Vol. 5 No. 1 (2025)

This special issue of the Nature-Nurture Journal of Psychology brings together empirical and theoretical contributions exploring the complex interplay of mental health, cognitive functioning, emotional regulation, and psychosocial resilience across diverse populations. Emphasizing mediating and moderating mechanisms, this issue highlights how individual and contextual factors influence psychological well-being, adaptation, and behavioral outcomes in clinical and non-clinical settings.

The selected articles in this volume cover a range of critical domains vestibulocochlear disorders, hypertension, academic burnout, internet addiction, and workplace stress focusing on how variables such as grit, social anxiety, coping strategies, perceived stress, and effortful perseverance mediate or buffer adverse psychological outcomes.

This volume contributes to the growing literature on integrative mental health by:

• Presenting cross-sectional and neuropsychological studies from culturally diverse and clinical samples.

• Investigating cognitive-affective mediators within health and education systems.

• Exploring culturally relevant constructs such as collectivist norms and emotional resilience.

• Offering implications for clinical practice, educational policy, and organizational well-being.

  Featured Articles in This Issue Include:

  1. The Mediating Role of Coping Strategies in the Relationship between Vertigo Severity and Psychological Distress in Vestibulocochlear Patients: A Cross-Sectional Study
     Explores how adaptive and maladaptive coping strategies influence psychological distress in patients experiencing chronic vertigo symptoms.

  2. Perceived Stress as a Mediator between Episodic and Semantic Memory in Hypertensive and Normotensive Individuals: A Neuropsychological Perspective
     Examines the effect of blood pressure variability on memory domains and the role of stress perception as a cognitive-affective bridge.

  3. The Mediating Role of Grit in the Relationship among Health Behaviors, Internet Addiction, Emotional Intelligence, and Academic Burnout in Adolescents
     Highlights grit as a resilience factor buffering adolescents from psychological exhaustion linked to digital overuse and low self-regulation.

  4. The Mediating Role of Social Anxiety between Fear of Negative Evaluation and Online Self-Presentation in Young Adults: A Collectivist Cultural Perspective
     Analyzes how cultural factors and social apprehension shape digital identities and self-expression behaviors in South Asian youth.

  5. Effortful Perseverance as a Buffer against the Impact of Workplace Incivility on Burnout among Human Service Professionals
     Focuses on workplace dynamics and how personal perseverance can mitigate emotional exhaustion in high-stress service environments.