Katia Vione

University of Derby · Department of Psychology

The relationship between childhood ostracism and experiences of paraphilic thoughts is unclear, with very little known about the subsequent impact of improved social support in later life. This study used mixed methods (i.e., moderation analysis, content analysis) to explore the effects of social support and childhood ostracism on paraphilic though...

The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted and reshaped effective leadership practices by introducing working-from-home protocols (WFH) and the hybrid workplace model. The current study sought to identify and understand leadership practices adopted in WFH and the transition to the hybrid model, the effectiveness of these practices, and the implications of the...

Online dating applications have become increasingly popular in recent years and a common way for relationship initiation. However, the potential implications of online dating applications for long-term relationships are not well-understood. To further the literature in this field, this study aimed to examine the association between perceived online...

Background Empirical knowledge of psychopathy is often misrepresented in the media and miscommunicated to the general public. This can have practical implications in legal settings. This research investigated how the labels used when discussing individuals characterised by psychopathic traits impacts lay judgements and attributions of them. Methods...

While the killing of one’s own infant is an undoubtedly harrowing crime, there exists little research exploring attitudes toward these individuals. Such work has focused primarily on depictions of mothers, yet U.K. government data indicate that the majority of infant homicide cases involve paternal suspects. A sample of U.K. residents (n = 245) par...

The murdering of one’s own infant may be one of the most harrowing crimes imaginable. Despite this and decades of debate over gendered infanticide laws, there exists little empirical work exploring attitudes toward individuals who have committed infant homicide. Such work has focused primarily on depictions of mothers, yet UK government data indica...

UK depression prevalence is increasing. In this study we appraised the relationships between psychological factors of derailment, self-criticism, self-reassurance and depression, to identify individual differences within the UK general population indicating those at higher risk. Participants completed self-report measures regarding these constructs...

In species with internal female fertilization, males face the problem of paternity uncertainty, which refers to the risk of investing in unrelated offspring. As a result, a partner’s sexual infidelity may be particularly damaging for males given that it may result in allocating resources to genetically unrelated offspring, reducing a male’s inclusi...

Learning and development of critical thinking (CT) skills in higher education is essential for academic achievement. The following experiment is the first to examine the effect of online student’s perceptions and attitudes towards CT across dimensions of confidence, valuing, misconceptions, cognitive reflection, and authors writing. Furthermore, a...

Defined as the successful adaptation to dynamic environments, resilience is considered a cornerstone of mental health. However, with the underpinnings of resilience not yet fully understood, this manuscript tests the potential contribution of self-efficacy and embeddedness on resilience (explored through validated measures of future time perspectiv...

The novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic spread rapidly since it was first identified in December 2019. A nation-level lockdown has been implemented in many countries, affecting workers of all sectors and forcing many to work from home. In this commentary, we discuss mental health difficulties that working from home might cause on non-key workers,...

The novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic spread rapidly since it was first identified in December 2019. A nation-level lockdown has been implemented in many countries, affecting workers of all sectors and forcing many to work from home. In this commentary, we discuss mental health difficulties that working from home might cause on non-key workers,...

This study investigated whether relationship satisfaction mediates the association between attachment styles and mate-retention strategies. Four-hundred and twenty individuals in a heterosexual committed relationship participated in this study (79.7% women; Mage = 23.22; SDage = 8.07). Participants completed questionnaires assessing attachment styl...

Essa pesquisa objetivou analisar a relação entre o Racismo Moderno e o Sexismo Ambivalente utilizando os Valores Humanos como terceira variável que pudesse explicar essa relação, tendo em vista seu poder de predição de fenômenos sociais. A amostra foi composta por 200 participantes distribuídos quase igualmente quanto ao sexo, sendo 101(50,5%) do s...

An interim project report assessing the relationship between mathematics anxiety, enjoyment, shame, resilience, motivation, subject norm and performance. This report is based on cross-country comparisons involving secondary school students in Pakistan, Iran, and Uganda. Suggested citation: Hunt, T. E, Muwonge, C. M., Ashraf, F., Ansanjarani, F.,...

Resumo A Síndrome do Importor (SI) reflete dúvidas sobre conquistas e capacidades pessoais na ausência de evidências externas que reforcem tal percepção. Este estudo objetivou adaptar ao contexto brasileiro a Escala Clance do Fenômeno do Impostor (ECFI), reunindo evidências de sua validade fatorial e consistência interna. Dois estudos foram realiza...

Background: The benefits of nature for our health have been an increasing research focus in recent years. In the context of a global increase in mental health diagnoses, the potential health benefits of nature have attracted attention. One practical nature treatment is to walk in nature. However, evidence for this practice on mental health has not...

Learning and development of critical thinking skills in higher education is essential for academic achievement. The following experiment is first to examine the effect of online student perceptions and attitudes towards critical thinking across dimensions of confidence, valuing, misconceptions cognitive reflection and authors writing. Furthermore,...

Digitalization of knowledge work is essential for today's organizations, responding to diversified employee needs. Many organizations are already implementing some form of flexible work to help workers perform work and non-work duties, while maintaining high productivity. While these changes in workplaces, "New Ways of Working (NWW)", have been dis...

Digitalization of knowledge work is essential for today's organizations, responding to diversified employee needs. Many organizations are already implementing some form of flexible work to help workers perform work and non-work duties, while maintaining high productivity. While these changes in workplaces, "New Ways of Working (NWW)", have been dis...

Forgiveness is an internal process to overcome negative aspects (e.g., anger, bitterness, resentment) towards an offender, being associated to a range of variables (e.g., well-being, quality of loving relationships, resilience). Forgiveness can happen through two different types: (1) decisional, which is a behavioural modification to reduce direct...

Music has a fundamental importance in people’s lives, and preference for certain music genres has been associated to substance abuse and favorable attitudes toward drug use. We replicate previous findings by showing that greater preference for alternative music (rap, heavy metal, punk, reggae, rock, and electronic) was positively associated to favo...

Previous research found that the within-country variability of human values (e.g., equality and helpfulness) clearly outweighs between-country variability. Across three countries (Brazil, India, and the United Kingdom), the present research tested in student samples whether between-nation differences reside more in the behaviors used to concretely...

Value instantiations – exemplifiers of an abstract or general category – are a new issue in human value research. Experiments have recently highlighted the important role of value instantiations in bridging the gap between abstract values and specific actions. In this chapter, we describe the general role of category instantiations in psychology, d...

Most psychological studies rely on student samples. Students are usually considered as more homogenous than representative samples both within and across countries. However, little is known about the nature of the differences between student and representative samples. This is an important gap, also because knowledge about the degree of difference...

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The present study aimed to support the psychometric adequacy of the Flourishing Scale in the Brazilian context. It counted with a non-probabilistic sample of 171 undergraduate students (Study 1) and 177 individuals from the general population (Study 2). Participants answered to the Flourishing Scale, the Positivity Scale, and demographic questions....

Values are often used to examine cultural variability. Yet, little research has focused on the functions that values fulfill and the implications of these functions for understanding cultural variability. This paper describes a theoretical analysis of the functions of values based on 2 widely accepted pan-cultural functions: values guide actions an...

Little research has examined mean-level change in values across the life span. Using large cross-sectional data (N = 36,845) from the five geo-social regions in Brazil, this study examines how mean levels of basic values differ as a function of age (from age 12 to 65; M = 28) and whether age effects are moderated by gender. Results show that mean-l...

This paper presents empirical evidence of the psychometric adequacy of the Subjective Vitality Scale (SVS), based on three studies. In Study 1, 200 undergraduate students responded the SVS. The SVS showed a unidimensional factor structure (α = .73). In Study 2, another 200 undergraduate students answered the same instrument. A confirmatory factor a...

Subjective Vitality Scale – SVS: Evidences of its Psychometric Adequacy ABSTRACT – This paper presents empirical evidence of the psychometric adequacy of the Subjective Vitality Scale (SVS), based on three studies. In Study 1, 200 undergraduate students responded the SVS. The SVS showed a unidimensional factor structure (a = .73). In Study 2, anoth...

Resumo A importância do dinheiro e seu traço motivador de comportamentos impele que seus aspectos psicos-sociais sejam pesquisados. Na psicologia brasileira são escassos os estudos sobre aspectos atitudinais ou psicológicos do dinheiro. Com intuito de fomentar pesquisas neste contexto, a Escala de Atitudes frente ao Dinheiro (MAS) foi testada em do...

A importância do dinheiro e seu traço motivador de comportamentos impele que seus aspectos psicossociais sejam pesquisados. Na psicologia brasileira são escassos os estudos sobre aspectos atitudinais ou psicológicos do dinheiro. Com intuito de fomentar pesquisas neste contexto, a Escala de Atitudes frente ao Dinheiro (MAS) foi testada em dois estud...

The social importance attached to money and its role as an important motivator of behavior justifies the study of its psychosocial aspects. But there is a lack of studies concerning attitudinal or psychological aspects of money in Brazil. In order to encourage research in this context, the validity of the Money Attitudes Scale (MAS) was tested usin...

O presente estudo procurou adaptar o Questionário de Ajustamento Escolar, reunindo evidências de sua validade fatorial e consistência interna. Objetivou-se ainda conhecer se suas pontuações variariam em função de sexo, série e tipo de escola dos participantes. Participaram 242 estudantes, sendo a maioria de escolas particulares (53,7%), do sexo fem...

This study investigated the extent to which values explain the attitudes towards tattoos and these, in turn, predict the intention of tattooing. Participants were 263 undergraduate students from João Pessoa (Brazil), with mean age of 20.7 years, mostly men (54.7%) and unmarried (91%). They answered the Attitudes toward Tattoo Scale, the Basic Value...

The current article aimed to find psychometric evidences in the Internal and External Motivation to Respond without Prejudice Scale (Plant & Devine, 1998) taking into account two target-groups: gays and lesbians. Two studies were carried out. In Study 1 participants were 234 subjects from the general population of João Pessoa-PB, with mean age of 2...

Resumo O presente estudo objetivou conhecer correlatos demográficos e psicossociais das atitudes frente ao álcool e das que levam a ser um potencial bebedor-problema. Participaram 342 policiais militares de João Pessoa (PB), com idade média de 35,9, a maioria homem (94%), casada (75%) e católica (45,6%). Estes responderam os seguintes instrumentos:...