- COVID-19 and Mental Health
- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Impact of Technology on Adolescents
- Perfectionism, Procrastination, Anxiety Studies
- Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction
- Attachment and Relationship Dynamics
- Early Childhood Education and Development
- Parental Involvement in Education
- Mental Health Research Topics
- Healthcare professionals’ stress and burnout
- Technostress in Professional Settings
- Resilience and Mental Health
- Child Development and Digital Technology
- COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts
- Personality Traits and Psychology
- Education and Learning Interventions
- SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research
- Digital Marketing and Social Media
- Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
- Work-Family Balance Challenges
- Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy
- Healthcare Education and Workforce Issues
- Emotions and Moral Behavior
- Stress and Burnout Research
- Health disparities and outcomes
University of Bucharest
2012-2025
Soroti University
2022
The objective of the present study was to develop a scale that is appropriate for use internationally measure affective, behavioral, and cognitive dimensions student engagement. Psychometric properties this were examined with data 3,420 students (7th, 8th, 9th grade) from 12 countries (Austria, Canada, China, Cyprus, Estonia, Greece, Malta, Portugal, Romania, South Korea, United Kingdom, States). intraclass correlation full-scale scores engagement between revealed it aggregate further...
A comprehensive understanding of the contextual factors that are linked to student engagement requires research includes cross-cultural perspectives.This study investigated how in school is associated with grade, gender, and across 12 countries. It also whether these associations vary countries different levels individualism socio-economic development.The participants were 3,420 7th, 8th, 9th grade students from Austria, Canada, China, Cyprus, Estonia, Greece, Malta, Portugal, Romania, South...
The prevalence of social media addiction has increased with the intensive use technologically-mediated communication in everyday life. Most studies on are based variable-centered approach very few taking a person-centered approach. Since only one previous study investigated profiles psychopathological model, it is important to bring complementary view by exploring psychosocial traits associated different levels maladaptive use, as well antecedents these terms sociodemographic variables. To...
The Coronavirus Disease-19 (COVID-19) pandemic has provoked the development of negative emotions in almost all societies since it first broke out late 2019. Impact Event Scale-Revised (IES-R) is widely used to capture emotions, thoughts, and behaviors evoked by traumatic events, including COVID-19 as a collective persistent event. However, there less agreement on structure IES-R, signifying need for further investigation. This study aimed evaluate psychometric properties Arabic version IES-R...
The purpose of this cross-sectional study was to identify distinct burnout profiles teachers and examine their association with work-related stressors, such as workload, students' misbehavior, classroom resources, professional recognition needs poor colleague relations, well socio-demographic variables. Survey data were collected from 330 kindergarten primary school (84 males, Mage = 38.3, SD 9.14). latent profile analysis revealed four profiles. antecedents teacher (TB) the stress generated...
Abstract Although it is well-known that teaching one of the most stressful jobs, teacher burnout during COVID-19 pandemic has not been thoroughly investigated. The main aims this study were to identify distinct profiles and examine their association with HEXACO personality factors sociodemographic variables. Data collected from 522 teachers (77% women; M age = 37.45 years, SD 9.28) in November 2021. Latent profile analysis (LPA) identified five latent profiles: “No risk” (41.3%), “Low...
What is it to be “an ideal parent”? Does the answer differ across countries and social classes? To these questions in a way that minimizes bias ethnocentrism, we used open-ended explore ideal-parent beliefs among 8,357 mothers 3,517 fathers from 37 countries. Leximancer Semantic Network Analysis was utilized first determine parenting culture zones (i.e., with shared beliefs) then extract predominant themes concepts each zone. The results yielded specific types of five zones: being...
Problematic internet use (PIU) has become a public health concern globally and there are now many published studies examining the issue, particularly in relation to wellbeing. However most previous on relationship between PIU well-being have been conducted using variable-cantered approach with either indicators of ill-being (depression, stress, anxiety, loneliness), or only one dimension (happiness life satisfaction). Therefore, present study aimed address this research gap by investigating...
In Western countries, recent decades have witnessed a revolution toward gender equality. Inequalities been greatly reduced in areas such as education or employment. Because inequalities lead to distress, this development has largely benefited women. One notable exception is the realm of parenting, which remained rife with even most egalitarian countries. We hypothesized that experiencing inequality parenting when one holds values and raising child country characterized by high level equality...
Abstract Few studies have analysed programmes focused on prosocial behaviour and well-being in early adolescence. This study aims to fill this gap. The main purpose of research was investigate a school intervention, comprising 24 sessions conducted over 3 months, identify the effects (i) behaviour, conceptualised as altruistic compliant psychological (ii) gender differences all variables, at baseline post-intervention. Data were collected from sample 120 adolescents (48% males; age range...
The rapid spread of COVID-19 worldwide was accompanied by intense fears, confusion, worries, anger, and stress threatening people’s mental health. Unprecedented measures to slow down prevent the transmission have had various impacts on population’s health behaviour main purpose present study is investigate lockdown’s effects university students’ in Romania. Based a cross-sectional design, survey data were collected from sample 722 participants (247 males; M = 21.1 years; SD ± 1.73). A path...
The process of transferring to online teaching during the pandemic COVID-19 lockdown has been a core issue for teachers around globe. main aim this paper was investigate direct and indirect effects emotional intelligence (EI) general self-efficacy on adaptability (AOT). A multiple-mediation model proposed, including mediating effect via teacher’s Facilitator role concrete experience learning mode (CE-LM), as defined in experiential theory (ELT). Methods: Data were collected from sample 330...
Although vaccination has been adopted by the WHO to limit worldwide transmission of COVID-19, people’s worries about COVID-19 vaccines may suppress their desire for despite vaccine availability. This study aimed investigate anxiety and stress symptoms among 250 Jordanians (mean age = 43.18 ± 6.34 years, 72% females) who received first dose. The respondents completed subscales Depression Anxiety Stress scale 21 (DASS-21) before after vaccination. expressed more moderate–severe levels than...
The concept of parental burnout only recently gained the attention researchers, mainly through International Investigation Parental Burnout (IIPB), a 40-country study prevalence PB around world. Based on current gold-standard instrument to evaluate burnout, that is Assessment (PBA), present research investigates psychometric properties Romanian version PBA (PBA-RO) in sample 650 parents (418 mothers), whose age ranged from 18 65 (Mage = 36.60, SD 5.73). First, we examined internal...
The purpose of this study was to investigate the role self-conscious emotion pride in relation between self-esteem and positive affect. Two objectives were addressed: first, exploring among pride, self-esteem, affect; second, analyzing mediation association results showed significant relations affect, confirmed Implications for work school psychologists discussed, emphasizing their supporting students' self-awareness, self-acceptance, subjective well-being.
The rapid spread of COVID-19 worldwide was accompanied by intense fears, confusion, worries, anger and stress threatening people’s mental health. Unprecedented measures to slow down prevent the transmission have had various impacts on population’s health behaviour main purpose present study is investigate lockdown’s effects university students’ in Romania. Based a cross-sectional design, survey data were collected from sample 722 participants (247...
The purpose of this research was to investigate the relationship between affective tendencies in embarrassing situations and cheating behavior a sample adolescents. Two objectives were addressed: first, exploring shame-proneness, guilt-proneness, externalization, detachment; second, analyzing mediating role detachment externalization behavior. results showed positive correlations detachment, negative correlation with guilt, no relation shame. It confirmed detachment. Implications for...
The aim of this study was to examine university students' fear success from the perspective positive psychology. Two objectives were addressed: first, analysing relation between success, optimism, self-esteem, self-efficacy, and search for meaning in life; second, exploring variance taking into account affective dimension self (self-esteem) life. results confirmed that positively related meaning, negatively self-efficacy. explained by self-esteem Implications school psychologists discussed.