scholarly journals Sex addiction in Turkey: A large-scale survey with a national community sample

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kagan Kircaburun ◽  
Hüseyin Ünübol ◽  
Gökben H. Sayar ◽  
Jaklin Çarkçı ◽  
Mark D. Griffiths
Keyword(s):  
Negative Affect ◽  
Sexual Behaviors ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Community Sample ◽  
Brief Symptom Inventory ◽  
Sex Addiction ◽  
Hierarchical Regression ◽  
Positive And Negative Affect ◽  
Anxious Attachment ◽  
Personal Wellbeing

AbstractPrior studies on sex addiction have mostly relied on a narrow range of risk factors among small and heterogeneous samples. The purpose of the present study was to examine the psychological markers related to sex addiction in a large-scale community sample of Turkish adults. A total of 24,380 individuals completed a survey comprising the Sex Addiction Risk Questionnaire, the Brief Symptom Inventory, the Positive and Negative Affect Schedule, the Personal-Wellbeing Index Adult Form, the Toronto Alexithymia Scale, and the Experiences in Close Relationships-Revised (50% males; mean age = 31.79 years; age range = 18 to 81 years). Utilizing hierarchical regression analysis, sex addiction was associated with being male, being younger, having a lower education level, being single, being an alcohol and nicotine user, psychiatric distress, low personal wellbeing, positive and negative affect, alexithymia, and anxious attachment. This study suggests that socio-demographic factors and aforementioned detrimental psychological factors exacerbate higher engagement in addictive sexual behaviors among the Turkish community. However, more studies are needed to better understand the factors associated with sex addiction in Turkey.

Playing for God’s Team: The Influence of Belief in the Supernatural on Perceptions of Religious, Spiritual, and Natural Cues

2016 ◽  
Vol 16 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 215-244
Author(s):  
Virginia A. Periss ◽  
David F. Bjorklund
Keyword(s):  
Negative Affect ◽  
Positive Affect ◽  
Social Exchange ◽  
Religious Belief ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Positive And Negative Affect ◽  
Positive Bias ◽  
Evolutionary Perspective ◽  
Supernatural Beliefs ◽  
Supernatural Explanations

Adherence to religious belief may serve to promote group cohesion and cooperation by decreasing the costs associated with social exchange. Consistent with this, organized religious ideologies, unlike secular or spiritual based ideologies, have been argued to facilitate cooperation among individuals living in large-scale societies. In the current study, we examined whether hypothetical adults’ explanations of natural events focused on religious ideologies were more effective at eliciting positive-affect compared to spiritual or natural explanations. Results revealed that religious cues were more effective than spiritual cues in eliciting perceptions of positive-affect, but only when participant religiosity was taken into account. Participants high in religiosity favored the religious cues over the spiritual and natural cues, whereas participants high in spirituality showed no preferences. Conversely, participants low in religious belief demonstrated not only a positive bias towards the natural explanations, but also rated the adults expressing the supernatural explanations, in particular the religious explanations, as having greater negative-affect. From an evolutionary perspective, we interpreted the results as providing support that some forms of supernatural thinking, typical of organized religion, are more effective at eliciting feelings of positive and negative affect compared to supernatural beliefs not rooted in organized religion.

scholarly journals Measurement, prevalence, and psychological risk factors associated with addictive food consumption: Development of a new food addiction scale and evidence from a national largescale sample

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 836-852
Author(s):  
Kagan Kircaburun ◽  
Hüseyin Ünübol ◽  
Gökben H. Sayar ◽  
Vasileios Stavropoulos ◽  
Mark D. Griffiths
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
Negative Affect ◽  
Food Consumption ◽  
Psychiatric Symptoms ◽  
Food Addiction ◽  
National Sample ◽  
Brief Symptom Inventory ◽  
Anxious Attachment ◽  
Higher Alcohol ◽  
Psychological States

AbstractBackground and aimsTo date, a number of studies have investigated the prevalence and correlates of addictive food consumption. However, these studies have mostly relied on models that comprised a narrow range of variables in often small and heterogenous samples. The purpose of the present study was to comprehensively examine the measurement aspects, the prevalence, and the psychological correlates of addictive eating among a largescale national sample of Turkish adults.MethodParticipants (N = 24,380, 50% men, Mage = 31.79 years, age range = 18–81 years) completed a battery of tests including the Food Addiction Risk Questionnaire (FARQ), the Brief Symptom Inventory, the Toronto Alexithymia Scale, the Positive and Negative Affect Schedule, and the Experiences in Close Relationships-Revised.ResultsAccording to analyses conducted, the FARQ had a uni-dimensional factor structure. Based on Item Response Theory (IRT) calculated cut-off scores, 2.3% of the participants were at risk of addictive eating patterns, whilst criteria varied in their discriminating ability. The correlates of addictive food consumption were being male, being younger, having lower education, presenting with higher alcohol use, psychiatric symptoms, alexithymia, positive/negative affect, and anxious attachment.ConclusionThese results suggest that a minority of Turkish community are at risk for addictive food consumption and that adverse psychological states promote this problematic behavior.

scholarly journals Blinded by our emotions: The impact of borderline personality disorder and affect on emotion recognition sensitivity

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 204380871881887 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kibby McMahon ◽  
Kwanguk Kim ◽  
Caitlin M. Fang ◽  
Andrada D. Neacsiu ◽  
M. Zachary Rosenthal
Keyword(s):  
Borderline Personality Disorder ◽  
Personality Disorder ◽  
Negative Affect ◽  
Emotion Recognition ◽  
Community Sample ◽  
Borderline Personality ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Independent Effect ◽  
Positive And Negative Affect ◽  
The Impact

Previous studies have demonstrated abnormalities in emotion recognition within individuals diagnosed with borderline personality disorder (BPD). However, it is yet unknown how much these abnormalities can be attributed to emotional states or affect. Therefore, the current study aimed to investigate the independent effects of BPD, positive affect, and negative affect on emotion recognition sensitivity. We recruited a mixed, transdiagnostic community sample of 118 adults diagnosed with either a personality disorder, only an affective disorder, or without psychopathology. Participants completed self-report assessments of positive and negative affect and two behavioral assessments of emotion recognition sensitivity. We found that both positive and negative affect predict lower overall emotion recognition sensitivity in both tasks, beyond the effect of BPD. We did not find a significant, independent effect of the diagnosis of BPD. Additionally, we found that the diagnosis of BPD moderated the relationship between negative affect and emotion recognition sensitivity within one task. Findings from the present study suggest that sensitivity to other people’s emotional expressions may be influenced by affect beyond the effect of the BPD diagnosis. The implications for future research efforts on emotion recognition and BPD are discussed.

scholarly journals The prevalence and psychological relation of problem shopping: data from a large-scale sample from Turkey

2022 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Başak Ünübol ◽  
Barış Önen Ünsalver ◽  
Hüseyin Ünübol ◽  
Gökben Hızlı Sayar
Keyword(s):  
Negative Affect ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Rare Condition ◽  
National Sample ◽  
Brief Symptom Inventory ◽  
Shopping Behavior ◽  
Large Sample Size ◽  
Female Population ◽  
Psychiatric Distress ◽  
Shopping Addiction

Abstract Background The purpose of the present study was to comprehensively examine the measurement aspects, the prevalence, and the psychological correlates of problem shopping among a large-scale national sample of Turkish adults. Result Participants (N = 24,380, 50% men, M age = 31.79 years, age range = 18–81 years) completed a questionnaire that comprised the Shopping Addiction Risk Questionnaire, the Brief Symptom Inventory, the Positive and Negative Affect Schedule, and the Experiences in Close Relationships-Revised. Results showed that 1.8% of the participants had probable shopping addiction. Being female, being younger, psychiatric distress, positive affect, negative affect, anxious attachment, and avoidant attachment were positive correlates of problem shopping. Conclusion The results of this large sample size study suggest that shopping addiction is not a rare condition in Turkey. Further research is needed to understand different motives that underlie the problematic shopping behavior in the young and female population in comparison to older and male populations. Preventive programs or any interventions for people with PSB needs to address regulation difficulties and development of healthy strategies to cope with psychiatric distress.

scholarly journals Empathic emotion regulation in prosocial behavior and altruism

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristin M. Brethel-Haurwitz ◽  
Maria Stoianova ◽  
Abigail Marsh
Keyword(s):  
Emotion Regulation ◽  
Negative Affect ◽  
Prosocial Behavior ◽  
Emotional Regulation ◽  
Community Sample ◽  
Positive And Negative Affect ◽  
Prosocial Motivation ◽  
Donation Behavior ◽  
Independent Effects

The emotions evoked in response to others’ distress are important for motivating concerned prosocial responses. But how various forms of emotional regulation shape prosocial responding is not yet well understood. When does regulation of empathy lead to prosocial motivation versus personal distress or apathy? We tested the role of empathic emotion regulation in promoting prosocial motivation and costly donations across two studies, first in a community sample and then in a sample of altruistic kidney donors and a matched comparison sample. Participants engaged in hopeful and distancing reappraisals while viewing images of others in distress, then decided whether to help by donating a portion of a monetary endowment to charity. Whereas hope was expected to evoke approach-based motivation indexed by increased donations, distance was expected to evoke avoidance-based motivation indexed by decreased donations. It was hypothesized that varying effects of the two reappraisals on positive and negative affect would influence donation decisions. Across both studies, both reappraisals decreased negative affect. Hopeful reappraisal also increased positive affect. Instructed reappraisal also altered donation behavior in the community sample: here, hopeful reappraisal resulted in higher donations than distancing reappraisal. Altruists were more prosocial overall, but the associations between affect and donation behavior in this group mirrored that of the hopeful reappraisal in the larger community sample, suggesting that altruists might adopt a more hopeful and compassionate appraisal by default. These findings further clarify the role of empathic emotion regulation in prosocial behavior and also independent effects of positive and negative affect.

scholarly journals Structural validity and reliability of the Positive and Negative Affect Schedule (PANAS): Evidence from a large Brazilian community sample

2013 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 169-172 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hudson W. de Carvalho ◽  
Sérgio B. Andreoli ◽  
Diogo R. Lara ◽  
Christopher J. Patrick ◽  
Maria Inês Quintana ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Negative Affect ◽  
Community Sample ◽  
Positive And Negative Affect ◽  
Validity And Reliability ◽  
Structural Validity

scholarly journals The Prevalence and Psychological Relation of Problem Shopping: Data from a Large-Scale Sample from Turkey

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Başak Ünübol ◽  
Barış Önen Ünsalver ◽  
Hüseyin Ünübol ◽  
Gökben Hızlı Sayar
Keyword(s):  
Negative Affect ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Rare Condition ◽  
National Sample ◽  
Brief Symptom Inventory ◽  
Shopping Behavior ◽  
Large Sample Size ◽  
Female Population ◽  
Psychiatric Distress ◽  
Shopping Addiction

Abstract Background:The purpose of the present study was to comprehensively examine the measurement aspects, the prevalence, and the psychological correlates of problem shopping among a large-scale national sample of Turkish adults. Result: Participants (N = 24380, 50% men, M age = 31.79 years, age range = 18 to 81 years) completed a questionnaire that comprised the Shopping Addiction Risk Questionnaire, the Brief Symptom Inventory, the Positive and Negative Affect Schedule, and the Experiences in Close Relationships-Revised. Results showed that 1.8% of the participants had probable shopping addiction. Being female, being younger, psychiatric distress, positive affect, negative affect, anxious attachment, and avoidant attachment were positive correlates of problem shopping.Conclusion: The results of this large sample size study suggest that shopping addiction is not a rare condition in Turkey. Further research is needed to understand different motives that underlie the problematic shopping behavior in the young and female population in comparison to older and male populations. Preventive programs or any interventions for people with SA needs to address regulation difficulties and development of healthy strategies to cope with psychiatric distress.

Spirituality, Life Stress, and Affective Well-Being

2007 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
pp. 235-243 ◽  
Author(s):  
David V. Powers ◽  
Robert J. Cramer ◽  
Joshua M. Grubka
Keyword(s):  
Depressive Symptoms ◽  
Negative Affect ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Life Stress ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Hierarchical Regression ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Positive And Negative Affect ◽  
Age Range

Recent research has explored many aspects of affective well-being, including depressive symptoms, positive and negative affect. The present study sought to contribute to this line of inquiry by investigating the role of life stress, spiritual life integration (SLI), and social justice commitment (SJC) in predicting affective well-being. Participants were 136 undergraduate students with a mean age of 18.82 (SD = 1.07), and age range of 17–22. Participants completed a questionnaire packet including the Undergraduate Stress Questionnaire (USQ), Beck Depression Inventory (BDI), Positive and Negative Affect Scale (PANAS), and Spiritual Involvement Scale which includes SLI and SJC subscales. In line with previous findings, life stress significantly predicted negative affect and depressive symptoms in hierarchical regression analyses. Contrary to previous research, SLI did not predict any aspect of affective well-being. Finally, SJC significantly predicted positive affect, negative affect, and depressive symptoms. Interpretations, implications, limitations, and future research are discussed.

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