Slovenska validacija Inventara sposobnosti za ljubav – preliminarno istraživanje

Our study aimed to test the psychometric properties of the Slovenian version of the Capacity to Love Inventory (CTL-I, Kapusta et al., 2018). The CTL-I is a 41-item self-report questionnaire that measures the construct of capacity to love. The measure itself has been operationalized based on findings from clinical practice and psychodynamic theory and relates to both clinically relevant symptoms as well as healthier manifestations of personality. The CTL-I measures six dimensions:interest in the life project of the other, basic trust, gratitude, common ego ideal, permanence of sexual passion and loss and mourning. Due to the concept of capacity to love being closely related to relationship quality, we used the Quality of Relationship Inventory (QRI) to examine external validity. Our final study sample consisted of 224 non-clinical adults. Overall, the Slovenian version of the CTL-I showed a satisfactory model fit, comparable to that of previous validation studies. The QRI subscales were found to correlate with most of the CTL-I factors, as well as the CTL-I subscales with each other. Because of the instrument being tested on a smaller convenience sample in this study, we believe our findings should be viewed as a preliminary attempt at validating the Slovenian translation of the CTL-I. While the results of the present study are promising, we believe additional research is needed to fully assess the psychometric properties of the Slovenian CTL-I.Cilj je ovoga istraživanja bio ispitati psihometrijske karakteristike slovenske verzije Inventara sposobnosti za ljubav (CTL-I; Kapusta i sur., 2018). CTL-I je upitnik za samoprocjenu od 41 čestice koji mjeri konstrukt sposobnosti za ljubav. Sama je mjera operacionalizirana na temelju istraživanja u kliničkoj praksi i psihodinamskoj teoriji, a odnosi se na klinički relevantne simptome, kao i na zdravije manifestacije ličnosti. CTL-I mjeri šest dimenzija: zanimanje za životni plan drugoga, osnovno povjerenje, zahvalnost, zajednički ego ideal, postojanost seksualne strasti te gubitak I žalost. Budući da je poznato da je koncept sposobnosti za ljubav usko povezan s kvalitetom veze, koristili smo Inventar kvalitete odnosa (QRI) za ispitivanje vanjske valjanosti. Konačni se uzorak ispitanika sastojao od 224 nekliničke odrasle osobe. Slovenska verzija CTL-I-ja pokazala je zadovoljavajuće pristajanje modela usporedivo s onim u prethodnim validacijskim studijama. Supskale QRI-ja koreliraju s većinom faktora CTL-I-ja, kao i supskale CTL-I-ja jedna s drugom. Budući da je instrument u ovome istraživanju testiran na manjemu prigodnom uzorku, vjerujemo da bi dobivene nalaze trebalo promatrati kao preliminarni pokušaj validacije slovenskoga prijevoda CTL-I-ja. Iako su rezultati ove studije obećavajući, potrebna su daljnja istraživanja da bi se u potpunosti procijenila psihometrijska svojstva slovenskoga prijevoda CTL-I-ja

Romantic relationships - emerging adulthood dating app use

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ANPS 3.1 - validation

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The affective effects of news reading – a case of traditional and sensationalistic reporting

V današnjem času so mediji v življenju vseprisotni. Njihova pomembna vloga je informiranje javnosti o svetovnem in lokalnem dogajanju, kar je pomembno za delovanje demokratične družbe. Zaradi trgu prilagajočega modela delovanja se je v zadnjih letih začel porast rumenih medijev in senzacionalizma, ki poleg želje po informiranju izkazuje primarno željo po dobičku. Sodobna novičarska pokrajina, tako v resnih kot rumenih medijih, vključuje mnogo negativnih informacij, ki bi lahko bile škodljive za posameznikovo duševno zdravje. V skladu s tem je bil namen naše raziskave pridobiti jasnejši vpogled v morebitne čustvene vidike spremljanja medijev. Pri tem so nas zanimale tudi razlike, ki se pojavijo ob spremljanju rumenih in resnih medijev. Raziskava, ki je bila izvedena s spletnim anketiranjem, v katerem je sodelovalo 176 udeležencev (66 moških in 107 žensk), starih od 15 do 65 let, je zajemala eksperimentalni del, v katerem smo preverjali učinke neposredne izpostavljenosti rumenim in resnim medijem glede na psihološko blagostanje udeležencev. V korelacijskem delu raziskave smo preverjali povezave med dolgoročnim spremljanjem resnih in rumenih medijev ter spremljanjem medijev na splošno in doživljanjem neprijetnih emocij. V tem delu so nas zanimale tudi razlike v navadah spremljanja medijev med spoloma in morebitne razlike v čustvenem odzivanju na novice. Eksperimentalni del ni pokazal statistično pomembnih razlik med eksperimentalnimi pogoji, nakazoval pa se je trend – udeleženci, izpostavljeni rumenemu mediju, so bili najbolje razpoloženi. Korelacijske raziskave niso pokazale statistično pomembne povezave med spremljanjem novic in doživljanjem neprijetnih čustev. Primerjava v dolgoročnem spremljanju resnega in rumenega medija ni pokazala statistično pomembnih razlik, trend pa je nakazoval, da bi morebitno dolgoročno spremljanje rumenih medijev lahko bilo povezano s slabšim blagostanjem. Primerjava med spoloma je pokazala pomembne razlike v spremljanju novic in čustvenem odzivanju nanje. Ugotovitve v magistrskem delu so razložene v skladu s trenutnimi psihološkimi spoznanji.Media news is ever-present in our daily lives. Media outlets play an important role in informing the general public on global and local events, which is crucial for the functioning of democratic societies. In the past several decades a model that works in line with the free market has led to an increase in soft news reporting and sensationalism, both of which often focus more on increasing sales than informing the public. Our modern media landscape contains an unbalanced amount of negative information which could potentially be harmful to our individual mental health. In line with these observations the purpose of our study was to gain better insight into the potential negative emotional states associated with news consumption. Along these lines we focused on the differences associated with following soft and hard news media. Our study was conducted in the form of an online survey involving 176 participants (66 male and 107 female) aged 15–65. The study included an experimental section wherein we tested for the potential effects of exposure to soft or hard news on the psychological well-being of our participants. In the correlational part of our study we tested for associations between long-term exposure to soft news, hard news and news in general and levels of negative emotion. In this part of the study we were also interested in the differences in news exposure habits between men and women as well as the potential differences in their emotional reactions to news. The experimental section did not show statistically significant differences between the experimental conditionshowever, it did show a trend – individuals exposed to soft news had the highest levels of mood. The correlational studies did not show significant differences between new exposure habits and levels of negative emotions. In comparing long-term news exposure to the chosen hard and soft newspapers no statistically significant differences were found, but a forming trend seemed to suggest long-term exposure to soft news might be associated with decreased psychological well-being. The gender comparison showed statistically significant differences in news following habits as well as emotional reactions to news. Our findings are discussed in line with the contemporary psychological literature

Romantic Relationships

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The affective neuroscience personality scales (ANPS) in Slovenia

To assess primary emotions in subcortical brain regions across all mammals, the affective neuroscience personality scales (ANPS) were created for use in research involving human subjects. Later revisions of the scales have been validated across many countries and are used in diverse fields of psychology. The ANPS revisions culminated in the most recent ANPS 3.1. In this study, we evaluated the psychometric properties of the ANPS 3.1 and its two abbreviated versions (affective neuroscience personality scales – brief (BANPS) and affective neuroscience personality scales – short version (ANPS-S)) in a Slovenian community sample of 502 young adults. We simultaneously examined several kinds of validity evidence across the three versions: construct validity, internal reliability, and convergent validity. Our findings revealed acceptable construct validity of the six-factor model of the BANPS that was superior to the ANPS-S and particularly to the ANPS 3.1. The latter exhibited incremental fit issues noted in previous versions. However, we revealed sufficient internal reliability and convergent validity of the scale scores against the Big Five personality traits, and the frequency of the participants’ recently felt positive and negative emotions across all three ANPS versions. Testing the measurement invariance of BANPS across sex suggested full metric invariance and partial scalar invariance which allows direct score comparisons between males and females

Romantična iskustva mladih na prijelazu u odraslost

This study examined the link between perceived romantic relationship (RR) importance (relationship desire and dismissal) and emerging adults\u27 romantic experiences, including relationship status, number of partnerships, and relationship durations. It also explored how individuation from parents contributes to the prediction of these experien ces. Participants (N = 464, 64.4% female, Mage = 22.59) reported on their romantic relationship importance, relationship experiences, and perceived connectedness and intrusiveness from parents. Hierarchical regression analyses revealed that perceived RR importance significantly contributed to the prediction of romantic experiences beyond demographic factors. Additionally, paternal intrusiveness negatively predicted the duration of current and longest relationships. The findings suggest that RR importance and individuation, especially in relation to the father, play an important role in emerging adults\u27 romantic experiences.Cilj studije bio je istražiti vezu između percipirane važnosti romantičnih veza (želja za vezom i odbacivanje veze) i romantičnih iskustava, uključujući status veze, broj dosadašnjih partnerskih veza i trajanje veza. Također, zanimalo nas je kako individuacija u odnosu sa svakim roditeljem pridonosi predikciji tih iskustava. Sudionici (N = 464, 64,4% žene, prosjek dobi = 22,59 godina) pružili su informacije o važnosti romantičnih veza, iskustvima u vezama te percipiranoj povezanosti s roditeljima i pretjeranom nadzoru roditelja. Hijerarhijska regresijska analiza pokazala je da je percipirana važnost romantičnih veza značajno objasnila varijancu u iskustvima s romantičnom vezom nakon kontrole demografskih varijabli, dok je očinski pretjerani nadzor značajno (negativno) pridonio trajanju trenutačnih i najdužih veza. Rezultati sugeriraju da važnost romantičnih veza kao i određeni aspekti individuacije, posebno u odnosu s ocem, značajno utječu na romantična iskustva mladih na prijelazu u odraslost

Beliefs about romantic relationships and sexual attitudes predicting romantic relationship experiences, intentions, and dating app use

Background and Objectives: Recent studies have found changes in romantic relationship (RR) dynamics among emerging adults, such as greater postponement of committed RRs and greater search for new RRs online. In this study, we examined whether one\u27s beliefs about RRs and sexual attitudes are significant predictors of current RR status (in a relationship or single), RR intention (low vs. high), dating app use, dating via a dating app, and number of RRs in one\u27s lifetime. Methods: 440 Slovenian emerging adults participated in the study (319 female, Mage = 22.78). They answered The Brief Measure of Relationship Importance (BMRI), The Brief Sexual Attitudes Scale (BSAS), and some short questions about their RR status, RR intention, use of dating apps, and lifetime number of RRs. The study was conducted online. Results: Using logistic and linear regression analyses, we found that RR dismissal was a significant negative predictor of RR status, RR intention, and dating via a dating app, whereas RR desire did not significantly predict RR outcomes. Sexual permissiveness significantly predicted dating app use, dating via dating apps, and the number of romantic relationships in one\u27s lifetime. Being female, living independently, and having a more instrumental sexual attitude positively predicted “in a relationship” status. Conclusion: Results suggest that certain beliefs about RR and sexual attitudes are related to intentions and decisions to engage in actual RR behaviour