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February 27th, 2025

The preschool strengths inventory: development and validation.

Owens RL; Patterson MM; Multon KD pubmed id: 40012944

Researchers made a tool with 37 questions to find out what kids are good at. They talked to parents and tested the tool to make sure it works well. Now, people can use it to help kids grow their strengths.

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There is a lack of research on young children's strengths, likely in part due to limited tools available to identify individual strengths in early childhood. To help address this gap and provide a brief measure for parents, researchers, and practitioners, the 37-item (PSI) was developed. First, focus groups with parents were conducted to identify strengths in early childhood. Based on the results of the focus groups and a review of the research, items were developed, reviewed by experts, and tested through exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis. The five factors identified were: and Lastly, validity was tested and established with measures of personality traits and social skills, and the PSI's test-retest reliability was examined. Results provide support for the content structure, reliability, and validity of the PSI. The PSI can provide the ability to study strengths beginning early in life and provide a foundation to develop strengths-focused interventions.

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The preschool strengths inventory: development and validation.

Author(s):
Owens RL; Patterson MM; Multon KD

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Researchers made a tool with 37 questions to find out what kids are good at. They talked to parents and tested the tool to make sure it works well. Now, people can use it to help kids grow their strengths.

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Extracurricular physical exercise and self-education expectations among Chinese teenagers.

Xiao Q; Tang F pubmed id: 40012943

The study looked at the connection between after-school physical exercises and students' expectations for themselves at school. Kids who do physical exercises after school expect more from their education compared to those who don't. The study also found that things like confidence, thinking skills, and health affect how much kids expect from themselves at school after doing exercises.

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Drawing on data from 16,540 seventh and ninth graders from the China Education Survey (CES), the study employs descriptive statistics and Ordinal Logistic Regression (Ologit) models. These methods dissect the variances in self-education expectations among different youth groups and unravel the effects and heterogeneity of after-school physical exercises on these expectations. The study has two main findings: First, there is a marked difference in self-education expectations between adolescents who engage in extracurricular physical exercise and those who do not. Specifically, the group participating in these activities shows a 20.62% higher expectation than their non-participating peers, male students exhibit a 26.57% increase in self-education expectations, while female students show a 15.21% increase. Then, the impact of extracurricular physical exercise on self-education expectations is significantly influenced by cognitive abilities, academic performance, health status, confidence level, and family factors. The most pronounced effects are observed in self-confidence ( = 0.6490, < 0.01), cognitive ability ( = 0.2363, < 0.01), and health status ( = 0.1541, < 0.01). The findings suggest that interventions to increase physical exercise among adolescents should be sensitive to the diverse needs of different demographic groups and consider the key role of familial background and socio-economic conditions.

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Extracurricular physical exercise and self-education expectations among Chinese teenagers.

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Xiao Q; Tang F

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The study looked at the connection between after-school physical exercises and students' expectations for themselves at school. Kids who do physical exercises after school expect more from their education compared to those who don't. The study also found that things like confidence, thinking skills, and health affect how much kids expect from themselves at school after doing exercises.

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Age modulates, religious coping mediates: the role of attitude to self in cancer patients' quality of life.

Onyedibe MC; Chidebe RCW; Andersen BL; Ugwoke UF; Ugwu LE pubmed id: 40012942

Cancer affects how people feel and their quality of life, especially in poorer countries. Negative thoughts can make things worse, but using religion to cope might help, depending on how old you are.

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Cancer significantly impacts psychological well-being and health-related quality of life (HRQoL). This is particularly evident in low and middle-income countries (LMICs) where healthcare disparities exacerbate distress. Cognitive vulnerabilities, including negative generalization, self-criticism, and high standards, may influence HRQoL through their effects on coping mechanisms. Religious coping, shaped by cultural norms in LMICs, may mediate these relationships, with age as a potential moderator.

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Age modulates, religious coping mediates: the role of attitude to self in cancer patients' quality of life.

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Onyedibe MC; Chidebe RCW; Andersen BL; Ugwoke UF; Ugwu LE

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Cancer affects how people feel and their quality of life, especially in poorer countries. Negative thoughts can make things worse, but using religion to cope might help, depending on how old you are.

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Effect of a mindfulness program on stress, anxiety, depression, sleep quality, social support, and life satisfaction: a quasi-experimental study in college students.

Alvarado-García PAA; Soto-Vásquez MR; Infantes Gomez FM; Guzman Rodriguez NM; Castro-Paniagua WG pubmed id: 40012941

This study looked at how a mindfulness program helps college students feel better and improve their mental health. It focused on stress, anxiety, depression, sleep, friends' support, and happiness with life.

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The university experience often brings various personal and academic challenges that can negatively impact students' mental health. This research aimed to evaluate the effect of a mindfulness program on stress, anxiety, depression, sleep quality, social support, and life satisfaction among university students.

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Effect of a mindfulness program on stress, anxiety, depression, sleep quality, social support, and life satisfaction: a quasi-experimental study in college students.

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Alvarado-García PAA; Soto-Vásquez MR; Infantes Gomez FM; Guzman Rodriguez NM; Castro-Paniagua WG

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This study looked at how a mindfulness program helps college students feel better and improve their mental health. It focused on stress, anxiety, depression, sleep, friends' support, and happiness with life.

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The impact of empathy on professional identity among Chinese junior male nurses: a moderated mediation model.

Mu H; Cui Y; Zhang L; Liu Q; Zhang L; Yang H; Chen C; Liu N; Zhang Y pubmed id: 40012940

Junior male nurses are really important in taking care of patients, but people don't always see how important they are. Because of this, many young male nurses stop being nurses because they don't feel like they belong.

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Nursing care is essential, but the role of junior male nurses in medical and health services is underestimated; thus, many junior male nurses leave the profession due to a lack of professional identity.

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The impact of empathy on professional identity among Chinese junior male nurses: a moderated mediation model.

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Mu H; Cui Y; Zhang L; Liu Q; Zhang L; Yang H; Chen C; Liu N; Zhang Y

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Junior male nurses are really important in taking care of patients, but people don't always see how important they are. Because of this, many young male nurses stop being nurses because they don't feel like they belong.

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Developing the Chinese version of the Index of Sojourner Social Support: the roles of socio-emotional and instrumental support in internal migrant university students.

Fu H pubmed id: 40012939

This study checks if a tool called the Index of Sojourner Social Support (ISSS) works well for Chinese university students who moved from other places in China. It also looks at how the support helps these students feel better and adjust to their new environment.

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This study aims to validate the Index of Sojourner Social Support (ISSS)-a widely-used scale for measuring social support in cross-cultural (including cross-national and internal) migrations-in Chinese contexts among internal migrant university students and explore how such support can facilitate their psychological adjustment.

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Developing the Chinese version of the Index of Sojourner Social Support: the roles of socio-emotional and instrumental support in internal migrant university students.

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Fu H

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This study checks if a tool called the Index of Sojourner Social Support (ISSS) works well for Chinese university students who moved from other places in China. It also looks at how the support helps these students feel better and adjust to their new environment.

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pubmed id: 40012939 Indexed on February 27th, 2025

Wellbeing for young elite musicians: development of a health protocol from a student perspective.

Shoebridge A; Osborne MS pubmed id: 40012938

This study looked at how to keep young musicians healthy and happy. It found that problems like money, time, and pressure make it hard for them to feel well. The study suggested ways to help, like more flexible schedules and better support from teachers and the school.

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Musicians' vulnerability to psychological and physical problems provides a compelling argument to include health and wellbeing training in music education. This study forms part of a larger project to design an evidence-based wellbeing protocol for young elite musicians at a pre-professional music training institute. Recommendations from the health, education, performance science, behavior change, and occupational and public health literature provided theoretical and practical foundations for the project. The aim of this study was to identify barriers to wellbeing and strengths of an existing health protocol, and provide recommendations for change from the student perspective. Four in-person focus groups were held on the same day, attended by 68% ( = 45) of the student cohort. Semi-structured discussions were recorded, transcribed and analyzed thematically. Barriers to wellbeing and recommendations for change were collated from the data and distributed to the student body to be rated in priority order. Participants appreciated the existing program for its holistic approach delivered by a range of skilled practitioners. Barriers to wellbeing included constraints in finances, leave allowances and time, pressure from interpersonal challenges and unhealthy norms in the music performance culture. Recommendations for change included updating the financial policy; having more flexible leave conditions to allow higher earnings and better access to performance opportunities; having reliably scheduled time off; collaborative planning with staff around playing rosters; more activities for musician enhancement and social bonding; exercise opportunities in-house; addressing pervasive cultural norms around practice and breaks; education regarding respectful and professional conduct; an effective complaints procedure, and more practical wellbeing sessions.

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Wellbeing for young elite musicians: development of a health protocol from a student perspective.

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Shoebridge A; Osborne MS

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This study looked at how to keep young musicians healthy and happy. It found that problems like money, time, and pressure make it hard for them to feel well. The study suggested ways to help, like more flexible schedules and better support from teachers and the school.

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Shortening Psychological Scales: Semantic Similarity Matters.

Kilmen S; Bulut O pubmed id: 40012764

The study talks about a new way to make shortened versions of tests using a language tool called sentence embeddings. This method doesn't need lots of people's answers and works just as well as older methods. It might be very helpful when there aren't many people to answer the test questions.

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In this study, we proposed a novel scale abbreviation method based on sentence embeddings and compared it to two established automatic scale abbreviation techniques. Scale abbreviation methods typically rely on administering the full scale to a large representative sample, which is often impractical in certain settings. Our approach leverages the semantic similarity among the items to select abbreviated versions of scales without requiring response data, offering a practical alternative for scale development. We found that the sentence embedding method performs comparably to the data-driven scale abbreviation approaches in terms of model fit, measurement accuracy, and ability estimates. In addition, our results reveal a moderate negative correlation between item discrimination parameters and semantic similarity indices, suggesting that semantically unique items may result in a higher discrimination power. This supports the notion that semantic features can be predictive of psychometric properties. However, this relationship was not observed for reverse-scored items, which may require further investigation. Overall, our findings suggest that the sentence embedding approach offers a promising solution for scale abbreviation, particularly in situations where large sample sizes are unavailable, and may eventually serve as an alternative to traditional data-driven methods.

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Shortening Psychological Scales: Semantic Similarity Matters.

Author(s):
Kilmen S; Bulut O

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The study talks about a new way to make shortened versions of tests using a language tool called sentence embeddings. This method doesn't need lots of people's answers and works just as well as older methods. It might be very helpful when there aren't many people to answer the test questions.

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February 26th, 2025

On opportunities and challenges of large multimodal foundation models in education.

Küchemann S; Avila KE; Dinc Y; Hortmann C; Revenga N; Ruf V; Stausberg N; Steinert S; Fischer F; Fischer M; Kasneci E; Kasneci G; Kuhr T; Kutyniok G; Malone S; Sailer M; Schmidt A; Stadler M; Weller J; Kuhn J pubmed id: 40000649

Some big language models can now connect with different AI tools to work with pictures, music, and words. This paper talks about new ways these models could help in schools and the challenges they bring.

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Recently, the option to use large language models as a middleware connecting various AI tools and other large language models led to the development of so-called large multimodal foundation models, which have the power to process spoken text, music, images and videos. In this overview, we explain a new set of opportunities and challenges that arise from the integration of large multimodal foundation models in education.

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On opportunities and challenges of large multimodal foundation models in education.

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Küchemann S; Avila KE; Dinc Y; Hortmann C; Revenga N; Ruf V; Stausberg N; Steinert S; Fischer F; Fischer M; Kasneci E; Kasneci G; Kuhr T; Kutyniok G; Malone S; Sailer M; Schmidt A; Stadler M; Weller J; Kuhn J

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Some big language models can now connect with different AI tools to work with pictures, music, and words. This paper talks about new ways these models could help in schools and the challenges they bring.

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pubmed id: 40000649 Indexed on February 26th, 2025

Relationship between physical literacy and mental health in adolescents: a moderated mediation model with resilience and physical activity as variables.

Shanshan Z; Ping T; Jiabin L; Tianzhuo L; Xiaomei L; Bolei W; Leifu D; Jianfeng T pubmed id: 40008347

Physical literacy means having the skills, confidence, and knowledge to enjoy and keep doing physical activities throughout life. It may also help with feeling better mentally, but not many studies have looked into why this happens.

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Physical literacy is defined as the motivation, confidence, physical competence, knowledge, and understanding to value and take responsibility for engaging in physical activities for life, and may be associated with higher mental health; however, few studies have explored the processes underlying these positive associations.

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Relationship between physical literacy and mental health in adolescents: a moderated mediation model with resilience and physical activity as variables.

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Shanshan Z; Ping T; Jiabin L; Tianzhuo L; Xiaomei L; Bolei W; Leifu D; Jianfeng T

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Physical literacy means having the skills, confidence, and knowledge to enjoy and keep doing physical activities throughout life. It may also help with feeling better mentally, but not many studies have looked into why this happens.

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Employees' attitudes and work-related stress in the digital workplace: an empirical investigation.

Cavicchioli M; Demaria F; Nannetti F; Scapolan AC; Fabbri T pubmed id: 40008345

This study looks at how technology in the workplace changes how people feel about work and stress. It focuses on how using digital tools and personal feelings about work can affect stress levels.

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In the digital era, the integration of advanced, hyper-connected technologies deeply reshaped work dynamics and organizational practices, especially through the transformation of the spatial and temporal dimensions of work. This study examines the complex relationship between digitalization and work-related stress, with a particular emphasis on the impact of both digital activities (i.e., number of actions and virtual meetings) and employees' attitudes (i.e., job satisfaction, person-organization fit, engagement, and work-life interface) on stress levels.

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Employees' attitudes and work-related stress in the digital workplace: an empirical investigation.

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Cavicchioli M; Demaria F; Nannetti F; Scapolan AC; Fabbri T

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This study looks at how technology in the workplace changes how people feel about work and stress. It focuses on how using digital tools and personal feelings about work can affect stress levels.

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Lying flat to play on smartphone excessively: the role of self-esteem.

Zhu S; Wang L; Gan Y pubmed id: 40008344

Young people in China feel a lot of stress. Some work harder to get better things, while others just do nothing much and lower their goals. This study looks at how doing nothing is linked to using smartphones too much, and how feeling good about themselves affects this.

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With the rapid development of their countries, Chinese young people today face intense stress. Some cope by striving for high-quality resources (involution), while others adopt a passive approach, lowering their desires (lying flat). This study explores the relationship between lying flat and problematic smartphone use (PSU), focusing on the role of self-esteem.

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Lying flat to play on smartphone excessively: the role of self-esteem.

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Zhu S; Wang L; Gan Y

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Young people in China feel a lot of stress. Some work harder to get better things, while others just do nothing much and lower their goals. This study looks at how doing nothing is linked to using smartphones too much, and how feeling good about themselves affects this.

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Validation of the death reflection scale among older people.

Richter L pubmed id: 40008343

The study looks at how older people think about death and how it can lead to positive growth and helping others. It tests a tool called the Death Reflection Scale (DRS) to understand these thoughts and behaviors.

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Human beings possess the capacity to cognize their own mortality, which compels them to process death awareness. The present study seeks to validate the Death Reflection Scale (DRS) among older individuals, which measures growth-oriented cognitions and prosocial behavior following confrontation with death awareness.

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Validation of the death reflection scale among older people.

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Richter L

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The study looks at how older people think about death and how it can lead to positive growth and helping others. It tests a tool called the Death Reflection Scale (DRS) to understand these thoughts and behaviors.

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Preschoolers' prosocial behavior in groups-Testing effects of dominance, popularity, and friendship.

Katerkamp A; Horn L pubmed id: 40008342

Researchers studied how preschool kids decide who to share with or help in their natural groups. They found that kids are more likely to be nice to their friends, and both sharing and helping are influenced by who is popular and who is in charge in their group. Helping often happened with older or more dominant kids, showing that friendships and social status play a big part in how kids act kindly.

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Prosocial, other-benefitting behavior is a fundamental aspect of human social behavior. In the of their natural social groups, preschool children have to decide not only whether, but also whom to share with and help on a daily basis. In a study with 108 preschool children from five different childcare facilities in Vienna, we examined how individual measures of dominance and popularity of both the actor and the recipient, as well as their friendship influenced their prosocial behavior in a group setting. We assessed popularity and friendship with age-appropriate sociometric interviews and tested two types of dominant behavior (i.e., contest and scramble) as well as two types of prosocial behavior (i.e., sharing and helping) in groups of familiar peers. Participants were tested in their regular socio-ecological niches, thereby preserving and taking into account social dynamics that influence-and are influenced by-interactions within the group. We found that both types of prosocial behavior were directed more often toward friends than toward children that were not considered as friends. Likelihood to share was increased by both the actor's and the recipient's dominance in the contest game. Furthermore, we found that helping was preferentially performed by as well as directed toward older children and that dominant children more frequently received help. Group size and testing sequence had some additional effects on sharing and helping. Our findings suggest that sharing and helping have similar as well as different antecedents and underlying motivations and depend on social relationships between the children. Such effects can be examined more effectively when taking a developmental-ecological approach and investigating prosocial behavior in children's natural social environment.

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Preschoolers' prosocial behavior in groups-Testing effects of dominance, popularity, and friendship.

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Katerkamp A; Horn L

Summary:
Researchers studied how preschool kids decide who to share with or help in their natural groups. They found that kids are more likely to be nice to their friends, and both sharing and helping are influenced by who is popular and who is in charge in their group. Helping often happened with older or more dominant kids, showing that friendships and social status play a big part in how kids act kindly.

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pubmed id: 40008342 Indexed on February 26th, 2025

Development of a psychological frailty index: results from the China health and retirement longitudinal study.

Zhao J; Liu JYW; Fernández D; Tyrovolas S pubmed id: 40008339

This study worked on creating a tool to measure psychological frailty because it isn't well-defined, especially for Chinese people. The researchers used data from a Chinese health study to make this tool and see how it relates to health problems.

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Psychological frailty, an emerging concept, lacks a standardized definition, measuring instrument, and empirical evidence in Asian (especially Chinese) populations. An effective instrument to measure psychological frailty should be urgently developed. Therefore, this study aimed to develop and initially validate a Psychological Frailty Index (PFI) based on the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS). The study assessed the applicability of the PFI to adverse health outcomes as a secondary aim.

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Development of a psychological frailty index: results from the China health and retirement longitudinal study.

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Zhao J; Liu JYW; Fernández D; Tyrovolas S

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This study worked on creating a tool to measure psychological frailty because it isn't well-defined, especially for Chinese people. The researchers used data from a Chinese health study to make this tool and see how it relates to health problems.

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The effects of a 12-week moderate-intensity continuous training intervention on depression, anxiety, and stress in sedentary female college students: a focus on negative emotion regulation.

Zeng Q; Zhang Y; Li H; Yuan J; Feng D; Zhu G pubmed id: 40008338

This research studied how Moderate Intensity Continuous Training (MICT) helps improve bad moods in female college students who don't exercise much. The study looked at how a 12-week MICT program affected their different levels of bad moods.

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Moderate Intensity Continuous Training (MICT) is recognized as an effective intervention for improving negative affect. However, research on its effects across varying levels of negative mood states in sedentary female college students remains limited. This study aimed to investigate the impact of a 12-week MICT intervention on different levels of negative mood in sedentary female college students.

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The effects of a 12-week moderate-intensity continuous training intervention on depression, anxiety, and stress in sedentary female college students: a focus on negative emotion regulation.

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Zeng Q; Zhang Y; Li H; Yuan J; Feng D; Zhu G

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This research studied how Moderate Intensity Continuous Training (MICT) helps improve bad moods in female college students who don't exercise much. The study looked at how a 12-week MICT program affected their different levels of bad moods.

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The effect of auditory rhythm on the temporal allocation of visual attention in aging.

Xu Z; Huang J; Shen Y; Ren Y; Gao Y; Guo T pubmed id: 40008337

The study looks at how keeping time with a regular beat helps people pay attention, especially if they can focus on only one type of sound or switch between different types. It is not clear if older adults have the same ability to pay attention when listening to a regular beat in different types of sounds, and the study also examines if the speed of the beat affects this ability.

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Isochronous rhythm has been shown to induce temporal expectation, allocated attention to specific points in time to optimize behavioral performance, both within a single modality and across different modalities, in younger adults. However, it remains unclear how an isochronous rhythm in one modality influences the temporal allocation of attention in another modality among older adults. Moreover, whether the cross-modal temporal expectation effect in aging is influenced by tempo has not yet been explored.

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The effect of auditory rhythm on the temporal allocation of visual attention in aging.

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Xu Z; Huang J; Shen Y; Ren Y; Gao Y; Guo T

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The study looks at how keeping time with a regular beat helps people pay attention, especially if they can focus on only one type of sound or switch between different types. It is not clear if older adults have the same ability to pay attention when listening to a regular beat in different types of sounds, and the study also examines if the speed of the beat affects this ability.

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Social media usage and cyberbullying: the moderating role of tie strength.

Ni J; Fu H; Zhu Y; Li Z; Wang S; Su H pubmed id: 40008336

This study looks at how being close to someone on social media can affect the chance of cyberbullying happening. It checks if being friends or not-so-close friends changes how often bullying happens online.

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Cyberbullying is a pervasive issue in the digital age, closely linked to social media usage. However, existing research has largely overlooked the role of tie strength on social media platforms in shaping cyberbullying dynamics. This study, grounded in tie strength theory and medium theory, investigates the association between social media usage and cyberbullying, focusing on how tie strength moderates this relationship.

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Social media usage and cyberbullying: the moderating role of tie strength.

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Ni J; Fu H; Zhu Y; Li Z; Wang S; Su H

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This study looks at how being close to someone on social media can affect the chance of cyberbullying happening. It checks if being friends or not-so-close friends changes how often bullying happens online.

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Extending the game immersion questionnaire to online users.

Dombrovskis V; Ļevina J; Ruža A pubmed id: 40008335

The Game Immersion Questionnaire (GIQ) helps measure how much people feel "in the zone" when playing online games. This study looks at how well the GIQ can be used for other online activities, not just gaming.

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The Game Immersion Questionnaire (GIQ) serves as a tool for evaluating immersion within the realm of online gaming. Immersion is a crucial psychological state experienced by users interacting with digital environments, influencing their engagement, engrossment, and total involvement. While the original GIQ was structured around seven first-order factors and three second-order factors, its applicability beyond gaming contexts remains unexplored. This study extends the GIQ to capture the immersion experiences of a more expansive cohort of online users beyond gamers.

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Extending the game immersion questionnaire to online users.

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Dombrovskis V; Ļevina J; Ruža A

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The Game Immersion Questionnaire (GIQ) helps measure how much people feel "in the zone" when playing online games. This study looks at how well the GIQ can be used for other online activities, not just gaming.

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Mobile stance-taking in nature: an exploration of gaze patterns during assessments of objects in nature.

Laner B pubmed id: 40007627

The study looks at how people walking in the forest use their eyes to look at things and each other. It finds that when people agree about what they see, they both look at the thing, not each other. When they disagree, they look at each other more.

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In this paper, I examine the interactional dynamics of walkers assessing entities in nature, focusing on gaze behavior during these sequences. The analysis is based on a corpus of 10 hiking pairs who walked through the Black Forest National Park while wearing mobile eye-tracking glasses to record their gaze behavior and verbal practices. Using a combined quantitative and qualitative approach, the research identifies gaze patterns in 127 sequences and highlights the role of bodily-visual practices. Contrary to existing literature, the findings indicate that mutual gaze in this setting is not used to mark affiliation but instead occurs only during strong disagreements about initial assessments. During agreements, walkers maintain a triangular position, both gazing at the assessable object without looking at each other. Thus, in this context, gazing at each other serves different interactional purposes, as this study will demonstrate.

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Mobile stance-taking in nature: an exploration of gaze patterns during assessments of objects in nature.

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Laner B

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The study looks at how people walking in the forest use their eyes to look at things and each other. It finds that when people agree about what they see, they both look at the thing, not each other. When they disagree, they look at each other more.

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pubmed id: 40007627 Indexed on February 26th, 2025

February 25th, 2025

Recurrence and chronicity of bonding disorders diagnosed using the structured interview: case report.

Nishikii Y; Suetsugu Y; Yamashita H; Yoshida K pubmed id: 39996146

Sometimes, parents feel strange emotions like rejecting their baby or getting very angry, which can be harmful. These feelings are different and need different help. Researchers think using special interviews can help us understand why these feelings happen again and again.

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Although emotional rejection, a core concept of bonding disorders, and pathological anger, which may harm the baby, can coexist, they have different clinical features and require different intervention strategies. Only limited reports have been published on the recurrence and chronicity of emotional rejection. To clarify this, in-depth investigations that utilize structured interviews rather than self-reported questionnaires are required.

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Recurrence and chronicity of bonding disorders diagnosed using the structured interview: case report.

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Nishikii Y; Suetsugu Y; Yamashita H; Yoshida K

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Sometimes, parents feel strange emotions like rejecting their baby or getting very angry, which can be harmful. These feelings are different and need different help. Researchers think using special interviews can help us understand why these feelings happen again and again.

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pubmed id: 39996146 Indexed on February 25th, 2025

How does playfulness (re)frame the world? Evidence for selective cognitive and behavioral redirecting in times of adversity.

Shen X; Crawley Z pubmed id: 39996145

This study looks at how playful people see and act differently during tough times like the pandemic compared to those who are not as playful. Researchers want to understand if being playful changes how people think or feel about situations.

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Do playful people perceive, approach, and respond to their environment and life events differently than less playful individuals? While playfulness has been theorized to affect how individuals frame or reframe situations, this widely accepted premise lacks theoretical specification and empirical validation. This study examined playfulness as a perceptual lens and its potential broader (re)framing effects spanning cognition, emotion, and behavior in the disruptive pandemic context.

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How does playfulness (re)frame the world? Evidence for selective cognitive and behavioral redirecting in times of adversity.

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Shen X; Crawley Z

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This study looks at how playful people see and act differently during tough times like the pandemic compared to those who are not as playful. Researchers want to understand if being playful changes how people think or feel about situations.

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pubmed id: 39996145 Indexed on February 25th, 2025

Gesture sonification for enhancing agency: an exploratory study on healthy participants.

Schoeller F; Ashur P; Larralde J; Le Couedic C; Mylapalli R; Krishnanandan K; Ciaunica A; Linson A; Miller M; Reggente N; Adrien V pubmed id: 39996144

Some people have trouble feeling and knowing where their body is, which can happen with certain mental disorders. This study looked at using special technology that turns body movements into sounds to help people become more aware of their bodies.

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Body awareness (BA) and proprioception, which are essential components of the sense of agency (SA), are often altered in various mental disorders such as posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). However, the relationship between BA, proprioception, and SA, as well as the methods to manipulate them, remain unclear. This study explored using real-time gesture sonification (GS), i.e., wearable technology transforming body movements into sounds, to enhance proprioception, BA, and thus the SA.

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Gesture sonification for enhancing agency: an exploratory study on healthy participants.

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Schoeller F; Ashur P; Larralde J; Le Couedic C; Mylapalli R; Krishnanandan K; Ciaunica A; Linson A; Miller M; Reggente N; Adrien V

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Some people have trouble feeling and knowing where their body is, which can happen with certain mental disorders. This study looked at using special technology that turns body movements into sounds to help people become more aware of their bodies.

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pubmed id: 39996144 Indexed on February 25th, 2025

The role of music performance anxiety in musical training: four personal histories.

Casanova O; Riaño ME; Zarza-Alzugaray FJ; Orejudo S pubmed id: 39995437

Musical Performance Anxiety (MPA) is a big problem for many musicians. This study talked to four musicians about their experiences, showing how they enjoyed music as kids but felt anxious during exams later. They suggest ways to help, like focusing on goals and boosting confidence, and say schools can support students by being creative and understanding.

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Musical Performance Anxiety (MPA) is one of the major obstacles many musicians face in the course of their training and careers. Few studies have approached this construct using a qualitative methodology. To apply such an approach, we gathered testimonials of life histories from four musicians - two pianists, a violinist, and a cellist - through semi-structured interviews. With an average age of 25, they had all studied classical music for at least 10 years. We subjected the protocols of those interviews to a phase and categorization process based on Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis. The first years of training were those when our interviewees recalled experiencing the greatest enjoyment in music-making: positive elements included family support, ensemble playing, and initial encounters with non-classical repertoire and improvisation. However, as our interviewees progressed through their academic courses and improved in terms of mastery of their instrument, they began to experience situations of anxiety. Physical symptoms appeared, regularly associated with situations such as examinations and auditions in front of a jury. Two of four respondents decided to terminate their music training before entering university level. To deal with symptoms of anxiety, several approaches were pursued: visualization, cognitive analysis, and self-medication. However, to mitigate MPA, our informants generally recommend more rational strategies: a realistic focus on objectives coupled with reinforcement of self-esteem. Institutions of musical learning can help students cope with this disorder by encouraging musical creativity and selecting educators who apply empathetic teaching styles well-adapted to their pupils' needs. In the future, this type of qualitative research can be expanded to a greater number of informants with more diverse characteristics. The qualitative approach will help us to better understand the MPA phenomenon.

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The role of music performance anxiety in musical training: four personal histories.

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Casanova O; Riaño ME; Zarza-Alzugaray FJ; Orejudo S

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Musical Performance Anxiety (MPA) is a big problem for many musicians. This study talked to four musicians about their experiences, showing how they enjoyed music as kids but felt anxious during exams later. They suggest ways to help, like focusing on goals and boosting confidence, and say schools can support students by being creative and understanding.

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A preliminary study on the relationship between symptom severity and age of diagnosis in females versus males with autistic spectrum disorder.

Sánchez-Pedroche A; Aguilar-Mediavilla E; Valera-Pozo M; Adrover-Roig D; Valverde-Gómez M pubmed id: 39995436

Researchers found that more boys than girls are diagnosed with autism, but it's harder to diagnose girls. In this study, girls were diagnosed later than boys and they often had more severe symptoms.

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In the latest autism observation, autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is more frequently diagnosed in males than in females. Efforts have been made in recent years to detect specific clinical patterns in females, improving their detection and diagnosis. Despite advancements, there are still challenges in detecting ASD in females. This preliminary study explores whether the age at the time of diagnosis of ASD in females is related to a higher severity index compared to male participants. A total of 202 participants (52 females;  = 5.51) in Spain underwent ADOS-2 assessment for ASD clinical severity. The results indicate a significant inverse association between the severity index and the age of diagnosis, which was independent of sex. Despite this, the present results revealed that the age at diagnosis was higher in females compared to males. Further analyses also revealed a tendency toward higher severity levels in females. Factors contributing to this difference in the age of diagnosis of ASD between females and males are discussed concerning the presumed differential characteristics of ASD in females.

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A preliminary study on the relationship between symptom severity and age of diagnosis in females versus males with autistic spectrum disorder.

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Sánchez-Pedroche A; Aguilar-Mediavilla E; Valera-Pozo M; Adrover-Roig D; Valverde-Gómez M

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Researchers found that more boys than girls are diagnosed with autism, but it's harder to diagnose girls. In this study, girls were diagnosed later than boys and they often had more severe symptoms.

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pubmed id: 39995436 Indexed on February 25th, 2025

Effects of a 7-week active breaks intervention program on physical literacy and body mass index.

Urbano-Mairena J; Muñoz-Bermejo L; Carlos-Vivas J; Pastor-Cisneros R; Montenegro-Espinosa JA; Mendoza-Muñoz M pubmed id: 39995435

Physical literacy helps people stay active, which is important because not being active is risky. Taking active breaks during school can help kids be more active.

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Physical literacy (PL) emerges as a highly effective resource for creating lasting physical activity habits at a time when physical inactivity has become one of the main risk factors in our population. Thus, active breaks (AB) could be an ideal option for increasing physical activity time in schoolchildren.

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Effects of a 7-week active breaks intervention program on physical literacy and body mass index.

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Urbano-Mairena J; Muñoz-Bermejo L; Carlos-Vivas J; Pastor-Cisneros R; Montenegro-Espinosa JA; Mendoza-Muñoz M

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Physical literacy helps people stay active, which is important because not being active is risky. Taking active breaks during school can help kids be more active.

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pubmed id: 39995435 Indexed on February 25th, 2025

Meta-analysis examining the association between low platelet monoamine oxidase levels and Zuckerman's sensation seeking scale in a sex dependent manner.

Winfield J; Mendez IA; Frietze GA pubmed id: 39995434

Researchers studied an enzyme called MAO that helps break down brain chemicals. They discovered that people with lower MAO levels might seek more excitement and thrills. The study found this holds true for both boys and girls.

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Monoamine oxidase (MAO) is an enzyme in the brain responsible for breaking down neurotransmitters. MAO levels can be measured in humans by collecting blood platelets. Low platelet MAO levels in healthy individuals are associated with personality differences, such as increases in sensation seeking. In this meta-analysis, we investigated the association between low platelet MAO activity and sensation seeking behavior, as measured by Zuckerman's Sensation Seeking Scale (SSS). To identify studies to include in this meta-analysis, a preliminary database was produced by searching PsycInfo, Medline, PubMed, ProQuest, and ScienceDirect, from the time period of January 01, 1970 through August 01, 2022. The Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) guidelines were followed for study inclusion. Fourteen studies with a total of 24 correlations and 1,470 participants were included in the analyses. Across 24 independent effect sizes, the correlations ranged from -0.74 to 0.40. The Random Effects Model (REM) yielded a weighted average correlation of -0.22 (95% CI = -0.31, -0.13), indicating an inverse relationship where lower levels of MAO tend to be associated with higher levels of SSS. A subgroup analysis was used to examine the effects of gender. The REM yielded a weighted average correlation of -0.22 (95% CI = -0.33, -0.10) for the effect sizes of males, -0.22 (95% CI = -0.47, 0.06) for the effect sizes of females, and -0.23 (95% CI = -0.38, -0.06) for the effect sizes that included both males and females. The subgroup analysis did not reveal differences between males and females on the association between human blood platelet MAO levels and SSS. Our hypothesis that there is a negative association between MAO levels and SSS was supported. These findings have potential clinical implications suggesting that MAO platelet concentrations could be used as a potential biomarker for identifying maladaptive behaviors.

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Meta-analysis examining the association between low platelet monoamine oxidase levels and Zuckerman's sensation seeking scale in a sex dependent manner.

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Winfield J; Mendez IA; Frietze GA

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Researchers studied an enzyme called MAO that helps break down brain chemicals. They discovered that people with lower MAO levels might seek more excitement and thrills. The study found this holds true for both boys and girls.

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pubmed id: 39995434 Indexed on February 25th, 2025

Factors influencing emotional driving: examining the impact of arousal on the interplay between age, personality, and driving behaviors.

Shangguan Z; Han X; Mrhasli YE; Lyu N; Tapus A pubmed id: 39995433

The study looks at how age, personality, and driving experience affect how people drive. It also tries to see how these things work together, especially how feelings can change driving.

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Drivers' emotions have been widely investigated in transportation due to their significant effects on driving behaviors and traffic accidents. Appraisal theory posits that emotional reactions are influenced by individuals' attitudes toward current circumstances and events, thereby shaping their driving attitudes and styles. However, In the study of emotional driving, research often focuses on the impact of single factors such as age, gender, and personality, while the interplay between these multiple factors is a challenge. This study aims to explore the impact of age, personality, and driving experience on driving behaviors, and to investigate the interaction effect between these factors, particularly the role of emotional arousal.

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Factors influencing emotional driving: examining the impact of arousal on the interplay between age, personality, and driving behaviors.

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Shangguan Z; Han X; Mrhasli YE; Lyu N; Tapus A

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The study looks at how age, personality, and driving experience affect how people drive. It also tries to see how these things work together, especially how feelings can change driving.

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pubmed id: 39995433 Indexed on February 25th, 2025

Resistance training beyond momentary failure: the effects of past-failure partials on muscle hypertrophy in the gastrocnemius.

Larsen S; Swinton PA; Sandberg NØ; Kristiansen BS; Fredriksen AB; Falch HN; van den Tillaar R; Wolf M pubmed id: 39995432

The study looked at whether doing extra exercises after getting really tired could make muscles grow more. They found that doing extra partial exercises helped muscles grow more than just stopping when you feel tired. So, if you want bigger muscles quickly, it might be better to do a few more exercises even when you're tired.

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Muscle hypertrophy is often a desired goal of resistance training, and strategies that extend training beyond momentary failure may enhance muscular adaptations. Thus, the objective of this study was to assess whether performing additional past-failure partial repetitions beyond momentary failure increased muscle hypertrophy. A total of 23 untrained men completed a 10-week within-participant intervention study. This study comprised two weekly resistance training sessions of four sets of standing Smith machine calf raises. One limb was randomly allocated to the control condition performing sets to momentary failure (PLANTAR), and the other limb was allocated to the test intervention that included additional past-failure partial repetitions in the lengthened position (DORSI). Muscle thickness of the medial gastrocnemius muscle was measured both pre- and post-intervention via ultrasound. Data were analysed within a Bayesian framework using a mixed-effect model with random effects to account for the within-participant design. The average treatment effect (ATE) was measured to assess any difference in condition and inferences made based on the ATE posterior distribution and associated Bayes Factor (BF). The main findings were that the PLANTAR and DORSI legs increased medial gastrocnemius hypertrophy by 6.7 and +9.6%, respectively. The results identified an ATE favouring the inclusion of additional partial repetitions (0.62 [95%CrI: 0.21-1.0 mm; (>0) = 0.998]) with 'strong' evidence (BF = 13.3) supporting hypothesis. Therefore, when the goal is to train for maximum gastrocnemius hypertrophy over a relatively short time period, we suggest performing sets beyond momentary failure as a likely superior option.

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Resistance training beyond momentary failure: the effects of past-failure partials on muscle hypertrophy in the gastrocnemius.

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Larsen S; Swinton PA; Sandberg NØ; Kristiansen BS; Fredriksen AB; Falch HN; van den Tillaar R; Wolf M

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The study looked at whether doing extra exercises after getting really tired could make muscles grow more. They found that doing extra partial exercises helped muscles grow more than just stopping when you feel tired. So, if you want bigger muscles quickly, it might be better to do a few more exercises even when you're tired.

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The effects of the image attributes of golf star athletes supported by adult amateur golfers on sports participation desire and continuation intention.

Yang JH; Kim GY; Yang HJ; Choi C; Bum CH pubmed id: 39995431

Sports fans like golf players for how they look, play, and act. These fans are more likely to want to play golf because of these players and keep playing. Being a fan can make their lives better.

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The image attributes of sports star athletes demonstrate positive effects on sports fans' psychological factors. In the context of golf, fans are also influenced by the players they support, experiencing a range of emotions. Therefore, this study aimed to examine the effects of the image attributes of golf star athletes-supported by adult amateur golfers-on the desire for sports participation and the intention to continue. This study involved 356 adult amateur golfers in Korea (253 male, 103 female). Questionnaires were used to measure participants' perceptions of image attributes, their desire for sports participation, and their intention to continue participating in the sport. The data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, validity and reliability, and multiple regression analyses. First, the image attributes factors (physical appearance, performance ability, and moral image) all had a significant effect on both the desire for sports participation and the intention to continue participating in the sport. However, performance ability did not impact affective desire. Second, while cognitive and behavioral desires significantly influenced the intention to continue participating, affective desire did not have an effect. In conclusion, fans identify diverse athletes' images (e.g., physical appearance, performance, and personality) through attending or watching sports games, and positive sports star image attributes enhance sports fandom, participation desire, and continuation intention. The results of this study indicate a close relationship between golf fans' perceptions of players' image attributes and their psychological factors. These findings could help improve fans' quality of life and provide valuable insights for understanding their fandom.

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The effects of the image attributes of golf star athletes supported by adult amateur golfers on sports participation desire and continuation intention.

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Yang JH; Kim GY; Yang HJ; Choi C; Bum CH

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Sports fans like golf players for how they look, play, and act. These fans are more likely to want to play golf because of these players and keep playing. Being a fan can make their lives better.

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pubmed id: 39995431 Indexed on February 25th, 2025

The impact of physical exercise on adolescents' mobile phone dependency: the serial mediating role of self-esteem and depression.

Wu J; Shao Y; Zang W pubmed id: 39995430

This study looks at how exercise helps kids not get too attached to their phones. It also checks if feeling good about themselves and not being sad are reasons why exercise might help.

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The objective of this study is to examine the impact of physical exercise on the prevalence of mobile phone dependency among middle school students, as well as to delineate the serial mediating roles of self-esteem and depression within this relationship.

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The impact of physical exercise on adolescents' mobile phone dependency: the serial mediating role of self-esteem and depression.

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Wu J; Shao Y; Zang W

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This study looks at how exercise helps kids not get too attached to their phones. It also checks if feeling good about themselves and not being sad are reasons why exercise might help.

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pubmed id: 39995430 Indexed on February 25th, 2025

Psychological assessment and support in functional neurological disorder: a longitudinal study.

Radin Y; Bulfon M; Caruso P; Barbi E; Manganotti P; Clarici A pubmed id: 39995429

Between 2020 and 2024, 58 adults at a hospital were diagnosed with a condition called functional neurological disorder (FND). A study looked at 42 of these patients who tried a therapy program to see how well it worked. The study found that it's important for patients and therapists to agree on how the therapy is going to help people with FND get better results.

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In the Department of Neuroscience in Clinical Neurological unit of our hospital, between 2020 and 2024, 58 adult patients were diagnosed with functional neurological disorder (FND). Out of these, 42 patients agreed to participate in a structured intervention consisting of 10 sessions of psychotherapy. This study aimed to investigate the demographic and clinical characteristics of the patient cohort, examine their reported symptoms, and evaluate the effectiveness and adherence to the psychotherapy program. The Affective Neuroscience Personality Scales (ANPS) were administered to assess the affective states of the patients, while the Shedler-Westen Assessment Procedure (SWAP-200) was used to evaluate their main personality style. A central objective of the research was to explore patterns or correlations between self-reported data from the patients and the evaluations completed by their therapists. This comparison sought to identify any alignment or discrepancies in the perception of symptoms and therapeutic progress, as measured by both the ANPS and SWAP-200 scales. The study's preliminary findings are reported to provide valuable insights into the impact of psychotherapeutic interventions for FND, including an understanding of the degree to which patient self-reports correspond with clinical assessments. These results will inform the optimization of treatment strategies and enhance patient outcomes by integrating patient feedback with clinical evaluations. The research contributes to the broader knowledge of FND management, emphasizing the importance of aligning patient and therapist perspectives in the therapeutic process.

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Psychological assessment and support in functional neurological disorder: a longitudinal study.

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Radin Y; Bulfon M; Caruso P; Barbi E; Manganotti P; Clarici A

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Between 2020 and 2024, 58 adults at a hospital were diagnosed with a condition called functional neurological disorder (FND). A study looked at 42 of these patients who tried a therapy program to see how well it worked. The study found that it's important for patients and therapists to agree on how the therapy is going to help people with FND get better results.

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pubmed id: 39995429 Indexed on February 25th, 2025

Association between living arrangements, social support, and depression among middle-aged and older adults: a mediation analysis from the CHARLS survey.

Jin F; Hu Y pubmed id: 39995427

Living alone can make people feel more sad or depressed. Having friends or family to talk to and support you might help with this. But, there is not enough information to know for sure.

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Living alone was reported to be associated with a higher risk of depression. Social support may play a crucial role in mediating this association. However, data are limited.

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Association between living arrangements, social support, and depression among middle-aged and older adults: a mediation analysis from the CHARLS survey.

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Jin F; Hu Y

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Living alone can make people feel more sad or depressed. Having friends or family to talk to and support you might help with this. But, there is not enough information to know for sure.

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pubmed id: 39995427 Indexed on February 25th, 2025

Validity and reliability of the executive function scale in Cuban university student.

Díaz-Guerra DD; Hernández-Lugo MC; Ramos-Galarza C; Broche-Pérez Y pubmed id: 39995426

This study is about testing a tool that measures important brain skills like planning and making decisions in university students in Cuba. The researchers want to make sure the tool works well and gives reliable results.

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Executive functions are higher cognitive skills involved in planning, organization, decision-making, impulse control, and working memory. It is essential to have tools that allow for the accurate and reliable assessment of this construct in university students. This study aims to evaluate the validity and reliability of the Executive Functions Scale for University Students (UEF-1) in the Cuban population.

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Validity and reliability of the executive function scale in Cuban university student.

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Díaz-Guerra DD; Hernández-Lugo MC; Ramos-Galarza C; Broche-Pérez Y

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This study is about testing a tool that measures important brain skills like planning and making decisions in university students in Cuba. The researchers want to make sure the tool works well and gives reliable results.

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Level of M1 GABAB predicts micro offline consolidation of motor learning during wakefulness.

Cardellicchio P; Borgomaneri S pubmed id: 39988595

Scientists found that resting after learning new movements helps your brain remember better. They studied a part of the brain called M1 and found a chemical, GABAB, helps with this memory process, which can be useful for helping people recover from strokes.

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The consolidation process stabilizes a new initially labile memory. This consolidation could operate on a shorter timescale during wakefulness after initial motor learning. Within micro-offline learning states, sequences of simple individual actions learned through interleaved practice are condensed into a unified skill through a time-dependent consolidation process occurring during wakeful periods. While emerging evidence links Glutamate and GABA modulations in the primary motor cortex (M1) to motor learning, its relationship with micro-offline consolidation processes in brief resting states during motor learning is unclear. To investigate this issue, we employed Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) to evaluate whether interindividual variation of different neurotransmitters at rest influences motor learning consolidation in humans. Our results point to the role of GABAB in micro-offline motor consolidation processes during motor learning in M1. This finding could have an important impact on planning neuropharmacology or non-invasive brain stimulation approaches in clinical domains, such as post-stroke rehabilitation.

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Level of M1 GABAB predicts micro offline consolidation of motor learning during wakefulness.

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Cardellicchio P; Borgomaneri S

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Scientists found that resting after learning new movements helps your brain remember better. They studied a part of the brain called M1 and found a chemical, GABAB, helps with this memory process, which can be useful for helping people recover from strokes.

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pubmed id: 39988595 Indexed on February 24th, 2025

The influence of task and interpersonal interdependence on cooperative behavior and its neural mechanisms.

Yin Z; Xuan B; Liu C; Yi J; Zheng X; Zhang M pubmed id: 39988591

The study looked at how working together with others affects behavior and brain activity. It found that when people, whether they are friends or strangers, work closely on tasks, they perform better and their brains show more connection. This means that teamwork and relationships are important for both doing tasks well and helping brains sync up with each other.

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Previous studies have insufficiently explored the influence of task and interpersonal interdependence on synchronous cooperation behavior. To address this gap, this study utilized fNIRS hyperscanning technique to investigate the behavioral and neural mechanisms within both friend and stranger dyads engaging in various levels of interdependent cooperation tasks. Our findings revealed that high interdependent cooperation task can improve the behavioral performance of both friend and stranger dyads, enhancing the intra-brain functional connectivity (FC) of right dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC.R) and right supramarginal gyrus (SMG.R) in stranger dyads, as well as the inter-brain synchrony (IBS) of SMG.R. Additionally, high interdependent interpersonal relationship can strengthen the intra-brain FC of DLPFC.R and SMG.R, as well as the IBS of SMG.R, during low interdependent cooperation task. These insights underscore the critical importance of both task and interpersonal interdependences in shaping cooperative behavior and neural synchrony.

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The influence of task and interpersonal interdependence on cooperative behavior and its neural mechanisms.

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Yin Z; Xuan B; Liu C; Yi J; Zheng X; Zhang M

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The study looked at how working together with others affects behavior and brain activity. It found that when people, whether they are friends or strangers, work closely on tasks, they perform better and their brains show more connection. This means that teamwork and relationships are important for both doing tasks well and helping brains sync up with each other.

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pubmed id: 39988591 Indexed on February 24th, 2025

The influence of team reflexivity on employee's feedback-seeking behavior: a multi-level perspective.

Liu M; Liu B; Sun Q; Wang H; Zhang Y pubmed id: 39991199

The study looked at how people in teams ask for feedback at work. It found that when team members think and reflect together, they ask for more feedback. This is helped by having a good team memory system and shared understanding among team members.

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The dynamism and uncertainty of the work environment increasingly emphasize the importance of employee's feedback-seeking behavior. Based on transactive memory system theory, the current study explores the multi-level effect of team reflexivity on team member's feedback-seeking behavior. Survey data collected from 197 participants in 56 teams in China showed that team reflexivity had a positive indirect effect on team member's feedback-seeking behavior, and team transactive memory system (TMS) mediated such effect. In addition, results also indicated that team shared mental models (SMMs) moderated the effect of team reflexivity on TMS. The research findings can help organizations recognize the importance of team reflexivity, TMS, and SMMs in promoting employees' feedback-seeking behavior. Based on this understanding, organizations can better formulate strategies to leverage team reflexivity, TMS, and SMMs to enhance team member's feedback-seeking behavior, which will also be beneficial for the sustainable development of the organization.

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The influence of team reflexivity on employee's feedback-seeking behavior: a multi-level perspective.

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Liu M; Liu B; Sun Q; Wang H; Zhang Y

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The study looked at how people in teams ask for feedback at work. It found that when team members think and reflect together, they ask for more feedback. This is helped by having a good team memory system and shared understanding among team members.

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pubmed id: 39991199 Indexed on February 24th, 2025

Mental health literacy among older adults in Shanghai: a descriptive qualitative study.

Xu R; Jing M; Zhang A; Zha L; Wang Y; Wang A; Tang J; Xia B; Jia S pubmed id: 39991198

In China, there are more and more older people, and many of them have problems with their mental health. Teaching them about mental health can help them understand and manage these issues better, so they can stay healthier as they age.

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The aging population in China is surging rapidly, and elderly individuals are at higher risk of multiple mental health issues. Improving the mental health literacy of older adults can help them recognize mental illness and adopt proactive measures, potentially improving their mental health status and supporting the goal of healthy aging.

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Mental health literacy among older adults in Shanghai: a descriptive qualitative study.

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Xu R; Jing M; Zhang A; Zha L; Wang Y; Wang A; Tang J; Xia B; Jia S

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In China, there are more and more older people, and many of them have problems with their mental health. Teaching them about mental health can help them understand and manage these issues better, so they can stay healthier as they age.

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pubmed id: 39991198 Indexed on February 24th, 2025

Meta-analytic prospective associations between self-esteem and eating disorders appear to be spurious: a reanalysis and comment on Krauss et al. (2023).

Sorjonen K; Ghaderi A; Melin B pubmed id: 39989636

The paper looked at whether low self-esteem and eating disorders cause each other. The new study found that they might not actually cause each other, but are just related in other ways. The study suggests using different models to be sure about true effects.

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In a recent meta-analysis, Krauss et al. found support for a reciprocal model of low self-esteem and eating disorders where, in a vicious circle, low self-esteem makes people more vulnerable to developing eating disorders and eating disorders, in turn, scars individuals' self-esteem. However, in the present reanalyses of the same meta-analytic data, we found that the prospective effects between self-esteem and eating disorders are likely spurious, meaning they do not reflect a true causal effect, but rather correlations with residuals and regression to the mean. Consequently, the claims by Krauss et al. can be challenged. To avoid statistical artifacts, we recommend researchers to fit, as we did in the present study, complementary models to their data in order to evaluate if prospective effects may be genuinely increasing or decreasing or if they appear to be spurious.

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Meta-analytic prospective associations between self-esteem and eating disorders appear to be spurious: a reanalysis and comment on Krauss et al. (2023).

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Sorjonen K; Ghaderi A; Melin B

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The paper looked at whether low self-esteem and eating disorders cause each other. The new study found that they might not actually cause each other, but are just related in other ways. The study suggests using different models to be sure about true effects.

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pubmed id: 39989636 Indexed on February 24th, 2025

Social employee well-being challenges of academics in the hybrid work environment.

Marozva RR; Pelser AM pubmed id: 39989635

The paper talks about how working part at home and part at the office can make college teachers feel lonely and out of touch with their coworkers. It points out three main problems: missing social connections, feeling like they don't belong, and having trouble trusting or supporting each other. The study says colleges need to help teachers feel better about these issues.

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The complex nature of the hybrid work environment impacts on the overall well-being of employees. There is limited research on how the hybrid work environment has impacted the social dimension of employee well-being, particularly among academics in higher education institutions. The aim of the study was to explore and understand social well-being challenges that academics face as a result of the hybrid work environment. The study adopted a cross-sectional qualitative research approach and used semi-structured interviews using an interview guide to collect data. The sample included 23 academics who are representatives of the three campuses of North-West University. Thematic analysis was used to analyse the data. Three themes emerged from the analyses of data: social connections, sense of belonging and work relationships. The social connections theme had four sub-themes: social isolation, informal communication breakdown, limited networking and personality conflict. Sense of belonging theme entailed four sub-themes: lack of resources, work-life imbalance, onboarding challenges and non-inclusive work environment. Relationships theme had three sub-themes: lack of trust, reduced social support and delayed feedback. Experiences of the research participants are noted to comprehend the negative impact of the hybrid work environment on social employee well-being. The findings suggest that social well-being challenges that academics face are heightened by the nature of the industry, personality traits and the context of the study which is Africa. This requires HEIs to explore the internal and external environment when managing social well-being challenges that academics face as a result of the hybrid work environment.

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Social employee well-being challenges of academics in the hybrid work environment.

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Marozva RR; Pelser AM

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The paper talks about how working part at home and part at the office can make college teachers feel lonely and out of touch with their coworkers. It points out three main problems: missing social connections, feeling like they don't belong, and having trouble trusting or supporting each other. The study says colleges need to help teachers feel better about these issues.

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pubmed id: 39989635 Indexed on February 24th, 2025

Understanding basic and social emotions in Alzheimer's disease and frontotemporal dementia.

Sola C; Zanelli V; Molinari MA; Casadio C; Ricci F; Carpentiero O; Tondelli M; Lui F; Nichelli PF; Benuzzi F pubmed id: 39989634

The paper talks about how people who study how we think and feel are looking at how well people with early Alzheimer's and Frontotemporal Dementia understand emotions. They use pictures and sounds to see if these people can still recognize feelings, and they want to find better ways to help them.

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Recent developments in the field of social cognition have led to a renewed interest in basic and social emotion recognition in early stages of Alzheimer's Disease (AD) and FrontoTemporal Dementia (FTD). Despite the growing attention to this issue, only few studies have attempted to investigate emotion recognition using both visual and vocal stimuli. In addition, recent studies have presented conflicting findings regarding the extent of impairment in patients in the early stages of these diseases. The present study aims to investigate emotion understanding (both basic and social emotions), using different tasks with visual and auditory stimuli, to identify supramodal deficits in AD and FTD to provide a reliable tool to better outline their behavioral and emotional profile and useful instruments for their management.

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Understanding basic and social emotions in Alzheimer's disease and frontotemporal dementia.

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Sola C; Zanelli V; Molinari MA; Casadio C; Ricci F; Carpentiero O; Tondelli M; Lui F; Nichelli PF; Benuzzi F

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The paper talks about how people who study how we think and feel are looking at how well people with early Alzheimer's and Frontotemporal Dementia understand emotions. They use pictures and sounds to see if these people can still recognize feelings, and they want to find better ways to help them.

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pubmed id: 39989634 Indexed on February 24th, 2025

Self-selected vs. prescribed aerobic exercise intensity: impacts on pleasure in women with obesity.

Da Silva CER; Santana WJ; Almeida G; Verame A; Doro AR; Barbosa E; Lima L; Dias HM; Zanetti MC; Junior AF pubmed id: 39989633

This study looks at how choosing their own workout speed affects how obese women feel and stick to exercise. It compares how they do when working out alone versus in a group.

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Self-selection of aerobic training intensity is an approach that allows practitioners to develop autonomy (choice of pace), improve physical fitness, and contribute to better affective responses and training adherence. However, it is still unclear whether self-selection of training intensity in group settings is comparable to individual training conditions. The aim of the present study was to compare the effect of three aerobic training protocols on psychophysiological responses in physically inactive adult obese women.

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Self-selected vs. prescribed aerobic exercise intensity: impacts on pleasure in women with obesity.

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Da Silva CER; Santana WJ; Almeida G; Verame A; Doro AR; Barbosa E; Lima L; Dias HM; Zanetti MC; Junior AF

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This study looks at how choosing their own workout speed affects how obese women feel and stick to exercise. It compares how they do when working out alone versus in a group.

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pubmed id: 39989633 Indexed on February 24th, 2025

Integrative mindfulness-based infant parenting program: theoretical foundations and a novel intervention protocol.

Burstein O; Teshale Zevin Z; Geva R pubmed id: 39989632

The study talks about how parents can learn to be more aware and caring through mindfulness to help their babies grow up healthy. It introduces a new way for parents to practice mindfulness by combining ideas from different therapies, and it explains an 8-week program to support parents and their babies. This mindfulness approach helps parents and babies feel calm and connected, even when things are stressful.

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Infancy is a formative period in which high-quality parental care plays a vital role in setting solid foundations that guide a child's development. Mindfulness has been recognized for enhancing parental awareness and sensitivity to both self and child and can be utilized in clinical practice to facilitate healthy development. To adapt mindful parenting practice for implementation in pediatric care settings and the specific needs and challenges of parenting infants, the current study introduces a novel theoretical framework, combining mindfulness with elements from calming cycle theory, dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), trauma-informed care, emotion-focused therapy, schema therapy, and Vygotsky's learning theory. These elements are not merely complementary but cardinal in meeting the diverse needs of parents during infancy, both in typical developmental contexts and following preterm birth, where additional stressors are often present. The study delineates the theoretical foundations of this integrative mindfulness-based approach and openly provides a novel comprehensive protocol of an 8-week group intervention program that operationalizes the proposed framework. This program focuses on enhancing parental mindful observation, non-judgmental acceptance, and goal-driven behavior to strengthen the resilience of the parent-infant relationship. Emphasizing the bi-directional nature of this relationship and the role of co-regulation with the child, the theory-derived program is designed to scaffold calming dyadic cycles, promote reconsolidation of birth-related adverse experiences, and facilitate flexibility in parental modes. The novelty of this intervention lies in its holistic approach to mindful parenting, conjoining diverse theoretical perspectives into a coherent, culturally adaptable, and clinically oriented protocol that can be assimilated in pediatric community clinics. The provided protocol may now enable the evaluation of the framework's effectiveness in attaining positive effects for parents and children.

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Integrative mindfulness-based infant parenting program: theoretical foundations and a novel intervention protocol.

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Burstein O; Teshale Zevin Z; Geva R

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The study talks about how parents can learn to be more aware and caring through mindfulness to help their babies grow up healthy. It introduces a new way for parents to practice mindfulness by combining ideas from different therapies, and it explains an 8-week program to support parents and their babies. This mindfulness approach helps parents and babies feel calm and connected, even when things are stressful.

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pubmed id: 39989632 Indexed on February 24th, 2025

Digitally assessing social-emotional skills in early school years: initial validation of a screening instrument.

Kogler A; Gasteiger-Klicpera B; Prinz K; Paleczek L pubmed id: 39989631

There is a new digital tool called GraSEF that helps kids in Germany find out their social-emotional skills without needing to read. It uses audio instructions and different types of tests to see how kids behave in social situations, act kindly, control emotions, recognize feelings, and see themselves.

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Social-emotional skills are essential in everyday interaction and develop in early and middle childhood. However, there is no German instrument to help primary school students identify their strengths and weaknesses in different social-emotional skills that does not rely on written language. This paper introduces a new digital instrument, the GraSEF: Grazer Screening to assess Social-Emotional Skills, which was developed to measure (1) Behavior in Social Situations, (2) Prosocial Behavior, (3) Emotion Regulation Strategies, (4) Emotion Recognition and (5) Self-Perception of Emotions using different test formats (e.g., situational judgement test, self-assessment, performance tests). In the GraSEF, students work through an online survey tool, using audio instructions to guide them through the test.

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Digitally assessing social-emotional skills in early school years: initial validation of a screening instrument.

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Kogler A; Gasteiger-Klicpera B; Prinz K; Paleczek L

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There is a new digital tool called GraSEF that helps kids in Germany find out their social-emotional skills without needing to read. It uses audio instructions and different types of tests to see how kids behave in social situations, act kindly, control emotions, recognize feelings, and see themselves.

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pubmed id: 39989631 Indexed on February 24th, 2025

Avatars and humans may not elicit the same accent-related biases in mock courtroom research.

Frumkin LA; Stone A; Spiller MJ pubmed id: 39989630

The research looks at how using avatars in fake courtrooms might help study jury decisions. They made a digital person, or avatar, to see if it's as good as a real person in courtroom studies.

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Conducting research to better understand the role of extralegal factors in courtroom decision-making requires either labor intensive methods, such as simulating a trial, or approaches that are not ecologically valid, such as using short written case vignettes. If avatars could be used in simulated courtrooms, experiments could more easily manipulate extralegal variables for study without requiring significant resourcing, for example hiring actors and having access to a courtroom. The current study used previously developed stimulus materials of a human eyewitness in a courtroom and created a comparable avatar eyewitness and virtual courtroom to assess ratings of the human and avatar.

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Avatars and humans may not elicit the same accent-related biases in mock courtroom research.

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Frumkin LA; Stone A; Spiller MJ

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The research looks at how using avatars in fake courtrooms might help study jury decisions. They made a digital person, or avatar, to see if it's as good as a real person in courtroom studies.

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pubmed id: 39989630 Indexed on February 24th, 2025

Enhancing athlete performance under pressure: the role of attribution training in mitigating choking.

Huang D; Wang H; Tang Y; Lei H; Koh D pubmed id: 39989629

The study looked at why athletes sometimes perform worse when they are stressed, which is called choking. Researchers used special training to help athletes think more positively about failure and improve their performance.

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Choking in athletes describes a marked reduction in their skill level, falling below the normal level, when under stress. This paradoxical performance decline, which athletes strenuously to avoid yet frequently encounter, was the focus of this study. We implemented training interventions on athletes who had experienced choking to assess their impact on fear of failure and self-criticism. Correct or improve the subjects' inappropriate attribution of failure results, and enable them to learn to use appropriate and positive attribution, enhance motivation levels, and thus achieve the purpose of improving behavior and performance levels.

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Enhancing athlete performance under pressure: the role of attribution training in mitigating choking.

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Huang D; Wang H; Tang Y; Lei H; Koh D

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The study looked at why athletes sometimes perform worse when they are stressed, which is called choking. Researchers used special training to help athletes think more positively about failure and improve their performance.

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pubmed id: 39989629 Indexed on February 24th, 2025

Evaluating causes and gestures: source-related and crossmodal features in the perception of environmental sounds.

Lembke SA pubmed id: 39989628

When we hear sounds, we can often imagine what actions or shapes they might be linked to. In a study, researchers found that people can recognize certain "sound gestures" from everyday noises, like changes in pitch or loudness, and even guess what might have caused those sounds. People were quite good at identifying these sounds, especially when the sounds had clear changes in pitch, and these recognitions could help make things like search tools better.

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Communication through auditory cues often evokes associations to other sensory modalities. In film music, for instance, a descending pitch contour commonly resembles a falling motion. Such crossmodal associations to physical actions or shapes are here termed and can naturally occur in environmental sounds. Little is known about how reliably listeners perceive gestures in such environmental contexts and how salient the gesture-relevant auditory feature needs to be. This article reports on an exploratory study concerning the identification of sound gestures by crossmodal matching using analogous visualizations. The study considered gesture-related factors, such as auditory salience and contour complexity, and explored whether a concurrent evaluation of features related to the environmental sound source or cause would affect gesture identification. Twenty untrained listeners evaluated sound gestures occurring in environmental sounds, e.g., pitch contour when switching a vacuum cleaner on and off, loudness contour of a ball dropping. Participants evaluated 28 environmental sounds in three variants (original, isolated gesture, hybrid) and had to identify the sound gesture among four visualized options while also inferring the underlying environmental source or cause through verbal description and rating their confidence in identifying the source/cause. Based on features describing the macro contour of gestures, participants correctly identified 81-83% of all gestures. Manipulated sounds that emphasized gesture salience yielded only slight improvements of identification accuracy compared to original environmental sounds. Participants were more confident in identifying the source/cause in sounds containing pitch gestures than those containing loudness gestures, while lexical and semantic diversity in describing underlying materials (source) and actions (cause) varied considerably. For both groups, however, measures for gesture identification and the evaluation of underlying materials and actions correlated only weakly, suggesting task independence. Overall, findings suggest that untrained listeners perceive sound gestures in environmental sounds and can reliably use them to form crossmodal associations, while also evaluating properties related to the sound source and cause. For one, the perception of environmental sounds may evoke crossmodal links, while the reliable identification of sound gestures highlights their utility to crossmodal control or search interfaces.

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Evaluating causes and gestures: source-related and crossmodal features in the perception of environmental sounds.

Author(s):
Lembke SA

Summary:
When we hear sounds, we can often imagine what actions or shapes they might be linked to. In a study, researchers found that people can recognize certain "sound gestures" from everyday noises, like changes in pitch or loudness, and even guess what might have caused those sounds. People were quite good at identifying these sounds, especially when the sounds had clear changes in pitch, and these recognitions could help make things like search tools better.

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pubmed id: 39989628 Indexed on February 24th, 2025

Critical lure source details are "correctly" attributed to both directly related and mediated lists.

Tringali AE; Huff MJ pubmed id: 39989627

Sometimes people think they saw a word that wasn't actually on a study list because they saw other words related to it, like thinking of "water" when seeing "bridge." This study found that when people mistakenly think they saw a word, they can also remember the color in which the related words were shown, suggesting that their brain connected the word to other details.

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Studying lists of associatively related words often produces false recognition of non-studied critical lures (CL). This false memory illusion can be found both when word lists are directly related to a CL as in the DRM paradigm (e.g., water, bridge, run, for the CL ), and when words are indirectly related to CLs via non-presented mediators (e.g., faucet[water], London[bridge], jog[run], for the CL ). Mediated false memory is strong evidence for activation-monitoring processes over gist extraction as mediated lists lack a consistent gist theme. In the present study, we evaluated whether context details (font color) of studied lists are attributed to CLs when they are falsely recognized. Participants studied directly related and mediated word lists presented in one of two font colors, followed by a source test which required specification of the font color for recognized test items. When CLs were falsely recognized, participants were able to correctly identify the font color of the CL's origin list for both list types at a higher rate than incorrect identification. Because mediated false recognition reflects implicit activation, this pattern indicates activation processes may include both semantic and perceptual source details.

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Critical lure source details are "correctly" attributed to both directly related and mediated lists.

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Tringali AE; Huff MJ

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Sometimes people think they saw a word that wasn't actually on a study list because they saw other words related to it, like thinking of "water" when seeing "bridge." This study found that when people mistakenly think they saw a word, they can also remember the color in which the related words were shown, suggesting that their brain connected the word to other details.

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pubmed id: 39989627 Indexed on February 24th, 2025

Validity and measurement invariance of abbreviated scales of the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI-Y) in a population of Italian young adults.

Valente G; Diotaiuti P; Corrado S; Tosti B; Zanon A; Mancone S pubmed id: 39989625

This study looks at how well the short versions of the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory work for different ages and genders. The researchers wanted to make sure the shorter tests are as good as the longer ones in measuring anxiety.

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This study evaluates the validity and measurement invariance of the 8-item scales of the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI) across gender and age. Originally developed by Spielberger (STAI-Y), these scales have been shortened to create more efficient versions without compromising psychometric robustness.

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Validity and measurement invariance of abbreviated scales of the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI-Y) in a population of Italian young adults.

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Valente G; Diotaiuti P; Corrado S; Tosti B; Zanon A; Mancone S

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This study looks at how well the short versions of the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory work for different ages and genders. The researchers wanted to make sure the shorter tests are as good as the longer ones in measuring anxiety.

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pubmed id: 39989625 Indexed on February 24th, 2025

February 21st, 2025

Ability emotional intelligence profiles and real-life outcomes: a latent profile analysis of a large adult sample.

Haag C; Bellinghausen L; Poirier C pubmed id: 39981399

This study looked at emotional intelligence, which is how well people understand and manage their emotions, and how it affects their daily lives. Researchers found three different types of emotional intelligence profiles among French adults and noticed that people who had a strong ability to process emotions did better in life areas like handling stress, work-life balance, and decision-making. The study suggests creating special programs to help people based on their emotional intelligence profile to improve their overall well-being.

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Few studies have examined emotional intelligence (EI) following a person-centered approach to identify different types of EI profiles and their relationship to everyday life outcomes. Even rarer are those using an "ability" approach of EI (AEI) and related "performance-based" tests, which are considered promising. This study fills this gap by identifying AEI profiles and linking them to everyday outcomes such as health, wellbeing, and decision-making. The QEg ("QE" for Emotional Quotient - Quotient Emotional in French - and "g" for the general population), an ability-based measure of EI, along with other measures, was administered to 2,877 French adults. We then ran latent profile analysis (LPA) and identified three latent profiles within a heterogeneous population. The full emotion processing (FEP) profile outperforms the two others on key domains of life such as stress perception, home-work interaction, gratitude and satisfaction with life, emotional burnout prevention, and decision-making. Our research reveals the need for individualized AEI training programs tailored to three distinct profiles, addressing foundational skills for those with minimal or partial emotional processing while refining existing strengths for those with full emotional processing. Targeting interventions to specific profile characteristics could enhance the effectiveness of AEI training and promote improved wellbeing and life outcomes.

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Ability emotional intelligence profiles and real-life outcomes: a latent profile analysis of a large adult sample.

Author(s):
Haag C; Bellinghausen L; Poirier C

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This study looked at emotional intelligence, which is how well people understand and manage their emotions, and how it affects their daily lives. Researchers found three different types of emotional intelligence profiles among French adults and noticed that people who had a strong ability to process emotions did better in life areas like handling stress, work-life balance, and decision-making. The study suggests creating special programs to help people based on their emotional intelligence profile to improve their overall well-being.

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pubmed id: 39981399 Indexed on February 21st, 2025