Based on the job demands-resources model and conservation of resource theory, this study investigated 456 Chinese college teachers’ work stress, stress mindset, resilience, emotional exhaustion, positive affect, and negative affect. The results of mediation analysis showed that resilience played a partial mediation role between work stress and emotional outcomes (emotional exhaustion, positive affect, and negative affect). Moreover, the results of a moderated mediation analysis showed that stress mindset moderated the relationship between work stress and resilience, and moderated the mediating effect of resilience between work stress and emotional outcomes (emotional exhaustion, positive affect, and negative affect). Specifically, work stress had a significant negative predictive effect on resilience when stress mindset is low (β = −0.54, p < 0.001); work stress could also negatively predict resilience when the stress mindset is high (β = −0.47, p < 0.001), but its effect decreased, and stress mindset negatively moderated the path between work stress and resilience. Finally, we discussed theoretical implications, practical implications, limitations, and future directions.

Job crafting benefits both employees and organizations by enhancing employees’ health, well-being, and performance. Therefore, it is crucial to investigate the individual factors that encourage job crafting and the conditions under which they operate. Based on Trait Activation Theory, this study examined the relationship between employees’ growth mindset and job crafting, as well as the moderating effect of job autonomy on this relationship. In Study 1, we conducted a situational experiment with 180 participants, manipulating growth vs. fixed mindset and high vs. low job autonomy. In Study 2, we surveyed 236 participants over three waves, collecting demographic data and growth mindset at T1, job autonomy at T2 (one month later), and job crafting at T3 (two months later). Results from Study 1 indicated that growth mindset significantly impacted job crafting, moderated by job autonomy. Study 2 confirmed this positive effect of growth mindset on job crafting and revealed a significant positive interaction between growth mindset and job autonomy. These findings suggest that employees with a growth mindset engage more in job crafting, with this relationship strengthened under conditions of high job autonomy. This study highlights job autonomy as a situational cue that activates employees’ growth mindset, enhancing proactive job crafting behaviors. This research advances the literature on positive work behaviors by establishing growth mindset as a direct antecedent and illustrating the moderating role of job autonomy, thereby enriching the understanding of conditions that foster a positive workplace environment.

Companion animals have increasingly become central to human emotional life, yet the literature linking living with companion animals, human–animal interaction, and mental health remains fragmented. This study mapped global research trends on companion animals and mental health from 2000 to 2024 using bibliographic records retrieved from the Web of Science Core Collection (WoSCC). A final dataset of 930 peer-reviewed articles was analyzed with Bibliometrix (RStudio), CiteSpace, and VOSviewer to characterize publication growth, national and institutional collaboration, influential authors and journals, co-cited references, keyword clusters, and citation bursts. Results show a strong nonlinear increase in output after 2015, with the United States as the dominant contributor and Australia and the WoSCC country node labelled England (distinct from Scotland) as important international bridges. Core knowledge clusters center on human–animal interaction, animal-assisted intervention, older adults, child/adolescent development, loneliness, attachment, and post-traumatic stress. Recent burst terms and references indicate a shift from general companion-animal caregiving and physiological stress buffering toward intervention design, vulnerable populations, and pandemic-era mental health. Overall, the field has matured into an interdisciplinary research area with growing methodological sophistication, but future work should strengthen cross-cultural evidence, longitudinal designs, standardized outcome measures, and explicit assessment of animal welfare.