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Music performance anxiety (MPA) is one of the most reported psychological problems among musicians, posing a significant threat to the optimal performance, health, and psychological wellbeing of musicians. Most research on MPA treatment has focused on reducing symptoms of performance anxiety, but complete "cures" are uncommon. A promising addition or alternative that may help musicians enhance their performance under pressure, despite their anxiety, is pressure training (PT). In other high-pressure domains, such as sports and police work, pressure training has been proven effective in reducing choking and enhancing performance quality under pressure. Therefore, the aim of this narrative review is to explore the potential of pressure training in music settings. Specifically, we first provide a theoretical overview of current models explaining performance declines due to anxiety. Second, we discuss the current state of research on the effectiveness and application of pressure training in sports and police work as well as recent developments in pressure training interventions for music settings. While there is a limited number of studies investigating the effectiveness of pressure training on musicians' performance quality, research focusing on musicians' experiences has shown that pressure training can be particularly beneficial for enhancing performance skills, preparing for performances, and managing performance anxiety. Based on the reviewed literature, the final section points out suggestions for future research as well as recommendations for musicians, teachers, and music institutions for practical applications.

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Facing the fear: a narrative review on the potential of pressure training in music.

Author(s):
de Bie N; Hill Y; Pijpers JRR; Oudejans RRD

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Some musicians get very nervous before playing music, which makes it hard for them to perform well. Doctors have tried to help by reducing this nervousness, but it doesn't always fix the problem. Now, they are looking at something called pressure training, which has helped athletes and police do their jobs better even when they are nervous.

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pubmed id: 39734772 Indexed on February 9th, 2025

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Gratitude has been found to be relevant for relational well-being, and there has been ongoing interest in uncovering the mechanisms by which gratitude functions in interpersonal relationships. Only recently, gratitude has been studied within the context of dyadic coping-the interpersonal process of how partners communicate their stress, support each other during stressful times, and jointly cope with stress-in romantic couples. Drawing up on theoretical models on the functions of gratitude within close relationships and previous research, we aimed to advance this line of research and examined the potential mediating role of gratitude between dyadic coping and relationship satisfaction applying a dyadic perspective. For a more nuanced understanding of gratitude, we differentiated between felt and expressed dyadic coping-related gratitude.

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Building happier bonds: gratitude as a mediator between dyadic coping and relationship satisfaction in romantic couples.

Author(s):
Roth M; Good N; Ledermann T; Landolt SA; Weitkamp K; Bodenmann G

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This study looks at how saying "thank you" can help people get along better in romantic relationships. It explores how couples support each other through tough times and how feeling and showing gratitude might make their relationship stronger.

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pubmed id: 39734771 Indexed on February 9th, 2025

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Operational environments are characterized by a range of psycho-physiological constraints that can degrade combatants' performance and impact on their long-term health. Neurofeedback training (NFT), a non-invasive, safe and effective means of regulating brain activity, has been shown to be effective for mental disorders, as well as for cognitive and motor capacities and aiding sports performance in healthy individuals. Its value in helping soldiers in operational condition or suffering from post-traumatic stress (PTSD) is undeniable, but relatively unexplored. The aim of this narrative review is to show the applicability of NFT to enhance cognitive performance and to treat (or manage) PTSD symptoms in the military context. It provides an overview of NFT use cases before, during or after military operations, and in the treatment of soldiers suffering from PTSD. The position of NFT within the broad spectrum of performance enhancement techniques, as well as several key factors influencing the effectiveness of NFT are discussed. Finally, suggestions for the use of NFT in the military context (pre-training environments, and during and post-deployments to combat zones or field operations), future research directions, recommendations and caveats (e.g., on transfer to operational situations, inter-individual variability in responsiveness) are offered. This review is thus expected to draw clear perspectives for both researchers and armed forces regarding NFT for cognitive performance enhancement and PTSD treatment related to the military context.

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Interest of neurofeedback training for cognitive performance and risk of brain disorders in the military context.

Author(s):
Jacques C; Quiquempoix M; Sauvet F; Le Van Quyen M; Gomez-Merino D; Chennaoui M

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Neurofeedback training helps improve brain activity and can benefit soldiers by boosting their mental performance and helping with PTSD symptoms. This review looks at how it can be used before, during, and after military missions, and gives advice for its future use and study.

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pubmed id: 39734770 Indexed on February 9th, 2025

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Consistent findings indicate that Theory of Mind (ToM) is impaired in schizophrenia (SZ). To investigate whether such deficits are trait- or state-dependent, we investigated if ToM is modified by clinical liability markers (such as basic symptoms and psychotic-like experiences), focusing on the analysis of unaffected siblings of individuals diagnosed with SZ.

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Theory of mind in schizophrenia through a clinical liability approach: a sib-pair study.

Author(s):
Giralt-López M; Miret S; Campanera S; Moreira M; Sotero-Moreno A; Krebs MO; Fañanás L; Fatjó-Vilas M

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This research looks at how people with schizophrenia have trouble understanding what others are thinking and feeling, called Theory of Mind (ToM). Scientists studied brothers and sisters of people with schizophrenia to see if they also show these problems.

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pubmed id: 39734768 Indexed on February 9th, 2025

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Learning experiences are intertwined with emotions, which in turn have a significant effect on learning outcomes. Therefore, digital learning environments can benefit from taking the emotional state of the learner into account. To do so, the first step is real-time emotion detection which is made possible by sensors that can continuously collect physiological and eye-tracking data. In this paper, we aimed to find features derived from skin conductance, skin temperature, and eye movements that could be used as indicators of learner emotions. Forty-four university students completed different math related tasks during which sensor data and self-reported data on the learner's emotional state were collected. Results indicate that skin conductance response peak count, tonic skin conductance, fixation count, duration and dispersion, saccade count, duration and amplitude, and blink count and duration may be used to distinguish between different emotions. These features may be used to make learning environments more emotionally aware.

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Explicit metrics for implicit emotions: investigating physiological and gaze indices of learner emotions.

Author(s):
Lal S; Eysink THS; Gijlers HA; Veldkamp BP; Steinrücke J; Verwey WB

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Digital learning can be better if it knows how students feel during lessons. The study used sensors to track things like skin reactions and eye movements to understand emotions. This helps make learning more personal and effective.

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pubmed id: 39734767 Indexed on February 9th, 2025

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Child-directed speech (CDS), which amplifies acoustic and social features of speech during interactions with young children, promotes typical phonetic and language development. In autism, both behavioral and brain data indicate reduced sensitivity to human speech, which predicts absent, decreased, or atypical benefits of exaggerated speech signals such as CDS. This study investigates the impact of exaggerated fundamental frequency (F0) and voice-onset time on the neural processing of speech sounds in 22 Chinese-speaking autistic children aged 2-7 years old with a history of speech delays, compared with 25 typically developing (TD) peers. Electroencephalography (EEG) data were collected during passive listening to exaggerated and non-exaggerated syllables. A time-resolved multivariate pattern analysis (MVPA) was used to evaluate the potential effects of acoustic exaggeration on syllable discrimination in terms of neural decoding accuracy. For non-exaggerated syllables, neither the autism nor the TD group achieved above-chance decoding accuracy. In contrast, for exaggerated syllables, both groups achieved above-chance decoding, indicating significant syllable discrimination, with no difference in accuracy between the autism and TD groups. However, the temporal generalization patterns in the MVPA results revealed distinct neural mechanisms supporting syllable discrimination between the groups. Although the TD group demonstrated a left-hemisphere advantage for decoding and generalization, the autism group displayed similar decoding patterns between hemispheres. These findings highlight the potential of selective acoustic exaggeration to support speech learning in autistic children, underscoring the importance of tailored, sensory-based interventions.

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Acoustic Exaggeration Enhances Speech Discrimination in Young Autistic Children.

Author(s):
Yu L; Ban L; Yi A; Xin J; Li S; Wang S; Mottron L

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This study looked at how certain sounds help kids learn to talk, especially in kids with autism. They found that when sounds were made with more exaggeration, both autistic and typical kids could tell them apart well. But the autistic kids used their brains differently to figure out the sounds.

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pubmed id: 39731320 Indexed on February 9th, 2025

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This study explores the performance of the item response tree (IRTree) approach in modeling missing data, comparing its performance to the expectation-maximization (EM) algorithm and multiple imputation (MI) methods. Both simulation and empirical data were used to evaluate these methods across different missing data mechanisms, test lengths, sample sizes, and missing data proportions. Expected a posteriori was used for ability estimation, and bias and root mean square error (RMSE) were calculated. The findings indicate that IRTree provides more accurate ability estimates with lower RMSE than both EM and MI methods. Its overall performance was particularly strong under missing completely at random and missing not at random, especially with longer tests and lower proportions of missing data. However, IRTree was most effective with moderate levels of omitted responses and medium-ability test takers, though its accuracy decreased in cases of extreme omissions and abilities. The study highlights that IRTree is particularly well suited for low-stakes tests and has strong potential for providing deeper insights into the underlying missing data mechanisms within a data set.

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The Effect of Modeling Missing Data With IRTree Approach on Parameter Estimates Under Different Simulation Conditions.

Author(s):
Soğuksu YB; Demir E

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This study looked at a method called IRTree to see how well it deals with missing data compared to other methods. It found that IRTree was better at figuring out people's abilities, especially when there's not too much missing data and the tests are longer. However, it wasn't as accurate when too many questions were missed or when the abilities were very different.

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pubmed id: 39726735 Indexed on February 9th, 2025

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Autistic/ADHD individuals are increasingly recognised as a valid minority group, with consistent research demonstrating a higher prevalence of co-occurring mental health conditions such as PTSD, anxiety, depression, substance use, and eating disorders among other mental health challenges. Due to this, there is increasing focus on the adaptations required for Autistic and ADHD individuals of current therapeutic approaches such as Schema Therapy. Particular emphasis when creating these adaptations needs to include looking at the developmental experiences, social influences, and continued adversity faced by Autistic and ADHD individuals across the lifespan, and how the narrative around Autism and ADHD within psychotherapy in general needs to change. This paper critically examines the role of attachment, unmet needs, and adverse childhood experiences in Autistic and ADHD individuals and the subsequent impact on schema development and maintenance and mental health. This will include an overview of the current literature in this area, reconsideration of understandings of Autism and ADHD, particular therapeutic considerations and adjustments and importantly discussion around the wider societal changes that need to occur to prevent schema development and reinforcement across the lifespan.

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Understanding early maladaptive schemas in autistic and ADHD individuals: exploring the impact, changing the narrative, and schema therapy considerations.

Author(s):
Spicer L; DeCicco E; Clarke A; Ambrosius R; Yalcin O

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Many people with Autism or ADHD also have other mental health problems like anxiety or depression. Researchers are looking at how therapy can be changed to help these people better. It's important to think about their life experiences and how society talks about Autism and ADHD.

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pubmed id: 39726631 Indexed on February 9th, 2025

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In this study, we examined gender differences in fraction learning and explored potential underlying mechanisms.

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Gender differences in elementary school students' fraction learning: roles of spatial ability and mathematical anxiety.

Author(s):
Zhang R; Chen Z; Deng C

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The research looked at how boys and girls learn fractions and tried to find out why there might be differences.

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pubmed id: 39726630 Indexed on February 9th, 2025

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(1) To investigate the relationship between college students' parent-child attachment, external expression of anger, and bullying behavior; (2) To explore the mediating role of external expression of anger between parent-child attachment and bullying behavior.

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The impact of college students' parent-child attachment on bullying behavior: the mediating role of external expression of anger.

Author(s):
Wang R; Chen Y; Zhao Z; Zhao M; Wang Z; Luo H; Li L

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This research studies how college students' feelings towards their parents and how they show anger relate to bullying. It also looks into how showing anger might affect the connection between parent feelings and bullying.

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pubmed id: 39726629 Indexed on February 9th, 2025

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Mental health among higher education students is a critical public health concern, with numerous studies documenting its impact on student well-being and academic performance. However, comprehensive research on the factors contributing to mental health deterioration, including barriers to seeking psychological help, remains insufficient. Gathering evidence on this topic is crucial to advancing policies, advocacy, and improving mental health services in higher education.

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Overcoming mental health challenges in higher education: a narrative review.

Author(s):
Hyseni Duraku Z; Davis H; Arënliu A; Uka F; Behluli V

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Students in college often have mental health problems, which can affect their happiness and grades. We don't know enough about why these problems happen or why students don’t get the help they need. Learning more about this can help make schools better at taking care of students' mental health.

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pubmed id: 39726628 Indexed on February 9th, 2025

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In the fast-paced, densely populated information landscape shaped by digitization, distinguishing information from misinformation is critical. Fact-checkers are effective in fighting fake news but face challenges such as cognitive overload and time pressure, which increase susceptibility to cognitive biases. Establishing standards to mitigate these biases can improve the quality of fact-checks, bolster audience trust, and protect against reputation attacks from disinformation actors. While previous research has focused on audience biases, we propose a novel approach grounded on relevance theory and the argumentum model of topics to identify (i) the biases intervening in the fact-checking process, (ii) their triggers, and (iii) at what level of reasoning they act. We showcase the predictive power of our approach through a multimethod case study involving a semi-automatic literature review, a fact-checking simulation with 12 news practitioners, and an online survey involving 40 journalists and fact-checkers. The study highlights the distinction between biases triggered by relevance by effort and effect, offering a taxonomy of cognitive biases and a method to map them within decision-making processes. These insights can inform trainings to enhance fact-checkers' critical thinking skills, improving the quality and trustworthiness of fact-checking practices.

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Relevance theory for mapping cognitive biases in fact-checking: an argumentative approach.

Author(s):
Masotina M; Musi E; Yates S

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In today's world, it's hard to tell apart real news from fake news. Fact-checkers help with this, but they can have trouble because it's tiring and they might make mistakes. This study looks at how to spot and understand these mistakes so fact-checkers can get better at their job.

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pubmed id: 39726627 Indexed on February 9th, 2025

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Infants are exposed to a myriad of sounds early in life, including caregivers' speech, songs, human-made and natural (non-anthropogenic) environmental sounds. While decades of research have established that infants have sophisticated perceptual abilities to process speech, less is known about how they perceive natural environmental sounds. This review synthesizes current findings about the perception of natural environmental sounds in the first years of life, emphasizing their role in auditory development and describing how these studies contribute to the emerging field of human auditory ecology. Some of the existing studies explore infants' responses to animal vocalizations and water sounds. Infants demonstrate an initial broad sensitivity to primate vocalizations, which narrows to human speech through experience. They also show early recognition of water sounds, with preferences for natural over artificial water sounds already at birth, indicating an evolutionary ancient sensitivity. However, this ability undergoes refinement with age and experience. The few studies available suggest that infants' auditory processing of natural sounds is complex and influenced by both genetic predispositions and exposure. Building on these existing results, this review highlights the need for ecologically valid experimental paradigms that better represent the natural auditory environments humans evolved in. Understanding how children process natural soundscapes not only deepens our understanding of auditory development but also offers practical insights for advancing environmental awareness, improving auditory interventions for children with hearing loss, and promoting wellbeing through exposure to natural sounds.

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Developmental origins of natural sound perception.

Author(s):
Polver S; Miller-Viacava N; Fraticelli M; Gervain J; Lorenzi C

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Babies hear many sounds, like people talking, animals, or water, from when they are little. This paper talks about how babies can recognize and learn from these sounds, showing that they prefer natural sounds, like water, more than fake ones, right from birth. Knowing this helps make better ways to help kids with hearing problems and encourages us to listen to nature more.

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pubmed id: 39726626 Indexed on February 9th, 2025

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Effective health management is crucial for elderly patients with coronary heart disease (CHD). This study applied a Psycho-Cardiology model to CHD management, aiming to assess psychological stress among patients with mild CHD and identify potential influencing factors to provide substantiating evidence.

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Psychological stress and influence factors in elderly patients with mild coronary heart disease: a longitudinal follow-up study in Shanghai, China.

Author(s):
Zhang Y; Wu Q; Xie Q; Xu Z; Yang X; Luo Y; Wan L; Yang Y; Wang Y; Ding H

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This study looked at helping older people with heart disease by using a new way that also checks their feelings. It tried to see what things might make patients feel stressed.

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pubmed id: 39726625 Indexed on February 9th, 2025

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With the rapid development of China's socio-economic landscape and shifts in population structure, rural empty nesters have increasingly become a focal point of social concern. Compared to their urban counterparts, rural empty nesters face more life challenges and psychological stress, making their subjective wellbeing a significant issue. This study explores the impact of learning engagement on the subjective wellbeing of rural empty nesters in China, aiming to provide theoretical support and policy recommendations to enhance their wellbeing. Using a random sampling method, the study focused on elderly learners aged 50 and above from counties within Z Province, N City, where elderly learning is relatively concentrated. Data were processed using SPSS 27.0 software. The findings indicate that there is a significant difference in subjective wellbeing between rural empty nesters and rural non-empty nesters, with rural empty nesters exhibiting lower subjective wellbeing and more passive involvement in learning activities. Learning engagement has a significant effect on improving the subjective wellbeing of rural empty nesters, with a notable positive correlation between learning engagement dimensions and subjective wellbeing. Compared to rural non-empty nesters, learning engagement has a more pronounced positive effect on the subjective wellbeing of rural empty nesters.

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Study on the impact of learning engagement on the subjective wellbeing of empty nesters in rural China.

Author(s):
Zeng R; Shi H; Wu H; Sun L

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The study looks at how learning can help older people in rural areas of China feel happier. It found that older people who live alone in the countryside are less happy and don't take part in learning as much as others. When they do get involved in learning, it helps them feel better.

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pubmed id: 39726624 Indexed on February 9th, 2025

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Recent research on social cures has posited that one's social identity associated with group membership can promote adjustment and affect well-being, especially for vulnerable individuals. In this study, we argue that, although the negative consequences of group-based stigma affect prisoners' well-being, having multiple social identities can protect them and mitigate the detrimental effects of stigma. The results of this cross-sectional study reveal that group identification with prisoners ( = 52) was negatively associated with well-being and anticipated discrimination. In contrast, education was positively associated with self-regulation and life satisfaction. Group identification with prisoners threatens self-regulation when the salience is controlled. We discuss the significance of our findings in the context of stigma and resocialization.

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"I Am Not Just a Prisoner": the effects of social identification on well-being in Italy.

Author(s):
Mosso CO; Caldera A; Re C

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This study looked at how being part of a group affects people in prison. It found that being part of a prisoner group can make people feel worse, but having an education can help them feel better and more in control.

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pubmed id: 39726623 Indexed on February 9th, 2025

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The psychological problems among the youth population have received widespread attention in the information age. However, little research has been conducted on the effects and mechanisms of worldview on depression, anxiety, and stress (DAS) among youth. In this study, we aim to investigate the relationship between worldview and DAS among youth.

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Worldview, psychological flexibility, and depression-anxiety-stress in Chinese youth.

Author(s):
Cheng SL; Zhang X; Zhao C; Li Y; Liu S; Cheng S

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This study looks into how young people's views about the world affect their feelings of sadness, worry, and stress. It wants to find out if the way young people think about life can change their mood problems.

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pubmed id: 39726622 Indexed on February 9th, 2025

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Digital interventions present potential solutions for aftercare and relapse prevention in anxiety and depressive disorders. This systematic review synthesizes evidence on the efficacy of internet- and mobile-based interventions for post-acute care in these conditions.

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Internet- and mobile-based aftercare and relapse prevention interventions for anxiety and depressive disorders: a systematic review.

Author(s):
Petre LM; Piepiora PA; Gemescu M; Gheorghe DA

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Digital tools can help people who have anxiety and depression feel better after they have finished their main treatment. This study looks at how good internet and phone programs are at helping people stay well.

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pubmed id: 39726621 Indexed on February 9th, 2025

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Communion and agency are two essential dimensions for understanding personality traits. This study comprised 49 in-depth interviews and three focus groups with experienced social workers in China to address the following research questions: (1) What is the orientation of Chinese social workers towards communion and agency? (2) What challenges do they encounter in their daily practice? (3) How do they interpret and utilize agency in coping with these challenges? The findings revealed three main themes: (a) Participants demonstrated a clear preference for communion over agency, reflecting a strong orientation towards social concern; (b) The professional challenges faced by participants varied significantly across career stages, with distinct requirements for agency at each stage; and (c) Participants' understanding of agency was primarily rooted in professional competence. At different career stages, participants displayed varying levels of professional competence and agency, both of which were essential for addressing social concerns and developing strategies for long-term professional survival. The study suggests that social workers need to balance social concerns with individual development, view social work rationally as an ordinary job, and focus on enhancing both their professional competence and personal agency to achieve their aspirations.

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Communion and agency: research on social workers in China.

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Zhang Y

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This study looked at social workers in China and found they preferred working together with others more than working alone. They faced different challenges at different times in their careers, and needed to be good at their jobs and work well with others to solve these problems. The study suggests social workers should balance helping others with their own growth and improve their skills to succeed.

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pubmed id: 39726620 Indexed on February 9th, 2025

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Depressive disorders constitute a significant public health challenge. Health literacy might be an important factor to consider in prevention strategies for depressive disorders, which is why this study aimed at exploring the association between depressive symptom levels and severity and health literacy, along with additional sociodemographic factors.

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Depression and health literacy among adolescents and adults in Germany: findings from two representative samples.

Author(s):
König L; Schröder R; Hamer T; Suhr R

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Depressive disorders are a big problem for lots of people. This study looked at how well people understand health information and if that affects how serious depression can get. It also considered other details like people's background and age.

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pubmed id: 39726619 Indexed on February 9th, 2025

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Test anxiety, a prevalent psychological issue among medical students, can profoundly impact their social, behavioral, and emotional development. This condition is significantly associated with challenges in emotional regulation, and to date, no effective clinical treatment has been established to address it. This study aimed to investigate the potential benefits and effects of group impromptu music therapy (GIMT) on enhancing emotional regulation skills and alleviating test anxiety in medical students.

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Effect of group impromptu music therapy on improving test anxiety and emotional regulation ability in medical students.

Author(s):
Song L; Xiao R; Wang C; Li C; Liu Q; Zhang Y; Liu Z; Zhang L; Zhang M

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Medical students often feel very stressed about tests, which can make them feel upset. There isn't a good treatment for it yet. This study looked at using group music therapy to help students feel better and handle their emotions better.

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pubmed id: 39726618 Indexed on February 9th, 2025

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Chronic social-role-related stress plays a crucial role in the development and progression of mental and medical disorders, making it an important factor to consider. This study aimed to translate and validate The Chronic Stress Scale (CSS) adapted by Turner for a Turkish population and explore its role in depression, anxiety, and perceived stress.

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Validation of the Turkish version of the Chronic Stress Scale: assessing social role-related stressors and their impact on psychopathology.

Author(s):
Yapici Eser H; Ertuna D; Yalcinay-Inan M; Kurt Sabitay I; Balli M; Kilciksiz CM; Kucuker MU; Kilic O; Ercan AC; Guclu O; Aydemir Ö

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The study looked at how long-lasting stress from roles people play in life can affect mental and medical health problems. It tested a special stress scale in Turkey to see how it’s related to depression, anxiety, and stress.

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pubmed id: 39726617 Indexed on February 9th, 2025

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The theoretical model of smartphone addiction highlights the role of emotional factors in fostering addictive behaviors. However, most research has focused on long-term emotional states and pathologies, often overlooking the immediate effects of daily emotional fluctuations on smartphone usage and their mechanisms.

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Relationships between daily emotional experiences and smartphone addiction among college students: moderated mediating role of gender and mental health problems.

Author(s):
Cheng Q; Zhou Y; Zhu H; Wang Q; Peng W

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This research talks about how feelings can make people spend too much time on their phones. It shows that people often forget how their feelings from day to day can affect how much they use their smartphones.

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pubmed id: 39726616 Indexed on February 9th, 2025

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Academic environments are known for their high demands, often resulting in significant distress among employees. Thus, identifying effective intervention strategies to mitigate workplace stress is essential. The present study aims to evaluate the potential benefits of mind-body interventions (i.e., Yoga and Tai Chi) on the psychological wellbeing and perceived mental and physical health of female university employees.

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Promoting workplace psychological wellbeing through Yoga and Tai Chi classes in female university employees.

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Valdesalici A; Cerea S; Pecunioso A; Paoli A; Grigolin G; Nardelli R; Armenti A; Ghisi M

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This study looks at how activities like Yoga and Tai Chi might help women working at universities feel less stressed and healthier. It's important because working at universities can be really stressful.

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pubmed id: 39726615 Indexed on February 9th, 2025

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Encouraging proactive behavior among employees is a crucial pathway for companies to adapt swiftly and gain a competitive edge. In contrast to other forms of organizational citizenship behavior that tend to preserve existing work practices within the organization, Challenge-Oriented Organizational Citizenship Behavior (COCB) aims to improve upon these by offering constructive suggestions and altering employees' work methods, policies, and procedures for the benefit of the organization. However, not all employees are willing to engage in COCB, even when the organization actively encourages participation. Departing from traditional perspectives on workplace environments and leadership, we propose that psychological empowerment at the individual level may be a precursor to employees' engagement in COCB.

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Psychological empowerment and challenge-oriented organizational citizenship behavior: a dual process model.

Author(s):
Xu Q; Liu S; Huang H

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Some workers do things to help their companies get better and win against others. This research thinks that workers need to feel powerful in their minds to help their companies in this way.

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pubmed id: 39726614 Indexed on February 9th, 2025

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Metacognition, a multifaceted psychological construct, encompasses recognising and explaining one's cognitive processes and those of others. Notably, deficits in metacognitive abilities are linked with diminished social performance, reduced quality of life, and increased severity of Personality Disorders (PD). While there are other assessment tools available in Turkish for evaluating metacognition, none offer the same combination of speed, simplicity, flexibility, and multidimensionality for screening metacognitive abilities as the Metacognition Self-Assessment Scale (MSAS).The Metacognitive Self-Assessment Scale (MSAS) was designed to evaluate various metacognitive functions-namely, Monitoring, Integration, Differentiation, and Disintegration-as described by the Metacognitive Multifunction Model. This study aims to translate and validate the MSAS for Turkish culture.

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Psychometric properties and validation of the metacognitive self-assessment scale (MSAS) in a Turkish sample.

Author(s):
Yılmazer E; Hamamcı Z; Türk F

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The researchers wanted to see if a special test, called the MSAS, can work well in Turkish. This test checks how people think about their own thinking and helps see how it might be connected to certain problems.

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pubmed id: 39726613 Indexed on February 9th, 2025

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The Faking Orgasm Scale for Women (FOS) was developed to explore the motivations behind women's self-reported instances of faking orgasm during oral sex and sexual intercourse. In a recent study, a Hungarian version of the FOS was developed, confirming the same factor structure as the original American version, consisting of four factors across two subscales.

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Psychometric evaluation of the abbreviated Hungarian Faking Orgasm Scale for Women.

Author(s):
Csányi E; Basler J; Bereczkei T; Meskó N

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A new version of a tool called the Faking Orgasm Scale for Women was made in Hungarian. It showed the same results as the original American version, having four parts in two groups that help understand why some women pretend to have an orgasm.

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pubmed id: 39726612 Indexed on February 9th, 2025

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The differential outcomes procedure (DOP) is an easily applicable method for enhancing discriminative learning and recognition memory. Its effectiveness in improving the recognition of facial expressions of emotion has been recently explored, with mixed success. This study aims to explore whether the expectancies generated via the DOP are reflected as differences in event-related potentials (ERPs) between participants in differential (DOP) or non-differential conditions (NOP) in a facial expression of complex emotion label task. Participants ( = 27 total, 14 DOP) in the DOP group received a specific reward for each specific emotion, while those in the NOP group received a random reinforcer when they correctly identified the emotion. We did not find differences in participants' accuracy or reaction time depending on group (DOP or NOP). These findings suggest that the DOP may not provide significant benefits for tasks involving labeling complex emotional expressions. However, differences in ERP components were observed between both groups. Specifically, the NOP group showed an increased Late Positive Component during encoding, fronto-central P300 during memory maintenance of facial stimuli, and frontal, fronto-central, and central P300 during retrieval. These ERPs, taken together, suggest that the task was more attentionally demanding for the NOP group. Additionally, some markers identified in previous ERP studies on the DOP were absent, indicating that the outcome expectancies may not have been fully generated. Finally, there were also interactions between the valence of the facial stimuli, participant group, and some of the potentials, such as N100 or N200 during encoding. These findings suggest that participants in the DOP group may have allocated more attentional resources to processing expressions of positive-valence emotions during earlier stages, possibly due to reward expectancy effects.

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The use of the differential outcomes procedure for the recognition of facial expressions of complex emotions and its electrophysiological correlates.

Author(s):
García-Pérez Á; Carmona I; Estévez AF

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This study looks at how a special learning method called the differential outcomes procedure (DOP) helps people recognize facial emotions. They found that DOP didn't make people faster or more accurate at labeling emotions compared to those without it, but it did cause different brain responses. The DOP group seemed to focus more on happy faces, maybe because they expected prizes.

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pubmed id: 39726611 Indexed on February 9th, 2025

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Emotional eating, characterized by the tendency to increase food intake in response to negative emotional states, is often linked to poor emotion regulation. While mindfulness-based interventions have been studied for their benefits in reducing emotional eating, less is known about how inherent mindfulness traits, relate to emotional regulation particularly among individuals with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS), a population known for high rates of psychological distress and disordered eating behaviors. This study investigates the associations between different facets of mindfulness, depressive symptoms, and emotional eating among individuals with PCOS and infertility who had not received any formal mindfulness intervention. A cross-sectional study was conducted involving 334 individuals. Participants completed the Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire-Short Form (FFMQ-SF), the Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9) to assess depressive symptoms, and the Dutch Eating Behavior Questionnaire (DEBQ) to measure emotional eating. Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) was employed to examine the relationships between inherent mindfulness traits (i.e., observation, describing, acting with awareness, non-reactivity, and non-judgment), depressive symptoms, anxiety, and emotional eating. The findings indicated that the trait of acting with awareness may reduce emotional eating through its influence on depressive symptoms, while observational mindfulness was found to be associated with increased emotional eating without prior external mindfulness training. In conclusion, Mindfulness is a multidimensional construct, with its facets contributing differently to emotional regulation and eating behaviors in individuals with PCOS and infertility. Future research should explore these nuances to develop more targeted interventions.

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Mindfulness acting with awareness and emotional eating among polycystic ovary syndrome women with infertility: the mediating role of depression.

Author(s):
Yang M; Wang X; Zhang Y; Qian W; Tang Y

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This study looked at how being mindful, or aware, relates to eating habits and feelings among people with PCOS. It found that being aware can help reduce eating when feeling sad, but just watching might actually make eating worse. The researchers suggest looking more into how mindfulness can help in different ways.

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pubmed id: 39723408 Indexed on February 9th, 2025

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During the COVID-19 lockdown in China, the shift of family members' work and study to online platforms accelerated internet proliferation and led to a growing prominence of internet addiction among younger age groups, posing a threat to individual and societal health development. Previous research has primarily focused on upper-grade elementary students, with relatively less attention given to younger age groups, resulting in insufficient representativeness of the elementary student samples. Additionally, research exploring how parental addictive behaviors are associated with the mechanisms of internet addiction among elementary students has been limited, which affects the development of scientifically based and effective intervention measures for addressing internet addiction in this population. This study, grounded in Family Systems Theory, explores the associative mechanisms between parental smartphone dependence and elementary students' internet addiction, specifically examining the mediating role of parent-child conflict and the moderating role of parental roles. Using a convenience sampling method, questionnaires were administered to parents from two elementary schools, resulting in 433 valid responses. Structural equation modeling analysis revealed that parental smartphone dependence is associated with elementary students' internet addiction and that this association is further influenced by the mediating role of parent-child conflict. Additionally, parental roles moderate the relationships between parental smartphone dependence and parent-child conflict, as well as between parent-child conflict and elementary students' internet addiction. Compared to mothers, fathers' smartphone dependence is more significantly correlated with parent-child conflict, and conflicts initiated by fathers are more strongly associated with elementary students' internet addiction. This may be related to China's traditional "male breadwinner, female homemaker" family culture. Mothers typically assume more parenting responsibilities and establish closer emotional bonds with their children, serving as a protective factor against internet addiction. Therefore, it is recommended that parents reduce smartphone dependence to avoid parent-child conflicts, and that fathers increase their involvement in parenting activities to build stronger emotional connections with their children, thereby fostering healthier internet use behaviors among elementary students. The findings provide valuable insights for developing effective family-based interventions to address internet addiction in children.

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The relationship between parental smartphone dependence and elementary students' internet addiction during the COVID-19 lockdown in China: the mediating role of parent-child conflict and the moderating role of parental roles.

Author(s):
Long C; Liu J; Wu Y; Liu S

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During the COVID-19 lockdown in China, more kids got addicted to the internet because everyone was working or studying online. The study found that when parents, especially dads, were on their phones a lot, it could lead to fights and kids using the internet too much. It suggests that parents should use their phones less and spend more time with their kids to prevent internet addiction.

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pubmed id: 39723407 Indexed on February 9th, 2025

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Boredom and curiosity are common everyday states that drive individuals to seek information. Due to their functional relatedness, it is not trivial to distinguish whether an action, for instance in the context of a behavioral experiment, is driven by boredom or curiosity. Are the two constructs opposite poles of the same cognitive mechanism, or distinct states? How do they interact? Can they co-exist and complement each other? Here, we systematically review similarities and dissimilarities of boredom and curiosity with respect to their subjective experience, functional role, and neurocognitive implementation. We highlight the usefulness of Information Theory for formalizing information-seeking in the context of both states and provide guidelines for their experimental investigation. Our emerging view is that despite their distinction on an experiential level, boredom and curiosity are closely related on a functional level, providing complementary drives on information-seeking: boredom, similar to hunger, arises from a lack of information and drives individuals to avoid contexts with low information yield, whereas curiosity constitutes a mechanism similar to appetite, pulling individuals toward specific sources of information. We discuss predictions arising from this perspective, concluding that boredom and curiosity are independent, but coalesce to optimize behavior in environments providing varying levels of information.

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Boredom and curiosity: the hunger and the appetite for information.

Author(s):
Seiler JP; Dan O

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The research paper talks about how boredom and curiosity are different but work together to make us learn new things. Boredom is like feeling hungry for information, while curiosity makes us excited to find out more. Both help us want to know new stuff and act in ways that help us learn better.

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pubmed id: 39723406 Indexed on February 9th, 2025

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Children born very preterm (VPT; <32 weeks) are at increased risk of executive functioning (EF) difficulties. But less is known about the nature and extent of these executive difficulties during late adolescence, particularly across multiple EF domains and in response to varying degrees of executive demand.

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Executive functioning challenges of adolescents born extremely and very preterm.

Author(s):
Lee SJ; Woodward LJ; Moor S; Austin NC

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Children born very early, before 32 weeks, might have trouble with things like planning and organizing as they grow up. Scientists want to learn more about these difficulties when these kids become teenagers.

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pubmed id: 39723405 Indexed on February 9th, 2025

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Sport and outdoor activities have benefits on people's health and well-being but may also increase the frequency of unsustainable behaviors. The present study explores drivers of travel mode choice and consumption of material (clothes and equipment) associated with physical activity to clarify the extent to which an active and sustainable lifestyle is compatible. The role of identity and varying levels of internalized motivation for pro-environmental behaviors (autonomous and controlled environmental motivation) and engagement in physical activity (autonomous and controlled activity motivation) was examined. In addition, socio-demographic, physical context, and life situation correlates of environmentally significant behaviors associated with physical activity were analyzed.

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Integrating drivers of pro-environmental behavior and physical activity to explore (in) compatibilities between an active and an environmentally sustainable lifestyle.

Author(s):
Eriksson L; Linde S

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This study looks at how people choose travel and materials for sports while thinking about the environment. It explores how personal identity and motivation affect eco-friendly actions when being active. The study also considers factors like age and living situation that might influence these behaviors.

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pubmed id: 39723404 Indexed on February 9th, 2025

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Interventions aiming at behavioral change are common tools for assessing and stimulating environmentally friendly lifestyles. To obtain representative and scalable results from the interventions, the experimental design of the interventions is crucial. Likewise, an operational plan is significant concerning the coherence and consistency of the interventions and the comparability of the results from different interventions. Such a guideline contributes to the design, execution, and supervision of the interventions, provides standardisation and enhances collaboration with the intervention partners. Intervention guidelines also pertain to the strategic planning of data requirements and collection procedures. Based on the work conducted within the context of the EU-funded ENCHANT project, the guidelines presented in this manuscript are structured based on the key phases of planning and design, implementation, and analysis and reporting. Another key area that needs to be considered and included in the guidelines is the planning necessities for the administrative structure for the interventions. This includes allocating staff roles and responsibilities and potential challenges and obstacles that may arise during implementation. Ethical concerns are also addressed.

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From concept to impact: strategic guidelines for environmental behavior change interventions.

Author(s):
Biresselioglu ME; Demir MH

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This research paper talks about ways to help people live in more eco-friendly ways. It explains the importance of planning and having clear steps when creating these programs to make them successful. It also highlights how to handle data and make sure everyone involved knows their jobs and follows the rules.

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pubmed id: 39723403 Indexed on February 9th, 2025

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There is a notable scarcity of research examining the developmental trajectories of positive youth development (PYD) attributes among Chinese preadolescents and adolescents and the predictive effect of family functioning on these trajectories over time.

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Association between positive youth development and family functioning in the Chinese context: a four-wave longitudinal survey in mainland China.

Author(s):
Li X; Tang YT; Shek DTL

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Research on how positive traits grow in Chinese kids and teens is rare. This study looks at how family life can affect these changes over time.

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pubmed id: 39723402 Indexed on February 9th, 2025

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There is some evidence comparing the efficacy of telehealth to in-person mental health care, but there is limited research specifically comparing these modalities in nurses. The study aimed to compare the effects of Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction (MBSR) and Internet-delivered Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction (iMBSR) on burden of psychosomatic symptoms of nurses working at Al-Alhamzeh general hospital, Aldiwaniyeh, Iraq.

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Comparison of the effects of in-person and internet-delivered mindfulness-based stress reduction on the burden of psychosomatic symptoms in nurses.

Author(s):
Al-Badiri MQJ; Ghadirian F; Zahednezhad H; Boozari M; Hayati MS

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The study looked at how well two types of mindfulness programs helped nurses with stress symptoms. One program was done in person and the other was done online. They wanted to see which one worked better for nurses in a hospital in Iraq.

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pubmed id: 39723400 Indexed on February 9th, 2025

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This paper presents a general model of the cognitive processes involved in each play situation of soccer at the elite level. Theoretically the model draws on general frameworks from cognitive psychology and neuroscience, in particular the affordance competition hypothesis and the reward prediction error theory. The model includes three functional stages: situational assessment, action selection and execution, and outcome assessment. The three stages form a perception-action cycle that corresponds to a single play situation. The cognitive processes operating at each functional stage are described and related to soccer research by a review of 52 empirical studies. The review covers the main cognitive processes that have been studied in soccer research: visual orientation and attention, pattern recognition, anticipation, working memory, action selection and decision making, executive control processes, as well as behavioral and cognitive learning. The model accommodates the wide variety of findings in the empirical literature and provides a general organizing frame for cognitive soccer research at the elite level. The influence of emotional and stress-related factors on cognition are also discussed. Four general limitations of the existing soccer research are identified, and suggestions for future studies include development of more naturalistic and interventional study designs. By specifying the different cognitive processes in soccer and their dynamic interactions the model has many applied perspectives for soccer training at the professional level. Overall, the paper presents the first integrated process model of cognition in elite soccer players with implications for both research and practice.

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Title:
Cognition in elite soccer players: a general model.

Author(s):
Habekost T; Ovesen J; Madsen JB

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This paper talks about how soccer players at a high level think and make decisions during a game. It explains different mental steps like understanding the situation, choosing what to do, doing it, and seeing what happens. The paper also looks at studies about soccer players' attention, learning, and decision-making and suggests ways to improve understanding and training in soccer.

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pubmed id: 39723399 Indexed on February 9th, 2025

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With the rapid expansion of mindfulness and its incorporation into the "third wave" of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), there has been evident confusion about what mindfulness is and how it relates to this broader category of interventions. In this article, I define mindfulness and CBT, and differentiate them while highlighting their substantial overlap. Specifically, I discuss the Buddhist Psychological Model and how it relates to the foundational cognitive model, demonstrating the common threads that run across these seemingly disparate philosophies. I use depression throughout as the exemplar disorder through which these connections are highlighted. This is all in the hope of helping clinicians and scientists see the common ground across these modalities and comprehend how and why mindfulness has come to be associated with the "third wave" of CBT. Ultimately, the aim of this brief article is to showcase the breadth of CBT, its concordance with ancient philosophical thought and wisdom, and to demonstrate why mindfulness has been and continues to be effectively integrated into CBT to address a wide range of mental health concerns and fortify efforts toward wellbeing.

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Mindfulness and CBT: a conceptual integration bridging ancient wisdom and modern cognitive theories of psychopathology.

Author(s):
Beshai S

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Mindfulness is often used in therapy to help people feel better, and it has some things in common with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT). This paper explains what mindfulness and CBT are, and how they can work together, especially in helping with depression. The goal is to show how mindfulness fits into therapy and helps people improve their mental health.

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pubmed id: 39723397 Indexed on February 9th, 2025

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Cognitively able autistic adults demonstrate low rates of employment due to social and vocational challenges. The current study aimed to examine changes in various areas among autistic young adults who participated in the 'Roim Rachok' ('Looking Ahead' in Hebrew) Training Course (RRTC). The course prepares young autistic adults for integration into military service as vocational soldiers.

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Toward workforce integration: enhancements in adaptive behaviors and social communication skills among autistic young adults following vocational training course.

Author(s):
Lousky Y; Selanikyo E; Tubul-Lavy G; Ben-Itzchak E

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Some autistic young adults have trouble finding jobs because of social and work challenges. This study looked at how a special training course called 'Roim Rachok,' which helps autistic young adults get ready for military jobs, could help them.

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pubmed id: 39723396 Indexed on February 9th, 2025

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To assess the prevalence of depression, anxiety, insomnia, and somatic symptom disorder (SSD) in patients with benign and malignant sinonasal tumors.

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Psychiatric disorders in patients with benign and malignant sinonasal tumors: a prospective cross-sectional study.

Author(s):
Zhan GY; Wang HF; Wang DF; Wen YH; Zhong H; Wen WP; Li J; Peng L

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The study looks at how common depression, anxiety, trouble sleeping, and body pain are in people with non-cancerous and cancerous nose tumors.

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pubmed id: 39723395 Indexed on February 9th, 2025

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The proliferation of short video apps has brought to the forefront the issue of adolescent addiction, a challenge that resonates across Chinese society. Despite growing attention, a comprehensive understanding of the factors propelling addiction at various adolescent stages and its impact on academic performance remains scarce. This study aims to fill this void by identifying key growth stages and crafting targeted intervention strategies. Our investigation engaged 1,896 Chinese students, averaging 15 years old, at pivotal educational junctures. Employing a mixed-method approach, we utilized interviews and surveys, enhanced by fixed effects models and instrumental variables, to discern patterns in short video addiction. The study revealed stage-specific catalysts for addiction: social identity in junior high, academic stress in senior high, and personality traits in university students. A concerning trend was the double and triple rate of severe addiction among senior high students compared to their junior high and university counterparts, respectively, with a peak of 52.7% mild addiction in university. Our predictive model provides a holistic perspective on the drivers of addiction. This groundbreaking analysis delineates the complex interplay of adolescent short video addiction in China, under-scoring its profound implications for academic progression in senior high. The findings under-score the urgent need for tailored interventions to counteract the adverse effects of addiction.

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Adolescent short video addiction in China: unveiling key growth stages and driving factors behind behavioral patterns.

Author(s):
Guo J; Chai R

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The study looked at why teenagers in China get addicted to short video apps and how it affects their school work. It found that different things, like wanting to fit in or being stressed, trigger addiction during different school stages. High school students were most affected, and the study suggests special help is needed to stop this addiction.

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pubmed id: 39723394 Indexed on February 9th, 2025

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Rubber hand illusion (RHI) refers to the illusory sense of body ownership of a fake hand, which is induced by synchronous visuotactile stimulation to the real and fake hands. A negative correlation was reported between the cardiac interoception and the strength of RHI, but the subsequent studies have been unsuccessful in replicating it. On the other hand, voluntary action is suggested to link interoception and the sense of body ownership in different situations. If so, moving RHI, induced by the active or the passive finger tapping while observing a fake hand, might reveal the relationship more clearly. The measurement of interoception has been another issue. We, therefore, examined the relationship between the moving RHI and two measures of interoception: interoceptive accuracy (IAcc) measured by the conventional heartbeat counting task and interoceptive sensibility (IS) measured using a questionnaire. For the classical visuotactile RHI, our results supported the lack of association between the interoception measures and RHI. For the moving RHI, a stronger sense of body ownership was induced for participants with higher IS regardless of active or passive movement, and a stronger sense of agency was caused by active than passive movement only for those with lower IAcc. These results reveal the dynamic links between the interoception and the bodily senses. The results also suggest that multiple dimensions of interoception affect the bodily senses differently.

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Influence of interoception and body movement on the rubber hand illusion.

Author(s):
Kaneno Y; Pasqualotto A; Ashida H

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The rubber hand illusion makes people feel like a fake hand is their own. The study found that how people sense their heartbeat inside their body (interoception) can change how they feel about the fake hand. Different ways of doing this illusion and measuring heartbeat sensing show different results.

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pubmed id: 39723393 Indexed on February 9th, 2025

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Psychological peer counselors play a crucial role in the mental health education of college students, especially in ethnic regions. The study zeroes in on developing a tool for selecting and assessing psychological peer counselors in ethnic-area colleges and universities, using Guizhou Province as a case study.

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Developing a competency scale for selecting and assessing psychological peer counselors in ethnic-area colleges: a pilot study in Guizhou Province, China.

Author(s):
Guo J; Chen W; Liu M; Jiang L; Chen Y; Zhao X; Peng D; Jiang X; Wang L; Wang D

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This study talks about how important peer counselors are for helping college students with mental health, especially in places with many cultures. It looks at how to choose and check these counselors in colleges in Guizhou Province.

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pubmed id: 39723392 Indexed on February 9th, 2025

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This study examines the relationships between proactive personality, burnout, and teaching enjoyment among Chinese English as a Foreign Language (EFL) teachers. The research aims to clarify how proactive personality traits relate to teaching enjoyment and burnout and to explore their interactions in the context of EFL instruction.

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Proactive personality, burnout, and teaching enjoyment: exploring relationships in Chinese English teachers.

Author(s):
Chunyan H; Ying L

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The study looks at how certain personality traits in teachers, like being proactive, affect how much they enjoy teaching and how tired or burned out they feel. It focuses on Chinese teachers who teach English as a Foreign Language.

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pubmed id: 39720693 Indexed on February 9th, 2025

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Perfectionism, as a transdiagnostic variable, can influence both the intrapersonal and interpersonal domains, one of the most significant of them is thought to be marital relationship. Given that perfectionism within a couple can negatively affect their intimate relationship and potentially lead to destructive outcomes, reviewing studies conducted in this area seems to be essential to gain a clearer understanding. Therefore, the present systematic review aims to examine the association between perfectionism and marital outcomes in married individuals.

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The relationship between perfectionism and marital outcomes: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

Author(s):
Hadian Hamedani K; Majzoobi MR; Forstmeier S

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This study looks at how being a perfectionist can affect married couples and their relationships. It wants to understand how wanting everything to be perfect can sometimes cause problems between married people.

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pubmed id: 39720691 Indexed on February 9th, 2025

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In daily life, people are adept at extracting task-relevant information from complex visual environment to guide attention more effectively toward the target. This process underpins the contextual cueing effect, where repeated exposure allows individuals to learn associations between contextual cues and targets, thereby enhancing visual search efficiency. However, the cue validity of context -how consistently cues predict target locations-is not always guaranteed in real life. This study focused on cue validity as a critical factor in understanding the contextual cueing effect. Within the study of contextual cueing, cue validity specifically refers to the probability that contextual cues accurately indicate the location of a target.

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Effect of cue validity on the contextual cueing effect.

Author(s):
Su W; Zhao G; Ma J

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This study looked at how well clues help people find things in busy pictures. It found that when these clues are reliable and point to the same spot every time, people get better at finding things.

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pubmed id: 39720690 Indexed on February 9th, 2025

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During the Russia-Ukraine war, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has strategically used social media to appeal for international support. This reflects a broader trend of political figures relying on digital platforms to shape public opinion and influence global narratives during crises. This work uses three main analysis methods, content, sentiment and social network analysis. The searched and collected dataset consists 604 valid tweets and 58,100 corresponding comments. The findings show that Zelenskyy employs both textual and visual narratives to construct a war-related agenda, influencing international public discourse. His agenda-setting is most effective in the early stages of the conflict but weakens over time. This study highlights Zelenskyy's flexibility and adaptability in his media strategy, illustrating the evolving nature of political performance in a globalized media landscape. To maintain effective communication and image-building, leaders must balance audience psychology with the characteristics of digital media.

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Cyber warfare: a study of Zelenskyy's social media political performance strategies and effects.

Author(s):
Wang L; Wang R

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During the Russia-Ukraine war, Ukraine's President Zelenskyy used social media to get international help and shape people's opinions. He posted both words and pictures to try to influence others, but it worked best at the start of the war. The study shows how important it is for leaders to use media smartly to communicate well.

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pubmed id: 39720689 Indexed on February 9th, 2025

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The happiness and well-being of individuals are among the most important components of life. However, there remains a lack of evidence regarding the relationships between students' happiness, vigor, and self-esteem on the one hand and various complex factors on the other hand.

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Factors influencing students' happiness, vitality, and self-esteem.

Author(s):
Majauskiene D; Istomina N; Valanciene D; Dadeliene R; Sidlauskiene A; Aukstikalnis T; Jamontaite IE; Strazdaite E; Zilinskiene R; Gintiliene M; Sarkauskiene A; Skurvydas A

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This research paper talks about how important happiness and feeling good are in life. It looks at how students' happiness, energy, and feeling good about themselves are connected to many other things, but there's not enough information about these connections.

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pubmed id: 39720688 Indexed on February 9th, 2025

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In order to identify effective strategies for enhancing a high-quality physical education system, it is imperative to undertake research that examines the nuances of educational culture, specifically focusing on the psychological experiences of early adolescents within physical education classes. This study aims to compare self-determination, peer-relationships, and feelings of alienation in physical education among adolescents from Korea and China, both situated in East Asia, with respect to their nationality and gender.

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Comparison on self-determination, peer-relationship, and alienation in physical education of early adolescent in Korea and China.

Author(s):
Jaeuk J; Yu S; Donghwi S

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This study looks at how kids in Korea and China feel about their physical education classes. It checks their motivation, friendships, and if they feel left out, based on their nationality and gender.

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pubmed id: 39720687 Indexed on February 9th, 2025

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The purpose of the present study was to understand how executives responsible for Diversity and Inclusion construct their identities while occupying positions of "Marginal Leadership," and how they deal with threats to such identities. We conducted qualitative and inductive research with Brazilian executives in 66 organizations, focusing on their experiences as leaders. In our resulting model, we theorized that leaders in positions of Marginal Leadership demonstrate little role clarity, resources, and confidence for the exercise of their activities, suffering threats to their identities, which are not observed in executives occupying positions in more traditional functions such as Finance, Production, and Marketing. Furthermore, we identified that Brazilian executives responsible for Diversity and Inclusion build three types of Relational Leadership in interaction with individuals in historically disadvantaged positions, and alongside executives in traditional positions. First, "Business Partner," focusing on performance-boundary segmentation. Second, "Injustice Repairer," focusing on inclusion-boundary segmentation. Third, "Paradox Manager," focusing on performance and inclusion-boundary integration. Finally, we found that threats to their identities vary according to the type of Marginal Leadership constructed. While "Business Partners" and "Injustice Repairers" tend to be seen as false representatives or politically inept, the "Paradox Manager" tends to be labeled as a "Fence Sitter." This study advances the understanding of role identities in positions with ambiguous expectations, integrating Identity Theory and Boundary Theory to explore how diversity leaders integrate their identities in the light of conflicting demands.

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Strangers in a strange land: how diversity professionals navigate their marginal leadership identity.

Author(s):
Felix B; Brandão MC; Mahadevan J; Schmitz A; Vaz SL; Irigaray HAR

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This study looked at how leaders in charge of Diversity and Inclusion in Brazil see themselves and handle challenges in their roles. It found that these leaders face more uncertainty and threats to their identities compared to those in traditional roles like Finance. The study also identified three types of leadership styles they use: Business Partner, Injustice Repairer, and Paradox Manager.

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pubmed id: 39720686 Indexed on February 9th, 2025