Background Achievement motivation research has established that motivational factors predict academic affect, cognition, and behavior. Recent studies have shown that trait mindfulness might also predict these academic outcomes.
Yuji Kuroda +2 more
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Aesthetic Preference for Glossy Materials: An Attempted Replication and Extension
The psychology of art and aesthetics has a long-standing interest in how low-level features, such as symmetry, curvature, and color, affect people’s aesthetic experience.
Paul J. Silvia +3 more
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L.S. Vygotsky’s Critique: Between Aesthetics, Publitsistika and Psychology
This paper discusses L.S. Vygotsky’s early activity as a critic through an analysis of texts in which the author himself reflects on the task of the critic. Fragments from the essay on Hamlet, Psychology of art and theatrical reviews of the Gomel period (
Marques P.N.
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Multicultural Religious Populations' Manifestations of Power and Control in Cases of Disordered Eating [PDF]
In reflecting about cultural psychology there is always a reminder to revert and think back about the underlying issues that challenge the foundations of western psychology and its practical and theoretical application in other cultures around the world.
Fierro, Orellana del
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It's in the mix: psychological distress differs between combinations of alexithymic facets [PDF]
Alexithymia is a personality trait characterized by difficulties in identifying, describing, and communicating one's emotions. The aim of the present study is to examine the usefulness of a typological approach considering the interaction between distinct alexithymic features within a population of high-alexithymic German adults (N = 217).
Elif eAlkan Härtwig +6 more
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Same traits, different variance : Item-Level Variation Within Personality Measures [PDF]
© 2014 the Author(s). This article has been published under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License. Without requesting permission from the Author or SAGE, you may further copy, distribute, transmit, and adapt the article, with the ...
Altrocchi J. +5 more
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Evaluation of the Psychometric Properties of the Five Facet of Mindfulness Questionnaire. [PDF]
ObjectiveThe Five Facet of Mindfulness Questionnaire (FFMQ) is widely used to assess mindfulness. The present study provides a psychometric evaluation of the FFMQ that includes item response theory (IRT) analyses and evaluation of item characteristic ...
Hays, Ron D +2 more
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Five Facets of Mindfulness and Psychological Health: Evaluating a Psychological Model of the Mechanisms of Mindfulness [PDF]
There has been an increasing focus on determining the psychological mechanisms underlying the broad effects of mindfulness on psychological health. Mindfulness has been posited to be related to the construct of reperceiving or decentering, defined as a shift in perspective associated with decreased attachment to one's thoughts and emotions. Decentering
Brown, David B. +3 more
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The Dutch language version of the Toronto structured interview for Alexithymia: reliability, concurrent validity, and factor structure [PDF]
The aim of this study was to evaluate the psychometric properties of the Dutch version of the Toronto Structured Interview for Alexithymia (TSIA) in a clinical sample.
Bagby, Michael +7 more
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Past, Present, and Future of Impulse Buying Research Methods: A Systematic Literature Review
Impulse buying (IB) represents a pivotal subject in consumer psychology. A general agreement on its core elements and their relationship is arguably established.
Marco Mandolfo, Lucio Lamberti
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