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Objective: This study tested the interactive relationships between college students' perceived capability of regulating negative emotions and savoring positive emotions on mental health outcomes, including anxiety and depressive symptoms. Participants: Participants were healthy undergraduates (n = 167) recruited from two universities in Hong Kong. Methods: Students completed four scales assessing their perceived capability of using strategies to regulate negative and positive emotions and their anxiety and depressive symptoms. Results: Findings revealed that both anxiety and depressive symptoms were negatively linked to perceived capabilities of regulating negative emotions and savoring positive emotions. Furthermore, regulating negative emotions interacted with savoring positive emotions to predict anxiety symptoms. Conclusions: The need to simultaneously perform negative and positive emotion regulation is highlighted. The results suggest the priority of regulating negative emotions over savoring positive emotions in alleviating anxiety symptoms. Nevertheless, enhancing positive emotion shows greater benefits for those who are less adept at regulating negative emotions.

Positive coping (e.g., self‐efficacy and positive reappraisal) and savoring could bear mental health implications under large‐scale disasters such as COVID‐19. The integrative affect–regulation framework of psychological resilience proposes that evaluative efforts regulate affect, which then predicts positive short‐term consequences and better mental health. This two‐wave study was done during the prolonged, intensive COVID‐19 control rules in Hong Kong and examined (1) the prospective associations of positive coping processes (i.e., self‐efficacy and positive reappraisal) (T1, March–August 2021) with subsequent psychiatric symptoms (T2, September 2021–February 2022) and (2) the mediating effect of T2 savoring in the associations. Path analyses revealed that T1 self‐efficacy and positive reappraisal were inversely related to T2 psychiatric symptoms. T2 savoring partially mediated the effect of T1 self‐efficacy but fully mediated the effect of T1 positive reappraisal. Self‐efficacy could have more sustainable direct positive associations with mental health, whereas the benefit of positive reappraisal might need to be catalyzed by savoring over time. Our study offered concrete illustrations of the conceptual tenets of the affect–regulation framework. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Abstract In this prospective study, we identified different patterns of daily routine disruptions and investigated their associations with anxiety and depressive symptoms between 2020 and 2021. A population-representative sample (N = 671) was assessed at the acute phase of the pandemic (April–July 2020, T1) and again at 1-year follow-up (April–August 2021, T2). Daily routine disruptions denoted perceived disruptions to regular exercising, socializing, and leisure. We found that respondents who could sustain regular exercising, socializing, and leisure showed the lowest levels of psychiatric symptoms at T1. Respondents reporting disruptions to these routines had the highest levels of psychiatric symptoms at T2. Respondents who could sustain or enhance the regularity of these routines between T1 and T2 reported less mental health problems than those with persistent or increased disruptions. We discussed interventions and strategies to sustain socializing and leisure for promoting public mental health during large-scale disasters. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Introduction: As being an initiating actions and resisting short-term temptations, self-control is negatively related to digital media addiction. However, many studies indicate that there are variables that may mediate this relationship. The present study investigated the mediating role of media multitasking and time style in the relationship between self-control and digital media addiction. Methods: The study included N= 2193 participants with a mean age of M = 23.26 (SD = 6.98) from seven countries: Brazil, Hong Kong, Israel, Italy, Poland, Turkey, and the United States. The authors used the Brief Self-Control Scale, the Media Multitasking Scale, the Time Styles Scale, the Problematic Smartphone Use Scale, the Problematic Internet Use Scale, and the Problematic Facebook Use Scale. Results: Results revealed that self-control was negatively related to all assessed types of problematic digital media use, namely problematic Internet use, problematic smartphone use, and problematic Facebook use. Media multitasking was found to be a significant mediator of the relationship between self-control and problematic digital media use. Discussion: High self-control can be preventative against uncontrolled and automatic social media checking, whereas low self-control fosters the habit of continuously remaining current. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study examined prospective reciprocity between psychological distress and subjective well-being and the role of change in psychosocial resources in the reciprocity in the year following cancer diagnosis. Psychological distress (Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale), subjective well-being (Chinese Affect Scale and Satisfaction with Life Scale), and psychosocial resources of 180 Chinese patients were assessed at diagnosis (Time 1) and at 3-month (Time 2) and 12-month (Time 3) follow-up. Cross-lagged panel analysis demonstrated significant cross-lagged effects between psychological distress and subjective well-being. Time 2 to Time 3 change in perceived collective control (i.e., control over cancer in collaboration with close social partners) significantly mediated the cross-lagged effect of Time 2 well-being on Time 3 distress, and the mediating effect was stronger at medium or higher Time 2 distress. The findings suggest that whereas distress and well-being reciprocally predict each other throughout cancer adaptation, change in perceived collective control could mediate the prospective relationship of well-being with subsequent distress. Keywords Psychological resilience * Psychological distress * Subjective well-being * Resource change * Colorectal cancer, Introduction A large body of literature has highlighted the pitfall of regarding primarily psychological distress as the legitimate outcome and suggested the importance of investigating subjective well-being in stress adaptation [...]