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How Narratives Shape Social Support: Study 1
No full textIn a previous study (Adelina et al., 2023) examining the reception of support-seeking narratives posted on mental health subreddits, we found that people provided different kinds of support depending on the narrative features of the post, demonstrating the importance of narration in influencing the types of support people receive. However, these findings were observational in nature. In the present study, we aim to experimentally investigate how the way people narrate about personal problems influence the support that others provide them. We created four narrative vignettes which vary across motivational themes, affective themes, and structural elements in a 2 (motivational and affective themes: high vs low) x 2 (structural elements: high vs low) within-subjects design. Our main research question asks: do narrative variables influence social support outcomes? We also plan to conduct supplementary analyses to examine variables which may affect support provision. Namely, perceived likability, personal relevance, negative affect.
In addition to the variable-centered approach described above, we also plan to apply a person-centered approach to examine whether there are subgroups of people who differ in the way they are emotionally affected by the various narratives, and in turn, their willingness to respond/support these people. We will also explore whether these profiles are influenced by depression, anxiety, and emotion regulation style. This approach will compliment our main analyses by providing insight into how different participants characteristically react and respond to narratives with different features which would otherwise be overlooked with a variable-centered approach
Characteristics of Physical Exercise Programs and Their Effects on Physical Fitness and Health in Patients with Chronic Ob-structive Pulmonary Disease: A Scoping Review
No full textChronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) is a persistent condition that blocks airflow in the lungs, irreversible, underdiagnosed, in some cases (early) fatal, interfering with normal breathing capacity [1]. It evolves by degrees of severity (0 to 4) [2] and it presents the 3rd leading cause of death across the world [1,2].
COPD is associated with diseases such as asthma, cystic fibrosis, and interstitial lung disease. COPD is defined as a chronic inflammation of the small airways [3], asthma as a reversible obstruction to airflow, bronchial inflammation, and inflamma-tion [4], while cystic fibrosis affects the lungs with chronic and recurrent infections [5].
The most impactful consequence of COPD is the low oxygen level, which cause a narrowing of the intima of blood vessels (stenosis), which take blood from the right side of the myocardium to the lungs, thus causing an increase in pressure, known as pulmonary hypertension. People with COPD are subject to developing heart rhythm abnormalities (arrhythmias), lung cancer, osteoporosis, depression, coronary artery disease, muscle wasting (atrophy) and anxiety [6]. These subjects show signs such as coughing, increased sputum purulence, fever and nasal congestion [5].
The practice of physical exercise has been referred as a complementary therapy to treat pulmonary diseases. For instance, pulmonary rehabilitation promotes the im-provement of functionality and exercise tolerance, thus improving the quality of life of the subjects. Pulmonary rehabilitation should take into account resistance exercises in order to improve muscle strength, alleviate the symptoms of the disease, increase its functional capacity and increase resistance to fatigue [7]. Corroborating the positive effects of pulmonary rehabilitation, some systematic reviews have reported large and significant effects on the clinical status of subjects such as tolerance to physical exer-cise, increased strength and resistance to fatigue [8,9].
Regarding exercise training programs, the recommendations of the British Tho-racic Society Pulmonary Rehabilitation Guideline Development Group and British Thoracic Society Standards of Care Committee [10] for people with COPD suggest to practice exercise training programs to complement pulmonary rehabilitation and they should consist of cardiorespiratory exercise, through interval and continuous training methods, with the aim of increasing the cardiorespiratory capacity of the subjects and, consequently, lung function, contributing to the reduction of symptoms and improve-ment in quality of life. In this sense, the American College of Sports Medicine [11] suggests at least 3-5 days of aerobic exercise, 2-3 days of resistance exercise and ≥ 2-3 days of flexibility per week. Aerobic exercise should include moderate to vigorous in-tensity (50-80% of peak work rate or 4-6 arbitrary unit of the Borg CR10 scale). Re-sistance training should be performed 60-70% of one repetition maximum (1RM) for beginners and ≥ 80% of 1RM for experienced trainers while stretching should be worked to the point of feeling tightness or slight discomfort [11].
Despite the recommendation for exercise also provide details about duration with different intensities for aerobic exercise, or range of sets and repetition for resistance and stretching exercises, such exercise recommendations are general and does not pro-vide details about the exercise prescription, periodization and planning which should include details about all exercise along with their intensity, duration (effort and rest periods) and training frequency [11]
Enhancing Executive Function Skills in Children With Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder via Immersive Virtual Reality Interventions: Scoping Review
No full textThis scoping review is about investigating the existing interventions in the literature that used Immersive Virtual Reality as a tool to help children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder for improving their executive function skills
On the Search of a Refined Value Typology for Environmental Health Psychology: A Systematic Review
No full textIn environmental psychology, personal values have been established as key antecedents of people’s pro-environmental judgments and behaviors. Yet, the value approach in environmental psychology has three critical shortcomings. First, the typologies appear to consider a limited scope of value orientations. Second, the value orientations vary significantly in terms of discreteness and the range of specific goals they include. Both issues may undermine the explanatory power of the considered value orientations. Third, a mismatch exists between the definition and operationalization of the value orientations. To address these shortcomings, as a first step, a systematic literature review is conducted. The objective is to review (1) values relevant to pro-environmental outcome variables (called mitigation; e.g. beliefs, behaviors, or choices) as well as outcome variables related to protection from environmental degradation (called adaptation) and (2) alternative measurement methodologies to the E-SVS. Published and unpublished literature that discuss personal values in the context of nature, environment or sustainability is eligible for inclusion. The search will be conducted in Web of Science, Scopus and APA PsycInfo. In addition, an inquiry for unpublished manuscripts will be shared with the research community. A narrative synthesis of the data will reveal values relevant for environmental psychology and systematic discrepancies between value conceptualizations and measurement methods. Based on the findings, a refined value typology is developed, which constitutes the foundation of a new value approach for environmental psychology
The position and importance of science communication in the hierarchical role identity system of STEM scientists: a semi-structured interview study.
No full textCurrent changes in society (pandemic, climate crisis,...) as well as possibilities arising from new digital communication structures (independent and direct addressing of the public theoretically at any time) reveal demands for a new role addressed from society to individual scientists: the science communicator. This study takes the perspective of individual scientists and asks whether they consider science communication as a sub-role of their identity as scientist and how such a role is shaped. The theoretical framework of identity theory (Serpe et al. 2020) will be used to identify the subjectively relevant sub-role identities of German STEM scientists. We focus on the position that science communication and related activities occupy in the role identity hierarchy. Specifically, the study asks:
1. How is the hierarchical system of role identities assigned to the scientist identity structured, dimensionalized, and hierarchized among German STEM scientists?
2. What is the position of science communication (and related activities) in this hierarchy of role identities?
3. Can patterns be identified in the social contexts of scientists that influence the structural as well as the hierarchical position of science communication in the role system?
To answer the research questions, at least 24 semi-structured interviews with professors and research group leaders of German research universities in the STEM field will be conducted between Ferbruary 2023 and June 2023. These will include open-ended questions on relevant professional activities and roles as well as sorting and ranking tasks as stimuli. The transcribed interviews will be evaluated by qualitative content analysis (presumably using MAXQDA software)
Emotional Support, Meaning in Life and Anxiety Experiment February 2023
No full textThis study will investigate the links between emotional support, meaning in life, and anxiety, specifically whether meaning in life may help account for the role of emotional support in reducing anxiety
Oral language development in children with cochlear implants exposed to Sign Language: a scoping review
No full textIntrodução: O implante coclear (IC) promove acesso aos sons da fala em crianças com deficiência auditiva de grau severo ou profundo, possibilitando o desenvolvimento da percepção auditiva da fala e da linguagem oral. O uso da língua de sinais ou da linguagem oral durante a interação destas crianças depende diretamente de seu interlocutor e do contexto comunicativo. Objetivo: mapear as evidências atuais em relação ao desenvolvimento de linguagem oral de crianças usuárias de IC expostas ao uso de Língua de Sinais. Pergunta de pesquisa: “a exposição à Língua de Sinais interfere na aquisição e desenvolvimento da linguagem oral de crianças usuárias de IC?” Mapeamento das evidências: A busca será realizada nas bases de dados EMBASE, LILACS, PubMed, SCOPUS, Web of Science, Asha, Google Scholar, OpenGrey e PROQUEST. Serão desenvolvidas estratégias de busca para cada base de dados ou repositório eletrônico, sem restrição quanto ao ano de publicação. Seleção das fontes de evidência: As fases de seleção serão realizadas independentemente por dois revisores e os desacordos entre estes a respeito dos estudos a serem incluídos serão resolvidos por uma terceira revisora, com experiência na área de reabilitação auditiva infantil. Serão incluídos estudos que tenham avaliado o desenvolvimento de crianças usuárias de IC que também estejam expostas à Língua de Sinais, nos idiomas português e inglês. Será utilizado o software Rayyan. Após, será realizado o mapeamento das evidências. Extração dos dados: Serão criados formulários eletrônicos para preenchimento independente por dois pesquisadores. Serão coletadas informações quanto às características dos estudos, características da população estudada, dos protocolos utilizados nos estudos e recomendados e resultados obtidos
Validating the RART
No full textA correlational study to validate the design of an Author Recognition Test that is balanced with regards to race and gender
Inclusive Culture and Situational Affordances
No full textThis is a preregistration document for Inclusive Culture and Situational Affordances