Article
Medicine, General & Internal
Alfonso Troisi, Roberta Croce Nanni, Alessandra Riconi, Valeria Carola, David Di Cave
Summary: This study found that older healthcare workers with higher neuroticism levels and fearful attachment are more likely to experience intense fear of COVID-19. These results can help identify vulnerable subgroups of healthcare workers and implement appropriate mental health support programs.
JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MEDICINE
(2021)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Tamer M. Khalaf, Mohamed Z. Ramadan, Adham E. Ragab, Mohammed H. Alhaag, Khalil A. AlSharabi
Summary: Handling unknown weights may increase stress and physical demand during manual lifting tasks. Eliminating uncertainty is crucial and can be achieved through self-sensing of the load or disclosing the actual weight.
Article
Psychology, Biological
Ali Gholamrezaei, Ilse Van Diest, Qasim Aziz, Johan W. S. Vlaeyen, Lukas Van Oudenhove
Summary: This study compared four deep breathing techniques and found that loaded breathing was associated with better cardiovascular effects, while pursed-lips breathing had better emotional responses. The findings suggest that different deep breathing techniques may have varying impacts on physiological and emotional states.
Article
Biology
Emma J. Sayer, John A. Crawford, James Edgerley, Andrew P. Askew, Christoph Z. Hahn, Raj Whitlock, Ian C. Dodd
Summary: Using a 25-year field experiment, Emma Sayer et al. investigated how chronic drought alters soil microbial community responses to plant stress signaling through phytohormones. The study found that drought-adapted soil microorganisms modify their responses to phytohormone inputs, indicating that phytohormones are perceived as stress signals by drought-adapted soil microbes.
COMMUNICATIONS BIOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Psychology, Experimental
Bradley Fawver, Chris J. Hass, Stephen A. Coombes, Stephen K. Trapp, Christopher M. Janelle
Summary: This study found that motor responses are influenced by the congruency of emotional fear and spatial orientation, with fearful stimuli consistent with movement direction leading to faster reaction times and higher movement velocity.
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Yves Martins Varela, Raissa Nobrega de Almeida, Ana Cecilia de Menezes Galvao, Geovan Menezes de Sousa, Ana Cecilia Lopes de Lima, Neuciane Gomes da Silva, Mario Andre Leocadio-Miguel, Bruno Lobao-Soares, Jaime Eduardo Cecilio Hallak, Joao Paulo Maia-de-Oliveira, Nicole Leite Galvao-Coelho
Summary: This study found that group-based Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (gCBT) has significant effects in the treatment of mild-moderate Major Depressive Disorder (MDD). Patients showed reductions in depressive and anxiety symptoms, increased self-esteem and sleep quality after the treatment. The study also revealed that gCBT can regulate physiological responses and that these improvements were correlated with remission outcomes.
CURRENT PSYCHOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Samantha Gerdes, Huw Williams, Anke Karl
Summary: This study investigated the efficacy of self-compassion in veterans and found that it can partially reduce PTSD symptoms and increase feelings of social connectedness. However, there were significant individual differences in psychophysiological responses. The findings have important implications for using self-compassion based psychological approaches to help veterans.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Serena Castellotti, Ottavia D'Agostino, Angelica Mencarini, Martina Fabozzi, Raimondo Varano, Stefano Mastandrea, Irene Baldriga, Maria Michela Del Viva
Summary: Research indicates that providing detailed information is crucial to enhancing the cultural and aesthetic experience of non-expert visitors in art exhibitions, thus becoming a strategic goal for museums. Through multiple objective and subjective measurements, we compared the impact of basic and detailed labels on the cognitive and emotional experience of non-expert visitors, focusing on the controversial modern art museum context. Our findings suggest that people benefit significantly from reading detailed information about artworks, indicating that elaborating effective labels should be a primary goal for museums interested in attracting a non-expert public.
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Maximilian Bruchmann, Lea Mertens, Sebastian Schindler, Thomas Straube
Summary: Processing of fearful faces leads to increased N170 and EPN amplitudes relative to neutral faces, but this difference is not driven by specific face parts. The findings suggest that the heightened N170 and EPN responses to task-irrelevant fearful faces are not localized to specific facial regions, but instead represent a holistic processing effect.
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
(2023)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Jiri Balas, Jan Gajdosik, Dominika Krupkova, Leona Chrastinova, Alzbeta Hlavackova, Radka Bacakova, David Giles
Summary: The study aimed to compare the psychophysiological response of climbers on climbing wall and treadwall. It found that energy costs were higher during indoor wall climbing compared to treadwall climbing. The study demonstrated different effects of climbing ability on different climbing conditions.
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
(2021)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Maximilian Bruchmann, Lea Mertens, Sebastian Schindler, Thomas Straube
Summary: This study investigates the impact of task-irrelevant fearful and neutral faces on event-related potential (ERP) using an ERP-dependent facial decoding technique and a large sample of participants. The results demonstrate that the increased amplitudes of the N170 and EPN components in response to task-irrelevant fearful faces compared to neutral faces are not driven by specific facial regions. Instead, they represent a holistic face processing effect driven by the low-frequency contrast of specific face parts.
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
(2023)
Article
Engineering, Industrial
Philemon Marcel-Millet, Alain Groslambert, Philippe Gimenez, Sidney Grospretre, Gilles Ravier
Summary: The study found that rescue interventions had a greater impact on psychophysiological variables at night compared to during the day, with the type of alarm having a minor effect.
APPLIED ERGONOMICS
(2021)
Article
Psychology, Clinical
Glenn Leshner, Lilianna Phan, Elise M. Stevens, Andrea C. Johnson, Andrea C. Villanti, Narae Kim, Seunghyun Kim, Haijing Ma, Jinhee Seo, Fuwei Sun, Brittney Keller-Hamilton, Theodore L. Wagener, Darren Mays
Summary: This study examined the effects of hookah prevention messages on participants' cognitive and emotional processing, finding that social themed messages were more defensively processed. Users had higher levels of counterarguing across all message themes and risks compared to never-users.
Article
Environmental Studies
C. Neale, M. Boukhechba, S. Cinderby
Summary: The global transition into healthy urban living requires active engagement by planners to understand the dimensions of healthy living in urban settings. Current research, focused mainly in the Global North, needs to further examine the impacts of urbanization in sub-Saharan Africa and South-East Asia to implement appropriate public health measures. Our research shows that nature within urban settings has beneficial effects on heart rate variability, suggesting lower stress responses in these areas.
JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Behavioral Sciences
Malcolm Sehlstrom, Jessica K. Ljungberg, Anna-Sara Claeson, Markus B. T. Nystrom
Summary: This study examines the effects of startle on performance in a choice reaction time task and finds that the reaction time is significantly slower in subsequent trials. Neuroticism and physiological stress are not related to this performance effect.
BRAIN AND BEHAVIOR
(2022)
Article
Psychology, Social
Luis F. Garcia, Anton Aluja, Jerome Rossier, Fritz Ostendorf, Joseph Glicksohn, Barry Oumar, Tarek Bellaj, Willibald Ruch, Wei Wang, Zsuzsanna Kovi, Dawid Scigala, Dorde Cekrlija, Adam W. Stivers, Lisa Di Blas, Mauricio Valdivia, Sonia Ben Jemaa, Kokou A. Atitsogbe, Michel Hansenne
Summary: This study tested the cross-national stability of the HEXACO-60 structure in 18 countries and found high congruence in most countries. Gender differences were found in Emotionality across countries, while no significant effect of age was observed. Individuals with high scores on Honesty-Humility, Extraversion, Conscientiousness, and Openness to Experience, and low scores on Emotionality are more likely to achieve higher social positions.
JOURNAL OF PERSONALITY
(2022)
Article
Psychology, Applied
Claudia Sampaio, Paulo Cardoso, Jerome Rossier, Mark L. Savickas
Summary: This article emphasizes the importance of attending to clients' psychological needs in career counseling, introducing an intervention strategy that supports clients' problem formulation through understanding their needs, illustrated through a case example. The article discusses how to help clients symbolize emotional experiences and needs, deepen clients' understanding of their problems, facilitate the rewriting of career narratives and the construction of new career plans. It suggests that further research into the possibilities and limitations of this practice is warranted in the field of career counseling.
CAREER DEVELOPMENT QUARTERLY
(2021)
Article
Psychology, Social
Anton Aluja, Luis F. Garcia, Jerome Rossier, Fritz Ostendorf, Joseph Glicksohn, Barry Oumar, Tarek Bellaj, Willibald Ruch, Wei Wang, Zsuzsanna Suranyi, Dawid Scigala, Dorde Cekrlija, Adam W. Stivers, Lisa Di Blas, Mauricio Valdivia, Sonia Ben Jemaa, Kokou A. Atitsogbe, Michel Hansenne
Summary: This research explores the Dark Triad traits in 18 cultures from Europe, America, Africa, and Asia, revealing cultural differences and gender variations in these traits. The study also examines the associations between the Dark Triad traits and age, social status, and two personality models. It finds that culture accounts for a significant amount of variance in the Dark Triad traits, with men scoring higher than women in most cultures. The study also reveals negative correlations between the Dark Triad traits and age, and identifies specific personality trait associations with each trait dimension.
JOURNAL OF CROSS-CULTURAL PSYCHOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Psychology, Clinical
Shagini Udayar, Ieva Urbanaviciute, Davide Morselli, Gregoire Bollmann, Jerome Rossier, Dario Spini
Summary: This study introduces a new tool, the LIVES-Daily Hassles Scale (LIVES-DHS), to assess daily hassles and examines its relation to life satisfaction. The results show that LIVES-DHS effectively measures daily hassles in different domains and negatively predicts life satisfaction.
Article
Psychology, Applied
Nimrod Levin, Shagini Udayar, Yuliya Lipshits-Braziler, Itamar Gati, Jerome Rossier
Summary: Assessing the causes of career indecision is an important step in career counseling. This study examined the cross-cultural generalizability of the Career Decision-Making Difficulties Questionnaire (CDDQ) and confirmed its structure across different countries and languages.
JOURNAL OF CAREER ASSESSMENT
(2023)
Article
Psychology, Applied
Camilla Zambelli, Jenny Marcionetti, Jerome Rossier
Summary: This study used qualitative methods to analyze the perceptions of vocational guidance and career counseling specialists in Switzerland regarding decent work and the resources that promote access to decent work. The findings revealed that positive relations at work, in addition to the dimensions considered by the Psychology of Working Theory (PWT), should be considered as part of decent work. Furthermore, the development of soft skills emerged as an important resource for accessing decent work. The textual analysis also highlighted that specialists' representations of decent work and the resources differ according to their professional category.
BRITISH JOURNAL OF GUIDANCE & COUNSELLING
(2023)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Emmanuelle Awad, Myriam El Khoury-Malhame, Ecem Yakin, Venise Hanna, Diana Malaeb, Souheil Hallit, Sahar Obeid
Summary: This study examines the association between desire thinking and problematic social media use, and further tests the mediating effect of impulsivity and thought suppression. The results suggest that desire thinking is correlated with increased social media use, and suppression and impulsivity mediate this association.
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Myriam El Khoury-Malhame, Michel Sfeir, Souheil Hallit, Toni Sawma
Summary: A study investigated the factors associated with growth after the original trauma during the COVID-19 pandemic. The study found that factors such as higher levels of gratitude, impact of events, and knowing someone who died from COVID-19 were significantly associated with more growth. The study highlights the importance of coping and growth in the context of a global pandemic and accumulating hardships.
CURRENT PSYCHOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Education & Educational Research
Emilie Carosin, Damien Canzittu, Catherine Loisy, Jacques Pouyaud, Jerome Rossier
Summary: The article highlights the importance of addressing social justice, decent work, and sustainable development in vocational guidance and counselling, especially in today's volatile and uncertain world. It introduces a conceptual framework based on human experience and provides benchmarks for designing lifelong guidance interventions. The framework aligns with the guiding principles of social justice, decent work, and sustainable development, while also acknowledging the need for further developments and exploration of its limitations.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR EDUCATIONAL AND VOCATIONAL GUIDANCE
(2022)
Article
Psychology, Applied
Jerome Rossier, Shekina Rochat, Laurent Sovet, Jean-Luc Bernaud
Summary: This study aimed to validate the French version of the Career Decision-Making Difficulties Questionnaire (CDDQ) and assess its measurement invariance across different groups. The results showed that both self-esteem and self-efficacy significantly predicted career decision-making difficulties, with self-efficacy mediating the relationship between self-esteem and career decision-making difficulties.
JOURNAL OF CAREER DEVELOPMENT
(2022)
Article
Family Studies
Valerie Cohen-Scali, Jonas Masdonati, Soazig Disquay-Perot, Marcelo Afonso Ribeiro, Guobjorg Vilhjalmsdottir, Rowayda Zein, Janet Kaplan Bucciarelli, Issa Abdou Moumoula, Gabriela Aisenson, Jerome Rossier
Summary: With the recent evolution of the labor market, emerging adults without diplomas are at a higher risk of facing unsatisfying jobs and barriers to accessing decent work. This research aims to identify their perceptions of work based on the psychology of emerging adulthood and the psychology of working theory. Differences in these perceptions are expected due to variations in each country's level of development and the work situations experienced by the participants. The findings highlight that these emerging adults associate decent work with the fulfillment of survival needs and positive social relationships in the workplace. This article discusses the similarities and differences in their representations of work and explores the role of work in their identity development.
EMERGING ADULTHOOD
(2022)
Article
Psychology, Applied
Jerome Rossier, Abdoulaye Ouedraogo
Summary: Decent work is crucial for individual life development and well-being, with social recognition being an important aspect. Economic constraints and marginalization factors impact obtaining decent work, as well as work fulfillment. The objective and subjective components of decent work may refer to the same reality in different aspects.
BRITISH JOURNAL OF GUIDANCE & COUNSELLING
(2021)
Article
Psychology, Applied
Marc Abessolo, Andreas Hirschi, Jerome Rossier
Summary: This article aims to develop a new questionnaire that assesses the underlying dimensions of work values, career orientations, and career anchors. Through two studies with Swiss French-speaking employees, the researchers confirmed the reliability and stability of the eight-factor structure, as well as the meaningful relationship between career values and work meanings and job satisfaction. The newly created questionnaire provides a useful tool for researchers and practitioners to understand and assist individuals in making career choices.
JOURNAL OF CAREER DEVELOPMENT
(2021)
Article
Psychology, Applied
Kokou A. Atitsogbe, Enyonam Y. Kossi, Paboussoum Pari, Jerome Rossier
Summary: The study found that the Decent Work Scale and Job Satisfaction Scale are valid in the sub-Saharan African context. Factors such as safe working conditions were related to job satisfaction, while variables impacting workers' family and relatives were related to life satisfaction. The results supported the validity of the Psychology of Working Theory.
JOURNAL OF CAREER ASSESSMENT
(2021)
Article
Psychology, Applied
Jenny Marcionetti, Jerome Rossier
Summary: Self-esteem, general self-efficacy, and career adaptability are important resources for adolescents making educational and professional choices. Research found an interrelationship between career adaptability and self-efficacy, a unidirectional effect of self-esteem on life satisfaction, and highlighted the importance of career adapt-ability concerns for predicting other aspects of career adaptability.
JOURNAL OF CAREER DEVELOPMENT
(2021)