Protective factors associated with academic resilience of adolescents in individualist and collectivist cultures: Evidence from PISA 2018 large scale assessment
Özcan, Bahadır
Academic resilience relates to children's ability to overcome disadvantaged backgrounds and perform well in school settings. In particular, culture may promote resilience through an understanding of cultural similarities and differences in the function of protective factors in individualist and collectivist nations. Drawing data from the PISA 2018, this study investigated the similarities and differences in protective factors related to academic resilience amongst adolescents in individualist and collectivist contexts. The results of the multi-group logistic regression analyses showed some differential effects of protective factors on academic resilience. Additional gender-moderated effects were reported from moderated-moderation analysis. Adolescents scoring high on perspective-taking ten...
Intergenerational transmission of psychopathology: the mediating role of maternal self-expressiveness and child emotion regulation
Erel, Sema
Maternal psychopathology is one of the major risk factors for children’s psychopathology. It is important to examine mechanisms underlying intergenerational transmission of psychopathology. The current study aimed to investigate the mediating role of maternal emotion expressiveness and child emotion regulation in the relationship between maternal psychopathology and child externalizing problems. We collected data from mothers of the fourth-grade children living in Ankara, Turkey. We examined the indirect effect of maternal psychopathology on child externalizing problems through maternal self-expressiveness and child emotion regulation using PROCESS Macro. Findings indicated that mothers’ psychopathology severity level negatively predicted their positive expressiveness in family environment...
Reliability and validity of the Turkish version of the forms of self-criticizing/attacking and self-reassuring scale (FSCRS) in clinical and non-clinical samples
Zümrüt Bellur | Emre Han ALPAY | Arzu Aydın
The study aims to investigate the psychometric properties of the Turkish version of the Forms of Self-Criticizing/Attacking and Self-Reassuring Scale (FSCRS) in clinical and community samples. A total of 269 depression outpatients (71.7% female; Mean age = 28.28, SDage = 9.11) and 305 participants from the general population (54.5% females; Mean age = 43.11, SDage = 9.60) were recruited. Participants completed the FSCRS, the Levels of Self-Criticism (LOSC) and the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI). A three-factor model of FSCRS (reassured-self, inadequate-self, and hated-self) showed the best-fitting measurement model in both samples. Measurement invariance of the test for clinical and non-clinical samples was also examined, and the findings support the measurement invariance of FSCRS scores...
How do menstrual cycle and emotional expressions affect attentional and memory biases?
Doğan, Dilara
While sex differences and menstrual cycle effects in emotional processing and memory are well-documented, findings remain inconsistent. The present study aimed to investigate how emotional facial expressions influence attention and memory, and whether these effects vary across menstrual phases and between sexes. A total of 184 participants (Mage = 20.67, SD = 2.18) were tested, including men and women in five menstrual phases: early follicular (n = 30), late follicular (n = 30), ovulatory (n = 28), early luteal (n = 35), and late luteal (n = 28). Emotional attention was assessed using a flicker change detection task, and recognition memory was measured with a surprise yes/no recognition memory task. Results revealed a robust happiness superiority effect in the flicker task: Changes involvi...