2026 January - 161 articles
Incorporating STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) into early childhood education has been associated with children’s holistic development. STEM education not only enhances critical thinking, creativity, problem-solving, and...
Little research exists that focuses on the transition experiences of students with disabilities (SWDs) from high school to college and scholarly investigation of science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) pathways for neurodivergent students i...
Emodiversity, or diversity of emotional experience, has received mixed support in the literature as an indicator of health and wellness. The current investigation seeks to contribute to this literature by addressing how the concepts of positive emodi...
With the rise of generative artificial intelligence, the application of AI in learning environments has received widespread attention. Although empirical studies have explored the effect of AI on self-efficacy, the results have not been consistent. T...
The psychosocial well-being of employees is crucial to health and productivity, and it forms the basis for organisational sustainability. Unfortunately, most studies rely on narrow indicators or small samples and thus are not generalisable. The prese...
Workplace mistreatment and positive interpersonal experiences are not often considered simultaneously in empirical research. However, people are realistically experiencing positive and negative interpersonal experiences at work regularly. The goal of...
Prosocial behavior is an important manifestation of socialization in young children. As the primary setting for socialization of young children, the family bears the significant responsibility of fostering prosocial behavior in young children. Drawin...
Prescription drug misuse among youth is a significant public health problem that can lead to negative consequences, including addiction and overdose deaths. This study examined the effectiveness of an evidence-based hybrid approach in preventing pres...
Background: Community readiness assessment is used to gauge a community’s ability to address systemic issues and inform action. The Community Readiness Instrument (CRI) is the only published tool to have undergone rigorous development and testi...
Selective mutism (SM) is an anxiety disorder that prevents speech in certain situations. Increasingly, it is reported that a proportion of those with SM may also be autistic and that physical freezing may be an important feature of SM. Information on...
Stressful life events can cause individuals to experience psychological pain. Tolerating psychological pain depends on the ability to psychologically adjust to challenging situations and to view stress as enhancing. Therefore, this study aimed to exa...
Although there are theoretically expected associations between problematic smartphone use (PSU) and materialism, there is a lack of research that examines these associations using a longitudinal design, focusing on both within-person and between-pers...
Adolescent sexual assault survivors have myriad post-assault needs. However, if and how they access resources to attend to those needs can be complicated due to their legal status as minors and child abuse mandatory reporting policies. Such policies...
An early indicator of future cardiovascular risk is lower levels of nighttime blood pressure (BP) dipping from day to night. Prior work has been limited to identifying health behaviors that can promote greater dipping. This pilot study proposes that...
Family-implemented interventions are evidence-based practices used to support a range of developmental outcomes, including social communication. Social communication is a broad construct that encompasses a variety of skills, from foundational abiliti...
The development of motor competence (MC) is a key objective in preschool education. It is essential to assess MC from a pedagogical perspective using valid and applicable instruments in educational settings. This study aimed to validate the MOBAK-KG...
Numerous studies have shown sex differences in mental rotation (MR) tasks, but few have explored the internal neural influences through functional connectivity outcomes. To investigate neuro-activity influences on sex differences, this study conducte...
Background: Non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) is a significant public health issue that threatens the physical and mental well-being of adolescents. Identifying associated factors is a crucial step toward effective intervention. Methods: This study ana...
This study examines how societal ageing influences insurance purchasing intentions, addressing the prevailing emphasis on elderly consumers and the limited conceptual integration of ageing within existing behavioural models. Following the Preferred R...
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Women have made substantial gains in representation in some STEM fields (e.g., biology, chemistry, math) but not others (e.g., physics, computer science, engineering). Researchers have called for a STEM field-specific approach to investigate the pers...
This study examined the effectiveness of an Artificial Intelligence (AI)-supported self-coaching system designed to improve preschool teachers’ implementation of embedded instruction (EI) for young children with autism in inclusive early childh...
Sensory reactivity has recently been introduced as a diagnostic criterion for autism, and growing attention is being paid to considering children’s behavioural responses to sensory stimuli. This study explored sensory reactivity in a sample of...
The consumption of clothes creates paradoxes in which values, motives, and emotions interact to generate consumption experiences. To test some of these interactions, we conducted three correlational studies, studies 1, 2, and 3, one experiment, study...
This study explores the relationship model among the dark triad traits, non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) behavior in adolescents, negative life events, and depression. A moderated mediation model was tested among 224 middle school students with left-b...
Refugees and asylum seekers (RASs) are among the most marginalised, vulnerable, and economically disadvantaged groups worldwide. As a result, many government and non-government organizations, including migrant-led community organizations (MLCOs), sup...
This study examines whether Drawmetrics (DM), an expressive–semantic personality system, can be linked with the Five-Factor Model (Big Five) through an embedding-based mapping approach and network psychometric methods. A total of 185 participan...
In recent years, the application of augmented reality digital technology in brands has transformed the way consumers interact with brands. This study focuses on the impact of augmented reality (AR) technology on consumption behavior and brand communi...
Non-digital traditional games such as board and card formats are increasingly recognised as valuable tools for active learning in higher education. These analogue approaches promote engagement, collaboration, and conceptual understanding through embo...
The disjunction effect in the prisoner’s dilemma game shows that humans tend to cooperate more under uncertain condition (U) than under the two complementary known conditions—one being competitive (D) and the other being cooperative (C)&m...
Background: Building on socioanalytic theory and signaling theory, this study examined whether self-reported motives—representing individuals’ identities—translate into reputational outcomes. Furthermore, drawing on role congruity t...
Effective communication in English is a critical behavioral competency for seafarers in a multilingual maritime environment, directly impacting operational safety. However, a gap exists between current Maritime English (ME) training in China and the...
This research sought to examine differences in the cross-modal facilitation effect of voice on facial identity recognition under mask occlusion for both oneself and others. Employing a facial recognition paradigm, we examined the influence of voice o...
Creativity serves as a fundamental driver of human learning, personal development, and societal progress. This study synthesizes recent empirical and theoretical advances in educational psychology and creativity neuroscience to characterize the parad...
The success of STEM education in early childhood education is reliant on the pedagogical practices of teachers. Effective teaching of STEM requires specific knowledge of the four disciplines of STEM, appropriate teaching and learning methods and rele...
Deviance poses a fundamental challenge for groups: while it can threaten cohesion and invite moral condemnation, it can also express deep commitment to shared principles. The present research examines how loyalty shapes perceptions of constructive de...
A significant body of research worldwide has examined how parents who set high expectations may increase adolescents’ risk of developing perfectionistic traits. However, studies exploring this relationship in the Global South are almost nonexis...
The application of social cognitive theory has expanded to the boundaries of human-computer interaction research. However, existing research has scarcely addressed mutual cognitive facilitation between humans and personalized educational large langua...
Textual revision is a recursive process integral to writing. However, less experienced writers often struggle to select effective strategies, underuse self-regulation, and evaluate their work without metacognitive control. This study examined the eff...
Criminal justice system (CJS) involvement is common among individuals with opioid use disorder (OUD), yet limited research examines retention in medications for OUD (MOUD) within community settings. This study assessed whether CJS involvement predict...
In the current digital age, children are exposed to electronic media at an increasingly early age. The issue of excessive electronic media use has become a significant risk factor affecting the healthy development of young children. To examine the as...
Research often emphasises dysfunctional Social Networking Site (SNS) usage. In contrast, the current research examined a more positive element of human functioning, specifically how motivations to use SNSs may be associated with meaning in life, whic...
This study aimed to examine the interventional effects of positive psychology expressive writing (PPEW) on adolescents’ time attitudes and mental health. A total of 285 adolescents from Northwest China (M = 14.13, SD = 1.075; 53.3% female) were...
Trust (or distrust) in artificial intelligence (AI) is a critical research topic, given AI’s pervasive integration across societal domains. Despite its significance, scholarly attention to process-based learned trust in AI remains limited. To a...
Active involvement in creative activities, known as creative health, has been shown to enhance wellbeing, with museums serving as unique spaces for health promotion; however, visitors often require guidance to derive significant benefits from these i...
Empowering leadership can provide more resource support for organizations and better match the characteristics of current knowledge employees, such as a high demand for autonomy and pursuit of value diversification. However, existing literature has n...
Considering the high prevalence of adolescent depression and anxiety, the profound functional consequences of untreated early psychosis and suicide being the number one cause of death in Australia among 15–19-year-olds, ensuring that teachers a...
This study examines the recent diversification of the Korean golf market into traditional field, popular virtual reality (VR), and park golf, which is rapidly expanding among older adults. Comparing participants’ psychological characteristics a...
This paper draws on a capacity-building initiative by the researcher to prepare the parents of nine selectively mute (SM) children to take the lead in their child’s change process towards, gradually and in tiny steps, starting to speak in more...
This study investigates how emotionally structured online interaction networks shape consumer perception of new energy vehicle (NEV) technology. Drawing on discussion forum data from two leading NEV brands, Brand_T and Brand_B, we focus on how users...
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