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{"title":"Perceived service quality and tourist' pro-environmental behavior: The mediating role of destination psychological ownership and the moderating role of self-improvement motivation.","authors":"Liu Ding, Ruyou Li, Lei Zhu, Zhimeng Xu","doi":"10.1186/s40359-026-05141-w","DOIUrl":"10.1186/s40359-026-05141-w","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The paramount significance of tourist' pro-environmental behavior (TPEB) in propelling the sustainable evolution of tourist destinations cannot be underscored sufficiently. Despite the ubiquitous acknowledgment of perceived service quality (PSQ) as a pivotal antecedent to nurturing favorable tourist experiences and behaviors, the specific mechanisms underlying its influence on TPEB remains under-explored. This study proposes a moderated mediation model to delve into the intricate interplay between PSQ and TPEB, by examining the mediating influence of destination psychological ownership (DPO) and the moderating effect of self-improvement motivation (SIM) within the context of vacation tourism. Utilizing structural equation modeling (SEM) and the bootstrap method, we analyzed data collected from a sample of 501 tourists. The findings indicate that PSQ exerts a positive effect on TPEB, and this relationship is partially mediated by DPO. Furthermore, SIM emerges as a salient moderator, amplifying both the direct and indirect effects of DPO on TPEB. This study contributes to a deeper comprehension of the underlying mechanisms that shape TPEB and enriches the literature on DPO within the tourism domain. Additionally, the insights garnered have implications for tourism management practices aimed at effectively promoting TPEB.</p>","PeriodicalId":37867,"journal":{"name":"BMC Psychology","volume":"14 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2026-08-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13681934/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149228875","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":"S-FAME: a low-threshold municipal social services intervention for digital media-related family difficulties in children aged 10-14 years: protocol for a randomized controlled trial.","authors":"Sabina Kapetanovic, Emma Claesdotter-Knutsson","doi":"10.1186/s40359-026-05302-x","DOIUrl":"10.1186/s40359-026-05302-x","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Problematic gaming and broader digital media-related family difficulties are increasingly encountered not only in specialist mental health services but also in everyday municipal support services. Sweden's new Social Services Act strengthens municipalities' responsibility to provide early, accessible, and knowledge-based support, creating both an opportunity and an obligation to evaluate whether structured, family-centered programs can be delivered effectively in this setting. The present protocol therefore addresses whether S-FAME, a social-services adaptation of the FAME model, can be implemented and evaluated as a low-threshold, preventive support within Swedish municipal social services. This randomized controlled trial aims to evaluate the effectiveness, implementation feasibility, acceptability, and health economic consequences of S-FAME. Specifically, the trial will test whether S-FAME reduces child screen-related problems and improves parent-child relationship outcomes compared with treatment as usual followed by access to a brief parent-focused digital intervention, and will examine whether changes in parenting behaviors mediate changes in child outcomes.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Families with children aged 10-14 years who seek municipal social services support because of digital media use (including gaming and excessive social media use) or related family conflict will be recruited from participating municipalities. Atleast176 families will be randomized in a 1:1 ratio to immediate S-FAME or a condition consisting of regular support from social services during the study period and subsequent access to P-FAME, a three-session online intervention for parents. S-FAME is delivered by trained municipal staff and retains selected family-centered principles from FAME while adapting content, referral pathways, risk management, and implementation procedures to preventive social services. Quantitative outcomes will be collected at baseline, postintervention, and 1-month follow-up. Qualitative interviews and focus groups will explore family and staff experiences, implementation fit, and the balance between fidelity and local adaptation. A health economic evaluation will estimate implementation costs and potential cost-effectiveness from municipal and broader societal perspectives.</p><p><strong>Discussion: </strong>Recruitment is planned to begin in February 2026 and end in December 2026. Final analyses of trial outcomes, qualitative implementation data, and health economic data are planned for the first quarter of 2027.</p><p><strong>Trial registration: </strong>ClinicalTrials.gov NCT07245862 approval date April 20, 2026 (ongoing trial).</p>","PeriodicalId":37867,"journal":{"name":"BMC Psychology","volume":"14 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2026-08-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13463398/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148713942","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":"Nature contact and adolescent paper-reuse behavior: place attachment versus climate anxiety in a two-wave study of Chinese adolescents.","authors":"Kun Shang, Siyuan Wei, Bo Hu","doi":"10.1186/s40359-026-05293-9","DOIUrl":"10.1186/s40359-026-05293-9","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Nature contact is often linked to pro-environmental behavior, but the psychological processes connecting these experiences to later behavior remain unclear. This study examined reusing paper and compared two theoretically distinct pathways: a positive-bonding pathway through place attachment and a threat-mobilization pathway through climate anxiety.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>A two-wave longitudinal study was conducted among 504 Chinese adolescents nested in 15 classrooms. They reported their nature contact during school days, after school, and on weekends, place attachment, climate anxiety, and paper-reuse behavior. Classroom random-intercept models, cluster-adjusted parallel indirect-association models, and exploratory cross-level interaction models were used.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Among the three contexts of nature contact, only weekend nature contact was positively associated with later paper-reuse behavior in the separate-context model (p = .031). The indirect association through place attachment was positive, whereas the corresponding estimate through climate anxiety was not significant. Continuous classroom friendship reciprocity did not reliably moderate the focal associations.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>For adolescents, weekend nature contact was associated with later paper-reuse behavior and the finding are consistent with an indirect-association account involving place attachment. Future research could further validate the underlying mechanisms involved.</p>","PeriodicalId":37867,"journal":{"name":"BMC Psychology","volume":"14 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2026-08-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13560292/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148931625","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":"Trust formation and fairness perception in GenAI: the divergent psychological pathways of computer science and business-related students.","authors":"Chenye Jia, Haitao Li, Lei Wu, Zheng Xu, Lin Shen, Yu Liu, Dongxuan Wang","doi":"10.1186/s40359-026-05339-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s40359-026-05339-y","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>The rapid proliferation of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) in higher education raises critical concerns regarding educational equity. However, the psychological mechanisms linking algorithmic characteristics to students' perceptions of fairness remain underexplored. Integrating fairness heuristic theory, privacy calculus theory, and the technology acceptance model, this study examines how GenAI attributes influence perceived educational fairness and explores differences between computer science students and students in selected business-related majors.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Survey data were collected from 419 Chinese university students using a purposive sampling method, including 222 computer science students and 197 students in business-related majors. A covariance-based structural equation modeling approach was utilized to analyze the pathways through which GenAI algorithms influence perceived educational fairness, alongside a multi-group analysis to evaluate the structural differences between the disciplinary groups.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Structural equation modeling reveals that algorithmic transparency enhances perceived algorithmic fairness (β = 0.434, p < 0.001), which sequentially builds technological trust (β = 0.582, p < 0.001). This trust positively influences perceived learning impact (β = 0.551, p < 0.001) and perceived educational fairness (β = 0.425, p < 0.001). Data privacy concerns negatively affect technological trust (β = -0.090, p = 0.037). Crucially, multi-group analysis uncovered divergent psychological pathways between disciplinary groups. The positive effect of transparency on perceived algorithmic fairness was stronger among students in business-related majors than among computer science students (β = 0.597 vs. 0.257, p = 0.022), whereas the negative association between data privacy concerns and technological trust was statistically significant only within the computer science group (β = -0.154, p = 0.027). Furthermore, perceived learning impact mediated the trust-fairness relationship only among computer science students (B = 0.158, p < 0.001). Conversely, the mediating effect of perceived algorithmic fairness between transparency and trust was stronger among students in business-related majors than among computer science students (B = 0.329 vs. 0.134, p = 0.017).</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>This study provides a nuanced explanation of how GenAI influences students' perceptions of educational fairness, offering insights for designing inclusive AI-driven educational environments. Furthermore, it highlights that preventing GenAI from exacerbating the digital divide requires differentiated governance strategies tailored to the distinct cognitive pathways of students from different academic majors.</p>","PeriodicalId":37867,"journal":{"name":"BMC Psychology","volume":"14 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2026-08-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13471541/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148763814","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":"A lifespan perspective on stress and happiness: a qualitative metaphor analysis of young and older adults.","authors":"Kamile Öner","doi":"10.1186/s40359-026-05304-9","DOIUrl":"10.1186/s40359-026-05304-9","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>This study examines the metaphorical perceptions of 'stress' and 'happiness' among older and younger individuals.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>The sample consisted of 367 participants (185 young adults and 182 older adults). Data were collected through a structured form including sociodemographic questions and open-ended prompts (e.g., \"Stress is like… because…\"; \"Happiness is like… because…\"). Metaphors were analyzed using qualitative content analysis to identify recurring thematic patterns.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Among older individuals, the most frequently used metaphors for stress were illness, loneliness, and pain, while metaphors for happiness included health, family, money, and prayer. In contrast, younger individuals most commonly associated stress with illness, sadness, anxiety, and fear, whereas happiness was metaphorically linked to chocolate, butterflies, and peace. The findings suggest that older individuals' metaphorical perceptions of stress and happiness tend to be more enduring and grounded in quality-of-life factors such as health, social ties, and spirituality. In contrast, younger individuals' perceptions tended to be more emotionally driven and shaped by personal, immediate life experiences.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>This study contributes to understanding subjective well-being through age-related differences and provides implications for the development of age-appropriate psychological interventions.</p>","PeriodicalId":37867,"journal":{"name":"BMC Psychology","volume":"14 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2026-08-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13556026/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148913486","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":"Neural correlates of response inhibition following cognitive behavioral therapy in obsessive-compulsive disorder: a randomized controlled EEG study.","authors":"Metin Çınaroğlu, Selami Varol Ülker, Eda Yılmazer, Gökben Hızlı Sayar","doi":"10.1186/s40359-026-05201-1","DOIUrl":"10.1186/s40359-026-05201-1","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) with exposure and response prevention is an established treatment for obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), yet the electrophysiological indices through which symptom improvement occurs remain incompletely understood. Response inhibition deficits have been implicated in OCD and may represent a key neurocognitive target of treatment. The present randomized controlled trial (Clinicaltrials.gov registiration no: NCT07000812) examined whether CBT is associated with changes in behavioral and electrophysiological indices of response inhibition.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Sixty adults meeting DSM-5 criteria for OCD were randomized to a 12-week CBT program (n = 30) or a waitlist control condition (n = 30). Clinical severity was assessed using the Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale (Y-BOCS), alongside measures of obsessive beliefs and intolerance of uncertainty. Response inhibition was evaluated using a Go/No-Go task while electroencephalography was recorded. Mean No-Go P3 amplitude (300-600 ms) at frontocentral regions of interest served as the primary neural outcome. Assessments were conducted at baseline and post-treatment.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Relative to the waitlist group, participants receiving CBT showed a significant reduction in OCD symptom severity, accompanied by improvements in obsessive beliefs and intolerance of uncertainty. Behavioral performance indicated a reduction in commission errors on No-Go trials following CBT. Electrophysiologically, a significant Group × Time interaction was observed for No-Go P3 amplitude, reflecting an increase from pre- to post-treatment in the CBT group, with no meaningful change in the waitlist group. No baseline differences were observed between groups.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>CBT for OCD was associated with both clinical improvement and enhanced neural indices of response inhibition, as reflected by increased No-Go P3 amplitude. These findings suggest that therapeutic change in OCD may involve increased engagement of electrophysiological indices supporting response inhibition. Integrating electrophysiological measures with clinical outcomes may help clarify the neurocognitive processes underlying effective psychological interventions.</p>","PeriodicalId":37867,"journal":{"name":"BMC Psychology","volume":"14 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2026-08-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13563982/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148931672","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":"Trauma burden, coping patterns, and psychological symptoms in Ahiska Turkish children and adolescents displaced following the Ukraine war: a cross-sectional study.","authors":"Elif Abanoz, Mehmet Karadag, Bahadir Turan, Omer Faruk Tevrizci, Onur Burak Dursun","doi":"10.1186/s40359-026-05333-4","DOIUrl":"10.1186/s40359-026-05333-4","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>War-related displacement may affect youth mental health through direct trauma exposure, family-level trauma burden, and coping processes. Ahiska Turkish families displaced after the Ukraine war are a historically important group because recent displacement may occur against a background of repeated forced migration and intergenerational adversity. This study examined associations between trauma burden, coping patterns, posttraumatic stress symptoms, child trauma-related symptoms, and general psychological distress in displaced Ahiska Turkish youth.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>This cross-sectional observational study analyzed data from 50 Ahiska Turkish children and adolescents brought to Türkiye following displacement related to the war in Ukraine. Participants completed the PTSD Checklist for DSM-5 (PCL-5), Children's Revised Impact of Event Scale (CRIES-8), 12-item General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-12), Turkish Ways of Coping Inventory, and Perceived Ability to Cope With Trauma (PACT) scale. Derived variables included child trauma load, parent trauma load, family total trauma load, adaptive coping, and maladaptive coping. Spearman correlations, hierarchical ordinary least squares regression models with HC3 robust standard errors, and sensitivity regression models were used.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The mean age was 15.60 years (SD = 0.76), and 54.0% of participants were male. Witnessing explosions was the most frequent exposure (80.0%), and in 60.0% of cases both the child and parent were exposed. Child, parent, and family trauma load were positively associated with GHQ-12 scores in bivariate analyses. CRIES-8 scores were associated with helpless coping (rho = 0.37, p < .01) and maladaptive coping (rho = 0.34, p < .05). In hierarchical models, no individual predictor significantly explained PCL-5 scores. In sensitivity analyses, maladaptive coping predicted higher CRIES-8 scores (B = 0.57, SE = 0.25, p = .024), whereas no predictor remained significant for GHQ-12 scores.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Family-level trauma burden was associated with general distress in bivariate analyses, while maladaptive coping was the most consistent correlate of trauma-related symptoms. These findings support trauma-informed and family-oriented mental health interventions that directly address helpless and submissive coping patterns.</p><p><strong>Trial registration: </strong>Not applicable.</p>","PeriodicalId":37867,"journal":{"name":"BMC Psychology","volume":"14 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2026-08-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13651308/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149138603","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":"Prevalence, characteristics, and emotional effects of school bullying among Grade 5-6 students in Hat Yai, southern Thailand: a cross-sectional study.","authors":"Pim Srimekarat, Napakkawat Buathong, Ruthaychonnee Sittichai, Pitchayanont Ngamchaliew","doi":"10.1186/s40359-026-05346-z","DOIUrl":"10.1186/s40359-026-05346-z","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>School bullying is a common form of youth violence and an adverse experience with well-established effects on mental health and development. Thailand reports one of the highest prevalence rates globally. However, evidence concerning bullying in primary school populations, particularly in the southern region of Thailand, remains limited. This study examined the prevalence and characteristics of traditional bullying and cyberbullying and identified the factors associated with bullying roles among students in Grades 5 and 6 in Hat Yai, southern Thailand.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>We conducted a school-based, cross-sectional survey in one public and one private primary school. A total of 291 students participated. Data were collected using self-administered questionnaires, including the Thai versions of the Revised Olweus Bully/Victim Questionnaire, the Cyber-Aggression Perpetration/Victimization Scale, and the Patient Health Questionnaire for Adolescents. Students were classified as victims, bullies, bully-victims, and those not involved. Associated factors were identified using multinomial logistic regression and reported using relative-risk ratios (RRRs) with 95% confidence intervals (CIs).</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Overall, 78.7% of the participants were involved in bullying, with bully-victims constituting the largest group (44.7%), followed by victims (30.2%) and bullies (3.8%); a sensitivity analysis restricted to the two global R-OBVQ items yielded an involvement prevalence of 59.1%. Verbal bullying was the most common form of bullying, and incidents frequently occurred in unsupervised areas in the school. Moderate-to-severe depressive symptoms were strongly associated with bullying involvement, particularly with being a bully-victim. In adjusted analyses, attending a private school (RRR 4.48, 95% CI 1.97-10.22) and authoritarian parenting (RRR 4.20, 95% CI 1.24-14.21) were independently associated with a higher relative risk of being a bully-victim, whereas shorter-than-average stature was associated with a lower relative risk (RRR 0.27, 95% CI 0.08-0.93). Cyberbullying was uncommon (5.2%) and was not significantly associated with bullying roles.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Bullying involvement is highly prevalent among primary school students in southern Thailand, with bully-victims constituting the largest and the most vulnerable group in terms of mental health. These findings highlight the need to integrate mental health screening, parenting-focused interventions, and improved supervision within school environments to prevent school bullying.</p>","PeriodicalId":37867,"journal":{"name":"BMC Psychology","volume":"14 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2026-08-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13595759/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149018254","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 interpersonal neural synchronization during same-gender closeness-building interactions among strangers: an fNIRS hyperscanning study.","authors":"Yuhang Li, Shibo Zhou, Liutong Ou, Yilin Hu, Xiuyun Lin, Qi Zhao, Rihui Li, Peilian Chi","doi":"10.1186/s40359-026-05129-6","DOIUrl":"10.1186/s40359-026-05129-6","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Self-disclosure, sharing of personal information, is crucial for initiating and deepening interpersonal relationships. Although it has been consistently shown that mutual self-disclosure fosters closeness between strangers, the underlying dual brain neural mechanism remains unexplored. This study aims to uncover these gender-modulated differences and their underlying neural mechanisms.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>We investigated the interpersonal neural synchronization (INS) among zero-history, same-gender strangers. We applied the functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) hyperscanning technique to simultaneously measure the brain hemodynamic activities of 32 female and 30 male dyads. Participants engaged in an adapted Fast Friends paradigm, featuring a naturalistic interaction progression from superficial \"small talk\" to incrementally escalating levels of mutual self-disclosure.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The structured interactions elicited significant increases in self-disclosure, emotional arousal, and perceived interpersonal closeness as the tasks progressed from the no-disclosure stage to increasingly intimate self-disclosure stages. This psychological escalation was accompanied by significantly enhanced INS between the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) and temporoparietal junction (TPJ) exclusively during the deep self-disclosure stage relative to the no-disclosure stage. Crucially, gender significantly moderated the relationship between this cross-regional coupling and relationship-building outcomes (closeness: β = -0.386, p_FDR = .025). For female-female dyads, INS significantly mediated the relationship between self-disclosure and closeness (indirect effect = 0.03); however, these associative and mediation pathways were entirely absent in male-male dyads.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>These findings illuminate the dual-brain neural underpinnings of relationship initiation, highlighting that relationship formation between females may rely more heavily on emotional verbal expression and INS than their male peers. This advances theoretical models of social cognition and offers insights into developing strategies for various social settings.</p>","PeriodicalId":37867,"journal":{"name":"BMC Psychology","volume":"14 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2026-08-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13595777/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149018191","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":"Effects of sleep quality on the offline storage state of visual working memory.","authors":"Li Gong, Jinghan Chen, Xiaojing Li, Qiang Liu","doi":"10.1186/s40359-026-05342-3","DOIUrl":"10.1186/s40359-026-05342-3","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>Visual working memory (VWM) is a core cognitive function in humans, which enables flexible and efficient storage of visual information from complex contexts into either online or offline states in accordance with current task demands. Among these two states, the offline state demonstrates greater advantages in resisting interference and stabilizing stored information. Previous research has demonstrated that an individual's sleep quality can predict performance in VWM tasks. However, these studies have primarily focused on the online storage state of VWM. To date, there remains unclear whether sleep quality affects the offline storage state, and whether its influence differs between the two distinct storage states. This study aimed to clarify the behavioral association between sleep quality and VWM online and offline storage performance.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>The present study employed a mixed experimental design, combining the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index with a sequential presentation retrieval paradigm to examine the effects of sleep quality on different storage states of VWM. Valid data were obtained from 76 volunteers (mean age = 19.95 ± 1.72 years, male proportion = 27.63%). All participants completed the standard Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index assessment to obtain comprehensive subjective sleep quality scores, which were adopted as the core predictive indicator for subsequent behavioral correlation analysis.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The experimental results showed that the total score of participants' sleep quality was significantly negatively correlated with VWM accuracy in both online and offline states. In addition, for VWM accuracy, the main effects of sleep quality and VWM storage state were significant, and a significant interaction effect between sleep quality and storage state was also observed. Simple effect analyses further revealed that participants with higher sleep quality exhibited significantly higher VWM accuracy in the offline state compared with those with lower sleep quality. For VWM reaction time, only a significant main effect of VWM storage state was identified.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>These behavioral findings indicate that sleep quality exerts differential influences on distinct VWM storage states. Specifically, poor sleep quality imposes a more pronounced detrimental effect on VWM offline accuracy relative to the online state. This study provides empirical behavioral evidence supporting the differentiation between online and offline VWM storage states and supplements existing research on the association between sleep quality and VWM performance.</p>","PeriodicalId":37867,"journal":{"name":"BMC Psychology","volume":"14 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2026-08-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13587488/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148991839","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}