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Understanding How Athletes Manage Uncertainty in Sport. 了解运动员如何管理运动中的不确定性。

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Behavioral Sciences Pub Date : 2026-04-21 DOI: 10.3390/bs16040616

Ran Assa, Abira Reizer

{"title":"Understanding How Athletes Manage Uncertainty in Sport.","authors":"Ran Assa, Abira Reizer","doi":"10.3390/bs16040616","DOIUrl":"10.3390/bs16040616","url":null,"abstract":"Uncertainty is a central feature of sport and has been extensively examined in sport science, primarily from performance-oriented perspectives such as anticipation, decision-making, and motor control. However, less attention has been given to how athletes subjectively perceive and experience uncertainty and how these interpretations shape their responses. The present study addresses this gap by exploring athletes' lived experiences of uncertainty in sport. Using a qualitative design, semi-structured interviews were conducted with former youth athletes from various sports. Data were analyzed using thematic analysis, generating 15 themes organized across key dimensions of uncertainty, including unpredictability, lack of information, internal versus external sources, and the appraisal of uncertainty as a threat or a challenge. Findings indicate that uncertainty is experienced as a multifaceted and subjective phenomenon shaped by perceived control, prior experience, and situational context. Athletes differed in how they interpreted uncertainty, with some perceiving it as threatening and others as an opportunity for growth, which in turn influenced emotional responses and coping strategies. Key coping mechanisms included communication, information seeking, social support, and focusing on controllable aspects of performance. These findings extend existing sport science literature by integrating experiential and interpretative dimensions of uncertainty with established performance-based approaches. Furthermore, the results suggest conceptual links with the construct of intolerance of uncertainty (IU), highlighting the potential value of examining individual differences in how athletes appraise and manage uncertainty. The study provides an exploratory foundation for future research integrating IU within sport contexts and underscores the importance of addressing both subjective and performance-related aspects of uncertainty in sport psychology.","PeriodicalId":8742,"journal":{"name":"Behavioral Sciences","volume":"16 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2026-04-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13112974/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147809844","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Incorporating the Psychological Perspective into Traditional Prevention in Pediatric Dentistry with the PaFein+ Project: Trained Parents Can Help. 通过PaFein+项目将心理学观点纳入儿科牙科传统预防：训练有素的父母可以提供帮助。

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Behavioral Sciences Pub Date : 2026-04-21 DOI: 10.3390/bs16040620

Aneta Munteanu, Arina Vinereanu, Ruxandra Sfeatcu, Mihaela Tănase, Ilie-Andrei Condurache, Annelyse Garret-Bernardin, Alessandra Putrino, Özgür Önder Kușçu, Sertac Peker, Betul Kargul, Angela Galeotti

{"title":"Incorporating the Psychological Perspective into Traditional Prevention in Pediatric Dentistry with the PaFein+ Project: Trained Parents Can Help.","authors":"Aneta Munteanu, Arina Vinereanu, Ruxandra Sfeatcu, Mihaela Tănase, Ilie-Andrei Condurache, Annelyse Garret-Bernardin, Alessandra Putrino, Özgür Önder Kușçu, Sertac Peker, Betul Kargul, Angela Galeotti","doi":"10.3390/bs16040620","DOIUrl":"10.3390/bs16040620","url":null,"abstract":"Background: Emotional aspects of early dental experiences have long-lasting effects. This study aimed to assess parents' childhood dental experiences and their impact on current attitudes toward dental treatment and to evaluate the subjectively perceived usefulness of an educational material focused on psychological management of children's dental visits.Methods: A cross-sectional descriptive pilot study was conducted using an educational booklet developed and distributed to parents, who read it and completed a short questionnaire. Responses received between 27 February-31 March 2025 were analyzed using IBM SPSS Statistics 25.Results: A total of 142 parents (88% mothers) participated. Most participants (83.1%) had a university degree. Negative childhood dental experiences were reported by 44.4% (more frequent among mothers, p < 0.001), and 18.3% had shared these experiences with their children. Emotional discomfort during dental visits was reported by 61.3% of respondents. Dental anxiety was significantly associated with negative childhood experiences (p < 0.001). Parents with higher education were more likely to choose a certified paedodontist for their child than a nearby general dentist (p = 0.002). Most parents (97.9%) found the material provided helpful for managing future dental visits, and 91.6% were willing to share it with others.Conclusions: Childhood dental fear and anxiety may persist into adulthood. Despite the limited generalizability of our results, parents appreciated targeted resources which may support them in promoting positive dental experiences for their children.","PeriodicalId":8742,"journal":{"name":"Behavioral Sciences","volume":"16 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2026-04-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13113702/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147810149","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Social Media Use Profiles in Adolescents: A Cluster Analysis of Interpersonal Difficulties and Social Anxiety. 青少年社交媒体使用概况：人际关系困难与社交焦虑的聚类分析。

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Behavioral Sciences Pub Date : 2026-04-21 DOI: 10.3390/bs16040619

Natalia Morán-Pallero, Elena Felipe-Castaño, Margarita Gozalo, Marina Rojas-Valverde

{"title":"Social Media Use Profiles in Adolescents: A Cluster Analysis of Interpersonal Difficulties and Social Anxiety.","authors":"Natalia Morán-Pallero, Elena Felipe-Castaño, Margarita Gozalo, Marina Rojas-Valverde","doi":"10.3390/bs16040619","DOIUrl":"10.3390/bs16040619","url":null,"abstract":"Social media (SM) are virtual platforms for interpersonal interactions and play a significant role in the well-being of adolescents. It is therefore essential to understand how they use SM and how this use relates to interpersonal difficulties and social anxiety. The primary aim of this study was to examine SM use profiles together with interpersonal difficulties and social anxiety in a sample of adolescents. The sample comprised 304 adolescents aged 16-18 years, selected through probabilistic sampling: 170 (55.9%) were female and 134 (44.1%) were male. Four SM use profiles were identified, according to sex, time spent on SM, and number of accounts. Differences in interpersonal difficulties and social anxiety were observed across profiles, particularly among adolescents who showed intensive SM-centred use of the internet. Differences between males and females were also evident. The findings and their implications for the development of programmes aimed at encouraging healthy SM use among adolescents with a special focus on interpersonal well-being are discussed.","PeriodicalId":8742,"journal":{"name":"Behavioral Sciences","volume":"16 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2026-04-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13113016/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147810204","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Social Transformation in Environmental Awareness: The Role of Hospital Employees in the Transformation Process-Results of a Survey in Germany. 环境意识的社会转型：医院员工在转型过程中的作用——德国的一项调查结果。

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Behavioral Sciences Pub Date : 2026-04-21 DOI: 10.3390/bs16040622

Berit Schoppen, Katja Falta, Thomas Ostermann

{"title":"Social Transformation in Environmental Awareness: The Role of Hospital Employees in the Transformation Process-Results of a Survey in Germany.","authors":"Berit Schoppen, Katja Falta, Thomas Ostermann","doi":"10.3390/bs16040622","DOIUrl":"10.3390/bs16040622","url":null,"abstract":"Against the backdrop of increasing challenges posed by ongoing climate change, pollution and its associated implications and environmental and climate protection measures have become the focus of politics and society in recent years. But adaptation and mitigation require changes in behavior among the population. This means that a process of social transformation must take place. Based on the thesis that people working in healthcare facilities can make a relevant contribution to the social transformation of environmental awareness, this study examines the general and workplace-related environmental awareness of hospital employees. Risk awareness, measure effectiveness, transformation costs and the subjective social norm factors were included, which eventually influence this awareness. Therefore, a mixed study design consisting of an original study and a systematic replication study was used. Data were analyzed using structural equation modeling (path analysis) to identify key predictors of environmental awareness and behavior. The results show that hospital employees generally have a high level of environmental awareness compared to the general population in Germany. This is also evident in their awareness of workplace-related measures. However, influencing factors such as transformation costs in particular mean that measures, even if they are considered effective, are only implemented to a limited extent by hospital employees. With regard to the question of whether hospital employees can play a key role in the social transformation process, this study does not provide sufficient evidence to answer this question.","PeriodicalId":8742,"journal":{"name":"Behavioral Sciences","volume":"16 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2026-04-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13113362/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147810158","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Musical Participation, Resilience, and Locus of Control in Musicians from the Margins. 边缘音乐家的音乐参与、复原力与控制点。

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Behavioral Sciences Pub Date : 2026-04-21 DOI: 10.3390/bs16040618

Beatriz Ilari, Graziela Bortz, Nayana Di Giuseppe Germano, Hugo Cogo-Moreira

{"title":"Musical Participation, Resilience, and Locus of Control in Musicians from the Margins.","authors":"Beatriz Ilari, Graziela Bortz, Nayana Di Giuseppe Germano, Hugo Cogo-Moreira","doi":"10.3390/bs16040618","DOIUrl":"10.3390/bs16040618","url":null,"abstract":"Recent studies suggest that prolonged participation in formal music programs may be associated with the cultivation of resilience and locus of control (LoC) in music students. Brazilian musicians, who were attending or had attended community-based music programs, and a group of matched, untrained individuals from disadvantaged, urban communities completed the Connor-Davidson Scale of Resilience (RISC), the Craig Locus of Control Scale, and the ABEP 2022-Brazilian Criteria of Economic Classification questionnaire. Results suggested that while musical participation alone was not associated with resilience and LoC scores (model 1), a conditional restriction of the same model (model 2) showed a significant interaction between musical participation, age, and RISC and LoC scores, after controlling for SES. Among musicians, higher age was associated with higher resilience scores and internal LoC. Findings from this exploratory study are discussed in light of the multifaceted nature of community-based music programs, the building blocks of resilience and LoC. We also comment on the potential links between resilience and LoC in relation to musical participation and well-being. Limitations of this study are discussed alongside implications for future research.","PeriodicalId":8742,"journal":{"name":"Behavioral Sciences","volume":"16 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2026-04-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13114226/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147810398","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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"No Fair!": Children's Perceptions of Fairness in Merit-Based Distributions. “不公平!”儿童在择优分配中的公平感。

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Behavioral Sciences Pub Date : 2026-04-21 DOI: 10.3390/bs16040617

Meltem Yucel, Madeline Brence, Amrisha Vaish

{"title":"\"No Fair!\": Children's Perceptions of Fairness in Merit-Based Distributions.","authors":"Meltem Yucel, Madeline Brence, Amrisha Vaish","doi":"10.3390/bs16040617","DOIUrl":"10.3390/bs16040617","url":null,"abstract":"Recent research by Yucel and colleagues suggests that children perceive equality-based fairness violations (resources being distributed unequally) as less serious than prototypical moral harms, but that making the harmful consequences of unfairness salient shifts these judgments toward the moral domain. We examined whether merit-based fairness violations (someone receiving less than they earned) would similarly shift judgments toward the moral domain by making the injustice more salient. Replicating prior work, 4-year-old children (N = 62) rated prototypical moral violations as significantly more severe than equality-based fairness violations, which were rated as similar in severity to conventional violations. Contrary to predictions, merit-based fairness violations also showed this pattern: They were judged as less severe than prototypical moral violations and similarly severe as both equality-based fairness violations and conventional violations. Children also did not consistently group either type of fairness violation with moral or conventional violations. These findings contribute to a growing body of evidence that children's (and adults') perceptions of fairness-whether equality-based or merit-based-are more nuanced than previously thought and that unfairness may not spontaneously be treated like other, more prototypical moral norm violations.","PeriodicalId":8742,"journal":{"name":"Behavioral Sciences","volume":"16 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2026-04-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13113042/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147809954","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Disaster Emotion: When Media Messages Emphasize Self-Interested Responses. 灾难情绪：当媒体信息强调自利反应时。

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Behavioral Sciences Pub Date : 2026-04-21 DOI: 10.3390/bs16040621

Soyoung Kim, Christopher Stream, Suyeon Lee

{"title":"Disaster Emotion: When Media Messages Emphasize Self-Interested Responses.","authors":"Soyoung Kim, Christopher Stream, Suyeon Lee","doi":"10.3390/bs16040621","DOIUrl":"10.3390/bs16040621","url":null,"abstract":"Media coverage of disasters frequently frames self-interested behavior in contrast to collective responsibility and coordinated response. This study aims to explore how such behavior is emotionally constructed in disaster-related media, using a carefully selected corpus of 12 text-centered news articles focusing on selfish behavior. The analysis combines transformer-based sentence-level emotion classification using the tweetnlp RoBERTa model, which predicts 11 emotion categories, with Latent Dirichlet Allocation topic modeling across single-sentence and three-sentence windows in a small purposively selected corpus. Emotion-topic relationships are quantified by weighting emotion probabilities by topic distributions and visualized using bar charts, network graphs, and heatmaps. The findings suggest that fear and disgust dominate portrayals of self-interested behavior, while anticipation appears in projections of harm and anger is linked to inequality and institutional accountability. Two discursive configurations emerge: Responsibility Across Individuals and Institutions, emphasizing public accountability and authority, and Collective Fear and Self-Protective Practices, reflecting affect-driven responses under uncertainty. Although negative emotions predominate, optimism appears conditionally, signaling coordination and recovery. Overall, disaster reporting constructs selfishness through integrated emotional-semantic patterns that position individual actions within broader social risk and collective responsibility.","PeriodicalId":8742,"journal":{"name":"Behavioral Sciences","volume":"16 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2026-04-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13114058/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147810178","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Psychometric Validation of the Spanish Version of the Luxembourg Workplace Mobbing Scale (LWMS): Structural Equation Modeling, and Item Response Theory Evidence. 西班牙语版卢森堡职场骚扰量表（LWMS）的心理测量验证：结构方程模型和项目反应理论证据。

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Behavioral Sciences Pub Date : 2026-04-21 DOI: 10.3390/bs16040615

Jonatan Baños-Chaparro, Andrei Franco-Jimenez, Javier Hildebrando Espinoza Escobar, Tomás Caycho-Rodríguez, Fabio Cesar Saldivar Celis

{"title":"Psychometric Validation of the Spanish Version of the Luxembourg Workplace Mobbing Scale (LWMS): Structural Equation Modeling, and Item Response Theory Evidence.","authors":"Jonatan Baños-Chaparro, Andrei Franco-Jimenez, Javier Hildebrando Espinoza Escobar, Tomás Caycho-Rodríguez, Fabio Cesar Saldivar Celis","doi":"10.3390/bs16040615","DOIUrl":"10.3390/bs16040615","url":null,"abstract":"Introduction: Workplace mobbing is a psychosocial risk factor associated with adverse mental health outcomes, including depression, anxiety, and suicidal ideation. Accurate assessment of this phenomenon is essential for both research and applied settings; however, validated brief instruments in Spanish remain limited. The Luxembourg Workplace Mobbing Scale (LWMS) is a short measure with sound psychometric properties that allows efficient evaluation of exposure to workplace mobbing. Objective: Translation and validation of the LWMS into Spanish in adults. Methods: A total of 345 adults (51.3% women) participated, completing a sociodemographic questionnaire and psychological instruments. Statistical analyses were conducted using structural equation modelling and item response theory. Results: The LWMS demonstrated adequate content validity; a unidimensional structure (CFI = 0.99, RMSEA = 0.04 [90% CI: 0.001, 0.092], SRMR = 0.02); and reliability (ω = 0.79, H = 0.86 and rxx = 0.78). In addition, significant associations were found with depressive symptoms (r = 0.37, p = 0.001), generalised anxiety (r = 0.38, p = 0.001), and suicidal ideation (r = 0.27, p = 0.001). Item 2 showed the highest discrimination and information, and the scale proved to be accurate at higher levels of workplace mobbing. Conclusions: The Spanish version of the LWMS shows solid evidence of validity and reliability, supporting its use as a brief and precise instrument for assessing workplace mobbing in adult populations. Its strong psychometric performance and clinical relevance make it suitable for research, screening, and preventive interventions in occupational settings.","PeriodicalId":8742,"journal":{"name":"Behavioral Sciences","volume":"16 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2026-04-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13112981/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147810152","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Marijuana Consumption and Reactivity Are Positively Associated with the Fading Affect Bias for Marijuana Events in Person and Online. 大麻消费和反应性与个人和网络大麻事件的消退影响偏差呈正相关。

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Behavioral Sciences Pub Date : 2026-04-20 DOI: 10.3390/bs16040611

Jeffrey Alan Gibbons, Chayse Angela Cotton, Matthew Traversa, Emma Friedmann, Kaylee Harris

{"title":"Marijuana Consumption and Reactivity Are Positively Associated with the Fading Affect Bias for Marijuana Events in Person and Online.","authors":"Jeffrey Alan Gibbons, Chayse Angela Cotton, Matthew Traversa, Emma Friedmann, Kaylee Harris","doi":"10.3390/bs16040611","DOIUrl":"10.3390/bs16040611","url":null,"abstract":"The fading affect bias (FAB) is the faster fading of unpleasant than pleasant affect, and this effect is positively and negatively related to healthy/adaptive and unhealthy/non-adaptive outcomes, respectively. Research has argued that the FAB makes people happy and it prompts them to seek out pleasant experiences. Although Pillersdorf and Scoboria found a negative relation between the FAB and marijuana consumption, they only examined non-marijuana events. This investigation was limited because the relation between the FAB and marijuana consumption may be absent or positive for marijuana events. The current study examined the relation of the FAB to marijuana consumption measures across marijuana and non-marijuana events. The study was conducted both in person (Experiment 1; n = 328) and online (Experiment 2; n = 232). Analyses included ANOVAs to examine fading affect across initial event affect and event type, and Process Model 1 was used to evaluate the fading affect bias across initial event affect in 2-way interactions with continuous variables. Process Model 3 was used to investigate fading affect across initial event affect and event type in 3-way interactions with continuous variables. Both experiments showed a robust FAB that was positively related to adaptive variables and negatively related to non-adaptive variables, and it was positively related to marijuana consumption/reactivity. In addition, the positive relations between FAB and marijuana consumption (hours) and reactivity (highness) measures in Experiment 1 and a marijuana reactivity measure (highness) in Experiment 2 were only found for marijuana events. Implications, limitations, and future research directions are discussed.","PeriodicalId":8742,"journal":{"name":"Behavioral Sciences","volume":"16 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2026-04-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13114057/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147810119","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Hidden Harm-Exploring the Utility of Geostatistical Analysis to Identify Child Criminal Exploitation (CCE). 隐患——探索地质统计分析在识别儿童剥削犯罪中的应用。

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Behavioral Sciences Pub Date : 2026-04-20 DOI: 10.3390/bs16040613

Antoinette Keaney-Bell, Colm Walsh

{"title":"Hidden Harm-Exploring the Utility of Geostatistical Analysis to Identify Child Criminal Exploitation (CCE).","authors":"Antoinette Keaney-Bell, Colm Walsh","doi":"10.3390/bs16040613","DOIUrl":"10.3390/bs16040613","url":null,"abstract":"This interdisciplinary study integrates criminological theory with geospatial methods to analyse large, multi-format datasets using geostatistical techniques. The aim is to predict where Child Criminal Exploitation (CCE) is likely to cluster, based on the spatial convergence of contextual risk factors. Drawing on insights from General Strain Theory (GST) and prior research on CCE, this study integrated seven open-source datasets capturing educational attainment, age demographics, violent crime, deprivation, and paramilitary-related violence. These variables were operationalised to construct a proxy measure for strain. Spatial analysis was conducted using ArcGIS Pro, including the Data Interoperability extension, to enable efficient integration and interrogation of multi-format geospatial data. Geospatial analysis demonstrated that contextual risk factors for CCE are spatially clustered. Using four search parameters, a small subset of wards with elevated risk were identified. This resulted in a reduction in ward locations by 85-99%, land area under investigation from 14.45% to 0.84%, and affected population from 17.91% to 1.41%, enabling more targeted and efficient resource allocation. As understanding of the contextual factors contributing to CCE improves, this methodological approach offers scalable and data-driven means of identifying high-risk areas. By integrating geospatial analysis with criminological theory, the model supports more effective safeguarding strategies and prioritisation of limited public resources. This study is limited by the absence of multi-agency datasets, which were beyond its scope. Future research aims to incorporate cross-sector data to validate and refine the model through ground-truthing, enhancing its predictive accuracy and practical applicability.","PeriodicalId":8742,"journal":{"name":"Behavioral Sciences","volume":"16 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2026-04-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13113443/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147810150","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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