This study examined whether compensatory consumption mediates the association between financial stress and online borrowing behavior and whether financial literacy moderates the association between financial stress and compensatory consumption among Generation Z users of online lending services. A quantitative cross-sectional design was employed, involving 272 Generation Z participants in East Java, Indonesia, who were current or former users of online lending services. Data were collected through an online questionnaire and analyzed using structural equation modeling with robust maximum likelihood estimation. Financial stress was not significantly associated with compensatory consumption (β = −0.053, p = .343), whereas compensatory consumption was positively and significantly associated with online borrowing behavior (β = 0.549, p < .001). The indirect effect of financial stress on online borrowing behavior through compensatory consumption was not significant. Financial literacy also did not significantly moderate the association between financial stress and compensatory consumption. These findings identify compensatory consumption as a salient psychological correlate of online borrowing behavior among Generation Z, although it did not explain how financial stress was related to such behavior. The study contributes to the behavioral finance literature by demonstrating the importance of consumption-related psychological tendencies in understanding young adults’ use of online lending services. The findings also suggest that interventions addressing online borrowing should consider the emotional and symbolic motives underlying consumption, alongside financial knowledge and economic pressures.
Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly integrated into educational practices, creating new opportunities and challenges for students’ learning motivation. This study examined the association between self-efficacy and learning motivation and investigated whether peer support moderated this relationship among high school students using AI for learning. A cross-sectional study was conducted with 141 Grade 11 students in Jakarta, Indonesia. Bayesian correlation and hierarchical regression analyses were employed to evaluate the relationships among the variables. Self-efficacy showed a strong positive association with learning motivation (ρ = 0.75, 95% CrI [0.66, 0.81]) and substantially increased explained variance. Peer support showed limited evidence of a direct association with learning motivation. The self-efficacy x peer support interaction was small (B = 0.01, 95% CrI [0.00, 0.02]) and yielded BF10 = 0.02, providing evidence in favor of the null hypothesis rather than a reliable moderation effect. These findings identify self-efficacy as a robust correlate of learning motivation, whereas the role of peer support as a moderator remains unsupported in the present sample.
This scoping review mapped counselling approaches for adults living with HIV in healthcare and linked community settings. Scopus, PubMed, and ScienceDirect were searched up to 27 December 2025 for English-language original studies published between January 2021 and December 2025. Following predefined screening procedures, 14 studies were included. Data were independently charted by three reviewers and synthesised using narrative and thematic approaches. Four categories were identified: intensive adherence counselling, task-shared psychological care, peer-supported differentiated service delivery, and digitally mediated counselling. The studies most frequently reported improvements in ART initiation, medication-taking behaviour, retention, acceptability, and linkage to care, whereas evidence for sustained viral suppression was less consistent. More favourable outcomes were commonly reported when counselling was integrated with peer support, medication access, service redesign, or digital follow-up. Implementation barriers included stigma, inadequate privacy, staff workload, workforce shortages, incomplete referrals, and weak continuity with clinical care. Interpretation is limited by heterogeneous designs and outcomes, multicomponent interventions, English-language restrictions, limited database coverage, and the absence of formal quality appraisal. Future studies should standardise counselling content, exposure, fidelity, and outcomes and use longer follow-up periods.
Dating apps require users to make motivational choices while managing the impressions they convey to potential partners. This cross-sectional correlational study examined associations between activity-specific motivational experiences and assertive and defensive self-presentation among 235 Indonesian dating app users aged 18-40 years (M = 24.39, SD = 4.03) recruited through purposive sampling. Participants completed Indonesian adaptations of the 45-item Intrinsic Motivation Inventory (IMI) and the 63-item Self-Presentation Tactics Scale (SPTS). Because the distributions were non-normal, associations were tested using Spearman's rank-order correlations with 1,000-sample bias-corrected and accelerated bootstrap 95% confidence intervals. Value/usefulness (rₛ = .255, p < .001), perceived competence (rₛ = .188, p = .004), and interest/enjoyment (rₛ = .150, p = .021) were positively associated with assertive self-presentation. Relatedness was negatively associated with defensive self-presentation (rₛ = -.198, p = .002). All significant associations were small, and the remaining correlations were nonsignificant. The findings therefore support a dimension-specific, rather than global, relationship between motivational experiences and self-presentation tactics. Causal and population-level conclusions are precluded by the cross-sectional design and nonprobability sample.
Harsh parenting among pseudo-single mothers represents an important family issue because limited partner involvement in childcare may increase parenting demands and psychological burdens. This study aimed to examine the roles of social support, emotion regulation, and parenting stress in explaining harsh parenting among working mothers experiencing pseudo-single parenting conditions. A quantitative explanatory cross-sectional design was conducted involving working mothers who met the criteria for pseudo-single parenting. Data were collected using validated instruments measuring social support, emotion regulation, parenting stress, and harsh parenting, and were analyzed using Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modeling (PLS-SEM). The findings showed that social support contributed significantly to emotion regulation through cognitive reappraisal and expressive suppression strategies. However, social support did not directly reduce parenting stress but influenced parenting stress through emotion regulation mechanisms. Emotion regulation was associated with lower parenting stress, whereas parenting stress was related to increased harsh parenting tendencies. These findings highlight that psychological mechanisms play an important role in explaining parenting outcomes among pseudo-single mothers. Strengthening social support networks and enhancing emotion regulation capacity may provide important strategies to help mothers manage parenting stress and promote adaptive parenting practices.
