{"title":"The Developmental Trajectory and Influencing Factors of Self-Concept Clarity in Chinese Adolescents: A Latent Transition Analysis.","authors":"Yang Yang, Ying Zou, Yin Qiu, Jianyong Yang","doi":"10.3390/bs15091257","DOIUrl":"10.3390/bs15091257","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study used latent transition analysis to explore the categories of self-concept clarity transformation and their influencing factors among adolescents. A total of 3010 adolescents (<i>Mage</i> = 17.56, <i>SD</i> = 2.61, ranging from 12 to 23 years, 41.23% males) were longitudinally tracked, with assessments of their self-concept clarity conducted three times over half a year. Results showed that (1) there existed heterogeneity in the adolescents' self-concept clarity, with three distinct profiles identified at each time point; and (2) adolescents' self-concept clarity exhibited different transition trajectories. The group with high self-concept clarity revealed higher stability, with those in the low self-concept clarity group tending to shift towards either the moderate self-concept clarity group or the high self-concept clarity group. (3) Parent-child relationships had a more stable impact on adolescents' self-concept clarity subgroups, while peer relationships played a less consistent role. The study advances our understanding of the potential changes in the development of adolescent self-concept clarity profiles in conjunction with the impact of peer relationships and parent-child relationships, but also offers a basis for classification description and intervention practices in enhancing adolescents' self-concept clarity.</p>","PeriodicalId":8742,"journal":{"name":"Behavioral Sciences","volume":"15 9","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2025-09-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12467859/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145172446","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}
Marie Pourquié, Emilie Courteau, Ann-Sophie Duquette, Phaedra Royle
{"title":"Investigation of Lexical and Inflectional Verb Production and Comprehension in French-Speaking Teenagers with Developmental Language Disorders (DLDs).","authors":"Marie Pourquié, Emilie Courteau, Ann-Sophie Duquette, Phaedra Royle","doi":"10.3390/bs15091252","DOIUrl":"10.3390/bs15091252","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Little research has studied verb inflection and argument structure complexity effects in teenagers with developmental language disorders (DLDs). However, verb production and comprehension deficits that characterize younger children with DLD might persist over time. Seventeen French-speaking teenagers with DLD and seventeen controls (typical language, TL group) were tested with fLEX, an application designed to assess lexical and inflectional production and comprehension of three different verb types: intransitives, transitives and ditransitives, i.e., verbs that require none, one or two overt complements. Participants performed three tasks: action naming, sentence production and sentence comprehension involving third singular and plural present tense. Both groups performed similarly on action naming. Subject-verb agreement errors characterized participants with DLD both in sentence production and comprehension; however, verb-argument structure had no effect on any of the tasks. These results characterize verb deficits in teenagers with DLD as affecting inflectional processes rather than lexical ones: they are found in production and comprehension, persist until adolescence and are thus a target for evaluation and intervention in French-speaking teenagers. Results are discussed from a cross-linguistic perspective and in light of current theories on DLD.</p>","PeriodicalId":8742,"journal":{"name":"Behavioral Sciences","volume":"15 9","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2025-09-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12467867/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145172704","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":"Executive Functioning Profiles in Children with Neurodevelopmental Disorders.","authors":"Esperanza Bausela Herreras","doi":"10.3390/bs15091256","DOIUrl":"10.3390/bs15091256","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Antecedents: </strong>From a functional perspective, executive functions-such as self-regulation and meta-cognition-emerge as key dimensions affected transversally across various neurodevelopmental disorders.</p><p><strong>Aim: </strong>The aim of this study is to analyze and compare executive functioning profiles in children with various neurodevelopmental disorders, as reported by parents and teachers. It is hypothesized that children with neurodevelopmental disorders exhibit executive function deficits, as measured by the BRIEF-P, in comparison to typically developing children.</p><p><strong>Methodology: </strong>We used a non-experimental methodology and ex post facto design to perform a descriptive, cross-sectional study.</p><p><strong>Participants: </strong>The normative sample is composed of 1.979 participants with typical (normotypical) development and 205 participants belonging to a clinical sample.</p><p><strong>Measurement: </strong>The instrumental development of EFs was evaluated using BRIEF-P by key informants.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The highest F-values were observed in the following: (i) working memory, (a) parents [F = 195.76, <i>p</i> < 0.001] and (b) teachers: [F = 199.63, <i>p</i> < 0.001]; and (ii) Emergent Metacognition Index, (a) parents [F = 176.15, <i>p</i> < 0.001] and (b) teachers [F = 187.87, <i>p</i> < 0.001]; and (iii) Executive Function Global, (a) parents [F = 168.07, <i>p</i> < 0.001] and (b) teachers [F = 207.47, <i>p</i> < 0.001].</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>This study provides a clear framework for identifying dysexecutive syndrome. Executive functioning is one of the most important abilities, and its disruption can lead to dysexecutive syndrome.</p>","PeriodicalId":8742,"journal":{"name":"Behavioral Sciences","volume":"15 9","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2025-09-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12466697/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145172763","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":"Relational Humor and Identity Framing in the \"Virgin vs. Chad\" Meme Format.","authors":"Ana Yara Postigo-Fuentes","doi":"10.3390/bs15091251","DOIUrl":"10.3390/bs15091251","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Extremist narratives combine two relational dynamics: the in-group is portrayed as both socially superior and simultaneously victimized by an antagonistic out-group, which legitimizes hostility or defensive solutions. Despite their relevance, such narratives remain comparatively understudied. To date, little research has examined how extremist narratives are represented through memes, and particularly how humour operates within memetic forms. This article develops and tests a three-layered analytical framework for examining humour in extremist digital cultures. The framework integrates insights from narrative studies, multimodal discourse analysis, and humour theory to capture how memes condense antagonisms, stabilize symbolic contrasts, and calibrate affective positioning. The <i>Virgin</i> vs. <i>Chad</i> meme format is used as a case study due to its binary archetypal structure and recurrent circulation in Spanish far-right meme ecologies. The study draws on 1225 posts on X (May-August 2024), from which 17 memes employing the format were selected for in-depth qualitative analysis. The findings show that the format performs symbolic compression by staging binary oppositions between in-group and out-group identities, typically valorizing figures associated with nationalism, masculinity, and epistemic certainty while delegitimizing those linked to progressivism, pluralism, or emotional expressiveness. These meanings are stabilized through repeated visual and typographic conventions, including character archetypes, split-panel layouts, and indexical stylization. Humour arises through devices such as irony, reversal, exaggeration, and incongruity, which render these oppositions as recognizable contrasts. By integrating insights from humour theory, narrative framing, and multimodal discourse analysis, the article contributes a methodological model for examining how memes condense and circulate antagonistic distinctions in online political ecologies.</p>","PeriodicalId":8742,"journal":{"name":"Behavioral Sciences","volume":"15 9","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2025-09-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12466765/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145173058","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":"Case Order Effects in Legal Decision-Making.","authors":"Paul Troop, David Lagnado","doi":"10.3390/bs15091250","DOIUrl":"10.3390/bs15091250","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Case order effects, where decision-makers resolve dilemmas differently depending on the order in which cases are presented, are well established in the psychology of moral decision-making. Yet this type of order effect has rarely been studied in a legal context. Given the integral importance of consistency and precedent to the law, we sought to test for the existence of case order effects in legal decisions. Participants across five studies (total <i>n</i> = 1023) were given pairs of life-or-death legal cases to decide, consisting of one decision generally viewed positively in isolation, and one decision negatively viewed, with the order of presentation being varied (positive before negative vs. negative before positive). Studies included civil and criminal cases and individual and group decision-making. Results demonstrated that the case order effects previously seen in the moral context also held in the legal context. Order effects were asymmetric, with responses to one case remaining stable while responses to the other being labile, depending on the order presented. A particularly novel finding was of responses to labile cases becoming less, rather than more, similar to responses to preceding cases. Order effects can be readily triggered in the context of legal decision-making, suggesting legal precedent may be partially dependent on the order in which cases are determined. The asymmetric and previously undiscovered direction of these order effects is not consistent with existing consistency-type theories which predict effects to be symmetrical and more similar to previous cases and the findings are only partially consistent with salience-type theories.</p>","PeriodicalId":8742,"journal":{"name":"Behavioral Sciences","volume":"15 9","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2025-09-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12466634/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145172582","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}
Jennifer LaCosse, E Shirl Donaldson, Thiago Ferreira, Mihai Burzo
{"title":"Using Psychologically Informed Community-Based Participatory Research to Create Culturally Relevant Informal STEM Experiences.","authors":"Jennifer LaCosse, E Shirl Donaldson, Thiago Ferreira, Mihai Burzo","doi":"10.3390/bs15091249","DOIUrl":"10.3390/bs15091249","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Systemic racism, high turnovers of teachers and administrators, and deindustrialization in Flint, Michigan, have created an environment that limits the opportunities of Flint youth to engage in and succeed in STEM. This paper describes a partnership between university researchers and Flint community members formed to start the task of addressing this issue. We took a community-based participatory research (CBPR) approach in which we treated community members as co-creators of informal science experiences (ISEs) that take place outside of the classroom. We also integrated psychological research into our research practices and design. To provide context for our work, we review the current literature on ISE and CBPR. We then share our general approach to forming an understanding of minoritized youths' experiences in STEM in Flint. Next, we discuss how our relationship with the community started, what is working well, the challenges we face, and our recommendations for future researchers. Finally, we discuss the implications of what we have learned and directions for future research.</p>","PeriodicalId":8742,"journal":{"name":"Behavioral Sciences","volume":"15 9","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2025-09-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12466875/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145172781","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":"Capturing the Experience: How Digital Media Affects Memory Retention in Museum Education.","authors":"Serkan Say, Serdar Akbulut, İsmail Yavuz Öztürk","doi":"10.3390/bs15091247","DOIUrl":"10.3390/bs15091247","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study investigates the effects of digital media usage, specifically photo-taking and video recording, on memory retention in the context of museum education. Utilizing a quasi-experimental design, this research involved three groups, each exposed to different conditions: observation without media use, photo-taking, and video recording. A total of 120 university students who participated in the study were divided randomly into groups balanced by working memory capacity. Immediate and delayed recall tests were conducted to assess short-term memory and long-term retention. The results reveal that participants who merely observed the objects exhibited considerably better memory performance compared to those who used digital media. This result is consistent with the cognitive offloading hypothesis and suggests that digital devices weaken memory encoding processes by reducing individuals' internal cognitive resources. The video-recording group exhibited the lowest performance due to the need for sustained attention and increased cognitive load. The photographing group, despite performing lower in the short-term memory test, showed less decline in the long-term memory test than the other groups. This suggests that photographs may serve as a cue in the retrieval process. The research findings reveal that digital media use can have both supportive and disruptive effects in educational environments. In this context, it is important for educators and museum designers to develop strategies that will consciously direct the use of digital tools.</p>","PeriodicalId":8742,"journal":{"name":"Behavioral Sciences","volume":"15 9","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2025-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12466594/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145172664","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":"Experiencing, Regulating, and Expressing Emotions: Gendered and Agentic Pathways of Emotional Labor in Human Services.","authors":"Yean Wang, Shuge Xu, Guanghuai Zheng","doi":"10.3390/bs15091245","DOIUrl":"10.3390/bs15091245","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The expansion of emotional labor into the human services sector has raised concerns about emotional exhaustion and gender inequality, yet the potential for emotional work to serve as a source of motivation and meaning remains underexplored. This study reconceptualizes emotional labor as a dynamic, agentic process encompassing three stages: experiencing, regulating, and expressing emotion. Drawing on a nationally representative, multi-source dataset from the first round of the China Social Work Longitudinal Study (N = 5965), we examine how this emotional process unfolds differently by gender and how professional efficacy mediates the relationship between role ambiguity and work meaningfulness. We further explore how organizational governance-specifically internal governance and governmental support-moderates these relationships. Our findings reveal that women demonstrate stronger emotional regulation and derive greater work meaningfulness through professional efficacy, particularly under low governmental support, whereas men's emotion processes are more direct and enhanced by organizational governance. These results underscore the importance of gender-sensitive and organizationally informed approaches to managing emotional labor. By integrating gendered agency and institutional context, this study offers a new framework for understanding emotional work and vocational development in the human services sector.</p>","PeriodicalId":8742,"journal":{"name":"Behavioral Sciences","volume":"15 9","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2025-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12467929/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145172671","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 Moral Elevation on Children's Implicit and Explicit Prosociality: Evidence from Behavioral and Physiological Responses.","authors":"Qin Wang, Xia Zhou, Lei Xun","doi":"10.3390/bs15091246","DOIUrl":"10.3390/bs15091246","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study investigated how moral elevation affects children's prosocial behavior through two experiments. In Experiment 1 (<i>n</i> = 99; <i>M</i><sub>age</sub> = 10.48 ± 0.86 years), children were randomly assigned to Moral Elevation, Joy, or Neutral groups. Psychophysiological measures were recorded during both the baseline and task phases, while self-reported prosocial behavior was assessed using validated scales. Participants in the Moral Elevation group experienced emotional states marked by inspired, moved, touched, admiration, and uplifted, accompanied by a distinct pattern of sympathetic-parasympathetic coactivation. Although not statistically significant in self-reported measures, a notable pattern emerged wherein Moral Elevation yielded the highest prosocial scores, followed by Joy and then Neutral conditions. Experiment 2 (<i>n</i> = 92; <i>M</i><sub>age</sub> = 10.84 ± 0.76 years) employed a single-category Implicit Association Test (IAT) to assess prosocial behavioral tendencies. The Moral Elevation group exhibited a significantly stronger implicit prosocial bias on the IAT compared to both Joy and Neutral groups. These findings suggest that moral elevation possesses a unique emotional profile separate from general positive affect that activates dual dissociable pathways for children's prosocial behavior: explicit and implicit processes. The study provides empirical support for incorporating moral elevation interventions in educational settings to cultivate integrated prosocial development.</p>","PeriodicalId":8742,"journal":{"name":"Behavioral Sciences","volume":"15 9","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2025-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12467581/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145172720","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}
Keelah E G Williams, Ashley M Votruba, Ross S Eagle
{"title":"Why Motive Matters: The Appraisal of Criminal Aims.","authors":"Keelah E G Williams, Ashley M Votruba, Ross S Eagle","doi":"10.3390/bs15091244","DOIUrl":"10.3390/bs15091244","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In a strict legal sense, motive is often irrelevant in U.S. criminal law. Whether one smothered their grandmother with a pillow to ease her pain or to fraudulently collect her social security benefits, they are legally guilty of murder all the same. Yet anyone who has watched a courtroom drama or sat in the jury box knows the prominent role that establishing motive seems to play in influencing legal decision-makers. Why is motive so pivotal, so psychologically powerful for most people? We briefly review the existing literature on the psychology of motive, then introduce an adaptationist framework as a new lens for examining this question. In particular, we consider how motive assists perceivers in inferring actors' welfare trade-off ratios, with important implications for legal judgments and willingness to punish.</p>","PeriodicalId":8742,"journal":{"name":"Behavioral Sciences","volume":"15 9","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2025-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12466730/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145172816","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}