Psychology: Recent submissions
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Within-individual changes reveal increasing social selectivity with age in rhesus macaques
(National Academy of Sciences, 29 November 2022)Accumulating evidence in humans and other mammals suggests older individuals tend to have smaller social networks. Uncovering the cause of these declines can inform how changes in social relationships with age affect health ... -
Loneliness during the school years: How it affects learning and how schools can help
(Wiley / American School Health Association, 2 March 2023)Background: Substantial evidence links loneliness to poor academic outcomes and poor employment prospects. Schools have been shown to be places that mitigate or aggravate loneliness, suggesting a need to consider how ... -
Spatial clustering of codeine use and its association with depression: a geospatial analysis of nationally representative South African data
(Elsevier, 15 November 2022)Background There is an alarming trend in sub-Saharan Africa in the use of codeine-containing pharmaceuticals, but its risk of common comorbidities, such as mental health, remains unquantified at a national-level. We ... -
Is hope associated with HIV-acquisition risk and intimate partner violence amongst young women and men? A cross-sectional study in urban informal settlements in South Africa
(Taylor & Francis Group, 26 November 2022)Hope is a concept that may mediate between the structural constraints people live under and their HIV-acquisition risk behaviours/experiences. Drawing on data collected as the baseline for an intervention trial between ... -
Increases in external sensory observing cross-sectionally mediate the repair of positive affect following Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy in individuals with residual depression symptoms
(Springer, 26 December 2022)Objectives: Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for Depression (MBCT-D) has been shown to be effective at repairing positive affect deficits in depressed individuals but the mechanism of action underpinning these changes ...