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{"title":"A Brief Writing Intervention Assists Athletes to Cope With Performance Failures.","authors":"David L Neumann, Mikayla McInnes","doi":"10.1002/pchj.70026","DOIUrl":"10.1002/pchj.70026","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Significant performance failures by athletes can have detrimental psychological effects, potentially leading to maladaptive coping mechanisms, performance anxiety, and psychological distress. The current study investigated if a brief writing intervention could combat the negative impact of recalled performance failures in a sample of competitive athletes. Initially, the athletes recalled an instance of a significant performance failure. Next, an Intervention group completed an expressive writing task based on the principles of cognitive restructuring and reframing, and a Control group completed a neutral writing task. The results indicated that both groups showed improvements in the outcome measures from pre-test to post-test. However, the magnitude of the reduced self-critical rumination behaviors, increased positive affect, and reduced negative affect was greater in the Intervention group than in the Control group. The current study highlights how an expressive writing task can combat negative rumination thoughts and affective reactions. Such brief interventions could be used by athletes during a break in a game or immediately following a game to address performance failures as they happen.</p>","PeriodicalId":20804,"journal":{"name":"PsyCh journal","volume":" ","pages":"787-798"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12520838/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144512421","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":"The Relationship Between Physical Activity and Subjective Well-Being in College Students Over the Course of a Semester: A Short-Term Longitudinal Study.","authors":"Zhanjia Zhang, Kaijun Wang, Zhonghui He, Xin Qi","doi":"10.1002/pchj.70049","DOIUrl":"10.1002/pchj.70049","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Subjective well-being is an essential construct in positive psychology and is linked with various physical and mental health outcomes in college students. This study examined the associations between different intensities of physical activity (PA) and multiple dimensions of subjective well-being at the beginning and end of a semester. A short-term longitudinal design was employed with a cohort of 743 undergraduate students (mean age = 19.63 years). Data on PA and subjective well-being indicators, including life satisfaction, positive affect, and negative affect, were collected during the third week of the semester and the week before final exams. The results revealed a significant decline in PA and life satisfaction, and a significant increase in negative affect from the beginning to the end of the semester. Vigorous-intensity PA at the semester's end showed a positive relationship with life satisfaction and positive affect, and a negative relationship with negative affect, while PA levels at the beginning of the semester did not predict subjective well-being at the semester's end. This study highlights the importance of vigorous-intensity PA in supporting subjective well-being during periods of academic stress. Universities should implement targeted programs to encourage vigorous-intensity PA to support student well-being.</p>","PeriodicalId":20804,"journal":{"name":"PsyCh journal","volume":" ","pages":"697-705"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12520837/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144856201","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":"Cross-Informant Comparison of Depressive Symptoms in Youth: A Network Approach.","authors":"Feifei Chen, Xinlu Sun, Ting Yuan, Xiangjuan Tian, Xinying Li, Nengzhi Jiang","doi":"10.1002/pchj.70050","DOIUrl":"10.1002/pchj.70050","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Developmental researchers generally use a multi-informant approach to assess youth depressive symptoms to increase diagnostic accuracy and reliability, but informant discrepancies between youth and caregivers are common. Previous studies have predominantly used the sum score-level approach to examine informant discrepancies, which may obscure the heterogeneity of depression. This study adopted a symptom-level approach, network analysis, to examine informant discrepancies regarding depressive symptoms. The participant sample comprised 1043 community youth living in China (M _age = 13.68, 48.3% male) and their caregivers. Youth and caregivers completed the Children's Depression Inventory-Youth (CDI-Y) and the Children's Depression Inventory-Parents (CDI-P) separately. We employed R 4.3.0 and the Ising model to estimate two distinct networks. We then utilized the R-package Network Comparison Test to compare these two networks. Our findings revealed that irritability emerged as a symptom with high centrality in both networks, while crying demonstrated the most significant disparity in strength centrality, being stronger in the youth-report network. Youth-reported crying showed stronger connections with suicidal ideation (edge weight = 2.78), social withdrawal (edge weight = 1.72) and schoolwork difficulty (edge weight = 1.70), whereas caregivers-reported crying was more strongly associated with self-hatred (edge weight = 1.21). This study contributes to a better understanding of the structure of depressive symptoms from the perspectives of both youth and their caregivers.</p>","PeriodicalId":20804,"journal":{"name":"PsyCh journal","volume":" ","pages":"685-696"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12520835/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144966586","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":"The temporal dynamics of perceived stress and depression in college students: An ecological momentary assessment.","authors":"Guo Feng, Xiaxia Xu, Jie Wu, Jiawei Lei","doi":"10.1002/pchj.803","DOIUrl":"10.1002/pchj.803","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Previous studies have implied that stress is a risk factor for depression, but relatively little is known about how healthy individuals' stress dynamically affects depression as a mood in daily life. Therefore, an ecological momentary assessment study was conducted among 141 college students to test the temporal dynamic effect of daily perceived stress on depression and the underlying mediating and moderating role of rumination. Perceived stress, state rumination, and depression were measured using self-compiled questionnaire three times a day over 12 days. Trait rumination was measured with the Nolen-Hoeksema Ruminative Response Scale. Hierarchical linear models with HLM 7.0 were adopted to examine the mediation and moderation effects. In the mediation model, the greater the daily perceived stress at time t, the higher the state rumination at time t + 1, and state rumination at t + 1 positively predicted college students' depression at t + 2. In the moderation model, trait rumination significantly facilitated perceived stress-induced depression. These results verified that daily perceived stress could affect college students' depression directly or indirectly through the critical mediating mechanism of state rumination, and this effect would be exacerbated with a higher level of trait rumination.</p>","PeriodicalId":20804,"journal":{"name":"PsyCh journal","volume":" ","pages":"491-499"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12318596/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142372701","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":"Reliability and Validity of the Affect Regulation-Based Resilience Scale (ARRS): Complementing Coping and Emotion-Regulation Approaches.","authors":"Xuebing Wu, Jiabao Su, Linlin Yan, Jianhui Wu, Yiqun Gan","doi":"10.1002/pchj.70018","DOIUrl":"10.1002/pchj.70018","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The Affect Regulation-based Resilience Scale (ARRS) was developed as an integrative tool to assess adults' psychological resilience. Utilizing a two-phase approach, the process consisted of item generation followed by rigorous psychometric evaluation. Initial interviews informed item selection, which subsequent analyses including confirmatory factor analysis and validity and reliability analysis using two adult samples (n = 424 and n = 425). Criterion-related validity was established by examination relationships between the ARRS, and key constructs: psychological resilience, stress-related growth, emotion regulation, coping, depression, anxiety, stress, and subjective well-being. The scale was developed through theoretical and empirical validation, identifying four dimensions (inner resources and goal orientation, positive stress mindset, self and life evaluation, and sensitivity) and comprising 34 validated items. Results indicated satisfactory item performance and good fit for the four-factor model. The ARRS demonstrated significant positive correlations with psychological resilience, stress-related growth, cognitive reappraisal, and subjective well-being, while showing negative correlation with depression, anxiety, expressive suppression and stressr. By integrating coping and emotion-regulation approaches, the ARRS represents a psychometrically robust measure for assessing adults' psychological resilience.</p>","PeriodicalId":20804,"journal":{"name":"PsyCh journal","volume":" ","pages":"591-602"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12318594/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144216714","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":"Depletion Effects Reduce the Preference for Distraction (but Not Reappraisal) During Emotion Regulation.","authors":"Ruiwen Huang, Mei Le, JiaJin Yuan, Jiemin Yang","doi":"10.1002/pchj.70021","DOIUrl":"10.1002/pchj.70021","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Emotion regulation choice (ERC) requires cognitive control resources. However, it remains unknown whether and how individuals' internal resource levels may influence their ERC. To address this question, 51 participants first performed a depletion or non-depletion cognitive task. Then, they were presented with negative pictures of high and low intensity and were required to choose distraction or reappraisal, to regulate their emotion, or watch (no regulation) the negative stimulus. The results indicated that individuals showed a greater usage preference for distraction in high-intensity emotional situations. Besides, individuals' choice of reappraisal was not affected by emotional intensity. More importantly, the depletion effects led to a significant increase in the choice of watch and reduced the choice of distraction (but not reappraisal). These results suggest that cognitive depletion weakens emotion regulation willingness and has different effects on distraction and reappraisal.</p>","PeriodicalId":20804,"journal":{"name":"PsyCh journal","volume":" ","pages":"583-590"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12318586/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144226490","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":"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":"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":"483-490"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12318593/pdf/","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":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"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":"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":"473-482"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12318585/pdf/","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":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Moderation Effect of Emotional Expressivity on the Associations Between Schizotypal Traits, Autistic Traits and Social Pleasure.","authors":"Li-Ying Zhang, Miao Wang, Xin-Wei Fu, Shou-Nuo Chen, Jie Gu, Shuai-Biao Li, Min-Yi Chu, Yan-Yu Wang, Yi Wang, Raymond C K Chan","doi":"10.1002/pchj.70003","DOIUrl":"10.1002/pchj.70003","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Diminished social pleasure has been reported in people with schizophrenia and autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Previous studies suggested that emotional expressivity is closely correlated with social pleasure. However, the underlying psychological mechanisms between traits related to schizophrenia and ASD, emotional expressivity, and social pleasure remain unclear. This study aimed to investigate the relationship between subclinical schizotypal and autistic traits, facial expressions, and social pleasure. Eighty-six healthy participants (mean age = 20.35 ± 0.26 years, 44 males) were recruited to complete an emotion elicitation task and an autobiographical recalling task, while their facial expressions were videotaped for computerized analysis using the FaceReader. The intensity of different facial expressions (happy, sad, angry, surprised, scared, and disgusted), valence, and arousal were extracted. The self-report Multidimensional Schizotypy Scale (MSS), Autism-Spectrum Quotient (AQ), and Anticipatory and Consummatory Interpersonal Pleasure Scale (ACIPS) were administered to measure subclinical traits and social pleasure. Partial correlation analysis and moderation analysis were performed. Both schizotypal and autistic traits were negatively correlated with social pleasure. The moderation effects of angry facial expression for both schizotypal and autistic traits on their associations with social pleasure were significant. In addition, scared and surprised facial expressions moderated the associations between positive and negative dimensions of schizotypy and social pleasure, while arousal moderated the associations between autistic traits and social pleasure. Our study identified different moderating effects of facial emotion expressions on schizotypal and social anhedonia and autistic traits and social anhedonia, thereby revealing possible different psychopathological mechanisms underlying similar social anhedonia in subclinical populations.</p>","PeriodicalId":20804,"journal":{"name":"PsyCh journal","volume":" ","pages":"545-559"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12318599/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143493284","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":"Motivation and Pleasure Domain Links to Social Function in College Students: A Network Analysis.","authors":"Hui-Xin Hu, Ling-Ling Wang, Yi-Jing Zhang, Han-Xue Yang, Yun-Ru Wang, Yi Wang, Simon S Y Lui, Raymond C K Chan","doi":"10.1002/pchj.70001","DOIUrl":"10.1002/pchj.70001","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Evidence suggests that the motivation and pleasure deficit of negative symptoms determines the social functioning in patients with schizophrenia spectrum disorder. Alexithymia is defined as the diminished ability to identify and describe emotion feelings, and influences patients' social functioning. However, little is known regarding the relationship between motivation and pleasure, alexithymia, and social functioning in nonclinical populations. This network analysis study aimed to investigate the interactions between motivation and pleasure, alexithymia and social functioning in a sample of 2889 college students. The flow network and item-level regularized partial correlation network were constructed. Centrality estimation and relative importance metrics were also estimated. The network structures between subgroups with high and low social anhedonia were compared. Our resultant networks showed that the motivation factor was closely connected with social functioning. The relative importance analysis found that, among other nodes, the motivation factor accounted for the highest proportion of variance of social functioning in the nonclinical sample. Although the two subgroups with high and low social anhedonia differed significantly in network structures, they generally shared a similar edge structure. The two subgroups only exhibited significant difference in the connection between the social pleasure factor and recreation/work pleasure factor of the motivation and pleasure. Our findings supported the important role of the motivation factor in determining social functioning in nonclinical population.</p>","PeriodicalId":20804,"journal":{"name":"PsyCh journal","volume":" ","pages":"534-544"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12318595/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143493286","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}