Post-traumatic stress symptoms during the first and second COVID-19 lockdown in Greece: Rates, risk, and protective factors.

The aim was to (i) compare the rates of perceived stress, post-traumatic stress symptoms (PTSS) and other potential correlates (i.e., resilience, social support, coping strategies, and loneliness) in the general population between the two COVID-19 lockdowns in Greece and (ii) explore risk and protective factors of PTSS.

Recollections of Maternal and Paternal Punitive Discipline in Childhood and Violent Attitudes and Behaviors in Adulthood: A Mediation Model.

This cross-sectional retrospective study on a convenience sample of 973 Greek undergraduate students examined whether the violent socialization in childhood and the criminal history in adolescence would be mediators between parents' harsh discipline and young adults' violent attitudes and behaviors (VA/B). Structural Equation Modelling indicated that both the mothers' and fathers' punitive discipline at age 10 have an indirect impact, through the mediators, on young adults' VA/B. A direct effect was also found from mothers' and fathers' punitive discipline to violence approval and from fathers' punitive discipline to antisocial personality symptoms, and corporal punishment law attitude.

Factors associated with the perception of services by dementia informal caregivers in Greece: the role of familism.

Aim: To investigate perceptions of informal caregivers of community-dwelling persons with dementia (PwD) regarding health and social care services and their correlates using the Behavioral Model of Healthcare Utilization as the theoretical framework.

Methods: This was a cross-sectional study using a purposive sampling technique to identify, through community-based health and social care services, caregivers of PwD. Face-to-face interviews were conducted with 118 informal caregivers (78.

A prospective, cross-sectional study of the protective and risk psychological factors of successful fertilisation outcome: preliminary results in a Greek sample.

The aim of this prospective, cross-sectional study was to examine the protective and risk psychological factors associated with the successful outcome of In fertilisation (IVF). Various psychological factors that may affect the IVF outcome were measured to a sample of 61 infertile women (mean age 37.2 ± 4.

Stigmatic beliefs towards persons with dementia: comparing Israeli and Greek college students.

Objectives: Increasing Alzheimer's Disease (AD) awareness and decreasing stigmatic beliefs among the general public are core goals of National Dementia Strategy programs. College students are one of the most important targeted populations for achieving this goal. The aim of the current study was to examine AD public stigma among Israeli and Greek college students.

Depression, negative relating with the oldest child, and the mediating role of resilience in community elders' psychological well-being: a pilot study in Greece.

Aim: This study examined the role of both positive and negative aspects of social relationships with partners, friends, and children on the psychological well-being of Greek elders, as well as the potential mediating role of resilience.

Methods: The sample included 100 Greek older community-dwellings recruited from three care centres. They completed questionnaires consisted of the Scales of Psychological Well-Being, the shortened Family Members' Interrelating Questionnaire, the Significant Others Scale, the Brief Symptom Inventory, and the Brief Resilience Scale.

The shortened Person's Relating to Others Questionnaire (PROQ3): Comparison of the Internet-administered format with the standard-written one across four national samples.

The study aims to validate the shortened version of the Person's Relating to Others Questionnaire (PROQ3), a measure of negative and maladaptive relating to others, for data collection via the Internet across 4 national samples. The psychometric properties of the Internet-administered (IN) format of the PROQ3 in 4,802 participants (169 British; 360 Irish; 1,110 Dutch; and 3,163 Greek) were compared with that of the standard-written (SW) version in 1918 participants (338 British, 403 Irish, 204 Dutch, and 973 Greek), in respect of its measurement and structural equivalence. Internal consistency, as estimated by alpha coefficient and item-to-scale homogeneity, were consistently acceptable across nationality and modality.

Measuring change in relating and interrelating during the early stages of psychotherapy: Comparison with a nonpatients' sample.

The study examined whether the relative short time period of two months of individual psychotherapy improved patients' psychiatric symptoms, their negative relating (i.e., destructive and undesirable interpersonal attitudes and behavior to others) and their negative interrelating (i.

The impact of early parenting bonding on young adults' internet addiction, through the mediation effects of negative relating to others and sadness.

The aim of the present study is the investigation of the potential role of negative relating to others, perceived loneliness, sadness, and anxiety, as mediators of the association between early parental bonding and adult Internet Addiction (IA). The factorial structure of the Internet Addiction Test (IAT) and the prevalence rates of it in a Greek sample will also be investigated. A total of 774 participants were recruited from a Technological Education Institute (mean age=20.

Self-reported aging anxiety in Greek students, health care professionals, and community residents: a comparative study.

Purpose Of The Study: This study investigates the anxiety people feel about aging and the psychometric properties of the Anxiety about Aging Scale (AAS) in Greek samples.

Design And Methods: The AAS was administered in 3 groups: 147 primary health care professionals, 74 Nursing and Social Work students, and 99 community residents.

Results And Implications: A confirmatory factor analysis reproduced the 4 factors underlying the Greek-translated AAS, with acceptable reliabilities for the 3 samples.

Identification, emotional reactions, and perceived threat to persons with Alzheimer's disease.

Background/rationale: The identification of Alzheimer's Disease (AD), the emotional reactions, and the perceived threat to AD were compared across 3 Greek samples: 147 primary care health professionals (PCHPs), 74 health and social service graduate students, and 99 laypersons. Within the group of PCHPs, physicians, nurses, and social workers were compared. The factors associated with emotional reactions were examined.

Interrelating within the families of young psychotherapy outpatients.

Interrelating is a combination of relating to and being related to by another. The Couple's Relating to Each Other Questionnaires (CREOQ) and the Family Members Interrelating Questionnaires (FMIQ) measure negative forms of both self and other relating, across a close/distant and an upper/lower axis. These were used to measure the interrelating between the parents of young adults, and between young adults and their parents, in a sample of young, Greek, psychotherapy outpatients and a comparable sample of non- patients.

The Greek version of the Revised Person's Relating to Others Questionnaire (PROQ2-GR): psychometric properties and factor structure.

The Revised Person's Relating to Others Questionnaire (PROQ2) is a self-administered questionnaire of 96 items for measuring a person's negative relating. Its eight scales correspond to the eight octants of the theoretical structure called the interpersonal octagon, which is based upon the assumption that relating occurs along a horizontal, close-distant axis and a vertical, upper-lower axis. The present study concerns the Greek translation of the questionnaire called the PROQ2-GR.