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Is academic anxiety good or bad for students? Investigating the moderating effects of anxiety on the reciprocal relations between self-efficacy and achievement in mathematics
This longitudinal research, grounded in Bandura’s social cognitive theory, examined the cross-lagged relations between mathematics self-efficacy (MSE) and mathematics achievement (MACH), and tested how mathema...
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Open AccessPlasma Amino Acid Profile in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder in Southern China: Analysis of 110 Cases
To retrospectively explore the characteristics of plasma amino acids (PAAs) in children with autism spectrum disorder and their clinical association via case-control study. A total of 110 autistic and 55 healt...
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Parental Attachment and Fear of Missing Out among Chinese Adolescents: A Moderated Mediation Model
This study explored the effects of parental attachment, self-differentiation, and difficulties in emotion regulation on Chinese adolescents’ fear of missing out (FoMO) in 1,355 junior high school students. Aft...
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Open AccessEffects of short-video use on undergraduates’ weight- loss intention: a regulatory mediation model
This research intends to explore the effects of short video use on college students’ weight loss intentions, and its intrinsic mechanism of action, based on the responses of 1268 students from three universiti...
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The Relationship between Exercise Behavior and Mental Health during the COVID-19 Epidemic: Research Based on the Weibo Exercise Behavior User Dictionary
In the context of COVID-19, people face conditions of great stress and are susceptible to negative emotions such as worry, fear, and doubt. Therefore, the focus of epidemic prevention should be on mental healt...
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The Chinese version of the Digital Stress Scale: Evaluation of psychometric properties
Digital stress describes the stress and anxiety that accompanies notifications and alerts from and the usage of mobile and social media. According to recent studies, digital stress may help to explain the vari...
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Relationship between social support, co** strategy against COVID-19, and anxiety among home-quarantined Chinese university students: A path analysis modeling approach
With the continued spread of the COVID-19 pandemic and the strict implementation of quarantine policy, the levels of anxiety among university students surged in the lockdown period. Previous studies confirmed ...
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Autistic Traits and Empathy for Others’ Pain Among the General Population: Test of the Mediating Effects of First-Hand Pain Sensitivity
Autism spectrum disorders (ASD) are characterized by reduced pain empathy—a process that is grounded in first-hand pain perception. Because autistic traits are continuously distributed in the general populatio...
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Open AccessAging and distractor resistance in working memory: Does emotional valence matter?
Emotional stimuli used as targets of working memory (WM) tasks can moderate age-related differences in WM performance, showing that aging is associated with reductions in negativity bias. This phenomenon is re...
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In COVID-19 Health Messaging, Loss Framing Increases Anxiety with Little-to-No Concomitant Benefits: Experimental Evidence from 84 Countries
The COVID-19 pandemic (and its aftermath) highlights a critical need to communicate health information effectively to the global public. Given that subtle differences in information framing can have meaningful...
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Electrophysiological measures reveal the role of anterior cingulate cortex in learning from unreliable feedback
Although a growing number of studies have investigated the neural mechanisms of reinforcement learning, it remains unclear how the brain responds to feedback that is unreliable. A recent theory proposes that t...