Social Support Is Linked to Post-Traumatic Growth among Tunisian Postoperative Breast Cancer Women by Feten Fekih-Romdhane, Nihed Riahi, Leila Achouri, Haitham Jahrami, Majda Cheour

“…We believe that our findings may help inform strategies aiming at promoting positive psychological changes after experiencing BC, at least in our context.…”
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The influence of work values of college students on entrepreneurial intention: The moderating role of psychological capital by Lijun Tian, Lijun Tian

“…The moderating role of psychological capital was also examined.Materials and methodsA total of 723 college students were investigated with work values questionnaire, entrepreneurial intention scale and positive psychological capital Questionnaire.ResultsWork values was significantly and positively correlated with entrepreneurial intention (r = 0.23, P < 0.001); Psychological capital was significantly and positively correlated with entrepreneurial intention (r = 0.33, P < 0.001); Psychological capital did not moderate the relationship between work values and entrepreneurial intention (β = 0.02, P > 0.05); Hope moderated the relationship between work values and unconditional entrepreneurial intention (β = 0.09, P < 0.05). …”
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Factors associated with resilience in spousal caregivers of patients with cancer: An integrative review by Haiyan Sun, Yang Qin, Pornpat Hengudomsub

“…Connor‐Davidson or Wagnild Resilience Scales) or using other variables to indicate either more positive psychological outcomes or less negative psychological outcomes. …”
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A 14-Week Intervention Study on Changing Preservice Teachers’ Psychological Perspectives on Inclusion: Explicit and Implicit Attitudes, Self-Efficacy, and Stress Perception Toward... by Franziska Lautenbach, Johanna Korte, Aiko Möhwald, Anke Heyder, Elke Grimminger-Seidensticker

“…Research has indicated the importance of preservice teacher education programs that focus on fostering positive psychological aspects relevant to teaching in inclusive settings, such as attitudes or self-efficacy. …”
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The relationship between self-disgust, guilt, and flow experience among Japanese undergraduates by Hirao K, Kobayashi R

“…Keywords: negative emotion, mental health, positive psychology…”
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Physical Activity during COVID-19 Lockdown: Data from an Italian Survey by Matteo Guidetti, Alberto Averna, Greta Castellini, Michelangelo Dini, Daniela Marino, Tommaso Bocci, Roberta Ferrucci, Alberto Priori

“…Our participants performed enough activity to satisfy the WHO Guidelines, mainly due to domestic activity and activity performed during leisure time, with an overall moderately positive psychological reaction to lockdown.…”
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Post-traumatic growth in PhD students during the COVID-19 pandemic by Allison K. Tu, Juliana Restivo Haney, Kathryn O'Neill, Akshay Swaminathan, Karmel W. Choi, Hyunjoon Lee, Jordan W. Smoller, Vikram Patel, Paul J. Barreira, Cindy H. Liu, John A. Naslund

“…Research suggests that experiencing adversity may induce positive psychological changes, called post-traumatic growth (PTG). …”
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Spinal cord injury and aging: an exploration of the interrelatedness between key psychosocial factors contributing to the process of resilience by Hailey-Thomas Jenkins, Theodore D. Cosco

“…Context Extant literature highlights how many individuals display resilient trajectories following spinal cord injury (SCI), exhibiting positive psychological adjustment. In the absence of a universal definition, it is agreed that resilience is demonstrated when individuals have better-than-projected outcomes when considering the level of adversity experienced. …”
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The Role of WeChat in Supporting Elderly Connectivity During COVID-19 Lockdown in Guangzhou by Zhao Zifeng

“…Findings indicate that WeChat played a vital role during the pandemic, facilitating emotional connections, daily life needs, information access, and positive psychological development among older adults. It fostered socialization, emotional support, and resilience, challenging conventional notions of elderly social media usage and highlighting diverse technological habits. …”
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Mental Health and Well-Being of Migrant Populations in Portugal Two Years after the COVID-19 Pandemic by Violeta Alarcão, Pedro Candeias, Miodraga Stefanovska-Petkovska, Sónia Pintassilgo, Fernando Luís Machado, Ana Virgolino, Osvaldo Santos

“…This study aimed to assess mental health and well-being, and their social determinants, among Brazilian and Cape Verdean immigrant populations two years after the COVID-19 pandemic while exploring the role of positive psychological factors such as resilience and perceived social support. …”
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Effectiveness of Group Hope Therapy on Quality of life and Resilience in Addicted Women by Zeynab Dehghani, Anahita Khodabakhshi-koolaee

“…Background and Objectives: Hope therapy as a positive psychological intervention can be helpful in reducing the psychological problems in addicted people. …”
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The impact of psychological contracts on employee engagement at a university of technology by Vinessa Naidoo, Ishana Abarantyne, Robert Rugimbana

“…Main findings: The study confirmed that most employees appear to have developed a positive psychological contract. It indicated, however, that many employees may be experiencing discord in the employment relationship. …”
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Sport Community Involvement and Life Satisfaction During COVID-19: A Moderated Mediation of Psychological Capital by Distress and Generation Z by Juho Park, Jun-Phil Uhm, Sanghoon Kim, Minjung Kim, Shintaro Sato, Hyun-Woo Lee

“…Gen Z were more stressed during the pandemic but individuals who managed to cope with stress were able to leverage community involvement to boost positive psychological resources. Acknowledgment of these effects brings implications for better management strategies and provides avenues for new research.…”
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The Difficulties in Interpersonal Regulation of Emotions Scale (DIRE): Factor Structure and Measurement Invariance across Gender and Two Chinese Youth Samples by Yanhua H. Zhao, Lili Wang, Yuan Zhang, Jiahui Niu, Min Liao, Lei Zhang

“…Effective interpersonal emotion regulation (IER) strategies have been found to be meaningful predictors for positive psychological functioning. The Difficulties in Interpersonal Regulation of Emotions Scale (DIRE) is a measure developed to assess maladaptive IER strategies. …”
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Nurses’ perception about posttraumatic growth (PTG) after natural disasters by Eriyono Budi Wijoyo, Herni Susanti, Ria Utami Panjaitan, Arcellia Farosyah Putri

“…Nurses have an important role in fostering posttraumatic growth (PTG) as a positive psychological adjustment amongst the survivors. However, nurses may have different perceptions of their roles in PTG. …”
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Behavioral and psychological impact of genome sequencing: a pilot randomized trial of primary care and cardiology patients by Kurt D. Christensen, Erica F. Schonman, Jill O. Robinson, J. Scott Roberts, Pamela M. Diamond, Kaitlyn B. Lee, Robert C. Green, Amy L. McGuire

“…Mediation analyses suggested an indirect impact of GS on health behaviors by causing positive psychological responses (p ≤ 0.001). Findings suggest that GS did not distress participants. …”
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<b>Occurrence of sexual dysfunctions in mastectomized females with or without breast reconstruction by Julia Bueno Macedo, Amanda de Souza Brondani, Gustavo da Silva da Costa, Bruna Elise da Silva Messias, Lara Letícia Dotto Nardi, Melissa Medeiros Braz

“…Breast reconstruction usually improves life quality and has a positive psychological effect. It was developed a current transversal, observational qualitative research that comprised data collection at the Mastology Service of a hospital in the central region of the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, aiming to compare the prevalence of sexual dysfunctions in mastectomized females with or without breast reconstruction. …”
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An Exploratory Study on the Mediating Effect of Clinical Competence in the Relationship Between Grit and Field Adaptation in Newly Graduated Nurses by Eunhee Shin RN, MPH, PhD

“…Introduction Even under difficult situations, individuals with psychological resources such as positive psychological capital and resilience are less likely to consider turnover. …”
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Perceptions of Shared Morality as an Important Socio-Psychological Mechanism for Finding the Common Ground by Sabina Čehajić-Clancy

“…I will argue that the perception of shared morality (perceptions of similarity between the in-group and the out-group on the dimension of morality) was an important socio-psychological mechanism that enabled a stream of other positive psychological processes such as development of trust, as well as cooperative and common-oriented goal tendencies.…”
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Increasing the Effectiveness of Pedagogical Technologies in Education: Psychological Experience of Technological Change Management by Mikhail E. Kosov, Gevorg T. Malashenko, Svetlana V. Frumina, Olga A. Grishina, Olga A. Polyakova, Roman A. Alandarov, Vadim V. Ponkratov, Nataliya S. Shmigol, Svetlana S. Dzusova, Abbas Abd Ali Abbood

“…The research results highlight that a psychological response serves as the antecedent of the effectiveness of pedagogical and educational technologies, whereby the positive psychological responses (happiness, inspiration, or drive) would increase the effectiveness, while the negative psychological responses (anxiety, stress, and discomfort) would decrease it. …”
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