psychological-science

BackgroundPresenteeism is prevalent in healthcare settings and is significantly associated with impaired physical and psychological wellbeing among healthcare professionals, as well as reduced quality of care. While workload is a known trigger, the psychological mechanisms linking it to presenteeism remain underexplored. Compassion fatigue may serve as a mediator, and self-compassion as a potenti…

ObjectiveTo investigate the psychological and social status in patients with COVID-19 accompanied by common chronic diseases compared to patients without these chronic conditions. Additionally, the study aims to explore the relevant influencing factors, providing objective data and scientific theoretical basis for the psychological status of COVID-19 patients with common chronic diseases and impr…

Background and contextThis article originates from the work of students who participated in the “Psychiatry in Cinema” course, offered annually to medical students at the University of Geneva. An introduction to psychiatry is carried out through the visual support offered by cinematographic works, which have the advantage of depicting psychiatric symptoms in a concrete way to facilitate the teach…

ObjectiveThis meta-analysis evaluated the efficacy of psychological interventions for adolescents with borderline personality disorder (BPD) across multiple outcome domains, including BPD symptom severity, emotion regulation, depressive symptoms, general psychopathology, and quality of life.MethodsFollowing PRISMA 2020 guidelines (PROSPERO: CRD420261306339), we searched PubMed, PsycINFO, Embase, …

BackgroundDissociative amnesia with dissociative fugue is a rare dissociative disorder characterized by abrupt loss of autobiographical memory and disruption of personal identity, most often emerging in the context of severe psychological stress. Although dissociative phenomena are increasingly recognized in individuals with suicidal behavior, the development of fugue states in the immediate afte…

The scientific evolution of affective science has long been constrained by a persistent polarity between biological-nativist theories, which posit hardwired, universal emotional categories, and constructionist paradigms, which frame emotions as emergent, cognitively categorized states driven by prior experience and interoceptive allostasis. The Core Emotion Framework (CEF), developed by Jamel Bul…

BackgroundClinical trials of brief mindfulness interventions (BMIs) for chronic pain frequently report small average effect sizes, which may mask substantial heterogeneity in treatment responses. Rather than testing general efficacy, this exploratory study investigated whether a BMI is associated with concurrently coupled psychological and sensory improvements within individuals, potentially refl…