Social, organizational, and cultural psychology
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Protecting the psychological wellbeing of staff exposed to disaster or emergency at work: a qualitative study
Disasters are becoming more prevalent across the world and people are frequently exposed to them as part of their occupational groups. It is important for organisations to understand how best to support employ...BMC Psychology 2019 7:78Psychosocial support for parents of extremely preterm infants in neonatal intensive care: a qualitative interview study
Extremely premature infants (those born before 28 weeks’ gestational age) are highly immature, requiring months of care at a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). For parents, their child’s grave medical condit...BMC Psychology 2019 7:76Validation of the Recent Life Changes Questionnaire (RLCQ) for stress measurement among adults residing in urban communities in Pakistan
Recent Life Changes Questionnaire (RLCQ) developed by Richard Rahe has enabled quantification of stress by analyzing life events. The overall aim of the study was to create a reliable version of the Rahe’s RLC...BMC Psychology 2019 7:66The transition from university to work: what happens to mental health? A longitudinal study
When enrolled in university or college, students receive varying degrees of training in managing practical situations in the workplace. However, after graduation, the young professionals meet their responsibil...BMC Psychology 2019 7:65Reality shock in radiography: fact or fiction? Findings from a phenomenological study in Durban, South Africa
Globally, the phenomenon of reality shock is a major contributor to the attrition of healthcare professionals. Reality shock negatively impacts on initial workplace transition, productivity, and ultimately, em...BMC Psychology 2019 7:40Exploring the effect of the ‘Growing Together’ parenting education kit on early parenting - study protocol for a cluster randomised controlled trial
Significant gaps exist in education for prospective and new parents, especially for some of the most vulnerable families. Prospective parents would like more information during pregnancy to prepare them for pa...BMC Psychology 2019 7:39Psychometric properties of the St. Elizabeth Youngstown hospital wellbeing inventory and non-burnout inventory for physicians and nurses
Physicians and nurses have substantial problems with wellbeing and burnout. We examined the reliability and construct validity of a wellbeing inventory (WBI) administered to some physicians and nurses working ...BMC Psychology 2019 7:36Mental health and mindfulness amongst Australian fire fighters
While extensive research has highlighted the positive mental health outcomes associated with mindfulness, little work has examined how mindfulness may protect the mental health of first responders exposed to t...BMC Psychology 2019 7:34Preliminary analysis of validation evidence for two new scales assessing teachers’ confidence and worries related to delivering mental health content in the classroom
While mental health challenges in the classroom have increased over the past several years, existing research suggests that many educators feel unprepared to broach the topics of mental health and mental illne...BMC Psychology 2019 7:32Interventions designed to reduce implicit prejudices and implicit stereotypes in real world contexts: a systematic review
Implicit biases are present in the general population and among professionals in various domains, where they can lead to discrimination. Many interventions are used to reduce implicit bias. However, uncertaint...BMC Psychology 2019 7:29The relationship between social networking addiction and academic performance in Iranian students of medical sciences: a cross-sectional study
Social networks have had a major influence on students’ performance in recent years. These networks create many opportunities and threats for students in various fields. Addiction to social networking and its ...BMC Psychology 2019 7:28Social anxiety increases visible anxiety signs during social encounters but does not impair performance
Preliminary evidence suggests that impairment of social performance in socially anxious individuals may be specific to selective aspects of performance and be more pronounced in females. This evidence is based...BMC Psychology 2019 7:24Quality of health care with regard to detection and treatment of mental disorders in patients with coronary heart disease (MenDis-CHD): study protocol
Mental disorders (MD), such as depression, anxiety, and cognitive impairment, are highly prevalent in patients with coronary heart disease (CHD). Current guidelines on cardiovascular diseases recommend screeni...BMC Psychology 2019 7:21Development of the Japanese version of the three-item loneliness scale
Loneliness is a major risk factor for mental and physical health worldwide. The Three-Item Loneliness Scale (TIL Scale; Hughes et al., 2004) has been widely applied to measure loneliness in a simplified format...BMC Psychology 2019 7:20Impact of parent–adolescent bonding on school bullying and mental health in Vietnamese cultural setting: evidence from the global school-based health survey
The mental well-being of adolescents is a crucial issue affecting lives of both adults and young people. Bullying and mental health problems are important factors that can have a negative impact on the mental ...BMC Psychology 2019 7:16Parents of healthy children assign lower quality of life measure to scenarios labeled as cancer than to identical scenarios not labeled as cancer
While it is commonly understood that a cancer diagnosis evokes feelings of fear, the effect of labeling a child’s illness as “cancer” remains unstudied. We hypothesized that lower health utility scores would b...BMC Psychology 2019 7:8Productive activities, mental health and quality of life in disability: exploring the role enhancement and the role strain hypotheses
Engagement in productive activities is an important determinant of mental health and quality of life (QoL). Persons with physical disabilities are often confronted with constraints to engage in productive acti...BMC Psychology 2019 7:1Validity and reliability of the Maslach Burnout Inventory-Student Survey in Sri Lanka
With ever increasing educational expectations and demands, burnout has emerged as a major problem negatively affecting the wellbeing of different student populations. Even though the validity of the Maslach Bu...BMC Psychology 2018 6:52Existence, triggers, and coping with chronic sorrow: a qualitative study of caretakers of children with sickle cell disease in a National Referral Hospital in Kampala, Uganda
Worldwide, sickle cell disease is recognized as one of the major causes of morbidity and mortality. Caregivers and patients with such chronic illnesses experience economic, physical, social and psychological d...BMC Psychology 2018 6:50Effectiveness of the settings-based intervention Shaping the Social on preventing dropout from vocational education: a Danish non-randomized controlled trial
Lack of formal education is an important social determinant of health inequality and represents a public health problem. School dropout is particularly common in vocational education; however few prevention pr...BMC Psychology 2018 6:45An exploration of the link between adult attachment and problematic Facebook use
Previous studies have reported on positive and negative psychological outcomes associated with the use of social networking sites (SNSs). Research efforts linking Facebook use with depression and low self-este...BMC Psychology 2018 6:34Why is this happening to me? – a comparison of illness representations between Iranian and German people with mental illness
Due to an increase in migration and globalization, cross-cultural encounters in health care are also becoming more frequent. As psychotherapy is grounded in a cultural context and must be congruent with the pa...BMC Psychology 2018 6:33Systematic review of resilience-enhancing, universal, primary school-based mental health promotion programs
Wellbeing and resilience are essential in preventing and reducing the severity of mental health problems. Equipping children with coping skills and protective behavior can help them react positively to change ...BMC Psychology 2018 6:30Validity and reliability of the Greek translation of the Job Satisfaction Survey (JSS)
Job satisfaction is fundamental to employee well-being and successful operation of an organization. The use of effective tools for assessing it is imperative for management research. Our main purpose was to tr...BMC Psychology 2018 6:27Psychological distress increases the risk of falling into poverty amongst older Australians: the overlooked costs-of-illness
This paper aimed to identify whether high psychological distress is associated with an increased risk of income and multidimensional poverty amongst older adults in Australia.BMC Psychology 2018 6:16The living dead? Perception of persons in the unresponsive wakefulness syndrome in Germany compared to the USA
The extent to which people ascribe mind to others has been shown to predict the extent to which human rights are conferred. Therefore, in the context of disorders of consciousness (DOC), mind ascription can in...BMC Psychology 2018 6:5Growing up HIV-positive in Uganda: “psychological immunodeficiency”? A qualitative study
This study is part of a longitudinal study among children and adolescents with HIV in both urban and rural Uganda: ‘Mental health among HIV infected CHildren and Adolescents in KAmpala and Masaka, Uganda (CHAKA)’...BMC Psychology 2017 5:30Assisting an Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander person with gambling problems: a Delphi study
Gambling problems appear to be more prevalent in the Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander population than in the non-Indigenous population. Although gambling harms can be significant, treatment-see...BMC Psychology 2017 5:27Exploring the reliability and acceptability of cognitive tests for Indigenous Australians: a pilot study
Reliable cognitive assessment for Indigenous Australians is difficult given that mainstream tests typically rely on Western concepts, content and values. A test’s psychometric properties should therefore be as...BMC Psychology 2017 5:26Population levels of wellbeing and the association with social capital
This research investigates wellbeing at the population level across demographic, social and health indicators and assesses the association between wellbeing and social capital.BMC Psychology 2017 5:23Effects of muscle dysmorphia, social comparisons and body schema priming on desire for social interaction: an experimental approach
Muscle dysmorphia (MD) is a relatively young diagnosis referring to the desire for a high degree in lean muscle mass, while simultaneously believing that one is insufficiently muscular, mostly found in men. It...BMC Psychology 2017 5:19Expanding protection motivation theory: investigating an application to animal owners and emergency responders in bushfire emergencies
Protection Motivation Theory (PMT) was developed by Rogers in 1975, to describe how individuals are motivated to react in a self-protective way towards a perceived health threat. Rogers expected the use of PMT...BMC Psychology 2017 5:13The impact of conscientiousness, mastery, and work circumstances on subsequent absenteeism in employees with and without affective disorders
High numbers of employees are coping with affective disorders. At the same time, ambitiousness, achievement striving and a strong sense of personal control and responsibility are personality characteristics th...BMC Psychology 2017 5:10The effects of perceived racism on psychological distress mediated by venting and disengagement coping in Native Hawaiians
Studies have linked perceived racism to psychological distress via certain coping strategies in several different racial and ethnic groups, but few of these studies included indigenous populations. Elucidating...BMC Psychology 2017 5:2Effects of a job crafting intervention program on work engagement among Japanese employees: a pretest-posttest study
Job crafting, an employee-initiated job design/redesign, has become important for employees’ well-being such as work engagement. This study examined the effectiveness of a newly developed job crafting interven...BMC Psychology 2016 4:49Prevalence and severity of depressive symptoms in relation to rural-to-urban migration in India: a cross-sectional study
Migration is a major life event, which may also be a risk factor for depression. However, little is known regarding the relationship between these phenomena in low and middle income settings. This study explor...BMC Psychology 2016 4:47Psychosocial factors associated with flourishing among Australian HIV-positive gay men
Mental health outcomes among HIV-positive gay men are generally poorer than in the broader population. However, not all men in this population experience mental health problems. Although much is known about fa...BMC Psychology 2016 4:46Providing mental health first aid in the workplace: a Delphi consensus study
Mental health problems are common in the workplace, but workers affected by such problems are not always well supported by managers and co-workers. Guidelines exist for the public on how to provide mental heal...BMC Psychology 2016 4:41Social capital – a mixed blessing for women? A cross-sectional study of different forms of social relations and self-rated depression in Moscow
Depression is a major health problem worldwide, especially among women. The condition has been related to a number of factors, such as alcohol consumption, economic situation and, more recently, to social capi...BMC Psychology 2016 4:37The Erratum to this article has been published in BMC Psychology 2017 5:20Friendship networks and psychological well-being from late adolescence to young adulthood: a gender-specific structural equation modeling approach
The importance of supportive social relationships for psychological well-being has been previously recognized, but the direction of associations between both dimensions and how they evolve when adolescents ent...BMC Psychology 2016 4:34Social and occupational factors associated with psychological distress and disorder among disaster responders: a systematic review
When disasters occur, there are many different occupational groups involved in rescue, recovery and support efforts. This study aimed to conduct a systematic literature review to identify social and occupation...BMC Psychology 2016 4:18Sex stereotypes influence adults’ perception of babies’ cries
Despite widespread evidence that gender stereotypes influence human parental behavior, their potential effects on adults’ perception of babies’ cries have been overlooked. In particular, whether adult listener...BMC Psychology 2016 4:19Participation in rural community groups and links with psychological well-being and resilience: a cross-sectional community-based study
Fostering the development of community groups can be an important part of boosting community participation and improving health and well-being outcomes in rural communities. In this article, we examine whether...BMC Psychology 2016 4:16Psychometric properties of the newly translated creole multidimensional scale of perceived social support (MSPSS) and perceived adequacy of resource scale (PARS) and the relationship between perceived social support and resources in Haitian mothers in the US
Low income postpartum mothers with little to no social support have increased maternal and infant morbidity and mortality, especially those with limited English proficiency and limited accesses to resources. H...BMC Psychology 2016 4:7Finding meaning in life while living with HIV: validation of a novel HIV meaningfulness scale among HIV-infected participants living in Tennessee
People living with HIV who maintain a positive outlook on their future may manage stress better than those who do not, leading to improved coping behaviors and better health outcomes.BMC Psychology 2015 3:15Health, health behaviors, and health dissimilarities predict divorce: results from the HUNT study
Poor health and health behaviors are associated with divorce. This study investigates the degree to which six health indicators and health behaviors among husbands and wives are prospectively related to divorc...BMC Psychology 2015 3:13Does it matter how you ask? Self-reported emotions to depictions of need-of-help and social context
When humans observe other people’s emotions they not only can relate but also experience similar affective states. This capability is seen as a precondition for helping and other prosocial behaviors. Our study...BMC Psychology 2015 3:10Do habits always override intentions? Pitting unhealthy snacking habits against snack-avoidance intentions
Habit is defined as a process whereby an impulse towards behaviour is automatically initiated upon encountering a setting in which the behaviour has been performed in the past. A central tenet of habit theory ...BMC Psychology 2015 3:8Profiling physical activity motivation based on self-determination theory: a cluster analysis approach
In order to promote physical activity uptake and maintenance in individuals who do not comply with physical activity guidelines, it is important to increase our understanding of physical activity motivation am...BMC Psychology 2015 3:1Long shadows: a prospective study of predictors of relationship dissolution over 17 child-rearing years
Parental relationship dissolutions have repeatedly been linked to negative outcomes for children, but predictors of parental dissolutions have been far less studied. Knowledge about parental dissolutions occur...BMC Psychology 2014 2:40
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