• How Chinese children’s filial piety beliefs affect their parents’ life satisfaction and loneliness

    分类: 心理学 >> 心理学其他学科 提交时间: 2023-04-09

    摘要: Guided by the dual filial piety model and socioemotional selectivity theory, this study explores the underlying mechanism of how adult childrens filial piety beliefs affect their parents life satisfaction and loneliness. A total of 350 pairs of parent-child data were collected through a parent-child pair design. Results show that emotional support provided by adult children and emotional support perceived by parents fully mediated the relationship between childrens reciprocal filial piety belief and parents life satisfaction ( = 0.048, 95% CI: 0.021, 0.081) and loneliness ( = -0.050, 95% CI: -0.083, -0.024), and partially mediated the relationship between childrens authoritarian filial piety belief and parental life satisfaction ( = 0.028, 95% CI: 0.010, 0.051) and loneliness ( = -0.030, 95% CI: -0.053, -0.015). This finding suggests that to improve parental well-being, adult Chinese children should not only cultivate their filial piety, but also pay close attention to their parents emotional needs.

  • The Font-Size Effect on Judgments of Learning: A Perceptual Contrast Account

    分类: 心理学 >> 认知心理学 提交时间: 2022-06-11

    摘要: The font-size effect on judgments of learning (JOLs) refers to that when required to predict memory performance during the study phase, participants believe that large font words are more memorable than small ones. This study proposed a perceptual contrast account to explain this effect. In Experiment 1, perceptual contrast was achieved by inserting a word with a different font (e.g., 18-pt word) into a sequence of words with the same font (e.g., 70-pt words) at a certain frequency. In Experiment 2, perceptual contrast was manipulated by presenting two different font words up and down in a pair. The results showed that: (1) a low rate of perceptual contrast as small as 25% could lead to the font-size effect on JOLs; (2) compared with the same font words with and without contrast, perceptual contrast reduced the JOLs of small ones but did not affect the JOLs of large ones. Perceptual contrast account can explain the font-size effect on JOLs that can be explained by the fluency theory and belief theory. It is also applicable to research exploring how other perceptual cues affect JOLs, e.g., number of presentations, difficulty, relatedness, and clarity.