Binge Drinking And Non-Consensual Drug Intoxication

Sexual violence towards women on a college campus have remained an issue the past few decades, with about one out of every four female students becoming a victim of it (Rosoff, 2018). Coupled with high rates of binge-drinking on college campuses (Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, 2021), it can be argued that now, more than ever, that attention needs to be drawn to how females can try to be aware of strategies to help combat such predators. Previous research also shows a link between functionally inhibiting drugs referred to as roofies that can be slipped into the drink of an unsuspecting victim (Crawford & Birchmeier, 2008). Based on the researchers\u27 understanding of previous studies, there is a gap in knowledge in how frequently these roofieing events occur in situations that do not lead to sexual assault and look different behaviors study participants may be implementing to protect themselves. Researchers were able to recruit 156 participants to compare the relationships between a group of 128 participants who had not experienced non-consensual drug intoxication before and 28 participants who had in their perceptions and behaviors of binge-drinking and alcohol use disorder, risk-taking and risk assessment, safeguarding against alcohol and drug intoxication, and perceptions of participants towards non-consensual drug intoxication. Independent sample t-tests of each variable demonstrated that there was a relationship between being non-consensually drugged and risk-taking and risk assessment behaviors, but no relationship was found between non-consensual drug intoxication experience and binge-drinking, safeguarding against drug and alcohol intoxication, and perceptions towards non-consensual drug intoxication

A narrative systematic review of changes in mental health symptoms from before to during the COVID-19 pandemic

Stress and Psychopatholog

The German EMPATHIC-30 questionnaire showed reliability and convergent validity for use in an intermediary/general pediatric cardiology unit: a psychometric evaluation

Education and Child Studie

The German EMPATHIC-30 questionnaire showed reliability and convergent validity for use in an intermediary/general pediatric cardiology unit: a psychometric evaluation

Background: Family-Centered Care is a useful framework for improving care for hospitalized children with congenital heart disease. The EMpowerment of PArents in THe Intensive Care-30 (EMPATHIC-30) questionnaire is a widely accepted tool to measure parental satisfaction with Family-Centered Care. Psychometric properties of the EMPATHIC-30 have been evaluated in neonatal and pediatric intensive care units, but not in pediatric cardiac care units. Therefore, our aim was to assess the psychometric properties of the German EMPATHIC-30 in an intermediary/general pediatric cardiology unit.Methods: We used data from a quality management survey comprising the German EMPATHIC-30, a sociodemographic questionnaire and four general satisfaction items. Data were collected at the intermediary/general pediatric cardiology unit of a specialized heart center in Germany (n = 366). We split the data randomly into two subsets. In the first subset, we assessed internal consistency reliability with McDonald's omega and Cronbach's alpha, and convergent validity using Spearman's rank correlation. Furthermore, we explored the internal structure with Principal Component Analysis (PCA). In the second subset, we validated the resulting structure using Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA).Results: The reliability estimates exceeded 0.70 for all five domain scores and 0.90 for the full-scale score. Convergent validity between EMPATHIC-30 domain scores/ the full-scale score and the four general satisfaction items was adequate (r(s) = 0.40-0.74). The PCA suggested three components, accounting for 56.8% of the total variance. Cross-validation via CFA showed poor model fit (chi(2) = 1545.78, chi(2)/df = 3.85, CFI = 0.70, TLI = 0.66, RMSEA = 0.13), indicating that the EMPATHIC-30 shows no clear and generalizable factor structure in this sample.Discussion: The German version of the EMPATHIC-30 exhibited reasonable psychometric properties in an intermediary/general pediatric cardiology unit. Follow-up studies should investigate the factor structure of the EMPATHIC-30 in other pediatric inpatient care settings.Multivariate analysis of psychological dataEducation and Child Studie

Koeffizienten der Wellenkräfte an quer angeströmten schlanken Zylindern

Koeffizienten der Wellenkräfte an quer angeströmten schlanken Zylinder

Platte und Wirbelpaar als mathematisches Bild der quer angeströmten unendlich langen, ebenen Platte

Platte und Wirbelpaar als mathematisches Bild der quer angeströmten unendlich langen, ebenen Platt

Anxiety, worry, and subjective difficulty concentrating: Examining concurrent and prospective symptom relationships in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic

Difficulty concentrating is an understudied cognitive phenomenon, despite its status as a diagnostic criterion for generalized anxiety disorder and contributor to clinically significant distress and impairment. Existing theoretical accounts of the observed relationship between worry and subjective difficulty concentrating rely on a deficit model, in which impairments in trait attentional control render anxious individuals vulnerable to pathological worry. However, worse attentional task performance is not reliably associated with subjective difficulty concentrating in daily life. Alternatively, anxiety could be framed as a source of attentional interference via its primary cognitive manifestation, worry. The present study examined concurrent and prospective associations between anxiety (Depression Anxiety Stress Scales-21), worry (Penn State Worry Questionnaire), and subjective difficulty concentrating (Attentional Control Scale) in an adult sample (N = 723, 70.86% female) aged 19-81 years (M = 34, SD = 14.70). Data were drawn from a larger study of psychopathology during the COVID-19 pandemic. Online surveys were administered at three timepoints: April/May 2020, July/August 2020, and September/October 2020. Two linear mixed-effects models were constructed to examine within- and between-person effects of anxiety on worry, and worry on difficulty concentrating, while controlling for clustering within individuals over time. Anxiety was associated with worry both between (b = 1.81, SE = 0.13, = 0.65, p < .001) and within (b = 0.84, SE = 0.11, = 0.12, p < .001) participants. Difficulty concentrating was associated with both between-person differences in average worry (b = 0.19, SE = 0.03, = 0.38, p < .001) and within-person variation in worry (b = 0.12, SE = 0.02, = 0.09, p < .001). A path analysis using structural equation modeling found that worry was a partial mediator of the longitudinal association between anxiety and difficulty concentrating, though this effect did not survive the addition of covariates. These preliminary findings support theoretical accounts of worry as a cognitive mechanism linking anxiety with subjective attentional problems. Future research should continue to examine mechanistic pathways by which worry may interfere with attention, with the goal of developing more effective interventions for anxiety-related difficulty concentrating and associated functional impairment