Sensory processing sensitivity is negatively associated with sensation seeking.

Background: This study investigated the relationship between sensory processing sensitivity and sensation seeking.

Participants And Procedure: The sample consisted of 625 subjects ( women = 225, men = 400). Sensory processing sensitivity was assessed using the Highly Sensitive Person Scale (HSPS), and sensation seeking with the Arnett Inventory of Sensation Seeking (AISS).

Put your feet up: The impact of personality traits, job pressure, and social support on the need for recovery after work.

Unlabelled: The need for recovery after work (NFR) is an important warning of work-related fatigue. NFR is linked to prolonged work-related efforts and depletion of resources, creating a need for temporary respite from work demands. The aim of the current study was to investigate the relationships between NFR and the five-factor model (FFM), comprising the personality traits of emotional stability (ES), extraversion (E), agreeableness (A), conscientiousness (C), and openness to experience (O).

Snus and Alcohol: Mutually Rewarding Effects in the Brain? A Matched Controlled Population Study.

Background: The use of moist smokeless tobacco (snus) is increasing in the U.S. and other Western countries, and especially among young people.

Musicians: Larks, Owls or Hummingbirds?

Previous studies have shown an association between morning and evening types and creative thinking. Musicians are creative individuals and the purpose of the current research was to examine whether musicians are significantly more evening types than non-musicians. The total sample included 835 participants (n women = 353; n men = 482), with a mean age of 28.

The association between executive functioning and parental stress and psychological distress is mediated by parental reflective functioning in mothers with substance use disorder.

Mothers with a substance use disorder (SUD) have been found to exhibit heightened experience of stress and deficits in executive functioning (EF) and in parental reflective functioning (PRF). Although experiences of stress, EF and PRF are important for caregiving capacities; no studies have explored associations between the phenomena in mothers with SUD. This study aimed to examine the association between EF (working memory, inhibition, and cognitive flexibility) and different forms of stress (parental stress, general life stress, and psychological distress) in 43 mothers with SUD with infants.

Adverse and adaptive childhood experiences are associated with parental reflective functioning in mothers with substance use disorder.

Mothers with a substance use disorder (SUD) are at risk for maladaptive parenting practices, and have heightened likelihood of having experienced childhood adversity themselves. In addition, parental reflective functioning (PRF), a capacity underlying sensitive caregiving, is often low in mothers with SUD. This study examines the relationship between PRF and aversive (emotional, physical, sexual abuse and neglect) and adaptive (safety and competence) experiences, in different developmental phases (early childhood, latency, and adolescence) in mothers with a SUD.

Parental reflective functioning and executive functioning in mothers with substance use disorder.

Having a substance use disorder (SUD) may adversely affect caregiving capacities. Reflective functioning (RF) and executive functioning (EF) are both important capacities for sensitive parenting, and are often impaired in a SUD. Only a few studies have explored the possible association between the two phenomena.

Evolutionary adaptations: theoretical and practical implications for visual ergonomics.

Background: The literature discussing visual ergonomics often mention that human vision is adapted to light emitted by the sun. However, theoretical and practical implications of this viewpoint is seldom discussed or taken into account.

Objective: The paper discusses some of the main theoretical implications of an evolutionary approach to visual ergonomics.

Differences on adolescent life goal profile scale between a clinical and non-clinical adolescent sample.

Objective: This study aimed to determine similarities and differences on perceived importance and perceived attainability of life goals between a clinical and non-clinical adolescent sample.

Method: 244 students and 54 adolescent patients completed the Adolescent Life Goal Profile Scale (ALGPS). The ALGPS measures perceived importance and perceived attainability of four main life goal categories: Relations, Generativity, Religion, and Achievements.

The tinnitus intensive therapy habituation program: a 2-year follow-up pilot study on subjective tinnitus.

Objectives: To explore the effects of a new tinnitus treatment program (tinnitus intensive therapy [TIT]) based on auditory perception principles and neural habituation.

Methods: A follow-up study with measurement of treatment effects every third month over a 2-year period in which the cases were their own controls.

Participants: There were 25 participants with a mean age 50.