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This article examines the differences between human judgment and algorithmic decision-making in critical logistics systems, focusing on the implications for the concepts of trust and control. The aim of the study is to determine whether AI-based systems can perform functions equivalent to human judgment and what implications this has for operational safety and accountability in complex logistics systems. The study is based on an interdisciplinary analysis, including a review of the literature on artificial intelligence, system safety, and human factors research, as well as a philosophical analysis. This is supplemented by a case study of selected incidents related to the operation of automated systems in high-risk environments, which allows the identification of practical limitations in integrating humans and algorithmic systems. The results indicate that decisions generated by algorithmic systems are statistical and optimization-based, which distinguishes them from human judgment, which takes into account context, uncertainty, and emotions. Consequently, trust in AI systems takes the form of an indirect, user-dependent relationship rather than an autonomous property of the technology. At the same time, increasing levels of automation lead to a diffusion of responsibility and a reduction in direct control over decision-making processes. The findings indicate that full automation of decisions in critical safety systems. Consequently, trust in AI systems takes the form of an indirect, user-dependent relationship rather than an autonomous property of the technology.

این مقاله به بررسی تفاوت‌های میان قضاوت انسانی و تصمیم‌گیری الگوریتمی در سامانه‌های لجستیکی حساس به ایمنی می‌پردازد و پیامدهای آن را برای مفاهیم اعتماد و کنترل مورد تحلیل قرار می‌دهد. هدف این مطالعه تعیین این است که آیا سامانه‌های مبتنی بر هوش مصنوعی می‌توانند عملکردهایی معادل با قضاوت انسانی داشته باشند و این امر چه پیامدهایی برای ایمنی عملیاتی و پاسخگویی در سامانه‌های لجستیکی پیچیده دارد. این پژوهش مبتنی بر تحلیلی میان‌رشته‌ای است که شامل مرور ادبیات مرتبط با هوش مصنوعی، ایمنی سامانه و پژوهش‌های عوامل انسانی، همچنین تحلیل فلسفی می‌شود. این تحلیل با مطالعه موردی درباره برخی رخدادهای مرتبط با عملکرد سامانه‌های خودکار در محیط‌های پرخطر تکمیل شده است که امکان شناسایی محدودیت‌های عملی در یکپارچه‌سازی انسان و سامانه‌های الگوریتمی را فراهم می‌کند. نتایج نشان می‌دهد که تصمیمات تولیدشده توسط سامانه‌های الگوریتمی مبتنی بر آمار و بهینه‌سازی هستند که آن‌ها را از قضاوت انسانی که زمینه، عدم قطعیت و هیجانات را در نظر می‌گیرد، متمایز می‌کند. در نتیجه، اعتماد به سامانه‌های هوش مصنوعی به صورت یک رابطه غیرمستقیم و وابسته به کاربر شکل می‌گیرد و نه به عنوان یک ویژگی مستقل از فناوری. همزمان، افزایش سطوح خودکارسازی منجر به پخش مسئولیت و کاهش کنترل مستقیم بر فرایندهای تصمیم‌گیری می‌شود. یافته‌ها نشان می‌دهد که خودکارسازی کامل تصمیمات در سامانه‌های حساس به ایمنی... در نتیجه، اعتماد به سامانه‌های هوش مصنوعی به صورت یک رابطه غیرمستقیم و وابسته به کاربر شکل می‌گیرد و نه به عنوان یک ویژگی مستقل از فناوری.

This article examines the differences between human judgment and algorithmic decision-making in critical logistics systems, focusing on the implications for the concepts of trust and control. The aim of the study is to determine whether AI-based systems can perform functions equivalent to human judgment and what implications this has for operational safety and accountability in complex logistics systems. The study is based on an interdisciplinary analysis, including a review of the literature on artificial intelligence, system safety, and human factors research, as well as a philosophical analysis. This is supplemented by a case study of selected incidents related to the operation of automated systems in high-risk environments, which allows the identification of practical limitations in integrating humans and algorithmic systems. The results indicate that decisions generated by algorithmic systems are statistical and optimization-based, which distinguishes them from human judgment, which takes into account context, uncertainty, and emotions. Consequently, trust in AI systems takes the form of an indirect, user-dependent relationship rather than an autonomous property of the technology. At the same time, increasing levels of automation lead to a diffusion of responsibility and a reduction in direct control over decision-making processes. The findings indicate that full automation of decisions in critical safety systems. Consequently, trust in AI systems takes the form of an indirect, user-dependent relationship rather than an autonomous property of the technology.

این مقاله به بررسی تفاوت‌های میان قضاوت انسانی و تصمیم‌گیری الگوریتمی در سامانه‌های لجستیکی حساس به ایمنی می‌پردازد و پیامدهای آن را برای مفاهیم اعتماد و کنترل مورد تحلیل قرار می‌دهد. هدف این مطالعه تعیین این است که آیا سامانه‌های مبتنی بر هوش مصنوعی می‌توانند عملکردهایی معادل با قضاوت انسانی داشته باشند و این امر چه پیامدهایی برای ایمنی عملیاتی و پاسخگویی در سامانه‌های لجستیکی پیچیده دارد. این پژوهش مبتنی بر تحلیلی میان‌رشته‌ای است که شامل مرور ادبیات مرتبط با هوش مصنوعی، ایمنی سامانه و پژوهش‌های عوامل انسانی، همچنین تحلیل فلسفی می‌شود. این تحلیل با مطالعه موردی درباره برخی رخدادهای مرتبط با عملکرد سامانه‌های خودکار در محیط‌های پرخطر تکمیل شده است که امکان شناسایی محدودیت‌های عملی در یکپارچه‌سازی انسان و سامانه‌های الگوریتمی را فراهم می‌کند. نتایج نشان می‌دهد که تصمیمات تولیدشده توسط سامانه‌های الگوریتمی مبتنی بر آمار و بهینه‌سازی هستند که آن‌ها را از قضاوت انسانی که زمینه، عدم قطعیت و هیجانات را در نظر می‌گیرد، متمایز می‌کند. در نتیجه، اعتماد به سامانه‌های هوش مصنوعی به صورت یک رابطه غیرمستقیم و وابسته به کاربر شکل می‌گیرد و نه به عنوان یک ویژگی مستقل از فناوری. همزمان، افزایش سطوح خودکارسازی منجر به پخش مسئولیت و کاهش کنترل مستقیم بر فرایندهای تصمیم‌گیری می‌شود. یافته‌ها نشان می‌دهد که خودکارسازی کامل تصمیمات در سامانه‌های حساس به ایمنی... در نتیجه، اعتماد به سامانه‌های هوش مصنوعی به صورت یک رابطه غیرمستقیم و وابسته به کاربر شکل می‌گیرد و نه به عنوان یک ویژگی مستقل از فناوری.

Purpose: This study aimed to examine the relationship between ambivalence over emotional expressiveness and suicidal ideation in veterans, with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms considered as a mediating variable. Methods and Materials: This descriptive-correlational, cross-sectional study included 100 Iran–Iraq War veterans hospitalized at Fajr Hospital who were recruited through convenience sampling. Participants completed the Ambivalence over Emotional Expressiveness Questionnaire, the Beck Scale for Suicide Ideation, and the Mississippi Scale for Combat-Related PTSD. Pearson’s correlation was used to examine relationships among the variables. Structural equation modeling with maximum likelihood estimation was conducted in Mplus version 8 to test the mediation model. Normality was assessed using skewness and kurtosis, and multicollinearity was evaluated through variance inflation factors. Model fit was assessed using the chi-square-to-degrees-of-freedom ratio, comparative fit index, Tucker–Lewis index, and root-mean-square error of approximation. Bootstrapping was used to test the indirect effect. Findings: Suicidal ideation was significantly correlated with ambivalence over emotional expressiveness and PTSD symptoms. Ambivalence over emotional expressiveness significantly predicted suicidal ideation in the model without the mediator. In the mediation model, ambivalence over emotional expressiveness significantly predicted PTSD symptoms, and PTSD symptoms significantly predicted suicidal ideation. However, the direct path from ambivalence over emotional expressiveness to suicidal ideation was not statistically significant after PTSD symptoms were entered into the model. The indirect effect of ambivalence over emotional expressiveness on suicidal ideation through PTSD symptoms was statistically significant. The structural model demonstrated acceptable fit to the data. Conclusion: PTSD symptoms fully mediated the relationship between ambivalence over emotional expressiveness and suicidal ideation, suggesting that interventions targeting emotional-expression conflicts and trauma-related symptoms may help reduce suicidal ideation among veterans.

هدف: این پژوهش با هدف بررسی رابطه بین دوسوگرایی نسبت به ابراز هیجانات و افکار خودکشی در جانبازان، با در نظر گرفتن علائم اختلال استرس پس از سانحه (PTSD) به عنوان متغیر میانجی انجام شد. روش‌ها و مواد: این مطالعه توصیفی-همبستگی از نوع مقطعی بود و ۱۰۰ نفر از جانبازان جنگ ایران و عراق بستری در بیمارستان فجر به روش نمونه‌گیری در دسترس انتخاب شدند. شرکت‌کنندگان به پرسشنامه دوسوگرایی نسبت به ابراز هیجانات، مقیاس بک برای افکار خودکشی و مقیاس می‌سی‌سی‌پی برای اختلال استرس پس از سانحه مرتبط با جنگ پاسخ دادند. برای بررسی روابط بین متغیرها از همبستگی پیرسون استفاده شد. مدل‌یابی معادلات ساختاری با برآورد حداکثر درست‌نمایی در نرم‌افزار Mplus نسخه ۸ برای آزمون مدل میانجی‌گری به کار رفت. نرمال بودن داده‌ها با استفاده از چولگی و کشیدگی و چندهمخطی بودن با استفاده از شاخص‌های تورم واریانس ارزیابی شد. برازش مدل با استفاده از نسبت کای‌دو به درجه آزادی، شاخص برازش تطبیقی، شاخص تاکر-لوییس و ریشه میانگین مربعات خطای تقریب بررسی شد. برای آزمون اثر غیرمستقیم از بوت‌استرپ استفاده شد. یافته‌ها: افکار خودکشی با دوسوگرایی نسبت به ابراز هیجانات و علائم اختلال استرس پس از سانحه همبستگی معناداری داشت. دوسوگرایی نسبت به ابراز هیجانات در مدل بدون متغیر میانجی، پیش‌بینی‌کننده معنادار افکار خودکشی بود. در مدل میانجی‌گری، دوسوگرایی نسبت به ابراز هیجانات پیش‌بینی‌کننده معنادار علائم اختلال استرس پس از سانحه و علائم اختلال استرس پس از سانحه نیز پیش‌بینی‌کننده معنادار افکار خودکشی بود. با این حال، مسیر مستقیم از دوسوگرایی نسبت به ابراز هیجانات به افکار خودکشی پس از وارد کردن علائم اختلال استرس پس از سانحه به مدل، از نظر آماری معنادار نبود. اثر غیرمستقیم دوسوگرایی نسبت به ابراز هیجانات بر افکار خودکشی از طریق علائم اختلال استرس پس از سانحه از نظر آماری معنادار بود. مدل ساختاری برازش قابل قبولی با داده‌ها نشان داد. نتیجه‌گیری: علائم اختلال استرس پس از سانحه به طور کامل رابطه بین دوسوگرایی نسبت به ابراز هیجانات و افکار خودکشی را میانجی‌گری کردند و این امر نشان می‌دهد که مداخلات هدفمند بر تعارضات ابراز هیجانی و علائم مرتبط با تروما می‌تواند به کاهش افکار خودکشی در جانبازان کمک کند.

Emotional contagion refers to the process through which people's emotions may be influenced by the emotional states and expressions of others. This study examined self-reported responses to stress in other people and explored their association with perceived stress. A quantitative, cross-sectional online questionnaire was completed between October 25 and 27, 2026. Of 33 submissions, 32 participants consented and were included in the emotional-response analysis; 31 had sufficient responses for the preliminary perceived-stress analysis. The questionnaire included 15 researcher-developed statements about responses to others' stress and 10 perceived-stress questions resembling the Perceived Stress Scale?10 (PSS-10). Descriptive results showed that 90.6% of participants agreed or strongly agreed that they could sense stress in people around them, while 75.0% reported that stress in family, workplace, or educational settings affected their emotional well-being. An exploratory Spearman correlation indicated a positive association between the emotional-response composite and perceived-stress scores (rs = .526, p = .002, n = 31). This association must be interpreted cautiously because the emotional-response questionnaire was not validated and the exact perceived-stress instrument requires confirmation. Findings provide preliminary descriptive insight but do not establish causation.

Background: Awareness of youth-friendly sexual and reproductive health services (YFSRHS) is an important starting point for enabling young people to identify and seek appropriate sexual and reproductive health information and care. However, awareness of these services may vary across settings, including higher education institutions. Objective: To determine the level of awareness of YFSRHS among undergraduate students at Saint Augustine University of Tanzania (SAUT), Malimbe Campus. Methods: A quantitative descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted among undergraduate students at SAUT Malimbe Campus. Data were collected using a structured, self-administered questionnaire. Of 109 questionnaires distributed, 108 completed questionnaires were included in the analysis. Descriptive statistics were used to summarize students’ awareness and reported sources of information. Results: Of the 108 respondents, 96 (88.9%) reported having heard of YFSRHS, while 12 (11.1%) had not. Social media was the most frequently reported source of information (44.0%), followed by friends or peers (41.0%) and health facilities (36.0%). University programmes and posters or advertisements were reported less frequently. Conclusion: Most respondents had heard of YFSRHS, with social media and peer networks serving as prominent information channels. Strengthening accurate information through these channels, alongside university-based communication, may help address the awareness gap among students who remain unreached.

Effective leadership is important to the functioning and development of private higher education institutions. This study analyzed leadership experiences and perceptions at Africa Renewal University (AfRU), focusing on the qualities and practices perceived to contribute to effective leadership. A mixed-method case study design was used, combining structured questionnaires and semi-structured interviews with students, teaching staff, non-teaching staff, management and senior leaders. The study obtained responses from 133 participants out of a target population of 200, representing a 66.5% response rate. Transformational leadership was the most frequently identified leadership style across all respondent groups, reported by 86.96% of students, 77.5% of teaching staff, 66.67% of non-teaching staff, and 70% of management and senior leaders. Among the leadership qualities examined, integrity and ethics received the highest number of responses, followed by effective communication, problem-solving and decision-making. Empathy and emotional intelligence and visionary thinking were also identified, although their emphasis varied across respondent groups. The findings indicate that perceived leadership effectiveness at AfRU was associated with a combination of ethical conduct, effective communication and practical leadership capabilities within a predominantly transformational leadership context. The study highlights the importance of developing leaders who can combine ethical character with effective communication, decision-making and problem-solving in private higher education.

Introduction: Psychological factors can be important for the physical performance of developing female football players, but research is needed to assess their impact. Objective: To determine the effectiveness of a motivational psychological intervention strategy to improve physical performance in female U-15 football players from a football school in Zone 8 of Guayaquil, Ecuador. Method: Pre-experimental design with a single group and pretest-posttest measurements. Thirty football players participated. For the evaluation of the motivational climate, the PMCSQ-2 was used, while the YYIR1 and the Cooper Test were the instruments employed to assess physical performance. The intervention consisted of 12 sessions of 45 minutes over six weeks. The Shapiro-Wilk test was applied and then the Student's t-test for dependent samples. Results: The overall PMCSQ-2 score did not show statistically significant changes (t(29) = −1.37; p = 0.182; d = −0.250). On the contrary, statistically significant differences with large effect sizes were found for both the YYIR1 (t(29) = −16.08; p < 0.001; d = −2.936) and the Cooper Test (t(29) = −19.54; p < 0.001; d = −3.567). Discussion: Improvements are evident in the evaluated physical indicators, without significant changes in the overall motivational score. This divergence indicates that the physical response and the perception of the motivational climate do not always develop at the same pace. Conclusions: The intervention was associated with significant improvements in physical performance, which supports its application in youth women's football.

Sports betting has expanded across sub-Saharan Africa, increasingly intersecting with young people’s aspirations, technological accessibility, and economic insecurity. Although awareness of gambling-related risks may influence young people’s decisions, recognising such risks does not necessarily lead to cessation of betting. This study explored how young bettors understood betting risks in Shibai Street, Buhongwa Ward, Mwanza, Tanzania. A qualitative cross-sectional study employing ethnographic methods was conducted between July and August 2025. Data were collected from 18 purposively selected active bettors aged 18-29 years through in-depth semi-structured interviews, non-participant observation, and informal conversations. Interviews were conducted in Kiswahili, audio-recorded, transcribed into English, and analysed thematically following Braun and Clarke’s approach. The findings were interpreted using Verstehen, strain, and rational choice perspectives. Participants identified financial loss, difficulty stopping, stress and mental distress, relationship conflict, theft, reduced attention to work or learning, reduced work-seeking, dishonesty, deepening poverty, and loss of personal possessions as important betting-related risks. However, awareness of these risks did not consistently result in withdrawal from betting. Some participants continued because betting provided hope, expectations of quick financial gains, peer influence, and a perceived opportunity to escape poverty. The study concludes that understanding betting risks among youth requires attention to the meanings attached to betting and the economic and social circumstances within which participation occurs. Risk education should therefore be complemented by livelihood opportunities, community support, counselling, and appropriate harm-prevention measures.

As AI virtual influencers (AIVIs) proliferate, understanding human-AI emotional engagement is vital for advancing affective computing. To examine whether AIVIs evoke comparable affective responses to human influencers (HIs), we analyzed 156,918 Instagram comments that received 12+ million likes, integratinglarge language model (LLM)-derived knowledge graphs, emotion analysis, and machine learning. HI-directed discourse shows more differentiated emotional expression and a pattern consistent with more cohesive semantic networks than AIVI-directed discourse. AIVI-directed comments are less likely to express positive affect (24.8% vs. 41.5%) and also less likely to express negative affect (5.8% vs. 9.3%), indicating reduced affective expression of either valence rather than heightened negativity. This group-level tendency is not uniform: affective engagement varies substantially across AIVIs, and that variation is more closely associated with positive than with negative expression. Our Multi-Signal Embedding Network (MSEN), incorporating behavioral metrics and OpenAI semantic embeddings, classified influencer types from behavioral, affective and semantic features (F1 = 0.89), outperforming baselines including a state-of-the-art zero-shot LLM. These findings identify a boundary condition for the Computers Are Social Actors (CASA) paradigm: human-like appearance can elicit social responses without producing affective and semantic response patterns as rich as those elicited by HIs.

The research aimed to examine the effects of gamification environments on university students' achievement, flow experiences, and emotional states. This study utilized a mixed-methods design, incorporating a quasi-experimental approach for the quantitative phase and a phenomenological approach for the qualitative phase. The study group consisted of 80 students (Quizizz, n = 32; Quizlet, n = 48) enrolled in the Educational Psychology course at a state university. Data were collected through the Achievement Test, Flow Experience Scale, and Positive and Negative Affect Scale. Both groups showed significant pre-test to post-test gains in achievement, with no significant difference between the two groups. Flow experience was positively correlated with positive emotion in both groups, but with achievement only in the Quizlet group. In the Quizizz group, achievement was moderately and negatively correlated with negative emotion, whereas no such relationship was found in the Quizlet group. No significant relationship was found between achievement and positive emotion in either group. Qualitative findings revealed that students actively engaged in both environments, reported higher motivation, and found learning more enjoyable. However, they experienced the platforms differently. Quizizz users emphasized excitement through competition and scoring, whereas Quizlet users highlighted confidence gained from repetition and individual progress. Overall, these results indicate that gamification tools led to similar achievement gains, but through different flow and emotional processes.

A questionnaire survey was conducted with 1,635 students from two secondary schools in Hunan Province to examine the statistical roles of interpersonal emotion regulation and family functioning in the relationship between anhedonia and depressive symptoms in adolescents. The results showed that (1) after controlling for grade and gender, anhedonia was significantly and positively associated with depressive symptoms; (2) a continuous-variable model based on the full sample indicated a significant partial mediating effect of interpersonal emotion regulation on the association between anhedonia and depressive symptoms; and (3) family functioning moderated the association between anhedonia and interpersonal emotion regulation, such that lower family functioning scores (i.e., healthier family functioning) were associated with stronger conditional indirect effects linking anhedonia to depressive symptoms through interpersonal emotion regulation. When BDI-II-C Items 4 (loss of pleasure) and 12 (loss of interest) were removed from the depressive symptom total score and the analyses were repeated, the main results remained stable. An exploratory sensitivity analysis using the BDI-II-C cutoff revealed a significant mediating pathway in the below-cutoff group, whereas the regression association between interpersonal emotion regulation and depressive symptoms was not significant in the at-or-above-cutoff group. Given that grouping by the cutoff of the same dependent variable narrows the within-group score range and may affect within-group regression estimation, these subgroup results are reported only as exploratory sensitivity analyses. These findings suggest that interpersonal emotion regulation and family functioning are important factors in understanding the statistical association between anhedonia and depressive symptoms in adolescents.

Nature-based extreme sports are often framed through sensation seeking, thrill, and voluntary exposure to risk, yet this framing can obscure the meanings participants attach to prolonged engagement with demanding natural environments. This study explored how experienced South African participants interpreted the relationship between nature-based extreme sport participation and eco-sensitivity. In this article, eco-sensitivity refers to participants' reported environmental attention, affective connection with nature, recognition of ecological dependence, concern about degradation, and efforts to reduce personal impact. A qualitative design using interpretative phenomenological analysis was applied to semi-structured interviews conducted between 29 April and 4 July 2019 with 10 experienced participants, five men and five women, who represented 11 nature-based extreme sport activities and reported two to 22 years of experience. Four interconnected themes were identified: risk as a managed component of participation; connection rather than conquest; sensory sensitivity and experiences consistent with mindfulness and flow; and eco-sensitivity and self-reported pro-environmental orientation. Participants described risk as something to calculate and manage through competence, preparation, and situational judgement. They also described respect for natural forces, heightened bodily and environmental attention, and a stronger sense of ecological dependence. Reported pro-environmental practices were self-reported and were not independently observed. The findings provide an interpretive account of how participants made sense of environmental meanings within prolonged outdoor sport involvement. They do not establish a causal developmental mechanism. The results suggest propositions for athlete education, outdoor recreation management, environmental learning, and future longitudinal research. Keywords: eco-sensitivity; extreme sport; interpretative phenomenological analysis; nature connectedness; pro-environmental behaviour; risk management.

Background Simulated interviews could provide behavioral information for young-adult mental-health research, including studies of social-evaluative anxiety. Their value depends on reliable observer impressions and interpretable links to participants’ self-reports. We examined personality expression, affective communication, self-observer correspondence, and competence impressions in emerging adults. Methods Two video-interview protocols were administered to participants aged 18–23 years: an occupationally framed protocol ( n = 55 ) and a broader personality-oriented protocol ( n = 33 ); 30 participants completed both. The protocols covered parallel HEXACO-related domains but differed in both framing and question content. Participants completed HEXACO self-reports and selected one of five valence-arousal categories after each response. Four observers rated personality expression, affective communication, and competence. We distinguished focused domain-matched tests from secondary question-level tests and exploratory correlation matrices, reported 95% confidence intervals, used permutation tests, and controlled the false-discovery rate within analysis families. Results Self-reported HEXACO scores were similar across protocols except for lower Agreeableness in the broader protocol (mean difference = − 0.23 , 95% CI [ − 0.35 , − 0.12 ] , q = 0.004 ). Global valence was more positive in the broader protocol (mean difference = 0.30 , 95% CI [ 0.15 , 0.45 ] , q < 0.001 ), whereas the arousal difference was uncertain. Reliability was heterogeneous: personality and competence ICCs ranged from 0.27 to 0.65 and 0.35 to 0.64 in the occupational protocol and from 0.33 to 0.58 and 0.22 to 0.73 in the broader protocol. Question-level affect ICCs were approximately 0.00 to 0.60 and − 0.91 to 0.03, respectively. Occupational self-observer correlations for Extraversion and Agreeableness survived correction; no broader-protocol personality correlation did. Strong same-observer personality-competence associations survived correction in both protocols, but broader-protocol affect-competence associations did not. Conclusions Affective reports differed between protocols, but question content also differed, precluding a pure context effect. Observer-rating reliability and self-observer correspondence identify conditions for future mental-health studies pairing simulated interviews with validated symptom and functioning measures.

Self-harm represents a serious mental health concern in which emotional experiences play a significant role in both its onset and maintenance. This exploratory study examined which emotions were most frequently reported before and after self-harm, how selected emotions changed following self-harm, and how emotional experiences were associated with specific forms of self-harm and demographic factors (gender, religious identification). The sample comprised of 158 university students, of whom 130 reported a history of self-harming behavior and were included in analyses of emotional experiences. Data were collected using a modified Self-Harm Inventory questionnaire and measures assessing the occurrence of emotions before and after self-harm. Anger, feelings of failure, and sadness were the most frequently reported emotions preceding self-harm, whereas sadness, relief, disappointment, guilt, and shame were the most frequently reported emotions following self-harm. The reported frequency of anger, guilt, and sadness decreased following self-harm, whereas negative emotions remained prominent after the behavior. After Benjamini–Hochberg correction for multiple comparisons, religious identification remained negatively associated with self-harm frequency and with the reported frequency of several emotions. Gender was not significantly associated with the examined variables, although this finding should be interpreted cautiously given the gender imbalance and limited sample size. After correction, selected associations between emotions and specific forms of self-harm remained significant, including associations of anger with hitting oneself, disgust with starving oneself, hatred with self-defeating thoughts, guilt following laxative misuse, and changes in anger with hitting oneself and intentionally worsening medical situations. Overall, the findings indicate selective associations between emotional experiences and self-harming behavior while underscoring the need for longitudinal and event-level research to clarify their temporal and causal dynamics.

Introduction Food craving is a ubiquitous experience, often shaped by cultural familiarity. Although craving may be considered a culture-bound construct, its neural and behavioral underpinnings across food cultures remain limited. Here, we examined the effects of multisensory food exposure on craving in an Indian population, comparing Indian and Western foods across sweet and savory categories. Methods In Experiment 1 (Indian Food Craving; IFC), participants viewed Indian sweet and savory food images before and after multisensory exposure, reporting desire and willingness-to-pay (bid) ratings along with Food Craving Questionnaire-State (FCQ-S) scores. EEG was recorded using a 64-channel system. In Experiment 2 (Western Food Craving; WFC), participants completed a similar paradigm using Western food items. Results Multisensory exposure significantly increased FCQ-S scores in both experiments, indicating successful craving induction. Behaviorally, desire and bid ratings increased for both sweet and savory Indian foods, whereas for Western foods, increases were observed only for sweet items. ERP analyses revealed increased P200 and N200 amplitudes following exposure to Indian sweet foods, while LPP amplitudes increased for savory foods across both Indian and Western food categories. Complementary MVPA revealed enhanced pre- vs. post-exposure classification for sweet foods during the early (0–300 ms) window for both Indian and Western foods, whereas both sweet and savory foods showed significant classification during the later(300–600 ms) window. Discussion Together, these findings suggest that multisensory exposure modulates food-cue processing in a stimulus- and time-dependent manner, with possible contributions from attentional processes. Overall, the findings highlight the influence of food type and cultural context on craving-related neural and behavioral responses.

Emotional intelligence (EI) has emerged as a relevant professional competency in nursing, yet its relationship with career growth remains underexplored in Saudi Arabia. This study examined the association between total emotional intelligence and perceived career growth among nurses in the Jazan Health Cluster. A cross-sectional correlational design was employed with 295 registered nurses in the Jazan Health Cluster recruited via convenience sampling. EI was measured using the Schutte Self-Report Emotional Intelligence Test, and career growth was measured using the Career Growth Scale. Pearson correlation and multiple linear regression served as the primary analytical strategies. The sample was predominantly female (78.0%), Saudi (67.1%), and BSN-qualified (74.9%), with a mean age of 36.28 years (SD = 7.94). Mean total EI was 127.98 (SD = 9.96), and mean total career growth was 53.73 (SD = 6.66). EI was positively correlated with career growth ( r = .351, 95% CI [0.246, 0.447], p < .001). Exploratory analysis showed that total EI was most strongly correlated with Career Capacity ( r = .438). Social Skills and Emotion Utilization showed broad positive patterns across the non-salary career-growth domains, whereas total EI was not associated with Salary Increase ( r = − .008, 95% CI [-0.122, 0.106]). The association between the total scores remained after covariate adjustment (B = 0.213, standardized β = 0.319, HC3 p < .001; adjusted R² = 0.220). Total emotional intelligence was positively associated with perceived career growth among nurses in Saudi Arabia after covariate adjustment but was not associated with perceived salary growth. Exploratory findings suggest that emotional competencies may be more relevant to developmental and relational aspects of career growth than to financial advancement. The findings may inform broader professional-development strategies aligned with Saudi Arabia’s Vision 2030 healthcare workforce priorities.

In modern scholarly perspectives on grieving, being saddened has been associated with bodily experience. Numbness, shaking, a heavy heart, and other physical symptoms are caused by the intense pain of loss. Most Western philosophies have increasingly focused on psychological models based on the idea of how the self adjusts to the devastating experience of losing a loved one, and this has received a lot of attention. To connect death, embodiment, self-identification, and psychological well-being, this conceptual article develops a mourning process from an Indigenous psychological perspective. This article proposes a psychological paradigm grounded in Indigenous contemplative knowledge through an interpretive analysis of the teachings of the Ashtavakra Gita. Rather than treating the Ashtavakra Gita solely as a philosophical or spiritual text, this article interprets it as an Indigenous psychological knowledge system offering culturally grounded insights into selfhood, attachment, suffering, and psychological well-being. The proposed Ashtavakra Witnessing Consciousness Model conceptualises grief as a five-stage, non-linear process involving embodied grief, existential crisis, meaning reframing, mortality acceptance, and witnessing consciousness, culminating in psychological well-being. This model shows how a traumatic incident can be transformed into a meaningful experience and a path to psychological well-being. Advaita Vedanta’s foundational text, the Ashtavakra Gita, presents a nondual viewpoint in which suffering arises from attachment to the body, ego, and interpersonal attachments. It distinguishes between witnessing consciousness and the short-lived embodied self. This psychological Model of Witnessing Consciousness offers an alternative understanding of control, attachment, suffering, and embodied grief, grounded in the Ashtavakra Gita. It highlights the psychological implications of developing the art of witnessing consciousness. This indigenous model of traditional knowledge has implications for existential, contemplative, and meaning-centred mourning therapies and adds a cross-cultural, psychological and philosophically informed perspective to bereavement research. The article explains how the five stages were derived from the text, illustrates the model with a composite case vignette, outlines clinical cautions against encouraging detachment prematurely, and sets out the model’s limitations and directions for empirical validation.

This article analyzes the challenges and possibilities of incorporating socio-emotional competencies into teacher education, aiming to contribute to the development of an integrative and humanizing pedagogy. Based on a qualitative bibliographic review, recent studies (2020–2025) were examined, highlighting the impact of socio-emotional competencies on teacher well-being, student engagement, and the quality of pedagogical relationships. The findings indicate that, although theoretical and practical advances have been made, significant gaps remain in initial and continuing education curricula, which are still largely centered on technical and content-based models. The article argues for the urgent need for public policies, curricular guidelines, and formative practices that foster teachers' emotional development, recognizing its essential role in creating healthy school environments and promoting meaningful learning. It concludes that educating emotionally competent teachers is crucial for a more sensitive, ethical, and effective education.

این مقاله چالش‌ها و امکانات ادغام شایستگی‌های اجتماعی-هیجانی در آموزش معلمان را تحلیل می‌کند و هدف آن کمک به توسعه یک پداگوژی یکپارچه و انسان‌دوستانه است. بر اساس یک مرور کتابشناختی کیفی، مطالعات اخیر (۲۰۲۰–۲۰۲۵) مورد بررسی قرار گرفتند که بر تأثیر شایستگی‌های اجتماعی-هیجانی بر بهزیستی معلمان، مشارکت دانش‌آموزان و کیفیت روابط پداگوژیک تأکید دارند. یافته‌ها نشان می‌دهند که اگرچه پیشرفت‌های نظری و عملی حاصل شده است، شکاف‌های قابل‌توجهی در برنامه‌های درسی آموزش اولیه و مستمر باقی مانده است که همچنان عمدتاً بر مدل‌های فنی و محتوامحور متمرکز هستند. این مقاله بر ضرورت فوری سیاست‌های عمومی، راهنماهای برنامه درسی و عملکردهای تربیتی که توسعه هیجانی معلمان را تقویت می‌کنند، تأکید می‌ورزد و نقش اساسی آن‌ها را در ایجاد محیط‌های مدرسه سالم و ترویج یادگیری معنادار به رسمیت می‌شناسد. این مقاله نتیجه می‌گیرد که تربیت معلمان دارای شایستگی هیجانی برای آموزشی حساس‌تر، اخلاقی‌تر و کارآمدتر حیاتی است.

Introduction Taking a positive education perspective, this study investigates the link between subjective well-being (SWB) and student engagement. Although many studies have found a positive link between the two multidimensional constructs, the literature lacks longitudinal analyses. Methods Based on the broaden-and-build theory and the upwards spiral hypothesis it was hypothesised that the dimensions of the two constructs would show bidirectional relationships. To test this, 1,762 fifth-grade students in Austria completed an online survey at two time points; the data were then analysed using a cross-lagged panel model with a three-factor model of SWB (positive affect, negative affect and life satisfaction) and a bifactorial model of student engagement (a general factor for student engagement and a specific factor for emotional engagement). Results Only one bidirectional relationship was found – between general student engagement and positive affect – but significant positive effects of both the general and specific student engagement factors at Time 1 on life satisfaction at Time 2 and of the specific engagement factor at Time 1 on positive affect at Time 2 were also identified. However, no significant relationships were found between either of the student engagement factors and negative affect. Conclusions Overall, the findings highlight the positive association between SWB and student engagement. Therefore, the results provide support for the upward spiral hypothesis and partial support for the broaden-and-build theory.

Psychological stress dialogue recognition still lacks sufficient semantic understanding in multimodal information fusion and emotional dynamic modelling. It is difficult to achieve high-precision and robust stress state recognition in complex dialogue scenarios. Combining the advantages of the pre-trained language model BERT (Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers) in semantic understanding and the capabilities of EmoShiftNet (Emotion Shift Network) in emotion transfer modelling, contextual semantic coding is realised through a multi-level Transformer, and a cross-modal Transformer is used to align heterogeneous features such as text, speech, and vision. In terms of multimodal signal representation, the BERT encoder captures fine-grained changes in language semantics, the convolutional-recurrent network extracts speech time–frequency features, the convolutional neural network and optical flow method obtain facial expression dynamics, and finally, realises unified representation through shared embedding space and cross-modal contrast learning. On the five-class psychological stress dialogue task, text semantic features contribute 42.7% of the total discriminative information, and the full multimodal fusion model achieves an overall accuracy of 85.0% (95% CI (Confidence Interval): [83.2%, 86.8%]) on the held-out test set. In the emotion transition detection task, the model achieves 76.2% transfer prediction accuracy with an average detection latency of 13.4 s. Under low signal-to-noise ratio conditions, the speech modality maintains stable performance with an error rate of 4.8% across 59 test samples. The highest accuracy rate of the fusion model under full-modal input reaches 97% on our self-constructed psychological stress dialogue dataset, which is divided strictly at the dialogue level (6391 training, 1484 validations, 2227 test samples) to avoid data leakage. This result significantly outperforms single-modal baselines and four state-of-the-art pre-trained language model baselines.

شناسایی گفت‌وگوی استرس روان‌شناختی همچنان در همجوشی اطلاعات چندوجهی و مدل‌سازی پویایی هیجانی با کمبود درک معنایی کافی مواجه است. دستیابی به شناسایی دقیق و مقاوم وضعیت استرس در سناریوهای گفت‌وگوی پیچیده دشوار است. با ترکیب مزایای مدل زبانی پیش‌آموزش‌یافته BERT (Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers) در درک معنایی و قابلیت‌های EmoShiftNet (Emotion Shift Network) در مدل‌سازی انتقال هیجان، کدگذاری معنایی متنی از طریق ترنسفورمر چندسطحی تحقق می‌یابد و یک ترنسفورمر میان‌وجهی برای هم‌ترازی ویژگی‌های ناهمگن مانند متن، گفتار و بینایی به‌کار می‌رود. در زمینه نمایش سیگنال چندوجهی، رمزگذار BERT تغییرات ریزمعنایی زبان را استخراج می‌کند، شبکه کانولوشن-بازگشتی ویژگی‌های زمانی-فرکانسی گفتار را استخراج می‌کند، شبکه عصبی کانولوشنی و روش جریان نوری پویایی‌های حالت چهره را به‌دست می‌آورند و در نهایت، نمایش یکپارچه از طریق فضای تعبیه مشترک و یادگیری متضاد میان‌وجهی محقق می‌شود. در وظیفه پنج‌کلاسه گفت‌وگوی استرس روان‌شناختی، ویژگی‌های معنایی متنی ۴۲٫۷٪ از کل اطلاعات تمایزبخش را تأمین می‌کنند و مدل همجوشی کامل چندوجهی به دقت کلی ۸۵٫۰٪ (فاصله اطمینان ۹۵٪: [۸۳٫۲٪، ۸۶٫۸٪]) در مجموعه آزمون نگه‌داشته‌شده دست می‌یابد. در وظیفه شناسایی انتقال هیجان، مدل به دقت پیش‌بینی انتقال ۷۶٫۲٪ با میانگین تأخیر شناسایی ۱۳٫۴ ثانیه دست می‌یابد. در شرایط نسبت سیگنال به نویز پایین، وجه گفتاری با نرخ خطای ۴٫۸٪ در میان ۵۹ نمونه آزمون عملکرد پایداری را حفظ می‌کند. بالاترین نرخ دقت مدل همجوشی در ورودی تمام‌وجهی به ۹۷٪ در مجموعه‌داده گفت‌وگوی استرس روان‌شناختی ساخت خود ما می‌رسد که به‌طور دقیق در سطح گفت‌وگو (۶۳۹۱ نمونه آموزش، ۱۴۸۴ نمونه اعتبارسنجی، ۲۲۲۷ نمونه آزمون) تقسیم شده است تا از نشت داده جلوگیری شود. این نتیجه به‌طور معناداری از پایه‌های تک‌وجهی و چهار مدل زبانی پیش‌آموزش‌یافته پیشرفته برتر است.