Yuan Fang

Chinese Academy of Sciences | CAS · Institute of Psychology

An increasing number of studies emphasize that trust is most relevant to well-being. However, the results of this relationship remain inconclusive. This meta-analysis aims to synthesize the evidence on the association between trust and individual well-being. We searched several electronic databases to identify relevant studies published before Sept...

Although low self-control is regarded as an important influence factor of college student smartphone addiction, the mediating mechanism is still unclear. Based on the I–PACE model, the present study aims to explore the multiple mediating roles of social anxiety and procrastination in the effect of self-control on smartphone addiction among college...

The emergence of the pointing gesture is a major developmental milestone in human infancy. Pointing fosters preverbal communication and is key for language and theory of mind development. Little is known about its ontogenetic origins and whether its pathway is similar across different cultures. The goal of this study was to examine the theoretical...

As a global issue, peer victimization is closely associated with adolescent mental health. Although previous research has explored the relationship between peer victimization and mental health in some contexts, the school context, particularly within the Chinese cultural context, has not received sufficient attention. Based on the Healthy Context P...

Mother-child cohesion, reflecting the emotional connection between mothers and children, is a protective factor for individuals’ mental health. The Modified Operations Triad Model suggests that children and mothers hold either congruent or incongruent views of their perceived cohesion, which reflects family functioning and is an indication of futur...

Background The 8-item Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale (CES-D 8) has been widely used to measure depressive symptoms in many large-scale surveys. Due to its brevity, it can lower costs, relieve respondent burdens, and ensure data quality. However, its factor structure and measurement invariance across gender and time among adolesce...

The Affective Reactivity Index (ARI) is one of the most studied scales for assessing youth irritability, but little is known about its measurement performance in community populations. This study applied item response theory (IRT), network analysis, and classical test theory (CTT) to examine the psychometric properties of the ARI in a sample of n =...

With the accelerated urbanization, the gap between urban and rural areas in educational resources has gradually increased, and the healthy growth of rural children needs more attention. To understand the mental health of rural children and its influencing factors, we conducted a survey on the living conditions of primary school students in 16 rural...

Parental organismic trust facilitates an autonomy-supportive parenting style whereas parental anxiety hinders it. However, few studies have explored the relationship among organismic trust, parental anxiety, and protective situational factors. Therefore, the present study aimed to examine the main effect of organismic trust on parental anxiety and...

Background Maintenance hemodialysis (MHD) is a commonly used renal replacement therapy for end-stage renal disease patients. MHD patients have undergone multiple physiological stressors, which may cause physical problems and affect their mental health; however, few qualitative studies have been done on the mental health of MHD patients. Such qualit...

Life satisfaction is a widely-shared goal and a core theme in the field of positive psychology. From the perspective of personality, some researchers have focused on the relationship between narcissism and life satisfaction, but there is a lack of research on the underlying process between them. This study aimed to examine the relationship between...

Altruism can be predicted by interpersonal traits. However, not all interpersonal traits that could predict altruism have been identified, and the underlying mediation mechanism behind this effect remains unclear. This research assumed that a Chinese indigenous interpersonal trait—interpersonal responsibility trait—would predict altruism (including...

Depression has become a major public health issue worldwide. According to the model of personality and depression, personality traits can influence the onset and/or maintenance of depression. Although some studies have explored the narcissism–depression association, their results have been inconsistent due to the multidimensional nature of narcissi...

Adolescent narcissism is an important issue in youth development. This study adopted a semi-longitudinal design with six-month interval to investigate the mediating effect of ostracism experience on the relationship between grandiose narcissism and interpersonal trust within the Narcissistic Admiration and Rivalry Concept (NARC) model. The NARC mod...

In recent years, narcissism has been attracting considerable interest by researchers because of its enigmatic constructs. To enhance our understanding of narcissists’ psychosocial functioning, considering the relationship between narcissism and interpersonal trust is crucial. This study aimed to investigate how narcissistic admiration and rivalry a...

Background : Work stress has been proved to be linked to depression, and both can decrease general trust. Likewise, OXTR gene is currently the gene that is most closely associated with trust. However, few empirical studies have explored the significant role of gene–environment interactions on general trust. In this study, we explored the mediating...

Objectives Parental involvement plays an important role in adolescents’ cognitive, emotional, and social development. However, whether parental involvement will influence adolescents’ academic emotions and, if so, what the underlining mechanism is have not been explored. This study aims to examine the mediation effects of adolescents’ academic self...

Background: Chronic exposure to stressful work environments can influence general trust. High job stress is associated with low trust in others. Both environmental and genetic factors contribute to general trust; however, few empirical studies have explored the important role of gene–environment interactions on general trust. In this study, the mod...

Interpersonal responsibility is an indigenous Chinese personality construct, which is regarded to have positive social functions. Two studies were designed to explore the relationship among interpersonal responsibility, proposal allocation ratio, and responders’ hostile decisions in an ultimatum game. Study 1 was a scenario study using a hypothetic...