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In the context of promoting educational equity and improving welfare, exploring ways to further enhance residents' subjective well-being from the perspective of educational equity holds significant practical importance. This study uses the educational Gini coefficient to measure the educational inequality index across different provinces and cities, and matches it with data from the China Family Panel Studies (CFPS) to investigate the relationship between educational inequality and residents' subjective well-being. The research findings reveal a significant negative correlation between educational inequality and residents' well-being, with observed heterogeneity. Specifically, educational inequality has a greater negative impact on groups with lower levels of well-being, rural areas, and the central and western regions of China. Mechanism analysis confirms the income distribution effect and economic growth effect of educational inequality. Therefore, increasing attention to the issue of educational equity and understanding the well-being effects of educational inequality are of great significance for the Chinese government in improving residents' welfare in the new era.

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How does educational inequality affect residents' subjective well-being?-Evidence from China.

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Lin D; Liu Z

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The study looks at how unequal education affects how happy people feel. It finds that in places with more education inequality, people feel less happy, especially in poorer areas and rural parts of China. The study suggests that focusing on fair education can help improve everyone’s happiness.

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pubmed id: 39679155 Indexed on February 9th, 2025

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Looking at recent developments in multimedia learning research, the interaction between cognitive and affective processes is examined more extensively. Based on the emotional design hypothesis, for example, using colors, in contrast to black and white representations, for designing learning materials can elicit positive emotions, guide attention, increase motivation, and foster learning. The attention-guiding effect of colors might not be beneficial when used in learning-irrelevant, decorative pictures. In such a case, the seductive detail effect suggests that interesting but irrelevant additions can hinder learning. Previous studies manipulated colors in the whole learning material independent of the relevance of the information. The present study aimed to examine the effect of color variations according to the relevance of the information presented.

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Exploring the interplay of information relevance and colorfulness in multimedia learning.

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Désiron JC; Schneider S

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Researchers are studying how colors can help people learn better by making them feel good and pay attention. Sometimes, adding colorful pictures that don't help with learning can actually make it harder to learn. This study looked at how using colors only on important parts of learning materials affects learning.

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pubmed id: 39679154 Indexed on February 9th, 2025

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Personalizing written learning materials has been shown to enhance learning compared to conventional text. The aim of the present study was to investigate the role of social agency in explaining the personalization effect. For this purpose, a theory-based scale for measuring social agency was designed including four facets: conversational character, sympathy and emotional connection, explanatory effect, and task involvement. The results of two experiments with  = 66 university and  = 77 high-school students showed that personalized written learning materials compared to non-personalized learning materials were rated higher on the first and partly on the second facet of social agency. However, the personalized materials did not increase learning outcome measures. Consistently, no differences in the task involvement between persons learning with personalized and non-personalized materials were found. Results show that personalization in conversational style alone does not lead to an improvement in learning performance unless other factors intensify task involvement.

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Toward the role of social agency in explaining the personalization effect.

Author(s):
Lindhaus M; Bolin JS; Weßeling L; Oest L; Dutke S

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The study looked at whether making learning materials more personal helps students learn better. They found that while students liked personalized materials more, it didn't actually help them learn more or get more involved with the work. So, just making materials personal might not be enough to help learning by itself.

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pubmed id: 39679153 Indexed on February 9th, 2025

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This article describes the development and initial validation of a measure of implicit internalized stigma among queer people, the Implicit Internalized Sexual Orientation Stigma Affect Misattribution Procedure (Internal-SOS-AMP), a computer-administered sequential priming procedure.

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Development and initial validation of the implicit internalized sexual orientation stigma affect misattribution procedure.

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Hall WJ; Dawes HC; Hannay JW; Williams DY; Frey JJ; Srivastava A; Chapman MV; Chen DG; Wilson AB; Ramon ME; Payne BK

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This paper talks about a new computer test made to measure hidden feelings of shame some queer people might have about their sexual orientation. It's called the Internal-SOS-AMP.

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pubmed id: 39679152 Indexed on February 9th, 2025

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The current field survey describes the identities, training, practices, and careers of 351 U.S. forensic psychologists. Findings are presented for clinical forensic psychologists ( = 323) with additional consideration for those working in institutions ( = 119), private practice ( = 107), or both ( = 90), and separately for non-clinical forensic psychologists ( = 35). The sample was predominantly middle-aged, White, and female. Participants reported various training paths to the field, and professional settings and activities in the field. Student loan debt was common and significant in clinical Forensic psychologists. Income was generally high, with trends in higher incomes for private practice, board certification, urban areas, and certain geographic regions. Gendered income disparities were common, particularly among those later in their careers and in private practice, with relative parity only observed among early-career clinical forensic psychologists in institutions. Career satisfaction was generally high, with some important barriers noted. Overall, the limited representation of those with historically marginalized cultural identities restricted further consideration and understanding of these important factors in the field. Additional data and discussion are provided for these and other areas of demographics and lived experiences, training and related financial considerations, professional practices (including settings, activities, and clinical test use), and career considerations (including income, benefits, retirement planning, and satisfaction). Together, these data and related discussions offer important insights for prospective and current trainees entering the field, professionals seeking to navigate and advance their careers, and field leaders aiming to contribute to the ongoing development of forensic psychology.

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Training, practice, and career considerations in forensic psychology: results from a field survey of clinical and non-clinical professionals in the United States.

Author(s):
LaDuke C; DeMatteo D; Brank EM; Kavanaugh A

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The study looks at the jobs and training of 351 forensic psychologists in the U.S. Most people in the study were middle-aged, White women, and many had high income, especially those in private practice or cities. The study found that forensic psychologists had high career satisfaction but faced challenges, like student loan debt and gender pay gaps.

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pubmed id: 39679151 Indexed on February 9th, 2025

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Strengthening youth sports and comprehensively promoting the participation of Chinese university students in sports to enhance their social acceptance are key initiatives for delivering high-quality talent for China's economic and social development.

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The effect of sports participation on the social identity of Chinese university students.

Author(s):
Ji S; Chen S; Yang X; Liu T; Wang X

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The abstract says that getting Chinese university students more involved in sports is important. This helps them fit into society better and become talented people who can help China's growth.

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pubmed id: 39679150 Indexed on February 9th, 2025

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Numerous studies suggest that maternal emotional warmth is a critical protective factor against adolescents' internalizing problem behaviors. However, the underlying mechanisms linking these variables remain unclear. Grounded in ecological systems theory, this study explores the impact mechanisms of social support (maternal emotional warmth), individual resource (meaning in life), and environmental factor (friendship conflict) on adolescents' internalizing problem behaviors.

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The impact of maternal emotional warmth on adolescents' internalizing problem behaviors: the roles of meaning in life and friendship conflict.

Author(s):
Zhang L; Wang R; Li Y; Chen L

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This study looks at how a mom's emotional warmth can help stop teens from having problems like feeling sad or worried. It also checks how things like having friends, feeling life has meaning, and support from others play a role in these feelings.

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pubmed id: 39679149 Indexed on February 9th, 2025

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The concept of involvement has enriched media psychological communication studies for more than three quarters of a century. The original concept of Sherif and colleagues-the so-called ego-involvement-has been extended piece by piece by various researchers over the decades, so that already in the 1980s voices were raised questioning the usefulness of such a broad meta-concept. In this article, we try to answer the question whether the involvement concept has become obsolete in the meantime by taking a more differentiated look at three different central understandings of the involvement concept (involvement as ego-involvement, as personal relevance and as mode of reception) and discussing their explanatory value. As a result, we conclude that the original conception still has its raison d'être and that media psychological communication research should take more account of this fact when designing its studies.

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The involvement concept-replaceable or irreplaceable? A case for a conceptual analysis of a core concept of media psychological communication research.

Author(s):
Schramm H; Olbermann Z; Mayer F

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The idea of involvement has been important in studying how people interact with media for many years. Researchers have added to this idea over time, but some began to wonder if it's still useful. This study looks at different types of involvement and finds that the original idea is still important for research.

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pubmed id: 39679148 Indexed on February 9th, 2025

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This study investigates the perception of spaciousness in interior environments using screen-based assessments with eye tracking, and virtual reality (VR) technologies. The research explores how four key design elements -view access, view content, materiality, and ceiling geometry- influence perceived spaciousness. Thirty-five college students participated in screen-based and VR-based evaluations of 16 photorealistic interior settings. Eye tracking data were collected during screen-based assessments to analyze visual attention patterns. Statistical analyses included repeated measures ANOVAs, pairwise comparisons, and correlations between screen and VR assessments. Results showed that view access significantly affected perceived spaciousness in both screen and VR conditions, with larger windows correlating to higher spaciousness ratings. Materiality also demonstrated significant effects, with natural and textured materials perceived as more spacious than concrete surfaces. View content and ceiling geometry showed trends towards influencing spaciousness perception but did not reach statistical significance. VR presentations generally yielded higher spaciousness ratings compared to screen-based presentations, suggesting that immersive technologies may enhance spatial perception. Eye tracking analyses revealed common gaze patterns and variations in visual attention across different design conditions. This study contributes to the understanding of how design elements influence spatial perception and demonstrates the potential of integrating eye tracking and VR technologies in environmental psychology research. The findings have implications for evidence-based design practices aimed at enhancing perceived spaciousness in interior environments.

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Exploring sense of spaciousness in interior settings: Screen-based assessments with eye tracking, and virtual reality evaluations.

Author(s):
Tural A; Tural E

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Researchers looked at how people feel about indoor spaces using screens and virtual reality. They found bigger windows and natural materials made spaces feel larger, and virtual reality made everything seem more spacious than just on screens. This study helps understand how to design rooms to feel more open and roomy.

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pubmed id: 39679147 Indexed on February 9th, 2025

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Behavioral and emotional problems in children with Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD) are well documented. However, the heterogeneity of this group has been largely overlooked. Addressing this gap is important to develop individually-tailored interventions.

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Developmental coordination disorder subtypes also vary in the pattern of behavioral and emotional problems.

Author(s):
Schoemaker MM; Lust JM; Steenbergen B; Houwen S; Diepstraten JEM; Wilson PH; Poelma M

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Children with Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD) often have behavioral and emotional problems. But, these children are all different, and this has been ignored. It's important to understand these differences to help each child better.

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pubmed id: 39679145 Indexed on February 9th, 2025

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Existing literature has documented diminished norm-based adaptation (aftereffects) across several perceptual domains in autism. However, the exact underlying mechanisms, such as sensory dominance possibly caused by imprecise priors and/or increased sensory precision, remain elusive. The "Bayesian brain" framework offers refined methods to investigate these mechanisms. This study utilized both model-free (frequentist statistics) and model-based (hierarchical Drift Diffusion Modeling) analytical approaches to compare gender face aftereffects in male adolescents with autism (n = 29) to neurotypical controls (n = 39) using a behavioral choice experiment. Contrary to our initial hypotheses, our analyses did not find support for imprecise priors or increased sensory precision within the autistic group. Instead, we observed generally decreased drift rates towards male but not female stimuli in the autistic group. Thus, our findings suggest a lack of own-gender bias in face processing among the autistic participants. These findings align with more recent behavioral and neurophysiological research observing intact priors in individuals with autism, suggesting that other mechanisms may better explain the perceptual challenges in autism. Our study contributes to the ongoing discourse on perceptual processing in autism, emphasizing the necessity for more nuanced analytical approaches in order to unravel the complexity of this condition.

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Disentangling the perceptual underpinnings of autism: Evidence from a face aftereffects experiment.

Author(s):
Hennig J; Doose A; Breier CM; Soutschek A; Beyer N; Schweinberger S; Kamp-Becker I; Poustka L; Albertowski K; Roessner V; Ehrlich S

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This study looked at how boys with autism see faces and found that they did not show a strong preference for seeing faces of their own gender. This suggests that boys with autism may not process faces in the same way as other kids, but their brains still have a lot in common with kids who don't have autism. The researchers believe more study is needed to understand how people with autism see the world.

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pubmed id: 39676584 Indexed on February 9th, 2025

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Motor impairments are common in individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) although less is known about the neural mechanisms related to such difficulties. This review provides an outline of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) findings associated with execution and observation of naturalistic actions in autistic adults. Summarized outcomes revealed that adults with ASD recruit similar brain regions as neurotypical adults during action execution and during action observation, although with a difference in direction and/or magnitude. For action execution, this included higher and lower activity bilaterally in the precentral cortex, the parietal cortex, the inferior frontal gyrus (IFG), the middle temporal gyrus (MTG), the occipital cortex, and the cerebellum. For action observation, differences mainly concerned both higher and lower activity in bilateral IFG and right precentral gyrus, and lower activity in MTG. Activity overlaps between action execution and observation highlight atypical recruitment of IFG, MTG, precentral, and parieto-occipital regions in ASD. The results show atypical recruitment of brain regions subserving motor planning and/or predictive control in ASD. Atypical brain activations during action observation, and the pattern of activity overlaps, indicate an association with difficulties in understanding others' actions and intentions.

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Action execution and observation in autistic adults: A systematic review of fMRI studies.

Author(s):
Stillesjö S; Hjärtström H; Johansson AM; Rudolfsson T; Säfström D; Domellöf E

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People with autism have motor problems, and scientists use special brain scans called fMRI to study this. The study found that their brains light up in different ways when they do things or watch others, using the same brain areas but with different patterns. This could be why they have trouble understanding what other people are doing.

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pubmed id: 39673256 Indexed on February 9th, 2025

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The Imposter Phenomenon (IP) is gaining increasing attention in academia, not only as an overall attractive research topic but also as a concern that especially affects members of minority groups. Nevertheless, there is little evidence for the occurrence and socio-structural correlates of the IP. Against the backdrop of a pressing need to contextualize the IP, this paper provides (1) an overview of the existing empirical evidence on the IP from a perspective that incorporates the role of social contexts, (2) highlights shortcomings in both existing theoretical approaches and methodological tools, (3) introduces the Impostor Phenomenon Short Scale (IPSS-3) as a novel, time-efficient and universally applicable IP measure, and (4) underscores that the IP, in fact, does not occur in a social vacuum but is closely intertwined with socio-structural characteristics. To this end, the paper draws on three distinct data sets gathered among German adolescents and adults for the development of the IPSS-3 (Study 1:  = 271), its validation (Study 2: = 427), and to assess the IP's socio-structural correlates (Study 3:  = 865). The findings demonstrate that the IPSS-3 represents the first time-efficient and universally applicable instrument suitable for capturing the IP in large-scale and longitudinal research designs, e.g., initiated in adolescence. Thus, the IPSS-3 can address key open questions related to age effects, the role of transitions in the life course, and systematic variations in IP intensity among different social groups.

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Impostor phenomenon short scale (IPSS-3): a novel measure to capture impostor feelings in large-scale and longitudinal surveys.

Author(s):
Jansen MP

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The Imposter Phenomenon (IP) is a feeling where people doubt their own achievements, and it often affects minority groups. This study created a new tool called the IPSS-3 to measure these feelings and found that social situations can affect how people experience IP. The IPSS-3 can help researchers learn more about IP among different ages and groups.

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pubmed id: 39669681 Indexed on February 9th, 2025

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Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) are a general term for a large group of nonequivalent situations that have the potential to traumatise a child. This risk factor is caused by a sensitive period of brain development, which is based on myelination, creation of synaptic connections and pruning. Dramatic environmental events during this period, such as history of institutionalisation, can disrupt optimal developmental pathways, leaving biological scars for life.

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The impact of early life experiences on inhibitory control and working memory.

Author(s):
Dydenkova E; McGlone F; Mayorova L; Nikolaeva E

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Bad things that happen to kids, called adverse childhood experiences, can hurt their brain while it is growing. These events, like being in a bad place without a family, can change how their brain grows and cause problems that last a long time.

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pubmed id: 39669680 Indexed on February 9th, 2025

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Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) has emerged as a promising tool for cognitive enhancement, especially within simulated virtual environments that provide realistic yet controlled methods for studying human behavior. This mini review synthesizes current research on the application of tDCS to improve performance in interactive driving and flight simulators. The existing literature indicates that tDCS can enhance acute performance for specific tasks, such as maintaining a safe distance from another car or executing a successful plane landing. However, the effects of tDCS may be context-dependent, indicating a need for a broader range of simulated scenarios. Various factors, including participant expertise, task difficulty, and the targeted brain region, can also influence tDCS outcomes. To further strengthen the rigor of this research area, it is essential to address and minimize different forms of research bias to achieve true generalizability. This comprehensive analysis aims to bridge the gap between theoretical understanding and practical application of neurotechnology to study the relationship between the brain and behavior, ultimately providing insights into the effectiveness of tDCS in transportation settings.

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Neuromodulation on the ground and in the clouds: a mini review of transcranial direct current stimulation for altering performance in interactive driving and flight simulators.

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Sansevere KS; Ward N

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Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) can help people do better in driving and flight simulators by improving specific skills, like keeping a safe distance from another car. However, how well tDCS works can depend on different things, such as the person’s experience and the difficulty of the task.

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pubmed id: 39669679 Indexed on February 9th, 2025

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This study aimed to develop the Dementia Attitude Scale Focusing on well-being (DASFWB) and to verify its reliability and validity. This scale measures the factors that individuals without dementia would consider important for their well-being if they were to develop dementia. It is expected to serve as a useful indicator for intervention strategies aimed at achieving an inclusive society.

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Development of the dementia attitude scale focusing on well-being.

Author(s):
Ono I; Nakatani H; Inoue Y; Peng X; Hamada H

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Scientists made a new tool called DASFWB to understand what is important for people feeling good if they get dementia. They tested it to make sure it works well. This tool will help make plans to include everyone in society better.

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pubmed id: 39669677 Indexed on February 9th, 2025

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The legitimization theory of the system explains that despite people's inherent drive towards personal and group interests, they tend to support social systems. Understanding the sources of social pressure and the glass ceiling perceptions of female football observers is the main aim of this study in terms of examining attitudes within the legitimized system. To this end, the study sought to answer how female football observers are constructed in a marginalized position within the male-dominated football culture through sources of social pressure, and how they accommodate the acceptance of legitimizing the system despite encountering glass ceiling barriers in the context of Turkey.

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Women football observers' experiences: a perspective from system justification and glass ceiling.

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Eratli Şirin Y; Öz G

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This study looks at why people, especially women who watch football, support unfair systems even when it's hard for them. It tries to find out why women in Turkey feel left out in a male-heavy football world and how they deal with it.

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pubmed id: 39669676 Indexed on February 9th, 2025

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Mobile devices are ubiquitous, but their potential for adaptive educational interventions remains largely untapped. We identify three key promises of mobile interventions for educational research and practice: 1) intervening when it is most beneficial (i.e., "just-in-time adaptivity"), 2) estimating causal effects of interventions in ecologically valid settings, 3) considering the impact of context on the effectiveness of interventions. We discuss the challenges and next steps to advance this field.

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Realizing the potential of mobile interventions for education.

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Breitwieser J; Neubauer AB; Schmiedek F; Brod G

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Mobile devices can help with learning by giving just-right help when needed, finding out how well the help works in real life, and seeing how the surroundings affect learning. This paper talks about what needs to be done next to use phones better for education.

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pubmed id: 39668147 Indexed on February 9th, 2025

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Urgent calls for research on the relationship between climate change concerns and eating disorder risk have been made. This study aimed to validate an Italian version of the Eating-Related Eco-Concern Questionnaire (EREC), a brief unidimensional measure of eating behaviors related to eco-concern.

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Validation of the Italian version of the Eating-Related Eco-Concern Questionnaire: insights into its relationship with orthorexia nervosa.

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Tecuta L; Casu G; Tomba E

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This study checked if an Italian questionnaire about how worried people are about the environment and how it affects their eating is reliable. They wanted to see how climate change concerns might be linked to eating problems.

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pubmed id: 39664644 Indexed on February 9th, 2025

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In the face of a global nursing shortage, nursing interns are crucial to sustaining the healthcare workforce. However, these interns encounter significant challenges in career decision-making, often exacerbated by the impostor phenomenon, which impedes their capacity to make informed choices. Despite its importance, little research has been reported on the specific conditions and contributing factors that affect nursing interns' career decision-making processes.

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The relationship between impostor phenomenon and career decision-making difficulties among nursing interns: the mediating role of psychological resilience.

Author(s):
He M; Li Y; Hu H; Yu Z; Cai C; Cheng Y; Ma L; Liu S

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This study talks about nursing interns who are very important because there aren't enough nurses around the world. These interns sometimes feel like they aren't good enough, which makes it hard for them to decide about their careers. Not much research has been done on what makes it hard for them to make these decisions.

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pubmed id: 39664643 Indexed on February 9th, 2025

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The face is the most important area on the human body for visually differentiating between individuals. When encountering another person, humans initially gaze at and perceive the face holistically, utilizing relational information and specific neural systems. Information such as identity and emotional state are then obtained from the face by distinguishing between small inter-individual differences, i.e., relational information. Similar patterns and mechanisms underlying individual face recognition have been documented in primates, other social mammals, birds, and more recently in some fishes. Like humans, fish are capable of rapidly (<0.5 s) and accurately recognizing multiple familiar conspecifics by individual-specific variation in the face. Fish can also recognize faces from various distances and angles, providing evidence for mental representation of faces in this large and diverse vertebrate group. One species, the cleaner fish, has even demonstrated mirror self-recognition (MSR) via self-face recognition, strengthening the claim that non-human animals are capable of having mental images and concepts of faces. Here, we review the evidence for individual face recognition in fishes and speculate that face identification neural networks are both similar and widespread across vertebrates. Furthermore, we hypothesize that face recognition in vertebrates originated in bony fishes in the Paleozoic era ~450 Mya, when social systems first evolved, increasing the importance of individual recognition.

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The ability of teleost fishes to recognize individual faces suggests an early evolutionary origin in vertebrates.

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Kohda M; Sogawa S; Sowersby W

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The research paper talks about how many animals, like primates, birds, and even some fish, can recognize faces. Fish can quickly tell who is who by looking at faces, much like humans do. The study suggests this ability has been around for a very long time, starting with ancient fish.

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pubmed id: 39664642 Indexed on February 9th, 2025

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According to the theoretical model of Schema Therapy, each human being has basic needs that require natural satisfaction from childhood. When these emotional needs are frustrated, early maladaptive schemas (EMS) develop, leading to coping styles that are strategies to manage the pain caused by activated EMS. The study validates and standardizes the Schema Coping Inventory in the Italian population and evaluates correlations between psychological variables and the SCI.

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Validation of the schema coping inventory for dysfunctional coping strategies.

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Gazzellini S; Pellegrini V; Napoli E; Ventre V; Lettori D; Castelli E; Basile B; Giacomantonio M

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This study looks at how people's early emotional needs and coping styles relate to their feelings and actions. It focuses on a tool called the Schema Coping Inventory (SCI) and tests it with people in Italy.

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pubmed id: 39664641 Indexed on February 9th, 2025

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This paper presents a media-aesthetic framework to study affectivity as a stance. This framework opens up a new perspective on multimodal affective stance-taking in the context of specific media ecologies. It exemplifies this new approach with case studies of the official audiovisual documentation of political debates in the German Bundestag and the Polish Sejm. This new approach addresses the intertwining of audiovisual multimodality with verbo-gestural expressivity (or the multimodality of speaking). Adopting a phenomenological position, we are interested in how the orchestration of the debates as audiovisual events moves the spectators. The concepts 'Expressive Movement' and 'Dynamic Forms of Vitality' serve as theoretical and methodological references to capture the affective dynamics of audiovisual debates and how these audiovisual images modulate the perceptions and experiences of the spectators. To illustrate and substantiate this approach for linguistic and media analyses of affective stance-taking, the paper outlines basic assumptions and methods. It offers two exemplary case studies from German and Polish parliamentary debates. It is concluded that bringing together media-aesthetic with linguistic analyses of multimodal communication and interaction provides not only a valid starting point for future research of multimodal stance-taking in different media ecologies but also allows researchers to address how and why spectators of audiovisual media performances are moved affectively.

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Affectivity as stance: multimodal stance-taking in audiovisual documentations of Polish and German parliamentary debates.

Author(s):
Müller C; Karpiński M; Kindler-Mathôt C; Klessa K; Jarmołowicz-Nowikow E; Junge JK; Papadopoulou K; Sawicka-Stępińska B

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This research paper talks about how we feel when watching videos of political debates in Germany and Poland. The paper shows a new way of studying these feelings by looking at how words, sounds, and gestures together affect us. It helps us understand why watching these debates can change how we feel and see things.

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pubmed id: 39664640 Indexed on February 9th, 2025

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The reduction in moderate to vigorous physical activity (MVPA) and the increased prominence of psychological sub-health (PSH) have had a serious negative impact on the health of Tibetan college students. Few studies have been conducted on college student populations at high altitude region in China. Therefore, the study investigated MVPA and PSH in 8721 Tibetan college students to analyze the relationship that exists between them.

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The relationship between physical activity and psychological sub-health among high altitude region Tibetan college students.

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Wang S; Niu Z; Xiong J; Chai G; Ye X

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The study looked at exercise and mental health in 8,721 college students in Tibet. It found that less exercise and more mental health problems are making students less healthy.

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pubmed id: 39664639 Indexed on February 9th, 2025

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Research on flashbulb memories (FBMs) has primarily focused on cognitive aspects. However, recent studies indicate that FBMs are closely associated with social and cultural dynamics. This descriptive study explored the structural aspects and psychosocial functions of negative FBMs within the context of intergroup theories, mainly focusing on negative public (coup attempt in Türkiye on July 15, 2016) and private (bad news of a loved one) FBMs. Participants in the main study ( = 233) were selected and grouped based on their social dominance orientations (SDO; high and low groups) and system justification tendencies (SJT; high and low groups), using data from a preliminary survey ( = 1,113). In the main study, participants' responses to items on canonical categories, phenomenological aspects, and psychosocial functions of FBMs and their involvement in different protest actions against the coup attempt were compared considering SDO, SJT, and gender. The results show that private FBMs were generally rated higher by participants than public FBMs in all aspects. Although the canonical quality of private FBM did not differ between gender groups, public FBM quality was better in men. Participants in the high-SJT group had higher-quality public FBMs and rated these memories as more functional than participants in the low-SJT group, along with their high levels of protest participation. No differences were observed between the SDO groups for either type of FBM. The findings are discussed in terms of their relevance to group hierarchies and system justification motives. As the first attempt to place the FBM phenomenon in the context of SDO and SJT at the individual level, this study is intended to encourage others to adopt multi-level intergroup theories for integrating bottom-up and top-down processes.

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Flashbulb memories in the context of group hierarchies: effects of gender, system justification, and social dominance orientation on negative private and public flashbulb memories.

Author(s):
Çavuşoğlu M; Kuşdil ME

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This study looks at special memories called flashbulb memories (FBMs) and how they relate to group behavior and feelings. It found that people remember personal bad news more vividly than big public events, like a coup attempt in Türkiye. The study also shows that some people's views and actions can affect how they remember these events.

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pubmed id: 39664638 Indexed on February 9th, 2025

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Depressive symptoms are prevalent among patients with chronic lung diseases (CLDs) and adversely impact their quality of life. This study aims to explore the association of grip strength (GS), sleep duration, and comorbidities with depressive symptoms in patients with CLDs, with an in-depth analysis of the underlying mechanisms.

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Association of grip strength, sleep duration, and comorbidities with depressive symptoms in middle-aged and older patients with chronic lung diseases: a cross-sectional network analysis based on CHARLS data.

Author(s):
Li L; Meng J; Wu Y; Bu X; Gao L; Xiao Z; Chen J

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Many people with long-lasting lung problems feel sad, which affects how happy they are with life. This study looks at how strong a person's grip is, how long they sleep, and other health issues affect feeling sad in people with lung problems.

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pubmed id: 39664637 Indexed on February 9th, 2025

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This study aims to investigate the mediator role of psychological resilience in the relationship between post-traumatic stress and burnout symptoms in academicians affected by two earthquakes that occurred on February 6, 2023, affecting 11 provinces of Türkiye.

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Mediator role of psychological resilience between post-traumatic stress symptoms and burnout in academicians affected by the earthquakes in Türkiye.

Author(s):
Yetkin Tekin A

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This study looks at how being strong in tough times can help teachers who are stressed from earthquakes not feel too tired or burned out. It focuses on teachers in Türkiye who were affected by earthquakes in February 2023.

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pubmed id: 39664636 Indexed on February 9th, 2025

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Within the research field of bilingual lexical representation and organization, much attention has been given to whether two languages share a conceptual system and what factors modulate the connection between this conceptual system and the lexical systems of a bilingual's L1 and L2. One of the most valid ways in the psycholinguistics domain to explore these doubts is to examine the masked translation priming effect and the priming asymmetry through cross-language priming experiments. In this study, a masked priming lexical decision task was conducted with unbalanced English-Chinese bilinguals to investigate whether the masked translation priming effect exists in both translation directions, and to further reveal how the number of translations, which can be categorized into one-translation pair and more-than-one-translation pair conditions, affects the priming effects and modulates translation priming asymmetry. It was demonstrated that both translation direction and the number of translations influence the priming effect. Specifically, the priming effect was observable from L1 to L2 but not from L2 to L1, and the priming for one-translation pairs was significantly greater when compared to that for more-than-one-translation pairs. Moreover, the impacts of translation direction on the priming effect differed between the one-translation pair and more-than-one-translation pair conditions: under the former condition, substantial priming occurred in both directions, whereas for the latter condition, it was observed only in the L1-L2 direction. Several models of the bilingual mental lexicon, mainly the Revised Hierarchical Model and the Distributed Conceptual Feature Model, were used to elucidate the above results.

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Number of translations and translation direction in masked translation priming: evidence from unbalanced English-Chinese bilinguals.

Author(s):
Zhao Q; Li J; Xiong W; Xing H

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This study looked at how people who speak two languages remember words in both languages. They found that when there was only one way to translate a word, people remembered it better, and they remembered words better going from their first language to their second language. Different models were used to explain why this happens.

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pubmed id: 39664635 Indexed on February 9th, 2025

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The objective of the study was to investigate the impact of sibling family structure -including the number of children, age gaps, presence of a twin, sibling position, and gender composition - on emotion understanding and its development in children aged 5-6 years. A total of 409 preschoolers participated. Emotion understanding was assessed using The Test of Emotion Comprehension at the baseline and then again at a 1-year follow-up. In addition to the primary variables, executive functions (comprising visual and verbal working memory and cognitive flexibility) and non-verbal intelligence were controlled for in the analysis. We used the Dimensional Change Card Sort task to assess cognitive flexibility, the Sentence Repetition and Memory for Designs subtests of NEPSY-II to measure verbal and visual working memory, respectively, and Raven's Coloured Progressive Matrices to assess non-verbal intelligence. Sibling data were obtained from the parent surveys, while psychological assessments were administered to children by psychologists. While sibling family structure influences emotion understanding, it does not significantly affect its development over a year. A more advanced reflective emotional understanding is associated with higher cognitive flexibility and having a younger sibling, compared to other sibling positions. The results of this study offer additional knowledge for parents, educators, family therapists, and child psychologists seeking a deeper understanding of emotional development in children. These professionals can design interventions and programs that leverage sibling and peer relationships to foster emotional development, encourage collaboration through age-diverse activities, and promote caregiving roles to enhance family and group dynamics.

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Does sibling family structure matter in the emotion understanding development in preschoolers?

Author(s):
Aslanova M; Gavrilova M; Iurina E

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The study looked at how having brothers or sisters affects how kids aged 5-6 understand feelings. It found that having a younger sibling and being flexible in thinking helps kids understand emotions better, but having siblings doesn't change their understanding over a year. This information is useful for parents and teachers to help kids grow emotionally through activities with siblings and friends.

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pubmed id: 39664634 Indexed on February 9th, 2025

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Loneliness is a prevalent issue among international university students, often exacerbated by cultural and linguistic barriers. This pilot study aims to assess the feasibility, acceptability and impact of a blended intervention to promote international students' social connectedness and well-being.

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A blended group intervention to promote social connectedness and wellbeing among international university students: an exploratory study.

Author(s):
Cipolletta S; Tedoldi I; Tomaino SCM

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Many students from other countries feel lonely because of different cultures and languages. This study tests a program to help these students make friends and feel better.

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pubmed id: 39664633 Indexed on February 9th, 2025

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A recent large-scale study on the portrayal of autism in British newspapers revealed a deficit-based coverage, which concentrated on children and boys in particular, typically represented from the mothers' perspective. This follow-up study refines these representations, considering how they differ by gender and family role. We analysed 2998 text samples, which discussed autism in the context of four combinations of gender and family roles, namely, BOY, GIRL, FATHER and MOTHER. These samples included sources with different publication dates, reporting style and political orientation. Autism representations remained negative regardless of gender and family role. Over time, stories about autistic girls started to emerge, identifying them as a distinct group explicitly compared to autistic boys. Newspapers, especially broadsheets, associated girls with diagnostic difficulties, camouflaging and sometimes gender dysphoria - discussed particularly for those assigned female at birth. The child's autism was more often attributed to maternal than paternal behaviours or lifestyle. Autistic mothers were mentioned more often than fathers and were portrayed negatively. We conclude that newspapers portray female autism as less significant than male autism and, in addition, place mothers under more ethical scrutiny than fathers. These disparities reflect both historical biases in autism research and gender and family-role stereotypes.

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Gender and family-role portrayals of autism in British newspapers: An intersectional corpus-based study.

Author(s):
Karaminis T; Gabrielatos C; Maden-Weinberger U; Beattie G

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A study looked at how British newspapers talk about autism, focusing on boys and girls and their parents. It found that newspapers often discuss autism negatively and focus more on boys than girls. Mothers are more often blamed for their child's autism than fathers, and autistic mothers are usually talked about in a negative way.

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pubmed id: 39660691 Indexed on February 9th, 2025

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Some studies report increased prevalence of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and associated symptoms with prenatal cannabis exposure. We examined whether associations of maternal cannabis use from 3 months preconception through delivery ("peripregnancy") with behavior and development in the offspring varied with the presence of ASD symptoms. Children ages 30-68 months with ASD symptoms (i.e., met study criteria for ASD or had ASD symptoms on standardized assessments or community ASD diagnosis, N = 2734) and without ASD symptoms (other developmental delay/disorders or general population sample, N = 3454) were evaluated with the Child Behavior Checklist and Mullen Scales of Early Learning. We examined cannabis use during three time periods: peripregnancy, pregnancy, and only preconception. Peripregnancy cannabis exposure was reported for 6.0% of children with and 4.6% of children without ASD symptoms. Preconception-only cannabis use (versus no use) was associated with more aggressive behavior, emotional reactivity, and sleep problems in children with ASD symptoms, but not in children without ASD symptoms. Cannabis use during pregnancy was associated with increased attention and sleep problems in children with ASD symptoms; these associations did not differ significantly by ASD symptoms. Peripregnancy cannabis use was not associated with child developmental abilities regardless of ASD symptoms. In summary, associations of peripregnancy cannabis use with some behavioral outcomes differed in children with and without ASD symptoms. With rising cannabis use among pregnant women, future studies that examine a range of developmental risks associated with timing and patterns of cannabis use prior to conception as well as during pregnancy could inform clinical guidance.

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Associations of maternal peripregnancy cannabis use with behavioral and developmental outcomes in children with and without symptoms of autism spectrum disorder: Study to Explore Early Development.

Author(s):
DiGuiseppi C; Crume T; Holst B; Aiona K; Van Dyke J; Croen LA; Daniels JL; Friedman S; Sabourin KR; Schieve LA; Wiggins L; Windham GC; Robinson Rosenberg C

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Some kids whose moms used cannabis before and during pregnancy showed more signs of autism and had problems like sleeping and being more aggressive. But kids without autism signs weren't affected the same way. Researchers say we need more studies to understand how cannabis affects kids differently.

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pubmed id: 39660543 Indexed on February 9th, 2025

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The present study aimed to explore the potential mediating role of negative physical sensation and experiential avoidance in the association between endurance exercise and exercise anxiety among university students.

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The chain-mediating effects of negative physical sensation and experiential avoidance on exercise anxiety in college students.

Author(s):
Wang Y; Tian J; Yang Q

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The study looked at how feeling bad physically and trying to avoid those feelings could explain the link between doing endurance exercise and feeling anxious about exercise in university students.

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pubmed id: 39660271 Indexed on February 9th, 2025

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With the rapid development of the Internet and the widespread use of social media, online public opinion has profoundly impacted the psychology and behavior of college students. College students are in a crucial stage of psychological development and self-awareness, making them highly sensitive to online information and easily influenced by online public opinion.

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College students' psychology and behavior in the context of online public opinion: a cross-sectional study in Jiangsu Province, China.

Author(s):
Chen X; Wu Q; Yin D

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College students can be easily influenced by what people say online because they are learning about themselves. With many people using the Internet and social media, what others say can really change how college students think and act.

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pubmed id: 39660270 Indexed on February 9th, 2025

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In Pakistani migrant families, contextual transformation can affect adult caregivers' parental skills and their ability to exercise positive parenting. We focused on identifying and describing patterns, practices and beliefs about parenting, identifying differential characteristics between the context of origin and the host context, and exploring Pakistani immigrants' use of resources or assets in the area of parenting support.

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Being a Pakistani mother in Catalonia: a mixed methods study.

Author(s):
El Khayat M; Rivero M; Anguera MT

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The study looks at how moving to a new country changes the way Pakistani families take care of their kids. It tries to find out differences in parenting between their home country and the new place they live. It also explores how they use different resources to help with parenting.

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pubmed id: 39660269 Indexed on February 9th, 2025

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The functions of consciousness, viewed from an evolutionary standpoint, can be categorized as being either general or particular. There are two general functions, meaning those that do not depend on the particulars of how consciousness influences behavior or how and why it first evolved: of (1) expanding the behavioral repertoire of the individual through the gradual accumulation of neurocircuitry innovations incorporating consciousness that would not exist without it, and (2) reducing the time scale over which preprogrammed behaviors can be altered, from evolutionary time, across generations, to real-time. But neither answers Velmans' question, of why consciousness is adaptive in a proximate sense, and hence why it would have evolved, which depends on identifying the particular function it first performed. Memory arguably plays a role here, as a strong case can be made that consciousness first evolved to make motivational control more responsive, though memory, to the past life experiences of the individual. A control mechanism of this kind could, for example, have evolved to consciously inhibit appetitive behaviors, whether consciously instigated or not, that would otherwise expose the individual to harm. There is then the question of whether, for amniote vertebrates, a role in memory formation and access would have led directly to a wider role for consciousness in the way the brain operates, or if some other explanation is required. Velmans' question might then have two answers, the second having more to do with the advantages of global oversight for the control of behavior, as in a global workspace, or for conferring meaning on sensory experience in a way that non-conscious neural processes cannot. Meaning in this context refers specifically to the way valence is embodied in the genomic instructions for assembling the neurocircuitry responsible for phenomenal contents, so it constitutes an embodied form of species memory, and a way of thinking about the adaptive utility of consciousness that is less concerned with real-time mechanistic events than with information storage on an evolutionary time scale.

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The function(s) of consciousness: an evolutionary perspective.

Author(s):
Lacalli T

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The paper talks about why consciousness is important and what it does. It says consciousness helps us change our behaviors quickly and remember things, which can keep us safe. It also mentions that consciousness might help us understand the world better by giving meaning to what we see and feel.

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pubmed id: 39660268 Indexed on February 9th, 2025

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Cognitive biases are associated with the beginning and maintenance of addictive behaviours. While these biases have been studied in gambling, they have yet to be thoroughly investigated in the context of loot boxes (LBs), largely because of the relatively recent emergence of this phenomenon. This study compared cognitive biases in problematic gamblers, non-problematic gamblers, LB purchasers, and free-LB openers. For this aim, 279 participants (63.1% males) with a mean age of 23.65 years ( = 8.66) completed a self-report. The results showed no differences between problematic gamblers, LB purchasers and LB openers on illusion of control and predictive control. In contrast to LB openers, problematic gamblers and LB purchasers obtained statistically similar scores on interpretative biases, gambling-related expectancies and the total score of the Gambling Related Cognitions Scale (GRCS). Only problematic gamblers experienced a higher perceived inability to stop gambling. Moreover, problematic gamblers, LB purchasers and LB openers scored higher on all biases compared to non-problematic gamblers. Eighty-six participants simultaneously gambled and used LBs. When this overlap was controlled, problematic gamblers and loot boxers shared all cognitive biases but the perceived inability to stop gambling; and scored statistically higher than non-problematic gamblers in all cognitive biases except for the illusion of control. The study provides additional evidence of the relationship between gambling and LBs.

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Do problematic gamblers and loot boxers share similar fallacies of thought? A comparative analysis of cognitive biases.

Author(s):
Sanmartín FJ; Velasco J; Gálvez-Lara M; Cuadrado F; Moriana JA

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This study looked at how people think when they gamble or use loot boxes in games. It found that people who gamble a lot and those who use loot boxes have similar ways of thinking, like expecting good outcomes, but only gamblers felt more unable to stop. Both groups showed more of these thoughts compared to people who don't gamble much.

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pubmed id: 39660267 Indexed on February 9th, 2025

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Workplace bullying is a pervasive issue that affects millions of individuals worldwide, leading to severe psychological and social consequences. This study examines the factors influencing the decisions of religious individuals who have experienced workplace bullying, with an explicit focus on their choice to seek help from their religious community. The study involved respondents from various religious groups, most of whom were Roman Catholic. The research employs a cross-sectional design, integrating quantitative analysis with qualitative insights. Data from 1,231 respondents were analyzed via descriptive statistics, correlation, regression, and content analysis methods. The main coping strategies identified were self-coping and seeking help within a close, trusted environment. Attitudes toward the religious organization (subjective norms) consistently predicted help-seeking decisions more accurately than access to religious counseling (perceived behavioral control) or personal values. This research provides one of the first empirical insights into how religious communities can actively mitigate the psychological impact of workplace bullying, offering a novel perspective on the intersection of faith and mental health. The findings suggest that religious organizations could be crucial in supporting victims by enhancing outreach and counseling services, contributing to a holistic approach to workplace well-being. These findings have significant implications for religious communities, highlighting their potential to support their members in times of active distress.

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'God is always on my side': internal and external predictors of workplace bullying targets' help-seeking behavior in a religious context.

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Deikus M; Vveinhardt J

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This study looks at how people who have been bullied at work decide to get help from their religious community. It found that how people feel about their religious group helps them make this decision more than their access to counseling or personal beliefs. The research suggests that religious groups could play an important role in helping those who are bullied.

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pubmed id: 39660265 Indexed on February 9th, 2025

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Negated statements require more processing efforts than assertions. However, in certain contexts, repeating negations undergo adaptation, which over time mitigates the effort. Here, we ask whether negations hamper visual processing and whether consecutive repetitions mitigate its influence. We assessed the overall attentional capacity, that is, the available processing resources, and its distribution, the relative weight, quantitatively using the formal Theory of Visual Attention (TVA). We employed a very simple form for negations, binary negations on top of an accuracy-based, TVA-based temporal-order judgment (TOJ) paradigm. Negated instructions, expressing the only alternative to the core supposition, were cognitively demanding, resulting in a loss of attentional capacity in three experiments. The overall attentional capacity recovered gradually but stagnated at a lower level than with assertions, even after many repetitions. Additionally, negations distributed the attention equally between the target and reference stimulus. Repetitions slightly increased the reference stimulus' share of attention. Assertions, on the other hand, shifted the attentional weight toward the target stimulus. Few repetitions slightly decreased the attentional shift toward the target stimulus, many repetitions increased it.

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Benefiting from binary negations? Verbal negations decrease visual attention and balance its distribution.

Author(s):
Banh NC; Tünnermann J; Rohlfing KJ; Scharlau I

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Negated statements are harder to process than regular statements. Over time, repeating negations helps a little, but not as much as regular statements. In experiments, negations made attention split between different things and didn't focus well.

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pubmed id: 39660264 Indexed on February 9th, 2025

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The purpose of this study is to explore the impact of challenge and hindrance stressors on employees' knowledge-hiding behavior, based on self-reported data from 493 Chinese preschool teachers. The findings indicate that both challenge and hindrance stressors significantly increase knowledge hiding, with hindrance stressors exerting a more pronounced effect. Furthermore, the study reveals the mediating roles of job crafting and work withdrawal, highlighting the distinct mechanisms involved with these stressors. Specifically, challenge stressors increase the likelihood of knowledge hiding through work withdrawal while simultaneously decreasing it through job crafting; notably, the former pathway has a greater effect. In contrast, hindrance stressors consistently exert detrimental effects, amplifying the probability of knowledge hiding through both mediators, which explains their stronger impact compared to challenge stressors. Additionally, empowering leadership plays a crucial moderating role in this relationship. The adverse influence of hindrance stressors on knowledge hiding, as mediated by job crafting, intensifies under high levels of empowering leadership. These findings not only validate the newly constructed parallel mediation model within an educational context but also provide practical strategies for kindergarten administrators regarding knowledge management. Such strategies include effectively distinguishing and managing different types of job stressors, enhancing skills to empower employees, and organizing regular knowledge-sharing activities.

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The impact of challenge and hindrance stressors on knowledge hiding: the mediating role of job crafting and work withdrawal.

Author(s):
Wang L; Jia Y; Xie K

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The study looked at how work stress affects teachers not wanting to share what they know. Stress that makes work harder made teachers hide what they knew more. Also, how teachers handle their jobs and their leaders’ support changes this effect.

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pubmed id: 39660262 Indexed on February 9th, 2025

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Cultural dance fosters social cohesion, emotional well-being, creative thinking, and cultural identity by conveying cultural values and social meanings. However, systematic comparative research on cross-cultural and indigenous cultural dance education remains limited. This study, adopting a global perspective, examines the current applications, core issues, and educational strategies in this field. Through a systematic literature review and grounded theory approach, the research scrutinizes studies conducted from 2010 to 2024. The results show that intercultural research primarily focuses on multicultural exchange, cultural integration of immigrant groups, and cultural acceptance among socioeconomically disadvantaged populations, highlighting the influence of intercultural adaptability and globalization. In contrast, indigenous cultural research emphasizes local culture and educational systems, with a particular focus on local cultural identity and educational reform. While both types of research reach a consensus on the importance of cultural transmission, diversity in teaching strategies, and the critical role of educators, significant differences remain in cultural identity and the design of educational content. Future research could concentrate on virtual dance education, innovation in indigenous cultures, the exploration of dance education's role in mental health, and the deep integration of artificial intelligence into dance pedagogy. Furthermore, consideration of the potential impact of globalization and technological advancement on cultural identity and educational models will foster theoretical innovation and practical development in dance education.

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A systematic comparison of intercultural and indigenous cultural dance education from a global perspective (2010-2024).

Author(s):
Liu W; Xue H; Wang ZY

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The study looks at how cultural dance helps people feel connected and understand different cultures. It talks about how dance is taught in different parts of the world, comparing multicultural and local dance education. The research finds that while both focus on sharing culture and teaching diversity, they differ in how they deal with cultural identity and teaching styles.

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pubmed id: 39660261 Indexed on February 9th, 2025

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An active and constructive process whereby individuals possess the ability to develop, implement, and flexibly maintain planned behavior in order to achieve a desired achievement goal is referred to as self-regulation. The aim of the present study is to examine the factorial structure and psychometric properties of the Self-Regulation Questionnaire, validated in the Czech educational context (SRQ-CZ). The other target is to identify any usage of self-regulation strategies which may differ as nationality, gender, age, education, and internal motivation to learn come into play. A total of 1,711 adult learners from Poland, Serbia, Slovakia, and the Czech Republic who were enrolled in a formal secondary or higher education system pursuing professions in the field of humanities, social and health care sciences participated in this study. A measurement-invariant four-factor model was obtained across all countries (min. CFI, TLI = 0.918, and 0.902, max. RMSEA = 0.059; between 0.625 and 0.838, and Cronbach's between 0.622 and 0.837), including the Impulse Control, Goal Orientation, Self-Direction, and Decision Making subscales. Generally, the study confirmed a gradual increase in scores that measure positive self-regulatory qualities (Goal Orientation and Decision Making) and a decrease in unfavorable self-regulatory qualities (Impulse Control and Self-Direction) with higher age, education, and motivation, with no gender differences reported within countries. Moreover, scores on Goal Orientation and Decision Making dominated between countries. In conclusion, the SRQ-CZ demonstrated its suitability for cross-national comparisons, and personal characteristics appear to be important factors that distinguish those with high and low self-regulation.

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Comparing self-regulation strategies among adult learners from Poland, Serbia, Slovakia, and the Czech Republic.

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Vaculíková J

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The study looked at how people control themselves to reach goals and used a special questionnaire to examine this in different countries. The results showed that people do better at self-regulation as they get older, have more education, and are more motivated, but there were no differences between men and women. They also found that the questionnaire works well for comparing people from different countries.

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pubmed id: 39660260 Indexed on February 9th, 2025

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Academic writing is paramount to students' academic success in higher education. Given the widely acknowledged benefits of peer feedback in diverse learning contexts, such as fostering a positive psychological mindset, there has been a growing interest in applying this approach to facilitate the development of academic writing. This study is launched to examine the primary features and findings of the studies that have investigated the benefits and challenges of the utilization of peer feedback in academic writing development. The methodology of this study incorporates a rigorous literature search methodology, encompassing database search, reference search, and manual search, which is subsequently followed by a content analysis of the selected studies. With the guidance of PRISMA 2020, a total of 60 related articles, spanning the period from 2014 to 2024, are selected through title screening, abstract screening and content screening, adhering to strict inclusion and exclusion criteria. The findings of this study reveal a growing global interest in peer feedback in academic writing, and highlight the need for future research on masters'/doctoral students and quantitative approaches to deepen understanding of its effects. Moreover, 16 distinct benefits of peer feedback in the academic writing context were delineated and subsequently categorized into five categories: affective benefits, cognitive benefits, behavioral benefits, social benefits, and meta-cognitive benefits. Furthermore, an analysis of the implementation challenges revealed 13 types of obstacles, which were traced to three primary sources: challenges originating from feedback receivers, those posed by feedback providers, and those stemming from the peer feedback settings. Based on these findings, several pedagogical and future research suggestions are proffered to guide both the practitioners and researchers.

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Incorporating peer feedback in academic writing: a systematic review of benefits and challenges.

Author(s):
Wei Y; Liu D

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This study looks at how getting feedback from other students can help with writing better in school. It found 16 good things about this kind of feedback and also found some challenges. The study suggests more research on older students and different ways to measure feedback effects.

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pubmed id: 39660258 Indexed on February 9th, 2025

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Left-behind children are characterized by prolonged separation from one or both parents, which exposes them to a constant lack of good parenting, leading to increased risk of internalizing and (or) externalizing problems. This study explored the effects of parental rejection on internalizing and externalizing problems, and examined the moderating role of interpersonal harmony in class.

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Parental rejection and internalizing/externalizing problems among left-behind children: the moderating role of interpersonal harmony in class.

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Liu Z; Zhao Z; Chen H

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Some kids have to live away from their parents for a long time. This can make them feel sad or cause problems with behavior. The study looked at how feeling rejected by parents can lead to these problems and how being friends with classmates might help.

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pubmed id: 39660257 Indexed on February 9th, 2025

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When we encounter life events that we experience as stressful ("stressors"), it sets off a biological stress response that can impact mental health and contribute to suicidal thoughts and behaviors (STB). Although we know about specific stressors that are associated with STB in the general population, little is known about the kinds of stressors that increase the risk of STB in autistic people and whether these associations differ by gender. To examine this issue, we cataloged the life stressors that autistic men and women experienced over the entire life course and investigated how these stressors were related to STB. Data were derived from a multinational sample of 226 autistic adults from the United Kingdom and Australia who completed the Stress and Adversity Inventory for Adults. We found that autistic men and women differed in terms of both the lifetime stressors they experienced as well as their perceived severity. Whereas men experienced more legal/crime-related stressors, women experienced more stressors related to relationships with other people and more long-lasting stressors associated with humiliation. Autistic women often perceived life stressors as more severe than men, which is important given that it is the perceived severity of stressors that most strongly affects our health. We also found that different stressors may predict STB in autistic men versus women. Whereas loss of loved ones was most strongly associated with STB for men, for women, physically dangerous stressors were most relevant. In addition, women with fewer lifetime stressors involving entrapment had higher lifetime STB. These results suggest that lifetime stressor exposure may be important to assess to understand suicide risk in autistic people. Additional research is needed to confirm these associations and to examine possible mechanisms linking stress and STB.

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Lifetime stressor exposure is related to suicidality in autistic adults: A multinational study.

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Moseley RL; Hedley D; Gamble-Turner JM; Uljarević M; Bury SM; Shields GS; Trollor JN; Stokes MA; Slavich GM

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The study looked at stress and how it relates to suicidal thoughts in autistic people. It found that autistic men and women experience different kinds of stress, and these stresses affect them differently. Research showed that losing loved ones troubled men more, while physically dangerous situations troubled women the most.

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pubmed id: 39655441 Indexed on February 9th, 2025

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Parents of children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) face heightened challenges during crises like war, leading to parental burnout (PB). Wartime demands may exacerbate the children's behavioral difficulties, which associated with PB. Successful emotional regulation (ER) is considered a protective factor for PB. This study aimed to explore the associations between the child behavioral problems, parent's ER difficulties and PB among parents of children ASD during wartime.

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The associations between child behavioral problems, parents' emotional regulation difficulties, and parental burnout among Israeli parents of children with autism during wartime.

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Shnitzer-Meirovich S; Aviad S; Bechar-Katz I; Araten-Bergman T; Shenaar-Golan V; Gur A

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Parents of kids with Autism may feel really tired and stressed during tough times like war. If parents can handle their emotions well, it might help them not feel so burned out. This study looks at how kids' behavior and parents' feelings are connected when things get hard.

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pubmed id: 39654942 Indexed on February 9th, 2025

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We utilized PISA-2018 data from 71 countries to investigate the relationship between cognitive constructs employed in reading literacy (locating information, understanding, evaluating and reflecting, single and multiple thinking) and math and science achievement. We found that these cognitive constructs collectively accounted for 56% of the variance in math and 63% in science achievement, even after adjusting for gender, socioeconomic status, and country fixed effects. This means that the majority of cultural differences in math and science achievement (resulting from different education systems) can be explained by cognitive constructs employed in reading. We also noted that, at the country level, coefficients of cognitive constructs employed in reading demonstrated an interesting reconciliatory pattern. Countries with a weaker coefficient on the "locating information" dimension tended to have stronger coefficients on the "understanding" and "evaluation and reflection" dimensions; whereas, countries with a stronger coefficient on "understanding" dimension tended to have a weaker coefficient on "evaluation and reflection" dimension. These findings are particularly significant for STEM interventions aiming to enhance math and science achievement, as they indicate that a substantial portion of the variance in these achievements can be explained by cognitive constructs employed in reading literacy. Furthermore, culture-specific reconciliatory patterns imply that strengths in certain cognitive skills can compensate for weaknesses of others. Therefore, schools should consider modifying their curricula to integrate cognitive constructs employed in reading literacy more into math and science education.

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Understanding the role of cognitive constructs employed in reading in global math and science achievement.

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Arastaman G; Bulus M; Kontaş H; Özcan B

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The study looked at data from 71 countries to see how reading skills like finding information and understanding can impact math and science success. They found that these reading skills explained a big part of the differences in math and science scores in different countries. This means schools might want to use reading-related skills to help improve math and science learning.

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pubmed id: 39654941 Indexed on February 9th, 2025

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Depression is increasingly prevalent among adolescents, with parents' socioeconomic status (SES) serving as significant predictors. Understanding the link between parents' SES and college students' depressive symptoms is of paramount concern. However, the neural basis linking the association between parents' SES and students' depressive symptoms still remains to be explored. In order to address this issue, this study aims to investigate the relationship between parents' SES and students' depressive symptoms, and the role of brain functional connectivity (FC) pattern in this relationship.

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The neural basis underlying the association between parents' socioeconomic status and depressive symptoms among college students.

Author(s):
Xiao Y; Jiang X; Li Y; Mao Y; Zhou D

Summary:
The study looks at how a family's wealth affects college students feeling sad. It also wants to see the role of brain connections in this.

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pubmed id: 39654940 Indexed on February 9th, 2025

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The employment psychology and issues being faced by university students have garnered significant attention after the COVID-19 outbreak.

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Changes in employment psychology of Chinese university students during the two stages of COVID-19 control and their impacts on their employment intentions.

Author(s):
Zheng S; Yan Y

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The COVID-19 pandemic has caused a lot of problems for students in college when it comes to getting jobs. These issues are being studied more closely now to help students find work.

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pubmed id: 39654939 Indexed on February 9th, 2025

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This paper approaches the connection between musical constructs and visuo-haptic experience through the lens of the cognitive-linguistic notion of the "image schema." The proposal is that the subconscious inference of spatial and haptic schematic constructs in music, such as vertical movement, will motivate their equally common occurrence in the language about that music, irrespective of the fact that this language never describes the musical structure in a one-to-one fashion. We have looked for five schemas in the scores for the first ten piano sonatas by Ludwig van Beethoven and three famous analytical and pedagogical texts about them: force, indicating changes in musical dynamics and referential invocation of power-related terms in the books; path, identifying vertical movement in the music and suggestions of upward- or downward motion in the texts; link, suggesting the presence or absence of musical slurs and references to attachment or detachment in the language; balance, indicating the loss and regain of consonance in the harmony and invocation of lost and recovered stability in the verbal semantics; and containment, allocating the nonharmonic tones that "belong" to their resolving notes in the scores and referring to physical or metaphorical enclosed areas in the texts. Results of the corpus analysis suggest the following conclusions: musical schemas outnumber linguistic ones sevenfold; moderate schema strengths are typical of both language and music; predominant valences are shared by language and music in three schemas out of five; hierarchies of five schemas by strength differ, though the strongest schemas are mostly shared. Yet the central finding is that the correlations between each schema pair for music and language, by scalarity and valence, are total. This implies that (1) schemas operate as semantic building blocks irrespective of the external "symbolical form" in which they are realized and (2) scalarized image schema complexes perceived in one cognitive mode may motivate the emergence of a corresponding number of the same complexes in another.

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From spatial perception to referential meaning: convergent image schemas in the music of and texts about Beethoven's piano sonatas.

Author(s):
Antović M; Jovanović VŽ; Popović M

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This research paper looks at how certain ideas, called "schemas," show up in music and the way people talk about music. The study found these patterns in both Beethoven's music and in books about his music, suggesting that even if music and language are different, they often share similar meanings.

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pubmed id: 39654938 Indexed on February 9th, 2025