Elena Stănculescu

University of Bucharest | Unibuc

The validation of the Bergen Social Media Addiction Scale (BSMAS) in different cultural contexts is contributory in adding to the extant research body on psychometric qualities of the scale. The main purpose of this study was to examine the validity of the BSMAS, based on classical test theory and advanced psychometric testing, namely item response...

The prevalence of social media addiction has increased with the intensive use of technologically-mediated communication in everyday life. Most studies on social media addiction are based on the variable-centered approach with very few taking a person-centered approach. Since only one previous study has investigated the profiles of social media addi...

Although it is well-known that teaching is one of the most stressful jobs, teacher burnout during the COVID-19 pandemic has not been thoroughly investigated. The main aims of this study were to identify distinct teacher burnout profiles and examine their association with HEXACO personality factors and sociodemographic variables. Data were collected...

Existing literature on measuring well-being (WB) indicates that The Short Depression-Happiness Scale (SDHS) is the only measure built on the negative–positive affect continuum. However, since the previous studies highlighted the psychometric properties of the SDHS exclusively using classical test theory (CTT), this research aims to fill this gap. B...

The association between problematic internet use and hedonic and eudaimonic well-being: A latent profile analysis Elena Stănculescu, Mark D. Griffiths Problematic internet use (PIU) has become a public health concern globally and there are now many published studies examining the issue, particularly in relation to wellbeing. However most previous...

Parental burnout (PB) is a pervasive phenomenon. Parenting is embedded in cultural values, and previous research has shown the role of individualism in PB. In this paper, we reanalyze previously collected data to identify profiles based on the four dimensions of PB, and explore whether these profiles vary across countries’ levels of collectivistic-...

Purpose The prevalence of parental burnout, a condition that has severe consequences for both parents and children, varies dramatically across countries and is highest in Western countries characterized by high individualism. Method In this study, we examined the mediators of the relationship between individualism measured at the country level and...

What is it to be “an ideal parent”? Does the answer differ across countries and social classes? To answer these questions in a way that minimizes bias and ethnocentrism, we used open-ended questions to explore ideal-parent beliefs among 8,357 mothers and 3,517 fathers from 37 countries. Leximancer Semantic Network Analysis was utilized to first det...

Teacher burnout has been shown to be one of the most common negative consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic. This study aimed to identify distinct psychological resources and burnout risk profiles of teachers and examine their association with Kolb’s educator roles and their professional experience. Methods: The survey data were collected from 330 p...

Purpose The prevalence of parental burnout, a condition that has severe consequences for both parents and children, varies dramatically across countries and is highest in Western countries characterized by high individualism. Method In this study, we examined the mediators of the relationship between individualism measured at the country level and...

Teacher burnout has been shown to be one of the most common negative consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic. This study aimed to identify distinct psychological resources and burnout risk profiles of teachers and examine their association with Kolb’s educator roles and their professional experience. Methods: The survey data were collected from 330 p...

Although vaccination has been adopted by the WHO to limit worldwide transmission of COVID-19, people’s worries about COVID-19 vaccines may suppress their desire for vaccination despite vaccine availability. This study aimed to investigate anxiety and stress symptoms among 250 Jordanians (mean age = 43.18 ± 6.34 years, 72% females) who received thei...

Although vaccinating the world is adopted by the WHO to limit COVID-19 transmission, people’s worries about vaccines may suppress their desire for vaccination despite vaccine availability. This study aimed to evaluate the levels of stress and anxiety among 250 Jordanians who received their first vaccine dose at a local community health center. The...

The purpose of this cross-sectional study was to identify distinct burnout profiles of teachers and to examine their association with work-related stressors, such as workload, students' misbehavior, classroom resources, professional recognition needs and poor colleague relations, as well as socio-demographic variables. Survey data were collected fr...

The Coronavirus Disease-19 (COVID-19) pandemic has provoked the development of negative emotions in almost all societies since it first broke out in late 2019. The Impact of Event Scale-Revised (IES-R) is widely used to capture emotions, thoughts, and behaviors evoked by traumatic events, including COVID-19 as a collective and persistent traumatic...

One of the basic emotions generated by the COVID-19 pandemic is the fear of contacting this disease. The main aim of this study was to examine the psychometric properties of the Romanian version of the Fear of COVID-19 Scale (FCV-19S), based on classical test theory and item response theory, namely, graded response model. The FCV-19S was translated...

In Western countries, recent decades have witnessed a revolution toward gender equality. Inequalities have been greatly reduced in areas such as education or employment. Because inequalities lead to distress, this development has largely benefited women. One notable exception is the realm of parenting, which has remained rife with inequalities even...

Teacher burnout has been revealed to be one of the most common negative consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic The purpose of this study was to identify distinct psychological resources and burnout risk profiles of teachers and to examine their association with Kolb's Educator Roles and the professional experience. Methods: The survey data were colle...

The prevalence of social media addiction has increased with the intensive use of technologically-mediated communication in everyday life. Most studies on social media addiction are based on the variable-centered approach with very few taking a person-centered approach. Since only one previous study has investigated the profiles of social media addi...

The rapid spread of COVID-19 worldwide was accompanied by intense fears, confusion, worries, anger, and stress threatening people’s mental health. Unprecedented measures to slow down and prevent the transmission of COVID-19 have had various impacts on the population’s health behaviour and mental health. The main purpose of the present study is to i...

Although the beneficial aspects of web platforms such as Facebook are recognized, excessive social media use can lead to problematic or addictive behavior among a minority of users. Because anxious attachment has usually been analyzed in the relation to Internet addiction, social media addiction, and Facebook intensity use, the main aim of the pres...

The process of transferring to online teaching during the pandemic COVID-19 lockdown has been a core issue for teachers around the globe. The main aim of this paper was to investigate the direct and indirect effects of emotional intelligence (EI) and general self-efficacy on the adaptability to online teaching (AOT). A multiple-mediation model was...

The rapid spread of COVID-19 worldwide was accompanied by intense fears, confusion, worries, anger and stress threatening people's mental health. Unprecedented measures to slow down and prevent the transmission of COVID-19 have had various impacts on the population's health behaviour and mental health. The main purpose of the present study is to in...

Introduction: Consistent research has shown that social media use and social media addiction can have detrimental effects on our psychological well-being. Precisely, it has been shown that social media addiction is closely related to loneliness and social support, but so far results have been inconclusive. A meta-analysis is needed in order to reac...

High levels of stress in the parenting domain can lead to parental burnout, a condition that has severe consequences for both parents and children. It is not yet clear, however, whether parental burnout varies by culture, and if so, why it might do so. In this study, we examined the prevalence of parental burnout in 42 countries (17,409 parents; 71...

The process of transferring to online teaching during the pandemic COVID-19 lockdown has been a core issue for teachers around the globe. The main aim of this paper was to investigate the direct and indirect effects of emotional intelligence (EI) and general self-efficacy on the adaptability to online teaching (AOT). A multiple-mediation model was...

High levels of stress in the parenting domain can lead to parental burnout, a condition that has severe consequences for both parents and children. It is not yet clear, however, whether parental burnout varies by culture, and if so, why it might do so. In this study, we examined the prevalence of parental burnout in 42 countries (17,409 parents; 71...

The concept of parental burnout only recently gained the attention of researchers, mainly through the International Investigation of Parental Burnout (IIPB), a 40‐country study of the prevalence of PB around the world. Based on the current gold‐standard instrument to evaluate parental burnout, that is the Parental Burnout Assessment (PBA), the pres...

Social media use is inherently linked to everyday life in the digital world, from professional contexts to leisure time. Prior research focused on antecedents of social media use such as personality traits, age, gender, social skills, and also on broad range of its various effects. Positive effects include extension of friendship network, diminishi...

Introduction: Parenting represents a complex and demanding process. Experiencing for a long-time various stressors can lead to burnout. Based on an integrative approach, this study investigated parental burnout in relation with eudaimonic state of flourishing, subjective well-being, self-acceptance, and psychological resilience. The main aim was to...

Prior research on loneliness in early adolescence focused on the clinic aspects such as depressive symptoms and programs of intervention. Less attention has been paid on analysis of this construct from the perspective of positive psychology. The present study examined protective factors of loneliness, including perceived social support and ego-rela...

This chapter explores the universe of actors, relations, and reactions that define psychological wellbeing among Romanian children and adolescents. Using a qualitative methodology based on ecomaps, interviews, and focus groups, this study followed a qualitative, emic approach, trying to bring children’s voices to the fore. Findings revealed a rich...

The mediating role of the presence of the meaning in life in the relations between optimism and self-esteem on the one hand and subjective well-being on the other is an under-explored topic in the literature. The present study expands prior research on subjective well-being, using structural equation modeling, in a sample of 340 university students...

BackgroundA comprehensive understanding of the contextual factors that are linked to student engagement requires research that includes cross-cultural perspectives.AimsThis study investigated how student engagement in school is associated with grade, gender, and contextual factors across 12 countries. It also investigated whether these associations...

Acest articol prezintă o temă care nu a mai fost abordată în literatura de specialitate românească şi anume aspectele psihologice ale relaţiei de mentorat. Chiar şi în literatura străină, specialiştii au explorat mai mult activitatea de mentorat şi nu fundamentele psihologice ale relaţiei care se construieşte în acest context. A fost subliniată în...

The study examined psychological predictors and mediators of teacher subjective well-being. Participants included 174 teachers from urban middle and highschools. The first objective was to explore the psychological correlates of the teacher SWB: self-esteem, general self-efficacy (core self-evaluation), teacher self-efficacy, optimism (cognitive tr...

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the personality characteristics of some emperors who made consistent contributions that changed history: Justinian, Julius Caesar, and Shi Huangdi. These historical figures share one specific feature: although members of traditional, conservative societies, they proposed and achieved political projects th...

The objective of the present study was to develop a scale that is appropriate for use internationally to measure affective, behavioral, and cognitive dimensions of student engagement. Psychometric properties of this scale were examined with data of 3,420 students (7th, 8th, and 9th grade) from 12 countries (Austria, Canada, China, Cyprus, Estonia,...

It is accepted in the literature that the emergence of the altruistic behavior depends on psychological and social factors. The purpose of this paper is to present the findings related to the psychological mechanisms underlying the caring about others needs and altruistic acting. These aspects suppose social cognition, affective processes, and moti...

The aim of this study was to examine university students’ fear of success from the perspective of positive psychology. Two objectives were addressed: first, analysing the relation between fear of success, optimism, self-esteem, self-efficacy, and search for meaning in life; second, exploring the variance of the fear of success, taking into account...

The purpose of this research was to investigate the relationship between affective tendencies in embarrassing situations and cheating behavior in a sample of adolescents. Two objectives were addressed: first, exploring the relationship between cheating behavior and shame-proneness, guilt-proneness, externalization, and detachment; second, analyzing...

The purpose of this study was to investigate the role of the self-conscious emotion of pride in the relation between self-esteem and positive affect. Two objectives were addressed: first, exploring the relation among pride, self-esteem, and positive affect; second, analyzing the mediation role of pride in the association between self-esteem and pos...

Stănculescu, E. (2012). Studiu privind relaţia dintre emoţiile morale şi religiozitate în adolescenţă în volumul Educaţia din perspectiva valorilor. D. Opriş şi I. Scheau (coord). Chişinău: Editura Pontos ISBN 978-9975-51-406-4

This study examined gender differences in student engagement and academic performance in school. Participants included 3420 students (7th, 8th, and 9th graders) from Austria, Canada, China, Cyprus, Estonia, Greece, Malta, Portugal, Romania, South Korea, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The results indicated that, compared to boys, girls r...

The aim of this paper was to explore a new psychological concept: online self – presentation. There are differences between self – presentation in offline environments and online settings, because the last one could be revised before making it available in the cyberspace. Topics from social psychology (social identity theory, social cognition,), se...

In this paper are reviewed studies having a renewed interest for the specialists – gender stereotypes. It has been analysed an interesting topic related to a new social category, that includes counter-stereotype traits – business woman. Were presented theoretical points of view and empirical studies regarding accuracy of gender stereotypes, and oth...

The aim of this research was to investigate the relation between students’ affective school engagement and teachers’ supportiveness, and dimensions of motivating instructional contexts. According to the school psychologists, fostering affective school engagement is one modality of preventing students from risk status and enhancing their resilience...