Behavioral Sciences, Volume 15, Issue 4

In China, educators are encouraged by administrators to assume instructional and language strategies to align with their students’ needs so as to enhance classroom communicative effectiveness, with students’ perceptions of teachers’...

Accurately evaluating postgraduate education satisfaction is crucial for improving higher education quality and optimizing management practices. Traditional methods often fail to capture the complex behavioral interactions among influencing factors....

Decision-making in economic and moral contexts involves complex affective processes that shape judgments of fairness, responsibility, and conflict resolution. While previous studies have primarily examined behavioral choices in economic games and mor...

Computer-based wargames provide an experimental platform for studying cognitive antecedents and behavioral outcomes in dynamic scenarios. Our study examines how achievement motivation influence wargame players’ performance through the mechanism...

Scientific and public attention regarding educator-directed violence has increased over the past 15 years; however, research on violence against administrators is limited. Although school administrators are responsible for school performance and safe...

This study explores the relationships among cyberbullying, emotion management, and well-being, with a focus on economically disadvantaged students. Employing a reflective factor model, we disentangle emotion management into four dimensions and explor...

The COVID-19 pandemic, which posed a global threat, led many countries, including Turkey, to implement changes in their educational practices. In response to the “stay at home” directive aimed at preventing the spread of the virus, face-t...

A wide array of scholarship has revealed the somewhat paradoxical relationship between creativity and mental health. On the one hand, substantial evidence demonstrates that certain forms of mental illness are associated with enhanced creativity. On t...

In the era of Artificial Intelligence, the magic of achieving results at the “speed of light” for tasks that until recently required a lot of work and effort shocks, arouses enthusiasm and generates fears at the same time. Therefore, star...

This study used an online survey to investigate the effects of brightness in low-saturation color ranges on anger processing. Specifically, it explored how background hues—red, yellow-green, and blue-green—affect perceptions of illustrati...

Bystander intervention and sexual assault research typically rely on self-reported intent to intervene. However, predicted behaviour can be considerably different from actual behaviour. Hypothetical scenarios are often utilised to remove extenuating...

With the HEXACO model of personality, this study examined the relationship between HEXACO traits (i.e., honesty–humility, emotionality, extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, and openness to experience) and teaching commitment among 20...

(1) Background: University students’ mental health (MH) is in crisis due to academic stress, lack of physical activity (PA), and low self-esteem. This study evaluated a 12-week PA and meditation intervention to enhance psychological well-being...

Grounded in social penetration theory and social capital theory, this study aims to investigate how social media self-disclosure influences bridging and bonding online social capital, and how these in turn affect users’ loneliness and online in...

Music can evoke powerful, positive, and meaningful experiences, but how does its potential to evoke such experiences come about? Listening to the music itself is critical, but referents (the thoughts, ideas, events, and affects associated with the mu...

The rapid rise of digital media and the accelerated pace of modern life have triggered a “reading crisis” among college students in China, which is characterized by declining deep reading abilities and increasing reliance on fragmented di...

With the rapid development of e-commerce live streaming, streamers play a crucial role in consumers’ shopping experience and decision-making. In this context, humor has gradually attracted widespread attention in the field of marketing as a com...

The present study used a person-centered approach to examine the latent patterns of cumulative family risk and emotion regulation difficulties in adolescents and their relationships with non-suicidal self-injury. A sample of 1046 primary and secondar...

This study investigates how Chinese EFL (English as a foreign language) learners of low- and high-proficiency levels allocate attention between captions and audio while watching videos, and how visual complexity (single- vs. multi-speaker content) in...

This study explored the efficacy of large language models (LLMs), namely GPT-4, in supporting second language (L2) writing in comparison with interaction with a human language partner in the pre-writing phase. A within-subject behavioral experiment w...

The mental health of college students has become a key focus in higher education, and physical activity may play a crucial role in promoting positive psychology among college students. This study explores the relationship between physical activity an...

(1) Background: This study investigates the relationship between the moral maturity levels of individuals who have experienced parental divorce or loss and their adjustment to the divorce process, considering various factors. (2) Methods: A total of...

This study aimed to investigate the relationship between proactive personality and career-related decision-making self-efficacy, with generative artificial intelligence acceptance serving as a mediating factor. Additionally, the study examined the mo...

Black/African American individuals experience high rates of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), which is frequently chronic and undertreated in this population. Intimate relationships are a salient resource for Black/African American adults’...

Parental and peer support has been documented as an important factor in physical activities among high school students. Likewise, coach support has an important impact on physical activity among high school students. Meanwhile, many studies show that...

This qualitative study explores the experiences of 24 parents who have experienced the death of a child, focusing on identifying practices that either facilitated or hindered their grieving process. In-depth interviews revealed key supportive practic...

As generative AI services become increasingly integrated into consumer decision making, concerns have grown regarding their influence on consumer autonomy—the extent to which individuals retain independent control over AI-assisted decisions. Al...

Guided by family systems theory and the parenting process model, this study aimed to identify distinct profiles of parenting stress and examine their associations with parental characteristics, social–contextual factors, and child factors. A sa...

We examined whether point value information on a scoring rubric influences learners’ study time and concept selection when learning educationally relevant STEM information. Participants (N = 92) engaged in the self-regulated study of five conce...

Anxiety reactivity, i.e., the degree to which state anxiety becomes elevated, has been used as a measure of emotional resilience in anticipation of potentially stressful events and has been found to correlate with elevations in event-related negative...

In Mexico, pervasive violence, forced disappearances, and homicides have deeply impacted certain groups, particularly journalists, activists, and human rights defenders, who are at high risk of victimization. While these groups receive state support...

Organizational culture, human capital, and innovative capabilities are essential resources for any business, particularly during challenging times. Companies can leverage these resources to gain a competitive advantage. Based on social exchange theor...

Myocardial infarction (MI) is associated with emotional distress, depression, and anxiety. Defense mechanisms and mentalized affectivity play key roles in affective regulation; however, their roles in individuals with MI remain underexplored. This st...

Aesthetic judgment in visual arts has traditionally focused on static features, yet research suggests that dynamic features also shape aesthetic experience. This study examines the dominance of dynamic features in calligraphic tracing aesthetics. Usi...

Hotels expect front-line staff to demonstrate greater flexibility and proactively take on more responsibility beyond their job duties, which helps to provide better customer service in an environment of uncertainty and change. Accordingly, employees&...

Early mathematical and vocabulary skills serve as critical foundations for academic success, yet the mechanisms underlying their development remain complex. This study examines the role of parents’ education, children’s attentional contro...

Research on vaccination hesitancy has been extensive, but the role of information processing in decision making still needs to be explored. The study examines the alignment between parents’ COVID-19 vaccination intentions and actual behavior, f...

The increasing incorporation of artificial intelligence (AI) in English as a foreign language (EFL) instruction has garnered much attention on the importance of technological elements in language instruction. However, while AI in education (AIED) is...

Past research has extensively explored reading in English-speaking children with dyslexia who acquire a highly irregular and opaque orthography. Far less is known about the manifestation of dyslexia in shallow, highly consistent orthographies like Ge...

While past research has affirmed the supportive role of growth language mindset (GLM) in fostering L2 willingness to communicate (L2 WTC), there remains a scarcity of studies exploring how growth language mindset may predict L2 WTC. This study aimed...

Understanding the role of collectivism in shaping prosocial behavior is critical for advancing theories of social cooperation and group dynamics. This study provides the first empirical examination of collectivistic orientation within the Ultra-Ortho...

Due to their efficiency, stability, and enhanced language comprehension and analysis capabilities, generative AIs have attracted increasing attention in the field of writing as higher-level automated writing evaluation (AWE) feedback tools. However,...

Previous research has not yet identified the psychological mechanisms underlying the impact of resource inequality on cooperative behavior. To further explore this issue, this study used two single-factor experiments to investigate the influence of r...

Mathematical activities, which have the potential to engage students cognitively, are an essential component of modern educational approaches. The design of learning environments that facilitate the full realization of the potential of mathematical a...

Lingual stops are among the earliest sounds acquired by young children, but the process of acquiring the temporal coordination of lingual gestures necessary for the production of stop consonants appears to be protracted. The current research aims to...

In recent years, the academic research landscape in La Libertad, Peru, has been characterized by a limited and uneven scientific output among institutions and faculty members. Factors such as an excessive workload, insufficient resources, and inadequ...

Self-efficacy is a key cognitive factor affecting undergraduates’ employability, but existing studies have not sufficiently explored the underlying mechanisms of how self-efficacy influences employability, not to mention proposing a comprehensi...

The concept of “citizen” differs across disciplines. Drawing on insights from multiple disciplines, this paper argues that being respected is the fundamental ethical basis for citizens and proposes a normative framework. In this framework...

Smartphone addiction has emerged as a pressing public health issue in recent years, which negatively impacts university students’ academic performance, physical and mental health, and social functioning. Therefore, it is crucial to explore the...

The accuracy of self-perceptions and the maturity to handle feedback received from others are instrumental for one’s mental health, interpersonal relations, and effectiveness in the classroom and at work. Nonetheless, research on one’s co...