This research examined the relations of social media addiction to college students' mental health and academic performance, investigated role self-esteem as a mediator for relations, further tested effectiveness an intervention in reducing its potential adverse outcomes. In Study 1, we used survey method with sample students (N = 232) found that was negatively associated performance relation between mediated by self-esteem. 2, developed two-stage self-help program. We recruited 38) who met...

This study examined the emergence of cultural self-constructs as reflected in children's remembered and conceptual aspects self. European American Chinese children preschool through 2nd grade participated (N=180). Children each recounted 4 autobiographical events described themselves response to open-ended questions. often provided elaborate detailed memories focusing on their own roles, preferences, feelings; they also frequently terms personal attributes, abstract dispositions, inner...

This study examined social, emotional, and cognitive characteristics of American Chinese children's narratives. Twenty‐four 26 6‐year‐old children participated. Each child was interviewed individually twice with a 1‐week delay interval. During the two interviews, were asked to tell 11 stories prompted by pictures standard verbal leads recount 7 emotional memories. Content analyses performed on In line predictions, findings indicated that compared children, showed greater orientation toward...

Abstract This study explores the functional variations in mother–child conversations of emotionally salient events European‐American and Chinese families. Thirty 31 3‐year‐old children their mothers participated. Mothers were asked to discuss with at home two specific one‐point‐in‐time which they both One event was extremely positive child, one stressful. American initiated more interactive elaborative that focused on child's roles predilections story, employed a ‘cognitive approach’...

One hundred and eight European American Chinese adults, aged between 38 60, participated in this questionnaire study. They each recalled 20 memories from any period of their lives. Memory content was analyzed as a function culture (U.S. China), life (childhood, youth, early midlife, peak midlife), gender (female male). Across the four periods, Americans provided more individual experiences unique, one-time events focused on own roles emotions. In contrast, were inclined to recall social...

American and Chinese mothers were asked to talk with their 3-year-old children at home about two shared past events a story (41 mother-child dyads). Results revealed between-culture variation in the content style of conversations when sharing memories telling stories. showed high-elaborative, independently oriented conversational which they co-constructed stories by elaborating on each other's responses focusing child's personal predilections opinions. In contrast, Mother-child dyads...

Peripheral membrane proteins of the Bin/amphiphysin/Rvs (BAR) and Fer-CIP4 homology-BAR (F-BAR) family participate in cellular trafficking have been shown to generate tubules. The degree bending appears be encoded structure immanent curvature particular protein domains, with BAR F-BAR domains inducing high- low-curvature tubules, respectively. In addition, oligomerization formation ordered arrays influences tubule stabilization. Here, domain-containing Pacsin was found possess a unique...

This study examined in a cross-cultural context mothers' discussions of mental states and external behaviors story-telling task with their 3-year-old children the relations such to children's emotion situation knowledge (ESK). The participants were 71 European American 60 Chinese immigrant mother-child pairs United States. Mothers read storybook together at home, ESK was assessed. Results showed that mothers made more references thoughts emotions during storytelling than did mothers, who...

Groups from Japan, China, Bangladesh, England, and the United States recalled, described, dated specific autobiographical memories. When memories were plotted in terms of age-at-encoding highly similar life-span memory retrieval curves observed: periods childhood amnesia reminiscence bump same across cultures. However, content analysis descriptions U.S. Chinese groups found that group had interdependent self-focus (i.e., events with a or social orientation), whereas showed an independent...

The relations of maternal reminiscing style and child self‐concept to children's shared independent autobiographical memories were examined in a sample 189 three‐year‐olds their mothers from Chinese families China, first‐generation immigrant the United States, European American families. Mothers with children completed questionnaires; recounted events described themselves researcher. Independent culture, gender, age, language skills, elaborations evaluations associated memory reports,...

This study examined the age and content of earliest childhood memories self others. European American Taiwanese participants (N = 111) retrieved their in response to cue words self, mother, family, friend, surroundings. Memory for mother was from an earlier than memory friend were more socially oriented or In addition, all words, Euro-Americans recalled did Taiwanese. also had a greater tendency report specific events focused on own roles autonomy Taiwanese, who often described routine...

I call the attention of psychologists to pivotal role cultural psychology in extending and enriching research programs. argue that it is not enough simply acknowledge importance culture urge practice their research. deconstruct five assumptions about seriously undermine its contribution building a true psychological science, including (a) only finding group differences, (b) does appertain similarities, (c) concerns group-level analysis, (d) irrelevant basic processes, (e) used confirm...

This study explored links between narrative identity, personality traits, and well‐being for 263 adolescents (age 12–21) from three New Zealand cultures: Māori, Chinese, European. Turning‐point narratives were assessed autobiographical reasoning (causal coherence), local thematic coherence, emotional expressivity, topic. Across cultures, older with higher causal coherence reported better well‐being. Younger instead poorer Personal development topics positively linked to European only, was...

Introduction Depression symptoms are prevalent globally, including China, with a notable impact on college students. This study aims to not only estimate the prevalence of depressive tendencies and attributional styles among students in post-pandemic era but also explore relationship between two factors. The findings this can provide new insights into early intervention support services for individuals exhibiting toward depression. Methods survey was administered from various academic...

Autobiographical remembering is examined as a cultural practice unfolding in the developmental dynamics of interplay between memory, self and culture. In discussing results recent comparative studies United States East Asia, we argue that autobiographical memory are interconnected meaning systems constructed macro- micro-cultural contexts—contexts collectively performed shared symbols, tools artifacts. This process involves manylayered interactions an individual belief structures society; it...