Rébecca Shankland
Biographic Data
| ID | 87304 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rébecca Shankland |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rébecca |
| FAMILY NAME | Shankland |
| SIGNATURE | SHANKLAND R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Université Lumière Lyon 2 |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9182-5483 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 57 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 57 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The School Anxiety Scale
School anxiety can have detrimental effects on various aspects of students’ lives, including their academic performance, emotional well-being and social development. Despite its significant impact, there is a lack of brief, validated tools that are easy to administer for assessing school anxiety in students. To address this gap, the present study developed and validated the School Anxiety Scale (SAS), specifically designed for use with primary an…
The Crucial Link
Factors Influencing Teachers' Intentions to Provide Emotional Support to Students
Quality affective teacher–student relationships promote student engagement, achievement, and psychosocial adjustment. However, little is known about the factors influencing teachers' willingness to provide emotional support (ES), defined here as the teacher's behaviors that lead students to perceive him or her as warm, friendly, encouraging—that is, behaviors aimed at building quality affective relationships with students. The current cross‐secti…
Efficacy of a Slow‐Paced Breathwork Training for Primary School Teachers on Stress and Burnout Reduction
Teaching has been ranked as one of the highest among stressful work settings, and chronic stress can lead to burnout. Therefore, specific interventions that can reduce teacher stress and burnout symptoms through improved stress management strategies are needed. Such initiatives are currently proposed through teacher training in the French national education system. This study aimed at assessing the efficacy of a coherence breathing programme on r…
Être altruiste, ça rend heureux
Effect of coping interventions on performance of medical students during objective structured clinical examination
Purpose Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) is a stressful exam assessing medical competencies. Stress coping strategies are expected to enhance students’ performance during OSCE. The objective was to determine the effect of short preventive coping interventions on performance of medical students.Materials and methods Double-blinded, randomized controlled trial with multiple arms and a superiority hypothesis. Enrolment was proposed t…
Time Perspective Profile and Study Engagement
Academic dropout in French universities is significant. The lack of study engagement partly explains this phenomenon. Pursuing academic studies requires switching effectively among temporal orientations (past, present, and future). Although the relationships between study engagement and each temporal orientation have been studied, to the best of our knowledge, the association of all temporal profiles (present in all individuals) has not been cons…
Enhancing foster care relationships through attachment-based intervention
This trial is registered on ClinicalTrials.gov : NCT06701877
Sensation of time passing during meals and risks of eating disorders
This study investigated the relationship between perceived passage of time during meals and eating disorder risk in young women. Researchers hypothesized that individuals at higher risk would experience a slower passage of time and explored the connection between time perception and eating behaviors like meal duration and time to satiety. Forty female participants shared a standardized meal while being observed. Participants self-reported pre-mea…
Mindful eating is associated with a better diet quality in the NutriNet-Santé study
How signature strengths develop positive interdependence and empowerment in an inclusive education context
This study evaluates the Individual Strengths, Collective Power! program in fostering students' use of strengths vocabulary and improving classroom relationships in an inclusive education setting in Switzerland, where students with and without special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) attend school together. The study involved 179 students, ages 8 to 12, divided into an experimental group that received specific training and an active cont…
The study demands and resources scale
The Study Demands and Resources Scale (SDRS) has shown promise as a valid and reliable measure for measuring students’ specific study demands and -resources. However, there is no evidence as to its psychometric properties outside of the original context in which it was developed. This study aimed to assess the psychometric properties of the SDRS in a cross-national student population through examining its longitudinal factorial validity, internal…
The academic task performance scale
Academic task performance (TP) refers to the proficiency with which students perform in academic tasks through making the right choices and completing core tasks central to their academic studies, on time and to specification. We adapted Koopmans et al.’s task performance scale (TPS) for use within tertiary education and investigated its psychometric properties, internal consistency and measurement invariance across age, gender and national group…
Second Wave Positive Psychology in the Prevention and Reduction of Parental Burnout
Positive psychology interventions aim to enhance individuals’ resilience, mental health, and well-being. This study ( N = 34) aimed to assess whether the CARE (Coherence, Attention, Relationship, Engagement) intervention tailored to enhance parental strengths and resources may contribute to the prevention and reduction of parental burnout. We tested the hypothesis that, compared to a waiting-list control group, parents attending the intervention …
The Living and Growing Together Program
A number of countries worldwide aim at developing parenting support programs designed to enhance positive parenting practices, and reduce violence against children to enable positive child development. This study aimed at assessing the efficacy of the Living and Growing Together ® parenting support program on parental sense of competence and positive parenting practices, well-being, self-kindness, and coherence between parental values and behavio…
Informal Mindfulness Practices
The present study assessed the effectiveness of informal mindfulness practice among parents in terms of parental burnout prevention and treatment. The objective was to test the new approach of informal mindfulness practice, the FOVEA program, implemented in daily activities rather than based on formal meditations. Indeed, traditional mindfulness programs (e.g., mindfulness-based cognitive therapy, MBSR) require a 45-min daily meditation practice …
Connectedness to humanity and connectedness to nature as a leverage point for eco and socio-responsible consumption
French teleworkers’ work engagement and job satisfaction during times of lockdown
The Reflective Mind of the Anxious in Action
The Attentional Control Theory (ACT) posits that, while trait anxiety may not directly impact performance, it can influence processing efficiency by prompting the use of compensatory mechanisms. The specific nature of these mechanisms, which might be reflective, is not detailed by the ACT. In a study involving 110 students (M = 20.12; SD = 2.10), surveys were administered to assess the students’ metacognitive beliefs, trait anxiety, and emotion r…
Trait Anxiety, Emotion Regulation, and Metacognitive Beliefs
Trait anxiety, emotion regulation strategies, and metacognitive beliefs influence executive functions (EFs) and academic achievement. This study examines their interplay and impact on academic success. In total, 275 adolescents (10-17 years) and parents completed an online questionnaire assessing trait anxiety, emotion regulation strategies, metacognition, parent-reported behaviors related to executive functioning, and overall school average. Pre…
Treating Parental Burnout
Mindfulness- and self-compassion-based programs have been shown to reduce parental stress, and levels of mindfulness and self-compassion have been shown to be negatively related to parental burnout (PB) factors. Based on these results, the present study aimed to test the efficacy of an 8-week mindfulness and compassion-based group approach (MCA) ( n = 29) compared with the existing Parenting in Balance Program (PBP) ( n = 25). Parents were blindl…
Cross-sectional and longitudinal associations between self-esteem and BMI depends on baseline BMI category in a population-based study
Our findings suggest that the association between self-esteem and BMI depends on the initial category of BMI, with a negligible effect of self-esteem
Cultivating Self-Transcendence Through Meditation Practice
In this paper, we present a study comprising two distinct stages to examine the extent to which metacognitive processes of decentering facilitate the emergence of self-transcendence experiences in everyday life (i.e., the frequency of self-transcendent emotions, flow proneness, and adopting an interconnected identity). In the course of conducting this research, the first stage ( N = 374) focused on assessing the structure and validity of the Fren…
Achievement goals, self-efficacy, and psychological flexibility as antecedent of study engagement
Development and validation of the mindful eating scale (mind-eat scale) in a general population
Tears evoke the intention to offer social support
Tearful crying is a ubiquitous and likely uniquely human phenomenon. Scholars have argued that emotional tears serve an attachment function: Tears are thought to act as a social glue by evoking social support intentions. Initial experimental studies supported this proposition across several methodologies, but these were conducted almost exclusively on participants from North America and Europe, resulting in limited generalizability. This project …
Achievement goals, self-efficacy, and psychological flexibility as antecedent of study engagement
Development and validation of the mindful eating scale (mind-eat scale) in a general population
Assessment of cross-cutting competences in education for sustainable development
The current context, with the many changes occurring in both local and distant environments, raises ethical questions that challenge our emotions, our relationships, and our vision of the world and our place in it. These changes require us to be capable of apprehending a complex set of problems so as to understand and analyse them, grasp the individual and societal challenges they present, and, with full awareness of the issues, decide how to beh…
Positive psychological traits are associated with dietary behavior during the Covid-19 lockdown in a general population-based study
An Exploratory Study of Reading in Urban and Suburban Middle Schools
Fifty years after Brown v. Board of Education, school achievement remains segregated by both race and class. Despite an emphasis on reading achievement as required by No Child Left Behind, many students have serious literacy needs, even into the middle and upper grades. The purpose of this study was to ascertain ways in which middle school reading instruction is coordinated to improve academic outcomes for at-risk students. In-depth interviews we…
Méditer pour mieux se concentrer
L'anorexie, de plus en plus précoce
International audience
A Survey and a Positive Psychology Intervention on French PhD Student Well-being
Aim/Purpose: The present work focuses on French PhD students’ well-being: an understudied working population thus far, which impedes the development of evidence-based policies on this issue in France.The focus of this work is the well-being of French PhD students, on which almost nothing has been published thus far, impeding any evidence-based policy on this issue to be carried out in France. Background: Research studies from several countries ha…
Mindfulness-Based Programs Improve Psychological Flexibility, Mental Health, Well-Being, and Time Management in Academics
(1) Background: Occupational stress is high in academia, and is partly related to time pressure. Mindfulness-based programs are known to be effective in reducing stress and increasing well-being. Recent work suggested that these programs may also improve time management. This study tested the effects of a mindfulness-based program on academics’ psychological flexibility, mental health, well-being, and time management. (2) Methods: The study was c…
Validation of the english and french versions of the multidimensional psychological flexibility inventory short form (MPFI-24)
Coping in isolation
The present short commentary aimed at highlighting the potential impact of lockdown specifically on parents and children’s mental health. Embedded within a systemic view, it identified protective factors that may account for individual and household resilience. In the first section of this manuscript, we present the core concepts of resilience, before we highlight the adverse risks of the current COVID-19 situation on parents’ and children’s ment…
The Competencies That School-Leavers Should Possess in Order to Meet the Challenges of the 21st Century
The current state of the planet poses challenging ethical questions that shake up our emotions and values, thus making our choices and decisions more difficult. In order to grasp the many complex issues with which we are each confronted on a daily basis, education in sustainable development (ESD) advances competencies ( Unesco, 2017 ) that are rooted in both cognitive and socio-emotional processes. Although ESD is included in most school curricul…
Empowering Well-Being
Mindfulness and equanimity moderate approach/avoidance motor responses
A person’s tendency to approach pleasant stimuli and to avoid unpleasant stimuli reflects a basic psychological phenomenon. The present research aimed to investigate the extent to which mindfulness practices and trait equanimity can attenuate this motivational process. In two studies, participants were asked to perform an Approach/Avoidance Task (AAT). In Study 1 (N = 84), prior to completing the AAT, participants were randomly assigned to one of…
Self-Compassion and Rumination Type Mediate the Relation between Mindfulness and Parental Burnout
The COVID-19 lockdown increased the day-to-day challenges faced by parents, and thereby may have increased parental burnout risk. Therefore, identifying parental burnout protection factors is essential. This study aimed to assess the protective role of the following factors which can be increased through mindfulness practice: trait mindfulness, self-compassion, and concrete vs. abstract ruminations. A total of 459 parents ( M age = 40; 98.7% fema…
Self-Efficacy Mediates the Effect of Framing Eating Disorders Prevention Message on Intentions to Have a Sufficient Weight
The results suggest ways to improve the persuasiveness of prevention campaigns, thereby opening up further research avenues
Gratitude Moderates the Relation between Daily Hassles and Satisfaction with Life in University Students
Satisfaction with life as a judgmental cognitive process can be negatively influenced by appraisals of daily events such as hassles. Trait-gratitude-a tendency to appraise, recognize and respond to life events through being grateful-is a determinant of mental health and well-being, and has been shown to be related to the positive appraisal of life. The aim of the current study was to investigate the moderating role of trait-gratitude in the relat…
Resilience Predicts Lower Anxiety and Depression and Greater Recovery after a Vicarious Trauma
This study validated the French version of the Brief Resilience Scale (BRS-F) and tested the protective role of resilience in the context of vicarious trauma (22 March 2016 terrorist attacks in Brussels) regarding anxiety and depression symptoms. Confirmatory factor analyses indicated a single-factor structure of the BRS-F. Investigation of convergent validity showed that the BRS-F was positively correlated with usual outcomes such as subjective …
Tears evoke the intention to offer social support
Tearful crying is a ubiquitous and likely uniquely human phenomenon. Scholars have argued that emotional tears serve an attachment function: Tears are thought to act as a social glue by evoking social support intentions. Initial experimental studies supported this proposition across several methodologies, but these were conducted almost exclusively on participants from North America and Europe, resulting in limited generalizability. This project …
Apprendre aux enfants à être heureux
Grit Across Nations
Despite its popularity in practice, the Grit-O Scale has shown inconsistent factorial structures and differing levels of internal consistency in samples outside the USA. The validity of the Grit-O Scale in different contexts is, therefore, questionable. As such, the purpose of this paper was to determine whether the Grit-O Scale could be used as a valid and reliable measure to compare grit across different nations. Specifically, the aim was to in…
A Prototype Analysis of Self-Gratitude
High Artistic Achievements and Low Emotion Dysregulation
Relatively little research has addressed the positive outcomes of everyday creative achievements. Based on the Honing Theory of Creativity, the present research aimed to analyze the relation between artistic achievements and low emotion dysregulation. The second aim was to examine the mediating and moderating role of self-compassion in this relation, as a factor which has previously been associated both with creativity and low emotion dysregulati…
Developing Students’ Emotional Competencies in English Language Classes
Learning a foreign language involves a wide range of cognitive, social and affective skills. The present article gives ideas to develop socio-emotional competencies in English courses: the capacity to identify the emotion, to understand the causes and consequences, to express their emotions and to do so in a socially acceptable manner, to manage stress and to use their emotions to increase the effectiveness of thinking, decision making and action…
Promoting University Students’ Mental Health through an Online Multicomponent Intervention during the Covid-19 Pandemic
The mental health of university students is a serious public health issue. The alarming trend of high levels of untreated psychological distress observed during the COVID-19 pandemic highlights the need for prevention programs. Digital tools are a promising means of delivering such programs. Web-based programs are acceptable and effective at improving mental health problems and general mental well-being. However, the usefulness of such digital pr…
Mental Health during Covid-19 Pandemic
In light of different challenges associated with the COVID-19 pandemic, university students are considered a particularly vulnerable population to mental health and study engagement issues. The first years at university represent a crucial period for students and are associated with an increase in mental health problems, particularly in healthcare studies. This study aimed (1) to document the current levels of mental health and study engagement a…
The Key Role of Psychosocial Competencies in Evidence-Based Youth Mental Health Promotion
Psychosocial competencies, also known as psychosocial skills or life skills, are essential for the prevention and promotion of mental health. Since the beginning of this century, psychosocial competencies have been defined as the ability to develop positive mental health. Most individual or social mental health protection programs are related to psychosocial competencies. A majority of evidence-based programs that develop mental health explicitly…
Resilience Is Associated with Less Eating Disorder Symptoms in the NutriNet-Santé Cohort Study
Resilience is a positive psychological trait associated with a lower risk of some physical and mental chronic diseases and could be an important protective factor against eating disorders (EDs). The aim of this study was to assess cross-sectional and longitudinal associations between resilience and ED in a large cohort of French adults. In 2017, a total of 25,000 adults from the NutriNet-Santé cohort completed the Brief Resilience Scale (BRS). ED…
Assessment of cross-cutting competences in education for sustainable development
The current context, with the many changes occurring in both local and distant environments, raises ethical questions that challenge our emotions, our relationships, and our vision of the world and our place in it. These changes require us to be capable of apprehending a complex set of problems so as to understand and analyse them, grasp the individual and societal challenges they present, and, with full awareness of the issues, decide how to beh…
Psychology (47 works) · Clinical Psychology (25 works) · Social Psychology (25 works) · Medicine (19 works) · Developmental psychology (17 works) · Psychiatry (14 works) · Clinical Psychology (12 works) · Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions (12 works) · Social Psychology (11 works) · Psychotherapist (10 works)