Adaptation et validation d’une version brève en langue française du questionnaire d’impulsivité de Barratt (BIS-15)
Conclusions Des considérations relatives aux échelles de réponse employées dans les questionnaires et aux modes d’examen sont présentées en conclusion. Introduction The Barratt Impulsiveness Scale is one of the most frequently used questionnaires to assess impulsivity. Many versions of the questionnaire were developed during the 50 years that followed its creation. Objectives This article reports validation data for a French-language version of Spinella's (2007) BIS-15 questionnaire, a short version of Barratt's original scale (BIS-11; Patton, Standford, & Barratt, 1995). Method Reliability, princip...
Source: European Review of Applied Psychology - June 15, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Influence of international mobility on the attitudes of researchers
Conclusion The positive effects of the international mobility are discussed as well as its perverse effects. (Source: European Review of Applied Psychology)
Source: European Review of Applied Psychology - April 7, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Virtual Week: Validity and psychometric properties of a Polish adaptation
Conclusion The findings strongly encourage the use of VW for experimental purposes in healthy older adults. They provide further evidence that VW has a universal appeal and may be used in non-English speaking European samples. (Source: European Review of Applied Psychology)
Source: European Review of Applied Psychology - April 6, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Attempt to validate the Self-Construal Scale in French: Systematic approach and model limitation
Conclusion Given the poor psychometric properties of the SCS and the emergence of theory refinements, future research should consider alternative conceptualizations of self-construal. (Source: European Review of Applied Psychology)
Source: European Review of Applied Psychology - April 1, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Attitudes toward health-messages: The link between perceived attention and subjective strength
Conclusion This study showed that attitudes toward vegetable consumption can be changed after reading a persuasive message, and that the extent of perceived attention moderated the extent to which those changes were perceived as stable and resistant (stronger attitudes). (Source: European Review of Applied Psychology)
Source: European Review of Applied Psychology - March 24, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Psychometric properties of the Problem Video Game Playing scale in adults
Conclusions The PVP scale's properties are appropriate for the measurement of problem video gaming in adults as well as in adolescents, but studies with clinical assessments are still needed before any cutoff value for diagnosis can be established. (Source: European Review of Applied Psychology)
Source: European Review of Applied Psychology - January 12, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

A qualitative study of the decision to engage in tanning behaviors among female college students
Conclusions These findings suggest that tanning among students could be reduced both by engaging students in programs addressing rationalizations about the risks associated with tanning, and policies targeting marketing techniques and tanning salon locations. (Source: European Review of Applied Psychology)
Source: European Review of Applied Psychology - December 24, 2015 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Reading and related skills in Grades 6, 7, 8 and 9: French normative data from EVALEC
Conclusion These results, and particularly those from the reading tasks, are discussed in relation to models of written-word recognition developed to account for the reading of multisyllabic items (Perry, Ziegler, & Zorzi, 2010) in orthographies shallower than English (Perry, Ziegler, & Zorzi, 2014). (Source: European Review of Applied Psychology)
Source: European Review of Applied Psychology - December 23, 2015 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Psychometric properties of the French-language version of the Performance Enhancement Attitude Scale (PEAS)
Conclusion The results obtained on the scale are discussed, in particular regarding the meaning of the items loading most and least in the unidimensional model. The findings ground a useful scale in the French language. (Source: European Review of Applied Psychology)
Source: European Review of Applied Psychology - December 10, 2015 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Learning by explaining: Impacts of explanations on the development of a competence
Conclusion Psychological processes involved in explaining activity and their implications are examined and discussed. (Source: European Review of Applied Psychology)
Source: European Review of Applied Psychology - December 10, 2015 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Perceiving red decreases motor performance over time: A pilot study
Conclusion This study is the first to show that perceiving red is detrimental for motor performance over an extended period of time. (Source: European Review of Applied Psychology)
Source: European Review of Applied Psychology - December 10, 2015 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Empathy and emotional dissonance: Impact on organizational citizenship behaviors
Conclusion These findings confirm that cognitive and emotional empathy have different impact on nurses’ organizational citizenship behavior. Further studies are required to inform education or for application in clinical settings. (Source: European Review of Applied Psychology)
Source: European Review of Applied Psychology - December 10, 2015 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Validation française du School Burnout Inventory
Conclusion Cet outil devrait permettre aux cliniciens une première évaluation rapide et simple de cette problématique chez les adolescents et aux chercheurs de développer les connaissances théoriques sur ce phénomène. Introduction First studied in adults, the concept of burnout was recently extended to adolescents in order to evaluate the impact of school requirements on their health. Objective This study aim at assessing construct validity, reliability and concurrent validity of a French version of the School Burnout Inventory (Salmela-Aro, Kiuru, Leskinen, & Nurmi, 2009) that characterize school burnou...
Source: European Review of Applied Psychology - December 10, 2015 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

The effect of teachers’ emotional intensity and social support on burnout syndrome. A comparison between Italy and Switzerland
Conclusions Our results provide fresh evidence for the protective role of social support in a profession that is particularly at risk of burnout. More specifically, burnout was predicted by the same pattern of variables in Italian and Swiss teachers, with significant differences emerging between the two groups in relation to their satisfaction with support received. (Source: European Review of Applied Psychology)
Source: European Review of Applied Psychology - December 10, 2015 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Emotion comprehension and attachment: A conversational intervention with school-aged children
Publication date: November 2015 Source:Revue Européenne de Psychologie Appliquée/European Review of Applied Psychology, Volume 65, Issue 6 Author(s): Ilaria Grazzani, Veronica Ornaghi, Cristina Riva Crugnola Introduction As part of the flourishing line of enquiry into children's emotion understanding, we report the results of a conversation-based intervention study aimed at improving participants’ emotion comprehension, and exploring the intervention effect as a function of attachment security. Method The study was conducted at school with the participation of 98 second-grade children (mean age: 7 years, ...
Source: European Review of Applied Psychology - December 10, 2015 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research