School Psychology Article Feed
March 25th, 2025
Inheritance and development of traditional martial arts under the perspective of group dynamics: a case study of Ma's Tongbei martial arts.
Yang W; Huang Y pubmed id: 40129496It is hard to keep old martial arts like Ma's Tongbei alive today. This study looks at how groups of people learning together can help. The goal is to find ways to keep teaching these martial arts in modern times.
Re-participation intention in individuals playing tennis for recreational purposes: investigation of differences based on low and high involvement.
Karakullukcu OF; Ayhan C; Kalkan T; Okudan B; Talaghir LG; Iconomescu TM pubmed id: 40129495This study looked at how being involved affects if people want to play recreational tennis again.
March 24th, 2025
Household Income, Maternal Allostatic Load During Pregnancy, and Offspring With Autism Spectrum Disorders.
Terada S; Nakayama SF; Fujiwara T pubmed id: 40125880The study looked at how much money a mother has during pregnancy and how it might affect the chance of her child having autism. They found that children are more likely to have autism if their mothers had less money while pregnant. Stress did not seem to change this link.
Identifying and Responding to Gaps in the Academic Research Pipeline: Findings From the International Society for Autism Research (INSAR) Early Career Committee.
Villalobos ME; Vivanti G; Jayanath S; Carpenter K; Shen MD; Shic F; Locke J pubmed id: 40125848The International Society for Autism Research (INSAR) was created to help scientists working on autism. They found that young researchers needed more ways to meet important people, be diverse, and get support from older researchers. To help with this, INSAR started programs to connect young researchers with mentors from different countries.
The U-shaped effect of coach-athlete attachment on athlete engagement: the mediating role of thriving and the moderating role of mental toughness.
Dai Z; Zheng T; Li R pubmed id: 40124761The study looked at how the relationship between coaches and athletes affects how involved and successful athletes are. They found that different types of attachments can have a U-shaped effect on how athletes thrive and engage, with mental toughness playing a moderating role. Coaches are encouraged to understand and adapt to the athletes' attachment styles to boost their success and engagement.
The Dual Process model: the effect of cognitive load on the ascription of intentionality.
Zucchelli MM; Matteucci Armandi Avogli Trotti N; Pavan A; Piccardi L; Nori R pubmed id: 40124760The research looks at two ideas about how we make decisions. One idea says we use quick thinking and careful thinking, but the other says quick thinking can be logical too. The studies checked how extra thinking tasks affect decisions by comparing these ideas.
The relationship between interpersonal emotional regulation and psychological resilience in nursing undergraduates: a cross-sectional study and network analysis.
Huai P; Liu P; Wang X; Wang Y; Yang H; Yan M; Guo J pubmed id: 40124759Nursing students often feel stressed because their classes are hard and they have lots to do. Being strong inside can help them handle this stress. This study looks at how handling emotions with friends and psychological strength are connected, and it helps figure out how to support nursing students better.
Neural correlates of religious behavior related to Christianity: an ALE meta-analysis.
Yeung AWK; Wong NSM; Tsui ISY; Lee TCP pubmed id: 40124758This study looked at different brain scans to find out which parts of the brain are used when people do religious activities like praying. They combined the results of many studies to see which brain areas light up during these activities.
Effects of an interdisciplinary programme on psychoemotional factors in informal caregivers of people with Alzheimer's disease.
Muñoz-Bermejo L; Urbano-Mairena J; Calle-Guisado V; Mendoza-Holgado C; Jerez-Barroso MDR; Suárez-Lantarón B; López-Gil JF; Barrios-Fernández S pubmed id: 40124756This study looked at how a special nine-month program helped people who take care of someone with Alzheimer's disease. The caregivers felt better about their life balance, got more social support, and felt happier. These changes show the program might really help with how they feel.
From ambition to substance use tendency: the mediating role of significance quest.
Şahin ES pubmed id: 40124755The study looked at young adults and found that wanting to feel important helps explain why ambitious people might try drugs. They used surveys and special tests to learn about this, and they gave ideas on what the results mean.
Age-friendly design framework for information animations: a mixed-method research validation.
Yang X; Gan F pubmed id: 40124754As people get older, it can be harder for them to understand moving pictures and information. This study suggests ways to make animated information easier for older adults to understand by keeping it simple and making sure sounds and visuals work well together. These ideas can help create better visual media for older adults.
Association between social inclusion and mental health among people with disabilities engaged in sports clubs: a cross-sectional survey.
Al Harthy SS; Hammad MA; Awed HS pubmed id: 40124753This study looked at how people with disabilities in Saudi Arabia feel included when they play sports in clubs. It also checked if playing sports helps their mental health, such as being less sad or worried.
The impact of teacher socio-emotional competence on student engagement: a meta-analysis.
Gebre ZA; Demissie MM; Yimer BM pubmed id: 40124752The study found that when teachers understand and manage emotions well, students are more interested in class. They looked at many studies and found a slight positive connection between these teacher skills and how engaged students are. The researchers suggest more training for teachers in understanding emotions to help students learn better.
Mediating roles of perceived social support and hopelessness in the relationship between negative life events and self-identity acquisition among Chinese college students with left-behind and/or migrant experiences.
Liu L; Li J; Li Y pubmed id: 40124751Some researchers study how college students develop their self-identity, but very few look at how this happens in students who have been left behind or are migrants. It's important for students to figure out who they are, especially after going through hard times.
Telemetry reveals rapid duel-driven canary song plasticity in a competitive social environment.
Alcami P; Ma S; Gahr M pubmed id: 40124256Some birds, like canaries, can change their songs during the breeding season. Researchers used special backpacks to record canary songs and found that during song competitions, called duels, two males often sing back and forth while one usually stays out. The two competing birds adjust how they sing based on what the other bird does.
March 23rd, 2025
Short naps improve subsequent learning in a high school setting.
Vidal V; Pretel MR; Capurro L; Tassone LM; Moyano MD; Malacari RG; Brusco LI; Ballarini FM; Forcato C pubmed id: 40121251Taking short naps can help high school students remember lessons better. In a study, students who took a nap did better on a test than those who didn’t. However, naps should be timed well to avoid feeling groggy.
March 21st, 2025
Learning engagement and psychological flexibility among Chinese adolescents: a moderated mediation model.
Yue P; Zhang J pubmed id: 40115865The study talks about how being able to easily handle changes in life helps people stay mentally healthy. Instead of using usual therapy methods, the researchers found a new way to help people, based on how kids learn and grow with those around them.
Obsessive-compulsive symptoms and related risk and protective factors in Black individuals in Canada.
Dromer E; Jacob G; Williams MT; Moshirian Farahi SMM; Darius W; Kogan CS; Cénat JM pubmed id: 40115291Black people in the United States have special troubles with OCD, but in Canada, there’s not much research about it. This study looks at OCD symptoms and other important factors for Black people aged 15 to 40 in Canada.
Family language policy and heritage language transmission in Pakistan-the intersection of family dynamics, ethnic identity and cultural practices on language proficiency and maintenance.
Fatima S; Nadeem MU pubmed id: 40115290Heritage languages help keep culture and family history alive. In Pakistan, many families use both surveys and interviews to study how these languages are passed down. Older family members try to keep these languages going, but younger people often switch to more common languages, so families are trying to find ways to keep their special languages alive through positive family experiences and traditions.
Desires and beliefs: the development of second-order Theory of Mind reasoning in preschoolers and in school-age children.
Bianco F; Cornaggia A; Massaro D; Marchetti A; Castelli I pubmed id: 40115289Understanding how we think about what others think is important for getting along with people. Most research looks at simple thinking about one person's thoughts, but not much is known about thinking about what someone thinks about someone else's thoughts.
Integrating education and conservation: a case study of the Huaper wetland.
Cardenas Morales BK; Oré Gálvez SF; Castro Aponte WV; Aguilar Ozejo A; Ñaupari Molina R; Huayhua Lévano FG; Mendoza Colos M pubmed id: 40115288This study looks at how teaching people about wetlands, like the Huaper Wetland in Peru, can help protect them. It found that hands-on learning helps people understand and care more about nature, and suggests ways to teach that gets the community involved in keeping wetlands healthy.
Coping with failures: how emotions, individual traits, expectation-importance and prior experience affect reactions to violated achievement expectations.
Orphal L; Pinquart M pubmed id: 40115287The ViolEx 2.0 model says people handle surprises or changes in three ways: trying harder to keep expectations the same, ignoring the new information, or changing their expectations. It's still being studied what makes people choose one way over another.
Non-therapeutic play to overcome negative emotional symptoms and improve emotional intelligence in children aged 3-7: a systematic review.
Veraksa AN; Plotnikova VA; Sukhikh VL; Kornienko DS; Rudnova NA pubmed id: 40115286Playing can help kids feel better and handle emotions even outside of special therapy sessions. Different types of play, like pretend or outdoor play, can make kids less anxious and more confident. This research helps us understand how play helps and could make kindergartens better.
The impact of professional music performance competence on performance anxiety: the mediating role of psychological risk and moderating role of psychological resilience.
Yang Y; Lei P; Huang Z; Yu H; Zhang H pubmed id: 40115283Some musicians get very nervous when they perform, which can make it hard for them to feel good and do well in their jobs. Researchers haven't studied enough about how their skill, fears, and ability to bounce back affect this problem.
March 20th, 2025
Moral trauma, moral distress, moral injury, and moral injury disorder: definitions and assessments.
VanderWeele TJ; Wortham JS; Carey LB; Case BW; Cowden RG; Duffee C; Jackson-Meyer K; Lu F; Mattson SA; Padgett RN; Peteet JR; Rutledge J; Symons X; Koenig HG pubmed id: 40110093The paper talks about new ideas for understanding how people feel hurt or stressed when they think something is wrong, whether they did it, saw it, or it happened to them. It explains how this hurt or stress can be really bad sometimes and suggests a way to study it in different situations, like in the military, or in everyday life.
Extreme overvalued beliefs and identities: revisiting the drivers of violent extremism.
Kristinsdottir K; Ebner J; Whitehouse H pubmed id: 40110092Some people have strong beliefs that get more intense over time and might lead to violence, but not everyone with these beliefs becomes violent. This paper looks at why some people do become violent and finds that feeling a strong connection with a group can be a key factor. Using different fields of study, the researchers propose a new way to understand why some people with strong beliefs might turn to violence.
The relationship between perceived teacher support and student engagement in Chinese senior high school English classrooms: the mediating role of learning motivation.
Zhang W; Hu J pubmed id: 40110091Student engagement helps teachers see how well they are doing and how good the whole school is at teaching high school students.
Developing and evaluating a Portuguese-language meditation App for medical students: motivation, adherence, and emotional effects.
Soares AR; Soares S; Brandão T; Teixeira RJ; Tavares I pubmed id: 40110090Medical students often feel a lot of stress, so a special meditation app called Med@Med was made for them in Portuguese to help them feel better. The app had 21 short meditations and many students used it to try meditation or reduce stress, and they felt happier and less anxious after using it. The study showed that this app helped students manage their feelings better and stay less stressed.
Advancements in virtual reality for performance enhancement in combat sports: a mini-review and perspective.
Li Y; Li H; Jiang C; Su Y; Jiang S; Zhang G pubmed id: 40110089Virtual Reality (VR) can help athletes in combat sports like karate and wrestling get better at their skills and reacting quickly. It sometimes works even better than regular training, but not many athletes are using it yet. More studies are needed to see how VR can be used best for training.
Perceived discrimination and psychological crisis among Chinese college students: a chain-mediation model of sense of life meaning and self-esteem.
Xu L; Li L pubmed id: 40110088This study looks at how college students feel when they think they are being treated unfairly. It explores how their sense of purpose in life and self-esteem play a role in how this unfairness affects their mental health. This helps people understand better how discrimination affects mental health.
Development and validation of the Disrespect and Mistreatment during Childbirth Questionnaire: risk factors and effects on parenting stress.
Suttora C; Nardozza O; Menabò L; Preti E; Passaquindici I; Fasolo M; Spinelli M pubmed id: 40110087Many moms around the world have bad experiences when having a baby, which can hurt their feelings. This study wants to make a new questionnaire to understand why these experiences happen and how they affect new moms and dads.
Where are higher-order cognitive functions? The paradox of non-locality in awake cognitive mapping using a complex dynamic system framework.
Martín-Fernández J; Caballero-Estebaranz N; Félez E; Navarro-Peris N; Del Rosario PP; Bisshopp RH; Domínguez-Báez J pubmed id: 40110086This study looks at how to protect important brain functions during surgery. It focuses on tricky parts of the brain that help with things like decision-making and social skills, which don't come from just one spot but from big networks in the brain. The study suggests ways to carefully check and protect these networks to keep patients' abilities safe during and after surgery.
The association between depressive symptoms and ischemic heart disease in postmenopausal women: a cross-sectional study.
Yuan Y; Chen G pubmed id: 40110085Depression can be bad for heart health, but we don't know much about how it affects heart disease in older women who can't have children anymore. This study looks at that.
Effect of gymnastics on balance ability in children aged three to six years.
Yu Q; Pan X; Liu Z; Deng C pubmed id: 40110083This study looks at how doing gymnastics can help kids improve their balance.
The mediating effect of community identity and the moderating effect of social comparison in the relationship between residential mobility and sense of meaning in life.
Weifang S; Majie D; Na Z pubmed id: 40110082This study looks at how moving to a new home can affect how much people feel their life has meaning. It explores how feeling part of a community and comparing oneself to others play a role in this.
A taxonomy of athletic values and implications for clinical practice.
Collins J; Merz ZC; Gfeller JD; Ross M pubmed id: 40110081This study asked college athletes how important they thought 30 different athletic values were. The goal was to help improve psychological practices in sports.
The actress was not on the balcony: testing the Pseudorelative-First Hypothesis in Spanish.
De Pedis M; Zawiszewski A; Laka I pubmed id: 40110080Researchers have tried to understand why some languages prefer high attachment in sentences. They tested a new idea called the PR-First Hypothesis but found that it doesn't explain why high attachment happens. The study showed that people still preferred high attachment even without the reasons given by the hypothesis.
The prevalence of nomophobia in Cyprus and its relationship with coping styles.
Mousoulidou M; Constantinidou E; Christodoulou A; Siakalli M pubmed id: 40110079People are getting worried or upset without their phones, which is called nomophobia. This study looked at how many grown-ups in Cyprus have this worry and how it connects to things like age, phone habits, and ways they deal with stress.
Basic beliefs of hope: a cross-cultural comparison.
Krafft AM pubmed id: 40110078The paper talks about how people from different cultures in Switzerland, like French and Italian, think about hope. It finds that Italian-speaking people feel more hopeful and have stronger beliefs in the world being good and fair. This suggests hope is not just about making personal goals happen, but also about believing in the world's goodness.
An encounter with death: a comparative thematic and content analysis of naturalistic DMT experiences and the near-death experience.
Michael P; Luke D; Robinson O pubmed id: 40110076Near-death experiences happen when someone is close to dying and feels certain things while not fully awake. Scientists found that some drugs, like DMT, can make people feel the same way as near-death experiences. However, they haven't closely compared how these experiences are different or the same.
A cross-sequential study of academic readiness and coping strategies among first-generation college students.
Musawar NR; Zulfiqar N pubmed id: 40110075The study looked at how students who are the first in their family to go to college, and those who are not, get ready for college and deal with challenges. At first, first-generation college students weren't as ready and didn't cope as well, but after three months, they caught up with the other students. Girls were more ready than boys at first, but boys got better at dealing with problems.
March 19th, 2025
Psychedelic iatrogenic structural dissociation: an exploratory hypothesis on dissociative risks in psychedelic use.
Elfrink S; Bergin L pubmed id: 40104426Some people think drugs called psychedelics might make it easier for people to remember bad things that happened to them and feel upset. This paper says that these drugs might make it harder for people who had bad memories to feel okay, and they might need special help to feel safe and better. Using support from friends and special therapies can help make sure these drugs don't make things worse.
Workplace sustainability: energy-saving behaviors in office environments of Thailand.
Hnin SW; Javed A; Karnjana J; Jeenanunta C; Kohda Y pubmed id: 40104425People use a lot of energy in office buildings, especially for lights, air conditioning, and computers, which affects the whole world's energy use. In Thailand, with more cities growing and the economy getting bigger, using less energy in offices is very important. Many solutions look at technology, but it's also important to think about how people's actions change energy use.
What length of after-school Learning time best promotes the development of non-cognitive ability in adolescents? Evidence from China.
Sun H; Xue H pubmed id: 40104424The study looked at how after-school learning time affects kids' personality traits. They found that doing homework for about 39 minutes is best for developing certain traits, and extra tutoring for about 80 minutes is helpful too. Kids from families with less money might need more time.
How can ethical leadership increase employees' bootlegging innovation behavior in China?: a serial mediation model of psychological wellbeing and psychological entitlement.
Zhang J; Choi M; Wang K; Kim HE pubmed id: 40104423The study looks at how ethical leadership can help employees feel trusted and valued, which makes them more willing to share new ideas and be innovative. By being kind and fair, leaders make employees feel good about themselves and more ready to take action on their ideas even if not given permission. The research gives ways to encourage employees to be more innovative and explores how feeling good and feeling important play a role in this process.
From "toads" to "princes"-a hermeneutic study of the Chinese translation of .
Wang H pubmed id: 40104422The study looks at how to translate books about psychotherapy better by learning from a famous German philosopher named Gadamer. They found that translators need to understand psychotherapy well and talk with the original author to make sure the new translation is clear for readers who might not know much about psychotherapy.
The impact of multiple supports on university students' physical education learning motivation: a dual analysis based on SEM and fsQCA.
Hao H; Zhu Q; Feng C pubmed id: 40104420University students can feel stressed out about their gym classes, which makes them not want to learn. Teachers, parents, and friends can help students feel more confident and excited about gym, but we still don't know exactly how their help makes a difference.
From erosion to fluency: reversing language shift in Chinese Australian households.
Wang Y; Zhang J pubmed id: 40104419This study looks at how Chinese-Australian kids and young adults use their family language after moving to Australia. It finds that how old they are when they move affects how well they keep their family language, with some kids managing to stay fluent. The research shows that family support, school help, and reading play a big role in helping them keep their language skills.
March 18th, 2025
Number of chronic diseases and cognitive function among the elderly in China: a moderated mediation model.
Feng X; Peng J; Cao X; Lai L; Huang D; Tao P; Pan X; Pan Q; Fan D; Lu S; Li C; Pan Y; Dong P; Wu H; Chai Y; Huang P; Huang H pubmed id: 40099025This study looks at how having many long-term illnesses can affect thinking skills in older people. It shows how these illnesses can work together to change how well elderly people think and remember things.
RS3 and relationship maintenance processes in newlywed couples.
Makhanova A; McNulty JK; Eckel LA; Nikonova L; Bartz JA; Bloshinsky AS; Hammock EAD pubmed id: 40099024The study looked at how a tiny difference in a gene might be connected to how well couples stay happy in their marriage. It focused on the first three years of being married.