Objective: The linking mechanisms underlying associations between early adversities and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms related to major public health crises remain unclear. Grounded in the stress process model, the present study examined the potential mediating roles of mindfulness and various forms of emotion regulation strategies (general: cognitive reappraisal and expressive suppression; self-care specific: self-compassion) in the associations between victimization by family members and peers (childhood psychological maltreatment and peer victimization) and COVID-19 PTSD symptoms among adolescents.
Method: Three-wave survey data were collected from 844 Chinese junior high school students (51.
Objective: The relationship between childhood emotional maltreatment and disordered eating behaviors (DEBs) has been well documented. However, the mechanisms that link these associations are underexplored, and most studies have focused on the roles of emotion-related symptoms or processes. Based on the stress process model, the present study investigated how childhood emotional maltreatment exerts long-term effects on DEBs in adulthood by examining the mediating roles of repetitive negative thinking (RNT) and body dissatisfaction.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFTo investigate the repellent efficacy of commercially available mosquito repellents in China against , four representative DEET-based repellents and biont-derived repellents were selected. This study utilized a modified circular filter paper method repellent testing device to establish an evaluation system for assessing the repellent effects of each product against three developmental stages of : larvae, nymphs, and adults. In our study, for DEET-based repellents, Johnson demonstrated the highest repellency against larvae within 1 h, with an average repellency rate exceeding 80.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFExosomes mediate cell-to-cell communication by releasing miRNAs, mRNA, etc. However, there is little research about the effects on the donor cells after miRNAs are excreted out of cells through exosomes. Here, we found that miR-378a-3p was specifically enriched in exosomes and inhibited cell proliferation, migration, invasion, and colony formation in ESCC.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFDepression, in recent decades, has shown a clear trend to occur at a younger age, emerging as a prevalent mental health concern among primary school children. According to family system theory and social-ecological principles, parent individual factors, as distal factors, are able to influence the depression of child individual through the proximal factor of parent-child dyadic interaction. Within this integrated theory framework, this study aimed to utilize the principle of the actor-partner independence model to investigate the indirect pathway from paternal and maternal positive/negative emotional expressiveness to primary school children's depression via father-child and mother-child closeness/conflict.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: The present study aimed to develop a nomogram model for predicting overall survival (OS) in esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC) patients.
Methods: A total of 205 patients with ESCC were enrolled and randomly divided into a training cohort (n = 153) and a test cohort (n = 52) at a ratio of 7:3. Multivariate Cox regression was used to construct the radiomics model based on CT data.
Int J Nanomedicine
December 2024
Exosomes are vesicles ranging from 30 to 100 nanometers in size that show great potential as carriers for therapeutic uses and drug delivery. Enriching a specific set of miRNAs in exosomes emphasizes the existence of particular sorting mechanisms that manage the targeted cargo packaging. The molecular mechanism for miRNA sorting has not been understood.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Attribution models have been examined in Western countries. However, little is known about the applicability of the attitude-emotion-behavior model within Chinese culture. This study aimed to examine the association between familiarity, perceived dangerousness, fear, and social distance towards persons with mental illness (PMI) in the Chinese context.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFExosomes are emerging mediators of cell-cell communication, which are secreted from cells and may be delivered into recipient cells in cell biological processes. Here, we examined microRNA (miRNA) expression in esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC) cells. We performed miRNA sequencing in exosomes and cells of KYSE150 and KYSE450 cell lines.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFEur Child Adolesc Psychiatry
September 2024
Children are more likely to develop depressive symptoms in families where parents have depressive symptoms. By conceptualizing the individual depressive symptom network of each family member as a whole, this study proposes a family symptom network model, and explored the mechanisms of transmission of depression within nuclear families at the symptom level. This study used four waves (2012, 2016, 2018, 2020) of data from the China Family Panel Studies (CFPS), which in wave one contained a representative sample of 1963 children (1038 boys; age = 12.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFFront Oncol
January 2024
In patients with esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC), the incidence and mortality rate of ESCC in our country are also higher than those in the rest of the world. Despite advances in the treatment department method, patient survival rates have not obviously improved, which often leads to treatment obstruction and cancer repeat. ESCC has special cells called cancer stem-like cells (CSLCs) with self-renewal and differentiation ability, which reflect the development process and prognosis of cancer.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPandemic fatigue, the state of weariness, exhaustion, and demotivation to engage in protective behaviors during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, have been linked with depressive symptoms. However, the mechanism underlying this association remains unclear. Based on the stress process model, the present study examined the indirect effects of pandemic fatigue on depressive symptoms through the indirect roles of sense of control and intolerance of uncertainty.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPsychol Res Behav Manag
December 2023
Purpose: The study aims to understand how enacted stigma influences bereavement coping at the style (scale) level and the specific pathways at the strategy (item) level.
Methods: The longitudinal data of 755 children orphaned by parental Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) in rural China were used. Grief processing and deliberate grief avoidance were measured at wave 1 (baseline) and wave 2 (one-year follow-up) to reflect bereavement coping in the contexts of being with family members, being with friends, being with community members, and being alone.
The importance of psychological detachment during nonwork time has been emphasized, and its effect on depressive symptoms has been identified. However, the mechanism underlying this association remains to be elucidated. This study was conducted to identify the indirect role of emotional exhaustion in the association between psychological detachment and depressive symptoms and the moderating role of self-compassion in the relationship between emotional exhaustion and depressive symptoms on the basis of the recovery-engagement-exhaustion model and emotion regulation theory.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: The association between work stress and well-being has been well documented. However, the underlying mechanism for such association is not clear, especially in terms of how work stress relates to both personal and relational well-being. Based on the Conservation of Resources Theory and the Stress Process Model, the present study examined the potential indirect roles of the sense of control and the work-related rumination in the associations between work stress and both personal and relational well-being.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAs a stressor in the context of COVID-19 pandemic fatigue is associated with well-being. However, how pandemic fatigue is associated with well-being and what protective factors buffer this negative effect are under investigated. Based on the stress process model and emotion regulation theory, the study examined the indirect effect of pandemic fatigue on subjective well-being through emotional distress and the buffering effect of self-compassion.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFRes Child Adolesc Psychopathol
August 2023
Based on the network theory of mental disorders, this study used network analysis to examine the network of ODD symptoms and multilevel family factors and identify the most crucial family factors influencing ODD symptoms in children. A total of 718 Chinese migrant children aged 7-14 years participated in this study. This study measured ODD symptoms, family system-level variables (3 factors), family dyadic-level variables (6 factors), and family individual-level variables (6 factors) with factors selected based on the multilevel family factors theory of ODD symptoms.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPsychol Res Behav Manag
May 2023
Purpose: The association between work stress and depressive symptoms has been well documented. More research is still needed to further investigate the underlying explanatory process mechanism and the potential protective function of personal resource in attenuating the negative effect of work stress on mental health. To address this gap and informed by the stress process model and emotion regulation theory,the present study examined the indirect role of work-related rumination and the buffering effect of self-compassion in university teachers, a population with increased vulnerabilities for both work stress and mental health issues.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFRes Child Adolesc Psychopathol
August 2023
Parenting is crucial for emotion regulation in children. Much less is known, however, concerning the association between parenting and emotion regulation in children with oppositional defiant disorder (ODD), who are known to have poor emotion regulation. The current study aimed to examine how parental responsiveness and child emotion regulation related either unidirectionally or bidirectionally to one another over time and to investigate whether the associations were different in ODD and non-ODD groups.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSelf-compassion is negatively associated with aggressive behaviors. However, the association between self-compassion and cyber aggression toward stigmatized people (e.g.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAppl Psychol Health Well Being
November 2023
People who believe that their socioeconomic status (SES) can be changed-with growth mindset or incremental implicit theory of SES-tend to have better psychological well-being. Nevertheless, it remains unclear on why growth mindset of SES benefits well-being. The present research aims to answer this question by investigating the longitudinal associations between mindset of SES and well-being (i.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: Two studies were conducted to explore the patterns of positive affect (PA) and negative affect (NA) while considering collectivist cultural specificity (dialecticism) and to examine the associations of affective profiles with psychosocial adjustment.
Methods: We used two Chinese samples, one comprising adults with adverse childhood experiences ( = 488) and one comprising ordinary adolescents ( = 635). The participants completed scales on PA, NA, and psychosocial adjustment, including mental health problems (depressive symptoms, anxiety), personal strengths (self-esteem, gratitude, resilience), and life satisfaction.
Background: Although fatty acid metabolism has been confirmed to be involved in the pathological process of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF), systematic analyses on the immune process mediated by fatty acid metabolism-related genes (FAMRGs) in IPF remain lacking.
Methods: The gene expression data of 315 patients with IPF were obtained from Gene Expression Omnibus database and were divided into the training and verification sets. The core FAMRGs of the training set were identified through weighted gene co-expression network analysis.
Discrimination as a crucial stressor damages the mental health of socioeconomically disadvantaged individuals through increased ruminative thinking. A "stress-is-enhancing" mindset may protect the mental health of socioeconomically disadvantaged individuals under the pressures of perceived discrimination and rumination. This study examined the mediating role of rumination and the moderating role of stress mindset in the relationship between perceived discrimination and psychological symptoms among socioeconomically disadvantaged college students.
View Article and Find Full Text PDF