Psychological Applications and Trends 2026

INDEX OF CONTENTS

FRONT MATTER

ORAL PRESENTATIONS:

Clinical Psychology

Process evaluation of the kid’s club and mom’s empowerment programs adapted for Canadian indigenous families (pages 3-7)
Caroline Piotrowski, Lubna Anis, Margherita Cameranesi, Jaime Cidro,
Sandra A. Graham-Bermann, Pam Heavy Head, Leslie Hill, & Nicole Letourneau

‘I’m so tired, I can’t go on!’ Chronotype and academic life: The role of sleep for high school and university students (pages 8-12)
Angelika Kleszczewska-Albińska

The relationship between anxiety and substance use: A quantitative study among Maltese emerging adults aged 18-30 years (pages 13-17)
Rebecca Overend, Anna Grech, & Marilyn Clark

Burnout symptoms and work-related goal dimensions among researchers and helping professionals (pages 18-22)
Miroslava Köverová, Sofia Perlíková, & Michelle Tomková

Retrograde amnesias without significant brain damage in young versus old age (pages 23-27)
Hans J. Markowitsch, & Angelica Staniloiu

Mother–adolescent conflict and adolescent depressive symptoms: The moderating role of environmental sensitivity and neuroticism (pages 28-32)
Andreja Brajša-Žganec, Marija Džida, Ljiljana Kaliterna Lipovčan, Marina Kotrla Topić, & Tamara Bolić

The trajectory from recreational to problematic use: Perspectives of individuals with a cocaine use disorder 
(pages 33-37)

Maria Aquilina, Anna Grech, & Greta Darmanin Kissaun

The relationship between the duration and intensity of self-harm and the occurrence of its comorbidities (pages 38-42)
Slavka Demuthova, & Andrej Demuth

Construction and validation of the Motivations to Pursue a Career in Psychotherapy Scale (MPCPS)
(pages 43-47)
Gottfried Catania, Greta Darmanin Kissaun, & Liberato Camilleri

Two-eyed seeing in action: A mixed-methods evaluation of wraparound to promote resilience and well-being among indigenous youth in Canada (pages 48-52)
Margherita Cameranesi, & Carla Kowal

Psychologists’ experiences and perceptions of online psychotherapy in Saudi Arabia: A qualitative study (pages 53-57)
Eman Saad Alharbi

The relationship between young people’s life values in Russia and their attachment styles to parents and romantic partners (pages 58-62)
Elena Chebotareva

Motivation and well-being of early career researchers in Croatia: Preliminary findings (pages 63-67)
Maja Tadić Vujčić

Resilience training for people with Multiple Sclerosis (MS): The ready for MS program (pages 68-72)
Kenneth Pakenham

How to measure retrograde amnesia (pages 73-77)
Hans J. Markowitsch, & Angelica Staniloiu

Weighing thoughts and behaviors in eating pathology: A canonical correlation between the EDE-Q and EPSI subscales (pages 78-82)
Abigail Daley, & Lisa A. Best

Towards an integrative conceptual model of good mental health in people with intellectual disabilities (pages 83-87)
Elisabeth Lucia Zeilinger, & Sophie Komenda-Schned

Intolerance of uncertainty as a personal vulnerability factor in work engagement and burnout (pages 88-92)
Ester Nosáľová

Faith as a way to find meaning in pregnancy loss: Report from the interviews with couples after miscarriage (pages 93-97)
Maria Hornowska-Stoch

Emotion regulation networks in youth with chronic illnesses: A network analysis (pages 98-100)
Patricia Eliza Atudosie, & Oana Alexandra David

Psychometric evaluation of the Career Decision Agency Scale (CDAS) in Croatian high school students (pages 101-105)
Toni Babarović, Iva Šverko, & Iva Černja Rajter

Educational Psychology

“How group care settings can fail in child and youth welfare”: Individualized pedagogical interventions for kids at high risk (pages 106-110)
Tanja Kozak

Emotionally responsive virtual patients for psychotherapy training a proof-of-concept using fine-tuned large language models (pages 111-115)
Niels Netten, Thierry Desot, & Joël du Fosse

Behavioural difficulties and their impact on cognitive, emotional and learning abilities (pages 116-120)
Martina Lattanzi, Chiara Tamburrino, Daniela Raccanello, Anna Lucia Ogliari,
& Valentina Tobia

Psychological capital as a protective factor for university students’ mental well-being: The role of depression and loneliness (pages 121-125)
Janka Liptáková, & Oľga Orosová

Towards a confirmative evaluation of training transfer: Translation, cultural adaptation and validation (pages 126-130)
Carolin Göhring, Guillaume Gimenes, & Maïté Brunel

Perceived and actual detectability of AI-generated student work across three cohorts (pages 131-135)
Irena Miljković Krečar, & Maja Kolega

Cohen-Emerique’s cultural shock method as a research training approach for developing cultural competence in European contexts (pages 136-140)
Chiara Cocchi, Nadia Rania, & Francesca Lagomarsino

Social Psychology

Unproductive work hours and related factors in South Korea: State of idle time unrelated to work (pages 141-145)
Yoojeong Nadine Seo, & Hanna Moon

FOMO, clicktivism and political engagement – The case of Georgia (pages 146-150)
Elene Kvanchilashvili, & Ana Kvanchilashvili

The hidden tolls of new public management in France: Reform perceptions, emotional exhaustion and turnover (pages 151-155)
Victor Noble, & Evelyne Fouquereau

The role of future-directed uncertainty for work motivation and volition among young adults (pages 156-159)
Ezgi Yılmaz, & Andreas Zimber

Setting the tone at the top – Power and peril of political leadership in socio-psychological perspective (pages 160-163)
Thomas Bryant

Reducing children’s racial bias: The efficacy of individuated interpersonal synchrony (pages 164-168)
Wenjuan Zeng, Qian Miao, & Genyue Fu

The influence of threat narratives on attitudes toward immigration: The role of open-mindedness and intellectual humility (pages 169-173)
Medea Despotashvili

Strengthening evidence in public policy evaluation: Ethical and methodological challenges in social impact measurement and the role of psychology (pages 174-178)
Rui Serôdio, Alexandra Serra, Sofia Brito, Sofia Matias, Catarina Mano,
& Sandra Nogueira

Career resources for contemporary world of work (pages 179-183)
Iva Šverko, Toni Babarović, & Mara Šimunović

How to measure compassionate leadership effectiveness (pages 184-188)
Sara Cervai, Elisa Ducoli, Gabriele Blasutig, Marianna Ginocchietti, Matteo Sema, Federico Dalle Molle, Paolo Gubitta, Francesca Ferrè, & Elena Fanton

Power, purpose and personality: Dark traits and motivational pathways to career aspiration (pages 189-193)
Gabriel B. Smith, Brooke C. Winters, & Lisa A. Best

When protection becomes weaponization: Prevailing false accusations under South Korea’s workplace bullying law (pages 194-198)
Yoojeong Nadine Seo

Conversational agents as tools and beings: How people anthropomorphize chatbots (pages 199-203)
Amon Rapp

What does it mean leadership in Italian healthcare: A research action (pages 204-208)
Sara Cervai, Marianna Ginocchietti, Giosuè Facin, Giovanni Scuor, Gabriele Blasutig, Elisa Ducoli, Elisa Ambrosi, Federico Lega, & Claudio Costa

What predicts teachers’ life satisfaction? Data from 30 European countries (pages 209-213)
Kristina Kovalcikiene, Giedre Geneviciute-Janone, Aurelija Stelmokiene,
& Tadas Vadvilavicius

Shadow drama: Reframing and integrating the shadow for identity transformation through creative art-based psychodrama (pages 214-218)
Pendar Fazel, & Karolina Eszter Kovacs

Legal Psychology

The lived experiences of victims of intimate partner violence in the Maltese criminal justice system (pages 219-228)
Roberta Mifsud, & Chantal Avellino

Risk assessment in psychology: Past mistakes and future directions for research (pages 224-228)
Johannes Woschizka, Martina Feldhammer-Kahr, & Martin Arendasy

When protectors become perpetrators: A feminist analysis of domestic violence among Israeli police officers (pages 229-232)
Dalit Yassour-Borochowitz, & Nomi Levenkron

The cost of working directly with offenders: A systematic review of the mental health implications (pages 233-237)
Sofia Barros, Joana Coelho, Ricardo Barroso, & Anita Santos

Compassion fatigue in child welfare specialists: Effects of self-care, cognitive rigidity and emotional clarity
(pages 238-242)

Jūratė Laukytė, Aistė Bakaitytė-Bagdonė, & Justyna Roževič

Quality in expert witness reports – Peer review and computerized evaluation: A way forward? (pages 243-247)
Martina Feldhammer-Kahr, Johannes Woschizka, Nina Kaiser, Markus Sommer,
& Martin Arendasy

Queering justice: A study of the lived experiences of LGBTIQ+ offenders in Malta (pages 248-252)
Dylan Santillo, & Chantal Avellino

Cognitive and Experimental Psychology

A hybrid model of executive functions, mathematical abilities and time processing skills (pages 253-257)
Federica Cortesi, Rachele Montanelli, Andrea Gambarini, Gian Marco Marzocchi,
Anna Lucia Ogliari, & Valentina Tobia

How is “meaning making” defined in publications listed in the PsycINFO database (APA PsycNet) between 1991 and 2025? (pages 258-262)
Colette Dufresne-Tassé

The role of dispositional self-awareness in identifying goal-related obstacles and perceived goal progress (pages 263-266)
Monika Hricova, & Adam Pekarčík

Eye-tracking analysis of visual design preferences in board game selection: Integrating cognitive attention and memory retention for effective ludic interface design (pages 267-270)
Md Jawadur Rahman, Zaima Zarnaz Tuktuk, Akram Hossain, Swarup Nakrani,
& Gabriele M. Murry

The benefit of experience-based learning in developing emotionally competent leaders (pages 271-275)
Sean Kennair, & Christian Moldjord

Health Psychology

Lifestyle and psychosocial correlates of obesity, hypertension and PCOS: A health psychology study in urban Indian adults (pages 276-280)
Shradha Mistri

From stigma to resilience: Culturally responsive peer support as psychosocial care for people living with HIV (pages 281-285)
Taufik Akbar Rizqi Yunanto, & Jesper Herup Dammeyer

An opinion survey on attitudes toward medical assistance in dying in undergraduate students (pages 286-290)
Lilly E. Both, & Liam R. McLellan

Preliminary data from a feasibility trial of an online resilience intervention for people with multiple sclerosis: Ready for MS (pages 291-295)
Lina Duemmer, Kenneth Pakenham, & Jana Poettgen

Exploring breast health education and key educational providers for women with intellectual disabilities in Austria (pages 296-300)
Amelie Fuchs, Theresa Wagner, Matthias Unseld, & Elisabeth Lucia Zeilinger

Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytical Psychotherapy

Repressed memories: Fact or fake? (pages 301-305)
Angelica Staniloiu, & Hans J. Markowitsch

POSTERS:

Clinical Psychology

Working with vulnerable children: Stress factors and coping strategies implemented by NGO workers (pages 309-311)
Lisa Santoro, Marielle Bruyninckx, & Sathya Lheureux

The role of teachers in university student mental health and academic functioning (pages 312-314)
Ivanka Zivcic-Becirevic, Sanja Smojver-Azic, & Tamara Martinac Dorcic

Personality disorders traits among prisoners in the Polish sample (pages 315-317)
Barbara Gawda

PhD students’ well-being: Evidence from self-care and stress-management workshops (pages 318-320)
Olga Zaffini, Ludovica Cionti, Rachele Montanelli, Valentina Tobia, & Anna Lucia Ogliari

The psychological experience of breast cancer among Muslim women living in Belgium and France (pages 321-323)
Lisa Santoro, Dimitri Cauchie, & Syrianne Bounoua

Family functioning factors differentially predict direct and indirect aggression in adolescents (pages 324-326)
Carmen Rodríguez-Naranjo, & Antonio Caño

Psychological needs and problematic pornography use among young men: The role of
impulsive–compulsive mechanisms (pages 327-329)

Ondrej Kalina, Anna Janovská, & Janka Liptáková

Educational Psychology

From Storytime to screen time: How different reading environments predict reading comprehension (pages 330-332)
Andreja Brajša-Žganec, Marina Kotrla Topić, Ana-Marija Ćorić, Marija Džida,
& Katarina Perić Pavišić

Mathematical wellbeing predictors of mathematics achievement in different educational tracks: Case of Slovenia (pages 333-335)
Klaudija Šterman Ivančič

The effects of background music and music listening on reading recall and extraneous cognitive load (pages 336-338)
Lara Schommerloh, Timothy McNichols, Christine Horn, & Sean Henriques

Associations between teachers’ anxiety and depressive symptoms and selected aspects of the school environment (pages 339-341)
Anna Janovská, Ondrej Kalina, & Janka Liptáková

Social Psychology

From rejection sensitivity to peer susceptibility: Body image as a bridge (pages 342-344)
Vaiva Rimienė, & Goda Kaniušonytė

Supporting teacher well-being through school leadership (pages 345-347)
Ana Mlekuž, Ana Kozina, & Tina Pivec

Integrating psychological perspectives into local housing policy design and implementation
(pages 348-350)
Sofia Matias, Catarina Mano, Sofia Brito, Alexandra Serra, & Rui Serôdio

Subjective well-being and health among teachers: Differences across educational levels
(pages 351-353)
Kristina Kovalcikiene, Giedre Geneviciute-Janone, Aurelija Stelmokiene,
& Tadas Vadvilavicius

From relief to resilience: A scoping review on multi-dimensional anti-poverty programs
(pages 354-356)
Abigail Daley, Brooke C. Winters, Gabriel B. Smith, Michaela Ritchie, Jen Woodland,
Richelle Witherspoon, & Lisa A. Best

Evaluating the social impact of an elementary school program on equality and non-violence (pages 357-359)
Catarina Mano, Sofia Matias, Sofia Brito, Alexandra Serra, & Rui Serôdio

Cognitive and Experimental Psychology

Expertise related differences in abstract art perception: An eye-tracking study of psychologists and artists (pages 360-362)
Gabriela Puchała, Paulina Puchała, Iga Stasiak, Krzysztof Krejtz, Izabela Krejtz,
Ewa Satalecka, & Jakub Karpoluk

Challenging the role of analytical thinking in fake news detection: Evidence from gender-related myside bias (pages 363-365)
Juilee Lele, & Azizuddin Khan

Exploratory study of the link between aphantasia and interoceptive skills (pages 366-368)
Sarah Gilis, Alice Bodart, Elisabeth Fourez, & Isabelle Simoes Loureiro

The perceptual limit in the development of reading speed (pages 369-371)
Roberta Marrucchelli, Francesca Agostini, Giorgia Botticelli, Denis Pelli,
& Marialuisa Martelli

Environmental Psychology

Nonconformity and forest nature deficit among Polish residents (pages 372-374)
Ryszarda Ewa Bernacka, Natalia Korcz, Agata Kobyłka, & Agnieszka Kamińska

Guilt as a mediator of energy-saving behavior? (pages 375-377)
Nicolao Bonini, & Alessia Dorigoni

Health Psychology

By creating a life, I am putting mine in jeopardy: Experiences and feelings of women suffering from the Leiden mutation, and their partners, with becoming parents (pages 378-380)
Anna Ziklova

Primary prevention of oncological diseases among young adults in the Czech Republic: A pilot study (pages 381-383)
Johana Vopalecká

VIRTUAL PRESENTATIONS:

Clinical Psychology

Trauma: How do we get it and how can we overcome it (pages 387-391)
Shulamith Kreitler

Unpacking the longitudinal interplay between emotional abuse, family dysfunction and depression in adolescents (pages 392-396)
Danilo Calaresi, Valeria Saladino, Marta Sechi, Rezvan Shekarchi, & Valeria Verrastro

Unmasking autism in a genetic syndrome: A five-year developmental trajectory emphasizing reevaluation and collaboration (pages 397-400)
Michelle M. Yetman, Adam T. Blancher, & Michael D. McGill

PRAXIS: A doctoral pilot study of a practice-based intervention for stress and wellbeing
(pages 401-405)
Sara El Matouk

Understanding the relationship between mental health stigma and ChatGPT use: The role of perceived effectiveness (pages 406-410)
Scott N. Hannah, Deirdre Drake, Christopher D. Huntley, & Joanne M. Dickson

Why nostalgia comforts us (pages 411-414)
Yashar Anjamrooz, & Christina Ravelo

Prospects for the use of biometric technologies in psychological practice (pages 415-419)
Mayiana Mitevska, & Paulina Tsvetkova

Social support and self-efficacy as predictors of basic needs crafting among adolescents
(pages 420-424)
Marianna Berinšterová, Ivana Magáčová Žilková, Monika Kačmárová, Jana Lukáčová,
& Miroslava Bozogáňová

Collaborative virtual reality exposure for acrophobia: A multiple-baseline single-case study with psychological and physiological measures (pages 425-428)
Kristína Kvapil Varšová, & Vojtěch Juřík

Adolescent’s perspective on bullying prevention and health promotion (pages 429-431)
Alcione Trindade, Geane Vieira, Kátia DeBonis, Saulo Krieger, & Renata Coelho

Tracing the long-term impact of emotional abuse on adolescent detachment and anxiety
(pages 432-436)
Marta Sechi, Danilo Calaresi, Valeria Saladino, Fiorenza Giordano, & Valeria Verrastro

Educational Psychology

Perceived school prestige and teaching efficacy: The mediating role of subjective status and school social climate (pages 437-441)
Oľga Orosová, Mária Bačíková-Šléšková, & Janka Liptáková

Trust in science as a predictor of psychological misconceptions among pre-service teachers
(pages 442-446)
Dominika Havrillová, Monika Magdová, Miroslava Bozogáňová, & Katarína Fuchsová

Measuring what matters: Educators’ social-emotional competencies (pages 447-449)
Merav Esther Hemi, & Ronen Kasperski

Exploring the development of the Kolb Experiential Learning Profile in Japanese (pages 450-454)
Yoshitaka Yamazaki, Yusuke Yamazaki, & Hiroshi Shuto

Social Psychology

Fandoms as communities of belonging and coping (pages 455-458)
Yashar Anjamrooz, & Christina Ravelo

Development and validation of the Employee Exit Experience Scale (pages 459-463)
Kağan Güney, & Emel Esen

Uncertain times, uncertain jobs, depleted workers: Burnout as a link between job insecurity and
well-being (pages 464-467)

Ivana B. Petrović, Milica Vukelic, & Nebojsa Majstorovic

The mediating role of need crafting in the relationship between self-awareness and satisfaction of basic psychological needs (pages 468-472)
Marianna Berinšterová, Ivana Magáčová Žilková, Monika Kačmárová, Jana Lukáčová,
& Miroslava Bozogáňová

Studying socioeconomic status in the field of psychology: A systematic review of current practices (pages 473-477)
Hale İpek Kayıklık

Academic burnout among university students in Montenegro: Perfectionism and emotion regulation (pages 478-482)
Anastasija Stanić, & Ivana B. Petrović

Sustainable adaptability at work: A qualitative exploratory study of individual psychosocial competencies in the French nuclear industry (pages 483-487)
Anaïs Delabbëy, & Evelyne Fouquereau

From assessment to enactment: Five years of research on educators’ Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) competencies (pages 488-491)
Merav Esther Hemi, & Ronen Kasperski

Legal Psychology

Psychopathological disorders and executive functioning in juvenile offenders in France (pages 492-495)
Sacha Bazin, Romain Deperrois, Fatemeh Shadi Zekriyazdi, Nawal Ouhmad,
Chloé Dougez, Anne Taillandier-Schmitt, & Nicolas Combalbert

Adverse childhood experiences, denial and crossover offending patterns in individuals with sexual convictions (pages 496-500)
Marialaura Di Tella, Agata Benfante, Sara Veggi, & Georgia Zara

The mediating role of post-traumatic stress disorder in the relationship between adverse childhood experiences and dissociative symptoms in juvenile offenders (pages 501-505)
Fatemeh Shadi Zekriyazdi, Romain Deperrois, Sacha Bazin, Chloé Dougez,
Nawal Ouhmad, Anne Taillandier-Schmitt, & Nicolas Combalbert

Cognitive and Experimental Psychology

Beyond employment status: Consistency in women’s clothing purchase decision-making (pages 506-510)
Neoline le Roux, Minnet du Preez, Heleen Dreyer, & Nina Esterhuizen

The impact of communication channel on skill acquisition in a dynamic collaborative task
(pages 511-515)
Cvetomir M. Dimov

The effect of animacy in repeated visual search (pages 516-520)
Margit Höfler, Sebastian A. Bauch, & Maren Reiterer

Messy minds, meaningful choices: Creative-chaos and everyday employed female consumers’ behaviour
(pages 521-525)

Valentia Mouton, Heleen Dreyer, & Annemie Niemann

A little sleep and sympathy: Poor sleep is positively correlated with increased sympathy
(pages 526-530)
Ruth Propper, John Kang, & Michael Sawyer

Environmental Psychology

Virtual landscapes to combat student anxiety: Which one helps the most? (pages 531-535)
Irene Aliagas, Manuela Fernández, Anna Lisova, Mª Dolores Merino, & Jesús Privado

Designing for wonder: A neuro-architectural analysis framework (NAAF) for investigating experience in design happenings (pages 536-540)
Heather Renée Barker

Health Psychology

Reducing mental health disorder cases by improving organizational culture conditions (pages 541-544)
Lāsma Jaudzema-Danovska, & Irēna Kokina

The flow experience in university students and the blossoming of mental health (pages 545-548)
Ottavia Maria Maceratini, & Claudio Tonzar

Goal disengagement and goal re-engagement processes in relation to mental well-being for people living with chronic pain (pages 549-553)
Paria Eshraghi, Deirdre Drake, Joanne Iddon, & Joanne M. Dickson

Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytical Psychotherapy

Ethics as a psychic regulator: Ethical coherence, self-esteem stability and compensatory self-regulation (pages 554-558)
Sandra Regina Rocha Mariscal Vargas