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{"title":"HD-tDCS over prefrontal cortex alleviates the inhibitory control and sleep problems of insomnia with objective short sleep duration","authors":"Haobo Zhang ,&nbsp;Zhangwei Lv ,&nbsp;Zijie Tang ,&nbsp;Xue Zeng ,&nbsp;Jiayu Feng ,&nbsp;Xu Lei","doi":"10.1016/j.ijchp.2026.100663","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ijchp.2026.100663","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Background</h3><div>Insomnia disorder with objective short sleep duration (ISSD) is a severe phenotype associated with significant health risks including hypertension, diabetes, and cognitive impairment. It has been found that sleep problems in ISSD can be alleviated by improving inhibitory control (IC) ability. Therefore, there is a need to develop more effective interventions targeting inhibitory control to relief the symptom in ISSD.</div></div><div><h3>Objective</h3><div>This study aimed to investigate whether high-definition transcranial direct current stimulation (HD-tDCS) targeting the right dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (dlPFC) could improve inhibitory control and sleep quality in ISSD.</div></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><div>In a randomized, single-blind, sham-controlled trial, 50 ISSD were assigned to real (n = 25) or sham (n = 25) HD-tDCS groups (2 mA, 25 min/day for 7 days). Forty-one participants completed the study (real: 21, sham: 20). Primary outcomes were inhibitory control (accuracy of NoGO trial in Go/NoGo task, NoGo-ACC) and subjective sleep quality (Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index; PSQI; Insomnia Severity Index, ISI). Secondary outcomes included objective sleep measures (total sleep time, sleep latency) collected via forehead EEG device.</div></div><div><h3>Results</h3><div>After the intervention, participants who received HD-tDCS had significantly better response inhibition (NoGo-ACC) and sleep quality (ISI, PSQI, sleep latency subdimension of PSQI, and daytime functioning subdimension of PSQI) than the sham group.</div></div><div><h3>Conclusions</h3><div>These findings establish right dlPFC-targeted HD-tDCS as a potentially safe and effective neuromodulatory approach for ISSD, though optimized protocols may be required for full clinical remission. Future studies should investigate combined interventions and include neurochemical assessments to elucidate underlying mechanisms.</div></div><div><h3>Trial registration</h3><div>The study was prospectively registered on September 29, 2024, in Chinese Clinical Trials registry (ChiCTR2400090393).</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47673,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Clinical and Health Psychology","volume":"26 1","pages":"Article 100663"},"PeriodicalIF":4.4,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145978424","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Adaptive and maladaptive cognitive emotion regulation in child- and adolescent ADHD","authors":"Rebecka Astenvald ,&nbsp;Matilda A. Frick ,&nbsp;Johan Lundin Kleberg ,&nbsp;Johan Isaksson","doi":"10.1016/j.ijchp.2025.100660","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ijchp.2025.100660","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Background</h3><div>Children and adolescents with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) often experience difficulties with emotion regulation. Specific use of cognitive emotion regulation strategies may contribute to these challenges, albeit research in this area remain limited.</div></div><div><h3>Method</h3><div>Self-rated and task-specific use of adaptive and maladaptive cognitive emotion regulation strategies was assessed in children and adolescents with ADHD and typically developing controls (N=176, 10–17 years, 55.1% girls; subsample for self-rated use: N=94, 13–17 years, 61.7% girls). Self-rated use was measured with the short version of the Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire. Task-specific use was assessed by an experimental task involving viewing emotion-eliciting photos. Regression analyses were utilized to assess associations between ADHD and cognitive emotion regulation. Effects of sex and age were explored. Adjustments were made for co-occurring psychiatric symptoms.</div></div><div><h3>Results</h3><div>ADHD was associated with lower self-rated (β =-0.21, <em>p</em> = .044) and task-specific (β =-0.09, <em>p</em> = .015) use of adaptive strategies, and greater use of self-rated maladaptive strategies (β =0.27, <em>p</em> = .010). No associations remained after adjusting for co-occurring psychiatric symptoms and multiple comparisons. Rather, depressive symptoms may contribute to the self-rated use of maladaptive strategies. Post-hoc analyses revealed that ADHD was robustly linked to less self-rated use of acceptance (β =-0.38, <em>p</em> = .005).</div></div><div><h3>Conclusion</h3><div>Lower use of self-rated acceptance may be characteristic for ADHD. Depressive symptoms may play a more vital role for maladaptive cognitive emotion regulation than ADHD. More studies are needed to explore the longitudinal relation between ADHD, emotion regulation and depression.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47673,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Clinical and Health Psychology","volume":"26 1","pages":"Article 100660"},"PeriodicalIF":4.4,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145939227","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Sine Off On It: Sinusoidal waves as models of shame and stress in social anxiety","authors":"Talia Shechter Strulov,&nbsp;Dani Oshin,&nbsp;Idan M. Aderka","doi":"10.1016/j.ijchp.2026.100666","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ijchp.2026.100666","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The experiences of shame and stress are associated with social anxiety disorder (SAD). In the present study, we examined a sample of 111 participants (54 with SAD and 57 without SAD) who completed a daily diary measuring stress and shame over the course of 21 days. We modelled the temporal changes in shame and stress using linear and quadratic models as well as sinusoidal models. We found sinusoidal models to be superior to linear and quadratic ones in capturing the temporal dynamics of stress and shame. Specifically, linear models explained 9.91 % and 11.69 % of the changes in shame and stress over time (respectively), whereas sinusoidal models explained 35.76 % and 39.10 % of the changes in shame and stress over time (respectively). The differences in explained variances were statistically significant for both shame and stress. In addition, we examined whether the parameters of the best-fitting sinusoidal models were associated with levels of social anxiety. As expected, we found that the vertical offset parameters (i.e., average levels) of both shame and stress were significantly and positively associated with social anxiety. In addition, we found that fluctuations (sine wave amplitudes) in shame were positively associated with social anxiety whereas fluctuations in stress were negatively associated with social anxiety. Our findings demonstrate that sinusoidal waves can model temporal changes in emotions successfully. Moreover, sine wave parameters of shame and stress can be markers of social anxiety and can have implications for diagnosis and treatment.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47673,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Clinical and Health Psychology","volume":"26 1","pages":"Article 100666"},"PeriodicalIF":4.4,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146037998","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The effects of transcranial direct current stimulation techniques to modulate resting-state EEG and reduce SOL: A randomized controlled trial","authors":"Hao Lian ,&nbsp;Wenpeng Cai ,&nbsp;Mengyang He ,&nbsp;Xin Guo ,&nbsp;Junjie Xie ,&nbsp;Yanan Zhou ,&nbsp;Ruike Zhang ,&nbsp;Jingzhou Xu ,&nbsp;Hao Wang ,&nbsp;Shuyu Xu ,&nbsp;Lei Xiao ,&nbsp;Tong Su ,&nbsp;Yunxiang Tang","doi":"10.1016/j.ijchp.2025.100597","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ijchp.2025.100597","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Objective</h3><div>To investigate the effects of repetitive bilateral transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) on sleep of latency (SOL) and resting-state electroencephalography (EEG) in individuals.</div></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><div>Twenty-eight young adults, aged 21–25 years, with a mean of 22.96 ± 0.87 years, were recruited and randomly grouped into an experimental group(13 people) and a control group (15 people). Subjects in the experimental group received five awake-phase resting-state tDCS over a one-week period, with anodes placed bilaterally in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (F3, F4) and cathode in the left upper arm. The current intensity was 1.5 mA, and the stimulation time was 15 min. The control subjects received pseudo-stimulation, with only the beginning and end of the stimulation for 30 s to receive a gradual rise and fall of the current. The intermediate current intensity was 0 mA, and the rest of the treatment parameters and processes were the same as those in the experimental group. All subjects filled out a sleep diary every day during the experiment.</div></div><div><h3>Results</h3><div>Compared with the pre-intervention period, in the subjective scale results, the sleep of latency factor score in the subjective sleep quality assessment scores of the subjects in the experimental group was significantly lower (<em>p</em> = 0.001); in the EEG results, the theta band power in the midline regions of the brains of the subjects in the experimental group (especially in the central Cz location and the prefrontal cortex) was significantly elevated, whereas the control group did not show such a difference.</div></div><div><h3>Conclusion</h3><div>Transcranial direct current stimulation can significantly reduce the sleep of latency of individuals and enhance theta band power to promote changes in the brain from wakefulness to drowsiness, thus enhancing sleep quality. This enhancement may be due to enhancement of inhibitory executive function. In the future, neuromodulation technology is expected to be applied to insomnia patients, especially those whose main symptom is difficulty falling asleep.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47673,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Clinical and Health Psychology","volume":"26 1","pages":"Article 100597"},"PeriodicalIF":4.4,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145978409","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Early multimodal behavioral cues in autism: a micro-analytical exploration of actions, gestures and speech during naturalistic parent-child interactions","authors":"M. Mastrogiuseppe ,&nbsp;F.I. Famà ,&nbsp;R. Bruschetta ,&nbsp;E. Leonardi ,&nbsp;A. Campisi ,&nbsp;S. Aiello ,&nbsp;C. Carrozza ,&nbsp;A. Ruggeri ,&nbsp;S. Baieli ,&nbsp;S. Campisi ,&nbsp;L. Turriziani ,&nbsp;G. Di Rosa ,&nbsp;M.V. Lombardo ,&nbsp;G. Tartarisco ,&nbsp;O. Capirci ,&nbsp;G. Pioggia ,&nbsp;L. Ruta ,&nbsp;the Nest Team","doi":"10.1016/j.ijchp.2026.100664","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ijchp.2026.100664","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Early signs of autism often emerge through distinct developmental pathways, particularly in communication, social interaction, and play. While naturalistic parent-child interactions during free play are ideal for observing spontaneous social behaviors, few autism studies have adopted this ecological and developmental approach. To address this gap, we used a fine-grained microanalytic method to examine motor, gestural, and vocal behaviors in young children, integrating machine learning to explore how combinations of these traits distinguish early autistic neurodivergence.</div><div>We analyzed video recordings of 58 autistic and non-autistic children (aged 13–40 months) engaged in naturalistic parent-child play. A frame-by-frame micro-coding scheme was applied to capture actions, gestures, speech, and their multimodal integration.</div><div>Clear differences emerged between neurotypical (NT) and autistic (ASC) children. NT children displayed more gestures, particularly deictic and conventional-interactive, greater gesture–gaze coordination, more functional object play, and more frequent multi-word utterances. In contrast, ASC children showed fewer deictic and conventional-interactive gestures and greater use of instrumental gestures, reduced gesture–gaze coordination, a higher reliance on vocalizations rather than words, and increased object manipulation compared to functional play.</div><div>Feature selection using ANOVA F-tests identified a core set of key predictors most frequently and independently selected across folds of cross-validation: Alternate Gaze, Reaching, and Instrumental Gesture. Higher values of Alternate Gaze were associated with NT classification, while elevated frequencies of Reaching and Instrumental Gestures were linked to ASC classification. A logistic regression classifier trained on these features achieved over 85% accuracy in distinguishing the two groups.</div><div>These findings underscore the value of an ecologically valid, and developmentally informed approach to identifying early behavioral markers of autism, supporting earlier recognition and the design of more personalized, strengths-based interventions.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47673,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Clinical and Health Psychology","volume":"26 1","pages":"Article 100664"},"PeriodicalIF":4.4,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146038000","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Increasing self- and desired psychiatric diagnoses among emerging adults: Mixed-methods insights from clinical psychologists","authors":"Matthias Neumann ,&nbsp;Verena Steiner-Hofbauer ,&nbsp;Martin Aigner ,&nbsp;Anna Höflich ,&nbsp;Anita Holzinger ,&nbsp;Gloria Mittmann","doi":"10.1016/j.ijchp.2025.100661","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ijchp.2025.100661","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Anecdotal observations suggest that self-diagnoses and desired psychiatric diagnoses may be increasing among emerging adults, yet systematic evidence from clinical practice is scarce. This mixed-methods study surveyed 93 Austrian clinical psychologists (CPs) regarding their experiences with these phenomena in the context of conducting psychological assessments. CPs rated the frequency of both self-diagnoses and desired diagnoses as significantly higher than the neutral scale midpoint (“no change”), with large effect sizes (both <em>p</em> &lt; .001). ADHD and ASD were most frequently identified as self-diagnosed or desired. Patients presenting with such expectations were commonly described as female, highly educated, and strongly engaged in online activities. CPs, many of whom indicated that they actively inquire about patients’ motives when suspecting a desired diagnosis, explained such pursuits mainly in terms of relief from guilt, identity affirmation, and social recognition, while treatment access was cited less often. Qualitative analyses highlighted three recurring themes: (1) the impact of self- and desired diagnoses on the course of the assessment itself, including diagnosis-driven responding and limited openness to collaborative exploration; (2) strong reactions to diagnostic discrepancies, such as emotional distress, rejection of outcomes, criticism of clinicians, or “diagnosis shopping”; and (3) increased demands on clinical practice, particularly extended assessment time and the challenges of feedback sessions where unexpected outcomes must be communicated with clarity and empathy. These dynamics are discussed in relation to online mental health cultures and the symbolic appeal of neurodivergence, underscoring how digital environments shape both the spread of self-diagnosis and the pursuit of professional confirmation.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47673,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Clinical and Health Psychology","volume":"26 1","pages":"Article 100661"},"PeriodicalIF":4.4,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145885189","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Within-person changes in emotional complexity are associated with concurrent changes in mental health symptoms","authors":"K.D. Petagna ,&nbsp;A.L. Ecker ,&nbsp;T.E. Reid ,&nbsp;K.M. McMullen ,&nbsp;K.S. Quigley ,&nbsp;J.B. Wormwood","doi":"10.1016/j.ijchp.2025.100659","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ijchp.2025.100659","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Several constructs reflect features of everyday emotional experience that have been theorized to support mental well-being at the between-person level. These include emotional granularity (the ability to identify and label emotions precisely), emotion covariation (the ability to experience positive and negative emotions simultaneously), and emodiversity (the ability to experience a variety and relative abundance of emotions over time). Emerging evidence suggests that these qualities of everyday emotional experience may reflect abilities or skills that could be modified over time. This study examines whether repeated emotion reporting through experience sampling is associated with changes in these features of emotional complexity over time and whether any such changes co-occur with corresponding changes in mental health symptoms. Participants (<em>N</em> = 123) from the general public reported their current emotions multiple times a day for 6 weeks alongside biweekly assessments of self-reported alexithymia and depression, anxiety, and somatic symptom severity. Data were collected between 2022–2023. We found that participants’ emotional granularity and emotion covariation significantly increased while their emodiversity decreased over time. Moreover, increases in emotional granularity corresponded with concurrent decreases in alexithymia and depression symptoms while decreases in negative emodiversity corresponded with lesser alexithymia and anxiety and depression symptoms. Findings support past demonstrations that experience sampling of emotional experience itself can serve as an intervention to promote changes in emotional granularity, emotion covariation, and emodiversity. The findings also offer initial evidence that changes in these constructs over time are associated with concurrent within-person fluctuations in mental health symptoms.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47673,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Clinical and Health Psychology","volume":"26 1","pages":"Article 100659"},"PeriodicalIF":4.4,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145939226","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Social support exchange and relationship satisfaction among couples living with HIV: Actor–partner effects of provided and received emotional support","authors":"Marcin Rzeszutek ,&nbsp;Ewa Gruszczyńska ,&nbsp;Magdalena Grabowska ,&nbsp;Paula Malinowska","doi":"10.1016/j.ijchp.2026.100665","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ijchp.2026.100665","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study aimed to examine the associations between both provided and received emotional social support and relationship satisfaction among romantic couples in which at least one partner was HIV positive. In addition, couples’ serostatus concordance and sexual orientation were tested as potential moderators of the effects of social support exchange. A total of 105 couples participated in the study, of whom 46.7% were seroconcordant and 73.3% were same-gender couples. Each partner independently evaluated provided and received emotional social support using the relevant subscales of the Berlin Social Support Scales. Relationship satisfaction was assessed individually using the Relationship Assessment Scale. In the actor–partner interdependence model (APIM), actor and partner effects were comparable for provided support, whereas for received support, the actor effect was slightly stronger than the partner effect. Partners within dyads were empirically classified as indistinguishable. This classification was further supported by the absence of moderating effects of either serostatus concordance or sexual orientation at the dyadic level. The findings suggest that the perceived provision of emotional support functions as a couple-level resource, whereas the perceived receipt of emotional support operates primarily as an individual-level resource for relationship satisfaction. This pattern of support exchange appears consistent across couples, regardless of HIV serostatus or sexual orientation, among our sample of highly functioning people living with HIV who are receiving treatment<strong>.</strong></div></div>","PeriodicalId":47673,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Clinical and Health Psychology","volume":"26 1","pages":"Article 100665"},"PeriodicalIF":4.4,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146037997","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Targeting self-reported and neural error sensitivity: Short- and long-term effects of a one-week online intervention","authors":"Kai Härpfer ,&nbsp;Franziska M. Kausche ,&nbsp;Alexandria Meyer ,&nbsp;Norman B. Schmidt ,&nbsp;Anja Riesel","doi":"10.1016/j.ijchp.2026.100667","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ijchp.2026.100667","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Elevated error-related brain potentials such as the error-related negativity (ERN) and error positivity (Pe) have been discussed as neural markers of error sensitivity and are thought to reflect increased risk for anxiety and obsessive-compulsive disorders. Consequently, targeting error sensitivity with precise interventions has been found a promising avenue of recent mechanism-based research aiming to reduce this risk. In this preregistered, randomized-controlled trial, we tested the efficacy of a one-week, online intervention designed to reduce error sensitivity. A sample of 237 individuals was randomly assigned to either the intervention or a waitlist control group. Participants completed self-report measures of error sensitivity as well as worry, obsessive-compulsive, and depressive symptoms at pre- and post-intervention, and at an eight-week follow-up. Additionally, neural measures (ERN and Pe) were assessed in a subsample of 69 participants before and after the intervention. Intent-to-treat analyses revealed a medium-sized reduction of self-reported error sensitivity and worry symptoms in the intervention group, with effects persisting at follow-up. Moreover, greater baseline severity and higher intervention adherence were associated with larger reductions of self-reported error sensitivity. In the subsample, no evidence was found for an ERN reduction. However, a reduction in the Pe was observed, indicating diminished error significance and decreased allocation of cognitive resources to erroneous actions. These results suggest that the online intervention reduces both self-reported and neural error sensitivity (Pe but not ERN), offering a low‑threshold, easily disseminable approach with promise as an early prevention tool and as an adjunct to established cognitive‑behavioral treatments.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47673,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Clinical and Health Psychology","volume":"26 1","pages":"Article 100667"},"PeriodicalIF":4.4,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146037999","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Validation of masturbation parameters: A laboratory study measuring psychophysiological and subjective sexual arousal","authors":"Gracia M. Sánchez-Pérez ,&nbsp;Reina Granados ,&nbsp;Pablo Mangas ,&nbsp;Oscar Cervilla ,&nbsp;Juan Carlos Sierra","doi":"10.1016/j.ijchp.2025.100662","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ijchp.2025.100662","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Background/Objective</h3><div>Considering masturbation parameters other than frequency provides a more holistic view of this sexual behavior. This study aims to provide validity evidence for masturbation parameters (i.e., negative attitudes toward masturbation, solitary sexual desire, current masturbation frequency, and subjective orgasm experience) through their relationship with different measures of sexual arousal (i.e., genital response, rating of sexual arousal, and rating of genital sensations).</div></div><div><h3>Method</h3><div>Eighty young cisgender adults (40 men and 40 women) aged 18 to 30 years, who engaged in heterosexual sexual relationships, participated in a laboratory task in which their sexual arousal was recorded in response to neutral and sexual videos. Regression models were conducted to examine the association between masturbation parameters and sexual arousal measures.</div></div><div><h3>Results</h3><div>In men, solitary sexual desire (β = .72) and current masturbation frequency (β = -0.49) were related to the rating of genital sensations. In women, current masturbation frequency was related to genital response (β = .33), the rating of sexual arousal (β = .43), and the rating of genital sensations (β = .44); this last measure of sexual arousal was also related to the rewards dimension of subjective orgasm experience (β = .37).</div></div><div><h3>Conclusions</h3><div>These results provide validity evidence of masturbation parameters in individuals who engaged in heterosexual sexual relationships. The importance of considering these parameters in the induction of sexual arousal, taking gender into account, is discussed.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47673,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Clinical and Health Psychology","volume":"26 1","pages":"Article 100662"},"PeriodicalIF":4.4,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146037996","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}