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6 December 2025

This study examined the mediating and moderating effect of mindfulness through rumination on the relationship between evaluative concerns perfectionism and depression in early adults. For this study, an online self-report survey was conducted on 436...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,808 Views
21 Pages

4 March 2019

Indentation size effects in poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA) were studied through nanoindentation. Two factors of indentation size effects in PMMA, namely yield criterion and shear transformation-mediated plasticity, were analysed in detail. The yiel...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,003 Views
16 Pages

24 June 2023

The mediation analysis methodology of the cause-and-effect relationship through mediators has been increasingly popular over the past decades. The human microbiome can contribute to the pathogenesis of many complex diseases by mediating disease-leadi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Machine Learning and Statistical Methods to Prediction and Optimal Decision-Making)
  • Review
  • Open Access
37 Citations
10,049 Views
24 Pages

19 December 2022

Innumerable people worldwide die of cancer every year, although pharmaceutical therapy has actualized many benefits in human health. For background, anti-cancer drug development is difficult due to the multifactorial pathogenesis and complicated path...

(This article belongs to the Section Antibody-Based Therapeutics)
  • Hypothesis
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,516 Views
11 Pages

This study aimed to investigate the moderated mediation effect of gender and the mediation effect of readiness for change (RC) on self-esteem and technology readiness (TR) among South Korean teachers. Participants were 302 teachers who are living and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
5,956 Views
12 Pages

21 July 2021

Based on the panel data of 224 prefecture-level and above cities in China from 2003 to 2016, this paper empirically studies the impact of urban sprawl on air pollution and introduces a mediating effect model to test the mediating role of vehicle owne...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Renewable Energy Technologies and Systems: Technical, Environmental, Economic, Social, and Cultural Challenges)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,529 Views
22 Pages

30 May 2023

The limited nature of land supply determines that improving land use efficiency is an inherent requirement for economic development. The aim of this study was to quantitatively examine its impact. Most current studies have explored the quantitative r...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Feature Papers for 'Land Socio-Economic and Political Issues' Section)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,070 Views
20 Pages

Sequential Ignorability and Dismissible Treatment Components to Identify Mediation Effects

  • Yuhao Deng,
  • Haoyu Wei,
  • Xia Xiao,
  • Yuan Zhang and
  • Yuanmin Huang

25 July 2024

Mediation analysis is a useful tool to study the mechanism of how a treatment exerts effects on the outcome. Classical mediation analysis requires a sequential ignorability assumption to rule out cross-world reliance of the potential outcome of inter...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Statistical AI and Causal Inference)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,894 Views
23 Pages

Mediation Effect of Corporate Tax Burden and the Relationship between Environmental Regulation and Firm Performance

  • Qiwen Dai,
  • Huihua Huang,
  • Xiaoqi Zhang,
  • Yumin Su and ,
  • Cheyuan Liu and
  • Qiangyi Li
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

This paper took the panel data of 1052 heavily-polluting listed companies from both the Shanghai and Shenzhen Stock Exchange from 2010 to 2017 to empirically analyze the impact of environmental regulation (ERG) on firm performance (FP). The article i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
7,424 Views
19 Pages

4 June 2020

The primary purpose of this article was to examine the mediating effects of market orientation on the relationship between entrepreneurial orientation and financial performance. The mediation effects of market orientation on the relationship between...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Entrepreneurship, Competitiveness and Innovation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
6,899 Views
17 Pages

26 November 2021

The study explores the relationship between internal control effectiveness, corporate social responsibility (CSR), and technological innovation. By establishing a mediating effect model, we analyzed the effect of internal control effectiveness on tec...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Corporate Social Responsibility: Organizational Strategy for Sustainable Growth)
  • Article
  • Open Access
46 Citations
6,238 Views
11 Pages

While environmental pollution is becoming more and more serious, many countries are adopting policies to control pollution. At the same time, the environmental regulation will inevitably affect economic and social development, especially employment g...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Decision Models in Green Growth and Sustainable Development)
  • Article
  • Open Access
45 Citations
20,588 Views
17 Pages

Physical Activity and Academic Performance: The Mediating Effect of Self-Esteem and Depression

  • Sumaira Kayani,
  • Tayyaba Kiyani,
  • Jin Wang,
  • María Luisa Zagalaz Sánchez and ,
  • Saima Kayani and
  • Haroona Qurban
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

11 October 2018

An important step to enhance the academic efficiency of students is increasing their physical activity. For this reason, it is necessary to see to what extent physical activity is related to the academic performance of the students and what might med...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Physical Activity as a Means of Culture, Leisure and Free Time)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,778 Views
10 Pages

30 November 2024

Objectives: Dementia affects millions of aged people globally and mainly results from oxidative stress. Selenium shows beneficial effects on dementia however it remains elusive for the mediation effect of oxidative stress on the association between s...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Selenium-Rich Products: Their Development and Regulation of Human Health)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
5,297 Views
21 Pages

The flow and reallocation of agricultural production factors induced by urbanization play an important role in the changes of the grain production pattern (GPP). Using provincial panel data from 1996 to 2018 in China as the research sample, the cente...

(This article belongs to the Section Agricultural Economics, Policies and Rural Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
4,123 Views
15 Pages

Purpose: To explore the influencing factors that restrict the exercise behavior of children and adolescents, investigate the effect of subjective exercise experience on exercise behavior, and reveal the mediating effect of exercise commitment between...

  • Article
  • Open Access
35 Citations
6,171 Views
20 Pages

At present, the Internet has a profound impact on the lifestyle and ideas of the elderly and has an important impact on the subjective well-being of the elderly. Based on the data of 2020 China Family Panel Studies (CFPS), 4463 elderly people aged 60...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue A Transdisciplinary Approach to Healthy Ageing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
5,188 Views
29 Pages

Mediating Effects of Foreign Direct Investment Inflows on Carbon Dioxide Emissions

  • Prajukta Tripathy,
  • Mohsen Brahmi,
  • Baiju Pallayil and
  • Bikash Ranjan Mishra

12 January 2025

In this research, the direct and indirect effects of foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows on carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions in India are examined, covering the period from 1980 to 2014. To quantify the indirect outcome of the existence of FDI on C...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,908 Views
15 Pages

Effects of the Energy-Adjusted Dietary Inflammation Index During Pregnancy on Prenatal Depression: The Mediating Effect of Sleep Quality

  • Yuehan Yuan,
  • Jingjing Xu,
  • Qian Lin,
  • Jing Deng and ,
  • Yunfeng Pan and
  • Jihua Chen
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

29 March 2025

(1) Background: Prenatal depression is prevalent and can adversely affect maternal and infant health. This study aimed to analyze the relationship between the energy-adjusted dietary inflammatory index (E-DII) and prenatal depression, as well as to e...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue The Interdependence of Nutrition and Mental Well-Being)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
5,708 Views
9 Pages

This research aimed to determine the mediating effect of innovative behavior on the relationship between transactional leadership and emotional intelligence in a SARS-CoV-2 context. During this period, behavioral issues among and between employees ha...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Customer Orientation, Job Satisfaction and Knowledge Management as Drivers of Improved Organisational Performance)
  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
6,006 Views
25 Pages

18 June 2021

China is in a strategic phase of an industrial green transformation. Industrial air pollution is a key environmental target for governance. Because import trade is a core channel through which advanced environmental protection technology is absorbed,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
5,673 Views
12 Pages

The purpose of this paper was to investigate the mediated moderating effect of employee engagement (EE) by leader’s supervision in the effects of corporate entrepreneurship (CE) on innovation performance (IP). The study applied the cross-sectio...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Novel Insights in the Leadership in Business and Economics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
39 Citations
7,544 Views
19 Pages

27 February 2022

The smart city presupposes the integration of different parts—Smart Economy, Smart Environment, Smart People, Smart Living, Smart Mobility, and Smart Governance. The integration assumes the certain relations between them. There are researches c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
66 Citations
13,698 Views
11 Pages

Mediating Effect of Perceived Stress on the Association between Physical Activity and Sleep Quality among Chinese College Students

  • Xiangyu Zhai,
  • Na Wu,
  • Sakura Koriyama,
  • Can Wang and ,
  • Mengyao Shi,
  • Tao Huang,
  • Kun Wang,
  • Susumu S. Sawada and
  • Xiang Fan
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

Background: While physical activity has been reported to positively affect stress and sleep quality, less is known about the potential relationships among them. The present study aimed to investigate the mediating effect of stress on the association...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Physical Activity, Wellness and Health: Challenges, Benefits and Strategies)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
5,175 Views
11 Pages

The Mediating Effect of Sleep Quality on the Relationship between Emotional and Behavioral Problems and Suicidal Ideation

  • Luyao Xiao,
  • Sheng Zhang,
  • Wenyan Li,
  • Ruipeng Wu and ,
  • Wanxin Wang,
  • Tian Wang,
  • Lan Guo and
  • Ciyong Lu
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

Emotional and behavioral problems in adolescents are associated with suicidal ideation, but different dimensions of problems may be associated with different levels of suicidal ideation. The aim of this large-scale study was to explore the relationsh...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Mental Health of Child and Young People)
  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
8,799 Views
12 Pages

17 March 2016

Although substantial studies emphasized the close relationship among land development, public infrastructure, and urban economic growth, the mediating effect of public infrastructure remains unexplored. Using panel data of 253 prefecture-level Chines...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Urban Land and Sustainable Development)
  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
8,018 Views
15 Pages

10 January 2023

The present study examines whether there is a relationship between the ethical leadership (EL), organizational justice perception (OJP), and deviant behaviors (WDB) of customs officers working at international airports in Turkey, and aims to determin...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Economic, Social, and Environmental Sustainability in the Post COVID-19 World)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
6,807 Views
17 Pages

2 January 2025

This study investigates the impact and mechanisms of achievement goal orientation on online learning engagement among undergraduates, using a sample of 461 students enrolled in online courses from four universities of varying levels in Shanghai, Chin...

(This article belongs to the Section Educational Psychology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,765 Views
12 Pages

Objective: The purpose of this study was to investigate the mental health of homosexual adults in China and to explore the effects of perceived social support and self-efficacy on mental health. Methods: Two hundred and nine homosexuals were recruite...

(This article belongs to the Section Mental Health)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
5,137 Views
26 Pages

The Mediation and Moderation Effect Association among Physical Activity, Body-Fat Percentage, Blood Pressure, and Serum Lipids among Chinese Adults: Findings from the China Health and Nutrition Surveys in 2015

  • Qinpei Zou,
  • Chang Su,
  • Wenwen Du,
  • Yifei Ouyang and ,
  • Huijun Wang,
  • Bing Zhang,
  • Shuquan Luo,
  • Tao Tan,
  • Yaokai Chen and
  • Huadong Zhang
  • + 6 authors+ 1 author

12 July 2023

Physical activity (PA) is of benefit and particularly important for cardiovascular disease risk factors as being sedentary becomes a lifestyle habit. Research into Chinese complex association among physical activity, body-fat percentage (BF%), blood...

(This article belongs to the Section Nutrition and Obesity)
  • Article
  • Open Access
39 Citations
8,439 Views
15 Pages

28 June 2021

What corporate social responsibility (CSR) attributes determine the CSR authenticity of a company? In the face of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, what direction should the CSR strategy pursue? In the electronics industries in Korea and China, are t...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Corporate Social Responsibility: Organizational Strategy for Sustainable Growth)
  • Article
  • Open Access
32 Citations
4,448 Views
26 Pages

12 July 2023

It is of great significance to clarify the impact and mechanism of environmental regulations on enterprises’ green innovation. This paper empirically studies the impact of command-and-control environmental regulation (CCER) and market-incentive...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Towards an Ecological Economics of Sustainability: From the Perspective of Environmental Regulation Policies and Pollutant Emissions Governance)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,281 Views
12 Pages

Relationship between Cardiorespiratory Fitness and Executive Function in Young Adults: Mediating Effects of Gray Matter Volume

  • Yuexin Liu,
  • Lina Zhu,
  • Kelong Cai,
  • Xiaoxiao Dong and ,
  • Xuan Xiong,
  • Zhimei Liu and
  • Aiguo Chen
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

26 October 2022

We evaluated the association between cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF) and executive function (EF) in young adults and the mediating effects of GMV on this relationship. This study involved 217 college students. An incremental load exercise program was...

(This article belongs to the Section Sensory and Motor Neuroscience)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
8,620 Views
14 Pages

30 April 2024

Objective: This study aimed to investigate the relationship between family socioeconomic status (SES) and adolescents’ learning conformity and self-esteem among a sample of 15–18 year-old high school students. Methods: A survey was conduc...

(This article belongs to the Section Global Pediatric Health)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
8,004 Views
18 Pages

Creativity is a universal core higher-order cognitive ability in the 21st century, which reflects a country’s core competitiveness and soft power. Mindfulness, as an important concept in positive psychology, has also received attention for its...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Understanding Higher-Order Cognitive Abilities and Their Development in the Anthropocene)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,305 Views
15 Pages

The Mediating Effect of Cytokines on the Association between Fungal Sensitization and Poor Clinical Outcome in Asthma

  • Ching-Hsiung Lin,
  • Yi-Rong Li,
  • Chew-Teng Kor,
  • Sheng-Hao Lin and ,
  • Bin-Chuan Ji,
  • Ming-Tai Lin and
  • Woei-Horng Chai
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

Sensitization to fungal allergens is one of the proposed phenotypes in asthma. An association between fungal sensitization and worse clinical outcomes is apparent. Moreover, fungal sensitization in asthma that is associated with different type of imm...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Pathogenesis and Novel Therapeutics in Asthma)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,096 Views
14 Pages

Corporate environmental responsibility is an important component of corporate social responsibility. Based on data from Chinese listed companies from 2010–2018, the relationship between the two was explored using a fixed-effects model, with the suppl...

(This article belongs to the Section Environmental Science and Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
7,028 Views
26 Pages

6 November 2019

This study investigates the mediation effect of motivation (MO) between internal marketing (IM) and service innovation (SI) using a hierarchical model. It adopts Bahman Group Corp of the automobile industry in Iran as a case study. This paper aims to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,008 Views
15 Pages

Stress substantially results in various negative health outcomes. While there is a nexus between social capital and individual stress, previous studies have primarily explored the direct relationship between them. Social capital may potentially have...

  • Article
  • Open Access
96 Citations
11,784 Views
13 Pages

26 January 2019

Collaborative consumption, often associated with the sharing economy, is an emerging consumption pattern that emphasizes sharing the right to use the same units of goods or services rather than owning them. This study proposed a more comprehensive de...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,596 Views
27 Pages

2 September 2022

Facing the current increasingly severe environmental problems, the government and the public make increasingly strong demands for environmental protection. It is the key to sustainable development to study how to motivate enterprises to actively fulf...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
7,567 Views
14 Pages

The impact of internet use on quality of life (QoL) has become an increasing focus of academic research. This paper aims to explore the internal influencing mechanisms of internet use (i.e., leisure-oriented internet use (LIU); work-oriented internet...

(This article belongs to the Section Mental Health)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
5,126 Views
14 Pages

It is demonstrated that the subjective well-being (SWB) of older people greatly relies on their social participation. However, there are few studies on reciprocity beliefs as a mediating mechanism between social participation and SWB. In this study,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
5,809 Views
12 Pages

Depressive symptoms are prevalent in university students and may impair their social, educational, and economic transition into adulthood. Identifying the factors that determine depressive symptoms is crucial for the design of effective policy interv...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Mental Health of Child and Young People)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,232 Views
12 Pages

The purpose of the study was to examine the relationships between the husbands’ domestic labor and marital intimacy, work satisfaction, and depressive mood in married working women. We used the sixth (2016) dataset from the Women and Families P...

(This article belongs to the Section Women's Health)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,267 Views
11 Pages

20 November 2023

The phenomenon of adolescents engaging in less physical activity as they age raises several concerns. Among these, we hypothesized that this trend may negatively impact their mental health and smartphone dependency. Thus, the aim of this study was to...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Physical Activity and Sedentary Behavior in Children, Youth and Adults: Risk Factors and Other Associated Variables)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,481 Views
22 Pages

28 August 2024

This study extends the existing research on carbon trading policies from the perspective of mediating effects. Based on the difference-in-differences method, this study helps to understand the relationship between China’s carbon trading policie...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainable Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
362 Citations
30,406 Views
21 Pages

26 December 2021

Technological innovation and high-quality economic development are inevitable requirements of sustainable development, and the digital economy has gradually become a new engine to enhance technological innovation and the high-quality development of C...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Digital Governance and Digital Economy: Are We There Yet?)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,878 Views
14 Pages

The Mediating Effect of Functional Health on the Relationship between Social Capital and Cognition among Chinese Older Adults

  • Xinyu Liu,
  • Shuangshuang Wang,
  • Siqi Liu,
  • Nengliang Yao and ,
  • Quan Wang and
  • Xiaojie Sun
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

This study evaluated the association between cognition and social capital among Chinese older adults and analyzed the mediating role of functional health in that interaction. The baseline and follow-up data were acquired from the 2011 and 2015 China...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,198 Views
19 Pages

The Impact of Socioeconomic Factors on Cognitive Ability in Community-Dwelling Older Adults: Mediating Effect of Social Participation and Social Support

  • Yilin Zheng,
  • Yu Zhang,
  • Mingzhu Ye,
  • Tingting Wang and ,
  • Huining Guo and
  • Guohua Zheng
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

Background and Purpose: Previous studies have shown that socioeconomic status influences cognitive health in adults. Therefore, it is important for the development of healthy aging policies to further investigate the effect of specific socioeconomic...

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