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Studies assessing perinatal mental health often lack a prospective pre-pregnancy assessment. Administering measures in preconception could lead to a better understanding of changes occurring over time. This study sought to examine changes in mental health during preconception and the first trimester of pregnancy. The PREGO Study (N = 411 participants) includes 393 participants with preconception mental health data; of these, 174 also had data in the first trimester of pregnancy. We assessed symptoms of depression, anxiety, stress, distress and sleep health. Results of repeated measures ANOVA showed that symptoms of depression increased (F(1, 265.46) = 26.03; d adapted = 0.26) while stress (F(1, 251.24) = 5.95; d adapted = 0.12) and sleep health (F(1, 161.18) = 9.76; d adapted = 0.17) decreased from preconception to the first trimester of pregnancy. Other indicators remained stable. Our results highlight the need for mental health assessments from preconception through postpartum to better understand trajectories of perinatal mental health.

In recent decades, a new clinical condition has been proposed as a potential psychopathological disorder warranting further investigation. Love addiction (LA) is characterised by an overwhelming investment in romantic relationships, resulting in excessive dependence on the partner, expressed through obsessive behaviours and beliefs. Although current literature suggests that LA may best fit within the behavioural addictions diagnostic cluster, several authors emphasise the relational nature of the disorder. We conducted two moderation analyses to examine associations with LA. In Study 1, we tested the moderation role of attachment (ECR-SF) in the relationship between obsessive-compulsive disorder (ROCI) and LA (assessed by the LAI). In Study 2, we explored the moderating role of dyadic emotion dysregulation (DDY) in the relationship between self-defeating tendencies (SELF-DISS) and LA. Study 1 involved a sample of 720 adults, and Study 2 included 672 adults. A significant and positive interaction was found between anxious attachment and relational obsessive-compulsive disorder (Study 1) as well as between self-defeating and dyadic emotion dysregulation (Study 2) in their associations with Love Addiction. These preliminary findings contribute to the current understanding of Love Addiction, highlighting the significant role of relational dimensions in its development.

Cognitive training interventions grounded in self-transcendence values have been proven to be effective in enhancing adolescents' prosocial behaviours. However, previous interventions primarily emphasize the altruistic attribute of prosocial behaviours. Alternatively, contemporary Chinese core values advocate for an integration of both altruistic and self-serving aspects within prosocial behaviours. This study aims to design an innovative intervention programme rooted in contemporary Chinese core values to foster prosocial behaviours among college students. It employed a 2 × 2 mixed design on 236 college students to assess the intervention's effectiveness with the prosocial tendencies measure, online altruistic behaviour scale, and the positive psychological capital questionnaire. Results revealed that the intervention could enhance both offline and online prosocial behaviours and positive psychological capital. The intervention's efficacy varied with the dimension of the three indicators. Specifically, an improvement was observed for compliance, public and anonymous prosocial behaviours and a decrease for emergency, but no improvement for altruistic and emotional prosocial behaviours. Online support showed a strong tendency to be improved, and online guidance and sharing were improved, but not for the online reminders. An improvement was observed for self-efficacy and resilience, but not for resilience and hope. Additionally, there was a gender difference with male college students.

Despite previous research demonstrating the importance of positive parenting in fostering adolescents' grit levels, very little is known about the longitudinal pathway and underlying mechanism of this relationship. Therefore, we conducted a three-wave longitudinal study over 18 months among a sample of Chinese adolescents. Guided by the bioecological model of human development, the internal working model, and the broaden-and-build theory, we tested a serial mediation model of gratitude and life satisfaction in the parenting-grit link. A total of 660 adolescents (aged 11–15 years, mean age = 12.56 years, 46.51% girls) from Southern China responded to the paper-and-pencil questionnaire. Results supported the hypothesised serial mediating effect. That is, adolescents with positive parenting (indicated as more parental care, encouraging autonomy, and less control) tended to report higher levels of gratitude, which further promoted greater life satisfaction, and subsequently strengthened their grit levels. These findings highlight the role of gratitude and life satisfaction as joint mediating factors in the relationship between positive parenting and grit. Interventions focused on improving adolescents' grit that incorporate positive parenting practices could benefit from the approaches targeting parents' need-supportive behaviour and adolescents' psychological well-being.

Some studies indicate enhanced vocal emotion recognition and emotional prosody perception in musicians. Music perception has been linked to emotion processing. Collective music making has been found to rely on responding to and sharing the emotions of others. Together, these notions suggest musicians may have more empathy, which constitutes the ability to experience and understand others' emotions. In the present study, we asked 25 professional musicians and 23 non-musicians to complete the Empathy Quotient (EQ), a self-report questionnaire of affective and cognitive empathy, and a performance measure of empathic accuracy (EA) that involved watching and listening to video clips of targets narrating emotional autobiographical events. EA was derived per participant per clip by correlating their ratings of how targets felt while talking with previously collected target ratings. While musicians scored higher on both EQ subscales, they did not differ significantly from non-musicians in EA, obtained using rich stimuli involving both auditory and visual information. Hence, while musicians rated themselves to be more empathetic, we found no objective evidence of a musician benefit in empathy. It remains possible that this may show in less information-rich or more music-based situations. Alternatively, factors other than musical training alone may play a role.