Assessing mental health professionals' attitudes toward routine outcome monitoring across Eastern and Western cultures: an examination of invariance and latent mean differences†.

Objective: To investigate the attitudes of mental health professionals towards Routine Outcome Monitoring (ROM) in Eastern and Western cultures.

Method: Two samples of American ( = 455) and Chinese ( = 505) mental health professionals completed the prevalent Monitoring and Feedback Attitudes Scale (MFA). We tested the measure's psychometric characteristics, measurement invariance, and latent mean difference across cultures.

Assessing perceptions of stigmatization by others for seeking help in China: psychometric characteristics and measurement invariance across gender and therapy experience.

The stigma of social networks may be more noticeable in collectivist societies like China, but research in this area has largely been overlooked due to a lack of reliable measurement. To address this gap, this study tested the psychometric properties of the Chinese version of the Perceptions of Stigmatization by Others for Seeking Help (PSOSH) scale in the Chinese general population, and tested its invariance across gender and prior therapy experience. In a national online survey, 640 adults completed the PSOSH and conceptually related scales: Self-stigma of Seeking Help (SSOSH), Stigma of Seeking Professional Psychological Help Scale (SSPPH, i.

The Cooper-Norcross Inventory of Preferences: Measurement invariance across international datasets and languages.

Objective: The Cooper-Norcross Inventory of Preferences (C-NIP) is a brief, multidimensional measure of clients' therapy preferences. This study aimed to examine the factor structure and measurement invariance of the C-NIP.

Method: Fifteen datasets ( = 10,088 observations) representing the C-NIP in nine language versions were obtained from authors of psychometric studies.

Culture matters: Chinese mental health professionals' fear of losing face in routine outcome monitoring.

Objective: The culturally salient fear of losing face might influence Chinese therapists' attitudes toward and use of routine outcome monitoring (ROM). We tested a model wherein self-face concern is associated with ROM use by way of attitudes toward ROM, and whether this process is weakened when therapists report high counseling self-efficacy and perspective-taking.

Method: A national sample of Chinese mental health professionals ( = 371) completed questionnaires on their fear of losing face, attitudes toward ROM, ROM use, counseling self-efficacy, and perspective-taking.

Extended validation of the Relational Depth Frequency Scale: Retest reliability, divergent validity, criterion validity with psychotherapy satisfaction, and measurement invariance in UK- and US-stratified samples.

Background: The Relational Depth Frequency Scale (RDFS) assesses moments of profound connection in psychotherapy, associated with therapeutic benefit. To date, the RDFS has not been tested for its retest reliability, divergent and criterion validity, and measurement invariance, nor has it been tested in stratified samples of psychotherapy patients.

Methods: Two stratified online samples of United Kingdom (n = 514) and United States (n = 402) psychotherapy patients filled out the RDFS, the Brief Social Desirability Scale (BSDS); and the Satisfaction with Therapy and Therapist Scale-revised (STTS-R).

Validation of the Cooper-Norcross Inventory of Preferences (C-NIP) in Chinese lay clients and mental health professionals: Factor structure, measurement invariance, and scale differences.

The Cooper-Norcross Inventory of Preferences (C-NIP) is one of the most widely used measures of psychotherapy preferences. However, its psychometric properties have not been examined in non-Western samples. Research on disparities between the preferences of mental health professionals and their clients is also limited.

How Work-Nonwork Conflict Affects Remote Workers' General Health in China: A Self-Regulation Theory Perspective.

Difficulty in balancing the demands of work and nonwork has been shown to be associated with lower physical and psychological health. Grounded on the self-regulation theory, we examined the effect of work-nonwork conflict on general health among employees who transitioned to remote work (remote workers), and we tested whether this association was mediated by impaired self-control capacity. The study further examined the perceived boundary control as a moderator of these associations.

Psychometric Evaluation of the Cooper-Norcross Inventory of Preferences-Therapist Version.

The Cooper-Norcross Inventory of Preferences (C-NIP) is a commonly used and psychometrically validated measure of client preferences in therapy. However, the C-NIP version for therapists (C-NIP-T) has not yet been validated. This study aimed to develop a Chinese version of the C-NIP-T and test its factor structure, reliability, and concurrent validity.

Correction: Effect of the "Art Coloring" Online Coloring Game on Subjective Well-Being Increase and Anxiety Reduction During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Development and Evaluation.

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Grief and growth among Chinese parents who lost their only child: the role of positive and negative experiences of social support from different sources.

Background: In China, bereaved parents who have lost their only child are known as Shidu parents, and they tend to present high levels of prolonged grief reactions. To date, a widespread focus has been placed on positive social support, while potential negative experiences have been relatively neglected. Additionally, the role of social support from different sources (i.

Job crafting and employee life satisfaction: A resource-gain-development perspective.

Job crafting has been shown to be associated with multiple positive work-related outcomes. However, whether and how it affects nonwork-related outcomes has been less examined. Grounded on the resource-gain-development perspective and conservation of resources theory, the present study investigated the effects of job crafting on employee life satisfaction via work-nonwork facilitation and work-nonwork conflict.

Effect of the "Art Coloring" Online Coloring Game on Subjective Well-Being Increase and Anxiety Reduction During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Development and Evaluation.

Background: COVID-19 has spread worldwide and generated tremendous stress on human beings. Unfortunately, it is often hard for distressed individuals to access mental health services under conditions of restricted movement or even lockdown.

Objective: The study first aims to develop an online digital intervention package based on a commercially released coloring game.

Does COVID-19 threat increase xenophobia? The roles of protection efficacy and support seeking.

Background: In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, people in many countries have shown xenophobia toward China, where the pandemic began. Within China, xenophobia has also been observed toward the people of Wuhan, the city where the first cases were identified. The relationship between disease threat and xenophobia is well established, but the reasons for this relationship are unclear.

Job crafting promotes internal recovery state, especially in jobs that demand self-control: a daily diary design.

Background: Research on how employees recover from work has focused primarily on recovery during non-work hours (external recovery) rather than recovery during work hours (internal recovery). Using the conservation of resources theory as a conceptual framework, we tested whether job crafting promotes an internal recovery state, and examined the processes that explain this association.

Methods: Using the daily diary method, 120 full-time employees provided information before and after work for 5 days by rating job crafting, ego depletion, self-control demands at work, fatigue and vigor.

Three Versions of the Perceived Stress Scale: Psychometric Evaluation in a Nationally Representative Sample of Chinese Adults during the COVID-19 Pandemic.

(1) Background: The COVID-19 outbreak has created pressure in people's daily lives, further threatening public health. Thus, it is important to assess people's perception of stress during COVID-19 for both research and practical purposes. The Perceived Stress Scale (PSS) is one of the most widely used instruments to measure perceived stress; however, previous validation studies focused on specific populations, possibly limiting the generalization of results.

Alliance-outcome relation and progress feedback: Secondary data analyses of a randomized clinical trial study in China.

: This study examined the alliance-outcome relation and the possible moderation effect of receiving progress feedback on a sample of Chinese clients. : One hundred and fifty-nine clients recruited from a university counseling center in central China filled out the Session Rating Scale (SRS) and the Outcome Rating Scale (ORS) each session. Participants were randomly assigned to either the progress feedback group or non-feedback group.

Client feedback in China: A randomized clinical trial in a college counseling center.

Although client feedback has been demonstrated to improve psychotherapy outcomes in over a dozen randomized clinical trials, no studies to date have investigated the feedback effect outside of the United States or Europe. This study examined the impact of a client feedback intervention, the Partners for Change Outcome Management System, in a college counseling center in Wuhan, China ( = 186). Using a randomized design within routine care, treatment as usual (TAU; = 85) was compared with a feedback condition ( = 101) in which therapists had access to client-generated outcome and alliance information at each session.