scholarly journals Untangling Potential Links between Childhood Trauma and the Psychological Response to the COVID‐19 Pandemic: A Prospective Study Testing Multiple Mediation

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephanie V. Rek ◽  
Matthias A. Reinhard ◽  
Markus Bühner ◽  
Daniel Freeman ◽  
Kristina Adorjan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Childhood Maltreatment ◽  
Psychosocial Outcomes ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Preliminary Evidence ◽  
Insecure Attachment ◽  
Multiple Mediation ◽  
Mediation Analyses ◽  
The Future ◽  
Underlying Mechanisms ◽  
A Prospective Study

Abstract Childhood maltreatment (CM)has been associated with adverse psychosocial outcomes during the pandemic, but the underlying mechanisms are unclear. In a prospective online study using baseline and 10-week follow-up data of 391 German participants, we applied multiple mediation analyses to test to what extent COVID-19 perceived stressors mediate the association between CM and later adverse psychosocial outcomescompared to established mediators of rumination and insecure attachment. We also explored the relative importance of different COVID-19 related stressors in predicting adverse psychological trajectories using elastic net regression.Results showed that CM was longitudinally associated with all adverse psychosocial outcome. COVID-19 perceived stressors, rumination, and insecure attachment mediated this relationship and full mediation was observed for the outcomes anxiety, stress and psychological well-being. COVID-19-related concerns about the future wasmost strongly and consistently associated with adverse psychosocial functioning.These findings provide preliminary evidence that COVID-19 perceived stressors, in particular concerns about the future, may be a key mechanismunderlying the development of adverse psychosocial outcomes in individuals with a CM history. Thus, COVID-19 perceived stressors may require a higher priority for prevention and treatment efforts in vulnerable groups.Our results warrant replication in more representative cross-cultural samples.

scholarly journals Shared flow in collective physical and sports activities and subjective well-being

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 151-166
Author(s):  
Larraitz N. Zumeta ◽  
Nekane Basabe ◽  
Saioa Telletxea ◽  
Alberto Amutio ◽  
Magdalena Bobowik
Keyword(s):  
Positive Emotions ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Subjective Well Being ◽  
Mediating Effects ◽  
Multiple Mediation ◽  
Confirmatory Factor Analyses ◽  
Mediation Analyses ◽  
Confirmatory Factor ◽  
Sport Activities ◽  
Sports Activities

This study examines physical and sport activities as a source of shared flow or optimal shared experiences and their relationship with subjective well-being (SWB). Two studies are presented with university students (N=88 and N=285) participating in group sports and physical activities. Measures included the degree of engagement in the activity, individual and shared flow, positive emotions, and subjective well-being (SWB). The first study showed that shared flow was more intense than individual flow. In the second study, confirmatory factor analyses and multiple mediation analyses were performed. The results showed a second order factorial structure with nine primary dimensions, in addition to mediating effects of shared flow and positive emotions on SWB. The results confirm the relevance of shared flow during collective gatherings and its relations with SWB.

scholarly journals Attachment and the Development of Depressive Symptoms in Adolescence: The Role of Regulating Positive and Negative Affect

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martine W. F. T. Verhees ◽  
Chloë Finet ◽  
Sien Vandesande ◽  
Margot Bastin ◽  
Patricia Bijttebier ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Emotion Regulation ◽  
Depressive Symptoms ◽  
Negative Affect ◽  
Positive Affect ◽  
Attachment Anxiety ◽  
Insecure Attachment ◽  
Multiple Mediation ◽  
Mediation Analyses ◽  
Longitudinal Support ◽  
Regulation Strategies

AbstractAlthough widely accepted, attachment theory’s hypothesis that insecure attachment is associated with the development of depressive symptoms through emotion regulation strategies has never been longitudinally tested in adolescence. Additionally, previous research only focused on strategies for regulating negative affect, whereas strategies for regulating positive affect may also serve as a mechanism linking insecure attachment to depressive symptoms. This study aimed to fill these research gaps by testing whether the association between attachment and change in depressive symptoms over time is explained by strategies for regulating negative and positive affect in adolescence. Adolescents (N = 1706; 53% girls; Mage = 12.78 years, SDage = 1.54 at Time 1) were tested three times, with a 1-year interval between measurement times. They reported on their attachment anxiety and avoidance at Time 1, depressive symptoms at Times 1 and 3, and regulation of negative affect (brooding and dampening) and positive affect (focusing and reflection) at Time 2. The results from multiple mediation analyses showed that more anxiously attached adolescents developed more depressive symptoms via increased brooding and dampening. More avoidantly attached adolescents developed more depressive symptoms via decreased focusing. These findings provide longitudinal support for attachment theory’s emotion regulation hypothesis, and show that the regulation of both negative and positive affect is important.

scholarly journals Is the Prospective Link between Parental Stress and Adolescent Snack Intake or Weight Outcome Mediated by Food Parenting Practices?

Nutrients ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (8) ◽  
pp. 2485
Author(s):  
Maaike Koning ◽  
Jacqueline M. Vink ◽  
Carry Renders ◽  
Natascha Notten ◽  
Rob Eisinga ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Parental Stress ◽  
Parenting Practices ◽  
Autonomy Support ◽  
Outcome Variable ◽  
Multiple Mediation ◽  
Mediation Analyses ◽  
General Stress ◽  
Stress Levels ◽  
Underlying Mechanisms ◽  
Control Modeling

Parental stress may influence adolescents’ food intake and weight development over time, however, it is largely unknown why this is the case. This study examines whether the link between parental stress and adolescents’ snack intake and weight outcome is mediated by food parenting practices (FPPs). Participants included 400 parents and their adolescent children (aged 12–16) who completed questionnaires. The Perceived Stress Scale (PSS) was used to assess parental general stress levels and the Adolescent Food Parenting Questionnaire (AFPQ) to assess FPPs. Multiple mediation analyses with parallel mediators were performed, with parental general stress as an independent variable and adolescent snack intake and zBMI as dependent variables. FPPs (autonomy support, coercive control, modeling, healthy structure, snack structure) were entered as mediators in the model, adjusted for covariates. Autonomy support mediated the link between parental general stress and adolescent savory snack and sweet snack intake at follow-up. Parents who reported higher stress levels provided less autonomy support, which resulted in more adolescent snacking. None of the other FPPs mediated any link between parental stress and intake or weight outcome, and no significant indirect effects were observed with zBMI as an outcome variable. Further research should replicate this finding and may further examine underlying mechanisms.

Direct and indirect associations among self-disclosure skills, social support, and psychosocial outcomes during the transition to college

2021 ◽  
pp. 026540752110367
Author(s):  
Analisa Arroyo ◽  
Timothy Curran ◽  
Erin K. Ruppel
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Psychosocial Outcomes ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Transition To College ◽  
Significant Other ◽  
Self Disclosure ◽  
Relational Context ◽  
Mediation Analyses ◽  
Sources Of Support ◽  
Academic Year

The goal of current study was to explore direct and indirect associations between self-disclosure skills, social support, and psychosocial outcomes during the transition to college. Incoming college students in the U.S. completed online surveys throughout their first academic year. Multilevel mediation analyses revealed different associations among these variables (1) when considering different relational sources of support (family, friend, significant other) and (2) when specifying interindividual (i.e., between-person) versus intraindividual (i.e., within-person) effects across time. Most notably, results indicated that more friend support was associated with better psychosocial outcomes both between and within participants; in comparison, family support was beneficial to both positive and negative psychosocial outcomes when individuals generally had better self-disclosure skills (i.e., between-person effects), and perceived significant other support as a mediator explained positive psychosocial outcomes. These results highlight the importance of considering both intraindividual and interindividual changes, as well as relational context, when exploring how social skills are associated with well-being.

scholarly journals Shared flow in collective physical and sports activities and subjective well-being

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 151-166
Author(s):  
Larraitz N. Zumeta ◽  
Nekane Basabe ◽  
Saioa Telletxea ◽  
Alberto Amutio ◽  
Magdalena Bobowik
Keyword(s):  
Positive Emotions ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Subjective Well Being ◽  
Mediating Effects ◽  
Multiple Mediation ◽  
Confirmatory Factor Analyses ◽  
Mediation Analyses ◽  
Confirmatory Factor ◽  
Sport Activities ◽  
Sports Activities

This study examines physical and sport activities as a source of shared flow or optimal shared experiences and their relationship with subjective well-being (SWB). Two studies are presented with university students (N=88 and N=285) participating in group sports and physical activities. Measures included the degree of engagement in the activity, individual and shared flow, positive emotions, and subjective well-being (SWB). The first study showed that shared flow was more intense than individual flow. In the second study, confirmatory factor analyses and multiple mediation analyses were performed. The results showed a second order factorial structure with nine primary dimensions, in addition to mediating effects of shared flow and positive emotions on SWB. The results confirm the relevance of shared flow during collective gatherings and its relations with SWB.

Temporal Focus

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abbie J. Shipp
Keyword(s):  
Well Being ◽  
Psychology Research ◽  
The Past ◽  
Research Areas ◽  
The Future ◽  
Behavior Based ◽  
The Individual ◽  
And Behavior ◽  
Temporal Focus

Temporal focus is the individual tendency to characteristically think more or less about the past, present, and future. Although originally rooted in early work from psychology, research on temporal focus has been steadily growing in a number of research areas, particularly since Zimbardo and Boyd’s (1999) influential article on the topic. This chapter will review temporal focus research from the past to the present, including how temporal focus has been conceptualized and measured, and which correlates and outcomes have been tested in terms of well-being and behavior. Based on this review, an agenda for research is created to direct temporal focus research in the future.

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