Psychologie Francaise最新文献

Introduction

The lack of an efficient and ecological tool to assess the development of young students in the French-speaking areas has led to considering the adaptation of Feelings about School (FAS: Valeski & Stipek, 2001) and its enrichment within the French scale of Feelings at School (SSE). This scale is founded on the theory of self-systemic processes, namely on students basic psychological needs’ satisfaction: feeling competent, autonomous and in relation. The FAS distinguishes four dimensions of the schoolchild's experience: his relationship with his teacher (F1), his literacy skills (F2), his overall apprehensiveness of school (F3) and his mathematical skills (F4).

Objectives

Our validation of the internal consistency of the SSE with 494 children fulfills three objectives: to ensure the reliability of our translation of the FAS, to test its validity on a cohort including older individuals (6 to 11 years old) in an enriched version, capturing the artistic component.

Method

An exploratory factor analysis (EFA), a confirmatory factory analysis (CFA) and an ANOVA were conducted with the collected data.

Results

The EFA revealed the five expected factors (i.e., the four original FAS factors and the additional factor on art skills). The CFA then confirmed the reliability of the SSE. The ANOVA revealed a lower score at the SSE for older students (i.e., fifth graders).

Discussion

Promising for applicability, this validated and enriched French tool is intended to be used in scientific research, or in clinical practice, notably by educational psychologists, in order to apprehend the multiple facets of the development of schoolchildren.

Climate change is one of the most important threats of the 21st century because of its social, economic and health consequences. From a psychological point of view, it is also a source of anxiety. The concept of eco-anxiety as it's known, is relatively recent and requires some clarification. In order to explore this phenomenon, a qualitative study was conducted with 18 participants aged between 19 and 48 years old. They participated in individual semi-directive interviews or focus groups, that were subject to a thematic content analysis. These analyses made it possible to highlight a construct comprised of a variety of symptoms that can be divided into six dimensions. Three dimensions that were already mentioned in the literature were highlighted: negative moods and cognitions related to the anticipation of the effects of climate change, anxiety and somatic manifestations. In addition, three new dimensions emerged from the interviews: questioning one's life choices, an intense stress experienced at the mention of the climate crisis and an evaluation of relationships with others towards isolation and more selective relationships. The psychopathological consequences of ecoanxiety, characterized by an exacerbation of some of the symptomatic dimensions identified in this research, could manifest itself especially in individuals who do not have sufficient resources to implement effective stress coping strategies. Therefore, treatment should focus on stress management (promote using different coping strategies), cognitive-emotion regulation (identifying dysfunctional thoughts and supporting values).

Introduction

North Africans immigrants in France are devalued and discriminated. Research suggests that the acculturation strategy they adopt impacts the way they are perceived on the stereotype content model's warmth and competence dimensions and the emotions and behavioral intentions they elicit (BIAS map model).

Objective

Considering that the warmth dimension consists of two sub-dimensions — sociability and morality — the present study explores how perceived morality influences the BIAS map's predictions as a function of perceptions of acculturation.

Method

We randomly assigned 343 participants to one of four groups. Participants in each group read extracts from an interview with a male North African immigrant who expressed one of four acculturation strategies (integrationist, assimilationist, separationist, marginalist). They then expressed their perceptions of the immigrant (stereotypes) and the emotions and behavioral intentions he inspired.

Results

As hypothesized, the assimilationist target was attributed more sociability than the separationist and marginalist targets and less morality than the integrationist and separationist targets. Unexpectedly, participants expressed strong active facilitating behavioral intentions (help and protect) both toward the least moral target (assimilationist) and toward the most moral targets (integrationist and separationist).

Conclusion

First, considering morality in addition to sociability and competence can enrich the BIAS map model's predictive capability. Second, although host populations may perceive assimilationist and separationist acculturation strategies as differing in terms of morality, these different perceptions may lead to similar helping and protection behavioral intentions. Some explanations are suggested.

Introduction

Few studies in France have examined the impact of acculturation strategies chosen by immigrants on intra-group relations. However, facing rejection from one's peers or evolving in a different way in the host country can be as important as being accepted by the majority. This study aims to address this deficit by investigating immigrants’ acculturation preferences, social judgements and social approval towards a target of the same origin according to its acculturation profile.

Method

In two studies of Malagasy (n = 111) and Maghrebi (n = 106) immigrants, participants were presented with a fictional portrait of a Malagasy or Maghrebi immigrant adopting an assimilation or separation strategy. Participants were asked to report their evaluation of the target (competence, sociability, morality) and their approval of the target. Their own inclination towards acculturation strategies was measured.

Results

Assimilationist targets are perceived as more competent (study 1) and more sociable (studies 1 and 2) than separatist targets. Malagasy participants were more likely to perceive the assimilationist target as less moral when they were inclined to separatism. North African participants perceive the assimilationist target as more moral when they themselves prefer assimilation. Both samples approve of the target's assimilation strategy more if they themselves are inclined toward it.

Conclusion

The results revealed that participants’ preference for different acculturation strategies could increase their perceptions of the target's morality and their approval of his/her acculturation strategy, especially when there was congruence of the target's acculturation with that of the participants.

Introduction

Popular education is an educational method based on the education of the people by the people and for the people, with the objective of improving the social system and achieving individual and collective development. Scouting's mission is to contribute to building a better world by training committed citizens, aware of the problems of their society and committed to solving them. This type of commitment takes time and energy and can lead to the development of a passion. Passion is one of the predictors of self-compassion, and self-compassion may be linked to another construct: the toxic-handlers.

Objective

To test self-compassion level by toxic-handlers, the links between toxic-handlers and passion in volunteering and to analyze the impacts on the perceived health of volunteers and the development of different toxic-handler profiles.

Method

This is a quantitative cross-sectional study. The sample consisted of 381 volunteers in scouting and popular education. The questionnaire was completed online by the participants via LimeSurvey.

Result

The concept of toxic-handler appears to be independent of the dualistic model of passion. In contrast, significant differences were found between the toxic-handler profile developed and depression, self-compassion, coping strategies, emotional balance, and some dimensions of burnout.

Conclusion

Volunteers are observable and analyzable through the prism of toxic-handling. Self-compassion would seem to be one of the explanatory factors of the profile that individuals develop. New diagnostic and support tools must be developed.

Objective

The main objective of this qualitative study was to explore the relationship to sexuality of patients with painful endometriosis.

Method

Sixteen women participated in a semi-structured interview that asked about their experience with the disease, their sexuality, the emotional sphere and the coping strategies they used to deal with potential difficulties.

Results

The thematic analysis of all the interviews enabled us to consider the impact of pain on the sexuality of women with endometriosis. Indeed, they suffer from sexual difficulties attributable to the feeling of pain but also to the anticipation of this same pain. The coping strategies put in place do not allow for a better well-being and provoke a vicious circle of emotional and cognitive fixation on the pain.

Conclusion

These results lead us to rethink pain management and to consider the impact of this symptom on patients’ sexuality.

The main goal of this study was to clarify if students at risk of Mathematics Learning Disabilities had deficits in symbolic, non-symbolic processing, or both. Other purpose was to know if the Open Algorithm Based on Numbers (OBN) teaching method offers advantages over Closed Algorithms Based on Ciphers (CBC) method. A total of 307 Early Childhood Education students participated in this study. Based on student’ scores obtained in Test of Early Mathematics Ability (TEMA-3), that assesses formal and informal thinking, three analysis groups were designed: low-performance group, average-performance group, and high-performance group. There were significant differences in symbolic comparison and, consequently, the post hoc analysis showed significant differences between all groups in symbolic comparison except between the High and Average groups calculation. However, there were no differences in non-symbolic comparison between any of the groups. The teaching method and the mathematical competence showed a significant effect only on the symbolic comparison, resulting in a small size of effect for both the method and the Early Math Competence rate. These data support the dual representation hypothesis, in which the non-symbolic magnitudes would activate the Numerical Approximation System (ANS) and the symbolic quantities an exact representation of the numbers. This being a significant source of mathematical learning that could contribute to the improvement of the ANS.

Introduction

Over the past two decades, France has been marked by several waves of terrorist attacks that have had a strong emotional impact on the population.

Objective

The objective of this study is to understand the social representations of terrorism and the emotions associated with it, in the French context. Moreover, we investigated the difference in the emotional relationship of the participants with respect to the event (the terrorist attack) but also to the individual behind the attack (the terrorist individual).

Method

An online survey was completed by 308 participants. A free association task based on the inductive term “terrorism” has been proposed. Subsequently, questions of emotional characterization were asked for the word “terrorism”, then for iconographic supports representing the attack and the terrorist individual.

Results

The analyzes carried out on free associations have highlighted a dichotomization of the concept of terrorism into two dimensions (that of the event and that of the terrorist individual, who is described there using a stereotypical vocabulary) as well that the central place of emotion. Quantitative data analyzes showed a difference in emotions and intensity between the attack (more characterized by sadness) and the terrorist individual (more characterized by fear and disgust).

Conclusion

Insofar as social representations and emotions impact attitudes and intergroup behaviors, these results can contribute to a better understanding of the societal impact of terrorism and provide insights into certain discriminatory behaviors.

The repetition of multitasking episodes leads to a reinforcement of the generic and specific processes solicited, resulting in an improvement of the performance in these same tasks, up to a final state which corresponds to expertise. However, the expert's performance is attributed to processes considered as “domain specific”. Thus, the reinforcement of generic processes developed during the pathway to expertise seems to have disappeared. What happened to the reinforced generic processes? This review articulates several discrete theoretical fields: that of expertise acquisition (Logan, 1988), acquired expertise (Gobet & Simon, 1996), dual-task situations (Pashler, 1994) and executive functions (Miyake et al., 2000). We show that it is possible to envisage reinforcement of executive functions throughout the process of developing expertise and we propose that this reinforcement ceases when expertise is acquired.

Introduction

Anglo-Saxon research shows that the evaluation of intimate partner violence varies according to the gender of the perpetrator and the victim.

Objective

The purpose of this research was to clarify, in the French context, the effects of gender and sexual orientation on the perception of and reaction to intimate partner homicide.

Method

We presented 201 subjects with an intimate partner homicide in a between-subjects procedure in which the sex of the perpetrator and the victim was varied and which involved opposite- or same-sex couples. The subjects were then asked to judge the perpetrator and the victim and decide on punishment.

Results

The results show that the judgments of responsibility and punishment assignments are the most severe when the perpetrator is a man, the victim a woman, the least severe when the perpetrator is a woman, the victim a man. This difference is more present for women than for men. It is noted that the judgments for the author in the couples of same-sex (lesbian and especially gay) are more moderate, being most often between those of the couples of opposite sex.

Conclusion

In discussion, the impact of the sociological reality of intimate partner violence, gender representations and penal philosophies on these judgments and the interest of sensitizing judicial actors and jurors to these gender-related effects are evoked.