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Objective. Our study explores the correlation between problematic smartphone use (PSU) and diminished offline sexual activity within a European Union member state characterized by a semi-peripheral economy. Background. Smartphones, as pervasive technological advancements, have transformed societal landscapes, embedding themselves into various facets of life and exacerbating physical and emotional reliance. Over 50% of users continue smartphone use despite adverse effects on daily life, indicating an escalation in PSU. Our research extends existing PSU literature by investigating its relationship with offline sexual inactivity among middle-aged individuals.
Study Design. A representative sample from 2023 was analyzed using both homogeneous (Two-NN) and heterogeneous (HIDALGO) dimensional identification estimators alongside machine learning algorithms to explore the link between PSU and offline sexual inactivity. Participants. The study utilized data from a telephone survey conducted with 1005 individuals, ensuring representation across gender, education, income level, and type of settlement.
Measurements. Data encompassed economic, sociodemographic, usage patterns, and addiction-related aspects of smartphone use. A key variable assessed preferences between mobile phone use or engaging in sexual intercourse.
Results. Nearly half of the participants expressed a preference for smartphone usage over offline sexual activity. The analysis highlighted the intricate link between individual and social aspects of PSU and a blend of socioeconomic factors, revealing two significant partitions significantly influencing sexual inactivity: PSU at the individual level and PSU articulated within social relationships.
Conclusions. Our findings indicate a significant correlation between PSU and offline sexual inactivity, with socioeconomic variables also playing a critical role. The research underscores the need for further exploration of PSU's impact on offline sexual activity, emphasizing the importance of both personal and social psychological dimensions of smartphone usage.

Objective. Identification of coping strategies that have a positive effect on Russian youth self-efficacy in the current situation.
Background. The current geopolitical situation is an additional stressor for Russian youth. It can reduce both their self-efficacy and overall psychological well-being. In this regard, it is important for researchers to understand which coping strategies Russian youth use to overcome the current situation, and which of these coping strategies are significant for increasing youth self-efficacy.
Study design. We conducted the study in February-April 2023. Mixed methods were used. During the qualitative stage, we identified the coping strategies used by young people in the current situation. During the quantitative stage, we found the relationship of coping strategies with youth self-efficacy using hierarchical regression.
Participants. 10 respondents (5 men, 5 women; 18-30 years old) took part in the qualitative study, in the quantitative study – 172 respondents. The respondents were aged 18 to 30 (M = 21,58, SD = 2,93) (36,6% men, 63,4% women).
Measurements. Interview guide aimed at identifying coping strategies, Russian-language versions of the R. Schwarzer and M. Yerusalem scale of general self-efficacy, adapted by V. Romek, and V. Janke and G. Erdmann's scale of coping strategies for overcoming difficult life situations, adapted by N. Vodopyanova.
Results. The self-efficacy of Russian youth is positively associated with such coping strategies as “Problem Solving”, “Self-Control”, “Hobby” and negatively with “Problem Avoidance” and “Search for Social Support”.
Conclusions. In modern conditions, Russian youth self-efficacy was predicted only by active coping strategies focused on problem solving, self-control and involvement in interesting and meaningful activities for young people.

Objective of the research was to determine the criteria for differences in actual theoretical scenario models for the interpretation of "typical" and problematic situations that can be represented in biographical narratives.
Background. In the “personality – group – society” system, individual and cultural life scenarios, formed and supported by families, educational systems and media as socialization institutions, participate in the intergenerational conveyance of values, in the processes of assimilation and reproduction of the norms of social and role behavior, in the construction of a system of identities, active and passive life philosophies. A subject’s established ideas and habitual strategies for interacting with other people are being destroyed in social situations of uncertainty, related as well to the Coronavirus pandemic and paramilitary confrontation in different countries. Consequently, the status of scenarios as dispositional predictors of subjective perception and understanding of oneself and others becomes debatable in social psychology under the conditions of conflict “crossing” of life contexts.
Methodology. Structural and functional analysis of conceptual models that reflect the characteristics of individual and cultural life scenarios.
Conclusions. Theoretical and methodological approaches to the concept of “scenario” differ in the attribution of stability-dynamism, as well as the ratio of individual specificity and social conditionality of the scenario.