The development and validation of the compassion scale

E Pommier, KD Neff, I Tóth-Király - Assessment, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
This article presents a measure of compassion for others called the Compassion Scale (CS),
which is based on Neff's theoretical model of self-compassion. Compassion was …

Why do people watch pornography? The motivational basis of pornography use.

B Bőthe, I Tóth-Király, N Bella, MN Potenza… - Psychology of …, 2021 - psycnet.apa.org
Although pornography viewing is widespread among Internet users, no scales for measuring
pornography use motivations (PUM) have been developed and psychometrically tested for …

The development of the Compulsive Sexual Behavior Disorder Scale (CSBD-19): An ICD-11 based screening measure across three languages

B Bőthe, MN Potenza, MD Griffiths… - Journal of Behavioral …, 2020 - akjournals.com
Abstract Background Compulsive Sexual Behavior Disorder (CSBD) is included in the
eleventh edition of The International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11) as an impulse …

The short version of the problematic pornography consumption scale (PPCS-6): A reliable and valid measure in general and treatment-seeking populations

B Bőthe, I Tóth-Király, Z Demetrovics… - The Journal of Sex …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
To date, no short scale existed that could assess problematic pornography use (PPU)
having a solid theoretical background and strong psychometric properties. Having such a …

Is status a zero-sum game? Zero-sum beliefs increase people's preference for dominance but not prestige.

P Andrews-Fearon, S Davidai - Journal of Experimental Psychology …, 2023 - psycnet.apa.org
Why do people often pursue social rank using coercive and potentially costly dominance-
oriented strategies (grounded in fear and intimidation) rather than noncoercive prestige …

Income inequality predicts competitiveness and cooperativeness at school.

N Sommet, DL Weissman, AJ Elliot - Journal of Educational …, 2023 - psycnet.apa.org
Competitiveness and cooperativeness are important predictors of social and learning
outcomes at school. Drawing on evidence suggesting that contexts with high income …

Validity and reliability of the short version of the Problematic Pornography Consumption Scale (PPCS-6-A) in adolescents.

B Bőthe, MP Vaillancourt-Morel, J Dion… - Psychology of …, 2021 - psycnet.apa.org
Objective: Despite the high prevalence of adolescents' pornography use and increasing
societal concerns about it, the examination of problematic pornography use (PPU) among …

Effects of structural and trait competitiveness stimulated by points and leaderboards on user engagement and performance growth: A natural experiment with …

L Amo, R Liao, R Kishore, HR Rao - European Journal of …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Rooted in theories of competitiveness and social comparison, we model the effects of users'
structural and trait competitiveness on their engagement and performance growth in an …

Gender differences in competitiveness and fear of failure help explain why girls have lower life satisfaction than boys in gender equal countries

K Eriksson, P Strimling - Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Among 15-year-olds, boys tend to report higher life satisfaction than girls. Recent research
has shown that this gender gap tends to be larger in more gender-egalitarian countries. We …

Social comparison orientation and trait competitiveness: Their interrelation and utility in predicting overall and domain-specific risk-taking

Z Liu, AJ Elliot, Y Li - Personality and Individual Differences, 2021 - Elsevier
In accord with Festinger (1954) and Garcia et al.(2013), we investigate the understudied link
between social comparison and competition. Specifically, in two correlational studies using …