Daily picks · 11月3日

将OHS治理置于文化语境，揭示职业健康与心理健康的关联，填补加勒比地区质性研究空白。

Why selected: 平均 51 分，低于来源门槛 60

Occupational health and safety (OHS) governance is not experienced in a culturally neutral way. The meanings workers bring to risk, authority, voice, and institutional protection are shaped by the cultural worlds in which they live and labour, yet this dimension of occupational health has received almost no qualitative attention in the Caribbean and Latin America. This study explored how sugarcane workers in Guyana experience OHS governance and what those experiences reveal about the relationship between culture, working conditions, and psychological wellbeing. Fourteen male workers were recruited through snowball sampling and interviewed by telephone using interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA). Four master themes emerged: employer accountability experienced as absent; protective standards experienced as inadequate; worker voice experienced as structurally suppressed; and an occupational psychological health burden experienced as unrecognised. Findings indicate that inadequate protection was absorbed rather than contested, silence was communally sustained, and psychological distress was carried privately and without institutional recognition. The cultural world these workers inhabit shaped not only their exposure to governance failures but the very terms on which those failures were lived and made sense of. Culturally grounded approaches to OHS policy and occupational mental health are not supplementary considerations but preconditions of meaningful worker protection.

Culture & Psychology ｜ Occupational Health, Experienced, Workers, Psychological Wellbeing, Governance

为认知与行为研究者提供处理循环数据的实用教程，弥补常规统计课程的方法盲区。

Why selected: 平均 58 分，低于来源门槛 60

Introductory statistics courses and conventional methods in behavioral and cognitive science are typically restricted to Euclidean space without explicitly stating this, leaving many researchers unaware of how to handle data with circular or periodic properties (e.g., time of day or orientation on a screen). This tutorial provides an accessible yet rigorous introduction, designed to bridge the gap between statistical theory and practical application. After an overview of common applications, we discuss different ways of representing circular data mathematically and fundamental principles for working with them. We explain angular and vector representations and operations, including key considerations for implementing them in computer code. We then survey methods for visualizing circular data, including linear and polar plots and presentation of summary statistics. Next, we discuss circular measures of central tendency, dispersion, and shape: how they relate to their Euclidean counterparts, and why they differ. Finally, we turn to more advanced topics of the kind needed to construct models of circular data. We introduce the most common circular distribution families, including circular analogs of the Gaussian distribution and their properties, as well as flexible distribution families that can describe skewed and heavy-tailed data. The tutorial takes a method-oriented approach, not tied to specific software, but highlighting factors relevant to experimental design, data analysis, and statistical modeling. A consistent theme is the need to rigorously account for the inherent periodicity of circular data. We also provide a consistent notation for circular statistics and parameters, addressing the lack of established conventions in the field.

Psychological Methods ｜ 循环, 数据, 包括, 工作, 教程

通过德土两国土耳其裔父亲访谈，揭示失业背景下父职身份的跨国文化连续性与性别协商。

Why selected: 平均 42 分，低于来源门槛 60

This qualitative study examines how unemployed Turkish fathers in Germany and Türkiye navigate their paternal identities amidst shifting gender roles and socioeconomic challenges. Based on 21 in-depth interviews, four distinct masculinity types were identified: disappointed, religious, playful, and stay-at-home fatherhood. These identity patterns transcend national borders and socioeconomic status, suggesting a transnational cultural continuity among Turkish fathers. While unemployment challenges the traditional breadwinner ideal, it also provides opportunities for alternative constructions of fatherhood through caregiving, community engagement, or religious devotion. Findings highlight how unemployment can lead to either heightened vulnerability or the development of adaptive new identities. Clear differences emerge between Germany and Türkiye in response to their different social welfare systems. While there is strong dissatisfaction with state support in Türkiye and fathers are often dependent on financial support from their families, the situation in Germany allows fathers to enjoy greater satisfaction with their lives and to develop alternative identities. Future research should incorporate the perspectives of spouses and children to better understand the broader family dynamics of unemployment.

Culture & Psychology ｜ 土耳其父亲, 德国与土耳其, 父亲们德国, 失业, 他们的

提出两种多重插补方法，解决邻域选择网络分析中的缺失值问题，提升心理网络分析稳健性。

Why selected: 比较邻域选择网络分析中缺失值处理与样本量计算方案，为方法选择提供模拟证据。

The handling of missing values in cross-sectional network analysis has been primarily studied in conjunction with regularization techniques. However, non-regularized alternatives, such as neighborhood selection via BIC based on node-wise multiple regression, have been shown to be viable alternatives for psychological networks. Moreover, its localized approach in model selection renders neighborhood selection particularly suitable for data sets containing missing values. In this study, we present two approaches based on multiple imputation, namely stacked and grouped MI, alongside direct and two-step EM procedures, to handle missing values. Furthermore, various approaches to calculating sample size, used for computing log-likelihood and BIC, are discussed and evaluated. A simulation study encompassing variations in network size, number of observations, and levels of missingness is conducted to investigate the performance of the missing data handling approaches and ways to determine sample size. Evaluation criteria include the recovery of the edge set, as well as bias in partial correlations and estimated node strength. The findings indicate that the two-step EM approach is the quickest method, offering adequate handling of missingness when the number of observations is very large. With a smaller ratio of the number of observations to the number of nodes and highmissingness, stacked MI emerges as the preferable option. Regarding sample size calculation, particularly in cases of high missingness, using the local number of observations per node yielded the least bias in estimated strength.

Psychological Methods ｜ 缺失值, 邻域选择, 缺失值处理, 网络, 方法

用符号动力学微发生分析捕捉诊断时刻情感与身体体验的动态意义建构过程。

Why selected: 平均 38 分，低于来源门槛 60

Qualitative health research has examined how people make meaning in the context of Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus (T1DM) diagnoses, often focusing on how patients describe and reflect upon their current health situation. However, meaning is frequently treated as something enclosed within signs, with limited attention to how it emerges dynamically through lived, bodily processes. Addressing these two gaps, this article explores how affect and bodily experience guide the process of meaning - making in T1DM, a chronic and incurable illness. Grounded in a semiodynamic approach inspired by Peircean semiotics, we conducted a microgenetic analysis of in-depth interviews from a single-case study. Our analysis focused on four experiential moments: the transition to illness, the reception of the diagnosis, the pursuit of a cure, and the embodied experience of a hypoglycemic episode. Although the diagnosis initiated a shift in the patient’s experience, it was through the embodied and affect-laden episode of hypoglycemia that more enduring reorganizations in meaning took place, shaping decisions around self-care and engagement with treatment. These insights may support health professionals in attending more sensitively to the meanings that guide patients’ thinking, actions, and illness management. Additional cases are needed to support theory-building around the embodied dynamics of meaning-making in T1DM.

Culture & Psychology ｜ 意义, 2型糖尿病, 糖尿病, 诊断, 体验

提供因果机器学习估计潜在结果治疗效应的R代码实例，演示结构性前后测量方法的应用。

Why selected: 平均 39 分，低于来源门槛 60

This is an R code used for a worked example illustrating the methods discussed in our manuscript, “Structural Before/After Measurement Approaches for Estimating Treatment Effects in Latent Outcomes with Causal Machine Learning.” The dataset used in the illustration is not provided due to confidentiality restrictions.

Psychological Methods ｜ 估计方法, 治疗估计, 因果机器学习, 机器学习, 潜在变量

用行为性SVO滑块预测求职者对企业社会责任的偏好，减少自陈测量的社会赞许性偏差。

Why selected: 平均 53 分，低于来源门槛 60

Individual differences in prosocial values shape how job seekers weigh collective-oriented versus self-oriented job attributes, yet existing career assessment tools rely primarily on self-report measures susceptible to social desirability bias. This study applies Social Value Orientation (SVO), assessed via a behavioral resource-allocation instrument (i.e., the SVO slider measure), as a predictor of how applicants weigh corporate social responsibility (CSR) dimensions relative to salary and location in initial career choice. Using adaptive choice-based conjoint analysis ( N = 425 undergraduates), four CSR dimensions ( employee , environmental , social , and governance ) were examined alongside salary and location. Salary dominated job choice, followed by employee CSR. SVO positively predicted the importance of environmental and social CSR, dimensions primarily benefiting stakeholders outside the organization, while showing no significant association with employee CSR, consistent with the direct personal benefits it confers on employees. SVO negatively predicted salary importance. These findings provide evidence that the motivational structure underlying cooperation in social dilemma contexts also operates in initial career decisions and illustrate that conjoint analysis yields individual-level job attribute importance profiles with implications for career assessment research and employer recruitment.

Journal of Career Assessment ｜ 企业社会责任, 社会, 社会价值取向, 初始职业, 职业选择

开源Shiny应用降低计算机化自适应测验模拟门槛，集成曝光控制与选题方法比较。

Why selected: 平均 51 分，低于来源门槛 60

projectCAT is an open-source R Shiny application providing a complete, code-free computerized adaptive testing (CAT) simulation environment. It integrates IRT calibration (1PL, 2PL, 3PL via marginal maximum likelihood), three adaptive item selection methods, namely, Maximum Fisher Information (MFI), Mean Expected Information (MEI), and Minimum Expected Posterior Variance (MEPV), three ability estimation methods (EAP, ML, and MAP), Sympson-Hetter (SH) exposure control, and content balancing with user-specified target proportions across multiple domains. Both SH and content balancing operate identically for single-examinee and full multi-examinee simulations. Applied to the built-in 300-item 2PL demo bank ( n = 500 , 20 items, MFI + EAP), RMSE = . 36 , correlation = . 94 , and item overexposure was reduced to 11.3% under SH ( r max = . 20 ) . Content proportions matched a 50/30/20 user-specified split exactly. projectCAT is freely available at https://hdmeasurement.shinyapps.io/projectCAT/ .

Applied Psychological Measurement ｜ 内容平衡, Projectcat, Shiny应用程序, 计算机化自适应, 自适应测试

facomplex包为因子分析结果提供复杂性与简单性的量化评估工具，便于研究者判断因子结构。

Why selected: 平均 48 分，低于来源门槛 60

facomplex R package implements procedures for estimating complexity and simplicity derived from factor-analytic results of multidimensional scales. In this type of analysis, factor loadings are estimated to represent the relationship between the items and their latent factors or constructs, as well as with the other factors in the model where cross-factor loadings are estimated. An evaluation of these cross-factorial loadings helps determine whether the result is factorially simple or complex. There are indicators for assessing the complexity and simplicity of factorial results, and facomplex calculates all known indicators from various approaches focused on the direct estimation of factorial simplicity and complexity at the item, dimension, and total scale levels: the loading simplicity index, the factor simplicity index, Hofmann’s complexity coefficient (for items and factors), the Bentler Simplicity Index, and the proportion of explained variance derived from the squared sum of target versus non-target factor loadings.

Applied Psychological Measurement ｜ 简单性, 复杂性, 因子, 载荷, Facomplex包

将文化视为动态符号学过程，提出形态发生与文本化的微发生分析方法，深化意义建构研究。

Why selected: 平均 27 分，低于来源门槛 60

The paper addresses the complex theme of culture understood as a dynamic, contextual, and relational semiotic process, which develops processuality through recursive cycles of crisis, reconfigurations, stabilizations, and further transitions. Culture is interpreted as a semiotic process of sensemaking that transcends the distinction between nature and culture, grounded in the complementary operations of both modus tollens (the pruning and reduction of potentialities) and modus ponens (the development and articulation of specific possibilities). The cultural process of sensemaking is viewed as a triadic activity in which the sign emerges from progressive interactions between the subject, alterity, and context, within a multidimensional topological field characterized by continuity and discontinuity. This theoretical perspective complementarily develops a morphogenetic approach and a textual approach , highlighting the importance of bordering, facing with limits and crises as processes that trigger cultural development. The perspective emphasizes the importance of observing emergent relations and dynamics, rather than merely contents, to understand the processes of signification in their constant becoming.

Culture & Psychology ｜ 过程, 文化, 文化的, 意义建构, 方法