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Citation: BMC Psychology 2022 10:102
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Examination of three-factor eating questionnaire subscale scores on weight loss and weight loss maintenance in a clinical intervention
The purpose of this study is to examine three-factor eating questionnaire (TFEQ) scores at baseline and post-intervention (6 months) on successful weight loss and weight maintenance in an 18-month behavioral w...
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The association between sense of coherence and quality of life: a cross-sectional study in a sample of patients on hemodialysis
Patients on hemodialysis universally experience detriments in their general quality of life (QOL). Sense of coherence (SOC) is a long-standing factor that affects QOL. Nevertheless, the association between SOC...
Citation: BMC Psychology 2022 10:100 -
Investigating emotion regulation and social information processing as mechanisms linking adverse childhood experiences with psychosocial functioning in young swiss adults: the FACE epidemiological accelerated cohort study
Adverse childhood experiences increase the risk for psychological disorders and lower psychosocial functioning across the lifespan. However, less is known about the processes through which ACE are linked to mu...
Citation: BMC Psychology 2022 10:99 -
‘When hunger makes everything better looking!’: The effect of hunger on the aesthetic appreciation of human bodies, faces and objects
Research evidence suggests that physiological state of hunger might affect preference for female body weight, such that hungrier, compared to satiate, men prefer heavier body weight and rate as more attractive...
Citation: BMC Psychology 2022 10:98 -
Pain catastrophizing, pain sensitivity and fear of pain are associated with early life environmental unpredictability: a path model approach
Socioeconomic disadvantages in the childhood environment might strongly influence beliefs and behavior characterizing the adult years. When children experience unpredictable and adverse situations, they develo...
Citation: BMC Psychology 2022 10:97 -
Predicting and remembering the behaviors of social targets: how prediction accuracy affects episodic memory
Decades of research has investigated the relationship between memory and future thinking. Although some of this work has shown that memory forms the basis of making predictions about the future, less work has ...
Citation: BMC Psychology 2022 10:96 -
Evolutionary game analysis between employees and employers about working overtime from the perspective of information asymmetry
Overtime is an international phenomenon, especially in some Chinese Internet technology companies, the 996 work regime is a common corporate atmosphere. This paper holds that overtime work is the result of a l...
Citation: BMC Psychology 2022 10:95 -
Determination of professional job burnout and temperament (Mizaj) from the viewpoint of Traditional Persian Medicine and work-related variables among Iranian dentists: a cross-sectional study
Dentists are prone to professional burnout due to the nature of their work but this phenomenon could be prevented. Professional burnout has a great impact on different aspects of human life. No study has been ...
Citation: BMC Psychology 2022 10:94 -
Anxiety and depression in patients with intracranial meningioma: a mixed methods analysis
While diagnosis with a high-grade intracranial tumor is known to be associated with increased psychosocial burden, the burdens associated with meningioma are less well described. This study aimed to investigat...
Citation: BMC Psychology 2022 10:93 -
The Pandemic Stressor Scale: factorial validity and reliability of a measure of stressors during a pandemic
This study aimed to assess the factorial validity and reliability of the Pandemic Stressor Scale (PaSS), a new measure to assess the severity of distress for different stressors relevant during a pandemic or e...
Citation: BMC Psychology 2022 10:92 -
Prevalence and correlates of infertility related psychological stress in women with infertility: a cross-sectional hospital based survey
Psychological stress is commonly found among infertile women. Untreated stress can affect negatively the success of infertility treatment. Most of the available knowledge is generated from developed countries ...
Citation: BMC Psychology 2022 10:91 -
A mediating model of mindfulness, sense of purpose in life and mental health among Chinese graduate students
The purpose of the present study is to examine the relationship between mindfulness and mental health of graduate students and the mediating effects of sense of purpose in life on mindfulness and mental health...
Citation: BMC Psychology 2022 10:90 -
Adversity, attachment and emotion recognition in BPD adolescents: the distinct roles of disengaged and controlling environment
Literature data about emotion perception in patients with borderline personality disorders (BPD) revealed some discrepancies between some patients that are vigilant and accurate to detect their emotional envir...
Citation: BMC Psychology 2022 10:89 -
Development and validation of COVID-19 Impact Scale
As the COVID-19 (Coronavirus disease 2019) pandemic is prolonged, psychological responses to the pandemic have changed, and a new scale to reflect these changes needs to be developed. In this study, we attempt...
Citation: BMC Psychology 2022 10:88 -
Impacts of the psychological stress response on nonsuicidal self-injury behavior in students during the COVID-19 epidemic in China: the mediating role of sleep disorders
The sudden outbreak of COVID-19 had a great impact on the physical and mental health of people all over the world, especially for students whose physical and mental development was not yet mature. In order to ...
Citation: BMC Psychology 2022 10:87 -
Personality traits and anxiety in patients with temporomandibular disorders
Temporomandibular disorders (TMD) have long been suggested to result from psychological factors. Recent studies, however, tend to consider TMD a chronic psychosomatic illness. The present study was designed to...
Citation: BMC Psychology 2022 10:86 -
Personality metatraits predict resilience among family caregivers responsible for a dependent youth’s chronic respiratory management
Family caregivers of children and youth with severe neurodisabilities that require chronic respiratory management often report a compromised quality of life. In this cross-sectional study, we used DeYoung’s (P...
Citation: BMC Psychology 2022 10:85 -
Evaluation of beliefs and attitudes among caregivers of child labor about mental disorders first aid and stigma
The beliefs and attitudes of caregivers of working children about mental health issues and first aid and their attitudes about the stigma of mental health problems can affect their motivation to seek professio...
Citation: BMC Psychology 2022 10:84 -
Family caregiving and chronic illness management in schizophrenia: positive and negative aspects of caregiving
We aimed to explore the long-term caregiving experiences of family caregivers of people with schizophrenia (PwS) in terms of both positive and negative aspects.
Citation: BMC Psychology 2022 10:83 -
The relationship between orthorexia nervosa, anxiety, and self-esteem: a cross-sectional study in Turkish faculty members
Orthorexia nervosa (ON) may be a disorder on the spectrum of obsessive–compulsive disorders, maybe a separate eating disorder, or it may be an eating disorder on the spectrum of other eating disorders. We aime...
Citation: BMC Psychology 2022 10:82 -
Personality as a mediator of autistic traits and internalizing symptoms in two community samples
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is characterized by deficits in social functioning and is comorbid with internalizing disorders and symptoms. While personality is associated with these symptoms and social funct...
Citation: BMC Psychology 2022 10:81 -
Purposes of internet use among Iranian university students: exploring its relationship with social networking site (SNS) addiction
Higher education students are heavy users of the internet for a wide variety of reasons, including Social Networking Sites (SNSs). This study investigated various purposes of internet use among undergraduate u...
Citation: BMC Psychology 2022 10:80 -
Multi-level barriers and facilitators to implementing a parenting intervention in prison, perceptions from deliverers and responsible managers: a mixed-methods study
Children of incarcerated parents run a high risk of poor health and own delinquency and positive parenting is vital for their healthy development. Internationally, parenting interventions for incarcerated pare...
Citation: BMC Psychology 2022 10:79 -
Evaluation of the Conversations About Gambling Mental Health First Aid course: effects on knowledge, stigmatising attitudes, confidence and helping behaviour
The effects of problem gambling are wide-ranging, affecting many aspects of health and negatively impacting the person who gambles, their family and friends, and their community. People experiencing problem ga...
Citation: BMC Psychology 2022 10:78 -
Trial-to-trial modulation of task-order switch costs survive long inter-trial intervals
Dual-tasking procedures often involve the successive presentation of two different stimuli, requiring participants to execute two tasks in a particular order. Performance in both tasks suffers if the order of ...
Citation: BMC Psychology 2022 10:77 -
UK children’s sleep and anxiety during the COVID-19 pandemic
Sleep and mental wellbeing are intimately linked. This relationship is particularly important to understand as it emerges over childhood. Here we take the opportunity that the COVID-19 pandemic, and resulting ...
Citation: BMC Psychology 2022 10:76 -
Lonely, harassed and abandoned in society: the lived experiences of Iranian homeless youth
Homelessness is increasing among young adults in large cities. According to the United Nations, there are more than one billion absolute or relative homeless people in the world. This study was conducted to ex...
Citation: BMC Psychology 2022 10:75 -
Establishment of MOS-SF36 percentile ranks in the general youth French population
The SF-36 is a generic quality of life questionnaire, massively translated and widely used to obtain physical and mental health status. However, validation work in the French language was carried out over a ge...
Citation: BMC Psychology 2022 10:74 -
A nationwide cross-sectional study of workers’ mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic: Impact of changes in working conditions, financial hardships, psychological detachment from work and work-family interface
The COVID-19 disease has changed people’s work and income. While recent evidence has documented the adverse impact of these changes on mental health outcomes, most research is focused on frontline healthcare w...
Citation: BMC Psychology 2022 10:73 -
Parental and child adjustment to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: transformations, struggles and needs
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), progressive muscular atrophy (PMA) and primary lateral sclerosis (PLS), together referred to as ALS, are life-limiting diagnoses affecting not only patients but also the fa...
Citation: BMC Psychology 2022 10:72 -
Community and cultural engagement for people with lived experience of mental health conditions: what are the barriers and enablers?
Community and cultural engagement can support recovery, help symptom management and increase social connections for people with lived experience of mental health conditions. However, research suggests that peo...
Citation: BMC Psychology 2022 10:71 -
Implementing a peer-to-peer, self-management intervention for young people with depression and anxiety in Denmark
Depressive and anxiety disorders share major risk factors and can often be effectively prevented or treated with similar interventions. However, less than half of young people with mental health problems seek ...
Citation: BMC Psychology 2022 10:70 -
The role of mindfulness and attachment security in facilitating resilience
In recent years, there has been growing interest in exploring ways to facilitate positive psychological dispositions, including resilience. The goal of the present study was to explore the possibility that tra...
Citation: BMC Psychology 2022 10:69 -
Development and psychometric properties of COVID-19 related Healthcare Student stress scale (CHSSS)
There is no valid and reliable tool to measure COVID-19 healthcare stress felt by healthcare students. A scale was developed to assess COVID-19 stress in healthcare students and its psychometrics was examined.
Citation: BMC Psychology 2022 10:68 -
Socioeconomic disadvantage and ethnicity are associated with large differences in children’s working memory ability: analysis of a prospective birth cohort study following 13,500 children
Working memory is a limited capacity system that stores and processes information over short time periods and is essential for learning new information. Some studies have investigated the associations between ...
Citation: BMC Psychology 2022 10:67 -
Systematic review on the association of COVID-19-related conspiracy belief with infection-preventive behavior and vaccination willingness
In times of a pandemic, not only infections but also conspiracy narratives spread among people. These have the potential to influence the course of the pandemic. Here we summarize and critically evaluate studi...
Citation: BMC Psychology 2022 10:66 -
Are pro-inflammatory markers associated with psychological distress in a cross-sectional study of healthy adolescents 15–17 years of age? The Fit Futures study
Inflammatory markers have been associated with depression and anxiety disorder in adolescents. Less is known about the association between inflammation and subclinical symptoms in the form of psychological dis...
Citation: BMC Psychology 2022 10:65 -
Evaluation of health-related quality of life before and after total hip arthroplasty in the elderly in Iran: a prospective cohort study
Owing to the direct impact of total hip arthroplasty (THA) on health-related quality of life (HRQOL) and the higher prevalence of THA in the elderly, this study aimed to compare HRQOL before, and after THA in ...
Citation: BMC Psychology 2022 10:64 -
Validation of Acromegaly Quality of Life Questionnaire (AcroQoL) for the Iranian population
Acromegaly is a chronic disease significantly affects the physical, emotional, and health-related aspects of patients' life. This study aimed to validate the Acromegaly Quality of Life Questionnaire (AcroQoL) ...
Citation: BMC Psychology 2022 10:63 -
Attachment style and mental health during the later stages of COVID‐19 pandemic: the mediation role of loneliness and COVID-19 anxiety
An insecure attachment style is an important risk factor for psychological problems. The aim of this study was to use Bartholomew and Horowitz’s model (Bartholomew and Horowitz in J Pers Soc Psychol 61(2): 226...
Citation: BMC Psychology 2022 10:62 -
The compassionate love for humanity scale (CLS-H-SF): psychometric properties of the Persian version
Compassionate love is beneficial in a variety of domains, including in education, health, and law, as well as in people’s personal lives. The topic of compassionate love has therefore attracted growing interes...
Citation: BMC Psychology 2022 10:61 -
Psychometric properties and validation of the English version Giessen Subjective Complaints List (GBB-8)
The present study investigated the psychometric properties of the newly developed English version of the Giessen Subjective Complaint List-8 (GBB-8), a questionnaire assessing psychosomatic symptoms with regar...
Citation: BMC Psychology 2022 10:60 -
Validation of the coping self-efficacy scale: Vietnamese version for adolescents
This study aimed to examine the construct validity of the Coping Self-Efficacy Scale-Vietnamese Version (CSES-V) among Vietnamese adolescents.
Citation: BMC Psychology 2022 10:59 -
Factors affecting the emotional reactions of patient relatives who receive news of death: a prospective observational study
Reporting the death of relatives to a family member is a very stressful task for physicians. Grief reactions differ from person to person.
Citation: BMC Psychology 2022 10:58 -
Professional self-understanding of teachers in different career stages: a phenomenological analysis
Teachers’ sense of identity plays a central role in understanding their actions as individuals inside and outside the classroom. Therefore, it is important to determine teachers’ understanding of who they are....
Citation: BMC Psychology 2022 10:57 -
Assessing meaningful work among Hungarian employees: testing psychometric properties of work and meaning inventory in employee subgroups
The construct of meaningful work (MW) has become the subject of various studies. Workers who experience MW have higher career and organizational commitment, report fewer days absent, and are characterized by a...
Citation: BMC Psychology 2022 10:56 -
The association of the spiritual health and psychological well-being of teachers with their organizational commitment
In line with the significance of organizational commitment, the question arises "Do spiritual health and psychological well-being optimize teachers' organizational commitment?" The purpose of this study was to...
Citation: BMC Psychology 2022 10:55 -
Subjective perception of life stress events affects long-term pain: the role of resilience
There is evidence that experiencing childhood trauma and life stressors across the lifespan together with lower resilience is associated with chronic pain-related conditions. The aim of this study was to explo...
Citation: BMC Psychology 2022 10:54 -
Client-therapist dyads and therapy outcome: Does sex matching matters? A cross-sectional study
Matching clients and therapist based on demographic variables might enhance therapeutic outcomes. Even so, research in this field is still inconclusive and not much is known about same-gender client therapist ...
Citation: BMC Psychology 2022 10:52
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