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  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
6,012 Views
10 Pages

Background: Emotional problems such as depression and anxiety are very serious among college students, especially during the COVID-2019 pandemic. The present study aimed to explore the mediating role of resilience in the relationship between self-con...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,879 Views
24 Pages

Neural Modulation Alteration to Positive and Negative Emotions in Depressed Patients: Insights from fMRI Using Positive/Negative Emotion Atlas

  • Yu Feng,
  • Weiming Zeng,
  • Yifan Xie,
  • Hongyu Chen,
  • Lei Wang,
  • Yingying Wang,
  • Hongjie Yan,
  • Kaile Zhang,
  • Ran Tao and
  • Nizhuan Wang
  • + 1 author

9 December 2024

Background: Although it has been noticed that depressed patients show differences in processing emotions, the precise neural modulation mechanisms of positive and negative emotions remain elusive. FMRI is a cutting-edge medical imaging technology ren...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
5,600 Views
12 Pages

20 February 2023

In the context of China’s three-child policy, more and more families have been changing from a one-child family to a two-child or three-child family. Both changes of family structure and the increase in child number may bring new challenges to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,830 Views
15 Pages

16 November 2022

Facial expressions help in understanding the intentions of others as they are an essential means of communication, revealing human emotions. Recently, thermal imaging has been playing a complementary role in emotion recognition and is considered an a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,014 Views
14 Pages

24 May 2021

This study examined the effect of the Protestant work ethic on burnout using a sample of 259 South Korean workers from a manufacturing firm. We also investigated the mediating role of emotional dissonance on this effect and addressed the moderating a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,525 Views
15 Pages

The Flexible Regulation of Emotional Expression (FREE) Scale assesses individuals’ ability to enhance and suppress their emotional expressions across different situations. This study investigates the optimal factor structure of the FREE and emp...

  • Article
  • Open Access
54 Citations
7,268 Views
9 Pages

Objective: To investigate the relationship between physical activity and negative emotions among college students in the post-epidemic era and determine if emotional regulation plays a mediating role between physical activity and negative emotions. M...

  • Article
  • Open Access
434 Views
14 Pages

19 January 2026

Background: Emotions substantially influence human eating behavior, but while negative affect has been consistently associated with maladaptive eating patterns, the role of positive affect remains underexplored. Thereby, emotion regulation (ER) is co...

  • Review
  • Open Access
48 Citations
15,825 Views
30 Pages

Negative Affectivity and Emotion Dysregulation as Mediators between ADHD and Disordered Eating: A Systematic Review

  • Sarah El Archi,
  • Samuele Cortese,
  • Nicolas Ballon,
  • Christian Réveillère,
  • Arnaud De Luca,
  • Servane Barrault and
  • Paul Brunault

27 October 2020

Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is associated with disordered eating, especially addictive-like eating behavior (i.e., binge eating, food addiction, loss of control overeating). The exact mechanisms underlying this association are unc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,555 Views
12 Pages

Pain Sensitivity, Negative Affect, and Alcohol Use Disorder Status: A Moderated Mediation Study of Emotion Dysregulation

  • Maciej Kopera,
  • Elisa M. Trucco,
  • Hubert Suszek,
  • Paweł Kobyliński,
  • Paweł Wiśniewski,
  • Marcin Wojnar and
  • Andrzej Jakubczyk

23 March 2021

Previous work suggests that the association between pain and emotional processes among individuals with alcohol use disorder (AUD) may differ from healthy controls. This study investigates whether pain sensitivity mediates the association between neg...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,951 Views
12 Pages

Background/objective: Negative emotion, such as anxiety and depression, significantly impacts college students’ academic performance, social relationships, and overall well-being. Given that, this study aims to explore the effect of physical ac...

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
4,571 Views
10 Pages

Recently, internet gaming addiction and suicide have been global public health issues among adolescents. This study used convenience sampling and surveyed 1906 Chinese adolescents to investigate the relationship between internet gaming addiction and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,530 Views
11 Pages

Food Addiction and Grazing—The Role of Difficulties in Emotion Regulation and Negative Urgency in University Students

  • Andreia Ribeiro,
  • Jorge Sinval,
  • Sílvia Félix,
  • Carolina Guimarães,
  • Bárbara César Machado,
  • Sónia Gonçalves,
  • Marta de Lourdes and
  • Eva M. Conceição

17 October 2023

University students are a vulnerable population to the development of disordered eating, such as food addiction (FA) and grazing. FA is an emerging concept characterized by an intense desire to eat hyper-palatable foods. Grazing is characterized by t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,146 Views
13 Pages

Non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) can be defined as the deliberate destruction of body tissues to generate harm. College students have a higher incidence of NSSI. With the deepening of research on college students’ NSSI, the connection between th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,048 Views
15 Pages

6 August 2018

In contrast with the existing studies dealing with crisis communication strategies in most aspects of corporates, this study investigated the mechanism of anti-corporate prejudice toward personal-information leakage as part of corporate crisis. This...

  • Article
  • Open Access
125 Views
21 Pages

13 February 2026

The early diagnosis of depression is often impeded by the subjectivity inherent in traditional clinical assessments. To advance objective screening, this study proposes a lightweight neural network framework designed to discriminate between pathologi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,755 Views
14 Pages

Solid or Liquid Food—The Intention to Eat Different Foods under Negative Emotions

  • Chenjing Wu,
  • Chuangbing Huang,
  • Hongyan Zhu,
  • Yuanlin Yu,
  • Caiyun Zhang,
  • Wei Zhang and
  • Xianyou He

19 April 2022

Food can relieve an individual’s emotions, especially for emotional eaters. For instance, chewing alleviates negative emotions. Solid and liquid foods comprise a huge part of our daily lives, and the chewiness of solid foods is always high. Her...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
6,893 Views
15 Pages

15 February 2023

Procrastination (the intentional delay of action despite knowing that one will be worse off due to the delay) is a widespread phenomenon with various negative consequences, especially among adolescents. Based on relevant evidence, this study examined...

  • Brief Report
  • Open Access
34 Citations
11,368 Views
11 Pages

15 December 2020

Decision-making autonomy may have played a crucial role in protecting, or on the contrary, intensifying the onset of negative psychological outcomes for workers with roles with responsibilities during the lockdown due to the Covid-19 crisis. The pres...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
5,150 Views
9 Pages

Negative childbirth experiences may result in negative emotions that may lead to negative outcomes, such as post-traumatic stress disorder. We aimed to examine the differences in emotions between primiparous and multiparous women and mode of birth. W...

  • Article
  • Open Access
606 Views
14 Pages

11 October 2025

From a social epidemiology perspective, this study examines self-stigma among COVID-19 quarantine populations and its influence on negative coping strategies. An online survey of 292 residents from quarantine and non-quarantine zones assessed self-st...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
6,207 Views
14 Pages

The Buffering Effect of Awe on Negative Emotions in Self-Threatening Situations

  • Zhaoyang Sun,
  • Yubo Hou,
  • Lili Song,
  • Kun Wang and
  • Mengchan Yuan

4 January 2023

Negative emotions arising from self-threat are ubiquitous and harmful. We propose that the experience of awe awakens the small-self, which in turn alleviates these negative emotions. We examine our theoretical hypotheses in four studies employing var...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
6,245 Views
9 Pages

Interference with Processing Negative Stimuli in Problematic Internet Users: Preliminary Evidence from an Emotional Stroop Task

  • Adriano Schimmenti,
  • Vladan Starcevic,
  • Alessia M. Gervasi,
  • Jory Deleuze and
  • Joël Billieux

Although it has been proposed that problematic Internet use (PIU) may represent a dysfunctional coping strategy in response to negative emotional states, there is a lack of experimental studies that directly test how individuals with PIU process emot...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,299 Views
25 Pages

25 October 2021

Temporal and probability discounting are considered two fundamental constructs in economic science, as they are associated with phenomena with major societal impact and a variety of sub-optimal behaviors and clinical conditions. Although it is well k...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,817 Views
14 Pages

28 August 2025

Through three-wave longitudinal research, a survey was conducted with 3200 college students from a university in China, Hebei Province, with an interval of approximately one year between each survey. In the third wave of surveys, 1495 valid samples w...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
143 Citations
25,305 Views
20 Pages

20 February 2018

The role of emotions in adult learning and achievement has received increasing attention in recent years. However, much of the emphasis has been on test anxiety, rather than the wider spectrum of negative emotions such as sadness, grief, boredom and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,042 Views
18 Pages

The emotional health of urban residents has been seriously threatened by frequent and normalized heat waves. This study constructed the VI-level assessment standard for emotional health risk using data from satellite images, meteorological sites, que...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,481 Views
14 Pages

3 February 2024

This research aims to explore the spatiotemporal distribution patterns of negative emotions in mainland China during different stages of the COVID-19 pandemic and the external factors influencing this clustering. Using Baidu Index data for 91 negativ...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,335 Views
14 Pages

11 August 2023

Willingness to communicate (WTC) in a second language (L2) is one of the key concepts in L2 communication and learning. Previously, research practice in this area has been more concerned with investigating the relationship between individual negative...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,730 Views
24 Pages

30 September 2020

The first career interest inventory emerged in the late 1920s. The response options for the questions in the Strong Vocational Interest Blank included ‘like’ and ‘dislike.’ Both answers are emotional reactions. Regrettably, cl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,962 Views
18 Pages

Thermal Comfort Influences Positive Emotions but Not Negative Emotions When Visiting Green Spaces during Summer

  • Jiaqi Niu,
  • Jiangpeng Xiong,
  • Hongqiao Qin,
  • Haoyan Wu,
  • Kai Zhang,
  • Jie Yan,
  • Lin Ye and
  • Guifeng Han

25 July 2023

Emotional responses are psychological responses produced by multiple stimuli. This study aimed to clarify the effects of thermal comfort on emotions in green spaces with different characteristics in summer. Four green spaces were selected in an urban...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5,426 Views
16 Pages

Is empathy a “double-edged sword”? This study aimed to contribute to a more nuanced understanding of the multidimensional empathy construct in the statistical prediction of negative and positive mental health outcomes. More specifically,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,582 Views
12 Pages

26 June 2024

Negative self-evaluative emotions arise when an individual engages in behavior that is perceived as inadequate or inconsistent with personal or societal norms and values, leading to feelings of inadequacy, shame, and dissatisfaction with oneself. The...

  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
5,360 Views
13 Pages

The COVID-19 global pandemic has resulted in a large number of people suffering from emotional problems. However, the mechanisms by which intolerance of uncertainty (IU) affects negative emotions during the COVID-19 pandemic remain unclear. This stud...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
2,755 Views
12 Pages

Distancing Adherence and Negative Emotions among the Israeli Elderly Population during the COVID-19 Pandemic

  • Shiran Bord,
  • Ayelet Schor,
  • Carmit Satran,
  • Ola Ali Saleh,
  • Liron Inchi and
  • Dafna Halperin

Social distancing was found to prevent COVID-19 contagion. Therefore, understanding the factors associated with the public’s adherence is important. Acknowledging the importance of emotional wellbeing regarding older people’s health, and understandin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,436 Views
17 Pages

This article draws on the stimulus–organism–response (SOR) model to understand the role of negative emotions in the anti-brand behaviors of online users who consume snow sports brands. To this end, both the online social influence and the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
4,823 Views
11 Pages

Chinese College Students’ Physical-Exercise Behavior, Negative Emotions, and Their Correlation during the COVID-19 Outbreak

  • Shan-Shan Han,
  • Bo Li,
  • You-Zhi Ke,
  • Guang-Xu Wang,
  • Shu-Qiao Meng,
  • Ya-Xing Li,
  • Zhong-Lei Cui and
  • Wen-Xia Tong

Background: In the period of the COVID-19 pandemic, the level of college students’ physical exercise, the detection rate of negative emotions, and their correlation should attract extensive attention. Therefore, this study aimed to explore the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,605 Views
14 Pages

Patterns of Parental Reactions to Their Children’s Negative Emotions: A Cluster Analysis with a Clinical Sample

  • Ana Isabel Pereira,
  • Catarina Santos,
  • Luísa Barros,
  • Magda Sofia Roberto,
  • Joana Rato,
  • Ana Prata and
  • Cristina Marques

Parents’ emotion socialization practices are an important source of influence in the development of children’s emotional competencies This study examined parental reactions to child negative emotions in a clinical sample using a cluster a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,477 Views
14 Pages

Emotional Contagion and Social Support in Pigs with the Negative Stimulus

  • Ye Zhang,
  • Jiaqi Yu,
  • Yu Zhang,
  • Yaqian Zhang,
  • Fang Sun,
  • Yuhan Yao,
  • Ziyu Bai,
  • Hanqing Sun,
  • Qian Zhao and
  • Xiang Li

10 October 2023

This study expects to confirm the existence of emotional transmission in pigs from multiple perspectives and to provide theoretical references for improving animal welfare in livestock farming. A group that could directly observe (DO) and a group tha...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
6,640 Views
13 Pages

22 January 2023

For college athletes who perform dual roles (student and athlete), the academics–athletics conflict is inevitable in daily life. Although existing studies have focused on the adverse effects of this conflict on the well-being of college athlete...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
11,755 Views
18 Pages

11 November 2024

Academic procrastination is a widespread phenomenon among college students, significantly affecting their academic performance and mental health. Although previous studies have suggested a relationship between negative academic emotions and academic...

  • Article
  • Open Access
163 Views
20 Pages

16 February 2026

Background: Boundary-spanning bank employees experience continuous customer interactions that can generate negative emotions and influence how they perceive interpersonal treatment at work. Although emotions are known to shape fairness judgments, lit...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,052 Views
15 Pages

As suicides incurred by the COVID-19 outbreak keep happening in many countries, researchers have raised concerns that the ongoing pandemic may lead to “a wave of suicides” in society. Suicidal ideation (SI) is a critical factor in conduct...

  • Article
  • Open Access
41 Citations
6,086 Views
15 Pages

The uncertainty caused by the COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated negative emotions, especially among adolescents, who feel unable to tolerate the uncertainty of the epidemic. However, the mechanism by which the intolerance of COVID-19-related uncertai...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,030 Views
10 Pages

24 January 2024

Childhood abuse is a significant risk factor for suicidal ideation. However, the underlying mediation mechanism necessitates further exploration. This study investigated the mediating role of core self-evaluation and negative emotions in the relation...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,600 Views
17 Pages

Affective Attitudes in the Face of the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Dynamics of Negative Emotions and a Sense of Threat in Poles in the First Wave of the Pandemic

  • Anna Szuster,
  • Miroslawa Huflejt-Łukasik,
  • Dorota Karwowska,
  • Maciej Pastwa,
  • Zuzanna Laszczkowska and
  • Kamil K. Imbir

For millions of people, the COVID-19 pandemic situation and its accompanying restrictions have been a source of threat and confrontation with negative emotions. The pandemic’s universal and long-term character, as well as the ensuing drastic li...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,652 Views
14 Pages

This longitudinal study investigated the factors that determine the effectiveness of graphic health warnings (GHWs) by comparing 246 South Korean smoker’s responses before and after the introduction of the country’s new tobacco control po...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
6,739 Views
16 Pages

Ability Emotional Intelligence and Subjective Happiness in Adolescents: The Role of Positive and Negative Affect

  • Desirée Llamas-Díaz,
  • Rosario Cabello,
  • Raquel Gómez-Leal,
  • María José Gutiérrez-Cobo,
  • Alberto Megías-Robles and
  • Pablo Fernández-Berrocal

Adolescence is an increasingly vulnerable period for the onset of affective disorders and other mental health issues that can significantly impact an individual’s subjective well-being. This study aims to examine the relationship between emotio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,294 Views
18 Pages

Hematopoietic and Lymphoid Cell Neoplasms in Children as a Factor Inducing Negative Emotions and Toxic Stress in Parents

  • Grażyna Cepuch,
  • Agnieszka Kruszecka-Krówka,
  • Marzena Samardakiewicz,
  • Agnieszka Gniadek and
  • Agnieszka Micek

Parents whose children suffer from cancer experience chronic negative emotions, which may have a detrimental influence on their mental health. The aim of this study, conducted with a group of parents whose children were hospitalized for leukemia or l...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
5,467 Views
14 Pages

27 November 2024

Chinese parents’ involvement in children’s homework has become a hot topic, which not only affects students’ learning but also leads to mental health problems. This study aimed to examine how parent involvement in homework affects s...

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