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- 2025-10-29
Generative AI-assisted clinical interviewing of mental health
Sikström, SverkerBoehme, Rebecca AstridMirström, MariamAgbotsoka, ThibaudGyőri, GergőTabesh, MonaStille, LottaGarcia, DaniloThe standard assessment of mental health typically involves clinical interviews conducted by highly trained clinicians. While effective, this approach faces substantial limitations, including high costs, high clinician workload, variability in expertise, and a lack of standardization. Recent progress in large language models (LLMs) offer a promising avenue to address these limitations by simulating clinician-administered interviews through AI-powered systems. However, few studies have rigorously validated such tools. In this study, we used TalkToAlba to develop and evaluat an AI assistant designed to conduct clinical interviews aligned with DSM-5 criteria. Participants (N = 303) included individuals with self-reported clinician-diagnosed mental health disorders, namely, major depressive disorder (MDD), generalized anxiety disorder (GAD), obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADD/ADHD), autism spectrum disorder (ASD), eating disorders (ED), substance use disorder (SUD), and bipolar disorder (BD)—alongside healthy controls. The AI assistant conducted diagnostic interviews and assessed the likelihood of each disorder, while another AI system analyzed interview transcripts to verify diagnostic criteria and generate comprehensive justifications for its conclusions. The results showed that the AI-powered clinical interview achieved higher agreement (i.e., Cohen’s Kappa), sensitivity, and specificity in identifying self-reported, clinician-diagnosed disorders compared to established rating scales. It also exhibited significantly lower co-dependencies between diagnostic categories. Additionally, most participants rated the AI-powered interview as highly empathic, relevant, understanding, and supportive. These findings suggest that AI-powered clinical interviews can serve as accurate, standardized, and person-centered tools for assessing common mental disorders. Their scalability, low cost, and positive user experience position them as a valuable complement to traditional diagnostic methods, with potential for widespread application in mental health care delivery.Otwarty dostępArtykułyJournal article - 2024-03-07
Subjective well-being: a pilot study on the importance of emotion regulation, gender identity and sexuality
Stupar-Rutenfrans, SnezanaFokke, AnnaBye, SebastiaanPadilla, EstefaniaKalibatseva, ZornitsaBatkhina, AnastasiaRyabichenko, TatianaBushina, EkaterinaVaraeva, NadezhdaHelmy, MaiKowalczyk, MelanieLiberska, Hanna DanutaUka, FatimPapageorgopoulou, PennyThe current pilot study focuses on the importance of emotion regulation (ER), gender identity and sexuality for subjective well-being. It is the first large cross-cultural study to examine the difference in use of adaptive and maladaptive ER strategies while differentiating sexual and gender minorities (SGMs) from non-SGMs. An online questionnaire was distributed across 2,485 students in 13 countries using convenience sampling. Multigroup path analysis supported hypothesized model across all groups. Overall, adaptive ER strategies were positively associated with subjective well-being, while maladaptive ER strategies were negatively associated with subjective well-being. SGM participants scored significantly lower on subjective well-being when compared to their non-SGM counterparts. Additionally, SGM participants scored significantly higher on maladaptive ER strategies, and significantly lower on adaptive ER strategies compared to non-SGMs. Further research should focus on tools and ways to increase the use of more adaptive ER strategies in SGMs to improve their well-being. Keywords: Emotion regulation, well-being, gender identity and sexuality.Otwarty dostępArtykułyJournal article - 2025-07-06
Anxiety and inhibitory control in women cycling naturally and women taking oral contraceptives
Elevated levels of anxiety are related to longer response times on tasks assessing inhibition, the ability to restrain automatic responses. The literature shows inconsistent results regarding the link between oral contraceptives (OC), anxiety, and inhibition. The present project aimed to compare anxiety levels and inhibitory control towards emotional words, including those eliciting anxiety, in naturally cycling (NC) women and women taking OC containing androgenic progestins or OC containing anti-androgenic progestins. We present two studies: a cross-sectional study with 240 women and a daily diary study with 89 women. There was no difference in anxiety levels between OC users and NC women in both studies. The daily diary study showed a significant difference between groups with anti-androgenic OC users always having the longest response times. Future studies could focus on the link between the different components of OC and inhibitory control as it can be linked to anxiety symptoms in women.Otwarty dostępArtykułyJournal article - 2025
“That’s how everything started to click” – the contextual factors shaping the bullying experience from the former victims’ perspective
Bullying is a multifaceted phenomenon requiring a wide-angle view considering the social, institutional, and cultural factors. The primary objective of the present study is to acquire in-depth insights into the narratives of former bullying victims, identify important contextual factors, and gain a better understanding of their influence on the formation of a comprehensive lived experience. Thus, this study employed the interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA). The research sample comprised of nine polish women (21–34) who had experienced bullying during their education for more than six months. Results offer empirical insights into the underlying factors beyond bullying behavior, rooted in social reality (e.g., interpersonal relationships within social networks, understanding of intentionality, social support) and in perceived outcomes (e.g., suffered harm, unpleasant emotions, secondary losses). We identified the shared characteristics of bullying experiences and coded and themed them into the following categories: exclusion, double-dealing, intimate humiliation, self-image attack, and aggressive self-defense.Otwarty dostępArtykułyJournal article - 2024-12
Odyseusz idzie na emeryturę
The text – drawing inspiration from the tale of the three waves in Plato᾿s Republic – focuses on the final journey of Odysseus, foretold by Homer’s Teiresias in the Odyssey. This journey – undertaken alone with an oar on his shoulder to a land where people know nothing of the sea – represents a stage in the path of moral maturation, essential for achieving a serene old age, concluded with a gentle death among happy people, and a fulfilled life. It symbolizes the path to a confrontation with something beyond ordinary experience. Plato points to the need for a similar journey, as in the Allegory of the Cave, where the most important lessons are learned not from others but through individual effort, by turning away from what we know in everyday life. At the end of his final journey, Odysseus is to face the question of whether the oar he carries, symbolizing the hardships of his journey back from Troy to Ithaca, is in fact a winnowing fan – a farming tool used to separate the grain from the chaff. The final journey is essential to – using Plato’s language – achieving inner harmony, which is the basis of justice, a virtue Odysseus appears not to have fully attained before this journey.Otwarty dostępArtykułyJournal article