PsyCh journalPub Date : 2025-05-13DOI: 10.1002/pchj.70017
Aiche Sabah, Ahmed Alduais, Musheer A Aljaberi, Mahshid Manouchehri
{"title":"Online and Offline Social Sensitivity as Mediator Between Online Vigilance and Depression, Anxiety, and Stress Among Algerian Female Students.","authors":"Aiche Sabah, Ahmed Alduais, Musheer A Aljaberi, Mahshid Manouchehri","doi":"10.1002/pchj.70017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/pchj.70017","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The purpose of this study is to investigate the mediating role of online and offline social sensitivity in the association between online vigilance and mental health outcomes-specifically depression, anxiety, and stress-among Algerian female university students. A cross-sectional study was conducted with 438 Algerian female university students. Validated scales were utilized to measure online vigilance, social sensitivity (both online and offline), and psychological distress. Data was analyzed using correlation and mediation analyses to explore the relationships among these variables and to assess the mediating effect of social sensitivity. The findings indicate a significant positive relationship between online vigilance, social sensitivity, and mental health problems. Online and offline social sensitivity fully mediated the influence of online vigilance on stress, anxiety, and depression. This suggests that higher engagement in online vigilance increases social sensitivity, which in turn heightens vulnerability to psychological distress. This study contributes to the understanding of the complex interplay between digital behaviors, social perceptions, and mental health among Algerian female university students. By highlighting the mediating role of social sensitivity, the research underscores the necessity for interventions that address online habits and enhance social coping skills to improve mental well-being in this population.</p>","PeriodicalId":20804,"journal":{"name":"PsyCh journal","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-05-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144042163","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Mental Health Implications of People-Pleasing: Psychometric Properties and Latent Profiles of the Chinese People-Pleasing Questionnaire.","authors":"Xiaoxue Kuang, Hui Li, Weiliang Luo, Jinxin Zhu, Fen Ren","doi":"10.1002/pchj.70016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/pchj.70016","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study explores the mental health implications of people-pleasing behaviors by validating the 24-item Chinese People-Pleasing (CPP) questionnaire with a sample of 2203 Chinese university students. A three-factor structure-comprising thought, behavior, and feeling dimensions-was confirmed after the removal of 11 items. The revised 13-item CPP demonstrated good model fit, strong internal consistency, and satisfactory construct validity. Measurement invariance analysis revealed consistent results across gender, academic disciplines, and birthplace, as well as strong longitudinal invariance. These findings provide support for the validity and reliability of the 13-item CPP as an assessment tool within the Chinese cultural context. Furthermore, latent profile analysis revealed four distinct profiles of people-pleasing tendencies, which varied from mild to severe. Notably, higher people-pleasing tendencies were significantly associated with lower levels of mental well-being, highlighting its potential impact on students' psychological health. These insights emphasize the potential clinical utility of CPP in addressing mental health concerns associated with people-pleasing behaviors, particularly in the Chinese cultural context.</p>","PeriodicalId":20804,"journal":{"name":"PsyCh journal","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143981002","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
PsyCh journalPub Date : 2025-04-29DOI: 10.1002/pchj.70015
Jie Meng, Xueping Meng
{"title":"Psychological Distress Among Chinese Manufacturing Employees: Prevalence and a Symptom Network Analysis.","authors":"Jie Meng, Xueping Meng","doi":"10.1002/pchj.70015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/pchj.70015","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The psychological distress among manufacturing workers is an increasingly important issue and has attracted extensive attention. However, the mental health of this subgroup of the Chinese population is underexplored. This study aimed to evaluate the prevalence of psychological distress in Chinese manufacturing employees and identify central symptoms, important bridge symptoms, and associations between symptoms using network analysis. The participants were 4934 employees recruited from a Chinese manufacturing company. The Maslach Burnout Inventory-General Survey (MBI-GS), the Self-Rating Anxiety Scale (SAS), the Self-Rating Depression Scale (SDS), and the Symptom Checklist 90 (SCL-90) were used to assess job burnout, anxiety, depression, compulsive symptom, somatization, psychoticism, paranoid, phobic, hostility, and interpersonal sensitivity, respectively. In total, 29.77%, 21.14%, and 26.53% of all participants experienced burnout, anxiety, and depression, respectively. Compared to normative data of the Chinese population, the seven symptoms of the SCL-90 among participants were significantly higher. The network analysis revealed that interpersonal sensitivity had the greatest strength and somatization had the greatest betweenness and closeness. Anxiety had the highest bridge expected influence. These results demonstrate that the mental health of Chinese manufacturing employees is a cause for concern. Interpersonal sensitivity and somatization emerged as the core symptoms, and anxiety was an important bridge symptom. Interventions aimed at these conditions may promote and enhance the overall mental health of Chinese manufacturing employees.</p>","PeriodicalId":20804,"journal":{"name":"PsyCh journal","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-04-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144050768","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
PsyCh journalPub Date : 2025-04-24DOI: 10.1002/pchj.70000
Niting Guo, Tianyuan Li
{"title":"Authentic Inner Compass and Subjective Well-Being Among Chinese Emerging Adults: A Moderated Mediation Model.","authors":"Niting Guo, Tianyuan Li","doi":"10.1002/pchj.70000","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/pchj.70000","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Originating from the self-determination theory, the authentic inner compass (AIC) enlightens people about their authentic values, interests, and life aspirations, functioning as an action-guiding schema. Previous studies have examined AIC among adolescents, but its significance for emerging adults is underexplored, especially in less autonomy-oriented cultures (e.g., Chinese cultures). Informed by the self-determination theory, the present study aimed to investigate the association between AIC and subjective well-being among Chinese emerging adults and examine further the mediating role of resilience and the moderating role of anxious attachment. A total of 155 Chinese emerging adults completed measures on AIC, resilience, anxious attachment, and subjective well-being. The results showed that AIC was positively associated with subjective well-being, and resilience fully mediated the association. Moreover, anxious attachment strengthened the positive link between AIC and resilience. The findings highlight the importance of AIC and resilience in boosting subjective well-being, emphasizing the significance of AIC for anxiously attached individuals. The moderated mediation model enriches the self-determination theory and resilience literature. Future practices aiming to promote the well-being of Chinese emerging adults may focus on fostering AIC and resilience and consider individual differences in attachment styles.</p>","PeriodicalId":20804,"journal":{"name":"PsyCh journal","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-04-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143991629","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Invisible and Visible Processing of Facial Attractiveness in Implicit Tasks: Evidence From Event-Related Potentials (ERPs).","authors":"Junchen Shang, Kaiyin Zhong, Xuejiao Hou, Liansheng Yao, Rui Shi, Zuo-Jun Wang","doi":"10.1002/pchj.70014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/pchj.70014","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Facial attractiveness can be automatically perceived in implicit tasks when the faces are visible. Nonetheless, to date, it is poorly understood to what extent facial attractiveness can be processed when faces are invisible. It is also worth exploring the differences between visible and invisible processing of facial attractiveness. To address these issues, the event-related potentials (ERPs) were recorded when participants were presented with attractive and unattractive faces under invisible condition (continuous flash suppression paradigm; CFS) and visible condition (gender judgment task). The results indicated that attractive faces elicited a larger P1 amplitude (110-150 ms) compared to unattractive faces, regardless of whether the faces were visible. Attractive faces also elicited a larger N170 amplitude (150-190 ms) compared to unattractive faces under the visible condition. Furthermore, visible faces elicited larger P1 and N250/early posterior negativity (EPN) amplitudes as compared to invisible faces. But only under the attractive condition, the visible faces elicited a larger N170 than the invisible faces. The present study suggested that facial attractiveness can be automatically perceived in the early stage regardless of visibility, although attractiveness processing was somewhat reduced in the absence of visual awareness.</p>","PeriodicalId":20804,"journal":{"name":"PsyCh journal","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-04-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144034169","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
PsyCh journalPub Date : 2025-04-03DOI: 10.1002/pchj.70009
Tao Liang
{"title":"From Harassment to Harmony: The Mediating Role of Organizational Tolerance and Moderation of Quality of Supervisor-Subordinate Guanxi Among Chinese Law Enforcement Workers.","authors":"Tao Liang","doi":"10.1002/pchj.70009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/pchj.70009","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Workplace harassment has garnered considerable attention in organizational research due to its profound impact on employee well-being and organizational outcomes. Harassment in the workplace can take various forms, including verbal abuse, bullying, and other forms of psychological aggression, which collectively contribute to a toxic work environment. Such negative experiences can lead to severe consequences, including diminished job satisfaction, increased stress levels, and a heightened intention to leave the organization. The present study aims to test the impact of workplace harassment on employees' turnover intentions, highlighting the mediating role of organizational tolerance and the moderating effect of supervisor-subordinate guanxi. Additionally, the study considers the influence of gender and professional category to be covariates in the analysis. The sample for this study comprises 821 law enforcement officers (58.5% male) from various agencies within China. Workplace harassment was found to significantly and positively correlate with employees' turnover intentions. Organizational tolerance mediated this relationship. While the direct moderating effect of supervisor-subordinate guanxi was not statistically significant, the quality of guanxi moderated the mediated pathway. High-quality supervisor-subordinate guanxi reduced the negative impact of workplace harassment by weakening the mediating role of organizational tolerance. Gender and professional category significantly influenced the results, with women and lower-ranking officers demonstrating higher sensitivity to workplace harassment and organizational tolerance, thereby exacerbating turnover intentions. The findings underscore the importance of addressing workplace harassment and fostering high-quality supervisor-subordinate relationships to mitigate its adverse effects. Furthermore, targeted interventions should account for the unique vulnerabilities associated with gender and professional category to enhance retention strategies and foster supportive organizational environments.</p>","PeriodicalId":20804,"journal":{"name":"PsyCh journal","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143772280","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
PsyCh journalPub Date : 2025-04-01Epub Date: 2024-12-10DOI: 10.1002/pchj.817
Xiaoshuo Zhang, Jinghong Wang, Yuzheng Wang, Jinyan Wang, Fei Luo
{"title":"The Effects of Mindfulness on Shame: Exploring Mediation by Cognitive Flexibility and Self-Compassion in a Chinese Adult Population.","authors":"Xiaoshuo Zhang, Jinghong Wang, Yuzheng Wang, Jinyan Wang, Fei Luo","doi":"10.1002/pchj.817","DOIUrl":"10.1002/pchj.817","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>To examine the effects of mindfulness on shame and the mechanisms mediated by cognitive flexibility and self-compassion in a Chinese adult population in daily life, we conducted two studies. Study 1 was a cross-sectional study using the Five-Factor Mindfulness Questionnaire, the Cognitive Flexibility Inventory, the Self-Compassion Scale, and the Self-Conscious Affect-3, which were administered to 481 adults in Beijing and Chengdu. For Study 2, an 8-month follow-up study was conducted on 128 of the adults. The results of Study 1 showed that (1) the awareness of action and nonjudgment dimensions, and the total score of mindfulness were significantly correlated with shame; (2) cognitive flexibility and self-compassion could fully mediate the prediction of mindfulness on shame. The Study 2 showed that (1) mindfulness and shame were significantly negatively correlated in both phases of measurement; (2) controlling for T1 shame, T1 mindfulness was able to negatively predict T2 shame; controlling for T1 mindfulness, T1 shame was not able to predict T2 mindfulness. There is a longitudinal association between mindfulness and shame, and only mindfulness scores are predictive of the shame and not vice-versa; both cognitive flexibility and self-compassion can provide explanations for the prediction of shame by mindfulness. Enhancing levels of mindfulness can help alleviate individuals' shame levels.</p>","PeriodicalId":20804,"journal":{"name":"PsyCh journal","volume":" ","pages":"277-289"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11961246/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142807891","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
PsyCh journalPub Date : 2025-04-01Epub Date: 2025-02-01DOI: 10.1002/pchj.824
Neng Chio Wong, Zhishan Hu, Wenhong Cheng
{"title":"Linking Caregivers' Evaluation of Children's Mood to Brain Network.","authors":"Neng Chio Wong, Zhishan Hu, Wenhong Cheng","doi":"10.1002/pchj.824","DOIUrl":"10.1002/pchj.824","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Using functional near-infrared spectroscopy technique, this study identified lower brain network efficiency in children with anxiety and/or depression compared to healthy controls, with caregivers' evaluation of mood correlating with brain network efficiency.</p>","PeriodicalId":20804,"journal":{"name":"PsyCh journal","volume":" ","pages":"310-312"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11961235/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143075120","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
PsyCh journalPub Date : 2025-04-01Epub Date: 2024-12-08DOI: 10.1002/pchj.819
Lulu Liu, Lijuan Dai, Ya Wang
{"title":"Validation and Application of Functions of Future Thinking Scale in Chinese Adults.","authors":"Lulu Liu, Lijuan Dai, Ya Wang","doi":"10.1002/pchj.819","DOIUrl":"10.1002/pchj.819","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Future thinking, mentally projecting oneself into future events, scenarios, and circumstances, is common in everyday life. However, no scale has been developed to explore the functions of future thinking in China. This study aimed to validate the Chinese version of the functions of future thinking scale (FoFTS). Based on a sample of 578 Chinese residents, confirmatory factor analysis results indicated that the 10-factor structure of the Chinese version of FoFTS fit well. The reliability indexes across 10 factors were in an acceptable range. Acceptable convergent validity was reported considering its association with time perspective, future self-continuity, emotion regulation, and intertemporal decision-making. Additionally, the effect of age and the severity of emotional states on FoFTS were found. Overall, the Chinese FoFTS is a reliable and valid tool for examining the diverse purposes and roles of future thinking among Chinese adults, thereby enhancing the cross-cultural study of purposes for future thinking.</p>","PeriodicalId":20804,"journal":{"name":"PsyCh journal","volume":" ","pages":"244-257"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11961243/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142794798","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Adolescents Are More Utilitarian Than Adults in Group Moral Decision-Making.","authors":"Yingying Jiang, Weiwei Zhang, Yingjia Wan, Michaela Gummerum, Liqi Zhu","doi":"10.1002/pchj.821","DOIUrl":"10.1002/pchj.821","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study explores how peers influence the moral decisions of Chinese adolescents (12- to 16-year-olds, M <sub>age</sub> = 14.32, n = 84) and young adults (18- to 26-year-olds, M <sub>age</sub> = 20.92, n = 99) in moral dilemmas. Participants were asked to make moral decisions individually and then collectively within groups of three to reach a consensus in Trolly dilemma and Footbridge dilemma. They were also required to evaluate the degree to which they felt their decisions were moral. Results showed that adolescents tended to choose \"action\" (pull the lever in Trolly dilemma, or push the man in Footbridge dilemma) more than adults, and evaluate their \"no action\" choice as more immoral than young adults across both individual and group settings. Adolescents showed consistent decision-making patterns regardless of whether decisions were made individually or collectively, while adults were more likely to choose \"no action\" in group decision-making. Our results suggest that adolescents are more utilitarian than young adults when making decisions in moral dilemmas, compared to young adults. Young adults are less likely to make utilitarian choices when they are in groups than when they make decisions individually.</p>","PeriodicalId":20804,"journal":{"name":"PsyCh journal","volume":" ","pages":"179-190"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11961238/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142897040","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}