Social, organizational, and cultural psychology
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Young adults’ self-sufficiency in daily life: the relationship with contextual factors and health indicators
Certain factors, such as depressive symptoms and binge drinking, may be linked to young adults’ ability to attain an acceptable level of functioning on specific life-domains (i.e. self-sufficiency). We studied...BMC Psychology 2020 8:89Validation of the Needs Assessment of Family Caregivers-Cancer scale in an Asian population
The Needs Assessment of Family Caregivers- Cancer (NAFC-C) scale is shown to have adequate psychometric properties in assessing family caregiver needs during the cancer journey and its psychometric properties ...BMC Psychology 2020 8:84Culturally and developmentally adapting group interpersonal therapy for adolescents with depression in rural Nepal
Evidence-based interventions are needed to reduce depression among adolescents in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). One approach could be cultural adaptation of psychological therapies developed in hig...BMC Psychology 2020 8:83Discrepancies between explicit and implicit evaluation of aesthetic perception ability in individuals with autism: a potential way to improve social functioning
The capacity to evaluate beauty plays a crucial role in social behaviour and social relationships. It is known that some characteristics of beauty are important social cues that can induce stereotypes or promo...BMC Psychology 2020 8:74Internet addiction and associated factors among medical and allied health sciences students in northern Tanzania: a cross-sectional study
Internet addiction is one of the fast-growing addictive behaviors and is a significant public health problem affecting a large number of people worldwide. Excessive use of the internet among university student...BMC Psychology 2020 8:73Social trust predicts sleep disorder at 6 years after the Great East Japan earthquake: data from a prospective cohort study
The physical and psychological health impacts on victims of the Great East Japan Earthquake (GEJE) have lasted for a long time. Some cross-sectional studies have reported a relationship between social networks...BMC Psychology 2020 8:69How do mothers of adolescents with chronic pain experience their own quality of life?
Chronic pain is a major health problem globally with severe personal and economic consequences. Maternal chronic pain is associated with their children’s pain. Family pain models and shared environmental aspec...BMC Psychology 2020 8:64Social media use disorder and loneliness: any association between the two? Results of a cross-sectional study among Lebanese adults
In Lebanon, it is already established that mental disorders are prevalent among the population. Lebanese people are active users of social media platforms. To date, no study has previously explored the relatio...BMC Psychology 2020 8:56The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Psychology 2020 8:72Perceived leader integrity as a mediator between ethical leadership and ethical climate in a teaching context
Scandalous incidents occurring in prominent organisations in the world have brought to limelight the role of leaders in shaping the ethical climate of their organisations. As a result, several studies across d...BMC Psychology 2020 8:52Feasibility of a virtual reality-based interactive feedback program for modifying dysfunctional communication: a preliminary study
Functional communication is vital in many areas of daily life, and modifying dysfunctional communication has been emphasized in various social areas, including family and school. The present preliminary study ...BMC Psychology 2020 8:50Validity and reliability of the Greek version of Implementation Leadership Scale (ILS)
The need for developing pragmatic and reliable measures that affect evidence-based practice has been highlighted in organizational studies. The aim of the current study is to evaluate the psychometric properti...BMC Psychology 2020 8:49Is there prejudice from thin air? Replicating the effect of emotion on automatic intergroup attitudes
Previous studies showed that anger, rather than sadness, created automatic intergroup bias in a minimal group context.BMC Psychology 2020 8:47Prevalence of depression and anxiety and correlations between depression, anxiety, family functioning, social support and coping styles among Chinese medical students
Medical students experience depression and anxiety at a higher rate than the general population or students from other specialties. While there is a growing literature on the high prevalence of depression and ...BMC Psychology 2020 8:38Social stigma is an underestimated contributing factor to unemployment in people with mental illness or mental health issues: position paper and future directions
As yet, little is known about the effects of mental health stigma on sustainable employment. This is surprising, as mental health stigma is common, and because people with severe and common mental disorders ar...BMC Psychology 2020 8:36Swipe-based dating applications use and its association with mental health outcomes: a cross-sectional study
Swipe-Based Dating Applications (SBDAs) function similarly to other social media and online dating platforms but have the unique feature of “swiping” the screen to either like or dislike another user’s profile...BMC Psychology 2020 8:22Perceived organizational justice and turnover intention among hospital healthcare workers
Organizational justice is the first virtue in social institutions (J Manage 16:399-432, 1990). It is one of the most determinant factors for an effective utilization of human resources and an essential predict...BMC Psychology 2020 8:19The experience of sudden loss of a colleague or neighbor following the MH17 plane crash in the Ukraine: a qualitative interview study
The literature on loss and traumatic grief after disasters provides findings on the impact of losing a partner, child or close friend on partners, parents and friends. However, little attention has been given ...BMC Psychology 2020 8:16Decision-making styles in the context of colorectal cancer screening
Our study examined the use of decision-making styles, as identified by Scott and Bruce (1995) (i.e. differentiating between a rational, intuitive, dependent, avoidant and spontaneous decision-making style), wi...BMC Psychology 2020 8:11Effects of a cognitive ergonomics workplace intervention (CogErg) on cognitive strain and well-being: a cluster-randomized controlled trial. A study protocol
Cognitively straining conditions such as disruptions, interruptions, and information overload are related to impaired task performance and diminished well-being at work. It is therefore essential that we reduc...BMC Psychology 2020 8:1Predictors of clinically important improvements in occupational and quality of life outcomes among mental health service users after completion and follow-up of a lifestyle intervention: multiple regression modelling based on longitudinal data
Balancing Everyday Life (BEL) is a new activity-based lifestyle intervention for mental health service users. An earlier study found BEL to be effective in increasing occupational engagement, occupational bala...BMC Psychology 2019 7:83Protecting 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 5:23
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