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Despite the high prevalence of mental health difficulties during the period of emerging adulthood and the availability of mental health resources, young adults are reluctant to seek professional psychological help. A significant contributor to this t...

From 2020 to 2023, the coronavirus-19 (COVID-19) pandemic exposed children to a variety of adverse childhood events, including parental loss, abuse, and disruption in services, and it exacerbated societal inequities. Studies evaluating the mental hea...

The deployment of emotion-recognition technologies expands across healthcare education and gaming sectors to improve human–computer interaction. These systems examine facial expressions together with vocal tone and physiological signals, which...

Given the increasing importance of adjusting to university life and achieving happiness, identifying the effective role of emotional intelligence and psychological needs’ satisfaction in enhancing students’ well-being is crucial. This stu...

This study explored innovative methods for teaching mathematics to seventh-grade students with persistently low performance by using an AI-driven neural network approach, specifically focusing on solving first-degree inequalities. Guided by the Respo...

Personality traits are dispositional characteristics that capture basic individual differences. The Big Five model is one of the most studied personality models and can be conceptualized using other personality models as well. Personality traits are...

Test anxiety has been the focus of research interest in the domains of education and psychology for over 70 years, as it affects not only students’ academic achievement and overall well-being, but students’ families and school staff as we...

Cognitive Load Theory (CLT) and the Cognitive Theory of Multimedia Learning (CTML) have long served as foundational frameworks in instructional design. However, their applicability to contemporary, technologically mediated learning environments remai...

Psychedelic therapy is increasingly acknowledged as a transformative approach to mental health care, much like how Virtual Reality (VR) technology has emerged as a potent tool in the realm of mental health. Hence, there is potential for integrating t...

Using naturalistic spoken narratives to investigate speech processes and comprehension is becoming increasingly popular in experimental hearing research. Yet, little is known about how individuals engage with spoken story materials and how listening...

(1) Background: Work adaptation can be seen as a skill to be acquired, allowing employees to acquire new practices, integrate them, and transform themselves until they reach the desired goal. Previous studies show that this is influenced by organizat...

Background. This study examines the behavioral responses of adolescents to online sexual harassment based on their roles as victims, perpetrators, both, or neutral participants. Methods. Data from a national sample of Croatian high school students (N...

The COVID-19 pandemic necessitated an urgent shift to emergency remote learning, significantly affecting the education of bilingual students. This study examines the use of technology-enhanced drama-based methods, specifically digital Readers Theater...

Given the increasing prominence of sustainable tourism in light of climate change, this study investigates the sustainable tourist behavior of winter tourists through psychological and demographic factors in relation to climate change. Based on the T...

Exploratory factor analysis (EFA) is a widely used tool in the social sciences. Researchers employ it to identify the latent structure underlying observed indicator variables during the process of scale development, theory construction, and compariso...

Climate denialism represents a significant challenge to public awareness and the implementation of effective environmental policies. In Portugal, as in other countries, social networks have been the place where denialist ideas are disseminated, influ...

Climate change is an irreversible crisis that urgently calls for social transformation to protect human livelihood and environmental stability. Establishing awareness, building environmental literacy, and citizens’ mobilization are the steps to...

Enhancing mathematical achievement has been identified as a pivotal issue in school education, extending beyond mathematics education alone. However, research comprehensively examining the relationship between multiple affective variables and learnin...

Background: The present research seeks to understand the impact of emotional intelligence on the psychological well-being of young graduates Well-being is closely linked to happiness and life satisfaction and occurs when individuals possess adequate...

As the robust maximum likelihood ${\chi }^2$ goodness-of-fit test had been found to yield inflated type-I error rates for certain two-level confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) models, a new correction for the test was implemented in Mplus version 8.7. In t...

Background: Interactive learning environments have emerged as transformative tools in education, enhancing engagement, academic performance, and addressing challenges like learning anxiety. This study examines the influence of multiple variables, inc...

Given the overwhelming literature on the beneficial effects of exercise, it is surprising that many individuals do not meet current physical activity guidelines. Among the most often cited reasons for nonadherence to exercise are a lack of time and l...

Trichotillomania (TTM) is a psychiatric disorder involving chronic, recurrent urges to pull out one’s own hair, arising frequently in childhood and early adolescence. This disorder predominantly affects women and has a high co-morbidity with ma...

This study aimed to assess the feasibility and acceptability of the online delivery of a spiritual–mind–body (SMB) wellness intervention previously delivered and validated in person, Awakened Awareness for Adolescents (AA-A), designed for...

Background: The Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic profoundly impacted education, causing uncertainty and constant changes for teachers, including new teaching modalities, increased workloads, and limited rest periods. Global studies have report...

As the global population ages, older adults face growing psychological challenges such as loneliness, cognitive decline, and loss of social roles. Meanwhile, artificial intelligence (AI) technologies, including chatbots and voice-based systems, offer...

Electroencephalography (EEG) is a widely used non-invasive method for capturing brain activity, offering valuable insights into cognitive and emotional states relevant to mental health. With the growing complexity and volume of EEG data, machine lear...

Burnout and work-related stress are extensively studied among mental health professionals (MHPs) in countries around the world, but there is a paucity of research emanating from Greece’s hybrid healthcare system. In Greece, MHPs may encounter u...

Intensive parenting is a parenting style in which parents, especially mothers, devote significant portions of their time, money, and energy to their children. An intensive parenting attitude questionnaire has been developed that assesses five dimensi...

Background: Induced after-death communication (IADC) therapy is an emerging approach for addressing grief-related distress, particularly in individuals experiencing complicated grief (CG). Developed from eye movement desensitization and reprocessing...

Teacher professional well-being (TPWB) is crucial in education, affecting educators and students. The Teacher Professional Well-Being Scale (TPWBS) measures five core dimensions—self-efficacy, job satisfaction, aspiration, recognition, and auth...

Evolution enabled the human species to form attachment relationships, where a caregiver looks after a needy attacher. In early-life interactions with a parent-caregiver, the child-attacher acquires adaptive durable information—the attachment di...

Multiple theoretical perspectives point to the need for sport coaches to be highly intentional in their practice. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 17 high-level team sport coaches to investigate how they form intentions for impact; how...

In a world increasingly characterized by rises in anxiety, depression, mood disorders and cognitive decline, our mental well-being often depends not only on our environment, but also on our food. In this systematic review, 25 clinical nutritional tri...

Position effects occur when changes in item positions on a test impact the test outcomes (e.g., item parameters or test scores). Previous studies found that position effects may vary by the testing context and conditions and thus affect each test-tak...

This study is guided by the pivotal yet underexplored question, “How does the resilience developed through the motherhood experience, particularly within the mother/child relationship, translate into a mother’s approach to her relationshi...

Background: Exposure to violent content through video games can shape perceptions of aggression as normative or acceptable, potentially desensitizing adolescents to violence and increasing the likelihood that they will engage in aggressive behavior i...

Background: The relationship between resilience and emotional intelligence and its influence on military personnel has become the object of research in recent years, since today’s combatant faces significant physical and psychological challenge...

Frequent conflict is a significant relationship risk factor for divorce, but it has also been shown that religion strengthens marriages, specifically in ways that give direction and motivation for couples in resolving marital conflict or other marita...

According to the literature, recent world events seem to play a significant influence in the acquisition and upgrowth of empathy and socio-emotional competencies (SEC), especially in adolescents. In this study we sought to assess the level of socio-e...

Adolescence is a life stage characterized by significant physical and emotional changes in which the opportunity to enhance protective mental health factors is crucial. Evidence shows that psychoemotional well-being at this stage has worsened in rece...

In clinical psychology and psychiatry, personality is usually assessed using questionnaires developed through factor analysis (FA). Essential domains are identified, which correspond to questions/items defining a (sub)scale, and each question is rigi...

Selection is a key process for a talent system, requiring stakeholders to make decisions regarding athlete suitability for the increased resourcing of a specific talent development environment. Most selections require coaches to make judgements based...

In this review, we examine the impact of media and self-compassion on the mental well-being of Nigerian youth, particularly in suicide prevention and promoting positive mental health outcomes. Nigeria faces socioeconomic challenges contributing to po...

Background: Self-directed learning (SDL) most appropriately is learning that is personally selected based on individual values. SDL potentially achieves psychological flow. Flow is an outcome identified and investigated by psychologist Mihaly Csiksze...

Background: The role of social support in fostering academic engagement (AE) and life satisfaction (LS) is well established, as both are essential for student well-being and success. Theoretical frameworks suggest that distinct sources of social supp...

This study explored the role of positive education practices in predicting teacher well-being, life satisfaction, and self-efficacy. Background:Drawing on positive psychology principles, positive education integrates evidence-based strategies aimed a...

Human Resource Information Systems (HRISs) have become integral to contemporary organizational life, yet their successful adoption remains uneven and poorly understood. Existing models often focus on cognitive or technical determinants, overlooking h...

Background: Psychological problems post-stroke can negatively impact stroke survivors. Although general psychological services exist (e.g., NHS Talking Therapies), access remains limited, particularly for individuals with post-stroke communication an...

Breadcrumbing is a psychologically harmful dating behavior that involves sending non-committal signals to another person and periodically feigning interest in them, despite having no intention of taking the relationship forward. This is the first emp...