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Therapists' perceptions of alliance barriers in the parent-therapist relationship when treating children who have experienced trauma. 治疗师在治疗经历过创伤的儿童时对亲子关系中联盟障碍的看法。

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Australian Journal of Psychology Pub Date : 2025-07-17 eCollection Date: 2025-01-01 DOI: 10.1080/00049530.2025.2528346

Simene Joffe, Veronica M Dwarika

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COVID-19 Unmasked: trajectories, risk and protective factors for mental health outcomes in young Australian children during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. 2019冠状病毒病揭秘：2019冠状病毒病大流行第一年澳大利亚幼儿心理健康结果的轨迹、风险和保护因素

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Australian Journal of Psychology Pub Date : 2025-06-29 eCollection Date: 2025-01-01 DOI: 10.1080/00049530.2025.2519037

Mira Vasileva, Eva Alisic, Vanessa E Cobham, Tahlia Gash, C M Hoeboer, Elisabeth Hoehn, Sonja March, Caroline Donovan, Christel M Middeldorp, Rebecca Moore, Alexandra De Young

{"title":"COVID-19 Unmasked: trajectories, risk and protective factors for mental health outcomes in young Australian children during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic.","authors":"Mira Vasileva, Eva Alisic, Vanessa E Cobham, Tahlia Gash, C M Hoeboer, Elisabeth Hoehn, Sonja March, Caroline Donovan, Christel M Middeldorp, Rebecca Moore, Alexandra De Young","doi":"10.1080/00049530.2025.2519037","DOIUrl":"10.1080/00049530.2025.2519037","url":null,"abstract":"Objective: Emerging evidence suggests a negative impact of COVID-19 on children's mental health. The aims of this study were to examine trajectories of mental health in children younger than 6 years as well as risk and protective factors during the first year of the pandemic.Method: In a prospective, longitudinal online study, data were collected on N = 837 children aged 1 to 5 years in Australia between May and July 2020 and after 3, 6 and 12 months, with n = 257 participating at all 4 timepoints. Individual trajectories ofanxiety, anger/irritability, depressive symptoms and sleep disturbance were analysed using latent growth mixture modelling.Results: The results showed that 1 in 4 children experienced moderate to severe symptoms in each problem domain. The overall means for depressive symptoms, anger/irritability, and sleep disturbance decreased while anxiety increased over time. For most outcomes, two individual trajectories were identified: moderate/high-decreasing (26-29%) andlow-increasing. Important predictors were negative COVID-19 related impact on daily life, caregiver distress, lower child positive affect and self-regulation.Conclusions: The current results highlight that the pandemic indirectly affected young children's mental health, especially in the presence of risk factors such as caregiver distress and poor child self-regulation skills.","PeriodicalId":8871,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Psychology","volume":"77 1","pages":"2519037"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-06-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12218426/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144641663","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}

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Practitioner perspectives on the child and youth mental health system in Australia: what needs to change? 从业者对澳大利亚儿童和青少年心理健康系统的看法：需要改变什么？

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Australian Journal of Psychology Pub Date : 2025-06-04 eCollection Date: 2025-01-01 DOI: 10.1080/00049530.2025.2509649

Janice M Kan, Trisha Nowland, Lucy A Tully, Olivia Liew, Lena Gibbons, David J Hawes, Mark R Dadds

{"title":"Practitioner perspectives on the child and youth mental health system in Australia: what needs to change?","authors":"Janice M Kan, Trisha Nowland, Lucy A Tully, Olivia Liew, Lena Gibbons, David J Hawes, Mark R Dadds","doi":"10.1080/00049530.2025.2509649","DOIUrl":"10.1080/00049530.2025.2509649","url":null,"abstract":"Objective: Mental health problems in children and young people in Australia are not improving and continue to have a costly impact. Significant changes to the current child youth mental health (CYMH) system are needed and should be informed by key stakeholders such as practitioners \"on the ground\" delivering services.Method: Australian practitioners (N = 206) working in CYMH were surveyed using quantitative rating scales and qualitative open-response items. The survey examined current waitlists and waitlist management strategies, treatment dropouts, perceived barriers to accessing care, satisfaction levels, and ease of navigating services.Results: Around 70% practitioners reported being dissatisfied with the current CYMH system in meeting the needs of children, young people, and families. About 50% reported it is difficult to navigate the system to find referrals. About half of practitioners reported their service currently has a waitlist. Of those practitioners, approximately 32% reported wait times of between one and three months, and 21% reported wait times of three-to-six months. Qualitative responses from practitioners highlighted several systems issues including long waitlists, underfunded public services, and a lack of specialised training in CYMH.Conclusion: The results reveal several practice, policy, and research priorities for improving the CYMH system in Australia.","PeriodicalId":8871,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Psychology","volume":"77 1","pages":"2509649"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-06-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12218569/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144641670","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}

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Lived experience inclusion in psychology education: a survey of Australian tertiary institutions. 生活经验融入心理学教育：对澳大利亚高等教育机构的调查。

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Australian Journal of Psychology Pub Date : 2025-06-02 eCollection Date: 2025-01-01 DOI: 10.1080/00049530.2025.2511882

Kim L Johnston, Judith Gullifer

{"title":"Lived experience inclusion in psychology education: a survey of Australian tertiary institutions.","authors":"Kim L Johnston, Judith Gullifer","doi":"10.1080/00049530.2025.2511882","DOIUrl":"10.1080/00049530.2025.2511882","url":null,"abstract":"Objective: To conduct a preliminary survey of staff involved in teaching accredited psychology units at Australian tertiary institutions about their inclusion of lived experience in education.Method: Academics were informed about the study by Heads of School/Directors of Education. Thirty-two educators across undergraduate and postgraduate psychology courses completed an online survey. Content analysis was used to identify recurring themes and patterns in the data.Results: Over 50% of the respondents were using their own or others' lived experience in their curriculum, with the primary reason being to enrich learning. The main barriers reported were resource constraints, perceived relevance, and work-safety concerns. Key enablers were identified as resourcing, leadership support, and increasing acceptability of lived experience. Almost two thirds of respondents self-identified as having personal lived experience.Conclusions: This study provides an initial snapshot of the current state of lived experience inclusion in Australian psychology tertiary education. The findings are of importance for our discipline to maintain consistency with other disciplines and ensure we are preparing graduates to effectively contribute to a workforce which values consumer and community expertise.","PeriodicalId":8871,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Psychology","volume":"77 1","pages":"2511882"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-06-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12218538/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144641668","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}

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Understanding prosocial behaviour: perspectives from different cultures and generations. 理解亲社会行为：来自不同文化和世代的观点。

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Australian Journal of Psychology Pub Date : 2025-05-26 eCollection Date: 2025-01-01 DOI: 10.1080/00049530.2025.2507634

Berlian G Septarini, L J Breen, T Hamamura

{"title":"Understanding prosocial behaviour: perspectives from different cultures and generations.","authors":"Berlian G Septarini, L J Breen, T Hamamura","doi":"10.1080/00049530.2025.2507634","DOIUrl":"10.1080/00049530.2025.2507634","url":null,"abstract":"Objective: Prosocial behaviour is essential for human existence such that it is expected in every society. However, different pathways of social change experienced by different societies over time may implicate different ways in which prosocial behaviour is understood and experienced. The current study aims to understand how societies experiencing different contexts of social changes hold their perspectives towards the meaning and practices of prosocial behaviour.Method: A total of 42 participants from Indonesian and Australian younger and older generations participated in a focus group designed to explore cultural and generational diversity in prosociality. Themes were generated using thematic analysis and the multiple meaning of the data were discussed using a consensual qualitative research-modified (CQR-M) approach.Results: Four themes and 23 subthemes were identified in the dataset. Findings from this study suggest that forms of prosocial behaviours are similar across cultures and generations. However, cultural differences observed in the older and younger generations reflect that Australia and Indonesia may hold different perspectives of prosocial behaviour. Interestingly, generational differences were evident in Indonesian but not in Australian participants.Conclusions: The current study suggests that understanding and experience of prosocial behaviour are not congruent between societies going through different experiences of sociocultural changes.","PeriodicalId":8871,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Psychology","volume":"77 1","pages":"2507634"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-05-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12218546/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144641701","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}

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Implicit bias towards people with disability in Australia: relationship with personal values. 澳大利亚对残疾人的隐性偏见：与个人价值观的关系。

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Australian Journal of Psychology Pub Date : 2025-05-26 eCollection Date: 2025-01-01 DOI: 10.1080/00049530.2025.2507626

Christine R Antonopoulos, Nicole Sugden, Anthony Saliba

{"title":"Implicit bias towards people with disability in Australia: relationship with personal values.","authors":"Christine R Antonopoulos, Nicole Sugden, Anthony Saliba","doi":"10.1080/00049530.2025.2507626","DOIUrl":"10.1080/00049530.2025.2507626","url":null,"abstract":"Objective: This study investigated implicit bias towards people with disability and the relationship between implicit bias and personal values.Method: A convenience sample of 146 people living in Australia completed an online survey that included the Portrait Values Questionnaire - Revised (PVQ-RR), experience with disability questions, and two Implicit Association Tests (IAT) that measured stereotypes of incompetency and coldness towards people with disability.Results: There was a moderate IAT effect, with 80.1% of participants implicitly stereotyping people with disability as incompetent and 74.1% implicitly stereotyping people with disability as cold. Personal values of universalism-concern and universalism-tolerance were significantly positively correlated, and security-society was significantly negatively corelated with the Competence IAT. Universalism-concern and Self-transcendence were significantly positively correlated with the Warmth IAT. Higher scores on universalism-concern and if a person had a disability predicted lower implicit stereotyping of people with disability as incompetent. Higher scores on universalism-concern and Self-transcendence predicted lower stereotyping of people with disability as cold.Conclusion: People in Australia have similar moderate negative implicit biases towards people with disability as reported in other countries. Personal values identified could be targeted in reflective practice interventions with employment and healthcare professionals to reduce the effects of implicit bias towards people with disability.","PeriodicalId":8871,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Psychology","volume":"77 1","pages":"2507626"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-05-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12218458/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144641665","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}

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Basic psychological needs and achievement emotions: the role of control and value appraisals in higher education. 基本心理需求与成就情绪：控制与价值评价在高等教育中的作用。

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Australian Journal of Psychology Pub Date : 2025-05-08 eCollection Date: 2025-01-01 DOI: 10.1080/00049530.2025.2500937

Jason Skues, Earl Freeman, Kelly-Ann Allen

{"title":"Basic psychological needs and achievement emotions: the role of control and value appraisals in higher education.","authors":"Jason Skues, Earl Freeman, Kelly-Ann Allen","doi":"10.1080/00049530.2025.2500937","DOIUrl":"10.1080/00049530.2025.2500937","url":null,"abstract":"Objective: To investigate how satisfaction of basic psychological needs (autonomy, competence, and relatedness) influences achievement emotions through control and value appraisals among university students in Australia.Method: The study employed an online survey completed by 420 university students. Measurements included scales for psychological needs satisfaction, control and value appraisals, and achievement emotions. Structural equation modelling analysed the relationships between these variables.Results: Analysis revealed that autonomy satisfaction positively correlated with perceived value, while competence and relatedness satisfaction showed no significant associations. The three basic psychological needs demonstrated no significant relationship with perceived control. Perceived value positively associated with both positive and negative activating emotions. Perceived control showed no significant links to achievement emotions. The hypothesised indirect effect of autonomy satisfaction on achievement emotions through value appraisals was not supported, and the overall model demonstrated inadequate fit.Conclusions: The findings highlight autonomy satisfaction's unique role in shaping students' value appraisals and achievement emotions. Educational practitioners should consider incorporating strategies that support students' basic psychological needs, particularly autonomy, when designing curriculum and learning environments. Future research should explore alternative pathways between psychological needs satisfaction and achievement emotions to better understand these relationships.","PeriodicalId":8871,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Psychology","volume":"77 1","pages":"2500937"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-05-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12218576/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144641688","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}

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Understanding Indigenous Australian men's compliance with domestic and family violence orders: a qualitative study of service provider perspectives. 理解澳大利亚土著男子对家庭暴力和家庭暴力命令的遵守：一项服务提供者视角的定性研究。

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Australian Journal of Psychology Pub Date : 2025-04-28 eCollection Date: 2025-01-01 DOI: 10.1080/00049530.2025.2488094

Jade Langerak, Claire L Thompson, Grace E Vincent

{"title":"Understanding Indigenous Australian men's compliance with domestic and family violence orders: a qualitative study of service provider perspectives.","authors":"Jade Langerak, Claire L Thompson, Grace E Vincent","doi":"10.1080/00049530.2025.2488094","DOIUrl":"10.1080/00049530.2025.2488094","url":null,"abstract":"Objective: Domestic and family violence (DFV) is a pervasive issue in Australia, with Indigenous Australians disproportionately represented. While research is increasing specifically for victims of DFV, this is the first study to investigate factors that influence male Indigenous Australians to comply or contravene domestic and family violence orders (DFVO).Methods: Six participants (2 males, 4 females, aged >18 years) working in service provider roles related to domestic and family violence (e.g. psychologists, social workers, counsellors, support workers). Semi-structured interviews lasted approximately 50 min, focusing on factors that participants believed influenced Indigenous men's compliance or non-compliance with DFVOs. Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis was conducted.Results: Five master themes were identified relating to service providers perspectives of factors that might influence Indigenous men to contravene a DFVO: language and understanding, trauma, shame, repercussions, and trust. Three master themes emerged as factors that might contribute to compliance with a DFVO: language, specific support for respondents, and legal understanding.Conclusions: Service providers held valuable unique perspectives on reasons for the persistence of DFV for Indigenous Australians. Participants agreed that more culturally appropriate intervention and prevention programs supporting positive cultural change would be beneficial.","PeriodicalId":8871,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Psychology","volume":"77 1","pages":"2488094"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-04-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12218448/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144641700","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}

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Individual and organisational factors contributing to the mental health and suicide risk of current and ex-serving Navy Clearance Divers. 个人和组织因素对现役和退役海军清场潜水员的心理健康和自杀风险的影响。

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Australian Journal of Psychology Pub Date : 2025-04-09 eCollection Date: 2025-01-01 DOI: 10.1080/00049530.2025.2472821

Grace Claringbold, Nicky Robinson, Arlene Walker, Loch Forsyth

{"title":"Individual and organisational factors contributing to the mental health and suicide risk of current and ex-serving Navy Clearance Divers.","authors":"Grace Claringbold, Nicky Robinson, Arlene Walker, Loch Forsyth","doi":"10.1080/00049530.2025.2472821","DOIUrl":"10.1080/00049530.2025.2472821","url":null,"abstract":"Objective: Military service is inherently stressful, and a high prevalence of mental ill-health and suicide is reported among the veteran community. The current study examined the experiences of Navy Clearance Divers and factors that may be related to their mental health and suicide risk.Method: Current and ex-serving Australian Clearance Divers (n = 135) completed a mixed-methods survey in June 2021 on the impact of service on their mental health.Results: Fifty-five per cent of participants reported suffering a mental health issue, 40% had considered suicide, and 68% were concerned about another Clearance Diver's suicide risk. Transitioning out of active service presented practical, emotional, and social challenges. Qualitative analysis revealed four organisational factors (organisational culture, leadership, workplace support, and work environment) and five individual factors (attitudes to mental health treatment, experience of trauma, health and behaviour, emotional and social factors through transition, and experience of transition processes) that may be contributing to the poor mental health and high suicide risk.Conclusions: Several systemic organisational problems may be contributing to poor mental health and wellbeing within Australian Clearance Divers, and improvements to mental health support and the transition process are required. Defence leadership is committed to enacting systematic change.","PeriodicalId":8871,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Psychology","volume":"77 1","pages":"2472821"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-04-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12218571/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144641666","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}

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A qualitative study into the psychological effects of acting work among Australian-based actors. 澳洲演员表演工作对心理影响的定性研究。

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Australian Journal of Psychology Pub Date : 2025-04-03 eCollection Date: 2025-01-01 DOI: 10.1080/00049530.2025.2486775

Genevieve Brott, Clare Wilson, Joanne Brooker

{"title":"A qualitative study into the psychological effects of acting work among Australian-based actors.","authors":"Genevieve Brott, Clare Wilson, Joanne Brooker","doi":"10.1080/00049530.2025.2486775","DOIUrl":"10.1080/00049530.2025.2486775","url":null,"abstract":"Objective: Acting practices can leave actors with unresolved emotions that may impact their daily life. The current study aims to describe how actors practice their craft, and how these practices are perceived in relation to their psychosocial wellbeing within and outside of performances.Methodology: Seven Australian-based actors (age range = 22-60 years) were interviewed. Using a qualitative study design adopting an experiential and predominantly inductive approach, reflexive thematic analysis was conducted to analyse the interview data.Findings: Three themes were derived from the data: preparation and development of character, transition into character, and letting go versus ongoing connection to the character. The overarching theme was the duality within the actor, which reflected how participants remained in control throughout the acting process despite sharing their body and mind with the character. This appeared to represent a kind of protection mechanism which guarded the actors from losing themselves within the character. Participants also described the necessity for both automatic and active character release strategies to accompany the use of duality and support their psychological wellbeing.Conclusion: The findings present insights into the unique experiences and challenges faced by actors, providing a deeper understanding for practitioners supporting actor clients and presenting further research directions that may benefit this population.","PeriodicalId":8871,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Psychology","volume":"77 1","pages":"2486775"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12218513/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144641687","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}

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