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Associations Between Childhood Trauma Characteristics and Theory of Mind in Adults: Results From a Large, Diverse Sample
Theory of mind (ToM) is an essential social cognitive process encompassing abilities to represent and understand others’ mental states. Although...
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Comparing data quality from an online and in-person lab sample on dynamic theory of mind tasks
Nearly half the published research in psychology is conducted with online samples, but the preponderance of these studies rely primarily on...
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Finger-Length Ratios and Sexual Orientation in Southern Spain: A Large Sample Study on Sex-Linked Personality and Cognitive Traits
Some similarities between sex differences and sexual orientation differences, with gay men shifted in female-typical directions and lesbians shifted...
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The prevalence and psychological relation of problem shop**: data from a large-scale sample from Turkey
BackgroundThe purpose of the present study was to comprehensively examine the measurement aspects, the prevalence, and the psychological correlates...
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Gender differences in self-compassion: a latent profile analysis of compassionate and uncompassionate self-relating in a large adolescent sample
Self-compassion, a healthy way of relating to oneself, may promote psychological resilience during adolescence. How adolescents engage with...
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Prosocial Video Game Content, Empathy and Cognitive Ability in a Large Sample of Youth
Whether playing video games with prosocial content has an influence on empathy among players remains contentious in the research literature. Some...
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Alexithymia as a Risk Factor for Social Indifference: A Quantitative Study with a Large Sample of Female Adolescents
Alexithymia refers to an ineffectiveness in identifying feelings and emotions and their communication. In adolescence, it has been identified as a...
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Assessing Somatic Symptom Scale-8 (SSS-8) in Chinese youth and adolescents: using Classical Test Theory and Rasch Measurement Theory
Evaluating the increasing somatic symptoms in adolescents and youth is essential in epidemiological surveillance. This study aims to investigate the...
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Validation of the Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire-Bangla Using Classical Test Theory and Item Response Theory
ObjectivesMindfulness-based interventions are common in contemporary mental health practices. Hence, the assessment of mindfulness is necessary...
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Sample size planning for complex study designs: A tutorial for the
mlpwr packageA common challenge in designing empirical studies is determining an appropriate sample size. When more complex models are used, estimates of power...
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Sex addiction in Turkey: A large-scale survey with a national community sample
Prior studies on sex addiction have mostly relied on a narrow range of risk factors among small and heterogeneous samples. The purpose of the present...
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How Psychosocial Factors Relate to Climate in a Racially Stratified Sample School
BackgroundIn an American society where a majority of students are from minoritized backgrounds, a better understanding of the relationship between...
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Psychometric Analysis of the Parental Attitudes Toward Psychological Services Inventory with a Diverse Community Sample
An under-explored strategy to increase youth mental health service uptake is pursuing a direct-to-consumer approach with parents; however, a...
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Psychometric Properties of the Kessler Psychological Distress Scale in a Sample of Adolescents from Ecuador
The Kessler psychological distress scale is a useful tool for identifying possible psychological problems and has been widely used in research and...
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Diminished diversity-of-thought in a standard large language model
We test whether large language models (LLMs) can be used to simulate human participants in social-science studies. To do this, we ran replications of...
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Assessing Theory of Mind in Children: A Tablet-Based Adaptation of a Classic Picture Sequencing Task
Correctly assessing children’s theory of mind (TOM) is essential to clinical practice. Yet, most tasks heavily rely on language, which is an obstacle...
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The PERMA + 4 Short Scale: A Cross-Cultural Empirical Validation Using Item Response Theory
A substantial body of empirical research has used the positive emotions, engagement, relationships, meaning, accomplishment (PERMA) framework to...
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Personality and internet trolling: a validation study of a Representative Sample
To date, characteristics of the internet “troll” have largely been explored in general community samples, which may lack representation of the sample...
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A Note on Improving Variational Estimation for Multidimensional Item Response Theory
Survey instruments and assessments are frequently used in many domains of social science. When the constructs that these assessments try to measure...
