Slobodan Pavlović, Vladan Pelemiš, Marko Badrić, Dalibor Stević, Nebojša Mitrović
{"title":"Moving Minds: How Physical Activity Shapes Motivation and Self-Concept in School Children.","authors":"Slobodan Pavlović, Vladan Pelemiš, Marko Badrić, Dalibor Stević, Nebojša Mitrović","doi":"10.3390/bs15050629","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3390/bs15050629","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>This study aimed to investigate the differences in motivation and physical self-concept among pupils based on their level of physical activity during physical education classes.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>The research encompassed 398 pupils (aged 10 ± 0.3 years), including 211 boys and 187 girls, divided into three groups according to their level of physical activity during class (Group A-low; Group B-medium; Group C-high). The modified Self-Regulation Questionnaire was used to evaluate pupils' motivational orientations, while the corresponding subscales of the Self-Perception Profile for Children (SPPC) were employed to measure physical self-concept. Pupils' physical activity (measured in steps and intensity) during physical education classes was assessed using CoachGear pedometers and Suunto Memory Belt heart rate monitors.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The findings revealed significant differences between the groups of pupils of both genders concerning their physical activity levels during early school years. Notably, these differences were more pronounced in boys than in girls. Additionally, it was observed that less active pupils generally exhibited lower levels of motivation as well as lower physical self-concept scores.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Pupils with higher levels of physical activity during physical education classes demonstrated greater motivation and a more positive physical self-concept, highlighting the crucial role of engagement in fostering both psychological and physical development. These findings underscore the need for well-structured and engaging physical education programs that support active participation and enhance pupils' overall well-being.</p>","PeriodicalId":8742,"journal":{"name":"Behavioral Sciences","volume":"15 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2025-05-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144155629","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Social Context of Malevolent Creativity.","authors":"Harun Tadik, A Kadir Bahar, Mark A Runco","doi":"10.3390/bs15050630","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3390/bs15050630","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The purpose of the present study was to investigate the influence of social context and morality on malevolent creativity. The sample consisted of 217 (176 female, 41 male) undergraduate and graduate students in a Southeastern public research university in the U.S. Six different open-ended socially oriented problems (three Divergent Thinking (DT) Social Games and three DT Realistic Presented Problems tasks) were used to explore the way malevolent creativity differs in two sets of problem tasks. Realistic Presented Problems are constructed differently from Social Games tasks in such a way that they include unfair, disturbing, and threatening contextual factors, while Social Games problems have more neutral and everyday problem scenarios. Participants also completed the Self-Report of Creative Traits and morality measures. The findings of the study indicated that fluency and originality were related significantly to malevolent creativity. Further, social contexts in DT tasks led to a significant difference in malevolent creativity. Participants generated significantly more malevolent creative responses in Realistic Presented Problems than in Social Games tasks. The results also revealed that morality was significantly correlated with creative personality, but the results provided no evidence that morality moderates the relation between creativity indices and malevolent creativity.</p>","PeriodicalId":8742,"journal":{"name":"Behavioral Sciences","volume":"15 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2025-05-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144155958","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Modeling K12 Teachers' Online Teaching Competency and Its Predictive Relationship with Performance-A Mixed-Methods Study Based on Behavioral Event Interviews.","authors":"Jun Tian, Wenhui Tian","doi":"10.3390/bs15050628","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3390/bs15050628","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study constructs and validates a multidimensional online teaching competency model for K12 teachers through an integrated mixed-methods design. Combining behavioral event interviews (<i>n</i> = 38) with large-scale psychometric evaluation (<i>n</i> = 4378), we identified six hierarchically organized competency dimensions encompassing 29 measurable elements. The model differentiates between 12 discriminative competencies and 17 baseline competencies, further categorized into explicit (knowledge, technical, instructional, management) and implicit (achievement orientation, individual traits) dimensions. Exploratory and confirmatory analyses validated the model's robust multidimensional structure (CFI = 0.923, TLI = 0.914, RMSEA = 0.042). Structural equation modeling revealed significant competency-performance linkages, with 10 of 12 hypothesized paths attaining statistical significance (<i>p</i> < 0.05). Management competencies emerged as the strongest predictor of both process (β = 0.37) and outcome performance (β = 0.29), followed by instructional competencies (β = 0.31 and 0.24 respectively). The model provides empirically grounded guidance for developing online teaching norms, competency-based teacher training programs, and performance evaluation systems.</p>","PeriodicalId":8742,"journal":{"name":"Behavioral Sciences","volume":"15 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2025-05-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144155665","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Natalie Fensterstock, Kate R Watson, Luz E Robinson, Vanessa R Warri, Anthony A Garcia, Chaoyue Wu, Sawyer Hogenkamp, Yinuo Xu, Hannah Garner, Danielle Dunn, Ron Avi Astor, Dorothy L Espelage, Susan D McMahon, Linda A Reddy, Andrew Martinez, Eric M Anderman, Frank C Worrell
{"title":"Social Workers' Reports on Needs and Recommendations to Enhance School Safety.","authors":"Natalie Fensterstock, Kate R Watson, Luz E Robinson, Vanessa R Warri, Anthony A Garcia, Chaoyue Wu, Sawyer Hogenkamp, Yinuo Xu, Hannah Garner, Danielle Dunn, Ron Avi Astor, Dorothy L Espelage, Susan D McMahon, Linda A Reddy, Andrew Martinez, Eric M Anderman, Frank C Worrell","doi":"10.3390/bs15050627","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3390/bs15050627","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Issues with school safety and violence have raised concerns that warrant attention from researchers, policy makers, and practitioners alike. In this study, we explored how school social workers-a group of school personnel who are understudied in the school violence literature-experience school safety and violence in the United States. Using a sample of 271 school social workers, we analyzed qualitative responses to two open-ended survey questions: (a) What are the most concerning safety issues facing educators and staff in your school? (b) What policies, procedures, resources, or interventions are needed to better prevent or address violence in your school? Data were collected online between March and June 2022 by the American Psychological Association Task Force on Violence against Educators and School Personnel. Derived using a socioecological framework, findings reflect school social workers' needs for workplace safety and perspectives on how to prevent and mitigate school violence at the school site, district, and community levels. Implications range from promoting strong relationships in schools and between the school and community to bolstering funding sources that can sustain programs, training, and staffing aimed at improving experiences for all students. The implications of our findings for future research and practice are presented.</p>","PeriodicalId":8742,"journal":{"name":"Behavioral Sciences","volume":"15 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2025-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144156088","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Kristie-Lee R Alfrey, Matthew Condie, Amanda L Rebar
{"title":"The Influence of Identity Within-Person and Between Behaviours: A 12-Week Repeated Measures Study.","authors":"Kristie-Lee R Alfrey, Matthew Condie, Amanda L Rebar","doi":"10.3390/bs15050623","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3390/bs15050623","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>People act in ways that align with the values and roles that constitute their identity. However, the consistency of identity's influence across different behaviours, and whether identity influences behaviours directly or indirectly via intention, self-determined motivation, or habit, remains uncertain. Participants (<i>N</i> = 98; <i>Mage</i> = 30.4 years, <i>SD</i> = 11.7 years) completed up to 12 weekly surveys, self-reporting engagement in physical activity, student, and support-seeking behaviours, and behaviour-associated identity, intention strength, self-determined motivation, and habit. Stepwise multilevel models tested the between- and within-person associations of identity with behaviour, and whether the relationships remained after accounting for intention, self-determined motivation, and habit. Results suggested identity as stable, with the most variability at the between-person level. Identity was associated with behaviour at both within- and between-person levels, with the exception that support seeking and identity were only associated between-person. For student behaviour and physical activity, the identity-behaviour relationship at the within-person level waned and became non-significant after accounting for intention, but not self-determined motivation or habit. These findings highlight that identity may be difficult to change. However, as identity is associated with a range of behaviours, a person's identification with a particular behaviour may be valuable for tailoring behaviour change interventions, specifically through or in the same way as behavioural intentions.</p>","PeriodicalId":8742,"journal":{"name":"Behavioral Sciences","volume":"15 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2025-05-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144156106","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Małgorzata Dębska-Janus, Michał Rozpara, Agnieszka Muchacka-Cymerman, Paweł Dębski, Rajmund Tomik
{"title":"Health Behaviors in the Context of Optimism and Self-Efficacy-The Role of Gender Differences: A Cross-Sectional Study in Polish Health Sciences Students.","authors":"Małgorzata Dębska-Janus, Michał Rozpara, Agnieszka Muchacka-Cymerman, Paweł Dębski, Rajmund Tomik","doi":"10.3390/bs15050626","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3390/bs15050626","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study examines the roles of optimism and self-efficacy in influencing health behaviors among Polish health sciences students, with a focus on gender differences. A cross-sectional design was used with a sample of 318 students. The General Self-Efficacy Scale (GSES), the Life Orientation Test-Revised (LOT-R), and the Health Behavior Inventory (HBI) were used to assess self-efficacy, optimism, and health behaviors' (HB) intensity, respectively. The variation in the HB was significant concerning the level of dispositional optimism (<i>F</i>(2, 312) = 4.22, <i>p</i> = 0.016, η<sup>2</sup>p = 0.03). LOT-R results turned out to be a statistically significant condition for higher frequency of positive mental attitude (PMA) behaviors and preventive actions (PAs). Gender differences were observed: higher scores of PMA and PhA were more frequent among men, whilst women were characterized with higher PA. The effect of gender and both GSES and LOT-R for the HBI results was statistically significant in two subscales (with LOT-R for PhA and with GSES for PA). These findings enhance the understanding of psychological determinants of health behaviors and suggest practical implications for educational and public health strategies. Gender turned out to be a significant determinant of some relationships between health behaviors and the examined dispositions in Polish health sciences students.</p>","PeriodicalId":8742,"journal":{"name":"Behavioral Sciences","volume":"15 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2025-05-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144156094","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Haley R Hedrick, Stephanie V Caldas, Danielle N Moyer
{"title":"The Impact of Parenting Avoidance (IPA): Scale Development and Psychometric Evaluation Among Parents of Transgender Youth.","authors":"Haley R Hedrick, Stephanie V Caldas, Danielle N Moyer","doi":"10.3390/bs15050625","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3390/bs15050625","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Parental support and acceptance are strong protective factors for better mental health outcomes among transgender and gender diverse youth. Psychological inflexibility, specifically in the role of parenting, or \"parenting inflexibility\", refers to an over-reliance on avoidance strategies at the expense of parenting values. Parenting inflexibility may be related to parental support, making it a useful target of intervention for parents of transgender youth. The aim of the present study was to develop a brief clinically useful measure of parenting inflexibility based on a synthesis of existing measures and to evaluate the psychometric properties across two study populations. Study 1 used exploratory factor analysis to examine this measure among parents in the general population recruited using MTurk. Study 2 used confirmatory factor analysis to examine the measure among parents of transgender youth recruited from a clinic. The final measure, the Impact of Parenting Avoidance (IPA) scale, is a one-factor 7-item measure of parenting inflexibility that is easy to administer and interpret in a pediatric health setting. The resulting measure demonstrated acceptable reliability, and it was significantly correlated with important outcome variables, such as negative parenting practices and lower perceived parental support among transgender and gender diverse youth.</p>","PeriodicalId":8742,"journal":{"name":"Behavioral Sciences","volume":"15 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2025-05-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144156158","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Julian Göbel, Lukas Degen, Karen Minder, Monika A Rieger, Birgitta M Weltermann
{"title":"Strong Association of Perceived Chronic Stress with Leadership Quality, Work-Privacy Conflict and Quantitative Work Demands: Results of the IMPROVE<i>job</i> Study.","authors":"Julian Göbel, Lukas Degen, Karen Minder, Monika A Rieger, Birgitta M Weltermann","doi":"10.3390/bs15050624","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3390/bs15050624","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The health of primary care professionals is crucial for the health of populations. A lower number of general practitioners per 1000 patients correlates with higher patient mortality. Challenging work demands, work-privacy conflict, and poor leadership quality are associated with higher perceived chronic stress and/or burnout in physician populations. However, studies investigating the influence of all three factors in a single quantitative model are lacking. This study analysed the associations between the mentioned parameters and perceived chronic stress among general practice personnel based on baseline data of the cluster-randomized IMPROVE<i>job</i> study. It comprised 60 German general practices with 366 participants (84 general practice leaders, 28 employed physicians, 254 practice assistants). Perceived chronic stress (TICS-SSCS), leadership quality (LMX-7, FIF), work-privacy conflict (COPSOQ), and quantitative and emotional work demands (COPSOQ) were measured with validated questionnaires. The factors associated with lower perceived chronic stress were identified using a multilevel regression model approach. The model showed a significant association with less work-privacy conflict (<i>p</i> < 0.001, <i>β</i> = 0.31), lower quantitative work demands (<i>p</i> < 0.001, <i>β</i> = 0.28), and good leadership quality (<i>p</i> < 0.001, <i>β</i> = -0.22). Especially transformational leadership with the dimension 'innovation of the leader' was associated with lower perceived chronic stress. The data support the importance of high-quality leadership as a protective factor for perceived chronic stress among general practice personnel, which needs to be considered in future leadership interventions in this setting.</p>","PeriodicalId":8742,"journal":{"name":"Behavioral Sciences","volume":"15 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2025-05-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144156095","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Yicen Meng, Yan Sun, Lizhu Yang, Yasmin Othman Mydin
{"title":"Mechanisms from Growth Mindset to Psychological Well-Being of Chinese Primary School Students: The Serial Mediating Role of Grit and Academic Self-Efficacy.","authors":"Yicen Meng, Yan Sun, Lizhu Yang, Yasmin Othman Mydin","doi":"10.3390/bs15050621","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3390/bs15050621","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The psychological well-being of primary school students holds significant value for their academic success and overall life development. A growth mindset is one of the critical factors influencing psychological well-being, yet the mechanisms through which a growth mindset exerts its impact remain underexplored. This study investigates the relationship between growth mindset and psychological well-being, focusing on the mediating role of grit and academic self-efficacy among primary school students. A sample of 301 students from a primary school in Northeast China was selected via convenience sampling. Data were collected using validated questionnaires and analyzed using SPSS 26.0. Serial mediation analysis was performed with Hayes' PROCESS macro (Model 6, V4.0). Results indicated that growth mindset indirectly predicted psychological well-being through grit and academic self-efficacy. Both constructs served as individual mediators and acted as serial mediators in the pathway from growth mindset to psychological well-being, fully bridging the connection. These findings suggest that fostering a growth mindset, along with grit and academic self-efficacy, can enhance psychological well-being among primary school students. Educators and policymakers are encouraged to implement interventions targeting these factors to support students' overall development.</p>","PeriodicalId":8742,"journal":{"name":"Behavioral Sciences","volume":"15 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2025-05-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144156287","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Luis F García, Lara Cuevas, Oscar García, Ferran Balada, Anton Aluja
{"title":"Alcohol Misuse: Integrating Personality Traits and Decision-Making Styles for Profiling.","authors":"Luis F García, Lara Cuevas, Oscar García, Ferran Balada, Anton Aluja","doi":"10.3390/bs15050622","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3390/bs15050622","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The literature has described how different and independent personality profiles (pathways or motives) lead to the same outcome: alcohol misuse. In addition, decision-making styles could also play a role in understanding alcohol misuse better, although the evidence is much more scarce compared to personality traits. The present paper aims to test how personality traits and decision-making styles could be integrated to better understand different pathways/profiles of alcohol misuse. Measures of alcohol misuse (AUDIT and RAPI), structural personality models (ZKA-PQ/SF), impulsivity (BIS-11 and UPPS-P), and decision-making styles (GDMS) were applied to a sample of 988 individuals from the Spanish general population (446 of them also completed the NEO-PI-R). Exploratory factor analyses support the identification of different pathways to alcohol misuse, and regression analyses suggest that decision-making styles add little variance to personality traits to account for differences in alcohol misuse, although the spontaneous style is consistently associated with alcohol misuse. The conclusions highlight the need to consider different aetiologies of alcohol misuse, especially an antisocial/disinhibited profile, and claim for the assessment of decision-making styles and, especially, personality traits to facilitate more successful treatment and prevention programs for alcohol misuse.</p>","PeriodicalId":8742,"journal":{"name":"Behavioral Sciences","volume":"15 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2025-05-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144156117","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}