This mini-review synthesizes recent interdisciplinary evidence showing that financial market volatility carries psychological as well as economic costs. Across 36 studies, two domains emerge: (1) traditional market turbulence, where shocks are linked to economic anxiety, household stress transmission, and panic-selling associated with traits such as neuroticism and hyperbolic discounting; and (2) cryptocurrency and speculative asset markets, where Fear of Missing Out (FoMO), impulsivity, and herding promote short-term, gambling-like risk taking, particularly among younger or inexperienced investors. FoMO frequently mediates loss aversion and speculative engagement, while institutional participation and policy measures exhibit stabilizing, protective effects. Overall, volatility functions as a psychosocial exposure characterized by emotional contagion and behavioral reinforcement, with implications for mental health. The review calls for prevention-oriented policy integrating behavioral finance, public health, and social regulation, and for treating compulsive speculative trading as a candidate for future clinical classification, a hypothesis the current evidence base can motivate but not yet confirm.

Anxiety sensitivity (AS), Intolerance of Uncertainty (IU), and Experiential Avoidance (EA) have been conceptualized as key transdiagnostic processes underlying anxiety pathology. However, little work has been done to examine whether AS, IU, and EA are adequately distinct from one another in relation to concerns about jangle fallacies - whether two or more measures with different labels may actually assess the same construct. The present study used data from 300 treatment-seeking individuals with a primary diagnosis of one of five anxiety-related disorders-panic disorder, social anxiety disorder, generalized anxiety disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder, or posttraumatic stress disorder-to examine the nature of shared variance among these variables. First, Pearson product-moment correlations were computed using total scores from pretreatment values for the ASI-3, IUS-27, and BEAQ. Second, these associations were re-examined accounting for general anxiety and depressive symptoms by calculating partial correlations. Third, to test whether the five scales represented distinct but correlated latent constructs, we conducted a confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) at the item level, and subsequently an exploratory factor analysis (EFA). Fourth, in exploratory analyses, we examined unique prediction of anxiety for each of these measures and employed a recently-recommended strategy for assessing extrinsic convergent validity. Overall, our analyses indicated that these constructs are distinguishable from each other and general measures of anxiety and depression, yet their underlying structure is more fine-grained than reflected by total scores from these measures. Despite successful differentiation at a subfactor level, exploratory analysis revealed extrinsic convergent validity issues.

Spanish-language medical interpreters are essential to equitable healthcare delivery, yet their mental health needs remain underrecognized. This qualitative study explored how hospital-based interpreting shapes mental health and contributes to vicarious trauma among 12 Spanish-language interpreters in a southwestern metropolitan area. Semi-structured interviews conducted in January and February 2024 were analyzed using reflexive thematic analysis. Findings revealed that interpreters experience significant psychological burden, including anxiety, depression, panic attacks, and symptoms consistent with vicarious trauma-driven by high-acuity clinical encounters, emotional labor demands, first-person interpretation practices, and, critically, institutional neglect. The Job Demands-Resources model framed these experiences: demands were substantial while resources remained inadequate. However, interpreters demonstrated remarkable resilience sustained by peer support, personal coping practices, and a profound sense of purpose in serving their communities. Participants identified concrete institutional solutions, including protected peer debriefing time, monthly support meetings, and supervisory responsiveness. These findings extend existing interpreter literature by highlighting how organizational conditions-understaffing, inadequate compensation, and professional marginalization-amplify psychological burden in hospital settings. The study underscores that medical interpreter well-being is not peripheral to care quality but foundational to it, and that meaningful institutional investment in mental health supports is essential to sustain this vital workforce.

Azoxybenzenes have been widely studied due to their diverse applications, but reports on their detailed structural characterization are rare. It is often the case that even when the structure is obtained, the azoxy group is disordered, which makes it difficult to determine its geometrical parameters correctly and, in some cases, even its chemical identity (due to oxygen disorder at both nitrogen sites). Here, the molecular structure of a nitrile-substituted azoxybenzene derivative, 1,2-bis-(4-cyanophenyl)-diazene oxide (1), was accurately determined by single-crystal X-ray diffraction (SCXRD) performed by using crystals of a dichloromethane solvate (1a), which displays channels that propagate along the a-axis. SCXRD measurements showed no significant changes in the unit cell parameters of 1a, even at 127 °C. TG measurements reveal that 1a remains stable up to ∼190 °C, at which point dichloromethane molecules start to leave the structure, and a disordered structure (1b) forms. Compound 1 was used for the synthesis of azoxy-linked triazine-based polymer (2) by a trifluoromethanesulfonic acid-catalyzed trimerization reaction under microwave conditions. The obtained polymer 2 is an amorphous solid with good thermal stability, which exhibits a rather low BET surface area of 10.2 m[2] g[-1] and shows no affinity for CO2 adsorption. The preliminary investigation revealed that polymer 2 has a band gap of 2.69 eV, rendering it a wide-bandgap semiconductor.

Domestic violence (DV) continues to be a growing area of concern in the United Kingdom, United States, and New Zealand, with problematic representation in the mainstream newspaper coverage. This article explores how broadsheet newspapers in the United Kingdom, United States, and New Zealand provide media coverage of victims, perpetrators, and bystanders of DV, and how the construct of DV in such coverage has changed during the COVID-19 pandemic. Twenty-eight newspaper articles published between 2017 and 2020 were sourced and analysed to provide a representation inclusive of DV before and after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. Findings indicate the emergence of three key themes: the defenceless 'ideal victim', excusing men's violence, and the construction of sensationalism. Findings also resonate with previous research that men are likely to be perpetrators and women are likely to fall victim to DV. Stereotypical media continues to overshadow victims' agency and resilience, which are ignored for a more sensationalised narrative. This, in turn, sheds new light on moral panic theory whereby the alleged 'girl nastiness' is indirectly attributed to the victim who allegedly provoked the violence, the implication being that representing DV in ways sensitive to the victim remains a significant challenge to be addressed even by reputable broadsheet newspapers.

Mental health disorders are prevalent among public safety personnel (PSP; e.g., correctional workers, firefighters, paramedics, police, public safety communicators) due to frequent exposures to occupational stressors. PSP report having minimal time for research participation and needing efficient screening tools validated for their unique needs. The current study evaluates the validity of short-form mental health disorder questionnaires as alternatives to the full-length versions. Using data from 5838 PSP, the psychometric properties of the 4-item PTSD Checklist for DSM-5, 2-item Patient Health Questionnaire; 2-item Generalized Anxiety Disorder Scale; Brief Panic Disorder Severity Scale-Self Report; and Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test-Concise were assessed. Classification accuracy, internal consistency, and convergent validity were assessed using correlations, Cronbach's alphas, and receiver operating characteristic analyses (e.g., area under the curve [AUC], sensitivity, specificity, predictive values, likelihood ratios, Youden Index). The short and full-length versions were highly correlated (rs = 0.93-0.96), with adequate to good internal consistency (Cronbach's alphas.70-0.84). Using previously established cutoff scores, analyses evidenced low to high sensitivity (0.57-0.98) and high specificity (0.78-0.98), evidencing consistent classification of positive screens (AUCs = 0.92-0.99) between the short-form and full-length versions using a sample of PSP. The short-form measures offer an efficient standardized method for PSP to report mental health disorder symptoms, facilitating efficient and early screening.