Róbert Urbán

Eötvös Loránd University · Department of Personality and Health Psychology

Background: The popularity of video games has considerably increased in recent years, with approximately 3.24 billion players worldwide in 2021. Empirical evidence suggests that the quality of engagement in video games can determine whether a gaming activity is associated with psychological distress (i.e., problematic gaming) or self-enhancing outc...

Celebrity worship refers to excessive admiration towards a favorite celebrity (McCutcheon et al., 2002). Admiration of celebrities has been intensively researched in the past two decades (Brooks, 2021). The Absorption-Addiction Model proposes a hierarchical model of celebrity worship ranging from healthy enthusiasm to excessive levels of admiration...

A kiégés az egyik legsúlyosabb munkahelyi veszélyforrás, amely a pedagógusszakmát is erősen érinti. Narratív irodalmi összefoglalónkban a kiégés kutatásának kezdeteit is feltüntetve tekintjük át az aktuális kérdéseket a definíció, méréstan, a háttérokok és a prevenciós megközelítések terén – fókuszálva a tanárokkal kapcsolatos relevanciákra. A dive...

Background The variety of available flavors in e-cigarettes may be a driver for young people to start using these products. The objectives of our study were to examine the relationship between sensation-seeking behavior and e-cigarette use, and to identify the predictors of flavor use patterns among adolescents in Indonesia. Methods Students aged...

Background and aims: Celebrity worship, defined as an excessive admiration towards celebrities, has generated considerable research and public interest. A widely used assessment instrument to measure celebrity worship is the 23-item Celebrity Attitude Scale. However, concerns have been raised regarding the measurement, including the inconsistent fa...

Religious beliefs have been associated with holding more conservative views on gender identity and substantial prejudice against transgender individuals. The Philippines is a country with a traditional view of gender roles and may have difficulty understanding and accepting transgender individuals. This study explored the association between religi...

Emotion regulation as a proximal factor has been linked with depressive symptoms. However, studies have mainly focused on a limited number of strategies and have mostly been cross-sectional in design. This is particularly evident when examining the protective effects of adaptive strategies. This study aimed to investigate the prospective relationsh...

Background The main aim of our study was to investigate the role of depression, stigmatization, body shame and self-compassion in the adherence of young Hungarian breast cancer patients aged between 18 and 45 years. Methods In a cross-sectional online survey, data were collected from 99 young breast cancer patients (BC). Participants completed sel...

The present study was aimed at obtaining a more comprehensive understanding of the possible mediating factors in the morningness-eveningness → alcohol consumption relation. We explored the role of mediators such as sensation seeking, the frequency of going out in the evenings, and drinking motives. We tested the proposed mediation model via structu...

Background: Living with autoimmune thyroid disease is a longstanding challenge and can seriously affect the quality of life. We aimed to adapt and validate the Hungarian version of the Thyroid-Related Patient-Reported Outcome-39 (ThyPro-39) questionnaire, test its factor structure, and compare two frequent autoimmune thyroid diseases, Hashimoto's...

Introduction: Due to the high rate of mortality, recognizing the contributing factors of alcohol-related delirium tremens (DT), which is the most severe form of alcohol withdrawal state (AWS) is pivotal in clinical settings. Previous studies suggested relationship between seasonality and other types of delirium; however, to our knowledge, this is...

Background Studies have focused more on the outcome than on the process of burnout. However, different teachers at different stages of the process may be present at the same time, which the current methods do not capture. We aimed to develop a new measurement tool for the burnout process among teachers based on grounded theory. Methods In this cro...

Introduction: Living donor transplantation is a more and more frequent medical intervention. Beyond the medical issues, living organ donation raises psychosocial questions about the donors and their motivation. Objective: Our aim was to reveal the attitude, knowledge and beliefs regarding living kidney donation. Moreover to reveal the main deter...

Background Narcissism viewed as a personality process rather than a stable trait explains narcissistic functioning as a tool for maintaining a positive self-view. Studying narcissism therefore needs adequate momentary measures for collecting higher frequency longitudinal data in experience sampling method (ESM) studies. In this study, a shorter ver...

Background and aims The popularity of video gaming has generated significant interest in research methods to examine motivations for gaming. Current measures of gaming motives are limited by lack of scope and/or their applicability to specific game genres only. We aimed to create a comprehensive motivation inventory applicable to any gaming genre a...

The Narcissistic Personality Inventory is a widely used measure of narcissism; however, several different conflicting factor structures have been proposed. The present study aimed to untangle those differences by offering a bifactor model of narcissism with an underlying general narcissism factor and several specific factors. Our objective was to e...

Background Anger rumination is consistently associated with maladaptive psychopathological outcomes. However, there is a lack of research on the association between problematic cannabis use, cannabis use motives and anger rumination. Coping motives showed positive relationships with negative affectivity and emotion dysregulation, thus it might be p...

As climate change develops reactions such as eco-anxiety, eco-guilt and ecological grief are becoming increasingly common. Our aim was to develop questionnaires to assess these psychological consequences, and to examine their relationship with pro-environmental behavior (PEB). Items of the questionnaires were generated based on literature review an...

Aims There is limited knowledge on how ever and current heated tobacco product (HTP) users perceive the relative harm of various nicotine-containing products. The aim of this study was to explore relative harm perceptions of HTPs, e-cigarettes, and nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) relative to conventional cigarettes (CCs) among ever versus curren...

Epidemiological and phenomenological studies suggest shared underpinnings between multiple addictive behaviors. The present genetic association study was conducted as part of the Psychological and Genetic Factors of Addictions study (n = 3003) and aimed to investigate genetic overlaps between different substance use, addictive, and other compulsive...

VÉDŐNŐ (Journal - Folyóirat) Introduction: The rapid increase of e-cigarette experimentation and use among adolescents and young adults could be regarded as a public health crisis that could undermine effective tobacco control efforts and a new generation is getting hooked on nicotine. The aim of our study is to present the planning process of the...

Background Distressful and negative affective states can be associated with limited self-regulation capacities, while emotion regulation processes (e.g., rumination, negative urgency) might contribute to further depletion of self-control capacities which in turn can lead to diminished control over cannabis use. Aims The mediating functions of rumi...

Aims Higher levels of externalizing characteristics, i.e. impulsivity, novelty seeking and aggression, could contribute to the development, progression and severity of alcohol use disorder (AUD). The present study aims to explore whether these externalizing characteristics together have a potential group-forming role in AUD using latent profile ana...

Perfectionism is a multidimensional personality trait that may covary with both negative and positive indices of mental health. Different components of perfectionism might be associated in different ways with positive and negative aspects of mental health. However, past studies tended to focus only on one covariate at a time. This study aimed to te...

Objective Stimulants are the most effective treatment for Attention Deficit/ Hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). In addition, studies have shown that nicotine dependence in patients with ADHD is probably best explained by self-medication. The question is whether this is also true for caffeine use and caffeine dependence. The aim of our study was, theref...

Background: The reward deficiency syndrome (RDS) integrates psychological, neurological, and genetic factors of addictive, impulsive, and compulsive behaviors. However, to date, no instrument has been validated to assess the RDS construct. Aims: The present study developed and tested a tool to assess RDS. Methods: Data were collected on two co...

Háttér és célkitűzések: A nem öngyilkossági szándékkal végrehajtott szándékos önsértés (pl. a testfelszín direkt megvágása, megütése) élettartam-prevalenciáját a különböző kutatások normatív kamaszpopulációkban 18 és 40% közé teszik. Kevés olyan kérdőív van azonban, mely az önsértést részletesen tárja fel. Kutatásunk célja egy összetett önsértés ké...

A tanulmány az egészségpszichológia elmúlt évtizedekben Magyarországon lezajlott szakmai fejlődését tekinti át. A programiaddá személyek felsorolása mellett részletesen tárgyalja a kutatási irányokat és az ellátási gyakorlat meghatározó eredményeit. Kiemelt figyelmet fordít a szakma specifikus fogalmainak bemutatására, a beavatkozások kompetenciate...

The main purpose of our study was to examine the psychometric properties of Conradts’ Weight- and Body-Related Shame and Guilt Scale (WEB-SG) and associations of body shame and guilt with maladaptive eating behaviors and general chronic shame among Hungarian and Norwegian university students. Therefore, we collected data from 561 university student...

With the number of international students increasing worldwide, the sociocultural adaptation difficulties that sojourners face should be addressed adequately. This study explored the sociocultural adaptation of international students (N = 267, Mage = 24.5, SD = 4.7) in Hungary. The exploratory factor analysis of the Sociocultural Adaptation Scale y...

Introduction: The body of evidence suggests that smoking increases the risk of the most prevalent chronic diseases. Although the proportion of traditional smokers in Hungary has been on a declining trend since 2009, the proportion of those who tried e-cigarette has been steadily increasing in recent years. Objective: To present - in the light of pr...

Összefoglaló. Bevezetés: Nagyszámú kutatás igazolta, hogy a dohányzás növeli a legjelentősebb krónikus betegségek kockázatát. Habár 2009 óta csökkenő tendenciát mutat Magyarországon a hagyományos dohányzók aránya, az e-cigarettát kipróbálóké az utóbbi években folyamatosan növekszik. Célkitűzés: A 2018-ban a felnőtt lakosság körében végzett Népegész...

Introduction: The link between gaming disorder (GD) and substance use amongst adolescents is not clear. Some studies reported positive associations, whereas others suggested that alcohol and illicit drug use are not related to GD severity. Objectives: The present study aimed to identify empirically based latent classes of alcohol and illicit dru...

Background The Inventory of Statements About Self-Injury (ISAS) is a psychometrically valid tool to evaluate the motives of nonsuicidal self-injury (NSSI), but there are a few studies that test gender differences in the factor structure of the measurement. However, several differences across gender were identified in NSSI (e.g., in prevalence, meth...

In several theoretical models, exercise addiction is linked to emotion regulation and eating disorders. However, to date, the role of emotion regulation in exercise addiction is poorly understood. The present study aimed to examine the relationship between the risk of exercise addiction and emotion regulation by exploring the mediating role of emot...

The aim of the study was to investigate the pattern of traditional- and cyberbullying, and fighting involvement and identify its most important correlates in a nationally representative sample. We analyzed the data of Hungarian 11–18-year-old adolescents in the framework of the Health Behaviour in School-aged Children Study. A latent class analysis...

With the number of international students increasing worldwide, the sociocultural adaptation difficulties that sojourners face should be addressed adequately. This study explored the sociocultural adaptation of international students (N = 267, Mage = 24.5, SD = 4.7) in Hungary. The exploratory factor analysis of the Sociocultural Adaptation Scale y...

Pain catastrophizing is an exaggerated cognitive-affective response to actual or anticipated pain, usually measured by the Pain Catastrophizing Scale (PCS). Our study aimed to test the bifactor measurement model of the Hungarian PCS and to identify a catastrophizing risk group with a clinically meaningful cut-off score. The data of 404 chronic spin...

Background Because there is high variability among European countries in prevalence levels of various alcohol consumption measures, the informational value of adolescent's alcohol consumption indicators is uncertain. The present study aimed to examine information capacity and measurement invariance of different alcohol consumption indicators in ado...

Web-based samples of e-cigarette users commonly report significant vaping-related health improvements (HIs) and mild adverse events (AEs). This cross-sectional study with in-person interviewing data collection examined self-reported AEs and perceived HIs among Hungarian adult current daily exclusive e-cigarette (n = 65) and dual users (n = 127), an...

Backgrounds Preventive behaviours are an essential way to slow down and eliminate the transmission of SARS-CoV-2. The aim of this study was to estimate adherence to preventive behaviors and to identify whether any subgroups were not adopting these behaviours and for whom greater engagement in these approaches was indicated. Methods In this cross-s...

Intuitive eating (IE), an adaptive eating approach, has been identified as a plausible positive determinant of physical and mental well-being. This cross-sectional survey study aimed to examine the construct validity of IE measured by the Intuitive Eating Scale-2 (IES-2). The conceptual network of different adaptive and maladaptive eating behaviors...

Background Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is the fourth most frequent disease globally, and its worldwide prevalence is projected to increase in the following decades. Health-related quality of life (HRQOL) of COPD patients depends on multiple factors. Objective The aim of this study was to identify the most important risk factors af...

Purpose of review: Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS)-coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) virus imposes a higher risk of complications and mortality among people with mental disorders. Until widely available vaccines, adherence to preventive behaviours remains the most crucial tool to prevent SARS/COVID-19 virus transmission. Our review focu...

Röviden a tartalomból: 1. F E J E Z E T Az obezitológia orvosi vonatkozásai (Simonyi Gábor, Bedros J. Róbert) 2. F E J E Z E T Az elhízással kapcsolatos attitűdök az egészségügyi ellátórendszerben és az attitűdformálás útjai (Czeglédi Edit) 3. F E J E Z E T Az elhízás kialakulásában és fennmaradásában szerepet játszó egyéni és családi tényező...

Individuals with social phobia report lower quality of life, poorer social functioning and lower achievement. Young women are more likely to experience anxiety than other demographic groups. Using bidirectional associations and a path model, this study examined the interrelationship between social phobia and trait anxiety, perfectionism and self-ef...

Recently, animated sitcoms such as Family Guy and American Dad have generated considerable interest internationally. This genre is known for its portrayal of controversial political and social issues combined with strategies of malicious humor, exaggeration, and stereotyping. This study addresses the question of whether humor styles and humor types...

Backgrounds: Preventive behaviours are an essential way to slow down and eliminate the transmission of SARS-CoV-2. The aim of this study was to estimate adherence to preventive behaviors and to identify whether any subgroups were not adopting these behaviours and for whom greater engagement in these approaches was indicated. Methods: In this cross...

Background: The Inventory of Statements About Self-Injury (ISAS) is a psychometrically valid tool to evaluate the motives of non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI), but there is a lack of investigations which could test gender differences in the factor structure of the measurement. However, several differences across gender were identified in self-harm (e...

Background: Empirical evidence suggests that low self-esteem and high perfectionism are significant personality correlates of work addiction, but the mechanisms underlying these relationships are still unclear. Consequently, exploring cognitive mechanisms will help to better understand work addiction. For instance, rumination is one of the under-re...

Objective There is limited amount of evidence concerning the effect of population-based interventions. Dry November campaign asks people to go booze-free for a month. The goal of our study was to assess whether success rate of participation in the 2017 Dry November campaign leads to long-term change in alcohol consumption of participants. Methods A...

Background Patients diagnosed with Alcohol Use Disorder (AUD) present an increased risk for experiencing severe internalizing and externalizing symptoms. Involvement in twelve-step based treatment programs, such as the Minnesota Model (MM), can contribute to improvement of an individual’s psychopathological symptom profile. The present study’s main...

Background: A healthy lifestyle of students is an important contributor to both quality of life and longevity. The objective of this study was to develop a new measurement scale, the General Self-regulation Scale for a Healthy Lifestyle (GSRSHL), for university students. Methods: A total of 434 university students (281 male, 153 female) participate...

New psychoactive substances (NPS) continue to be considered as a major public health concern in many European countries. The study was implemented within the framework of a transnational project of six European countries (Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal). Our aim here is to report on the distinct and differentiating charact...

This study examined the factor structure of the Hungarian version of the Birchwood Insight Scale (BIS) and analyzed its association with socio-demographics, diagnosis, internalized stigma, and shame using confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) with covariates. Mentally ill patients (N = 200) completed self-report questionnaires. CFA supported two-facto...

Non-suicidal self-injury is a significant global public health problem during adolescence, nevertheless there is a lack of investigations among juvenile offenders. Our cross-sectional study aimed to investigate the relationship between negative life events and self-harm, including the effects of dissociation and experiential avoidance that accounte...

Objective: Applying self-determination theory, the present study examined the different regulatory processes of healthy eating motivations and their determinants in a cross-cultural sample by exploring the factor structure, measurement invariance, and construct validity of the Motivation for Healthy Eating Scale (MHES). Design: 381 Hungarian, 264 J...

This chapter provides an overview of the main and most consistently reported psychological factors that play a role in the onset and persistence of obesity. Taking psychological factors into account is crucial, as a pure biomedical model does not explain sufficiently the sizeable individual variability of weight gain, and persistence of abnormal we...

The present study examined the factor structure of the Hungarian version of the Medication Adherence Rating Scale (MARS) and analyzed its association with socio-demographics, insight, internalized stigma, and the experience of loss and grief as a result of the mental illness diagnosis, using confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) with a series of one c...

Background and aims: Due to its important role in both healthy groups and those with physical, mental and behavioral disorders, impulsivity is a widely researched construct. Among various self-report questionnaires of impulsivity, the Barratt Impulsiveness Scale is arguably the most frequently used measure. Despite its international use, inconsist...

Background: Although it is a widely used instrument, there is still no consensus related to the factor structure of the Protective Behavioral Strategies Scale (PBSS), particularly the function of a higher-order protective behavioral strategies (PBS) factor is needed to be explored. The present research aimed to test and validate competing measureme...

Background A complex and bidirectional association has been assumed between feeding and eating disorders (FEDs) and alcohol consumption. Previous research has demonstrated that alcohol use among individuals with different forms of FEDs is more frequently motivated by two subtypes of internal drinking motives: coping and enhancement motives. Namely,...

In recent years, animated situation comedies (generally known as animated sitcoms) have gained widespread popularity among young adults. Animated sitcoms often dissect sensitive social and political concerns using negative humor, exaggeration, and stereotyping. The present study aimed to explore the motives for viewing animated sitcoms using qualit...

Social media has opened an avenue for reciprocal interactions between celebrities and their fans, encouraging individuals with a tendency to become obsessed with celebrities to extend their online social network with celebrity friends. Celebrity worship has been associated with weak social skills and addictive behaviors (e.g., problematic Internet...

Introduction New psychoactive substances (NPS) pose a public health threat. Many studies have tried to identify the reasons of NPS use; however, none of them have so far used any standardised measures. The aim of this study was (i) to develop and cross-culturally validate the New Psychoactive Substance Use Motives Measure (NPSMM) and (ii) to compar...

Readers should note the following corrected passages in this article: Page 2: “According to a recent meta-analysis by Modecki et al. (2014), 36% of adolescents have been victimized in TB (ranging from 9% to 97.9%) and 15% in CB (ranging from 2.2% to 56.2%).” © 2018 Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature

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Background and aims: Parental bonding is regarded as one of the risk factors of problematic internet use among adolescents and young adults; however, only few studies have examined the association between problematic social media use and parental bonding among adolescents. The aim of this study is to investigate the difference between problematic...