Psychological Situation Research Articles

The Situation of Situation Research: Knowns and Unknowns

Over the past 15 years, research on the assessment of psychological situations has flourished. As a result, many basic questions about psychological situations have been answered. We discuss the theoretical and empirical studies that answered these questions, including what situations are; how they can be characterized, taxonomized, and measured; how they relate to person variables; and how persons navigate situations. We first summarize the “knowns” of psychological situation research and then proceed to chart the “unknowns” that have yet to be examined. We conclude with an agenda for future situation research.

Impact of illness perception, mental adjustment, and sociodemographic characteristics on return to work in patients with head and neck cancer

To examine the effects of emotional distress, illness perception, and mental adjustment on return to work (RTW) among patients with head and neck cancer (HNC) and identify factors associated with RTW. A cross-sectional study with convenience sampling was conducted in Taiwan. Structured questionnaires were used to collect data on RTW status and to explore possible factors related to RTW. RTW status was assessed by a single question. Anxiety and depression were assessed using the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale, illness perception was assessed by the Brief Illness Perception Questionnaire, and mental adjustment was assessed using the Mini-mental Adjustment to Cancer Scale. Sociodemographic and disease background data were also collected and analyzed. Factors related to RTW were identified by multivariate logistic regression. A total of 150 patients with HNC were recruited into the study. Of them, 58 (38.7%) returned to work after treatment. Compared to those who did not RTW, patients who did RTW had lower levels of emotional distress (anxiety and depression), better illness perception (cognitive illness representations and illness comprehensibility), and better mental adjustment (hopelessness and helplessness, anxious preoccupation, avoidance, and fatalism). Multivariable analysis indicated that anxiety (OR = 0.863, p < 0.05), avoidance (OR = 1.280, p < 0.001), cognitive illness representations (OR = 0.891, p < 0.01), illness comprehensibility (OR = 1.271, p < 0.05), higher education level (OR = 3.048-3.609, p < 0.05), married status (OR = 5.220, p < 0.05), tumor site in oral cavity (OR = 5.057, p < 0.05), and no reconstruction (OR = 3.415, p < 0.05) were significantly associated with RTW. The issue of RTW among patients with HNC is related to multidimensional factors, including sociodemographic, psychological, and disease-related situations. We suggest that programs for emotional rehabilitation and occupational counseling need to be developed to assist patients with HNC to RTW at an early stage.

OBLIGATIONS OF THE SURGEON IN CONTR ACTS ESTABLISHED FOR AESTHETIC INTERVENTIONS

Tıp bilimindeki gelişim ve değişim sonucu ortaya çıkan yeni müdahale türlerinden biri de estetik müdahalelerdir. Estetik müdahaleler hekimin tıbbi bir endikasyon olmadığı halde müdahalede bulunduğu nadir durumlardandır. Tıbbi müdahalenin hukuka uygun olması için kural olarak tıbbi bir endikasyona dayanması gerekse de; günümüzde sosyal ya da psikolojik endikasyon durumları da müdahalenin hukuka uygunluğu için yeterli kabul edilebilmektedir. Tıbbi bir endikasyon bulunmaması ve uygulamada hasta ve hekim arasındaki ilişkinin sonuç garantili eser sözleşmesi olarak kabul edilmesi, estetik müdahaleleri diğer tıbbi müdahalelerden ayırmaktadır.&#x0D; Hekimin sorumluluğunu ağırlaştıran bu durumlar aydınlatmanın kapsamını da genişletmektedir. Bu bağlamda hekime külfet gibi görünen aydınlatma yükümlülüğü önem taşıyan bir mesele haline gelmektedir

¡Esto también pasará!

El artículo describe la aparición del COVID-19 de forma imprevisible en el planeta Tierra y las consecuencias que ha tenido para la humanidad, que no estaba preparada para una pandemia de esta magnitud. Relata la situación psicológica y material en la que vivían muchos niños y jóvenes –generación X, Y, Z—antes de la pandemia y de las consecuencias que han tenido que vivir en esta experiencia de confinamiento de las casas por la cuarentena impuesta y qué enseñanzas se pueden extraer de la situación vivida. Así mismo trata del origen y la forma de propagación del COVID-19, de los posibles intereses políticos y económicos que lo han podido dar origen, así como de las políticas sanitarias implementadas por los países y se pregunta si la ciencia es la solución. Concluye con una reflexión sobre si la amenaza puede revertirse en una oportunidad para que los humanos reflexionen y, después de vivir esta experiencia, aprendan a vivir de forma más humana y se pueda originar un nuevo orden mundial mejor para todos.

Tarihi Bir Roman Olarak İskender Pala’nın “Od” Romanında Yapı ve İzlek

The historical novel, which takes its subject from history and important figures in history, presents the background culture of events, the effect of time and space on events and characters in aesthetic language, rather than presenting a historical book to the reader in a uniform manner. For this reason, historical novels become an important tool in history learning. Although he was known for his academic identity, he also gave fictional works, Iskender Pala builds his novels on historical events and personalities. The writer, who gives historical events in a fiction according to their chronological order, tries to reflect the psychological situation of the characters in the face of the events. Many historical novels of the author, Shah and Sultan, Od, Legend: A Barbaros Novel have been published. Od, one of the author’s historical novels, is based on the life of a historical figure Yunus Emre. In the novel, while transferring the social, military, political and economic background of the period that Yunus experienced, the spiritual conflicts that Yunus experienced in the process of being “Bizim Yunus” are also included. In this study, Od novel of Iskender Pala will be examined in terms of structure and projective fiction, and the reflections of different aspects of historical personalities in the novel will be discussed in the light of the conditions of the period. Keywords: Historical novel, Iskender Pala, Yunus Emre, Od, Structure, Trace

Perilaku pencarian informasi pekerjaan oleh sarjana fresh graduate dengan analisis Model Wilson

Introduction. This paper discusses information seeking behavior of university fresh graduate. In fact, many university graduates still face serious difficulties in the job search process based on the increasingly high unemployment rate.&#x0D; Data Collection Method. Purposive sampling was used with 10 respondents. Interviews were used as a data collection technique. &#x0D; Data Analysis. Miles and Huberman data analysis was used in this study reduction, data presentation and conclusion..&#x0D; Resultsand Discussions. Two barriers in finding information were from psychological factors and interpersonal abilities. New graduates with low psychological and interpersonal skills, such as lack of self-confidence, confusion, inferiority, anxiety, lack of communication show uneffective search results. The situation where information sources are easily accessible supports faster information retrieval and vice versa. Our five informants who lived in the city with easy access support the infomatation seeking process.&#x0D; Conclusion Factors affecting information seeking behaviour were psychological situations, demographic circumstances, interpersonal abilities, environment and characteristics of information sources. Those five factors influence each other.

The content and structure of social and psychological training "Formation of secondary school principals' psychological readiness to interact with school psychological service"

This article discusses the objectives, content and structure of social and psychological training "Formation of Secondary School Principals' Psychological Readiness to Interact with School Psychological Service." Special attention is paid to the analysis of interactive techniques used in training secondary school principals for interacting with school psychological service. It is noted that a system of secondary school principals' psychological and pedagogical training is based on special social and psychological training for interacting with school psychological service, studying, analyzing and designing specific psychological and managerial situations during principals' advanced training, use of active forms and methods of teaching (problem mini-lectures, practical classes, role-playing and business games), individual projects, setting adequate training objectives and use of appropriate training forms, etc.

Constructing an interactionist framework for playfulness research: Adding psychological situations and playful states

Psychological studies of playfulness have been deeply shaped by the traditional trait approach that emphasizes assessment of a decontextualized trait. Integrating insights gained from broader social psychology and personality theories, this paper introduces an interactionist framework for playfulness research and provides conceptual and measurement tools for two hitherto neglected components integral to understanding the trait’s functioning in the real world: psychological situations for play and playful states. Conceptual development and empirical evaluation were carried out through a sequential multi-study design. Results from focus groups, expert reviews, and a survey study confirmed the proposed theory-based conceptual models and provided corroborating evidence for the validity and reliability of two new scales—the Psychological Situations for Play Scale and the Playful State Scale. Implications for a paradigm shift in playfulness research are discussed as are recommendations for future causal modeling of playfulness-environment interactions.

The situation six: Uncovering six basic dimensions of psychological situations from the Hebrew language.

Personality psychology has enjoyed success with widely accepted and established taxonomies. This cannot be said for a psychology of situations, which has yet to establish a robust taxonomy of major dimensions of psychological situation characteristics across cultures and languages. We present 4 studies to uncover the dimensionality in the covariation patterns among characteristics with which participants describe situations. In Study 1, we conducted an emic lexical study in Hebrew, combined with an experience-sampling procedure using a closely representative sample of Hebrew-speaking Israelis. The procedure yielded six dimensions of situation characteristics that we call the Situational Six: Negativity, Positivity, Familiarity, Demandingness, Oddness, and Straightforwardness. We then confirmed in imposed-etic Studies 2 to 4 this 6-dimensional structure with adjectives in English among English-speaking U.S. participants. Relationships between the Situation Six and Big Five traits, emotions experienced in situ, the CAPTION model, and the DIAMONDS framework were analyzed to further interpret the meaning of the Situation Six dimensions. We discuss how this new taxonomy fits into and expands existing taxonomic models of situation characteristic dimensions. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved).

РОЗРОБКА ІНТЕГРАТИВНИХ СТРАТЕГІЙ У ПСИХОЛОГІЇ: ЗВЕРНЕННЯ ДО ТВОРЧОЇ СПАДЩИНИ Г. О. БАЛЛА

Окреслено сучасну пізнавальну ситуацію та методологічні проблеми психології. З огляду на ситуацію в науці показано, що сформульована й розвинута Г. О. Баллом раціогуманістична орієнтація в методології людинознавства має значний евристичний потенціал щодо розробки інтегративних стратегій у психології. Пошук шляхів забезпечення інтеграції психологічного знання, опрацювання варіантів відпо­від­них технологій учений вважав нагальним науковим завданням. Г. О. Балл проаналізував труднощі ін­те­грації, зокрема зумовлені поліваріантністю пізнання предмету психологічного дослідження; роллю суб’єк­тивних преференцій дослідника; наявністю суб’єктних якостей у досліджуваних; необхідністю узгодження результатів застосування методів різного ступеня об’єктивності. В контексті творчих напрацювань вченого, зокрема ідей, які ним були висловлені, проте не набули достатнього розвитку в його працях, нами за­пропоновано інтегративно-екзистенційний підхід, спрямований на розробку інтегративних стратегій пізнання, насамперед особистості. Зазначений підхід базується на загально-наукових принципах цілісності, активності, розвитку та взаємодії. Засадничим для підходу є принцип раціогуманізму в його світоглядних та методологічних вимірах. Окреслено також суттєві для підходу принципи «ученого незнання», по­трій­ного моделювання досліджуваної реальності, неостаточності теорії, її інструментального призначення, до­пов­нюваності теорій, гнучкості методологічного бачення, рефлексивної «лінзокритики», осмислення «присутності» автора теорії, врахування стану психічної реальності та її антиномічності, чутливості до потреб дослідницької практики. Запропоновано низку аналітичних процедур, які доповнюють і посилюють одна одну. Різнобічність процедур створює основу для 1) співставлення різних концептуальних підходів до конкретної досліджуваної проблеми, 2) створення ампліфікованих моделей. Методи інтегративно-екзис­тенційного підходу, спрямовані на певну проблему, відповідно розширені і технологічно конкрети­зовані, можуть бути дієвим інтегративним інструментом у пізнанні особистості.

Assessment of the Psychological Situation in Adults with Congenital Heart Disease.

Background: Due to advances in the diagnosis and treatment of congenital heart disease (CHD), the number of adults who are surviving with congenital heart disease (ACHD) is constantly growing. Until recently, the psychological effects of CHD had been widely neglected. Current research provides evidence for an increased risk of emotional distress in ACHD. The concept of illness identity attempts to explain how patients experience and integrate their CHD into their identities. The present study investigated illness identity in relation to clinical parameters and psychological functioning. Psychometric properties of the German version of the Illness Identity Questionnaire (IIQD) were examined. Methods: Self-reported measures on illness identity and psychological functioning (HADS-D) were assessed in a representative sample of 229 ACHD (38 ± 12.5 (18−73) years; 45% female) at the German Heart Center Munich. Descriptive analyses and multiple regression models were conducted. Confirmatory factor analysis was performed to validate the IIQD. Results: The IIQD demonstrated good reliability. The originally-postulated four-factor structure could not be replicated. Anatomic disease complexity and functional status significantly influenced illness identity. Illness identity accounted for unique variances in depression and anxiety: Maladaptive illness identity states (i.e., , engulfment and rejection) were associated with higher emotional distress, whereas adaptive illness (i.e., , acceptance and enrichment) identity states were linked to lower emotional distress. Conclusions: Illness Identity emerged as a predictor of emotional distress in ACHD. Findings raise the possibility that interventions designed to target a patient’s illness identity may improve psychological well-being and cardiac outcomes in ACHD.

OCOБИCТICНA ЗРIЛICТЬ МAЙБУТНIX ПCИXOЛOГIВ У КOНТEКCТI ЇXНЬOЇ ПРOФECIЙНOЇ ПIДГOТOВКИ

To the article the results of theoretical analysis of psychological essence of personality maturity, it`s structure and features of psychologically-pedagogical technologies of it`s forming and development are driven as an aim of professional preparation of future psychologist in higher educational establishment. Marked, that work in industry of practical psychology envisages the developed culture of communication, wide range of professional roles, conflictological competence, positive professional motivation and formation of aim, personality and professional identity, professionally-psychological reflection and self-reflection, and also high moral organization.Therefore the specific of profession of practical psychologist-worker consists in that, unlike other spheres of professional activity, exactly personality potential of specialist co-stars in success of implementation by him him professional tasks. Therefore a question of acquisition of personality maturity is one of most actual in the context of preparation of future psychologists. Complication of capture of practical psychologist a profession consists in that except acquisition of knowledge, practical skills and abilities, in times of studies it is necessary to carry out enormous work from becoming of own personality, id est the sufficient level of professional preparation of future psychologist is possible only on condition of achievement to them of high level of development of his personality.Personality maturity certainly as difficult psychological formation such qualities of personality enter in the complement of that : independence, responsibility, tolerance, emotional firmness, self-control of behavior, confidence in a soba and reflectivity, criticism of thinking, aspiring to self-development and self-realization, empatheness, capacity for a psychological closeness with other, orientation on meaningful vital aims, creativity. It is well-proven that the sufficient level of professional preparation of future psychologist is possible only on condition of achievement to them of high level of development of his personality. Such ways of forming and development of personality maturity of future psychologists offer: self-knowledge as important element of education of practical psychologists in institution of higher learning; forming of orientation of psychologist-student is on a capture theoretical and practical knowledge and abilities; application of active methods and facilities of studies, various training, untiing of psychological situations; forming of personality position is in the process of professional preparation of psychologist, passing the student-psychologist of own psychocorrection in quality of client.

МОДЕЛЮВАННЯ СВІТУ ДИТИНСТВА У РОМАНІ С. БЕННІ «МАРГАРИТА ДОЛЬЧЕВІТА»

In the article the problem of the childhood in the novel “Margherita Dolcevita” by S. Benni has been studied. The well-known Italian author shows the particular situation when the child comes into collision with the world of adults for the first time. That’s why the main character 15-year-old Margherita became an active adolescent who fights for her family and the main family values. The narrative subjectified child’s “I” reflects the world-view of the XXI century where adults are enchanted by the power of consumerism. Margherita struggles for salvation of the family because she is the only child who can find forces to resist the evil in his own pure soul. The process of modeling of the childhood world is accomplished due to the symbolization of the home space as hearth in contrast with modern soulless neighbors’ world embodied by their black house. Margherita became the core to assemble all generations of her family together. The following microdominants of modeling of the childhood world have been defined: existential dimension of home and family, discontinued connection between family generations, the way to self-identity through the life trials and growing up. The formal peculiarities of the novels such as visuality, unity of composition, burning conflict to show as if from within a difficult emotional and psychological situation in which the character is found have been investigated. This novel by its title “Margherita Dolcevita” gives the child answer to the challenge of the world which she would like to preserve as kind and joyful. The studied novel is rated between the best examples of literature on child’s problems and childhood. Unfortunately this writer remains quite unknown to Ukrainian audience. This fact shows the topicality of this research.

Comprehensive assessments and related interventions to enhance the long-term outcomes of child, adolescent and young adult cancer survivors \u2013 presentation of the CARE for CAYA-Program study protocol and associated literature review

BackgroundImproved, multimodal treatment strategies have been shown to increase cure rates in cancer patients. Those who survive cancer as a child, adolescent or young adult (CAYA), are at a higher risk for therapy-, or disease-related, late or long-term effects. The CARE for CAYA-Program has been developed to comprehensively assess any potential future problems, to offer need-based preventative interventions and thus to improve long-term outcomes in this particularly vulnerable population.MethodsThe trial is designed as an adaptive trial with an annual comprehensive assessment followed by needs stratified, modular interventions, currently including physical activity, nutrition and psycho-oncology, all aimed at improving the lifestyle and/or the psychosocial situation of the patients. Patients, aged 15–39 years old, with a prior cancer diagnosis, who have completed tumour therapy and are in follow-up care, and who are tumour free, will be included. At baseline (and subsequently on an annual basis) the current medical and psychosocial situation and lifestyle of the participants will be assessed using a survey compiled of various validated questionnaires (e.g. EORTC QLQ C30, NCCN distress thermometer, PHQ-4, BSA, nutrition protocol) and objective parameters (e.g. BMI, WHR, co-morbidities like hyperlipidaemia, hypertension, diabetes), followed by basic care (psychological and lifestyle consultation). Depending on their needs, CAYAs will be allocated to preventative interventions in the above-mentioned modules over a 12-month period. After 1 year, the assessment will be repeated, and further interventions may be applied as needed. During the initial trial phase, the efficacy of this approach will be compared to standard care (waiting list with intervention in the following year) in a randomized study. During this phase, 530 CAYAs will be included and 320 eligible CAYAs who are willing to participate in the interventions will be randomly allocated to an intervention. Overall, 1500 CAYAs will be included and assessed. The programme is financed by the innovation fund of the German Federal Joint Committee and will be conducted at 14 German sites. Recruitment began in January 2018.DiscussionCAYAs are at high risk for long-term sequelae. Providing structured interventions to improve lifestyle and psychological situation may counteract against these risk factors. The programme serves to establish uniform regular comprehensive assessments and need-based interventions to improve long-term outcome in CAYA survivors.Trial registrationRegistered at the German Clinical Trial Register (ID: DRKS00012504, registration date: 19th January 2018).

A Novel Approach for Classification of Speech Emotions Based on Deep and Acoustic Features

The problem of recognition and classification of emotions in speech is one of the most prominent research topics, that has gained popularity, in human-computer interaction in the last decades. Having recognized the feelings or emotions in human conversations might have a deep impact on understanding a human’s physical and psychological situation. This study proposes a novel hybrid architecture based on acoustic and deep features to increase the classification accuracy in the problem of speech emotion recognition. The proposed method consists of feature extraction, feature selection and classification stages. At first, acoustic features such as Root Mean Square energy (RMS), Mel-Frequency Cepstral Coefficients (MFCC) and Zero-crossing Rate are obtained from voice records. Subsequently, spectrogram images of the original sound signals are given as input to the pre-trained deep network architecture, which is VGG16, ResNet18, ResNet50, ResNet101, SqueezeNet and DenseNet201 and deep features are extracted. Thereafter, a hybrid feature vector is created by combining acoustic and deep features. Also, the ReliefF algorithm is used to select more efficient features from the hybrid feature vector. Finally, in order for the completion of the classification task, Support vector machine (SVM) is used. Experiments are made using three popular datasets used in the literature so as to evaluate the effect of various techniques. These datasets are Ryerson Audio-Visual Database of Emotional Speech and Song (RAVDESS), Berlin (EMO-DB) and Interactive Emotional Dyadic Motion Capture (IEMOCAP). As a consequence, we reach to 79.41%, 90.21% and 85.37% accuracy rates for RAVDESS, EMO-DB, and IEMOCAP datasets, respectively. The Final results obtained in experiments, clearly, show that the proposed technique might be utilized to accomplish the task of speech emotion recognition efficiently. Moreover, when our technique is compared with those of methods used in the context, it is obvious that our method outperforms others in terms of classification accuracy rates.

KİŞİNİN OLUMLU KARAKTER ÖZELLİKLERİNİ İFADE EDEN RUSÇA DEYİMLERİN SEMANTİK ANALİZİ

Idioms are one of the best expression ways reflecting the vocabulary of a society. Hence, we often have recourse to the idioms in order to be able to enrich the expressions in our daily lives. The features of a person such as his/her character, behaviours, actions, motivation, psychological situation, status are manifold in lexical context. In this sense, it is possible to see the inner world, characteristics of the person in Russian idioms elaborately. This study entitled “The Semantic Analysis of Russian Idioms Expressing The Positive Characteristics of the Person” consists of two parts. In the first part, the similarities and differences of the notions of character and personality are handled. In the second part, the idioms expressing the positive characteristics of the person in Russian are classified according to their themes (characteristics, ability situations, experiences, courage, honesty, diligence, intelligence) in lists. Whereas some of the idioms in this study have equivalents in Turkish, the equivalents of some could not be found. These idioms having no equivalents were given with their Turkish explanations. In this context, the aim of this article is to analyze Russian idioms expressing the positive characteristics of the person as classifying according to their themes and to state Turkish equivalents and the semantic features of the idioms. The idioms scrutinized as Russian- Turkish can be seen as a kind of comparative studies. In this study, some of the positive characteristics in Russian were analyzed. However, aforementioned part even reveals the importance of these idioms and also reveals that the broader research on this topic can be carried out. The general survey model was used in this article. The database of the study was created using the several dictionaries of idioms. In Russian, Dictionary of Idioms of Russian Language (Frazeologiceskiy slovar’ russkogo yazika) by Molotkov and New Dictionary of Idioms of Russian Language (Noviy frazeologiceskiy slovar’ russkogo yazika) by Kurilova were used as primary resources. While giving their Turkish equivalents, The Dictionary of Proverbs and Idioms prepared on the internet by Turkish Language Association was benefitted from.

ВОЗМОЖНОСТИ ИНФОРМАЦИОННО-МОДЕЛИРУЮЩЕЙ ТЕХНОЛОГИИ ОБУЧЕНИЯ ПРИ ПРЕПОДАВАНИИ УЧЕБНОЙ ДИСЦИПЛИНЫ "ПСИХОЛОГИЯ" НА ФАКУЛЬТЕТЕ ЗАОЧНОГО ОБУЧЕНИЯ

The article describes the experience of teaching the discipline Psychology with the use of information modeling technology of training. The purpose of the work is to show the possibilities of using information modeling technology in teaching the discipline Psychology. Information modeling technology of training is described according to the order of analysis of pedagogical technologies proposed by G.K. Selevko. The author of the article came to the following main results: students working in the coordinate system of information modeling training technology, a clear picture of all mental processes appears; with the help of information modeling training technology, a future law 59 Вестник Сибирского института бизнеса и информационных технологий № 2 (34) 2020 enforcement officer learns to create an information model that will not only take into account psychological knowledge in his activities, but will also help to solve a crime; teaching the discipline Psychology with the use of information modeling technology of training demonstrates the advantages: the organization of the educational process, the educational situation in the classroom; the psychological situation in the classroom. The evaluation of the effectiveness of information modeling technology in teaching the discipline Psychology was also carried out, which was carried out over three years: 2015/16 academic year, 2016/2017 academic year and 2017/2018 academic year. The sample of subjects was 381 people. The study was conducted in the second and third courses of the Omsk Academy of the Ministry of internal Affairs of Russia and the third ZY courses of the Siberian law University (previously - Omsk law Academy) during 4 and 6 semesters of each academic year. The results obtained can be applied in teaching those academic disciplines in which there are many phenomena of the same order that require detailed study.

Factors associated with the psychological status during the Coronavirus pandemic, baseline data from an Iranian Province.

The 2019 coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is threatening public health in many ways. The psychological situation of individuals is important and limited data is available from Iran. In this study, we aimed to illustrate the psychological distress of the general population and evaluate the factors affecting it.An online cross-sectional survey was conducted from 29th to 31st March 2020 in South Khorasan province, affected later than other parts of the country. We included sociodemographic questions, Hospital Anxiety, and Depression Scale (HADS) questionnaire, and questions addressing various symptoms and diseases. Most questions had multiple choices to select from and some were open questions. Univariate and multivariate analysis in SPSS software was used to find significant relationships.A total of 844 responses were collected, of which 788 records were included in the analysis. The mean age of responders was 36.61±10.97 (age range: 18-88) and 484 (61.4%) of them were females. The mean scores in the anxiety and depression subscale of the HADS questionnaire were 7.01±3.68 and 6.72±3.71 respectively. Experiencing cardiovascular and COVID-19 related symptoms was significantly associated with a higher number of individuals having abnormal anxiety and depression results (p<0.001). Widowed individuals, females, and those experiencing the above-stated symptoms showed a significant association with increased anxiety and depression in multivariate analysis.Although many existing elements influence the psychological well-being of society during a pandemic, experiencing symptoms related to other diseases or having multiple chronic diseases may cause an extra burden on the psychological state of the society.

Factors of negative self-perception of a migrant in a new country

The scale of migration flows in the modern world and their socio-economic, political, and cultural consequences make the study of migration particularly actual. Migration is a multi-step process that contains many psychological aspects, which vary at each stage. Migration begins at the stage when a person considers the alternative of moving to another country. Our study was founded on the idea that the successful adaptation of a migrant to a new life situation and coping with its difficulties is largely determined by the set of pre-migration attitudes and expectations. The study involves 138 people living in Spain, including 108 migrants from Russia and the rest from 25 different countries. The results describe the psychological situation of a migrant, attitude to migration, the motives for moving to another country, the experience of nostalgia, and self-perception in a new life context. The vast majority of Russian-speaking migrants are characterised by a positive attitude towards migration, a significant part of them consider migration as a new experience and an opportunity for self-realization. For a third of Russian-speaking respondents a motivating factor in taking the decision of migration is the interests of close relatives (for foreign respondents, this motivation was mentioned only in 3.6% of cases). The negative self- perception of Russian-speaking migrants in the new country is connected with this motivation (the interests of relatives) and the experienced nostalgia. The crucial factor in a positive or negative self- perception of a migrant is motivation for relocation. A negative self-perception is based on the desire to escape from an unfavorable situation and its problems, and a positive one is based on the desire for change. Therefore, a negative or positive self-awareness of a migrant in a new country is the most important factor for his/her successful integration and psychological well-being in a new country

Factors associated with the psychological status during the Coronavirus pandemic, baseline data from an Iranian Province.

The2019 coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is threatening public health in many ways. The psychological situation of individuals is important and limited data is available from Iran. In this study, we aimed to illustrate the psychological distress of the general population and evaluate the factors affecting it. An online cross-sectional survey was conducted from 29th to 31st March 2020 in South Khorasan province, affected later than other parts of the country. We included sociodemographic questions, Hospital Anxiety, and Depression Scale (HADS) questionnaire, and questions addressing various symptoms and diseases. Most questions had multiple choices to select from and some were open questions. Univariate and multivariate analysis in SPSS software was used to find significant relationships. A total of 844 responses were collected, of which 788 records were included in the analysis. The mean age of responders was 36.61±10.97 (age range: 18-88) and 484 (61.4%) of them were females. The mean scores in the anxiety and depression subscale of the HADS questionnaire were 7.01±3.68 and 6.72±3.71 respectively. Experiencing cardiovascular and COVID-19 related symptoms was significantly associated with a higher number of individuals having abnormal anxiety and depression results (p<0.001). Widowed individuals, females, and those experiencing the above-stated symptoms showed a significant association with increased anxiety and depression in multivariate analysis. Although many existing elements influence the psychological well-being of society during a pandemic, experiencing symptoms related to other diseases or having multiple chronic diseases may cause an extra burden on the psychological state of the society.