Psychological Development and Education ›› 2024, Vol. 40 ›› Issue (6): 824-831.doi: 10.16187/j.cnki.issn1001-4918.2024.06.07

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Gossip Is Distracting You: The Impact of Negative School Gossip on Middle School Students’ Mind Wandering in Class

DING Qian1,2, SONG Ziwei1, LI Mingwei1, LI Xiaotong1, ZHOU Zongkui2   

  1. 1. School of Education Science, Xinyang Normal University, Xinyang 464000;
    2. Key Laboratory of Adolescent Cyberpsychology and Behavior, Ministry of Education, Wuhan 430079
  • Published:2024-11-13

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Abstract: In order to examine the effect of negative school gossip on middle school students’ mind wandering in class and its mechanism, based on the executive failure hypothesis and sex-role theory, the present study constructed a moderated mediation model. By cluster sampling method, a sample of 778 junior and senior high school students was recruited to complete the negative school gossip scale, patient health questionnaire 4, and mind wandering questionnaire for youth. Results showed that: (1) After controlling for age, negative school gossip significantly positively predicted middle school students’ mind wandering in class; (2) Negative emotion played a full mediating effect in the relationship between negative school gossip and mind wandering in class; (3) Gender moderated the first path of this mediating effect, such that the indirect effect was much stronger for girls than for boys. These findings revealed the formation mechanism of adolescents’ mind wandering in class from the perspective of interpersonal stress and unhealthy emotion, which had a certain reference value for the intervention.

Key words: negative school gossip, negative emotion, mind wandering, gender differences

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  • G442
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