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Population aging is increasing demand for social services, and natural environments are increasingly recognized as health-promoting resources. Korea has institutionalized forest welfare as a national service system delivered through public facilities and a certified professional workforce. Its linkage with the statutory social service system nevertheless remains at an early stage, with few implementation frameworks grounded in the perspectives of those who would implement such a linkage. This study addressed that gap through a three-stage qualitative design—exploratory focus group interviews (FGIs), in-depth interviews with nine experts across four strata, and a follow-up FGI—with the data analyzed thematically. Experts converged on three target groups—socially isolated youth, middle-aged adults, and social workers—and showed that accessibility, though raised in every stratum, comprised four distinct barriers: psychological and informational, temporal and economic, organizational, and market-related. Social workers further occupied a dual position as both a channel for service dissemination and a population in need of the service. The resulting framework comprises three operational entities—support, delivery, and supply—across four dimensions: user characteristics, delivery system, service operation, and policy environment. Institutional foundations, target-group-differentiated accessibility, interagency collaboration, and a strengthened private supply base were identified as conditions for integration. By showing how a nationally institutionalized forest welfare system can be linked with statutory social services, the framework offers a reference for nature-based provision in other national contexts. Full article

Decision-making under uncertainty, risk, and ambiguity is a central topic in behavioral sciences, yet the cognitive and neural mechanisms through which individuals construct subjective value remain fragmented across disciplines. Neuroeconomics has emerged as an interdisciplinary field integrating psychology, economics, and neuroscience to explain how subjective value guides judgment and choice under uncertain conditions. However, the conceptual foundations of subjective value and its role across different forms of uncertainty remain insufficiently integrated. This study provides the first comprehensive review of subjective value research by combining a systematic literature review with bibliometric analysis. We first trace the theoretical evolution of judgment and decision-making under uncertainty, emphasizing the development of subjective value as a core construct linking cognitive evaluation, affective processing, and behavioral choice. We then review major approaches to measuring subjective value and examine their contributions to understanding individual differences in decision-making. Using VOSviewer, we identify the intellectual structure, major research themes, and emerging trends in the field. The findings reveal two complementary knowledge foundations: theories of judgment and decision-making under uncertainty and the neural mechanisms underlying subjective value representation. Three dominant research themes emerge: (1) cognitive and affective processes underlying subjective value construction during uncertainty-related judgment; (2) neural representations of subjective value across risky and ambiguous decision contexts; and (3) the development of integrative cross-domain models that connect psychological, economic, and neuroscientific perspectives on decision-making. Based on these findings, we propose future research directions that emphasize distinguishing risk, ambiguity, and uncertainty at both behavioral and neural levels, integrating contextual and individual-difference factors into subjective value models, and extending neuroeconomic research beyond laboratory paradigms to real-world decision environments. By synthesizing theoretical and empirical advances across disciplines, this review offers an integrative framework for understanding how subjective value shapes human judgment and decision-making under uncertainty. Full article

AI digital-human livestreaming has become a key format of e-commerce livestreaming due to its low cost and round-the-clock operation. How the technical features of digital humans work together with consumers’ psychological perceptions to drive consumption is an important academic and practical question. Existing studies mostly adopt linear analytical paradigms. They focus on the anthropomorphic appearance features of digital humans. Few studies interpret the synergistic effects of technical–emotional factors from a configurational perspective. Empirical tests on boundary conditions under different platform ecosystems are also scarce. Drawing on the SOR–PAD theoretical framework, this study takes 18,690 livestream bullet-screen comments collected from 40 AI digital-human livestream rooms across Jingdong, Baidu, and Meituan as the research material. It conducts a mixed empirical analysis, combining text mining, machine learning, and fsQCA. The dependent variable, purchase behavior tendency, is obtained from an SVM model trained by matching bullet-screen comments with desensitized background transaction data. This indicator acts as a proxy measure for subjective purchase intention. The SVM model achieves an accuracy of 0.97, recall of 0.94, and an F1-score of 0.95. The findings are as follows. First, four technical features, including professionalism, simulation fidelity, responsiveness, and personalization, together with the three psychological perceptions of pleasure, arousal, and trust, constitute critical antecedents of high purchase behavior tendencies. Second, no single necessary condition can trigger a high purchase behavior tendency. Five equivalent technical–emotional configuration paths are identified, including response-oriented, pleasure-oriented, and multiple-synergy types. Third, the conversion effects of the configuration paths show clear platform boundaries. Different e-commerce formats match differentiated configuration paths. This study introduces configurational causal logic into the existing SOR–PAD framework. It expands the application boundary of this framework for AI digital-human livestreaming scenarios. It supplements the empirical evidence of consumer behavior under human–computer interactions. It also offers practical references for platforms and merchants to operate AI digital-human livestreams. Full article

This paper argues that the wound—psychological, ecological, and ontological—is the site where human relationality breaks down and also, paradoxically, where its restoration becomes possible. Drawing on trauma theory, Georges Bataille’s anthropology of discontinuity, and Michael Bond’s account of mortality-driven withdrawal from nature, the study shows how disrelating emerges when individuals and societies retreat from the vulnerability that connection entails. Trauma freezes relational fields; fear of death intensifies the human–nature divide; and the denial of our animality produces the ontological wound at the core of human existence. Yet this wound also marks the threshold of relation. Practices of attunement, ecological participation, and collective healing reopen the possibility of continuity—not by bypassing finitude but by inhabiting it. Read alongside Boros Ladislaus’s earth-centered vision of death as belonging, these perspectives reveal the wound as the place where connection is disclosed, where the self becomes porous, and where deeper relationality can emerge. The wound that fractures relation is also the wound that connects. Full article

It is commonly accepted by mental health professionals who work in the area of death and grief that both the help which communities may offer to the bereaved and creativity may prove decisive factors in their recovery after loss; the article aims to introduce specific existential films to the discussion about the value of both. Communality and creativity are also key ecclesiological and theological concepts. They are integral parts of the life of ecclesiastical communities, which honor the memory of the dead and have a duty to stand by their mourning members. These concepts may therefore create a bridge between spirituality and psychology/psychiatry, encouraging church leaders and health professionals to cooperate in addressing the needs of the bereaved. In the above-described context, films like Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life (2011), Rachid Buchareb’s London River (2009) and the short animation film Lila (2014) by Carlos Lascano may become valuable resources. Firstly, for challenging questionable religious responses to death while also discovering beauty in natural and community life in spite of/through loss, as well as embracing the memory of the deceased through creativity. As the latter has been characterized by relevant bibliography in death studies as both a form of expressing grief and a therapeutic process, it is also a crucial calling for the faithful to remain creative in the image and likeness of their Creator. In the discussion of the films, these links between theological/spiritual and psychological/mental health perspectives are explored with regard to both preparing for death and responding to it through joint efforts or lessons at schools. Full article

Urban streets are critical public spaces that support residents’ daily psychological recovery, and their landscape quality is directly related to pedestrians’ physical and mental well-being. In the rapid urbanization process, numerous urban streets have exhibited problems such as excessive building density, cluttered visual interfaces, a lack of natural elements, and an absence of regional characteristics, leading to a continuous decline in the psychological restorative capacity of street spaces and failure to meet residents’ demands for a healthy urban environment. Existing research mostly employs qualitative assessment methods to evaluate walking experiences and psychological restoration levels of street environments, lacking high-precision, pixel-level quantification of street landscape elements and rarely incorporating regional cultural elements into the analytical framework of restorative environments. This study takes Foshan, a famous historical and cultural city in China, as the research object, and selects five typical streets in the main urban area, including comprehensive streets, living streets, landscape streets, commercial streets, and historical–cultural streets, to construct a technical route of “data collection–element quantification–model construction–effect analysis.” Leveraging the pre-trained Mask2Former semantic segmentation model and pedestrian-perspective street-view images (SVIs), combined with field research, the study quantifies 22 street landscape elements across five dimensions: environment, transportation, social interaction, facilities, and culture. Through PCA principal component analysis and K-means clustering, 20 typical photos were objectively sampled, and public psychological evaluations were conducted using the Perceived Restorativeness Scale (PRS). A stepwise multiple linear regression model was then employed to construct an exploratory explanatory model for street psychological restoration, identifying key influencing factors and their effect intensities. The results indicate the following: (1) Environmental and cultural elements are the core characteristics associated with pedestrians’ psychological restoration, whereas transportation, social, and facility elements are correlated only with certain restoration dimensions and show no significant association with the overall psychological restoration level. (2) Among the 22 element indicators, the Green View Index showed the strongest positive association with psychological restoration (β = 0.681, p < 0.001); historical memory markers and the Blue View Index also exhibited significant positive associations. (3) By integrating the elements associated with pedestrians’ psychological restoration and their association strengths, an exploratory explanatory model of the psychological restoration benefits of urban street landscapes was constructed, with an adjusted coefficient of determination of 69.8%, accounting for 69.8% of the variation in street psychological restoration levels. The findings establish an exploratory analytical framework and furnish empirical evidence for healthy city planning and street renewal in similar historical and cultural cities. Full article

With the advancement of healthy city development and community renewal practices, the influence of perceived community environmental quality on residents’ psychological well-being has attracted increasing attention. Previous research has shown that the built environment is closely related to residents’ well-being; however, most studies have focused on objective spatial elements or facility provision and have paid insufficient attention to the mechanisms through which subjective environmental perceptions operate in the process by which the environment affects psychological well-being. From the perspective of Homo Urbanicus theory, this study takes 36 communities in Yangpu District, Shanghai, as cases and uses data from 882 valid questionnaires. Structural equation modeling is employed to examine the relationships among perceived community environmental quality, perceived environmental restorativeness, and residents’ psychological well-being, and to further explore age-related patterns among young-old, middle-old, and oldest-old groups. The results show that perceived community environmental quality has a significant positive effect on residents’ psychological well-being and produces a significant indirect effect through perceived environmental restorativeness. Exploratory age-stratified analyses further suggested different pathway patterns among the young-old, middle-old, and oldest-old groups. On this basis, the study further proposes a four-quadrant model of spatial contact opportunities and a five-category accessibility classification and accordingly develops community environment optimization strategies for older adults of different ages. The findings provide a theoretical basis and practical reference for healthy-community development and age-friendly community renewal. Full article

Using data from Chinese listed non-financial firms from 2015 to 2023, this study examines how environmental, social, and governance (ESG) rating divergence affects banks’ loan limit decisions and the underlying decision-making mechanisms within the sustainable finance system. Drawing on cognitive psychology, we conceptualize bank lending as an organizational decision-making process in which conflicting ESG signals create information ambiguity and influence banks’ risk assessments. Greater ESG rating divergence is associated with significantly lower total annual bank loan limits. Mechanism analyses provide evidence consistent with heightened bank concerns about firm default risk, whereas we find no supporting evidence for the information-quality channel captured by discretionary accruals. Further analysis reveals an asymmetric response to conflicting ESG information: banks appear to place greater weight on relatively unfavorable ESG ratings, while favorable ratings do not exert a comparable moderating effect. The negative association between ESG rating divergence and bank loan limits is more evident among non-state-owned enterprises, firms with weaker repayment capacity, firms with lower financial information disclosure quality, and firms without third-party ESG assurance. These findings extend the literature on ESG rating divergence and sustainable finance by showing how conflicting ESG information is associated with contractual credit allocation through banks’ risk assessment and asymmetric information-processing behavior. They also highlight the importance of improving ESG information governance and banks’ capacity to evaluate inconsistent sustainability signals. Full article

This study examines how social media platform environments influence adolescent consumer replication behavior specifically within sports content, athletic apparel, and active lifestyles through psychological engagement mechanisms, including parasocial interaction, self-congruence, and perceived source credibility. Drawing on media ecology theory and platform affordance perspectives, the study compares users of YouTube, TikTok, and Instagram. To better capture the complex structural mechanics across platforms, the investigation is guided by empirical research questions rather than simple linear hypotheses. Data were collected from 402 high school students in South Korea who had experience with influencer-based social media content. Respondents were categorized based on their primary platform of engagement. The dataset was analyzed using independent-samples t-tests and Welch’s ANOVA with Games–Howell post-hoc tests to examine differences across gender and platform groups. The results indicate significant gender differences in psychological engagement and behavioral outcomes, with female adolescents showing higher levels of parasocial interaction, self-congruence, and consumer replication behavior than male adolescents. Platform-based comparisons further reveal significant differences across user groups. TikTok users reported higher levels of parasocial interaction, self-congruence, source credibility, and consumer replication behavior compared to Instagram users, while differences between TikTok and YouTube users were observed primarily in consumer replication behavior. Although TikTok users demonstrated the highest mean values across several constructs, the relatively small sample size of this group should be considered when interpreting the robustness of platform-level differences. Overall, the findings suggest that platform affordances shape adolescent psychological engagement and subsequent consumer imitation behaviors beyond mere exposure intensity. This study contributes to social media and behavioral science literature by highlighting how platform-specific environments structure psychological engagement and influence consumer replication processes among adolescent users. Full article

Carbon inclusivity (CI) mechanisms face weak low-carbon adoption despite strong consumer intention in China. Prior studies explain low-carbon behavior mainly from individual psychological perspectives yet rarely investigate the intention–behavior gap in the digital–physical scenarios of CI mechanisms. Furthermore, single theoretical lenses such as the Motivation–Opportunity–Ability (MOA) framework or Social Practice Theory (SPT) have clear limitations in interpreting this gap. This study integrates the MOA framework with SPT to construct a novel “Motivation–Intention–Context–Practice–Behavior” (MICPB) model, framing behavioral change as a dynamic interplay of internal motivation, external opportunities, and evolving social practices. Different from studies adopting MOA or SPT in isolation, the MICPB model bridges individual psychological processes and routine social practices to unpack the intention–behavior gap. Adopting grounded theory to analyze 42 interviews from China’s CI pilot regions, we identify three core dimensions of the gap: limited internal competencies and emotional conflicts, fragmented external incentives and platform defects, and misalignment between low-carbon values and daily routines. The MICPB model reveals that the gap stems from misalignment across motivation, context and practice, and enriches MOA theory by incorporating practice-based dynamics. This integrated framework deepens understandings of barriers to consumer low-carbon participation under CI schemes. This study suggests coordinated policy and corporate efforts to restructure social practices, bridge the intention–behavior gap, and align digital governance with low-carbon transitions. Full article

Funeral-service facility relocation redistributes spatial burdens and public benefits among origin-site residents, destination communities, service users, and the wider public. Using the Xihuayuan–Haping Road relocation in Harbin, China, this study applies an LLM-assisted multi-actor scenario reasoning framework, operationalized as a structured comparative scenario analysis, to examine relocation governance from a spatial justice perspective. Six governance variables were organized into a 3⁶ full-factorial design, producing 729 scenarios. Each scenario was generated through a six-actor, six-stage LLM interaction and assessed by a separate standardized post-simulation LLM evaluation for NIMBY conflict intensity, relocation progress, resident acceptance, and spatial justice. The results show that new-site burden fairness produced the largest reduction in conflict intensity and the strongest improvement in resident acceptance, whereas siting-process transparency showed the largest improvement in relocation progress and spatial justice. Repeated runs of nine typical configurations and one case-approximate configuration showed point-score variation but retained the broad contrast between weaker and stronger governance conditions. The case-based findings indicate that relocation planning should combine burden fairness, procedural transparency, psychological buffering, service continuity, and public return rather than rely on technical compliance or site-selection standards alone. Full article

Digital transformation has reshaped work processes across the tourism industry, increasing the need to understand how employees perceive organizational digital systems and how these perceptions are associated with workplace behaviors. This study examined the relationships among perceived digital system support (PDSS), psychological empowerment, and voice behavior among tourism employees from an organizational behavior perspective grounded in the Technology Acceptance Model. Data were collected through an online survey of employees working in travel agencies, airlines, hotels, and foodservice organizations in South Korea, and 314 valid responses were analyzed using structural equation modeling. The results indicated that PDSS was positively associated with psychological empowerment, and psychological empowerment was positively associated with voice behavior. By contrast, the direct relationship between PDSS and voice behavior was not statistically significant, whereas the indirect association via psychological empowerment was significant, indicating a pattern consistent with full mediation. These findings suggest that employees’ positive perceptions of organizational digital systems show an indirect association with constructive voice behavior via psychological empowerment, particularly competence, self-determination, and impact. The study extends the application of the Technology Acceptance Model from technology acceptance to employee organizational behavior in digital work environments and highlights the importance of fostering psychologically empowering workplaces during digital transformation. Full article

With increasing interest in nature-based and biophilic built environments, understanding how users perceive natural characteristics embedded in sports venues and how these perceptions are associated with psychological experiences and behavioural intentions has become an important research topic. However, limited studies have examined the psychological mechanisms through which perceived nature-based characteristics of sports venue design are related to users’ revisit intention. Based on restorative environment theory and place attachment theory, this study investigates the relationship between nature-based sports venue design and revisit intention from a user-perceived built environment perspective, with a particular focus on the mediating roles of perceived restorativeness and place attachment. A questionnaire survey was conducted among university students in Shandong Province, China, and 623 valid responses were obtained. Structural equation modelling and bootstrap analysis were employed to examine the proposed relationships. The results showed that perceived nature-based sports venue design characteristics were positively associated with revisit intention, perceived restorativeness, and place attachment. Perceived restorativeness was positively associated with both place attachment and revisit intention, while place attachment was positively associated with revisit intention. Furthermore, mediation analysis indicated that perceived restorativeness and place attachment separately mediated the relationship between perceived nature-based sports venue design characteristics and revisit intention, and together formed a sequential mediation pathway. These findings suggest that nature-based characteristics embedded within sports venues may support users’ restorative experiences and emotional connections with places, which are associated with continued engagement with sports spaces. This study provides user-centred evidence for built environment design and sports venue planning by highlighting the potential importance of natural lighting, spatial openness, visual connections with nature, and restorative spatial experiences. Full article

Rapid innovation-driven transitions have, across successive eras, been associated with increased psychological distress, substance use, and suicide when social and economic change outpaces the adaptive capacity of individuals, communities, institutions, and governments. The early artificial intelligence (AI) economy is emerging at an unprecedented pace, reshaping education, employment, and social organization in ways that may intensify these risks, particularly among young people. This perspective argues that school-based mental health nursing, working collaboratively with school psychologists, counsellors, physicians, and other interdisciplinary professionals, represents a practical upstream response to AI-era disruption. Drawing on historical evidence from the Industrial Revolution, population mental health research, and the contemporary mental health nursing literature, the paper examines the mechanisms through which rapid socio-economic change may contribute to psychological distress and substance-use problems. It further distinguishes AI as both a source of socio-economic disruption and a clinical tool that can support—but not replace—relationship-based nursing practice. Strengthening school-based mental health nursing within interdisciplinary systems offers a practical, prevention-oriented strategy to promote resilience, facilitate early intervention, and mitigate downstream mental health and substance-use harms during the AI transition. Full article

The digital transformation of work has increasingly blurred the temporal, spatial, and psychological boundaries between professional and personal life. As a result, structural conditions have emerged that are associated with an elevated risk of burnout. This narrative review draws on literature identified through searches of Web of Science, Scopus and PubMed covering publications from 2004 to early 2026, which yielded 36 included studies, supplemented by further sources identified outside that search. It integrates key theoretical perspectives, including boundary theory, the Areas of Worklife model, the Job Demands-Resources framework and Conservation of Resources theory. Across diverse occupational contexts, three pathways recur: rising work-family conflict, reduced ability to psychologically detach from work during non-work time and the gradual depletion of personal resources. Structural drivers, comprising organisational availability norms, leadership behaviour, technology and platform design, workload, and economic precarity, are treated as the conditions under which exposure arises, and the review argues that responses pitched at individual coping are correspondingly limited. The public health implications extend beyond mental health, encompassing cardiovascular risk associated with long working hours, strain on healthcare systems, productivity losses and widening health inequities along gendered and socioeconomic lines. Addressing these challenges requires multilevel interventions, including organisational job redesign, leadership development, enforceable right-to-disconnect policies and greater recognition of recovery as a public health priority. At the same time, there remains a need for more longitudinal and intervention-based research, particularly in non-Western contexts. Full article