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When teens with depression were hospitalized after a suicide attempt, they and their parents described stress moving in both directions, from child to parent and back again. That pattern cam…
Read articleCollege students who felt more academic stress and trusted AI more reported leaning harder on generative AI for their writing, according to a 2026 survey of 229 journalism students at 2 univ…
Read articleA 2026 theory paper proposes that Chinese university students giving presentations in English handle their nerves better when the classroom builds their confidence. It is a framework with no…
Read articleChinese teens aged 10 to 15 who trusted the people around them less had more depressive symptoms 2 years later, in a 2026 study that followed 971 teens. Frequent arguments with parents and l…
Read articleCollege students who saw their AI learning tools as highly adaptive reported less enjoyment, more anxiety and more boredom during the semester, and weaker study self-management by its end, i…
Read articleIn a 2026 survey of 420 middle school students in eastern China, more physically active teens reported more cognitive reappraisal (reframing stressful situations), better stress-management h…
Read articleA 2026 Shanghai study of 1,589 preschoolers found that children sleeping ≤9 hours at night had higher parent-rated anxiety scores than children sleeping >10 hours. The effect sizes were smal…
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