@article{ref1,
title="Antidote or poison: the relationship between "lying flat" tendency and mental health",
journal="Applied psychology: health and well-being",
year="2024",
author="Lu, Huanhua and Hou, Jun and Wang, Jinli and Kong, Feng",
volume="ePub",
number="ePub",
pages="ePub-ePub",
abstract="Although &quot;lying flat&quot; has become a new youth subculture phenomenon, it is unclear whether &quot;lying flat&quot; is an antidote or a poison for the youth's mental health. Here, we explored the effect of &quot;lying flat&quot; tendency on mental health using the cross-sectional (Study 1a) and longitudinal designs (Study 1b) as well as the intervention design (Study 2). In Study 1a, we found that the youth's &quot;lying flat&quot; tendency was negatively correlated with their mental health. Importantly, cross-lagged analyses (Study 1b) found that &quot;lying flat&quot; tendency negatively predicted mental health 1 month later, suggesting the temporal directionality between &quot;lying flat&quot; tendency and mental health. In Study 2, we sought to examine whether a longitudinal video intervention could promote the youth's mental health by reducing &quot;lying flat&quot; tendency. The results showed that the eight-day inspirational video intervention significantly reduced the youth's &quot;lying flat&quot; tendency and promoted their mental health. Importantly, &quot;lying flat&quot; tendency mediated the relationship between the inspirational video intervention and mental health. Our study is the first to demonstrate the negatively predictive effect of the &quot;lying flat&quot; tendency on the youth's mental health and provides an economical, convenient, and effective intervention aimed at reducing the &quot;lying flat&quot; tendency to promote the youth's mental health.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1758-0846",
doi="10.1111/aphw.12556",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/aphw.12556"
}