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Psychological Research

2024 Vol.17,No.2

Published 2024-04-01

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Theory Review
SHI Guangquan, HUANG Xiting

Although the family structure has changed in the new era, the relationship between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law is still worth investigating due to its particularity. Contemporary conflicts between mothers-in-law and daughters-in-law focus mainly on differences in beliefs, speech, and actions. Chinese culture is inclusive and influences how individuals deal with interpersonal relationships. Inclusive refers to being tolerant and accepting of other people’s beliefs, speech, and actions that are contrary to one’s own. Inclusive may thus be an effective treatment for strengthening relationships between mothers-in-law and daughters-in-law. This paper explored the connection between inclusive personality and mother-in-law/daughter-in-law relationships on a theoretical level; Future research should empirically validate this effect, construct mechanisms for the occurrence of mother-in-law/daughter-in-law inclusiveness, develop a scale of inclusiveness between mothers-in-law and daughters-in-law for quantitative analysis, and explore the boundaries of inclusiveness between mothers-in-law and daughters-in-law.

2024 Vol. 17 (2): 99-105 [Abstract]( 0 HTML (1 KB)  PDF (812 KB)  ( 24 )

Fundamental Research
ZHANG Zhutian, ZHAO Lijuan, XU Feihang, WANG Lijuan

The humor effect of memory refers to the phenomenon that individuals can remember more humorous materials than non-humorous materials, and its processing involves many aspects of cognitive processing components. The existing researches made a general survey of humor effect on memory to explain its mechanism-such as arousal hypothesis, perceived humor hypothesis, incongruity resolution hypothesis, rehearsal hypothesis and context depending elaboration hypothesis. The future research should pay more attention to the mechanism of humor effect on memory systematically and formally based on integrating previous studies.

2024 Vol. 17 (2): 106-112 [Abstract]( 0 HTML (1 KB)  PDF (936 KB)  ( 13 )

XIE Siyi, SHI Bing

Four studies were conducted to investigate the impact of financial deprivation on prosocial behavior and relevant moderating roles of prosocial situation and form. Results indicated that: (1) Compared to financial non-deprivation, participants in financial deprivation were more likely to help others. This increase was found to be mediated by face-saving consciousness, but not by face-gaining consciousness; (2) Participants in financial deprivation were more prosocial in public condition, while the effect was weakened in private condition; (3) Participants in financial deprivation were more likely to help others in a non-monetary form (i.e., spending effort) than participants in financial non-deprivation. This effect decreased when prosocial behavior was in a monetary form.

2024 Vol. 17 (2): 113-120 [Abstract]( 0 HTML (1 KB)  PDF (967 KB)  ( 19 )

Applied Psychology Research
CHEN Shen, LI Yongxin

Mental health literacy is context specific and developmentally appropriate, in order to provide a scientific theoretical framework for the accuracy of evaluating and improving of junior high school students’ mental health literacy. Based on Wang Yangming’s thought of “knowledge as action”, this study proposed a three-dimensional spiral model of mental health literacy with multi-dimensional, dynamic, adaptive and plastic characteristics. Furthermore, based on this model, through qualitative analysis of the interview records of 10 junior middle school teachers, a structural framework of “3 dimensions and 9 domains” of junior middle school students’ mental health literacy was constructed, which provided theoretical basis and material accumulation for the compilation of measurement tools for junior middle school students’ mental health literacy.

2024 Vol. 17 (2): 121-131 [Abstract]( 0 HTML (1 KB)  PDF (833 KB)  ( 8 )

YANG Liu, DU Wei, FANG Ping, JIANG Yuan

Prosocial behavior is conducive to social stability and development. This study explored the relationship between social emotions and prosocial behavior, and the role of interpersonal trust and social support. We investigated 1074 people with the Social Emotion Scale, Prosocial Tendencies Measure, Interpersonal Trust Scale, and Perceived Social Support Scale. The results showed that: (1) Social emotions positively predicted the tendency of prosocial behavior; (2) Interpersonal trust played a partial mediating role in the influence of social emotion on prosocial behavior; (3)Social support moderated the effect of social emotion on interpersonal trust. With the increase of social support, the positive prediction effect of social emotion on interpersonal trust gradually enhanced; (4) Social support also moderated the effect of social emotions on prosocial behavior. As the social support is higher, the positive predictive effect of social emotions on prosocial behavior becomes weaker.

2024 Vol. 17 (2): 132-139 [Abstract]( 0 HTML (1 KB)  PDF (919 KB)  ( 33 )

LIAO Yi, LU Xiaobo, ZHANG Wei

This study reported a meta-analysis on the effects of music training on language attainment. A total of 29 studies and 36 independent effect sizes, including 6141 subjects were retrieved. This meta-analysis revealed that: 1) Music training had different effects on receptive learning and productive learning respectively, and the effects for music training on receptive learning were larger than that on productive learning. 2) Age was the moderator variable on the effects of music training on language attainment. 3) Background of native language and length of training had no significant effect on the relationship between music training and language attainment.

2024 Vol. 17 (2): 140-152 [Abstract]( 0 HTML (1 KB)  PDF (1307 KB)  ( 9 )

School Psychology Research
HE Anming, LIN Xing, HUI Qiuping, ZHANG Yu

To explore the relationships and mechanisms between affective teaching skills, academic control, perceived teacher acceptance and academic achievement, the research surveyed 1004 adolescents from 4 middle schools in Henan province, using adapted Affective Teaching Skills Scale, Academic Control Scale and Teacher Subscale of the Approval Support Scale for Children and Adolescents. The main findings were as follows: Affective teaching skills positively predicted academic achievement, academic control mediated the relationship between affective teaching skills and academic achievement. Moreover, perceived teacher acceptance played a moderating role in the relationship between affective teaching skills and academic control. That is, only for individuals with high perceived teacher acceptance, affective teaching skills positively predicted academic control. The results suggest that, as a necessary condition, teacher acceptance affects the influence of teaching skills on students’ academic achievement. The results demonstrate and expand the control-value theory of achievement emotions, enrich the research on the antecedents of academic achievement, and provide a basis for improving adolescents’ academic achievement. Practically, the current study encourages the front-line educators not only pay attention to improving teaching skills, but also improve attitude towards students.

2024 Vol. 17 (2): 153-163 [Abstract]( 0 HTML (1 KB)  PDF (1275 KB)  ( 31 )

GAO Bin, CHEN Duanying, ZHU Suijing, HUANG Yue

The present study investigated the relationship between career decision ambiguity tolerance and college student’ job search behaviors, and was to explore the mediating effect of future work self as well as the moderating effect of future time perspective. The career decision ambiguity tolerance questionnaire, future time perspective scale, future work self scale and job search behavior scale were administered to 731 college students. Results were as follows: (1) Ambiguity tolerance was positively correlated with job search behavior. (2) Future work self played a partial mediating role between ambiguity tolerance and job search behavior. (3) Future time perception could not only moderate the relationship between ambiguity tolerance and job search behavior, but also the relationship between ambiguity tolerance and future work self.

2024 Vol. 17 (2): 164-172 [Abstract]( 0 HTML (1 KB)  PDF (1008 KB)  ( 26 )

DAI Wenwu, JIA Ning

To discuss the predictive effect of the behavior of asking math teachers for help on mathematical achievement, using the asking math teachers for help questionnaire, perceived math teacher support questionnaire, positive academic emotions scale and math engagement questionnaire to investigate 986 senior one students. The results showed that there was a triple prediction path in the relationship between asking math teachers for help and mathematical achievement, including one direct path, three simple mediation paths and four chain mediation paths. This study showed that high school students initiated to ask math teachers for help, teachers provided more support, which could stimulate students’ positive academic emotions and increase their engagement in learning, which was an important way to improve the senior one students’mathematics achievement. This is of great value for taking students as the main body of learning, cultivating individual initiative of learning and improving mathematical achievement.

2024 Vol. 17 (2): 173-181 [Abstract]( 0 HTML (1 KB)  PDF (987 KB)  ( 7 )

DING Qian, DONG Siwei, LIU Yilin, TIAN Jun

Based on Beck’ s cognitive theory of depression and social cognitive theory of social class, this study constructed a moderated mediation model to investigate the relationship between dormitory exclusion and depression in college students, and the mediating effect of sense of adequacy and the moderating effect of family socioeconomic status. A sample of 608 college students from two comprehensive universities in Hubei and Henan province were recruited to complete questionnaires. Results indicated that: (1) Dormitory exclusion could positively predict depression in college students. (2) Sense of adequacy partially mediated this association. (3) This mediating effect was moderated by family socioeconomic status. Specifically, compared to the individuals with high family socioeconomic status, the indirect effect was stronger for college students with low family socioeconomic status. These findings highlight the importance of both dormitory exclusion and sense of adequacy when considering the prevention and intervention of depression in college students.

2024 Vol. 17 (2): 182-189 [Abstract]( 0 HTML (1 KB)  PDF (970 KB)  ( 35 )

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