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How feeling is noticed, tolerated, shifted or suppressed.

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Qur'ān 38:26Arabic sense: الهوى, هوي

يَٰدَاوُۥدُ إِنَّا جَعَلۡنَٰكَ خَلِيفَةࣰ فِي ٱلۡأَرۡضِ فَٱحۡكُم بَيۡنَ ٱلنَّاسِ بِٱلۡحَقِّ وَلَا تَتَّبِعِ ٱلۡهَوَىٰ فَيُضِلَّكَ عَن سَبِيلِ ٱللَّهِۚ إِنَّ ٱلَّذِينَ يَضِلُّونَ عَن سَبِيلِ ٱللَّهِ لَهُمۡ عَذَابࣱ شَدِيدُۢ بِمَا نَسُواْ يَوۡمَ ٱلۡحِسَابِ

‘David, We have given you mastery over the land. Judge fairly between people. Do not follow your desires, lest they divert you from God’s path: those who wander from His path will have a painful torment because they ignore the Day of Reckoning.’

Qur'ān 4:135Arabic sense: الهوى, هوي

۞يَٰٓأَيُّهَا ٱلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُواْ كُونُواْ قَوَّٰمِينَ بِٱلۡقِسۡطِ شُهَدَآءَ لِلَّهِ وَلَوۡ عَلَىٰٓ أَنفُسِكُمۡ أَوِ ٱلۡوَٰلِدَيۡنِ وَٱلۡأَقۡرَبِينَۚ إِن يَكُنۡ غَنِيًّا أَوۡ فَقِيرࣰ ا فَٱللَّهُ أَوۡلَىٰ بِهِمَاۖ فَلَا تَتَّبِعُواْ ٱلۡهَوَىٰٓ أَن تَعۡدِلُواْۚ وَإِن تَلۡوُۥٓاْ أَوۡ تُعۡرِضُواْ فَإِنَّ ٱللَّهَ كَانَ بِمَا تَعۡمَلُونَ خَبِيرࣰ ا

You who believe, uphold justice and bear witness to God, even if it is against yourselves, your parents, or your close relatives. Whether the person is rich or poor, God can best take care of both. Refrain from following your own desire, so that you can act justly- if you distort or neglect justice, God is fully aware of what you do

Qur'ān 53:3Arabic sense: الهوى, هوي

وَمَا يَنطِقُ عَنِ ٱلۡهَوَىٰٓ

he does not speak from his own desire

Qur'ān 79:40Arabic sense: الهوى, هوي

وَأَمَّا مَنۡ خَافَ مَقَامَ رَبِّهِۦ وَنَهَى ٱلنَّفۡسَ عَنِ ٱلۡهَوَىٰ

for anyone who feared the meeting with his Lord and restrained himself from base desires

Qur'ān 3:134Arabic sense: كظم

ٱلَّذِينَ يُنفِقُونَ فِي ٱلسَّرَّآءِ وَٱلضَّرَّآءِ وَٱلۡكَٰظِمِينَ ٱلۡغَيۡظَ وَٱلۡعَافِينَ عَنِ ٱلنَّاسِۗ وَٱللَّهُ يُحِبُّ ٱلۡمُحۡسِنِينَ

who give, both in prosperity and adversity, who restrain their anger and pardon people- God loves those who do good

Qur'ān 40:18Arabic sense: كظم

وَأَنذِرۡهُمۡ يَوۡمَ ٱلۡأٓزِفَةِ إِذِ ٱلۡقُلُوبُ لَدَى ٱلۡحَنَاجِرِ كَٰظِمِينَۚ مَا لِلظَّٰلِمِينَ مِنۡ حَمِيمࣲ وَلَا شَفِيعࣲ يُطَاعُ

Warn them [Prophet] of the ever-approaching Day, when hearts are at throats, choking them. The evildoer will have no friends, nor any intercessor to be heeded

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en-asbab-al-nuzul-by-al-wahidi on 4:135en-asbab-al-nuzul-by-al-wahidicommentary on an ayah this subject surfaced

(O ye who believe! Be ye staunch in justice�) [4:135]. Asbat related that al-Suddi said: �This was revealed about the Prophet, Allah bless him and give him peace. A poor man and a rich man went to him to settle a dispute. He was inclined to judge in favour of the poor man because he thought that a poor man cannot wrong a rich person. But Allah, exalted is He, wanted to establish justice regarding the poor and rich alike. He said: (O ye who believe! Be ye staunch in justice) up to His words (whether (the case be of) a rich man or a poor man, for Allah is nearer unto both (than ye are)�)�.

en-al-jalalayn on 38:26en-al-jalalayncommentary on an ayah this subject surfaced

‘O David! We have indeed made you a vicegerent on the earth managing the affairs of people; so judge justly between people and do not follow desire that is the desires of the soul that it then lead you astray from the way of God that is to say from the proofs that indicate the truth of His Oneness. Truly those who go astray from the way of God in other words from belief in God — for them there will be a severe chastisement because of their forgetting the Day of Reckoning’ as a result of their having neglected faith. For had they been certain of the truth of the Day of Reckoning they would have first been believers in this world.

en-al-jalalayn on 4:135en-al-jalalayncommentary on an ayah this subject surfaced

O you who believe be upright in justice; witnesses of the truth for God even though it the witnessing be against yourselves so be witness against them your selves by affirming the truth and not concealing it; or against parents and kinsmen whether the person witnessed against be rich or poor; God is closer to the two than you and He has better knowledge of what is good for them. So do not follow any whim in your testimonies by being partial to the rich one seeking his pleasure or by being partial to the poor one out of compassion for him lest you swerve so that you do not incline away from the truth for if you twist a variant reading for talwūw has talū if you distort your testimony or refrain from giving it surely God is ever aware of what you do and will requite you accordingly.

en-al-jalalayn on 53:3en-al-jalalayncommentary on an ayah this subject surfaced

nor does he in regard to what he brings you speak out of his own desire out of the whims of his soul.

en-tafisr-ibn-kathir on 38:26en-tafisr-ibn-kathircommentary on an ayah this subject surfaced

O Dawud! Verily, We have placed you as a successor on the earth; so judge you between men in truth (and justice) and follow not your desire – for it will mislead you from the path of Allah. Verily, those who wander astray from the path of Allah (shall) have a severe torment, because they forgot the Day of Reckoni (26) Advice to Rulers and Leaders This is advice from Allah, may He be exalted, to those who are in positions of authority. They should rule according to the truth and justice revealed from Him, they should not turn away from it and be led astray from the path of Allah. Allah has issued a stern warning of a severe punishment to those who go astray from His path and forget the Day of Resurrection. Ibn Abi Hatim recorded that Ibrahim Abu Zur'ah, who read the Scripture, reported that Al-Walid bin 'Abd Al-Malik said to him: "Does anyone have the right to question the Khalifah? Yo

en-tafisr-ibn-kathir on 53:3en-tafisr-ibn-kathircommentary on an ayah this subject surfaced

The First Surah in which a Prostration is revealed Al-Bukhari recorded that 'Abdullah [bin Mas'ud] said, "Surat An-Najm was the first Surah in which a prostration was revealed. The Prophet ﷺ (recited it in Makkah) and prostrated. Those who were with him did the same, except an old man who took a handful of soil and prostrated on it. Later on, I saw him killed as a disbeliever; he was Umayyah bin Khalaf." Al-Bukhari recorded this Hadith in several places of his Sahih, as did Muslim, Abu Dawud and An-Nasa'i, using various chains of narration through Abu Ishaq from 'Abdullah. بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَٰنِ الرَّحِيمِ In the Name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. وَالنَّجْمِ إِذَا هَوَىٰ - مَا ضَلَّ صَاحِبُكُمْ وَمَا غَوَىٰ - وَمَا يَنْطِقُ عَنِ الْهَوَىٰ - إِنْ هُوَ إِلَّا وَحْيٌ يُوحَىٰ (1. By the star when it goes down.)(2. Your companion has neither gone astray nor has he

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Sunan an-Nasa'i 5379The Etiquette Of Judgesfiled here by the compiler

أَخْبَرَنَا قُتَيْبَةُ بْنُ سَعِيدٍ، قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ، عَنْ عَمْرٍو، ح وَأَنْبَأَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ آدَمَ بْنِ سُلَيْمَانَ، عَنِ ابْنِ الْمُبَارَكِ، عَنْ سُفْيَانَ بْنِ عُيَيْنَةَ، عَنْ عَمْرِو بْنِ دِينَارٍ، عَنْ عَمْرِو بْنِ أَوْسٍ، عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عَمْرِو بْنِ الْعَاصِ، عَنِ النَّبِيِّ صلى الله عليه وسلم قَالَ ‏"‏ إِنَّ الْمُقْسِطِينَ عِنْدَ اللَّهِ تَعَالَى عَلَى مَنَابِرَ مِنْ نُورٍ عَلَى يَمِينِ الرَّحْمَنِ الَّذِينَ يَعْدِلُونَ فِي حُكْمِهِمْ وَأَهْلِيهِمْ وَمَا وَلُوا ‏"‏‏.‏ قَالَ مُحَمَّدٌ فِي حَدِيثِهِ ‏"‏ وَكِلْتَا يَدَيْهِ يَمِينٌ ‏"‏‏.‏

It was narrated from 'Abdullah bin 'Amr bin Al-'As that:The Prophet [SAW] said: "Those who are just and fair will be with Allah, Most High, on thrones of light, at the right hand of the Most Merciful, those who are just in their rulings and in their dealings with their families and those of whom they are in charge." Muhammad (one of the narrators) said in his Hadith: "And both of His hands are right hands

Sunan an-Nasa'i 5380The Etiquette Of Judgesfiled here by the compiler

أَخْبَرَنَا سُوَيْدُ بْنُ نَصْرٍ، قَالَ أَنْبَأَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ، عَنْ عُبَيْدِ اللَّهِ، عَنْ خُبَيْبِ بْنِ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ، عَنْ حَفْصِ بْنِ عَاصِمٍ، عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ، أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم قَالَ ‏ "‏ سَبْعَةٌ يُظِلُّهُمُ اللَّهُ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ يَوْمَ لاَ ظِلَّ إِلاَّ ظِلُّهُ إِمَامٌ عَادِلٌ وَشَابٌّ نَشَأَ فِي عِبَادَةِ اللَّهِ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ وَرَجُلٌ ذَكَرَ اللَّهَ فِي خَلاَءٍ فَفَاضَتْ عَيْنَاهُ وَرَجُلٌ كَانَ قَلْبُهُ مُعَلَّقًا فِي الْمَسْجِدِ وَرَجُلاَنِ تَحَابَّا فِي اللَّهِ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ وَرَجُلٌ دَعَتْهُ امْرَأَةٌ ذَاتُ مَنْصِبٍ وَجَمَالٍ إِلَى نَفْسِهَا فَقَالَ إِنِّي أَخَافُ اللَّهَ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ وَرَجُلٌ تَصَدَّقَ بِصَدَقَةٍ فَأَخْفَاهَا حَتَّى لاَ تَعْلَمَ شِمَالُهُ مَا صَنَعَتْ يَمِينُهُ ‏"‏‏.‏

It was narrated from Abu Hurairah that :The Messenger of Allah [SAW] said: "There are seven whom Allah, the Mighty and Sublime, will shade with His shade on the Day of Resurrection, the Day when there will be no shade but His: A just ruler, a young man who grows up worshipping Allah, the Mighty and Sublime; a man who remembers Allah when he is alone and his eyes flow (with tears); a man whose heart is attached to the Masjid; two men who love each other for the sake of Allah, the Mighty and Sublime; a man who is called (to commit sin) by a woman of high status and beauty, but he says: 'I fear Allah'; and a man who gives charity and conceals it, so that his left hand does not know what his right hand is doing

Sahih Muslim 2957Zuhd And Softening Of Heartsfiled here by the compiler

حَدَّثَنِي مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الْمُثَنَّى الْعَنَزِيُّ، وَإِبْرَاهِيمُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عَرْعَرَةَ السَّامِيُّ، قَالاَ حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الْوَهَّابِ، - يَعْنِيَانِ الثَّقَفِيَّ - عَنْ جَعْفَرٍ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ، عَنْ جَابِرٍ، عَنِ النَّبِيِّ صلى الله عليه وسلم ‏.‏ بِمِثْلِهِ غَيْرَ أَنَّ فِي حَدِيثِ الثَّقَفِيِّ فَلَوْ كَانَ حَيًّا كَانَ هَذَا السَّكَكُ بِهِ عَيْبًا ‏.‏

Jabir reported Allah's Apostle (ﷺ) narrating a hadith like this with a slight variation of wording

Sahih Muslim 2957Zuhd And Softening Of Heartsfiled here by the compiler

حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ مَسْلَمَةَ بْنِ قَعْنَبٍ، حَدَّثَنَا سُلَيْمَانُ، - يَعْنِي ابْنَ بِلاَلٍ - عَنْ جَعْفَرٍ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ، عَنْ جَابِرِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ، أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم مَرَّ بِالسُّوقِ دَاخِلاً مِنْ بَعْضِ الْعَالِيَةِ وَالنَّاسُ كَنَفَتَهُ فَمَرَّ بِجَدْىٍ أَسَكَّ مَيِّتٍ فَتَنَاوَلَهُ فَأَخَذَ بِأُذُنِهِ ثُمَّ قَالَ ‏"‏ أَيُّكُمْ يُحِبُّ أَنَّ هَذَا لَهُ بِدِرْهَمٍ ‏"‏ ‏.‏ فَقَالُوا مَا نُحِبُّ أَنَّهُ لَنَا بِشَىْءٍ وَمَا نَصْنَعُ بِهِ قَالَ ‏"‏ أَتُحِبُّونَ أَنَّهُ لَكُمْ ‏"‏ ‏.‏ قَالُوا وَاللَّهِ لَوْ كَانَ حَيًّا كَانَ عَيْبًا فِيهِ لأَنَّهُ أَسَكُّ فَكَيْفَ وَهُوَ مَيِّتٌ فَقَالَ ‏"‏ فَوَاللَّهِ لَلدُّنْيَا أَهْوَنُ عَلَى اللَّهِ مِنْ هَذَا عَلَيْكُمْ ‏"‏ ‏.‏

Jabir b. Abdullah reported that Allah's Apostle (ﷺ) happened to walk through the bazar coming from the side of 'Aliya and the people were on both his sides. There he found a dead lamb with very short ears. He took hold of his ear and said:Who amongst you would like to have this for a dirham? They said: We do not like to have it even for less than that as it is of no use to us. He said: Do you wish to have it (free of any cost)? They said: By Allah, even if it were alive (we would not have liked to possess that), for there is defect in it as its ear is very short; now it is dead also. Thereupon Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) said: By Allah, this world is more insignificant in the eye of Allah than it (this dead lamb) is in your eye

Sunan Ibn Majah 3658Etiquettefiled here by the compiler

حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو بَكْرٍ، مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ مَيْمُونٍ الْمَكِّيُّ حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ بْنُ عُيَيْنَةَ، عَنْ عُمَارَةَ بْنِ الْقَعْقَاعِ، عَنْ أَبِي زُرْعَةَ، عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ، قَالَ قَالُوا يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ مَنْ أَبَرُّ قَالَ ‏"‏ أُمَّكَ ‏"‏ ‏.‏ قَالَ ثُمَّ مَنْ قَالَ ‏"‏ أُمَّكَ ‏"‏ ‏.‏ قَالَ ثُمَّ مَنْ قَالَ ‏"‏ أَبَاكَ ‏"‏ ‏.‏ قَالَ ثُمَّ مَنْ قَالَ ‏"‏ الأَدْنَى فَالأَدْنَى ‏"‏ ‏.‏

Abu Hurairah, may Allah be pleased with them, said that:Allah's Messenger said: "They said: 'O Messenger of Allah, whom should I treat kindly?' He said: 'Your mother.' He said: 'Then who?' He said :'Your mother." He said: 'Then who?' He said: 'Your father'. He said : 'Then who?' He said: 'The next closest and the next closest

Sunan Ibn Majah 3659Etiquettefiled here by the compiler

حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ أَبِي شَيْبَةَ، حَدَّثَنَا جَرِيرٌ، عَنْ سُهَيْلٍ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ، عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ، قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ـ صلى الله عليه وسلم ـ ‏ "‏ لاَ يَجْزِي وَلَدٌ وَالِدَهُ إِلاَّ أَنْ يَجِدَهُ مَمْلُوكًا فَيَشْتَرِيَهُ فَيُعْتِقَهُ ‏"‏ ‏.‏

Abu Hurairah, may Allah be pleased with them, narrated that:Allah's Messenger said: "No child can compensate his father unless he finds a slave, and buys him and sets him free

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وقف الهوى بي حيث أنت فليس لي % متأخر عنه ولا متقدم

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10.1016/j.explore.2018.06.008Explore (New York, N.Y.) (2018)MEDLINE-indexed journal, not yet read by us; matched on Affect, Emotions, Emotional Regulation, cognitive reappraisal, emotion regulation, expressive suppression

Effect of a Yoga Based Meditation Technique on Emotional Regulation, Self-compassion and Mindfulness in College Students.: Background: Emotion regulation is often a challenge for the college students. Yoga practice has been shown to reduce stress and improve mindfulness that is related to emotion regulation. Mastering emotions technique (MEMT) is one of the yoga-based meditation techniques that are designed to control emotions among practitioners. However, to the best of our knowledge, there is no known study reporting its scientific evidence-based effects on emotion and its related variables. Thus, this study was c

10.1093/sleep/zsaa289Sleep (2021)MEDLINE-indexed journal, not yet read by us; matched on Emotional Regulation, Affect, Emotions, emotion regulation

The effect of sleep deprivation and restriction on mood, emotion, and emotion regulation: three meta-analyses in one.: Study objectives: New theory and measurement approaches have facilitated nuanced investigation of how sleep loss impacts dimensions of affective functioning. To provide a quantitative summary of this literature, three conceptually related meta-analyses examined the effect of sleep restriction and sleep deprivation on mood, emotion, and emotion regulation across the lifespan (i.e. from early childhood to late adulthood). Methods: A total of 241 effect sizes from 64 studies were selected for inclu

10.1037/ccp0000769Journal of consulting and clinical psychology (2023)MEDLINE-indexed journal, not yet read by us; matched on Emotional Regulation, Emotions, cognitive reappraisal, emotion regulation

Targeting maladaptive anger with brief therapist-supported internet-delivered emotion regulation treatments: A randomized controlled trial.: Objective: To evaluate the relative impact of three brief therapist-supported internet-delivered emotion regulation treatments for maladaptive anger (mindful emotion awareness [MEA], cognitive reappraisal [CR], and mindful emotion awareness + cognitive reappraisal [MEA + CR]) and to test whether baseline levels of anger pathology moderate treatment outcome. Method: Treatments were evaluated in a randomized controlled trial. In total, 234 participants (59% female; mean age = 41.1, SD = 11.6) with

10.1016/j.cpr.2019.101746Clinical psychology review (2019)MEDLINE-indexed journal, not yet read by us; matched on Emotional Regulation, Adaptation, Psychological, cognitive reappraisal, emotion regulation

The relevance of cognitive emotion regulation to psychotic symptoms - A systematic review and meta-analysis.: Numerous studies emphasise the pivotal role of negative affect in the formation and maintenance of positive symptoms, which moves emotion regulation (ER) as a contributing factor into focus. We systematically reviewed and meta-analysed case-control studies reporting cross-sectional, correlative and experimental data of ER strategies in patients with psychotic disorders. In total, 42 studies were eligible, providing data for 2498 subjects and 3381 healthy controls. Questionnaire-based cross-secti

10.1016/j.neuroimage.2011.05.073NeuroImage (2011)MEDLINE-indexed journal, not yet read by us; matched on Affect, Emotions, affect regulation, cognitive reappraisal, emotion regulation

Fear is only as deep as the mind allows: a coordinate-based meta-analysis of neuroimaging studies on the regulation of negative affect.: Humans have the ability to control negative affect and perceived fear. Nevertheless, it is still unclear whether this affect regulation capacity relies on a common neural mechanism in different experimental domains. Here, we sought to identify commonalities in regulatory brain activation in the domains of fear extinction, placebo, and cognitive emotion regulation. Using coordinate-based activation-likelihood estimation meta-analysis we intended to elucidate concordant hyperactivations and the as

10.2466/03.20.pr0.114k22w4Psychological reports (2014)MEDLINE-indexed journal, not yet read by us; matched on Affect, Emotions, cognitive reappraisal, emotion regulation, expressive suppression

Relation between emotion regulation and mental health: a meta-analysis review.: This meta-analysis examined the relationship between emotion regulation strategies (cognitive reappraisal, expressive suppression) and mental health (measured by life-satisfaction, positive affect, depression, anxiety, and negative affect). 48 studies, which included 51 independent samples, 157 effect sizes, and 21,150 participants, met the inclusion criteria. The results showed that cognitive reappraisal was correlated significantly and positively with positive indicators of mental health (r =

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Lee T, Cho E, Ahmed O, Ahn J, Bang YR, Chung S, Park J (2026)MEDLINE-indexed journal, not yet read by usInternational journal of behavioral medicine3 citations

The Impact of Depression on Bedtime Procrastination in High School Students in Pandemic era: The Mediating Roles of Conscientiousness and Emotional Stability.

Background: Bedtime procrastination is a common sleep problem that adolescents encounter. This study aimed to investigate the association between bedtime procrastination and depression in Korean high schoolers, while accounting for possible mediators including viral anxiety, resilience, and personality traits. Method: A total of 300 high school students participated in the study. An online survey was conducted from October 18 to 24, 2021. The survey included the Bedtime Procrastination Scale, Patient Health Questionnaire-9 items, Stress and Anxiety to Viral Epidemics-6 items, Connor Davidson Resilience Scale 2-items, and Ten-Item Personality Inventory. Results: Bedtime procrastination was positively associated with depression (r = 0.31, p < 0.001) and negatively associated with resilience (r = -0.14, p = 0.020), extraversion (r = -0.14, p = 0.015), conscientiousness (r = -0.33, p < 0.001

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Gorgol-Waleriańczyk J, Nowosadko N (2026)MEDLINE-indexed journal, not yet read by usChronobiology international

When time and self-control collide: The moderating role of procrastination in the relationship between circadian functioning and depressive symptoms.

Depression is highly prevalent and increasingly linked to circadian functioning and self-regulation. Yet little is known about how specific behaviors, such as procrastination, interact with chronotype dimensions to influence vulnerability to depressive symptoms. This study examined whether procrastination moderates associations between multidimensional chronotype and depressive symptoms in a large adult sample (N = 3606, aged 20-60). Participants completed self-report measures of chronotype, depressive symptoms, procrastination, and conscientiousness. Chronotype was assessed across three dimensions: Morning Affect (MA), Eveningness (EV), and Distinctness (DI). Results showed that lower MA and higher DI - reflecting greater daily energy fluctuations - were strong predictors of depressive symptoms. Procrastination significantly moderated these relationships by increasing overall levels of

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Bai C, Liu R, Zhang H (2026)MEDLINE-indexed journal, not yet read by usNursing ethics

Moral elevation, gratitude, and meaning in nurses' positive mental health.

BackgroundNurses often face moral distress and emotional strain, which can undermine psychological well-being and ethical engagement. From a positive ethics perspective, moral emotions may serve as resources for moral flourishing. Moral elevation - the emotion evoked by witnessing moral excellence - may be associated with nurses' mental health through grateful appraisals and work meaning. Research aimTo examine whether moral elevation promotes nurses' positive mental health through the mediating effects of grateful appraisals and work meaning. Research designA cross-sectional survey was conducted, with mediation analyses using PROCESS Model 6 to test independent and sequential pathways. Participants and research contextData were collected from 359 registered nurses working in Chinese public hospitals. Participants completed validated measures of moral elevation, grateful appraisals, work

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Taku K, Dominick W, Jeong S, Lee R, Kim J (2026)MEDLINE-indexed journal, not yet read by usDeath studies

Thoughts and emotions evoked by thinking about own death: American versus Japanese undergraduates.

The prompts "What emotions does the thought of your own death arouse in you?" and "What will happen to you when your body dies?" have been used to induce anxiety in Terror Management Theory. The current study investigated how the responses to these prompts may reveal cross-national differences by using a text-mining approach. Undergraduates in the US (n = 298) and Japan (n = 212) participated in the study. Across both groups, anxiety was the most common emotion. Cross-national differences also emerged, such that students in the US were more likely to mention sadness, funeral, and religiosity for the first prompt, and acceptance, spiritual change, and religiosity for the second prompt. Students in Japan were more likely to mention regret for the first, and sadness, emptiness, and funeral for the second prompt. Results revealed differences and similarities in thoughts and emotions people a

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Tan L, Bader LR, Volling BL, Gonzalez R (2026)MEDLINE-indexed journal, not yet read by usJournal of family psychology : JFP : journal of the Division of Family Psychology of the American Psychological Association (Division 43)

Children's emotion understanding and attachment security to mothers and fathers across the transition to siblinghood.

The transition to siblinghood represents a period of adjustment for parents and firstborn children, influencing child-parent attachment relationships and children's emotional development. This study examined the longitudinal bidirectional relations between firstborn children's emotion understanding and their attachment security to their mothers and fathers during this transition. Firstborn children (N = 230, 55% girls/45% boys, 86% White, 5% Black, 3% Asian, 4% Latinx, and Mage = 29.75 months) completed the Emotion Understanding in Early Childhood scale, and both mothers and fathers completed the Attachment Q-Set at three time points: prenatal, 4, and 12 months after the birth of an infant sibling. Structural equation modeling revealed that firstborn children's attachment security to mothers was associated with their emotion understanding before the sibling's birth. However, we found no

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Čehajić-Clancy S, Jamshed N, Olsson A, Momčilović A (2026)MEDLINE-indexed journal, not yet read by usJournal of personality and social psychology1 citations

From inspiration to restoration: Moral elevation as a catalyst for improving intergroup relations in contexts of conflict.

Existing research examining the creation of positive and prosocial interpersonal relations has established moral elevation as an approach-oriented emotion to be associated with a range of positive and prosocial outcomes. In this article and with the goal to identify emotional mechanism for improving intergroup relations in contexts of conflict, we examined the effects of moral elevation on enhancing intergroup relations. Across four experimental studies (Ns = 1,131), conducted in four understudied countries directly affected or threatened by intergroup conflict, we demonstrated that induced moral elevation elicits important cognitive and emotional shifts toward adversarial groups, resulting in improved intergroup relations. Specifically, we show that inducing moral elevation through stories of outgroup moral exemplars (individuals who have risked their life to save the life of an outgrou

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Abdie Hussein T, Birhan Bitew W, Tamiru Tolla T (2026)MEDLINE-indexed journal, not yet read by usMedicine

The mediating role of parental involvement in the relationship between social media exposure and socio-emotional development of children.

The study aimed to investigate the effect of parental involvement on social media exposure and socio-emotional development of children in the Awi administrative zone, Ethiopia. Data were collected in 2026 using a quantitative cross-sectional research design. Three hundred parent-child dyads (240 mother-child dyads and 60 father-child dyads) selected from diverse socioeconomic backgrounds participated in the study. The children's ages ranged from 4 to 6 years. A survey questionnaire was employed to collect data from the parents. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, Pearson correlation, multiple linear regression, and the Process Procedure for Mediation, Moderation, and Conditional Process Analysis macro (model 4) for mediation analysis. The results indicated that social media exposure was significantly and negatively associated with socio-emotional development (β = -0.225, P <

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Arriaga P, Buchanan EM (2026)MEDLINE-indexed journal, not yet read by usBehavior research methods

StreetArt4Sustainability dataset: Mapping aesthetic emotions to street art.

A novel dataset of 556 street art images is presented, accompanied by affective evaluations from 1,239 Portuguese and Brazilian participants. Artworks were selected to reflect themes associated with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Using a stimulus-sampling design, each participant completed an online survey in which 10 randomly selected artworks were presented and reported their responses in terms of valence, arousal, and specific emotion labels (being moved, awe, inspiration, hope, sadness, fear, anger, emotional connection, reflection, awareness, and interest), as well as their interest in street art and sustainability consciousness. Multilevel analyses showed that higher interest in street art and greater sustainability consciousness were consistent predictors of more positive emotional responses to the artworks. In contrast, the effects of gender and age were neglig

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Liu S, Hammoud R, Zhu X, Smythe M, Lei D, Mechelli A (2026)MEDLINE-indexed journal, not yet read by usEnvironment international

Associations between birdsong environments and momentary human affective wellbeing: evidence from real-world.

Background: Exposure to birdsong environments benefits mental health. Different types of birdsongs vary in their capacity to promote positive affect; however, the underlying physical acoustic mechanisms within these complex ecological contexts are not yet understood. Methods: From March 2020 to May 2025, 2,088 participants contributed 11,631 assessments via the smartphone-based Urban Mind platform. Each assessment included self-reported momentary affective states and an audio recording of the surrounding environment. Seventy-six acoustic features characterising birdsong were extracted and screened via univariable and correlation analyses. Associations between birdsong exposure, acoustic features and momentary affective wellbeing were examined using mixed-effect regression models adjusted for individual- and context-level covariates. Findings: Exposure to birdsong environments was associa

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Mudgal S, Tiwari GK (2026)MEDLINE-indexed journal, not yet read by usBMC psychology

Unveiling the nature and attributes of self-forgiveness in young Indian adults: insights from thematic analysis.

BACKGROUND: Although interpersonal forgiveness is well studied, there is little research on self-forgiveness. The available research on self-forgiveness is mostly based on interpersonal forgiveness. This study attempts to understand the nature, attributes and dynamics of self-forgiveness. METHODS: The data were collected from 25 adults (aged 18–25 years) enrolled in higher education through a semistructured interview and were thematically analysed. RESULTS: The analysis resulted in six themes illustrating how participants understood self-forgiveness. Theme 1 emphasizes early offense realization, reduced anger, and facing consequences, often leading to guilt influenced by moral upbringing. Theme 2 addresses mental and physical discomfort, including rumination and poor concentration. Theme 3 discusses alleviating negative feelings through future actions and viewing mistakes as growth lesso

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Teaming up for welfare: a cross-institute approach to identify robust indicators of emotion in pigs.

Evaluating emotions in livestock is challenging due to their subjective nature and the lack of robust indicators, especially for positive emotions. We developed experiments across four facilities, all designed to induce positive and negative emotional reactions in n = 124 female domestic pigs tested in a within-subject design. Our goals were to test for robust, non-invasive indicators of short-term emotional responses across pigs representing different ages and breeds and kept in different husbandry conditions. We developed a common ethogram for behavioural recording and standard operating procedures for collecting saliva samples, which were analysed in the same lab to measure short-term changes in cortisol, as an indicator of arousal, and oxytocin, as a putative indicator of valence. We used linear and generalised linear mixed models (LMM/GLMM) to test for effects of predicted differenc

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Chen H, Zhou W, Guan J, Sun J, Chu X (2026)MEDLINE-indexed journal, not yet read by usAppetite

Does time scarcity amplify high-calorie food preferences in adolescents? The role of analytical thinking and awe.

Although extensive research has demonstrated that time scarcity perception significantly affects behavioral decision-making, its influence on adolescents' high-calorie food choices remains underexplored. Inspired by theoretical frameworks concerning function of scarcity, analytical thinking, and awe, the present study aimed to examine the causal effect of time scarcity perception on adolescents' high-calorie food choice, to examine the mediating role of analytical thinking in this behavioral pattern, and to examine the potential moderating effect of awe emotion on both the primary relationship and the mediating pathway. Four experiments were conducted with adolescents as participants. The results showed that: (1) time scarcity perceptions significantly increased the selection of high-calorie foods‌; (2) time scarcity perceptions were ‌negatively correlated with‌ analytical thinking; (3)

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Zhang Y, Jiang X (2026)MEDLINE-indexed journal, not yet read by usInternational journal of psychology : Journal international de psychologie

Does Compassion Always Lead to Forgiveness? Impact of the Mechanism of Compassion Before Service Failure on Consumer Forgiveness.

There are few studies involving the mechanism of the emotions that consumers experience before a service failure on their willingness to forgive. This research intends to explore the effect of two different types of compassion on the willingness to forgive under uncontrollable and controllable service failure, examine the mediating role of empathy and the moderating role of the type of service failure. This research designed two experiments. Experiment 1 involved 450 voluntary participants and adopted a between-group design (spontaneous compassion vs. neutral emotions) × (controllable service failure vs. uncontrollable service failure). Experiment 2 involved 431 voluntary participants and used a between-subject experimental design (merchant-induced compassion vs. neutral emotions) × (controllable service failure vs. uncontrollable service failure). Results demonstrated that consumers wit

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Ahmed RS, Shaban M (2026)MEDLINE-indexed journal, not yet read by usArchives of psychiatric nursing

Always online, still alone: A qualitative study of technology-facilitated loneliness and mood symptoms among university students.

Digital technologies are deeply embedded in university students' daily lives and are increasingly recognized as relevant to their mental health. This qualitative study explored how students experience technology facilitated loneliness and mood symptoms within the context of everyday digital use at King Khalid University in Abha, Saudi Arabia. A phenomenological design was used to capture lived experiences. Twenty undergraduate students who reported daily non-academic smartphone use and feelings of loneliness and low mood participated in semi structured interviews conducted in Arabic or English. Data were analyzed using reflexive thematic analysis. Four interrelated themes were identified. Surrounded but unseen described how students felt emotionally invisible despite constant online contact, with thin connections and subtle digital exclusions contributing to loneliness and self-doubt. Te

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Behavioral barriers in the management of spinal muscular atrophy: The role of procrastination, regret, and burnout.

Background: Decision-making in complex medical conditions is a cognitively demanding task influenced by clinician-specific behavioral factors. Procrastination, the voluntary delay of intended actions despite foreseeable adverse outcomes, is a self-regulation failure often exacerbated by high-stress clinical environments. This study evaluated the prevalence of procrastination among healthcare professionals (HCPs) managing spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) and analyzed its associations with burnout and healthcare-related regret. Methods: We conducted a non-interventional, cross-sectional, web-based study of HCPs recruited through the Spanish CuidAME registry. Participants were assessed using a battery of validated instruments: the Pure Procrastination Scale (PPS), the Regret Intensity Scale (RIS-10), the Evidence-Based Practice Attitude Scale (EBPAS), and a single-item burnout measure. In addi

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Abu-Raiya H, Ayten A, Ferhan H (2026)MEDLINE-indexed journal, not yet read by usBMC psychology

Religiousness-happiness links in Türkiye and Jordan: the role of gratitude and envy.

Happiness is central to psychological well-being, yet less is known about the emotional processes that may help account for its association with religiousness in Muslim populations. The present study examined whether gratitude and two forms of envy (malicious and benign) were statistically associated with the relationship between religiousness and happiness among Muslim adults in Türkiye and Jordan. Participants were 812 Muslim adults who completed validated measures of religiousness, happiness, gratitude, and benign and malicious envy. Path analyses showed that religiousness was positively associated with happiness. In addition, higher religiousness was associated with greater gratitude and lower malicious envy, both of which were in turn associated with higher happiness. Benign envy was not significantly associated with either religiousness or happiness and did not show a significant i

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Liu T, Liu Y (2026)MEDLINE-indexed journal, not yet read by usActa psychologica

From awe to identity and revisit intention: Evidence from heritage tourism.

Although awe has received increasing attention in tourism research, its role in shaping cultural identity and revisit intention in heritage contexts remains underexplored. This study develops a stimulus-emotion-identity-behavior framework to examine how awe mediates the effects of cultural atmosphere and historical relics on cultural identity and revisit intention. Using survey data from visitors to Mount Tai, China, and structural equation modeling, the results show that both cultural atmosphere and historical relics significantly enhance awe. Awe, in turn, directly and indirectly influences revisit intention through cultural identity, confirming a dual-path mechanism. Psychological engagement strengthens the effect of cultural atmosphere on awe, whereas nostalgia-proneness amplifies the effect of awe on cultural identity. The study contributes by positioning awe as a key mechanism link

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Althubyani AR (2026)MEDLINE-indexed journal, not yet read by usActa psychologica

When struggle becomes strength: The psychology of grit, flourishing, and well-being as mediators of motivational intensity in STEM students.

Investment in STEM education is increasing worldwide, but student engagement and retention remain problematic. This highlights the need to understand the psychological processes that underpin motivation, particularly in non-Western nations such as Saudi Arabia, where these objectives are reflected in national development strategies, including Vision 2030. This research examines both direct and indirect hypotheses regarding how grit influences motivational intensity among Saudi university students enrolled in STEM fields, with flourishing and affect balance as potential mediating variables, employing a culturally informed mixed-methods approach. Following a sequential explanatory design, I initially summarised 1050 STEM students' survey responses using PLS-SEM and then conducted qualitative interviews with 20 purposively selected students. Grit, flourishing, positive/negative emotions, an

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Integrating virtual reality, electroencephalography, and transcranial magnetic stimulation to study the neural correlates of awe experiences: The SUBRAIN protocol.

Introduction: Awe is a complex emotion unveiling a positive and mixed nature, which resembles the Romantic feeling of the Sublime. It has increasingly become the object of scientific investigation in the last twenty years. However, its underlying brain mechanisms are still unclear. To fully capture its nature in the lab, researchers have increasingly relied on virtual reality (VR) as an emotion-elicitation method, which can resemble even complex phenomena in a limited space. In this work, a multidisciplinary team proposed a novel experimental protocol integrating VR, electroencephalography (EEG), and transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) to investigate the brain mechanisms of this emotion. Methods: A group of bioengineers, psychologists, psychiatrists, and philosophers designed the SUBRAIN study, a single-center, one-arm, non-randomized interventional study to explore the neural proces

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Huang C, Yang Y, Lu C, Qin P, Jiang W, Ma J, Guo L (2025)MEDLINE-indexed journal, not yet read by usSocial psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology4 citations

Associations of 24-hour movement behaviors with emotional and behavioral problems among Chinese adolescents.

Purpose: The role of adherence to the recommendations for 24-hour movement behaviors (24-HMB), including physical activity (PA), screen time (ST), and sleep duration (SLP), in relation to emotional and behavioral problems in Chinese adolescents remains uncertain. This study aimed to investigate these associations and explore potential sex differences. Methods: This school-based cross-sectional study included 15,071 Chinese adolescents with a mean age of 14.53 (SD: 1.65) years. Data on emotional and behavioral problems and 24-HMB (including PA, ST, and SLP) were collected. Analysis was performed using general linear mixed models, with additional sex-stratified analyses conducted. Results: The number of 24-HMB recommendations met was negatively associated with total difficulties (β estimate=-0.96, 95% CI: -1.07 to -0.85) and positively related to prosocial behavior (β estimate = 0.41, 95%

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Yang J, Zhang Q, Li B, Tong D (2025)MEDLINE-indexed journal, not yet read by usActa psychologica

Influence of awe on social responsibility in adolescents and the mediating role of social mindfulness.

Previous research has demonstrated that awe can influence corporate social responsibility; however, the mechanism through which awe affects social responsibility among Chinese adolescents remains unclear. According to the Broaden-and-Build theory of positive emotions, individuals may be prompted to take positive actions, such as enhancing social mindfulness, due to the situational stimuli that evoke their sense of awe. Conversely, these positive actions promote the formation of social responsibility. Thus, the present study aims to explore the impact of awe on adolescents' social responsibility and the mediating role of social mindfulness in this relationship using questionnaire-based and experimental approaches. In Study 1, 1370 adolescents completed the Dispositional Awe Scale, the Social Mindfulness Self-Report Scale and the Social Responsibility Scale. The results revealed that dispo

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Wright MF (2025)MEDLINE-indexed journal, not yet read by usBMC public health1 citations

Emotional and cognitive mechanisms of cyber-displaced aggression: exploring the impact of young adults' victimization.

This study aims to explore the mediation of revenge planning and anger rumination in the associations among face-to-face victimization, cyber victimization, and cyber-displaced aggression. Cyber-displaced aggression occurs when individuals direct their frustration towards innocent parties online due to an inability to retaliate directly. Data were collected from 489 young adults, between the ages of 18 and 25, from a university in the Midwestern United States. Measures included cyber and face-to-face victimization, cyber-displaced aggression, face-to-face displaced aggression, cyber victimization, emotional reactions, like anger rumination, and cognitive reactions, such as revenge planning. One year later, participants completed a questionnaire on cyber-displaced aggression. Results indicated that both forms of victimization predicted increased levels of cyber-displaced aggression one ye

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Vulnerability to chronic stress in male rats: Additive effect of low positive affectivity and high hedonic response as measured by sucrose intake.

Stress contributes to the development of psychiatric disorders. We have previously shown that rats with low inherent positive affectivity, assessed by 50-kHz ultrasonic vocalizations (USV), are more vulnerable to stress, and that free-fed rats with persistently lower consumption of sucrose are less sensitive. Hence we compared the association of these traits with the effect of chronic stress within a single experiment. Male Wistar rats were classified as of high (HC) or low (LC) positive affectivity based on their average 50-kHz USV response, and as young adults the rats were further divided into high and low sucrose-consuming (HSuc and LSuc, respectively). Four groups comprising twenty rats each were formed, and half of the animals submitted to chronic variable stress (CVS) for 5 weeks. CVS was followed by behavioural tests and ex vivo biochemical analyses. In elevated plus-maze, CVS in

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Tsujimoto M, Matsuzaki Y, Yamaya N, Saito T, Kawashima R (2025)MEDLINE-indexed journal, not yet read by usNeuroImage

Buffering effects of amusement and awe on stress responses: Behavioral, physiological, and neural response.

The experience of positive emotions plays a crucial role in promoting mental and physical health. Laboratory studies have suggested that induced positive emotions facilitate stress recovery. However, how recovery from stress by discrete positive emotions temporally changes in psychological and physiological measurements, and what neural mechanisms underlie these processes remains unclear. Therefore, we investigated the buffering effects of amusement and awe on stress responses from psychological, physiological, and neural perspectives using photoplethysmography and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). Sixty-seven college students completed the Montreal Imaging Stress Task and viewed emotion-inducing videos designed to elicit amusement, awe, or neutral emotional states inside an MRI scanner. Our findings demonstrate that amusement and awe had buffering effects on perceived stress

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Deng X, Xue J, Tian Y, Tong W, He W (2025)MEDLINE-indexed journal, not yet read by usApplied psychology. Health and well-being2 citations

Awe reduces Chinese adolescents' NSSI urges: The chain-mediating role of meaning in life and ego-depletion, and the moderating role of family function.

Non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) is a severe psychological crisis among Chinese adolescents, while NSSI urge is a robust predictor of NSSI. Awe, as a positive emotion, may benefit the prevention of NSSI. However, the relationship between awe and NSSI urges is underexplored. This study examined the effect of awe on NSSI urges and its underlying mechanisms among a large sample of Chinese adolescents with a three-wave panel design (with distinct but related constructs measured at each wave). Participants were 969 middle school students from eastern China. The chain mediation model suggested that awe reduces NSSI urges indirectly by sequentially enhancing meaning in life and decreasing ego-depletion. Family function moderated this model, such that the negative predictive effect of awe and the positive predictive effect of ego-depletion on later NSSI urges were stronger when family functioning

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