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Psychological Research

2025 Vol.18,No.2

Published 2025-04-01

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Theory Review
HENG Shupeng, TIAN Jiaxu, WANG Ying

Internet trolling refers to a behavior pattern in which individuals deliberately disrupt normal communication on the internet to trigger negative emotional reactions of other internet users, and then experience the pleasure. The present theories explaining internet trolling mainly include Theory of Lack of Social Context Cues, Self-awareness Model, and Social Identity Model of Deindividuation Effects (SIDE). The relevant factors that affect internet trolling mainly include demographic factors, individual psychological factors, and network environment factors. In addition, internet trolling will also have an important impact on individual mental health, cognition and behavior performance, as well as the development of cyberspace. Future research should focus on delving into the six aspects as follows: Carrying out research on different types of internet trolling; improving the measurement method of internet trolling; adopting new methods for studying internet trolling; finding out more factors affecting internet trolling; exploring the consequential research on internet trolling; and doing more relevant intervention research.

2025 Vol. 18 (2): 99-110 [Abstract]( 0 HTML (1 KB)  PDF (1299 KB)  ( 7 )

Fundamental Research
JIA Yifan, WANG Yongsheng, FU Ying, YUAN Sheng, GAO Feng, BAI Xuejun

The present study aimed to investigate the effects of different task requirements on the eye-movement characteristics of Chinese college students when they viewed the oil painted figures. Experiment 1 and Experiment 2 respectively explored the eye movement characteristics of Chinese college students viewing Western and Chinese oil painted figures under different task requirements. The results showed that the eye-movement characteristics of scene perception were influenced by task requirements. Under different task requirements, the proportion of fixation time and the number of fixation points of Chinese college students in different interest areas showed a significant difference. The accuracy of confusion matrix classification prediction was significantly higher than the probability level. These findings suggest the existence of top-down processing in scene perception.

2025 Vol. 18 (2): 111-118 [Abstract]( 0 HTML (1 KB)  PDF (889 KB)  ( 5 )

FAN Ruolin, ZHAO Yihan, XU Guiping

Empathy enables individuals to perceive the emotional states and minds of others. Contrary to previous studies, recent research revealed that empathy unreliably leads to altruistic behavior. Among boundary conditions of empathic altruism, the interpersonal emotional bond between an empathizer and a target, like interpersonal distance, social group memberships, perceived similarity, and opposite relationships, mediates empathic responses, including negative empathy, positive empathy, and counter-empathy, based on the different neural activity patterns of pain empathy and reward circuits in the brain and the level of oxytocin. The following study can further explore other factors that mediate the empathic differential response, differential responses of different empathic components, and their cognitive mechanism, and further examine the neural and biochemical mechanism of the empathic differential response.

2025 Vol. 18 (2): 119-128 [Abstract]( 0 HTML (1 KB)  PDF (1184 KB)  ( 0 )

XING Xiaoli, ZHAO Chenyue, MAO Shuangshuang, ZHANG Mengyue

Pathogen aversion is the basis of all disgust, and its adaptive function is the first line of defense for individuals against pathogen infection. In today’s unique times, clues or events related to virus transmission are more likely to trigger people’s pathogen aversion, which in turn affects their decision-making and behavior. However, the impact of pathogen aversion on fair decision-making is still unclear. This study examined the influence of pathogen aversion on unfair decision-making by using the classical ultimatum game paradigm, the third-party altruistic punishment paradigm, and the dictator game paradigm, respectively. The experimental results found that: (1) In the ultimatum task, pathogen aversion increased the individual’s rejection rate of the unfair plan for recipients of unfair schemes; (2) In the third-party altruistic punishment task, pathogen aversion increased the individual’s rejection rate of unfair solutions for third-party evaluators of unfair programs; (3) In the dictator game task, pathogen aversion increased the rate of individuals proposing unfair solutions for the proposer of unfair solutions; (4) In ultimatums and third-party altruistic punishment missions, pathogen aversion reduced an individual’s response to an unfair program. Conclusion: The role of the individual mediates the influence of pathogen aversion on fair decision-making, and the results are helpful to further clarify the influence mechanism of pathogen aversion on fair perception and decision-mking and to provide suggestions for public decision-making and public publicity in the post-epidemic era.

2025 Vol. 18 (2): 129-138 [Abstract]( 0 HTML (1 KB)  PDF (938 KB)  ( 0 )

Applied Psychology Research
ZENG Xueyao, QU Weiguo

Leader interpersonal emotion management refers to the leadership behavior and process in which leaders take a series of measures to manage and regulate the negative emotions and increase positive emotions of their subordinate. This paper first introduces the concept of leader interpersonal emotion management. Secondly, it briefly introduces the measurement method of interpersonal emotion management of leaders. Then, starting from the four stages of social regulatory cycle model (SRC), focusing on the process perspective of leader interpersonal emotion management, this paper combs the antecedents of leader interpersonal emotion management from the perspective of leaders (regulators). From the aspect of individual and team level comb the consequences of leader interpersonal emotion management. Finally, it is suggested that future research should further strengthen the research on concept, measurements, antecedents, consequences and culture.

2025 Vol. 18 (2): 139-147 [Abstract]( 0 HTML (1 KB)  PDF (1053 KB)  ( 2 )

Hu Jing, Luo Yingying

As a leadership style most aligned with the “service” core of government departments, servant leadership plays a significant role in enhancing the responsible behavior of civil servants. This study, grounded in the perspective of resource conservation, introduced relational energy as a mediating variable and political skill as a moderating variable to explore the mechanism and boundary conditions of servant leadership’s impact on the responsible behavior of civil servants. Through a a longitudinal survey of 396 civil servants, the study found that servant leadership positively affectd the responsible behavior of civil servants, relational energy played a mediating role between servant leadership and civil servants’ responsible behavior, and political skill not only positively moderated the impact of servant leadership on relational energy but also further moderated the positive mediation of relational energy between servant leadership and civil servants’ responsible behavior.

2025 Vol. 18 (2): 148-157 [Abstract]( 0 HTML (1 KB)  PDF (915 KB)  ( 1 )

SUN Zhenzhen, YU Tingting, LI Wenhui

By using eye movement technique and picture-vocabulary interference paradigm, this paper explored the writing characteristics of children with developmental dyslexia in grade 3~4 of primary school and compares them with those of ordinary children. The results showed that visit durations of children with developmental dyslexia were significantly longer than that of ordinary children under phonetic conditions. Under orthography, visit durations of children with developmental dyslexia were marginally significant longer than that of ordinary children. Under the condition that pronunciation and orthography were irrelevant, number of fixations of children with developmental dyslexia were significantly higher than those of ordinary children. The research showed that, compared with ordinary children, children with developmental dyslexia had lower cognitive processing level in the process of writing production, and writing production was influenced by pronunciation and orthography.

2025 Vol. 18 (2): 158-165 [Abstract]( 0 HTML (1 KB)  PDF (924 KB)  ( 3 )

School Psychology Research
WANG Bin, ZHANG Yifan, LIU Xin, LIU Xuanwen

A total of 224 college students were selected from a university. Two studies were conducted to assess the effects of watching inspirational videos on various aspects, including college students’ mental health levels, achievement goal motivation, interpersonal relationships, and classroom psychological atmosphere. The results indicated that consistently watching inspirational videos significantly enhanced the psychological health levels of college students, particularly in terms of happiness experience, positive enjoyment of learning, and emotion regulation, notably decreased the level of mastery-avoidance goals among college students, aided in reducing interpersonal distress experienced by college students and contributed to fostering a more culturally and developmentally enriching classroom atmosphere, as well as enhancing the overall learning environment. Watching inspirational videos can bolster the mental health of college students and offer a novel approach for implementing mental health education among this demographic.

2025 Vol. 18 (2): 166-173 [Abstract]( 0 HTML (1 KB)  PDF (960 KB)  ( 4 )

XUE Lulu, FANG Ping, JIANG Yuan

The purpose of this study was to develop an Interpersonal Relationship Scale for Middle School Students and to test its reliability and validity. The results showed that:(1) The Interpersonal Relationship Scale for Middle School Students contained 23 questions and consisted of 4 dimensions: parent-child relationship, teacher-student relationship, peer relationship and network interpersonal relationship; (2) All indicators of validity and reliability of the scale met the measurement criteria, including the confirmatory factor analysis index indicators of (χ2/df=2.49,RMSEA=0.05,GFI=0.90,IFI=0.94,TLI=0.93,CFI=0.94, the criterion validity indicators were -0.70 and 0.71, and the Cronbach’s α coefficients of the scale and each factor were 0.92, 0.90, 0.88, 0.82 and 0.84 respectively, with a retest reliability of 0.92. In conclusion, the indicators of the Interpersonal Relationship Scale for Middle School Students developed in this study are good and can be applied to future studies.

2025 Vol. 18 (2): 174-184 [Abstract]( 0 HTML (1 KB)  PDF (1019 KB)  ( 3 )

HUANG Yuesheng, CHEN Dan

To explore the effects of familial socioeconomic status on left-behind children’s problem behaviors and its mechanism, 713 left-behind children and 387 non-left-behind children were tested by using parental bonding instrument, strengths and difficulties questionnaire, self-esteem scale and personal information questionnaire. The results showed that: (1) The scores of familial SES, parental care and self-esteem of left-behind children were significantly lower than those of non-left-behind children, and the scores of parental psychological control and problem behaviors were significantly higher than those of non-left-behind children; (2) Family SES negatively predicted the problem behaviors of left-behind children, but it was mainly mediated by parental care, parental psychological control and self-esteem respectively, and the chain mediation of parental care and self-esteem. (3) Compared with non-left-behind children, the familial SES of left-behind children had a greater positive prediction effect on self-esteem and the single mediating effect of parental care was larger, while the negative prediction effect of family SES on parental psychological control and the positive prediction effect of parental care on self-esteem were smaller.

2025 Vol. 18 (2): 185-192 [Abstract]( 0 HTML (1 KB)  PDF (888 KB)  ( 8 )

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