|
|
|
Research Intelligence Platform
Your Research Digest
22 October 2026 · 9 new publications
|
|
Matched against your profile
Defensive and Offensive Intergroup Violen… · Self-compassion in trauma recovery · Eating disorders · Mindfulness · Tattoo coverage and maladaptive personali…
|
|
| 01
|
Self-compassion in trauma recovery
S. Theunissen, H. Walker-Williams & A. Fouché | 2026
Trauma
Violence & Abuse |
Q1 · 98th percentile in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
This rapid review of 19 studies found that trauma-focused therapies effectively reduce PTSD symptoms in adult female survivors of sexual assault, while mindfulness and compassion-based interventions uniquely promoted strengths-based outcomes such as resilience,
empowerment, and self-compassion. However, many studies had small, homogeneous samples, varied outcome measures, and limited follow-up, limiting generalisability.
|
Why it matters
If you study self-compassion in trauma recovery, this review suggests incorporating self-compassion and other strengths-based components into interventions may boost resilience, agency, and posttraumatic growth beyond symptom relief.
|
Read
the paper → |
|
|
|
| 02
|
Mindfulness
Y. Rashkova & M. Béal | 2026
| Vol. 218
Journal
of Business Research |
Q1 · 98th percentile in Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management
Across four field studies with European managers, mindfulness increased managers’ perceptions that societal inequalities are unfair by raising their social-justice awareness; however, workplace ostracism weakens this effect while strong organizational justice
preserves it.
|
Why it matters
For researchers of mindfulness, the study shows mindfulness can heighten managers’ sensitivity to social justice but that organizational context determines whether that sensitivity translates into recognizing societal unfairness.
|
Read
the paper → |
|
|
|
| 03
|
Mindfulness
S. Gupta, W. Lim & N. Garg | 2026
Psychology
and Marketing |
Q1 · 97th percentile in Applied Psychology
The studies show that mindfulness boosts life satisfaction partly by increasing mindful consumption, with a 2‑month guided meditation raising both mindfulness and mindful consumption. However, meditation regularity changes the pathways: the indirect effect
through mindful consumption is significant for new meditators but not for regular meditators, who show a stronger direct mindfulness→life satisfaction link.
|
Why it matters
If you study mindfulness, focus on mindful consumption as a behavioral mechanism and account for meditation regularity as a key boundary condition when designing interventions or interpreting wellbeing effects.
|
Read
the paper → |
|
|
|
| 04
|
Mindfulness
S. Fjaestad, R. Macaulay & K. Williams et al. | 2026
| Vol. 115
Journal
of Environmental Psychology |
Q1 · 96th percentile in Social Psychology
This systematic review of 53 studies found that nature-based mindfulness interventions tend to improve affective wellbeing, connection to nature/others, and mindful awareness, but results are mixed and mechanistic evidence is limited. Considerable variability
in how ‘mindfulness’ and ‘nature’ are defined and operationalised means the distinct contributions of mindfulness, nature exposure, and their integration remain unclear.
|
Why it matters
If you work on mindfulness, this shows a clear need to standardise definitions and methods and to design studies that isolate mechanisms so you can determine whether and how adding nature enhances mindfulness effects.
|
Read
the paper → |
|
|
|
| 05
|
Eating disorders
K. Imahori, Y. Yamamiya & E. Stice | 2026
International
Journal of Eating Disorders |
Q1 · 89th percentile in Psychiatry and Mental Health
In a 36-month follow-up of 223 adolescent girls and young women at risk for eating disorders, higher baseline BMI z-score predicted faster remission from the first continuous eating-disorder episode, while higher baseline self-reported dieting predicted greater
likelihood of transitioning to a second distinct eating-disorder family. These were exploratory, adjusted Cox-model findings from prevention-trial samples and warrant replication.
|
Why it matters
For researchers on eating disorders, this suggests that baseline weight status and dieting behaviors may help predict illness course and diagnostic crossover, informing risk stratification and early intervention targets.
|
Read
the paper → |
|
|
|
| 06
|
Eating disorders
A. Wiberg, E. Welch & J. Linardon et al. | 2026
International
Journal of Eating Disorders |
Q1 · 89th percentile in Psychiatry and Mental Health
In a large Swedish sample of 2,778 adults with self-reported eating-disorder symptoms, the most common perceived help-seeking barriers were stigma/shame, denial or underestimating severity, and fear of losing control; qualitative data also revealed limited
ED competence in primary care, confidentiality and access concerns, while facilitators included better ED knowledge in healthcare, encouragement, anonymous digital options, clearer referral routes, and expanded services. Higher symptom severity was linked
to endorsing more barrier themes, highlighting the need for low-threshold interventions and improved primary-care capacity (with potential roles for safe, effective AI-based literacy tools).
|
Why it matters
These modifiable barriers identify clear targets—reducing stigma and denial, strengthening primary-care ED competence, and expanding low-threshold/digital referral options—areas directly relevant to your eating-disorder research aimed at improving early detection
and treatment uptake.
|
Read
the paper → |
|
|
|
| 07
|
Mindfulness
M. Howell, P. Wagman & V. Larsson et al. | 2026
| Vol. 123
Transportation
Research Part F Traffic Psychology and Behaviour
| Q1 · 84th percentile in Civil and Structural Engineering
This systematic review of 37 studies found that higher mindfulness is generally linked to safer driving—fewer attentional lapses, lower distracted driving, and fewer self-reported violations—and that mindfulness interventions often improved driving performance,
though increases in self-reported mindfulness were inconsistent. The authors note major methodological limitations, including reliance on trait measures and self-reported driving outcomes.
|
Why it matters
You should care because the review points to attentional control, emotion regulation, and reduced mind-wandering as mechanisms and calls for state-based, driving-specific, and objective measures to advance causal and intervention research.
|
Read
the paper → |
|
|
|
| 08
|
Self-compassion in trauma recovery
F. Mughal, L. Šinko & S. Kita et al. | 2026
Psychiatric
Quarterly |
Q1 · 83rd percentile in Psychiatry and Mental Health
The I-MOVE Scale, developed to measure internal/external motivators and resources for GBV recovery, produced an emergent five-factor structure and good overall internal consistency (α=0.89) though CFA fit was mixed; scores correlated modestly with meaning-making,
coping self-efficacy, and healing and were lower in participants with elevated depression or PTSS.
|
Why it matters
For a researcher on self-compassion in trauma recovery, I-MOVE’s self-focused domains (Self-Driven Recovery; Self-Awareness and Growth) and their links to coping self-efficacy and healing provide a relevant, preliminary measure and framework to assess or compare
self-compassion-related processes in survivors.
|
Read
the paper → |
|
|
|
| 09
|
Self-compassion in trauma recovery
L. Boros, S. Schäfer & T. Werner et al. | 2026
| Vol. 46
Internet
Interventions |
Q1 · 78th percentile in Health Informatics
A 6-week, self-guided web intervention emphasizing self-care and self-compassion produced short-term improvements in stressor reactivity, self-care, self-compassion, self-efficacy and psychological distress in per-protocol analyses, but effects attenuated at
follow-up, were not robust in intention-to-treat analyses, and did not improve work-related outcomes; adherence was low (43%).
|
Why it matters
For researchers on self-compassion in trauma recovery, the study suggests digital self-compassion training can yield short-term resilience benefits when participants engage, but durability and low adherence underscore the need to combine such interventions
with engagement strategies and broader, multi-level treatment approaches.
|
Read
the paper → |
|
|
Matches are generated from the research profile held for you in the platform database. Reply to this message to correct a topic.
Research Intelligence Platform · University of Nicosia · 46 Makedonitissas Ave, 2417 Nicosia, Cyprus
Unsubscribe
from the research digest
|
|
|