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. 2025 Feb 25;11(4):e42822. doi: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2025.e42822

Retraction notice to “Character strengths, meaning in life, personal goal, and career adaptability among impoverished college students: A chain-mediating model” [Heliyon 9 (2023) e13232]

Zhengzheng Lin a,b,, Yanqin Jiang a
PMCID: PMC11949136  PMID: 40201248

This article has been retracted: please see Elsevier policy on article withdrawal (https://www.elsevier.com/about/policies-and-standards/article-withdrawal)

This article has been retracted at the request of the Editor.

Post-publication, an investigation conducted on behalf of the journal by Elsevier's Research Integrity & Publishing Ethics team discovered suspicious changes in authorship after acceptance of this paper. Following acceptance, the author Yanqin Jiang was added to the paper without adequate explanation, which is contrary to the journal policy on changes to authorship. The Editor has determined that the authorship and the findings of the article cannot be relied upon, and has decided to retract the article.

The authors disagree with the retraction and dispute the grounds for it.


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