There is evidence of decreased academic engagement and psychological well-being in university students, but also little research on the effects of coronavirus anxiety. Accordingly, the aim of the present study was to predict coronavirus anxiety based on the two variables mentioned. The sample included 426 female and male students from a university in Ahvaz, Khuzestan province, Iran, who self-selected voluntarily through the WhatsApp application. The results showed a negative correlation of the two predictor variables with coronavirus anxiety, but through stepwise regression only psychological well-being was able to predict 16% of coronavirus anxiety. Designing psychological interventions to improve academic engagement and psychological well-being and to comprehensively support to reduce coronavirus anxiety in students is one of the present research suggestions.
Establishing psychological profiles considering the type of sexual offense is relevant for development of differentiated psychological treatments. Therefore, differences in demographic, criminal, personality, psychopathological, and psychopathic characteristics between people who have committed sexual offenses against children and people who have committed sexual offenses against adults were examined. Participants were 57 people who had offended children and 30 people who had offended adults, from northeastern Mexico. Instruments were the Personality Assessment Inventory and the Psychopathy Checklist-Revised. Both groups displayed low levels of psychopathology, although participants who had offended adults scored generally higher. Regarding psychopathy, participants who had offended children presented more affective deficits, whereas participants who had offended adults showed a greater tendency toward social deviation, particularly toward antisocial lifestyle.
Drug use and violence are two interconnected problems in violent urban contexts, leading to coercive drug offers. In this study, relationships between drug use, use of violence as a strategy for rejecting drug offers, and exposure to neighborhood violence were analyzed in Mexican students. Data were obtained through a self-report survey and focus groups with lower secondary students in three Mexican metropolitan areas. Both quantitative and qualitative results indicated that students who had used or would use violence as a strategy for rejecting drug offers presented a more problematic psychosocial profile, with exposure to neighborhood violence as the main predictor. These results suggest that Mexican students in violent cities may resort to violence as a strategy for rejecting drug offers.
Honduran migration toward the United States crosses Mexico forming migrant caravans, generating intense sociopolitical debate. However, a psychosocial analysis focused on Mexicans' perceptions and behavioral tendencies has not been performed. Quality of contact between Mexican residents and Honduran migrants and its relationship to Mexicans' (interpersonal and institutional) behavioral tendencies, as well as the mediating role of morality and immorality stereotypes and perceived threat, were analyzed. Participants were 540 Mexicans (64.26% women; age, M = 26.03 years, SD = 8.94) who answered an online form. Results showed an indirect association of higher quality of intergroup contact with more facilitating tendencies through higher morality stereotypes and with fewer harming tendencies through lower perceived threat. Our results may contribute to design migration policies.
There are still few studies to understand the determinants of child psychopathology. Stress is related to children's internalized and externalized problems, and the type of coping could mediate these relationships. The mediating roles of four types of coping (functional, dysfunctional, emotion-focused, and avoidance) in the relationships between stress and internalized and externalized problems were analyzed. Participants were 252 children (146 boys; M = 9.70 years old, SD = 1.26). A mediation model was tested through structural equation analysis. An adequate fit was obtained (root-mean-square error of approximation =.04, comparative fit index =.90, Tucker-Lewis index =.89). Functional coping mediated the relationships between stress and internalized and externalized problems. Promoting functional coping may prevent internalized and externalized problems.
