2026 September - 256 articles
As organizations embed artificial intelligence (AI) in everyday work, understanding how employees respond has become a pressing question for human resource management. Drawing on the cognitive appraisal theory of stress, this study examines how AI ap...
Creativity is a critical higher-order cognitive capacity for college students in the age of artificial intelligence. This study examined the relationship between AI dependence and self-reported creativity among Chinese college students, the mediating...
Evidence for the original adult Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (ERQ) in Peruvian university populations remains limited, particularly regarding score comparability across sex. This cross-sectional psychometric study evaluated the factor structure,...
This study investigates the impact mechanism of perceived crowding on consumer impulsive buying in the context of internet-famous supermarkets. Based on environmental psychology, this study proposes a moderated mediation model. Survey data from 565 t...
Algorithmic management increasingly shapes how gig work is organised, evaluated, and experienced, yet its implications for workers’ affective responses remain fragmented across the literature. This study integrates a systematic review with computatio...
This study investigates employee perceptions of artificial intelligence (AI) in the field of recruitment and selection in Saudi Arabian companies. While the use of recruitment systems based on AI is growing, their acceptance by organisations is influ...
Drawing on embodied emotion theory, this study investigated the longitudinal interplay between physical activity and negative emotional states among female college students across three waves of assessment. Female college students from five universit...
This study examined the relationships among university students’ social-emotional learning (SEL) skills, emotional intelligence, emotion regulation, and learning motivation, with particular attention to a proposed serial indirect relationship t...
Variable practice often enhances long-term learning despite increasing difficulty during acquisition. The present study examined whether variable retrieval practice improves foreign-language vocabulary learning and, if so, whether learners’ met...
The rapid workplace diffusion of conversational artificial intelligence (CAI) introduces a new social actor, yet existing reviews often neglect the intrapsychic processes through which employees construe these systems. This systematic review synthesi...
Life goals are described as a general psychological resource for health, but whether goals of different content relate equally to mental health and to health behaviour is unknown. Participants were 408 students at a Turkish state university (71.1% wo...
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a psychological condition that may develop after exposure to severe traumatic events, particularly in unexpected situations characterized by high uncertainty and stress. As social media has become an integral...
In increasingly diverse societies, intergroup prosocial behavior is crucial for improving intergroup relations and facilitating cross-group cooperation. Guided by the Fusion–Secure Base Hypothesis, the present research uses the North–Sout...
Digital humans are emerging as a form of mediated communication, appearing as virtual influencers, virtual agents, avatars, VTubers, AI companions, and other humanlike digital entities across social media, entertainment, commerce, and online communit...
Dance and rhythmic physical activity may support motor and cognitive development in children, but the magnitude and consistency of these effects remain uncertain, and individual trials frequently contribute multiple statistically dependent outcomes....
Guided by the stress process model, this study examined whether childhood family violence—specifically, parental physical abuse (PPA) and witnessing interparental violence (WIPV)—was associated with depressive symptoms among ever-married...
The psychological processes linking polarization experiences across different online interaction contexts to university students’ value-related judgments and choices warrant further investigation. This study distinguishes experienced polarizati...
Using the Physical Activity Rating Scale (PARS-3), the College Students’ Local Cultural Identity Scale, and the Social Support Rating Scale (SSRS), this study surveyed 412 college students to examine the associations among physical exercise, th...
We used a concurrent operant assessment (COA) to evaluate social preferences for individuals with autism spectrum disorder across three comparison conditions: praise versus no interaction, preferred conversation topics versus no interaction, and pref...
As generative artificial intelligence (GAI) becomes increasingly integrated into undergraduate medical education, its relationship with students’ learning engagement warrants further investigation. Guided by self-determination theory, this cros...
With the booming of cross-border live streaming e-commerce, this study examined the influence mechanism of cross-border live streaming interactions on consumers’ impulsive purchase intention based on the timulus–organism–response (S...
Although philosophers and psychologists have pondered for centuries on what it means to pursue personal development and to live a good life, psychological research on personal growth remains broad and diverse. This Editorial introduces a Special Issu...
Online learning has become an important means of acquiring knowledge. Virtual pedagogical agents have gradually evolved from auxiliary tools into intelligent instructional media capable of affective interaction. However, how these agents affect learn...
Autonomous motivation may support healthy eating, whereas body-shape concerns may fuel controlled eating regulation; the two had not been examined jointly with Mediterranean diet adherence in Romanian adults. In this cross-sectional study, a convenie...
Algorithmic gamification has become an important tool for gig platforms to shape labour input; however, its relationship with the proactive service behaviour of gig workers remains unclear. Drawing on attribution theory, this study developed a dual-p...
With the internet becoming increasingly integrated into adolescents’ lives, problematic internet use (PIU) is closely associated with their psychological adjustment. However, the longitudinal relationships between PIU, depressive symptoms (DS),...
Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) are strongly associated with poor physical, mental, and social outcomes, yet few studies have examined ACE prevalence across birth cohorts. We pooled Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) data from 20...
Background: Building on Duda’s hierarchical approach, this study examined gender differences in students’ perceptions of (dis-)empowering motivational climates, self-esteem and social physique anxiety in the physical education context. Fu...
This cross-sectional study examined the association between self-reported fitness-related short video social media engagement and body appreciation among Chinese college students, focusing on the mediating roles of exercise identity and mindful eatin...
Rural teachers often face work overload arising from demanding teaching responsibilities and extensive non-teaching duties, which may be closely associated with their subjective well-being. However, prior research has largely adopted a single-effect...
Smartphone addiction is increasingly prevalent among university students, yet its association with physical education learning engagement remains underexplored. This study investigated the relationship between smartphone addiction and physical educat...
Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is an evidence-based treatment for panic disorder, but culturally adapted interventions remain insufficiently studied in Palestinian populations. Pilot trials are needed to estimate recruitment, retention, acceptabi...
Background: Healthcare workers are central to the care of people living with HIV/AIDS (PLHIV), yet their own stigmatizing attitudes can undermine it. This cross-sectional study assessed HIV/AIDS knowledge and stigmatizing attitudes toward PLHIV among...
There is strong evidence of the correlation between economic hardship and poor mental health outcomes among people living with HIV (PLHIV). However, the causal efficacy and mechanisms of specific economic interventions through which they contribute t...
Academic engagement and mental well-being are central indicators of adolescent development, yet how these domains jointly characterize heterogeneous patterns of adolescent functioning remains insufficiently understood. This study aimed to identify di...
Perfectionism is multidimensional, yet it remains unclear whether evaluative self-criticism and high personal standards differentially identify adolescents with unfavorable depressive symptom profiles. Using data from a baseline sample of 1150 adoles...
Nurses play a significant role in the delivery of healthcare services. They experience compassion satisfaction when providing care to patients in need. However, the effect of compassion satisfaction on workplace happiness has not been sufficiently ex...
This study examined the relationships among communication anxiety, bicultural engagement, parenting stress, and parenting efficacy among Chinese marriage migrant women living in Korea, with particular attention to the mediating role of parenting stre...
This study examines how user interface type and interface complexity influence perceived shopping quality in digital fashion commerce. Drawing on dual-process theory and the online servicescape perspective, two 2 × 2 between-subjects experiment...
University students are particularly vulnerable to mental health problems during emerging adulthood, and suicidal ideation represents a major public health concern. This study examined the relationships among attachment styles, leisure activities, so...
Contemporary sport pedagogy increasingly emphasises learner-centred, inclusive, and psychologically supportive approaches. This bibliometric review mapped research at the intersection of Physical Education, well-being-related perspectives, and motiva...
This study sought to document the psychometric properties of scores on the French Version of the Physical Literacy Self-Description questionnaire. A sample of 191 French-speaking Canadian and French children, aged 5–12 years, participated in th...
Instructors can prescribe which part of a writing task a student may delegate to generative AI, but not how the student works. This four-arm randomised experiment separated them. At Site A, 744 undergraduates were randomised to one of four divisions...
Against the background of AI penetration in C2C second-hand commerce, AI chatbots have emerged as vital operational tools for individual sellers. Prior technology adoption literature predominantly emphasizes positive acceptance drivers yet overlooks...
Evidence on professional quality of life among psychologists in Latin America remains limited. This multicenter cross-sectional study examined compassion satisfaction, burnout, and secondary traumatic stress among 1078 Ecuadorian psychologists nested...
Burnout is recognized in the ICD-11 as an occupational phenomenon resulting from chronic work-related stress. In educational settings, psychosocial risks—particularly high job demands and insufficient resources—have been associated with b...
Bullying victimization is consistently associated with depressive symptoms among adolescents, yet the psychological processes underlying this association remain insufficiently understood, particularly among multicultural adolescents. This study teste...
Residential care settings provide not only protection but also therapeutic opportunities for children and adolescents exposed to relational adversity. This study examined attachment-related behaviors, relational dynamics, and perceptions of reference...
Violence against nurses is a global occupational health and safety issue, yet instruments that assess nurses’ attitudes towards violence from patients and their relatives are limited. This methodological study involved the development and evalu...
School attendance problems (SAPs) are a widespread phenomenon with significant academic, psychological, social, and relational consequences. These issues are particularly prevalent among adolescents worldwide and require careful examination of the in...
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