A review of current and proposed behavioral nudge strategies to improve the readiness of the United States military.

This review discusses findings on the use of behavioral nudges in both the Canadian and U.S. military.

Considering the Impact of High School Sexual Education on Past Sexual Victimization and Rape Myth Acceptance in a College Sample.

Sexual victimization is a serious public health crisis affecting college students, with high rates reported among both women and men. Sexual consent education is crucial as it defines sexual assault and is linked to reduced risk of victimization. Rape myths and stereotyped beliefs shifting blame to survivors are established risk factors for sexual violence.

Sexual Assault History May Moderate Posttraumatic Cognition and Posttraumatic Stress Among Trauma-Exposed Sexual Minority Women.

Sexual minority women (SMW) are highly vulnerable to trauma exposure and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms following trauma exposure. Negative posttraumatic cognitions (i.e.

Difficulties with emotion regulation within PTSD clusters and moral injury subtypes.

Treatment and research centered on trauma-related mental health issues have largely focused on posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD); however, moral injury is another important mental health concern requiring attention. There is a paucity of research examining how PTSD and moral injury affect emotion regulation. The current investigation examined how PTSD clusters and moral injury subtypes were uniquely associated with difficulties with emotion regulation.

Negative mood and optimism bias: An experimental investigation of sadness and belief updating.

Background And Objectives: Understanding how individuals integrate new information to form beliefs under changing emotional conditions is crucial to describing decision-making processes. Previous research suggests that although most people demonstrate bias toward optimistic appraisals of new information when updating beliefs, individuals with dysphoric psychiatric conditions (e.g.

Predicting potential underreporting of firearm ownership in a nationally representative sample.

Purpose: This study utilized demographic and intrapersonal variables to identify individuals who may have falsely denied firearm ownership and determined if individuals can be divided into meaningful subgroups.

Methods: Participants were United States residents (N = 3500) recruited from January to June 2020. matched to the 2010 census data for age, race, sex, income, and education level.

The Indirect Effects of Proximal Stressors Associated with Posttraumatic Stress Symptoms Severity among Sexually Victimized Sexual Minority Women: A Cross-Sectional Path Analysis.

Sexual minority women (SMW) are at risk for sexual victimization and stressors specifically related to their minority identity (e.g., discrimination).

Alcohol use in firefighters: A network model of behaviors and transdiagnostic risk.

Background And Aims: Firefighters are at heightened risk for developing alcohol use disorder (AUD), possibly due to chronic stress and exposure to potentially traumatic events. Daily trauma experiences and transdiagnostic risk factors (i.e.

Maximizing the use of the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT) as a two-step screening tool.

Few studies have examined Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT) measurement invariance and no study has done so across clinically relevant drinking subgroups (e.g., unhealthy drinkers [UHDs] and those drinking below unhealthy drinking thresholds [non-UHDs]).

Comparing symptom networks of daytime and nocturnal panic attacks in a community-based sample.

Nocturnal panic refers to waking in a state of panic without obvious triggers, experiencing the same symptoms as panic attacks that occur while awake. Interrelationships between daytime and nocturnal panic symptoms have not been examined despite theories suggesting panic symptoms perpetuate one another in a forward feedback loop. The current study compared associations between symptoms in daytime and nocturnal panic using network analysis.