologica","volume":"270 ","pages":"108003"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2026-10-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149206366","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":"'AI-Learner Partnership': Psychological mechanisms and developmental trajectories of EFL learners' writing agency in GenAI-assisted courses.","authors":"Lei Zhang, Rining Wei, Chunli Jiang","doi":"10.1016/j.actpsy.2026.107983","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2026.107983","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study explores how EFL learners construct, negotiate, and develop writing agency through engagement with generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) in second language writing courses. GenAI is conceptualized as a cultural mediational means within an integrated sociocultural and positive psychological framework. Eleven Chinese EFL university students were followed over a 16-week semester as they completed multiple academic writing tasks with GenAI support. Drawing on a qualitative multi-method design, data were collected through semi-structured interviews, screen recordings of writing sessions, and reflective journals. The analysis identified three interrelated, non-linear phases in learners' agency development: initial exploration (characterized by novelty-driven engagement, dependency on AI output, and emergent self-efficacy), strategic adaptation (marked by more selective, task-contingent tool use and the strengthening of writing-specific psychological capital), and deliberate appropriation (signaled by personalized integration of GenAI into writing workflows and the emergence of a more agentic techno-authorial identity). Across these phases, cognitive processes, affective experiences, positive psychological resources, and task design features jointly shaped how learners mobilized technological affordances to enact writing agency. The findings suggest that writing agency in human-AI collaborative writing is a dynamic, context-sensitive accomplishment rather than a fixed individual trait. By connecting sociocultural accounts of mediated action with positive psychological resources, the study offers a process-oriented account of how EFL learners negotiate assistance, authorship, and autonomy in GenAI-supported academic writing.</p>","PeriodicalId":7141,"journal":{"name":"Acta Psychologica","volume":"270 ","pages":"107983"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2026-10-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149206396","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":"Affective-sexual education in adolescence: Current status and systematic review of validated programmes in Spain.","authors":"Uxue Llano-Abasolo, Joana Jaureguizar, Irati Becerril-Atxikallende, María Dosil-Santamaría","doi":"10.1016/j.actpsy.2026.107991","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2026.107991","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Sexual risks in the digital environment pose a growing challenge for adolescents, especially given their early and widespread access to the digital world. In this context, affective-sexual education (ASE) is a key element in providing the necessary skills for the development of healthy sexuality. The aim of this study was to analyse the extent to which ASE programmes validated in Spain and implemented in classrooms with adolescents aged 12 to 18 incorporate content on digital sexual risks, through a systematic literature review following the PRISMA 2020 model. The search was conducted in six databases (Scopus, Web of Science, PubMed, APA PsycInfo, Dialnet and ERIC). The inclusion criteria required that articles be published between 2006 and 2026 (C1), that they include a sample of adolescents aged 12 to 18 enrolled in schools in Spain (C2), and that they feature an experimental or quasi-experimental design with a control group for programme evaluation (C3). After applying the criteria, five programmes were identified. A main finding is that none of the programmes includes content regarding sexual risks in the digital environment, which underscores a significant gap given that this does not correspond to the reality experienced by adolescents today. The results highlight the scarcity of interventions evaluated with scientific rigor and underscore the need to design and validate ASE programmes based on scientific evidence and adapted to current realities, taking into account sexual risks in the digital environment, among other aspects.</p>","PeriodicalId":7141,"journal":{"name":"Acta Psychologica","volume":"270 ","pages":"107991"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2026-10-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149206370","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":"Role clarity, work values, and job cognition: Implications for task performance and job stress in Indian industries.","authors":"Soumendu Biswas","doi":"10.1016/j.actpsy.2026.107995","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2026.107995","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study examines the relationship between employees' role clarity, work values, job cognition, task performance, and job stress in organizations across India's manufacturing and service sectors. Based on a latent variable path model, the study assesses how employees' role clarity, moderated by their work values, enhances their job cognition, which in turn determines their task performance and job stress. Questionnaires administered to 819 Indian firm executives confirm that employees' work values moderate, and their job cognition mediates their role clarity in achieving positive results. The study contributes to the knowledge bases of organizational behavior and human resource management by formulating role and cognitive appraisal theories. It also provides practical insights for managers and policymakers seeking to enhance stress-free productivity and align human capital plans with evolving employee aspirations.</p>","PeriodicalId":7141,"journal":{"name":"Acta Psychologica","volume":"270 ","pages":"107995"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2026-10-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149190727","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}