Individual Psychology Research Articles

Феномен социальной апатии и его актуальность в современной России

The article is devoted to the analysis of the phenomenon of social apathy in the modern Russian realities. Despite the prevalence of the term “social apathy” in the assessment of the current state of the Russian society, there is still no consensus as to whether apathy boils down to rejection of the socio-political sphere or implies broader interpretations — the dominance in the society of an orientation towards minimizing activities, or even loss of faith in the value of the present day (except family and immediate relatives and friends). The key problems in using the concept of social apathy are the lack of a proven scientific methodology for applying the concepts of individual psychology to the collective, mass states, as well as the historically unambiguously negative attitude towards apathy as a vice, deviation, laziness, which makes it difficult to fully comprehend this phenomenon. The article outlines key approaches to explaining social apathy in the modern Russia, revealed in the course of the research project “The Phenomenon of Social Mobilization as the Antipode of Social Apathy”, carried out by the Petersburg Politics Foundation jointly with the “Insomar”, the Institute for Social Marketing, in the second half of 2021. Possible reasons for social apathy include purposeful actions of the authorities, spontaneous reaction of citizens to the activities of politicians, anxiety about the future against the backdrop of the weak attractiveness of the present, the collapse of paternalism in the face of a shortage of tools and skills for living without the help of the state, and the unresolved internal conflicts. The authors reconstruct the main interpretations of the triggers of the current cycle of apathy, such as the economic changes of the 1990s, the failure of the “Medvedev thaw” and the pension reform of 2018, the consequences of which were exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. Based on the results of an expert survey and focus groups, the authors delineate hypothetical scenarios for overcoming social apathy and possible directions for the development of the public sentiments, and formulate a number of recommendations for managing political risks, taking into account possible social dynamics.

Individual Psychology in 2023

Individual Psychology in 2023 Jon Sperry and Len Sperry We are most pleased to share this open issue with you. This issue consists of five noteworthy articles that offer clinical and theoretical applications of Individual Psychology. These editors' notes were written during an unprovoked invasion of Ukraine. As the war rages on, many of our Adlerian colleagues have embodied the spirit of social interest by housing Ukrainian refugees, offering counseling services to Ukrainians in need of mental health services, and donating funds for various essential items. We are hopeful that the Adlerian community will continue to find ways to support and contribute to those experiencing unnecessary suffering and who are geographically displaced by this war. This issue begins with an article titled "Freud's Disavowal of Adler and Adler's Subsequent Influence on Psychoanalytic Thought," by Richard Watts, Noah Thorne, and Marina Bluvshtein. This article is particularly meaningful, as its original version was written by Richard Watts while he was a doctoral student. He informed us that this will be his last publication because of his current health status. As editors, we are beyond grateful to Richard for his various articles, conference presentations, and other contributions to this theory. The next article, by Shantell A. Johnson, Natalie Noble, Lily Slavin, and Timothy Hartshorne, offers a wonderful contribution to the CHARGE and Individual Psychology literature in "Fathers and CHARGE Syndrome: Impact on the Life Tasks." The authors present their study that examined how 93 fathers of children with CHARGE syndrome experience the life tasks. They examined the challenges and resiliency of the fathers faced with parenting a child with this rare genetic condition. Len Sperry's article, "Adlerian Case Conceptualization and Therapy: The Pattern-Focused Approach," compares his pattern-focused case conceptualization and psychotherapy approach to the more common way in which Adlerian therapy is conceptualized and practiced. Described are the [End Page 423] clinical value, indications and counterindications, and the evidence base of this new approach. Then case material illustrates similarities and differences between the approaches. Calvin Armerding presents a timely article, "Contemptuous Political Partisanship: An Adlerian Conceptualization and Call to Action." The increasing ideological polarization in the United States and around the globe makes political compromise or cooperation seem almost impossible. Armerding conceptualizes this sociopolitical trend with an Adlerian framework and also proposes that Adlerians must model healthy political engagement by engaging in Gemeinschaftsgefühl in political discourse with one another and their respective communities. The final article, by Philip Davis, an internal medicine physician, reviews an article written by Rudolf Dreikurs in 1934 that highlighted the mind–body connection for a patient with gastrointestinal symptoms and psychological symptoms. Davis's article, "Rudolf Dreikurs Speaking Truth Across the Ages," identifies the present-day relevance of Dreikurs's original article in his daily practice, particularly with patients experiencing gastrointestinal symptoms. [End Page 424] Copyright © 2022 University of Texas Press

Functional Outcomes Following a Telehealth Interdisciplinary Program During COVID

<h3>Research Objectives</h3> To investigate the effectiveness of a telehealth (TH) program on the physical function of patients with chronic pain, and to compare TH to historical in-person treatment outcomes. <h3>Design</h3> A retrospective chart review of outcome data obtained pre-post week treatment duration. <h3>Setting</h3> Academic rehabilitation hospital, outpatient pain management center. <h3>Participants</h3> A sample of 51 consecutive adult patients with chronic pain (n=51) who participated in the TH program and historical data was obtained from a similar group of patients (n=51) who previously completed a comparable in-person pain program. <h3>Interventions</h3> The TH treatment included 1-2 weekly sessions from occupational therapists, psychologists and physical therapists, physical therapy group, for 6 weeks. The in-person program included individual occupational and physical therapy, individual psychology, and group sessions in each discipline, for 6 weeks. <h3>Main Outcome Measures</h3> The following pain region specific outcomes measures were used: Disabilities of the Arm, Shoulder and Hand (DASH), Oswestry Disability Index (ODI), Neck Disability Index (NDI), Lower Extremity Function Scale (LEFS), Tampa Scale for Kinesiophobia (TSK), and Patient Specific Functional Scale (PSFS). All measures were administered at the start of the program and again at discharge. <h3>Results</h3> Paired-samples t-tests showed significant changes on all outcome measures (t's = 2.320 - 12.082, P's = .001 - .045). Cohen's d indicated medium effects for the LEFS, TSK, ODI, NDI, and DASH (d's = .35 - .61), and a large effect for the PSFS (d = 1.79). Independent-samples t-tests were used to compare outcomes (difference scores) between those receiving the TH invention and those who participated in an in-person program. There were no statistically significant group differences on any of the outcomes: LEFS (Mdiff= -0.03, 95%CI [-5.95,5.89], t(53)= -0.010, p=.992), TSK (Mdiff= -1.77, CI [1.54,-4.85], t(70)= -1.161, p=.250), ODI (Mdiff=0.72, CI [-2.80,4.25], t(45)=0.413, p=.681), NDI (Mdiff= -0.40, CI [-6.73,5.93], t(13)= -.136, p=.894), DASH (Mdiff=3.98, CI [-6.38,14.34], t(28)=0.786, p=.438), and PSFS (Mdiff= -0.62, 95%CI [-1.33,0.10], t(91)= -1.714, p=.090). <h3>Conclusions</h3> Findings show preliminary support for the effectiveness of an interdisciplinary pain management telehealth intervention. <h3>Author(s) Disclosures</h3> None

Preliminary psychometric scale development using the mixed methods Delphi technique

This study implemented a Delphi Method; a systematic technique which relies on a panel of experts to achieve consensus, to evaluate which questionnaire items would be the most relevant for developing a new Propensity to Trust scale. Following an initial research team moderation phase, two surveys were administered to academic lecturers, professors and Ph.D. candidates specialising in the fields of either individual differences, human-robot interaction, or occupational psychology. Results from 28 experts produced 33 final questionnaire items that were deemed relevant for evaluating trust. We discuss the importance of content validity when implementing scales, while emphasising the need for more documented scale development processes in psychology. Furthermore, we propose that the Delphi technique could be utilised as an effective and economical method for achieving content validity, while also providing greater scale creation transparency.

A toolkit for understanding and addressing climate scepticism.

Despite over 50 years of messaging about the reality of human-caused climate change, substantial portions of the population remain sceptical. Furthermore, many sceptics remain unmoved by standard science communication strategies, such as myth busting and evidence building. To understand this, we examine psychological and structural reasons why climate change misinformation is prevalent. First, we review research on motivated reasoning: how interpretations of climate science are shaped by vested interests and ideologies. Second, we examine climate scepticism as a form of political followership. Third, we examine infrastructures of disinformation: the funding, lobbying and political operatives that lend climate scepticism its power. Guiding this Review are two principles: (1) to understand scepticism, one must account for the interplay between individual psychologies and structural forces; and (2) global data are required to understand this global problem. In the spirit of optimism, we finish by describing six strategies for reducing the destructive influence of climate scepticism.

Can selfies trigger social anxiety? A study on the relationship between social media selfie behavior and social anxiety in Chinese youth group.

As modernization continues to advance the development of digital society, social media has become an important part of people's daily life and an extension and expansion of real social interactions. In this process, social media use and individual social psychology have increasingly become the object of academic attention, among which the relationship between selfie behavior, as an important interaction practice of youth group in social media, and social anxiety needs to be further explored and discussed. The purpose of this study is to investigate the current situation of selfie behavior, body image, and social anxiety among young people in China. Using a combination of qualitative and quantitative empirical methods, a questionnaire survey was conducted in Chinese mainland (n = 920) to examine the mediating effects of social comparison and body image on social media selfie behavior and social anxiety, and found that there was a significant negative relationship between youth social media selfie behavior and social anxiety, while the sequence mediating effects of social comparison and body image were significant. The findings of the study provide new ideas and directions for exploring the intervention paths of youth social psychology in the era of image socialization.

Psikologi Kompetitif Individu Untuk Meningkatkan Kualitas Taruna

Competitive advantage can be said to be a prerequisite for success for cadets. Education is an effort to improve the quality of each individual directly or indirectly. With the developments that occur in the world of education that requires lecturers and cadets to have a creative, innovative and most importantly competitive attitude. This study was written to discuss the development of individual competitive psychology in order to improve the quality of cadets. The purpose of this study was to investigate the factors that influence the quality of seafarers by using the Individual Competitive Psychology model. This study conducted a survey of 120 prospective cadets and cadets who were currently studying at official universities and government-owned nurseries. This self-administered questionnaire includes questions about the quality of prospective cadets and cadets with regard to morals, moral decisions and Bourdieu's sociological theory. The quality of prospective cadets and cadets is influenced by moral and psychological decisions. This study shows that the moral and psychological decisions of cadets and prospective cadets are important to score in the input process as well as to form the mentality of cadets in output so it is very important to have a competitive attitude for cadets because a cadet who is very competitive has the opportunity to see certain situations as competition.

Review: Las Hijas de Juan: Daughters Betrayed, by Josie Méndez-Negrete

Review: <i>Las Hijas de Juan: Daughters Betrayed</i>, by Josie Méndez-Negrete

P10 Psychologist? But the pain is not all in my head…

P10 Psychologist? But the pain is not all in my head…

Empirical investigation of the impact of overload on the discontinuous usage intentions of short video users: a stressor-strain-outcome perspective

PurposeThis study focuses on perceived overload from environmental stimuli and individual psychology and behavioral interactions. It constructs a theoretical model with overload as the key stressor based on the stressor-strain-outcome (SSO) model. The authors argue that system feature overload (SFO), information overload, and social overload lead to two psychological strains: fear of missing out (FoMO) and fatigue among users of short video platforms, affecting their discontinuous usage intentions.Design/methodology/approachTo test the hypotheses, the authors conducted a questionnaire survey on 412 users' short video platform usage and empirically tested the constructed model using the research tool SmartPLS 3.3.2.FindingsThe results of data analysis showed that most of the hypotheses were supported. Specifically, system feature overload, information overload and social overload all positively affected FoMO. However, SFO and information overload significantly affected fatigue. There was no significant relationship between social overload and fatigue. In addition, both FoMO and fatigue negatively influenced users' discontinuous usage intentions.Originality/valueThe current research on user behavior in information systems tends to focus on the influence in the positive direction and less on the negative direction. The research on discontinuous usage intention (DUI) is a very new research topic. This research studies the influencing factors of users' discontinuous behavior from the perspective of perceptual overload. It provides a unique view for future short video platform user behavior research, with significant theoretical contributions and essential practice for short video platform operators to improve services.

Seetha’s Distress and Kambar’s Psychological Solution

Psychology is dealt with extensively by Kambar, in his literary work Kambaramayanam. Kambar while creating his characters, weaves into each of them, an emotional profile, not only elegantly, but also in fine detail. His poignant portrayals profoundly exhibit Kambar’s clear knowledge of psychology and not stopping with his characters, it is pragmatic and relates to psychology of real life individuals. An exemplification to psychological characterizations all through the epic is analysed in Seethai’s confinement at the Asoka Vanam. Seethai’s loneliness and her emotional disturbance, her despondency, desperation and resulting suicidal thoughts and Kambar’s psychological solutions are examined in relation to present day observations and theories on psychology and thereby establishing Kambar’s proficient handling of psychology in his literature is the focus of this research.

THE PSYCHOLOGICAL AND SOCIO-ECONOMIC IMPACTS OF FESTIVAL CELEBRATIONS ON THE ISLAND OF RHODES, GREECE, DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC

This research paper aims to study the function of the traditional festivals on the island of Rhodes during the period of the COVID-19 pandemic in order to explore community members and official institution representatives’ views on their psychological and socio-economic consequences. A structured interview was designed, which was given online to 168 subjects, of which 96 community members in the villages of the island of Rhodes and to 72 official institutions, representatives of cultural and local authorities, within the context of the beginning of the festivities with some restrictions, in August 2021, in the light of the pandemic. The results of the research show that the majority of community members and official institution representatives of the sample emphasize the communicative, cultural, recreational, and social dimensions of the festivals, however, some claim that there are no longer events that arise interest. Regarding their cancellation during the pandemic period, the majority of community members answer that the entertainment - communication sector was most affected, while the representatives of the institutions emphasize the economic consequences. In general, regarding the consequences of the pandemic on the behavior and psychology of individuals, introversion, isolation, antisociality, belligerence, tension and nervousness, are emphasized, while mistrust seems to prevail even in close family settings. Moreover, the majority of community members and representatives emphasize that social offer and solidarity are not exhibited to a satisfactory degree, while volunteering activities are limited. Regarding the pandemic, vaccination is suggested as the most effective means, mainly by the official institution representatives. Regarding the events of 2021 that shocked them most, the community members focus on economic, social and psychological - personal problems, while the official institution representatives focus on environmental and economic problems. Finally, most of them state that they do not want the transformation of festivals, however, they regard the emphasis on tradition as a sustainable perspective of local festivals.&lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt; Article visualizations:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="/-counters-/edu_01/0415/a.php" alt="Hit counter" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

The Mediation Role of an Individual's and Couple's Psychological Factors, Including Parenting in the Prediction of Relational and Marital Satisfaction.

The goal of this study was to widen the scope of the social component of family sustainability. The fundamental goal of this non-experimental, quantitative study was to look at the links between parenting correlates, personality characteristics, marital satisfaction, and well-being in couples, as well as to construct explanatory prediction models for relational and marital satisfaction. The study focused on the effects of personality traits, parental self-efficacy, and attachment to marital and relational satisfaction. The test instruments applied were: the Experiences in Close Relationships-Revised, Marital Adjustment Test, Couple Satisfaction Index, Relationship Satisfaction Scale, Family Distress Index, Generalized Self-Efficacy Scale (adapted to the role of a parent), Mowen’s Personality Scale, and demographic data. A total of 238 Romanians answered the online survey, recruited based on a convenience sampling method. Participants in this research were individuals who were both married and had at least one child. The main findings show that agreeableness, openness, conscientiousness, anxious and avoidant attachment, and marital adjustment predict the satisfaction in the relationship, and openness partially mediates the association between marital adjustment and relationship satisfaction. Parental self-efficacy appears to influence the association between relationship satisfaction and marital satisfaction. An increased parental self-efficacy score predicts an increased relationship satisfaction and marital satisfaction. The higher the parental self-efficacy, the higher the satisfaction in the relationship, which leads to an increase in satisfaction in the couple. These results show that marital adjustment and adaptation are related to relational satisfaction, and these relationship are partially mediated by an individual’s openness. Despite some limitations, the current study significantly contributes to couples therapies and interventions in terms of physical and mental health, and the study provides insight into the experiences and perspectives of married individuals with children in Romania.

Rudolf Dreikurs: Quasquicentennial

Rudolf Dreikurs: Quasquicentennial Marina Bluvshtein In 1933, in his foreword to Rudolf Dreikurs’s Fundamentals of Adlerian Psychology, Alfred Adler wrote that Individual Psychology would have “a permanent influence on the thought, poetry and dreams of humanity” (p. vii). An overview of the life and legacy of Rudolf Dreikurs oftentimes feels like he became that thinker, that poet, and that dreamer, foreseen and welcomed by Adler. Even more, any student of Dreikurs, whether his contemporary or not, will agree that Dreikurs was also the one who, responding to Adler’s call above, used the knowledge “for the purpose of establishing an ideal community” (p. vii). This year is special in the Adlerian movement, as we celebrate the 70th anniversary of the North American Society of Adlerian Psychology (NASAP) (which started as the American Society of Adlerian Psychology, or ASAP, in 1952); the 70th anniversary of the Journal of Individual Psychology (which replaced Individual Psychology Bulletin and which Dreikurs started as the American Journal of Individual Psychology); and the 70th anniversary of Adler University (started as Alfred Adler Institute of Chicago in 1952 by Dreikurs and Harold Mosak). Finally, this is a quasquicentennial commemoration of Rudolf Dreikurs, born on February 8, 1897. In this special issue of the Journal of Individual Psychology, I see two interesting challenges, both of which arguably express my own lifestyle challenges. One challenge is to try to cover it all, spotlighting myriad areas, social and clinical, that filled Dreikurs’s scholarship, that attracted his clinical genius, and that connected his own lifeline and the Adlerian movement. But how can one journal issue cover it all? Another challenge is not to repeat what has been thoroughly discussed, his famous “Dreikurs sayings,” what is presumed to be well known, what is already easily accessible, and what may not need any expansion or explanation. But, given the scarcity of contemporary clinical research about Dreikurs and an abundance of the proverbial “Dreikurs said,” how can we know what is really known? Dreikurs once wrote about the dangers of the law of the excluded middle. It is in an attempt to avoid those dangers that I invite you to see this special issue as more of a metaphorical line, connecting the points, creating a most representative central tendency, and not excluding any points [End Page 285] or observations for appearing scattered or distant—because all of them, equally, contribute to the core understanding of our topic. The line will hopefully resolve the two challenges mentioned earlier, forming a story line for this special issue. You can tune in to the interview with Eva Dreikurs Ferguson by Anabella Shaked, read fragments of Dreikurs’s never-published letters (Bluvshtein and Hilliard), listen to never-before-shared memories about him (Walton, Sperry, and Mendel), or be inspired by the living spirit of ICASSI, the Adlerian summer schools (Balla). Several other articles further build this line by offering a new look at Dreikurs’s legacy in politics and social participation (Landscheidt), expanding his four phases of Adlerian therapy to working with couples (Berman Alon, Fradkin, Karmi, and Nahum Leumi), revisiting his contributions to music therapy and vision of music as social harmonizer (Eriksson), and providing a refresher on multiple therapy, one of his most innovative practices (Garrison). Finally, in this special issue, please listen to new voices—of younger practitioners, the ones who will carry Dreikurs’s ideas forward for decades to come. These include Chupron’s brave exploration of The Diary of Vaslav Nijinsky through the lens of Children: The Challenge, Frantz’s case study demonstrating Dreikurs’s wisdom on democracy and equality, Reed and Urban’s close look at juvenile transfer to adult court, and Griesel and Hovinen’s work on adolescents and conflict. Having started this introduction with a quote from Alfred Adler, I want to conclude with one by Rudolf Dreikurs in the same book: We know that the most advanced minds are working along the same lines as we do, and we share with all advanced thinkers the desire to help the race to find a real community of all human beings, which will recognize instead of superior and inferior beings only fellow beings and fellow workers. (p. 112) On...

The Visionary Leadership of Rudolf Dreikurs: ICASSI as Individual Psychology in Action

The Visionary Leadership of Rudolf Dreikurs: ICASSI as Individual Psychology in Action

Individual Psychology Multiple Psychotherapy

In the 1940s, several mental health practitioners began experimenting with the use of multiple therapists. This article focuses on the contribution of Rudolf Dreikurs and Individual Psychology to this experimentation with the structure of psychotherapy. In 1946 Dreikurs and the members of his group private practice began exploring the use of multiple therapists in the treatment of clients. This grew out of his experience in the family guidance clinics begun by Alfred Adler in Vienna in the 1920s and 1930s. This exploration led to the Individual Psychology multiple psychotherapy model, with a specified sequence of interviews designed to serve as an intake to a group practice. Three other multiple therapist models, a brief therapy model, a reflection team model, and a cotherapy model, are briefly discussed, followed by a discussion of the use of these models in training and supervision.

Dreikurs’s Individual Therapy Phases Applied to Couples Therapy

Rudolf Dreikurs divided Adler’s Individual Psychology psychotherapy process into four phases: establishment and maintenance of the therapeutic relationship, investigation of the client’s past and present life situations and lifestyle, interpretation or insight for enhancement of the client’s self-understanding, and reorientation. This article presents the application of Dreikurs’s phases to couples therapy as structured and developed by Zivit Abramson. The article describes how a couplehood is formed, what the psychological couple contract is, and situations in which difficulties may arise in the couple relationship. Dreikurs’s phases are paralleled and adjusted to couples therapy. This article contributes to the understanding of the therapist’s role by elaborating on the use of each phase in couples therapy.

A-238 Test Selection Among Psychologists in the USA

Abstract Objective: Explore popular assessments among psychologists from various specialties and variables impacting test selection. Method: A survey designed by Rabin and colleagues (2016) was adapted with permission and administered via Qualtrics, taking 10-15 minutes to complete. Sampled individuals were licensed doctoral level psychologists living in the USA across multiple disciplines. School psychologists with master’s degree were also included. Non-parametric correlations were conducted to understand variables impacting test selection practices, particularly psychometrics (e.g., ecological validity, normative groups) and frequency of assessment. Results: Demographics of the 77 participants meeting study criteria are reviewed. The top three most popular assessments for all participants were: WAIS-IV (11.1%), WISC-V (8.7%), and PAI (6.8%). Popular assessments for the fields of neuropsychology, forensic, clinical and school psychology are reported. No significant relationships were found between psychology specialty and major psychometric variables tested. Psychology specialty was significantly related to time spent on assessment (𝝆 = -0.46, p &amp;lt; .001) and the number of tests in each battery (𝝆 = -0.36, p = .006). However, there was no relationship between psychology specialty and number of assessments conducted each week. Conclusions: Wechsler intelligence tests continued as the most popular assessments among all sampled participants. PAI increased in popularity whereas projectives decreased in popularity. Results for individual psychology specialties remained relatively consistent with previous literature, except for forensic participants. All specialties reported similar likelihood of using assessments reflecting real-world outcomes and demographically representative normative data. Specialized fields of psychology may devote additional time to assessment and use longer batteries despite similar caseloads. Possible explanations are provided.

Pursuing the Individual in Working-Class History

AbstractThe individual is still rare in working-class history, and, when we find them, they are often, like Bebel and Lula, exceptional. We are interested in them as leaders of vital mass movements and because they had an important impact on their societies. But another part of the promise of biographies like these is the opportunity to approach the personal dimensions of working-class experience through an individual life. Bringing the two biographies together highlights the diversity of working-class experience. Bebel developed in a racially homogeneous society while Lula was a mixed-race person shaped in race-conscious Brazil. Bebel thrived as a small-shop artisan while Lula thrived as a skilled worker in a mass production factory. I also compare and contrast these two subjects with two American labor radicals, the socialist leader Eugene Debs and William Z. Foster, a key figure in the Communist Party of the US. The importance of individual psychology and the homosocial worlds of these subjects might have played a greater role here, while the ubiquitous learning of both men raises the problem of working-class intellectual history, another subject that has not received enough attention from labor historians.

Academic self-concept mediates the effect of online learning engagement on deep learning in online courses for Chinese nursing students: A cross-sectional study

BackgroundOnline learning is prevalent among nursing students, but the effect of online learning seems not as good as expected. Deep learning, as a learning approach that could help people solve complex problems and make innovative decisions, is associated with individual behavior and psychology. However, from the perspective of individual behavior and psychology to explore the potential influence mechanism of deep learning in online courses is little, in China or indeed internationally. ObjectivesThe purpose of this study is to explore the relationship between online learning engagement, academic self-concept and deep learning in online courses for Chinese nursing students, and the mediating effect of academic self-concept on the relationship between online learning engagement and deep learning in online courses of Chinese nursing students. DesignA cross-sectional electronic survey. Settings and participantsThe study was conducted using a convenience sample of 617 nursing students in five schools in eastern, central, and western China from September 2021 to October 2021 (the number of eligible students in the five schools was 2065). MethodsThe data were collected with the College students' learning engagement scale in cyberspace, Academic self-concept scale and Deep learning scale in online courses, and analyzed by correlation analysis, univariate analysis, multiple linear regression and PROCESS macro. Results594 valid questionnaires were collected (effective response rate: 96.2 %). High online learning engagement and high academic self-concept were correlated with a high level of deep learning in online courses (correlation coefficient: 0.731 to 0.800). Part of the influence of online learning engagement on deep learning in online courses was mediated by academic self-concept, and the indirect effect accounts for 39.75 % of the total effect. ConclusionsChinese nursing students' online learning engagement may partially influence deep learning in online courses through academic self-concept.