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{"title":"Family Sport Involvement and Adolescent Prosocial Behavior: A Latent Profile Analysis.","authors":"Jinfu Xu, Linrong Zhong, Ke Sun","doi":"10.2147/PRBM.S638174","DOIUrl":"10.2147/PRBM.S638174","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Family sport involvement is critical for adolescent prosocial development, yet how distinct patterns of parental engagement relate to prosocial behavior and through what psychological processes remains unclear. Integrating Self-Determination Theory with Bourdieu's sociological concepts of habitus and capital, this study aimed to examine the distinct profiles of family sport involvement and their mechanisms in predicting adolescents' prosocial behavior.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Data were drawn from a large-scale national survey of Chinese youth (N= 14,271). Latent profile analysis (LPA) was utilized to identify familial sport involvement profiles. Subsequently, multiple regression and Karlson-Holm-Breen (KHB) mediation analyses were conducted to evaluate the direct and indirect associations, as well as the moderating role of family socioeconomic status (SES).</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>LPA identified four distinct profiles of family sport involvement: disengaged (24.80%), moderate involvement (31.36%), modeling-only (19.61%), highly supportive (24.22%). Compared to the disengaged profile, the moderate involvement, modeling-only, and highly supportive profiles were significantly associated with adolescents' prosocial behavior. Mechanistically, these effects were mediated by autonomous motivation, self-efficacy, and extracurricular physical exercise. Self-efficacy emerged as the primary mediator, accounting for 75-83% of the indirect effects. Crucially, family SES moderated these pathways: higher SES amplified the developmental benefits, though this moderation was uniquely significant only within the highly supportive profile.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>This study theoretically bridges the gap between psychological agency and structural realities in youth development. Practically, while objective capital (SES) maximizes developmental benefits, cultivating an autonomy-supportive sport habitus is the core psychological driver of positive youth development. Promoting highly supportive family sport involvement offers a vital pathway to mitigate socio-structural disparities through targeted parenting interventions.</p>","PeriodicalId":20954,"journal":{"name":"Psychology Research and Behavior Management","volume":"19 ","pages":"638174"},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2026-09-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13615856/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149064194","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}

{"title":"Ecological Correlates of Depressive Symptoms among Chinese Adolescents: A Random Forest and Nomogram Analysis of CFPS Data.","authors":"Songli Mei, Yaning Su, Jingyi Yue, Kai Liu, Tongshuang Yuan, Chengbin Zheng, Liru Pan, Liqiang Zhang, Yujie Cui, Chaofan Zhang, Fangfang Ding, Wanyue Chen, Qiannan Tian, Xusheng Wu","doi":"10.2147/PRBM.S632599","DOIUrl":"10.2147/PRBM.S632599","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Adolescence represents a critical developmental stage characterized by complex stressors, including academic pressure and interpersonal challenges, which significantly elevate the risk of depressive symptoms. While conventional research predominantly relies on linear methodologies focusing on isolated environmental determinants, the multi-level interactive effects of ecological environments on adolescent depressive symptoms remain under-explored.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Utilizing longitudinal data from the 2020 and 2022 China Family Panel Studies (CFPS), this study included a sample of 971 adolescents (aged 10-15). Baseline ecological variables and covariates were measured in 2020, while the outcome-depressive symptoms-was assessed in 2022 using the 8-item Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale (CES-D8). We integrated a machine learning framework (Random Forest, RF) to predict continuous CES-D8 scores and a nomogram model to predict binary depression risk (CES-D8 ≥ 9). The nomogram was internally validated using 1000 bootstrap resamples.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Ecological environments demonstrated significant associations with adolescent depressive symptoms. In the RF model (Out-of-Bag Mean Squared Error = 12.72), the predictor s ranked in descending order of their contribution were social trust, interpersonal relationships, parent-child conflict, teacher satisfaction, and age. The developed visual nomogram demonstrated modest discrimination (AUC = 0.614) but excellent calibration (Mean Absolute Error = 0.011) for quantifying individualized risk probabilities.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>These findings highlight specific environmental correlates and underscore the necessity of transitioning from single-factor management to integrated, multi-systemic approaches. While the predictive model requires further external validation before clinical application, it offers a preliminary epidemiological tool to identify potential intervention targets and facilitate coordinated family, school, community, and governmental interventions.</p>","PeriodicalId":20954,"journal":{"name":"Psychology Research and Behavior Management","volume":"19 ","pages":"632599"},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2026-09-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13615821/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149064242","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}

{"title":"Psychometric Validation of the Social Media Fatigue Scale and Social Anxiety Scale for Social Media Users Among Indonesian University Students.","authors":"Muthmainnah, Ira Nurmala, Lutfi Agus Salim, Yuli Puspita Devi, Annisa Clara Salsabila, Aisyah Amalia, Dini Yulia Restuti, Servet Üztemur, Po-Ching Huang, Mark D Griffiths, Chung-Ying Lin","doi":"10.2147/PRBM.S632681","DOIUrl":"10.2147/PRBM.S632681","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>While social media fatigue and social anxiety may shape individuals' patterns of social media use, validated instruments assessing these constructs remain limited in Southeast Asian contexts.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>The present study examined the psychometric properties of the Social Media Fatigue Scale (SMFS) and the Social Anxiety Scale for Social Media Users (SAS-SMU) using confirmatory factor analysis. A total of 1012 Indonesian university students completed both instruments. Measurement invariance across gender and academic discipline was further examined.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Item 13 of the SMFS was removed due to a very low corrected item-total correlation (<i>r</i> = 0.056). After removal, both the Indonesian version of the SMFS and the SAS-SMU demonstrated satisfactory model fit, good internal consistency, and adequate convergent and discriminant validity. Measurement invariance across gender and academic disciplines was also confirmed. Concurrent validity supported that the two constructs were related yet distinct.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>The findings provide evidence for the reliability and validity of both the SMFS and SAS-SMU in the Indonesian context, supporting their future use in research exploring social media-related psychological mechanisms or outcomes.</p>","PeriodicalId":20954,"journal":{"name":"Psychology Research and Behavior Management","volume":"19 ","pages":"632681"},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2026-09-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13604010/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149040433","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}

{"title":"Dynamic Digital Detachment and Work-Family Permeability: The Interactive Regulatory Path of Personality and Cognitive Load.","authors":"Pianpian Guan, Chen Xiong, Mofei Shen, Wenying Cai, Meina Cao, Xiufen Xu","doi":"10.2147/PRBM.S632561","DOIUrl":"10.2147/PRBM.S632561","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Introduction: </strong>Mobile connectivity has worn the work-home boundary thin for employees born after 1995, prompting some to deliberately disconnect from work-related digital channels during nonwork time. Whether this digital detachment reliably narrows work-family permeability, and for whom, has been obscured by static cross-sectional designs that treat permeability as fixed rather than as a process unfolding across days.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Using a two-week experience-sampling study of 192 digitally native Chinese employees aged 22-29 (53.6% women), yielding 2304 day-level observations, we modeled the trajectory of permeability with multilevel growth and cross-lagged panel specifications.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>On days when employees disconnected more than their own average, permeability was lower both the same evening (within-person coefficient about -0.31) and one day later (about -0.24), and this association appeared to strengthen over the sampling period rather than fade overnight. The pattern was conditional on a second-order interaction between stable traits and fluctuating cognitive load: among conscientious workers the association held even on heavy days, whereas among neurotic workers it weakened to non-significance once load ran high.</p><p><strong>Discussion: </strong>Because the data are observational and longitudinal rather than experimental, we frame these findings as associations rather than causal effects. They nonetheless recast boundary work as a daily, effortful, and conditionally successful act, extend conservation of resources theory and boundary theory into the digital domain, and caution against uniform after-hours disconnection mandates in favor of support weighted toward overloaded and emotionally reactive workers.</p>","PeriodicalId":20954,"journal":{"name":"Psychology Research and Behavior Management","volume":"19 ","pages":"632561"},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2026-09-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13600267/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149040385","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}

{"title":"The \"Dark Side\" of Pre-Retirement Work Attachment for Later-Life Mental Health: Mediating Role of Retirement Adjustment and Moderating Role of Social Network.","authors":"Lecheng Chen, Xiaolei Li, Jialing Fan, Yiru Yang","doi":"10.2147/PRBM.S638626","DOIUrl":"10.2147/PRBM.S638626","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>With rapid population aging and extended post-retirement lifespan, understanding the modifiable psychological and social processes that shape retirees' mental health has become increasingly important for behavioral health management. However, the mechanisms linking pre-retirement work attachment and retirement adjustment to post-retirement mental health remain poorly understood.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>This cross-sectional study included 302 Chinese community-dwelling retirees and assessed work attachments (work-family centrality [WFC] and affective organizational commitment [AOC]), retirement adjustment (enjoyment of retirement, loss of retirement, and nostalgia for work), social network, leisure activity, and mental health (depression and life satisfaction). Hierarchical multiple regression was used to examine factors associated with retirement adjustment. Moderated mediation models were then applied to test whether social network and leisure activity moderated the mediating role of retirement adjustment between work attachments and mental health.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Retirement adjustment was multidimensional. Loss of retirement was associated only with socioeconomic factors; nostalgia for work was associated only with WFC and AOC; and enjoyment of retirement was related to demographic factors, socioeconomic factors, and WFC. Higher work attachments were associated with lower enjoyment of retirement, which in turn was associated with more severe depressive symptoms and lower life satisfaction. The mediating effect of enjoyment of retirement was significant only among retirees with low or moderate levels of social network, but not among those with a high level of social network.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>This exploratory study identified distinct factors for each retirement adjustment dimension and showed that higher pre-retirement work attachments are associated with poorer later-life mental health through diminished enjoyment of retirement. A rich social network buffers this negative relationship, suggesting that strengthening social connections is a promising behavioral target for psychological interventions aimed at promoting mental health in later life. Given that the cross-sectional design precludes causal inferences, future longitudinal research is needed to confirm these pathways.</p>","PeriodicalId":20954,"journal":{"name":"Psychology Research and Behavior Management","volume":"19 ","pages":"638626"},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2026-09-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13599788/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149040376","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}

{"title":"Physical Activity, Emotional Intelligence, and Resilience in College Students: A Multi-Group Structural Equation Modeling Analysis Across Physical Fitness Levels.","authors":"Yunchen Meng, Wang Yang, Hesong You, Shaoyu Lu, Yilin An, Shanming Zhang","doi":"10.2147/PRBM.S629668","DOIUrl":"10.2147/PRBM.S629668","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Purpose: </strong>This study examined the relationships among physical activity, emotional intelligence, and resilience in college students with different physical fitness levels, examined the potential indirect association through emotional intelligence, and compared group-specific structural pathways using multi-group structural equation modelling.</p><p><strong>Participants and methods: </strong>A stratified cluster sampling method was used to recruit 1,988 freshmen and sophomores from four universities in Beijing. Based on physical fitness evaluation, participants were divided into the general physical education group (n = 1,478), the physical fitness enhancement group (n = 320), and the sports rehabilitation group (n = 190). Physical activity, emotional intelligence, and resilience were assessed using the International Physical Activity Questionnaire-Short Form (IPAQ-SF), Emotional Intelligence Scale (EIS), and Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale (CD-RISC), respectively. Structural equation modelling (SEM) was conducted using Mplus 8.3, followed by multi-group comparative analyses to examine differences in structural pathways across groups.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>In the total sample, physical activity was positively associated with emotional intelligence (β = 0.216, P < 0.001) and resilience (β = 0.070, P = 0.001). A significant indirect association through emotional intelligence was observed between physical activity and resilience (indirect association = 0.091, 95% CI [0.070, 0.114]), accounting for 56.5% of the total association. Multi-group analyses revealed significant structural heterogeneity across groups. The rehabilitation group showed a significant indirect but non-significant direct association, the enhancement group showed a significant direct association and a weak, non-significant indirect association through EI, and the general group showed both significant direct and indirect associations.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>The findings reveal heterogeneous pathways linking physical activity, emotional intelligence, and resilience across physical fitness levels. The indirect association through emotional intelligence differed across groups, highlighting the need for targeted physical activity and psychological support strategies for college students.</p>","PeriodicalId":20954,"journal":{"name":"Psychology Research and Behavior Management","volume":"19 ","pages":"629668"},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2026-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13596419/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149025910","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}

{"title":"Is Higher Academic Workload Associated with AI Dependency? Investigating the Roles of Academic Anxiety, Procrastination, and Satisfaction with AI.","authors":"Shuyang Jiang, Nuo Xu","doi":"10.2147/PRBM.S634780","DOIUrl":"10.2147/PRBM.S634780","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>With the increasing integration of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies into higher education, concerns have emerged regarding students' growing dependency on AI tools. AI dependency refers to a maladaptive pattern of reliance on AI characterized by addiction-related symptoms. Grounded in the Interaction of Person-Affect-Cognition-Execution (I-PACE) model, this study examines the associations between academic workload and AI dependency among undergraduate students by incorporating academic anxiety (affective), academic procrastination (executive), and satisfaction with AI (cognitive) into a moderated mediation framework.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Data were collected from 690 Chinese undergraduate students using validated self-report questionnaires with established psychometric properties. Structural equation modeling (SEM) with bootstrapping was used to construct latent variables and test the hypothesized model.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Results showed that academic workload was positively associated with AI dependency (total <i>β</i> = 0.35), with a remaining direct association (<i>β</i> = 0.14) and indirect associations through academic anxiety (<i>β</i> = 0.10), academic procrastination (<i>β</i> = 0.06), and their sequential pathway (<i>β</i> = 0.05). Satisfaction with AI moderated the association between academic procrastination and AI dependency (<i>β</i> = 0.13), with stronger effects at higher levels of satisfaction.</p><p><strong>Discussion: </strong>These findings extend the application of the I-PACE model by identifying affective and execution-related pathways associated with higher AI dependency. The pathway-specific moderation further suggests that positive appraisal of AI may amplify the link between procrastination and AI dependency. The findings highlight the need for educational strategies that address excessive academic demands, support students in managing anxiety and procrastination, and promote critical, balanced, and self-regulated AI use in higher education.</p>","PeriodicalId":20954,"journal":{"name":"Psychology Research and Behavior Management","volume":"19 ","pages":"634780"},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2026-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13596403/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149025912","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}

{"title":"Cosmeticorexia in Adolescence: A Case Report and Psychodynamic Formulation.","authors":"Alberto Stefana, Giovanni Damiani","doi":"10.2147/PRBM.S625058","DOIUrl":"10.2147/PRBM.S625058","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Introduction: </strong>Cosmeticorexia is a provisional descriptive label, not a DSM-5-TR or ICD-11 diagnosis, for impairing skin-focused preoccupation and excessive cosmetic routines. It overlaps with body dysmorphic disorder (BDD); its proposed emphasis is a culturally sanctioned product ritual that may cause objective skin damage. The psychodynamic formulation offered here is interpretive and hypothesis-generating.</p><p><strong>Case presentation: </strong>The patient was a 14-year-old girl referred after recurrent periocular dermatitis, burning, and acneiform eruptions associated with cosmetic overuse. She applied 10-12 products before school, avoided school when use was restricted, repeatedly checked and sought reassurance about skin flaws, and spent 4-5 hours daily viewing and comparing skincare content.</p><p><strong>Diagnostic assessment and intervention: </strong>Dermatological assessment identified irritant contact dermatitis and acne medicamentosa. The BDDQ-DV screen was positive; clinician-derived BABS (19/24) and BDD-YBOCS-A (38/48) ratings reconstructed from routine interviews descriptively suggested marked preoccupation, repetitive behavior, avoidance, and poor insight. They were non-diagnostic, and no structured psychiatric interview was conducted. Care combined skin-barrier repair and routine simplification with psychological formulation.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>This case illustrates an impairing BDD-like presentation in which cosmetic behavior and skin injury reinforced one another. It does not validate cosmeticorexia as a distinct diagnosis or establish a psychodynamic mechanism. The findings support integrated dermatological and mental health assessment while avoiding pathologization of normative adolescent grooming.</p>","PeriodicalId":20954,"journal":{"name":"Psychology Research and Behavior Management","volume":"19 ","pages":"625058"},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2026-09-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13589966/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149012417","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}

{"title":"Depression and Longitudinal Frailty Trajectories in Middle-Aged and Older Adults with Chronic Pain: A 8-Year National Cohort Study in China.","authors":"Haotian Zhang, Aiqi Wang, Shun Wang, Guoyan Feng, Lu Wang, Liqin Deng","doi":"10.2147/PRBM.S630081","DOIUrl":"10.2147/PRBM.S630081","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Global population aging is accelerating, and pain and depression frequently co-occur in middle-aged and older adults. Frailty, an age-related clinical syndrome, markedly elevates the risks of falls, disability, hospitalization, and mortality. This study investigated whether comorbid depression affects long-term frailty trajectories in patients with chronic pain, to help identify high-risk populations and guide comprehensive interventions.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Based on 8 years of follow-up (2011-2018) from the nationally representative multi-stage probability sample of the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS), 4,778 participants aged 45 years and older with chronic pain were enrolled. Depressive symptoms were assessed using the 10-item Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale (CES-D-10), with a total score ≥10 indicating depressive symptoms, and frailty was quantified by a 32-item Frailty Index (FI). Group-based trajectory modeling (GBTM) identified FI developmental trajectories, and multinomial logistic regression examined the association between depression and trajectory group membership.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Three frailty trajectories were identified: Low Frailty Group, Moderate Frailty Group, and High Frailty Group. Overall, 61.3% of participants had comorbid depressive symptoms. Depressive symptoms were associated with significantly higher odds of the moderate (OR = 2.82, 95% CI 2.42-3.29) and high trajectories (OR = 6.57, 95% CI 5.18-8.34). Each 1-point CES-D-10 increment increased the odds by 11% and 19%, respectively. These associations remained stable across subgroups.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>In middle-aged and older adults with chronic pain, depression was associated with worsening frailty trajectories. Routine depression screening integrated with mental health care for chronic pain and frailty may help slow frailty progression and reduce disability burden.</p>","PeriodicalId":20954,"journal":{"name":"Psychology Research and Behavior Management","volume":"19 ","pages":"630081"},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2026-09-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13589967/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149012437","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}

{"title":"Gender-Specific Network Structures of Depression and PTSD Symptoms in Chinese Firefighters.","authors":"Yidi Wang, Xiaoli Ni, Mengze Li, Jiaying Zhang, Zhujing Ma, Yifeng Gai, Zhongying Wu, Jinming Fan, Bin Liu, Lei Song, Qun Yang","doi":"10.2147/PRBM.S590750","DOIUrl":"10.2147/PRBM.S590750","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Firefighters are frequently exposed to severe stressors, leading to high rates of comorbid depression and PTSD, yet research exploring gender differences in these conditions remains limited.</p><p><strong>Objective: </strong>This study employed symptom network analysis to examine the comorbid network structure and gender-specific bridge symptoms of depression and PTSD among Chinese firefighters.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Data from 6240 firefighters (5357 males, 883 females, M age = 29.33, SD age = 5.57) were analyzed using the Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9) and the PTSD Checklist-Civilian Version (PCL-C). Network analysis was adopted to explore the interconnections between depression and PTSD symptoms, and network comparison test was conducted to examine gender differences.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The results indicated that female firefighters had significantly higher PTSD and depression scores compared to male firefighters. Across all firefighters, PHQ4 (feeling tired), PHQ9 (suicide), and PCL-13 (sleep difficulties) acted as bridge symptoms connecting depression and PTSD; however, bridge nodes differed markedly by gender. PHQ4 (feeling tired) and PHQ7 (trouble concentrating) served as female-specific bridge symptoms tied to internalized affective and cognitive struggles, whereas male-specific bridge symptoms were PHQ8 (impaired motor skills) and PHQ9 (suicide), corresponding to externalized dysfunction and acute crisis symptoms.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>This study emphasizes the importance of gender-specific interventions.</p>","PeriodicalId":20954,"journal":{"name":"Psychology Research and Behavior Management","volume":"19 ","pages":"590750"},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2026-09-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13588112/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149008790","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}