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Team mindsets are the collective beliefs of team members regarding their ability to enhance each other's capacity by sharing knowledge, learning from failures, and collaboratively addressing challenges. This study developed and validated the Team Mindset Scale (TMS) to measure individuals' perceptions of teamwork in relation to learning. The initial study revealed that the developed 48-team mindset items represented a two-factor structure encompassing team growth and fixed mindsets. We conducted an exploratory factor analysis on government survey data from 91 employees and identified two factors representing team mindsets. We verified the factor structure again and examined the psychometric properties of the items using a larger sample of 908 college students who participated in team projects. In the second study, we tested the two-factor structure of team mindsets and the participants' response biases. In the third study, we conducted confirmatory factor analysis models to cross-validate the two-factor model and investigated measurement invariance across genders. Furthermore, we assessed the convergent and discriminant validity of team mindset constructs by evaluating the relationship between Dweck's individual mindsets and the newly identified team mindsets. The scale we developed can enhance future research on team mindsets and offer valuable insights for practitioners and educators.

Background: Internship in nursing education strengthens competence, confidence, and professional skills. It is essential to identify the clinical factors affecting anxiety and the ethical climate among nursing students in this era. This study aimed to (1) identify caring behaviors and ethical climate as predictors of nursing students' anxiety using hierarchical regression analysis, and (2) examine the mediating roles of students' age and ethical climate in the relationship between caring behaviors and anxiety during internship.

Methods: This is a cross-sectional study. 225 nursing students in Shiraz and Larestan Universities of Medical Sciences were selected to participate in this study using convenience sampling. Spielberger State-Trait Anxiety Inventory, Caring Behaviors Inventory, and Hospital Ethical Climate Survey were used for data collection. SPSS macro-PROCESS was used for data analysis.

Results: Nursing students reported moderate levels of state anxiety and mild levels of trait anxiety. The nursing students' caring behaviors and the hospital's ethical climate were the predictors of anxiety during the internship. Moreover, age, caring behaviors, and perception of hospital ethical climate accounted for an additional 23% of the anxiety variance. Furthermore, hospital ethical climate was a mediator in the correlation between caring behaviors and anxiety in nursing students (β=-0.06, CI=-0.11- -0.02).

Conclusion: These findings suggest that enhancing caring behaviors and fostering a positive hospital ethical climate might help reduce nursing students' anxiety during internships. The mediating role of the ethical climate highlights its importance in the relationship between caring behaviors and anxiety, underscoring the need for supportive clinical environments.

Objective: The objective of the study was to examine how therapists in clinical practice experience sudden dropouts from psychotherapy.

Method: We interviewed 12 licensed psychotherapists regarding sudden dropouts. The interviews were analysed using thematic analysis (TA).

Results: Three main themes and seven subthemes were identified. The first main theme was: Struggling to understand and explain the dropout. The subthemes were: "the patients' problem was too difficult", "trouble cooperating" and "problematic emotional bond". The second main theme was: Continuing when something is wrong. The subthemes were: "difficulties maintaining presence", "emotional withdrawal and sense of failure as a therapist". The last third main theme was: Therapists processing feelings after the dropout. The subthemes were: "doubting your own capacity", "to be abandoned", "sense of relief and lessons learned".

Conclusions: Sudden treatment dropouts often elicit negative emotions such as guilt, shame, and sorrow. They may also bring a sense of relief. Abrupt termination of therapy can affect therapists both professionally and personally, with the impact sometimes persisting long after the client has dropped out from therapy.

Background: While research has uncovered intricate relationships between cognitive reactivity (CR), sleep quality, perceived stress, family function, mindfulness, and perinatal depression (PND), their temporal dynamics remain unclear. Previous studies have focused primarily on cross-sectional analyses or single-time-point associations and lack longitudinal exploration of the bidirectional relationships and temporal precedence between these variables.

Methods: The study was conducted in Fujian Province, China, from December 2021 to January 2023. A cross-lagged panel model was used to examine the temporal relationships among CR, sleep quality, perceived stress, family function, mindfulness, and PND in pregnant women at high risk for depression. A total of 329 participants completed a baseline questionnaire during the third trimester (T1) and completed follow-up assessments three months postpartum (T2). Standardized scales were used to measure key variables. Statistical analyses were performed using IBM SPSS 26 and R 4.2.3 software, with the "lavaan" package employed for cross-lagged panel model construction.

Results: The findings revealed that the relationship between CR and depression among women at high risk of PND persisted over time due to autoregressive effects. PND at T1 was prospectively associated with changes in CR, family function, perceived stress, mindfulness, and sleep quality at T2 ( B = 2.467, -0.473, 0.878, -0.306, 0.393, P < 0.05). However, the cross-lagged effects of CR, family function, mindfulness, and sleep quality at T1 on the PND total score at T2 were not significant. The only exception was the significant positive cross-lagged effect of perceived stress at T1 on PND at T2. ( B = 0.102, P < 0.05).

Conclusion: This study among high-risk women with PND found that late-pregnancy depression was prospectively associated with higher postpartum cognitive reactivity, perceived stress, and depressive symptoms, and with poorer family function, mindfulness, and sleep quality. These findings advance understanding of the dynamic interplay between perinatal psychological and interpersonal factors and highlight the need for early intervention during pregnancy. Clinically, strengthening depression screening and adopting targeted strategies-such as cognitive-behavioral therapy, family counseling, mindfulness training, and sleep optimization-may aid in the prevention, early detection, and treatment of PND, thereby safeguarding maternal mental health and infant well-being.

Background: As work environments rapidly evolve due to profound social and technological changes, evaluating psychosocial work conditions and identifying risk factors affecting worker well-being has become a key public health priority. The Copenhagen Psychosocial Questionnaire (COPSOQ III) is among the most used tools for assessing the psychosocial work environment, covering both working conditions and occupational health outcomes. This study aimed to evaluate the psychometric properties of the long and middle versions of the COPSOQ III and to develop and assess a novel single-item-per-scale screening version (the COPSOQ III screening) using a nationwide sample of working adults in the Czech Republic.

Methods: Data were collected through an online panel survey administered by a professional research agency. The final research sample included 1,444 respondents (52.4% men, 47.6% women), selected through quota sampling to approximate key demographic characteristics of the Czech population. The long and middle versions of the COPSOQ III were administered. The new screening version (the COPSOQ III screening) was developed by selecting the item with the highest factor loading from each scale of the long version, resulting in a 45-item instrument. Factorial validity and measurement invariance were assessed using confirmatory factor analysis (CFA).

Results: CFA supported the factorial validity of the long and middle versions, with acceptable to strong model fit indices. Internal consistency was satisfactory across most scales, and measurement invariance was confirmed across sex, employment sector, managerial status, and length of employment. The screening version demonstrated high concordance with the long version, with an average item-scale shared variance of 77.2% and no scale below 60%. Given its substantial reduction in length and limited information loss, the screening version demonstrated a favorable balance between brevity and retained variance.

Conclusions: The Czech COPSOQ III, in the long and middle versions, is a valid and reliable tool for assessing psychosocial working conditions. The screening version offers a promising option for time-efficient assessment and initial workplace screening; however, further validation is needed to provide more robust evidence regarding its psychometric qualities.

Trial registration: non-applicable.