Background Perceived social support is an important psychosocial resource for competitive athletes, while perceived stress is closely associated with athlete burnout. Drawing on conservation of resources theory and the cognitive-transactional model of stress, this study examines the relationships among perceived social support, perceived stress, and athlete burnout. Objectives This study aims to investigate the associations among perceived social support, perceived stress, and athlete burnout in competitive athletes, with particular attention to the statistical mediating role of perceived stress. Results Using cluster sampling, questionnaire data were collected from 252 competitive athletes across various sports, including track and field, swimming, and football. The results showed that perceived social support was negatively correlated with perceived stress ( r = -0.478, p < 0.01) and athlete burnout ( r = -0.282, p < 0.01), whereas perceived stress was positively correlated with athlete burnout ( r = 0.421, p < 0.01). Mediation analysis revealed a significant indirect association between perceived social support and athlete burnout through perceived stress ( B = -0.161, 95% CI [-0.240, -0.093]). The direct association was not statistically significant after accounting for perceived stress ( B = -0.095, p = 0.109). Conclusion Perceived social support is associated with lower levels of athlete burnout, both through its overall negative association with burnout and through a significant statistical indirect pathway involving perceived stress. These findings highlight the importance of strengthening athletes’ social support systems and addressing perceived stress in competitive sports settings. Given the cross-sectional design, the findings should be interpreted as associations rather than evidence of causal mediation.
Background Digital systems are integral to nursing practice, but sustained digital engagement may be accompanied by fatigue. The roles of general fear of missing out (FoMO) and perceived stress in the association between digital fatigue and nurses’ job burnout remain unclear. Guided by conservation of resources theory, this study examined the separate and serial indirect associations through FoMO and perceived stress. Method A cross-sectional survey included 554 clinical nurses recruited by convenience sampling from five tertiary Grade A hospitals in Hunan, China, between January and May 2026. Self-report measures assessed the four constructs. Structural equation modeling with bootstrap confidence intervals examined the proposed associations. Results Digital fatigue remained positively associated with job burnout when FoMO and perceived stress were included in the model. Positive indirect associations were identified through each variable separately and through FoMO followed by perceived stress (effect = 0.041, 95% CI [0.021, 0.066]). Conclusion Digital fatigue was positively associated with nurses’ job burnout, both directly and indirectly through general FoMO and perceived stress. Hospital managers could assess digital fatigue, stress, and burnout when reviewing digital workflows. Clearer expectations for responding to work messages and protected recovery time warrant prospective evaluation, including effects on staff wellbeing, workflow, and patient safety.
The in-depth penetration of artificial intelligence (AI) technology has reshaped career forms and the structure of the labor market, exerting a profound impact on university students’ cognition and orientation towards career development. Based on the conservation of resources theory and self-determination theory, we conducted three studies—an experimental study and two survey studies—to explore correlational linkages between AI awareness and university students’ boundaryless career. Studies 1 and 3 consistently demonstrated that AI awareness is indirectly associated with boundaryless career through the parallel mediating pathways of intrinsic motivation and future job insecurity. Study 2 provided experimental evidence that heightened AI awareness increases both intrinsic motivation and future job insecurity. This research enriches the application scenarios of boundaryless career theory in the context of technological change, deepens the understanding of the mechanism linking technological perception to youth career psychology, and offers practical implications for career guidance in universities.
Abstract The rapid deployment of point-of-sale technologies (connected payment terminals, inventory management software, video surveillance devices, self-checkout systems and real-time reporting tools) is profoundly transforming the work of cashiers in the retail sector. Although these tools are intended to streamline commercial operations, they also expose cashiers to an increased cognitive and emotional burden, commonly referred to as technostress. At the same time, the phenomenon of quiet quitting, understood as a discreet withdrawal of engagement beyond the formal requirements of the job, has become a major concern for human resource management in customer-facing occupations. This article proposes an integrative theoretical framework, grounded in Hobfoll's conservation of resources theory and the job demands-resources model, to examine the relationship between perceived techno-stress and quiet quitting among cashiers, with particular attention to the mediating role of psychological resilience. We formulate a set of testable hypotheses and discuss their theoretical and managerial implications. Expected findings suggest that psychological resilience constitutes a personal resource capable of buffering the detrimental effect of techno-stress on behavioral disengagement, paving the way for organizational interventions focused on strengthening the adaptive capacities of frontline employees. Keywords technostress; quiet quitting; psychological resilience; cashiers; conservation of resources theory; mediation
استقرار سریع فناوریهای نقطه فروش (پایانههای پرداخت متصل، نرمافزارهای مدیریت موجودی، دستگاههای نظارت تصویری، سامانههای خودپرداخت و ابزارهای گزارشدهی لحظهای) بهطور عمیقی کار صندوقداران در بخش خردهفروشی را دگرگون کرده است. اگرچه این ابزارها با هدف تسهیل عملیات تجاری طراحی شدهاند، اما صندوقداران را در معرض بار شناختی و هیجانی فزایندهای قرار میدهند که معمولاً به آن فشار فناورانه گفته میشود. همزمان، پدیده کنارهگیری خاموش که بهعنوان کنارهگیری تدریجی و نامحسوس از مشارکت فراتر از الزامات رسمی شغل درک میشود، به دغدغهای اساسی برای مدیریت منابع انسانی در مشاغل مواجهه با مشتری بدل شده است. این مقاله چارچوب نظری تلفیقی مبتنی بر نظریه حفاظت از منابع هابفول و مدل تقاضا-منابع شغلی را برای بررسی رابطه بین فشار فناورانه ادراکشده و کنارهگیری خاموش در میان صندوقداران با تأکید ویژه بر نقش میانجیگری تابآوری روانشناختی ارائه میدهد. مجموعهای از فرضیههای قابل آزمون تدوین شده و پیامدهای نظری و مدیریتی آنها مورد بحث قرار میگیرد. یافتههای مورد انتظار نشان میدهد که تابآوری روانشناختی بهعنوان یک منبع فردی میتواند اثرات زیانبار فشار فناورانه بر کنارهگیری رفتاری را تعدیل کند و زمینه را برای مداخلات سازمانی با هدف تقویت ظرفیتهای سازشی کارکنان خط مقدم فراهم سازد.
ABSTRACT Objective This study aimed to broaden the understanding of how parental exhaustion evolves during war, and how war exposure and social support are associated with these changes within individuals and between partners. Background Wars exert strain on parents. The Balance Between Risks and Resources Model posits that without sufficient resources, parents may experience parental exhaustion. The Conservation of Resources theory further suggests that fluctuations in stress and resources can trigger changes to one's own and one's partner's parental exhaustion. Method A longitudinal study followed 106 Israeli parent pairs, starting two and a half weeks after the onset of the Israel‐Hamas war. Self‐report measures were collected five times across 10 weeks and analyzed via a longitudinal actor‐partner interdependence model. Results The parental exhaustion of both parents declined during the war. Temporal increases in mothers' war exposure were associated with both parents' concurrent increase in parental exhaustion. Overall and temporal perceived social support were associated with lower parental exhaustion in mothers. Moreover, temporal increases in social support perceived by either parent were associated with reduced concurrent parental exhaustion in the other parent. Conclusion Parental exhaustion during war is a dynamic and relational process, associated with fluctuating stress and social support within and between partners. Implications The findings emphasize the need for systemic interventions designed to strengthen sustained social support, with particular attention to mothers' needs during war.
چکیده هدف: این مطالعه با هدف گسترش درک چگونگی تحول فرسودگی والدینی در طول جنگ و بررسی ارتباط مواجهه با جنگ و حمایت اجتماعی با این تغییرات درون افراد و بین زوجین انجام شده است. پیشزمینه: جنگها فشار زیادی بر والدین وارد میکنند. مدل تعادل بین خطرات و منابع بیان میکند که در صورت نبود منابع کافی، والدین ممکن است دچار فرسودگی والدینی شوند. نظریه حفظ منابع نیز پیشنهاد میکند که نوسانات استرس و منابع میتواند موجب تغییر در فرسودگی والدینی فرد و شریک او شود. روش: یک مطالعه طولی ۱۰۶ زوج والد اسرائیلی را از دو هفته و نیم پس از آغاز جنگ اسرائیل و حماس دنبال کرد. دادههای خودگزارشی در پنج نوبت طی ۱۰ هفته جمعآوری و با استفاده از مدل طولی وابستگی بازیگر-شریک تحلیل شد. نتایج: فرسودگی والدینی هر دو والد در طول جنگ کاهش یافت. افزایش مواجهه مادران با جنگ به طور همزمان با افزایش فرسودگی والدینی هر دو والد همراه بود. حمایت اجتماعی ادراکشده کلی و مقطعی با فرسودگی والدینی کمتر در مادران مرتبط بود. همچنین، افزایش مقطعی حمایت اجتماعی ادراکشده توسط هر یک از والدین با کاهش همزمان فرسودگی والدینی در والد دیگر همراه بود. نتیجهگیری: فرسودگی والدینی در طول جنگ فرایندی پویا و رابطهای است که با نوسانات استرس و حمایت اجتماعی درون و بین زوجین مرتبط است. پیامدها: یافتهها بر ضرورت مداخلات نظاممند برای تقویت حمایت اجتماعی پایدار، با توجه ویژه به نیازهای مادران در دوران جنگ تأکید میکند.
As national strategies for education reform deepen, exploring the association between physical exercise and college students’ academic achievement has become a critical priority in higher education. Although existing literature has confirmed a positive association between physical exercise and academic achievement, scant attention has been paid to systematically elucidating the underlying mechanism by integrating social support and psychological resilience within a serial mediation framework (chain mediation model). Drawing upon Social Support Theory (SST), Conservation of Resources Theory (COR), and the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB), this study constructs a theoretical model to unravel how physical exercise is associated with academic achievement via the serial indirect pathways of social support and psychological resilience, while also examining the moderating effect of time management ability. A total of 950 valid responses were collected, and a two-stage hybrid approach combining Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modeling (PLS-SEM) and Artificial Neural Network (ANN) was employed for empirical validation. The PLS-SEM results indicate that physical exercise shows a significant direct positive association with academic achievement (β = 0.156, $$\:p<0.001$$ ) and an indirect effect was identified via the serial mediation path of “Physical Exercise → Social Support → Psychological Resilience → Academic Achievement” ( $$\:\beta\:=0.008$$ , $$\:p=0.006$$ ). The ANN sensitivity analysis aligns highly with the PLS-SEM findings, further corroborating that psychological resilience is the strongest associate of academic achievement in terms of normalized importance (normalized importance = 64.580%), followed by physical exercise (44.950%) and social support (25.550%), thereby verifying the robustness of the conclusions. This study elucidates the underlying mechanisms by which physical exercise is positively associated with academic achievement via the indirect pathways of social support and psychological resilience, as well as the boundary condition of time management ability. These findings provide a theoretical basis and practical guidance for higher education administrators to formulate differentiated and precise student development strategies.
با تعمیق راهبردهای ملی اصلاحات آموزشی، بررسی ارتباط بین ورزش بدنی و پیشرفت تحصیلی دانشجویان دانشگاه به اولویتی اساسی در آموزش عالی تبدیل شده است. اگرچه ادبیات موجود ارتباط مثبت بین ورزش بدنی و پیشرفت تحصیلی را تأیید کرده است، اما به تبیین نظاممند سازوکارهای زیربنایی با ادغام حمایت اجتماعی و تابآوری روانشناختی در چارچوب میانجیگری زنجیرهای (مدل میانجیگری زنجیرهای) توجه اندکی شده است. با بهرهگیری از نظریه حمایت اجتماعی (SST)، نظریه حفاظت از منابع (COR) و نظریه رفتار برنامهریزیشده (TPB)، این پژوهش مدلی نظری را برای تبیین نحوه ارتباط ورزش بدنی با پیشرفت تحصیلی از طریق مسیرهای غیرمستقیم زنجیرهای حمایت اجتماعی و تابآوری روانشناختی ارائه میدهد و همچنین اثر تعدیلگر توانایی مدیریت زمان را مورد بررسی قرار میدهد. در مجموع ۹۵۰ پرسشنامه معتبر جمعآوری شد و رویکرد ترکیبی دو مرحلهای با استفاده از مدلیابی معادلات ساختاری حداقل مربعات جزئی (PLS-SEM) و شبکه عصبی مصنوعی (ANN) برای اعتبارسنجی تجربی به کار گرفته شد. نتایج PLS-SEM نشان داد که ورزش بدنی ارتباط مستقیم مثبت معناداری با پیشرفت تحصیلی دارد (β = 0.156, $$\:p<0.001$$) و اثر غیرمستقیم نیز از طریق مسیر میانجیگری زنجیرهای «ورزش بدنی → حمایت اجتماعی → تابآوری روانشناختی → پیشرفت تحصیلی» شناسایی شد ( $$\:\beta\:=0.008$$ , $$\:p=0.006$$ ). تحلیل حساسیت ANN نیز با یافتههای PLS-SEM همراستا بود و بیش از پیش تأیید کرد که تابآوری روانشناختی قویترین عامل مرتبط با پیشرفت تحصیلی از نظر اهمیت نرمالشده (normalized importance = 64.580%) است و پس از آن ورزش بدنی (44.950%) و حمایت اجتماعی (25.550%) قرار دارند که استحکام نتایج را تأیید میکند. این پژوهش سازوکارهای زیربنایی ارتباط مثبت ورزش بدنی با پیشرفت تحصیلی را از طریق مسیرهای غیرمستقیم حمایت اجتماعی و تابآوری روانشناختی و همچنین شرط مرزی توانایی مدیریت زمان تبیین میکند. این یافتهها مبنای نظری و راهنمای عملی برای مدیران آموزش عالی جهت تدوین راهبردهای توسعه دانشجویی هدفمند و دقیق فراهم میآورد.
