Pub Date : 2025-06-01Epub Date: 2025-07-23DOI: 10.1016/j.erap.2023.100906
C. Philipps-Bertin, F. Martinez, A. Boscher, P. Champelovier
Introduction
Understanding factors that influence car habit formation and variability would likely improve the effectiveness of measures aimed to change mobility behavior.
Objectives
The two objectives of this paper are to validate a French version of a synthetic scale for habit assessment and to test factors that influence car habit.
Method
A validation procedure was implemented on data collected from two samples (n = 721 and 241). Multiple regression analyses were then conducted to test the relative influence of situational (area of residence, alternative model pass, car availability) and psychological (environmental values, environmental identity, car pollution awareness, and attitude towards car use) variables on the variability of car habit measurement.
Results
The one-dimensional structure of the French version of the synthetic scale for habit assessment, its internal consistency and temporal reliability were verified. Analyses also establish a link between car habit and its declared use. The situational context plays an important role in habit formation. Car attitude is the variable that most strongly and positively influences the variability of car habit, whereas psychological variables relating to environmental issue have a weaker and negative influence.
Conclusion
The psychometric data reported in this article allow us to conclude that the French version of the synthetic scale for habit assessment that we propose is valid for measuring car habit. It is relevant both for the evaluation of interventions aimed at reducing car use and for their development according to the stage of change.
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Pub Date : 2025-06-01Epub Date: 2025-08-22DOI: 10.1016/j.erap.2025.101080
Gülin Öztürk Özkan, Ayşenur Karaman, Burcu Zafer, Sakine Asya Evci
Objective
The increase in social media use in young adults may affect their eating behaviors. In this study, it was aimed to evaluate the emotional eating status of young adults during the COVID-19 pandemic and to examine the relationship between social media use, cognitive restraint and uncontrolled eating, and emotional eating behavior.
Methods
In this study, a questionnaire containing 29 questions was applied to 201 individuals between the ages of 18–35, and their body mass index was calculated using height and body weight measurements. The questionnaire also includes “Social Media Addiction Scale-Adult Form”, “Body Image Scale”, “Three-Factor Eating Scale” and “Emotional Eating Scale”. Number, percentage values, Chi-square, One Way ANOVA independent samples T test and Regression analyzes were used to evaluate the data.
Results
It was found that the probability of emotional eating was increased in women (OR, 8871; 95% CI, 3368–23.391) compared to men. Body mass index < 18.5 kg/m2 (OR, 0.095; 95% CI, 0.016−0.542) and 18.5–24.9 kg/m2 compared to individuals with a body mass index of 25.0–29.9 kg/m2 (OR, 0.176; 95% CI, 0.047−0.654) was found to be less likely to emotional eating. It has been determined that 90.2% of individuals who are interested in nutrition shares on social media have emotional eating. It was determined that the social media addiction scale score, uncontrolled eating behavior score and cognitive restraint behavior score averages of individuals with emotional eating behavior were higher than individuals without emotional eating behavior.
Conclusion
It has been determined that emotional eating is common in young adults during the pandemic. Emotional eating was found to be associated with social media use and body image.
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Pub Date : 2025-06-01Epub Date: 2025-08-05DOI: 10.1016/j.erap.2024.101026
İbrahim Öztürk , Bahar Öz
Introduction
Differences between male and female drivers have been observed in various driving outcomes, from behaviours to crash involvement. Although sex differences among these outcomes have been extensively studied, investigating these differences by focusing on sex roles, driver skills, and stereotype endorsement for female and male drivers has not been an effort in the previous literature.
Objective
With respect to these, the present study aimed to examine sex stereotypes associated with driving among drivers in Türkiye and how drivers’ perceptions of their own sex roles and driver skills were related to these stereotypes.
Method
In order to do that, the study was conducted with 323 drivers between the ages of 19 and 25 (M = 21.57, SD = 1.57). Participants completed a survey battery including the Bem Sex Roles Inventory (BSRI), Driver Skills Inventory (DSI), sex stereotypes associated with driving endorsement measurement (SSAD), and a demographic information form.
Results
A series of ANOVAs and hierarchical moderated multiple regression analyses were conducted to test the relationships between the variables of the study. Results showed that females perceive female drivers as more compliant with speed rules than males, and males endorsed male drivers’ driver skills more than females. In addition to direct positive relations of safety skills with speed compliance, risk avoidance, and courtesy, different two-way interactions in relation to the indexes of sex stereotypes were observed. The interaction results showed that different levels of sex roles play a role in how people endorse driving-related sex stereotypes. Additionally, it was also found that, for female and male drivers, different levels of perceptual-motor skills resulted in differences in the evaluation of specific driving-related sex stereotypes.
Conclusion
In general, the findings indicated that sex, sex roles, and driver skills of the evaluators are important factors in understanding their relationships with the driving-related sex stereotype endorsement. The findings contributed to the literature with an additional understanding of the sex, sex roles, and stereotypes issues and are discussed in relation to dynamic relations in the traffic system.
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We have started research (2016–2019) which aimed to assess the maturity of the perception of the body image and its structuring, from the “drawing of the person”. We have had ethics board approval for our research (Ref. USJ-2016-28). Our target population was children aged 3 to 12. Only 472 from 510 subject took part of the study.
Objectives
A factor analysis of the various data enabled us to develop a perceptual-emotional maturity scale, MTPEMS, based on 18 main items, with a dual approach: quantitative and qualitative.
Method
– A score of ‘maturity of perception’ (MP) will indicate the level of perception in the child and any delay in relation to his age. – An analytical and psychodynamic approach to the drawing of the person will highlight the concerns of the child, his mental health, and his emotional experience.
Results
The Cronbach's alpha for the global scale (α = 0.874) indicates that all 18 items are consistent at measuring the same characteristic.
Discussion
In our article we will present the method and the results of our study, as well as the structure of the scale and examples of rating and analysis. We will discuss the different results showing the relation between different factors (age, mental health, self-image…) and the maturity of the perception.
Conclusion
The use of this scale is necessary in infant clinics, in schools and in specialized education institutions.
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Pub Date : 2025-04-01Epub Date: 2025-04-27DOI: 10.1016/j.erap.2024.101062
Fabiana Queiroga , Amalia R. Pérez-Nebra , Eva M. Lira , Vincent Angel , Marilena Bertolino
Introduction
While the measures taken to contain COVID-19 have been criticized in many countries, their emotional impact has encouraged people to draw on organizing principles about the world, such as belief in a just world (BJW). Alongside this, reactions to an exceptional and extreme life event also affect labor relations, and have given rise to a crisis that is still evident today.
Objective
Based on the Affective Event Theory (AET), the study aims to test how behavior at work is affected by an extreme life event as a function of the work environment.
Method
449 teleworkers in Brazil and 236 in France participated in the study, considering that these two countries had imposed similar periods of mandatory teleworking while adopting different policies. Empirical models were tested using structural equation modeling, and differences between countries were tested using ANOVA.
Results
Low positive emotions tended to decrease perceived job satisfaction when BJW was high in both countries. This also occurred among French teleworkers when they had high negative emotions. BJW directly affected both performance and job satisfaction in Brazil and only job satisfaction in France.
Conclusion
Results offer support for the AET and confirm that the work environment indirectly influences affective experiences and work outcomes. Despite a limited sample, because the respondents were part of the minority of the working population who could stay at home, the study offers a practical contribution. The difference in support perceived by French and Brazilian teleworkers reinforces the idea that attention to ideals and contextual conditions is essential for maintaining emotional health and job performance.
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Pub Date : 2025-04-01Epub Date: 2025-04-29DOI: 10.1016/j.erap.2024.101048
James J. Annesi
Introduction
Behavioral methods attempting to reduce weight have largely failed beyond the very short term. Research suggests an inadequate understanding of the dynamics of psychosocial changes occurring within treatment processes, and how exercise plays a part well-beyond its minor direct effect on weight in adults with obesity.
Objective
This study aimed to clarify psychosocial predictors of weight loss to inform behavioral obesity treatments.
Method
Women with obesity (N = 103) participating in an original cognitive-behavioral treatment within community-based health promotion centers were evaluated over 6, 12, and 24 months. Two serial mediation models were specified assessing effects emanating from changes in theory-driven psychosocial variables.
Results
Treatment-associated effects on the tested psychosocial and behavioral variables were large to very large. Within the serial mediation analyses, the exercise→dietary change relationship was significantly mediated by paths from changes in negative mood→emotional eating→eating-related self-efficacy, and changes in exercise-related self-regulation→eating-related self-regulation→eating-related self-efficacy. Across those two mediation models, relationships of negative mood change→exercise-related self-regulation change, and eating-related self-regulation change→emotional eating change, were also significant. Dietary improvement significantly predicted reductions in body mass index over 6, 12, and 24 months with weight losses of 6.1%, 5.9%, and 5.0%.
Conclusion
Based on findings, suggestions were made for the identified theory-driven processes to be applied in behavioral obesity treatments.
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Pub Date : 2025-04-01Epub Date: 2025-04-26DOI: 10.1016/j.erap.2024.101050
Claudia Iuliana Iacob , Iuliana Armas , Daniela Ionescu , Eugen Avram
Introduction
Empirical research has established that fear and perceived threat of COVID-19 are associated with anxiety and depression in the general population. Is unclear how personality traits may act as moderators, thus the present study explored these relationships.
Objectives
This study aimed to investigate the moderating role of neuroticism and conscientiousness on the relationship between (1) the perceived threat of COVID-19 and anxiety and depression separately and (2) the fear of COVID-19 and anxiety and depression separately.
Method
This cross-sectional study was based on a community sample of 295 adults (Mage = 37.2, SDage = 11.9) from Romania who participated online.
Results
Neuroticism and conscientiousness moderated the relationship between perceived threat and mental health outcomes. Specifically, those with higher neuroticism evidenced a stronger association between the perceived threat of COVID-19 and both anxiety and depression, whereas those high in conscientiousness evidenced a weaker relationship between fear of COVID-19 and depression.
Conclusion
This study highlights the importance of considering personality traits to understand mental health outcomes during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Pub Date : 2025-04-01Epub Date: 2025-01-16DOI: 10.1016/j.erap.2024.101044
R. Lacerte , S. Rochette , A.-A. Dumas , C. Tanguay , G. Lavigne , E. Ferdais , N. Carbonneau
Introduction
The perception that one's body is accepted by others is crucial in the development and maintenance of a positive body image and healthy eating behaviors in youth. However, no research has examined the relationship between perceived body acceptance by each parent and adolescent girls’ relationships with their bodies and with food.
Objectives
The present research examined whether perceived body acceptance by the father and by the mother are independently related to different facets of adolescent girls’ body image (i.e., self-objectification, body appreciation, and social appearance comparison) and to their intuitive eating.
Method
Three hundred and forty-four adolescent girls from Quebec (Canada) aged 14 to 17 years completed an online questionnaire.
Results
Perceived body acceptance by the father and by the mother were both positively and uniquely associated with adolescents’ intuitive eating and body appreciation, and negatively related to self-objectification (i.e., perceiving their bodies as objects that exist for the gaze of others). Perceived body acceptance by the mother (but not by the father) was also negatively related to social appearance comparison. Results also showed that self-objectification, social appearance comparison, and body appreciation partially mediated the association between perceived body acceptance by each parent and intuitive eating. Finally, results showed that perceived body acceptance by the father and by the mother interact in the prediction of body appreciation.
Conclusions
Perceived body acceptance by each parent is related to indicators of a positive body image and a healthy relationship with food in adolescent girls.
Public interest
The results of this study, conducted among 344 adolescent girls (14–17 years old) in the province of Quebec, show that perceived body acceptance by each parent relates to several indicators of a positive relationship with the body and food. Adolescents who perceive that their parents accept their bodies are likely to report greater appreciation of their bodies, less tendency toward self-objectification, less tendency toward social appearance comparison, and more intuitive eating behaviors. The results support the importance of examining both maternal and paternal body acceptance given their additive and interactive effects.
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This study examines the motives of women for agreeing or refusing to have a mammogram.
Method
Three hundred and ten participants were recruited. Two questionnaires listing the motives for undergoing or refusing to undergo a mammogram were developed. Intolerance of uncertainty, worry, anxiety, personality were respectively rated by: EII, QIPS, GAD-7, BHI-24.
Result
Seven facilitators were interpreted within the framework of Reversal Theory: Interest of early diagnosis, Quality of care, Habit, Collectivist perspective, Following the doctor's advice, Cancer(s) in entourage, Hypochondriac beliefs. Six barriers were revealed: Absence of cancer in entourage, Anxiety, Physical and moral pain, Lack of information, Spatiotemporal difficulties, Aspiration for freedom. The frequency of mammography was positively linked to the age, number of children, Habit, and negatively to Physical and moral pain, Lack of information and Spatiotemporal difficulties. Age and Habit had a positive effect on the frequency of screening while the Spatiotemporal difficulties had a negative effect.
Conclusion
This study provides a better understanding of the motives that lead women to accept or refuse performing this examination. It could be useful to the medical profession and more broadly to the field of public health.
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Pub Date : 2025-02-01Epub Date: 2025-01-16DOI: 10.1016/j.erap.2024.101004
Qi Wei , Beatrice Van der Heijden , Gaëlle Vallée-Tourangeau
Introduction
The sources of teacher stress in the socio-politico context of China have been understudied.
Objective
This paper details the development and validation of the Chinese teacher sources of stress (CT-SOS) scale, which considers multiple social-ecological aspects.
Methods
The psychometric properties of the CT-SOS scale have been tested using three samples involving a total of 598 Chinese schoolteachers.
Results
Confirmatory factor analyses demonstrate the multi-dimensional structure of the scale and its discriminant validity.
Conclusion
The usefulness of this reliable and valid scale is discussed considering the context of ongoing education reforms and the impact of the COVID-19 on schoolteachers in China.
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