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European Journal of Investigation in Health, Psychology and Education, Volume 15, Issue 8

2025 August - 23 articles

Cover Story: We explore the psychological landscape of fibromyalgia (FM)—marked by widespread pain, fatigue, cognitive challenges, and emotional distress, often linked to personality traits and psychopathology. Seventy women with FM completed the Personality Assessment Inventory and Fibromyalgia Impact Questionnaire and were classified into mild or severe functional, physical–somatic, and emotional groups via hierarchical clustering. Severe functional cases showed greater affective dysregulation and somatic complaints; severe physical–somatic cases had more mood instability, somatization, and suicidal ideation; and severe emotional cases showed higher major and persistent depression. Greater cumulative severity intensified depressive and somatic disorders, underscoring FM’s biopsychosocial nature and the need for personalized, multidisciplinary care. View this paper
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Articles (23)

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,055 Views
15 Pages

Italian Adaptation of the No-Mobile-Phone-Phobia Questionnaire: Factorial Validity with the ESEM Technique and Population-Based Cut-Off Scores

  • Sergio Traficante,
  • Luigi Tinella,
  • Antonella Lopez,
  • Sergio A. Useche,
  • Sjaan Koppel,
  • Giuseppina Spano,
  • Elisabetta Ricciardi,
  • Rosa Napoletano,
  • Andrea Bosco and
  • Alessandro O. Caffò

Nomophobia is a multifaceted phenomenon characterized by fear and anxiety when individuals feel disconnected from their technological environment. Its assessment remains difficult due to limited tools and lack of empirically supported cut-off points....

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,446 Views
14 Pages

Background: Following the idea that individuals engage with different strategies to regulate their emotional experiences, scholars in the field of psychology have shown increasing interest in the notion of emotion regulation flexibility. Despite grow...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,813 Views
16 Pages

Mental Health Among Spanish Doctoral Students: Relationship Between Anxiety, Depression, Life Satisfaction, and Mentoring

  • Virginia Krieger,
  • Cristina Cañete-Massé,
  • Juan Antonio Amador-Campos,
  • Maribel Peró-Cebollero,
  • María Feliu-Torruella,
  • Alba Pérez-González,
  • Adolfo José Jarne-Esparcia,
  • Xavier María Triadó-Ivern and
  • Joan Guàrdia-Olmos

Background: Mental health issues among PhD students are rising, a trend believed to be driven by academic and social challenges. Method: A total of 1265 doctorate students from a large university in Barcelona, Spain (739 women; 414 men; 112 marked ot...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
6,739 Views
18 Pages

Background/Objectives: Academic stress arises when students perceive that university demands exceed their coping resources, leading to cognitive, behavioral, and physiological stress responses. This study examines the predictive role of academic stre...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,627 Views
29 Pages

Today’s increasingly brittle, anxious, nonlinear, incomprehensible world of work calls for a socially and emotionally competent workforce. However, there is a clear gap in higher education settings regarding the assessment and promotion of stud...

  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
2 Citations
5,646 Views
60 Pages

Prevalence and Screening Tools of Intimate Partner Violence Among Pregnant and Postpartum Women: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

  • Laura Brunelli,
  • Flavia Pennisi,
  • Antonio Pinto,
  • Loredana Cella,
  • Maria Parpinel,
  • Silvio Brusaferro,
  • Carlo Signorelli,
  • Vincenzo Baldo and
  • Vincenza Gianfredi

(1) Background: Domestic violence (DV), including intimate partner violence (IPV) during pregnancy and the puerperium, represents a major public health issue, significantly affecting maternal and child health. (2) Methods: This systematic review and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,472 Views
21 Pages

Promoting Healthy Organizations Through Urban Nature: Psychological and Physiological Effects in Healthcare Workers

  • Norida Vélez,
  • Diana Marcela Paredes-Céspedes,
  • Angélica Cruz-Pérez,
  • Ronald López,
  • Alejandra Parada-López,
  • Eliana M. Téllez-Ávila,
  • Paola Rodríguez de Silva,
  • Ana Munevar,
  • Diana Marcela Rodríguez González and
  • Jeadran Malagón-Rojas
  • + 2 authors

Background: Healthcare professionals experience high levels of stress due to demanding work, especially in metropolitan areas. Nature-based interventions offer potential mental health benefits. This randomized intervention study aimed to evaluate the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,298 Views
18 Pages

Adolescents’ psychological well-being results from the interaction between individual traits, such as optimism and perfectionism, and contextual factors. According to the Self-Determination Theory (SDT), the living environment can promote well-...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3,155 Views
24 Pages

The Spirituality–Resilience–Happiness Triad: A High-Powered Model for Understanding University Student Well-Being

  • Moises David Reyes-Perez,
  • Leticia Carreño Saucedo,
  • María Julia Sanchez-Levano,
  • Roxana Cabanillas-Palomino,
  • Paola Fiorella Monje-Yovera,
  • Johan Pablo Jaime-Rodríguez,
  • Luz Angelica Atoche-Silva,
  • Johannes Michael Alarcón-Bustíos and
  • Antony Esmit Franco Fernández-Altamirano

This study examines the relationships between spirituality, resilience, and happiness among higher education students, exploring the moderating roles of religious belief and years of study based on developmental and religious coping theoretical frame...

  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
3,871 Views
39 Pages

Multisensory processing has long been recognized to enhance perception, cognition, and actions in adults. However, there is currently limited understanding of how multisensory stimuli, in comparison to unisensory stimuli, contribute to the developmen...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,103 Views
23 Pages

Time perception, especially duration estimation, plays a crucial role in the organization of behavior across development. Despite its importance, the cognitive mechanisms underlying impaired duration estimation remain insufficiently explored. Recentl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,683 Views
20 Pages

An Investigation on Workplace Violence in an Infectious Disease Hospital: A Mixed-Methods Study from the Perspectives of Healthcare Workers and Patients

  • Yuting Tang,
  • Min Zhang,
  • Chuning He,
  • Yiming Huang,
  • Xinxin Fang,
  • Xuechun Wang,
  • Fuyuan Wang and
  • Yiran Zhang

Workplace violence (WPV) against healthcare workers (HCWs) in infectious disease hospitals, particularly in high-risk settings, remains a critical yet understudied occupational hazard. A mixed-methods study was conducted at a Chinese infectious disea...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,440 Views
16 Pages

Despite the growing number of older adults engaging in voluntary migration, there is a lack of knowledge about their psychological well-being in cross-cultural contexts. This cross-sectional study investigated factors associated with psychological we...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,384 Views
18 Pages

Health Literacy Gaps Across Language Groups: A Population-Based Assessment in Alto Adige/South Tyrol, Italy

  • Dietmar Ausserhofer,
  • Verena Barbieri,
  • Stefano Lombardo,
  • Timon Gärtner,
  • Klaus Eisendle,
  • Giuliano Piccoliori,
  • Adolf Engl and
  • Christian J. Wiedermann

Health literacy is crucial for effectively navigating health systems and promoting equitable health outcomes. Multilingual and culturally dual regions present unique challenges for health communication; however, disparities in health literacy within...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
5,189 Views
24 Pages

DIALOGUE: A Generative AI-Based Pre–Post Simulation Study to Enhance Diagnostic Communication in Medical Students Through Virtual Type 2 Diabetes Scenarios

  • Ricardo Xopan Suárez-García,
  • Quetzal Chavez-Castañeda,
  • Rodrigo Orrico-Pérez,
  • Sebastián Valencia-Marin,
  • Ari Evelyn Castañeda-Ramírez,
  • Efrén Quiñones-Lara,
  • Claudio Adrián Ramos-Cortés,
  • Areli Marlene Gaytán-Gómez,
  • Jonathan Cortés-Rodríguez and
  • Héctor Iván Saldívar-Cerón
  • + 8 authors

DIALOGUE (DIagnostic AI Learning through Objective Guided User Experience) is a generative artificial intelligence (GenAI)-based training program designed to enhance diagnostic communication skills in medical students. In this single-arm pre–po...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
7,614 Views
14 Pages

The Relationship Between Childhood Trauma and Shame: The Mediating Role of Dissociation

  • Gianluca Santoro,
  • Lucia Sideli,
  • Alessandro Musetti and
  • Adriano Schimmenti

Previous research has found significant associations among childhood trauma, dissociation, and shame. Furthermore, the clinical literature suggests that dissociation may foster feelings of shame in individuals who were exposed to childhood trauma. Th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,530 Views
17 Pages

Objectives: The present study investigated proclivity for non-consensual intimate-image distribution and its related dimensions—enjoyment and acceptance—in relation to key demographic and relational variables, including gender, age, sexua...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,602 Views
24 Pages

Personality Assessment Inventory in Fibromyalgia: Links to Functional, Physical–Somatic, and Emotional Impact

  • Andrea Doreste,
  • Jesus Pujol,
  • Eva Penelo,
  • Víctor Pérez,
  • Laura Blanco-Hinojo,
  • Gerard Martínez-Vilavella,
  • Fabiola Ojeda,
  • Jordi Monfort and
  • Joan Deus

Background: Fibromyalgia (FM) is a chronic condition characterized by widespread pain, fatigue, cognitive difficulties, and psychological symptoms. Patients often present distinct personality traits and psychopathological patterns associated with sym...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,000 Views
20 Pages

Segmenting Preventive Health Behavior: Gender Disparities and Psychosocial Predictors in a Culturally Diverse Italian Region

  • Dietmar Ausserhofer,
  • Verena Barbieri,
  • Stefano Lombardo,
  • Timon Gärtner,
  • Klaus Eisendle,
  • Giuliano Piccoliori,
  • Adolf Engl and
  • Christian J. Wiedermann

Grounded in health behavior theory, this study examined patterns of preventive health behavior in a culturally diverse, multilingual region of northern Italy using data from a representative population survey (n = 2090). Preventive behaviors were ass...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,495 Views
18 Pages

Background: The diagnosis of a disability in a child may significantly impact the entire family system. While existing literature has primarily focused on parental reaction to the diagnosis, little is known about how typically developing siblings pro...

  • Article
  • Open Access
947 Views
14 Pages

Background: Adolescents’ subjective well-being (SWB) is a key indicator of quality of life. While its development during schooling has been widely studied, few studies have examined changes in SWB after leaving school due to the need for longit...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
877 Views
10 Pages

Problematic Internet Use: Measurement and Structural Invariance Across Sex and Academic Year Cohorts

  • Mateo Pérez-Wiesner,
  • Kora-Mareen Bühler and
  • Jose Antonio López-Moreno

The extensive use of digital media among adolescents has raised concerns about its impact on emotional development and mental health. Understanding the psychological factors behind problematic digital media use is essential for effective prevention....

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,150 Views
14 Pages

The changes in adolescents’ visions for the future are important to adolescents’ developmental trajectories, motivation, and educational outcomes, yet understudied. This study examined the change in possible selves and its association wit...

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Eur. J. Investig. Health Psychol. Educ. - ISSN 2254-9625