How culturally unique are pandemic effects? Evaluating cultural similarities and differences in effects of age, biological sex, and political beliefs on COVID impacts

Despite being bio-epidemiological phenomena, the causes and effects of pandemics are culturally influenced in ways that go beyond national boundaries. However, they are often studied in isolated pockets, and this fact makes it difficult to parse the unique influence of specific cultural psychologies. To help fill in this gap, the present study applies existing cultural theories via linear mixed modeling to test the influence of unique cultural factors in a multi-national sample (that moves beyond Western nations) on the effects of age, biological sex, and political beliefs on pandemic outcomes that include adverse financial impacts, adverse resource impacts, adverse psychological impacts, and the health impacts of COVID. Our study spanned 19 nations (participant N = 14,133) and involved translations into 9 languages. Linear mixed models revealed similarities across cultures, with both young persons and women reporting worse outcomes from COVID across the multi-national sample. However, these effects were generally qualified by culture-specific variance, and overall more evidence emerged for effects unique to each culture than effects similar across cultures. Follow-up analyses suggested this cultural variability was consistent with models of pre-existing inequalities and socioecological stressors exacerbating the effects of the pandemic. Collectively, this evidence highlights the importance of developing culturally flexible models for understanding the cross-cultural nature of pandemic psychology beyond typical WEIRD approaches

Perdón y resolución de conflictos en relaciones cercanas: efectos intra y entre parejas

Do forgiveness and conflict tactics (compromise, aggression, and avoidance) predict effective arguing and relationship quality? Using 92 Italian couples their own relationship quality. For both men and women, negative responses to conflict (unforgiveness, aggression, and avoidance) overlapped and jointly predicted self-reported and partner-reported relationship quality, directly and indirectly via effective arguing. Positive responses investigated (benevolence and compromise) did not overlap for either men or women. Men’s positive responses to conflict uniquely predicted self-reported and partner-reported relationship quality via effective arguing, whereas women’s positive responses did not predict them independently of the male partner’s tactics.¿Sirven las tácticas de perdón y conflicto (compromiso, agresión y evitación) en respuesta a conflictos propiciados por un miembro de la pareja, como predictores únicos y efectivos de las conversaciones y la calidad de las relaciones? Con 92 parejas italianas se probó un modelo mediacional en el cual las respuestas de cada compañero al conflicto predecía las conversaciones efectivas, que a su vez predecían la calidad de la relación. Para hombres y mujeres, las respuestas negativas al conflicto (no perdonar, agredir y evitar) se traslaparon y predijeron la calidad de la relación reportada por ellos mismos y por sus parejas, directa e indirectamente a través de la conversación efectiva. Las respuestas positivas investigadas (benevolencia y compromiso) no se traslaparon ni para hombres ni para mujeres. Las respuestas positivas de los hombres al conflicto predijeron la calidad de la relación reportada por ellos y por sus parejas

La ricerca psicosociale sul perdono interpersonale tra un passato recente e possibili sviluppi futuri

Il contributo rappresenta una recente rassegna commentata dello stato dell'arte della ricerca psicosociale sul costrutto del perdono interpersonale. Si sofferma inoltre sull'analizzare gli snodi teorici cruciali inerenti al costrutto