Association of sense of coherence and resilience with distress and infection prevention behaviors during the coronavirus disease pandemic.

This cross-sectional study investigated the relationships between the sense of coherence (SOC) and resilience and between distress and infection prevention behaviors during the early phase of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic. The study recruited 1,484 participants (male: 686, female: 798; mean age = 45.1 years, SD = 8.

Life Skills Link to Mind Wandering Among University Students: An Exploratory Study.

The occurrence of mind wandering (MW) leads to lower performance on memory tasks related to lecture contents in educational settings, which has been recognized as problematic. To date, several dispositional factors have been reported as being associated with MW. This study investigated whether another psychological component-life skills-is linked to MW.

Task-related thought and metacognitive ability in mind wandering reports: an exploratory study.

Recent research has focused on mind wandering (MW), which is caused when a person's attention shifts from a primary task to unrelated internal thoughts. One of the research interests for this psychological action is the diversity of MW content: from the future to the past, from the real to imaginary worlds, and from internal and external distractions. However, to date, there have been only a few studies that have explicitly examined MW content.

The effects of sensory-processing sensitivity and sense of coherence on depressive symptoms in university students.

Sensory-processing sensitivity differentiates individuals according to responsivity to internal and external stimuli. It has been positively correlated with depressive symptoms. Meanwhile, sense of coherence, an individual's perception that stressors are comprehensible, manageable, and meaningful for their life, could improve depression.

The overlap of sense of coherence and the Big Five personality traits: A confirmatory study.

Sense of coherence is the perception of the world as coherent. Its conceptual similarities to the Big Five personality traits have been demonstrated. We therefore investigated the relationship between sense of coherence and the Big Five.

Relationships Among Performance Anxiety, Agari Experience, and Depressive Tendencies in Japanese Music Students.

The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationships among anxiety prior to actual performance (music performance anxiety, MPA), mental and physical negative responses during performance (agari), and depressive tendencies in Japanese college students majoring in music. Participants were 171 music majors (33 males, 138 females, 20.6±1.

[Development of the Life Skills Scale for Adolescents and Adults].

The present study aims to develop and examine the reliability, internal validity, and criterion validity of the Life Skills Scale for Adolescents and Adults (LSSAA) that would enable measurement of the level of life skills in Japanese adolescents and adults. In study 1, 238 university students completed a 41-item questionnaire for the LSSAA based on a previous study (Kase et al., 2016).