Three experiments examined the effects of individuals’ self-construal on advice taking in conflict-of interest situations. Findings revealed: (1)When there is a conflict of interest between the decision-maker and the advisor, the decision-maker’s adoption of the advice decreases regardless of whether the advisor is aware of the conflict of interest; and individuals with interdependent self-construal are more susceptible to the impact of the conflict of interest. (2)Different methods of conflict-of-interest disclosure exert varying effects on advice taking. For interdependent self-construal participants, advice taking rates were higher under self-disclosure conditions than under third-party disclosure conditions; no significant difference was observed among independent self-construal participants.

To explore the relationship between maternal educational anxiety and school adaptation of primary school new students, 183 primary school new students were enrolled to investigate students’ weekly adaptation and maternal weekly educational anxiety for the first 15 weeks after they entered primary school. Students’ autonomy was also investigated once. Dynamic structural equation modeling was used for analysis. Results showed that maternal educational anxiety of the previous week negatively predicted students’ school adaptation of the next week. Students’ autonomy played the moderating role between maternal educational anxiety and students’ school adaptation. For students with high autonomy, as students’ autonomy increased, the effect of maternal educational anxiety on students’ school adaptation grew. For students with low autonomy, maternal educational anxiety could not affect students’ school adaptation. These results suggest that maternal educational anxiety could impede school adaptation of primary school new students, students’ autonomy plays the moderating role.

The present research focused on the relationship between sleep quality and employee creativity, as well as the mediating effects of work vitality and creative self-efficacy. A sample of 506 employees was enrolled in the present research to fill out the inventory of sleep quality scale, work vitality scale, creative self-efficacy scale, and employee creativity scale. The relationships between sleep quality, creativity, work vitality and creative self-efficacy were significantly positive. Employee sleep quality, work vitality and creative self-efficacy all positively predicted employee creativity. The mediating effects of work vitality and creative self-efficacy between employee sleep quality and employee creativity were significant, and the chain mediating effects of work vitality and creative self-efficacy were significant. Employee sleep quality directly predicted employee creativity, and employee creativity could also be indirectly influenced by sleep quality through the mediating paths of work vitality and creative self-efficacy.

In a social context where busyness has been re-endowed with symbolic status meaning, consumers’ perceived busyness may reshape their self-positioning and, in turn, influence status-related consumption. Drawing on self-consistency theory, this study uses two scenario-based experiments to examine the effect of perceived busyness on status consumption tendency, as well as its underlying psychological mechanism and boundary condition. The results show that perceived busyness increases individuals’ tendency toward status consumption, with psychological entitlement serving as a mediator. Furthermore, this mediating mechanism is moderated by public self-consciousness: compared with individuals low in public self-consciousness, those high in public self-consciousness are more likely to choose consumption options with symbolic status meaning after perceived busyness heightens psychological entitlement. This study provides a more parsimonious and testable theoretical framework for research on perceived busyness and status consumption, and offers practical implications for communication strategies for status products and for guiding consumers toward more rational consumption.

A 2 (group: depressive tendency vs. control)×2 (emotion category: positive vs. negative)×3 (modality: visual, auditory, audiovisual) design was used to examine the efficiency of audiovisual emotional processing in individuals with depressive tendencies. Results showed that, under positive emotion conditions in the visual and audiovisual modalities, individuals with depressive tendencies exhibited significantly longer reaction times than controls. Furthermore, their inverse efficiency scores under positive emotion conditions were significantly higher than both their own performance under negative emotion conditions and that of the control group under positive emotion conditions. These findings suggest that individuals with depressive tendencies show slowed processing speed and reduced processing efficiency for positive emotional information across modalities, whereas their processing efficiency for negative emotions is relatively preserved.

Precrastination, refers to a behavioral tendency characterized by the urge to initiate and complete tasks promptly, has received increasing attention in the fields of management and psychology. However, there are some gaps in current research on this topic. This study aimed to adapt the Chinese version of the precrastination scale (PS) developed by Gehrig et al. (2023) and to examine its reliability and validity. Using a sample of 719 full-time employees, the research involved translation and back-translation of the original scale, followed by item analysis, exploratory factor analysis (EFA), confirmatory factor analysis (CFA), criterion-related validity analysis, reliability testing, and analyses of gender and educational differences. The results indicated that six items were retained through EFA, and CFA confirmed the single-factor structure of the original scale. Furthermore, the internal consistency reliability, test-retest reliability, construct validity, and criterion-related validity all met psychometric standards. The Chinese version of the precrastination scale demonstrates good reliability and validity among Chinese employees and can serve as an effective tool for assessing individual precrastination in future research.