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Avatars in Mental Health: Psychotherapists’ Attitudes Towards Avatar Technology and Factors Influencing Adoption

  • Donatella Ciarmoli,
  • Alessandro Gennaro,
  • Francesca Lecce,
  • Matteo Reho and
  • Stefano Triberti
Eur. J. Investig. Health Psychol. Educ.2025, 15(12), 256;https://doi.org/10.3390/ejihpe15120256 
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13 December 2025

Research in “cybertherapy” has explored innovative ways to integrate new technologies as innovative tools in psychological treatment, such as virtual reality. Avatars, as digital representations of users within virtual environments, repre...

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Burnout is a growing concern in the teaching profession, reflecting the inability to cope with persistent workplace stress and posing serious risks to teachers’ well-being and the sustainability of educational systems. It is characterised by di...

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The interaction between two critical resources, emotional intelligence (EI) and perceived organizational support (POS), is studied to understand how they come together to associate resilience and well-being among healthcare professionals. Based on th...

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Objective: This study on children in low-income families explored whether their mental health problems are attributable to distress from five socioeconomic disadvantage factors playing roles in the multiple disadvantage model. These factors are socia...

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Positive Residential Care Integration Scale: Portuguese Adaptation and Validation

  • Ana Simão,
  • Cátia Martins,
  • Elias Ratinho,
  • Brianne H. Kothari and
  • Cristina Nunes

Young people in residential care settings hold distinct preferences regarding their relationships with key adults, including caseworkers and caregivers. However, their perspectives are not consistently assessed or effectively integrated into case pla...

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Psychometric Evaluation of the Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support Among Early Adolescents in Darjeeling, India

  • Megan Cherewick,
  • Michael Matergia,
  • Choden Dukpa,
  • Dikcha Mukhia,
  • Rinzi Lama,
  • Roshan P. Rai and
  • Priscilla Giri

Background. The Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support (MSPSS) is widely used, although it has not been validated among early adolescents in Darjeeling, India. The aims of the study were to validate the psychometric properties of the MSPS...

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Correlates of Purpose in Life and Their Potential Role in Successful Aging Among Older Adults in Rural Japan

  • Haruka Ariji,
  • Ishtiaq Ahmad,
  • Yoshihisa Shirayama,
  • Miyoko Okamoto,
  • Hira Taimur and
  • Motoyuki Yuasa

Background: As societies worldwide experience rapid aging, maintaining psychological well-being in later life is increasingly important. In Japan, where spirituality often takes noninstitutional forms, the concept of spiritual health remains underexp...

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Intimacy is a core domain of personality functioning, but it can be compromised by defensive and dissociative processes. Given this, the present study aimed to develop and validate the Dissociation of Intimacy Questionnaire (DIQ), a multidimensional...

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Parenting stress, social support, and mental health among parents of individuals with intellectual disabilities have garnered significant scholarly attention. Although existing research has extensively elucidated the relationship between parenting st...

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Development of Emotional Intelligence Through an Intervention Program in Primary School Students

  • David Molero,
  • Gemma Sánchez-Narváez,
  • Raquel Jiménez-delaTorre and
  • Óscar Gavín-Chocano

Background: This research describes the influence of emotions on primary school students in a public school in Andalusia, southern Spain. The objectives include determining self-reported emotional intelligence scores, establishing correlations betwee...

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