Childhood Maltreatment and PTSD: Spiritual Well-Being and Intimate Partner Violence as Mediators

Childhood maltreatment places individuals, including African American women who are undereducated and economically disadvantaged, at risk for developing posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms. Participants were 192 African American women with a history in the prior year of both a suicide attempt and intimate partner violence (IPV) exposure. They were recruited from a public hospital that provides medical and mental health treatment to mostly low-income patients. A simple mediator model was used to examine if (a) existential well-being (sense of purpose) or religious well-being (relationship with God) mediated the link between childhood maltreatment and adult PTSD symptoms. Sequential multiple mediator models determined if physical and nonphysical IPV enhanced our understanding of the mediational association among the aforementioned variables. Findings suggest that existential well-being mediated the association between childhood maltreatment and adult PTSD symptoms in a simple mediator model, and existential well-being and recent nonphysical IPV served as sequential multiple mediators of this link. However, religious well-being and physical IPV were not significant mediators. Findings underscore the importance of enhancing existential well-being in the treatment of suicidal African American women with a history of childhood maltreatment and IPV.     

颜色概念的知觉符号表征与命题符号表征

使用启动范式通过两个实验检验颜色概念的表征是知觉符号表征还是命题符号表征.实验l使用显性颜色概念,即颜色词;实验2使用隐性颜色概念,即隐含颜色信息的词.实验结果表明显性颜色概念的表征是知觉符号表征,而隐性颜色概念的表征是命题符号表征.     

家庭功能与青少年学习自我调节的关系:同伴行为模式的中介作用

采用家庭功能与同伴行为模式问卷和学习自我调节问卷,对913名青少年进行了测试。考察青少年同伴行为模式的发展特点,以及同伴行为模式在家庭功能与青少年学习自我调节关系中的中介作用。结果表明:青少年同伴行为模式对学习支持度随年级升高而下降;随年级升高,青少年在学习自我调节各维度上及总分的平均分越来越低;青少年的同伴行为模式可以正向预测学习自我调节,并在家庭功能与学习自我调节之间起部分中介的作用。家庭功能除直接影响学习自我调节外,还通过青少年的同伴行为模式间接影响他们的学习自我调节。     

国外积极偏离行为的研究述评

偏离行为的研究在社会学和组织行为学领域都有较丰富的成果,然而其关注点主要集中于对社会或组织产生负面作用的消极偏离行为。近年来相关领域的学者越来越关注积极偏离行为（Positive Deviance, PD）的研究。该文综述了关于积极偏离行为的定义的各方观点,同时分析了积极偏离行为与相似构念的差异,并综述了积极偏离行为的测量方式,以及积极偏离行为的前因变量和结果变量。最后对积极偏离行为未来的研究方向进行了展望。     

Adolescent mental health in Japan and Russia: The role of body image,bullying victimisation and school environment

This study examined associations between self-reported mental health problems, body image, bullying victimisation and school safety in large adolescent samples in Japan and Russia, considering the effects of gender, culture and their interactions. In both Japan and Russia, girls reported a greater number of mental health problems, less bullying victimisation and much higher body dissatisfaction than boys did. Japanese adolescents rated themselves higher on total difficulties, reported less body dissatisfaction and bullying victimisation, and rated their school safety lower than that of Russian youths. Cross-cultural differences in total difficulties and body image were qualified by gender. Body dissatisfaction, bullying victimisation and school safety all independently contributed to adolescent mental health problems. The protective effect of school safety on total difficulties was larger for girls than for boys; the strength of the association between bullying victimisation and adolescent mental health problems differed across genders and cultures. The findings indicate a need for a cross-cultural approach and provide a strong basis for targeted interventions that seek to improve adolescent mental health.     

Two paradigms for depth of strategic reasoning in games. Response to Colman

We contrast two approaches to probing the depth of theory-of-mind (ToM) reasoning by adults in matrix game settings: our own and that of Stahl and Wilson.     

瑞文标准推理测验在我国的修订

为了满足科研与实际工作对团体智力测验的迫切需要,由17个单位组成的全国协作组对瑞文标准推理测验进行了修订。常模团体的建立以1982年全国人口普查资料为依据,按各地区人口分布,各类人员比例取样,共包括年龄跨度从5岁半至70岁以上的5108人。经过标准化的施测手续,测定了1986年中国城市常模。 测验结果的项目分析、信度和效度等技术指标达到或超过了国外同类研究。 研究发现除40岁组外,其他各年龄组均无显著男女差异。本研究还对中国大陆城市青少年的成绩与香港、英国和新西兰相应年龄组的成绩做了比较。     

汉族、基诺族及布朗族7～9岁儿童心理旋转能力的比较研究

该研究探讨了我国7～9岁汉族、基诺族、布朗族儿童的“心理旋转”能力,了解不同民族的文化背景、年龄及性别差异是否对“心理旋转”产生影响。结果表明：汉族儿童的结果与基诺族及布朗族儿童结果存在明显差异,7～9岁儿童的心理旋转能力随着年龄增长而发展。未见男女性别上存在“心理旋转”能力上的差异。     

创造性的生理研究新进展

创造性的生理基础很复杂。关于创造性生理基础的研究集中在大脑皮质激活与脑半球不对称两个方面。研究发现,大脑皮质激活状态对创造性有影响,低水平的皮质激活,特别是低水平的前额叶激活,较有利于创造性．研究还发现,创造性和左右半球不对称活动有关,处于创造状态时,右半球相对要比左半球激活程度更高。     

待岗人员的应付方式、控制感特点及其关系研究

对待岗人员的应付方式和控制感进行调查发现：（1）待岗人员对待压力的应付方式依次为退避、合理化、求助、自责、发泄。女性更多地采用这五种应付方式,年龄偏大组更倾向于选择合理化和退避,30岁是应付方式发展的转折时期;（2）待岗人员的控制感由高至低依次为环境变化、人际关系、情绪情感和生活方面的控制感。女性更能控制情绪情感;（3）在待岗人员应付待岗后各种压力的情境下,可将退避归为积极的应付方式,将自责、求助、发泄归为消极的应付方式。