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Mental Health Disorders and Work-Night Multidimensional Sleep Health of Correctional Officers
No full textThe nature of Correctional Officer (CO) work makes COs susceptible to chronic stress that can prompt adverse health consequences. In the CO mental health literature, sleep has been examined as a contributor to adverse psychological health. This relationship has been examined primarily via the direction of sleep predicting mental health outcomes, despite the known bi-directional relationship between mental health and sleep. The goal of this study is to examine the other bi-directional relationship in this population; how mental health disorders relate to work-night sleep in a CO sample. An archival dataset of 243 COs from a National Institute of Justice-funded study will be used. Participants reported lifetime diagnosis of PTSD, depression, or anxiety by a doctor. Self-reported and actigraphy-derived sleep health dimensions were collected on four work-nights, including sleep regularity, satisfaction, alertness, timing, efficiency, and duration. The relationship between mental health disorders and work-night multidimensional sleep health will be examined.unknownothe
Self, Consciousness, and Being: The Transcendent Perspective >> Chapter 1 + Book References
No full textChapter 1 is a full summary of the main points and arguments of the book. The book argues that there is a best design for the human self, making the case in favour of the transcendent self-view – a perspective on the self that transcends ideas and viewpoints generally, seeing and treating them as subordinate facets of a total self that has empty consciousness, the underlying essence of consciousness itself, as its resting focus and core. The two main claims defended are, first, that it is the one self-view that fully and accurately reflects our true behavioural and experiential nature; second, that making it the basis of the fully developed human self, whilst also maintaining unique personal elements, should be an aim for both the individual and educational professionals. For the individual, taking this step may be thought of as personal transcendence and may even be given a spiritual slant, but it is best seen as an everyday kind of transcendence that is really nothing special – just a sensible and logical endpoint to human development. An account of how the perspective helps resolve the hard problem of consciousness is also given. Chapter 1 is a full summary of the main points and arguments of the book.unknownpublishedVersio
Supplementary materials to "Dropout from trauma-focused treatment for PTSD in a naturalistic setting"
No full textSupplementary materials to: Semmlinger, V., Takano, K., Wolkenstein, L., Krüger-Gottschalk, A., Kuck, S., Dyer, A., Pittig, A., Alpers, G. W., & Ehring, T. (2025). Dropout from trauma-focused treatment for PTSD in a naturalistic setting. Clinical Psychology in Europe, 7(1), Article e14491. https://doi.org/10.32872/cpe.14491The Supplementary Materials contain a full correlation matrix of all variables studied.unknownunknow
Dynamic complexity of positive and negative affect in NSSI - A daily diary study
No full textBackground: Non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) is a major health problem. Functionally, it is related to affect instability and increased affective intensity. The role of negative emotions has already been extensively explored, only few studies have focused on positive emotions. The concept of dynamic complexity (DC) is particularly well suited to differentially analyze the dynamics of affect collected by ecological momentary assessment (EMA). This study examines DC of positive and negative emotions in individuals with and without NSSI history in an EMA setting.
Method: Participants from a clinical NSSI group (n = 28) and a comparable clinical non-NSSI control group (n = 33) completed the Positive and Negative Affect Schedule (PANAS) once a day between six to 37 days (M = 15.60, SD = 5.80). DC was calculated for the assessed time-series of daily affect. Additionally, we fitted a linear mixed model to predict positive and negative dynamic complexity with length of stay and group.
Results: Compared to controls, individuals with a history of NSSI showed significantly more positive affect and had significantly higher DC in affect in general. No significant difference for negative affect was found.
Discussion: Our results suggest that it is important to assess dynamic emotional patterns and to analyze in detail the role of positive and negative affect in individuals with NSSI in order to better understand the complex interplay between the different emotional states and to be able to use it for diagnostic purposes and clinical interventions.reviewedacceptedVersio
Temperament and Parenting: Exploring Pathways to Infant Social Attention
No full textThe origin of individual differences in infant social attention is not yet well understood. Previous research suggests two different possibilities: One explains these differences with varying experiences in parent-child interaction styles (Dunphy-Lelii et al., 2014), while the other points at differences in infant temperament as a central factor (LaBounty et al., 2018). There is a lack of published research combining these two approaches in a single study.
The goal of this study is to test whether parent-child interaction as well as temperament are able to predict later infant social attention. We further wish to compare the predictive power of these two constructs with each other and investigate whether shy temperament in early toddlerhood is related to social attention as well.
Data from a longitudinal sample of mother-child dyads from a mid-sized city in Germany are being investigated. A total of 165 dyads took part in this study, though only a subset of the complete sample will be relevant for our work.
Mother-child interaction was measured via video-taped observations of a free play session using the Emotional Availability Scales (Biringen, 2008) at 6 months. Infant temperament was assessed with the Infant Behavior Questionnaire Revised (Gartstein & Rothbart, 2003) at 6 months, while shy temperament was assessed with the Early Childhood Behavior Questionnaire (Putnam et al., 2006) at 18 months. A habituation paradigm was employed to measure infant social attention at 12 months.Data collection and coding has been part of the DFG (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) grants titled As79/6-1, As79/9-1 and He5728/3-1.unknownothe
Code for: Mothers of young children during the COVID-19 pandemic: Depressive symptoms and perceived stress
No full textData set and analysis scripts to analyze the prevalence rates of depressive symptoms and perceived stress in a sample of mothers living in Germany. We additionally assessed the relationship between the severity of depressive symptoms and perceived stress in a cross-lagged panel design across two measurement points during the COVID-19 pandemic.unknownunknow
Analysis Code for: How to Promote Emotional Intelligence among University Students: a Research Synthesis
No full textEmotional intelligence (EI) training is increasingly relevant for students as a vulnerable group prone to stress, anxiety, and depression. The diversity of models upon which the trainings are based, the content of the featured units, and the broad spectrum of existing measures call for systematization and providing a landscape of existing training. We conducted a systematic review in such databases as Web of Science, Scopus, ERIC, Educational Source, and APA PsychArticles and included 49 (quasi)-experimental studies in the analysis. The findings indicate the need for more theoretically grounded EI training programs for university students, the scarcity of ability-based and other-rater measures, and the need for better alignment between models, content, and measures. Future research could move in the direction of setting quality benchmarks for EI training and investigating which kinds of models and content are more appropriate for specific population groups.unknownunknow
Climate, Morals, and Politics
No full textBackground:
It is well established that conservative political attitudes are predictive of scepticism towards the reality and anthropomorphic origin of climate change. First, conservatism is not a homogenous psychological variable and differs between national cultures. Second, according to the Moral Foundations Theory, there are basic modules analysing social triggers automatically and intuitively. These modules, accord-ingly, shape political attitudes and the processing of facts.
Objectives and Research questions:
The first objective of the present study is to investigate how political conservative attitudes in Germany and psychological variables such as personal trust, moral values, social dominance, and system justifi-cation are related to scepticism towards climate change.
Further, conservative attitudes could semantically lead to attitudes and intentions aimed at conserving humans’ natural environment. The second objective is to use cluster analysis to potentially identify sub-groups of conservative persons which are low in scepticism. The third objective is to differentiate atti-tudes towards global climate change from attitudes towards the perseveration of regional/national na-ture.
Participants:
A panel (bilendi & respondi, London, UK) were commissioned to collect a sample of German partici-pants (N ca. 1600). The questionnaire was sent via an anonymous, non-personal link.
Study method:
Participants are asked to complete an online survey using the moral foundations questionnaire (Gra-ham et al., 2011) including the liberty scale (Iyer et al., 2012), social dominance orientation (Jim Sidanius & Felicia Pratto, 1999), system justification (Kay & Jost, 2013) and several social and political questions based on the European Value Survey (EVS) 2017 (Balakireva, 2021). The questions drawn from the EVS are grouped into the topics trust, attitudes towards climate change, and different dimen-sions of conservatism: economic conservatism, nationalism, religiosity, and social conventionalism. Attitudes towards preserving regional/national nature are measured using a convenience instrument.unknownothe
Response to the commentary „Can a 1-item scale for psychotherapy outcomes be psychometrically robust?”
No full textNo abstract available.notReviewedpublishedVersio
Coding Scheme: Toy Interest, Affect, Emotion Regulation and Mother Behavior during Waiting Tasks
No full textThe scheme decribes how we coded toy interest of the child, affect of the child before and during the waiting tasks, emotion regulation and the behavior of the mother during the waiting tasksunknownunknow