The Double Take column looks at a single topic from an African and Chinese perspective.This month,we discuss how to understand the growing emphasis on emotional returns among young people.Emotional value has emerged a...The Double Take column looks at a single topic from an African and Chinese perspective.This month,we discuss how to understand the growing emphasis on emotional returns among young people.Emotional value has emerged as a central force shaping youth decision-making across work,consumption,relationships and lifestyle choices.Unlike traditional economic rationality that prioritises income and material security,emotional value focuses on how choices make individuals feel and how they align with personal meaning.This shift is particularly evident in rapidly transforming societies such as China and Ghana,where economic restructuring,globalisation and social change have reshaped pathways to adulthood.展开更多
Mood-driven purchases of both goods and services are on the rise,emerging as the new engine driving consumption.MINIATURE decorative green banana trees called“No Anxiety”(a word play on the Chinese words“don’t be ...Mood-driven purchases of both goods and services are on the rise,emerging as the new engine driving consumption.MINIATURE decorative green banana trees called“No Anxiety”(a word play on the Chinese words“don’t be a green banana”),blind boxes,mountain hiking companions,and AI chat pals-many products and services that were dismissed as useless or worthless years ago are now gaining popularity among young consumers.Behind this trend is the increase in consumer spending,driven more by emotions than practical needs.展开更多
This study investigated the impact of problematic mobile phone use(PMPU)on emotion recognition.The PMPU levels of 150 participants were measured using the standardized SAS-SV scale.Based on the SAS-SV cutoff scores,pa...This study investigated the impact of problematic mobile phone use(PMPU)on emotion recognition.The PMPU levels of 150 participants were measured using the standardized SAS-SV scale.Based on the SAS-SV cutoff scores,participants were divided into PMPU and Control groups.These participants completed two emotion recognition experiments involving facial emotion stimuli that had been manipulated to varying emotional intensities using Morph software.Experiment 1(n=75)assessed differences in facial emotion detection accuracy.Experiment 2(n=75),based on signal detection theory,examined differences in hit and false alarm rates across emotional expressions.The results showed that PMPU users demonstrated higher recognition accuracy rates for disgust faces but lower accuracy for happy faces.This indicates a tendency among PMPU users to prioritize specific negative emotions and may have impaired perception of positive emotions.Practically,incorporating diverse emotional stimuli into PMPU intervention may help alleviate the negative emotional focus bias associated with excessive mobile devices use.展开更多
Background:The Canadian 24-h movement guidelines(24-HMG)emphasize the holistic consideration of physical activity(PA),sedentary behavior,and sleep in shaping health outcomes.This study aimed to examine the association...Background:The Canadian 24-h movement guidelines(24-HMG)emphasize the holistic consideration of physical activity(PA),sedentary behavior,and sleep in shaping health outcomes.This study aimed to examine the associations between meeting 24-HMG and emotion regulation-related indicators among children and adolescents.Methods:A total of 534 Chinese children and adolescents aged 12.94±1.10 years(49.81%males)participated in this study and completed self-report measures assessing 24-h movement behaviors,emotion regulation strategies,emotion regulation flexibility,and regulatory emotional self-efficacy.Results:Only 7.12% of theparticipants adhered to two or all three guidelines.The number of guidelines met was positively associated with the use of emotion regulation strategies,emotion regulation flexibility,and regulatory emotional self-efficacy.Compared with meeting none of the guidelines,participants whomet one ormore guidelines reported significantly better performance in these outcomes.Conclusion:Meeting 24-HMG was associated with superior emotion regulation in children and adolescents.The importance of engaging in regular PA,limiting recreational screen time,and getting enough sleep should be highlighted for fostering emotion regulation in this demographic.展开更多
With the rapid development of web technology,Social Networks(SNs)have become one of the most popular platforms for users to exchange views and to express their emotions.More and more people are used to commenting on a...With the rapid development of web technology,Social Networks(SNs)have become one of the most popular platforms for users to exchange views and to express their emotions.More and more people are used to commenting on a certain hot spot in SNs,resulting in a large amount of texts containing emotions.Textual Emotion Cause Extraction(TECE)aims to automatically extract causes for a certain emotion in texts,which is an important research issue in natural language processing.It is different from the previous tasks of emotion recognition and emotion classification.In addition,it is not limited to the shallow-level emotion classification of text,but to trace the emotion source.In this paper,we provide a survey for TECE.First,we introduce the development process and classification of TECE.Then,we discuss the existing methods and key factors for TECE.Finally,we enumerate the challenges and developing trend for TECE.展开更多
The Guide to Learning and Development for Children Aged 3–6 states that“a pleasant emotion is one of the important indicators of children’s physical and mental health,and it is also the foundation for learning and ...The Guide to Learning and Development for Children Aged 3–6 states that“a pleasant emotion is one of the important indicators of children’s physical and mental health,and it is also the foundation for learning and development in other areas.”Emotional health in early childhood plays a significant role in their future development.This article focuses on understanding the characteristics of young children’s emotions and the factors that affect their emotional management.Simultaneously,it proposes effective methods for families and kindergartens to jointly protect children’s emotional and mental health,providing a healthy and positive growth environment for preschool children,and jointly supporting their growth.展开更多
With the increasing popularity of mobile internet devices,speech emotion recognition has become a convenient and valuable means of human-computer interaction.The performance of speech emotion recognition depends on th...With the increasing popularity of mobile internet devices,speech emotion recognition has become a convenient and valuable means of human-computer interaction.The performance of speech emotion recognition depends on the discriminating and emotion-related utterance-level representations extracted from speech.Moreover,sufficient data are required to model the relationship between emotional states and speech.Mainstream emotion recognition methods cannot avoid the influence of the silence period in speech,and environmental noise significantly affects the recognition performance.This study intends to supplement the silence periods with removed speech information and applies segmentwise multilayer perceptrons to enhance the utterance-level representation aggregation.In addition,improved semisupervised learning is employed to overcome the prob-lem of data scarcity.Particular experiments are conducted to evaluate the proposed method on the IEMOCAP corpus,which reveals that it achieves 68.0%weighted accuracy and 68.8%unweighted accuracy in four emotion classifications.The experimental results demonstrate that the proposed method aggregates utterance-level more effectively and that semisupervised learning enhances the performance of our method.展开更多
To the editor:Non-suicidal self-injury(NSSI)is an array of directly prepense or repetitive self-harm behaviours without suicidal intent.Individuals engage in self-injurious behaviours to reduce negative mental and cog...To the editor:Non-suicidal self-injury(NSSI)is an array of directly prepense or repetitive self-harm behaviours without suicidal intent.Individuals engage in self-injurious behaviours to reduce negative mental and cognitive states or evoke positive emotions.展开更多
Although numerousfindings show that people experience both positive and negative experiences with regards to solitude,the relationship between solitude capacity and emotional experience remains unclear.The current stud...Although numerousfindings show that people experience both positive and negative experiences with regards to solitude,the relationship between solitude capacity and emotional experience remains unclear.The current study investigated the extent to which emotion regulation may play a suppressive role in the relationship between solitude capacity and emotional experience.Questionnaires on solitude capacity,emotion regulation,and emotional experience were completed by a sample of Chinese college students(n=844;432 females;Meanage=19.79 years,SD=1.43 years).The results of the indirect effect test showed that cognitive reappraisal suppresses the prediction of solitude capacity on positive emotions,while the solitude capacity prediction of negative emotions was suppressed by both cognitive reappraisal and expressive suppression.This suggests that solitude capacity does not predict emotional experience directly,but instead is realized through an antagonistic system consisting of adaptive and nonadaptive emotion regulation strategies.Thesefindings provide cross-sectional empirical support for the ecological niche hypothesis of solitude,and are of theoretical significance in clarifying the role of internal mechanisms of solitude capacity on the human emotional experience.展开更多
Background:In China,the policy of rotating teachers between urban and rural schools has been implemented to reduce educational disparities and ensure equitable access to quality education.These teachers face unique pr...Background:In China,the policy of rotating teachers between urban and rural schools has been implemented to reduce educational disparities and ensure equitable access to quality education.These teachers face unique professional and emotional challenges during the rotation process,making their emotional labor a critical factor influencing their job performance.This study aimed to explore the relationship between rotating teachers’emotional labor strategies and job performance.Methods:This study conducted a cross-sectional survey among 577 rotating teachers selected through stratified random sampling from primary and secondary schools in Chinese mainland.Date were collected using the Teacher Emotional Labor Scale and the Teacher Job Performance Scale.Latent profile analysis(LPA)was employed to identify distinct categories of emotional labor strategies:indifferent,moderately engaged,naturally invested,proactively adjusted,and emotionally elevated.Results:Teachers in the naturally invested and proactively adjusted types demonstrated relatively higher job performance scores,followed by those in the emotionally elevated type.In contrast,teachers in the indifferent and moderate engagement types exhibited comparatively lower scores(F=25.858,p<0.001,η^(2)=0.153).These findings indicate a practical significance,suggestion that flexible and adaptive use emotional labor strategies is strongly associated with enhanced job performance.Conclusion:This study demonstrates that rotating teachers’job performance differs significantly across distinct emotional labor profiles,with balanced and adaptive emotional regulation emerging as a key determinant of higher performance.By identifying and characterizing individual-centered emotional labor profiles,the study advances understanding of how emotional regulation contributes to teachers’professional effectiveness.These results underscore the importance of providing systematic and personalized support to help rotating teachers develop adaptive emotional regulation skills.Targeted guidance should enable teachers to appropriately express and adjust their emotions,thereby avoiding both excessive and insufficient emotional labor and promoting sustainable professional development.展开更多
Previous studies on classroom concentration were conducted from the perspective of teachers,without considering students’real feelings.This study,starting from students’feelings of classroom concentration,sent out q...Previous studies on classroom concentration were conducted from the perspective of teachers,without considering students’real feelings.This study,starting from students’feelings of classroom concentration,sent out questionnaires to undergraduates of different levels and natures of schools.Through analysis and research,it was found that teachers’emotions indirectly affect students’concentration through students’individual emotions and classroom atmosphere.On this basis,it is suggested that teachers can improve classroom concentration through the correct emotional expression.展开更多
In robotics and human-robot interaction,a robot’s capacity to express and react correctly to human emotions is essential.A significant aspect of the capability involves controlling the robotic facial skin actuators i...In robotics and human-robot interaction,a robot’s capacity to express and react correctly to human emotions is essential.A significant aspect of the capability involves controlling the robotic facial skin actuators in a way that resonates with human emotions.This research focuses on human anthropometric theories to design and control robotic facial actuators,addressing the limitations of existing approaches in expressing emotions naturally and accurately.The facial landmarks are extracted to determine the anthropometric indicators for designing the robot head and is employed to the displacement of these points to calculate emotional values using Fuzzy C-Mean(FCM).The rotating angles of skin actuators are required to account for the smaller emotions,which enhance the robot’s ability to perform emotions in reality.In addition,this study contributes a novel approach based on facial anthropometric indicators to tailor emotional expressions to diverse human characteristics,ensuring more personalized and intuitive interactions.The results demonstrated howfuzzy logic can be employed to improve a robot’s ability to express emotions,which are digitized into fuzzy values.This is also the contribution of the research,which laid the groundwork for robots that can interact with humans more intuitively and empathetically.The performed experiments demonstrated that the suitability of proposed models to conduct tasks related to human emotions with the accuracy of emotional value determination and motor angles is 0.96 and 0.97,respectively.展开更多
BACKGROUND Empathetic psychological care improves mood and enhances the quality of life in critically ill patients.AIM To study the impact of combining 222-nm ultraviolet(UV)disinfection with empathetic psychological ...BACKGROUND Empathetic psychological care improves mood and enhances the quality of life in critically ill patients.AIM To study the impact of combining 222-nm ultraviolet(UV)disinfection with empathetic psychological care on emotional states,nosocomial infection rates,and quality of life in critically ill patients.METHODS A total of 202 critically ill patients admitted to Beijing Ditan Hospital(December 2023 to May 2024)were randomly assigned to control(Ctrl,n=101)or observation groups(Obs,n=101).The Ctrl group received 222-nm UV disinfection and routine care,while the Obs group received 222-nm UV disinfection with empathetic psychological care.Emotional states[Self-Rating Anxiety Scale(SAS),Self-Rating Depression Scale(SDS)],hospital infection rates,quality of life(36-Item Short Form Health Survey),and patient satisfaction were evaluated.RESULTS At baseline,there were no significant differences in SAS and SDS scores between the groups(P>0.05).Following care,both groups demonstrated reductions in SAS and SDS scores,with the Obs group exhibiting a significantly greater reduction(P<0.05).The Obs group also experienced a significantly lower overall hospital infection rate(P<0.05).Similarly,while baseline 36-Item Short Form Health Survey scores did not differ significantly between the groups(P>0.05),post-care scores improved in both groups,with a greater improvement observed in the Obs group(P<0.05).Additionally,the Obs group reported higher patient satisfaction ratings(P<0.05).CONCLUSION The combination of 222-nm UV disinfection and empathetic psychological care improves emotional states,reduces hospital infection rates,enhances the quality of life,and increases patient satisfaction among critically ill patients.展开更多
Background:Parenting exerts a profound influence on children’s mental health and behavioral development.Despite the high prevalence of children’s emotional and behavioral problems(CEBP)in China,evidence-based parent...Background:Parenting exerts a profound influence on children’s mental health and behavioral development.Despite the high prevalence of children’s emotional and behavioral problems(CEBP)in China,evidence-based parenting interventions remain scarcely investigated as preventive public health strategies.This pilot study evaluated a school-based intervention for preventing CEBP.Methods:We employed a quasi-experimental design with propensity score matching(PSM)to select 28 families(intervention:n=13;control:n=15)from two matched urban primary schools.Quantitative data from seven validated scales were analyzed using t-tests and ANCOVA.Qualitative insights were derived from 10 semi-structured interviews via thematic analysis.Results:Compared to the control group,the intervention group demonstrated significantly greater improvements in CEBP(p=0.020,Cohen’s d=0.92),parental adjustment(p=0.031,Cohen’s d=0.80),parenting confidence(p=0.003,Cohen’s d=1.04),and parentchild relationships(p=0.001,Cohen’s d=1.46).Non-significant effects were observed for parenting style,parental relationship,and parenting conflict(p>0.05).Qualitative analysis corroborated these findings and further identified contributing factors for non-significant outcomes,including challengeswithmeasurement adaptability and inconsistent co-parenting practices.Conclusions:This pilot study suggests that an authoritative parenting style may be effective and culturally adaptable in China.Positive parenting interventions appear to mitigate CEBP by reducing risk factors and enhancing protective factors.However,improving parental relationships and parenting conflict may require targeted strategies.Given the pilot nature of this PSM-matched study(n=28),the findings should be interpreted as exploratory and used primarily for intervention refinement.展开更多
In computer vision and artificial intelligence,automatic facial expression-based emotion identification of humans has become a popular research and industry problem.Recent demonstrations and applications in several fi...In computer vision and artificial intelligence,automatic facial expression-based emotion identification of humans has become a popular research and industry problem.Recent demonstrations and applications in several fields,including computer games,smart homes,expression analysis,gesture recognition,surveillance films,depression therapy,patientmonitoring,anxiety,and others,have brought attention to its significant academic and commercial importance.This study emphasizes research that has only employed facial images for face expression recognition(FER),because facial expressions are a basic way that people communicate meaning to each other.The immense achievement of deep learning has resulted in a growing use of its much architecture to enhance efficiency.This review is on machine learning,deep learning,and hybrid methods’use of preprocessing,augmentation techniques,and feature extraction for temporal properties of successive frames of data.The following section gives a brief summary of assessment criteria that are accessible to the public and then compares them with benchmark results the most trustworthy way to assess FER-related research topics statistically.In this review,a brief synopsis of the subject matter may be beneficial for novices in the field of FER as well as seasoned scholars seeking fruitful avenues for further investigation.The information conveys fundamental knowledge and provides a comprehensive understanding of the most recent state-of-the-art research.展开更多
BACKGROUND China has recently encountered severe challenges associated with population aging.Parents of first-generation only children face significant challenges regarding elderly care needs and the associated negati...BACKGROUND China has recently encountered severe challenges associated with population aging.Parents of first-generation only children face significant challenges regarding elderly care needs and the associated negative emotions.AIM To analyze the elderly care needs of first-generation only child parents in China and identify factors that influence negative emotions.METHODS This study used a cross-sectional design.Convenience sampling was used to select 1580 elderly individuals who met the inclusion criteria in a Chinese city between June and September 2022.A questionnaire was administered to collect general information about participants.Depression and anxiety were assessed using the patient health questionnaire-9 and generalized anxiety disorder-7 scale,respectively.A logistic regression analysis was performed to evaluate the relevant correlations.RESULTS Among 1580 first-generation only child parents,1120(70.89%)preferred family based care,324(20.51%)opted for community care,and 136(8.61%)chose institutional care,with 460(29.11%)reporting negative emotions.Significant differences in the distribution of negative emotions among only child parents were observed based on age,marital status,living conditions,disability,type of chronic disease,frailty status,and family support(P<0.05).The regression analysis indicated that disability,type of chronic disease,living environment,frailty status,and level of family support were independent risk factors for negative emotions among parents with only children(P<0.05).CONCLUSION Elderly care for parents of only children is primarily family-based.Independent risk factors for negative emotions in this group include disability,chronic disease type,and living environment.展开更多
In recent years,gait-based emotion recognition has been widely applied in the field of computer vision.However,existing gait emotion recognition methods typically rely on complete human skeleton data,and their accurac...In recent years,gait-based emotion recognition has been widely applied in the field of computer vision.However,existing gait emotion recognition methods typically rely on complete human skeleton data,and their accuracy significantly declines when the data is occluded.To enhance the accuracy of gait emotion recognition under occlusion,this paper proposes a Multi-scale Suppression Graph ConvolutionalNetwork(MS-GCN).TheMS-GCN consists of three main components:Joint Interpolation Module(JI Moudle),Multi-scale Temporal Convolution Network(MS-TCN),and Suppression Graph Convolutional Network(SGCN).The JI Module completes the spatially occluded skeletal joints using the(K-Nearest Neighbors)KNN interpolation method.The MS-TCN employs convolutional kernels of various sizes to comprehensively capture the emotional information embedded in the gait,compensating for the temporal occlusion of gait information.The SGCN extracts more non-prominent human gait features by suppressing the extraction of key body part features,thereby reducing the negative impact of occlusion on emotion recognition results.The proposed method is evaluated on two comprehensive datasets:Emotion-Gait,containing 4227 real gaits from sources like BML,ICT-Pollick,and ELMD,and 1000 synthetic gaits generated using STEP-Gen technology,and ELMB,consisting of 3924 gaits,with 1835 labeled with emotions such as“Happy,”“Sad,”“Angry,”and“Neutral.”On the standard datasets Emotion-Gait and ELMB,the proposed method achieved accuracies of 0.900 and 0.896,respectively,attaining performance comparable to other state-ofthe-artmethods.Furthermore,on occlusion datasets,the proposedmethod significantly mitigates the performance degradation caused by occlusion compared to other methods,the accuracy is significantly higher than that of other methods.展开更多
BACKGROUND Emotional reactions,such as anxiety,irritability,and aggressive behavior,have attracted clinical attention as behavioral and emotional problems in preschool-age children.AIM To investigate the current statu...BACKGROUND Emotional reactions,such as anxiety,irritability,and aggressive behavior,have attracted clinical attention as behavioral and emotional problems in preschool-age children.AIM To investigate the current status of family rearing,parental stress,and behavioral and emotional problems of preschool children and to analyze the mediating effect of the current status of family rearing on parental stress and behavioral/emo-tional problems.METHODS We use convenience sampling to select 258 preschool children in the physical examination center of our hospital from October 2021 to September 2023.The children and their parents were evaluated using a questionnaire survey.Pearson's correlation was used to analyze the correlation between child behavioral and emotional problems and parental stress and family rearing,and the structural equation model was constructed to test the mediating effect.RESULTS The score for behavioral/emotional problems of 258 preschool children was(27.54±3.63),the score for parental stress was(87.64±11.34),and the score for parental family rearing was(31.54±5.24).There was a positive correlation between the behavioral and emotional problems of the children and the“hostile/mandatory”parenting style;meanwhile,showed a negative correlation with the“support/participation”parenting style(all P<0.05).The intermediary effect value between the family upbringing of parents in parental stress and children's behavior problems was 29.89%.CONCLUSION Parental family upbringing has a mediating effect between parental stress and behavioral and emotional problems of children.Despite paying attention to the behavioral and emotional problems of preschool-age children,clinical medical staff should provide correct and reasonable parenting advice to their parents to promote the mental health of preschool-age children.展开更多
This review explores the use of agent-based modeling(ABM)within the framework of study human emotion and cognition in the context of its ability to simulate complex social interactions,adaptive changes,and evolutionar...This review explores the use of agent-based modeling(ABM)within the framework of study human emotion and cognition in the context of its ability to simulate complex social interactions,adaptive changes,and evolutionary processes.By representing agents and their defined environments with probabilistic interactions,ABM allows the assessment of the effects of individual behavior at the micro level on the greater social phenomena at the macro level.The review looks into the applications of ABM in portraying some of the key components of emotions and cognition-empathy,cooperation,decision making,and emotional transmission-and analyzes the problems including scalability,empirical validation,and description of sensitive emotional states.The most important conclusion is that merging ABM with information neurobiological data and artificial intelligence(AI)techniques would allow for deepening the interactions within the system and enhancing its responsiveness to stimuli.This review highlights approaches that aim to exploit the ABM methodology more fully and integrates methods from biology,neuroscience,and engineering.This integration could contribute to our understanding of the human behavior evolution and adaptation within systems relevant to policymaking,healthcare,and education.展开更多
文摘The Double Take column looks at a single topic from an African and Chinese perspective.This month,we discuss how to understand the growing emphasis on emotional returns among young people.Emotional value has emerged as a central force shaping youth decision-making across work,consumption,relationships and lifestyle choices.Unlike traditional economic rationality that prioritises income and material security,emotional value focuses on how choices make individuals feel and how they align with personal meaning.This shift is particularly evident in rapidly transforming societies such as China and Ghana,where economic restructuring,globalisation and social change have reshaped pathways to adulthood.
文摘Mood-driven purchases of both goods and services are on the rise,emerging as the new engine driving consumption.MINIATURE decorative green banana trees called“No Anxiety”(a word play on the Chinese words“don’t be a green banana”),blind boxes,mountain hiking companions,and AI chat pals-many products and services that were dismissed as useless or worthless years ago are now gaining popularity among young consumers.Behind this trend is the increase in consumer spending,driven more by emotions than practical needs.
基金supported by the National Social Science Fund of China(Grant Number:20BSH134).
文摘This study investigated the impact of problematic mobile phone use(PMPU)on emotion recognition.The PMPU levels of 150 participants were measured using the standardized SAS-SV scale.Based on the SAS-SV cutoff scores,participants were divided into PMPU and Control groups.These participants completed two emotion recognition experiments involving facial emotion stimuli that had been manipulated to varying emotional intensities using Morph software.Experiment 1(n=75)assessed differences in facial emotion detection accuracy.Experiment 2(n=75),based on signal detection theory,examined differences in hit and false alarm rates across emotional expressions.The results showed that PMPU users demonstrated higher recognition accuracy rates for disgust faces but lower accuracy for happy faces.This indicates a tendency among PMPU users to prioritize specific negative emotions and may have impaired perception of positive emotions.Practically,incorporating diverse emotional stimuli into PMPU intervention may help alleviate the negative emotional focus bias associated with excessive mobile devices use.
基金supported by Zhejiang Provincial Social Science Funding(22NDJC050YB).
文摘Background:The Canadian 24-h movement guidelines(24-HMG)emphasize the holistic consideration of physical activity(PA),sedentary behavior,and sleep in shaping health outcomes.This study aimed to examine the associations between meeting 24-HMG and emotion regulation-related indicators among children and adolescents.Methods:A total of 534 Chinese children and adolescents aged 12.94±1.10 years(49.81%males)participated in this study and completed self-report measures assessing 24-h movement behaviors,emotion regulation strategies,emotion regulation flexibility,and regulatory emotional self-efficacy.Results:Only 7.12% of theparticipants adhered to two or all three guidelines.The number of guidelines met was positively associated with the use of emotion regulation strategies,emotion regulation flexibility,and regulatory emotional self-efficacy.Compared with meeting none of the guidelines,participants whomet one ormore guidelines reported significantly better performance in these outcomes.Conclusion:Meeting 24-HMG was associated with superior emotion regulation in children and adolescents.The importance of engaging in regular PA,limiting recreational screen time,and getting enough sleep should be highlighted for fostering emotion regulation in this demographic.
基金partially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No.62372121the Ministry of education of Humanities and Social Science project under Grant No.20YJAZH118+1 种基金the National Key Research and Development Program of China under Grant No.2020YFB1005804the MOE Project at Center for Linguistics and Applied Linguistics,Guangdong University of Foreign Studies。
文摘With the rapid development of web technology,Social Networks(SNs)have become one of the most popular platforms for users to exchange views and to express their emotions.More and more people are used to commenting on a certain hot spot in SNs,resulting in a large amount of texts containing emotions.Textual Emotion Cause Extraction(TECE)aims to automatically extract causes for a certain emotion in texts,which is an important research issue in natural language processing.It is different from the previous tasks of emotion recognition and emotion classification.In addition,it is not limited to the shallow-level emotion classification of text,but to trace the emotion source.In this paper,we provide a survey for TECE.First,we introduce the development process and classification of TECE.Then,we discuss the existing methods and key factors for TECE.Finally,we enumerate the challenges and developing trend for TECE.
文摘The Guide to Learning and Development for Children Aged 3–6 states that“a pleasant emotion is one of the important indicators of children’s physical and mental health,and it is also the foundation for learning and development in other areas.”Emotional health in early childhood plays a significant role in their future development.This article focuses on understanding the characteristics of young children’s emotions and the factors that affect their emotional management.Simultaneously,it proposes effective methods for families and kindergartens to jointly protect children’s emotional and mental health,providing a healthy and positive growth environment for preschool children,and jointly supporting their growth.
文摘With the increasing popularity of mobile internet devices,speech emotion recognition has become a convenient and valuable means of human-computer interaction.The performance of speech emotion recognition depends on the discriminating and emotion-related utterance-level representations extracted from speech.Moreover,sufficient data are required to model the relationship between emotional states and speech.Mainstream emotion recognition methods cannot avoid the influence of the silence period in speech,and environmental noise significantly affects the recognition performance.This study intends to supplement the silence periods with removed speech information and applies segmentwise multilayer perceptrons to enhance the utterance-level representation aggregation.In addition,improved semisupervised learning is employed to overcome the prob-lem of data scarcity.Particular experiments are conducted to evaluate the proposed method on the IEMOCAP corpus,which reveals that it achieves 68.0%weighted accuracy and 68.8%unweighted accuracy in four emotion classifications.The experimental results demonstrate that the proposed method aggregates utterance-level more effectively and that semisupervised learning enhances the performance of our method.
基金the Innovation 2030-Major Project of Brain Science and Brain-lnspired Intelligence Technology(2021ZD0200600)Shanghai Science and Technology Committee(22YF1439100,YDZX20213100001003)National Natural Science Foundation of China(82201678).
文摘To the editor:Non-suicidal self-injury(NSSI)is an array of directly prepense or repetitive self-harm behaviours without suicidal intent.Individuals engage in self-injurious behaviours to reduce negative mental and cognitive states or evoke positive emotions.
基金supported by grants from the Doctoral Research Project of Yan’an University(2003-205040349)the 2022 General Special Scientific Research Plan Project of the Shaanxi Provincial Department of Education(YDZZYB23-40)the Social Science Foundation of Shaanxi Province(2023P013 and 2024P028).
文摘Although numerousfindings show that people experience both positive and negative experiences with regards to solitude,the relationship between solitude capacity and emotional experience remains unclear.The current study investigated the extent to which emotion regulation may play a suppressive role in the relationship between solitude capacity and emotional experience.Questionnaires on solitude capacity,emotion regulation,and emotional experience were completed by a sample of Chinese college students(n=844;432 females;Meanage=19.79 years,SD=1.43 years).The results of the indirect effect test showed that cognitive reappraisal suppresses the prediction of solitude capacity on positive emotions,while the solitude capacity prediction of negative emotions was suppressed by both cognitive reappraisal and expressive suppression.This suggests that solitude capacity does not predict emotional experience directly,but instead is realized through an antagonistic system consisting of adaptive and nonadaptive emotion regulation strategies.Thesefindings provide cross-sectional empirical support for the ecological niche hypothesis of solitude,and are of theoretical significance in clarifying the role of internal mechanisms of solitude capacity on the human emotional experience.
基金funded by the Postdoctoral Fellowship Program of CPSF(China),grant number GZ20232369.No part of the study(design,data collection,and curation analysis,manuscript preparation or publication)was influenced by the funder.
文摘Background:In China,the policy of rotating teachers between urban and rural schools has been implemented to reduce educational disparities and ensure equitable access to quality education.These teachers face unique professional and emotional challenges during the rotation process,making their emotional labor a critical factor influencing their job performance.This study aimed to explore the relationship between rotating teachers’emotional labor strategies and job performance.Methods:This study conducted a cross-sectional survey among 577 rotating teachers selected through stratified random sampling from primary and secondary schools in Chinese mainland.Date were collected using the Teacher Emotional Labor Scale and the Teacher Job Performance Scale.Latent profile analysis(LPA)was employed to identify distinct categories of emotional labor strategies:indifferent,moderately engaged,naturally invested,proactively adjusted,and emotionally elevated.Results:Teachers in the naturally invested and proactively adjusted types demonstrated relatively higher job performance scores,followed by those in the emotionally elevated type.In contrast,teachers in the indifferent and moderate engagement types exhibited comparatively lower scores(F=25.858,p<0.001,η^(2)=0.153).These findings indicate a practical significance,suggestion that flexible and adaptive use emotional labor strategies is strongly associated with enhanced job performance.Conclusion:This study demonstrates that rotating teachers’job performance differs significantly across distinct emotional labor profiles,with balanced and adaptive emotional regulation emerging as a key determinant of higher performance.By identifying and characterizing individual-centered emotional labor profiles,the study advances understanding of how emotional regulation contributes to teachers’professional effectiveness.These results underscore the importance of providing systematic and personalized support to help rotating teachers develop adaptive emotional regulation skills.Targeted guidance should enable teachers to appropriately express and adjust their emotions,thereby avoiding both excessive and insufficient emotional labor and promoting sustainable professional development.
基金2024 Guangxi Higher Education Undergraduate Teaching Reform Project“OBE-Guided,Digitally Empowered‘Hadoop Big Data Development Technology’Course Ideological and Political Construction Innovation Exploration and Practice”(2024JGA396)。
文摘Previous studies on classroom concentration were conducted from the perspective of teachers,without considering students’real feelings.This study,starting from students’feelings of classroom concentration,sent out questionnaires to undergraduates of different levels and natures of schools.Through analysis and research,it was found that teachers’emotions indirectly affect students’concentration through students’individual emotions and classroom atmosphere.On this basis,it is suggested that teachers can improve classroom concentration through the correct emotional expression.
基金funded by the University of Economics Ho Chi Minh City-UEH,Vietnam.
文摘In robotics and human-robot interaction,a robot’s capacity to express and react correctly to human emotions is essential.A significant aspect of the capability involves controlling the robotic facial skin actuators in a way that resonates with human emotions.This research focuses on human anthropometric theories to design and control robotic facial actuators,addressing the limitations of existing approaches in expressing emotions naturally and accurately.The facial landmarks are extracted to determine the anthropometric indicators for designing the robot head and is employed to the displacement of these points to calculate emotional values using Fuzzy C-Mean(FCM).The rotating angles of skin actuators are required to account for the smaller emotions,which enhance the robot’s ability to perform emotions in reality.In addition,this study contributes a novel approach based on facial anthropometric indicators to tailor emotional expressions to diverse human characteristics,ensuring more personalized and intuitive interactions.The results demonstrated howfuzzy logic can be employed to improve a robot’s ability to express emotions,which are digitized into fuzzy values.This is also the contribution of the research,which laid the groundwork for robots that can interact with humans more intuitively and empathetically.The performed experiments demonstrated that the suitability of proposed models to conduct tasks related to human emotions with the accuracy of emotional value determination and motor angles is 0.96 and 0.97,respectively.
基金Supported by Beijing Ditan Hospital Affiliated to Capital Medical University“Sailing Plan”,No.DTQH-202405.
文摘BACKGROUND Empathetic psychological care improves mood and enhances the quality of life in critically ill patients.AIM To study the impact of combining 222-nm ultraviolet(UV)disinfection with empathetic psychological care on emotional states,nosocomial infection rates,and quality of life in critically ill patients.METHODS A total of 202 critically ill patients admitted to Beijing Ditan Hospital(December 2023 to May 2024)were randomly assigned to control(Ctrl,n=101)or observation groups(Obs,n=101).The Ctrl group received 222-nm UV disinfection and routine care,while the Obs group received 222-nm UV disinfection with empathetic psychological care.Emotional states[Self-Rating Anxiety Scale(SAS),Self-Rating Depression Scale(SDS)],hospital infection rates,quality of life(36-Item Short Form Health Survey),and patient satisfaction were evaluated.RESULTS At baseline,there were no significant differences in SAS and SDS scores between the groups(P>0.05).Following care,both groups demonstrated reductions in SAS and SDS scores,with the Obs group exhibiting a significantly greater reduction(P<0.05).The Obs group also experienced a significantly lower overall hospital infection rate(P<0.05).Similarly,while baseline 36-Item Short Form Health Survey scores did not differ significantly between the groups(P>0.05),post-care scores improved in both groups,with a greater improvement observed in the Obs group(P<0.05).Additionally,the Obs group reported higher patient satisfaction ratings(P<0.05).CONCLUSION The combination of 222-nm UV disinfection and empathetic psychological care improves emotional states,reduces hospital infection rates,enhances the quality of life,and increases patient satisfaction among critically ill patients.
基金supported by the National Social Science Fund of China[18BSH146].
文摘Background:Parenting exerts a profound influence on children’s mental health and behavioral development.Despite the high prevalence of children’s emotional and behavioral problems(CEBP)in China,evidence-based parenting interventions remain scarcely investigated as preventive public health strategies.This pilot study evaluated a school-based intervention for preventing CEBP.Methods:We employed a quasi-experimental design with propensity score matching(PSM)to select 28 families(intervention:n=13;control:n=15)from two matched urban primary schools.Quantitative data from seven validated scales were analyzed using t-tests and ANCOVA.Qualitative insights were derived from 10 semi-structured interviews via thematic analysis.Results:Compared to the control group,the intervention group demonstrated significantly greater improvements in CEBP(p=0.020,Cohen’s d=0.92),parental adjustment(p=0.031,Cohen’s d=0.80),parenting confidence(p=0.003,Cohen’s d=1.04),and parentchild relationships(p=0.001,Cohen’s d=1.46).Non-significant effects were observed for parenting style,parental relationship,and parenting conflict(p>0.05).Qualitative analysis corroborated these findings and further identified contributing factors for non-significant outcomes,including challengeswithmeasurement adaptability and inconsistent co-parenting practices.Conclusions:This pilot study suggests that an authoritative parenting style may be effective and culturally adaptable in China.Positive parenting interventions appear to mitigate CEBP by reducing risk factors and enhancing protective factors.However,improving parental relationships and parenting conflict may require targeted strategies.Given the pilot nature of this PSM-matched study(n=28),the findings should be interpreted as exploratory and used primarily for intervention refinement.
文摘In computer vision and artificial intelligence,automatic facial expression-based emotion identification of humans has become a popular research and industry problem.Recent demonstrations and applications in several fields,including computer games,smart homes,expression analysis,gesture recognition,surveillance films,depression therapy,patientmonitoring,anxiety,and others,have brought attention to its significant academic and commercial importance.This study emphasizes research that has only employed facial images for face expression recognition(FER),because facial expressions are a basic way that people communicate meaning to each other.The immense achievement of deep learning has resulted in a growing use of its much architecture to enhance efficiency.This review is on machine learning,deep learning,and hybrid methods’use of preprocessing,augmentation techniques,and feature extraction for temporal properties of successive frames of data.The following section gives a brief summary of assessment criteria that are accessible to the public and then compares them with benchmark results the most trustworthy way to assess FER-related research topics statistically.In this review,a brief synopsis of the subject matter may be beneficial for novices in the field of FER as well as seasoned scholars seeking fruitful avenues for further investigation.The information conveys fundamental knowledge and provides a comprehensive understanding of the most recent state-of-the-art research.
基金Supported by General Projects of Henan Province Universities Humanities and Social Sciences Research in 2023,No.2023-ZDJH-533.
文摘BACKGROUND China has recently encountered severe challenges associated with population aging.Parents of first-generation only children face significant challenges regarding elderly care needs and the associated negative emotions.AIM To analyze the elderly care needs of first-generation only child parents in China and identify factors that influence negative emotions.METHODS This study used a cross-sectional design.Convenience sampling was used to select 1580 elderly individuals who met the inclusion criteria in a Chinese city between June and September 2022.A questionnaire was administered to collect general information about participants.Depression and anxiety were assessed using the patient health questionnaire-9 and generalized anxiety disorder-7 scale,respectively.A logistic regression analysis was performed to evaluate the relevant correlations.RESULTS Among 1580 first-generation only child parents,1120(70.89%)preferred family based care,324(20.51%)opted for community care,and 136(8.61%)chose institutional care,with 460(29.11%)reporting negative emotions.Significant differences in the distribution of negative emotions among only child parents were observed based on age,marital status,living conditions,disability,type of chronic disease,frailty status,and family support(P<0.05).The regression analysis indicated that disability,type of chronic disease,living environment,frailty status,and level of family support were independent risk factors for negative emotions among parents with only children(P<0.05).CONCLUSION Elderly care for parents of only children is primarily family-based.Independent risk factors for negative emotions in this group include disability,chronic disease type,and living environment.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(62272049,62236006,62172045)the Key Projects of Beijing Union University(ZKZD202301).
文摘In recent years,gait-based emotion recognition has been widely applied in the field of computer vision.However,existing gait emotion recognition methods typically rely on complete human skeleton data,and their accuracy significantly declines when the data is occluded.To enhance the accuracy of gait emotion recognition under occlusion,this paper proposes a Multi-scale Suppression Graph ConvolutionalNetwork(MS-GCN).TheMS-GCN consists of three main components:Joint Interpolation Module(JI Moudle),Multi-scale Temporal Convolution Network(MS-TCN),and Suppression Graph Convolutional Network(SGCN).The JI Module completes the spatially occluded skeletal joints using the(K-Nearest Neighbors)KNN interpolation method.The MS-TCN employs convolutional kernels of various sizes to comprehensively capture the emotional information embedded in the gait,compensating for the temporal occlusion of gait information.The SGCN extracts more non-prominent human gait features by suppressing the extraction of key body part features,thereby reducing the negative impact of occlusion on emotion recognition results.The proposed method is evaluated on two comprehensive datasets:Emotion-Gait,containing 4227 real gaits from sources like BML,ICT-Pollick,and ELMD,and 1000 synthetic gaits generated using STEP-Gen technology,and ELMB,consisting of 3924 gaits,with 1835 labeled with emotions such as“Happy,”“Sad,”“Angry,”and“Neutral.”On the standard datasets Emotion-Gait and ELMB,the proposed method achieved accuracies of 0.900 and 0.896,respectively,attaining performance comparable to other state-ofthe-artmethods.Furthermore,on occlusion datasets,the proposedmethod significantly mitigates the performance degradation caused by occlusion compared to other methods,the accuracy is significantly higher than that of other methods.
基金Supported by the Shijiazhuang Science and Technology Research and Development Program,No.221460383.
文摘BACKGROUND Emotional reactions,such as anxiety,irritability,and aggressive behavior,have attracted clinical attention as behavioral and emotional problems in preschool-age children.AIM To investigate the current status of family rearing,parental stress,and behavioral and emotional problems of preschool children and to analyze the mediating effect of the current status of family rearing on parental stress and behavioral/emo-tional problems.METHODS We use convenience sampling to select 258 preschool children in the physical examination center of our hospital from October 2021 to September 2023.The children and their parents were evaluated using a questionnaire survey.Pearson's correlation was used to analyze the correlation between child behavioral and emotional problems and parental stress and family rearing,and the structural equation model was constructed to test the mediating effect.RESULTS The score for behavioral/emotional problems of 258 preschool children was(27.54±3.63),the score for parental stress was(87.64±11.34),and the score for parental family rearing was(31.54±5.24).There was a positive correlation between the behavioral and emotional problems of the children and the“hostile/mandatory”parenting style;meanwhile,showed a negative correlation with the“support/participation”parenting style(all P<0.05).The intermediary effect value between the family upbringing of parents in parental stress and children's behavior problems was 29.89%.CONCLUSION Parental family upbringing has a mediating effect between parental stress and behavioral and emotional problems of children.Despite paying attention to the behavioral and emotional problems of preschool-age children,clinical medical staff should provide correct and reasonable parenting advice to their parents to promote the mental health of preschool-age children.
文摘This review explores the use of agent-based modeling(ABM)within the framework of study human emotion and cognition in the context of its ability to simulate complex social interactions,adaptive changes,and evolutionary processes.By representing agents and their defined environments with probabilistic interactions,ABM allows the assessment of the effects of individual behavior at the micro level on the greater social phenomena at the macro level.The review looks into the applications of ABM in portraying some of the key components of emotions and cognition-empathy,cooperation,decision making,and emotional transmission-and analyzes the problems including scalability,empirical validation,and description of sensitive emotional states.The most important conclusion is that merging ABM with information neurobiological data and artificial intelligence(AI)techniques would allow for deepening the interactions within the system and enhancing its responsiveness to stimuli.This review highlights approaches that aim to exploit the ABM methodology more fully and integrates methods from biology,neuroscience,and engineering.This integration could contribute to our understanding of the human behavior evolution and adaptation within systems relevant to policymaking,healthcare,and education.
