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{"title":"The influence of housing, education and employment trajectories on mental health and behavioral outcomes for youth receiving child welfare and community services","authors":"Michael Ungar ,&nbsp;Jan Höltge","doi":"10.1016/j.chiabu.2026.107897","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.chiabu.2026.107897","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Objective</h3><div>While prior studies of youth who receive child welfare and community services (CWCS) has shown this population to be at greater risk for negative psychological and social outcomes, this study examines potential resilience-enabling patterns of housing and work and educational engagement that predict positive development while services are being accessed and after services end.</div></div><div><h3>Method</h3><div>A longitudinal sample consisting of 169 youth from Nova Scotia, Canada, who were receiving CWCS were surveyed annually from 2022 to 2024. At baseline, the mean age was 16.49 years (SD = 1.48, range = 14–19), 56.00% females, 78.10% self-identified as White, 85.50% were engaged in work and/or education, and 90.50% lived in self-directed or supported housing provided by child welfare and/or community services. Participants were grouped based on their trajectories in (A) housing and (B) engagement in work and/or education across three annual assessments. Repeated-measures ANOVAs examined within-group changes over time and between-group differences in temporal patterns of risk exposure, access to psychosocial and institutional resources, and behavioral outcomes.</div></div><div><h3>Results</h3><div>In total, 62.10% of participants remained consistently engaged in work and/or education throughout the study, 5.90% were consistently not engaged, 19.00% transitioned from engaged to disengaged, and 13.00% transitioned from disengaged to engaged by the end of the study. The majority of participants, 78.40%, lived in self-directed or supported housing throughout the study, while 10.80% transitioned into unstable housing and another 10.80% transitioned from unstable to stable housing during the study. Significant differences were found between housing trajectories regarding temporal patterns of future orientation, substance use, psychological resilience, and caregiver support. However, no significant differences were observed between the engagement in work and/or education trajectories. Within-group differences were found for certain housing and engagement trajectories across several variables.</div></div><div><h3>Conclusions</h3><div>The results show that helping youth who receive child welfare and community services transition into and maintain stable housing may lead to improvements in access to resilience-enabling resources that support positive development and prosocial behavioral outcomes. A pattern of housing stability for youth receiving services is also associated with decreases in risk exposure, while transitioning to unstable housing is predictive of increased substance use and decreased positive future orientation.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51343,"journal":{"name":"Child Abuse & Neglect","volume":"173 ","pages":"Article 107897"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2026-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146079294","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Neighborhood socioeconomic disadvantage and the probability of out-of-home care placement: A nationwide study of children using small-area data","authors":"Michelle Voersaa Fisker ,&nbsp;Rolf Lyneborg Lund","doi":"10.1016/j.chiabu.2026.107925","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.chiabu.2026.107925","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Background: Research has consistently shown that neighborhood are associated with child maltreatment; however, fewer studies have explored how such contextual factors shape the probability of out-of-home care placements, particularly in welfare-oriented systems like Denmark's. Objective: This study examines the extent to which neighborhood socioeconomic disadvantage contributes to children's probability of out-of-home placement. Participants and Setting: The study draws on full-population register data from Denmark, encompassing all children placed in out-of-home care aged 0–17 between 2011 and 2022. Methods: Multilevel linear probability models were used to estimate the association between neighborhood socioeconomic disadvantage and out-of-home care placement probability, adjusting for a rich set of family and individual covariates. Fixed effects for municipalities were included to account for administrative differences. Results: Findings show that neighborhood socioeconomic disadvantage is significantly associated with the probability of out-of-home placement, even after adjusting for family and individual factors. However, the effect is modest in size and attenuates after full adjustment. Notably, placement probability is elevated even at moderate levels of disadvantage and flattens at the highest levels. These patterns likely reflect a combination of compositional confounding, selective institutional attention, and contextual buffering mechanisms. Conclusions: Neighborhood socioeconomic disadvantage plays a role in shaping child welfare outcomes in Denmark, though its effect is contingent on broader institutional and social dynamics. These findings underscore the need to consider context-specific welfare logics when examining neighborhood effects on child welfare interventions.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51343,"journal":{"name":"Child Abuse & Neglect","volume":"173 ","pages":"Article 107925"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2026-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146079260","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Estimating the impact of out-of-home placement on health risk behavior in adolescents exposed to maltreatment: An advanced causal inference approach","authors":"Austin J. Blake ,&nbsp;Mariola Moeyaert ,&nbsp;Felix J. Thoemmes ,&nbsp;David Mackinnon ,&nbsp;Laurie Chassin","doi":"10.1016/j.chiabu.2026.107882","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.chiabu.2026.107882","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Background</h3><div>Youth who experience out-of-home placement (OOHP) engage in elevated health risk behaviors (e.g., substance use, unprotected sex), with risk potentially heightened for those placed during adolescence. Estimating causal effects is challenging because maltreated youth who are placed differ systematically from those who remain in-home.</div></div><div><h3>Objective</h3><div>This study examined the effects of adolescent OOHP on health risk behaviors, applying causal inference methods (g-estimation and inverse probability of treatment weighting; IPTW) to address selection bias and time-varying confounders.</div></div><div><h3>Participants and setting</h3><div>Data were drawn from 734 maltreated adolescents in the U.S. National Survey on Child and Adolescent Wellbeing.</div></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><div>IPTW and g-estimation were used to estimate effects of adolescent OOHP on substance use and sexual risk behavior during adolescence and into young adulthood, adjusting for numerous confounders. Results were compared with regression analyses using traditional covariate adjustment.</div></div><div><h3>Results</h3><div>In traditional regression models, OOHP was not significantly associated with health risk behaviors. However, both causal inference approaches revealed that OOHP predicted increased substance use later in adolescence. IPTW analyses also indicated greater sexual risk behavior in adolescence and increased substance use in adulthood among placed youth.</div></div><div><h3>Conclusions</h3><div>Although OOHP is intended to enhance safety, adolescent OOHP may heighten risk for harmful health behaviors. Given the severe consequences of such behaviors and the risk of losing service access in adulthood, the period following OOHP is a critical window for intervention. The results demonstrate how robust causal inference techniques may lead to more accurate assessment of OOHP than traditional regression methods.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51343,"journal":{"name":"Child Abuse & Neglect","volume":"173 ","pages":"Article 107882"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2026-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145953823","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Children's involvement in technology-facilitated violence (TFV) in the context of intimate partner violence (IPV): Experiences of professionals working with victims of violence in Finland","authors":"Anniina Kaittila ,&nbsp;Sonja Tihveräinen ,&nbsp;Outi Kekkonen ,&nbsp;Johanna Hietamäki ,&nbsp;Suvi Nipuli ,&nbsp;Sisko Piippo ,&nbsp;Hanna Mielismäki ,&nbsp;Annamari Kangas-Kalinen ,&nbsp;Elli Hyväri ,&nbsp;Leo Nyqvist ,&nbsp;Marita Husso","doi":"10.1016/j.chiabu.2025.107878","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.chiabu.2025.107878","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Background</h3><div>Digital technologies have transformed and diversified acts of domestic violence, enabling abusers to harass, monitor, isolate, and control their partners across time and space. Children, though not their primary targets, are also deeply affected and often exploited in technology-facilitated violence (TFV).</div></div><div><h3>Objective</h3><div>This study examines children's involvement in TFV through data from two research projects.</div></div><div><h3>Participants and setting</h3><div>The first dataset consisted of a survey exploring shelter employees' perceptions of the digital violence experienced by their clients. A total of 53 respondents described themes relevant to this study. The second dataset comprised four focus group interviews with 15 support service professionals from eight organizations with specialized expertise in TFV.</div></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><div>The data from the study were analyzed using a data-driven thematic analysis.</div></div><div><h3>Results</h3><div>The results indicate that abusers use various tactics to exploit children, their devices, or information related to them in a technological manner to harm the child's parent. The forms of abuse observed in this study included 1) pressuring the child to become an active agent, 2) stalking by children's devices, 3) threatening, accusing, and scaring with child-related matters, and 4) undermining the child–parent relationship.</div></div><div><h3>Conclusion</h3><div>Professionals working with families must be trained to identify and respond to TFV, ensuring the safety of both parents and children. Structured screening tools that include TFV-related items can support the identification of children's experiences and inform practices across legal, health, and child protection settings. Importantly, assessments of adult victims or abusers should also include questions about children's involvement.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51343,"journal":{"name":"Child Abuse & Neglect","volume":"173 ","pages":"Article 107878"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2026-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145967782","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Profiling reasons for non-attendance in psychological assessments in adolescent suicide at-risk group using natural language processing","authors":"Adriana García-Ramos ,&nbsp;Sandra Doval ,&nbsp;Cecilia A. Essau ,&nbsp;Raúl Lara-Cabrera ,&nbsp;Wala Ayad-Ahmed ,&nbsp;Alejandro de la Torre-Luque","doi":"10.1016/j.chiabu.2026.107920","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.chiabu.2026.107920","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Background</h3><div>Non-attendance at follow-up psychological evaluations is a major barrier to care for adolescents at risk of suicide. Identifying the factors associated with non-attendance is essential to improving engagement with mental health services.</div></div><div><h3>Objective</h3><div>This study examines reasons for non-attendance among adolescents identified as at-risk for suicide.</div></div><div><h3>Participants and setting</h3><div>The sample consisted of 189 adolescents (72% female; mean age = 14.11, SD = 1.44) from the EPISAM-SCHOOL project who did not attend scheduled psychological evaluations.</div></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><div>A quantitative approach utilizing both structured psychometric data and NLP-assisted content analysis of unstructured text data was employed to classify reasons for non-attendance. Machine learning algorithms and inferential statistics were used to identify patterns and associations. Statistical analyses assessed the association between non-attendance and psychological, familial, and behavioral factors, including experiences of abuse.</div></div><div><h3>Results</h3><div>A Naive Bayes classifier achieved 93% accuracy in predicting non-attendance categories, which included parental refusal (most common), no response, lack of contact information, and adolescent refusal. Statistical analyses revealed significant differences in physical abuse (<em>p</em> = .03) and child-to-parent violence towards fathers (<em>p</em> = .044) among non-attendance categories.</div></div><div><h3>Conclusions</h3><div>Family dynamics, particularly instances of intrafamilial violence and abuse, played a crucial role in non-attendance. Stigma and adolescents' reluctance to engage with mental health services were identified as key barriers to accessing care. Findings underscore the need for multifaceted intervention strategies, including parental engagement and addressing family violence. This research contributes to the development of targeted approaches to improve engagement in mental health services for at-risk adolescents, potentially reducing suicide risk in this vulnerable population.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51343,"journal":{"name":"Child Abuse & Neglect","volume":"173 ","pages":"Article 107920"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2026-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146137950","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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{"title":"Longitudinal links between parental harsh discipline and executive function in adolescence: Moderating role of resting respiratory sinus arrhythmia","authors":"Huayu Ji ,&nbsp;Yiji Wang","doi":"10.1016/j.chiabu.2026.107918","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.chiabu.2026.107918","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Background</h3><div>Although the link between parental harsh discipline and children's executive function has been established, it remains unclear whether key aspects of parental harsh discipline – corporal punishment and psychological aggression – are uniquely related to adolescent executive function, and whether these relations vary by individual vagal tone as indexed by resting respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA).</div></div><div><h3>Objective</h3><div>This longitudinal study aimed to clarify above questions.</div></div><div><h3>Participants and Setting</h3><div>A total of 233 Chinese adolescents (<em>M</em>_age = 12.86 years, 51.50% female-) participated in this study.</div></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><div>In September 2024 (T1), participants rated parental corporal punishment, psychological aggression, and executive function. They also participated in a 3-minute resting electrocardiogram (ECG) recording to assess resting RSA. In March 2025 (T2), they rated executive function again.</div></div><div><h3>Results</h3><div>Parental corporal punishment was negatively related to T2 executive function (<em>β</em> =– −.18, <em>p</em> &lt; .05), whereas psychological aggression showed no significant association (<em>β</em> = −.06, <em>p</em> = .45). Moreover, resting RSA moderated these relations (for corporal punishment and executive function: <em>β</em> = .14, <em>p</em> &lt; .05; for psychological aggression and executive function: <em>β</em> = .22, <em>p</em> &lt; .001). That is, corporal punishment and psychological aggression at T1 were both negatively related to T2 executive function among adolescents with lower resting RSA, but not among those with higher resting RSA.</div></div><div><h3>Conclusions</h3><div>The findings demonstrate that aspects of parental harsh discipline have distinct associations with adolescent executive function, and highlight the necessity of incorporating physiological markers of individual differences, particularly resting RSA, to better understand executive function in adolescents.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51343,"journal":{"name":"Child Abuse & Neglect","volume":"173 ","pages":"Article 107918"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2026-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146067885","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The ongoing legacy of Indigenous family separation: Long-term outcomes of child welfare involvement among American Indian and First Nations youth","authors":"Stefanie Gillson ,&nbsp;Dane Hautala ,&nbsp;Rachel Steinberg ,&nbsp;Melissa Walls","doi":"10.1016/j.chiabu.2026.107884","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.chiabu.2026.107884","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Background</h3><div>Despite policies designed to preserve family structures, Indigenous children in the U.S. and Canada remain disproportionately removed from their homes and communities. This systemic removal represents an ongoing form of historical trauma with intergenerational consequences, yet research on its long-term psychosocial effects remains limited.</div></div><div><h3>Objectives</h3><div>To examine the prevalence of foster care and adoption among a sample of Indigenous youth and their associations with psychosocial outcomes in early adulthood.</div></div><div><h3>Participants and setting</h3><div>Data come from a community-based participatory longitudinal study of Indigenous families from eight reservations and reserves in the U.S. and Canada (<em>N</em> = 708), collected between 2002 and 2020.</div></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><div>Multivariate regression models assessed associations between any child welfare involvement during childhood/adolescence (i.e., foster care and/or adoption) and young adult family (i.e., family satisfaction and cohesion) and psychosocial (i.e., flourishing, depressive symptoms, and marijuana use) outcomes.</div></div><div><h3>Results</h3><div>Overall, 16.73 % of participants experienced child welfare placement during childhood or adolescence. Compared with Indigenous youth who were never placed in child welfare, those who experienced placement had lower odds of family satisfaction (<em>OR</em> = 0.40; <em>p</em> &lt; .05), reported decreased family cohesion (<em>b</em> = −1.38; <em>p</em> &lt; .05), lower rates of flourishing (<em>b</em> = −1.44; <em>p</em> &lt; .05). Despite showing significant bivariate associations, child welfare placement was not associated with depressive symptoms (<em>b</em> = 0.20; <em>p</em> = .15), and only marginally associated with marijuana use (<em>b</em> = 0.59; <em>p</em> = .06).</div></div><div><h3>Conclusions</h3><div>Indigenous family involvement in the child welfare system remains disproportionately high and is associated with adverse psychosocial outcomes in adulthood. Findings underscore the need for systemic reforms and culturally responsive, community-driven interventions to support Indigenous families.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51343,"journal":{"name":"Child Abuse & Neglect","volume":"173 ","pages":"Article 107884"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2026-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145967735","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Record of the past or reflection of the present? Fluctuations in recollections of childhood adversity and fluctuations in adult relationship circumstances","authors":"Annika Jaros,&nbsp;William J. Chopik","doi":"10.1016/j.chiabu.2025.107873","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.chiabu.2025.107873","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Background</h3><div>Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) are studied as predictors of lifespan outcomes, yet their reporting is assumed to be stable across time. However, reporting on past experiences is a reconstructive process shaped by social and emotional contexts.</div></div><div><h3>Objective</h3><div>This study examined ACEs fluctuations and whether fluctuations are associated with contemporaneous relationship quality and academic stress in emerging adulthood.</div></div><div><h3>Participants and setting</h3><div>Participants were 938 emerging adults (Mage = 19.6, SD = 2.1; 81% women) who completed three surveys across two months assessing ACEs, support and strain in relationships with parents, friends, and romantic partners, and academic stress.</div></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><div>Childhood adversity was measured using the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire–Short Form. Multilevel models decomposed predictors into between- and within-person variance to predict ACEs across waves. Analyses tested whether both average levels—and deviations from these averages—in support, strain, and stress corresponded with deviations in ACE recollections.</div></div><div><h3>Results</h3><div>ACE reports showed high stability over the two-month period (ICCs = 0.73–0.85), but also meaningful within-person variability. Greater-than-usual parental support and lower strain predicted fewer reported ACEs, particularly for emotional abuse, sexual abuse, and neglect. Support from friends and romantic partners was more modestly associated with ACE recall, while academic stress predicted slight increases in reports of emotional abuse and neglect.</div></div><div><h3>Conclusions</h3><div>Findings suggest that retrospective ACE reports reflect not only early adversity but also present relational and emotional states. Interpreting ACE measures as dynamic and context-sensitive may improve their use in both research and practice.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51343,"journal":{"name":"Child Abuse & Neglect","volume":"173 ","pages":"Article 107873"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2026-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146023909","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Violence against children: An application of Multilevel Analysis of Individual Heterogeneity and Discriminatory Accuracy (MAIHDA) to the Crime Survey for England and Wales","authors":"Ferhat Tura ,&nbsp;Andromachi Tseloni ,&nbsp;Lisa Tompson","doi":"10.1016/j.chiabu.2026.107930","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.chiabu.2026.107930","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Background</h3><div>Violence victimization in childhood is a significant public health and social justice concern. Yet there is limited evidence on how multiple, overlapping identities relate to children's experiences of non-familial violence.</div></div><div><h3>Objectives</h3><div>This study examines differences in violence victimization rates among children in different social groups. In doing so, we seek to demonstrate the application of Multilevel Analysis of Individual Heterogeneity and Discriminatory Accuracy (MAIHDA) as a method for intersectional analysis.</div></div><div><h3>Participants and setting</h3><div>The study uses nine years of pooled data from the 10–15 Crime Survey for England and Wales (2011–2019), including a total sample of 26,106 children aged 10–15 years old.</div></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><div>Logistic MAIHDA models were employed to analyse the likelihood of experiencing violence victimization across intersectional social groups defined by combinations of four social identities (sex, age, ethnicity, disability status).</div></div><div><h3>Results</h3><div>Most of the differences in violence victimization across intersectional social groups are explained by individual characteristics like disability, sex, ethnicity, and age. Interaction effects between these characteristics add little beyond their separate (additive) impacts. Predicted probabilities show that disabled boys are among the most likely to experience violence victimization.</div></div><div><h3>Conclusion</h3><div>The study underscores the need for targeted policies and interventions to reduce violence against children, particularly those who are disabled. It also serves as a case study for researchers interested in using MAIHDA to explore intersectionality in crime against children (or any other outcomes) and inform harm prevention strategies.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51343,"journal":{"name":"Child Abuse & Neglect","volume":"173 ","pages":"Article 107930"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2026-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146079201","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}