Skip to main content

Articles

Page 1 of 34

  1. The Network Episode Model (NEM) is a well utilised model conceptualising how social networks, valuable resources which can positively impact wellbeing and functional outcomes, are responsive to the needs of pe...

    Authors: Imogen Nevard, Helen Brooks, Judith Gellatly and Penny Bee
    Citation: BMC Psychology 2024 12:162
  2. Color is one of the vital components of product design and the choice of color combination is a critical factor that affects consumer reaction and purchase decisions. However, the impact of traditional colors ...

    Authors: Liang Ling Lin and Nazik Hangeldiyeva
    Citation: BMC Psychology 2024 12:161
  3. This qualitative study investigated the impact of discussion panels on language education, focusing on willingness to communicate (WTC), growth mindfulness, and autonomy among Chinese learners at intermediate ...

    Authors: Jiaxue CAO and Xiaoshuang Liu
    Citation: BMC Psychology 2024 12:159
  4. Social media benign envy, an upward comparison-based and painful emotions associated with the motivation to improve oneself, has attracted increasing attention from researchers due to its ubiquitous and signif...

    Authors: Dege Liu, Bin He, Ruan Feng, Xiaojun Huang and Gaoqiang Liu
    Citation: BMC Psychology 2024 12:157
  5. It is common for people to experience anxiety when contemplating their unknown future. Studies have shown that those who tend to worry more about their future are more likely to be intolerant of uncertainty. I...

    Authors: Roni Chaaya, Rabih Hallit, Alvaro Postigo, Diana Malaeb, Fouad Sakr, Mariam Dabbous, Amthal Alhuwailah, Hanaa Ahmed Mohamed Shuwiekh, Sahar Obeid, Feten Fekih-Romdhane and Souheil Hallit
    Citation: BMC Psychology 2024 12:156
  6. Risk of violence is closely associated with aggression propensity. However, there is a lack of research to explain the mechanisms behind this association, especially among the patients of forensic secure facil...

    Authors: Norhameza Ahmad Badruddin, AbRahman Roseliza-Murni, Mohammad Rahim Kamaluddin, Abdul Rahman Ahmad Badayai and Shalini Munusamy
    Citation: BMC Psychology 2024 12:155
  7. In this study, we investigated whether the interaction effects of self-efficacy, life satisfaction, and sociocultural adjustment have significant negative effects on culture shock. The data were collected from...

    Authors: Mustafa Almukdad and Engin Karadag
    Citation: BMC Psychology 2024 12:154
  8. Living under siege and deteriorated health, social, educational, and economic conditions and isolation with scarce opportunities to fulfil basic needs and aspirations affect the civil population's mental healt...

    Authors: Suhayla Said Jalala, Guido Veronese, Marwan Diab, Yasser Abu Jamei, Rawya Hamam and Ashraf Kagee
    Citation: BMC Psychology 2024 12:152
  9. Innovation is the process of renewing and updating a domain, a product, or a service by introducing new methods, introducing new techniques, or generating effective concepts to produce new value. Considering u...

    Authors: Wael Matar Hasan Alharbi
    Citation: BMC Psychology 2024 12:151
  10. Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a significant cause of mortality and morbidity worldwide. With survivors often exhibiting degrees of function loss, a significant burden is exerted on their caregivers. The purp...

    Authors: Mehran Ilaghi, Farhad Gharib, Ahmad Pirani, Abdol-Hossein Vahabie, Jordan Grafman, Seyed Vahid Shariat, Behnam Shariati, Amin Jahanbakhshi and Fatemeh Sadat Mirfazeli
    Citation: BMC Psychology 2024 12:150
  11. The Academic Grit Scale (AGS) is a novel measure of academic-specific grit. However, its factor structure and measurement invariance have yet to be thoroughly supported. The present study tested the factor str...

    Authors: Rongmao Lin, Yanping Chen, Yilin Shen, Ting Hu, Ying Huang, Yishan Yang, Xueting Yu and Jinliang Ding
    Citation: BMC Psychology 2024 12:149
  12. This study investigates the impact of Philosophy-Based Language Teaching (PBLT) on the critical thinking skills and learner engagement of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) students. A concurrent mixed-method...

    Authors: Lingxi Li, Sayed M. Ismail, Indrajit Patra and Desta Lami
    Citation: BMC Psychology 2024 12:148
  13. The development of procedural skills is essential in health sciences education. Rubrics can be useful for learning and assessing these skills. To this end, a set of rubrics were developed in case of neurophysi...

    Authors: Rafael Garcia-Ros, Maria-Arantzazu Ruescas-Nicolau, Natalia Cezón-Serrano, Cristina Flor-Rufino, Constanza San Martin-Valenzuela and M. Luz Sánchez-Sánchez
    Citation: BMC Psychology 2024 12:147
  14. The use of social media has become an important part individuals’ daily lives and is used in many daily life activities, such as social interaction, education, and shopping. However, with the increase in the u...

    Authors: Onur Isbulan, Emre Cam and Mark D. Griffiths
    Citation: BMC Psychology 2024 12:146
  15. This research investigated the impact of planning time, working memory (WM), and cognitive styles on language learning outcomes within the framework of Task-Based Language Teaching (TBLT). Drawing on a diverse...

    Authors: Jingjing Gui and Sayed M. Ismail
    Citation: BMC Psychology 2024 12:145
  16. Universities are constantly searching for best practices to promote sustainability when it comes to educating students of the English language. Although this area of study has recently gained the attention of ...

    Authors: Fenghua Tang
    Citation: BMC Psychology 2024 12:144
  17. This phenomenological study explored the experiences of language learners in the digital age, specifically investigating the intersection of digital literacy, technostress, online engagement, autonomy, and aca...

    Authors: Xiuxia Feng and Huying Liu
    Citation: BMC Psychology 2024 12:143
  18. Mindfulness and academic self-efficacy were proposed as mediating variables, with successful academic identity as an exogenous variable. The backdrop for this research centers on the significance of psychologi...

    Authors: Shuya Chen
    Citation: BMC Psychology 2024 12:142
  19. Research has posited that social media use during the day may be reflected in nighttime dreams. Nevertheless, no prior studies have explored frightening, unpleasant dreams arising from social media use. This s...

    Authors: Reza Shabahang, Sohee Kim, Mara S. Aruguete, Pegah Azadimanesh, Zahra Ghaemi, Abbas Ali Hossein Khanzadeh, Keivan Kakabaraee and Ágnes Zsila
    Citation: BMC Psychology 2024 12:140
  20. The pathways underpinning suicide ideation (SI) and certain physical and psychological factors in patients with advanced breast cancer remain unclear. This study develops and validates a mediation model that d...

    Authors: Yening Zhang, Yi He, Ying Pang, Zhongge Su, Yu Wang, Yuhe Zhou, Yongkui Lu, Yu Jiang, Xinkun Han, Lihua Song, Liping Wang, Zimeng Li, Xiaojun Lv, Yan Wang, Juntao Yao, Xiaohong Liu…
    Citation: BMC Psychology 2024 12:139
  21. Some studies have examined the relationship between internalization of media appearance ideals and eating disorders. However, few have discussed the relationship between eating disorder tendencies. To fill thi...

    Authors: Xiaoyan Bi, Qian Liang, Guangyan Jiang, Min Deng, Hongbo Cui and Yankun Ma
    Citation: BMC Psychology 2024 12:138
  22. 16p11.2 proximal deletion and duplication syndromes (Break points 4–5) (593KB, Chr16; 29.6-30.2mb - HG38) are observed to have highly varied phenotypes, with a known propensity for lifelong psychiatric problem...

    Authors: Charlotte E. Butter, Caitlin L. Goldie, Jessica H. Hall, Kathy Leadbitter, Emma M.M. Burkitt, Marianne B.M. van den Bree and Jonathan M. Green
    Citation: BMC Psychology 2024 12:137
  23. An immediate research priority recovering from the COVID-19 pandemic is well-being among some of our most vulnerable—people with chronic illness. We studied how mental health changed among people with and with...

    Authors: Ozan Aksoy, Alison Fang-Wei Wu, Sevgi Aksoy and Carol Rivas
    Citation: BMC Psychology 2024 12:136
  24. Trauma-focused therapies (TFTs) are first-line treatments for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). However, TFTs are under-utilised, partly due to clinicians’ and patients' fear that TFT is too challenging or...

    Authors: Solveig Flem Gjerstad, Linda Nordin, Stig Poulsen, Erminio Francesco Antares Spadaro and Sabina Palic
    Citation: BMC Psychology 2024 12:135
  25. Cultural factors influence attitudes toward death, and gender disparities are evident. Prior studies show that medical students have limited knowledge about death and are uncomfortable with it. Moreover, there...

    Authors: Randah R. Hamadeh, Izzeldin Abuelaish, Susan J. Yousufzai, Yousef AT AlShammari, Yomna E. Ahmed and Haitham A. Jahrami
    Citation: BMC Psychology 2024 12:133
  26. Changing from a static to a dynamic balance condition could affect the performance of a cognitive task such as mental rotation. Thus, the main goal of this study is to investigate aspects of visual-spatial cog...

    Authors: Samiha Amara, Badriya Al-Hadabi, Heba El-Ashkar, Nabil Gmada, Hamdi Habacha and Bessem Mkaouer
    Citation: BMC Psychology 2024 12:131
  27. Mounting evidence suggests that the effectiveness of positive psychology interventions is influenced by a variety of factors, including cultural context. Identifying intervention targets that can effectively c...

    Authors: Norberto Eiji Nawa and Noriko Yamagishi
    Citation: BMC Psychology 2024 12:130
  28. Most young children (0–3 years) attend formal childcare in Denmark, many of them fulltime. Yet recent reports of the quality of Danish childcare centers have shown that in more than one-third of nurseries, the...

    Authors: Sophie Reijman, Clara Christensen Vieira, Tina Wahl Haase, Katrien O. W. Helmerhorst, Maiken Pontoppidan, Sofie Amalie Grosen, Ida Egmose, Katrine Røhder and Mette Skovgaard Vaever
    Citation: BMC Psychology 2024 12:127
  29. As the incidence of mental disorders continues to rise, and pharmacy staff can significantly affect the willingness of patients with mental disorders to seek help; we aimed to evaluate the stigmatizing attitud...

    Authors: Fatemeh Shirvaniyan, Negin Eissazade, Seved Vahid Shariat, Noushin Khademoreza, Masoomeh Daneshvar and Mohammadreza Shalbafan
    Citation: BMC Psychology 2024 12:126
  30. The positive association of parental phubbing with internalising and externalising problems among adolescents has gained academic traction. To date, limited research has investigated the association of parenta...

    Authors: Saifang Liu, Peiqian Wu, Xiaoxi Han, Mengyun Wang, Yuecui Kan, Kuiyuan Qin and Jijun Lan
    Citation: BMC Psychology 2024 12:125
  31. Teacher support encompasses the provision of educational, instrumental, sentimental, or evaluative assistance by a teacher to a student, regardless of the setting. Learning a new language brings with it differ...

    Authors: Lan Huang, Anwar Hammad Al-Rashidi and Sania Bayat
    Citation: BMC Psychology 2024 12:124
  32. Eating disorders (EDs), such as (atypical) Anorexia (AN) and Bulimia Nervosa (BN), are difficult to treat, causing socioeconomic impediments. Although enhanced cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT-E) is widely co...

    Authors: Suzanne H. W. Mares, Jeffrey Roelofs, Janôt Zinzen, Manouk Béatse, Hermien J. Elgersma, Ruben M. W. A. Drost, Silvia M. A. A. Evers and Annemarie A. van Elburg
    Citation: BMC Psychology 2024 12:123
  33. Becoming a caregiver can be a transformative journey with profound, multifaceted implications for well-being. However, existing research predominantly emphasizes the negative aspects of caregiving, paying less...

    Authors: Fredrik Methi, Ragnhild Bang Nes, Vegard Skirbekk and Thomas Hansen
    Citation: BMC Psychology 2024 12:120
  34. With this study, we aimed to explore the emotional experiences of sick-listed employees facing imminent job loss, as this emotional distress may hinder successful job search outcomes. The study had two objecti...

    Authors: Janske H. W. van Eersel, Inge L. Hulshof, Miriam I. Wickham, Geert E. Smid and Paul A. Boelen
    Citation: BMC Psychology 2024 12:118
  35. The COVID-19 pandemic has been associated with increased body dissatisfaction and disordered eating behaviors in adolescents. To better understand these associations, this study tested an explanatory model in ...

    Authors: Christopher Rodrigue, Rachel F. Rodgers, Noémie Carbonneau, Catherine Bégin and Jacinthe Dion
    Citation: BMC Psychology 2024 12:117

Annual Journal Metrics

  • 2022 Citation Impact
    3.6 - 2-year Impact Factor
    1.391 - SNIP (Source Normalized Impact per Paper)
    0.906 - SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

    2023 Speed
    48 days submission to first editorial decision for all manuscripts (Median)
    163 days submission to accept (Median)

    2023 Usage
    2,897,978 downloads
    2,709 Altmetric mentions

Peer-review Terminology

The following summary describes the peer review process for this journal:

Identity transparency: Single anonymized

Reviewer interacts with: Editor

Review information published: Review reports. Reviewer Identities reviewer opt in. Author/reviewer communication

More information is available here

Sign up for article alerts and news from this journal