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Introduction: Exercise is often viewed as universally beneficial for older adults; however, a growing body of evidence suggests that excessive or compulsive exercise may be linked to underlying psychological vulnerabilities. In later life, retirement-related role changes and emotional challenges may increase reliance on exercise as a means of emotion regulation, potentially elevating the risk of maladaptive exercise patterns. Against this backdrop, the present study focuses on retired older adults who engage in regular exercise, examining the psychological mechanisms underlying exercise addiction.

Methods: This study investigates the role of difficulties in emotion regulation in predicting exercise addiction among retired individuals, with state anxiety and social dependence as mediators. Data were collected from 471 retired Chinese older adults with regular exercise habits through on-site paper-based surveys. Participants reported engaging in regular exercise, defined as planned physical activity performed at least three times per week for health or recreational purposes. The participants had an estimated mean age of 60.76 years (SD = 8.31). The sample consisted of 144 males (30.6%) and 327 females (69.4%). Validated scales were used to assess difficulties in emotion regulation, state anxiety, social dependence, and exercise addiction. Partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) was conducted to test the hypothesized model and examine both direct and indirect associations.

Results: Difficulties in emotion regulation were positively associated with state anxiety (β = 0.811, p < 0.001) and social dependence (β = 0.327, p < 0.001). Both state anxiety (β = 0.312, p < 0.001) and social dependence (β = 0.332, p < 0.001) were positively associated with exercise addiction, and each served as a significant mediator linking emotion regulation difficulties to exercise addiction.

Conclusion: Exercise addiction among older adults is shaped by both emotional and social vulnerabilities. Interventions should therefore focus on improving emotion regulation abilities and strengthening social support to reduce the risk of compulsive exercise.

Objective: To explore the relationship and mechanism between school belonging and depressive symptoms among Chinese college students.

Methods: A total of 440 Chinese college students were surveyed using the Chinese version of the Psychological Sense of School Membership Scale (PSSM-CR), the Short Version of the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale (CESD-10), the Self-Consistency and Congruence Scale (SCCS), the Schutte Self-report Emotional Intelligence Scale (SSEIS-C).

Results: (1) School belonging, self-consistency and congruence, and depressive symptoms were significantly correlated (r = -0.53 to 0.74, p < 0.01); (2) Self-consistency and congruence played a partial mediating role in the relationship between school belonging and depressive symptoms among Chinese college students; (3) Emotional intelligence significantly moderated the first half of the mediating model: the first half of the mediating model was significant in both the low emotional intelligence group and the high emotional intelligence group.

Conclusion: Self-consistency and congruence and emotional intelligence play a moderated mediation role in the relationship between school belonging and depressive symptoms among Chinese college students.

Background: Mental health problems affect 7%-18% of preschool-aged children globally, with early interventions crucial for mitigating long-term impacts. Parental verbal responsivity (PVR) is a modifiable factor linked to cognitive and emotional development, yet large-scale studies on its association with mental health in young children remain scarce.

Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted between February 28 and March 5, 2025, in a western Chinese city, involving 21,366 parent-child dyads from 189 kindergartens. Parental Verbal Responsivity (PVR) was assessed using the parent-reported StimQ, which measures verbal interactions during daily routines, play, and regulation activities. Child mental health was evaluated via the parent-reported Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ). Multivariable logistic regression models were employed, adjusting for relevant sociodemographic and lifestyle covariates.

Results: After full adjustment, each unit increase in PVR corresponded to 4% reduced odds of total difficulties (95%CI 0.95-0.96) and 7% increased odds of prosocial behaviors (95%CI 1.06-1.08), both with P < 0.0001 significance. Subgroup analyses revealed effect modifications by parental gender, education, employment status, annual family income, and smoking status and alcohol intake status.

Conclusion: In this large-scale study, a weak association was found between verbal interaction frequency and child mental health, explaining less than 1% of outcome variance. This highlights the limitation of measuring only interaction frequency and underscores the need for future research to incorporate multi-informant and observational methods to better understand pathways to child mental health.

Compassion fatigue, often referred to as the "cost of caring," reflects a form of empathy deficit. However, it remains unclear whether it stems from a diminishment in empathic ability, empathic motivation, or both. To address this gap, we developed a hierarchical regression and structural equation model using survey data from 1,161 kindergarten teachers. The findings revealed that both empathic ability and empathic motivation significantly and negatively predicted compassion fatigue. Specifically, job burnout was negatively predicted by both empathic ability and empathic motivation, whereas secondary stress was negatively predicted by empathic motivation but not by empathic ability. Theoretical and practical implications, along with directions for future research, are discussed.

Aims: Parental rearing behavior has long been recognized as a crucial etiological factor contributing to the vulnerability of psychopathology. Clinical researchers have devoted considerable attention to this subject. In pursuit of this objective, it is vital to have efficient instruments able to assess remembered parental rearing behavior within clinical practice. The aim of this study was to conduct a new psychometric evaluation of the German instrument known as the "Fragebogen zum Erinnerten Elterlichen Erziehungsverhalten (FEE)," designed for the assessment of recalled parental rearing behavior. A recently collected representative dataset was used.

Methods: This questionnaire was psychometrically evaluated in a representative sample of the general population (N = 2,373) in Germany which included 50.5% women and 49.5% men with a mean age of M = 49.3 (SD = 17.5, range = 14-95).

Results: Fathers were rated higher in rejection and punishment, and mothers were rated higher in emotional warmth with low to medium effect sizes. Men reported higher values of rejection and punishment and lower values of emotional warmth in the father version than women. Living in a city goes along with more rejection and punishment as well as more control and overprotection compared to people from rural areas, but effect sizes were small. Reliability indices were high in the first two scales and acceptable in the scale of control and overprotection. Divergent validity was shown by expected correlations with other health-related variables. The three-dimensional structure of the FEE and the measurement invariance regarding gender and age was confirmed by confirmatory factor analyses. Norm values are presented as percent rank scores.

Conclusion: The FEE represents a dependable and valid tool suitable for use in clinical practice. Our data established a connection between remembered parental rearing behavior, life satisfaction, and interpersonal issues, in accordance with existing literature. We also tackled certain challenges related to the retrospective evaluation of parental rearing behavior.

China currently insists on focusing its efforts on the real economy in developing the economy. Therefore, it is necessary to place technological innovation at the center of the overall enterprise's development, and fully stimulate the innovative and creative talents of all kinds of talents. Based on the Social Interdependence Theory (SIT) and the Planned Behavior Theory (PBT), this study examines how team reward interdependence (TRI) of cross-level influences Innovative behavior, with innovation intention serving as a mediator and task interdependence acting as a contextual moderator. Through empirical analysis of two-time-point paired questionnaire survey data from 331 employees and their leaders, it is found that TRI has an indirect positive impact on innovative behavior (β = 0.369), and innovation intention plays a complete mediating role (β = 0.320). The analysis reveals that task interdependence not only positively moderates (β = 0.203) the relationship between team reward interdependence and innovation intention, but also further moderates (β = 0.200) the indirect effect of TRI on innovative behavior through innovation intention.

Socioeconomic crises can deeply affect personal narratives and community dynamics, sometimes leading to acute mental health emergencies such as suicidal crises. These situations require structured interventions. Textual analysis, by addressing interactive and narrative dimensions, offers a valuable framework for crisis management and health promotion. This case report describes an individual whose economic and employment instability escalated into an acute suicidal emergency, marked by high and imminent risk, loss of agency, dependence on others, and intensifying suicidal ideation. The intervention employed the MADIT (Methodology of Computerized Analysis of Textual Data), using textual analysis to identify linguistic markers of suicidal intent, guide therapeutic dialog, and support clinical decision-making. The case outlines the user's texts, the professional's analysis of underlying narratives, ongoing and final assessments, and the therapeutic measures applied. It also includes the professional's self-reflection on their engagement with the patient. Examining narrative processes enabled the design, monitoring, and evaluation of an effective intervention strategy. This approach values both the patient's expressed content and the interactive process through which meaning is constructed in the therapeutic relationship, contributing to more effective crisis management. The case highlights the potential of textual analysis-based methodologies in managing suicidal emergencies, enhancing assessment accuracy, strengthening intervention, and promoting individual health and social cohesion. Overall, this structured yet flexible framework supports anticipation, monitoring, and management of biographical developments within emergency clinical contexts.

Introduction: Investigating the association between watching sports events and residents' subjective well-being and the potential mediating mechanisms advances understanding of the positive psychological correlates of sports spectatorship and provides a basis for efforts to support well-being and promote social harmony.

Methods: Based on 8 years of the Chinese General Social Survey (CGSS) data spanning 2010-2023, we employed OLS regressions with province and survey-year dummy variables, Ordered Probit and Ordered Logit regressions, and propensity score matching (PSM) to examine the association between watching sports events and subjective well-being. We also tested whether health capital and social capital statistically accounted for part of this association.

Results: Watching sports events was positively associated with subjective well-being, and the association remained after heterogeneity analyses and selection-adjustment checks. The association was strongest in the West, followed by the Central and the East. It was significant for men but not for women. By education, the association was largest among high-school-educated residents, smaller but significant among those with college and above, and not significant among those with primary or lower-secondary education. Mediation analyses were consistent with social capital (social class, social trust, and social support) and physical health, statistically accounting for part of the association between watching sports events and subjective well-being; by contrast, mental health did not emerge as a primary statistical pathway.

Conclusion: These results advance knowledge of how watching sports events relates to well-being and offer policy-relevant insights for promoting happiness through accessible, low-cost leisure engagement, while also acknowledging potential downsides of excessive viewing.

Introduction: Racial-ethnic socialization (RES) is an ongoing developmental process through which parents and caregivers share information, values, and perspectives about race and ethnicity with their children. While there is a substantial body of research on RES during adolescence, little empirical work has focused on early childhood.

Methods: This review applied a systematic search strategy and meta-ethnographic methods to examine and integrate the existing qualitative research on RES during early childhood. Out of 1,900 screened studies, 277 were reviewed for eligibility, and 27 met the inclusion criteria.

Results: Findings from the seven phase meta-ethnographic review process highlight the dynamic and multifaceted nature of RES in parenting. Parents' own life experiences strongly shape their values, beliefs, and intentions for RES, which in turn inform the approaches and messages they use with their children. These strategies are often interrelated but can also be influenced by competing beliefs triggered by children's characteristics, experiences, and environments.

Discussion: Overall, the synthesis supports prior claims that RES in early childhood is deeply embedded within general parenting practices and family dynamics. It also identifies critical gaps in the literature (e.g., limited diversity of study samples in terms of family structures and racial-ethnic backgrounds) that future research should address.

[This retracts the article DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1675490.].