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Problematic reliance on generative AI among university students: an I-PACE-informed PLS-SEM and fsQCA study.
IF 3.8 3区 心理学
Frontiers in Psychology Pub Date : 2026-10-05 eCollection Date: 2026-01-01 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2026.1946110
Guoqing Liu, Caisang Hou
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Adult attachment and hypersexuality: links to couple and sexual satisfaction in a Mexican sample.
IF 3.8 3区 心理学
Frontiers in Psychology Pub Date : 2026-10-05 eCollection Date: 2026-01-01 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2026.1911233
Diana Mejía-Cruz, Laurent Avila-Chauvet, Luis Villalobos-Gallegos
{"title":"Adult attachment and hypersexuality: links to couple and sexual satisfaction in a Mexican sample.","authors":"Diana Mejía-Cruz, Laurent Avila-Chauvet, Luis Villalobos-Gallegos","doi":"10.3389/fpsyg.2026.1911233","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2026.1911233","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Introduction: </strong>Previous research has linked anxious and avoidant attachment with emotional dysregulation and hypersexuality-related symptoms and has documented associations between risky sexual behaviors and adverse health outcomes. However, the relationships of sexual and couple satisfaction with hypersexuality remain comparatively underexplored, particularly in Mexican populations.</p><p><strong>Objective: </strong>This study examined the associations among attachment dimensions, hypersexuality-related symptoms, risky sexual behaviors, psychological distress, sexual satisfaction, and couple satisfaction in a sample of Mexican adults.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>A total of 214 participants completed the Sexual Addiction Screening Test-Revised (SAST-R), Couple Satisfaction Index-4 (CSI-4), Experiences in Close Relationships Scale (ECR-8), Symptom Checklist-90 (SCL-90), and measures of risky sexual behaviors. Data were analyzed using Classification and Regression Trees (CART), logistic regression, correlational analyses, and Mann-Whitney <i>U</i> tests.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Higher SAST-R scores were associated with several risky sexual behaviors, including a greater number of sexual partners, substance use during sexual activity, and lack of sexual protection. Psychological distress and risky sexual behaviors also contributed to the exploratory classification of participants according to SAST-R scores. Participants with higher SAST-R scores showed descriptively lower sexual satisfaction; however, these differences were not statistically significant. Contrary to expectations, neither attachment anxiety nor attachment avoidance was significantly associated with SAST-R scores. Nevertheless, attachment avoidance was negatively associated with couple and sexual satisfaction and was associated with age at sexual debut.</p><p><strong>Discussion and conclusion: </strong>The findings suggest that psychological distress and risky sexual behaviors may be more closely associated with hypersexuality-related symptoms than attachment dimensions in the present sample. In contrast, attachment avoidance appears to be associated with selected aspects of sexual and relational functioning, particularly sexual and couple satisfaction. These findings underscore the importance of distinguishing correlates of hypersexuality-related symptoms from broader relational functioning and suggest that prevention and intervention efforts should prioritize psychological distress, sexual-health risk reduction, and promoting secure attachment patterns.</p>","PeriodicalId":12525,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Psychology","volume":"17 ","pages":"1911233"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2026-10-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13677855/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149223837","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Perceived parental differential treatment and internet addiction among Chinese adolescents: the mediating role of self-esteem and the moderating role of fairness perception.
IF 3.8 3区 心理学
Frontiers in Psychology Pub Date : 2026-10-05 eCollection Date: 2026-01-01 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2026.1916688
Xinxin Shi, Junting Hou, Zhiyun Wang
{"title":"Perceived parental differential treatment and internet addiction among Chinese adolescents: the mediating role of self-esteem and the moderating role of fairness perception.","authors":"Xinxin Shi, Junting Hou, Zhiyun Wang","doi":"10.3389/fpsyg.2026.1916688","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2026.1916688","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study explores the correlational associations between perceived parental differential treatment (PDT) and Internet addiction (IA) among Chinese adolescents, as well as the mediating role of self-esteem and the moderating role of fairness perception. A sample of 426 non-only children aged 9-19 years (<i>M</i> = 13.30, <i>SD</i> = 2.00) was recruited from five schools in Hebei, Henan, Jilin, and Shandong provinces using cluster-based convenience sampling. Participants completed self-report questionnaires, including the Sibling Experience Questionnaire, Young's Internet Addiction Diagnostic Scale, Rosenberg Self-esteem Scale, and the Fairness Perception Scale. The results indicated that: (1) PDT (perceived self-favoritism) was significantly negatively correlated with IA; (2) self-esteem served as a full mediator in the correlational pathway linking PDT and IA; (3) fairness perception significantly moderated the association between paternal PDT and IA. The negative association between paternal PDT and IA emerged only at high levels of fairness perception, though this conditional association was marginally significant. These findings highlight the potential value of positive self-esteem and perceived fairness for understanding IA among adolescents in multi-child families, providing both theoretical and practical implications for family-based interventions.</p>","PeriodicalId":12525,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Psychology","volume":"17 ","pages":"1916688"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2026-10-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13677871/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149223889","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Individual digital literacy, area-level digital exclusion, and inequalities in exercise participation among middle-aged and older adults: evidence from China.
IF 3.8 3区 心理学
Frontiers in Psychology Pub Date : 2026-10-05 eCollection Date: 2026-01-01 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2026.1907697
Xiaofan Hao, Meiling Duan, Chenming Zhu, Chuanwen Yu
{"title":"Individual digital literacy, area-level digital exclusion, and inequalities in exercise participation among middle-aged and older adults: evidence from China.","authors":"Xiaofan Hao, Meiling Duan, Chenming Zhu, Chuanwen Yu","doi":"10.3389/fpsyg.2026.1907697","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2026.1907697","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Although digital exclusion has been widely discussed in relation to healthcare access and digital service use, less is known about its implications for exercise participation among middle-aged and older adults. This study examined how individual digital literacy and area-level digital exclusion jointly shape exercise participation in China.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Data were drawn from three waves of the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS; 2013, 2015, and 2018) and linked to city-year indicators from the China Statistical Yearbook. The analytic sample included 13,085 person-wave observations from 9,201 unique respondents across 111 cities. Exercise participation was measured as a binary indicator of engagement in exercise-oriented physical activity. Individual digital literacy was assessed using a composite index of digital access, internet use, device resources, and digital behaviors. Area-level digital exclusion was measured using a reverse-coded city-year indicator of contextual digital exclusion. Mixed-effects logistic regression models were used to estimate the associations of individual digital literacy and area-level digital exclusion with exercise participation and to test their cross-level interaction.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>37.7% of observations reported exercise participation, increasing from 27.5% in 2013 to 40.3% in 2018. In fully adjusted models, higher individual digital literacy was associated with greater odds of exercise participation (OR = 1.11, 95% CI: 1.022-1.208, <i>p</i> < 0.05). Area-level digital exclusion was negatively associated with exercise participation; although the association was attenuated after adjustment for demographic and socioeconomic characteristics, it remained statistically significant in the fully adjusted model (OR = 0.94, 95% CI: 0.869-0.991, <i>p</i> < 0.05). The interaction between individual digital literacy and area-level digital exclusion was negative and significant (OR = 0.96, 95% CI: 0.929-0.984, <i>p</i> < 0.01), indicating that the positive association between digital literacy and exercise participation was weaker in more digitally excluded cities.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Individual digital literacy was positively associated with exercise participation among middle-aged and older adults in China, whereas area-level digital exclusion weakened this beneficial association. Policies promoting healthy aging should address both older adults' digital literacy and the broader digital exclusion in which they live.</p>","PeriodicalId":12525,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Psychology","volume":"17 ","pages":"1907697"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2026-10-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13677843/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149223864","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Effort-reward imbalance and emotional exhaustion among border-region physical education teachers: the roles of meaningful work and social support.
IF 3.8 3区 心理学
Frontiers in Psychology Pub Date : 2026-10-05 eCollection Date: 2026-01-01 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2026.1883202
Yintu Bao, Zhaohua Sun, Hongbin Yue, Boya Dong, Changliang Yan
{"title":"Effort-reward imbalance and emotional exhaustion among border-region physical education teachers: the roles of meaningful work and social support.","authors":"Yintu Bao, Zhaohua Sun, Hongbin Yue, Boya Dong, Changliang Yan","doi":"10.3389/fpsyg.2026.1883202","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2026.1883202","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Introduction: </strong>Emotional exhaustion has become a prevalent psychological concern among teachers working in high-demand educational environments. Drawing upon effort-reward imbalance (ERI) theory and conservation of resources theory, this study examined the relationship between ERI and emotional exhaustion among teachers working in border regions of China, with meaningful work as a mediator and social support as a moderator.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>A cross-sectional survey was conducted among 483 primary and secondary school physical education teachers. Data were analyzed using PROCESS Models 4 and 14 with 5,000 bootstrap resamples.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The results indicated that ERI was positively associated with emotional exhaustion. Meaningful work accounted for a significant indirect association between ERI and emotional exhaustion. In addition, social support moderated the association between meaningful work and emotional exhaustion, such that the positive association was weaker at higher levels of social support. The conditional indirect association between ERI and emotional exhaustion through meaningful work was also smaller at higher levels of social support.</p><p><strong>Discussion: </strong>These findings highlight the complex psychological role of meaningful work under chronically demanding work conditions and emphasize the importance of supportive school environments for maintaining teachers' psychological well-being.</p>","PeriodicalId":12525,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Psychology","volume":"17 ","pages":"1883202"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2026-10-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13677827/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149223790","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Social identity coupling model in university students in high-level sports teams: based on grounded theory and fsQCA.
IF 3.8 3区 心理学
Frontiers in Psychology Pub Date : 2026-10-05 eCollection Date: 2026-01-01 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2026.1971252
Huabin Hang, Jiangping Fu, Cairong Wu, Yayangzi Sun, Zhi Sun
{"title":"Social identity coupling model in university students in high-level sports teams: based on grounded theory and fsQCA.","authors":"Huabin Hang, Jiangping Fu, Cairong Wu, Yayangzi Sun, Zhi Sun","doi":"10.3389/fpsyg.2026.1971252","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2026.1971252","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>University students from high-level sports teams in China assume dual roles as formal students and elite athletes. This study develops a localized social identity coupling model to address the theoretical and empirical gaps in the existing literature.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>Based on social identity theory, this study employs a mixed-method research paradigm integrating grounded theory and fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA). The sample comprises 36 university students from high-level sports teams in China recruited from six universities. Semi-structured interviews and three-stage coding procedures were performed to extract core conceptual dimensions, thereby constructing a specialized social identity coupling model that accommodates the dual-role characteristics of student-athletes. The fsQCA technique was implemented to systematically evaluate configurational mechanisms, structural robustness, empirical reliability, and hierarchical bottleneck characteristics of the proposed model.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>This study establishes a five-dimensional coupling model of social identity for university students from high-level sports teams in China, encompassing: (1) a dual-dimensional perceived physical literacy kernel; (2) a dual-dimensional sense of belonging construction logic; (3) a single-dimensional inclusive leadership openness attribute; (4) a dual identity categorization conduction path; and (5) an inter-group comparison output path. The model achieves robust empirical fitness, as validated through theoretical saturation tests, configurational robustness analysis, reliability examination, and bottleneck level estimation using necessary condition analysis. Quantitative findings reveal that social identity is not determined by any single necessary condition but is collectively shaped by asymmetric multi-factor configurations. Two valid configurations conducive to high social identity are identified (overall consistency 0.89; coverage 0.63), among which inclusive leadership serves as the core cross-configuration condition. By contrast, two configurational paths corresponding to non-high social identity are extracted (overall consistency 0.77; coverage 0.69), and the absence of dual identity categorization constitutes the primary inhibitory factor. Bottleneck level analysis further confirms rigid minimum threshold constraints for all antecedents at high identity levels (≥50%), demonstrating distinct configurational functions of outcome promotion and risk prevention across variables.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>This study innovatively constructs and empirically validates a localized social identity coupling model targeted at university students from high-level sports teams in China.</p>","PeriodicalId":12525,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Psychology","volume":"17 ","pages":"1971252"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2026-10-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13677527/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149223791","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Trait mindfulness and competitive-race flow in swimmers: the mediating role of attentional control.
IF 3.8 3区 心理学
Frontiers in Psychology Pub Date : 2026-10-05 eCollection Date: 2026-01-01 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2026.1938433
Lipeng Luo, Biwei Xu
{"title":"Trait mindfulness and competitive-race flow in swimmers: the mediating role of attentional control.","authors":"Lipeng Luo, Biwei Xu","doi":"10.3389/fpsyg.2026.1938433","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2026.1938433","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background and purpose: </strong>Mindfulness training benefits athletes' psychological states and performance, but how mindfulness translates into competitive experience remains unclear. This study examines whether attentional control is the psychological pathway from trait mindfulness to race flow in competitive swimmers, and whether this pathway extends to objective pacing accuracy.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>A prospective, multi-wave observational design measured trait mindfulness (T1), attentional control (T1/T2), and race flow (post-race) at separate time points. The main analysis included 280 adult swimmers who had trained for over 3 years and whose main event included the 400 m freestyle. Near-race attentional control served as the mediator and baseline attentional control as a covariate; competitive anxiety and level were controlled. A mediation model with cluster-robust standard errors (clustered by team) was applied, and the indirect effect was estimated with 5,000 bias-corrected bootstrap samples. Pacing accuracy was an exploratory downstream outcome.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Attentional control accounted for the association between trait mindfulness and race flow (indirect effect 0.127, 95% CI [0.071, 0.192]; mediated proportion 43.4%), with a significant direct effect, indicating partial mediation; the attentional control-flow path was the strongest link. At the between-person level, race flow did not predict late-race pacing deviation, and no flow dimension was significant after correction. The reverse mediation test was also significant, limiting interpretation to temporal-order inference.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>The findings characterise attentional control as a psychological pathway linking trait mindfulness to race flow, but this study did not find sufficient evidence that the pathway extends to objective pacing. The study was not preregistered and is not a clinical trial.</p>","PeriodicalId":12525,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Psychology","volume":"17 ","pages":"1938433"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2026-10-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13677360/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149223806","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Correction: Self-Reported Body Awareness: Validation of the Postural Awareness Scale and the Multidimensional Assessment of Interoceptive Awareness (Version 2) in a Non-clinical Adult French-Speaking Sample.
IF 3.8 3区 心理学
Frontiers in Psychology Pub Date : 2026-10-05 eCollection Date: 2026-01-01 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2026.1989051
Lucie Da Costa Silva, Célia Belrose, Marion Trousselard, Blake Rea, Elaine Seery, Constance Verdonk, Anaïs M Duffaud, Charles Verdonk
{"title":"Correction: Self-Reported Body Awareness: Validation of the Postural Awareness Scale and the Multidimensional Assessment of Interoceptive Awareness (Version 2) in a Non-clinical Adult French-Speaking Sample.","authors":"Lucie Da Costa Silva, Célia Belrose, Marion Trousselard, Blake Rea, Elaine Seery, Constance Verdonk, Anaïs M Duffaud, Charles Verdonk","doi":"10.3389/fpsyg.2026.1989051","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2026.1989051","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>[This corrects the article DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.946271.].</p>","PeriodicalId":12525,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Psychology","volume":"17 ","pages":"1989051"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2026-10-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13678433/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149223750","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Does higher education shape change in happiness during the COVID-19 pandemic? Evidence from working-age adults in China.
IF 3.8 3区 心理学
Frontiers in Psychology Pub Date : 2026-10-05 eCollection Date: 2026-01-01 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2026.1843236
Huijiang Dai
{"title":"Does higher education shape change in happiness during the COVID-19 pandemic? Evidence from working-age adults in China.","authors":"Huijiang Dai","doi":"10.3389/fpsyg.2026.1843236","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2026.1843236","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The COVID-19 pandemic had profound consequences for subjective well-being. Yet these consequences may have varied by educational attainment. This study aims to investigate whether patterns of happiness change during the COVID-19 pandemic differed between working-age adults with and without higher education. Using nationally representative panel data from the China Family Panel Studies (CFPS) and focusing on the 2018 and 2020 waves (N = 13,203), this research employs a difference-in-differences design to compare changes in self-reported happiness between individuals with and without higher education. By centering higher education as a key stratifying factor, this study extends the higher education literature on how large-scale crises affect happiness. The findings reveal that individuals with higher education experienced a significantly less pronounced decline in self-reported happiness (<i>β</i> = 0.186, <i>p</i> = 0.003) during the public health crisis, and this apparent higher-education advantage in pandemic-related happiness is highly conditional on socioeconomic and psychosocial circumstances. The results underscore the need for policymakers to address educational disparities when developing mental health and social support strategies for future large-scale crises.</p>","PeriodicalId":12525,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Psychology","volume":"17 ","pages":"1843236"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2026-10-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13677464/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149223760","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Greater improvement in counting Stroop accuracy following a positive interpersonal and life orientation training program: a non-randomized controlled study in Taiwanese adolescents.
IF 3.8 3区 心理学
Frontiers in Psychology Pub Date : 2026-10-05 eCollection Date: 2026-01-01 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2026.1966721
Chia-Yu Cheng, April Chiung-Tao Shen, Wen-Sung Lai, Chiao-Yu Yang, Deng-Min Chuang, Yu-An Lin, Tai-Li Chou
{"title":"Greater improvement in counting Stroop accuracy following a positive interpersonal and life orientation training program: a non-randomized controlled study in Taiwanese adolescents.","authors":"Chia-Yu Cheng, April Chiung-Tao Shen, Wen-Sung Lai, Chiao-Yu Yang, Deng-Min Chuang, Yu-An Lin, Tai-Li Chou","doi":"10.3389/fpsyg.2026.1966721","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2026.1966721","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Adolescence presents a unique developmental challenge, specifically around inhibitory control (IC), a crucial executive function that, when underdeveloped, strongly predicts negative trajectories like poor academic performance and psychopathology. Our intervention-based study, utilizing the culturally relevant, school-based life skill training, the Positive Interpersonal and Life Orientation Training (PILOT) program, targeted 678 7th-grade students over 12 months to assess its impact on IC and psychological well-being in the PILOT group (<i>n</i> = 404) and the control group (<i>n</i> = 274). Our findings were crucial: the PILOT group showed greater pre-to-post improvement in overall counting Stroop accuracy than the control group. Of the six domains of psychological well-being assessed, the two groups differed on one: self-acceptance declined in the control group but did not change in the PILOT group. Within the PILOT group, change in Stroop interference was associated with concurrent change in three well-being domains. More critically, these observed gains in IC were a significant predictor of subsequent improvements across four critical domains of well-being: Autonomy, Environmental Mastery, Purpose in Life, and Self-Acceptance. These data indicate that a school-based life skills program delivered in ordinary classrooms was accompanied by greater improvement in counting Stroop accuracy, and that its relation to self-reported psychological well-being was confined to the maintenance of self-acceptance. These data indicate that targeted life skills training may serve as a fundamental capacity underpinning broader emotional and personal growth during this critical developmental period.</p>","PeriodicalId":12525,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Psychology","volume":"17 ","pages":"1966721"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2026-10-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13677349/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149223937","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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