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The Research of Core Competencies and Values for Students in China Lin Chongde 2017, 15(2):  145-154.  Abstract ( )   PDF (1161KB) ( )   References | Related Articles | Metrics To develop students′ core competencies and values refers to the project to develop the necessary qualities and key capacities of students in the life-long sense of development required by society. To research the case for China contributes to deeply answer the major issue about ″cultivating what kind of students and how to cultivate″. Based on the research of education policy, international comparison, traditional cultural analysis, curriculum analysis and empirical investigation, we construct the overall framework of the core competencies and values including three domains covering six indicators.

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Social Network Site Use and Loneliness in Adolescents: A Chain Mediation Analysis Zhou Zongkui, Liu Qingqi, Yang Xiujuan, Sun Xiaojun 2017, 15(2):  155-161.  Abstract ( )   PDF (650KB) ( )   References | Related Articles | Metrics To investigate the relationship among social network site use, online positive feedback, friendship quality and loneliness, a survey research method was adopted in which SNS use Intensity Scale, SNS Positive Feedback Questionnaire, Friendship Quality Scale as well as UCLA Loneliness were administered to 538 middle and high school students. The results indicated: 1)social network site use was positively related to online positive feedback and friendship quality, while social network site use, online positive feedback and friendship quality were all negatively associated with loneliness; social network site use intensity had no direct effect on loneliness, but could significantly predict online positive feedback; online positive feedback could significantly predict friendship quality; and both online positive feedback and friendship quality could significantly predict loneliness. 2)social network site use influenced adolescents′ loneliness through two indirect paths: through the mediating role of online positive feedback; through the chain mediating role of online positive feedback and friendship quality. The present study highlights the benefits of positive feedback in social network site. Social network site use itself did not have direct effects on friendship and loneliness, but it could predict friendship and loneliness through the mediation of online positive feedback. Thus, to promote adolescents′ friendship quality and lower their loneliness, parents and schools may consider encouraging adolescent to use social network site to disclosure more information, make more honest self-presentation and positive self-presentation which will contribute to receiving more positive feedback.

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Does Website Presence Could Enhance Females′ Online Purchasing Intention? Wang Caiyu, Xing Yaping, Lei Li 2017, 15(2):  162-168.  Abstract ( )   PDF (697KB) ( )   References | Related Articles | Metrics With the development of the Internet, online shopping has been known and accepted by the public. Few studies researched the online shopping behaviors from the perspective of website presence, not to mention the studies focused on female students. Based on the self-designed clothing shopping websites, the present study analyzed the female students′ online purchasing intention mechanism from the view of website presence. Conclusions were as follows: 1)Website presence had a significant influence on female′ online purchasing intention. Compared with low level presence, the subjects in high presence had stronger purchase intention. 2)Perceived risk and Flow had partial mediator effects between Website presence and online purchasing intention, which meant presence would enhance the sense of flow and reduce the sense of perceived risk. 3)Perceived risk and Flow had sequence mediator effects between website presences and online purchasing intention, which meant presence could promote the integration of emotion and cognition in online shopping process.

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Social Exclusion and Cyberostracism on Depression: the Mediating Role of Self-control Sun Xiaojun, Tong Yuantian, Fan Cuiying 2017, 15(2):  169-174.  Abstract ( )   PDF (589KB) ( )   References | Related Articles | Metrics In order to explore the relationship among cyberostrcism, social exclusion, self-control and depression, we chose 1077 college students as our subjects. The subjects were investigated with such instruments as Cyberostrcism Questionnaire for college students, Social Exclusion Questionnaire, Self-Control scale and Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale(CES-D). The results indicated that: 1)there were no significant differences in the frequency of social exclusion and cyberostracism. 2)Social exclusion, cyberostracism, self-control and depression were significantly positively correlated with each other. Social exclusion not only had direct negative effect on depression, but also could significantly predict self-control; Cyberostracism also could significantly predict self-control and depression. 3)Social exclusion not only had direct negative effect on depression, but also could affect adolescents′ depression through the mediating role of self-control. But for the cyberostracism, self-control became a full mediator between cyberostracism and depression. This showed that there was a difference between the mechanism of cyberostracism and social exclusion on depression.

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The Effect of Online Social Support on Life Satisfaction among Secondary Vocational Students: The Mediating Role of Belief in a Just World and Gratitude Tian Yuan, Hong Yunzhe, Niu Gengfeng, Fan Cuiying 2017, 15(2):  175-180.  Abstract ( )   PDF (588KB) ( )   References | Related Articles | Metrics The aim of the study was to investigate the effect of online social support on secondary vocational students′ life satisfaction, and further explore the effect of belief in a just world as a cognitive factor and gratitude as a emotional factor between them. And a survey was conducted to examine the relationship among online social support, belief in a just world, gratitude and life satisfaction. The participants were 656 secondary vocational students; and four questionnaires were used in this study: Online social support questionnaire, belief in a just world scale, gratitude questionnaire and the satisfaction with life scale. The results indicated that: 1)the relationships between each pair of online social support, belief in a just world, gratitude as well as life satisfaction were significantly positive; online social support had no direct effect on life satisfaction, but could respectively predict belief in a just world and gratitude, which in turn significantly predict life satisfaction. 2)online social support affected secondary vocational students′ life satisfaction through two indirect paths: through the mediating role of belief in a just world; through the mediating role of gratitude.

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The Impact of Learners Characteristic on Student Engagement during Online Learning: A Moderated Mediation Model Lei Yuju,Zhang Dongjing, Niu Gengfeng, Xiangen Hu, 2017, 15(2):  181-188.  Abstract ( )   PDF (707KB) ( )   References | Related Articles | Metrics The present study investigates the predictors of student engagement during online learning. The specific predictors were self-efficacy, motivational regulation, and implicit theories of intelligence, and the moderated mediating effect of student engagement was also tested. The participants were 387 learners who enrolled in an online course in 2015 and a series of online surveys were administered. The results revealed that self-efficacy, motivational regulation, and implicit theories of intelligence were significant predictors of student engagement. The positive association between self-efficacy and student engagement was mediated by the motivational regulation. Moreover, the mediating effect of motivational regulation was moderated by the implicit theories of intelligence, Relation to the individual endorsing entity theorists, the mediating effect of motivational regulation was stronger for individual holding increment theorists.

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The Impact of Social Network Site Use on Adolescents′ Happiness: A Moderated Mediation Model Zhang Yongxin, Zhou Zongkui, Zhu Xiaowei,Lian Shuailei, 2017, 15(2):  189-196.  Abstract ( )   PDF (736KB) ( )   References | Related Articles | Metrics Based on social comparison theory, the present study constructed a moderated mediation model to examine whether social network site use would be indirectly related to adolescents′ happiness through negative social comparison, and whether this indirect association would be moderated by social anxiety. A total of 964 middle school and junior high school students(mean age=14.55 years, SD=1.09) were invited to take part in this study. Participants anonymously completed the Scale for Social Network Site Use Intensity, Negative Social Comparison Questionnaire, Social Anxiety Questionnaire and Subjective Happiness Questionnaire. The results showed that: 1)The negative association between social network site use and adolescents′ happiness was mediated by negative social comparison. 2)The mediating effect of negative social comparison was moderated by adolescents′ social anxiety, with the indirect effect was enhanced among high socially anxious adolescents. These findings suggested that both indirect-effect model and interaction model exist in the relationships of social network site use and adolescents′ happiness, creating a moderated mediation model.

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The Effect of Adolescents′ Active Social Network Sites Use on Friendship Quality: The Chain Mediating Role of Positive Feedback and Uncertainty Lian Shuailei, Tian Yuan, Sun Xiaojun, Zhang Chenyan, 2017, 15(2):  197-204.  Abstract ( )   PDF (673KB) ( )   References | Related Articles | Metrics The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of active SNS use on adolescents′ friendship quality, and further explored the mediating role of positive feedback or uncertainty, and the chain mediating role of both positive feedback and uncertainty. Therefore, a survey had been conducted to examine the relationship among the active SNS use, SNS positive feedback, level of uncertainty and friendship quality of high school students. The participants were 937 high school students, and four questionnaires were used in this study: Active SNS use Scale, Friendship quality Scale, SNS positive feedback Questionnaire and Uncertainty Questionnaire. The results indicated that: 1)Active SNS use was positively correlated with SNS positive feedback and friendship quality; and negatively correlated with uncertainty; SNS positive feedback was negatively correlated with uncertainty, and positively correlated with friendship quality; uncertainty was negatively correlated with friendship quality.2)Active SNS use not only had direct positive effect on friendship quality, but also could affected adolescents′ friendship quality through three indirect paths: through the mediating role of SNS positive feedback; through the mediating role of uncertainty; through the chain mediating role of both SNS positive feedback and uncertainty.

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The Relationship Between Children′s Internet Use and Academic Performance: A Moderating Effect of Self-Control Wu Na, Zhang Chenyan, Zhou Zongkui 2017, 15(2):  205-210.  Abstract ( )   PDF (605KB) ( )   References | Related Articles | Metrics To explore the relationship between Children′s Internet Use with Academic Performance, and the moderating effect of Self-control, the Internet Use Questionnaire, Family Affluence Scale, and the Dual-Mode of Self-Control Scale for adolescents were adopted to examine 547 Grades 4-6 children. Result revealed that: 1)High frequency of online information seeking significantly predicted children′s high score on Reading. 2)Self-control played a moderated role in the relationship between online information seeking with reading performance, and also worked in social networking. More specially, the ability of delay of gratification strengthened the improvement of Reading scores when children seek information online, and also slowed down the negative effects of Social Networking on children′s Reading scores.

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The Influence of Inter-Hemispheric Interaction on Creative Scientific Problem Finding Ability Wang Botao, Duan Haijun, Han Qin, Hu Weiping, 2017, 15(2):  211-217.  Abstract ( )   PDF (631KB) ( )   References | Related Articles | Metrics Creative scientific problem finding ability is an important part of scientific creativity. This research aims to assess the relationship between IHI level and CSPFA through comparing the subjects′ performance on the CSPEA of different IHI levels. Experiment 1: Adopts a mixed experiment design, which is 2(mixed-hander, strong right-handed)×2(question type: open-ended questions, closed-ended questions), to inspect the influence of handedness on CSPFA. The result demonstrates: The CSPFA of mixed-hander is much stronger, and is coincident with different questions. Experiment 2: Adopts a mixed experiment design, which is 2(question type: open-ended questions, closed-ended questions)×2(eye movement level: control group, horizontal eye movements group), to investigate the influence of eye movement on CSPFA. The result shows: Compared with control group, horizontal eye movements are more conducive to the subjects′ performance in their creative scientific problem finding task. Conclusion: IHI level influences individual CSPEA by promoting its flexibility, and the path way for this is different with the question types.

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Experiment on Factors Influencing the Inter-temporal Decision Making Zhuang Jinying, Ying Juanjuan, Yang Wenyuan 2017, 15(2):  218-222.  Abstract ( )   PDF (445KB) ( )   References | Related Articles | Metrics There are three main aspects of asymmetry among the intertemporal choice, including time discount, sign effect, and temporal value asymmetry. These aspects, furthermore, refer to the three dimensions: temporal orientation, temporal distance and framing effect. In this study, we conducted an experiment to test the interaction of the three dimensions above by employing two kinds of scenario(gain vs. loss)to asked the participants to judge each scenario according to the different temporal distance(1 month vs. 12 months)and orientations(future vs. past), then calculated the discounting rate of individual participant based on the Hyperbolic Discounting Model. The results showed that the temporal distance has an influence on the“future”events instead of the“past”, and the discounting rate of the“future”was significantly greater than that of the“past”in terms of the same temporal distance. On the other hand, the discounting rate of the“loss”was significantly greater than that of“gain”. Therefore, it proves the reverse sign effect.

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Accuracy of Judgments of Learning for The Primary School Students with Different Recall Tasks Dai Jinghua, Jia Ning 2017, 15(2):  223-226.  Abstract ( )   PDF (321KB) ( )   References | Related Articles | Metrics Judgments of learning(JOLs)are assessments that people make about how well they learned particular information. The present study explored the accuracy of immediate JOLs. The 5th graders of primary school participated in the experiment, forward-pairs and backward-pairs were selected as experimental materials. The results showed that recall task and association directions affected the accuracy of the JOLs: 1)There was the foresight bias in the JOLs of cued recall task. 2)The JOLs of the two kinds of pairs were both overestimated in free recall task. According to the fluency hypothesis, the difference between encoding fluency and retrial fluency result in the bias of the JOLs accuracy.

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The Dominance Analysis of the Prediction for the Subjective Well-being of the Elderly Made by Their Resilience, Loneliness and Self-Efficacy Gao Fengjian, Chen Youguo, Liu Peiduo, Jiang Zhu, Huang Xiting 2017, 15(2):  227-232.  Abstract ( )   PDF (585KB) ( )   References | Related Articles | Metrics Resilience, Loneliness and Self-Efficacy affect the subjective well-being of the elderly, but the relative importance of them is unknown. We used the dominance analysis to explore the question in current research. The Connor-Davidson resilience scale, the UCLA Loneliness Scale and the General Self-Efficacy Scale were employed respectively to measure the Resilience, Loneliness and Self-efficacy of the elderly, while the Subjective Happiness Scale and the Philadelphia Geriatric Center Morale Scale were used to survey the Subjective Well-Being of them. The results indicated that the largest degree of prediction for the Subjective Well-Being of the elderly is Loneliness, Resilience next, and the third is Self-Efficacy. This research suggests that promoting the Resilience and Self-Efficacy of the elderly will improve the Subjective Well-Being of the elderly, and alleviating their Loneliness will be better.

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Development on the Perception of Chinese and Western Music Emotion in Children Ma Xie, Tao Yun, Bai Xuejun 2017, 15(2):  233-239.  Abstract ( )   PDF (667KB) ( )   References | Related Articles | Metrics Music emotion perception refers to recognize emotions expressed through music. Selected subjects of 3 years old, 4 years old, 5 years old and college students were tested to know their capacity in recognizing the 4 emotional expressions of anger, sadness, tenderness and happiness through being exposed to the Chinese folk and the western classical music. The results showed that: 1)The recognition ability to music emotion improves with the increasing of age whilst 4 years old is a turning point for the development of such perception, The ability of 5 years old is close to adult; 2)The recognition to different emotional category in music varies among children, happy is better than others; 3)The recognition ability of music is not affected by music culture.

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The Relelationship Between Marital Quality and Adolescents′ Prososcial and Problem Behaviors: The Mediating Roles of Pareents′ Parenting Competence Zhang Xiao, Li Longfeng, Bai Liu, Chen Yinghe 2017, 15(2):  240-249.  Abstract ( )   PDF (810KB) ( )   References | Related Articles | Metrics The current study recruited 160 families to examine the effects of marital quality on adolescents′ prosocial and problem behaviors. Moreover, the mediating roles of maternal and paternal perceptions of parenting sense of competence were tested. Marital quality, parenting sense of competence and adolescents′ prosocial and problem behaviors were reported by both fathers and mothers. Results revealed that 1)marital quality perceived by both fathers and mothers were positively related to adolescents′ prosocial behavior and negatively associated with adolescents′ problem behavior; 2)the relationship between father perceived marital quality and adolescents′ problem behavior was partially mediated by paternal satisfaction of parenting competence; 3)the effects of mothers′ marital quality on adolescents′ prosocial and problem behaviors were partially mediated by maternal effectiveness of parenting competence. Additionally, the mediating effects of maternal satisfaction of parenting competence on the relations between mothers′ marital quality and adolescents′ problem behavior were marginally significant.

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An Investigation of the Core Psychological Healthy Diathesis of Migrant Workers in China Li Qiang, Liang Dong, Hao Zhihong, Xu Sheng, Wang Na 2017, 15(2):  250-257.  Abstract ( )   PDF (803KB) ( )   References | Related Articles | Metrics The present study aimed at examining the psychometric properties of“Psychological Core Health Diathesis Scale for Chinese Adults”, and investigating the general situation of psychological health diathesis of Chinese migrant workers, in comparison with the national adult norm.“Psychological Core Health Diathesis Scale for Chinese Adults”was applied among 855 valid samples of migrant workers in different genders, ages, education levels and occupation categories from six administrative regions in China. The results showed that: 1)The subscales in“Psychological Core Health Diathesis Scale for Chinese Adults”had acceptable psychometric properties on reliability and validity. 2)The total core diathesis score of migrant workers was above the average compared to the national norm. 3)Compared to national norm, migrant workers significantly scored higher on the subscale of emotionality, while no significant variance was found on other subscales. 4)There was significant gender differences on the subscale of hardiness, and significant age differences on the subscales of interpersonal health and emotionality. Significant difference was also found among different occupations in self-concept, hardiness, and total core diathesis score. It was concluded that“Psychological Core Health Diathesis Scale for Chinese Adults”is applicable for the population of migrant workers in China; and Emotionality of the migrant workers is significantly higher than the national norm, while loadings of other diathesis traits have no significant difference with the norm.

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The Cognitive Basis on the Differentiation of Identity of the New Generation of Migrant Workers——From the Perspective of the Social Comparison Strategy sun Xiaojun, Tong Yuantian, Fan Cuiying 2017, 15(2):  258-263.  Abstract ( )   PDF (706KB) ( )   References | Related Articles | Metrics Taking 332 new generation of migrant workers as the subjects, from the perspective of social comparison, this study discusses the relationship between the social comparison strategy and the choice of identity of the new generation of migrant workers in the threatening situation. The research uses the virtual of threatening situation as well as the questionnaire survey method, and examines the characteristics of different identification types of migrant workers on the use of comparative strategy. The results show that in the threatening situations, there are significant differences among different identity types of migrant workers in comparison strategy there are significant differences, which type of urban identity of migrant workers tend to use avoidance strategies; rural identity types of migrant workers tend to select new dimension strategy; fuzzy identity types of migrant workers tend to decrease the importance of dimensions strategy.

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The Scale Development and Investigation of the Moral Tendency for Accounting Students and Accountants Yin Guoen, Su Juan, Yu Mulan, Liu Haiyan, 2017, 15(2):  264-269.  Abstract ( )   PDF (505KB) ( )   References | Related Articles | Metrics A self-designed moral reasoning scale was constructed and used to evaluate whether the consequences of form, the consequences of expressions, accounting students' grade and sex, working experience and professional level influences moral reasoning. The four conditions included in this scale were the social consequences of self, the consequence of materi-al interests and physiological benefits, the consequences of mental benefits, and the consequences on other people. The results show that the consequence of reasoning did not influence the moral tendency of accounting students and accountants. If participants tended to break the rule of accounting, they mostly considered material benefits for themselves and other persons, then the social benefits, the least considered was the mental benefits for themselves. The number of male in junior grades who considered heavily on the consequences of themselves and material interests was larger than females. Accountants professionals, both on high and low professional level, who considered the physiological consequences of themselves and material interest of themselves and the other people has a looser standard on moral reasoning thinking than accounting students.

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The Influence of Personality Trait on Motivation of WeChat Like-behavior Zhao Yawen, Gao Yanyan, Liu Tuo, Yang Haibo, Yan Guoli 2017, 15(2):  270-275.  Abstract ( )   PDF (596KB) ( )   References | Related Articles | Metrics In the age of mobile Internet, the way people communicate was overturned by the advent of WeChat. Like, as the interaction between network relationship, presents the self-regulation and social-identification of users. Using the method of questionnaire, the present study investigated the relationship between like-motivation and personal traits with 368 WeChat users. The results indicate that: 1)there are different motivation backgrounds behind like-behavior, with self-identification and social-identification playing the major role. 2)people with different motivations also have different personal traits. Specifically, self-identification is influenced by conscientiousness and extraversion, while social-identification is influenced by agreeableness and openness.

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Influence of Cognitive Resource to Implicit Suicide Attitude: Moderating Effect of Internal-Control Motivation of Suicide Liang Yusong, Liu Huashan, Du Hongqin, 2017, 15(2):  276-281.  Abstract ( )   PDF (578KB) ( )   References | Related Articles | Metrics The experiment aimed to examine whether internal-control motivation of suicide play a role of moderator between cognitive resource and implicit suicide attitude. The study found that implicit suicide attitude of low self-determination motivation students is remarkably lower when there exists cognitive resource, but implicit suicide attitude of high self-determination motivation students has no significant differences whether there is cognitive resource or not. The results indicated that internal-control motivation of suicide moderates the relationship of cognitive resource and implicit suicide attitude.

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The Relationship between Organizational Injustice and Counterproductive Work Behavior Xu Meng, Li Xiaoping 2017, 15(2):  282-288.  Abstract ( )   PDF (713KB) ( )   References | Related Articles | Metrics In order to determine the relationship between organizational injustice and counterproductive work behavior(CWB), 118 subjects were randomly chosen to participate in the experiment. Results showed that when people experienced injustice events they were more likely to conduct CWB. Besides, in the injustice situation, subjects with low power distance orientation scored much higher in CWB than those with high power distance orientation;while in neutral scenario, subjects in two groups showed no significant difference in CWB. That is, power distance negatively moderates the relationship between organizational injustice and CWB. Implications of these findings, as well as directions for future research, are discussed.