Pub Date : 2026-04-01Epub Date: 2025-12-05DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2025.113589
Anel Hasic , Wendelien van Eerde
We constantly experience a sense of time poverty, which might be lowering our well-being. Temporal focus, derived from time perspective, and time management are associated with well-being. But how temporal focus relates to well-being is not clearly understood. The trait–behavior model suggests that temporal orientations influence well-being through behaviors. We surveyed university students (N = 410) by combining two equivalent samples from 2022 (N = 207) and 2025 (N = 203) to examine the relationship between temporal focus (trait), time management (behavior), and well-being.
Time management fully mediated the relationship between future focus and well-being, and partly mediated the relationship between present focus and well-being, emphasizing the crucial role of these foci in this process. Past focus was not significantly associated with well-being or time management.
In light of Zimbardo's work on time perspective—including past-positive and past-negative—we conducted an exploratory analysis using Sample 2. Time perspective explained additional variance in well-being beyond temporal focus and time management, highlighting its continued relevance in well-being research. Overall, time management appears to be a key mechanism linking present and future focus to well-being, while more research could integrate time perspective to better understand how past orientations relate to well-being.
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Pub Date : 2026-04-01Epub Date: 2025-12-08DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2025.113600
Laureano Brisuela-Blume , Diego Avendaño , Angelo Fasce
This research investigates the presence of religiosity and spirituality within the political left in Spanish-speaking contexts. Using a multidimensional model of spirituality—encompassing cognitive, experiential, existential, paranormal, and religious dimensions—two studies were conducted with international and Argentinean samples (total N = 1699). Regression analyses confirmed the expected positive link between religiousness and right-wing ideology but revealed heterogeneous associations between left-wing ideology and non-traditional spirituality. A latent profile analysis identified a distinct subgroup of left-wing spiritual participants characterized by high cognitive and experiential spirituality, elevated paranormal beliefs, and low religiousness compared to its conservative counterpart. These findings reveal a progressive form of spirituality that diverges from secular progressivism and conservative religiosity, offering evidence that spirituality also emerges within left-wing worldviews in Hispanic societies. This form of progressive spirituality may reflect cultural specificities rooted in left-wing ideologies and movements, illustrating how spiritual beliefs can shape political identity and collective engagement beyond traditional ideological boundaries.
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Pub Date : 2026-04-01Epub Date: 2025-12-16DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2025.113613
Wanshuang Zhang , Jiayu Li , Yuzhou Chen , Ling Wang , Xuemei Gao
Background
Fear of Missing Out (FoMO) has emerged as a prevalent form of anxiety in the digital age. Cognitive Bias Modification for Interpretation (CBM-I) has shown promise in alleviating anxiety symptoms. However, its application in the context of FoMO remains underexplored.
Methods
A randomized controlled trial was conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of CBM-I in individuals with high levels of FoMO. Participants were randomly assigned to either a CBM-I group or a control group. Both groups completed a 9-day online task protocol.
Results
Post-intervention assessments revealed that participants in the CBM-I group exhibited significantly increased positive interpretation bias and decreased negative bias. FoMO scores also showed a marked reduction. These findings suggest that CBM-I effectively modifies interpretation biases and reduces levels of FoMO.
Conclusion
This study provides preliminary evidence supporting CBM-I as a promising intervention for alleviating FoMO. Future research could expand samples to different ages and cultures, examine long-term effects of CBM-I, and compare it with other active interventions to assess relative effectiveness.
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Pub Date : 2026-04-01Epub Date: 2026-01-07DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2026.113639
Tiarn Burtenshaw , Bradley Walker , Gilles Gignac , Cyril C. Grueter , Nicolas Fay
Social learning underpins much of human success, but little is known about the extent to which individual differences in intelligence and personality guide human social learning. This is tested in the present study. Participants completed a range of general intelligence tests, a personality questionnaire, and a battery of novel behavioral tasks. In each behavioral task participants were trained on one solution to a problem and were then shown a novel solution that varied in quality. Participants were more likely to switch to the novel solution if it was superior to the trained solution, consistent with content-biased social learning. However, when the trained and novel solutions were equal in quality, participants showed a bias to maintain the trained solution. Higher intelligence was associated with switching to novel solutions in general, and this association was strongest for switching to superior solutions. Higher openness to experience was also associated with switching to novel solutions, but to those that were similar in quality or inferior to the trained solution. Study 2 showed that greater familiarity with the trained solution increased maintenance bias, reducing social learning. Our findings highlight the impact of individual differences and experiential factors on human social learning.
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Pub Date : 2026-04-01Epub Date: 2025-12-08DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2025.113583
Iolanda Costa Galinha , João Pedro da Silva , Cicero Pereira
Objective
Previous research established that personality is one of the main contributors to subjective well-being (SWB), particularly Neuroticism and Extraversion. Less is known about the role of culture on the relationship between Personality and Well-Being. Thus, the aim of this study is to test whether the contribution of the Big Five Personality Traits (B5PT) to SWB is similar or varying across five different countries and cultures.
Method
A cross-sectional associative study and a comparative structural equation modelling analysis was conducted on data collected from five samples of university students: the US (N = 497), Sweden (N = 551), Portugal (N = 497), Mozambique (N = 544), and India (N = 574). Configural equivalence was tested and observed across four samples, except in the Mozambican sample that was analysed separately.
Results
As expected, Neuroticism and Extraversion were the major contributors to SWB across samples, followed by the Conscientiousness, Agreeableness and Openness traits. Significant differences were observed across countries in the contribution of the mean-computed B5PT to SWB variables. These differences may be related with variations in the countries' long-term orientation and individualism, but also masculinity.
Conclusion
Results suggest that the relationship between B5PT and SWB is context-specific and future studies should test the moderation of individualism, long-term orientation and masculinity cultural dimensions.
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Pub Date : 2026-04-01Epub Date: 2026-01-02DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2025.113617
Wendy Song , Ria Tziliaskopoulos , Megan L. Willis
This systematic review and meta-analysis estimated the strength of the relationship between narcissism and alexithymia. PsycINFO, Scopus, MEDLINE Complete, Embase, and ProQuest One Academic databases were searched on 13 July 2025 for two concepts: narcissism and alexithymia. Included studies were written in English, comprised adult samples, used validated measures of trait narcissism and alexithymia, and examined their relationship. Quality and risk of bias was assessed using the AXIS tool. Fourteen studies (N = 8006 participants) were included in a random effects meta-analysis, which revealed a non-significant, positive, negligible correlation between narcissism and alexithymia (k = 14, r = 0.03, CI [−0.04, 0.10]). Moderator analyses revealed a significant, negative, negligible correlation between grandiose narcissism and alexithymia (k = 7, r = −0.08, CI [−0.15, −0.01]). In contrast, combined narcissism (including vulnerable and grandiose subtypes) had a significant, positive, negligible correlation with alexithymia (k = 6, r = 0.09, CI [0.02, 0.15]). A significant, positive, weak correlation was observed between narcissism and the difficulty identifying feelings dimension of alexithymia (k = 5, r = 0.14, CI [0.5, 0.22]). Only one included study measured vulnerable narcissism, highlighting the need for future research to examine the relationship between vulnerable narcissism and alexithymia.
这项系统回顾和荟萃分析估计了自恋和述情障碍之间的关系。我们于2025年7月13日在PsycINFO、Scopus、MEDLINE Complete、Embase和ProQuest One学术数据库中检索了两个概念:自恋和述情障碍。纳入的研究是用英语写的,包括成人样本,使用有效的自恋和述情障碍的特征测量,并检查它们之间的关系。使用AXIS工具评估偏倚的质量和风险。随机效应荟萃分析纳入了14项研究(N = 8006名受试者),结果显示自恋与述情障碍之间存在非显著的、正的、可忽略的相关性(k = 14, r = 0.03, CI[- 0.04, 0.10])。调节分析显示,浮夸型自恋与述情障碍之间存在显著的负相关,可以忽略不计(k = 7, r = - 0.08, CI[- 0.15, - 0.01])。相比之下,复合自恋(包括脆弱型和浮夸型亚型)与述情障碍有显著的、正的、可忽略的相关性(k = 6, r = 0.09, CI[0.02, 0.15])。自恋与述情障碍情感识别困难维度呈显著的弱正相关(k = 5, r = 0.14, CI[0.5, 0.22])。只有一项纳入的研究测量了脆弱自恋,这突出了未来研究脆弱自恋和述情障碍之间关系的必要性。
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Human decision-making shifts between intuitive, automatic (System 1) and deliberative (System 2) processing. Although this dual-process theory has been widely discussed, how these processes function in real-world contexts and how strongly individuals engage in daily decision-making remains unclear. Most previous studies have examined trait-level preferences for intuition versus deliberation, leaving open questions about how these processes are dynamically allocated. Existing measures rarely capture both the direction of processing and the intensity of engagement. To address the gap between experimental tasks and everyday cognition, we developed a two-dimensional framework of daily decision-making: Orientation—reliance on System 1 vs. System 2—and Intensity—overall engagement. Japanese adults (N = 500) rated System 1/2-oriented behaviors in novel and familiar contexts and evaluated their current decision-making. Factor analyses identified Orientation and Intensity as independent dimensions. Regression results showed that stronger System 2 orientation related to lower stress and negative affect but higher autonomy and interpersonal spaciousness, whereas greater Intensity related to higher well-being, autonomy, and psychological spaciousness. These findings indicate that Orientation and Intensity are distinct yet complementary, providing a dynamic, ecological account of everyday decision-making. Extending dual-process theory to real-world contexts, this framework highlights the relevance of both dimensions for understanding daily cognition and psychological experience.
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Pub Date : 2026-03-01Epub Date: 2025-12-01DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2025.113592
Timothy C. Bates
Support for redistribution is associated with fear of violent dispossession. Here in two large studies, one pre-registered and population representative, we test if Fear of Violent Dispossession (fear of being forcefully deprived of one's resources by others who value them more highly) predicts support for progressive policy more broadly. Study 1 (N = 502) found that support for progressive policy formed a coherent, reliable (ω-t 0.95) construct. Fear of Violent Dispossession linked to significantly higher support for progressive policy. Self-interest (economic gain) from progressive policy motivated increased support for progressive policy. Fear of Violent Dispossession and self-interest jointly predicted a substantial fraction of liberal-conservative political position. Female sex and higher SES were associated with higher Fear of Dispossession. Results were robust to controls, and pre-registered study 2 (N = 500) using a large nationally representative US sample replicated the findings. The results suggest that fear motivates left, rather than right policy support, and that fears of dispossession manifest in political economic, geo-political policy support.
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