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How nurses address psychosocial needs in patients with advanced heart or lung failure: a qualitative interview study
Janneke van Oirschot · Esmee D. Noijons · Hanneke Merten · Bregje D. Onwuteaka-Philipsen · 2026-3 · BMC Nursing
Abstract Background Patients with advanced heart failure or lung failure often experience significant changes in psychosocial needs, which may affect their quality of life, emotional wellbeing, and daily functioning. Although nurses are well-positioned to address these needs, there is limited understanding of their perspective on these conversations. Therefore, this study aimed to explore how nurses approach and expe…
Pride in language teaching: Scale development and associations with work engagement, wellbeing, and burnout
Gholam Hassan Khajavy · Dávid Smid · Sarah Mercer · Carlos Murillo-Miranda · 2026-3 · Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching
In recent years, there has been a growing interest in research on language teacher emotions while relatively fewer studies have focused on language teachers’ professional pride. This study aims to develop and validate a scale for language teacher pride (LTP), and it seeks to understand how this critically important emotion may be linked to other central, conceptually related constructs including wellbeing, work engag…
Cultural participation and psychological wellbeing: the mediating role of transcendence
Yitong Huang · Qixuan He · Benqian Li · 2025-8 · Humanities & Social Sciences Communications
Abstract The psychological benefits of engaging in cultural and artistic activities are increasingly recognized, yet the mechanisms remain underexplored – a gap that prevents the development of evidence-based cultural programs for optimal wellbeing outcomes. This research addresses this gap by identifying the underlying psychological mediators linking cultural participation to wellbeing. Drawing on survey data from 1…
Effect of Aerobic Exercise on Psychological Problems of Female Students with Premenstrual Syndrome in Imo State, Nigeria
Jane Ekwutosi Iheka · 2025-6 · Universal Journal of Educational Research
The psychological problems of students with premenstrual syndrome hampers not just their wellbeing but their willingness to commit to education due to emotional instabilities associated with their condition. It is in line with the obvious need to proffer solution that this study examined the effect of aerobic exercise on psychological problems of female students with premenstrual syndrome in Imo state using a quasi-e…
Measuring mental wellbeing in clinical and non-clinical adolescents using the COMPAS-W Wellbeing Scale
Janine R. Lam · Janine R. Lam · Haeme R. P. Park · Haeme R. P. Park · 2024-6 · Frontiers in Psychiatry
IntroductionAdolescence is a key period of vulnerability for poor mental health as the brain is still developing and may be more sensitive to the negative impacts of stress and adversity. Unfortunately, few measures comprehensively assess wellbeing in adolescents.MethodsThe 26-item COMPAS-W Wellbeing Scale for adults was validated in a sample of 1,078 adolescents aged 13–17 years old (51.67% male, 79.13% non-clinical…
Psychological Well-being and the Structure of the teacher’s Agency
E. N. Volkova · 2024-6 · Вестник Мининского университета
Introduction. In positive psychology, psychological well-being is associated with personal resources that ensure creative processes and positive changes in a person’s life and activities. Considering agency as the main professional and personal resource of a teacher for positive transformations in modern education, we assume that agency acts as such a resource provided that the teacher perceives himself as a psycholo…
Interplay of mental state, personality, and popularity among peers in shaping belongingness of first-year students: A cross-sectional study.
Audrey Zhang · Fjorda Kazazi · Kevin Tang · Peter Howell · 2024-0 · PLOS Mental Health
Belonging to a university shapes wellbeing and academic outcomes for first-year students, yet this belongingness is harder to achieve for those from lower socio-economic backgrounds. This study delved into the flexible construct of status-the individual's perceived position within the university's social hierarchy and the strategy they adopt to achieve that position-and its impact on their belongingness. The objectiv…
Teachers' approaches to music performance anxiety management: a systematic review
Isabella Mazzarolo · Kim Burwell · Emery Schubert · 2023-7 · Frontiers in Psychology
Performance anxiety is a widespread issue that can affect musicians across their education and career. It can develop in musicians from a young age leading to short-term and long-term impacts on not only their performance, but also their wellbeing. There is potentially a significant role that music educators hold in the development of their students and how they handle performance anxiety, though it is not clear how,…
Parents’ life satisfaction prior to and following preterm birth
Robert Eves · Nicole Baumann · Ayten Bilgin · Daniel Schnitzlein · 2023-12 · Scientific Reports
Abstract The current study tested whether the reported lower wellbeing of parents after preterm birth, relative to term birth, is a continuation of a pre-existing difference before pregnancy. Parents from Germany (the German Socio-Economic Panel Study, N = 10,649) and the United Kingdom (British Household Panel Study and Understanding Society, N = 11,012) reported their new-born’s birthweight and gestational age, sub…
Integrative Model of Human-Animal Interactions: A One Health–One Welfare Systemic Approach to Studying HAI
Charlène Leconstant · Elisabeth Spitz · 2022-7 · Frontiers in Veterinary Science
The Integrative Model of Human-Animal Interactions (IMHAI) described herewith provides a conceptual framework for the study of interspecies interactions and aims to model the primary emotional processes involved in human-animal interactions. This model was developed from theoretical inputs from three fundamental disciplines for understanding interspecies interactions: neuroscience, psychology and ethology, with the o…
An exploration of rural Chinese teachers’ wellbeing: Insights from mixture modelling of latent profile analysis
Bo Cui · Faye McCallum · Mathew A White · 2022-04 · International Journal of Chinese Education
The importance of teachers’ wellbeing and the complexities of teaching are becoming more widely understood through the lens of positive psychology. For example, teachers’ wellbeing and optimal functioning have an impact on their ability to teach effectively, teacher retention and their job satisfaction. However, there is a shortage of global research investigating teachers’ wellbeing, especially in rural China. The c…
Happiness at work: A cross-cultural validation of happiness at work scale.
Nina Fitriana · Fonny Dameaty Hutagalung · Zainudin Awang · Sumaia Mohammed Zaid · 2022-0 · PLoS ONE
The idea of Happiness at Work is drawn from psychology and economic studies. It is often considered as a synonym with 'wellbeing' and defined as a state characterized by a high level of life satisfaction, a high level of positive emotions, and less negative emotions. This research aims to validate the Happiness at Work scale in the Indonesian context. In this study, the researchers conducted cross-cultural adaptation…
Mindfulness in Gastroenterology Training and Practice: A Personal Perspective
Dave U · Dave A · Taylor-Robinson SD · 2020-11 · Clinical and Experimental Gastroenterology
Umakant Dave,1 Anjali Dave,2 Simon David Taylor-Robinson3 1Department of Gastroenterology, Morriston Hospital, Swansea, Wales SA6 6NL, UK; 2Department of Psychology, Birmingham University, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK; 3Department of Surgery and Cancer, Imperial College London, St Mary’s Hospital Campus, London W2 1NY, UKCorrespondence: Simon David Taylor-RobinsonDepartment of Surgery and Cancer, Imperial College Lon…
Building Wellbeing in People With Chronic Conditions: A Qualitative Evaluation of an 8-Week Positive Psychotherapy Intervention for People Living With an Acquired Brain Injury
Chloe Tulip · Zoe Fisher · Zoe Fisher · Helen Bankhead · 2020-1 · Frontiers in Psychology
Research indicates that Acquired Brain Injury (ABI) is associated with significant and chronic impairment across multiple areas of functioning including physical, cognitive, emotional and behavioral domains. Whilst impairments associated with ABI can be ameliorated, cure is seldom possible. The emergence of positive psychology reflects a paradigm shift in health and wellbeing research, highlighting the role of charac…
Parenting Styles and Their Influence on Personality and Stage Performance Successfulness of Would-Be Musicians
Alexandra М. Ferodova · 2019-12 · Музыкальное искусство и образование
This article is devoted to the relevant issue of correlation between the style of parenting and the prerequisites of professional difficulties that music students may have. The research of professional and personal problems of musicians, its causes and effects as well as prevention opportunities is relevant to consistently actual issues of musical education psychology. Wide public debate about authoritarianism proble…
Collaboration Vouchers: A Policy to Increase Population Wellbeing
Benjamin Heslop · Antony Drew · Elizabeth Stojanovski · Kylie Bailey · 2018-6 · Societies
Abstract: While economic liberalism has delivered national wealth, substantial portions of the population have been left behind. The precariously and unemployed experience reduced wellbeing that may be remedied by their greater involvement in egalitarian, purposive collaborative groups. Policy to achieve this objective may be assisted by an understanding of how positive psychology interacts with social psychology. Th…
The intervention process in the European Fans in Training (EuroFIT) trial: a mixed method protocol for evaluation
I. van de Glind · C. Bunn · C. M. Gray · K. Hunt · 2017-7 · Trials
Abstract Background EuroFIT is a gender-sensitised, health and lifestyle program targeting physical activity, sedentary time and dietary behaviours in men. The delivery of the program in football clubs, led by the clubs’ community coaches, is designed to both attract and engage men in lifestyle change through an interest in football or loyalty to the club they support. The EuroFIT program will be evaluated in a multi…
The psychological well-being manifesting among master’s students in Industrial and Organisational Psychology
Frans Cilliers · Aden-Paul Flotman · 2016-6 · SA Journal of Industrial Psychology
Orientation: Psychological well-being among master’s students is seen as a contributing factor towards having a meaningful, enjoyable and productive experience as a student. Research purpose: The purpose of this study was to provide a qualitative description of the psychological well-being experiences of first-year students in a part-time coursework master’s degree in Industrial and Organisational Psychology (IOP) in…
Situating and contesting structural violence in community-based research and action
Urmitapa Dutta · Christopher C. Sonn · M. Brinton Lykes · 2016-11 · Community Psychology in Global Perspective
Structural violence refers to social systems as well as the mechanisms through which they produce and normalize marginalization, exclusion, and exploitation. It is intricately tied to cultural violence, that is, systematic assaults on the human dignity and self-worth of individuals and communities. This latter violence operates through culture, language, ideology, and knowledge production in academic disciplines and …