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The aim of this study was to analyze the psychometric properties of the Purpose in Life Test-Short Form (PIL-SF), a brief self-report measure of the presence of meaning in life (MiL). Participants were 349 non-clinical Spanish undergraduates (225 women, 64.5%, and 124 men, 35.5%), age ranged between 18 and 26 years (M = 20.85; SD = 2.16). The PIL-S...

Since its early development, clinical psychology has questioned the impact of "consciousness" on the determination of human responsibility across psychiatric disorders. In recent years, specific clinical approaches have focused on "consciousness" work that could play a key role in psychotherapy. We focused our research on clinical psychology's cons...

Low self-efficacy for threatening stimuli and situations has been proposed as an important etiological factor in the development and maintenance of specific phobias. The present study examined the relationships between general self-efficacy (GSE), specific self-efficacy (SSE) and specific fears in a representative sample (n = 717). While GSE was as...

Addressing hazardous drinking during medical-surgical care improves patients’ health. This formative evaluation examined patients’ consideration of options to change drinking and engage in treatment. It explored whether interventions such as “DO-MoST” overcome treatment barriers. We interviewed 20 medical-surgical patients with hazardous drinking i...

Background: The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) affects almost all countries in the world and it impacts every aspect of people's life-physically, mentally, and socio-economically. There are several research studies examining the impact of this pandemic on health, however, very few studies examining the impact of this pandemic on quality of li...

Background: Community Acute Bacterial Meningitis (CABM) is a rare infectious disease leading to important impairments. Our aim was to describe CABM survivors' quality of life (QOL) 12 months post-CABM and to assess its associations with CABM sequelae. Methods: Patients included in the CABM COMBAT cohort were evaluated one year after the CABM epi...

The COVID-19 pandemic has drawn attention to the health-promoting features of human-animal relationships, particularly for families with children. Despite this, the World Health Organization’s (1986) Ottawa Charter remains human-centric. Given the reciprocal health impacts of human-animal relationships, this paper aims to (i) describe perceived pet...

Introduction: There is a considerably large group of community-dwelling spinal cord injury (SCI) survivors living with low quality of life. Physical inactivity, depression, and chronic pain are major problems faced by SCI survivors discharged from the acute phase of treatment or inpatient rehabilitation. This study aims to evaluate the feasibility...

Background: Interventions that combine cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) with unconditional cash transfers (UCT) reduce the risk of antisocial behavior (ASB), but the underlying mechanisms are unclear. In this paper, we test the role of psychological and cognitive mechanisms in explaining this effect. We assessed the mediating role of executive f...

Clinical and neuroscientific evidence indicates that transdiagnostic processes contribute to the generation and maintenance of psychopathological symptoms and disorders. Rigidity (inflexibility) appears a core feature of most transdiagnostic pathological processes. Decreasing rigidity may prove important to restore and maintain mental health. One o...

Purpose Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a progressive motor impairment leading to early death. Religiousness is one of the factors potentially alleviating the psychological burden of patients. However, its role might vary according to cultural context. Our study aimed to analyze religiosity, and its clinical, psychological and socio-demograp...

Introduction Psoriasis (PSO) is a disease that in the majority of patients is accompanied by itch, which imposes a great burden and positively relates to anxiety. Social anxiety, a facet of anxiety associated with social withdrawal, may be a predictor of itch intensity in this patient group. Moreover, anxiety is linked to the secretion of neuroendo...

This text highlights the increasing importance of cultural variables in psychology, and also of its possible applications in the school environment. It clarifies aspects pertaining to cultural psychology, which examines psychological processes in their cultural context. It thus becomes interdisciplinary and, by appealing to other disciplines in the...

Background: Public Health England recently called for the establishment of services to help people to safely stop prescribed drugs associated with dependence and withdrawal, including benzodiazepines, z-drugs, antidepressants, gabapentinoids and opioids. NICE identified a lack of knowledge about the best model for such service delivery. Therefore,...

Background: Insomnia is a prevalent sleep disorder that affects people all over the world. Creating suitable interventions will require a better understanding of the magnitude and determinants of insomnia. This study aimed to assess the prevalence and associated factors of insomnia symptoms among residents of Mettu town during the pandemic lockdow...

The ability to quantify within-person changes in mental health is central to the mission of clinical psychology. Typically, this is done using total or mean scores on symptom measures; however, this approach assumes that symptom measures quantify the same construct, the same way each time the measure is completed. Without this quality, termed longi...

Objective: Numerous randomized controlled trials (RCTs) demonstrate the efficacy of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), metacognitive therapy (MCT), and methods to reduce intolerance of uncertainty (IU-CBT) in the treatment of generalized anxiety disorder (GAD). However, few studies have investigated these treatments under conditions of routine cl...

Introduction: Individuals with low back pain (LBP) may be classified based on mechanistic descriptors, such as a nociplastic pain presentation (NPP). The purpose of this secondary analysis was to examine the frequency and characteristics of patients with a NPP referred to physical therapy with LBP. Additionally, we characterized patients with LBP...

Background: Robot-assisted therapy (RAT) and virtual reality (VR)-based neuromotor rehabilitation have shown promising evidence in terms of patient's neuromotor recovery, so far. However, still little is known on the perceived experience of use of robotic and VR devices and the related psychosocial impact. The present study outlines a study protoc...

Hoarding disorder is characterised by the acquisition of, and failure to discard large numbers of items regardless of their actual value, a perceived need to save the items and distress associated with discarding them, significant clutter in living spaces that render the activities associated with those spaces very difficult causing significant dis...

We are delighted to announce that the Academic Journal of Psychological Studies is now accepting submissions for our upcoming issues. The journal aims to provide a platform for researchers, scholars, and practitioners in the field of psychology to share their research findings, theoretical perspectives, and practical applications with a wider audie...

COVID-19-related fear negatively affects the public’s psychological well-being and health behaviours. Although psychological distress including depression and anxiety under COVID-19 is well-established in literature, research scarcely evaluated the fear of COVID-19 with a large sample using validated scale. This study aimed to validate a Korean ver...

Every day lawyers provide counsel and advocacy to individuals, groups, and businesses in a multitude of settings. From court room to board room, attorneys are relied upon to guide their clients through difficult situations. In doing this, attorneys all too often internalize the stresses of those that they help. The legal system has long been consid...

Respondents select the type of psychological studies that they want to participate in consistence with their needs and individual characteristics, which creates an unintentional self-selection bias. The question remains whether participants attracted by psychological studies may have more psychological dysfunctions related to personality and affect...

En février 2022, le GIEC a publié le volume 2 de son 6e rapport d'évaluation, intitulé "Changement climatique : impacts, adaptation et vulnérabilité". Au-delà des éléments inquiétants portant sur la description et l'anticipation des événements climatiques extrêmes à venir (vagues de chaleur, inondations, sécheresses etc.), le rapport revient sur la...

Taking into account the psychological aspects and the psychological support offered to patients and families in paliative care, according to the WHO and the EAPC, we think that the Clinical Psychologist must, not only be holder of a series of technical skills (see Jünguer, S. & Payne, S, 2011), but also be more selective when making the choice of t...

Este estudo teve como objetivo apresentar a construção um protocolo voltado à intervenções breves no campo da psicologia clínica, visto a ausência do desenvolvimento até o momento de protocolos e/ou modelos de formulação de caso clínico nesta modalidade de atendimento. Apesar disso, as evidência em psicologia clínica apontam que o processo de atend...

Research shows that people with mental health conditions experience dehumanization, and this is associated with states of emotional distress. Possible sources of meta-dehumanization include interpersonal interactions with members of society, professionals, and institutions, as well as negative portrayals in the news and media. Self-dehumanization m...

This research was intended to explore in what way family functioning and personality traits predicts psychological health in clinical psychology trainees. These three variables were never studied together in Pakistan, and it provided the clarity about the impact of both individual and collectivistic variables on psychological health. This study aim...

The current study was conducted to explore the severity of parental stress, familial burden and how it effects on quality of life of those parents having children with Down Syndrome in Pakistan. Correlational research design was used to recruit the sample. The participants N= 110 (M=55; F=55) were recruited through purposive sampling from different...

Background: Acupuncture may become a treatment for postpartum depression (PPD). Currently, little is known about the use of acupuncture in the treatment of PPD from the point of view of practitioners. The aim of this study was to explore practitioners' perspectives on the treatment of PPD with acupuncture and provide suggestions for future improve...

A Conferência sobre o Antissemitismo no Século XXI: Londres, setembro de 2022. Sócrates Nolasco (1) Durante dois anos, conferências e eventos relacionados ao Antissemitismo foram suspensos por conta da COVID 19, o que motivou um grande número de estudiosos e ativistas a se deslocarem para Londres nos dias 11, 12 e 13 de setembro de 2022. Estiveram...

This article briefly examines the life and work of the late clinical psychologist and philosopher of science Paul E. Meehl. His thesis in Clinical versus Statistical Prediction (1954) that the data combination performed by mechanical operations, as compared to clinicians, achieves higher accuracy in predicting human behavior is one of the earliest...

Background: Approximately seven to nine percent of couples of reproductive age do not get pregnant despite regular and unprotected sexual intercourse. Various psychosocial interventions for women and men with fertility disorders are repeatedly found in the literature. The effects of these interventions on outcomes such as anxiety and depression, a...

This book is about clinical psychology and cognitive behavioral psychotherapy in various mental health disorders. Talking about mental health without stigma and under the recovery perspective.

Introduction Guilt is an important part of obsessive–compulsive disorder. The abnormal moral cognition of obsessive–compulsive disorder patients may be closely related to their high level of guilt. The purpose of this study was to explore the development level of moral judgment in patients with obsessive–compulsive disorder and the role of parentin...

Background: Several trauma-focused treatments have been developed to treat post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Yet there are limited studies on how trauma survivors perceive and experience trauma-focused treatments such as prolonged exposure therapy (PE) for PTSD, especially in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC). Aim: The study aimed to ex...

Objective: Parental psychological distress (depression, anxiety) is detrimental to child mental health. A key reason for this is that depressed and anxious parents are at risk of engaging in more negative, reactive and harsh parenting. While treatment for psychological distress has a long history of success in adults, less is known about how treat...

Although it is a widely used questionnaire, limitations regarding the scoring procedure and the structural validity of the eight-item Reflective Functioning Questionnaire (RFQ-8) were raised. The present study aimed to examine further the latent dimensionality of the RFQ-8 and to examine linear and non-linear associations between mentalization diff...

There is little research reporting the outcome of internet delivered cognitive behaviour therapy, (iCBT), which helps patients identify and modify unhelpful cognitions and behaviours, for the depressed phase of bipolar disorder as part of routine care. Demographic information, baseline scores and treatment outcomes were examined for patients of Min...

The four chapters of this Monograph reproduce my articles published in the first four issues of the Review "PERSPECTIVES, REVIEW ON THE SOCIAL ISSUES OF PSYCHOLOGICAL PRACTICES" (1983-1984). They are still relevant for research and practice in the different branches of psychology. Part I focuses on the social signification of school psychology. Par...

The objectives of the present manuscript were to review the literature on stigma toward survivors of intimate partner violence (IPV) and to identify the most widely used assessment techniques to investigate this issue. The PRISMA guidelines were followed, and the systematic review was registered in PROSPERO, registration number: CRD42022327410. Psy...

The repertory grid technique (often abbreviated as grid or repgrid) is a person-centered data collection method. It is primarily used in clinical psychology and generates a mix of qualitative and quantitative data. The OpenRepGrid.ic R package presented here is a browser-based software to perform Interpretive Clustering (IC) for such data. IC is a...

Relational frame theory and verbal behavior development theory are two behavior-analytic perspectives on human language and cognition. Despite sharing reliance on Skinner's analysis of verbal behavior, relational frame theory and verbal behavior development theory have largely been developed independently, with initial applications in clinical psyc...

We set out to replicate findings of significant (a) reductions in pain, psychological distress, and motivational incongruence (i.e., insufficient motive satisfaction) after interdisciplinary multimodal pain treatment and (b) associations between reductions in motivational incongruence (i.e., improved motive satisfaction) and decreases in psychologi...

Objective Clinical characteristics of patients with burning mouth syndrome (BMS) were compared in the presence or absence of psychological stress to investigate the clinical, psychological, and haematological indicators. Methods Among 141 BMS patients (117 females, 82.98%; 56.4 ± 12.89 years), inter- and intra-group statistical analyses were condu...

Background: This study aimed to investigate the prevalence and the psychological comorbidity of PGD among bereaved family caregivers of palliative care cancer patients. We also examined the discriminant validity of two simple and reliable tools in correctly categorized individuals with PGD. Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted with 157 be...

The 3rd International Scientific Conference of the Department of Psychology of the Catholic University of Croatia was held in Zagreb on 9 – 11 December 2021. The conference was marked by special circumstances – it was held during the outburst of the COVID-19 pandemic and in the aftermath of the two earthquakes that had hit Croatia in 2020, one in Z...

Background: People living with borderline personality disorder (BPD) face high levels of prejudice and discrimination from both the community and medical professionals, but no measure of prejudice toward people living with BPD exists. Aims: The current study aimed to adapt an existing Prejudice toward People with Mental Illness (PPMI) scale and...

Specific phobias are a common anxiety disorder that deteriorates the lives of people who suffer from them. To reduce the symptoms produced by this mental disorder exposure therapies have been used. However, low- and middle-income countries, including Mexico, have the lowest rate of treatment due to multiple barriers that prevent addressing mental h...

One of the core features of hoarding is a significant resistance to discarding objects, which is fueled by dysfunctional beliefs and unwarranted negative emotions that hoarders tend to feel when disposing of their possessions. To our knowledge, longitudinal studies investigating the psychological effects that people who hoard experience after separ...

Phenotypes have been proposed as a method of characterizing subgroups based on biopsychosocial factors to identify responders to analgesic treatments. This study aimed to, first, confirm phenotypes in patients with low back pain receiving physical therapy based on an a priori set of factors used to derive subgroups in other pain populations. Second...

Bipolar spectrum disorder as one of the most debated and studied topics in clinical psychology has been brought to the attention of the public because of its plausible connection to creativity. Recent events of celebrities claiming their onsets of bipolar episodes reinforces the belief of the connection and it will rely on the field of clinical psy...

Background: The prevalence and burden of obesity continues to grow worldwide. Psychological comorbidities may not only influence quality of life, but may also hinder successful weight loss. The causality between excess weight and mental health issues is still not fully understood. The aim of the study was to investigate whetherweight history param...

Chronic pain (CP), defined as pain lasting more than three months, is a significant healthcare challenge with considerable economic costs [...]

Objectives This study aimed to compare profiles of coping among females with thyroid disorders and females from a healthy control group regarding depression levels and body image anxiety. We also wanted to check whether subjectively experienced Covid-19-related psychological distress moderated the above-mentioned association in both groups of parti...

This review of systematic reviews of randomized clinical trials summarized the available evidence regarding the effectiveness and safety of interventions to treat depression and/or anxiety in people with type 1 and type 2 diabetes. The sources of information searched were the Cochrane Library, MEDLINE, EMBASE, Web of Science and LILACS, until up to...

Tourism in a post-pandemic era will likely be oriented toward nature because contact with nature has restorative health benefits. The purpose of this study was to analyze the antecedents of tourists' intentions to visit nature-based resorts during a pandemic. A nationally representative sample of the Spanish population (n = 500) was recruited by an...

Objective: Intolerance to uncertainty is a trait-like disposition largely studied in psychopathology and known to be involved in many psychological disorders. Yet, the very operationalization of this construct has prompted debate in the literature. Three different models have regularly been discussed: a correlated two-factor solution, a bifactoria...

Background: Opioid use disorder is a serious public health problem in Nepal. People who use opioids often experience psychological distress and poor quality of life. Opioid agonist Treatment (OAT) is central in managing opioid dependence. This study aimed to examine factors associated with quality of life and serious psychological distress among O...

Psychological flexibility may reduce addictive behaviours by adaptive and flexible emotional and cognitive processes. This study tested a mediation model of internet gaming disorder (IGD) in which psychological flexibility would reduce depression and maladaptive cognitions related to internet gaming and in turn lower the risk of IGD. A cross-sectio...

In present days, as education and learning paths are more evolving, it is leading to several subject specialisation. In this scenario, it is very important to discuss about the future aspects of psychology in forensic science along with criminology. Psychology in forensic can be very exciting for field works. Choosing psychology in forensic science...

p>Interactions among humans on social media often convey intentions behind their actions, yielding a psychological language resource for Mental Health Analysis (MHA) of online users. The success of Computational Intelligence Techniques (CIT) for inferring mental illness from such social media resources points to NLP as a lens for causal analysis an...

Objective: The purpose of this study is to identify and analyze the scientific products of various research areas of bibliotherapy indexed in the Web of Science database. Methodology: The present study is a descriptive study with scientometric approach and content analysis method and has been done by using co-word analysis techniques. Data analysis...

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Partialing is a statistical approach researchers use with the goal of removing extraneous variance from a variable before examining its association with other variables. Controlling for confounds through analysis of covariance or multiple regression analysis and residualizing variables for use in subsequent analyses are common approaches to partial...

Patterns of insecure attachment are associated with psychopathology but the mechanisms involved remain poorly understood. Cognitive science proposes that attachment patterns are influenced by the autobiographical memory system and in turn influence its ongoing functioning. Disturbances in autobiographical memory represent cognitive risks for later...

Background: Incidences of cancer are increasing at an unprecedented rate in Saudi Arabia, making it a major public health concern. Cancer patients are faced with physical, psychological, social, and economic challenges, all of which can impact quality of life (QoL). Objectives: This study aims to explore the sociodemographic, psychological, clin...

Internet addiction (IA) by children and adolescents is a concern for parents. The intensity of this problem has increased in the context of COVID-19 pandemic across the world. Here we aimed to evaluate internet usage patterns, addiction to internet use, and mental health among Bangladeshi school-going adolescents during the COVID-19 pandemic. We co...

Wretched of the Earth was the last book that Frantz Fanon (1963) wrote before he passed, and the book speaks to how there's a stream of mental health symptoms that are at the sequel of colonial oppression. Wretched of the Earth has a framework that allows clinicians to explore how to care for our communities, and further how we've been socialized t...

Introduction: SARS-COV-2, the novel severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus, has become a life-threatening public health crisis. This kind of pandemic is frightening the world with clinical, psychological, and emotional distress and leading to an economic slowdown. To explore any association between the ABO blood type and the susceptibility...

Background: Anxiety and depression in cardiac rehabilitation (CR) are associated with greater morbidity, mortality, and increased healthcare costs. Current psychological interventions within CR have small effects based on low-quality studies of clinic-based interventions with limited access to home-based psychological support. We tested the effect...

A proposta de uma psicoterapia afirmativa não vem para concorrer com as terapias cognitivo-comportamentais e humanistas, as psicanálises ou qualquer outra orientação clínica. É uma postura de atendimento de pessoas LGBTQ+, que tem compromisso com a despatologização das orientações sexuais e das identidades de gênero que transgridem a heterocisnorma...

O capítulo discute práticas inadequadas na psicologia clínica no atendimento de pessoas LGBTQ+

La literatura se refiere a la percepción de riesgo como un aspecto determinante para el consumo de marihuana, pero no existen instrumentos que la evalúen de forma objetiva. Objetivo. Diseñar una batería de evaluación de la percepción de riesgo hacia el consumo de marihuana, para universitarios colombianos. Método. Estudio de tipo instrumental. Se d...

In this article, we posit an approach to study brain processesnby means of the quantum-classical dynamics of a Mixed Weyl symbol. The Mixed Weyl symbol is used to describe brain processes at the microscopic level and, when averaged over an appropriate ensemble, provides a link to the results of measurements made at the mesoscopic scale. The approac...

Introducción: Se diseñaron dos cuestionarios para evaluar factores personales, familiares, sociales, culturales y am- bientales, predictores de recaídas y de recuperación en personas con consumo riesgoso de alcohol entre 18 y 35 años. Objetivos: Diseñar y validar dos cuestionarios que evalúen los factores personales, familiares, sociales, cul- tura...