9 research outputs found
Research model and hypothesis.
This study aimed to investigate the structural relationships between college educational satisfaction, the helpfulness of career support, and mental health, and how these factors influence the life satisfaction of late adolescents and young adults. The study utilized data from 550 Korean individuals 18–24 years of age who have experienced going to college, collected in the “2021 Youth Socio-Economic Reality Survey” conducted by the National Youth Policy Institute. Data analysis was conducted with SmartPLS 3.0 software, using a structural equation model with the partial least squares method. The mediating impact of mental health was validated using bootstrapping. The study yielded several key findings. First, college educational satisfaction, the helpfulness of career support, and mental health all exerted a significant and positive influence on the life satisfaction of young people. Second, college educational satisfaction was found to significantly positively affect youth’s mental health. Third, mental health was identified as playing a significant positive mediating role in the connection between college educational satisfaction and the life satisfaction of young people. The study underscores the importance of enhancing mental health, alongside improving college educational satisfaction and career support, to boost the life satisfaction of young people. Suggestions based on these findings are discussed.</div
Convergent validity and internal consistency reliability in the measurement model.
Convergent validity and internal consistency reliability in the measurement model.</p
Correlation relationships and basic statistics of the major variables.
Correlation relationships and basic statistics of the major variables.</p
Reduced infiltration of neutrophils and disruption of vascular barrier in the injured spinal cord in PAR-1 null mice.
<p>Aggregation of immunolabled GR1-positive neutrophils is evident in the lesion epicenter in both wild-type (A) and PAR-1 null mice (B) 24 hours after injury. Quantitative analysis reveals that the number of infiltrated neutrophils within the lesion epicenter is significantly lower in the PAR-1 null mice than in the wild-type mice (C). Such a difference in number between the 2 groups of mice is not apparent in segments rostral or caudal to the epicenter. The luciferase luminescence, which inversely represents the integrity of the blood-spinal cord barrier, is significantly decreased at the lesion epicenter in PAR-1 null mice as compared to that of the wild-type mice. (n = 7/genotype, means ± SEM, unpaired Student's <i>t</i>-test, *p < 0.05, **p < 0.01).</p
Improved motor function recovery in PAR-1 null mice after spinal cord injury.
<p>Representative pawprints show the walking patterns of the injured wild-type (A) and PAR-1 null mice (B) 42 days post injury as well as that of the uninjured PAR-1 null mice (C). After spinal cord injury, dragging of the hindlimbs with poor coordination is evident in the wild-type mice, whereas considerable improvement with weight-bearing stepping and slight external rotation of the hindpaws is consistent in the PAR-1 null mice. Injured PAR-1 null mice also show significant locomotor recovery, assessed by the Basso Mouse Scale, as compared to the wild-type mice (D). This result parallels the better performance of PAR-1 null mice on the inclined grid (E). (n = 10/genotype, means ± SEM, 2-way ANOVA for locomotor assessment, unpaired Student's <i>t</i>-test for inclined grid, *p < 0.05, **p < 0.01).</p
Improved locomotor recovery after the treatment with rAPC in spinal cord-injured wild-type mice.
<p>Administration of rAPC 20 minutes after the injury significantly improves locomotor performance of wild-type mice (A), starting from 14 days post injury, to an extent comparable to that of the injured PAR-1 null mice receiving no APC treatment. However, APC shows no additional benefit of functional improvements in injured PAR-1 null mice (B), suggesting that the effectiveness of APC is associated with PAR-1. (n = 10/genotype, means ± SEM, 2-way ANOVA,*p < 0.05, **p < 0.01).</p
Enhanced white matter sparing and reduced glial scar formation at the lesion epicenter in PAR-1 null mice 42 days post injury.
<p>Residual white matter is visualized by luxol fast blue staining using dark-field microscopy. Wild-type mice (A) have less residual white matter, mainly located at the ventral-most part of the spinal cord cross section, than the PAR-1 null mice (B). Such a difference in the size of spared white matter is statistically significant (C). The glial scar, characterized by intense GFAP immunoreactivity, is more widespread at the lesion epicenter in the wild-type mice (D) relative to the PAR-1 null mice (E). Boxed areas enclose part of the glial limitans, an interface separating the GFAP-quiescent areas (asterisks) in the lesion epicenter from the residual cord tissue. At higher magnification, more densely entangled astrocytic processes are apparent in the wild-type mice than in the PAR-1 null mice as demonstrated in the insets. As described in Materials and Methods, the quantitative analysis demonstrates that the total score of the glial scarring, which represents the severity of glial scar formation, is significantly lower in the PAR-1 null mice than in the wild-type controls (F). Scale bar = 500 μm. (n = 7 and 5/genotype for the measurement of spared white matter and glial scarring, respectively, means ± SEM, unpaired Student's <i>t</i>-test, *p < 0.05, **p < 0.01).</p
Immunolocalization of PAR-1 in the spinal cord of the wild-type mice.
<p>PAR-1 is expressed by neurons in the ventral horn in the uninjured spinal cord (A). At higher magnification, the PAR-1-positive neuron exhibits typical multipolar morphology of the spinal motor neurons (B). PAR-1 (arrow, C) also co-localizes with PECAM-1-positive capillaries (arrow, D) in the uninjured cord. After spinal cord injury, PAR-1 is expressed by reactive astrocytes 24 hours post-injury (E). These reactive astrocytes in the lesion show increased expression of GFAP and hypertrophic morphology (F) as demonstrated in the digitally merged image (G). Scale bars = 100 μm for A, C, D; 50 μm for B, E, F, G.</p
Additional file 1: Figure S1. of A novel antagonist of p75NTR reduces peripheral expansion and CNS trafficking of pro-inflammatory monocytes and spares function after traumatic brain injury
Complete PCA solution. To understand the relationship of behavioral outcome and innate immune cell responses, multivariate PC analysis was used. (A) PCA applies eigenvalue decomposition to the entire matrix cross correlations of all outcomes and clusters variables that move together as an integrated, optimally weighted linear composite (PC) to maximally explain the variance in cross-correlation. Once the first eigenvalue decomposition (PC1) is extracted, a second orthogonal (uncorrelated) decomposition calculated accounting for the second highest cluster of variance (PC2) and so on until all of the variance in the data set is partitioned into sequentially numbered PCs. The PC measures are rank ordered by the proportion of the total variance in the dataset that they explain. Standardized statistical PC retention rules are then applied to retain ‘significant’ PCs with eigenvalues > 1 and (B) PCs above the ‘elbow of the scree plot. (C) Interpretation of PC content based on PC loadings, which are equivalent to a pearson correlation between each variable and the PC composites. The PC loading pattern shows the contribution every single variable (outcome measures) on the extracted PCs. This analysis yielded 5 dimensional PC loading patterns (total, 80.55 % of variance). The PC1 module represented the relationship between neurological outcome and pro-inflammatory monocyte responses (27.13 % of variance). The individual PC score (see Fig. 9b) for each subject is the sum of the multiplied loading by the individual raw value of single outcome measures. The individual PC scores are used to define the impact of experimental manipulations on the relationship between outcome measures. (PDF 91 kb