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  1. Researchers have shown various variables’ role in forming personality disorders (PD). This study aimed to assess the role of early maladaptive schema (EMS), attachment style (AS), and parenting style (PS) in d...

    Authors: Maryam Emami, Maryam Moghadasin, Haniye Mastour and Afshin Tayebi
    Citation: BMC Psychology 2024 12:78
  2. In addition to the fact that the concept of passion in sports plays a significant role in the formation of the identity concept of athletes, the dedication of athletes to the sports branches they are intereste...

    Authors: Sinan Uğraş, Barış Mergan, Talip Çelik, Yusuf Hidayat, Cemal Özman and Ümit Doğan Üstün
    Citation: BMC Psychology 2024 12:76
  3. Mental disorders are accountable for 16% of global disability-adjusted life years (DALYs). Therefore, accessible, cost-effective interventions are needed to help provide preventive and therapeutic options. As ...

    Authors: Kiandokht Kamalinejad, Seved Vahid Shariat, Negin Eissazade and Mohammadreza Shalbafan
    Citation: BMC Psychology 2024 12:73
  4. This article is a review that was inspired by recent studies investigating the effects of childhood trauma or early life stress (ELS) and mindfulness in adulthood. One recent study found that some forms of abu...

    Authors: Jonathan Gibson
    Citation: BMC Psychology 2024 12:71
  5. Substance use problems have a major impact on the physical and mental health of individuals, families and communities. Early intervention may have a positive effect on recovery and treatment outcomes for those...

    Authors: Judith Wright, Kathryn J. Chalmers, Alyssia Rossetto, Nicola J. Reavley, Claire M. Kelly and Anthony F. Jorm
    Citation: BMC Psychology 2024 12:70
  6. Previous studies in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic indicated that wearing a medical-style mask affects whether a stranger’s face is judged as more trustworthy, socially desirable, or likely to be ill. Ho...

    Authors: Gordon P. D. Ingram, Erick G. Chuquichambi, William Jimenez-Leal and Antonio Olivera-La Rosa
    Citation: BMC Psychology 2024 12:68
  7. The deleterious effects of mental fatigue (MF) on athletes have been carefully studied in various sports, such as soccer, badminton, and swimming. Even though many researchers have sought ways to ameliorate th...

    Authors: He Sun, Kim Geok Soh, Alireza Mohammadi, Zakaria Toumi, Lingling Zhang, Cong Ding, Xiaojuan Gao and Jian Tian
    Citation: BMC Psychology 2024 12:67
  8. Team-level job crafting has been put forward as a method to promote nurses' mental health. However, a longitudinal association is unclear. Therefore, the objective of this study was to investigate the associat...

    Authors: Mako Iida, Asuka Sakuraya, Kazuhiro Watanabe, Kotaro Imamura, Utako Sawada, Hiroto Akiyama, Yu Komase, Yuki Miyamoto and Norito Kawakami
    Citation: BMC Psychology 2024 12:66
  9. In Sub Saharan Africa (SSA), approximately 9 million students are enrolled in tertiary education (TE), which is 4% of the total TE enrolment globally. Barriers to higher education in SSA are numerous: poverty,...

    Authors: Jurgita Slekiene, Kondwani Chidziwisano and Elizabeth Tilley
    Citation: BMC Psychology 2024 12:65
  10. Adolescence is the period in which physical and emotional changes occur through hormones, the individual acquires gender characteristics and prepares for the adult role psychologically and physically. Dysfunct...

    Authors: Zila Özlem Kirbaş, Bülent Bayraktar and Elif Odabaşi Aktaş
    Citation: BMC Psychology 2024 12:64
  11. Childhood emotional disorders (EDs; i.e., anxiety and depressive disorders) are currently a public health concern. Their high prevalence, long-term effects, and profound influence on the lives of children and ...

    Authors: Helena Moreira, Dave Skvarc, Bárbara Gomes-Pereira, Alzira Albuquerque, Ana Carolina Góis, Ana Fonseca, Ana Maria Pereira, Brígida Caiado, Bruna Paulino, Catarina Santos, Jill Ehrenreich-May, Maria Cristina Canavarro, Mariana Saraiva, Vitória Nunes Vicente and Ana Isabel Pereira
    Citation: BMC Psychology 2024 12:63
  12. Refugee populations are forcibly displaced from their homes as a consequence of natural disasters and armed conflicts. Eritreans, initially displaced to the Maiayni camp within the Tigray region, have faced fu...

    Authors: Mihret Melese, Wudneh Simegn, Dereje Esubalew, Liknaw Workie Limenh, Wondim Ayenew, Gashaw Sisay Chanie, Abdulwase Mohammed Seid, Alemante Tafese Beyna, Melese Legesse Mitku, Asefa Kebad Mengesha and Yibeltal Yismaw Gela
    Citation: BMC Psychology 2024 12:62
  13. Pregnancy period is an important experience in the life process of married women, which leads them to growth and development and is considered as a part of the puberty process. The aim of this research is to d...

    Authors: Majid Yousefi Afrashteh, Parinaz Hanifeh and Zekrollah Morovati
    Citation: BMC Psychology 2024 12:60
  14. Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) poses cognitive and emotional challenges for Chinese children. This study addresses the potential benefits of Working Memory Training for ADHD-affected children....

    Authors: Dan Zhao and Jifang Zhang
    Citation: BMC Psychology 2024 12:59
  15. The average sleep duration of Japanese people is shorter than that of people from other countries, and bedtime procrastination is suspected to be one of the factors contributing to this issue. This study aimed...

    Authors: Megumi Hazumi, Aoi Kawamura, Takuya Yoshiike, Kentaro Matsui, Shingo Kitamura, Ayumi Tsuru, Kentaro Nagao, Naoko Ayabe, Tomohiro Utsumi, Muneto Izuhara, Mio Shinozaki, Eriya Takahashi, Michio Fukumizu, Momo Fushimi, Satomi Okabe, Taisuke Eto…
    Citation: BMC Psychology 2024 12:56
  16. This research investigated the interplay of emotional labor, job burnout, and leader-member exchange on turnover intentions among office workers in South Korea.

    Authors: Yiran Li, Hyunok You and Seokyoung Oh
    Citation: BMC Psychology 2024 12:54
  17. Interoceptive awareness is a multidimensional construct that refers to the sensation, interpretation, and integration of signals within the body. There is increasing evidence that problems with interoceptive a...

    Authors: Mia Scheffers, Jaisey Coenen, Janet Moeijes, Albertine de Haan, Jooske van Busschbach and Tina Bellemans
    Citation: BMC Psychology 2024 12:53
  18. Mental health is an aspect that has been relegated in recent years, prioritizing physical health care. However, there are more and more mental problems and disorders worldwide. In this context, adolescents are...

    Authors: Estefany Rojas-Mendoza, Vaneryn Alania-Marin and Aaron Travezaño-Cabrera
    Citation: BMC Psychology 2024 12:52
  19. With the increasing prevalence of online teaching, understanding the dynamics that impact educators' well-being and effectiveness is paramount. This study addresses the interconnected relationships among onlin...

    Authors: Xianbi Yang and Juan Du
    Citation: BMC Psychology 2024 12:51
  20. Parental stress often arises when parenting demands exceed the expected and actual resources available for parents to succeed in the parenting role. Parental stress is an important contributor to parent-child ...

    Authors: Kenneth Okelo, Aja Louise Murray, Josiah King, Patricia Kitsao-Wekulo, Silas Onyango, Margaret Nampijja and Bonnie Auyeung
    Citation: BMC Psychology 2024 12:50
  21. Due to an increased rate of inflammation in generalized anxiety disorder (GAD), insight into the mediating factors in the onset and recurrence of the inflammatory response can help to achieve novel treatments ...

    Authors: Ghazaleh Nameni, Shima Jazayeri, Masoud Salehi, Ali Esrafili, Ahmad Hajebi and Seyed Abbas Motevalian
    Citation: BMC Psychology 2024 12:49
  22. SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has had many significant impacts within the surgical realm, and surgeons have been obligated to reconsider almost every aspect of daily clinical practice.

    Authors: Mostafa Shalaby, Ahmed M. ElSheikh and Hosam Hamed
    Citation: BMC Psychology 2024 12:48

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  23. Non-adherence in the general population to preventive guidelines on cardiovascular disease calls for an interdisciplinary approach acknowledging psychological factors of relevance for risk communication and li...

    Authors: Elin M. Andersson, Kristina Lindvall, Patrik Wennberg, Helene Johansson and Steven Nordin
    Citation: BMC Psychology 2024 12:47
  24. Network modeling has been proposed as an effective approach to examine complex associations among antecedents, mediators and symptoms. This study aimed to investigate whether the severity of depressive symptom...

    Authors: Sugai Liang, Zejun Huang, Yiquan Wang, Yue Wu, Zhiyu Chen, Yamin Zhang, Wanjun Guo, Zhenqing Zhao, Sabrina D. Ford, Lena Palaniyappan and Tao Li
    Citation: BMC Psychology 2024 12:46
  25. Over the last century, technological progress has been tremendous, and technological advancement is reflected in the development of medicine. This research assessed attitudes towards surgical robots and identi...

    Authors: Balázs Szabó, Balázs Őrsi and Csilla Csukonyi
    Citation: BMC Psychology 2024 12:45
  26. Emergency service workers face critical incidents causing psychological burden. This qualitative study investigates how attending a Post Critical Incident Seminar could affect the skills of emergency service w...

    Authors: Sanna Korpela and Hilla Nordquist
    Citation: BMC Psychology 2024 12:44
  27. The literature has widely recognized the significance of examining the influence of teacher professional identity (TPI), teacher autonomy (TA), and teacher work motivation (TWM) on teacher well-being. However,...

    Authors: Ehsan Namaziandost, Tahereh Heydarnejad, Afsheen Rezai and Karamollah Javanmard
    Citation: BMC Psychology 2024 12:43
  28. Anxiety disorders are frequent but remain often underdiagnosed and undertreated. Hence, valid screening instruments are needed to enhance the diagnostic process. The Clinical Anxiety Scale (CAS) is a 25-item a...

    Authors: Yana Apostolova, Elisabeth Stamm, Francesco Cilla, Anne-Véronique Durst, Christophe Büla and Patrizia D’Amelio
    Citation: BMC Psychology 2024 12:42
  29. The sleep of healthcare students is worth discovering. Mental health and self-rated health are thought to be associated with sleep quality. As such, valid instruments to assess sleep quality in healthcare stud...

    Authors: Mengyi Huang, Haiyan Ma, Karen Spruyt, Joseph M. Dzierzewski, Chen Jiang, Jiaxuan He, Nongnong Yang, Yiwei Ying, Bolanle Adeyemi Ola and Runtang Meng
    Citation: BMC Psychology 2024 12:41
  30. Loneliness may compromise health-related quality of life (HRQOL) outcomes and the immunological impacts of loneliness via neuroendocrinological mechanisms likely have consequences for patients who have undergo...

    Authors: Lori J. Lange, Steven C. Ames, Gretchen E. Ames, Michael G. Heckman, Launia J. White, Vivek Roy and James M. Foran
    Citation: BMC Psychology 2024 12:40
  31. The purpose of this study is to uncover the effect of psychological safety climate (PSC) on employees’ job satisfaction and organisational climate mediating processes explaining that association. It is posited...

    Authors: Albert Joseph bin James Lintanga and Balan Rathakrishnan
    Citation: BMC Psychology 2024 12:38
  32. Burnout is still one of the leading mental health problems. According to research results over the past decades, healthcare workers, including paramedics, are considered a high-risk group. In concordance with ...

    Authors: László Ivánkovits, Csaba Kazinczi, Krisztián Kocsis, Mona Stankovic, Zsuzsanna Koday, Zoltán Pető and Annamária Töreki
    Citation: BMC Psychology 2024 12:37
  33. Dental stimuli can evoke fear after being paired - or conditioned - with aversive outcomes (e.g., pain). Pre-exposing the stimuli before conditioning can impair dental fear learning via a phenomenon known as l...

    Authors: Andrew L. Geers, Laura D. Seligman, Keenan A. Pituch, Ben Colagiuri, Hilary A. Marusak, Christine A. Rabinak, Natalie Turner, Sena L. Al-Ado and Michael Nedley
    Citation: BMC Psychology 2024 12:36
  34. One noteworthy concern within the realm of education is the level of engagement demonstrated by students. Among the factor that can have a crucial role in this domain is teacher support, especially emotional s...

    Authors: Yao Yan, Xusheng Zhang, Tong Lei, Pei Zheng and Chao Jiang
    Citation: BMC Psychology 2024 12:35
  35. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) emphasizes the importance of psychological flexibility in promoting emotional, psychological, and social well-being, while also acknowledging rigidity as a precursor to ...

    Authors: Mahboobeh Moosivand, Mohammad Javad Bagian Kulemarzi, Maryam Sayad Shirazi and Zeinab Zaremohzzabieh
    Citation: BMC Psychology 2024 12:34
  36. Family resilience plays a crucial role in helping depressed adolescents overcome challenges. However, studies examining family resilience in depressed adolescents are currently scarce. This study, guided by th...

    Authors: Yinying Zhang, Yiwen Hu and Min Yang
    Citation: BMC Psychology 2024 12:33
  37. Counseling self-efficacy is a relevant measure to examine trainees’ beliefs about their counseling skills. This study aimed to validate three scales of the revised German version of the Counselor Activity Self...

    Authors: Joanna Joy Hunsmann, Destina Sevde Ay-Bryson, Scarlett Kobs, Nicole Behrend, Florian Weck, Michel Knigge and Franziska Kühne
    Citation: BMC Psychology 2024 12:32

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