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May 2nd, 2025

Exercise as a mediator of wellbeing.

Jiang S; Zhang H pubmed id: 40313908

The study looks at how exercise can help college students feel better. It wants to know if being fit plays a part in this.

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Recent studies have highlighted physical exercise's potential impact on college students' psychological wellbeing. This study aims to explore this relationship further by examining physical fitness's mediating role.

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Exercise as a mediator of wellbeing.

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Jiang S; Zhang H

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The study looks at how exercise can help college students feel better. It wants to know if being fit plays a part in this.

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Age-dependent mechanisms of exercise in the treatment of depression: a comprehensive review of physiological and psychological pathways.

Xue P; Du X; Kong J pubmed id: 40313907

Depression is a big problem around the world, and while medicines help, they have downsides. This study looks at how exercise can make people feel better by changing brain chemicals and helping with stress differently for kids, adults, and older people. The goal is to use this information to help doctors and improve public health.

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Depression has become one of the most common mental disorders in the world. The rising incidence rate and disability rate pose a serious challenge to public health and socio-economic development. Traditional medication and psychotherapy are positive, but they often come with limitations such as side effects, poor compliance, and resource constraints, which highlights the urgent need for more proactive and sustainable non pharmacological interventions. We mainly explored the physiological and psychological mechanisms of exercise in alleviating depression in different age groups. In particular, we evaluated the characteristics and influencing factors of depression in each age group and compared the pathways through which exercise works, aiming to provide scientific basis for clinical practice and public health policies, and strengthen the application of non pharmacological treatment in depression management. It is worth noting that, in the context of a comprehensive search and analysis of recent literature, we have covered the epidemiology of depression, the impact of exercise on mental health, the characteristics of depression in different age groups, and the specific ways in which exercise alleviates depression through physiological and psychological mechanisms. Exercise alleviates symptoms of depression by regulating neurotransmitters, enhancing neuroplasticity, regulating hormone levels, reducing inflammatory responses through physiological pathways, as well as enhancing cognitive function, strengthening emotional regulation, triggering social interactions, and improving self-efficacy through psychological pathways. The differences in physiological and psychological mechanisms among different age groups determine the age dependent characteristics of exercise in mitigating depression. Teenagers, middle-aged people, and elderly people can improve depressive symptoms by enhancing neural progression, regulating stress responses, and strengthening social support, respectively.

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Age-dependent mechanisms of exercise in the treatment of depression: a comprehensive review of physiological and psychological pathways.

Author(s):
Xue P; Du X; Kong J

Summary:
Depression is a big problem around the world, and while medicines help, they have downsides. This study looks at how exercise can make people feel better by changing brain chemicals and helping with stress differently for kids, adults, and older people. The goal is to use this information to help doctors and improve public health.

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Coach abusive supervision and athlete engagement: a moderated mediation model.

Zeng Y; Yin J pubmed id: 40313906

This study looks at how a coach's bad behavior, called abusive supervision, affects athletes. It explores how feeling empowered and wanting to achieve can change how athletes stay engaged in their sports.

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Abusive supervision remains a prominent research focus in negative organizational behavior, yet existing findings remain inconsistent. Grounded in self-determination theory, this study examines the complex relationship between coach abusive supervision and athlete engagement, while investigating the mediating role of psychological empowerment and the moderating effect of athlete achievement motivation.

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Coach abusive supervision and athlete engagement: a moderated mediation model.

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Zeng Y; Yin J

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This study looks at how a coach's bad behavior, called abusive supervision, affects athletes. It explores how feeling empowered and wanting to achieve can change how athletes stay engaged in their sports.

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The changes, formation and public policy measures of mental health in Chinese youth.

Wang Y; Tan G; Zhu T pubmed id: 40313905

This study looks at the confidence of young people in China and how it affects their mental health. Even though the economy is growing, the confidence in their future hasn't increased much. Their confidence now depends more on the overall environment instead of their own social status or income.

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Confidence is an important indicator of individuals' mental health. Taking confidence as an indicator, this paper uses CGSS2010-2021 data to analyze the latest situation, changing trend and formation mechanism of mental health in Chinese youth. The results show that firstly, Chinese young people have strong confidence in their future development in the new era, and their status expectations lean toward the upper and middle classes are dominant. Secondly, under the background of continuous economic growth and continuous improvement of objective status, youth confidence in development has not been significantly improved, but slightly decreased, resulting in a "paradox of confidence in development." Thirdly, the composition effect (the changes in formation mechanism of status expectations) caused the above paradox. The positive influence of objective social status significantly reduced, and the positive influence of income gap disappears or turns negative. Youth confidence in development no longer depends on "who I am," but more on the "macro environment." Such changes offset the gains brought by economic growth and objective status improvement, leading to a fall rather than a rise in youth confidence in development.

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The changes, formation and public policy measures of mental health in Chinese youth.

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Wang Y; Tan G; Zhu T

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This study looks at the confidence of young people in China and how it affects their mental health. Even though the economy is growing, the confidence in their future hasn't increased much. Their confidence now depends more on the overall environment instead of their own social status or income.

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The association between empathy ability and attitudes toward children with disabilities in inclusive physical education classes among primary students: the mediating role of friendship quality.

Ling W; Wang D; Xu X; Zhu D; Wu X; Zhang L pubmed id: 40313904

This research looks at how kids without disabilities feel and act around kids with disabilities in gym class. It checks if being friends, feeling empathy, and having a good attitude helps everyone get along better.

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The acceptance and inclusion of children with disabilities, especially in inclusive physical education classes, is crucial for their social integration and psychological well-being. To examine the relationship between friendship quality, empathy and attitudes of children without disabilities toward their peers with disabilities in inclusive physical education classes.

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The association between empathy ability and attitudes toward children with disabilities in inclusive physical education classes among primary students: the mediating role of friendship quality.

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Ling W; Wang D; Xu X; Zhu D; Wu X; Zhang L

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This research looks at how kids without disabilities feel and act around kids with disabilities in gym class. It checks if being friends, feeling empathy, and having a good attitude helps everyone get along better.

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The effect of time pressure and ego depletion on young children's helping behavior.

Zha Z; Chen C; Zhang R; Zhang W pubmed id: 40313903

The study looked at how pressure and feeling tired can stop kids from helping others. Younger kids didn't help much when rushed or tired, but 6-year-olds did better. This means older kids think more before helping, and they get better at handling tiredness.

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Based on the theory of limited cognitive resources and the dual-process theory, this study explores the mechanisms by which time pressure (an external factor) and ego depletion (an internal factor) affect helping behavior in children aged 4 to 6 years through two experiments. Experiment 1 ( = 153,  = 5.42 years,  = 0.71) examined the impact of time pressure on children's helping behavior, while Experiment 2 ( = 221,  = 5.41 years,  = 0.76) investigated the role of ego depletion. The results revealed that both time pressure and ego depletion significantly inhibited children's helping behavior, with notable age-related differences in these effects: the helping behavior of 4- and 5-year-old children was significantly reduced under conditions of time pressure and resource depletion, whereas 6-year-old children demonstrated greater resistance to these disruptions. These findings suggest that children's helping behavior relies more on the cognitive processing of the deliberative system rather than the automatic responses of the intuitive system. Furthermore, as children grow older, they gradually develop more effective cognitive resource regulation abilities to counteract the negative effects of resource depletion.

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The effect of time pressure and ego depletion on young children's helping behavior.

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Zha Z; Chen C; Zhang R; Zhang W

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The study looked at how pressure and feeling tired can stop kids from helping others. Younger kids didn't help much when rushed or tired, but 6-year-olds did better. This means older kids think more before helping, and they get better at handling tiredness.

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Threefold relationship between ideal humanity and sublime beauty in Chinese art forms.

Ding M; Tan X pubmed id: 40313902

The paper talks about how Chinese art mixes the ideas of "sublime" and "beauty" to create something special. It looks at how artists use their creativity and thinking to show this beauty in different ways. The paper also suggests that these ideas can help people understand themselves better and set different goals.

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In Chinese thought, the concept of the "sublime" is closely intertwined with "beauty," the two concepts merging to form a sublime beauty that seeks the continuous development of universal life amid change. This paper explores the multifaceted relationship between the Chinese artistic mind and sublime beauty through three dimensions of the research model: potential, processes, and goals. In terms of potential, Chinese artistic thought places full trust in the inherent potential of an individual's ideal humanity, emphasizes the awakening of the sublime beauty within each person through specific art forms, and cultivates different perspectives to understand the connection between the mind and the sublime beauty of our world. In terms of process, Chinese artistic thought is characterized by the focused sincerity of the creative mindset; creative thinking that balances the "degree" of rational expression of emotions and the "" cultivated through daily spiritual practice; and the cognition of the sublime, which combines the gradual enlightenment gained from daily experiences of embodied cognition with the sudden enlightenment triggered by creative talent. In terms of artistic goals, ideal humanity in pursuit of sublime beauty is divided into three states: the "self state" that manifests the style of the individual subject, the "no-self state" that transcends the limitations of the self, and the "empty state" that surpasses even the cognitive notion of "transcending the self." The threefold relationship between ideal humanity and sublime beauty in Chinese art can provide contemporary psychology with research model and unique perspectives on being aware of one's self-potential, understanding their emotions and other aspects of the mind, and constructing multiple value goals.

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Threefold relationship between ideal humanity and sublime beauty in Chinese art forms.

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Ding M; Tan X

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The paper talks about how Chinese art mixes the ideas of "sublime" and "beauty" to create something special. It looks at how artists use their creativity and thinking to show this beauty in different ways. The paper also suggests that these ideas can help people understand themselves better and set different goals.

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Mazu belief and happiness: a sequential mediation model involving mental health and positive emotions among Taiwanese followers.

Chang HM; Lin CH pubmed id: 40313900

This study looks at how believing in Mazu can make people in Taiwan happier. It shows that having good mental health and positive emotions help make this belief even more beneficial for well-being.

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This study explores the psychological impact of Mazu beliefs on the happiness of Taiwanese followers, emphasizing the sequential mediating roles of mental health and positive emotions. Given the cultural prominence of Mazu belief in Taiwan, this research sheds light on its potential contributions to enhancing well-being from the perspective of positive psychology.

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Mazu belief and happiness: a sequential mediation model involving mental health and positive emotions among Taiwanese followers.

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Chang HM; Lin CH

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This study looks at how believing in Mazu can make people in Taiwan happier. It shows that having good mental health and positive emotions help make this belief even more beneficial for well-being.

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Students' perceptions of need-supportive teaching, basic psychological need satisfaction, and life skills development in Chinese physical education.

Ji X; Zheng S; Cheng L pubmed id: 40313898

This study looked at how students in China develop life skills in gym class. It focuses on how teachers can help meet students' basic needs and how that is connected to learning life skills.

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Physical education (PE) is viewed as an environment conducive to students' life skills development. However, less is known about the processes by which young people develop their life skills in PE. This is particularly the case in non-English speaking countries such as China. Based on self-determination theory, the present study aimed to investigate the relationships between students' perceptions of teacher need-support, basic psychological need satisfaction and their life skills development in PE.

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Students' perceptions of need-supportive teaching, basic psychological need satisfaction, and life skills development in Chinese physical education.

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Ji X; Zheng S; Cheng L

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This study looked at how students in China develop life skills in gym class. It focuses on how teachers can help meet students' basic needs and how that is connected to learning life skills.

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Aligning early childhood science teaching beliefs, practices, and children's learning outcomes: the impact of a professional development program.

Chen S; Sermeno R; Hodge KN; Geesa RL; Song HS; Izci B; Froh Z; Murphy S pubmed id: 40313897

The study looks at how teachers' ideas about teaching science match what they actually do before and after a training program. It also checks if this match is linked to how well kids learn science.

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Science teaching belief-practice alignment is critical for ensuring high-quality, effective instruction that supports young children's learning and engagement in science. The goal of this study is to examine the alignment between preschool and kindergarten teachers' self-reported science teaching beliefs and observed practices before and after a science teaching professional development (PD) program and to explore whether the alignment is associated with children's science learning outcomes. The research questions are: (1) Whether and to what extent do science teaching beliefs and practices align before and after the PD program? (2) Whether and to what extent are science teaching beliefs associated with children's inquiry skills before and after the PD program?

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Aligning early childhood science teaching beliefs, practices, and children's learning outcomes: the impact of a professional development program.

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Chen S; Sermeno R; Hodge KN; Geesa RL; Song HS; Izci B; Froh Z; Murphy S

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The study looks at how teachers' ideas about teaching science match what they actually do before and after a training program. It also checks if this match is linked to how well kids learn science.

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Joint attention and exogenous attention allocation during mother-infant interaction at 12 months associate with 24-month vocabulary composition.

Capelli E; Grumi S; Vercellino L; Provenzi L pubmed id: 40313896

This study looked at how early attention between moms and babies, like paying attention to outside things and sharing focus together, can help with learning language later. The researchers watched how these interactions at 1 year old might affect the way kids talk at 2 years old.

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Early attentional processes are inherently linked with early parent-infant interactions and play a critical role in shaping cognitive and linguistic development. This study explored how specific early attention mechanisms-namely, exogenous attention allocation and joint attention initiation-during mother-infant interactions at 12 months may influence language development at 24 months.

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Joint attention and exogenous attention allocation during mother-infant interaction at 12 months associate with 24-month vocabulary composition.

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Capelli E; Grumi S; Vercellino L; Provenzi L

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This study looked at how early attention between moms and babies, like paying attention to outside things and sharing focus together, can help with learning language later. The researchers watched how these interactions at 1 year old might affect the way kids talk at 2 years old.

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Development and preliminary validation of a Chinese Physical Activity Parenting Practices Scale (3-6 years).

Na R; Liang Y; Zhang H; Yang Z; Li N; Zhang W; Tang H; Ye W; Zhang L; Jiang X; Shang L pubmed id: 40313895

Researchers wanted to make a new tool to study how Chinese parents help their little kids, who are 3 to 6 years old, do more physical activity. They used ideas from general parenting research to create this tool.

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This study aimed to develop a scale to assess the physical activity (PA)-related parenting practices of Chinese parents of children aged 3-6 years based on general parenting theory.

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Development and preliminary validation of a Chinese Physical Activity Parenting Practices Scale (3-6 years).

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Na R; Liang Y; Zhang H; Yang Z; Li N; Zhang W; Tang H; Ye W; Zhang L; Jiang X; Shang L

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Researchers wanted to make a new tool to study how Chinese parents help their little kids, who are 3 to 6 years old, do more physical activity. They used ideas from general parenting research to create this tool.

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Investigating the content and correlates of undergraduate students' academic regrets.

Ranellucci J pubmed id: 40313893

The research looked at what kinds of regrets college students have, what these regrets are like, and how they affect students' motivation and feelings.

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The types of academic regrets that college students experience, characteristics of these regrets, and relations to motivational and emotional outcomes were investigated in two studies.

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Investigating the content and correlates of undergraduate students' academic regrets.

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Ranellucci J

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The research looked at what kinds of regrets college students have, what these regrets are like, and how they affect students' motivation and feelings.

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The evolution of human-type consciousness - a by-product of mammalian innovation mechanism - a preliminary hypothesis.

Ben Zvi U pubmed id: 40313891

Human consciousness is not just a better version of old skills, but a new way the brain works that makes new ideas. The brain's special part uses wild and random activity to create different choices. This is how human consciousness helps us think and do things differently from before.

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Human consciousness is often viewed as one of the pinnacles of evolution, with most theories positioning it as an upgrade of pre-existing cognitive skills. However, conscious perception, memory, action, and in some situations even decision-making, are often inferior-less complex, slower, and less accurate-than their nonconscious (subliminal) counterparts. The interface hypothesis challenges this perspective, proposing that human-type consciousness is not an advanced version of earlier cognitive capacities but a novel function that entered the arena of cognitive and operational processes and fundamentally changed its rules. According to this hypothesis, the neocortex emerged as part of an advanced innovation mechanism, where its unpredictable, chaotic activity is used to generate alternative patterns. The process of cropping these alternatives from the chaotic neocortex and mediating them to the constrained, goal-oriented, linear control system requires a serially functioning interface. Consciousness, it is suggested, arose as a byproduct or a side effect of this interface, eventually expanding its influence to a wide range of cognitive and operational functions. This perspective has significant implications for our understanding of human cognition, creativity, and the distinctive capacities of human consciousness, potentially bridging the gap between neuroscientific findings and phenomenological experiences of consciousness.

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The evolution of human-type consciousness - a by-product of mammalian innovation mechanism - a preliminary hypothesis.

Author(s):
Ben Zvi U

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Human consciousness is not just a better version of old skills, but a new way the brain works that makes new ideas. The brain's special part uses wild and random activity to create different choices. This is how human consciousness helps us think and do things differently from before.

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Association of Internet addiction with psychiatric symptom levels and sleep disorders: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

Sun Y; Wang Z; Liu T pubmed id: 40313890

People using the internet too much can have problems like feeling sad or having trouble sleeping. Many studies have been done on this topic, but there isn't one big study that puts all the information together.

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Maladaptive Internet use is defined as Internet addiction disorders (IAD), which can lead to psychological problems and sleep disorders. Although many studies on the correlation between Internet addiction, psychiatric symptom levels, and sleep disorders have been conducted in recent years, there is no meta-analysis to substantiate the connection between these variables.

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Association of Internet addiction with psychiatric symptom levels and sleep disorders: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

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Sun Y; Wang Z; Liu T

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People using the internet too much can have problems like feeling sad or having trouble sleeping. Many studies have been done on this topic, but there isn't one big study that puts all the information together.

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Artificial intelligence vs. human coaches: examining the development of working alliance in a single session.

Barger AS pubmed id: 40313368

This study looked at how people feel when being coached by a computer avatar compared to a human coach. Both groups of clients set a goal and had a session with their coach, either an AI or a human. The results showed that people felt they could work well with both types of coaches, and they were open to forming partnerships with AI coaches in the future.

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The collaborative relationship, or working alliance, between a client and their coach is a well-recognized factor that contributes to the effectiveness of coaching. The rise of artificial intelligence (AI) challenges us to explore whether human-to-human relationships can extend to AI, potentially reshaping the future of coaching. Our presumption that the skills of professional human coaches surpass AI in forging effective relationships stands untested - but can we really claim this advantage? The purpose of this study was to examine client perceptions of being coached by a simulated AI coach, who was embodied as a conversational vocal live-motion avatar, compared to client perceptions of partnering with a human coach. The mixed methods randomized controlled trial explored if and how client ratings of working alliance and the coaching process aligned between the two coach types in an alternative treatments design. Both treatment groups identified a personal goal to pursue and had one 60-min session guided by the CLEAR (contract, listen, explore, action, review) coaching model. Quantitative data were captured through surveys and qualitative input was captured through open-ended survey questions and debrief interviews. To sidestep the rapid obsolescence of technology, the study was engineered using the Wizard of Oz approach to facilitate an advanced AI coaching experience, with participants unknowingly interacting with expert human coaches. The aim was to glean insights into client reactions to a future, fully autonomous AI with the capabilities of a human coach. The results showed that participants built similar moderately high levels of working alliance with both coach types, with no significant difference between treatments. Qualitative themes indicated the client's connection with their coach existed within the context of the study wherein the coach was a guide who used a variety of techniques to support the client to plan towards their goal. Overall, participants believed they were engaging with their assigned coach type, while the five professional coaches, acting as confederates, were blinded to their roles. Clients are willing to and appreciate building coaching partnerships with AI, which has both research and practical implications.

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Artificial intelligence vs. human coaches: examining the development of working alliance in a single session.

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Barger AS

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This study looked at how people feel when being coached by a computer avatar compared to a human coach. Both groups of clients set a goal and had a session with their coach, either an AI or a human. The results showed that people felt they could work well with both types of coaches, and they were open to forming partnerships with AI coaches in the future.

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The interactive effects of emotional leadership and resilience on job satisfaction and organizational commitment among Korean youth sports instructors.

Jung MK; Jung TG; Kang YJ; Jeong KH pubmed id: 40309215

This study looks at how to make youth sports centers in Korea work better. It checks how strong people are and how their leaders' emotions affect their happiness at work and their loyalty to the organization.

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This study aims to provide practical insights into developing intervention strategies to enhance organizational effectiveness in Korean youth physical education facilities. Specifically, it investigates the interactive effects of resilience and emotional leadership on job satisfaction and organizational commitment.

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The interactive effects of emotional leadership and resilience on job satisfaction and organizational commitment among Korean youth sports instructors.

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Jung MK; Jung TG; Kang YJ; Jeong KH

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This study looks at how to make youth sports centers in Korea work better. It checks how strong people are and how their leaders' emotions affect their happiness at work and their loyalty to the organization.

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Distress disclosure on social media and depressive symptoms among college students: the roles of social comparison and gender.

Ye X; Gao H pubmed id: 40309214

Many people feel stressed, and young people are getting more depressed. Since social media is a big part of our lives, it is important to study how using it affects young people's mental health.

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In contemporary society, individuals are commonly exposed to multiple pressures, under which emotional disorders occur frequently. Especially the upward trend of depressive symptoms among the young population constitutes a non-negligible public health challenge. As social media is increasingly integrated into daily life, individuals' emotional experiences strongly connect with online interactions. Thus, it is essential to investigate the relationship between the social media usage behavior of young people and their mental health conditions.

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Distress disclosure on social media and depressive symptoms among college students: the roles of social comparison and gender.

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Ye X; Gao H

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Many people feel stressed, and young people are getting more depressed. Since social media is a big part of our lives, it is important to study how using it affects young people's mental health.

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Latent profiles of psychological capital in clinical nursing teachers and their association with the practice environment of nursing and perceived social support.

He Y; Wang D; Wang L; Liao R pubmed id: 40309212

Clinical nursing teachers (CNTs) are very important in teaching new nurses. Their strong inner motivation, called psychological capital, helps them manage the difficult parts of teaching.

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Clinical nursing teachers (CNTs) play a critical role in nursing education, and their psychological capital (PsyCap) acts as an intrinsic motivational resource to assist them in facing the challenges of clinical teaching.

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Latent profiles of psychological capital in clinical nursing teachers and their association with the practice environment of nursing and perceived social support.

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He Y; Wang D; Wang L; Liao R

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Clinical nursing teachers (CNTs) are very important in teaching new nurses. Their strong inner motivation, called psychological capital, helps them manage the difficult parts of teaching.

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The influence of childhood socioeconomic status on indulgent consumption.

Zhang C; Meng G; Deng A pubmed id: 40309211

This study looks at how a person's family background growing up affects their spending habits when they are adults. It focuses on why some people buy fun things and how their feelings of worthiness might change this.

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Consumers routinely confront goal conflicts, navigating the tension between persevering in goal pursuit and succumbing to the temptation of indulgent purchases. While prior literatures have endeavored to explore diverse factors influencing indulgent consumption, they have largely overlooked the longitudinal lens of consumer development to uncover deeper, underlying causes. Childhood socioeconomic background has been established as a critical factor influencing various behaviors both in early life and adulthood. This study aims to explore the impact of childhood socioeconomic status on indulgent consumption in adulthood, and to examine the mediating role of pleasure pursuit in this relationship, as well as the moderating effect of individuals' sense of worthiness.

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The influence of childhood socioeconomic status on indulgent consumption.

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Zhang C; Meng G; Deng A

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This study looks at how a person's family background growing up affects their spending habits when they are adults. It focuses on why some people buy fun things and how their feelings of worthiness might change this.

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A review of music performance anxiety in the lens of stress models.

Twitchell AJ; Journault AA; Singh KK; Jamieson JP pubmed id: 40309210

Some musicians get nervous when they perform, which can make their playing worse. This research says that being a little nervous might sometimes help, and we should find new ways to handle these feelings to make performances better.

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Music performance anxiety (MPA) is a widespread challenge among musicians, often impairing performance quality and well-being. While traditionally conceptualized as a debilitating condition, recent research suggests that MPA can have both facilitative and detrimental effects, depending on how it is appraised and regulated. This paper reviews theoretical stress models relevant to MPA, emphasizing frameworks such as stress optimization and synergistic mindsets that help reframe anxiety as a potential resource. By integrating insights from affective science and stress research, this review highlights the need for a more nuanced approach to MPA-one that moves beyond symptom reduction to foster adaptive responses that enhance musical performance. Future research should continue exploring personalized and flexible interventions that equip musicians with the tools to navigate evaluative pressure effectively.

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A review of music performance anxiety in the lens of stress models.

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Twitchell AJ; Journault AA; Singh KK; Jamieson JP

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Some musicians get nervous when they perform, which can make their playing worse. This research says that being a little nervous might sometimes help, and we should find new ways to handle these feelings to make performances better.

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Multidimensional health status and its impact on health care consumption behavior among elderly people with chronic diseases: evidence from CHARLS in China.

Wang Q; Zhang Y; Miao X; Chen J; Zhang L pubmed id: 40309209

This study looks at the health of older people in China who have long-term illnesses. It also checks how their health affects the amount of healthcare they use.

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This study aims to provide a comprehensive understanding of the multidimensional health status of elderly individuals with chronic diseases in China and examine its impact on their healthcare consumption behavior.

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Multidimensional health status and its impact on health care consumption behavior among elderly people with chronic diseases: evidence from CHARLS in China.

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Wang Q; Zhang Y; Miao X; Chen J; Zhang L

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This study looks at the health of older people in China who have long-term illnesses. It also checks how their health affects the amount of healthcare they use.

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Behind the thinking of attention disorder.

Zamboni D; Snyder V pubmed id: 40309208

This article talks about new ways to understand attention disorders by studying how the brain works and changes. The research looks at how helping the brain grow can improve focus and planning, and it suggests that personal brain-training activities could help people who struggle with attention.

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This article presents an innovative exploration of attention disorders by focusing on their cognitive structure and the power of neuroplasticity, moving beyond traditional models that primarily emphasize lessening behavioral manifestations. By employing Reuven Feuerstein's theory of Structural Cognitive Modifiability, it examines the cognitive architecture of individuals with attention disorders, emphasizing the dynamic interplay between cognitive processes, neuroplasticity, and behavioral outcomes. The paper identifies distinct cognitive patterns influencing focus, organization, and planning, which manifest in diverse presentations of inattention. It highlights the potential for precise, individualized cognitive interventions to address inefficiencies in information processing, foster self-regulation, and enhance brain adaptability. By addressing the origins rather than the complaints this approach offers a transformative framework for enhancing self-regulation, cognitive adaptability, and overall learning outcomes in individuals with attention disorders.

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Behind the thinking of attention disorder.

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Zamboni D; Snyder V

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This article talks about new ways to understand attention disorders by studying how the brain works and changes. The research looks at how helping the brain grow can improve focus and planning, and it suggests that personal brain-training activities could help people who struggle with attention.

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pubmed id: 40309208 Indexed on May 1st, 2025

Why humans evolved blue eyes.

Bressan P pubmed id: 40309207

Some people have blue eyes, which are not as good as dark eyes at protecting against sunlight. Researchers think that blue eyes became common because people with blue eyes liked to marry others with blue eyes, helping the trait spread quickly. This is similar to how some colorful animal features make them more successful by attracting mates.

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A surprising number of humans are equipped with a subpar eye model-featuring pale, colorful irides that are nowhere as good as the original dark ones at guarding the retina from sunlight and do, in fact, raise one's risk of eye disease. Here I apply evolutionary theory to understand why. I propose that the allele for human blue eyes, which arose just once, managed to spread from one individual to millions at an astonishing speed because it is a greenbeard. "Greenbeards"-imaginary genes, or groups of genes, that produce both a green beard and a behavior that favors other bearers of a green beard-have been deemed exceedingly unlikely to show up in the real world. And yet, as individuals who prefer blue eyes are more inclined to mate with blue-eyed partners and invest in blue-eyed offspring, any blue-eye preference (whether random or arising from the bias for colorful stimuli shared by all recognition systems) becomes rapidly linked to the blue-eye trait. Thus, blue eyes gain an edge by working like a peacock's colorful tail a nestling's colorful mouth: twice self-reinforcing, "double runaway" evolution via sexual and parental selection. The blue-eye ornament gene, by binding to a behavior that favors other bearers of the blue-eye ornament gene, is ultimately recognizing and helping copies of itself in both kin and strangers-and greatly prospering, just like theory predicts.

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Why humans evolved blue eyes.

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Bressan P

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Some people have blue eyes, which are not as good as dark eyes at protecting against sunlight. Researchers think that blue eyes became common because people with blue eyes liked to marry others with blue eyes, helping the trait spread quickly. This is similar to how some colorful animal features make them more successful by attracting mates.

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pubmed id: 40309207 Indexed on May 1st, 2025

Motor and cognitive function after unipolar depressive episodes: a 6 years longitudinal observational study.

Straub S; Hobert MA; Emmert K; Hansen C; Elshehabi M; Suenkel U; Wurster I; Roeben B; Zimmermann M; Fallgatter AJ; Berg D; Maetzler W pubmed id: 40309206

Unipolar depression is a common mental health problem that can cause trouble with thinking and moving. It might be an early sign of brain diseases that get worse over time. Not much research has studied if the problems with thinking and moving continue even after a person feels better from depression.

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Unipolar depression is a frequent psychiatric disorder and associated with cognitive and motor deficits. It is also a prodromal or risk marker for various neurodegenerative diseases. Little research has been done on the extent to which motor and cognitive deficits persist in remitted depressive episode, and to what extent these deficits can be progressive.

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Motor and cognitive function after unipolar depressive episodes: a 6 years longitudinal observational study.

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Straub S; Hobert MA; Emmert K; Hansen C; Elshehabi M; Suenkel U; Wurster I; Roeben B; Zimmermann M; Fallgatter AJ; Berg D; Maetzler W

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Unipolar depression is a common mental health problem that can cause trouble with thinking and moving. It might be an early sign of brain diseases that get worse over time. Not much research has studied if the problems with thinking and moving continue even after a person feels better from depression.

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pubmed id: 40309206 Indexed on May 1st, 2025

The relationship between Chinese vocational college students' adverse childhood experience and meaning in life: the mediating role of self-esteem and the moderating role of humorous coping.

Yun A; Cai Y; Hu Y pubmed id: 40309205

The study looked at how bad things that happen when you’re a kid affect how you find meaning in life. It found that having a sense of humor can help protect self-esteem, making it easier to cope with tough childhood experiences. So, being able to laugh can make a big difference in feeling good about yourself.

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This study examined the relationship between adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and meaning in life among Chinese vocational college students, along with the mediating role of self-esteem and the moderating role of humorous coping. A total of 451 students were assessed utilizing the Adverse Childhood Experiences Scale (ACES), the Meaning in Life Questionnaire (MLQ), the Rosenberg's Self-Esteem Scale (RSES), and the Coping Humor Scale (CHS). Results indicated that: (1) adverse childhood experiences significantly and negatively predicted meaning in life; (2) self-esteem partially mediated the relationship between adverse childhood experiences and meaning in life; (3) humorous coping moderated the first stage of the mediation model, specifically buffering the negative effect of adverse childhood experiences on self-esteem. In summary, adverse childhood experiences reduce meaning in life by impairing self-esteem, whereas enhancing humorous coping abilities can buffer their detrimental effects on self-esteem among college students.

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The relationship between Chinese vocational college students' adverse childhood experience and meaning in life: the mediating role of self-esteem and the moderating role of humorous coping.

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Yun A; Cai Y; Hu Y

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The study looked at how bad things that happen when you’re a kid affect how you find meaning in life. It found that having a sense of humor can help protect self-esteem, making it easier to cope with tough childhood experiences. So, being able to laugh can make a big difference in feeling good about yourself.

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pubmed id: 40309205 Indexed on May 1st, 2025

Flourishing as a highly sensitive person: a mixed method study on the role of nature connectedness and chaotic home environment.

Carroll S; O'Brien A; Lionetti F; O'Reilly A; Setti A pubmed id: 40309204

This study looks at how highly sensitive people can do well when they connect with nature, which makes them feel better, but they might feel worse if their home is messy and chaotic. The researchers also want to know more about how these ideas work for people who are middle-aged or older.

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Theories of Environmental Sensitivity postulate that those who are highly sensitive thrive in favourable contexts and are more disadvantaged by unfavourable ones; however, negative outcomes, instead of positive, are more often investigated. In this study, instead, we focus on human flourishing and what promotes it or hinders it. Recent literature shows that those who are highly sensitive are more connected with nature, and nature connectedness is known to confer psychological benefits. On the contrary, a chaotic home environment is associated with decreased well-being. We hypothesise that a chaotic home environment will negatively impact flourishing, particularly for those who are highly sensitive, while being connected with nature will have a more positive effect on them. Middle and older adulthood are less investigated stages of life.

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Flourishing as a highly sensitive person: a mixed method study on the role of nature connectedness and chaotic home environment.

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Carroll S; O'Brien A; Lionetti F; O'Reilly A; Setti A

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This study looks at how highly sensitive people can do well when they connect with nature, which makes them feel better, but they might feel worse if their home is messy and chaotic. The researchers also want to know more about how these ideas work for people who are middle-aged or older.

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pubmed id: 40309204 Indexed on May 1st, 2025

Depersonalisation-derealisation as a transdiagnostic treatment target: a scoping review of the evidence in anxiety, depression, and psychosis.

Černis E; Antonović M; Kamvar R; Perkins J pubmed id: 40309203

The study looked at feelings of not being connected to yourself or things around you, which can happen with different mental health problems. These feelings might actually make other mental health issues worse, so the study wanted to see if helping with these feelings could also help with anxiety, depression, and psychosis.

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Depersonalisation and derealisation (DPDR) describe dissociative experiences involving distressing feelings of disconnection from oneself or one's surroundings. Such experiences are common transdiagnostically across the range of mental health presentations, with evidence to suggest they may even play an active role in the development and maintenance of other mental health concerns. If substantiated, DPDR could present a plausible novel transdiagnostic treatment target. The objective of this scoping review was to therefore to synthesise the evidence-base regarding DPDR as a transdiagnostic target for the treatment of anxiety, depression, and psychosis, in order to evaluate this proposal for each.

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Depersonalisation-derealisation as a transdiagnostic treatment target: a scoping review of the evidence in anxiety, depression, and psychosis.

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Černis E; Antonović M; Kamvar R; Perkins J

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The study looked at feelings of not being connected to yourself or things around you, which can happen with different mental health problems. These feelings might actually make other mental health issues worse, so the study wanted to see if helping with these feelings could also help with anxiety, depression, and psychosis.

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pubmed id: 40309203 Indexed on May 1st, 2025

Work addiction, emotional dysregulation, addictive eating, and physical health among full-time employees in the United States.

Tang CS pubmed id: 40309202

This study looked at how being addicted to work can harm health. It found that work addiction makes it hard to handle feelings, which can lead to eating in unhealthy ways and cause more health problems.

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This study explored the psychological mechanisms linking work addiction to poor physical health among full-time employees. The proposed serial multiple mediation model suggests that work addiction depletes employees' ability to regulate emotions, leading to addictive eating as a coping mechanism, which creates a vicious cycle that severely impairs physical health.

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Work addiction, emotional dysregulation, addictive eating, and physical health among full-time employees in the United States.

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Tang CS

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This study looked at how being addicted to work can harm health. It found that work addiction makes it hard to handle feelings, which can lead to eating in unhealthy ways and cause more health problems.

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pubmed id: 40309202 Indexed on May 1st, 2025

Relational needs satisfaction scale: adaptation to the Bosnian language and psychometric testing.

Mustoo-Başer L; Sinanović E; Draganović S; Žvelc G pubmed id: 40309201

Feeling happy with our friendships and relationships is very important for people. This study looked at a new way to measure how happy people are with their relationships in Bosnia.

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Relating to others and establishing relationships is necessary for optimal human functioning. Perceived relational satisfaction appears to be one of the most important aspects of individuals' lives, reflecting the extent to which our relational needs are met. This study aimed to test the factor structure, item characteristics, and convergent validity of the Bosnian adaptation of the Relational Needs Satisfaction Scale (RNSS).

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Relational needs satisfaction scale: adaptation to the Bosnian language and psychometric testing.

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Mustoo-Başer L; Sinanović E; Draganović S; Žvelc G

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Feeling happy with our friendships and relationships is very important for people. This study looked at a new way to measure how happy people are with their relationships in Bosnia.

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pubmed id: 40309201 Indexed on May 1st, 2025

The effects of different training programs on sleep and academic performance of senior high school boy students: a randomized controlled trial.

Zhao Y; Li G; Zou Z; Zhang X; Hou S pubmed id: 40309200

This study looks at how different exercise programs affect the sleep of high school boys. The goal is to find the best way to help them sleep better with the right training.

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To explore the effects of different physical training programs on the sleep of boy students in a senior high school, and to provide a reference for effectively improving the sleep level of students in a senior high school, as well as optimizing the physical training program.

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The effects of different training programs on sleep and academic performance of senior high school boy students: a randomized controlled trial.

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Zhao Y; Li G; Zou Z; Zhang X; Hou S

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This study looks at how different exercise programs affect the sleep of high school boys. The goal is to find the best way to help them sleep better with the right training.

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pubmed id: 40309200 Indexed on May 1st, 2025

Diabetes as a predictor of COVID-19 preventive behaviors.

Gonzalez Casanova I; Klingensmith R; Myers BA; Anwar F; de Groot M pubmed id: 40309199

The study looked at whether having diabetes affected how people behaved during COVID-19. It focused on staying home, wearing a mask, and getting vaccinated among US adults over a year.

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We explored if diabetes status predicted differences in behavioral pathways associated with staying home at the beginning of the coronavirus-19 infectious disease (COVID-19), wearing a mask, and vaccinating in a convenience sample of US adults over a 12-month period of the COVID-19 pandemic (from May 2020 through June 2021).

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Diabetes as a predictor of COVID-19 preventive behaviors.

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Gonzalez Casanova I; Klingensmith R; Myers BA; Anwar F; de Groot M

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The study looked at whether having diabetes affected how people behaved during COVID-19. It focused on staying home, wearing a mask, and getting vaccinated among US adults over a year.

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pubmed id: 40309199 Indexed on May 1st, 2025

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Social support and psychological distress of patients with pituitary adenomas: chain-mediated effects of self-efficacy and rumination.

Zhang L; Cheng N; Zhang S; Liang X; Jia Y; Jiang X pubmed id: 40302915

The study looks at how feeling supported by others can help people with pituitary adenomas feel less upset. It focuses on how believing in oneself and thinking things over link support with feeling better.

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Psychological distress in patients with pituitary adenomas affects their quality of life and is influenced by various aspects such as sociocultural factors, personal resources, and stressors. Therefore, the aim of this study was to investigate the chain-mediated role of self-efficacy and rumination in the relationship between social support and psychological distress.

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Social support and psychological distress of patients with pituitary adenomas: chain-mediated effects of self-efficacy and rumination.

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Zhang L; Cheng N; Zhang S; Liang X; Jia Y; Jiang X

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The study looks at how feeling supported by others can help people with pituitary adenomas feel less upset. It focuses on how believing in oneself and thinking things over link support with feeling better.

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pubmed id: 40302915 Indexed on April 30th, 2025

Ethnic-cultural procedural fairness effects on organizational identification and job satisfaction among minority and majority employees.

Dierckx K; Depauw H; Haesevoets T; Valcke B; Van Roey T; Van de Putte B; De Cremer D; Els C; Van Hiel A pubmed id: 40302914

The study looked at how fairness in handling ethnic and cultural issues at work affects how happy people are with their jobs. It found that feeling treated fairly can make workers, both minorities and those in the majority, feel more connected to their workplace, leading to greater job satisfaction. This research shows that fairness can help handle diversity better in organizations.

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In the present contribution, we examined the application of procedural fairness in the resolution of ethnic-cultural (EC) issues, which are issues relating to ethnic, cultural, and linguistic matters. We hypothesized that EC procedural fairness perceptions contribute to effective diversity management because they are positively related to job satisfaction among minority group employees. We further theorized that this relationship is mediated by organizational identification. What makes the present study particularly unique is that we employ a dual focus, by examining the perceptions of both minority and majority group members. Two field studies (total  = 2,059; 26.3% minority members) and a longitudinal field survey ( = 265 minority members) supported our predictions. In Study 1, we consistently found that minority employees' EC procedural fairness perceptions were positively associated with job satisfaction. Moreover, organizational identification fully mediated this relationship. Interestingly, similar positive responses to EC procedural fairness were observed among majority group employees. Study 2 sampled minority employees working in various countries and industrial sectors on two different measurement occasions. Multilevel mediation analyses provided further support for the mediating role of organizational identification. Finally, Study 3 sampled minority and majority group assembly line workers pertaining to various ethnically diverse teams. In line with Study 1, our multilevel analyses revealed that EC procedural fairness perceptions were related to enhanced job satisfaction (through organizational identification) among minority majority group employees. Taken together, the present results highlight that procedural fairness can be implemented to resolve ethnic-cultural issues in today's super-diverse organizations, and by doing so, they emphasize the potential of procedural fairness for organizational diversity management.

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Ethnic-cultural procedural fairness effects on organizational identification and job satisfaction among minority and majority employees.

Author(s):
Dierckx K; Depauw H; Haesevoets T; Valcke B; Van Roey T; Van de Putte B; De Cremer D; Els C; Van Hiel A

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The study looked at how fairness in handling ethnic and cultural issues at work affects how happy people are with their jobs. It found that feeling treated fairly can make workers, both minorities and those in the majority, feel more connected to their workplace, leading to greater job satisfaction. This research shows that fairness can help handle diversity better in organizations.

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pubmed id: 40302914 Indexed on April 30th, 2025

Innovative and ecological: integrating ecological momentary assessment into environmental science research.

Lohani M; Blodgett G pubmed id: 40302913

Ecological momentary assessment (EMA) is a helpful way to study how people react to their environment over time. EMA can give scientists better information about people's actions and feelings in their natural surroundings. The paper talks about how using EMA can make environmental science research better and what challenges there might be.

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Ecological momentary assessment (EMA) is a widely used methodology in psychological sciences; however, more broadly, environmental scientists have yet to fully capitalize on the benefits this method offers for gaining a critical understanding of subjective and behavioral responses to environmental factors. EMA enables the collection of experiences and actions occurring in one's natural environment as they unfold over time, allowing researchers to gain contextually informed, dynamic, and longitudinal insights. EMA can provide an accurate understanding of experiences and behaviors relevant to environmental science. To share this perspective, first, we describe current limitations in environmental research that could be addressed through the integration of EMA. Second, we discuss several benefits of adopting EMA in environmental sciences. Finally, we highlight the challenges and considerations involved in integrating EMA. The overarching implication of this work is to foster the interdisciplinary potential and promise of EMA methodology in advancing environmental science research.

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Innovative and ecological: integrating ecological momentary assessment into environmental science research.

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Lohani M; Blodgett G

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Ecological momentary assessment (EMA) is a helpful way to study how people react to their environment over time. EMA can give scientists better information about people's actions and feelings in their natural surroundings. The paper talks about how using EMA can make environmental science research better and what challenges there might be.

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pubmed id: 40302913 Indexed on April 30th, 2025

Cross-cultural differences in resolving sacrificial dilemmas: choices made and how they relate to judgments of their social acceptability.

Jiang X; Harvey N pubmed id: 40302912

People from England and China were asked if they would let one person die to save five others, either by flipping a switch or pushing someone. In both places, people were more willing to flip a switch than push someone, but they thought more people would agree with their choice than actually would. Chinese people thought more about what others would think compared to people from England.

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Samples of English and Chinese people judged the likelihood that they would sacrifice the life (or health) of one person to save the life (or health) of five people by performing an impersonal action (flipping a switch) or a personal one (pushing someone over a bridge). They also judged how many people out of 100 would consider their choice to be morally acceptable. Judgments by people in the two cultures were similar in two ways. First and consistently with previous work, people in both groups were more likely to sacrifice one life to save five when the action was impersonal; however, they were no more likely to make that sacrifice to save the health of five people than to save the lives of those people. Second, the likelihood of people in both cultures deciding on a sacrificial action was less than their assessments of the likelihood that such an action was morally acceptable, a result that is the opposite of what has been previously found. This contrast can be explained by recognizing the difference between asking people to assess how acceptable moral choices are to participants themselves (previous reports) and asking them to judge how acceptable those choices are to other people (this report). The two cultures also differed in two ways. Chinese participants (a) showed a larger difference between the likelihood of people acting and their assessments of the likelihood that acting would be acceptable to others, and (b) were less likely to act in impersonal dilemmas. These cross-cultural differences imply that Chinese participants were more influenced by their judgments of what other people would think about sacrificial action.

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Cross-cultural differences in resolving sacrificial dilemmas: choices made and how they relate to judgments of their social acceptability.

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Jiang X; Harvey N

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People from England and China were asked if they would let one person die to save five others, either by flipping a switch or pushing someone. In both places, people were more willing to flip a switch than push someone, but they thought more people would agree with their choice than actually would. Chinese people thought more about what others would think compared to people from England.

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pubmed id: 40302912 Indexed on April 30th, 2025

The role of object-based attention in semantic working memory.

Guo T; Ye L; Huang J; Xu Z pubmed id: 40302911

This study looks at how attention helps people remember sentences better than lists of words when learning a second language. It also checks how much attention affects this memory advantage.

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Recent studies suggest that working memory (WM) temporarily stores and processes bindings, while semantically related WM processing interacts with long-term memory (LTM). Semantic information can be categorized into grammatically connected sentences, which benefit from LTM-based semantic and syntactic integration, and isolated word lists, which lack meaningful structural connections. The sentence superiority effect refers to the enhanced memory performance of sentences compared to word lists. This study explores how object-based attention resources contribute to semantic WM processing in second language (L2) learners and examines the impact of object attention task load on sentence superiority.

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The role of object-based attention in semantic working memory.

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Guo T; Ye L; Huang J; Xu Z

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This study looks at how attention helps people remember sentences better than lists of words when learning a second language. It also checks how much attention affects this memory advantage.

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pubmed id: 40302911 Indexed on April 30th, 2025

Work performance of middle-aged and elderly employees in hotel industry: the moderating effects of organizational support and age discrimination.

Chow WW; Peng P pubmed id: 40302910

This study looks at how different kinds of support and feelings about age affect how well middle-aged and elderly people do their jobs in hotels. It found that having support from the place they work helps them do better, while feeling discriminated against because of their age can hurt their performance. The research shows the importance of support and fair treatment for older workers.

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With the acceleration of the process of social aging, the re-employment of middle-aged and elderly people has gradually attracted the attention of society. Due to the relatively low barrier to entry, the hotel industry is favored by middle-aged and elderly people who are re-employed. This study analyzes the impacts of the three-dimensional capital on the job performance of middle-aged and elderly employees and investigates how organizational support and age discrimination moderate the effect of job satisfaction on job performance. A self-administered questionnaire was distributed to 400 hotel employees using convenience sampling. First, the three-dimensional capital has a positive impact on the job performance of both middle-aged and elderly employees; second, Job satisfaction has a mediating effect between the three-dimensional capital and the job performance of middle-aged and elderly employees; third, perceived organizational support positively moderates the effect of job satisfaction on job performance of middle-aged and elderly employees, and age discrimination perception negatively moderates the effect of job satisfaction on job performance of middle-aged and elderly employees. Theoretical and practical implications, as well as limitations and future research directions, are discussed.

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Work performance of middle-aged and elderly employees in hotel industry: the moderating effects of organizational support and age discrimination.

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Chow WW; Peng P

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This study looks at how different kinds of support and feelings about age affect how well middle-aged and elderly people do their jobs in hotels. It found that having support from the place they work helps them do better, while feeling discriminated against because of their age can hurt their performance. The research shows the importance of support and fair treatment for older workers.

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pubmed id: 40302910 Indexed on April 30th, 2025

The effects of charismatic leadership on performance: exploring key boundary conditions at multilevel.

Zhang L; Seong JY; Hong DS; Yoon HJ pubmed id: 40302909

Charismatic leadership is important for helping groups work better, be more creative, and change when needed. This study looks at how charismatic leadership affects work results by making people more creative, considering both individual and group factors.

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Charismatic leadership (CL) plays an indispensable role in facilitating organizational change, stimulating creativity, and attaining performance objectives. Given the growing attention on the relationship between CL, creativity and performance, we establish a multilevel model that examines the moderated mediation effect of CL on task performance through creativity. This model considers both individual and group levels while accounting for contextual factors such as high-performance work systems (HPWS) at the individual level and group performance orientation (GPO) at the group level.

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The effects of charismatic leadership on performance: exploring key boundary conditions at multilevel.

Author(s):
Zhang L; Seong JY; Hong DS; Yoon HJ

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Charismatic leadership is important for helping groups work better, be more creative, and change when needed. This study looks at how charismatic leadership affects work results by making people more creative, considering both individual and group factors.

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pubmed id: 40302909 Indexed on April 30th, 2025

IRT analysis of the BDI-II for early online depression detection: validation in a Mexican population.

Salcedo-Callado T; Hernández-Llanes N; Sánchez-Domínguez R; Saracco-Alvarez R; Marín-Navarrete R pubmed id: 40302908

Depression is a big problem all over the world, so finding what causes it is very important. There's a quiz called the Beck Depression Inventory II (BDI-II) that helps find depression, even on the internet. But we need to prove it works well online, especially in places where not many people use it like this.

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Identifying factors associated with depression is crucial to addressing the global rise in mental health needs. The Beck Depression Inventory II (BDI-II) has shown robustness in assessing depression, even in digital contexts. However, psychometric evidence is essential to support its use in online self-diagnosis, particularly in regions where it has not been widely employed for this purpose.

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IRT analysis of the BDI-II for early online depression detection: validation in a Mexican population.

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Salcedo-Callado T; Hernández-Llanes N; Sánchez-Domínguez R; Saracco-Alvarez R; Marín-Navarrete R

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Depression is a big problem all over the world, so finding what causes it is very important. There's a quiz called the Beck Depression Inventory II (BDI-II) that helps find depression, even on the internet. But we need to prove it works well online, especially in places where not many people use it like this.

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Building pre-service teachers' resilience through Service-Learning: an explanatory sequential mixed methods study.

Sánchez-Jiménez M; Maravé-Vivas M; Gil-Gómez J; Salvador-Garcia C pubmed id: 40302906

University education should help students grow in many ways, not just learn job skills. This study looked at how something called Service-Learning helped students become more resilient. The findings showed that students got better at handling change and challenges.

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University education should not be limited to mere instruction in professional skills but should foster the holistic development of students. This approach is particularly necessary in a changing society marked by rapid technological advances, labor transformations and global challenges. Therefore, higher education must offer students the opportunity to develop strategies to protect and improve their mental health. Within the concept of mental health is resilience, which enables the mobilization of internal and external resources to cope with and learn from challenging situations, managing change and uncertainty more effectively. Using a mixed methodological approach based on an explanatory sequential design, the present study aims to determine the effect of Service-Learning on the levels of resilience of students enrolled in the degree of Physical Activity and Sport Sciences at the Universitat Jaume I in Spain. To this end, the Resilience Questionnaire for Adults (RQA) was administered before and after a Service-Learning program. The reflection diaries written by the participants ( = 54) were analyzed too. The quantitative results show an improvement, which is significant for the "adaptative" and "tolerance" components of resilience, while the qualitative phase allows us to understand these results. In general, the findings point to the development of resilience among participants, which is a result consistent with previous literature suggesting that Service-Learning can be an adequate approach to foster the acquisition of skills present in the resilience construct, while favoring learning and fostering social compromise.

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Building pre-service teachers' resilience through Service-Learning: an explanatory sequential mixed methods study.

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Sánchez-Jiménez M; Maravé-Vivas M; Gil-Gómez J; Salvador-Garcia C

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University education should help students grow in many ways, not just learn job skills. This study looked at how something called Service-Learning helped students become more resilient. The findings showed that students got better at handling change and challenges.

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pubmed id: 40302906 Indexed on April 30th, 2025

The effect of error aversion climate on impoverished leadership.

Liu CE; Liu Y; Li Y; Hu C; Wang S pubmed id: 40302904

Bad leadership can make team spirit and work suffer, and it can hurt how well a group does and how others see them. It can also be bad for the leader's job in the future. However, not much is known about what causes this kind of poor leadership.

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Impoverished leadership, as a form of unethical leadership behavior, can have a wide range of negative impacts. It not only affects team morale, work efficiency, cohesion, and trust but also directly influences organizational performance, reputation, and the leader's own career development. However, previous research has rarely explored the antecedents of impoverished leadership.

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The effect of error aversion climate on impoverished leadership.

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Liu CE; Liu Y; Li Y; Hu C; Wang S

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Bad leadership can make team spirit and work suffer, and it can hurt how well a group does and how others see them. It can also be bad for the leader's job in the future. However, not much is known about what causes this kind of poor leadership.

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pubmed id: 40302904 Indexed on April 30th, 2025

EmoWELL: effectiveness of a serious game for emotion regulation in emerging adulthood.

Velert-Jiménez S; Valero-Moreno S; Gil-Gómez JA; Pérez-Marín M; Montoya-Castilla I pubmed id: 40302903

The study talks about young adults and how they learn to manage their emotions. It looks at a game called emoWELL, which helps them get better at controlling their emotions.

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Emerging adulthood represents a critical period for developing emotion regulation skills, as individuals face new roles and responsibilities while often employing maladaptive regulatory strategies. Given the increasing use of technology among emerging adults, this study evaluated emoWELL, a serious game designed to enhance emotion regulation during this developmental stage.

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EmoWELL: effectiveness of a serious game for emotion regulation in emerging adulthood.

Author(s):
Velert-Jiménez S; Valero-Moreno S; Gil-Gómez JA; Pérez-Marín M; Montoya-Castilla I

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The study talks about young adults and how they learn to manage their emotions. It looks at a game called emoWELL, which helps them get better at controlling their emotions.

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pubmed id: 40302903 Indexed on April 30th, 2025

Mental fatigue and return to well-being in athletes: roles of cognitive reappraisal, gender, and alcohol consumption.

Kara M; Ogras EB; Talaghir LG; Iconomescu TM; Gumus H pubmed id: 40302902

The study looked at how feeling tired in the mind can affect athletes' recovery. It found that being aware of mental fatigue makes recovery harder, and thinking differently can partly help. Girls were more affected by mental tiredness than boys, and drinking alcohol didn't change the results much.

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This study aimed to investigate the impact of mental fatigue awareness on psychological recovery processes in athletes. It also examines the mediating role of cognitive reappraisal and the moderating effects of gender and alcohol use. A sample of 639 active athletes from diverse regions of Turkey participated in the online study. Data were collected through the Sport Psychological Recovery Scale, the Emotion Regulation Scale for Athletes, and the Mental Fatigue Awareness Scale in Athletes. The findings indicate that mental fatigue awareness has a direct, negative effect on recovery (β = -0.2526, < 0.001). Also, cognitive reappraisal partially mediates this relationship (β = -0.236, < 0.001). Gender was identified as a significant moderator, with women exhibiting a stronger negative impact of mental fatigue awareness on their recovery processes compared to men. However, the moderating effect of alcohol consumption was not statistically significant. The study contributes to the understanding of the interplay between mental fatigue awareness and recovery in athletes, highlighting the influence of cognitive and emotional regulation and the importance of gender as a moderating variable. Future research should employ longitudinal designs and larger samples to explore these relationships in greater depth.

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Mental fatigue and return to well-being in athletes: roles of cognitive reappraisal, gender, and alcohol consumption.

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Kara M; Ogras EB; Talaghir LG; Iconomescu TM; Gumus H

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The study looked at how feeling tired in the mind can affect athletes' recovery. It found that being aware of mental fatigue makes recovery harder, and thinking differently can partly help. Girls were more affected by mental tiredness than boys, and drinking alcohol didn't change the results much.

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pubmed id: 40302902 Indexed on April 30th, 2025

Parenting stress after perineal tear during childbirth: the role of physical health and depressive symptoms.

Rattaz V; Cairo Notari S; Avignon V; Achtari C; Horsch A pubmed id: 40302901

This study looks at how bad a tear during childbirth can make new moms feel more stressed. It found that these tears might make it harder for moms to handle the stress of being a parent. The study thinks this might be because the tears affect their health and how they feel.

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This study investigates the impact of the severity of perineal tear during childbirth on parenting stress at 10-12 weeks postpartum. Studies have shown that up to 80% of primiparous mothers may suffer a perineal tear, which can have important physical and psychological consequences. As the adjustment to parenthood can be highly demanding and stressful for primiparous parents, we hypothesized that having experienced a perineal tear during childbirth could be an additional stressor reducing the resources to cope, which could increase parenting stress. We also hypothesized that this increase in parenting stress could be explained by the consequences of the perineal tear on mothers' physical health and depressive symptoms.

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Parenting stress after perineal tear during childbirth: the role of physical health and depressive symptoms.

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Rattaz V; Cairo Notari S; Avignon V; Achtari C; Horsch A

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This study looks at how bad a tear during childbirth can make new moms feel more stressed. It found that these tears might make it harder for moms to handle the stress of being a parent. The study thinks this might be because the tears affect their health and how they feel.

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pubmed id: 40302901 Indexed on April 30th, 2025

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The impact of adult attachment on career decision-making in Chinese college students: the chain mediating role of self-differentiation and social support.

Wang X; Liu Q; Xiao B pubmed id: 40297605

This study looks at how grown-up attachment affects Chinese students' career choices. It finds that things like being confident in themselves and having friends to help them can change the way they decide what jobs to do.

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This study investigates the influence of adult attachment on career decision-making among Chinese university students, focusing on the chain mediation roles of self-differentiation and social support. Grounded in attachment theory and Bowen's family systems theory, the proposed model "adult attachment → self-differentiation → social support → career decision-making" elucidates how emotional dependency indirectly shapes career choices through psychological maturity and social resource integration, offering novel insights for career counseling.

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The impact of adult attachment on career decision-making in Chinese college students: the chain mediating role of self-differentiation and social support.

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Wang X; Liu Q; Xiao B

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This study looks at how grown-up attachment affects Chinese students' career choices. It finds that things like being confident in themselves and having friends to help them can change the way they decide what jobs to do.

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pubmed id: 40297605 Indexed on April 29th, 2025

How Epistemic Beliefs about Climate Change Predict Climate Change Conspiracy Beliefs.

Nöth L; Zander L pubmed id: 40297604

Some people believe in theories that say climate change isn't real, which can make fighting climate change harder. This research looked at why people believe this, especially when they don't trust science. They found that teaching people more about how knowledge works might help them trust science more and believe these theories less.

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Belief in climate change conspiracy theories (CCCT) can undermine support for measures against climate change. In two studies, we therefore aim to gain a clearer understanding of the factors that contribute to CCCT. A significant factor associated with CCCT is distrust in science, which is also correlated with epistemic beliefs (EBs) (e.g., beliefs are about the nature of knowledge and the process of knowing). EBs influence how individuals respond to knowledge claims, address contradictory evidence, and integrate new information. We hypothesize that EBs are linked to belief in CCCT via distrust in science. To test this hypothesis, we conducted one correlational study and one experimental study ( = 404 and  = 104, both pre-registered). Study 1 found that participants were more likely to endorse climate-related conspiracy beliefs if they viewed climate knowledge as tentative, relied on intuition to understand climate change, and had weaker beliefs in the interconnectedness of climate knowledge and its reliance on experts and scientific sources. As anticipated, distrust in climate science significantly mediated the relationships between the EBs subscales and belief in CCCT. Additionally, political ideology moderated the effect of believing knowledge originates from experts and science on distrust in climate science - this effect was pronounced among participants identifying with the political center while being weaker among left-wing participants. In Study 2, we were unable to establish a causal relationship between certainty beliefs and belief in CCCT. In conclusion, we suggest that educational initiatives aimed at fostering EBs may reduce science distrust and conspiracy beliefs.

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How Epistemic Beliefs about Climate Change Predict Climate Change Conspiracy Beliefs.

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Nöth L; Zander L

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Some people believe in theories that say climate change isn't real, which can make fighting climate change harder. This research looked at why people believe this, especially when they don't trust science. They found that teaching people more about how knowledge works might help them trust science more and believe these theories less.

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pubmed id: 40297604 Indexed on April 29th, 2025

Raising to conformity without strictness: is it achievable?

Alcaide M; Garcia OF; Gomez-Ortiz O; Garcia F pubmed id: 40297603

Recent studies show that being very strict might not always be the best way to raise children. This research looks at how being loving (warmth) and being strict affect how kids fit in and adjust to the world around them.

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The prevailing belief that parental strictness is optimal for children is not uniformly supported by recent research. Contrary to the traditional notion that strictness is necessary to ensure children's conformity to social norms, contemporary studies question its necessity. This study aims to analyze how two main parenting dimensions, warmth and strictness, are related to the psychosocial adjustment of children.

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Raising to conformity without strictness: is it achievable?

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Alcaide M; Garcia OF; Gomez-Ortiz O; Garcia F

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Recent studies show that being very strict might not always be the best way to raise children. This research looks at how being loving (warmth) and being strict affect how kids fit in and adjust to the world around them.

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pubmed id: 40297603 Indexed on April 29th, 2025

Understanding of mental fatigue in elite fencing sports: perspectives from Chinese national level fencers.

Bian C; Russell S; De Pauw K; Habay J; Bogataj Š; Roelands B pubmed id: 40297602

Some sports make people feel tired mentally because they use a lot of brain power. Fencing is a sport that needs a lot of thinking and quick decisions, but not much research has been done on mental tiredness in fencing.

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Recent studies have documented the presence, fluctuation, and persistence of mental fatigue (MF) across various elite sports. It appears that open-skilled competitive contexts tend to impose greater mental demands, leading to higher levels of MF. Fencing, as an open-skilled combat sport, requires perceptual-cognitive skills and mental resources allocation for an optimal performance. However, it is underrepresented in the MF research domain.

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Understanding of mental fatigue in elite fencing sports: perspectives from Chinese national level fencers.

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Bian C; Russell S; De Pauw K; Habay J; Bogataj Š; Roelands B

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Some sports make people feel tired mentally because they use a lot of brain power. Fencing is a sport that needs a lot of thinking and quick decisions, but not much research has been done on mental tiredness in fencing.

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pubmed id: 40297602 Indexed on April 29th, 2025

Lexical bundles in psychology lectures and textbooks: a contrastive corpus-based study with implications for academic writing.

Alasmary A pubmed id: 40297601

The study looks at groups of words used a lot in psychology, called lexical bundles, and compares how they are used in spoken lectures and written textbooks. It finds that there are more different kinds of these word groups in speaking than in writing, and that spoken psychology uses more sentence-like bundles, while written psychology uses more phrase-like bundles. This helps teachers create better lessons for students learning to write and talk like experts in psychology.

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Research on lexical bundles (LBs) has explored various academic domains; however, the field of psychology has received comparatively less attention. This study aims to address this gap by contrastively investigating the use of LBs in two sub-corpora: videotaped lectures and textbook chapters. Four-word bundles that meet a predetermined set of selection criteria are elicited and subsequently analyzed both structurally and functionally. The results indicate significant variation in the number of bundle types and tokens between the two registers, with the spoken register exhibiting a much broader variety of LBs than the written register. Structural analysis reveals that clausal constructions predominantly characterize LBs in the spoken psychology register, whereas phrasal patterns are more common in the written register. Additionally, the functional analysis highlights that stance bundles constitute the most prevalent category in the academic lecture corpus, while referential bundles emerge as the largest functional category in the academic texts. This variation reinforces the widely accepted notion that LBs are sensitive to register differences. Pedagogically, the study provides English for Specific Purposes instructors with data-based lists of LBs that can be integrated into classroom activities or tailored to develop instructional materials on academic writing and speech. Given that LBs are classified into distinct structural and functional groups, moreover, instructors can draw on the two lists for more register-focused, awareness-raising activities that help psychology students approximate an expert-like writing style.

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Lexical bundles in psychology lectures and textbooks: a contrastive corpus-based study with implications for academic writing.

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Alasmary A

Summary:
The study looks at groups of words used a lot in psychology, called lexical bundles, and compares how they are used in spoken lectures and written textbooks. It finds that there are more different kinds of these word groups in speaking than in writing, and that spoken psychology uses more sentence-like bundles, while written psychology uses more phrase-like bundles. This helps teachers create better lessons for students learning to write and talk like experts in psychology.

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pubmed id: 40297601 Indexed on April 29th, 2025