Teachers and students in German-speaking countries are increasingly suffering from complaints such as chronic stress, sleep disorders and mental illness. However, positive attitudes and emotions can promote students' motivation, mental and physical health and social skills. Positive psychology as a concept, significantly influenced by Martin Seligman, deals with the question of what makes life...
During social interactions our attention is automatically attracted by our interlocutor gaze, and we are compelled to follow it: this phenomenon, called joint attention, sees one of its key features in the so-called gaze-following behaviour (GFB) paradigm. The tendency to follow other people’s gaze can be supressed, at the cost of delayed reaction times, according to social categorization...
Mental health and wellbeing of university students has become an important public health concern all over the world. Experiencing mental health issues is associated with poor academic achievements and increased study drop-out rates. Considering these costly repercussions for both students and universities, addressing student mental health is an urgent research priority. Comparing different...
Summated rating scales are frequently considered interval-scaled rather than ordinal-scaled, with results published regularly in highly ranked journals. This may be due to the simplified application of parametric statistics and the more convenient results these methods offer. However, when assumptions such as equidistance are violated, which is often unclear, bias can occur, complicating...
Our study was part of a larger project to determine the influence of environmental variables on participants' experiences. The aim of our study was to develop and test two instruments: (1) to measure the experience of environmental variables in the classroom and (2) to measure the experience of the learning process. We developed two rating scales based on a literature review in a group of...
This study aims to evaluate the efficacy of brain-based-learning principles (Caine and Caine, 1990; Sousa, 2001; Folta-Schoofs & Ostermann, 2019) in enhancing vocabulary learning. Although neurodidactics has received considerable attention in scientific and popular discourse, detailed research findings and implementation guidelines of these principles are scarce. Moreover, the approach is...
Research has shown that monitoring an ex-partner's Facebook profile can impede post-breakup healing, while remaining friends on Facebook correlates with lower breakup distress. Anxiously attached individuals tend to experience higher breakup distress and engage in more Facebook surveillance. With Instagram's increasing popularity among young people, investigating its role in breakup distress...
Achieving an attractive physical appearance, even via cosmetic surgery, is a core factor in women's lives. Social media puts high pressure on women to be attractive. In addition to promoting the ideal body shape and cosmetic procedures, Instagram also has a significant impact on women's attitudes towards their own bodies. The present study aims to show that Instagram use plays a significant...
Humour plays multiple roles in our lives. A sense of humour reflects a person’s good social skills, has a positive effect on health, reduces stress and tension, evokes positive emotions, reduces social distance, increases group cohesion, and creates a stimulating work atmosphere. However, not every form of humour works that way, and we distinguish between positive and negative humour.
The...
Background: The Structured Interview of Personality Organization – Revised (STIPO-R) (Clarkin et al., 2016) assesses personality organization as conceptualized by Otto Kernberg. Establishing its interrater reliability is crucial for clinical use, but no studies have yet evaluated the Hungarian version's reliability.
Objective: This study aims to evaluate the interrater reliability of the...
The poster will present the structure of my dissertation, my current secondary, and ongoing primary research.
In my dissertation, which is about the cryptocurrency market, I am primarily looking for answers to the question of what personality traits cryptocurrency investors have, who are the ones who are successful in the long run, which investors are risk takers and risk averse based on...
Introduction: The Operationalized Psychodynamic Diagnosis System (currently available in its third revision, OPD-3) is a multiaxial system used for psychodynamic diagnosis and treatment planning. Its four axes cover the essential psychodynamic sub-concepts intrapsychic conflict, transference, defence, resistance and personality structure. The structural concept on axis four has five...
Prosocial behaviour develops rapidly in the preschool period and can be influenced by both environmental and individual factors. The research aims to identify these factors through parenting, child temperament and regulatory skills. In what ways do these factors influence children's prosocial behaviour? 524 parents (Mparents’ age: 35,57 years; SD: 4,65; range: 21-49; 36 males, 488 female)...
ITRODUCTION: Parkinson's disease (PD), the second most common neurodegenerative disorder with motor and non-motor symptoms and several psychological features has a significant impact on daily activities of patients. Our research focuses on the individual disease narratives of people with PD.
METHODS: In the present study, we aimed to assess the everyday experiences of patients with PD and...
The aim of this research was to investigate individual differences in activity and attention concentration from a personality psychological perspective. The research question was which characteristics of the individual and his/her immediate personal environment influenced the relationship between inhibition and behavioural control.
We used a questionnaire package. Children's behavioural...
Background: Parental stress affects parents and negatively impacts children. Therefore, it is important to provide a valid and reliable measurement instrument. Objective: The aim of this study was to conduct a psychometric evaluation of the Parental Stress Scale (PSS) using item response theory analysis in parents of 2–9 year old children. Methods: Data from a larger European initiative to...
The shift from traditional combustion vehicles to electric vehicles (EVs) is crucial for meeting decarbonisation targets and addressing global warming. This transition faces several challenges, many of which are psychological. A well-known issue is range anxiety, the fear of running out of energy during travel. This and other factors causing scepticisms about EV adoption often stem from...
Stress, including occupational stress can cause problems in mental and physical health and is known to be associated with high levels of sick leaves and work errors. Main stressors in nursing are often related to the unpredictability of their work, insufficient number of employees, poor work organization, overtime and night work, and inadequate reward and recognition. The aim of this research...
Self-efficacy and life satisfaction are pivotal factors in adolescent development, with their positive correlation well-established in existing literature. However, further exploration of the underlying mechanisms driving this relationship is needed. This study aimed to investigate whether academic performance could serve as a mediator in this relationship. A total of 321 high school students...
The SNARC effect reflect a left-to-right mapping of numbers resembling a mental number line. However, disentangling the roles played by numbers’ magnitude and order in the SNARC effect remains a challenge due to their inherent correlation. This study examined the impact of order and magnitude on the SNARC effect using playing cards as stimuli. While most people organize cards in ascending...
Life History Theory (LHT) posits that individuals exhibit variation in their sexual, reproductive, parental, familial, and social behaviors as adaptive responses to the physical and social challenges encountered during development. “Sugar relationships” typically involve the exchange of resources for sex and/or companionship between a younger partner and an older provider. This study aimed to...
Despite the established relationship between basic psychological needs and depression as an indicator of mental health in adolescents, the role of gender as a potential moderator in these relationships remains underexplored. The aim of the present study was to investigate the relationship between basic psychological need satisfaction and frustration and depression, as well as the moderating...
According to Self-determination theory, basic psychological needs represent sources of positive identity and optimal functioning. There is no prior research on the relationship between basic psychological needs and identity orientations in adolescents, like the ones defined in the Tetrapartite model of the self, which differentiates personal, relational, collective, and public identity...
Internal combustion cars are on the verge of becoming obsolete and of being replaced by Electric vehicles (EVs). In spite of the quick expansion of EVs, how drivers perceive and cognitively process some of their features remains largely unknown. This study focuses on the role of in-car sound, particularly artificial engine sounds, on drivers’ speed perception and control. Previous research...
Human visual perception has evolved in response to the natural variations of daylight patterns created by changing sky conditions. It is s called the dynamic variation in color appearance of daylight, or light temperature. In the morning, and early evening the color temperature of the light is relatively low (2500 Kelvin) and this is the experience of yellow and orange light (i.e. warm light)....
Novel Psychoactive Substances (NPS) pose new challenges for treatment-providing institutions. Initially, studies concentrated mainly on the types of substances, their effects, and the new contexts of use. Recently, qualitative studies conducted on small samples have emerged, focusing on substance users' lived experiences. This research explores the demographic data and emotionally significant...
The scarcity effect refers to people’s tendency to find things more attractive and desirable, and to value them more when they are scarce rather than abundant, e.g. in supply. The present study aims to shed light on a possible underlying phenomenon explaining this relationship, namely the Fear of Missing Out (FoMO). The mediation hypothesis was tested in an online survey by manipulating an...
In the context of globalization and increased immigration, individuals necessarily need to cope with their cultural identity. This study focuses on the effects of immigration, generational differences, and geographical location on the use and awareness of language cultural components, particularly pragmatic schema. Bartlett's recall paradigm was employed with 102 Iranian participants...
Given its severe health-related consequences, reliably identifying and measuring loneliness is of central importance. The German 6-Item Rasch-Type Loneliness Scale (RTLS) is a widely used instrument that is applied both as a unidimensional scale — addressing overall loneliness — and as a two-dimensional scale, differentiating between emotional and social loneliness. As of yet, there is no...
As students are a vulnerable group for mental disorders, tailored interventions for promoting mental health and well-being are urgently needed. Programs of the third wave of CBT (e.g., ACT, MSC) showed promising results for addressing these issues and hence, SAM synergistically combines all these approaches. Since mindfulness is still the core element of those methods, SAM adopted this...
In our study, we examined the mental health of preschool teachers (N = 554), preschool teacher assistants (N = 453) and counselors (N = 138) in Slovenian preschools. We analyzed the factors (workplace characteristics, psychological factors, sources of stress and perceived social support) contributing to mental health assessed with the Professional Fulfillment Index (PFI). The results indicate...
Recovery narratives have been analyzed within the frameworks of numerous previous studies, yet there remains a paucity of data regarding individuals using Novel Psychoactive Substances (NPS). The subjective significance of substance use, and the transition to sobriety, as well as the pivotal moments experienced, varies. In our research, we conducted interviews using the Hungarian adaptation of...
A growing body of research results (Schmidt & Vandewater, 2008; NMHH, 2021; Rideout, 2017) suggests that children begin the use of digital devices at a younger and younger age and that this kind of usage can have both positive and negative effects on the development of young children’s cognitive skills (McHarg et al., 2020; Bukhalenkova, 2021;).
To help clarify the topic of young children’s...
Seasonal changes throughout the year are characterized by many factors such as temperature change and different daylight duration, Such changes have been shown to affect a wide variety of psychological phenomena such as decision-making and prosocial behavior. Some of the previous research has shown that people experience more negative emotions during Winter and Spring, also known as Seasonal...
Introduction: Loneliness is a pressing public mental health issue. So far, there has been a paucity of investigations focused on the individual differences modulating this subjective feeling in the face of difficult circumstances, e.g., the COVID-19 pandemic. As such, the present study aimed to investigate the role of mentalization; given that the construct comprises reflection abilities that...
Children who can live a good, enjoyable, or successful life despite experiencing a variety of negative life events are described as resilient. Resilience is the ability to withstand challenges across various psychological, social, and societal aspects, depending on the context. The topic of children with mentally ill parents has already been examined from several perspectives. Extensive...
By now there is theoretical and clinical consesus regarding the diversity of the representations of narcissism. Besides the psychodynamic formulation, empirical attention also focused on this issue, however vulnerable narcissism is relatively still in the background when our aim is to present valid and reliable measurement options. In our study we will demonstrate the Hungarian adaptation of...
Studies have shown that motion is a prominent factor influencing how we perceive time durations. For example, targets in motion are perceived to have longer durations than those at rest, and this effect persists even for static images that imply action. However, since motion can be a characteristic of both animate and inanimate subjects, it remains unclear whether this perceptual bias affects...
This study investigates the motivation and perception of the teaching profession among final year Bachelor students of social sciences and languages. Students who intended to pursue a master’s degree in teaching reported on their motivation to teach, their beliefs about teaching and their satisfaction with their career choice. Students who had decided not to study to become a teacher reported...
Introduction: The COVID-19 pandemic has been linked to an increase in loneliness and a decrease in social skills among adolescents, both of which are recognized as risk factors for mental health concerns. Social skills training and relationship-building interventions are considered promising strategies to mitigate these health concerns and strengthen resilience. Method: We have developed a...
