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{"title":"The role of intrinsic spirituality, emotion dysregulation, and resilience on post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms in university students who survived earthquake","authors":"Sezen Güleç","doi":"10.1016/j.actpsy.2025.104755","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.actpsy.2025.104755","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Purpose</h3><div>The study aimed to explore the relationship between intrinsic spirituality, emotion dysregulation, resilience, and PTSD in Turkish university students who were earthquake survivors. In addition, the validity and reliability of the Brief Emotion Dysregulation Scale (BEDS) were evaluated among Turkish university students who were earthquake survivors.</div></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><div>A sample of 651 Turkish university students who were earthquake survivors participated in an online survey distributed via WhatsApp, completing the Intrinsic Spirituality Scale (ISS), the Brief Emotion Dysregulation Scale (BEDS), the Brief Resilience Scale (BRS), and the Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Checklist for DSM-5. Structural equation modeling and mediation analysis were employed to explore the predictive relationships between these psychological variables and PTSD symptoms.</div></div><div><h3>Results</h3><div>The findings confirmed that the BEDS is a valid and reliable scale for assessing emotion dysregulation levels in Turkish university students who were earthquake survivors. Intrinsic spirituality had a negative correlation between emotion dysregulation and PTSD, indicating that higher levels of PTSD are associated with lower intrinsic spirituality. A positive correlation was found between intrinsic spirituality and resilience, suggesting that increased intrinsic spirituality is linked to higher levels of resilience. Furthermore, emotion dysregulation and resilience were found to mediate the relationship between intrinsic spirituality and PTSD. Moreover, emotion dysregulation has a mediating effect in the relationship between resilience and PTSD.</div></div><div><h3>Conclusions</h3><div>The study highlights the determinant effects of intrinsic spirituality on emotional dysregulation, resilience and PTSD in Turkish university students who survived the earthquake. Interventions and support programs designed to reduce PTSD symptoms should benefit from the results of this research, and future research should include longitudinal studies to assess the long-term effects of intrinsic spirituality on PTSD. It is also crucial to examine the effects on various demographic groups, including differences in age, education level, and socio-economic status.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":7141,"journal":{"name":"Acta Psychologica","volume":"253 ","pages":"Article 104755"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-01-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143062863","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 relationship between widowhood and depressive symptoms among Chinese older adults: Does living alone make a difference?","authors":"Junyue Yue,&nbsp;Myeong-Sook Yoon","doi":"10.1016/j.actpsy.2025.104749","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.actpsy.2025.104749","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The experience of widowhood and that of living alone are significant life events that are strongly associated with depressive symptoms in older adults. Nevertheless, few studies have examined the relationship between widowhood, living alone, and depressive symptoms among Chinese older adults, particularly with regard to the duration of widowhood. This study included 4,644 older adults aged 65 and above from the 2015, 2018, and 2020 China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS). Linear regression models were used to examine the relationship between widowhood, living alone, and depressive symptoms. Unlike previous studies, our findings indicate that living alone instead played a buffering effect on the relationship between widowhood and depression among urban older adults, especially for short-term and long-term widowhood. However, this result did not appear in the rural sample. Our study highlights the significance of considering the role of living alone in the relationship between widowhood and depressive symptoms in older adults, as well as the need to distinguish between residence and duration of widowhood.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":7141,"journal":{"name":"Acta Psychologica","volume":"253 ","pages":"Article 104749"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-01-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143057720","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 effect of implicit and explicit motor learning on a targeting task in children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD)","authors":"Morteza Homayounnia Firouzjah ,&nbsp;Saeed Nazari Kakvandi ,&nbsp;Hesam Ramezanzade","doi":"10.1016/j.actpsy.2025.104731","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.actpsy.2025.104731","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study aims to investigate the effect of different implicit and explicit instructions on learning a fundamental motor skill (throwing task) in autistic children with a high propensity for reinvestment. A total of 48 male volunteer students with special educational needs aged between 7 and 9 years old were conveniently selected to practice a novel throwing motor task (slingerball). The study includes a 1-week the acquisition phase with five phases of measurements involving four groups: a) analogy, b) explicit instruction, c) errorless, and d) errorful paradigms. It was conducted in five phases: pre-test, acquisition, retention, transfer, and dual-task, using a quasi-experimental design. The task in this study was to throw a slingerball’ towards a horizontal target on the ground. Mixed-design analysis of variance (ANOVA) and LSD post-hoc test performed to determine the interaction and main effects on throwing accuracy. The results indicated that participants in the analogy and errorless instruction groups had higher throwing accuracy in all phases of acquisition, retention, transfer and dual task compared to the explicit and errorful instruction groups (<em>P</em> ≤ 0.05). Moreover, both implicit learning groups performed more accurately in the dual task test than the explicit group (<em>P</em> ≤ 0.05). The results of this study support the theoretical framework that implicit practice can improve motor skill learning in children with autism spectrum disorder more than explicit practice. So, the application of errorless learning and analogy instruction is recommended for developing of motor performance and learning as implicit learning methods in educational environments.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":7141,"journal":{"name":"Acta Psychologica","volume":"253 ","pages":"Article 104731"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-01-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143057719","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":"Do social relationships at work enhance creativity and innovative behavior? Role of psychological safety","authors":"Swati Dhir ,&nbsp;Priyanka Vallabh","doi":"10.1016/j.actpsy.2025.104751","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.actpsy.2025.104751","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The study uses social exchange theory to examine how social relationships affect individual involvement in creativity at work and innovative behavior, mediated by psychological safety. The study disentangles the social relationships at work as informal and formal relationships in terms of two plausible theoretical variables, workplace friendliness and perceived affective climate respectively, for the above purpose. Over a period of three-months, data collection was conducted in the IT and ITeS industry, with a sample of 515 participants and 105 team leads, using a two-pronged approach involving data from both team leads and their subordinates. The findings indicate a positive association between workplace friendliness (informal) as well as perceived affective climate (formal), and employee involvement in creativity with psychological safety as mediator, further leading to innovative behavior. The study suggests that fostering a positive, conducive formal work environment and workplace friendships can enhance employees' psychological safety, which enables them to put their creative ideas into action, which can help organizations get a competitive edge by finding novel ways of solving business challenges.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":7141,"journal":{"name":"Acta Psychologica","volume":"253 ","pages":"Article 104751"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-01-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143057678","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":"Disentangling effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and Black Lives Matter protests on implicit anti-Black bias","authors":"C. Donnan Gravelle ,&nbsp;Patricia J. Brooks ,&nbsp;Jeremy E. Sawyer","doi":"10.1016/j.actpsy.2025.104746","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.actpsy.2025.104746","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Terror Management Theory (TMT) holds that mortal threats bolster people's desire to support their worldviews, which may contribute to increased outgroup bias. In 2020, two events likely increased mortality salience and death anxiety: COVID-19 and the Black Lives Matter (BLM) protests that followed George Floyd's murder. We used Project Implicit data to investigate their impact on implicit anti-Black bias, controlling for demographic variables. Study 1 (<em>N</em> = 82,639) found a decrease in anti-Black bias from April 1–May 20, 2020 compared to the same period in 2019, indicating that increased mortality salience amid the pandemic failed to increase anti-Black bias. Study 2 (<em>N</em> = 96,957) examined anti-Black bias and death anxiety across two seven-week periods prior to (April 1–May 20, 2020) and during the BLM protests (May 27–July 15, 2020). Death anxiety increased during the protests, while anti-Black bias decreased. Conservatives showed no link between death anxiety and anti-Black bias, yet showed a decrease in bias once the protests began. Liberals showed the TMT-predicted relation between death anxiety and increased bias, however this relation weakened during the protests. Notably, these attitude changes in the context of a mass social movement differ from predominant conservative shift and worldview defense patterns in prior work on attitude change amid social crisis. Collectively, our results failed to link mortality salience with outgroup bias but suggest a role for other factors including social movements, intergroup empathy, and social solidarity in reducing bias.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":7141,"journal":{"name":"Acta Psychologica","volume":"253 ","pages":"Article 104746"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-01-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143051349","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":"Exploring Bangladeshi English as a foreign language learners' mindfulness and engagement in the online learning context","authors":"Mojtaba Khatami ,&nbsp;Afsana Jerin Shayery ,&nbsp;Santosh Kumar Behera ,&nbsp;Deyuan He ,&nbsp;David Coker ,&nbsp;Samantha Curle","doi":"10.1016/j.actpsy.2025.104750","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.actpsy.2025.104750","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This empirical study investigates the relationship between mindfulness and online engagement among Bangladeshi English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners during the Covid-19 pandemic. A mixed-methods approach was employed, combining quantitative data from the Langer Mindfulness Scale (LMS) and the Online Student Engagement Scale (OSES) with qualitative data from open-ended responses. A total of 215 university students participated in the study, providing insights into their mindfulness levels and engagement in online learning. Quantitative analyses, including descriptive and regression analyses, revealed no significant correlation between mindfulness and online engagement. Reliability analysis indicated that while the OSES demonstrated acceptable internal consistency for this population, the LMS showed poor reliability across subscales, raising concerns about its validity for Bangladeshi EFL students. Qualitative data were analysed using descriptive phenomenology, which highlighted a shift in students' locus of control during online learning, often manifesting as feelings of helplessness and hopelessness. Participants reported that mindfulness practices did not adequately mitigate pandemic-related stress or support their engagement. The findings suggest that mindfulness alone may not be effective in enhancing student engagement in online EFL contexts within non-Western settings. The study calls for policymakers to prioritise the development of resilient online learning infrastructures, improve internet accessibility, and incorporate culturally sensitive approaches to student well-being in digital education environments.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":7141,"journal":{"name":"Acta Psychologica","volume":"253 ","pages":"Article 104750"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-01-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143045387","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 use of virtual reality-assisted interventions on psychological well-being and treatment adherence among kidney transplant recipients: A randomized controlled study","authors":"Chao Zhong ,&nbsp;Lin Yao ,&nbsp;Lanlan Chen ,&nbsp;Xiaofen Wang ,&nbsp;Xiaohui Zhu ,&nbsp;Yihong Wen ,&nbsp;Lei Deng ,&nbsp;Jiafu Chen ,&nbsp;Jialiang Hui ,&nbsp;Lisha Shi ,&nbsp;Lijuan You","doi":"10.1016/j.actpsy.2025.104700","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.actpsy.2025.104700","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This randomized controlled trial aims to investigate the effects of educational and psychological interventions on the health outcomes of patients suffering from chronic diseases. We recruited 372 patients and randomly assigned them to one of two intervention arms during the trial, which lasted for a year. Both groups participated in a 12-month intervention program, where the intervention group received health education and supportive psychological therapy utilizing virtual reality (VR) technology, while the control group received conventional health education guidance. Statistical analysis showed that compared to the control group, the intervention group demonstrated significant improvements (<em>p &lt;</em> 0.05) in depression assessment scores, compliance scores, and Barthel functional scoring. However, the two groups had no significant difference in the incidence of complications and health knowledge mastery. Additionally, the intervention group had fewer hospitalization days than the control group, with statistically significant differences. The research results prove that targeted intervention effectively improves medication adherence, patient awareness, and reduces patient hospitalization days, which is particularly important for managing chronic diseases.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":7141,"journal":{"name":"Acta Psychologica","volume":"253 ","pages":"Article 104700"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-01-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143045391","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":"Dilemma: Utilizing the activation decision-construction-action theory to understand and predict children's hypothetical decisions to conceal cases of school bullying","authors":"Ipek Isik ,&nbsp;Joshua Wyman ,&nbsp;Hannah Cassidy ,&nbsp;Victoria Talwar","doi":"10.1016/j.actpsy.2025.104744","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.actpsy.2025.104744","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The Decision component of the Activation-Decision-Construction-Action theory (ADCAT) proposes that if people perceive the benefits of lying higher than the truth, they are more likely to lie. To expand on the existing ADCAT research, the current study investigated the cost-benefit appraisals of 115 children ages 7-to-14 when concealing information about school bullying. Further, the current study examined the impact of the type of bullying (verbal vs. physical), type of exposure to bullying (victim vs. bystander-witness), and familiarity of the person to whom they could disclose (familiar adult vs. unfamiliar adult) when evaluating ADCAT. The results indicate that the expected value of lie-telling and motivation to lie were only significantly related to decisions to lie when the child is the victim of physical bullying and being questioned by a familiar person. Whereas the expected value of truth-telling was only significantly related to decisions to lie when the child is the victim of verbal bullying and being questioned by an unfamiliar person. Discriminant function analysis models were also statistically significant for these two vignettes, meaning that ADCAT-dependent measures could be used to accurately classify the truth and lie tellers for these two vignettes. Furthermore, developmental factors such as age, gender and Theory-of-Mind skills of the ADCAT-dependent measures within each scenario were examined. This study provides further understanding of the complexities in cases of school bullying, particularly as it relates to social-cognitive factors that encourage or discourage children and adolescents from disclosing these events.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":7141,"journal":{"name":"Acta Psychologica","volume":"253 ","pages":"Article 104744"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-01-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143045384","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":"Pitch-based correspondences related to abstract concepts","authors":"L. Vainio,&nbsp;A. Wikström,&nbsp;M. Vainio","doi":"10.1016/j.actpsy.2025.104754","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.actpsy.2025.104754","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Previous investigations have shown pitch-based correspondences with various perceptual and conceptual attributes. The present study reveals two novel pitch-based correspondences with highly abstract concepts. Three experiments with varying levels of implicitness of the association task showed that the concepts of <em>future</em> and <em>in</em> are associated with high-pitch sounds, while <em>past</em> and <em>out</em> are associated with low-pitch sounds. Hence, pitch-based correspondences can be observed even with temporal concepts that cannot be unambiguously represented in any perceptual format, at least, without spatial metaphorization. The correspondence effects were even more robust with the abstract temporal concepts of <em>future/past</em> than with more concrete spatial concepts of <em>in/out</em>. We propose that these effects might emerge from semantic multimodal abstraction processes mediated by affective dimensions of particular concepts.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":7141,"journal":{"name":"Acta Psychologica","volume":"253 ","pages":"Article 104754"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-01-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143035754","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":"A study on how to improve students' continuance intention in landscape architecture conservation course within a virtual learning environment based on SVVR","authors":"Yang Li ,&nbsp;Yi Yang ,&nbsp;Silu Bao","doi":"10.1016/j.actpsy.2024.104661","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.actpsy.2024.104661","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>With the rapid pace of global urbanization, preserving natural landscapes has become increasingly critical. However, urbanization presents significant environmental risks worsened by decreased ecological consciousness. This has led to a pressing demand for education in landscape conservation. While university curricula begin to focus on this area, the shortcomings of conventional teaching methods are apparent, especially in technology-supported learning. Therefore, it is crucial to incorporate cutting-edge technologies to devise novel educational strategies that improve students' learning experiences and achievements. Based on the relevant variables from the UTAUT model, coolness theory, and flow theory, this study constructs a structural equation model to assess students' intention to continue using SVVR teaching materials. The model includes external factors like performance expectancy, effort expectancy, perceived sustainability, self-efficacy, flow, and perceived coolness. A survey of 382 students was conducted, and the data were analyzed using structural equation modeling (SEM). Results indicated that: 1) students' intention to use SVVR educational resources is significantly affected by their attitude and flow; 2) performance expectancy, effort expectancy, perceived coolness, perceived sustainability, and self-efficacy have a positive impact on attitude, whereas flow does not directly affect attitude, and 3) there is a positive relationship between self-efficacy and flow. These insights are instrumental in developing and implementing SVVR educational materials for landscape conservation classes. They confirm the utility of the expanded UTAUT model, providing a methodological framework for its use in similar settings.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":7141,"journal":{"name":"Acta Psychologica","volume":"253 ","pages":"Article 104661"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-01-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143035669","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}