This longitudinal study investigates the structure, developmental trends, and well-being implications of values among Chinese adolescents – a large, culturally distinctive population undergoing rapid social change. We conducted a large-scale, two-wave longitudinal study (Wave 1: N = 69,115; M = 12.74 ± 2.25 years; 49.84% girls; Wave 2: N = 45,762; M = 12.98 ± 2.22 years; 50.53% girls; with 45,762 students participating in both waves) across a 6-month interval. A three-factor structure of adolescent values emerged: Collective Altruism, Individual Initiative, and Individual Hedonism. Results revealed distinct developmental trajectories: Collective Altruism declined slightly, while Individual Hedonism increased, both stabilizing around mid-adolescence (age~15)—a developmental inflection point in value orientation. Cross-lagged models demonstrated small but significant reciprocal positive associations between Collective Altruism, Individual Initiative, and well-being, while Individual Hedonism showed a small but significant negative association with subsequent well-being. These findings support the theoretical framework of contextually healthy values—value orientations that are culturally normative and developmentally adaptive. This study also provides valuable insights for promoting adolescent mental health and positive development in rapidly modernizing contexts.
Digital technologies such as telepsychology, mobile health applications, artificial intelligence (AI), and immersive virtual environments are rapidly transforming the delivery of psychological care. Despite these advances, music therapy remains weakly integrated into most digital mental health systems. In many current interventions, including virtual reality therapies and mental health applications, music is typically used as background ambience rather than as an active therapeutic mechanism. This disconnect limits the potential of music-based interventions for emotional regulation and psychological support. Advances in artificial intelligence create new opportunities to address this gap. Through emotion recognition, behavioral data analysis, and generative music algorithms, AI systems can anticipate emotional states and deliver adaptive musical interventions before psychological distress escalates. Such AI-driven proactive music therapy enables music to function as an embedded regulatory component within digital mental health ecosystems rather than as a passive environmental feature. A conceptual framework for integrating proactive music therapy into digital mental health platforms is proposed, highlighting key technological components including emotion sensing, adaptive music intelligence, and digital therapeutic delivery. Ethical considerations and research priorities for AI-enabled music interventions are also outlined. AI-driven proactive music therapy may represent an important direction for scalable and personalized psychological care in the era of digital mental health.
Alumni relationships are essential social capital that are significant in companies’ resource acquisition and information sharing. Using 2018 data from Chinese listed companies, this study examines the impact of the chairperson–alumni network on corporate artificial intelligence (AI) adoption. The results show that chairperson–alumni relations are positively associated with AI adoption. Moreover, the impact of chairperson–alumni networks on AI adoption may span industrial, administrative, and geographical boundaries. This study shows that chairperson–alumni networks can indirectly influence AI adoption by influencing board size. Finally, this study demonstrates the heterogeneity of the impact of the chairperson–alumni network on AI adoption.
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) has traditionally been approached through a biomedical lens, focusing on neurodegenerative markers such as amyloid-β plaques and tau protein accumulation. However, clinical evidence increasingly demonstrates that social dysfunction, which includes identity confusion, emotional withdrawal, and breakdowns in social roles. This article reconceptualizes AD as a disorder in which the primary dimension of decline lies in social relationship management capacity (SRMC), while recognizing that neurobiological and cognitive deterioration remain integral to its manifestation and progression. SRMC refers to a person’s ability to identify, interpret, maintain, and regulate social ties embedded in complex networks. This article introduces a conceptual and technical framework for a socially embedded artificial intelligence (AI) framework designed to recognize and compensate for the deterioration of SRMC in AD. Drawing on social capital theory, affective computing, and neural social cognition research, this framework proposes a four-dimensional intervention model: relationship recognition, relationship learning, relationship establishment, and relationship management. By aligning cutting-edge AI techniques with the lived social reality of individuals with AD, this approach not only provides a new path for supportive care but also reorients ethical and technological discourse toward sustaining social personhood in the face of neurodegeneration.
Traditional polysomnography (PSG) systems are limited by cumbersome hardware, inefficient clinical workflows, and significant patient discomfort, hindering accurate characterization of natural sleep. Here, we present a wearable sleep-breathing monitoring system based on a printed electronic skin (E-skin) sensor that enables comfortable, high-fidelity, and home-viable respiratory assessment. The device employs a resistive eutectic gallium-indium-tin (EGaInSn) liquid-metal sensing layer screen-printed onto a flexible thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU) substrate, offering stable sensitivity over a broad dynamic range, mechanical robustness, and seamless skin conformability for long-term wear. A six-channel sensing network was implemented to capture thoracic and abdominal respiratory dynamics across diverse sleeping positions. Comprehensive clinical validation was conducted against gold-standard PSG, with respiratory events independently scored by Registered Polysomnographic Technologists (RPSGTs) under single-blind conditions. The system demonstrates high concordance with PSG in identifying obstructive and central sleep apnea, hypopnea, Cheyne–Stokes respiration, and respiratory rate abnormalities. By integrating flexible electronics and clinically aligned signal interpretation, this work advances wearable health technologies from conventional physiological monitoring toward credible diagnostic capability, providing a practical solution for continuous, accurate evaluation of sleep-related breathing disorders.
Physical Education (PE) occupies a paradoxical position in China: constitutionally mandated yet persistently marginalised within a system that prioritises cognitive attainment and measurable academic outputs. This paper critically examines the ideological, cultural, and neoliberal forces underpinning this marginalisation, situating the Chinese case within broader global trends while attending to its distinct historical and philosophical contexts. We argue that its marginalisation is not a mere logistical failure but an onto-epistemological crisis rooted in a constellation of mutually reinforcing discourses. These include the enduring Chinese cultural hierarchy of ‘Zhong Wen Qing Wu’ (valuing the literary over the physical), which is amplified by the high-stakes Gaokao examination system; the influence of Western mind–body dualism, which devalues embodied knowing; and the ascendancy of a neoliberal utilitarianism that reduces education to market utility. Together, these forces create a destructive cycle that instrumentalises PE for narrow health metrics while stripping it of its broader humanistic value. Moving beyond critique, this paper proposes a strategy of ‘glocalisation’ as a robust path forward. We contend that a meaningful revaluation of PE requires a dialectical process: engaging with global scholarly turns toward embodiment while simultaneously reclaiming indigenous Chinese philosophical resources. Specifically, we articulate a framework grounded in Taoist concepts of the lived body (Shen), spontaneity (Ziran), and non-coercive action (Wuwei). The proposed framework displaces the dualistic, mechanical body with a processual, relational, and phenomenologically rich understanding of the lived body, offering a culturally resonant and philosophically robust basis for reimagining PE. By advancing this counter-ontology, the paper contributes to ongoing international debates on the epistemological status of PE and offers pathways for restoring its centrality in nurturing whole persons and fostering human flourishing.
Physical activity guidelines commonly recommend that older adults engage in at least 150–300 min of moderate intensity aerobic activity each week, combined with muscle strengthening and balance training. Although this target is clear, measurable, and useful for public health monitoring, it may be insufficient when directly applied to community-dwelling older adults who are frail, multimorbid, socially isolated, digitally excluded, or constrained by unsafe environments and limited care resources. For these populations, the central challenge is not only whether they can meet a weekly exercise volume, but whether they can preserve the functional abilities needed for independent living, social participation, and active aging. This Perspective argues for moving exercise promotion for community-dwelling older adults beyond a narrow adherence-based view of the 150-min target and toward a function-oriented paradigm of active health. We propose an integrated framework that places functional preservation at the center, uses micro dose exercise as an accessible entry point, applies Behavior Change Techniques to translate recommendations into sustainable daily habits, embeds exercise within community life through social prescribing, and supports long-term participation through human and digital collaboration. This approach does not reject existing physical activity guidelines. Rather, it reframes them as flexible references that can be adapted to older adults’ heterogeneous bodily conditions, social contexts, and everyday routines. By shifting from exercise adherence to long-term functional integration, community-based exercise promotion can become more inclusive, equitable, and feasible for older adults who are most likely to be left behind by standard dose-based models.