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Purpose: This study aimed to design an artificial intelligence–based cognitive empowerment package for enhancing entrepreneurial skills in gifted and creative adolescents through the qualitative identification and integration of relevant cognitive, psychological, motivational, interpersonal, and technological components. Methods and Materials: The study employed a qualitative exploratory-developmental design. Data were obtained through an analytical review of relevant literature, examination of previous student entrepreneurship workshop experiences, and semi-structured interviews with students, mentors, workshop facilitators, and accelerator managers selected through purposive sampling. Data collection continued until conceptual saturation was achieved. Interview transcripts, field observations, documentary evidence, and analytical notes were examined using thematic analysis. Findings: The qualitative analysis indicated that sustained entrepreneurial action among gifted and creative adolescents depends on a multidimensional configuration of entrepreneurial intention and identity, self-efficacy, opportunity recognition and problem identification, executive functioning, tolerance of ambiguity, applied creativity, fear of failure and perfectionism, intrinsic motivation and psychological ownership, teamwork and psychological safety, proactive agency, resilience, future orientation, and reflective readiness to use artificial intelligence. The findings further suggested that entrepreneurial difficulties differ across adolescents and therefore require profile-based rather than uniform intervention. Integration of the themes resulted in a six-session package encompassing profile awareness and goal setting, problem identification and value creation, conversion of ideas into action plans, presentation and feedback utilization, teamwork and agency, and final presentation with a continuation plan. Conclusion: The findings suggest that entrepreneurial empowerment in gifted and creative adolescents should extend beyond creativity and business knowledge by strengthening the cognitive and psychological capacities required to transform ideas into sustained action, while using artificial intelligence as a supervised reflective and personalized learning support rather than as a substitute for adolescent judgment and agency.

هدف: این پژوهش با هدف طراحی بسته توانمندسازی شناختی مبتنی بر هوش مصنوعی جهت ارتقای مهارت‌های کارآفرینی در نوجوانان با استعداد و خلاق از طریق شناسایی و ادغام کیفی مؤلفه‌های شناختی، روان‌شناختی، انگیزشی، بین‌فردی و فناورانه مرتبط انجام شد. روش‌ها و مواد: این مطالعه با رویکرد کیفی اکتشافی-توسعه‌ای انجام گرفت. داده‌ها از طریق مرور تحلیلی منابع مرتبط، بررسی تجربیات پیشین کارگاه‌های کارآفرینی دانش‌آموزی و مصاحبه‌های نیمه‌ساختاریافته با دانش‌آموزان، مربیان، تسهیل‌گران کارگاه و مدیران شتاب‌دهنده که به روش نمونه‌گیری هدفمند انتخاب شدند، گردآوری شد. جمع‌آوری داده‌ها تا رسیدن به اشباع مفهومی ادامه یافت. رونوشت مصاحبه‌ها، مشاهدات میدانی، شواهد اسنادی و یادداشت‌های تحلیلی با استفاده از تحلیل تماتیک بررسی شدند. یافته‌ها: تحلیل کیفی نشان داد که تداوم عمل کارآفرینانه در نوجوانان با استعداد و خلاق وابسته به پیکربندی چندبعدی قصد و هویت کارآفرینانه، خودکارآمدی، شناسایی فرصت و تشخیص مسئله، کارکرد اجرایی، تحمل ابهام، خلاقیت کاربردی، ترس از شکست و کمال‌گرایی، انگیزش درونی و مالکیت روان‌شناختی، کار تیمی و ایمنی روان‌شناختی، عاملیت پیش‌فعال، تاب‌آوری، آینده‌نگری و آمادگی تأملی برای استفاده از هوش مصنوعی است. یافته‌ها همچنین نشان داد که دشواری‌های کارآفرینی در میان نوجوانان متفاوت است و بنابراین مداخله مبتنی بر پروفایل به جای مداخله یکنواخت ضرورت دارد. ادغام تم‌ها منجر به بسته‌ای شش‌جلسه‌ای شامل آگاهی از پروفایل و هدف‌گذاری، شناسایی مسئله و خلق ارزش، تبدیل ایده‌ها به برنامه عملیاتی، ارائه و بهره‌گیری از بازخورد، کار تیمی و عاملیت، و ارائه نهایی با برنامه تداوم شد. نتیجه‌گیری: یافته‌ها حاکی از آن است که توانمندسازی کارآفرینانه در نوجوانان با استعداد و خلاق باید فراتر از خلاقیت و دانش کسب‌وکار، با تقویت ظرفیت‌های شناختی و روان‌شناختی لازم برای تبدیل ایده به عمل پایدار و استفاده از هوش مصنوعی به عنوان پشتیبان یادگیری تأملی و شخصی‌سازی‌شده تحت نظارت، نه جایگزین قضاوت و عاملیت نوجوان، توسعه یابد.

Orthorexia Nervosa (ON) is widely regarded as an emerging eating disorder although it is not currently recognised as a formal diagnosis. It is characterised by a strict adherence to “pure” eating which becomes excessive and can lead to nutritional deficiencies, psychological distress, and impaired daily functioning. Restrictive eating behaviour in ON shows overlap with Restricted Repetitive Behaviours (RRBs) observed in autism. However, the conceptual relationship between ON and autism remains underexplored. This perspective article synthesises existing literature to explore potential overlapping and diverging mechanisms of RRBs across ON and autism. Intolerance for Uncertainty is highlighted as a possible shared mechanism that may contribute to RRBs observed in both ON and autism, whereas Cognitive Inflexibility and Perfectionism may mechanistically differentiate the conditions. We consider that autistic RRBs reflect neurodevelopmental divergence, whereas orthorexic RRBs may be influenced by evaluative belief-centred cognitions. We propose a conceptual model outlining how cognitive, affective and functional factors may interact to produce and maintain RRBs. Clarifying these distinctions is important in supporting clinicians to appropriately consider the drivers and mechanisms underlying RRBs across ON and autism, therefore supporting accurate diagnosis, formulation and treatment.

Background Multidimensional perfectionism theory distinguishes ambitious personal standards from evaluative concerns, but concern over mistakes and doubts about actions may exhibit different prospective associations with competitive functioning. This study tested whether general anxiety symptoms assessed shortly before competition carried distinct indirect associations from these two perfectionism dimensions to post-competition functioning and performance. Methods In this three-wave prospective study, 620 collegiate athletes completed item-level measures of personal standards, concern over mistakes, and doubts about actions at baseline. General anxiety symptoms were assessed with the DASS-21 Anxiety subscale 24–48 h before a target competition; flow, study-specific subjective choking, self-rated performance, coach-rated performance, and a harmonized objective performance indicator were assessed within 24 h afterward. A Bayesian ordinal latent-variable partial mediation model adjusted for personal standards, sex, age, competitive level, years in sport, and starter status. Multiple sensitivity analyses evaluated the robustness of the findings. Results Concern over mistakes strongly predicted greater anxiety symptoms (beta = 0.609, 95% highest-posterior-density interval [0.472, 0.744]), whereas doubts about actions did not (beta = 0.077, [−0.072, 0.218]). Greater anxiety symptoms predicted lower flow, greater subjective choking, and poorer performance across self-, coach-, and objectively indexed outcomes. Anxiety-related indirect associations from concern over mistakes were supported for flow (beta = −0.225), choking (beta = 0.275), self-rated performance (beta = −0.128), and objective performance (beta = −0.148), but not clearly for coach ratings. No indirect interval for doubts about actions excluded zero, although doubts retained direct associations with all five outcomes. Findings were stable across prior, complete-case, indicator-treatment, external-performance, longer-chain, and bipolar-functioning sensitivity analyses. Flow and subjective choking showed substantial overlap; bifactor results indicated that most of their common variance reflected a general competitive-functioning dimension. Conclusion Concern over mistakes demonstrated prospective indirect associations with competitive functioning through general anxiety symptoms assessed before competition and with lower flow, greater subjective choking, and poorer self-rated and objective performance. Mistake-related threat was linked to competitive functioning partly through pre-competition anxiety symptoms, whereas doubts about actions were associated mainly through processes not captured by the general anxiety measure. The findings support treating the two evaluative-concern dimensions as related but psychologically distinct.