Showing papers in "Acta Psychologica in 2022"

TL;DR: In this paper , a cross-sectional survey was completed by a sample of Irish and UK citizens using the online platform 'Qualtrics'. Participants completed a questionnaire battery comprised of health, attitudes/beliefs, influences, and behavioural intention measures.

TL;DR: In this paper , the authors examined the mental well-being of university students, who were taking online classes, and test whether resilience would mediate the relationship between meaning in life and mental wellbeing.

TL;DR: In this paper , a correlational study of U.S. undergraduate students indicated their high intolerance of uncertainty (IU), the frequency with which they searched for COVID-19 related information online, their overall health anxiety, their fear of COVID19 (FCV-19), and engagement in prevention behaviors, and individual differences in IU moderated the relationship between internet searches and FCV19 such that for people high in IU, more internet searching was associated with greater fear.

TL;DR: In this article , the authors present a review of the evidence on different cognitive-motor interventions that practice motor and cognitive performance simultaneously in children and adolescents and identify training regimes that are most effective to improve cognitive or motor performance in this target group.

TL;DR: In this article , the most prominent risk and protective factors that were most strongly associated with the indicators of well-being were rumination, catastrophizing, positive refocusing, and social support from family; respectively.

TL;DR: This paper applied Specification Curve Analysis (SCA) to data from three large-scale community samples to investigate the association between adolescent technology use and mental health/well-being, concluding that an association exists but is tiny, with median betas between -0.01 and 0.04.

TL;DR: In this paper , the influence of workplace cyber ostracism on employee online work engagement and employee mental well-being with the mediating roles of remote work challenges such as loneliness, procrastination, work-home interference, and ineffective communication was identified.

TL;DR: In this article , a review of the empirical data on interpersonal synchrony is presented, which includes positive affects towards and between interacting partners, but also include complex effects on the individual level including cognitive style, attitude bias, mood state, self-regulatory ability and academic performance.

TL;DR: In this article , the authors investigated the mental health in the post-lockdown period in an Italian adult population and detected demographic and psychological predictors for a worse outcome, finding that women, lower age, and suppression were related to higher scores for the PANAS negative affect scale, the DASS-21, the IES-R, the GHQ, and the DUWAS.

TL;DR: The authors used descriptive statistics and multivariable logistic regression models to assess cross-sectionally risk perceptions for severe Covid-19 symptoms and their health behaviour correlates among 2206 UK adults from the HEBECO study.

TL;DR: In this paper , the authors investigated the relationship between Internet addiction and aggressive behavior, and the mediating effects of depression and anxiety on adolescents' emotional instability, impulsivity, and aggressive behaviour.

TL;DR: In this article , the authors investigated third-level students' COVID-19 risk perception, knowledge and attitudes, and preventive behaviours between February and June 2021 to further understand young adults' beliefs and behavioural response to the COVID19 pandemic in Ireland.

TL;DR: The Bangla version of the depression anxiety stress scale-21 (DASS-21-BV) draws huge attention among the researchers to assess the mental health status in various situations among the Bangladeshi adults as discussed by the authors .

TL;DR: This study uses the CiteSpace software to examine 984 publications and their 46,609 unique references on gamification applied for behavior change and provides an overview of the influential documents, authors and keywords that have given shape to the literature of the field.

TL;DR: Wang et al. as mentioned in this paper conducted a meta-analysis to determine the relation between social support and loneliness, and found that higher levels of social support were negatively correlated with loneliness, while the effect of perceived social support on loneliness is greater than that of other social supports.

TL;DR: In this article , the authors employed a cross-sectional design and obtained data from n = 304 respondents and found that different factors (e.g., personal beliefs, attitude towards behaviour, and intention towards behaviour) predicted respondents' attitudes and behaviour regarding Social TV behavioural acceptance.

TL;DR: The results question whether standing modulates the Stroop effect in Color Stroop tasks and points out limitations of the influence of body posture on cognitive control tasks.

TL;DR: In this paper , the authors conducted an initial investigation of social media usage across platforms and its relation to anxiety, sleep and loneliness in female adolescents, and found that users with social media disorder experienced elevated levels of loneliness and had less sleep on average.

TL;DR: A content analysis of the most popular French mommy blogs indicates that intensive mothering is a cultural model of appropriate childrearing according to which mothers should unselfishly make a tremendous investment in their child as mentioned in this paper .

TL;DR: The authors investigated the mediational role of RWA and SDO on the relationship between voting for populist parties and conspiracy beliefs; the moderation of political interest was also explored, and they found that such direct and indirect associations would be stronger for individuals with high rather than low political interest.

TL;DR: In this article , the authors explored the internal structure of the MCQ-30 using network analysis and estimated two graphical Gaussian models, one with items and one with domains, in an unselected sample (N = 1080).

TL;DR: In this article , the authors present a theory that poetry evokes emotions from three kinds of simulation: models of a poem's semantic contents, mimetic simulations of prosodic cues, such as meter, rhythm, and rhyme, and people's simulations of themselves.

TL;DR: In this paper , the authors explore the impact of follower status on parasocial relations with SMIs considering the moderating role of the involvement with the product the SMI is advertising on Instagram.

TL;DR: In this article , a hierarchical linear analysis showed that confidence in the government's management of the pandemic was associated with greater intent to take COVID-19 vaccines, take booster shots and vaccinate one's children.

TL;DR: The amount of money individuals were willing to accept (WTA) to discontinue using prominent Chinese social media platforms (WeChat/QQ), the willingness to pay (WTP) for using these platforms, as well as WTA/WTP disparities were investigated in between-groups and within-subjects design studies to examine their existence, size, and psychological correlates in the form of personality and social media use habits as discussed by the authors .

TL;DR: This article explored the contributions of social media use, self-presentation, social comparison, and self-esteem on adolescents' reflection of their possible selves, and examined age as a factor to determine whether early and late adolescents reflect on and craft their social media presence in similar fashions.

TL;DR: This paper identified the level of stress, ego-resiliency (ER), and coping strategies of university students during the onset of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and examined the mediating role of ER in the relationship between stress and coping strategy (e.g., problem-solving, social support seeking, and avoidance).

TL;DR: In this article , the authors investigated the patterns of relations between beliefs, emotions, and job satisfaction in 249 Italian in-service teachers and found that teachers' high selfefficacy beliefs positively impact on job satisfaction if negative teaching and role emotions are contained at low levels.

TL;DR: In this paper , the authors explored the effect of childhood maltreatment on cyberbullying and the mediating effects of hostile attribution bias and anger rumination, and the results of this study suggested that childhood maltreating increased the risk of cyberbullies, which was caused by a co-effect of hostile attributions bias and angry rumination.

TL;DR: The authors conducted a semi-structured interview study with ten behavioural scientists and seven public health professionals in England, Scotland, Wales, The Netherlands and Canada to explore the experience of using behavioural science in public health during COVID-19, to discover barriers and facilitators and whether the rapidly changing context of knowledge mobilisation influenced knowledge mobilization.