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The present study aimed to investigate the moderating role of gender in the relationship between attitudes toward violence and cyberstalking. A total of 393 Brazilian's volunteers composed the sample (Age mean = 29.3, SD = 8.54, EP = 0.43, 71.2% female). Overall, the results showed that a positive correlation between all four factors that compose the scale of attitudes toward violence with cyberstalking. Gender moderated this relationship (war: b = –0.45, t = –3.30, p<0.01, corporal punishment of children: b = – 0.40, t = –2.62, p < 0.01, penal code violence: b = –0.34, t = –3.20, p < 0.01, intimate violence: b = –0.74, t = –1.93, p = 0.05). Specifically, data indicated that the attitudes x cyberstalking relation only was significant in women. A possible explanation is that attitudes can function as a psychological mechanism to justify problematic behavior, increasing the probability of cyberstalking engagement. However, more studies are needed to confirm this hypothesis. Thus, it is concluded that the objectives were met, highlighting the role of attitudes in the perpetration of specific aggressive behaviors that are more prevalent among women, assisting in the study of online violence and its specificities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The effects of video games have attracted the attention of many researchers in psychology, especially when one suggests aggressive behavior related to violent games. Games with prosocial content have attracted less attention, but research in the field reveals that pro-social games increase positive cognitions and that violent games increase the incidence of aggressive cognitions. The objective of the current study was to verify the effect of violent and prosocial games on the cognitions of the players within two days of experiments. To this end, 30 undergraduate students played one type of game each day for 20 minutes and responded to a word-free association task to categorize their cognitions into either positive or negative. The main findings showed that violent games increased the occurrence of negative cognitions, but the pro-social games did not increase the pro-social cognitions. Finally, these findings are discussed based on previous research on the effect of violent and pro-social video game play. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Engagement in social media is characterized by the frequent use and need to remain connected to social networks. This study aimed to gather psychometric evidence in order to adapt and validate the Social Media Engagement Questionnaire for the Brazilian context. Two studies were carried out, a first exploratory study involving 200 participants (M = 23.3; SD = 6.55) from the city of Parnaíba, Piauí. The second was a confirmatory study with 300 participants (M = 22.9; SD = 6.08) from the city of João Pessoa, Paraíba. The results of the exploratory study presented a unifactorial solution (ω = 0.90). In addition, the same structure is corroborated in the confirmatory study [X² (5) = 33.27; p = 0.001; CFI = 0.98; TLI = 0.95; RMSEA = 0.01 (95% CI 0.01-0.02)] ω = 0,94. Thus, the instrument presented good attributes of psychometric adequacy and the measurement can be considered adapted and validated for the Brazilian context. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The objective of this research was to know the valorative profile, as well the general mental health of men that use the primary health care services of a coastal city of Piauí. To do so, it was used a non-probabilistic sample of 153 participants, most of them single (70.9%), with ages ranging from 20 to 58 years old (M = 27, DP = 9.1), that use the Basic Health Unity (BHU) from this city. The participants filled the Basic Values Questionnaire (BVQ-18) and the General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-12). The results identified the values survival (M = 6.33), maturity (M = 6.33), religiosity (M = 5.98) and the existence subfunction (M = 6.04) as the most endorsed by the users. It was also found a negative relation (p < .05) between the general health and subfunctions existence (-.17) and normative (-.27). It was not found cases of incidence of minor mental disorders. It is expected that these findings may be used to elaborate strategies that led to a higher adherence of the men population to the health self-care and the development of specific campaigns to this population, considering their peculiarities and social context. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study aimed to observe the impact of self-deprecating songs in thoughts and affect, and the role of self-esteem and other music related variables (evaluation and familiarity) in this relationship. A hundred thirty-six participants engaged in an experiment where they listened to a song (self-deprecating/control) and answered: a Word Task, the Positive and Negative Affect Scale, and the Rosenberg Self-esteem Scale, which underwent t-test, bivariate correlation, factorial ANOVA and mediation in JASP. Results indicated that individuals exposed to the self-deprecating song presented more negative associations and negative affects, and less positive affects. Mediation analyses showed two significant models: music - familiarity - positive affects (indirect effects: λ = -0.160, 95% CI = -0.32 - 0.01, p <0.05, total effects: λ = -0.381, 95% CI = -0.711 - -0.051, p <0.05), and music - evaluation - negative affects (indirect effects: λ = 0.614, 95% CI = 0.269 - 0.959, p <0.05, total effects: λ = 0.397, 95% CI = 0.065 - 0.728, p <0.05). It is possible to conclude that the study’s aim was achieved, highlighting the impact of deprecating music on well-being. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]