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The current study examines how Koreans and Americans experience mixed emotions of benign and malicious envies, and how these mixed emotions affect envy premium (i.e., willingness to pay more for an envied product). Prior research has shown that benign envy drives envy premium. The results of the current study, however, indicate that envy premium is not apparent in Korea, where people are more accustomed to mixed emotions than are Americans. This study shows that Koreans tend to have a higher positive correlation between benign and malicious envies than Americans do. In addition, multi-group analysis using SEM demonstrates that both benign and malicious envies mediate the impact of the deservingness on envy premium in Korea, while this impact is only mediated by benign envy in the U.S. In Korea, the effect of malicious envy seems to counteract the effect of benign envy, thereby reducing envy premium.

Early adolescents spend a lot of time online, yet little is currently known about the links between parental rule-setting, adolescent disclosure about online activities, and whether social anxiety may interfere with these processes. Using a longitudinal sample of 526 adolescents (269 girls; Mage = 14.00) and their parents (79% mothers, Mage = 43.66), the results from the current study showed low correspondence between parental knowledge, adolescent disclosure, as well as parents’ and adolescents’ ratings of parental legitimacy to set boundaries about online activities. High social anxiety interacted with high adolescent-rated parental rule-setting in predicting the least disclosure about chatting with strangers and posting online content over time. Also, high social anxiety interacted with low parent-rated control to predict more adolescent disclosure about chatting with strangers and money spent online over time. Thus, social anxiety and parental rule-setting moderated the links between disclosure and knowledge for some early adolescent online activities. Our results conflict with the value typically placed on parental rule-setting in online contexts, at least for socially anxious adolescents.

Evidence on whether social media use is associated with poor mental health and stress remains mixed and controversial. It is suggested that this effect may vary according to individual differences. Emotional intelligence (EI) is considered a protective resource that can buffer the effects of stressors in certain contexts. We examine whether this protective effect extends to the experience of social media stress. 201 young adults (mean age 26.12; 83.6% female) completed measures of EI (trait; ability), social media stress (SMS), anxiety, depression and wellbeing. SMS related to poorer mental health (symptoms and wellbeing) whilst higher EI was linked to reduced levels of SMS and better mental health. Data show the relationship between SMS and depression is moderated by trait (not ability) EI, such that those with lower levels of trait EI, who experience high levels of SMS, report higher levels of depression symptoms compared to those with higher TEI. Implications and directions for research are explored.

Green behaviour is important for the sustainable development of human beings. The mechanisms of the display and maintenance of this behaviour are, however, vastly unknown. Green behaviour is a complex decision related not only to personal green values but also to the green preference of others in interpersonal interaction. Based on two simulated behaviour experiments, this paper examines the motivation mechanism of social green preferences affecting the "green items" of recipients to manipulate the social green preference level of the game operator. The results found that the subjects who accepted the high social green preference obtained more green motivation and were willing to choose more green behaviours in the subsequent printing tasks; among these subjects, the green internal motivation and the green external motivation both perceive the social green preference and part of the mediating effect between green behaviours. Experiment 2 is based on Experiment 1, manipulating the social status of the social green preference transmitter perceived by the subjects and then revealing the internal mechanism of the social status of the green preference transmitter in the process of perceiving the social green preference and enhancing the green motivation. The results found that in addition to confirming the conclusion of Experiment 1, the social status of the green preference transmitter positively regulates the relationship between the social green preference and green motivation; that is, compared with the low social status of the green preference transmitter, the high social status green proponents will motivate the subjects to have more green motivation. Finally, green management enlightenment is proposed based on the conclusion.

This study examines the psychometric properties of the Mental Health Continuum Short-Form (MHC-SF) as a multi-dimensional measure of positive mental health, in a large, gender-balanced population-based sample. The sample was 2887 participants in New Zealand. 50.7% were females, and the average age was 50.87 (SD = 17.58). Construct validity was examined through confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) of the MHC-SF and tests of convergent validity. Measurement invariance and latent mean differences across gender, age, and ethnicity were also investigated. To measure reliability, internal consistency was assessed. Analyses supported the correlated three-factor structure of the MHC-SF (emotional, psychological and social well-being) (RMSEA = .053; CFI = .95; SRMR = .035). Configural invariance was supported across gender, age and ethnicity. Scalar invariance was supported across gender, and partial scalar invariance was supported across age and ethnicity. Convergent validity of the scale was supported. The scale and each sub-scale had internal consistency coefficients above .70. Results confirm well-being as a multi-dimensional construct and the MHC-SF as an appropriate instrument to measure positive mental health for individuals and the population in New Zealand.

School sense of community has been associated with students’ well-being. However, this finding is based on cross-sectional studies and longitudinal studies are required to confirm this association. We hypothesized that school sense of community is longitudinally associated with students’ well-being. We recruited 106 Italian students attending a public high school. We measured school sense of community and students’ well-being at the beginning of the school year (Time 1) and students’ well-being at the end of the school year (Time 2). Results from Bayesian linear regression analysis revealed that school sense of community at Time 1 significantly predicts students’ well-being at Time 2. In addition, school sense of community at Time 1 was a statistically significant predictor of students’ well-being at Time 2, even after controlling for students’ well-being at Time 1, age, and gender. Results of this study support the theory that school sense of community increases well-being.

In the present study, the effect of food-related cues on the desire to eat chocolate in hungry and satiated subjects was investigated. Subjects (n=46) were randomly assigned to either a hungry or satiated group and then assigned to a group receiving one of the following stimuli: taste (2 M&Ms), sight (a photograph of M&Ms), cognition (a passage describin M&Ms), or control (no stimulus). In each testing session, subjects rated their desire to eat chocolate before and after the 90-s presentation of the particular stimulus. Each subject was then given a half pound of M&Ms so that actual consumption could also be measured. Results indicated that, following the presentation of the sight and taste stimuli, the subjects’ desire to eat chocolate was significantly increased. Furthermore, no differences in chocolate consumption due to state of hunger or type of food-related stimulus presented were found.