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The aim of the study was to identify distinct trajectories of perceived stress and control in athletes across a season of sports competitions and whether these trajectory memberships could be predicted by subdimensions of the emotional intelligence (EI). Latent class growth analyses were performed on a five-stage longitudinal measurement plan (to cover the entire sporting season). Four hundred fifteen athletes answered to the Brief Emotional Intelligence Scale, the Mastery Scale, the Perceived Stress Scale, and the Attainment of Sport Achievement Goal Scale. The analyses revealed two trajectories of perceived stress (one trajectory adapted and one maladapted to performance) and two trajectories of perceived control (one trajectory adapted and one maladapted to performance). Moreover, athletes with higher emotional intelligence emotion regulation scores belong significantly more to performance-adaptive trajectories. The obtained results could contribute to the advancement of emotional intelligence intervention programs to optimize the dynamics of perceived stress and control within the sporting season. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Context: Anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injuries, prevalent in athletic contexts have profound physical and psychological impacts. Despite extensive research on the physiological aspects of ACL recovery, the psychological dimensions of this process have gained increased attention. This scoping review delves into the intricate landscape of psychological factors influencing ACL rehabilitation. Design: Scoping review. Methods: A literature search across multiple databases was conducted to identify relevant published studies that provide insight into the psychological aspects of ACL recovery. This search spanned various study designs, enabling a nuanced understanding of the psychological intricacies surrounding ACL recovery. Overall, a total of 1830 unique articles were screened, of which 66 were included in this review. Our findings are further contextualized through alignment with insights from prior reviews on similar themes. Through a comprehensive analysis of diverse literature, we explore 3 key themes: psychological challenges, current rehabilitation programs, and the integration of psychological support. Results: Psychological challenges emerged as a pervasive aspect of ACL rehabilitation, encompassing fear, anxiety, motivation, and depression. The nuanced emotional responses, particularly the fear of reinjury, impact treatment adherence and overall well-being. Contemporary rehabilitation programs revealed inconsistencies in incorporating psychological support, emphasizing the need for standardized, multidisciplinary approaches. The alignment with prior reviews in the literature reinforced the importance of psychological traits, such as knee self-efficacy, in predicting positive outcomes. Conclusion: This scoping review provides a comprehensive overview of psychological factors within ACL rehabilitation, highlighting the importance of tailored interventions and standardized approaches. The integration of multidisciplinary expertise emerges as crucial for optimizing patient outcomes. Our findings not only contribute to a nuanced understanding of psychological nuances in ACL rehabilitation but also offer valuable implications for clinical practice and policy development. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of this study was twofold: (a) identify attentional foci (AF) and coping strategies used by young fencers during matches and (b) explore the links between these variables using a grounded-theory approach. Using a naturalistic qualitative video-assisted approach, analyses revealed the emergence of five categories of AF (movements and techniques, strategies and tactics, situation evaluation, states, and extraneous attention) and six categories of coping strategies (mastery coping, internal regulation, goal-withdrawal strategies, behavioral regulation, no regulation, and automatic regulation). The grounded theory highlighted that pleasant emotional experiences tended to be related to mastery coping, which in turn favored the orientation of the attention toward AF that appeared to be most effective in winning points (i.e., opponent, distance, plan). Conversely, unpleasant emotional experiences were consistently associated with goal-withdrawal strategies (or no regulation), which generally led to a lack of AF and lower performance. Intervention suggestions are made in relation to the results of the proposed grounded theory. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on surfing to consider the attractiveness of using the sublime to describe experiences and emotions in nature sports. The sublime is shown to be a red herring in scholarship as it fails to account for many of the valuable experiences available to nature sports enthusiasts. The article draws on the work of Genevieve Lloyd to propose that wonder is a more suitable concept that gets to the heart not only of the terror and awe that nature can inspire, but also to the orientation towards our finitude, difference, and the stimulation of growth and practical knowledge that nature sports also inspire (and that are not accounted for in the sublime). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Despite a growing interest in emotions in sport psychology, little has been written about the contextual elements triggering athletes' emotional experience. This single case study aimed to analyze the inducers of an elite table tennis player's emotional experience throughout his career. He was ranked among the 15 best players in the world, and his career spanned more than 20 years. Inspired by the critical-incident method, we conducted a lengthy interview with the player, during which he related the most significant moments of his career. The categorization of the 96 critical incidents collected highlighted four inducers of positive emotions and five inducers of negative emotions, emerging over five periods (exponential progression, first difficulties, major difficulties, second career, and end of career). These findings contribute to the development of an innovative single-case-study design, allowing an understanding of the contextual origin of athletes' emotions over the long term. Finally, highlights are discussed and recommendations for the practice of sport psychology are formulated. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Research has supported the use of preperformance routines to successfully manage the period preceding sport performance. In contrast, little research has been done on the period succeeding skill execution. This article introduces a three-stage model for postperformance routines (PoPR) for novice motor learning and performance including emotion regulation, performance analysis and correction, and continuation to the next performance trial. To test this model, 38 novice golfers completed a putting task after random assignment to either a PoPR or a control condition. Putting performance was measured after each putt, and self-efficacy, arousal, affect, and perceived task difficulty were recorded every 10 putts. Participants in the PoPR group improved their performance from baseline to postintervention (d = −0.55), while performance in the control group remained unchanged (d = −0.01). No significant differences were observed for performance consistency, emotions, self-efficacy, and perceived task difficulty. Thus, practitioners implementing a PoPR in novice athletes may consider the proposed three-stage framework for improvements in motor learning and performance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

What does it mean when the future of one's life is exposed to the inscrutable will of an intangible other? And what are the possibilities of still asserting oneself when pushed to the limit? Nuancing the feelings of different actors in a detention centre and analysing how everyday moods, affects and violence intertwine, I explore how the randomly cruel and often-inexplicable logic of the contemporary deportation regime pushes migrants to their limits. Taking as my starting point the argument that deportation practices are effective because they operate on an affective level, I show how affective experiences manifest themselves bodily and how violent practices and discourses reverberate in bodies. I argue that 'bodies under pressure' are testimonies of racialised histories of exclusion, and I show how they become calls for social recognition. Exploring small, often-unintended acts of rebellion against exhausting deportation practices, I stress the existential necessity and social importance of including oneself in the realm of meaning. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper examines how young West African migrant men decide to enrol in the IOM's voluntary return programme in Morocco and make sense of their return while they wait for it to happen. Through an ethnographic exploration of migrants' affective and moral economy of mobility, it shows that choosing to return is not a single event but a process that implies self-doubt, family negotiations, daunting emotions such as shame, and the need to find the meaning of a migratory project often interrupted in dramatic circumstances. The narrative of adventure and the belief in destiny offer meaning to return, but they are themselves subject to conflicting interpretations, justifying onward migration or return in terms of pride, resilience or failure. By validating, reinterpreting or rejecting return, would-be returnees struggle to exercise some autonomy, however fragile and interstitial, vis-à-vis the constraints weighing on their (in)voluntary decision. During this complex personal process, most returnees' experience of the IOM's return programme is limited to administrative matters. Although the IOM commits to migrant-centred response, the daily implementation of the return procedure falls short of engaging with returnees' circumstances, remaining peripheral to the challenges that (in)voluntary returning entails. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article attends to the emotional resonances of 'stuckedness' and (in)voluntary return as experienced by Nicaraguan migrants stranded in Spain during the COVID-19 pandemic. Feeling both figuratively and literally trapped in a context of cascading lockdowns, border closures, and travel restrictions, many viewed Spain's Assisted Voluntary Return and Reintegration (AVRR) programme as offering a choice to 'freely' depart Spain – a way to simultaneously leave their distressing circumstances behind while returning to the comfort of 'home' and family. Building on recent literature that challenges the basis for participation in such programmes as founded on free, voluntary, and individual decisions, this article contends that, for some, the act of 'choosing' to return generates a profound and unexpected emotional response. In the case of a Nicaraguan migrant woman explored in detail here, the execution of said return activates feelings of relief, euphoria, and hope, as well as a renewed sense of self. Nevertheless, her response is temporally and geographically contingent, as returning to Nicaragua via AVRR does not necessarily diminish her desire to remigrate or render her less 'stuck'. The empirical material that informs this paper was collected through digital ethnography and in-person encounters in both Spain and Nicaragua between 2020 and 2021. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article investigates how German volunteers navigate the often conflicting and emotionally loaded European practices and discourses of removal when interacting with Senegalese returnees in Senegal. Following male Senegalese returnees and female German volunteers, it analyses the affective long-term entanglements the volunteers engage in to support Senegalese men after they have left Europe. It illustrates the importance of emotion work as volunteers deal with the multidirectional circulation of mistrust and frustration between returnees, institutions and donors in the return migration industry. In the circulation of affects in these engagements, mistrust is at times transformed into trust but may also fall back into suspicion. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The removal of undocumented migrants has become a widespread preoccupation of current European migration politics and one of the most emotionally contentious state practices of our times. Not only right-wing populists and their constituencies demand an increase in expulsions, but also mainstream society. Others accuse these positions of being racist or lacking humanism and instead promote solidarity to help people seeking protection in Europe. These divisive views and migrants' often long-term experience of being 'unwanted' and deportable provoke strong and often irreconcilable emotions. The ethnographic explorations assembled here zoom in on the 'affective economies' inherent in the arbitrary processes and unpredictable experiences of removals of people from Europe to different parts of the world. This special issue puts forward a twofold argument: First, conceptually, we argue that a focus on affects is indispensable in order to fully unearth the complexities of removal processes. And second, methodologically, we contend that an ethnographic approach, with its deep and often long-term commitment of researchers to their respective field(s) including multiple actors, is essential to comprehensively grasp the affective economy of removal. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Awe, a self-transcendent emotion that can transform our egocentric perspective, has the potential to reduce the resistance to freedom-threatening messages. However, no research has yet offered empirical evidence in health and environmental communication contexts. The present research aims to bridge this gap by explicating whether and how awe alleviates psychological reactance induced by threat-to-freedom messages. We conducted a survey (N = 353, Study 1) and an online experiment (N = 419, Study 2) to examine whether trait awe and video-induced state awe can improve persuasion outcomes by mitigating psychological reactance. Results showed that trait awe was negatively associated with trait reactance. Additionally, state awe dampened state reactance by elevating self-transcendence and diminishing the perceptions of threat to freedom and reactance, which improved one’s attitudes toward the message advocacy and behavioral intentions. However, this effect was only supported with the issue of climate change rather than sun protection. Theoretical contributions and practical implications for leveraging awe appeal in strategic communication are discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The sociology of political emotions has undergone a revival over the last 20 years. Most authors have, however, focused on affects and emotions as they unfold in collective action. Less has been written about the ‘emotional legacies’ of activism, understood here following Nussio’s work as ‘the emotional residue that emerges from the remembered past, including regret, pride, resentment, nostalgia, and tiredness’. We aim to contribute to this understudied topic by focusing on two case studies – Egypt and Syria – where the politics of affect has been disregarded. More precisely, we seek to provide some responses to the following questions: How do participants in extraordinary events such as revolutions recall these moments and what affects and emotions do they mobilize when remembering them? And how do they experience the aftermath of these disruptive processes emotionally? Based on a comparative perspective and a micro-level approach, we study the ‘emotional legacies’ of revolutionary activism, which entailed a multitude of ambivalent emotions. We argue that this ambivalence has persisted across the years, and that conflicting narratives about the revolutionary experience are entangled with affective transformations of activists’ present. Our paper is based on biographical material collected in Lebanon, Turkey and gypt between 2011 and 2023. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Individuals exposed to highly stressful negative events show alterations in working memory (WM) function. The correlational nature of these studies makes it impossible to determine whether exposure to negative events itself decreases WM. Such events elicit intrusive thoughts which may cause interference in WM. The main objective of this study was to verify the causal impact of a recent negative event on WM, and to examine the role of intrusive thoughts. One hundred and twenty participants completed a WM task (n-Back). Then, 90 of these participants watched an emotionally negative video and 30 watched a neutral video. The emotional impact of the video was assessed, and the frequency of intrusive thoughts were measured. WM was measured a second time (n-Back) while recording EEG (P300). Contrary to our hypothesis, the negative video did not impair behavioural WM performance compared to the neutral video. However, it disrupted WM neurocognitive processes (lower P300 amplitude) under low WM load. In the high load condition, greater emotional reaction was linked to poorer accuracy and more intrusive thoughts, which in turn slowed response times. Our results suggest that the impact of negative emotions on WM depends on both individual sensitivity and cognitive load. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

While some qualitative research provides sophisticated accounts of emotions, thematic analysis (TA) – a widely adopted and flexible method in qualitative psychology – could better recognize and account for participant emotions. TA’s versatility presents an opportunity to incorporate more direct attention to these emotions, aligning with consideration of researcher emotions. This opportunity varies across TA’s different forms. Reflexive TA acknowledges participant emotions more effectively than conventional TA by encouraging researchers to engage with their own emotional responses, enhancing their ability to manage participant emotions. Improving emotion recognition is thus more pressing for conventional TA. As the more established form whose guidelines emphasize cognition and behaviour over emotions, conventional TA also provides a clearer baseline for critique and improvement. Therefore, this paper focuses on conventional TA while acknowledging the scope for both forms of TA to code participant emotions more explicitly. It introduces Emotion–Sensitive Thematic Analysis (ESTA), a structured framework that expands ordinary data coding to integrate emotional codes deliberately. Systematically integrating participant emotions into TA sensitizes conventional coding, potentially enhancing its integrity and theme development to broaden and deepen understanding of psychological life’s emotional dimensions. ESTA’s conceptualization is described and its application illustrated for field testing after peer validation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Awe, a self-transcendent emotion, has been theoretically posited as a precursor to wise reasoning. However, direct empirical evidence supporting this relationship and the underlying mechanism has been limited. In four studies (N = 3700), we examined the relationship between awe and wise reasoning, as well as the mediating effect of self-transcendence, employing cross-sectional, longitudinal, and experimental designs. We consistently found that awe had a lagged effect on (Study 1), enhanced (Studies 2 & 3), and was associated with (Study 4) wise reasoning. Furthermore, self-transcendence mediated this relationship (Studies 3 & 4). The impact of awe on wise reasoning and mediating effect of self-transcendence could not solely be attributed to awe’s predominantly positive nature, and the mediation model was established beyond the influence of self-smallness (Studies 3–4). These findings contribute to understanding the emotional trigger of wise reasoning, the cognitive implications of awe, and its role in promoting wise conflict resolution. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background: Theoretical models of conduct disorder (CD) highlight that deficits in emotion recognition, learning, and regulation play a pivotal role in CD etiology. With CD being more prevalent in boys than girls, various theories aim to explain this sex difference. The "differential threshold" hypothesis suggests greater emotion dysfunction in conduct-disordered girls than boys, but previous research using conventional statistical analyses has failed to support this hypothesis. Here, we used novel analytic techniques such as machine learning (ML) to uncover potentially sex-specific differences in emotion dysfunction among girls and boys with CD compared to their neurotypical peers. Methods: Multi-site data from 542 youth with CD and 710 neurotypical controls (64% girls, 9–18 years) who completed emotion recognition, learning, and regulation tasks were analyzed using a multivariate ML classifier to distinguish between youth with CD and controls separately by sex. Results: Both female and male ML classifiers accurately predicted (above chance level) individual CD status based solely on the neurocognitive features of emotion dysfunction. Notably, the female classifier outperformed the male classifier in identifying individuals with CD. However, the classification and identification performance of both classifiers was below the clinically relevant 80% accuracy threshold (although they still provided relatively fair and realistic estimates of ~ 60% classification performance), probably due to the substantial neurocognitive heterogeneity within such a large and diverse, multi-site sample of youth with CD (and neurotypical controls). Conclusions: These findings confirm the close association between emotion dysfunction and CD in both sexes, with a stronger association observed in affected girls, which aligns with the "differential threshold" hypothesis. However, the data also underscore the heterogeneity of CD, namely that only a subset of those affected are likely to have emotion dysfunction and that other neurocognitive domains (not tested here) probably also contribute to CD etiology. Clinical trial number: Not applicable. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study explores the phenomena of gendered care through feminist new materialisms, particularly Karen Barad’s agential realism (2007). The study delves into how materiality, corporeality, and emotion intra-act in the entanglement of the girl-learning-how-to-care within the family in Finland. A Baradian approach guided the methodology, analysing the performative accounts of ten Finnish girls aged 6–12 through an original three-reading method identifying matter, body, emotion, and their entanglement in the learning of care. The study found the girl-learning-how-to-care becomes through her embodied and emotional intra-action with the material world, where matter provides a framework containing the learning process, enabling the occurrence of care and the acquisition of skills; corporeality permits her to receive and give care, and emotions reinforce or produce approval, disapproval, encouragement, or empathy towards care. The study unveils the impact and importance of materiality/corporeality/emotion withholds in girls’ learning of gendered practices such as care. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Drawing from enactivist theory, this paper examines how certain cases of transgenerational trauma manifest as Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in the descendants of survivors who did not experience the event directly. It argues that psychopathology develops from an embodied form of vicarious memory, conveyed through mimetic capacities and emotional resonances that involve the transfer of emotional and behavioral patterns from parents to children, affecting their sense of self. Children’s reenactments of their parents’ emotional states do not merely replay the parents’ trauma but are also perceived and integrated into the children’s life as their own. This, in turn, biases their sense-making, which is further reinforced by background emotions in the household. Over time, certain mnemonic features contribute to the persistence of the initial emotional load, such as the simplification of events in collective memory and the reliance of embodied vicarious memories on somatic markers, which also fuel PTSD development. Finally, the paper briefly explores the implications of embodiment for understanding mnemonic causality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

There has been extensive research on religion and migration, but conventional approaches examine the religious lives of people who actually move. This article breaks new ground by shifting the study of religion from actual migration to desired migration. It examines how migration desires materialize in the bodies and emotions of aspiring migrants through experiences such as dreams, prophecies, and intuitions that acquire religious significance. Drawing on data gathered from observations, surveys (N = 565), and interviews (25) among Ghanaians, the paper reveals that migration aspirations are shaped by embodied, subjective, and legitimized forces of experiential religion. These findings challenge the traditional view that migration decisions are solely driven by rational economic choices or external push and pull factors. The paper reshapes our understanding of migration aspirations as integral to personhood and identity rather than place utility. By drawing attention to the imaginative and experiential forces of religion, this paper opens a new chapter on the often overlooked psychological and affective modes of migration that have crucial implications for policymaking. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Concerns for farm animal welfare have led to the use of environmental enrichment to stimulate natural behaviours and promote positive emotions. In cattle, the provision of brushes is sometimes recommended but their use in calves and the effects they may have are not well established. The use of precision technologies enables the collection of detailed behavioural data that can be used as welfare indicators. Here we use ultra-wideband location sensors to measure activity and play, along with automatic milk feeders to measure feeding. We assessed the effects of stationary brushes on the behaviour of 226 dairy calves for up to 72 days. Half of the calves had access to the brushes for half of the experimental period. Using a mixed-effects linear model we showed that when brushes were present calves had significantly higher activity, fed slower, had fewer interruptions in their meals and spent less time around the feeder, suggesting reduced competition. Furthermore, calves that had access to brushes during the trial were more active and playful, even on days when the brushes were not available, compared to the control group. This finding indicates for the first time that enrichment may have a lasting effect on calf behaviour and welfare. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

With the advancement of society, there has been an increasing focus on the health status of college students, with plants playing a significant role in the campus environment. Investigating the impact of the aromatic scent of plants on the physical and mental well-being of college students is essential. This study centered on the common indoor potted flower Gardenia jasminoides Ellis to delve into its aroma and the influence of its volatiles on the physical, mental, and emotional recovery of college students. The findings revealed that the subjects in both the olfactory group (G1) and the control group (G2) exhibited a decrease in blood pressure, pulse, β wave power, and skin electrical signal, alongside an increase in α wave power and heart rate variability (HRV) index. Notably, G1 saw a rise in α wave power by 0.17 µV2/Hz and G2 experienced an increase in HRV index by 0.184, while the power of β wave decreased by 2.589 and 0.01 µV2/Hz, respectively. Moreover, psychological indicators showed a significant increase in 'energy' and 'self' scores for both G1 and G2. Additionally, the perception of gardenia odor by college students was found to be associated with various physiological and psychological indicators in the experiment. The study highlighted that the volatiles of Gardenia jasminoides Ellis are rich in terpenes and alcohols, with terpenes playing a role in blood pressure regulation and relaxation, while alcohols like linalool contribute to air freshness, nervous system regulation, and sedative effects. The findings of our research offer backing for utilizing aromatic plants with terpenes and alcohols, such as gardenia, to enhance their health-promoting properties. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Through emotion socialization, parents shape their children’s emotional development. Parents’ characteristics determine how they do this. We investigated parents’ emotion regulation, belief in the importance of emotion talk, and emotion socialization in the form of emotion talk in relation to toddlers’ emotion regulation. During an online video-call task 75 Dutch mothers talked with their toddlers (M-age = 23 months, Range = 21-25) about illustrations depicting emotion-related situations. On average 2.33% of the total words used by parents were emotions words. The emotion regulation strategies of parents did not relate to their emotion talk and the emotion talk of parents did not relate to children’s emotion regulation. However, parents with stronger beliefs in the importance of emotion talk, did use more emotion words and reported more effective emotion regulation in their children. Possibly time is needed for emotion talk to consolidate into children’s emotion regulation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background: Cystic Fibrosis (CF) significantly affects the respiratory system, often requiring lung transplantation in advanced stages. This life-saving procedure presents substantial challenges and uncertainties. While there is existing research on support and information needs post-lung transplant from various perspectives, this study aims to specifically address the unique experiences and challenges faced by individuals with CF during both the pre-transplant and post-transplant periods. Methods: Twenty-three lung-transplanted individuals with CF participated in this exploratory qualitative study. Data was collected through individual semi-structured interviews and analyzed using inductive content analysis. Results: Participants faced physical and mental challenges, including fatigue, depression, and anxiety. The waiting period involved isolation, dependence on family, and guilt. Post-transplant, they dealt with relief but also severe pain and adjusted to a new identity. Participants highlighted the importance of taking immunosuppressive medications as prescribed, even though the regimen was complicated and these medications had side effects. Participants stressed the need for earlier and more open dialogue with healthcare professionals and better emotional preparation for the transplant process, including preparedness for pain and previously inadequately addressed concerns such as depression and anxiety. Conclusions: This study underscores the significant physical and emotional challenges individuals with CF face during lung transplantation, highlighting the need for comprehensive, person-centered care. Psychological support, effective post-transplant pain management, and early palliative care may be beneficial approaches to improve the patient experience. Nurses can play a pivotal role in this process by ensuring clear communication, managing pain, educating patients on immunosuppressive regimens, and advocating for holistic care. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This mixed-methods multinational study examined how achievement emotions predict the cognitive, behavioural, and emotional engagement of multilingual learners within Chinese, Iranian, and Kuwaiti L2 classrooms. The study also assessed the potential association between participants’ achievement emotions and their L2 engagement levels. Additionally, this research focused on the participants’ subjective perceptions concerning the role of negative and positive achievement emotions in shaping multilingual learners’ L2 engagement. In doing so, a total of 1509 multilingual English learners were purposefully recruited from various educational institutions in China, Iran, and Kuwait. Following that, the quantitative and qualitative data were gleaned via two validated scales and a semi-structured interview, respectively. Correlational analyses uncovered significant associations between achievement emotions and the L2 engagement components. Regression analyses further highlighted the strong role of achievement emotions in predicting multilingual learners’ L2 engagement. Surprisingly, measurement invariance testing indicated no significant differences among Chinese, Iranian, and Kuwaiti regression models regarding the predictive power of achievement emotions. Additionally, the findings derived from content analysis illuminated that participants viewed achievement emotions as key factors affecting learners’ L2 engagement. The outcomes of this inquiry offer valuable insights for language teachers, policymakers, and curriculum designers aiming to promote multilingual learners’ engagement in L2 classrooms. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We conducted a pre-registered study examining the relationship between three pleasurable emotions (i.e. contentment, tranquility, and cheerfulness) and deprivation. Undergraduate students (N = 243, aged 18–22) completed a semi-structured interview regarding childhood emotional neglect from parents/guardians, peer social deprivation, and childhood material deprivation. They also completed questionnaires measuring current emotional and material deprivation, stress, pleasurable emotions, depression, and worry. Contentment was more strongly associated with deprivation than were tranquility and cheerfulness. Contentment was also significantly negatively correlated with depression, and the link between deprivation and depression was partially mediated by diminished contentment. The patterns of associations between deprivation and pleasurable emotions differed from the patterns of associations between perceived stress and pleasurable emotions. Overall, these findings support the unique relationship between various pleasurable emotions and different kinds of stress/adversity, and underscore the need for further work that explores the mechanisms linking stress/adversity, pleasurable emotions, and undesirable mental health outcomes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Objective: Given the importance of emotions in psychotherapy, valid measures are essential for research and practice. As emotions are expressed at different levels, multimodal measurements are needed for a nuanced assessment. Natural Language Processing (NLP) could augment the measurement of emotions. The study explores the validity of sentiment analysis in psychotherapy transcripts. Method: We used a transformer-based NLP algorithm to analyze sentiments in 85 transcripts from 35 patients. Construct and criterion validity were evaluated using self- and therapist reports and process and outcome measures via correlational, multitrait-multimethod, and multilevel analyses. Results: The results provide indications in support of the sentiments' validity. For example, sentiments were significantly related to self- and therapist reports of emotions in the same session. Sentiments correlated significantly with in-session processes (e.g., coping experiences), and an increase in positive sentiments throughout therapy predicted better outcomes after treatment termination. Discussion: Sentiment analysis could serve as a valid approach to assessing the emotional tone of psychotherapy sessions and may contribute to the multimodal measurement of emotions. Future research could combine sentiment analysis with automatic emotion recognition in facial expressions and vocal cues via the Nonverbal Behavior Analyzer (NOVA). Limitations (e.g., exploratory study with numerous tests) and opportunities are discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the design field, persona is widely used to help design teams understand their target users. However, existing persona tools have limitations such as insufficient interactivity, inability to arouse designers' empathy, and inability to finely segment users. We developed Vivid-Persona, which is a customisable persona tool offering an interactive and immersive experience. Designers can set the demographics and scenarios of the target user to customise a persona. The tool generates a realistic image of the persona using a Diffusion model. Embedded with the ChatGPT and SadTalker models, the persona can engage in real-time video chats with designers. The persona is augmented with facial expressions, based on the analysis of the emotions in utterances. A user study showed that Vivid-Persona effectively solves the problem of user segmentation, significantly enhancing the designer's perception of persona in terms of authenticity, clarity, empathy and willingness to use, as well as the quality of the output design solutions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

AbstractThis study addressed associations of parents’ socialization of children’s positive and negative emotions with children’s emotional skills and socio-emotional functioning in early childhood with families in Türkiye and the United States (U.S.). One hundred five parents (50 Turkish, 55 U.S.) and their 4- to 5-year-old children reminisced about family events. Videos were coded for parents’ emotion coaching and dismissing. Parents self-reported expressiveness and reactions to children’s emotions. Experimenters administered tasks assessing children’s emotion masking and emotion understanding. Teachers reported children’s social competence and behavior problems. Emotion socialization by Turkish and U.S. parents differed according to valence (positive, negative) and mode (expressiveness, reactions, discourse). For both Turkish and U.S. families, encouraging socialization of negative emotions related to children’s better masking of negative emotions and poorer masking of positive emotions. For U.S. families, encouraging negative emotions related to children’s poorer socio-emotional functioning. When parents encouraged positive emotions, Turkish children scored higher in masking negative emotions, whereas U.S. children scored higher in masking positive emotions and had better socio-emotional functioning. Results suggest that cultural values may influence emotion socialization and its relations to children’s socio-emotional development. Particular attention should be paid to socialization modes and positive emotions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Researchers, including graduate students, who work with refugees and asylum seekers are exposed to narratives of torture, trauma, loss, and distress. This article features the testimonies of the authors as doctoral students and mental health researchers-in-training—as well as their supervisors—regarding their research with the immigrant community in an underserved area on the Texas U.S.–Mexico border, a popular migratory entry point for Central American immigrants seeking asylum in the United States. This article aimed to bear witness to the emotional impact that working with forced migrants may have on researchers by describing the experiences of doctoral students conducting research with asylum seekers in the context of their graduate training in clinical psychology. The authors' narratives highlight that conducting research with forced migrants is a challenging but also an enriching and rewarding experience. Graduate students and researchers working with this population need to be aware of the emotional impact of this type of work on trainees and supervisors alike and the inherent risk of vicarious traumatization. Drawing from the cognitive processing theory model of posttraumatic growth (Tedeschi & Calhoun, 2004), the authors propose that engaging in reflective practice and meaning-making processes may assist researchers-in-training connect to and acknowledge the meaningful aspects of their work. Ultimately, these practices may counterbalance the difficulties of conducting research with trauma-exposed forced migrants in the United States as evidenced in the authors' testimonies. Public Significance Statement: While the extant literature has explored the experiences of health clinicians providing services to trauma-exposed forced migrants, no research has focused on the experiences of researchers working with these groups. This article identifies strategies that may assist researchers-in-training conducting research with trauma-exposed forced migrants to cope and connect to the meaningful aspects of their work. As evidenced in the authors' narratives, these practices may counterbalance the difficult aspects of conducting research with this population in the United States. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Feedback has long been considered a significant lever to enhance learning experience and success in higher education. However, students have shown much discontent with the current feedback practice. Feedback experienced as a relational process in which students feel recognized and valued is perceived as paramount for helping support the uptake of feedback and promote positive learning dispositions. However, little attention has been paid to suggesting how instructors in higher educational institutions can facilitate relational feedback. In response, we conducted a rapid literature review with a particular focus on the creation of feedback content. In total, 17 peer-reviewed publications on relational feedback are included. Based on a qualitative analysis of these papers, we developed a framework of 12 characteristics for offering relational feedback. These 12 characteristics were further categorised into four types of feedback conductive to a relational process, including (i) clarifying performance, (ii) suggesting improvement, (iii) inviting further communication, and (iv) evoking positive emotions. We examined how each of these characteristics supports the relational aspects of feedback. Based on the qualitative analysis results, we offered practical recommendations for instructors to apply relational feedback in their pedagogical practices. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Spiritual dryness, understood as a type of divine struggle, is the feeling that God is distant or absent, no matter how much one tries to approach him. Spiritual dryness is concurrent with symptoms of depression, job burnout, stress, and experiencing negative emotions. The purpose of this article was to present the psychometric properties of the Polish version of the Spiritual Dryness Scale (SDS) and the measurement equivalence of this tool for people involved and not involved in religious practices. Two groups of respondents (184 religiously committed and 199 uncommitted people) participated in the study. The results of the confirmatory factor analyses showed that this tool has a unidimensional. The measurement equivalence analysis conducted may suggest that, for those engaged in religious practices, the feeling of being completely abandoned by God and distanced from him despite efforts to get closer to him is a stronger descriptor of spiritual dryness. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper examines a borrowed bilingual pragmatic item omo in Nigerian multilingual online interactions to establish its frequency, syntactic features, collocational patterns and discourse-pragmatic functions. The data are extracted from the Nigerian component of the Global Web-based English corpus and analysed qualitatively and quantitatively within the framework of pragmatic borrowing and postcolonial corpus pragmatics. The findings show that omo , a Yoruba loan translated as 'child' in English, is routinely found at utterance-initial position in Nigerian multilingual online interactions and has assumed extended meaning and functions. It serves as a vocative among online commenters to single out a specific addressee and gain their attention, and as an interjection that signals various shades of emotions and emphasises different speech acts. The study establishes the continuous interplay of linguistic resources in a multilingual situation. • Nigerian English omo derives from the Yoruba word ọmọ , which means 'child' in English. • Omo occupies utterance-initial position in Nigerian multilingual online interactions. • It serves as a vocative to single out a specific addressee and gain their attention. • As an interjection, it signals various shades of emotions and emphasises different speech acts. • The study demonstrates the interplay of linguistic resources in a multilingual situation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present study examined the neural correlates of emotion effects evoked by emotion-label and emotion-laden nouns in Chinese-English bilinguals' two languages through the emotion categorization tasks. At the perceptual processing stage, only L2 emotion-label and emotion-laden nouns induced amplified N100 than neutral nouns. At the semantic processing stage, relative to neutral nouns, L2 negative emotion-laden nouns triggered heightened EEPN, and L1 emotion-laden nouns evoked marginally smaller EEPN; only L2 emotion-laden and positive emotion-label nouns exhibited augmented LEPN; L2 positive emotion-label, L1 emotion-label, and L1 emotion-laden nouns displayed reduced N400. At the integration processing stage, L2 positive nouns showed larger LPC and L1 positive nouns displayed smaller LPC than neutral nouns. These results verified emotion word type hypothesis across languages, and also implied that emotional attributes were encoded within both perceptual and semantic representations in L2, and predominantly within semantic representation in L1. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background: Individuals differ in the degree to which they experience elevations in state anxiety in response to anticipated potentially stressful events, which may be explained by variance in the way information relevant to those stressors is processed. The present study aimed to test the validity of the hypothesis that the attentional processing of negative event-related information will be positively associated with changes in event-related negative expectancy bias, which in turn will be positively associated with elevations in state anxiety. Method: Using a variant of the dual probe task, participants were asked to report their state anxiety and negative expectancy bias at multiple points and were presented with information relevant to a specific anticipated potentially stressful event from which a measure of attentional bias was obtained. Results: The results indicated a case of complete mediation, whereby changes in event-related negative expectancy bias fully mediated the relationship between attentional bias to negative event-related information and elevations in state anxiety. Conclusions: This finding adds to our understanding of how the biased processing of information can explain fluctuations in state anxiety and invites research into alternative presentations of biased information processing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article furthers research on heritage volunteering by focusing on the relationship between the volunteers and the heritage they produce and perform. It explores how volunteers engage with specific aspects of the past. Through an ethnographic study of contemporary heritage volunteers in Norway, we found a deeply personal connection between volunteers and their heritage. To better grasp the heritage produced by volunteers, we propose a conceptual framework for this heritage, reflecting that it derives from a characteristic personal engagement. We argue that volunteers' heritage is a 'heritage from within', closely connected to the volunteers' personal history and bodies. Accordingly, we frame and discuss volunteer heritage production as 'care' to emphasise the emotional and ethical commitment that affects how volunteers preserve and produce heritage. This concept of care is inspired by heritage and STS scholars who approach heritage as a 'matter of care' and care as an ethically and politically charged practice. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Leaders play an important role in creating suitable conditions for and leading change, and leadership is most effective when it is needed most, such as during disruptive change. We used the disruption caused by the pandemic as a case to study how school leaders responded, starting from the framework by Leithwood, Harris, and Hopkins (2008. "Seven Strong Claims About Successful School Leadership." School Leadership & Management 28 (1): 27–42. ). 89 school leaders in higher education completed an open-ended questionnaire. Additionally, nine of these leaders were interviewed to explore their practices in depth. The leadership practices and paths of influence defined by Leithwood and colleagues (2008. "Seven Strong Claims About Successful School Leadership." School Leadership & Management 28 (1): 27–42. ) largely worked to understand leadership in times of disruption. We identified a new path of influence (relational) and refined the framework based on our insights. School leaders focused on setting directions and developing people and mainly influenced the change process through the relational and emotional path. These findings are an important next step in understanding and supporting leadership in times of disruption. This will become more and more important in a world of growing complexity and uncertainty. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We critically examine the concept of moral outrage within the context of contemporary psychological and moral theory. The prevailing assumption that moral outrage should be a form of disinterested anger—where the individual is uninvolved—presents significant challenges for understanding its moral character. We propose a socioconstructionist approach to moral emotions, arguing that outrage is not inherently disinterested but rather deeply embedded in social norms. By examining moral anger and outrage through this lens, we show that outrage, though often seen as subjective or selfish, can still serve prosocial functions and uphold moral standards. We discuss how norms shape the expression of moral emotions, suggesting that outrage not only responds to norm violations but also plays a role in shaping these norms. We conclude by proposing a more nuanced understanding of moral outrage that integrates personal involvement and normativity to reconcile its subjective nature with its social and moral significance. This approach provides a framework for more robust empirical studies and a deeper understanding of the relationship between emotions, morality, and social norms. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, we provide a brief survey of the history of the concepts of emotion and emotion regulation and compare two of the leading scales of emotion regulation—the Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (ERQ) and the Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale (DERS). Our purpose is to determine where there might be room for improved conceptual clarity in the study of emotion regulation research today. We conclude by suggesting that the conceptual difficulties within and between these scales are symptomatic of a deeper problem in psychological research, that of reductionism, and suggest a nonreductive read of the concepts in question. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The online gender differences in the perceived well-being of internet users are commonly associated with offline stereotypical views and their social role expectations. However, existing studies have rarely examined the chronic differences between gender groups in terms of the way they use the internet. Drawing upon the social role theory, the current study attempted to explain the differences in their perceived well-being through agentic and communal internet use. Through a national online survey (n = 1,013), the current study found that agentic (but not communal) internet use mediates the relationship between gender differences and perceived well-being. The results help build a baseline model for future studies investigating the gender differences in online perceived well-being. Male and female internet users' respective engagement in agentic vs. communal internet use may stimulate their perceived well-being to a certain extent. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Social media abound with successful portrayals in nearly every life domain (e.g. appearance, social life). Many researchers have expressed concerns about such portrayals, claiming that they might be detrimental to adolescents' self-development. More specifically, continuous exposure to successful portrayals on social media may encourage adolescents to perceive these portrayals as standards to meet, which might evoke feelings of discrepancy (i.e. the feeling of falling short of important standards). The results of a three-wave longitudinal study (N = 1032, M age = 14.55, SD = 1.65) revealed that exposure to different types of successful portrayals on social media (i.e. attractive appearance and a perfect life) does not relate to feelings of discrepancy over time, and vice versa at a within-person level. Yet, between-person associations were present for both types of successful portrayals with feelings of discrepancy. Hence, our findings stress the importance of taking into account both between- and within-person relations when examining social media effects. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Previous research on music-evoked emotions has suggested that people experience heightened tension around expected musical events, which mediates peak-pleasurable emotions. Electronic dance music (EDM) break routines are short and highly emotive music motifs, which are proposed to increase tension to peak levels during build-up passages, prior to highly expected drop passages that evoke peak-pleasurable emotions when listeners' expectations are fulfilled. Continuous tension ratings throughout EDM break routines are therefore useful to better understand tension patterns around music expectations and their relationship with peak-pleasurable emotions. Thirty-four participants listened to break routines, while continuously rating felt tension. Peak-pleasurable emotions were then measured once via the two-dimensional space of valence and arousal after each break routine. Results showed that tension increased during build-up passages prior to expected drop passages, where it then decreased when expectations were fulfilled. While average tension did correlate with dimensions of peak-pleasurable emotions (valence, arousal, emotional strength, and emotional response), our data reflected continued feelings of average tension after break routines, rather than peak-pleasurable emotions as predicted. This suggests that tension is altered by music expectations, but that greater tension may not always increase peak-pleasurable emotions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

‘Therapeutic complaints resolution’ (TCR) is an emerging vision of public sector complaints-handling which is conscious of, and minimises, its anti-therapeutic consequences. TCR emphasises common interests between complainants, complainees and others in improving public services through more consensual dispute resolution processes. Therefore, TCR is perceived as a potential shift to a ‘relational state’, with a focus on fostering trusting relationships between service-users and public sector professionals. This article explores TCR in the context of complaints-handling in British ombuds. Specifically, the article suggests that ‘emotional intelligence’ and ‘relational vulnerabilities’ are two concepts that should guide its development. The article does this by highlighting the emotional risks that co-exist between participants, including vicarious trauma between complainants and caseworkers. At the broader level, there is also a web of vulnerabilities created, sustained, and exacerbated between the various participants through the macro-political decisions of central government, such as over funding, which expose individuals and public sector professionals to more serious risks and emotional contexts. Given these vulnerabilities, the article suggests that emotional intelligence ought to be developed as a professional competency for caseworkers, and illustrates several ways that each component may be useful to make these challenges more tolerable. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Creativity has long been conceptually linked to experiences of emotion and mind wandering, yet these empirical relationships remain unclear, and few studies have explored the thoughts and emotions of creative people in daily life. To investigate how creativity relates to everyday cognitive and affective experiences, the present study (N = 159) used experience sampling to examine how creative cognition (divergent thinking ability) and creative behavior (self-reported creative activity and achievement) measured in the lab may predict thought content, affective state, and the frequency of mind wandering (i.e., task-unrelated thought) in daily life. Additionally, we assessed in-the-moment thoughts and emotions predictive of thinking about a creative project in everyday life (i.e., "creative project thought"). We found that each form of creativity was generally associated with positively-valenced experiences, such as having pleasant thoughts, enjoying one's everyday activities, and feeling motivated and inspired. We also found that positive, activating emotions (happy and energetic) were positively associated with divergent thinking ability and in-the-moment creative project thought. Furthermore, positive, deactivating emotions (relaxed and connected) negatively predicted momentary creative project thought—indicating that positive affect can be tied to less creative thinking, depending on the activation level of emotions. No relationship was found between daily-life mind wandering frequency and divergent thinking ability or creative behavior/achievement, suggesting that the overall amount of task-unrelated thought in everyday life is not related to individual creativity. Taken together, the present findings provide novel evidence on the everyday experiential correlates of creative thinking and behavior. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This research tests a solution for consumers to recover faster from negative experiences. We identify this solution by examining how the manner in which review writers express their emotions and rational thoughts in their reviews causally influences review writers. The results of five studies (field data and experiments) show that, similar to writing about traumatic life events, when review writers express both emotional and rational aspects in reviews about negative consumption experiences, they feel better afterwards (i.e. they recover affectively), and are more likely to purchase again (i.e. they recover cognitively). We further examine why writing integrated reviews has positive effects on review writers by collecting biophysiological response data, which provide support for an account related to affective recovery, and by analyzing thought listing data, which provide support for an account related to cognitive recovery. This research shows that writing online reviews can serve as a digital therapy tool that helps consumers recover from negative experiences. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Although the relevance of emotions for motivating climate change action is acknowledged in research, it lacks recommendation how to include emotions in Climate Change Education (CCE). This study draws on selected theories of emotions (the control-value theory according to Schutz and Pekrun (2007) and the wheel of emotions according to Plutchik (2001)) and applies them in a CCE context. It then discusses emotions and their antecedents (value and control appraisals) experienced by secondary school students (N = 297) participating simultaneously in the Austrian CCE program k.i.d.Z.21 and in Fridays For Future (FFF) during the 2019/2020 school year. Results of quantitative and qualitative analyses indicate that FFF participants differ from other students (OS) in their emotions and their value and control appraisals. Characteristic findings are their predominant attribution of internal control (74.6%) and their extrinsic values (68.7%), as well as a high proportion of positive emotions (79%) compared to negative emotions (21%). For learning in CCE, the selected theories of emotions are recommended, as they provide a nuanced picture of the dominant emotions and their value and control appraisals within learners. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]