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  1. We examined the relationships between self-concept clarity, a relatively new addition to the organizational behavior literature, and the well-established constructs of psychological empowerment and intrinsic m...

    Authors: Meryem Özcan, Hülya Gündüz Çekmecelioğlu and Gönül Konakay
    Citation: BMC Psychology 2025 13:470
  2. This study investigates the relationships among teacher self-efficacy, grit, metacognition, and work engagement among secondary school English as a Foreign Language (EFL) teachers in mainland China and Hong Ko...

    Authors: Shenghui Zhou and Haibing Hou
    Citation: BMC Psychology 2025 13:468
  3. Pregnancy involves a combination of physical, social, and emotional changes that can lead to mental health issues, potentially impacting fetal health, childbirth success, and breastfeeding. The present study w...

    Authors: Hadiseh Hajihatamloo, Marzieh Ebrahimi, Vahid Alinejad and Roghieh Bayrami
    Citation: BMC Psychology 2025 13:467
  4. This study aimed to explore the psychological impact of quarantine on health workers during the outbreak of the Marburg disease. The study also explored the coping strategies adopted during the period of quara...

    Authors: George Adjeisah Adjei, Grace Adjei Okai, Herman Kofi Nuake Agboh, Lawrence Ofosu Adjare and Henry Dzackah
    Citation: BMC Psychology 2025 13:466
  5. The impact of positive psychological traits (mindfulness, gratitude, optimism, and hope) on psychological well-being has been studied well. However, the contributions of positive coping strategies and life str...

    Authors: Aamer Aldbyani, Guiyun Wang, Yanxia Qi, Zhang Chuanxia, Jiaojiao Li, Jie Leng and Afnan Alhimaidi
    Citation: BMC Psychology 2025 13:465
  6. Acute stress triggers adaptive physiological responses—including transient increases in inflammatory cytokines—while chronic stress is associated with sustained inflammatory activity that may underlie the deve...

    Authors: Lennart Seizer, Anja Pascher, Sonja Branz, Nadine Schmitt, Johanna Löchner, Björn W. Schuller, Nicolas Rohleder and Tobias J. Renner
    Citation: BMC Psychology 2025 13:464
  7. To investigate the levels of anxiety and depression (A&D) and the association with knowledge, attitudes, and practices among healthcare professionals (HCPs) in Taiwan, Indonesia, and Vietnam.

    Authors: Wei-Cheng Lo, Yi-Chin Huang, Yi-Hao Weng, Mohammad Ainul Maruf, Chung Bui, Mei-Hui Lee, Kang-Yun Lee, Mai-Szu Wu, Ya-Wen Chiu and Hung-Yi Chiou
    Citation: BMC Psychology 2025 13:463
  8. Pregnant and parenting young adults experiencing homelessness (YAEH) face many challenges related to complex circumstances that lead to parent-child separation. This can be emotionally taxing on YAEH who are a...

    Authors: Rebecca Bergh, Cathy Rozmus, Sarah C. Narendorf, Hsun-Ta Hsu and Diane Santa Maria
    Citation: BMC Psychology 2025 13:462
  9. The early primary school years provide a unique opportunity for improving executive functions on a classroom-wide scale. While mindfulness, music, and movement have each demonstrated effectiveness in enhancing...

    Authors: Bronwyn M. Theroux, Ned Chandler-Mather, Jessica Paynter, Sharon Dawe and Kate E. Williams
    Citation: BMC Psychology 2025 13:460
  10. Loot boxes are randomized reward mechanics in modern video games that share features with conventional gambling products. Research studies have begun to test longitudinal patterns (“migration”) from engagement...

    Authors: Lucas Palmer, Gabriel A. Brooks and Luke Clark
    Citation: BMC Psychology 2025 13:459
  11. Nurses play a significant role in providing care and support to patients in the healthcare system. However, their role can often lead to high stress levels and psychiatric distress. This study aimed to examine...

    Authors: Hossein Ebrahimi, Farnaz Rahmani and Khadijeh Ghorbani
    Citation: BMC Psychology 2025 13:458
  12. Excessive anxiety is a common and hazardous mental disorder, especially in medical education. Positive psychology has proposed an effective path to reduce anxiety among medical students through mindset change....

    Authors: Xiao-Jing Yang, Yu-Tian Gan, Zi-Jiao Wang, Jian-Ye Wang, Xiao-Jian Duan, Xing Ma, Tao Sun, De-Pin Cao and Shu-E Zhang
    Citation: BMC Psychology 2025 13:457
  13. To assess the effect of music therapy in improving chronic pain (CP), anxiety, depression, and quality of life using randomized controlled trials, and to explore the role of various moderators in MT effectiven...

    Authors: Siqing Chen, Qiao yuan, Chenchen Wang, Jing Ye and Lili Yang
    Citation: BMC Psychology 2025 13:455
  14. As artificial intelligence (AI) technology quickly grows, college students have new worries and fears. Using Marx’s theory of labour alienation, this study explores the complex relationship between college stu...

    Authors: Ruihua Li, Jianwei Ouyang, Jianwei Lin and Sha Ouyang
    Citation: BMC Psychology 2025 13:454
  15. The current study aims to explore the efficacy of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) in normalizing social learning capabilities and its underlying neural processes among patients with MDD, in terms of enhanci...

    Authors: Yuening Jin, Si Zu, Pengchong Wang, Fangrui Sheng, Xue Wang, Yun Wang, Qun Chen, Jie Zhong, Fang Yan, Jia Zhou, Zhanjiang Li and Yuan Zhou
    Citation: BMC Psychology 2025 13:453
  16. Primary schoolteachers play a pivotal role in the education of children, highlighting the importance of addressing their psychological well-being and mental health. While the Depression, Anxiety, and Stress Sc...

    Authors: Xu Wang, Cui-Hong Cao, Xiao-Ling Liao, Xing-Yong Jiang, Mark D. Griffiths, I-Hua Chen, Chung-Ying Lin and Olga Malas
    Citation: BMC Psychology 2025 13:450
  17. Addiction to video games can negatively affect cognitive and social functioning. We aim to validate the Video Game Addiction Scale for Children (VASC) among Iranian children aged 8–13 in this study. This study...

    Authors: Nima Rabiei, Saeid Sadeghi, Nahal Ranaei and Nikzad Ghanbari
    Citation: BMC Psychology 2025 13:449
  18. Mental health problems are prevalent among Chinese college students, with gender differences in symptom presentation. Network analysis provides a novel approach to investigate the complex interactions between ...

    Authors: Wenshu Fan, Huoyin Zhang, Peng Lei, Yue Tang, Juan Du and Junyi Li
    Citation: BMC Psychology 2025 13:448
  19. Due to organizational structures, there is a gap between psychiatric and dental care services that limits collaboration and knowledge sharing, and this can have a negative impact on patients’ oral health or ge...

    Authors: Charlotte Johansson, Linda Beckman, Ingrid Rystedt, Ann-Catrin André Kramer and Ulrika Lindmark
    Citation: BMC Psychology 2025 13:446
  20. The SMART program improves students’ memory, reasoning, and strategic thinking skills, crucial for academic success and career planning. This study explored the effect of Strategic Memory Advanced Reasoning Tr...

    Authors: Amir Mahmood, Nadia Rehman, Xiao Huang and Noushin Zamani
    Citation: BMC Psychology 2025 13:445
  21. The primary purpose of the Loving-kindness and Compassion Meditations (LKCM) in Buddhism was the cultivation of kindness, but many modern LKCM trainings focused on happiness, and even used the “kindness for ha...

    Authors: Yanhe Deng, Taoyuan Du, Xianglong Zeng and Wen Wang
    Citation: BMC Psychology 2025 13:443
  22. New venture ideas denotes “imagined future ventures”, which are vital for undergraduates’ entrepreneurial success. As existing studies concentrating more on entrepreneurial opportunity, intention, and behavior...

    Authors: Caiyun Li and Rui Hu
    Citation: BMC Psychology 2025 13:442
  23. Infants and young children often experience unintentional injuries at home, which are a significant public health concern worldwide. This study investigated the contents and types of accident prevention practi...

    Authors: Yasuo Kojima
    Citation: BMC Psychology 2025 13:441
  24. Many young people experience at least subthreshold depression symptoms which impact their functioning. Yet, access to evidence-based help is limited, with barriers such as service thresholds, stigma, and lack ...

    Authors: N. Higson-Sweeney, S. Dallison, E. Craddock, B. Teague, C. Payne-Cook, J. Leas, A. V. Slastikova, H. Peel, L. Biddle and M. E. Loades
    Citation: BMC Psychology 2025 13:439
  25. Since children left behind in rural areas are more prone to aggressive behavior due to incomplete families or inappropriate parenting styles, it is essential to identify influencing factors and potential mecha...

    Authors: Aiai Xu, Xiaobing Luo, Guangzhen Zhou and Changfen Lu
    Citation: BMC Psychology 2025 13:438
  26. Eudaimonic well-being, a key construct in positive psychology, is linked to both mental and physical health in college students. This study investigated how different intensities of physical activity (PA) corr...

    Authors: Zhanjia Zhang, Jiajin Tong, Zhonghui He and Xin Qi
    Citation: BMC Psychology 2025 13:437
  27. Emotion dysregulation is a common concern in autistic youth. Growing evidence suggests emotion dysregulation underlies multiple co-occurring issues in autism, including externalizing (e.g., aggression, irritab...

    Authors: Walker S. McKinney, Lauren J. Tadevich, Lauren M. Schmitt, Paul S. Horn, Jennnifer R. Ruberg, Susan W. White, Debra L. Reisinger, Karen W. Burkett, Shivali Sarawgi, Sungeun Kang and Rebecca C. Shaffer
    Citation: BMC Psychology 2025 13:436
  28. Life-threatening conditions such as cancer can evoke demoralization, which is characterized by feelings of meaninglessness, hopelessness, and helplessness. Assessing demoralization in cancer patients is crucia...

    Authors: Nur Nihal Türkel, Muhammed Hakan Aksu, Alper Türkel, Öztürk Ateş and Behçet Coşar
    Citation: BMC Psychology 2025 13:435
  29. Family emotional expression is considered one of the key contributors to children’s development and functions as a precondition that is linked with educational equality in the preschool living environment for ...

    Authors: Huijuan Liu and Ling Li
    Citation: BMC Psychology 2025 13:433
  30. The perceived social stigma of caregivers of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) may negatively affect caregivers’ mental health and, consequently, the quality of care for these children. Religious an...

    Authors: Mahmoud Shokouhi-Tabar, Maedeh Maarefi, Elham Abbasi Yazdi, Masoud Hassanvand-Amouzadeh, Elham Alimadadi and Zahra Taheri-Kharameh
    Citation: BMC Psychology 2025 13:432
  31. This study explores the interrelationships among emotional intelligence, conflict resolution skills, sense of belonging, and life satisfaction among university students in Mainland China. Drawing from Baumeist...

    Authors: Yun Liu, Bin Zeng and Liang Chang
    Citation: BMC Psychology 2025 13:431
  32. This empirical investigation examines the mediating mechanisms through which unethical leadership influences employee work deviant behavior in the healthcare sector, specifically focusing on psychological empo...

    Authors: Gaofeng Wang, Naseer Abbas Khan, Maria Akhtar and Asma Batool
    Citation: BMC Psychology 2025 13:430
  33. Parents of children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) often experience high levels of parental stress. This has exacerbated during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. The aim o...

    Authors: Tsui Yuk Law, Daniel Bressington, Jiayin Ruan, Wai Kit Wong and Yim Wah Mak
    Citation: BMC Psychology 2025 13:429
  34. There is evidence to suggest that individuals with the personality trait of shyness are more prone to depression, and a possible key factor in the process of shyness leading to depression is core self-evaluati...

    Authors: Lin Liu, Hailing Jia, Baiyang Qiu, Anbang Zhang and Qian Zhang
    Citation: BMC Psychology 2025 13:428
  35. This empirical study investigates the impact of various variables on the potential novelty and adoption level of breaking as an official event in the 2024 Paris Olympics and how these factors influence media e...

    Authors: Seung-jae Lim, Sun-young Lim and Jeoung-hak Lee
    Citation: BMC Psychology 2025 13:427
  36. A lack of understanding about the needs of people in Middle Eastern and Islamic contexts living with mental health disorders, and their experiences of diagnosis-related social and personal stigma inhibits high...

    Authors: Loujain Sharif, Rawan Babhair, Diana Alzahrani, Alanoud Abuladel, Amani Kabli, Raghad Alzahrani, Lujain Alghamdi, Alaa Mahsoon, Khalid Sharif, Ruba Alharazi and Rebecca Wright
    Citation: BMC Psychology 2025 13:425
  37. Since the cold war, the population have not felt so much fear about the outbreak of the Third World War, sensation revived with the conflict between Russia and Ukraine.

    Authors: Christian R. Mejia, Renzo Felipe Carranza Esteban, Oscar Mamani-Benito, Telmo Raúl Aveiro-Róbalo, Elvira G. Zamora-Huaringa, Leonel Vega-Useche, Valeria J. Padilla-F, Deisy P. Almada-Lesmo, Jorge Andrés Castrillón-Lozano, Alan A. Martínez-Bourdier, Jose Armada, Aldo Alvarez-Risco, Shyla Del-Aguila-Arcentales, Neal M. Davies and Jaime A. Yáñez
    Citation: BMC Psychology 2025 13:423
  38. The recent International Classifications of Diseases-11 (ICD-11) distinction of complex- post-traumatic stress disorder (C-PTSD) from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), has highlighted a research gap in ex...

    Authors: Phoebe Howlett, Theadora Lilian Rose Sudera, Natasha Biscoe, Jo Billings and Dominic Murphy
    Citation: BMC Psychology 2025 13:422
  39. Secure attachment bonds between children and their parents are crucial for their positive developmental outcomes. In attachment-based treatment, there are few instruments available for identifying insecure chi...

    Authors: Jingjing Zhu, Zhuyi Li, Siyuan Zhu and Yan Li
    Citation: BMC Psychology 2025 13:421

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