Wenhua Yan

• East China Normal University

Background This study examined the relationship between loneliness and bedtime procrastination among Chinese university students, the mediating effects of COVID-19 risk perception and self-regulatory fatigue, and connectedness to nature’s protective role, post pandemic. Methods We recruited 855 students to complete the Loneliness, Perceived Risk o...

Introduction This study aimed to investigate the effects of emotional themes and the COVID-19 pandemic context priming on the size and color of drawings. Methods A 3 (emotion: peacefulness, gratitude, loneliness) × 2 (context: pandemic, regular) mixed design was used and 113 university students in Shanghai were recruited to draw human figures and...

Background Drawing can regulate emotions through venting or distraction. Distraction is more helpful for short‐term emotion recovery; however, the sustainability of this difference is yet to be clarified. This study used functional near‐infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) to explore potential differences between venting and distraction. Methods A total...

This study investigated the impact of COVID-19 information overload on emotional eating behavior in China’s post-pandemic period, while considering the mediating role of fear of COVID-19 and the protective role of self-compassion. The study was based on stimulus-organism-response framework and emotion regulation theories and it used convenience sam...

The COVID-19 pandemic has led to a generally high level of state anxiety resulting from the high contagiousness of the disease and strict prevention and control policies. The present study mainly focused on the relationship between the individual intolerance of uncertainty and state anxiety in the regular epidemic prevention and control phase in Ch...

This study aimed to explore the relationship between parenting styles and the social adjustment of university students as well as the mediating effects of attachment avoidance and friendship quality. We further examined the moderating role of gender. This study used convenience sampling to recruit 501 Chinese university students to complete the Chi...

This study explored the ambivalent effects of family on the close relationship quality of Chinese young adults. From a national estimate of the urban population across mainland China, 5,089 participants aged 20-39 were recruited for this study. A three-dimensional conceptualization was applied to identify three groups with different sexual orientat...

This study aimed to examine the relationship between information overload and individual state anxiety in the period of regular epidemic prevention and control and mediating effect of risk perception and positive coping styles. Further, we explored the moderating role of resilience. 847 Chinese participated in and completed measures of information...

The Chinese traditional system features a hierarchical familial culture. When confronted with individualization and autonomy in choices of marriage and divorce, the system remains resilient and intervenes in the lives of young families. To analyze the discourses of divorced urban young adults, 46 participants (23 women and 23 men) aged 24–39 years...

Differences in emotion experience and emotion expression between patients with schizophrenia and the healthy population have long been the focus of research and clinical attention. However, few empirical studies have addressed this topic using art-making as a tool of emotion expression. This study explores the differences in brain mechanism during...

We present three recent research projects from China on distance psychoanalytic training and treatment. The first study explored how the internet could influence the process of psychoanalysis in three ways. First, choosing to accept online psychoanalysis is itself meaningful to the patients. Second, the internet connection itself can also be an org...

This study aimed to explore the role of drawing in regulating anger and sadness via functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS). A 2 (anger vs. sadness) x 2 (drawing vs. calculating) between-subjects design was employed. Participants were randomly assigned to one of four conditions: drawing after triggering anger, drawing after triggering sadness...

The recent, rapid development of international work and organizational psychology (iWOP) is taking place in the context of a broader academic movement toward internationalization in higher education. In the USA, the American Council on Education (ACE), the National Association for Foreign Student Administrators (NAFSA), and the Institute of Interna...

Some criminal cases happen campus in recent years. A typical case is the Fudan poison case. The case is closed, but the effect does not end. The objectives of this paper were explore: the personality profile of poison case offender; effects of poison case and to whom they hurt; how to prevent such criminal case. A ten-person focus group interview w...

Western Europe has known Chinese migrants for over a century. The first generations arrived with little financial resources. Many of them were recruited as sailors, opened their own restaurants or were employed by restaurants. Recently, a new wave of Chinese migrants has come to Western Europe. These new Chinese migrants differ considerably from th...

In Western cultures, high correlations have been found between commitment, turnover and performance. While most studies only consider organizational commitment, this study compares the influence of commitment to the workgroup on relevant outcomes (organizational citizenship behaviour, absenteeism, turnover intention) in different cultural contexts....

Increasing globalization and rising markets in Eastern Europe and Asia have led to a growing interest in issues of cross cultural management. In western culture, high correlations have been found between leadership, commitment, turnover and performance. In this study we examined the influence of cultural differences on employees' commitment and its...