Assessment of Personality Organization in Couple Relationships: Factorial Structure of the Inventory of Personality Organization and Incremental Validity Over Neuroticism

Summary: Creative thinking was explored from several approaches to further understanding of the interrelationship of perception, personality, and cognition. College students (N = 45) were administered the Group Embedded Figures Test (GEFT), the Remote Associates Test (RAT), a questionnaire concerning RAT strategy, and two self-report scales. Field independent subjects were found to be significantly (p < .001) more creative than field dependents. Correlations between the RAT and GEFT and the self-report measures of conformity and creativity, while largely nonsignificant, were in the predicted directions. Results demonstrated that advanced strategy levels and insightful responses were significantly related to high performance on the RAT. Theoretical links between cognitive style and Piagetian concepts were discussed in regard to creative thought. Overall, these findings support the contention that the creative processes should be studied, not as isolated structures, but with relational and multifaceted emphasis.     

The efficacy of massage on short and long term outcomes in preterm infants

Purpose

Premature infants lack the tactile stimulation they would have otherwise experienced in the womb. Infant massage is a developmentally supportive intervention that has been documented for several decades to have a positive effect on both full term and preterm infants. The purpose of this study was to assess the short and long term benefits of massage on stable preterm infants.

Methods

A quasi experimental design was used, 66 infants were recruited from two university hospitals with tertiary level NICUs; 32 infants received the massage therapy by their mothers. Data collection by a researcher blind to the infants’ group assignments included weight at discharge, pain responses on the PIPP scale at discharge, length of stay in hospital, neuro-developmental outcome (Bayley scores) and breastfeeding duration at 12 months corrected age.

Results

Infants who were massaged had significantly lower scores on the PIPP after a heel-stick compared to before the massage and had lower PIPP scores at discharge compared to the control group. Massaged infants had higher cognitive scores at 12 months corrected age. Weight gain, length of stay, breastfeeding duration and motor scores did not differ between groups.

Conclusion

Stable preterm infants benefit from massage therapy given by their mothers and may be a culturally acceptable form of intervention to improve the outcomes of preterm infants.     

关于启用《科技期刊学术不端文献检测系统（AMLC）》的通知

为了保证学术性论文的真实性和原创性,端正对学术性论文抄袭与剽窃、伪造、篡改、不当署名、一稿多投等学术界的不正之风,以及本着对本刊论文作者和读者负责任的态度,医学与哲学杂志社于2009年2月开始启用《科技期刊学术不端文献检测系统（AMLC）》。该系统以《中国学术文献网络出版总库》为全文比对数据库,本刊编辑将使用该系统对作...     

Transference-Focused Psychotherapy for Borderline Adolescents: A Neurobiologically Informed Psychodynamic Psychotherapy

In this article we first contextualize and then outline a model of TFP adapted for working with adolescents with Borderline Personality Disorders. We discuss how to take the normal developmental challenges of adolescence, such as separation-individuation in consideration, and how to support this in the context of the therapeutic work, while at the same time stimulating curiosity through clarification and confronting the adolescent with self-defeating and destructive patterns and dangerous behavior. Furthermore, we give examples of working with split–off parts of self and other representations through clarification to increase self-awareness and confrontations with contradictions within the adolescents communication and nonverbal behavior, with the aim of facilitating the integration of identity.     

论清代中叶巴黎外方传教会对四川天主教徒的管理和改造

清代中叶是四川天主教会发展的重要阶段.负责四川教务的巴黎外方传教会强调造就耶稣的忠实信徒,通过神父和会长对教徒进行双层监管,要求教徒遵守中国礼仪禁令,向教徒灌输宗教思想,并在一定程度上约束教徒的经济行为.这些措施一方面有利于坚定教徒的宗教信仰,增加教会的凝聚力和促进教会发展;另一方面其明显的保守和内敛特征实际上是意图割断教徒与教外群众的政治、文化和经济联系,从而造成民教分离.     

Trust in organismic development, autonomy support, and adaptation among mothers and their children

The current studies examined relations between mothers’ trust in organismic development, autonomy supportive parenting, and adaptation among mothers and their young children. Study 1 showed that trust in organismic development was distinct from optimism, neuroticism, and social desirability whereas it correlated with having relaxed expectations for developmental milestones and making fewer social comparisons about one’s child. Study 2 used observational methods to demonstrate a significant link between trust in organismic development and mothers behaving in an autonomy-supportive rather than controlling manner toward their 1-year-old child during puzzle solving activities. Study 3 used a 1 year prospective design to show that trust in first time mothers was associated with better maternal and child adaptation over time, controlling for initial levels of adaptation and child temperament. Study 4 explored possible social/political antecedents of trust in organismic development by comparing the beliefs of first time mothers from Canada and Norway. The four studies suggest that trust in organismic development fosters autonomy supportive parenting practices and positive maternal and child adaptation. These findings are discussed from the perspective of self-determination theory.

不同自尊水平者的注意偏向

本研究分别从外显自尊和内隐自尊角度出发, 以大学生情绪面孔(高兴, 中性, 愤怒)图片为实验材料, 采用“空间线索任务”实验范式, 探讨不同自尊水平个体注意偏向的特点及其内在机制。结果表明, 在无效线索条件下, 低外显自尊个体对以愤怒为提示线索的靶刺激的反应时显著长于高兴和中性, 说明低外显自尊个体对负性情绪信息(愤怒)的注意偏向是一种注意的解脱困难; 高内隐自尊个体在无效线索条件下, 对以高兴和愤怒为提示线索的靶刺激的反应时显著长于中性, 说明高内隐自尊个体更易受到情绪性信息(愤怒和高兴)的吸引, 是一种选择性的注意维持倾向, 表现为注意的解脱困难。     

反馈在自我调节学习中的作用

反馈一直是学习研究领域中非常重要的主题之一。随着学习理论的发展,人们对反馈的研究逐渐深化与综合化。一方面从自我调节学习的过程模型出发,考察了反馈的不同因素对自我调节学习过程和结果的作用;另一方面以自我调节学习的社会认知理论为框架,探讨了情绪、学业成绩等个体因素以及目标定向、任务难度等情境因素对反馈作用的交互影响。未来研究需要进一步探讨内部反馈信息以及学习者元认知监控的调节作用,结合个体和情境因素揭示反馈对自我调节学习的整体动态过程的影响,并设计出促进学习和教学实践的反馈方案。     

自我扩张模型的研究述评

自我扩张模型提出人们具有自我扩张的动机, 即通过扩张自我来提高自我效能的动机, 它是人类的一个基本动机。自我扩张的一种方式就是将他人纳入自我, 包括他人的资源、观念和认同。该模型是一个概念框架, 为研究与关系相关的心理学现象提供了一个理论平台。它不仅更新了对“相似—吸引效应”、“接触假说”、夫妻关系、群际关系的解释, 对于戒烟等实际活动还具有很大的应用价值。然而, 自我扩张模型本身并未成熟, 在未来的研究中需要进一步完善, 同时也需要结合更多的心理学理论进行探索, 并应用到实践领域中去。