scholarly journals Envious Behavior among University Students: Role of Personality Traits and Self-Compassion

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 42-62
Author(s):  
Rabia Zonash ◽  
Kehkashan Arouj ◽  
Badar Jamala
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
Personality Traits ◽  
Self Compassion

Aberrant Salience among Young Healthy Postgraduate University Students: The Role of Cannabis Use, Psychotic-Like Experiences, and Personality

2022 ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
Andrea Patti ◽  
Gabriele Santarelli ◽  
Giulio D’Anna ◽  
Andrea Ballerini ◽  
Valdo Ricca
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
Personality Traits ◽  
Cannabis Use ◽  
Positive Symptom ◽  
Psychotic Symptoms ◽  
Symptom Frequency ◽  
Character Inventory ◽  
Aberrant Salience ◽  
Self Transcendence

Aberrant salience (AS) is an anomalous world experience which plays a major role in psychotic proneness. In the general population, a deployment of this construct – encompassing personality traits, psychotic-like symptoms, and cannabis use – could prove useful to outline the relative importance of these factors. For this purpose, 106 postgraduate university students filled the AS Inventory (ASI), the Community Assessment of Psychic Experiences (CAPE), the Temperament and Character Inventory (TCI), and the Symptom Checklist 90-Revised (SCL-90-R). Lifetime cannabis users (<i>n</i> = 56) and individuals who did not use cannabis (<i>n</i> = 50) were compared. The role of cannabis use and psychometric indexes on ASI total scores was tested in different subgroups (overall sample, cannabis users, and nonusers). The present study confirmed that cannabis users presented higher ASI scores. The deployment of AS proved to involve positive symptom frequency (assessed through CAPE), character dimensions of self-directedness and self-transcendence (TCI subscales), and cannabis use. Among nonusers, the role of personality traits (assessed through the TCI) was preeminent, whereas positive psychotic-like experiences (measured by means of CAPE) had a major weight among cannabis users. The present study suggests that pre-reflexive anomalous world experiences such as AS are intertwined with reflexive self-consciousness, personality traits, current subclinical psychotic symptoms, and cannabis use. In the present study, subthreshold psychotic experiences proved to play a major role among cannabis users, whereas personality appeared to be more relevant among nonusers.

scholarly journals Self-compassion and sleep quality: Examining the mediating role of taking a proactive health focus and cognitive emotional regulation strategies

2021 ◽  
pp. 135910532110471
Author(s):  
Brittany N Semenchuk ◽  
Samantha Onchulenko ◽  
Shaelyn M Strachan
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
Sleep Quality ◽  
Emotional Regulation ◽  
Poor Sleep ◽  
Negatively Associated ◽  
Self Blame ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Self Compassion ◽  
Regulation Strategies

Sleep quality (SQ) impacts health yet many university students get poor sleep. Self-compassion (SC)—care for oneself during challenging times—is associated with SQ yet how SC has these effects is unclear. This study cross-sectionally examined whether SC is negatively related to poor SQ and whether proactive health focus and cognitive emotional regulation strategies (CERS) mediate this relationship. University students ( N = 193) self-reported SC, proactive health focus, CERS, and SQ. SC negatively associated with poor SQ ( r = −0.34) and self-blame mediated this ( b = 0.08, 95% CI [0.01, 0.16]). SC may improve SQ through reducing self-blame.

Measurement of Values Expression in Sports and Athletics

1986 ◽  
Vol 62 (2) ◽  
pp. 651-658 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dale D. Simmons ◽  
R. Vern Dickinson
Keyword(s):  
Factor Analysis ◽  
University Students ◽  
Personality Traits ◽  
Energy Release ◽  
Good Health ◽  
Psychological Variables ◽  
Group Coordination ◽  
Five Factors ◽  
Value Priorities

Research on psychological variables involved in sport has emphasized personality traits and attitudes. This report introduces an instrument for measuring the role of personal values in sport. The Survey of Values in Sport assesses the priority given to 14 sport-related values, e.g., energy release, winning, expressing feelings, group coordination, and maintaining good health. The value priorities among university students for their “favorite sport” were reasonably reliable (2-wk. retest correlations averaged .65); a factor analysis yielded five factors: Achievement, Exercise in a Pleasant Setting, Sociability, Good Health, and Self-fulfillment. In a comparison of two female teams, gymnastics and volleyball, seven of the fourteen values significantly discriminated the two groups—rather notable for samples of 8 and 13 members, respectively.

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