2025 August - 149 articles
Research on food-related behaviors has increasingly focused on orthorexia nervosa, but the underlying mechanisms are not fully understood, especially with the rise of new types of healthy foods. This study examines the associations between orthorexic...
Artificial Intelligence (AI) profoundly shapes adolescents’ digital experiences, presenting both developmental opportunities and risks related to privacy and psychological well-being. This study investigates first the possible generational gap...
Young children’s problematic media use (PMU) is a growing concern, and parents are critical in shaping early digital habits. However, research often overlooks the dyadic interplay between mothers’ and fathers’ attitudes and parentin...
Despite the rapid growth of knowledge-based short videos, monetizing this content remains a significant challenge. Grounded in social presence theory, this study investigates how social presence influences users’ purchase intentions by incorpor...
This study examined how a socioeconomically and linguistically diverse sample of Latine mothers (n = 20) and fathers (n = 20) of children under age five perceive the role of mobile screen technologies in their parenting experiences, using semi-struct...
Emotion-regulation ability and strategy (i.e., the specific behaviors used to manage feelings) are crucial for preschoolers’ socioemotional development. This study investigated whether a structured picture-book intervention could enhance these...
Migrant children’s discrimination perceptions directly affect their cultural adaptation in the city of influx. In response to migrant children, cities in China have issued relevant urban education policies such as the different-location college...
Although a wealth of research has examined the predictors influencing the discrepancies between individual-set and parent-set career goals (DBIPCG), investigations grounded in collectivist cultural perspectives remain relatively scarce. Within collec...
Grounded in the person–environment fit theory and an identity-based perspective, this study investigated the relationship between perceived overqualification and knowledge hiding, focusing on the mediating role of future work self-salience and...
Curiosity and anxiety are critical emotional factors influencing language learning; yet, existing studies often overlook their combined effects and the mechanisms through which they shape academic achievements. This study aimed to explore the relatio...
Metaphorical instructions are widely used in motor skill learning, yet their impact on learning and memory processes in children remains underexplored. This study examined whether metaphor-based language could enhance children’s acquisition and...
Existing studies on mate value discrepancy and relationship satisfaction often suffer from two key limitations: they conceptualize mate value as a single, undifferentiated construct and rely on simple difference scores to model discrepancy effects. T...
Facial attractiveness plays a significant role in job search evaluations, with recruiters often rating candidates with higher levels of attractiveness more favorably. This paper investigates how physical appearance and employability jointly influence...
“The whole day movement matters to health.” has become an important topic while the associations between executive function and different movement behaviors (i.e., physical activity (PA), sedentary behavior (SB) and sleep) are traditional...
Proponents of Sexual Script Theory posit that men and women differ in their sexual behaviors/motivations, often due to culturally ingrained expectations. When these expectations are violated, individuals may face stigma, particularly in nontraditiona...
Turning-point memories, experiences that impact personal development, may be interpreted in ways that emphasize positive, negative, or mixed development because the memory prompt is open-ended with regard to event valence (i.e., it does not elicit ‘h...
A questionnaire survey was conducted with 1153 adolescents to examine how emotional support within family and school contexts relates to adolescents’ prosocial behavior. Results indicated that both family cohesion and teacher emotional support...
Confessions carry substantial weight in criminal investigations, yet little is known about the psychological mechanisms underlying suspects’ confession decisions. This research tested the hypothesis that situational pressures inherent to accusa...
We investigated aspects of language and cognitive development in three bimodal bilingual deaf children in hearing families. Some previous research finds cognitive delays for deaf children, which may be due to an early lack of access to language input...
Background: Since the COVID-19 pandemic, hybrid work models are on the rise in public administration in Germany. Hybrid work poses new challenges for employees. Face-to-face contact with colleagues at the office may be limited, potentially affecting...
This study explores how the consistency between work–family boundary preferences and boundary enactment affects employee well-being by applying polynomial regression and response surface analysis. Using two-wave data from 420 employees in consu...
In the digital age, smartphones are often used as tools for emotion regulation. While prior research has examined affective predictors of smartphone use, few studies have considered the combined impact of short-term and long-term affective states. Th...
This study examined how undergraduate bystanders respond to cyber-ostracism events and the moderating role of rejection sensitivity in shaping helping behaviors using two experiments. In Experiment 1 (N = 276), we first measured participants’ r...
Large language models (LLMs) have become extensively used among users across diverse settings. Yet, with the complex nature of these large-scale artificial intelligence (AI) systems, leveraging their capabilities effectively is yet to be explored. In...
Music is an elusive phenomenon with sounds that disappear while sounding. This challenges the description of the music and its processing by the listener or performer. A possible answer to this problem lies in the definition of music as flowing sound...
The construct of violence has scarcely been researched in relation to suicidality in Mexico. The aim of the present study was to explore the role of different types of violence (e.g., violence at home, non-suicidal self-injury) in suicidal behaviour...
This article explores the manifestation of learner agency among primary school students within the context of competency-based education. Grounded in social cognitive theory and self-determination principles, the study examines how fourth-grade stude...
(1) Background: Dog-assisted therapy (DAT) integrates dogs into therapeutic sessions to enhance participants’ physical, emotional, and social well-being. Despite its growing popularity, little is known about the interaction dynamics between the...
Numerical magnitude can bias spatial attention, typically facilitating faster responses to the left for small numbers and to the right for large numbers—an effect traditionally attributed to egocentric spatial mappings. However, in everyday env...
Value-directed remembering involves two key mechanisms: automatic processing and strategic processing. Automatic processing relies on the brain’s reward system and is associated with midbrain dopaminergic pathways and medial temporal-lobe activ...
Classical social cognitive conceptions suppose that the existence of common representations between agents constitutes the basis that represents the world from others’ perspectives. Alternatively, recent contributions support that the ability t...
This study aimed to examine reading interest profiles among preservice Chinese language teachers and related factors making them begin to like or dislike reading. In total, 321 college students majoring in Chinese language education in elementary and...
This study explores how ethnic identity, national identity, and cultural stress interact to impact mental health among Latino youth and their parents, using the Actor–Partner Interdependence Mediation Model (APIMeM). By analyzing survey data fr...
The rapid advancement in information and communication technologies (ICT) has improved workplace productivity but also introduced new psychosocial stressors. Workplace telepressure, the urge to respond quickly to work-related messages sent via digita...
Performance validity tests (PVTs) and symptom validity tests (SVTs) are central to evaluating neuropsychological test results in clinical adult ADHD assessments. Although their relationships have been widely examined, the constructs these measures as...
Supporting dementia carers is a global priority. As a Randomised Controlled Trial (RCT) (n = 352) of the Word Health Organization recommended, an internationally disseminated ‘iSupport’ e-health intervention was conducted, revealing no me...
The understanding of hidden emotions—situations in which individuals deliberately express an emotion different from what they genuinely feel—is a key skill in theory of mind (ToM) development. This ability allows children to reason about...
Based on self-determination theory and the “environment–cognition–behavior” analysis framework, harmonious work passion is introduced into the research system to systematically explore the mechanism and internal path of inclusive leadership on employ...
This scoping review systematically analyzes the nature and implications of existing research on literacy and literacy interventions that use a signed language among deaf students from preschool through college. We identified the findings associated w...
This study assessed connections between five negative interpersonal feelings with political polarization in America. A total of 203 participants, Democrats and Republicans, were studied to see if their level of feeling hurt, dismissed, misunderstood,...
Background: Eco-anxiety and solastalgia are psychological responses to environmental degradation and climate change. This study examines how these concepts are represented in Spanish-language digital media, considering both emotional dimensions and t...
Sexual and romantic partners tend to match on various dimensions of mate value including physical attractiveness. Men may be motivated to inflate their self-perceived physical attractiveness to justify pursuing highly attractive women. In the present...
This study examined the literacy outcomes of 368 deaf elementary students in the United States, focusing on reading and writing performance and their connections with demographic and language variables. Standardized assessment data were analyzed from...
Accurately discerning the authenticity of facial expressions is crucial for inferring others’ psychological states and behavioral intentions, particularly in shaping interpersonal trust dynamics among elementary school children. While existing...
The combination of discrimination and cultural-contextual stressors associated with acculturation demands and immigration processes cause stressful conditions for Latinos above and beyond daily, stressful life events experienced in families. This in...
Using individualized approaches leads to longer-term pro-health behavior change. Both technological delivery methods and values-centered Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) are useful frameworks for personalized interventions. This investigation...
The burden of depression is a public health concern, and traditional treatment approaches to mental health alone may be insufficient. The effects of contact with nature on wellbeing have been shown to reduce stress and improve mood, emotional wellbei...
This study examines whether social relationships influence moral judgment across different types of moral violations and cultural contexts. Drawing on Relationship Regulation Theory, which outlines four relational models—communal sharing, autho...
Although the detrimental effects of exploitative leadership have been widely revealed, scholarly understanding of its formation mechanisms remains insufficient. Addressing this gap, the present study draws upon trait activation theory to investigate...
Cognitive bias can prompt inconsistency and error in visual comparisons of forensic patterns. We tested whether bias can likewise impede attempts to identify unknown criminal perpetrators via facial recognition technology (FRT). Participants (N = 149...
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