Esports coaches are integral to the development, performance, and overall success of esports players. Sharing the same high-pressure environment, they are likely exposed to similar stressors that can affect not only their effectiveness as coaches but also their personal well-being. Despite their critical role, esports coaches often lack access to structured development programs and support systems. To inform future research enabling tailored intervention strategies for coaches, this study explored the stressors faced by esports coaches and the coping strategies they employ. Drawing on data from semi-structured interviews with 12 male esports coaches, this study reports stressors associated with coaches navigating performance and interpersonal demands (e.g., underperforming players, player attitudes), organizational demands (e.g., organizational pressure), social exposure (e.g., social media comments), and boundaries of personal and professional life (e.g., work-life balance). Coaches discussed fostering a supportive environment, rest as a relational and professional practice, and managing focus, emotion, and meaning to cope with stressors. Findings demonstrate similarities with previous research on esports players and coaches in traditional sports, highlighting a combination of work-related and personal stressors. Esports coaches placed less emphasis on social stressors but highlighted the role of personal stressors. Insights underscore the need for research examining personal (e.g., gender) and situational factors (e.g., organizations), and practical interventions such as communication training and better support to reduce burnout and improve stress management. Ultimately, understanding and addressing these stressors can optimize coaches' well-being and professional development, leading to better support for players and improved performance.

Cancer worry and concern are associated with how individuals engage with and interpret digital health environments, yet existing research has not distinguished between personal worry about individual risk and systemic concerns regarding institutional responses. This study examines how personal worry and systemic cancer concern relate to digital health behaviors through distinct affective and trust-related pathways. Drawing on an integrated theoretical framework, we analyze nationally representative U.S. data (HINTS 6; N = 6252) using structural equation modeling. Personal cancer worry is associated with increased social media engagement and reduced emotional well-being, with emotional vulnerability in particular aligning with greater involvement in harmful behaviors (e.g., smoking), whereas social media engagement shows more selective behavioral associations. In contrast, systemic cancer concern, marked by institutional distrust, corresponds to limited or passive digital engagement and diminished emotional well-being, patterns that relate to lower participation in positive health behaviors. Social media engagement is associated with perceiving less health misinformation, showing modest behavioral associations. Overall, the findings distinguish two forms of cancer-related psychological responses: a pattern of active but emotionally vulnerable engagement associated with personal worry, and a pattern of trust-sensitive, low-engagement interpretation associated with systemic concern. Findings inform psychologically responsive digital health design. Emotion-sensitive features may support users with heightened vulnerability, whereas credibility cues may address institutional distrust. • Distinguishes Personal Cancer Worry (individual risk) from Systematic Cancer Worry (institutional distrust), revealing two distinct pathways influencing digital health behaviors. • Uses structural equation modeling (N=4245) showing personal worry increases social media use but reduces well-being, while systemic worry operates through emotional disruption. • Higher social media engagement correlates with lower perceived health misinformation, suggesting overconfidence among frequent users with digital literacy implications. • Provides recommendations for worry-aware platforms, including emotion-responsive interfaces for anxious users and trust-building features for skeptical populations.

Unveiling the impact of employee-AI collaboration on help-seeking behavior among service employees in china: A social cognitive perspective.

Social cognition and psychological measures in adults with Epilepsy: An exploratory study using Theory of Mind tasks.

Psychometric evaluation of the flourishing-at-work scale in the Indonesian context.

Understanding the impact of digitalization transition of Senegal and its implication on human health and wellbeing

Abstract Background Everyday digital technologies such as social media, gaming, and internet use are deeply integrated into the lives of children, adolescents, and young adults. While these platforms can foster connection, learning, and entertainment, concerns have grown about their potential to influence mental, physical, and social well-being. Research on this topic has expanded rapidly over the past decade, yet much of it remains cross-sectional, limiting insights into long-term outcomes. Longitudinal studies are essential to capture evolving patterns of digital engagement, identify causal relationships, and guide effective policies and interventions that support youth in navigating digital environments. In particular, evidence is needed to distinguish between beneficial and harmful forms of digital engagement, such as social connection versus problematic use, and to understand how these impacts differ across diverse populations and contexts. The COVID-19 pandemic further accelerated young people’s technology use, underscoring the urgency of examining both risks and opportunities. This review, therefore, synthesizes longitudinal research to map trends, identify knowledge gaps, and inform future directions. Objective The study aimed to systematically identify and map longitudinal studies examining associations between everyday digital technology use (eg, social media, gaming, and internet use) and the health and well-being of youth (25 years or younger) and to chart the types of evidence available by technology category, outcomes, and geographical setting in order to highlight key gaps for future research. Methods A systematic search of PubMed, Embase, and PsycArticles (2014‐2024) was conducted and reported in accordance with PRISMA-ScR (Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses Extension for Scoping Reviews). Data extraction covered demographics, digital technology categories, and health outcomes. Studies were grouped into 6 key themes: social media use and mental health, digital addiction and behavioral outcomes, physical activity and digital technology, digital health technologies and cognitive development, parental influence and digital technology, and digital well-being and risk behaviors. Results Of the 456 studies identified, 267 were longitudinal studies relevant to our research aims. Internet use (n=201 studies), social media (n=140 studies), and gaming (n=83 studies) dominated the themes. Mental health was the most frequently assessed outcome, with a focus on anxiety and depression. Geographically, 15% (40/267) of studies originated from low- and middle-income countries, with the majority from high-income settings such as the United States (n=76 studies) and Australia (n=15 studies). Nearly half (131/267, 49%) were published post 2020, reflecting heightened interest during the COVID-19 pandemic. Conclusions Longitudinal evidence on everyday digital technology use and youth health is growing but remains concentrated in mental health outcomes and high-income settings, with notable gaps in physical health, educational outcomes, and equity-focused research. These findings highlight the need for more diverse, methodologically robust longitudinal studies to inform context-sensitive policies and interventions that balance the risks and benefits of digital engagement for young people.

People living with dementia (PLWD) often experience disruptions to meaning, identity, and spiritual well-being that are insufficiently addressed by existing psychosocial interventions. This study reports findings from a pilot evaluation examining the feasibility, acceptability, and descriptive quality-of-life outcomes of a non-directive nondenominational storytelling program designed to support personal identity, social connection, and spiritual well-being. A convergent mixed-methods pilot evaluation was conducted with six participants over 20 weeks. Quality of life (QoL) was assessed across three time points using the Quality of Life in Alzheimer's Disease scale (QOL-AD). Semi-structured interviews were analyzed using reflexive thematic analysis, with findings integrated across methods. QOL-AD scores increased modestly from baseline to mid-program and returned to near-baseline levels at program completion, reflecting overall stability in group-level QoL alongside increasing individual variability across time. Qualitative analysis yielded two overarching themes, Finding Meaning Through Storytelling and Belonging as Healing, describing how narrative engagement and relational safety supported meaning making, identity continuity, and spiritually resonant well-being. Findings provide early evidence that non-directive, narrative-based group programs are feasible, acceptable, and clinically relevant forms of spiritually integrative psychosocial support. This storytelling-based group program offers a scalable approach clinicians can implement to support QoL and spiritual well-being in PLWD without requiring religious content or specialized spiritual training.

Despite widespread recognition that mental and emotional concerns in childhood have risen to an unprecedented high, there continues to be a sense of hesitancy in approaching mental and emotional development in pediatrics. This hesitancy is related to pervasive barriers including lack of comfort, time, and perhaps most importantly, lack of resources to offer families. However, research supports that families benefit from interventions that foster healthy relationships and whole health throughout development, which are fundamental to pediatric practice. Pediatricians are skilled in addressing whole health as they support the physical, mental, emotional, developmental, and social well-being of families from the birth of a child to their transition into adulthood. They are also accustomed to assessing health on a spectrum that includes prevention, early identification, treatment, and support as they work through concerns and diagnoses with families in an iterative manner and over the long-term. This type of practice that focuses less on expeditiously arriving at diagnoses and narrow treatments for concerns is important for mental and emotional development. This report presents a reframe of mental and emotional development as part of whole health as opposed to a condition that should only be diagnosed and treated when something is "wrong." The report also provides a stepped approach that may be helpful for addressing mental and emotional health concerns in pediatrics and acknowledges the advocacy that is needed to expand mental and emotional resources widely.

Abstract—Women’s safety remains a critical social concern in modern society, demanding innovative technological interventions to ensure protection and empowerment. This project proposes a Women Safety Web Application that leverages real-time technolo-gies, geolocation services, and AI assistance to enhance personal security and confidence in both public and private spaces. The proposed system integrates multiple proactive and reactive safety features such as emergency SOS alerts, geofencing notifications, spycam detection, and secure place marking, ensuring timely response and situational awareness. In emergencies, the system automatically shares live location, audio/video evidence, and vehicle details with trusted contacts and authorities. Additionally, features like Travel Buddy, Fake Call simulation, and Taxi Safety ensure women can navigate safely and independently.Beyond safety, the application includes community forums, legal aid chatbots, and NGO connectivity, fostering a supportive ecosystem for women’s mental, legal, and social well-being. The platform is developed using React (frontend), Node.js (backend), and Mon-goDB (database), integrated with AI-based chatbots and real-time alert systems for effective communication and monitoring. Index Terms—Women Safety Application, Android App, GPS Location Tracking, SOS Emergency Alert, Real-Time Location Sharing, SMS Alert System, Firebase, Mobile Security, Emer-gency Response System, Personal Safety Technology

Chronic plaque psoriasis significantly impairs physical, psychological, and social well-being. Patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) are increasingly recognized as essential endpoints. Tildrakizumab, an interleukin (IL)-23p19 inhibitor, has demonstrated high efficacy and safety in clinical trials, but real-world data on its impact on PROMs remain limited. We aimed to evaluate the effect of tildrakizumab on psoriasis severity, symptoms, and health-related quality of life, including sleep disorders, and to assess correlations between severity of the disease (measured using the Psoriasis Area and Severity Index [PASI]) improvement and PROMs in a real-world cohort. Consecutive adults with moderate-to-severe plaque psoriasis initiating tildrakizumab were enrolled and prospectively followed for 52weeks. Assessments at baseline, week 16, and week 52 included the PASI; Dermatology Life Quality Index (DLQI); Skindex-16; Visual Analog Scale (VAS) for pruritus, scaling, and pain; the Medical Outcomes Study Sleep Scale (MOS-Sleep); and Work Productivity and Activity Impairment (WPAI) questionnaire. Thirty-three patients were enrolled in the study. Tildrakizumab induced rapid skin clearance and symptoms relief, with marked reductions in PASI and most PROMs by week 16. Pain and MOS-Sleep improved significantly only at Week 52. PASI correlated with PROMs at Week 16 (Spearman correlation), especially DLQI (r = 0.69, p < 0.001) and pruritus (r = 0.70, p < 0.001). At Week 52, correlations weakened for most PROMs, except Skindex-16 (r = 0.62, p<0.01), pruritus (r = 0.54, p = 0.02), and scaling (r = 0.55, p = 0.02). Repeated-measures correlation analysis demonstrated significant within-subject associations between PASI improvement and most patient-reported outcomes (DLQI, scaling, pain, pruritus, and Skindex-16), while no significant associations were observed for WPAI and MOS-Sleep. Tildrakizumab improves both objective disease severity and quality of life at week 16. PASI strongly correlates with PROM improvements early in treatment, but correlations diminish over time, suggesting possible adaptation once skin clearance is sustained. PROMs should be integrated into long-term management to capture patient-centered benefits beyond skin clearance.

The increasing number of elderly people in Indonesia presents significant challenges in ensuring their social and economic well-being, particularly for those who are economically vulnerable and have limited access to basic services. To address this issue, the government implemented the Family Hope Program as a social assistance initiative aimed at improving the quality of life of disadvantaged groups, including the elderly. This reserch aims to understand the effectiveness of monitoring the implementation of the Family Hope Program (PKH) in improving the well-being of the elderly in Tanjungsari Village, Karangampe Subdistrict, Indramayu Regency, as well as to identify the factors influencing the program’s success and the implementation challenges faced by the elderly. The research methodology involves a qualitative approach with a descriptive design, encompassing observation, data collection, data analysis, and conclusion analysis. The results of this study indicate that monitoring of the Family Hope Program (PKH) has been carried out with the support of the village government, which has had a positive impact on the well-being of the elderly, particularly regarding the fulfillment of economic needs. However, in its implementation, the program has not been fully successful due to a lack of understanding of the program and inaccuracies in data analysis. Additionally, physical constraints have hindered efforts to maintain health. Overall, the Family Hope Program (PKH) for the elderly in Tanjungsari Village is quite effective and capable of bringing about significant changes, but improvements are still needed in the areas of outreach, data collection, and health services to enhance its implementation

With the rise of positive psychology, increasing attention has been directed toward the role of positive emotions in fostering personal growth and well-being in second and foreign language learning. Although the PERMA and PERMA+4 frameworks offer valuable perspectives on well-being, they primarily emphasize positive constructs, leaving negative emotions and fixed mindsets largely unexplored. This gap is significant, as both positive and negative emotions, as well as growth and fixed mindsets, jointly shape learners’ psychological experiences. This study examined the effects of growth and fixed language mindsets on university students’ sense of accomplishment in English learning, with positive and negative achievement emotions and student engagement serving as sequential mediators. Using a short-term longitudinal design, large-scale quantitative questionnaire data were collected at 3 time points over an 18-week semester from 501 university students in Taiwan to assess second-language (L2) mindsets (Time 1), achievement emotions (Time 2), and engagement and sense of accomplishment (Time 3). Descriptive statistics, confirmatory factor analysis, structural equation modeling, and mediation analyses were conducted using IBM SPSS and AMOS. Structural equation modeling revealed that students with growth mindsets experienced stronger positive emotions, weaker negative emotions, greater engagement, and higher accomplishment in English learning. In contrast, fixed mindsets did not predict positive emotions or accomplishment but positively predicted negative emotions. Sequential mediation analyses showed that positive emotions and engagement together exerted the strongest indirect effect, followed by positive emotions alone and negative emotions combined with engagement. No mediating effects were found for fixed mindsets. These findings extend the PERMA+4 framework by highlighting the differential roles of adaptive and maladaptive emotions and mindsets in explaining well-being and accomplishment in English-as-a-foreign-language (EFL) learning.

Newly qualified doctors look to senior doctors for support in dealing with the unique ethical challenges of end-of-life care. The aim of this study was to explore senior doctors' experience of supporting first-year and second-year resident doctors including the strategies used. A qualitative descriptive design involved focus group interviews followed by inductive content analysis. 70 senior doctors from medicine, surgery, orthopaedics, geriatrics, palliative medicine, cardiothoracic surgery, neurosurgery and vascular surgery participated in 15 focus groups. Two themes explained the clinical reality of senior doctors who supervise junior doctors and how they support them. The first theme, Context: 'the job is brutal', details the pressure on and vulnerability of both senior and junior doctors. The second theme, Support: 'it is the human part we want to live, we also have the expertise', encompasses what senior doctors do and would like to do more of to support junior doctors. Meeting junior doctors on a human level and role modelling self-awareness and reflection are the most effective ways of support. The lack of value placed on these ways of support is a source of frustration. In the intense setting of the acute hospital, when dealing with ethical questions in caring for patients who are dying, junior doctors are challenged by their inexperience of mortality, personally and professionally. Senior doctors have much to impart from their years of experience and reflection. Recognising the value of senior doctor support is essential for the personal and professional well-being and growth of the next generation of doctors.

ABSTRACT As Indonesia experiences rapid population aging without a formal national framework for older adult day care, community-based initiatives such as Rumah Kasih Sayang (RKS) have become vital supports for later-life well-being. This study examines the services offered at RKS and analyzes how these contribute to older adults’ physical, psychological, social, and spiritual well-being. Using an inductive qualitative design and reflexive thematic analysis, interviews were conducted with service providers and older adults. Findings show that RKS represents a distinct spiritual care model that extends beyond established physical, psychosocial, and mixed approaches to day care. Structured religious practices including Qur’anic recitation, dhikr (ongoing remembrance) and communal worship operate alongside exercise, health monitoring, recreation, and vocational work to form an integrated care system. These services function through interconnected embodied, social, and spiritual pathways, supporting improved mobility, greater emotional stability, reduced loneliness, strengthened relational bonds, and deepened spiritual peace and acceptance. Spiritual engagement emerged as a central coping resource that facilitates meaning-making. This study offers new empirical and conceptual insight into how spiritually informed day care can foster holistic flourishing among older adults and provides a culturally grounded model for supporting aging in place within religious communities.

The present study focused the impact of cupping therapy on mental health and spiritual wellbeing among women with hormonal issues. In this correlational study, the sample consisted of 150 women undergoing cupping therapy and suffered with hormonal issues, selected through purposive sampling technique, with age range 25 to 40(Mean=32.13, SD=3.401). These participants were selected from different cupping centers of Lahore through purposive sampling. Self-report measures including the demographic questionnaire, Spiritual Health and Life-oriented Measure (SHALOM) and Positive Mental Health (PMH) scale were used to assess the study’s variables. Regression analysis indicated that transcendental dimension of spiritual wellbeing is highly correlated with positive mental health. Personal spiritual wellbeing, environmental spiritual wellbeing, and transcendental spiritual wellbeing demonstrate significant associations with positive mental health. However, communal spiritual wellbeing does not show a significant relationship. Moreover, this correlational current study suggested that good mental health is effective for better spiritual wellbeing, and physical health. In order to tackle with spiritual wellbeing, mental and physical health issues, cupping therapy need to be common in different hospitals of Pakistan. Cupping is a potent tool for improving your mind and body because of its long history in Eastern medicine and because current study has confirmed the benefits we already knew it had on health. Numerous benefits of cupping for mental health are related to how the mind and body are interconnected. Mental health will improve if consistently strive for holistic wellness.

Time poverty, which is often described experiencing a lack of sufficient time to fulfil responsibilities or engage in activities that contributing to person wellbeing, is globally explored however the specific intersection of maternity rights and time poverty within small island states (SIDS) remains understudied. This study provides a critical evaluation of the Maldivian legislative framework, specifically the Employment Act (Act No. 2/2008), intended to alleviate time poverty through mandated maternity and childcare leave. Drawing on semi-structured interviews regarding the lived experience of eight working mothers in Malé City and Addu City, this study identifies 3 key themes that negatively impact the lived realities of working mothers in the Maldives: institutional disparities, physical infrastructures, and cultural norms. This study contributes to the limited socio-legal research in SIDS, especially in the Maldivian context, by demonstrating how geographic and systemic constraints render formal maternity rights difficult to realize in practice. These findings have implications for policy reform, suggesting that substantive relief from time poverty requires a shift from performative legislation toward systemic changes.

This study undertakes formative, participatory research involving open-ended dialogue, to examine wellbeing, its correlates and the language used around it, informed by literature on wellbeing and on non-formal community development rooted in democratization and participatory methods. The study employs qualitative data, drawn from a community consultation event held in Valletta, Malta. Data was coded and analysed using content and thematic analysis, along a spectrum that included economic, educational, health and nutrition, infrastructure and environment, interpersonal relations, civic life, cultural, spiritual and personality aspects. A key finding is the importance (both positive and negative) of family and interpersonal interactions for social wellbeing. While the findings do not challenge the mainstream literature about the key determinants of wellbeing, they shed light on their nuances and on the language used in Malta, as well as the age and gender distinctions. This opens up an agenda for further research using similar methods.

Permanency planning, an approach to the placement of children in out-of-home care, is central to child and family system practice, policy and law. Using the example of legislative reforms in New South Wales (NSW), Australia, this article explores how privileging legal permanence leads to ongoing failures to account for Aboriginal worldviews and child-rearing practices. Drawing on qualitative research, including Yarning Circles and semi-structured interviews that I conducted with Aboriginal community members in NSW, the findings contribute to limited evidence on permanence from Indigenous perspectives, revealing how familial and cultural connectedness shape belonging and social and emotional wellbeing and highlighting the importance of children’s ongoing connections with extended Aboriginal family, community and culture. Aboriginal understandings of permanence align more closely with cultural, relational and physical domains than with the construct of legal permanence that predominates in permanency planning approaches. Prioritizing legally permanent care arrangements above other domains poses long-term risks to Aboriginal children’s social and emotional wellbeing, demonstrating the need for “deep-level” cultural adaptation in child welfare law, policy and practice. The findings have implications for decolonizing child protection and repositioning Aboriginal conceptualizations of permanence as the foundation for legislation, policy and practice—reforms that must be Indigenous-led, culturally grounded from the outset, and anchored in full implementation of principles embedding self-determination and Indigenous children’s fundamental rights.

The COVID-19 pandemic profoundly affected global physical and psychological well-being. In addition to the loss of lives, lockdowns led to widespread declines in quality of life, particularly in mental health. While some individuals struggled, others showed resilience. This study investigated how changes in life conditions during lockdown-across physical, psychological and social domains-impacted mental health and well-being. A sample of 184 university students (82.6% female; M = 22.8, SD = 4.09) reported perceived improvements or deteriorations in these areas. Their responses were analysed in relation to psychological outcomes. The study also examined the mediating roles of emotion regulation strategies-cognitive reappraisal and expressive suppression-and hope. Although previous research emphasised the protective role of emotion regulation and hope in reducing anxiety and depression, findings from this study revealed that the psychological impact of lockdown was the strongest predictor of mental health and well-being. Emotion regulation strategies did not significantly mediate these effects. In contrast, hope emerged as the only effective mediator, reducing the negative psychological consequences of lockdown and enhancing resilience and coping. These results underscore the importance of cultivating hope as a central psychological resource to support individuals in managing prolonged adversity and maintaining psychological well-being.