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This study established that PTSD symptom severity plays an indirect role between pre-displacement stressors and psychological distress, and psychological distress indirectly explains the relationship between pre-displacement stressors and the severity of PTSD symptoms. Although both PTSD symptom severity and psychological distress indirectly explain their relations with pre-displacement stressors, it is suggested that the indirect role of PTSD symptom severity is more robust than that of psychological distress. The implication of findings is that treatment targeting mental health problems from pre-displacement stressors among displaced women can proceed by initially managing psychological distress to aim for a reduction in PTSD symptoms, or by initial management of PTSD symptoms to promote a reduction in psychological distress. However, initial management of PTSD symptoms can foster a better prognosis in the remission of psychological distress than the other way round.

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    Peer Pressure and Harmful Use of Alcohol in Thailand: A Spatial Autoregressive Model Application

    Ravikan Nonkhuntod, Suchuan Yu*
    International Journal of Mental Health Promotion, Vol.25, No.5, pp. 613-626, 2023, DOI:10.32604/ijmhp.2023.025648 - 28 April 2023
    (This article belongs to the Special Issue: Suicide and emotional/behavioral issues among youth: Theoretical and methodological reflections)
    Abstract Due to peer pressure playing a crucial role in the decision to drink, people who have a more fragile temperament might be expected to be at higher risk. Moreover, many studies have investigated the influence of peer pressure on alcohol consumption, but few have examined the relationship between heavy drinking and peer pressure via a spatial autoregressive model (SAR) in low/middle-income countries, such as Thailand. This paper investigated the connection between heavy drinkers over the age of 15 years who drink more than or equal to 60 grams of unmixed alcohol at least once per… More >

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    An Intervention Study of Language Cognition and Emotional Speech Community Method for Children’s Speech Disorders

    Yali Qiang*
    International Journal of Mental Health Promotion, Vol.25, No.5, pp. 627-637, 2023, DOI:10.32604/ijmhp.2023.025746 - 28 April 2023
    Abstract Speech disorders are a common type of childhood disease. Through experimental intervention, this study aims to improve the vocabulary comprehension levels and language ability of children with speech disorders through the language cognition and emotional speech community method. We also conduct a statistical analysis of the interventional effect. Among children with speech disorders in Dongguan City, 224 were selected and grouped according to their receptive language ability and IQ. The 112 children in the experimental group (EG) received speech therapy with language cognitive and emotional speech community, while the 112 children in the control group… More >

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    Methods Used to Reduce Bullying in Kindergarten from Teachers’ Perspectives

    Lina Bashatah*, Duaa Al-fifi
    International Journal of Mental Health Promotion, Vol.25, No.5, pp. 639-653, 2023, DOI:10.32604/ijmhp.2023.025878 - 28 April 2023
    Abstract This study identified the methods used by kindergarten teachers to reduce bullying among their students in and out of the classroom and examined differences based on the teachers’ years of experience and the number of courses on bullying they had taken. A descriptive survey using a questionnaire tool collected responses from 208 public kindergarten teachers in Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The participants agreed with using such methods to reduce bullying among children as responding to parents’ reports and following up on the reasons for a child’s absence. They also agreed that bullying in the… More >

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    Construction of Psychological Adjustment Function Model of Music Education Based on Emotional Tendency Analysis

    Bin Zhang*
    International Journal of Mental Health Promotion, Vol.25, No.5, pp. 655-671, 2023, DOI:10.32604/ijmhp.2023.025913 - 28 April 2023
    Abstract In the face of fierce competition in the social environment, mental health problems gradually get the attention of the public, in order to achieve accurate mental health data analysis, the construction of music education is based on emotional tendency analysis of psychological adjustment function model. Design emotional tendency analysis of music education psychological adjustment function architecture, music teaching goal as psychological adjustment function architecture building orientation, music teaching content as a foundation for psychological adjustment function architecture and music teaching process as a psychological adjustment function architecture building, music teaching evaluation as the key of… More >

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    Do Child Characteristics Matter to Mitigate the Widowhood Effect on the Elderly’s Mental Health? Evidence from China

    Yuxin Wang*, Haoyue Ma, Lan Zheng
    International Journal of Mental Health Promotion, Vol.25, No.5, pp. 673-686, 2023, DOI:10.32604/ijmhp.2023.026394 - 28 April 2023
    Abstract This study empirically examines whether child characteristics mitigate the negative impact of widowhood on the elderly’s mental health using follow-up survey data from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS). A total of 5,326 older adults aged 60 years and older are selected from three waves of panel data (2013, 2015, and 2018). The findings suggest that respondents who experienced widowhood exhibit an increase in depressive symptoms. However, the higher income of children and frequent face-to-face emotional interactions improve the mental health of the widowed elderly. Moreover, heterogeneity analyses show that the buffering effect… More >

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    Experiences of Counselors Who Provided Psychological Support during COVID-19 Disaster: A Qualitative Study

    Jung Eun Kim1, So Yeon Yoo2,*
    International Journal of Mental Health Promotion, Vol.25, No.5, pp. 687-697, 2023, DOI:10.32604/ijmhp.2023.026759 - 28 April 2023
    Abstract Background: In crisis intervention sites such as infectious disease disasters, counselors are repeatedly exposed, directly or indirectly, to the traumatic experiences of victims. Disaster counseling has a negative effect on counselors, which can eventually interfere with the counseling process for disaster victims. Therefore, exploring and understanding the experiences of counselors is necessary to ensure that qualitative counseling for disaster victims can be continuously and efficiently conducted. Objectives: This study investigated the experiences of counselors who participated in mental health counseling as psychological support for victims of the COVID-19 disaster in Korea. Design: This is a qualitative study. Participants:More >

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    Reciprocal Association between Psychological Distress and PTSD and Their Relationship with Pre-Displacement Stressors among Displaced Women

    Erhabor S. Idemudia1, Babatola D. Olawa1,*, Gail E. Wyatt2, Norweeta G. Milburn2
    International Journal of Mental Health Promotion, Vol.25, No.5, pp. 699-710, 2023, DOI:10.32604/ijmhp.2023.026852 - 28 April 2023
    (This article belongs to the Special Issue: Disentangling the Pathway to the Health of Adults’ Populations: Emotional and Physical Wellbeing)
    Abstract It is established in the psychological literature that pre-displacement stressors, PTSD symptoms, and psychological distress are associated among internally displaced persons. However, existing studies have not demonstrated the mechanism underlying these associations. This study compared two explanatory models; one with PTSD symptoms severity explaining the indirect association between pre-displacement stressors and psychological distress, and the other with psychological distress explaining the indirect relationship between pre-displacement stressors and PTSD symptoms severity. In a cross-sectional design, 631 women (Mean age = 31.18 ± 8.59) were conveniently and purposely selected from the displaced women harboured in two camps… More >

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    Acute Effects of Virtual Reality Exercise on Young Adults’ Blood Pressure and Feelings

    Pablo Saiz-Gonzalez1,2, Daniel J. McDonough3, Wenxi Liu4, Zan Gao1,*
    International Journal of Mental Health Promotion, Vol.25, No.5, pp. 711-719, 2023, DOI:10.32604/ijmhp.2023.027530 - 28 April 2023
    Abstract Virtual reality (VR) seems to have the potential to provide opportunities to promote physical activity (PA) in a fun way. This paper aimed to examine the acute effects of three different virtual reality-based exercise bikes on young adults’ blood pressure (BP) and feelings compared to a traditional exercise cycling session. Four exercise sessions (immersive VR cycling, two non-immersive VR cycling, and traditional cycling) were completed by 36 young adults (22 females; Mage = 23.6 years). BP was measured immediately before and after each session using a BP cuff and exercise-induced feelings were assessed via an established… More >

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