Help-seeking behavior involves is the combination of help and seeking, but this is not a straightforward concept, and there are multiple barriers involved in an individual seeking help that depend on the need an individual is seeking help to resolve and other individual characteristics about any given individual. There are many barriers that preclude help-seeking behavior, and the purpose of this paper is to look at demographic barriers that may encourage or inhibit help-seeking behaviors. A sample of data from the CDC Pulse Survey between the dates of March 17th, 2021 and March 29th, 2021 were utilized for this study. Information was gathered regarding psychological symptom presentation, use of healthcare services, insurance status, and whether they accessed (mental) healthcare. The data was transformed from frequency data into nominal data that indicated the presence or absence of any one condition. Chi Squared analyses were utilized to identify how each demographic group differentiated within each construct, and correlations were utilized within broad constructs to differentiate if individuals were significantly different from each other. These results demonstrated demographic differences between individuals and how that predicts help-seeking for both medical and psychological care as well as symptom presentation and insurance coverage and significant differences within those groups. The results inform a general standard of care as it relates to different demographic groups and have implications around which treatment procedures would be best applied to which groups of people.
{"title":"Demographic on Help-Seeking between People based on Use of (Mental) Healthcare","authors":"Brittany A. Borzillo, Mark A. Stillman, C. Marker","doi":"10.5539/ijps.v15n2p51","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5539/ijps.v15n2p51","url":null,"abstract":"Help-seeking behavior involves is the combination of help and seeking, but this is not a straightforward concept, and there are multiple barriers involved in an individual seeking help that depend on the need an individual is seeking help to resolve and other individual characteristics about any given individual. There are many barriers that preclude help-seeking behavior, and the purpose of this paper is to look at demographic barriers that may encourage or inhibit help-seeking behaviors. A sample of data from the CDC Pulse Survey between the dates of March 17th, 2021 and March 29th, 2021 were utilized for this study. Information was gathered regarding psychological symptom presentation, use of healthcare services, insurance status, and whether they accessed (mental) healthcare. The data was transformed from frequency data into nominal data that indicated the presence or absence of any one condition. Chi Squared analyses were utilized to identify how each demographic group differentiated within each construct, and correlations were utilized within broad constructs to differentiate if individuals were significantly different from each other. These results demonstrated demographic differences between individuals and how that predicts help-seeking for both medical and psychological care as well as symptom presentation and insurance coverage and significant differences within those groups. The results inform a general standard of care as it relates to different demographic groups and have implications around which treatment procedures would be best applied to which groups of people.","PeriodicalId":90867,"journal":{"name":"International journal of psychological studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45346143","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The article is a comprehensive review regarding group differences of brain structures, cognitive process, and emotional responses between monolingual people who stutter (MWS) and bilingual people who stutter (BWS). Until now, researchers have been examining MWS and BWS separately, yet the compare between these two groups of people is lacking. In this work, the overview of MWS and BWS are introduced, different types and traits of stutter between MWS and BWS are compared, and the differences between brain structure, executive force, motor control, and cognitive reserve are investigated and synthesized based on previous studies. Both MWS and BWS have executive deficits in speech motor control, while BWS seem to be classified as having greater potential in language inhibitory and switching, thus transferring to general executive control. The conclusions are that BWS generally experience increased neural connectivity due to larger volume of grey and white matter than MWS, and thus gaining cognitive control abilities. Further research is warranted for the bilingual advantage and the exact etiology for stuttering.
{"title":"The Difference between Monolingual and Bilingual Stutterers: A Systematic Review","authors":"Zixuan Qi","doi":"10.5539/ijps.v15n2p41","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5539/ijps.v15n2p41","url":null,"abstract":"The article is a comprehensive review regarding group differences of brain structures, cognitive process, and emotional responses between monolingual people who stutter (MWS) and bilingual people who stutter (BWS). Until now, researchers have been examining MWS and BWS separately, yet the compare between these two groups of people is lacking. In this work, the overview of MWS and BWS are introduced, different types and traits of stutter between MWS and BWS are compared, and the differences between brain structure, executive force, motor control, and cognitive reserve are investigated and synthesized based on previous studies. Both MWS and BWS have executive deficits in speech motor control, while BWS seem to be classified as having greater potential in language inhibitory and switching, thus transferring to general executive control. The conclusions are that BWS generally experience increased neural connectivity due to larger volume of grey and white matter than MWS, and thus gaining cognitive control abilities. Further research is warranted for the bilingual advantage and the exact etiology for stuttering.","PeriodicalId":90867,"journal":{"name":"International journal of psychological studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43582590","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
PTSD has been linked in the literature to traumatic experiences of car accidents, natural disasters, sexual assaults and especially war. This is evidenced by the relevant literature research reported in the thesis. The research was guided by PRISMA 2020, which helped to ensure the quality of the research (Page et al., 2021a; 2020b). Initially, research was sought that addressed the association between this disorder and experiences of war. Of the found sources of material, a part was the category of previous similar type of research (N=7) on the relevant topic, from which the usefulness of the present study became apparent, with the limited Greek literature and the focus of the existing one on veteran soldiers. An important finding was the much higher prevalence of the general population and children and youth, compared to veterans. The association between PTSD and war, its intensity and prevalence, depends on other factors such as demographics, the type of trauma, the psychosocial make-up of the individual and his/her socio-cultural identity. There is a need for further research into this phenomenon, with the aim of formulating targeted policies for prevention, treatment-intervention and rehabilitation of people who have experienced the inhuman situations of war.
{"title":"Post-traumatic Stress Disorder and War: A Systematic Review","authors":"Mairi M. Bazini, G. Konstantopoulou","doi":"10.5539/ijps.v15n2p30","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5539/ijps.v15n2p30","url":null,"abstract":"PTSD has been linked in the literature to traumatic experiences of car accidents, natural disasters, sexual assaults and especially war. This is evidenced by the relevant literature research reported in the thesis. The research was guided by PRISMA 2020, which helped to ensure the quality of the research (Page et al., 2021a; 2020b). Initially, research was sought that addressed the association between this disorder and experiences of war. Of the found sources of material, a part was the category of previous similar type of research (N=7) on the relevant topic, from which the usefulness of the present study became apparent, with the limited Greek literature and the focus of the existing one on veteran soldiers. An important finding was the much higher prevalence of the general population and children and youth, compared to veterans. The association between PTSD and war, its intensity and prevalence, depends on other factors such as demographics, the type of trauma, the psychosocial make-up of the individual and his/her socio-cultural identity. There is a need for further research into this phenomenon, with the aim of formulating targeted policies for prevention, treatment-intervention and rehabilitation of people who have experienced the inhuman situations of war.","PeriodicalId":90867,"journal":{"name":"International journal of psychological studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42671377","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A. Matsuo, H. Kitamura, Naomi Yui, Shin-ichiro Kumagaya
Researchers have continually studied the classical false consensus effect (FCE) and documented its robustness across specific contexts. Under the influence of the FCE, people create an illusory perception of others around them and maintain this perception, believing that own opinion serves as “common sense.” Because shared morality plays an important role in group contexts, people’s (illusory) perceptions about how much their morality is shared should be clarified. Therefore, the present study investigated the presence of the FCE in the domain of morality based on the Moral Foundations Theory (MFT). The pilot study required participants to rank the five moral foundations according to their perceived level of importance and estimate others’ perceived importance of the same five foundations. The Purity foundation of the MFT was not sufficient to identify Japanese values on religion and cleanliness. Thus, the main study supplemented the pilot study with the Purity Orientation–Pollution Avoidance Scale (POPA). The importance given to the moral foundations among participants in the main study was measured using both the Moral Foundations Questionnaire (MFQ) and the POPA. The results from both studies showed that the FCE occurs in the moral domain among Japanese individuals. Furthermore, the use of the POPA in addition to the MFQ can benefit future research on morality in cultures that are not Western, educated, industrialized, rich, and democratic such as Japan. The present research will contribute significantly to further understanding the role of morality in group contexts.
{"title":"Moral Common Sense: Examining the False Consensus Effect of Morality in Japan","authors":"A. Matsuo, H. Kitamura, Naomi Yui, Shin-ichiro Kumagaya","doi":"10.5539/ijps.v15n2p22","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5539/ijps.v15n2p22","url":null,"abstract":"Researchers have continually studied the classical false consensus effect (FCE) and documented its robustness across specific contexts. Under the influence of the FCE, people create an illusory perception of others around them and maintain this perception, believing that own opinion serves as “common sense.” Because shared morality plays an important role in group contexts, people’s (illusory) perceptions about how much their morality is shared should be clarified. Therefore, the present study investigated the presence of the FCE in the domain of morality based on the Moral Foundations Theory (MFT). The pilot study required participants to rank the five moral foundations according to their perceived level of importance and estimate others’ perceived importance of the same five foundations. The Purity foundation of the MFT was not sufficient to identify Japanese values on religion and cleanliness. Thus, the main study supplemented the pilot study with the Purity Orientation–Pollution Avoidance Scale (POPA). The importance given to the moral foundations among participants in the main study was measured using both the Moral Foundations Questionnaire (MFQ) and the POPA. The results from both studies showed that the FCE occurs in the moral domain among Japanese individuals. Furthermore, the use of the POPA in addition to the MFQ can benefit future research on morality in cultures that are not Western, educated, industrialized, rich, and democratic such as Japan. The present research will contribute significantly to further understanding the role of morality in group contexts.","PeriodicalId":90867,"journal":{"name":"International journal of psychological studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43146546","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The development and preliminary validation of a new measure of interpersonal exploitativeness, i.e., Brief Survey of Interpersonal Exploitative Behavior (BSIEB), is described in two studies. Interpersonal exploitativeness is a transdiagnostic feature of Narcissistic Personality Disorder and Antisocial Personality Disorder. The BSIEB focuses on instantiating interpersonal exploitative behavior by surveying specific, "real world” exploitative behaviors. In Study 1, an item pool was generated by 50 Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk) participants. Inter-rater reliability was assessed via independent ratings from a second group of MTurk participants. The BSIEB was administered to a new sample of 508 adults (64.5% males; M age = 37.1). The BSIEB demonstrated excellent internal consistency reliability (Cronbach’s α = .94) and convergent validity (r = .64) with a measure of exploitativeness based on the Five-Factor Model of personality. A 1-factor measurement model fit well and was invariant for gender. In Study 2, the BSIEB demonstrated convergent validity with other measures of exploitativeness and incremental validity, registering the most significant share of unique variance in predicting the outcome variables of social aggression and alcohol and substance use, which are associated with narcissism and antisocial personality disorder. The results support using the BSIEB as a valid research measure that expands construct coverage of interpersonal exploitative behavior.
{"title":"The Brief Survey of Interpersonal Exploitative Behavior: Preliminary Development and Validation","authors":"Robert A Semel","doi":"10.5539/ijps.v15n2p1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5539/ijps.v15n2p1","url":null,"abstract":"The development and preliminary validation of a new measure of interpersonal exploitativeness, i.e., Brief Survey of Interpersonal Exploitative Behavior (BSIEB), is described in two studies. Interpersonal exploitativeness is a transdiagnostic feature of Narcissistic Personality Disorder and Antisocial Personality Disorder. The BSIEB focuses on instantiating interpersonal exploitative behavior by surveying specific, \"real world” exploitative behaviors. In Study 1, an item pool was generated by 50 Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk) participants. Inter-rater reliability was assessed via independent ratings from a second group of MTurk participants. The BSIEB was administered to a new sample of 508 adults (64.5% males; M age = 37.1). The BSIEB demonstrated excellent internal consistency reliability (Cronbach’s α = .94) and convergent validity (r = .64) with a measure of exploitativeness based on the Five-Factor Model of personality. A 1-factor measurement model fit well and was invariant for gender. In Study 2, the BSIEB demonstrated convergent validity with other measures of exploitativeness and incremental validity, registering the most significant share of unique variance in predicting the outcome variables of social aggression and alcohol and substance use, which are associated with narcissism and antisocial personality disorder. The results support using the BSIEB as a valid research measure that expands construct coverage of interpersonal exploitative behavior.","PeriodicalId":90867,"journal":{"name":"International journal of psychological studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44341673","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ali H. Nizam, Mohamad Y. Aoun, Tony Haykal, Brenda Chahla, O. Jamal
Background & Objectives: Burnout Syndrome and its three interrelated dimensions: emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, and personal accomplishment poses an enormous burden on a person’s familial and social life. This syndrome is problematic as it affects individuals differently and may lead to dropping off from work, work-related errors, and even suicidal ideation. Burnout in medical students is a relatively new topic and no previous studies were performed in Lebanon on this population of interest along with its association with anxiety and depression. The primary aim of this study is to determine the prevalence of burnout among Lebanese University 7th-year medical students rotating in private and public national hospitals and to elucidate any association with depression, anxiety, and several other factors. Subjects & Methods: A total of 137 Lebanese University 7th-year medical students rotating from July 2019- June 2020 in different national hospitals were surveyed using the Maslach Burnout Inventory for Health Services Workers (MBS-HSS), The Hamilton Anxiety Rating scale (HAM-A), and the Hamilton Depression Rating Scale (HAM-D or HDRS). Data analysis was conducted using IBM SPSS version 21. The relationship between the variables was studied using chi-square testing, and the p-value (<0.05) was considered statistically significant. Results: A total of 112 students responded to the questionnaire (response rate of 81.75%). The prevalence of burnout was mainly high in low Personal Accomplishment (67%), followed by Emotional Exhaustion (37.5%), with the lowest prevalence rate for depersonalization (25.9%). 84.8% of the students had high burnout in at least one domain. The prevalence of anxiety and depression was found to be 7.2% and 41.9%, respectively. The Number of calls and prescription errors was found to be strongly correlated with burnout level. Furthermore, anxiety and depression were found to be associated with high burnout levels. Conclusion: This study sheds the light on the high burnout level experienced by medical students at Lebanese University and the necessity to conduct more studies to investigate the causes and to develop different coping strategies.
背景与目的:职业倦怠综合症及其三个相互关联的维度:情绪耗竭、人格解体和个人成就给一个人的家庭和社会生活带来了巨大的负担。这种综合症是有问题的，因为它对每个人的影响不同，可能会导致工作倦怠、与工作有关的错误，甚至产生自杀念头。医学生的职业倦怠是一个相对较新的课题，以前在黎巴嫩没有对这一人群及其与焦虑和抑郁的关系进行过研究。本研究的主要目的是确定在私立和公立国家医院轮转的黎巴嫩大学七年级医学生中职业倦怠的患病率，并阐明其与抑郁、焦虑和其他几个因素的关系。对象与方法:采用《卫生服务工作者马斯拉克职业倦怠量表》(MBS-HSS)、《汉密尔顿焦虑评定量表》(HAM-A)和《汉密尔顿抑郁评定量表》(HAM-D或HDRS)对2019年7月至2020年6月在不同国家医院轮岗的137名黎巴嫩大学七年级医学生进行了调查。使用IBM SPSS version 21进行数据分析。变量之间的关系采用卡方检验，p值<0.05认为有统计学意义。结果:共有112名学生参与问卷调查，回复率为81.75%。倦怠发生率以低个人成就感高(67%)，其次为情绪耗竭(37.5%)，人格解体发生率最低(25.9%)。84.8%的学生在至少一个领域存在高度倦怠。焦虑和抑郁的患病率分别为7.2%和41.9%。就诊次数和处方错误与职业倦怠水平呈显著正相关。此外，焦虑和抑郁被发现与高倦怠水平有关。结论:本研究揭示了黎巴嫩大学医学生的高倦怠水平，以及开展更多研究调查原因和制定不同应对策略的必要性。
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Reviewer Acknowledgements for International Journal of Psychological Studies, Vol. 15, No. 1, 2023
《International Journal of Psychological Studies》，Vol. 15, No. 1, 2023
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This study investigated how spacing and massing affected the extent to which the photographs of paintings are favoured. In this study, 50 individuals participated in one of two conditions. We used a survey to conduct this experiment. In the survey, images of paintings were displayed in groups of six on a web page. One massed set presented paintings by one artist. The other spaced set presented six images of paintings, each by a different artist, shown one directly after another. All sets of six images were featured on a single survey page. Based on many past studies, familiarity boosts preferences toward a certain object, in our case, paintings. When many paintings by the same artist are grouped together, familiarity encourages higher favourability ratings. The spacing effect, which delays exposure to consecutive objects, helps participants remember the paintings more, encouraging higher favourability scores at the last phase, when thumbprint galleries are shown, than at the initial rating. The study gathered inconclusive evidence about the impact of spacing.
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Dieudonné Davy Ambassa, S. N. Ilouga, Aude Carine Moussa Mouloungui
This research involved developing a tool for measuring boredom state with a sample of Cameroonian workers. Boredom refers to a state of under-arousal, caused by the experience of an aversive situation of idleness, perceived as useless and discouraging (Rengade, 2016). Recent scientific literature highlights the adverse effects of boredom on workers' health and organisational performance (Vodanovich & Watt (2016). The lack of an operational tool to diagnose boredom at work limits the possibilities of managerial intervention aimed at developing appropriate managerial strategies. However, similar studies revealed an increase in the number of Cameroonian civil servants with work contracts, regular salaries, identified work stations, missions and work objectives to achieve, who report a permanent feeling of emptiness, monotony and dejection (Simaleu, 2021; Doumbeneny, 2021). We applied the cross-cultural validation procedure proposed by Vallerand (1989), to adapt the multidimensional state boredom instrument (MSBS) by Fahlman et al. to the Cameroonian context. The study was carried out in three stages with a sample of 469 civil servants. Our results are in line with the measurement model of the original version, which is a five-factor structure (low arousal, disengagement, high arousal, inattention and time perception). Despite the existing socio-cultural differences between the validation context of the original version and the Cameroonian context, the structure which is similar to the original version of the MSBS obtains better fit indices with the data collected from Cameroonian workers (CFI = .99; GFI: 0.99; SRMR = 0.05; RMSEA=.004). Since the Cameroonian version of the MSBS has been able to demonstrate adequate psychometric properties, it can therefore be used as a measure of boredom at work.
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This study examines the effectiveness of an innovative model of integrating financial education into a career planning course at the college level. A total of 104 freshman students (48 in the day division and 56 in the evening division) were sampled. Based on the analysis of the “College Students Financial Planning Survey Questionnaire” revealed that: 90% of the daytime students and 97% of the evening students agreed on the importance of financial education and financial planning in career planning; daytime and evening students share common perspectives on the importance of financial planning in career planning: to realize their dreams, they need to have an adequate financial foundation to support their daily living expenses, and then to plan their financial management well for future retirement security. There are several items of college students’ financial planning status varies between the different education programs. According to the analysis of various score results from the “Career Planning Course Learning Satisfaction Questionnaire”, there was no significant difference across academic systems in the analysis of satisfaction with the integration of financial education into a career planning course; the three most important overall satisfaction analyses all indicate a high level of satisfaction, including: the overall teaching content, the overall content design of financial education, and the benefit of integrating financial education into the career planning courses for personal career planning. Finally, this study offers some specific suggestions for integrating college financial education into a career planning course.
{"title":"The Learning Effectiveness of the Innovative Model of Integrating Financial Education into a College Career Planning Course","authors":"Huiling Peng, Zheng Zhang","doi":"10.5539/ijps.v15n1p38","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5539/ijps.v15n1p38","url":null,"abstract":"This study examines the effectiveness of an innovative model of integrating financial education into a career planning course at the college level. A total of 104 freshman students (48 in the day division and 56 in the evening division) were sampled. Based on the analysis of the “College Students Financial Planning Survey Questionnaire” revealed that: 90% of the daytime students and 97% of the evening students agreed on the importance of financial education and financial planning in career planning; daytime and evening students share common perspectives on the importance of financial planning in career planning: to realize their dreams, they need to have an adequate financial foundation to support their daily living expenses, and then to plan their financial management well for future retirement security. There are several items of college students’ financial planning status varies between the different education programs. According to the analysis of various score results from the “Career Planning Course Learning Satisfaction Questionnaire”, there was no significant difference across academic systems in the analysis of satisfaction with the integration of financial education into a career planning course; the three most important overall satisfaction analyses all indicate a high level of satisfaction, including: the overall teaching content, the overall content design of financial education, and the benefit of integrating financial education into the career planning courses for personal career planning. Finally, this study offers some specific suggestions for integrating college financial education into a career planning course.","PeriodicalId":90867,"journal":{"name":"International journal of psychological studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44212591","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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