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Wenjie Li¹, Yucheng Gao², Guoqing Liu², Rongkai Hao², Meijie Zhang², Xiaotian Li^1,*
International Journal of Mental Health Promotion, Vol.26, No.2, pp. 83-92, 2024, DOI:10.32604/ijmhp.2023.042014
（This article belongs to the Special Issue: Mental Health and Social Development)
Abstract As adolescent mental health problems are becoming a more serious issue globally, this paper explores the relationship of physical activity in adolescents and its frequency on mental health as well as examines the mediating effects of life satisfaction and self-rated health in order to provide a reference for the promotion of mental health in adolescents. A sample of 3578 Chinese high school students completed questionnaires assessing their mental health, physical activity frequency, life satisfaction, and self-rated health. The mean SCL-90 value for adolescents was found to be 1.629%, and 24.73% of adolescents had varying degrees of mental health issue. Increased… More >

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Tao Xu^1,*, Fangqiang Zuo¹, Kai Zheng^2,*
International Journal of Mental Health Promotion, Vol.26, No.2, pp. 93-103, 2024, DOI:10.32604/ijmhp.2023.043226
（This article belongs to the Special Issue: Social Stress, Adversity, and Mental Health in Transitional China)
Abstract Background: This study aimed to investigate the relationship between parental educational expectations and adolescent mental health problems, with academic pressure as a moderating variable. Methods: This study was based on the baseline data of the China Education Panel Survey, which was collected within one school year during 2013–2014. It included 19,958 samples from seventh and ninth graders, who ranged from 11 to 18 years old. After removing missing values and conducting relevant data processing, the effective sample size for analysis was 16344. The OLS (Ordinary Least Squares) multiple linear regression analysis was used to examine the relationship between parental educational… More >

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Xinqiao Liu^*, Linxin Zhang, Xinran Zhang
International Journal of Mental Health Promotion, Vol.26, No.2, pp. 105-116, 2024, DOI:10.32604/ijmhp.2023.042359
（This article belongs to the Special Issue: Coping with Life Stress During/After the COVID-19 Pandemic and Its Impact on Mental Health)
Abstract Under the effects of COVID-19 and a number of ongoing lockdown tactics, anxiety symptoms and poor sleep quality have become common mental health issues among college freshmen and are intimately related to their emotional adaptation. To explore this connection, this study gathered data from a sample of 256 freshmen enrolled in an elite university in China in September 2022. The association between sleep quality, anxiety symptoms, and emotional adaptation was clarified using correlation analysis. Additionally, the mediating function of anxiety symptoms between sleep quality and emotional adaptation was investigated using a structural equation model. The results reveal that: (1) Chinese… More >

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Ruirui Zhang¹, Xuguang Zhang², Minxin Yang³, Haoran Zhang^4,5,*
International Journal of Mental Health Promotion, Vol.26, No.2, pp. 117-126, 2024, DOI:10.32604/ijmhp.2023.045819
（This article belongs to the Special Issue: Mental Health and Social Development)
Abstract Contingent self-esteem captures the fragile nature of self-esteem and is often regarded as suboptimal to psychological functioning. Self-compassion is another important self-related concept assumed to promote mental health and well-being. However, research on the relation of self-compassion to contingent self-esteem is lacking. Two studies were conducted to explore the role of self-compassion, either as a personal characteristic or an induced mindset, in influencing the effects of contingent self-esteem on well-being. Study 1 recruited 256 Chinese college students (30.4% male, mean age = 21.72 years) who filled out measures of contingent self-esteem, self-compassion, and well-being. The results found that self-compassion moderated… More >

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Tao Liu¹, Lin Liu¹, Zeyu Chen^1,*, Rong Fu^2,*
International Journal of Mental Health Promotion, Vol.26, No.2, pp. 127-138, 2024, DOI:10.32604/ijmhp.2023.045071
Abstract Mobile young white-collar workers not only have the characteristics of mobile young people, but also have the characteristics of general white-collar workers. Under the influence of both, their mental health may be suffering from “double disadvantage”. So, based on an ecological model of the stress process, this paper tries to use the data of the questionnaire on the mental health of mobile young white-collar workers in Zhejiang Province to explore the influence of some factors in the middle workplace and residence place on the mental health of micro individuals. The results show that: (1) The working environment with high control… More >

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Yaping Zhou^1,2,5,#, He Zhong^3,#, Xiaojun Li^4,*, Yanhui Xiang^1,2,5,*
International Journal of Mental Health Promotion, Vol.26, No.2, pp. 139-148, 2024, DOI:10.32604/ijmhp.2023.046598
（This article belongs to the Special Issue: Psychological Therapy in Education Contexts: Focusing on Teachers’ and Students’ Mental Health based on Cognitive, Emotional, Social, and Behavioral Factors)
Abstract Fathers play an important role in adolescents’ development, which is significant for their development and influences their mental health, including feeling of loneliness. However, the effects and mechanisms of father-love absence on individual loneliness are not clear. Based on the social functionalist theory and the social needs theory, this study examines the influence of individual father-love absence on loneliness and its underlying mechanisms. A questionnaire survey was administered to 319 junior high school students and 1,476 high school students. The results showed that adolescents with father-love absence had higher levels of loneliness, and that father-love absence affected loneliness levels through… More >

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Xiaodan Wang^1,*, Zheng Xie², Guiping Du³
International Journal of Mental Health Promotion, Vol.26, No.2, pp. 149-160, 2024, DOI:10.32604/ijmhp.2023.030755
Abstract Research purpose: This study implemented somatosensory music therapy on patients with depressive disorders, and explored the effects of somatosensory music therapy on the degree of depression, positive and negative emotions, intuitive stress and autonomic nervous function of patients. Research method: We collected 66 patients diagnosed with depression from the Department of Psychological Medicine of Henan Provincial People’s Hospital, and divided them into a control group and an intervention group according to the random number table, with 33 people in each group. The control group received routine psychiatric treatment and nursing. On the basis of the control group, the intervention group… More >

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Chili Li¹, Xinxin Zhao², Ziwen Pan³, Ting Yi⁴, Long Qian^5,6,*
International Journal of Mental Health Promotion, Vol.26, No.2, pp. 161-175, 2024, DOI:10.32604/ijmhp.2023.029896
（This article belongs to the Special Issue: Psychological Therapy in Education Contexts: Focusing on Teachers’ and Students’ Mental Health based on Cognitive, Emotional, Social, and Behavioral Factors)
Abstract While a plethora of studies has been conducted to explore demotivation and its impact on mental health in second language (L2) education, scanty research focuses on demotivation in L2 speaking learning. Particularly, little research explores the measures to quantify L2 speaking demotivation. The present two-phase study attempts to develop and validate an English Speaking Demotivation Scale (ESDS). To this end, an independent sample of 207 Chinese tertiary learners of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) participated in the development phase, and another group of 188 Chinese EFL learners was recruited for the validation of the scale. Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA)… More >

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