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Strict Parenting Linked to Students Feeling Parents’ School Anxiety

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Chinese college freshmen from homes with stricter parenting and more family conflict sensed more anxiety in their parents about their education, according to a 2026 survey of 646 students. Higher resilience was linked to sensing less of it, and strict parenting showed the strongest link of all.1 Research Highlights Family conflict and resilience pulled in …

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Teen Emotion-Regulation Profiles Predicted Anxiety and Depression

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A 2026 longitudinal study involving 951 adolescents found 5 emotion-regulation profiles, not the 3-profile structure the researchers expected, and the clearest mental-health separation came from the adaptive and maladaptive profiles.1 Teen coping looked less like a single good-versus-bad scale and more like a pattern of motives, strategies, and beliefs about whether those strategies work. Research …

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Rwanda Resiliency Training Improved Forgiveness and Social Cohesion

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A 2026 randomized comparison study of 152 Rwandan genocide survivors and released perpetrators found that 3-day Community Resiliency Model training improved social cohesion, compassion, forgiveness, and resilience over time, with social cohesion F(1) = 36.1, compassion F(1) = 131, forgiveness F(1) = 19.8, and resilience F(1) = 8.10.1 Mixed survivor-perpetrator groups improved slightly more, but …

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ABCD: Childhood Poverty Raised Risk; Inhibitory Control Split Resilience

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A 2026 ABCD cohort preprint involving 10,112 youth found that childhood poverty strengthened the link between cumulative early-life adversity and later behavioral problems; among poverty-exposed youth, inhibitory-control fMRI profiles split children into higher-vulnerability and buffered pathways. Research Highlights Poverty steepened adversity risk: In 10,112 ABCD youth, childhood poverty amplified the baseline early-life-adversity-to-CBCL Total Problems slope …

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Posttraumatic Growth in Farsi Refugees: 61% Explained by 4 Factors

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A 2026 survey of 230 Farsi-speaking refugees in German camps found a hard double signal: 69.1% screened above the RHS-15 threshold for depression, anxiety, and PTSD symptoms, while 4 protective factors explained 61% of posttraumatic-growth variance.1 Research Highlights High distress and growth coexisted: 159 of 230 participants (69.1%) scored ≥12 on the RHS-15 symptom scale, …

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