Browsing by Author "Lagap, Adar Cem"

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Does Your Love Lift Me Higher? A Direct Replication of the Energising Role of Secure Relationships
(John Wiley & Sons Ltd, 2025) Lagap, Adar Cem; Harma, Mehmet
Previous work has revealed that priming people with significant others increases feelings of security and energy, and in turn, boosts exploration motivations. In this preregistered study, we directly replicated Luke et al.'s (2012) Study 2 (N = 281). We found similar results as the replicated study regarding increased security feelings and exploration motivations on the self-report measures after the priming. However, we did not find any support for the increased energy feelings after the attachment security priming. In addition, contrary to Luke et al.'s (2012) results, energy feelings did not mediate the relationship between security priming and exploration motivations. A discussion of null findings, along with the limitations of self-reports and potential misinterpretation of the mediational analyses, follows. We also discuss possible future implications of the current findings.
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Stress Regulation via Being in Nature and Social Support in Adults, a Meta-Analysis
(Univ California Press, 2023) Sparacio, Alessandro; Ropovik, Ivan; Jiga-Boy, Gabriela; Lagap, Adar Cem; IJzerman, Hans
In this meta-analysis, the authors investigated whether being in nature and emotional social support are reliable strategies to downregulate stress. We retrieved all the relevant articles that investigated a connection between one of these two strategies and stress. For being in nature we found 54 effects reported in 16 papers (total N = 1,697, MdnN = 52.5), while for emotional social support we found 18 effects reported in 13 papers (total N = 3,787, MdnN = 186). Although we initially found an effect for being in nature and emotional social support on stress (Hedges' g =-.42; Hedges' g =-.14, respectively), the effect only held for being in nature after applying our main publication bias correction technique (Hedges' g =-.60). The emotional social support literature also had a high risk of bias. Although the being-in-nature literature was moderately powered (.72) to detect effects of Cohen's d = .50 or larger, the risk of bias was considerable, and the reporting contained numerous statistical reporting errors.
Looking for Stability in Chaos: A Scoping Review of Relational Turbulence Theory from a Dyadic Perspective
(Wiley, 2025) Lagap, Adar Cem; Gungor, Duygu
The current scoping review overviews articles that apply the relational turbulence model/theory to guide the implementation of actor-partner interdependence modeling within a structural equation modeling framework. Sixteen studies are examined in the final synthesis of the review. Research themes center on communication strategies and social connection, dispositional and situational factors, and, lastly, mental and physical health. Current work illustrates that scholars are primarily interested in sources of relational uncertainty and its intrapersonal and interpersonal consequences. Sources of partner influence and their implications for relational dynamics are also examined across the synthesized studies. Overall, more actor effects than partner effects were statistically significant. Commercial statistical programs appear preferred for analyzing dyadic data, and assessments of fit indices are reported to evaluate proposed analytic models in this body of research. Methodological and theoretical limitations are highlighted, and implications for future research are discussed.