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Transdiagnostic study of dynamic brain activity and connectivity among people with gambling and internet gaming disorders

IF 5.3 1区心理学 Q1 PSYCHOLOGY, CLINICAL

International Journal of Clinical and Health Psychology

Pub Date : 2025-01-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijchp.2025.100547

Hui Zhou , Yuwen He , Lulu Liu , Jingwen Yin , Anita Yingxin Xiong , Ka Heng Leong , Anise M.S. Wu , Marc N. Potenza

Despite both internet gaming disorder (IGD) and gambling disorder (GD) being officially recognized as medical conditions by the World Health Organization, controversies persist. A transdiagnostic study may help inform classification and intervention approaches. IGD and GD may share or have distinct neural and behavioral features. To investigate, resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and self-reported behavioral data were collected from 58 individuals with GD, 31 with IGD, and 83 healthy control (HC) participants. After controlling for demographics, both GD and IGD groups scored lower on measures of gambling-related positive play. Neural data revealed reduced brain connectivity in the right rectus/orbital frontal gyrus in GD and IGD groups compared to HC participants. IGD participants displayed increased dynamic brain activity in the left triangular inferior frontal gyrus compared with GD and HC participants. Relatively decreased modular flexibility was also observed in GD but not IGD participants, relative to HC participants. Multiclass classification results showed that the indicators of gambling-related positive play, as well as dynamic brain activity and connectivity patterns, were useful for classifying GD, IGD, and HC participants, outperforming the use of either neural signals or self-report indicators alone. The shared phenotypes of GD and IGD groups provide insight into common features of behavioral addictions, and the combination of self-report and neural measures may provide the most robust approach for classification of diagnostic groups.

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Cognitive interventions for healthy older adults: A systematic meta-review

IF 5.3 1区心理学 Q1 PSYCHOLOGY, CLINICAL

International Journal of Clinical and Health Psychology

Pub Date : 2025-01-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijchp.2024.100538

Vitória Velloso , Sofia Latgé-Tovar , Iris Bomilcar , Daniel C. Mograbi

Objectives

With increasing global life expectancy, cognitive interventions hold promise in mitigating cognitive decline and fostering healthy aging. Despite the demand for evidence-based interventions, there have been few attempts to summarize existing evidence. This study aims to assess the effectiveness and feasibility of unimodal and multimodal cognitive interventions for cognitively healthy older adults.

Method

Systematic meta-review, selecting articles from four databases: PubMed, Web of Science, Embase, and Cochrane Library. Quality assessment carried out with AMSTAR2. Findings were summarized and discussed narratively.

Results

Thirty-nine articles were included, with 21 meta-analyses and 18 qualitative systematic reviews. The total number of reviews was 38 for cognitive training, 4 for cognitive stimulation, and 1 for multicomponent interventions. Most reviews had low or critically low quality.

Conclusions

The prevailing evidence supports cognitive training. Continued research into cognitive stimulation and multicomponent protocols is encouraged. Longer follow-ups are important for identifying combined and clinically significant results. Rigorous risk of bias and quality assessment is necessary to enhance the evidence base.

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Validating the questionnaire of achievement of developmental task (QADT) to measure achieving mental wellness in school-aged children

IF 5.3 1区心理学 Q1 PSYCHOLOGY, CLINICAL

International Journal of Clinical and Health Psychology

Pub Date : 2025-01-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijchp.2024.100540

Iwona Grzegorzewska , Paweł Kleka , Agnieszka Felińska

Introduction

This article presents a verification of the factor structure and validation of the Questionnaire of Achievement of Developmental Task (QADT), designed to measure children's social expectations in early childhood. Three tasks, important from the point of view of both children's functioning at a given life stage and preparation for the next developmental phase, were selected. These are school skills, cooperation with others and a sense of competence. The research aimed to verify the tool's psychometric validity and establish relationships between developmental tasks and indicators of children's mental health.

Method

The study was conducted in primary school's 4th, 5th and 6th grades (N = 453). The QADT, Brief Multidimensional Students' Life Satisfaction Scale and Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale for Children were used.

Results

The tool shows sufficient validity and reliability. The hypothesis regarding associations between the level of developmental task completion and life satisfaction and depressive symptoms was also confirmed.

Conclusions

The QADT tool can be used in scientific research. This work contributes to the growing body of literature on factors influencing children's mental health and underscores the importance of measuring social expectations of children in early childhood. It also highlights the need to consider developmental tasks in clinical practice and interventions to improve children's mental health. Ultimately, the findings of this study can inform the development of effective preventive and intervention strategies to promote children's mental health and well-being.

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DSM-5 genito-pelvic pain/penetration disorder: Prevalence, comorbidities, and associated factors in university students

IF 5.3 1区心理学 Q1 PSYCHOLOGY, CLINICAL

International Journal of Clinical and Health Psychology

Pub Date : 2025-01-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijchp.2024.100529

Anna-Carlotta Zarski , Harald Baumeister , Fanny Kählke

Background/objective

Little is known about the prevalence of Genito-Pelvic Pain/Penetration Disorder (GPPPD), a female sexual dysfunction newly introduced in the DSM-5. This study aimed to estimate the 12-month prevalence of clinical and subclinical GPPPD among first-year university students in Germany, examining comorbidities and associated factors.

Method

As part of the WHO World Mental Health International College Student initiative, the 12-month prevalence of GPPPD was assessed in female university students in Germany during 2016/2017 (N = 521). Using propensity score weighting, 12-month prevalence rates were determined for clinical and subclinical GPPPD together with associated factors and mental health comorbidities using binary logistic regression.

Results

In the weighted female university student sample, 26.4 % reported experiencing at least one core symptom of GPPPD in the past 12 months. 12-month prevalence of clinical GPPPD was 2.1 % (n = 11/521; 95 % CI: 1.1 %-3.8 %), while subclinical GPPPD was 12.9 % (n = 67/521; 95 % CI: 10 %-16 %). Among women with clinical GPPPD, 25.8 % (n = 3/11) reported a comorbid lifetime mental disorder, compared to 64.6 % (n = 43/67) with subclinical GPPPD and 54.7 % (n = 243/444) without GPPPD. There were no significant differences in the odds of comorbid mental disorders between women with and without GPPPD symptoms. Subclinical and clinical GPPPD, compared to no GPPPD, were associated with being in a relationship (OR = 2.45, 95 % CI: 1.25–4.82, p = 0.009), sexual activity in the past 12 months (OR = 5.05, 95 % CI: 1.52–16.8, p = 0.008), severe distress in love life (OR=3.20, 95 % CI 1.44–7.11), and overall good compared to very good or very poor mental health (OR = 4.50, 95 % CI: 1.07–19.00, p = 0.041).

Conclusion

One in eight female students displays subclinical GPPPD, and 2 % meet full DSM-5 criteria. Future multinational longitudinal studies with standardized measures are needed to compare prevalence rates across countries and identify risk and protective factors for targeted prevention and treatment of GPPPD.

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Multimodal quantitative magnetic resonance imaging alterations of the basal ganglia circuit underlie the severity of bulimia nervosa

IF 5.3 1区心理学 Q1 PSYCHOLOGY, CLINICAL

International Journal of Clinical and Health Psychology

Pub Date : 2025-01-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijchp.2025.100557

Yiling Wang , Lirong Tang , Weihua Li , Miao Wang , Qian Chen , Fengxia Yu , Zhenghan Yang , Zhanjiang Li , Zhenchang Wang , Jiani Wang , Guowei Wu , Peng Zhang

Background

Neuroimaging alterations in the basal ganglia circuit have been reported to correlate with the severity of various eating or addictive disorders, but their relationship to the severity of bulimia nervosa (BN) remains largely unknown. This study sought to investigate the basal ganglia circuit structural and functional imaging differences in BN patients with different severity.

Methods

Based on the MRI data acquired from 34 mild BN patients, 35 moderate-to-extreme BN patients and 35 healthy controls (HCs), differences in gray matter volume (GMV), fractional anisotropy, fractional amplitude of low-frequency fluctuation (fALFF), and seed-based functional connectivity (FC) of basal ganglia circuit (including the caudate, globus pallidus, nucleus accumbens and putamen) were compared across the three groups.

Results

Compared to HCs, the mild patients only exhibited decreased fALFF in the left ventromedial putamen and increased FC between the nucleus accumbens and orbitofrontal cortex, without any structural imaging alterations. Whereas, the moderate-to-extreme patients exhibited significant basal ganglia imaging alterations, characterized by widespread higher FC between basal ganglia regions and several frontal-parietotemporal regions, and disrupted white matter integrity. Based on receiver operating characteristic curves, we discovered that seed-based FC had acceptable discriminatory values in classifying BN patients into mild or moderate-to-extreme groups.

Conclusion

This study reveals that basal ganglia circuit imaging alterations in BN patients become more pronounced with increasing disease severity, suggesting a crucial role of basal ganglia circuit in the progression of BN. Functional network reorganization between basal ganglia and other regions may serve as a potential risk imaging marker for BN progression.

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Transitioning from perceived stress to mental health: The mediating role of self-control in a longitudinal investigation with MRI scans

IF 5.3 1区心理学 Q1 PSYCHOLOGY, CLINICAL

International Journal of Clinical and Health Psychology

Pub Date : 2025-01-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijchp.2024.100539

Jingzhen He , Shaoyu Tu , Haichao Zhao , Qinghua He

Background

The neural mechanisms and long-term effects of perceived stress (PS) and self-control (SC) on mental health (MH) are not fully understood. This study seeks to investigate the influence of PS and SC on MH and to identify their neural correlates using fMRI.

Methods

A total of 817 college students participated in behavioral assessments, including the Perceived Stress Scale (PSS), Self-Control Scale (SCS), and Mental Health Continuum Short Form (MHC-SF). Among them, 371 underwent fMRI scans to calculate zfALFF and whole-brain functional connectivity. Additionally, their behavioral measures were reassessed two years later.

Results

Longitudinal behavioral data revealed significant fixed effects of perceived stress and self-control on mental health. Perceived stress significantly predicted decreased mental health at Time 2, and self-control acted as a mediator in such relationship. The results of the behavioral and brain model analyses found that zfALFF in the right temporal region negatively predicted self-control. Functional connectivity between the right temporal region and the right precentral gyrus was also found to negatively predict self-control.

Conclusion

This study highlights the mediating role of self-control in the relationship between perceived stress and mental health. It also identifies specific brain regions and functional connectivity associated with self-control, providing new neurobiological evidence for mental health interventions.

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A latent profile analysis of empathizing-systemizing cognitive style among Chinese children aged 6 - 12 years: Links to intelligence, executive function, and autistic traits

IF 5.3 1区心理学 Q1 PSYCHOLOGY, CLINICAL

International Journal of Clinical and Health Psychology

Pub Date : 2025-01-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijchp.2025.100554

Xin Wang , Le-Le Shen , Shuo-Lin Pan , Jin Jing , Lei Shi , Xu-Chu Weng , Xiu-Hong Li , Li-Zi Lin , Ning Pan

Background

Empathizing and systemizing abilities are respectively associated with key developmental outcomes like intelligence, executive function, and autistic traits, particularly in typically developing (TD) children. However, how specific cognitive styles—defined by the balance between empathizing and systemizing—relate to these outcomes remains unclear.

Methods

We conducted a latent profile analysis on 502 TD children aged 6‒12 years to identify cognitive styles based on multiple dimensions of empathizing and systemizing, measured by the Children's Empathy Quotient and Systemizing Quotient. Intelligence, executive function, and autistic traits were assessed using the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (Fourth Edition), the Behavior Rating Inventory of Executive Function, and the Social Responsiveness Scale, respectively.

Results

Four cognitive styles emerged: High B (high empathizing and systemizing), E-dominance (empathizing-dominant), S-dominance (systemizing-dominant), and Low B (low empathizing and systemizing). The High B and E-dominance groups showed higher full-scale intelligence and verbal comprehension scores compared to the Low B group. In executive function, the Low B and S-dominance groups displayed more impairments, particularly in inhibitory control, emotional regulation, and overall executive function. For autistic traits, the S-dominance group showed higher levels of both social-communication difficulties and autistic mannerisms, while the Low B group primarily displayed increased social-communication challenges.

Conclusion

Cognitive styles marked by high empathizing and systemizing ability correlate with stronger intelligence and social-communication skills, while a systemizing-dominant profile may lead to executive function difficulties and elevated autistic traits. These findings emphasize the role of cognitive styles in developmental outcomes, with implications for tailored educational and clinical interventions.

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ABCDE-Psy: Primary assessment scale of acute stress response to critical and potentially traumatic events

IF 5.3 1区心理学 Q1 PSYCHOLOGY, CLINICAL

International Journal of Clinical and Health Psychology

Pub Date : 2025-01-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijchp.2025.100550

Alba Pérez-González , Andrés Cuartero , Adolfo Jarne , Joan Guàrdia-Olmos

Objective: The focus of this paper is to present the psychometric validation of the ABCDE-Psy, an hetero-administered psychological assessment scale for measuring people's acute stress response to critical and potentially traumatic events. Method: An item bank is proposed based on a literature review and expert opinion. Its psychometric validation follows the usual scheme of classical test theory. The scale was administered to two samples, the first watching simulated cases (n = 60) and the second participating in real environments (n = 213). Results: The ABCDE-Psy scale shows solid psychometric properties in terms of both reliability (α = .793; 95 % confidence interval 0.764 - 0.822) and validity. Construct validity was supported by a univariate model of the scale based on confirmatory factor analysis (CFI: 0.956, TLI: 0.976, χ2: 2.567, p = .784, R2: 0.681). Conclusions: The results demonstrate that the ABCDE-Psy scale can be used as a reliable and valid hetero-administered measure for primary psychological assessment of the acute stress response to potentially traumatic events. This has important practical and clinical implications and opens up a new area of research in emergency psychology.

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Overcontrol in anorexia nervosa: Elevated prefrontal activity and amygdala connectivity in a working memory task with food distractors

IF 5.3 1区心理学 Q1 PSYCHOLOGY, CLINICAL

International Journal of Clinical and Health Psychology

Pub Date : 2025-01-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijchp.2025.100544

Sophie Pauligk , Maria Seidel , Franziska Ritschel , Daniel Geisler , Arne Doose , Ilka Boehm , Inger Hellerhoff , Franziska Ludwicki , Veit Roessner , Joseph A. King , Stefan Ehrlich

Individuals with anorexia nervosa (AN) are thought to engage in excessive amounts of self-control, which may contribute to disorder development and maintenance. This “overcontrol” may explain previous findings of increased activity and connectivity in frontal brain regions involved in top-down control functions in response to diverse stimuli including emotionally salient visual food stimuli. However, these observations were made largely in tasks demanding explicit stimulus processing. Given the omnipresence of food cues and their particular relevance for AN, it deems important to test if these alterations are also present when food stimuli are task-irrelevant. To this end, we acquired functional magnetic resonance imaging data during a working memory 2-back task with images of high-caloric food as distractors in 32 acutely ill young women with AN and 32 age-matched female healthy control participants. Neural activity and connectivity was analyzed in a priori specified regions of interest involved in top-down control (dorsolateral prefrontal cortex; dlPFC) and affective processing (amygdala). Despite no group differences in task performance, activity of the left dlPFC was higher in AN compared with healthy controls across both food and non-food conditions. AN also showed increased negative connectivity between the left dlPFC and bilateral amygdalae. Generally increased dlPFC activation and altered dlPFC-amygdala connectivity in the context of our task is suggestive of excessive top-down control in AN. This activation pattern may reflect a neural substrate of overcontrol which occurs independent of external stimuli. This mechanism may be a potential treatment target, as it mirrors the clinical presentation of the disorder.

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A comic-based body image intervention for adolescents in semi-rural Indian schools: A randomised controlled trial

IF 5.3 1区心理学 Q1 PSYCHOLOGY, CLINICAL

International Journal of Clinical and Health Psychology

Pub Date : 2025-01-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijchp.2025.100546

Helena Lewis-Smith , Latika Ahuja , Farheen Hasan , Caterina Gentili , Paul White , Phillippa C. Diedrichs

Adolescents in India experience body dissatisfaction and its associated adverse impacts on physical and mental health and gender equality. However, evidence-based interventions are scarce. Mental health interventions worldwide have traditionally relied upon delivery by expert providers. However, this prevents scalability, particularly in rural settings, where resources are often lacking. Therefore, this study evaluated the efficacy of a low-resource teacher-delivered mixed-gender comic-based body image intervention among adolescents in semi-rural Indian schools. A randomised controlled trial was conducted among 2631 students (50 % girls; classes 6 to 8; Mage = 12.03 years, SD = 1.22) across 41 schools around the Jaipur district in Rajasthan. Each school was randomly allocated to receive six comic-based intervention sessions (n = 1347) or lessons-as-usual (n = 1284; control). The primary outcome of body esteem and related secondary and exploratory outcomes assessing mental health and gender stereotyping were assessed at baseline, 1 week-post-intervention, and 3-months follow-up (ClinicalTrials.gov, NCT04317755). Linear Mixed Model analyses revealed that compared to the control group, intervention students reported significantly higher body esteem and skin shade satisfaction, and significantly lower eating pathology, internalisation of appearance ideals, and gender stereotyping, with all effects maintained at follow-up. Compared to control group, boys in the intervention group also demonstrated significantly higher body image-related life engagement and body hair satisfaction at follow-up. Both students and teachers indicated high intervention acceptability via quantitative and qualitative findings. These findings present the first effective teacher-delivered school-based body image intervention in India, which can be implemented at scale using minimal resources, and thus indicates promise regarding broader dissemination across urban and rural settings.

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