PsyCh journalPub Date : 2025-07-29DOI: 10.1002/pchj.70043
Ka Yan, Nessa Ikani, Cleoputri Yusainy, Melissa G Guineau, Cilia Witteman, Jan Spijker
{"title":"Mapping Stress, Anxiety, Depression, and Repetitive Negative Thinking Among Non-Western Undergraduate Students: A Network Analysis.","authors":"Ka Yan, Nessa Ikani, Cleoputri Yusainy, Melissa G Guineau, Cilia Witteman, Jan Spijker","doi":"10.1002/pchj.70043","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/pchj.70043","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Most studies on stress have primarily focused on Western, educated, industrialized, rich, and democratic samples, which may differ from populations in non-Western countries in terms of how they think and respond to stress. This study investigated the interplay of stress-related variables, including repetitive negative thinking (RNT), neuroticism, mindful awareness, cognitive control, academic or general stress, anxiety, and depression among Indonesian university undergraduates. Network analyses (association, graphical least absolute shrinkage and selection operator (gLASSO), and relative importance network) were conducted to estimate associations between the aforementioned constructs in 474 undergraduate students in Indonesia. Consistent with the association network, the gLASSO network revealed that general stress and anxiety had the strongest partial association. The relative importance network further demonstrated that general stress and anxiety exhibited the most robust bidirectional predictive relationships. Furthermore, general stress, RNT, and depression emerged as the strongest predictors within the network structure. The centrality indices from the gLASSO network (expected influence, strength, and closeness) identified general stress as the most central node in terms of expected influence and strength. Additionally, RNT and depression showed high strength and closeness values. Similarly, in the relative importance network, RNT, depression, and stress showed the highest outstrength and closeness centrality values. These findings suggest that general stress, anxiety, depression, and RNT are interconnected constructs that play crucial roles in the mental health of non-Western students. Further studies are required to investigate interventions for those constructs tailored to undergraduate students.</p>","PeriodicalId":20804,"journal":{"name":"PsyCh journal","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-07-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144744544","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 : 2025-07-22DOI: 10.1002/pchj.70040
Jia-Yi Zhou, Gui-Xiang Tian, Hai-Yue Li, Zi-Yu Wen, Ming-Yu Hu, Tong Yang, Neng-Zhi Jiang, Yi Wang, Yan-Yu Wang
{"title":"Alexithymia and Empathy in Parent-Youth Dyads: An Actor-Partner Interdependence Model Analysis.","authors":"Jia-Yi Zhou, Gui-Xiang Tian, Hai-Yue Li, Zi-Yu Wen, Ming-Yu Hu, Tong Yang, Neng-Zhi Jiang, Yi Wang, Yan-Yu Wang","doi":"10.1002/pchj.70040","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/pchj.70040","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Parent-child interaction plays a key role in the development and maintenance of individual social emotional ability. Although studies have found that parents' alexithymia affects their offspring's social-emotional abilities, it is unclear how parents' and children's alexithymia affect each other and their empathic abilities. This study examined the relationship between college students' and their parents' alexithymia and empathy, focusing on both actor effects (individual-level associations) and partner effects (dyadic-level associations). A total of 1058 parent-youth dyads from a single college participated in the study, completing self-report measures of alexithymia and empathy. Using an actor-partner interdependence model analysis, the results revealed significant actor effects of alexithymia on cognitive empathy across all parent-youth dyads, though no such effects were found for affective empathy. Additionally, significant partner effects were observed, with sons' alexithymia linked to their fathers' cognitive empathy and mothers' affective empathy. These findings emphasize the complex dynamics of social-affective abilities within parent-youth relationships among college students and provide important implications for future research, intervention, and prevention efforts.</p>","PeriodicalId":20804,"journal":{"name":"PsyCh journal","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-07-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144691354","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 : 2025-07-22DOI: 10.1002/pchj.70041
Nantong Wang, Ruichao Zhou, Chenyang Liu, Xiaolu Zhou, Changlai Chen, Raymond C K Chan
{"title":"Language Use in Chinese University Students With Depressive Symptoms.","authors":"Nantong Wang, Ruichao Zhou, Chenyang Liu, Xiaolu Zhou, Changlai Chen, Raymond C K Chan","doi":"10.1002/pchj.70041","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/pchj.70041","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study examined the language use in Chinese university students with depressive symptoms based on negative and positive memory recall tasks. People with depression used more first-person singular pronouns in the negative memory task and more negative words in both memory tasks.</p>","PeriodicalId":20804,"journal":{"name":"PsyCh journal","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-07-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144966588","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 : 2025-07-15DOI: 10.1002/pchj.70030
Li Chen, Yuan Yao, Bin Wang, Yanming Hou, Jing Luo, Xiaofei Wu
{"title":"The Facilitative Effects of Creative Cognitive Reappraisal on Teachers' Emotion Regulation.","authors":"Li Chen, Yuan Yao, Bin Wang, Yanming Hou, Jing Luo, Xiaofei Wu","doi":"10.1002/pchj.70030","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/pchj.70030","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Creative cognitive reappraisal is an emerging emotion regulation strategy, but existing experimental studies often lack ecological validity due to two key limitations: the challenge of spontaneously generating creative cognitive reappraisal and the passive presentation of materials, which resembles comprehension rather than active application. This study addresses these gaps by investigating the teachability and effectiveness of creative cognitive reappraisal in real-world contexts. Using a 3 × 2 mixed-factorial design, 82 teachers provided two personal negative events at baseline and were randomly assigned to one of three conditions (creative cognitive reappraisal, ordinary cognitive reappraisal, and positive emotional picture). Participants were trained in their assigned emotion regulation strategy based on a learning-test paradigm, using materials from the International Affective Picture System and Teachers' Negative Emotional Scenarios System. Pleasure was measured at two time points: immediately after the learning phase and 3 days later, using 20 common and two personal negative teacher-related scenarios. Qualitative data on insights gained from the learning phase were also collected. For common negative events, creative cognitive reappraisal demonstrated a meaningful, delayed, and significant effect after 3 days. The creative cognitive reappraisal group also generated the most creative reappraisal interpretations, highlighting its unique efficacy. These findings suggest that creative cognitive reappraisal is a teachable and enduring skill with delayed benefit for regulating negative emotions in real-world contexts. It highlighted the importance of allowing time for emotional processing-rather than attempting immediate regulation-which could create a pathway for more effective regulation later.</p>","PeriodicalId":20804,"journal":{"name":"PsyCh journal","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-07-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144637813","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 : 2025-07-15DOI: 10.1002/pchj.70037
Miqi Li, Zhihang Wang, Zhihua Li
{"title":"Externalizing Problem Behaviors Among Chinese Early Adolescents in Poverty: Profiles and Longitudinal Change.","authors":"Miqi Li, Zhihang Wang, Zhihua Li","doi":"10.1002/pchj.70037","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/pchj.70037","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Children's externalizing problem behavior is one of the most explored topics among parents, educators, and research scholars. The purpose of this study is to examine the developmental changes of externalizing problem behavior in the early years of poor children and adolescents and the influence of family factors such as family functioning and parental marital quality on the developmental changes. Seven hundred and seventy-eight early adolescents (M<sub>age</sub> = 13.7, SD = 2.53) from poor families were studied longitudinally for 14 months. The results showed that three potential characteristics of externalizing problem behavior patterns were identified through Latent Profile Analysis (LPA): well-adjusted group, attention disorder group, and conduct problem group. Latent Transition Analysis (LTA) revealed a tendency for the conduct problem group to transition to the well-adjusted group over two traces (OR = 0.40). There were gender differences in the results: boys in the conduct problem group were more likely to transition to the well-adjusted group (OR = 0.55), while girls in the attention disorder group were more likely to transition to the well-adjusted group (OR = 2.63). Research has found that a supportive family environment is a positive factor in mitigating externalizing problem behaviors of the early adolescents in their transition to adolescence.</p>","PeriodicalId":20804,"journal":{"name":"PsyCh journal","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-07-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144637812","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 : 2025-07-12DOI: 10.1002/pchj.70039
Ying Guo, Huamao Peng, Bi Zhu
{"title":"Age Differences in False Memories Induced by Misinformation: The Role of Attentional Salience of Original Information.","authors":"Ying Guo, Huamao Peng, Bi Zhu","doi":"10.1002/pchj.70039","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/pchj.70039","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>People may remember events inaccurately after being exposed to misleading information. This can lead to false memories being reported in multiple interviews. The higher the attentional salience of the original event information (i.e., the extent to which it strongly captures attention during encoding), the less likely young adults are to form false memories. However, it was unknown whether this would also apply to older adults across multiple memory assessments. This study used the misinformation paradigm to examine age differences in memory accuracy and consistency in two recognition tests. It also investigated how attentional salience of the original information influenced memory performances. Thirty young adults (aged 23 ± 2 years) and 30 older adults (aged 70 ± 3 years) saw images of original events, then read misleading narratives, and finally completed a verbal recognition test and a pictorial recognition test based on what they had seen in the original events. Results showed that older adults reported more false memories than young adults in both tests. Older adults were less consistent in reporting true memories across two tests, but there was no age difference in the consistency of false memories. Greater attentional salience helped young and older adults report more original information and less misinformation, though the effect was weaker in older adults. It also helped young and older adults report original information more consistently across tests. Overall, this study showed that how well the original information was encoded significantly influenced eyewitness reports across interviews in young and older adults.</p>","PeriodicalId":20804,"journal":{"name":"PsyCh journal","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-07-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144619935","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":"Executive Functioning as Mediator in the Longitudinal Relationship Between Media Multitasking and Divergent Thinking in Adolescents.","authors":"Shuyu Shan, Ziying Li, Yuxin Fan, Xinru Zhao, Xiuya Lei, Yidi Chen","doi":"10.1002/pchj.70038","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/pchj.70038","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Junior high school students frequently multitask with media because of the rapid development of media tools. It is vital to investigate the relationship between junior high school students' individual cognitive abilities and media multitasking to better support their educational and developmental needs. Using a longitudinal design, this study investigated the relationship between media multitasking and divergent thinking, and the mediating role of executive function. Creativity and media were measured using the Development of Adolescent Executive Function Scale, the Alternative Uses Test (AUT), and the Media Multitasking Scale (MMS). Six hundred and nine junior high school students were assessed twice within a six-month period (at T1 and T2). After controlling for grade, gender, and place of origin, T1 media multitasking was negatively correlated with T2 divergent thinking and T2 executive function. Moreover, T2 executive function was negatively correlated with T2 divergent thinking. Middle schoolers' T1 media multitasking significantly negatively predicted their T2 divergent thinking β = -0.1. Vertically, T2 executive function partially mediates the relationship between T1 media multitasking and T2 divergent thinking. High media multitasking reduces individual executive function, whereas low executive function can improve individual divergent thinking. This study reveals the relationship between media multitasking and divergent thinking, as well as the longitudinal mediating mechanism of executive function. Media multitasking can negatively predict divergent thinking, and T2 executive function had a significant longitudinal mediating effect on the relationship between T1 media multitasking and T2 divergent thinking.</p>","PeriodicalId":20804,"journal":{"name":"PsyCh journal","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-07-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144619936","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":"Disaster Exposure and Insomnia Severity During 7⋅20 Flood in Henan: The Moderated Mediation Model.","authors":"Minqi Yang, Meimei Chu, Ruobing Cao, Chunyu Qu, Hanxiao Guo, Qian Zhou, Hanshuo Zhang, Jinlu He, Wenxuan Li, Jingjing Gu, Guofu Zhou","doi":"10.1002/pchj.70020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/pchj.70020","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Natural disaster exposure is considered to be one of the risk factors for mental health. We investigated whether natural disaster exposure was associated with insomnia severity and the roles of catastrophizing and dark personalities in the association. The current study, using data collected from 1526 participants (27.50 ± 15.49 years old, 40.4% male), was conducted within 2 weeks after the 7⋅20 flood in Henan, China. Results showed that natural disaster exposure was significantly positively associated with insomnia severity, catastrophizing partially mediated the association between natural disaster exposure and insomnia severity, and the Dark Triad played moderating roles in the mediation model. Specifically, higher levels of the Dark Triad, Machiavellianism, and psychopathy weakened the negative link between disaster exposure and catastrophizing; whereas a higher level of narcissism exacerbated the relationships between natural disaster exposure and catastrophizing, and between natural disaster exposure and insomnia severity in the mediation model. The present results may provide important practical implications: the preventions and interventions that target the change of Dark Triad traits and the mitigation of catastrophizing could potentially be more effective in counteracting the development of sleep issues following exposure to floods.</p>","PeriodicalId":20804,"journal":{"name":"PsyCh journal","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-07-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144609221","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 : 2025-07-09DOI: 10.1002/pchj.70035
Chunsheng Wang, Li Yi, Tie Sun, Adjei Peter Darko, Jun Ren
{"title":"The Electrocortical Effects of Repurposing and Reconstrual on the Regulation of Disgust.","authors":"Chunsheng Wang, Li Yi, Tie Sun, Adjei Peter Darko, Jun Ren","doi":"10.1002/pchj.70035","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/pchj.70035","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Cognitive reappraisal serves as a pivotal strategy in emotion regulation, encompassing techniques such as repurposing and reconstrual. However, the behavioral and temporal disparities between these two reappraisal subtypes remain underexplored. This study aims to delineate these differences by comparing the psychophysiological impacts of repurposing versus reconstrual on disgust emotion regulation, employing event-related potentials (ERPs) as the primary neurophysiological indicator. Behavioral data revealed that both strategies evoked significantly greater pleasure and less disgust compared to negative description conditions. Notably, repurposing elicited a more pronounced positive emotional shift. Electroencephalographic (EEG) findings indicated that repurposing led to a lower late positive potential (LPP) amplitude (1000-3000 ms) in frontal and parietal regions compared to reconstrual or negative descriptions. Furthermore, both strategies elicited larger left negativity component (LNC) amplitude (500-1000 ms) than negative descriptions, with repurposing demonstrating a prolonged LNC effect (1000-1500 ms) compared to reconstrual. This investigation confirms that although repurposing requires extended semantic processing resources, it exhibits superior efficacy in mitigating disgust responses. By providing direct empirical comparisons between these reappraisal modalities, the research advances our understanding of the neural mechanisms underlying cognitive emotion regulation.</p>","PeriodicalId":20804,"journal":{"name":"PsyCh journal","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-07-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144592052","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 : 2025-07-06DOI: 10.1002/pchj.70036
Qianguo Xiao, Chenyu Li, Chen Chen, Jialan Ma
{"title":"Whose Prosocial Intentions Are More Affected by Mindfulness, Young Adolescents or Young Adults?","authors":"Qianguo Xiao, Chenyu Li, Chen Chen, Jialan Ma","doi":"10.1002/pchj.70036","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/pchj.70036","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Two studies were conducted to investigate: (1) the effects of dispositional mindfulness and short-term mindfulness induction on prosocial willingness, (2) the mediating roles of moral identity and moral disengagement, and (3) age-related differences between young adolescents (12-15 years) and young adults (18-24 years). In Study 1, a cross-sectional survey was conducted among 271 college students (young adults) and 229 middle school students (young adolescents), assessing dispositional mindfulness, moral identity, moral disengagement, and prosocial willingness. In Study 2, an experimental design was employed to explore the short-term effects of two types of mindfulness inductions (with ethical elements or without) on these variables, involving 105 young adults and 142 young adolescents. Study 1 revealed that, in adolescents, moral identity significantly mediated the relationship between dispositional mindfulness and prosocial willingness, while moral disengagement served as the primary mediator among adults. Study 2 showed that different short-term mindfulness inductions significantly affected moral identity, moral disengagement, and prosocial willingness in adolescents, with significant mediation effects of moral identity and moral disengagement. However, these effects were not significant in adults. Both types of mindfulness induction showed differential mediating effects, suggesting age-specific psychological mechanisms. Findings highlighted age-related differences in how mindfulness influences prosocial behavior, mediated by moral constructs. Both studies consistently showed that, for adolescents, the moral psychology (such as moral identity and moral disengagement) significantly influences the association between mindfulness (interventions) and prosocial behavior. This provides important insights into ethical mindfulness education, emphasizing the need to account for psychological development characteristics when designing mindfulness programs for adolescents.</p>","PeriodicalId":20804,"journal":{"name":"PsyCh journal","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-07-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144576143","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}