social-psychology

ObjectiveThis study examined the association between transformational leadership and employee performance and tested whether affective organizational commitment serves as a mediating mechanism. The analysis focused on how meaning, recognition, and individualized support provided by leaders may strengthen employees’ emotional attachment to organizational goals and, in turn, relate to performance.M…

Physical activity and sport can become appearance-evaluative settings when the body is visible, compared, or judged. This cross-sectional study examined whether thin/low body fat internalization (TLB) and muscular/athletic internalization (MA) were associated with appearance-related avoidance of physical activity and sport (APAS) in a convenience sample of 1,687 female university students recruit…

While societal beauty standards often cause women to feel dissatisfied with their breast size, new research suggests these aesthetic anxieties do not negatively affect a mother's confidence in her ability to successfully breastfeed her baby.

Stramurales—Stornara’s internationally recognised participatory street‑art festival—offers one of the most compelling contemporary case studies of how public art can serve as a low‑cost, community‑rooted mental‑health intervention.

China has made school-family-community collaboration a central policy direction for adolescent mental health, yet low-resource counties often lack the professional workforce, stable interorganizational arrangements, and non-stigmatizing pathways needed to reproduce an institutionalized service model. Existing research on task sharing shows that trained non-specialists can perform selected forms o…

This paper examines false-negative autism assessment not only as a problem of clinical accuracy, but as a problem of diagnostic power. It begins from a documented borderline case in adult assessment in which a negative autism finding continued to exert institutional effects despite extensive biographical, functional, and scientific counter-evidence, and was linked in subsequent proceedings to que…

Loneliness is increasingly prevalent among university students, posing substantial challenges to their mental health and academic performance. From a positive psychology perspective, cultivating positive emotional experiences may strengthen psychological resilience and wellbeing, particularly among individuals experiencing loneliness. Although virtual learning assistants (VLAs) are widely used in…

IntroductionBoth people with schizophrenia (SCZ) and Tourette syndrome (TS) have been found to be commonly stigmatized, but stereotypes held for both have never been directly compared. Clinicians and students of healthcare professions have been shown to also be affected by stereotypical beliefs. Media portrayals frequently perpetuate stereotypes, while accurate depictions could raise awareness an…

I’m not the only parent who feels increasingly anxious about their children’s media diet. For teenage boys in particular, entertainment often comes in the form of YouTube, which for any adult briefly glancing at the screen seems to feature an array of thumbnailed gawping imbeciles, besides an invitation to watch the latest work of creativity: ‘I took a bath full of Diet Coke and Mentos’ or ‘I cem…

University of Notre Dame anthropologist Kristine Joy Chua and her research team asked the question: How do expectant mothers manage uncertainties and cope with sociopolitical stressors in their lives? The answer: They used creative coping strategies grounded in their culture and upbringing to reframe difficult circumstances and maintain a positive outlook, focusing instead on the things they coul…

Research on the psychology of persuasion suggests you should consider your audience before offering more arguments.