The present study constructed a moderated mediation model to explore the relationship between bedtime procrastination and daytime sleepiness in college students, and further to examine the mediating effect of insomnia and the moderating effect of chronotype by using the Bedtime Procrastination Scale, Insomnia Severity Index Scale, Epworth Sleepiness Scale and Morningness-Eveningness Questionnaire. A total of 4252 college students were recruited to participate in this study. The results showed that: 1) bedtime procrastination had a significant positive prediction on daytime sleepiness; 2) insomnia played a partial mediating role in the relationship between bedtime procrastination and daytime sleepiness; 3) the association between bedtime procrastination and insomnia was moderated by chronotype. Compared to the students with morningness, the prediction effect of bedtime procrastination on insomnia was much stronger in individuals with eveningness.
To test the reliability and validity of the Abbreviated Math Anxiety Scale (AMAS) in primary school students, a total of 3084 children from first grade to sixth grade were investigated with the Chinese version of Abbreviated Math Anxiety Scale (AMAS-C). Then, we obtained the formal scale through item analysis, exploratory factor analysis and confirmatory factor analysis. The formal scale includes two subscales, that is, math evaluation anxiety and learning math anxiety. The multi-group confirmatory factor analysis results showed that the AMAS-C reached full measurement invariant across Chinese primary school students’ gender, grade, and region. The finding indicates that the AMAS-C is a good valid and reliable instrument to assess mathematics anxiety of Chinese primary school students.
“Education and development” is a vital area of psychology research. The 20th CPC National Congress has put forward new requirements for education. By studying and interpreting the new strategies, new decisions and new requirements of education in the report to the 20th CPC National Congress, this paper clarified the new direction of “education and development” research in the new era. It also pointed out the difficulties and opportunities faced by researchers and educators.
An essential part of the emergency response system with Chinese characteristics is the emergency psychological service system. This paper proposed to build the emergency psychological service system, conduct emergency management psychology research, adhere to the application orientation, strengthen the empirical research, place importance on theoretical innovation, and create a discipline system of independent innovation with Chinese characteristics.
A questionnaire survey was conducted among 674 college students in Hubei Province to explore the influence of relative deprivation on social anxiety, focusing on the mediating role of core self-evaluation and the moderating role of self-focused attention. The results showed that: 1) relative deprivation positively predicted college students’ social anxiety; 2) core self-evaluation played a partial mediating role between relative deprivation and social anxiety; 3) self-focused attention moderated the second half of the mediation effect of core self-evaluation, specifically, the predictive effect of core self-evaluation on social anxiety was enhanced with the increase of self-focused attention.
The construction of high-quality social psychological services system with Chinese characteristics is not only an important path to advance “the Healthy China Initiative”, but also an important measure and means to promote the innovation of social governance and the modernization of governance ability in the new era. “The six principles must insist on” has been put forward in the report to the 20th CPC National Congress, which pointed out the direction for the construction of a high-quality social psychological services system with Chinese characteristics and profoundly expounded the scientific method and correct path to promote theoretical innovation. This paper discussed how to develop the construction of a social psychological services system with Chinese characteristics by implementing “the six principles must insist on”.
Considering the new social emotion characteristics in the latest situation, we constructed the theoretical structure of social emotion based on the positive-negative emotion model, and developed the Social Emotion Scale. A total of 1464 people were tested to verify the scale’s structure and its reliability and validity. The results showed that Social Emotion Scale consisted of two subscales. Positive Social Emotion Scale had three dimensions including social pride, social compassion and social gratitude. Negative Social Emotion Scale had four dimensions including social apathy, social complaint, social anxiety and social impetuosity. The Social Emotion Scale and its subscales have good reliability and validity and can be used as an effective tool to measure the social emotion of the public.
The present study aimed to explore the influence of self- and other-social value orientation (SVO) on cooperation behavior and its psychological mechanisms. A total of 273 participants completed the triple matrix game, which was used to select Pro-Socials and Pro-Selfs. After that, participants were presented with their confederate’s SVO, and they were required to indicate their cooperative expectations towards their confederate and to make their own cooperation decisions in the public goods game. Results showed that the more pro-social the participants’ SVO was, the higher their expectations towards their confederate, and the more they chose to cooperate with others. But this pattern only existed when the SVO of their confederate was unknown or pro-social. These results shed light on the crucial role of others’ SVO and cooperative expectations in social interaction through the perspective of bidirectional interaction, which has implications for how to promote cooperative behavior.
This study aimed to explore the relationship between teacher-student relationship and academic engagement of left-behind children, and to examine the mediating effect of perceived social support and the moderating effect of peer friendship quality. A total of 2206 left-behind children completed a set of questionnaires including Student-Teacher Relationship Scale, Friendship Quality Scale, Perceived Support Scale, and Academic Engagement Scale. The results showed that: 1) Teacher-student relationship directly predicted left-behind children’s academic engagement. 2) Teacher-student relationship indirectly predicted left-behind children’s academic engagement through perceived social support. 3) The direct effect of teacher-student relationship on academic engagement and the path from teacher-student relationship to perceived social support, and the path from perceived social support to academic engagement were all moderated by friendship quality.
The current study investigated the effect of self-disgust on peer relationship among college students and roles of depression and social support. A total of 443 college students completed a set of questionnaires including the Chinese Version of Self-Disgust Scale, Peer Relationship Scale, Self-Rating Depression Scale and Social Support Scale for University Students. The results showed that: 1) Self-disgust was significantly negatively correlated with peer relationship among college students. 2) Depression and social support played the chain mediation roles between self-disgust and peer relationship among college students. The results indicate that reducing the self-loathing and depression levels of college students and giving full play to the role of social support are helpful to improve the peer relationship of college students.
Based on social learning theory and attachment theory, we investigated the impact of parental phubbing on adolescents’ cyberbullying perpetration and victimization, mediation of parent-child closeness and internalizing problems. A total of 1003 adolescents completed the questionnaire survey, measuring their parental phubbing, internalizing problems, parent-child closeness and cyberbullying perpetration and victimization. The results showed that: 1) The eighth-grade students got the highest score in cyberbullying victimization and parental phubbing, but had the lowest score in parent-child closeness. 2) Parental phubbing was positively related to adolescents’ internalizing problems and cyber-victimization, and negatively related to their parent-child closeness. 3) Parental phubbing had a direct effect on cyber-victimization but had no direct effect on cyber-perpetration. 4) Parental phubbing could affect cyber-victimization and cyber-perpetration through the sole mediating role of parent-child closeness and internalizing problems, and also through the chain mediation effect of parent-child closeness and internalizing problems.
This study aimed to investigate the effects of two-sided narcissism on the sensitivity of reward and punishment as well as to test the moderate role of gender in the link between narcissistic admiration-rivalry and the behavioral inhibition/approach system. Four hundred and eighty-three college students were randomly recruited from a university. All participants completed Narcissistic Admiration and Rivalry Questionnaire (NARQ) and BIS/BAS items online. The results showed that: 1) admiration narcissism was positively correlated with behavioral approach system and negatively correlated with behavioral inhibition system; 2) rivalry narcissism positively correlated with behavioral inhibition system, but no correlation was observed with the behavioral approach system; and 3) gender played a moderating role in the relationship between two sides of narcissism and behavioral system. In summary, females are more sensitive to both reward and punishment than males.
The purpose of this study was to examine the influence of two specific threatening emotions, anger and fear on time perception based on the emotional motivation dimension theory. By using different emotional pictures (faces in Experiment 1 and bodies in Experiment 2) and different time perception tasks (time comparison tasks in Experiment 1 and Experiment 2, and time estimation tasks in Experiment 3), we found that compared with the neutral emotion, anger shortened the time perception while fear lengthened it. These results suggest that time perception becomes shorter under approach motivation and longer under withdrawal motivation.
This study sought to examine the roles of creativity and security in the relationship between adults’ subjective socioeconomic status and psychological well-being. A total of 556 urban adults aged between 18 and 60 participated in this study. They anonymously completed questionnaires assessing subjective socioeconomic status, psychological well-being, creativity, and security. The results showed that: 1) After controlling for age and objective socioeconomic status, subjective socioeconomic status predicted psychological well-being. 2) Creativity mediated the relationships between socioeconomic status and psychological well-being. 3) Security moderated this mediating path through creativity. Specifically, the association between subjective socioeconomic status and creativity was stronger for adults with higher security. Thus, there are both mediating and moderating factors influencing the relationship between adults’ subjective socioeconomic status and psychological well-being.
In order to investigate the characteristics of the inhibitory control ability of mobile phone addicts, 34 participants were screened by the Mobile Phone Addiction Tendency Scale. Seventeen were assigned to the mobile phone addiction group, and the rest were assigned to the non-mobile phone addiction group. All participants completed the antisaccade task. The results showed that: 1) The antisaccade error rate of the mobile phone addiction group was significantly higher than that of the non-mobile phone addiction group. 2) The prosaccade latency in the mobile phone addiction group was significantly shorter than in the non-mobile phone addiction group. The results indicate that the mobile phone addiction group has a lower inhibitory control ability than the non-mobile phone addiction group, suggesting that mobile phone addicts are easily driven by stimuli and can hardly suppress attentional interference generated by irrelevant stimuli.
This study aimed to explore the relationship between family closeness and depression, and to examine the mediating effect of social anxiety and the moderating effect of gratitude. A total of 1027 university students participated in the questionnaire survey. The results showed that: 1) social anxiety partially mediated the association between family cohesion and depression among college students; 2) the direct effect of family cohesion on depression and the path from family cohesion to social anxiety, and the path from social anxiety to depression were all moderated by gratitude. Specifically, the effect of family cohesion on social anxiety and depression was enhanced with the increase of gratitude. The association between social anxiety and depression was weaker for university students with higher gratitude. This study reveals the effect of family closeness on college students’ depression, which has implications for the prevention of college students’ depression.
Repeating words can facilitate word processing at the early stage during sentence reading. The current study aimed to investigate whether readers can extract word class information from parafoveal words using repeating words that appeared in the same sentences prior to the target words as preview words. The results showed that: 1) fixation durations of the target word were shorter and the fixation probabilities were lower in repeated preview than in non-repeated preview; 2) the main effect of word class was not reliable; 3) there was no significant difference in the consistency of word classes between repeated and non-repeated previews. The findings suggest that readers do not obtain word class information of parafoveal words when repeating words are used as previews. The results support the E-Z reader model.
