Publications by authors named "Chao-Hwa Josephine Chen-Wilson"
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- - The study explored the Emotional Eating Scale-II (EES-II), a tool that assesses emotional eating tendencies, by examining its validity and dimensionality across diverse international samples.
- - Researchers analyzed data from 2,485 adults from various countries, confirming a four-factor structure of emotional eating that differentiates between the valence (pleasant vs. unpleasant) and activation (high vs. low) levels of emotions.
- - Findings demonstrated strong reliability and validity of a condensed version, the Brief Emotional Eating Scale (BEES), highlighting that higher emotional activation—both pleasant and unpleasant—is linked to increased food cravings and consumption.
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- This study analyzed how the COVID-19 pandemic affected people's health behaviors—like physical activity, sleep, and diet—while also examining how these changes related to overall wellbeing.
- Involving 1,140 participants from various countries, results showed that decreased physical activity led to poorer physical and mental health, while increased activity improved sleep and maintained weight.
- The research highlighted significant differences in health impacts based on country and age, with older participants showing less emotional distress and younger ones experiencing better sleep; overall, it supports promoting physical activity as a vital resource for wellbeing during challenging times.
Self-Concept Clarity and Online Self-Presentation in Adolescents.
Cyberpsychol Behav Soc Netw
December 2016
The Internet may be conceptualized as a social laboratory, providing freedom to experiment with different presentations of self. Adolescence is an important time in the development of self-concept; however, little is known about how clarity of self-concept relates to online behavior. The principal aim of this study was to test the hypothesis that self-concept clarity would be associated with adolescents' inclination to experiment with online self-presentation.
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