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{"title":"Childhood psychological maltreatment subtypes and depression among Chinese college students: the role of self-compassion and perceived negative attention bias.","authors":"Yufei Xie, Xin Tian, Xici Wan, Yuting Zhang, Ying Guo","doi":"10.1186/s40359-025-02617-z","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s40359-025-02617-z","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Research on childhood psychological maltreatment lags behind that on other forms of childhood maltreatment. While it has been identified as a significant predictor of depression, the specific underlying mechanisms linking its subtypes (emotional abuse and emotional neglect) to depression remain unclear. This study aimed to examine the association between childhood psychological maltreatment and its subtypes and depression from both emotional factors (self-compassion) and cognitive factors (perceived negative attention bias), as well as the gender differences.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Using a questionnaire survey, a total of 587 college students completed the self-report questionnaires, including childhood psychological maltreatment and its subtypes, self-compassion, perceived negative attention bias, and depression. This study used structural equation models to examine the serial mediating role and gender differences by Amos 24.0.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Childhood psychological maltreatment and its subtypes positively predicted depression. Self-compassion played a mediating role between childhood psychological maltreatment and its subtypes and depression. Perceived negative attention bias played a mediating role between childhood psychological maltreatment and emotional abuse and depression, but not significantly between emotional neglect and depression. Self-compassion and perceived negative attention bias played a serial mediating role between childhood psychological maltreatment (including its subtypes) and depression. There were no gender differences in the mediating role.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Self-compassion and perceived negative attention bias played distinct roles in the association between childhood psychological maltreatment, its subtypes, and depression. A serial mediating role of self-compassion and perceived negative attention bias was observed in the associations between overall psychological maltreatment, emotional abuse, and depression. In contrast, in the case of emotional neglect, only self-compassion served as a mediator. These findings enlighten us that psychological interventions enhancing self-compassion and reducing negative attention bias may help mitigate depression in college students exposed to childhood psychological maltreatment, particularly emotional abuse. Conversely, interventions focused on increasing self-compassion may be more effective in reducing depression in those exposed to emotional neglect.</p>","PeriodicalId":37867,"journal":{"name":"BMC Psychology","volume":"13 1","pages":"321"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2025-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143765272","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Sit and face the world: ontogenetic adaptation in infant vocal production and visual attention during the transition to independent sitting.","authors":"Zuzanna Laudańska, Anna Malinowska-Korczak, Karolina Babis, Szymon Mąka, Itziar Lozano, Peter B Marschik, Dajie Zhang, Katerina Patsis, Magdalena Szmytke, Monika Podstolak, Weronika Araszkiewicz, Przemysław Tomalski","doi":"10.1186/s40359-025-02645-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s40359-025-02645-9","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Motor milestones are not only indicators of developmental progress, but they also open up new opportunities for infants to interact with the environment and social partners, as the development of motor, social, and language skills is tightly interconnected in infancy. This study will investigate how the transition to independent sitting relates to key areas of socio-communicative development in infancy: vocal production and visual attention.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>This study addresses the relationship between sitting acquisition and social cognition skills in infancy. It will allow for comparing if infant motor development, vocalizations, and visual attention undergo developmental changes in parallel or whether they have intertwined trajectories. We will conduct a longitudinal study using a milestone-based approach to account for individual differences in relation to the timing of motor milestone acquisition. We will invite parent-infant dyads to the lab when infants are at different stages of independent sitting acquisition: non-sitting, attempting-sitting and expert-sitting. Infants' attention toward faces and toys will be measured with a wearable eye-tracker during free-flowing dyadic interactions with their caregivers. During the same interactions, infant vocalizations will also be recorded and analyzed. Additionally, screen-based eye-tracking will be used to precisely assess changes in infants' attention to the mouth area of the speaker.</p><p><strong>Discussion: </strong>Altogether, this study will provide a unique dataset that tracks the cross-dependence of motor, visual and vocal developmental trajectories. It will have the potential to inform future studies of neurodevelopmental disorders such as autism that are characterized by socio-communicative challenges.</p>","PeriodicalId":37867,"journal":{"name":"BMC Psychology","volume":"13 1","pages":"320"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143765274","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Relationship of maternal childhood maltreatment and children's emotional-behavioral problems: parental reflection functioning and social support's role.","authors":"Zobeydeh Dehghan Manshadi, Mehdi Reza Sarafraz","doi":"10.1186/s40359-025-02627-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s40359-025-02627-x","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Childhood maltreatment has profound and long-lasting effects, not only on the victims but also on their offspring when they become parents later in life. This study aimed to investigate the role of two key mediating factors-parental reflective functioning and perceived social support-in the relationship between maternal childhood maltreatment and children's emotional and behavioral problems. We conducted a cross-sectional study in Iran from March to June 2024. Mothers of preschool children (4-6 years old) with emotional or behavioral problems (N = 222; Mean age = 34.06 ± 4.2 years) completed measures of Childhood maltreatment Questionnaire (CTQ), Parental Reflective Functioning Questionnaire (PRFQ), Perceived Social Support (PSS), and children's emotional and behavioral outcomes, as assessed using the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ). The SDQ includes subscales for emotional symptoms, conduct problems, hyperactivity/inattention, peer relationship problems, and prosocial behavior. Structural equation modeling (SEM) was used to assess the conceptual model. The results revealed that childhood maltreatment had no direct association with children's emotional and behavioral problems. However, childhood maltreatment was positively and indirectly related to children's emotional and behavioral problems (including emotional symptoms, conduct problems, hyperactivity/inattention, and peer relationship problems) and negatively and indirectly related to children's prosocial behavior. These associations were mediated through pre-mentalizing modes of parental reflective functioning. Additionally, the analysis revealed no significant mediating role of perceived social support in this relationship. The findings highlight the significant indirect association between childhood maltreatment and various aspects of children's emotional and behavioral problems through pre-mentalizing modes of parental reflective functioning. This underscores the critical role of enhancing parental reflective abilities to mitigate the adverse outcomes of childhood maltreatment on children's emotional regulation and behavioral adjustment.</p>","PeriodicalId":37867,"journal":{"name":"BMC Psychology","volume":"13 1","pages":"318"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143765273","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"An analysis of the empirical research on SL/FL teaching and learning based on positive psychology: a systematic literature review.","authors":"Jia Miao, Xin Tian, Lina Zhang, Baoling Zhang, Li Ma","doi":"10.1186/s40359-025-02576-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s40359-025-02576-5","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Despite the growing attention received by research on second language or foreign language (SL/FL) learning from the perspective of positive psychology (PP), a crucial gap persists. Over the past decade (2013-2022), scholars have yet to comprehensively elucidate how PP affects SL/FL learning outcomes. Specifically, the full - scale impact of PP on various aspects of language learning, such as different language skills (listening, speaking, reading, writing) and learners at diverse educational levels, remains unclear. Additionally, the underlying psychological and educational mechanisms through which PP exerts its influence on SL/FL learning have not been thoroughly explored. In the present study, a systematic literature review was conducted to review and analyze the empirical studies on SL/FL teaching and learning from the perspective of positive psychology. By analyzing 45 studies, the research objects, language and psychological dimensions and the research design were collected systematically. The findings showed that: (1) as a relative new research field, the number of publications is increasing rapidly, and the future development momentum is strong; (1) the research topics focus on the relationship between PP and SL/FL learning, the intervention and moderating effects of PP on SL/FL learning; (2) about research design, the research objects are mainly college students with a wide distribution of majors; the research method is mainly quantitative research, and mixed research is constantly developing; (3) the research results showed that PP is associated with students' language performance and can predict performance. PP can also increase students' English learning engagement and well-being. The present study provided a comprehensive review and also gave some suggestions for future research.</p>","PeriodicalId":37867,"journal":{"name":"BMC Psychology","volume":"13 1","pages":"319"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143765347","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Psychometric properties of the Brief Mishel Uncertainty in illness scales for patients with advanced cancer and their family caregivers.","authors":"Ting Guan, Yuexia Zhang, Laurel L Northouse, Lixin Song","doi":"10.1186/s40359-025-02568-5","DOIUrl":"10.1186/s40359-025-02568-5","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>This study comprehensively examined the psychometric properties of the Brief Mishel Uncertainty in Illness Scale for patients (MUIS-P) managing advanced cancer and their caregivers (MUIS-Cg).</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>The MUIS-P and MUIS-Cg scales were developed based on the Mishel Uncertainty in Illness Scale-Adult. We conducted a secondary analysis to test the acceptability, factor structure, reliability, and validity of the brief uncertainty scales for patients with advanced cancer (N = 484) and their caregivers (N = 484) using data from a randomized clinical trial.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The 9-item MUIS-P and MUIS-Cg show goodness of fit for a two-factor structure (unpredictability and ambiguity) with adequate to acceptable internal consistency (Cronbach's alpha 0.66-0.78 for patients and 0.70-0.72 for caregivers and McDonald's omega 0.72-0.84 for patients and 0.76-0.79 for caregivers). The MUIS-P and MUIS-Cg scores correlated with negative appraisals of illness/caregiving, hopelessness, and avoidant coping, demonstrating convergent validity. The discriminant validity of the MUIS-P and MUIS-Cg was evidenced by their significant correlations with self-efficacy and active coping. The baseline MUIS-P and MUIS-Cg scores were significantly associated with quality of life, hopelessness, depression, distress, and avoidant coping at the 3-month follow-up, indicating their strong predictive validity.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>This study comprehensively evaluated the psychometric properties of the MUIS-P and MUIS-Cg, laying a foundation for their use in research and clinical practice among patients and caregivers managing demanding symptoms and care.</p>","PeriodicalId":37867,"journal":{"name":"BMC Psychology","volume":"13 1","pages":"317"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2025-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143754985","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Correction: The relationship between specific problematic internet use and hope: academic exhaustion as mediator and mattering as moderator among Chinese university students.","authors":"Xiu-Mei Chen, Yu-Fu Ning, Gordon L Flett, Xiao-Ling Liao, Jeffrey Hugh Gamble, Lingling Li, Xing-Yong Jiang, I-Hua Chen, Mark Griffiths, Pei-Jin Lin, Chung-Ying Lin","doi":"10.1186/s40359-025-02651-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s40359-025-02651-x","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37867,"journal":{"name":"BMC Psychology","volume":"13 1","pages":"316"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2025-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143755023","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Psychological capital and subjective well-being: a multi-mediator analysis among rural older adults.","authors":"Yujin Sun","doi":"10.1186/s40359-025-02407-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s40359-025-02407-7","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Amid global demographic changes, understanding factors associated with subjective well-being among rural older adults has gained prominence. This study investigated the pathways linking psychological capital and subjective well-being, focusing on the mediating roles of subjective socioeconomic status, justice perceptions, and marital satisfaction.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Data from the 2017 China General Social Survey were analyzed using a multi-mediation approach. This study examined both the independent and sequential mediating effects of subjective socioeconomic status, justice perceptions, and marital satisfaction in the relationship between psychological capital and subjective well-being.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The findings identified six significant pathways through which psychological capital is associated with subjective well-being. These pathways demonstrated the independent and sequential roles of subjective socioeconomic status, justice perceptions, and marital satisfaction, thus providing new insights into how these variables are connected in the context of older adults in rural areas.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>This study confirms the positive relationship between psychological capital and subjective well-being among older adults in rural areas. It highlights the importance of subjective socioeconomic status, justice perceptions, and marital satisfaction as key mediators in this relationship. The findings enhance understanding of the mechanisms linking psychological capital and subjective well-being while providing valuable guidance for promoting well-being in rural communities. This study also broadens the research focus on psychological capital and offers promising directions for future studies on rural older adults.</p>","PeriodicalId":37867,"journal":{"name":"BMC Psychology","volume":"13 1","pages":"315"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2025-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143754982","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Multiple attachment perspectives: the relationship between interpersonal attachment from family and school environments and children's learning engagement.","authors":"Qi Li, Die Wang, Guihua Qin","doi":"10.1186/s40359-025-02633-z","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s40359-025-02633-z","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objectives: </strong>Abundant evidence has demonstrated that positive interpersonal relationships promote children's learning engagement. However, most existing studies only focus on the role of one or two attachment relationships, and few studies examine the relationship between multiple positive interpersonal relationships from family and school environments and children's learning engagement. The purpose of this study is to simultaneously examine the effects of father-child and mother-child attachment from the family environment and teacher-student relationship and peer attachment from the school environment on learning engagement of Chinese boys and girls.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Participants (N = 702; 51.6% male, M_age = 10.39, SD_age = 0.49) were recruited from seven primary schools in Guizhou province, China. Participants completed five self-report questionnaires assessing children's learning engagement, father-child attachment, mother-child attachment, teacher-student relationship and peer attachment.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The results displayed that only mother-child attachment and teacher-student relationship significantly predicted boys' learning engagement. In addition, we also found that only teacher-student relationship and peer attachment positively predicted girls' learning engagement.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Our findings highlight that teacher-student relationship promotes learning engagement in both boys and girls, and in addition, mother-child attachment from the family environment enhances boys' learning engagement and peer attachment from the school environment promotes girls' learning engagement. This study's results suggest that future attachment-based interventions aimed at contributing to children's academic development should focus on teacher-student relationships for both boys and girls, on mother-child relationships for boys, and on peer relationships for girls.</p>","PeriodicalId":37867,"journal":{"name":"BMC Psychology","volume":"13 1","pages":"314"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2025-03-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11954180/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143744296","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":"Can an active lifestyle maintain cognitive efficiency in older adults? A pilot study of the relationship between physical activity and graphic fluency.","authors":"Noemi Passarello, Emahnuel Troisi Lopez, Onofrio Gigliotta, Patrizia Turriziani, Fabio Lucidi, Laura Mandolesi","doi":"10.1186/s40359-025-02466-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s40359-025-02466-w","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Physical activity (PA) significantly impacts brain function and counteracts age-related changes in cognitive and motor abilities.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>This pilot study delved into exploring the cognitive benefits of PA in older adults, focusing on their fluency abilities. We assessed verbal and graphic fluency in 45 older participants (mean age = 68.11 ± 3.34 years) using the Fluency Test (FAS) and modified Five-Points Test (m-FPT). They were divided into Active and Sedentary based on International Physical Activity Questionnaire cut-off scores.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The results revealed significant findings regarding the relationship between PA level and executive functions. Generalized linear model analyses indicated that sedentary individuals exhibited poorer performance in the number of unique drawings, drawings performed with a cognitive strategy, and strategy index (ISs). Regarding gender differences, we found a significant positive prediction of verbal fluency abilities in males compared to females. However, no significant effects of gender were observed for the m-FPT.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>These preliminary findings strengthen existing evidence highlighting PA's beneficial impact on cognitive function in older adults. This study highlights a distinctive support for graphic abilities over verbal fluency due to PA, emphasizing a specific connection to cognitive efficacy. It also prompts consideration of graphic fluency as a possible marker for successful ageing.</p>","PeriodicalId":37867,"journal":{"name":"BMC Psychology","volume":"13 1","pages":"312"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2025-03-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11951568/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143744295","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":"Visual contextual perception and user emotional feedback in visual communication design.","authors":"Jiayi Zhu","doi":"10.1186/s40359-025-02615-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s40359-025-02615-1","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>With the advent of the information era, the significance of visual communication design has escalated within the realm of increasingly prevalent network applications. Addressing the deficiency observed in prevailing sentiment analysis approaches in visual communication design, which predominantly leverage the holistic image information while overlooking the nuances inherent in the localized regions that accentuate emotion, coupled with the inadequacy in semantically mining diverse channel features.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>This paper introduces a dual-attention multilayer feature fusion-based methodology denoted as DA-MLCNN. Initially, a multilayer convolutional neural network (CNN) feature extraction architecture is devised to effectuate the amalgamation of both overall and localized features, thereby extracting both high-level and low-level features inherent in the image. Furthermore, the integration of a spatial attention mechanism fortifies the low-level features, while a channel attention mechanism bolsters the high-level features. Ultimately, the features augmented by the attention mechanisms are harmonized to yield semantically enriched discerning visual features for training sentiment classifiers.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>This culminates in attaining classification accuracies of 79.8% and 55.8% on the Twitter 2017 and Emotion ROI datasets, respectively. Furthermore, the method attains classification accuracies of 89%, 94%, and 91% for the three categories of sadness, surprise, and joy on the Emotion ROI dataset.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>The efficacy demonstrated on dichotomous and multicategorical emotion image datasets underscores the capacity of the proposed approach to acquire more discriminative visual features, thereby enhancing the landscape of visual sentiment analysis. The elevated performance of the visual sentiment analysis method serves to catalyze innovative advancements in visual communication design, offering designers expanded prospects and possibilities.</p>","PeriodicalId":37867,"journal":{"name":"BMC Psychology","volume":"13 1","pages":"313"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2025-03-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11951664/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143744297","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}