Work addiction ('workaholism') has become an increasingly studied topic in the behavioral addictions literature and had led to the development of a number of instruments to assess it. One such instrument is the Bergen Work Addiction Scale (BWAS -Andreassen et al. 2012 Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, 53, 265-272). However, the BWAS has never been investigated in Eastern-European countries. The goal of the present study was to examine the factor structure, the reliability and cut-off scores of the BWAS in a comprehensive Hungarian sample. This study is a direct extension of the original validation of BWAS by providing results on the basis of representative data and the development of appropriate cut-off scores.

In this article the goal was the examination of the factorial structure of a short, Hungarian version of Zimbardo Time Perspective Inventory (ZTPI; Zimbardo and Boyd Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 77 (6), [1271][1272][1273][1274][1275][1276][1277][1278][1279][1280][1281][1282][1283][1284][1285][1286][1287][1288] 1999) in a sample of 1370 participants, comparing alternative factor structures through confirmatory factor analysis (CFA). According to the results the short, 17 item version of ZTPI includes the original five factors and has appropriate model fit indices. Furthermore, it is reliable in terms of internal consistency and temporal stability. In the light of previous ZTPI validations with severe shortcomings, the present results might encourage radical shortening of the original ZTPI scale.

Acknowledgements:We are grateful for Fruzsina Lukács, József Salamon, and János Salamon for the data gathering. Highlights The factor of the Academic Motivation Scale (AMS) was assessed.  Hungarian and French high school and university students participated.  Exploratory structural equation modeling (ESEM) supported the 7-factor model.  The AMS was reliable based on three different indices.  Gender invariance was high, age-and language invariances were low. Abstract The goal of the present research was to the cross-cultural examination of the factor structure of the Academic Motivation Scale (AMS) and its extensive invariance testing with exploratory structural equation modeling (ESEM). Three comprehensive samples were collected: a Hungarian high school (N = 1139), a Hungarian university (N = 1163) samples, and a French university (N = 1009) sample. Compared to confirmatory factor analysis, ESEM demonstrated better model fit and less inflated inter-factor correlations in all three samples. Among Hungarian high school students, intrinsic dimensions were less differentiated. Gender invariance was confirmed on the level of latent means. As for age-and language invariance, only configural invariance was supported. The AMS showed mostly adequate reliability and good temporal stability. Based on the present and prior studies, ESEM appears to be the most adequate analytic strategy for the deeper understanding of academic motivations measured by the AMS.

Objective: To assess the psychological condition of men at the start of the infertility work-up. Methods: Men seeking an infertility evaluation for the first time were recruited. Depression and anxiety symptoms and subjective psychological burden were assessed with the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI), the Spielberger State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI), and a visual analog scale (VAS). Results: Data from 113 patients were analyzed. The mean age of the patients was 33.3 (range: 23-54) years, whereas the mean duration of infertility was 16.3 (range: 0-96) months. Results from the BDI and STAI were 2.24 (SD: ±3.18) and 33.74 (SD: ±8.04). Mild depressive symptoms were found in 4.5% of patients, whereas anxiety reached an abnormal level in 4.9%. There were significant correlations between the results from the BDI score and the duration of infertility (p ¼ .024), whereas the STAI and VAS scores showed no similar connection (p ¼ .142 and p ¼ .261, respectively). Among patients with infertility longer than 2 years, mild depressive symptoms occurred in 23.1%. Conclusion: Among men, the levels of depressive and anxiety symptoms were low at the start of the infertility work-up. Depressive symptom levels increased significantly with the duration of infertility, whereas anxiety levels and VAS scores did not demonstrate a similar correlation.

Acknowledgements: We thank Ágnes Szokolszky for her helpful comments on the manuscript. According to Zimbardo and Boyd (1999), time perspective (TP) is an unconscious and individually determined attitude towards time. The conceptualization of psychological time includes three time zones: past, present and future. People differ in the manner they relate to time and this attitude is strongly related to a wide range of behavior. Several studies identified TP dimensions behind a broad variety of behaviors such as health-related issues (e.g