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Peter D. MacIntyre is a full professor of psychology at Cape Breton University. His research focusses on the psychology of language and communication. He has published over 150 journal articles and chapters on topics such as emotions, flow, motivation, willingness to communicate, and personality. His most cited papers often focus on methods and met...

Qui est ce professionnel dénommé tantôt interprète de services publics ou en milieu social, tantôt interprète de dialogue ou de liaison ? Cet interprète qui intervient en contexte social, médical, juridique et migratoire est petit à petit devenu une figure indispensable du dialogue entre institutions et personnes allophones depuis le début des anné...

Objective: to evaluate the association between quality of life and presence of symptoms of depression, anxiety, and stress in college students in the health area. Method: cross-sectional study that included 321 students from undergraduate courses in the health area. Quality of life was measured using the World Health Organization scale, abbreviated...

Doctoral Consortium Extended Abstract (ECAI 2023). This project explores the application of automated planning to the discovery of sophisticated deceptive strategies in adversarial multi-agent planning problems. We propose a general computational model of deceptive planning, grounded in social-psychological theories of human deception, that enable...

Introduction Substance use has been a long-standing global public health problem with detrimental physical, psychological, social, and economic consequences at individual and societal levels. Large-scale and gender-specific studies on the dual use of alcohol and khat are limited. This study aimed to estimate the prevalence of dual alcohol and khat...

Mental health plays a vital role in our ability to think, feel, interact, work, and enjoy life individually and collectively. A person's mental health is affected by several things at any moment, some of which are social, psychological, and biological. Children of working mothers may have different degrees of anxiety, depression, and social problem...

Background Women with advanced uterine cervical cancer suffer from a combination of moderate to severe physical, psychological, social, and spiritual distress due to their disease and are in need of palliative care to improve their quality of life. Approximately 85% of the women live in the low- and middle-income countries. Whether these women and...

Motivating people to take environmentally friendly action, especially collective actions that promote greater social engagement, is important for addressing environmental issues like biodiversity loss. We conducted an online workshop-based field experiment to target social-psychological perceptions to motivate people to plant native plants and enco...

In the recent years, mindfulness-based research has experienced a boom. Yet, the majority of those studies treat mindfulness in a positivistic way, thus solely as a variable. Within such a lens of inquiry, we ignore the theoretical and historical underpinnings of mindfulness that are still important, nowadays. For that purpose, I instance a theoret...

A number of studies analyze the link between the presence of psychosocial risk factors and work-related musculoskeletal disorders. The increase in job insecurity (JI) has resulted in a growing focus on its likely role as a risk factor within occupational health. Accordingly, the aim of this research was to carry out a systematic review of studies t...

The question of “Justice” still divides social research, moral philosophy, and public discourse. Three principles of distributive justice (allocation rules) occupy center stage in the debate: merit (equity, proportionality), need, and equality. Yet their relation remains diffuse, and current theory does not inform political practice. Here, we aim t...

Adverse pregnancy outcomes (APOs) are a significant cause of fetal death. A wide range of maternal psychological, social, and environmental factors may contribute to these outcomes. Mounting epidemiological studies have indicated that PM2.5 may result in these unfavorable consequences. Previously published meta-analyses have been updated and extend...

This reflection article aims at exploring the bases of the historical construction of work in Colombia, its social representations, and its incidence on the constitution of submerged economies such as illegal drug trafficking. The historical method of consulting secondary sources that testify to the behavior of Colombian society at the end of the C...

Understanding and improving methodologies for evaluating and comparing charities across domains: Collaborative book. Written by students taking an “Advanced Social Psychology” course at University of Hong Kong, as part of CORE Team (2023).

Aim: To identify teaching stategies, theories, and methods to enhance students' quality of life (QOL) that are used in preparing students for the NCLEX-RN exam. Design: A scoping review was conducted. Methods: Arksey and O'Malley's methodological framework and PRISMA-ScR guidelines were utilized. Data were derived from four databases including CINA...

Graduates’ employability has been an important goal of education and requires further research to uncover how education can support employability. Particularly in this globalized and multicultural world, English language and cultural understanding are acknowledged as two primary factors for desirable career outcomes. This study, therefore, investig...

As Western societies become more ethnically and culturally diverse, understanding the acculturation of immigrant youth is essential for fostering social cohesion. How the cultural identity formation of ethnic minority adolescents relates to their academic, social, and psychological adjustment is an important and as yet unresolved research question....

The COVID-19 pandemic hit the world at the end of 2019 caused a big change in human life. One of them is the education system. Social restrictions urged the education system carrying out various strategies in order that the learning process could run properly. This article will discuss the strategy taken by the Japanese Literature study program of...

Background: Employment is a key factor in quality of life of women. Unemployment may lead to lack of satisfaction in life as well as in marriage which may likely affect quality of life in general among women. Previous studies have established a link between employment and quality of life. However, one factor that has not been fully explored is the...

Este trabalho propõe-se a traçar o percurso histórico da Comunicação Organizacional (CO) em Portugal a partir de estudos publicados nas atas da Associação Portuguesa de Ciências da Comunicação (SOPCOM), desde os anos 2000. Esta associação existe desde 1998 e destina-se a potenciar e a divulgar a investigação em Ciências da Comunicação em Portugal,...

المستخلص أن الهدف من الدراسة الحاليه هو تسليط الضؤ على مدى أهمية الارشاد بأسلوب اللعب كون اللعب يستخدم في اشباع حجات الاطفال ولاسيما أن اللعب هو حاجة تحتاج الى الاشباع بحد ذاته ويتيح اللعب التنفيس عن الضغوط لكي يحافظ الفرد على التوازن النفسي لانه وسيلة للتعبير عن الانفعالات المكبوته وذلك من خلال اللعب ومن خلاله أيضا يمكن تشخيص الاضطرابات السلوكية و...

Effective Altruism using Psychological Science collaborative book Written by students taking an “Advanced Social Psychology” course at University of Hong Kong, as part of CORE Team (2023).

Background: In December of 2019, SARS-CoV-2, a new type of coronavirus, appeared, and it turned into an international epidemic. The consequences of the pandemic, especially the isolation measures, fear of infection and bad economic trends, as a result of the crisis, threaten people's basic psychological needs. Objective: The objective of this resea...

A portrait is an exercise of impression management: the sitter can choose the impression she or he wants to create in the eyes of others’: competence, trustworthiness, dominance, etc. Indirectly, this choice informs us about the qualities that were specifically valued at the time the portrait was created. In a previous paper, we have shown that cue...

Middle Age and Aging is a collection of behavioral scientists' research on aging, focusing on social and psychological adaptations for individuals in their second half of life. It highlights age-status, age-sex roles, psychological changes, social-psychological theories, attitudes towards health, family roles, work, retirement, leisure, and cultura...

الملخص: يدل مفهوم التكيف الاجتماعي النفسي على حالة دائمة نسبياً يكون فيها الفرد متكيف نفسياً واجتماعياً وشخصياً، وانفعالياً، سواء مع نفسه أو مع بيئته، ويشعر فيها بالسعادة مع نفسه ومع الآخرين، اذ يستطيع على تحقيق ذاته واستغلال قدراته، وامكانياته إلى أقصى حد ممكن، وهذا يؤدي على قدرته على مواجهة مطالب الحياة فيخلق منه شخصية متكامل سوية، وسلوكاً عادياً...

Leaders’ practices or overt behaviors are the proximal causes of leaders’ effects on their organizations; they also dominate the research about successful leadership and often the content of leadership development programs, as well. But knowledge about those practices is, at best, a necessary but insufficient explanation for successful leadership a...

الملخص: يدل مفهوم التكيف الاجتماعي النفسي على حالة دائمة نسبياً يكون فيها الفرد متكيف نفسياً واجتماعياً وشخصياً، وانفعالياً، سواء مع نفسه أو مع بيئته، ويشعر فيها بالسعادة مع نفسه ومع الآخرين، اذ يستطيع على تحقيق ذاته واستغلال قدراته، وامكانياته إلى أقصى حد ممكن، وهذا يؤدي على قدرته على مواجهة مطالب الحياة فيخلق منه شخصية متكامل سوية، وسلوكاً عادياً...

System justification (SJ) is an important construct in social psychology that has received considerable attention over the past three decades. At the empirical level, system justification is examined by means of a specially developed System Justification Scale (SJS), which is designed to explain how individuals accept justice, whether they consider...

The global food crisis has made food waste reduction an important area for research and practice. In China, food is frequently wasted in university canteens. Identifying the factors involved is critical for reducing waste and preserving resources and the environment. In contrast to previous studies of canteen food waste, which have mainly used quan...

Objective. This study aimed to develop and perform a content validation of a brief French tool for self-assessment of supportive and palliative care needs in patients with cancer, using four different approaches: issue’s importance, problem intensity, problem burden, and expressed need for help. Methods. Items, questions, and response scales were b...

Introduction This review identified and examined the research literature on the effect of participating in physical and/or cognitive activities on older people’s quality of life, to establish whether the social relationships fostered by these activities can be a vector of better physical, mental and social quality of life. Method A systematic revi...

Dear Editor, Hidradenitis suppurativa (HS) or acne inversus, is a chronic inflammatory cutaneous disease with a significant negative impact on the patient's quality of life, from a psychological, social and occupational point of view. The disease mainly affects the female sex and occurs between puberty and 40 years of age. It is estimated that in E...

In the second decade of the 21st century, great issues that challenge humanity, from wars to climate change, have been growing. The consequence of climate change, such as natural disasters, water scarcity, and pandemics, has deepened social inequalities. Many problems have persisted despite the technological, economic and social progress achieved i...

This study aims to analyze the influence of Mahfudzot on the religious moderation attitude of students at the Gontor Darussalam Islamic boarding school. This research departs from the fact that mahfudzot is an integral part of the existence of the Gontor Darussalam Islamic boarding school. Given that mahfudzot is often written on the walls around t...

In this study, we examined human reactions to other people’s experiences of using assistive robots at work. An online vignette experiment was conducted among respondents from the United States (N = 1059). In the experiment, participants read a written scenario in which another person had started using assistive robots to help with a daily work-rela...

The Archetypes of Wendy defeating Cartman Wendy Testaburger is the heroic successful white liberal. While Eric Cartman represents the evil right wing broken demagogues. Eric Cartman has killed many more white people than Wendy Testaburger. Wendy Testaburger actually cares for her boyfriend who is also white, Stan Marsh, after realizing the fetishi...

Depression has been known to adversely influence the working performance of employees. However, compared with physical health, few studies have reported the prevalence of depressive symptoms among employees in workplaces. This study aimed to investigate the current situation and the relationships among the prevalence of depressive symptoms, physica...

The experience of an infertility diagnosis and treatment imposes a profound burden on affected individuals, encompassing not only physical and medical aspects but also a plethora of psychological, social, and emotional factors. By employing a multimodal assessment featuring validated self-report questionnaires, physical measurements, and clinical r...

To reduce social injustice, we need to understand the social dimensions behind these issues, like gender, race/ethnicity, or class. Class and its intersections are relatively understudied in social psychology. We examine how class (operationalized as education, income, and occupational status) and gender shape person evaluation across different cul...

Making attitudes more accessible via rehearsal has been shown to ease decision making by speeding the act of choosing and increasing the correspondence between one’s attitudes and choices (e.g., Fazio, 1995; Fazio, Blascovich, & Driscoll, 1992; Fazio & Williams, 1986). These effects are central to decades of attitude research and are citation class...

This article presents a discussion inspired by the invitation formed by Kevin Carriere’s book: “Psychology in Policy – Redefining Politics Through The Individual”. From a theoretical standpoint in culture psychology Carriere challenges the idea of politics as a particular practice carried out by mainly politicians. Instead, he attempts to anchor pr...

While research on the determinants of physical activity has ostensibly used draws on a biopsychosocial model, in reality, the social determinants of physical activity have been relatively neglected. In my talk, I will provide an overview of the empirical evidence for how social phenomena - including our group memberships, social norms, and leadersh...

Purpose The concept of Physical Literacy (PL) suggests that an individual with a holistic vision of physical activity will have more chances to remain physically active over life (Longmuir & Tremblay, 2016). Following the development of an assessment tool for PL specifically targeting an adult population with chronic disease, our study sought to fi...

Quality of life (QOL) is based on their perception of their position in life in respect to their goals, expectations, standards, and concerns, as well as their culture and value systems, their workflow and workplace situations while it influences quality of services. In this study we aim to report on dental and nursing academians’ QOL and well-bein...

Previous research indicates that discipline identification — the level of integration of one’s discipline of study into the self-concept — is associated with deep approaches to learning and academic self-efficacy. However, it is not known whether these relationships would hold in the context of learning during the COVID-19 pandemic. The present stu...

Las nuevas tecnologías han contribuido a una mayor autonomía de las personas con discapacidad (Pacheco et al., 2019) y a la reducción de su brecha tecnológica a partir de la adquisición de competencias digitales, mejorando así su dignidad de vida y los propios valores sociales inclusivos (Ragnedda, 2017; Berghs et al., 2019). También continúa exis...

Addiction has affected human societies since ancient times. This phenomenon today as a social, health and Medicine encompasses the structure of the family and human society (1, 2 ).Psychiatric disorders associated with addiction have devastating effects on Physical, psychological, social, family and health issues Related to social communication and...

Despite societal efforts toward enhancing gender equality, females are still underrepresented in STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics). Prominent explanations draw on gender differences in attitudes about STEM (with females holding more negative attitudes than males), which result from the gender stereotype that STEM is a male domain...

The COVID-19 pandemic caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 has had significant detrimental effects on human well-being, psychologically, socially, economically, and operationally. As the fight against the pandemic continues, the design of efficient policies for the transitional phase remains fraught with complexity and uncertai...

Introduction Canceling scheduled surgeries on the day of surgery places a heavy burden on healthcare providers and has psychological, social, and financial consequences on patients and their families. This study aimed to investigate the main reasons for cancellations of elective procedures and provide appropriate recommendations to reduce the rate...

Amidst goals for prevention and improved treatment for people living with dementia, much remains needed to enhance the quality of life of those currently diagnosed, especially the transfer of accurate information from professionals to the public. Although many healthcare professionals understand the various types of memory and which are likely to b...

This chapter reviews the literature on first-person singular pronoun use (I-talk: using words like “I” and “me”) in social-personality psychology. In personality psychology, research points to the positive association between I-talk and depression, vulnerable narcissism, and neuroticism. In social psychology, researchers have contrasted I-talk with...

Purpose: The aim of this review was to synthesise qualitative literature on physical activity experiences of community-dwelling older adults with physical disabilities. Methods: We conducted a scoping review of peer-reviewed, qualitative studies on physical activity with community-dwelling older adults with physical disabilities. We analysed eli...

Resumo Visando compreender as múltiplas versões de realidade produzidas nas práticas cotidianas da rede relacional de uma criança à qual se referem problemas de comportamentos externalizantes, no campo da saúde mental, este artigo relata um estudo de caso, realizado em 2017, a partir das abordagens da Teoria Ator-Rede e das Práticas Discursivas e P...

The study subject is self-actualization and subjectivity in men looking for work. The purpose of this research is to identify the features of their self-actualization and subjectivity. Such methods of psychodiagnostics as the “SAT” technique by E. Shostrom (adapted by Yu.E. Aleshina et al.); the “URSL” test by M.A. Shchukina were used. Taking into...

This paper examines the different qualities of the Zoom platform with a focus on its advantages and disadvantages in a collaborative learning style from Kabul University’s lecturers’ perspective. The study explored the role of both humans and technology in shaping the higher education system. The descriptive methodology is used to collect data thro...

The typical state empathy research used perspective-taking instructions and examined the effect of instructions on empathy-related variables. Empathy-arousing processes were generally not measured. The effect of perspective-taking instructions has been questioned recently. Observers could imagine targets’ feelings without such instructions. This st...

Background: The Problematic Use of Social Networks (PUSN) scale assesses for the first time the comparative use of social networks along with addictive tendencies. However, it has only been validated in a Spanish sample. This study aimed to evaluate the psychometric properties of the Arabic version of the PUSN (PUSN-Ar) among Lebanese adolescents....

As consequências da desigualdade social em decorrência da pandemia do novo Coronavírus (Covid-19) foram severas, especialmente no Brasil, devido ao aumento da pobreza, fome e violência. Esse contexto tem contribuído para a expressão de afetos e formas de sociabilidades calcadas na dependência e no medo. O obscurantismo evangélico neopentecostal tem...

Background: Chronic diseases and comorbidity are important predictors of depression and anxiety, the two most common disorders of poor mental health. Meanwhile, the pandemic increases anxiety and depression levels, alongside declined quality of life (QoL), the same way that comorbidities are associated with severity of COVID-19 progression. This st...

Ethnographic research in a trauma hospital made it possible to systematically accompany one of the families who have survived armed conflicts. We observed, in the work process of the Intensive Care Unit, how a body between life and death is revealed through the interactions between health professionals and family members. It is perceived that the "...

L’entrepreneuriat est un des leviers stratégique pour la création des emplois et des richesses d’une nation. L’entrepreneur, figure emblématique de la théorie Schumpétérienne, est un individu innovateur et moteur de la croissance économique. Partant de là, plusieurs pays voient dans l’encouragement à la création des PME une voie stratégique pr...

Background: Chronic renal failure is a progressive and irreversible loss in kidney function explained by a glomerular filtration rate of less than 60 ml/min/1.73 m 2 lasting three months or more and is sufficiently severe to require maintenance dialysis or kidney transplantation to maintain health or life.CKD currently is the third fastest-growing...

Background Adenomyosis is a commonly observed benign gynecological disease that affects the quality of life and social psychology of women of childbearing age. However, because of the unknown etiology and incidence of adenomyosis, its pathophysiological mechanism remains unclear; further, because no noninvasive, accurate, and individualized diagnos...

In the research of the world level we can see that the main issue of the problem of personality development is aimed at determining the types, indicators and criteria of development. In these research works, the authors propose various methodological tools for diagnosing personality maturity. Although foreign and Uzbek scientists have conducted res...

This review paper systematically synthesises and critically analyses the existing body of literature surrounding the prevalence of social, psychological, and lifestyle problems among middle-aged individuals. Drawing from a comprehensive range of research articles, studies, and reports, we explore the intricate interplay between ageing and these dom...

The social psychological study of social class and socioeconomic status (SES) has burgeoned in the last 15 years and much progress has been made. Yet, researchers rarely explain their theoretical standpoint, clearly define social class and/or SES or justify their choice of how to measure it. This, we argue, is holding back progress. We suggest that...

This study explored executive power’s influence on corporate R&D investment based on social psychology theory. It also examined the impact of media attention and institutional environment on the relationship between executive power and enterprise R&D investment as an external governance mechanism. Empirical verification was carried out using data o...

In The Master Builder, Henrik Ibsen gave the stage Halvard Solness, an architect and businessman as a tragic hero whose fall is precipitated by various factor: psychological, social and occupational. And while the psychological and social factors are researched and commented on extensively by many scholars and critics, the last area which has to do...

William A. Gamson, former President of the American Sociological Association and Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, was a prolific scholar whose work helped articulate both the conflict perspective in sociology and the resource mobilization approach in social movements. In the field of social movements in the United States, Gamson...

Economic inequality is one of the defining challenges of our era. Social science research links higher levels of economic inequality to a range of undesirable outcomes, including more crime, social anomie, and ill health. Social psychological research is at the forefront of investigating how economic inequality shapes the human mind and behavior, b...

Background: Suicide, a complex phenomenon that constitutes a major public health issue, has been increasingly prevalent in the Moroccan context. Against this backdrop, this study examines the prevalence and profile characteristics of suicide cases in the northern region of Morocco. Methods: Employing a retrospective research design, we analyzed dat...

Aggression is a global problem and complex social behavior. In Indonesia, some common manifestations of aggression are sexual harassment, domestic violence, and the stigmatization of other people. However, unlike men, aggression in women is still rarely studied, whereas facts find that many conditions can make women more vulnerable. There are vario...

The notion of professors and students working together to achieve knowledge and the idea that research should inform teaching is sacrosanct in higher education, but in reality, this has been difficult to maintain as universities have expanded. Moreover, now, there is an increasing separation of personnel into research or teaching roles. The purpose...

Cooperation between the pharmaceutical industry and medical doctors is both necessary and inevitable. As part of the medical community, medical students are likely to have developed specific views as to its benefits and risks. The article is part of a series of articles presenting selected results of nine focus group interviews from three cities (W...

Type 2 diabetes (T2D) has been rising in prevalence over the past few decades in the US and worldwide. T2D contributes to significant morbidity and premature mortality, primarily due to cardiovascular disease (CVD). Exercise is a major cornerstone of therapy for T2D as a result of its positive effects on glycemic control, blood pressure, weight los...

La cosmovisión indígena se caracteriza por una comprensión del mundo en la que el sentir, pensar y actuar están vinculados a una profunda conexión espiritual con su entorno; sin embargo, esta visión del mundo no se incluye en los programas de psicología de las universidades guatemaltecas. Este ensayo describe la falta de pertinencia cultural en la...

Societal problems are not solved by individualistic interventions, but nor are systemic approaches optimal given their neglect of the social psychology underpinning group dynamics. This impasse can be addressed through a group-level analysis (a "g-frame") that social identity theorizing affords. Using a g-frame can make policy interventions more ad...

In this study that draws from the fields of social psychology and multicultural education, 45 Arab and Jewish pre-service and 108 Arab and Jewish in-service teachers were presented with a program designed to foster intergroup empathy and inclusive views. The two groups went through a similar process: choosing their outgroup, finding media that pres...

Executive functions are a set of cognitive processes critical for psychological, social, and cognitive development which have recently received much attention. To explore more prominent keywords, countries, sources, and research clusters, bibliometric analysis is needed. This study conducts a bibliometric analysis on related documents entitled “exe...

As transformações aceleradas que se operam no mundo do trabalho no limiar do século XXI vem impactando significativamente as atividades profissionais nas organizações. Nesta entrevista, o Prof. Dr. Josep Blanch aborda o novo paradigma forjado pelo hipercapitalismo que vem reconfigurando o significado do trabalho e a prática da medicina. Ele argumen...

Background: A major aspect of caring for older adults in the medical field is addressing their health risks. The term “frailty” is generally used to describe the changes in health risks of older adults. Although there is considerable heterogeneity in the Chinese older adult population who are classified as frail, there remain few relevant studies....