• Bayes factor
• Bayesian hypothesis testing
• Mediation analysis

• Humans
• Bayes Theorem
• Research Design
• Negotiating

• R01 HD087319 NICHD NIH HHS
• R01 HD088482 NICHD NIH HHS
• R01 HD091235 NICHD NIH HHS
• R01 MD014737 NIMHD NIH HHS

• Catastrophizing
• Fatigue
• Fibromyalgia
• Pain
• Walking

• Humans
• Female
• Middle Aged
• Fibromyalgia/psychology
• Quality of Life
• Pain
• Exercise/psychology
• Fatigue
• Catastrophization

• PI17/00858 Instituto de Salud Carlos III
• Universidad Rey Juan Carlos

• Children
• Mediation analysis
• PedsQL
• Preterm birth; health-related quality of life

• job engagement
• multilevel structural equation modeling
• organizational citizenship behavior
• school organizational support
• structural equation modeling

• Humans
• Accidents, Traffic
• Ohio
• COVID-19
• Automobile Driving
• Risk-Taking
• Ethanol

• The Risk Institute

Millennial employees are increasingly paying more attention to well-being in the workplace and it has become an important issue for managers. Given that millennial employees are more sensitive to ethical issues, this study began by analyzing an ethical element in the organization—the ethical climate—and explored whether millennial employees have higher affective well-being in organizations with a good ethical climate. We verified our hypotheses based on 288 valid questionnaires collected from 40 teams. The results showed that: (1) ethical climate was a positive predictor of millennial employees’ organizational citizenship behavior (OCB) and affective well-being, (2) employees’ OCB partially mediated the relationship between ethical climate and affective well-being, and (3) an employee’s moral identity effectively moderated the relationship between ethical climate and affective well-being, although it did not play a significant moderating role between ethical climate and OCB. These findings provide empirical support for applying situational strength and social information processing theories and emphasize the importance of cultivating an ethical climate in organizations.

• Blood pressure
• Cell-type heterogeneity
• DNA methylation
• Epigenome-wide association study
• Mesenchymal stromal cells
• Placenta
• Pregnancy

• Humans
• Child
• Pregnancy
• Female
• DNA Methylation
• Placenta/metabolism
• Blood Pressure
• Cohort Studies
• Hypertension/genetics
• Epigenesis, Genetic
• CpG Islands

• Institut National Du Cancer
• Agence Nationale de la Recherche
• Fondation de France

• Health Inequality
• Health Shock
• Medical Impoverishment
• Sickness Benefit
• South Korea

• Poverty/economics
• Poverty/prevention & control
• Republic of Korea
• Health Expenditures
• Humans
• Hospitalization/economics
• Work Capacity Evaluation

Epistemic curiosity as the desire to acquire new knowledge and ideas is considered as an important attribute for successful entrepreneurs among practitioners, yet there is lacking empirical evidence of epistemic curiosity having an effect on entrepreneurial outcomes. This study aims to put a spotlight on epistemic curiosity as a predictor for entrepreneurial intentions and orientation. We found that epistemic curiosity has a stronger influence on entrepreneurial outcomes in comparison to the Big Five personality trait openness to experience, which is a widely used and conceptually related predictor for entrepreneurship. Furthermore, we found evidence for a mediating role of entrepreneurial alertness which gives further insights about how personality influences the ability to recognize business opportunities and leads to the formation of entrepreneurship orientation and intentions. Our findings contribute to the field of entrepreneurship research by emphasizing that epistemic curiosity may be one of the most important personality indicators for the emergence of entrepreneurial intentions and behavior.

• clinical competence
• field adaptation
• grit
• mediating effect
• newly graduated nurses
• self-questionnaire

• Indirect effects
• Mediation
• Mplus
• Multilevel
• Statistical power

• Computer Simulation
• Data Interpretation, Statistical
• Humans
• Latent Class Analysis
• Models, Statistical
• Sample Size

• P50 MH113840 NIMH NIH HHS
• P50MH113840 NIMH NIH HHS
• National Institute of Mental Health

• Disorders of Excessive Somnolence
• Humans
• Mindfulness
• Mobile Applications
• Sleep
• Sleep Initiation and Maintenance Disorders/therapy
• United States

Physical activity (PA) and resting heart rate (RHR) are connected with all-cause mortality. Moreover, there was an inverse correlation between PA and RHR. However, the causal relationship between PA, RHR, and long-term mortality has been rarely evaluated and quantified, particularly the mediation effect of RHR in the association between PA and all-cause mortality.

To describe the relationship between PA and RHR when consistently measured via cardiac implantable electronic devices (CIED) and further explore the mediation effect of PA on all-cause mortality through RHR.

Patients who underwent CIED implantation and received remote home monitoring services were included. During the first 30–60 days after CIED implantation, daily PA and RHR were continuously measured and automatically transmitted by CIED. The primary endpoint was all-cause mortality. The multiple linear regression model was used to confirm the relationship between PA and RHR. The predictive values of both PA and RHR for all-cause mortality were assessed by multivariable Cox proportional hazards models. The causal mediation model was further established to verify and quantify the mediation effect of RHR in the association between PA and all-cause mortality.

A total of 730 patients with CIED were included. The mean daily PA and RHR were 10.7 ± 5.7% and 61.3 ± 9.1 bpm, respectively. During a mean follow-up period of 55.8 months, 187 (26.5%) death was observed. A negative linear relationship between PA and RHR was demonstrated in the multiple regression model (β = −0.260; 95% CI: −0.377 to −0.143, p < 0.001). Multivariable Cox proportional hazards analysis showed that both lower levels of PA (HR = 0.907; 95% CI: 0.878–0.936, p < 0.001) and higher RHR (HR = 1.016; 95% CI: 1.001–1.032, P = 0.031) were independent risk factors of all-cause mortality. Causal mediation analysis further confirmed and quantified the mediation function of RHR in the process of PA improving all-cause mortality (mediation proportion = 3.9%; 95% CI: 0.2–10.0%, p = 0.036).

The effects of the higher level of PA on improving life prognosis may be partially mediated through RHR among patients with CIED. It indicates that changes in the autonomic nervous function during postoperative rehabilitation exercises should get more attention.

• National Natural Science Foundation of China

• Adverse events
• Chemotherapy
• Expectations
• Nocebo
• Placebo

• Female
• Gastrointestinal Neoplasms/drug therapy
• Humans
• Male
• Middle Aged
• Nocebo Effect

• Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin (3093)

• Causality
• Directed acyclic graphs
• Endogenous selection bias
• Intergenerational mobility
• Overcontrol bias

• Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung
• Forskningsrådet om Hälsa, Arbetsliv och Välfärd
• Stockholm University

• Anthropology
• EPIDEMIOLOGY
• PUBLIC HEALTH

• Cohort Studies
• Cross-Sectional Studies
• Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2
• Humans
• Malaysia/epidemiology
• Noncommunicable Diseases/epidemiology
• Risk Factors

• P30 AR072571 NIAMS NIH HHS
• National Science Foundation
• National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases

• distress
• eustress
• health
• innovative behavior
• supervisor support

Based on social learning theory and the trickle-down effects, in which behavioral patterns cascade from one management level to the next (also known as the falling domino effect), we attempt to answer whether upper-level managers’ temporal leadership can be transferred to lower-level managers to form their temporal leadership, and what the mediating mechanisms and boundary conditions for this occurrence are. By analyzing the data from 234 middle-level managers and 686 junior managers/employees, we found that top managers’ temporal leadership was positively associated with middle-level managers’ temporal leadership through the mediating role of middle-level managers’ temporal leadership perspective and that the relationship was moderated by middle-level managers’ identification with the top manager. Identification with the top manager, in particular, strengthens both the top manager’s positive effect on middle-level managers’ temporal leadership and the top manager’s temporal leadership’s mediating role in this relationship through their temporal leadership perspective. The theoretical and managerial implications of these findings are investigated.

Rural homestay inns are an important part of rural tourism, and tourists’ support behavior intentions are important factors affecting whether rural homestay inns can be developed sustainably. The local authentic life experiences and realization of actual communication between the host and tourists are the main influencing factors for tourists to revisit, recommend, or provide support. Although previous studies have confirmed the influence of authenticity perception on tourists’ support behavior intentions from different perspectives, they have not analyzed the influence mechanism between them from the perspective of micro interpersonal emotional attitude. To further understand the impact mechanism between the two, this study introduces the variable of emotional solidarity; constructs a relationship model of authenticity perception, emotional solidarity, and tourists’ support behavior intentions by adopting the theory of reasoned action; and verifies the established hypotheses through empirical analysis. The results show that both existential authenticity and objective authenticity positively influence tourism support behavior intentions, and the effect of objective authenticity on tourism support behavior intentions is greater than that of the presence of authenticity. Empathic understanding, feeling welcome, and emotional intimacy all play mediating roles between intrapersonal authenticity perception and tourism support behavior intentions. Findings also show empathic understanding and feeling welcome play mediating roles in objective authenticity perception and between the perception of objective authenticity and tourism support behavior intentions. Suggestions are also proposed for the development of homestay inn enterprises.

• Yunshui Yao
• authenticity perception
• emotional solidarity
• rural homestay inn
• tourism support behavior intentions

• Gotland Male Depression Scale
• Maslach Burnout Inventory-General Survey
• male depression symptom

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, restrictive sanitary measures such as lockdowns have been implemented all around the world. Based on a representative sample of the population collected through an online cross-sectional survey, the goal of the study was to investigate the factors associated with lockdown agreement in France during the second general lockdown of fall 2020. More specifically, we aimed to investigate how trust in the government and COVID-19 conspiracy beliefs influenced lockdown agreement. Trust in the authorities and low adherence to conspiracy beliefs appeared as strong predictors of lockdown acceptance among our sample. Using a mediation analysis, we highlighted a significant indirect effect of trust in the authorities on lockdown agreement through the adherence to conspiracy beliefs: low level of trust translated into higher odds to believe in COVID-19 misinformation which in turn decreased lockdown support. The double effect of trust on lockdown agreement, both directly and indirectly, underlines the importance of careful communication from the government around decisions related to COVID-19 mitigation measures in order not to deteriorate even more the low level of trust in the health action of the government. The fight against false information also appears of the utmost importance to increase the population adherence to public authorities’ recommendations.

• COVID-19
• Conspiracy Beliefs
• France
• Lockdown
• Mediation analysis
• Trust

• Chronic pain
• Functional disability
• Pain catastrophizing
• Pediatric pain

• Adolescent
• Anxiety
• Catastrophization
• Child
• Chronic Pain/complications
• Cross-Sectional Studies
• Female
• Humans
• Pain Measurement

The COVID-19 pandemic has created enormous challenges for organizations and employees. Due to the effectiveness of idiosyncratic deals (i-deals for short) in management practices, more and more organizations use this human resource management tool to address the challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic. However, whether there are potential risks or negative effects of i-deals in the COVID-19 pandemic environment is not very clear. Drawing upon social cognitive theory, we proposed that i-deals may foment focal employees’ unethical behavior by triggering their hubristic pride, and such process may be moderated by their trait of grandiose narcissism. We conducted a survey during the COVID-19 outbreak and tested our hypotheses with 492 samples from Shandong Province, China. Consistent with predictions, we found a positive relationship between i-deals and hubristic pride, which, in turn, increased their unethical behavior. And the relationship between i-deals and unethical behavior was mediated by hubristic pride. Furthermore, grandiose narcissism strengthened the positive relationship between i-deals and hubristic pride, as well as the indirect effect of i-deals on unethical behavior via hubristic pride. Our findings contributed to the literature on i-deals and provided guidance for organizations to address the challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic.

• Advanced lung cancer
• Health promotion
• Physical activity preferences
• Social cognitive
• Survivorship

• Cognition
• Cross-Sectional Studies
• Exercise/psychology
• Humans
• Lung Neoplasms
• Self Efficacy

• Dyslipidemia
• Hair cortisol concentration
• Mediating effect
• Shift work

• Adipose tissue
• Clamp
• Ethnicity
• Free fatty acids
• Hepatokine
• Insulin sensitivity
• fetuin-A

• Adipose Tissue
• Adult
• Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2
• Fatty Acids, Nonesterified
• Humans
• Insulin Resistance
• Interleukin-4
• Leptin
• Middle Aged
• Nicotinamide Phosphoribosyltransferase
• Norway/epidemiology
• Pakistan
• alpha-2-HS-Glycoprotein

• optimal level of stimulation theory
• sensation seeking
• smartphone usage
• tourist planfulness
• travel risk perception

• National Social Science Fund of China

• Healthcare disparities
• Mediation analysis
• Metabolic syndrome
• Socioeconomic factors
• Stroke

By using the data from Chinese listed companies in the Shanghai and Shenzhen A-share market for the period 2007 to 2019 and the Report on the Work of the Government, this paper investigates the impact of the local government’s economic growth target constraints on enterprise technological innovation and its mechanism. It is found that the local government’s economic growth target constraints significantly inhibit enterprise technological innovation, which is more obvious in the samples of SOEs, regulated industries, and enterprises at low marketization levels. The change of government officials’ performance appraisal indicators from the quantity to quality of economic growth can alleviate the negative effect. The mechanism effect test indicates that the local government’s economic growth target constraints will aggravate enterprise financing constraints and decrease the contribution of R&D investment to enterprise performance, and further inhibit enterprise technological innovation.

• China
• Economic Development
• Government
• Inventions
• Investments

• Hebei Province Social Development Research of China

• Autoimmune Diseases
• Epidemiology
• Outcome Assessment, Health Care
• Quality of LIfe

• Cross-Sectional Studies
• Depression/psychology
• Female
• Humans
• Lupus Erythematosus, Discoid/diagnosis
• Lupus Erythematosus, Systemic/diagnosis
• Male
• Social Isolation

• R01 AR065493 NIAMS NIH HHS
• R01 MD010455 NIMHD NIH HHS
• U01DP005119 ACL HHS
• U01 DP006488 NCCDPHP CDC HHS
• U01 DP005119 NCCDPHP CDC HHS
• R01 AR070898 NIAMS NIH HHS
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

This study aims to obtain empirical evidence of the effect of political connections and investment opportunity sets on tax avoidance. In addition, the use of corporate social responsibility in this study as a moderating variable aims to examine the implementation of sustainability by companies, which is a global issue of concern to many parties today. Corporate social responsibility has rarely been used in previous studies as a moderating variable in examining the relationships between investment opportunity sets and tax avoidance and political connections and tax avoidance. This study analyzed 42 manufacturing companies listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange from 2014 to 2019, selected through a purposive sampling method to produce 252 observations. This study used a quantitative method with two-panel data regression models, namely the model and without moderation. The results suggest that political connections and investment opportunity sets positively affect tax avoidance. Meanwhile, corporate social responsibility disclosure can weaken the positive effect of political connections and investment opportunity sets on tax avoidance. This study indicates that the Indonesia Tax Authority should include sustainability issues in refining existing tax policies.

• Investment opportunity sets
• Political connections
• Sustainability
• Tax avoidance

The rapid development of digital technologies has transformed the world but can be a double-edged sword. We study the interaction of important variables that affect individual news reporters’ performance in which digital technology is the dominant feature. A multilevel model illustrates how transactive memory and job competence affect individual performance. The empirical study includes data from 19 teams of news reporters and 211 valid survey responses, applying hierarchical linear modeling to analyze the data. The results indicate that transactive memory and technology competence help to improve a reporter’s job performance. More importantly, teamwork competence fully mediates the relationships. Our findings thus suggest that teamwork competence is the core skill. Neither technology competence nor transactive memory alone translates directly into enhanced individual performance.

• higher education
• journalism education
• teamwork competence
• technology competence
• transactive memory

Most recent research highlights how a specific form of causal understanding, namely technical reasoning, may support the increasing complexity of tools and techniques developed by humans over generations, i.e., the cumulative technological culture (CTC). Thus, investigating the neurocognitive foundations of technical reasoning is essential to comprehend the emergence of CTC in our lineage. Whereas functional neuroimaging evidence started to highlight the critical role of the area PF of the left inferior parietal cortex (IPC) in technical reasoning, no studies explored the links between the structural characteristics of such a brain region and technical reasoning skills. Therefore, in this study, we assessed participants’ technical-reasoning performance by using two ad-hoc psycho-technical tests; then, we extracted from participants’ 3 T T1-weighted magnetic-resonance brain images the cortical thickness (i.e., a volume-related measure which is associated with cognitive performance as reflecting the size, density, and arrangement of cells in a brain region) of all the IPC regions for both hemispheres. We found that the cortical thickness of the left area PF predicts participants’ technical-reasoning performance. Crucially, we reported no correlations between technical reasoning and the other IPC regions, possibly suggesting the specificity of the left area PF in generating technical knowledge. We discuss these findings from an evolutionary perspective, by speculating about how the evolution of parietal lobes may have supported the emergence of technical reasoning in our lineage.

• COVID-19
• guideline clarity
• health care workers
• professional functioning
• work management

• COVID-19/epidemiology
• Cross-Sectional Studies
• Health Personnel
• Humans
• Israel/epidemiology
• Pandemics
• Personnel, Hospital

• Emerging Nurse Researcher Award 2020, Phi Mu Chapter, England (Sigma Theta Tau International)
• Emerging Nurse Researcher Award 2020, Phi Mu Chapter, England (Sigma Theta Tau International)

• National Natural Science Foundation of China

The under-representation of women in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) is ubiquitous and understanding the roots of this phenomenon is mandatory to guarantee social equality and economic growth. In the present study, we investigated the contribution of non-cognitive factors that usually show higher levels in females, such as math anxiety (MA) and neuroticism personality trait, to numeracy competence, a core component in STEM studies. A sample of STEM undergraduate students, balanced for gender (N_F = N_M = 70) and Intelligent Quotient (IQ), completed online self-report questionnaires and a numeracy cognitive assessment test. Results show that females scored lower in the numeracy test, and higher in the non-cognitive measures. Moreover, compared to males’, females’ numeracy scores were more strongly influenced by MA and neuroticism. We also tested whether MA association to numeracy is mediated by neuroticism, and whether this mediation is characterized by gender differences. While we failed to detect a significant mediation of neuroticism in the association between MA and numeracy overall, when gender was added as a moderator in this association, neuroticism turned out to be significant for females only. Our findings revealed that non-cognitive factors differently supported numeracy in females and males in STEM programs.

• big five
• mathematics
• non-cognitive factors
• personality
• undergraduate students

• cognitive ability
• media use
• moderated mediation model
• private medical insurance
• self-rated health status

Over the past four decades, China’s economy has experienced tremendous economic growth but also a widening urban-rural income gap. Given the dilemma of the urban-rural income gap in China explained by neoclassical equilibrium theory, this paper attempts to provide a new theoretical explanation for the large-income gap between urban and rural areas in China. We select data from 30 provinces(cities) in China over the period from 2006 to 2017 as a sample to investigate whether and how the degree of farmland financial innovation narrows the urban-rural income gap. The results show that the coefficient for farmland financial innovation is significantly negative at the 1% level, signifying that financial innovation can narrow the urban-rural income gap in China. The mediation effect test provides evidence that farmland financial innovation narrows the urban-rural income gap by promoting the permanent migration of the labor force and upgrading the industrial structure. Our results indicate that the government should promote various forms of farmland financial innovation, establish rural property rights transaction system and free farmers from deep farmer-land attachment to realize permanent labor migration.

• China
• Economic Development
• Farms
• Humans
• Income
• Rural Population

• National Social Science Foundation

• COVID-19
• behavior
• distress
• frequency
• information-seeking
• information-seeking behaviors
• media
• media use
• risk
• stress
• support
• symptom
• trauma
• trauma- and stressor-related symptoms

Breast cancer may impair health-related quality of life (HRQoL). We examined the mediating roles of perceived social support (PSS) and coping style (CS) in the relationship between resilience and HRQoL in newly diagnosed breast cancer patients.

Following a cross-sectional design, 431 patients completed a survey at two hospitals in Shaanxi Province, China. Four validated self-report measures assessed HRQoL, psychological resilience, PSS, and CS. A one-sample t-test analyzed differences between resilience, PSS, and CS in breast cancer patients and the corresponding norm. Multivariate linear regression analyzed the independent predictors of HRQoL. The mediating roles of PSS and CS between resilience and HRQoL were investigated using structural equation modeling (SEM).

Participants had significantly lower scores for resilience and PSS, and higher scores for the avoidance and resignation CSs than their corresponding norm. SEM analysis showed resilience had significant direct effects on PSS (Bs: 0.59, 95% CI 0.49, 0.68, P = 0.003), CS (confrontation: 0.53 (0.44, 0.62), P = 0.001; resignation: − 0.66 (− 0.74, − 0.57), P = 0.002), and HRQoL (Bs range from 0.44 to 0.63, P < 0.05). Resilience had significant indirect effects (Bs range from 0.09 to 0.27), and PSS and CS had significant direct effects on HRQoL (P < 0.05).

Newly diagnosed breast cancer patients had lower resilience and PSS, and higher negative CSs, suggesting that PSS and CS mediated the influence of resilience on HRQoL. A multimodal intervention program focusing on PSS and CS might improve the positive influences of resilience on HRQoL in breast cancer patients.

• Breast cancer
• Coping style
• Health-related quality of life
• Perceived social support
• Resilience