Pub Date : 2023-05-01DOI: 10.1080/23311908.2023.2205252
Alena Michel-Kröhler, S. Berti
Abstract Athletes’ behavior, thoughts, and feelings are influenced by whether athletes achieve their personal goals or not. The present experiment aimed to evaluate the application of a paradigm that uses unresolved goals to elicit state rumination in athletes. For this purpose, 101 athletes (f = 53, m= 48, Mage = 22.40, SDage = 2.80) participated in an experiment and were divided into three different conditions – two experimental and one control condition. Using a 3 × 3 mixed ANOVA, we examined (1) whether we could significantly elicit rumination in athletes with a goal-related procedure (2) whether the context in which goals were formulated (general, sport-specific) mattered, and (3) whether the application of the procedure had an impact on performance as well as on cognitive processes in a subsequent go/no-go task. In addition, we assessed also athletes’ mood as well as their affect to account for emotional processes in addition to cognitive ones. Results showed that regardless of context, cueing unresolved goals resulted in a significant increase in state rumination after the paradigm compared to the control condition and subsequent recovery during the go/no-go task. In addition, only temporal changes in athletes’ mood and affect were evident; group differences were largely absent. Approaches for future research and further application in the sports context are discussed.
{"title":"Experimental induction of state rumination: A study evaluating the efficacy of goal-cueing task in a sample of athletes","authors":"Alena Michel-Kröhler, S. Berti","doi":"10.1080/23311908.2023.2205252","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23311908.2023.2205252","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Athletes’ behavior, thoughts, and feelings are influenced by whether athletes achieve their personal goals or not. The present experiment aimed to evaluate the application of a paradigm that uses unresolved goals to elicit state rumination in athletes. For this purpose, 101 athletes (f = 53, m= 48, Mage = 22.40, SDage = 2.80) participated in an experiment and were divided into three different conditions – two experimental and one control condition. Using a 3 × 3 mixed ANOVA, we examined (1) whether we could significantly elicit rumination in athletes with a goal-related procedure (2) whether the context in which goals were formulated (general, sport-specific) mattered, and (3) whether the application of the procedure had an impact on performance as well as on cognitive processes in a subsequent go/no-go task. In addition, we assessed also athletes’ mood as well as their affect to account for emotional processes in addition to cognitive ones. Results showed that regardless of context, cueing unresolved goals resulted in a significant increase in state rumination after the paradigm compared to the control condition and subsequent recovery during the go/no-go task. In addition, only temporal changes in athletes’ mood and affect were evident; group differences were largely absent. Approaches for future research and further application in the sports context are discussed.","PeriodicalId":46323,"journal":{"name":"Cogent Psychology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45396926","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-04-25DOI: 10.1080/23311908.2023.2205258
F. Anyan, Henrik Nordahl, O. Hjemdal
Abstract In the metacognitive model of psychological disorders, metacognitive strategies and corresponding underlying metacognitive beliefs intensify and maintain emotional distress symptoms. In the current study, our three objectives were to evaluate and replicate the network structure of dysfunctional metacognitions as assessed with the MCQ-30, to examine its stability when adding relevant covariates in the form of metacognitive strategies (worry and rumination) and symptoms (anxiety and depression), and to evaluate how different sets of dysfunctional metacognitions are more or less strongly linked differently to metacognitive strategies and symptoms. A cross-sectional university sample with a mean age of 26 years (N = 440; Males = 156, Females = 283) completed the Metacognitions Questionnaire–30, Penn State Worry Questionnaire, Ruminative Response Scale, and Hopkins Symptom Checklist. Data were analysed using psychological network analysis in R-studio statistical software. The network structure of dysfunctional metacognitions replicated well with item clusters that correspond to clinically meaningful substructures in the metacognitive model. Negative metacognitive beliefs and beliefs about uncontrollability might have more functional significance in the mutual connections between dysfunctional meta-domains as well as the connections with metacognitive strategies and symptoms. For worry and anxiety, negative beliefs about uncontrollability and corresponding danger of worry were more prominently connected in the network structure. For rumination, cognitive self-consciousness was more prominent, whereas for depression, need for control was more prominently connected. Support was found for mutual interdependence between different sets of dysfunctional metacognitive beliefs, that metacognitive beliefs are linked to but separate from metacognitive strategies, and that these may function together in affecting emotional distress symptoms
{"title":"The network structure of dysfunctional metacognitions, CAS strategies, and symptoms","authors":"F. Anyan, Henrik Nordahl, O. Hjemdal","doi":"10.1080/23311908.2023.2205258","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23311908.2023.2205258","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract In the metacognitive model of psychological disorders, metacognitive strategies and corresponding underlying metacognitive beliefs intensify and maintain emotional distress symptoms. In the current study, our three objectives were to evaluate and replicate the network structure of dysfunctional metacognitions as assessed with the MCQ-30, to examine its stability when adding relevant covariates in the form of metacognitive strategies (worry and rumination) and symptoms (anxiety and depression), and to evaluate how different sets of dysfunctional metacognitions are more or less strongly linked differently to metacognitive strategies and symptoms. A cross-sectional university sample with a mean age of 26 years (N = 440; Males = 156, Females = 283) completed the Metacognitions Questionnaire–30, Penn State Worry Questionnaire, Ruminative Response Scale, and Hopkins Symptom Checklist. Data were analysed using psychological network analysis in R-studio statistical software. The network structure of dysfunctional metacognitions replicated well with item clusters that correspond to clinically meaningful substructures in the metacognitive model. Negative metacognitive beliefs and beliefs about uncontrollability might have more functional significance in the mutual connections between dysfunctional meta-domains as well as the connections with metacognitive strategies and symptoms. For worry and anxiety, negative beliefs about uncontrollability and corresponding danger of worry were more prominently connected in the network structure. For rumination, cognitive self-consciousness was more prominent, whereas for depression, need for control was more prominently connected. Support was found for mutual interdependence between different sets of dysfunctional metacognitive beliefs, that metacognitive beliefs are linked to but separate from metacognitive strategies, and that these may function together in affecting emotional distress symptoms","PeriodicalId":46323,"journal":{"name":"Cogent Psychology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-04-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47569352","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-04-12DOI: 10.1080/23311908.2023.2200349
Noor Al‐Wattary, Michael G. Wyness
Abstract This paper is based on a study that explored the impact of a practitioner-designed social emotional program on students’ wellbeing based on the results of the WEMWBS scale in a public secondary school in Qatar. This cluster randomized controlled trial study (RCT) involved the assignment of two groups; an intervention group (n = 82) to receive a universal social emotional intervention and a control group (n = 81) to continue with the usual practices without attending or participating in any social emotional interventions. Students in both groups rated their wellbeing levels before the intervention (baseline) and after the intervention (post intervention). The results revealed a significant improvement in students’ wellbeing after participating in the SEL intervention with an adjusted effect size of (EF = 0.76). The paper discusses the results of this study in the light of the program’s design and social context.
{"title":"The impact of a universal social emotional intervention on students’ mental wellbeing in a secondary public school in Qatar","authors":"Noor Al‐Wattary, Michael G. Wyness","doi":"10.1080/23311908.2023.2200349","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23311908.2023.2200349","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This paper is based on a study that explored the impact of a practitioner-designed social emotional program on students’ wellbeing based on the results of the WEMWBS scale in a public secondary school in Qatar. This cluster randomized controlled trial study (RCT) involved the assignment of two groups; an intervention group (n = 82) to receive a universal social emotional intervention and a control group (n = 81) to continue with the usual practices without attending or participating in any social emotional interventions. Students in both groups rated their wellbeing levels before the intervention (baseline) and after the intervention (post intervention). The results revealed a significant improvement in students’ wellbeing after participating in the SEL intervention with an adjusted effect size of (EF = 0.76). The paper discusses the results of this study in the light of the program’s design and social context.","PeriodicalId":46323,"journal":{"name":"Cogent Psychology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-04-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43250253","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-04-09DOI: 10.1080/23311908.2023.2196102
N. Yuviler-Gavish, Doron Faran, Mark N. Berman
Abstract Most of us understand that our rationality is bounded by our cognitive limitations, knowledge, set of beliefs, etc. Generally, however, people are not sufficiently aware of their own bounded rationality and demonstrate overprecision vis-à-vis their decisions. In the current research we evaluate a new method to reduce the overprecision and improve the understanding of bounded rationality: In many cases people underestimate the extent of the bounds of their rationality, and, as a result, demonstrate overprecision in making their decisions. The evaluated method is challenging a person’s fundamental assumptions about a task through introducing uncertainty. Our study’s 120 participants were asked to predict the actions of a virtual player in a series of rounds of SET®, a popular card game. Challenging the fundamental assumption was done by changing the virtual player’s choice rules after 60 rounds. We juxtaposed this with a second method—explaining, giving information about bounded rationality at the beginning of the task and after rounds 10 and 62. Four experimental groups played the game in a 2 by 2 design, with the conditions Change (yes or no) and Explanations (yes or no). The results demonstrate that both methods, Explanation and Change, increased the post-knowledge of results times. We show that the new method to improve the understanding of bounded rationality, challenging the fundamental assumptions about a task through introducing uncertainty, is effective, and should be evaluated further.
{"title":"The effect of challenging people’s fundamental assumptions about a task: Introducing uncertainty for reducing overprecision","authors":"N. Yuviler-Gavish, Doron Faran, Mark N. Berman","doi":"10.1080/23311908.2023.2196102","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23311908.2023.2196102","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Most of us understand that our rationality is bounded by our cognitive limitations, knowledge, set of beliefs, etc. Generally, however, people are not sufficiently aware of their own bounded rationality and demonstrate overprecision vis-à-vis their decisions. In the current research we evaluate a new method to reduce the overprecision and improve the understanding of bounded rationality: In many cases people underestimate the extent of the bounds of their rationality, and, as a result, demonstrate overprecision in making their decisions. The evaluated method is challenging a person’s fundamental assumptions about a task through introducing uncertainty. Our study’s 120 participants were asked to predict the actions of a virtual player in a series of rounds of SET®, a popular card game. Challenging the fundamental assumption was done by changing the virtual player’s choice rules after 60 rounds. We juxtaposed this with a second method—explaining, giving information about bounded rationality at the beginning of the task and after rounds 10 and 62. Four experimental groups played the game in a 2 by 2 design, with the conditions Change (yes or no) and Explanations (yes or no). The results demonstrate that both methods, Explanation and Change, increased the post-knowledge of results times. We show that the new method to improve the understanding of bounded rationality, challenging the fundamental assumptions about a task through introducing uncertainty, is effective, and should be evaluated further.","PeriodicalId":46323,"journal":{"name":"Cogent Psychology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-04-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48561851","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-03-16DOI: 10.1080/23311908.2023.2190634
Joseph Ocran
Abstract Persons with disability experience actual manifestations of stigma (enacted stigma) and imagined or anticipated responses of people to their impairments (felt stigma). These experiences influence their conceptions of their impairments and their behaviour as well. This study examined how 16 middle—class persons with disability in Ghana frame their impairments and how they manage their identities in response to stigma. Data for the study was obtained from in-depth interviews of participants who had been selected purposively. The author used the interpretative phenomenological analysis framework to analyse data. Findings from the study were organised into two themes. These are how the participants frame their impairments and how the participants managed their identities as they confronted disability stigma. The participants engaged in self—denial of disability because they did not regard their impairments as “disabling”. They also employed two related strategies to manage their identities. First, they made use of behavioural strategies to alter the nature and sources of stigma, and second, they devised cognitive strategies to construct positive identities to challenge disability stereotypes. It is important that persons with disability are given the opportunity to obtain adequate formal education in order for them to increase their levels of awareness. This will enable them to improve their cultural and social capitals and also facilitate their entry into mainstream activities in society. furthermore, inclusive spaces have to be expanded so that persons with disability will not have to rearrange themselves and their thoughts for social integration.
{"title":"“Am i disabled?”: disability and identity management among middle-class persons with disability in Ghana","authors":"Joseph Ocran","doi":"10.1080/23311908.2023.2190634","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23311908.2023.2190634","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Persons with disability experience actual manifestations of stigma (enacted stigma) and imagined or anticipated responses of people to their impairments (felt stigma). These experiences influence their conceptions of their impairments and their behaviour as well. This study examined how 16 middle—class persons with disability in Ghana frame their impairments and how they manage their identities in response to stigma. Data for the study was obtained from in-depth interviews of participants who had been selected purposively. The author used the interpretative phenomenological analysis framework to analyse data. Findings from the study were organised into two themes. These are how the participants frame their impairments and how the participants managed their identities as they confronted disability stigma. The participants engaged in self—denial of disability because they did not regard their impairments as “disabling”. They also employed two related strategies to manage their identities. First, they made use of behavioural strategies to alter the nature and sources of stigma, and second, they devised cognitive strategies to construct positive identities to challenge disability stereotypes. It is important that persons with disability are given the opportunity to obtain adequate formal education in order for them to increase their levels of awareness. This will enable them to improve their cultural and social capitals and also facilitate their entry into mainstream activities in society. furthermore, inclusive spaces have to be expanded so that persons with disability will not have to rearrange themselves and their thoughts for social integration.","PeriodicalId":46323,"journal":{"name":"Cogent Psychology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-03-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45468669","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-03-09DOI: 10.1080/23311908.2023.2187179
Ji-Young Choi
Abstract Despite the rapid increase in the older population in South Korea, the quality of life of older adults remains low. The suicide rate of older adults in South Korea is among the highest of all OECD countries. Using data from 2012 (wave 4) to 2020 (wave 8) of the Korean Longitudinal Survey of Women and Families (KLoWF), this study examined the effects of participation in productive activities on suicidal ideation among South Korean female older adults. This study derived three key findings. First, although there were differences regarding the type of productive activity, participation in productive activity could reduce the probability of experiencing suicidal ideation. Participation in housework as a productive activity related to daily life had the greatest marginal effect. Second, the more productive activities one participated in, the lower the likelihood of suicidal ideation. Third, the economic and health status of older women had a significant effect on suicidal ideation. The marginal effect of health status was greater than that of economic status. This study not only makes an academic contribution but also has policy implications for the field of public health.
{"title":"Engagement in productive activities and suicidal ideation among female older adults in South Korea","authors":"Ji-Young Choi","doi":"10.1080/23311908.2023.2187179","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23311908.2023.2187179","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Despite the rapid increase in the older population in South Korea, the quality of life of older adults remains low. The suicide rate of older adults in South Korea is among the highest of all OECD countries. Using data from 2012 (wave 4) to 2020 (wave 8) of the Korean Longitudinal Survey of Women and Families (KLoWF), this study examined the effects of participation in productive activities on suicidal ideation among South Korean female older adults. This study derived three key findings. First, although there were differences regarding the type of productive activity, participation in productive activity could reduce the probability of experiencing suicidal ideation. Participation in housework as a productive activity related to daily life had the greatest marginal effect. Second, the more productive activities one participated in, the lower the likelihood of suicidal ideation. Third, the economic and health status of older women had a significant effect on suicidal ideation. The marginal effect of health status was greater than that of economic status. This study not only makes an academic contribution but also has policy implications for the field of public health.","PeriodicalId":46323,"journal":{"name":"Cogent Psychology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-03-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47850228","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-03-09DOI: 10.1080/23311908.2023.2183675
Eveline Sarintohe, J. Larsen, J. Vink, D. Maciejewski
Abstract The aim of this study is to examine an extended model of the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) and increase insight into the intentions to consume energy-dense food among adolescents in Indonesia. This study included 411 adolescents from private schools who reported their intentions to consume energy-dense food the next day and the next week, as well as attitudes, subjective norms, descriptive norms, and perceived behavioral control regarding energy-dense food consumption. Linear regression analyses (in R) were conducted to examine associations of TPB determinants (model 1), TPB determinants plus descriptive norms (model 2), and interactions between determinants (model 3) with the intention to consume energy-dense food the (1) next day or (2) next week. Attitudes and subjective norms were positively associated with both the ‘next day’ and ‘next week’ energy-dense food intentions (model 1), although associations for the ‘next day model’ appeared to be stronger. Descriptive norms, compared to subjective norms, were more strongly associated with ‘next week intentions’, whereas both norms (descriptive and subjective) did not differ in how strongly they were associated with ‘next day’ intentions (model 2). Significant interactions between TPB constructs were found for the model predicting ‘next day’ intentions (i.e. subjective norms × attitude and attitude × PBC) (model 3). Our study provides important information about proximal food intentions among collectivistic cultures specifically, which may have crucial implications for future preventive interventions.
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Pub Date : 2023-03-06DOI: 10.1080/23311908.2023.2186327
Elissa Dabkowski, Joanne E. Porter, Michael S. Barbagallo, V. Prokopiv, Christopher Snell, K. Missen
Abstract Physical inactivity continues to be a global issue with many adolescents and adults failing to meet the recommendations for daily exercise. Efforts to reduce physical inactivity in adults include the incorporation of strategies such as workplace physical activity programs, especially for sedentary workers. In this systematic literature review we examined current literature about the efficacy of workplace physical activity programs, as well as the barriers and enablers to these programs. Six EBSCO databases were searched (Academic Search Complete, CINAHL Complete, MEDLINE, APA PsycInfo, APA PsycArticles and SPORTDiscus with full text) between a ten year period (2011 to 2021). The search terms used were “physical activity”, “workplace” and “program” along with their variations. Following a systematic process, eighteen papers met the eligibility criteria. The authors analysed the findings using a narrative synthesis, in which four themes emerged from the data. These include Benefits to physical health, Benefits to mental health, Barriers to workplace physical activity and Workplace activity enablers. These findings provided several recommendations for organizations that endeavour to improve the health of workplace employees. Generalised workplace physical activity programs were viewed favourably by both employees and employers. Incorporating these practices into daily work structures may provide favourable outcomes such as increased work productivity and reduced physical inactivity.
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Pub Date : 2023-03-05DOI: 10.1080/23311908.2022.2151726
Kohei Kambara, R. Kabir, Yugo Kira, A. Ogata, P. Barnard
Abstract Repetitive thoughts are divided into constructive (concrete-experiential thought) and unconstructive (abstract-analytical thought) in processing mode theory. While previous studies have highlighted the similarities between concrete-experiential thought and mindfulness, no large-scale empirical study has been conducted to investigate this relationship. We conducted a cross-sectional questionnaire survey of 1,030 Japanese adults to explore this relationship. We found that abstract-analytic thought had negative correlations with all mindfulness aspects except observation. Conversely, concrete-experiential thought was positively related to the mindfulness aspects of observing, describing, and non-reacting; it was not correlated with non-judging or acting with awareness. Our study suggests that there are similarities between concrete-experiential thoughts and mindfulness: they both focus on the context and specificity of events and experiences, yet harbor some key differences. This implication may contribute to psychological intervention on repetitive thought and mindfulness.
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