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2. CALL Communities & Culture: Short Papers from EUROCALL 2016 (23rd, Limassol, Cyprus, August 24-27, 2016)
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Research-publishing.net (France), Papadima-Sophocleous, Salomi, Bradley, Linda, and Thouësny, Sylvie
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The 23rd EUROCALL conference was held in Cyprus from the 24th to the 27th of August 2016. The theme of the conference this year was "CALL Communities and Culture." It offered a unique opportunity to hear from real-world CALL practitioners on how they practice CALL in their communities, and how the CALL culture has developed in local and global contexts. Short papers from the conference are presented in this volume: (1) The impact of EFL teachers' mediation in wiki-mediated collaborative writing activities on student-student collaboration (Maha Alghasab); (2) Towards the development of a comprehensive pedagogical framework for pronunciation training based on adaptive automatic speech recognition systems (Saandia Ali); (3) Digital literacy and sustainability--a field study in EFL teacher development (Christopher Allen and Jan Berggren); (4) Self-evaluation using iPads in EFL teaching practice (Christopher Allen, Stella K. Hadjistassou, and David Richardson); (5) Amateur online interculturalism in foreign language education (Antonie Alm); (6) Teaching Turkish in low tech contexts: opportunities and challenges (Katerina Antoniou, Evelyn Mbah, and Antigoni Parmaxi); (7) Learning Icelandic language and culture in virtual Reykjavic: starting to talk (Branislav Bédi, Birna Arnbjörnsdóttir, Hannes Högni Vilhjálmsson, Hafdís Erla Helgadóttir, Stefán Ólafsson, and Elías Björgvinsson); (8) Investigating student choices in performing higher-level comprehension tasks using TED (Francesca Bianchi and Ivana Marenzi); (9) An evaluation of text-to-speech synthesizers in the foreign language classroom: learners' perceptions (Tiago Bione, Jennica Grimshaw, and Walcir Cardoso); (10) Quantifying CALL: significance, effect size and variation (Alex Boulton; (11) The contribution of CALL to advanced-level foreign/second language instruction (Jack Burston and Kelly Arispe); (12) Using instructional technology to integrate CEFR "can do" performance objectives into an advanced-level language course (Jack Burston, Androulla Athanasiou, and Maro Neophytou-Yiokari); (13) Exploiting behaviorist and communicative action-based methodologies in CALL applications for the teaching of pronunciation in French as a foreign language (Jack Burston, Olga Georgiadou, and Monique Monville-Burston); (14) Mobile assisted language learning of less commonly taught languages: learning in an incidental and situated way through an app (Cristiana Cervini, Olga Solovova, Annukka Jakkula, and Karolina Ruta); (15) Using object-based activities and an online inquiry platform to support learners' engagement with their heritage language and culture (Koula Charitonos, Marina Charalampidi, and Eileen Scanlon); (16) Urban explorations for language learning: a gamified approach to teaching Italian in a university context (Koula Charitonos, Luca Morini, Sylvester Arnab, Tiziana Cervi-Wilson, and Billy Brick); (17) Communicate to learn, learn to communicate: a study of engineering students' communication strategies in a mobile-based learning environment (Li Cheng and Zhihong Lu); (18) Using a dialogue system based on dialogue maps for computer assisted second language learning (Sung-Kwon Choi, Oh-Woog Kwon, Young-Kil Kim, and Yunkeun Lee); (19) Students' attitudes and motivation towards technology in a Turkish language classroom (Pelekani Chryso); (20) Vlogging: a new channel for language learning and intercultural exchanges (Christelle Combe and Tatiana Codreanu); (21) Japanese university students' self-assessment and digital literacy test results (Travis Cote and Brett Milliner); (22) Digital story (re)telling using graded readers and smartphones (Kazumichi Enokida); (23) HR4EU--a web portal for e-learning of Croatian (Matea Filko, Daša Farkaš, and Diana Hriberski); (24) Synchronous tandem language learning in a MOOC context: a study on task design and learner performance (Marta Fondo Garcia and Christine Appel); (25) What students think and what they actually do in a mobile assisted language learning context: new insights for self-directed language learning in higher education (Gustavo Garcia Botero and Frederik Questier); (26) An Audio-Lexicon Spanish-Nahuatl: using technology to promote and disseminate a native Mexican language (Rafael García-Mencía, Aurelio López-López, and Angélica Muñoz Meléndez; (27) The use of interactive whiteboards: enhancing the nature of teaching young language learners (Christina Nicole Giannikas); (28) A pre-mobility eTandem project for incoming international students at the University of Padua (Lisa Griggio and Edit Rózsavölgyi); (29) Can a "shouting" digital game help learners develop oral fluency in a second language? (Jennica Grimshaw, Walcir Cardoso, and David Waddington); (30) Feedback visualization in a grammar-based e-learning system for German: a preliminary user evaluation with the COMPASS system (Karin Harbusch and Annette Hausdörfer); (31) The multimodality of lexical explanation sequences during videoconferenced pedagogical interaction (Benjamin Holt); (32) Automatic dialogue scoring for a second language learning system (Jin-Xia Huang, Kyung-Soon Lee, Oh-Woog Kwon, and Young-Kil Kim); (33) Effects of task-based videoconferencing on speaking performance and overall proficiency (Atsushi Iino, Yukiko Yabuta, and Yoichi Nakamura); (34) Tellecollaborative games for youngsters: impact on motivation (Kristi Jauregi); (35) The Exercise: an Exercise generator tool for the SOURCe project (Kryni Kakoyianni-Doa, Eleni Tziafa, and Athanasios Naskos); (36) Students' perceptions of online apprenticeship projects at a university (Hisayo Kikuchi); (37) The effects of multimodality through storytelling using various movie clips (SoHee Kim); (38) Collaboration through blogging: the development of writing and speaking skills in ESP courses (Angela Kleanthous and Walcir Cardoso); (39) Cultivating a community of learners in a distance learning postgraduate course for language professionals (Angelos Konstantinidis and Cecilia Goria); (40) Task-oriented spoken dialog system for second-language learning (Oh-Woog Kwon, Young-Kil Kim, and Yunkeun Lee); (41) Promoting multilingual communicative competence through multimodal academic learning situations (Anna Kyppö and Teija Natri); (42) Teacher professional learning: developing with the aid of technology (Marianna Kyprianou and Eleni Nikiforou); (43) Quizlet: what the students think--a qualitative data analysis (Bruce Lander); (44) "Just facebook me": a study on the integration of Facebook into a German language curriculum (Vera Leier and Una Cunningham); (45) A survey on Chinese students' online English language learning experience through synchronous web conferencing classrooms (Chenxi Li); (46) Identifying and activating receptive vocabulary by an online vocabulary survey and an online writing task (Ivy Chuhui Lin and Goh Kawai); (47) Exploring learners' perceptions of the use of digital letter games for language learning: the case of Magic Word (Mathieu Loiseau, Cristiana Cervini, Andrea Ceccherelli, Monica Masperi, Paola Salomoni, Marco Roccetti, Antonella Valva, and Francesca Bianco); (48) Game of Words: prototype of a digital game focusing on oral production (and comprehension) through asynchronous interaction (Mathieu Loiseau, Racha Hallal, Pauline Ballot, and Ada Gazidedja); (49) PETALL in action: latest developments and future directions of the EU-funded Pan-European Task Activities for Language Learning (António Lopes); (50) Exploring EFL learners' lexical application in AWE-based writing (Zhihong Lu and Zhenxiao Li); (51) Mobile-assisted language learning and language learner autonomy (Paul A. Lyddon); (52) YELL/TELL: online community platform for teacher professional development (Ivana Marenzi, Maria Bortoluzzi, and Rishita Kalyani); (53) Leveraging automatic speech recognition errors to detect challenging speech segments in TED talks (Maryam Sadat Mirzaei, Kourosh Meshgi, and Tatsuya Kawahara); (54) Investigating the affective learning in a 3D virtual learning environment: the case study of the Chatterdale mystery (Judith Molka-Danielsen, Stella Hadjistassou, and Gerhilde Messl-Egghart); (55) Are commercial "personal robots" ready for language learning? Focus on second language speech (Souheila Moussalli and Walcir Cardoso); (56) The Digichaint interactive game as a virtual learning environment for Irish (Neasa Ni Chiaráin and Ailbhe Ní Chasaide); (57) Mingling students' cognitive abilities and learning strategies to transform CALL (Efi Nisiforou and Antigoni Parmaxi); (58) Taking English outside of the classroom through social networking: reflections on a two-year project (Louise Ohashi); (59) Does the usage of an online EFL workbook conform to Benford's law? (Mikolaj Olszewski, Kacper Lodzikowski, Jan Zwolinski, Rasil Warnakulasooriya, and Adam Black); (60) Implications on pedagogy as a result of adopted CALL practices (James W. Pagel and Stephen G. Lambacher); (61) Exploring the benefits and disadvantages of introducing synchronous to asynchronous online technologies to facilitate flexibility in learning (Salomi Papadima-Sophocleous and Fernando Loizides); (62) A CALL for evolving teacher education through 3D microteaching (Giouli Pappa and Salomi Papadima-Sophocleous); (63) Physicality and language learning (Jaeuk Park, Paul Seedhouse, Rob Comber, and Jieun Kiaer); (64) Designing strategies for an efficient language MOOC (Maria Perifanou); (65) Worldwide state of language MOOCs (Maria Perifanou); (66) A Spanish-Finnish telecollaboration: extending intercultural competence via videoconferencing (Pasi Puranen and Ruby Vurdien); (67) Developing oral interaction skills with a digital information gap activity game (Avery Rueb, Walcir Cardoso, and Jennica Grimshaw); (68) Using WebQuests as idea banks for fostering autonomy in online language courses (Shirin Sadaghian and S. Susan Marandi); (69) Integrating mobile technologies into very young second language learners' curriculum (Gulnara Sadykova, Gulnara Gimaletdinova, Liliia Khalitova, and Albina Kayumova); (70) Investigating commercially available technology for language learners in higher education within the high functioning disability spectrum (Georgia Savvidou and Fernando Loizides); (71) Learning languages in 3D worlds with Machinima (Christel Schneider); (72) What are more effective in English classrooms: textbooks or podcasts? (Jaime Selwood, Joe Lauer, and Kazumichi Enokida); (73) Mind the gap: task design and technology in novice language teachers' practice (Tom F. H. Smits, Margret Oberhofer, and Jozef Colpaert); (74) Language immersion in the self-study mode e-course (Olga Sobolev); (75) Aligning out-of-class material with curriculum: tagging grammar in a mobile music application (Ross Sundberg and Walcir Cardoso); (76) Meeting the technology standards for language teachers (Cornelia Tschichold); (77) Mobile-assisted language learning community and culture in French-speaking Belgium: the teachers' perspective (Julie Van de Vyver); (78) Classification of Swedish learner essays by CEFR levels (Elena Volodina, Ildikó Pilán, and David Alfter); (79) Mobile assisted language learning and mnemonic mapping--the loci method revisited (Ikumi Waragai, Marco Raindl, Tatsuya Ohta, and Kosuke Miyasaka); (80) CALL and less commonly taught languages--still a way to go (Monica Ward); (81) Demystifying pronunciation with animation (Monica Ward); (82) The effects of utilizing corpus resources to correct collocation errors in L2 writing--Students' performance, corpus use and perceptions (Yi-ju Wu); (83) A social constructionist approach to teaching and learning vocabulary for Italian for academic purposes (Eftychia Xerou, Salomi Papadima-Sophocleous, and Antigoni Parmaxi); (84) Flip-J: development of the system for flipped jigsaw supported language learning (Masanori Yamada, Yoshiko Goda, Kojiro Hata, Hideya Matsukawa, and Seisuke Yasunami); and (85) "Check your Smile", prototype of a collaborative LSP website for technical vocabulary (Nadia Yassine-Diab, Charlotte Alazard-Guiu, Mathieu Loiseau, Laurent Sorin, and Charlotte Orliac). An author index is included. (Individual papers contain references.)
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- 2016
3. Proceedings of the International Association for Development of the Information Society (IADIS) International Conference on e-Learning (Madrid, Spain, July 17-19, 2018)
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International Association for Development of the Information Society (IADIS), Nunes, Miguel Baptista, and Isaias, Pedro
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These proceedings contain the papers of the International Conference e-Learning 2018, which was organised by the International Association for Development of the Information Society, 17-19 July, 2018. This conference is part of the Multi Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems 2018, 17-20 July, which had a total of 617 submissions. The e-Learning (EL) 2018 conference aims to address the main issues of concern within e-Learning. This conference covers both technical as well as the non-technical aspects of e-Learning. The conference accepted submissions in the following seven main areas: (1) Organisational Strategy and Management Issues; (2) Technological Issues; (3) e-Learning Curriculum Development Issues; (4) Instructional Design Issues; (5) e-Learning Delivery Issues; (6) e-Learning Research Methods and Approaches; and (7) e-Skills and Information Literacy for Learning. Besides the presentation of full, short and reflection papers, tutorial and doctoral consortium, the conference also included two keynote speakers, Prof. Dr. Rosa M. Carro, Head of the Department of Computer Engineering, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain, and Prof. Dr. Ana Fernández-Pampillón Cesteros, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain. An author index is provided and individual papers include references.
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- 2018
4. Proceedings of the International Conference on Educational Data Mining (EDM) (10th, Wuhan, China, June 25-28, 2017)
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International Educational Data Mining Society, Hu, Xiangen, Barnes, Tiffany, Hershkovitz, Arnon, and Paquette, Luc
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The 10th International Conference on Educational Data Mining (EDM 2017) is held under the auspices of the International Educational Data Mining Society at the Optics Velley Kingdom Plaza Hotel, Wuhan, Hubei Province, in China. This years conference features two invited talks by: Dr. Jie Tang, Associate Professor with the Department of Computer Science and Technology at Tsinghua University; and Dr. Ron Cole, President of Boulder Learning Inc. The main conference invited contributions to the Research Track and Industry Track. 122 submissions were received (71 full, 47 short, 4 industry). 18 full papers papers were accepted (25% acceptance rate) and 32 short papers for oral presentation (42% acceptance rate) and an additional 39 for poster presentations, 3 demonstrations. The industry track includes all 4 submitted industry papers and 1 paper initially submitted as a full paper. The EDM conference provides opportunities for young researchers, and particularly Ph.D. students, to present their research ideas and receive feedback from the peers and more senior researchers. This year, the Doctoral Consortium features 6 such presentations. In addition to the main program, the conference includes 3 workshops: (1) Graph-based Educational Data Mining (G-EDM 2017); (2) Sharing and Reusing Data & Analytics Methods with LearnSphere; and (3) Deep Learning with Educational Data; and 2 tutorials: (1) Why Data Standards are Critical for EDM and AIED; and (2) Principal Stratification for EDM Experiments. [For the 2016 proceedings, see ED592609.]
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- 2017
5. Behavioural Design of Gamification Elements and Exploration of Player Types in Youth Basketball Training
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Feng, Zeping, Lau, Newman, Zhu, Mengxiao, Liu, Mengru, Refati, Rehe, Huang, Xiao, and Lee, Kun-pyo
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In Mainland China, the sports training process of most players is highly homogenized, the convergence of which makes them ineffectively be identified with their individual and specific profile and difficult for them to play the sports according to their strengths and characteristics. Moreover, existing sports training software does not differentiate between player types to provide customized persona. Therefore, efficient and personalized methods need to be provided to guide players towards more autonomous sports training. Current research shows that gamification design in the process of sports training can transform players' unique conscious behaviors into habits, thus increasing their autonomy. However, the current gamification design in sports training is only based on uniform gamification elements and does not take into account the player's motivation and gamification experience, which is one of the main reasons for the homogenization of sports training. Therefore, this study aimed to identify factors that contribute to the design of gamification systems in the field of sports training, as well as to determine the relationship between players' gamification experiences during sport. It will help the researchers to explore in depth the possibilities of learning environments for youth basketball training with the development of gamified experiences. This design-driven study performed both offline and online questionnaire research (N = 198), which was analyzed with the method of a 7-point Likert scale as well as the assistance of SPSS, identified potential for the establishment of a framework for analysing preferences for gamification design elements in the context of basketball training for young players. Based on the results, this paper finds that there is a correlation between immersion and achievement in gamification experiences and proposes a framework for gamification system design in the field of sports training and offers insight that may enable the development of gamification designs that can motivate players.
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- 2023
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6. Research on Intercultural Adaptation of Chinese Enterprise Personnel in Saudi Arabia
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Zhao, Guangcun
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Chinese enterprise personnel are faced with the problem of intercultural adaptation. Based on Black's theory of "three-dimensional" model of intercultural adaptation, this paper proposes a "four-dimensional" model of intercultural adaptation, namely, life adaptation, work adaptation, interpersonal adaptation and Chinese image adaptation. The research method of semi-structured in-depth interview is used to interview 23 Chinese people from one Chinese enterprise in Saudi Arabia, who have worked there for at least one year. We get findings as follows: (1) Life adaptation: maladjustment is mainly reflected in religious restriction. Especially, religious regulations and taboos make the life of Chinese enterprise personnel restricted. However, there are also many aspects of adaptation, such as Saudi cuisine, living environment and leisure life, which bring the satisfaction of life demands to Chinese enterprise personnel. (2) Work adaptation: foreign companies must employ a certain proportion of local people to work in their companies; the roles of buyers and sellers in Saudi Arabia and in China are different; the concept of time is different. (3) Interpersonal adaptation: Chinese people in Saudi Arabia still have the most frequent contact with their Chinese compatriots, and it is difficult for them to develop close friendship with foreigners. Chinese people are good at creating harmonious interpersonal relationships for work through some after-work activities, such as drinking tea, eating out and holding football matches. (4) Chinese image adaptation: Chinese enterprise personnel in Saudi Arabia have decent income, and Saudi police fail to check Chinese cars, all of which make the Chinese people have a positive face value. In view of the above four adaptation situations of Chinese enterprise personnel in Saudi Arabia, the following suggestions are proposed: (1) Be strict with yourself in life, respect local social and religious customs, and also keep a careful attitude and actively deal with disadvantageous factors. (2) While benefiting from working or doing business in Saudi Arabia, we should make contributions for the development of local economy and society, providing employment and training for local people. (3) We should observe the local laws and regulations, and also follow the local and international market rules. (4) In interpersonal communication, we should combine the maintenance mode of Chinese "guanxi" (relationship) with western "principle" on the one hand, and make a difference between them on the other hand. (5) In terms of image adaptation, besides maintaining a good image politically and economically, it is also necessary to improve our individual quality and our cultural cultivation overseas, be a communicator bridging Chinese and foreign excellent culture, and build a positive national image and individual image.
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- 2019
7. Economic Competition, Sustainability, and Survival Endurance: The Extinction of the Dodo, the Easter Island Case, and the Tragedy of the Commons Effect
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Moreira, Pedro
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A fast developing industry worldwide, tourism demands a monumental extent of resources, and at times devastates and condemns the very own environments that are fundamental to the economic survival of organizations and the sustainability of travel destinations. The purpose of the study is to link three established scientific themes on survival and sustainability to empirical results in the field of economic decision and behavior. The discussion of this link may also represent the originality value of the paper. Departing from the results of a series of decision games obtained under a quasi-experimental design, behavioral patterns were analyzed and extrapolated to explore the terminal effects of competition trends on the survival and economic viability of organizations and travel destinations in restricted environments. The findings show that the identified competition tendency neutralized an important share of the economic potential offered by the decision game, with significant negative effects on the economic efficiency. If persistent, the competition tendency is expected to produce long term effects on the sustainability and economic survival of organizations and travel destinations in restricted environments.
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- 2012
8. The First Study of Mating Mistakes in Stoneflies (Plecoptera) from China, with Remarks on Their Biological Implications.
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Huo, Qing-Bo, Zhu, Bin-Qing, Murányi, Dávid, Tierno de Figueroa, José Manuel, Zhao, Meng-Yuan, Xiang, Ya-Nan, Yang, Yu-Ben, and Du, Yu-Zhou
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STONEFLIES ,ANIMAL sexual behavior ,SIGNALS & signaling - Abstract
Simple Summary: Adults of stoneflies have diverse mating behaviors and complex signals for communication, but they are not always able to correctly recognize their mates. With the observations from several provinces of China, we provide the first study on the erroneous mating behaviors of stoneflies from this country. Three different categories of erroneous mating attempts involving 13 species belonging to three stonefly families are reported, and information on their physical competition, the sensorial mechanisms triggering the mating, the conditions favoring the mating mistakes, and the possible consequences of interspecific mating are discussed. Hitting and pushing with the head and abdomen could be the unique method employed in the male–male physical competition. Vibrational signals are considered not a prerequisite for triggering a mating behavior, while vision and/or touch could be a sufficient condition for triggering it, but they are not always efficient for species-specific recognition. Currently, information on the biology of Plecoptera from China is scarce, particularly on mating behavior. In this paper, the existence of mating mistakes (erroneous mating attempts) involving 13 Chinese stonefly species (belonging to nine genera and three families) is reported. These erroneous mating behaviors can be included into three different categories: mating attempts between conspecific males (including the formation of erroneous mating balls), mating attempts between different taxa (including displacement attempts during copulation), and mating-related behaviors with non-living objects. From these behaviors, some aspects of stoneflies during mating, such as the physical competition between males, the sensorial mechanisms implied in triggering a mating behavior, the conditions favoring the mating mistakes, and the possible consequences of interspecific mating in the hybrid production, are discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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9. Adherence Behaviors and Related Factors Among Elderly Hypertensive Patients in China: Evidence from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study.
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Liu, Fengyu, Chang, Huajing, and Liu, Xiaojun
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HYPERTENSION ,OLDER patients ,BLOOD pressure ,PUBLIC health ,SLEEP duration - Abstract
Background: Non-adherence or partial adherence is the main reason for poor therapeutic effect of hypertension. This paper aims to assess adherence behaviors and related factors among elderly hypertensive patients in China.Methods: Participants aged ≥ 60 years, with hypertension, and with complete data in 2018 interviews of the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS) were included. The adherence behaviors included medication, blood pressure monitoring and the combined adherence behaviors. Referring to the social-ecological theory, correlates of adherence behaviors were divided into three layers, namely demographic characteristics, health behaviors, living environment and retirement. Univariate and multivariable logistic regression models were performed to identify factors of adherence behaviors.Results: The prevalence of medication adherence (76.58%) was higher than that of blood pressure monitoring adherence (20.08%), and the full adherence rate was 18.53%. Self-rated health status, smoking status, living area, and health education status were detected to be associated with medication adherence and blood pressure monitoring adherence (all p < 0.05). Gender, sleep duration, health examination, and physical exercise were also detected to be associated with blood pressure monitoring adherence (all p < 0.05). Self-rated health status and health education status were detected to be associated with partially and fully adherence, while age, living area, and life satisfaction were detected to be associated with partially adherence, smoking status, sleep duration, health examination, and pension reliance were detected to be associated with fully adherence (all p < 0.05).Conclusion: Our study reveals the poor adherence behaviors of elderly hypertensive patients in China. This is most evident among those who were male, 60– 69 years old, living in rural areas, self-reported being healthier, those without health examination and health education. Targeting these vulnerable populations, we suggest to strengthen health education, increase the publicity of basic public health services and enhance the self-management ability of hypertensive patients. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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10. Mobile Users' Self-Disclosure Behaviour on WeChat: Application of Social Cognitive Theory.
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Ma, Liang, Ding, Xiaoyan, Zhang, Xin, and Zhang, Ge
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SELF-disclosure ,SOCIAL cognitive theory ,INSTANT messaging software ,STRUCTURAL equation modeling ,SOCIAL influence ,BEHAVIOR - Abstract
One of the most challenging issues confronting social media operators is how to increase users' activity and self-disclosure behaviour. However, more and more users are lowering their disclosures on social media, such as WeChat in China. Using social cognitive theory as a starting point while utilizing mobile instant messaging software WeChat as an example, this paper studies the dynamics that influence users' self-disclosure behaviour on WeChat from two aspects: individual factors and environment factors. A structural equation model is used to verify a conceptual model. The results show that, firstly, mobile users' self-disclosure behaviour on WeChat can be affected by both individual factors and environment factors. Specifically, individual factors, such as privacy concerns, negatively affect users' self-disclosure behaviour, while environmental factors, such as social influences, positively affect users' self-disclosure behaviour. More importantly, the research points to significant differences in self-disclosure behaviour between mobile users of different genders and ages. As such, the conclusions of this paper should provide key information for optimized operation of WeChat and other mobile information systems. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2020
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11. The Interplay of Earnings, Ratings, and Penalties on Sharing Platforms: An Empirical Investigation.
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Xu, Yuqian, Lu, Baile, Ghose, Anindya, Dai, Hongyan, and Zhou, Weihua
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SHARING economy ,INCENTIVE (Psychology) ,SHARING ,BUSINESS models - Abstract
On-demand delivery through sharing platforms represents a rapidly expanding segment of the global workforce. The emergence of sharing platforms enables gig workers to choose when and where to work, allowing them to do so in a flexible manner. However, such flexibility brings notorious challenges to platforms in managing the gig workforce. Thus, understanding the incentive and behavioral issues of gig workers in this new business model is inherently meaningful. This paper investigates how the incentive mechanisms of sharing platforms—earnings, ratings, and penalties—affect the working decisions of gig workers and their nuanced relationships. To achieve this goal, we use data from one leading on-demand delivery platform with more than 50 million active consumers in China and implement a two-stage Heckman model with instrumental variables to estimate the impact of earnings, ratings, and penalties. We first show that better ratings motivate gig workers to work more. However, interestingly, when ratings are employed together with earnings, the two positive effects of ratings and earnings can be substitutes for each other. Second, we reveal that higher past penalties discourage workers from working more, whereas, interestingly, workers with higher past penalties tend to be more sensitive toward an increase in earnings. Finally, we conduct follow-up surveys to understand the underlying mechanisms of the observed moderating effects from both psychological and economic perspectives. The ultimate goal of this work is to provide managerial implications to help platform managers understand how earnings, ratings, and penalties work together to affect gig workers' working decisions and how to manage high- and low-quality workers. This paper was accepted by David Simchi-Levi, entrepreneurship and innovation. Funding: This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China [Grants 72192823, 72172169, 71821002, 91646125, 72071206, 72231011, 72025405, and 72088101] and Program for Innovation Research at the Central University of Finance and Economics. Supplemental Material: The data files and online appendices are available at https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.2023.4761. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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12. Determinants of fertility control in Taiwan: an application of the Easterlin framework.
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Chang MC
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- Age Factors, Asia, Birth Rate, Breast Feeding, China, Contraception, Demography, Developing Countries, Educational Status, Family Planning Services, Asia, Eastern, Fertility, Infant Mortality, Infant Nutritional Physiological Phenomena, Mortality, Nutritional Physiological Phenomena, Parity, Population Characteristics, Psychology, Research Design, Social Sciences, Taiwan, Behavior, Contraception Behavior, Economics, Family Characteristics, Knowledge, Motivation, Multivariate Analysis, Population, Population Dynamics, Research, Sexual Behavior, Socioeconomic Factors, Statistics as Topic
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13. Analysis of the Game Behavior of Smart Community Regulatory Participants to Co-Create the Smart City: Post-Human Stakeholder Perspectives.
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Wan, Lijun, Li, Shanjie, and Yin, Shi
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MATHEMATICAL models ,PUBLIC administration ,BEHAVIOR ,INDEPENDENT living ,THEORY ,COMMUNITY-based social services ,SOCIAL skills ,SUSTAINABLE development - Abstract
The sustainable development of smart community is the key to China's grassroots governance and also the general trend of China's urban modernization. In the supervision of the smart community, the optimization of the behavior of the regulatory subject cannot be separated. Previous studies have focused more on how subjects participate in supervision and less on the behavior of stakeholders in the game. This paper analyzes the game behavior of regulatory participants in the process of sustainable development of smart community and studies the optimization strategy of regulatory behavior according to the game behavior logic among participants. The results show the following. (i) Government behavior plays a leading role in supervision. (ii) When the government invests resources in the screening of third-party evaluation agencies and service purchase and mainly adopts policy punishment methods for stakeholders with rent-seeking behavior, the probability of regulatory participation stakeholders' positive behavior is the greatest. (iii) The improvements should be made from the aspects of information network construction, the refinement of reward and punishment measures, and the improvement of evaluation party access rules. This not only helps to enhance the good supervision situation of the supervision enthusiasm of the participants but also can realize the self-discipline operation of the smart community and enhance the responsibility consciousness of the evaluation institutions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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14. The impact of chronic disease diagnoses on smoking behavior change and maintenance: Evidence from China.
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Xinxin Chi, Xihua Liu, Cong Li, and Wen Jiao
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STROKE prevention ,PREVENTION of heart diseases ,CHRONIC disease diagnosis ,SMOKING cessation ,CONFIDENCE intervals ,ACTIVE aging ,RESEARCH methodology ,SELF-evaluation ,BEHAVIOR ,COMPARATIVE studies ,DESCRIPTIVE statistics ,RESEARCH funding ,SMOKING ,EMPIRICAL research ,RETIREMENT ,LONGITUDINAL method ,OLD age - Abstract
INTRODUCTION Managing chronic diseases and tobacco use is a formidable challenge in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) with limited health literacy and access to quality healthcare. This study examines the empirical evidence from China, utilizing quasi-experimental approaches to assess the causal effect of chronic disease diagnoses on smoking behavior. METHODS Employing the diagnosis of chronic disease in the older cohorts of the population as a natural experiment, this study utilizes recent advancements in difference-in-difference estimation methods (CS-DID) to investigate the effect of a diagnosis on smoking behavior. Self-reported new diagnoses of conditions ascertained chronic disease diagnoses. CS-DID was run using the study sample from the 2011 to 2018 waves of the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study, comparing results with traditional two-way fixed effects and event-study models. RESULTS The average treatment effect (ATT) of CS-DID is slightly greater than the effects reported using conventional difference-in-difference methods. We found that diagnoses of cancer, heart disease, and stroke reduced smoking rates by 16% (95% CI: -24 -- -8), smoking intensity by 0.31 (95% CI: -0.46 -- -0.15), and had lasting impacts on smoking cessation behavior (one wave after diagnosis ATT= -0.17; 95% CI: -0.34 -- -0.00, two waves after diagnosis ATT= -0.17; 95% CI: -0.37--0.03). A diagnosis of a mild chronic disease, such as hypertension, diabetes, asthma, chronic lung disease, liver disease, or gastric disease, had more negligible and transient effects on smoking behavior. CONCLUSIONS Efforts to enhance smoking cessation in middle-aged and elderly patients with chronic diseases are crucial to improving health outcomes. The 'teachable moment' of chronic disease diagnosis should be seized to provide smoking cessation assistance to achieve the goal of healthy ageing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
15. Effect of boxers' social support on mental fatigue: Chain mediating effects of coach leadership behaviors and psychological resilience.
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Zhang, Defa, Lyu, Bei, Wu, Jingtao, Li, Wangze, and Zhang, Kaiyuan
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PSYCHOLOGY of athletes ,SOCIAL support ,LEADERSHIP ,BEHAVIOR ,PHYSICAL training & conditioning ,DESCRIPTIVE statistics ,QUESTIONNAIRES ,RESEARCH funding ,BOXING ,DATA analysis software ,SPORTS events ,MENTAL fatigue ,PSYCHOLOGICAL distress ,PSYCHOLOGICAL stress - Abstract
BACKGROUND: Athletic fatigue is an inescapable issue in competitive sports. It belongs to a physiological response that is triggered when competitive athletes are trained to a critical point. OBJECTIVE: The study aims to explore the relationships involving boxers' social support, mental fatigue, coach leadership behaviors and psychological resilience. METHODS: 1050 boxers were selected in several provinces across China and investigated on the basis of the Social Support Questionnaire for Athletes, Mental Fatigue Scale, Psychological Resilience Scale, and Leadership Scale for Sport. RESULTS: Boxers' social support was negatively correlated with mental fatigue and psychological resilience, while it was positively correlated with coach leadership behaviors. Apart from direct effects on mental fatigue, other impacts are imposed by boxers' social support via mediating effects such as coach leadership behaviors and psychological resilience. The total effect value was -0.18, the direct effect value was -0.08, and the indirect effect value was -0.12; furthermore, coach leadership behaviors and psychological resilience play a mediating role, accounting for 65.57% of the total. CONCLUSION: In order to alleviate the stress from intense competitive training and abate mental fatigue, competitive athletes may be encouraged in subsequent training to seek all-sided social support for social interpersonal relationships. While clarifying the mechanism how the external environment affects individuals, this paper explains the principle of social support on athletes' psychological fatigue and identifies mutual influences between coaches and athletes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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16. EXPLORING THE RISK TRANSMISSION CHARACTERISTICS AMONG UNSAFE BEHAVIORS WITHIN URBAN RAILWAY CONSTRUCTION ACCIDENTS.
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Bing TANG, Shengyu GUO, Jichao LI, and Wei LU
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CONSTRUCTION industry ,BETWEENNESS relations (Mathematics) ,BEHAVIOR ,RAILROADS - Abstract
Various construction accidents are proven to be caused by multiple unsafe behaviors (e.g., wrong use of PPE), but the risk transmission among different behaviors remains unclear. This paper provides insight into risk transmission through behavioral risk chain that leads to accidents from a system safety perspective. To better understand the coupling mechanism of various unsafe behaviors, integrate different behavioral risk chains and present the risk transmission process, a directed-weighted complex network (DWCN) method was adopted. Historical urban railway construction accidents in China are investigated to extract behavioral risk chain. A DW-BRCNA is applied to integrated behavioral risk chain and the behavioral risk transmission characteristics are explored and clarified by the five network properties, including degree and degree distribution, node strength and node strength distribution, average path length and diameter, weighted clustering coefficient and betweenness centrality. The results show that DW-BRCNA has the characteristics of a small-world, scale-free and hierarchical network, indicating that some unsafe behaviors are of greater importance in the process of risk transmission through behavioral risk chains. In addition, risk transmission in critical behavioral risk chains is more potentially to lead to accidents. This study proposed a new perspective of accident causation analysis from risk transmission among unsafe behaviors. It explains the risk transmission characteristics by a DWCN method based on behavioral risk chains. The findings also provide a practical guidance for developing control strategies on sites to prevent risk transmission and reduce accidents. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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17. Analysis of Factors Affecting Individuals' Online Consumer Credit Behavior: Evidence From China.
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Huiying Zhao, Huaxin Peng, and Wanqi Li
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CONSUMER credit ,CONSUMER behavior ,FACTOR analysis ,PUBLIC relations firms ,SOCIAL impact - Abstract
In the past two decades, a growing number of Chinese young adults utilize online consumer credit to satisfy their increasing consumption demand. Although it is indeed boosting consumer markets, it has also caused many serious social problems. A number of previous studies discussed the authentication mechanism and legal supervision of online lending from a legal or economic perspective, and a small number of scholars explored factors affecting individuals' online consumer credit from the perspective of behavioral psychology. Based on the Triandis model and existing studies on online lending, this paper constructs a theoretical model for the formation of individuals' online consumer credit. It then adopts SmartPLS 3.00 to analyze the data set that involves 302 respondents in total. This research found that affect, facilitating conditions, perceived consequences and social factors have a significant impact on individuals' online consumer credit. The findings of this study have political and practical implications. First, they can contribute to the rational consumption by China's young generation and promote the sound development of online consumer credit. In the meantime, this study also helps online consumer credit platforms to provide better services and improve public relations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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18. Workplace friendship, psychological safety and innovative behavior in China: A moderated-mediation model.
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Cao, Feiyuan and Zhang, Haomin
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TRANSFORMATIONAL leadership ,FRIENDSHIP ,WORK environment ,BEHAVIOR ,SAFETY - Abstract
Purpose: This paper aims to clarify the influences of workplace friendship, psychological safety on employees' innovative behavior and the moderated role of transformational leadership and face. Design/methodology/approach: The current research proposes and tests a theoretic framework to explore the mechanism of workplace friendship in influencing employees' innovative behavior. Based on a sample of 441 respondents from various Chinese companies, this paper used SPSS 22.0 and Amos 22.0 to examine the hypotheses. Findings: Results indicate that workplace friendship positively related to innovative behavior and psychological safety functioned as a mediator between them. Moreover, it examines the moderating roles of transformational leadership and face. Transformational leadership and desire to gain face strengthen the relationship between psychological safety and employees' innovative behavior but fear of losing face is negatively related to the strength of this relationship. Originality/value: The current research is meaningful for managerial practice. Then, the theoretical framework will contribute to providing a new perspective for understanding complex friendship at studies thus explore its boundary conditions, which help to lead to desirable outcomes. Besides, the findings advance nascent theory on face under oriental culture background. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2020
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19. The Effect of Shyness on Adolescent Network Problem Behavior: The Role of Gender and Loneliness.
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Wang, Peng, Yan, Yun, Gao, Fengqiang, Zhang, Ruifang, Wang, Jun, Zhan, Xiangping, and Tian, Yu
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VIDEO games ,BASHFULNESS ,LONELINESS ,BEHAVIOR ,CYBERBULLYING - Abstract
With the latest, rapid developments of the Internet, young people have become the main group in the online world. Congruently, Internet problem behaviors have shown a significant growth trend among adolescents. The present paper explores the factors affecting adolescents' problem network behavior from the perspective of their shyness, gender, and loneliness, and provides suggestions for guiding these young people toward using the network rationally. The study surveyed 5,130 teenagers from Shandong province in China to investigate the moderating effect of gender on the relationship between shyness and problem network behavior, and the mediating effect of loneliness on the moderating effect. The results indicated that the level of shyness among girls was significantly higher than that among boys, whereas the prevalence of cyberbullying, pathological Internet use, and Internet gaming disorder was significantly lower for girls than for boys. The relationship among shyness, cyberbullying, and Internet gaming disorder was found to be moderated by gender, and the problems of cyberbullying and Internet gaming disorder faced by shy boys were greater than those faced by shy girls. In addition, the moderating effect of gender on cyberbullying and Internet gaming disorder was found to occur through the mediating factor of loneliness. The paper concludes with a discussion of the theoretical significance and generalizability of our research results. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2020
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20. Behavior of volatility persistence in 10-year sovereign bond yields of India and China: evidence from component-GARCH model of Engle and Lee (1999).
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Bhat, Shariq Ahmad and Dar, Qaiser Farooq
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GOVERNMENT securities ,PERSISTENCE ,COINTEGRATION ,CHINA studies ,BEHAVIOR - Abstract
This paper investigates the volatility persistence in sovereign bond yields of India and China during study period of 2010–2018. For that purpose, the researcher has applied the Engle and Lee (in: Engle and Lee (eds) Cointegration, causality, and forecasting: a Festschrift in honour of Clive WJ Granger, Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp 475–497, 1999) C-GARCH model to decompose the volatility of 10-year sovereign bond yields of India and China into permanent and transitory components. The results reveal that permanent conditional volatility shows long memory with long-run component's half-life decay ranges from 91 to 97 days for India and China, respectively. However, the temporary component of volatility much smaller with short-run component's half-life decay ranges from.70 to.75 for India and China, respectively. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2019
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21. Data Based Violated Behavior Analysis of Taxi Driver in Metropolis in China.
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Jiao Yao, Yiling Ni, Jing Zhao, Huiwei Niu, Shanyong Liu, Yuhui Zheng, and Jin Wang
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EXPLORATORY factor analysis ,METROPOLIS ,DATABASES ,TRAFFIC safety ,TRAFFIC engineering ,BEHAVIOR - Abstract
Violation probability of taxi drivers in metropolis is far more than that of normal drivers because they are labor-intensive, overconfident of self-driving skill, and always searching potential customers, sometimes even picking up or dropping off passengers randomly. In this paper, four types of violated behavior of taxi drivers in metropolis were first summarized, based on which corresponding scale table was initial designed with social statistical method. Furthermore, with certain samples, relative item analysis, exploratory factor analysis, validity analysis and reliability analysis were conducted to verify validity of the initial scale table, based on which some improvements were made, and we can see that the modified scale table in the paper has high fitness degree, good reliability and validity to detect violated behavior of taxi driver accurately. Finally, large area survey data of taxi driver questionnaire from Shanghai was collected with the modified scale table above, the analysis results showed that among four types of violated behavior of taxi drivers in metropolis, the probability over-speed is top to 89.57%, in which probabilities of behaviors of "driving over-speed at mid-night" and "accelerating to across the intersection during the yellow signal" are top to 64.2% and 58.2% respectively, which is meaningful for the improvement of taxi drivers' behaviors specification and traffic safety regulation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2019
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22. What happens when “younger” helpers meet “older” recipients? A theoretical analysis of interpersonal helping behaviour in Chinese organizations.
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Chou, Shih Yung, Yang, Wenkai, and Han, Bo
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BEHAVIOR ,EMPLOYEE attitudes ,EMPLOYEE selection ,ASSOCIATIONS, institutions, etc. - Abstract
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to develop a theoretical model describing psychological states and behavioral outcomes experienced and exhibited by older generation interpersonal helping behavior (IHB) recipients in Chinese organizations. Design/methodology/approach – The paper draws upon relevant literature and develops a theoretical model. Findings – The analysis suggests that the extent of IHB that older generation Chinese employees receive from younger generation employees will lead to loss of mianzi, which will then result in reduced perceived generational guanxi, increased intended social isolation, and reduced intention to share task-related knowledge with the younger generation employees. The paper also proposes that perceived generational guanxi and intended social isolation will mediate the relationship between loss of mianzi and intention to share task-related knowledge with younger generation employees. Practical implications – Because mianzi is an important cultural feature in Chinese societies, this paper provides four implications. First, younger generation employees could preserve and/or enhance older generation employees’ mianzi using less powerful messages. Second, younger generation employees should initiate task behaviors involving seeking opinions and expertise from older generation employees before exhibiting IHB. Third, mangers could reduce the negative impact of generational differences by establishing generational mentoring relationships between younger and older generation employees. Finally, younger generation employees could preserve and/or enhance older generation employees’ mianzi by playing the role of an informal subordinate rather than a problem solver when exhibiting IHB. Originality/value – This paper is the first study exploring consequences of IHB from the perceptive of older generation IHB recipients in the Chinese context. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2014
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23. Predicting the implementation effect of the municipal solid waste mandatory classification policy based on the residents' behavior.
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Li Y, Chu Z, Zhang H, Huang WC, and Liu F
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- China, Cities, Humans, Public Policy, Urban Population, Behavior, Community Participation, Refuse Disposal, Solid Waste classification
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The rapid development of China's economy has led to a sharp increase in the municipal solid waste (MSW). China has promulgated the MSW mandatory classification policy. The implementation effect of such mandatory policy is an important concern to the government, scholars, and the public, but has not been extensively studied. This paper explores the implementation effect of such policy through assessing the waste classification behavior of residents based on the Cellular Automata model. The simulation results show that the residents will not adjust their MSW classification behavior during the time period when the mandatory classification policy is not implemented. But when the mandatory classification policy is imposed, the residents will adjust their classification behavior over time from t = 100 to t = 300. The results indicate that the extent of residents' participation in waste classification varies by different enforcement intensities. The higher the intensity is, the more rapidly the residents' MSW classification behavior improves. The results also indicate that the extent of residents' participation in waste classification varies by different urban population size. The larger the urban population size is, the higher the proportion of classification participation is. Implications: The implementation effect of the municipal solid waste mandatory classification policy is an important concern to the government, scholars, and the public, but has not been extensively studied. This paper explores the implementation effect of such policy through assessing the waste classification behavior of residents based on the Cellular Automata model. The simulation results show that the residents will not adjust their municipal solid waste classification behavior during the time period when the mandatory classification policy is not implemented. But when the mandatory classification policy is imposed, the residents will adjust their classification behavior over time. The results also indicate that the extent of residents' participation in waste classification varies by different enforcement intensities and different urban population sizes.
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- 2020
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24. Behavior predictability and consistency of mobile users' traffic usage between different years based on entropy theory.
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Tao, Yu, Cui, Hongyan, Nian, Yilong, Hong, Yuchen, Wang, Jilong, and Zhang, Honggang
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ENTROPY ,METROPOLIS ,BEHAVIOR - Abstract
Summary: Predicting mobile users' future traffic usage plays an important role for mobile operators to optimize their services. Although a variety of prediction methods have been proposed and applied to this issue, none of them could answer whether the users' traffic behaviors can be predicted. By employing the entropy theory, this paper analyzes the predictability of users' behaviors on traffic types and accounts. Moreover, the mobile network traffic data collected from a major city in China is utilized to test the entropy theory and reveal the accuracy levels. Furthermore, by comparing the prediction results between the years 2012 and 2014, a conclusion is drawn that a large portion of users' behaviors can be predicted, but their traffic usage habits become more difficult to predict in 2014 than in 2012. The results also imply that different entropies achieve more similar predictability in 2014 than in 2012, which indicates the consistency of users' behaviors. Overall, this study reveals the predictability and consistency of users' behavior, which is of great significance for mobile operators. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2019
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25. Rethinking vulnerability and human behaviour in arid and semi-arid regions in northwestern China.
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Zou Y, Xu J, and Zhang R
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- Agriculture, China, Conservation of Natural Resources, Humans, Urbanization, Behavior, Ecosystem, Environmental Monitoring
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The relationship between human behaviour and vulnerability is interactive, especially in arid and semi-arid regions. This paper analyses vulnerability and human behaviour in the core areas of Qilian Mountains National Park, which is located in Qilian and Sunan counties. We used the vulnerability index and grey correlation degree methods to analyse the data. The results show that from 2005 to 2017, the vulnerability degree in the Qilian Mountain area decreased gradually (Qilian County vulnerability decreased from 0.0357 to - 0.2237, and Sunan County vulnerability decreased from 0.1428 to - 0.4489). In 2017, the degree had reached its lowest value due to central and local government policy (- 0.2237 and - 0.4489). Considering that human behaviour contributed to the vulnerability degree, we find that land use and agricultural development mode, the acceleration of industrialisation and changes in the spatial patterns of human activities, and the development of urbanization and changes in resident identities are the main concepts driving the relationship between human behaviour and vulnerability. The innovative assessment indicators developed in this study can be applied to thoroughly explore the relationship between human behaviour and vulnerability and to find the influencing factors. Under certain conditions, this approach can be applied to vulnerability research in specific countries and regions.
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- 2020
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26. Analysis of the influencing factors of the unsafe driving behaviors of online car-hailing drivers in china.
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Xiao Y
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- Accidents, Traffic, Adult, Age Factors, China, Female, Humans, Male, Models, Psychological, Reproducibility of Results, Sex Characteristics, Surveys and Questionnaires, Automobile Driving, Behavior, Factor Analysis, Statistical, Motor Vehicles
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Online car-hailing drivers are a special group between professional drivers and private car drivers. The paper built the unsafe driving behavior model of online car-hailing drivers based on the theory of planned behavior (TPB), explored the socio-psychological factors underlying drivers' motivation for unsafe driving behavior and examined how these factors predict their behaviors. 239 online car-hailing drivers were surveyed with a self-reported questionnaire. Factors analysis proved the TPB questionnaire to be valid and reliable. Structural equation modeling showed that attitude to behavior (0.18), subjective norm(0.39) significantly influenced drivers' behavioral intention, perceived behavioral control (0.27) could both affected drivers' behavioral intention (0.27) and behavior(0.21),behavioral intention was the most direct and important predictor of behavior. This study provided a valuable contribution to designing more effective interventions to improve driving safety of online car-hailing drivers., Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
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- 2020
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27. I Am vs. We Are: How Biospheric Values and Environmental Identity of Individuals and Groups Can Influence Pro-environmental Behaviour.
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Wang, Xiao, Van der Werff, Ellen, Bouman, Thijs, Harder, Marie K., and Steg, Linda
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GROUP identity ,ENVIRONMENTAL psychology ,GREEN movement ,BEHAVIOR ,PSYCHOLOGICAL research - Abstract
Most research in environmental psychology is conducted in individualistic countries and focuses on factors pertaining to individuals. It is yet unclear whether these findings also apply to more collectivistic countries, in which group factors might play a prominent role. In the current paper, we test the individual-focused value–identity–behaviour pathway, in which personal biospheric values relate to pro-environmental actions via environmental self-identity, in an individualistic and a collectivistic country. Furthermore, we test in both countries whether a new group-focused pathway also exists, in which group values relate to pro-environmental behaviour via environmental group identity, particularly in collectivistic countries. Questionnaire studies were conducted among Dutch (N = 161) and Chinese (N = 168) students. Our results indicated that personal biospheric values, mostly via environmental self-identity, predict pro-environmental behaviour in both countries. We also found initial support for our newly proposed value–identity–behaviour pathway at the group level, particularly in China. Yet, in both countries, the association between group-level variables and pro-environmental behaviour was weaker than for personal-level variables, and partly overlapped with personal-level variables. Our findings show the relevance of personal- and group-level factors in understanding pro-environmental behaviour in both individualistic and collectivistic countries, which has strong theoretical and practical implications, particularly for developing international strategies to promote pro-environmental actions across the world. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2021
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28. Enhanced disclosure environment and stock dividend/split in China.
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Wang, Guojun, Wang, Yuetang, Yang, Dan, Zhang, Lu, and Zhu, Qingjing
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DIVIDENDS ,STOCK splitting ,DISCLOSURE ,BEHAVIOR ,INVESTORS - Abstract
This paper examines changes in firm behaviour around a regulatory change regarding stock dividend/split in China which mandates enhanced disclosure of such activities. Firms announce significantly fewer stock dividends/splits in the enhanced disclosure environment. The enhanced disclosure also improves the link of stock dividend/split activities with firm growth. Investors react less positively to stock dividend/split announcements in the enhanced disclosure environment. The findings suggest that more cautious announcement strategies and more rational investor reactions are consistent with a decline in false signalling. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2021
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29. The Trickle-Down Effect of Authoritarian Leadership on Unethical Employee Behavior: A Cross-Level Moderated Mediation Model.
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Rui, Jiang and Qi, Lin Xin
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LEADERSHIP ,SOCIAL learning ,MULTILEVEL models ,EMPLOYEES ,BEHAVIOR - Abstract
Authoritarian leadership is of great significance to eastern countries, including China. Meanwhile, unethical employee behavior also exists in all types of social organizations. The relationship between authoritarian leadership and unethical employee behavior is worth studying. Senior leaders (managers) often do not have a direct influence on employees except for through their immediate supervisors. The leadership style of senior leaders also influences the leadership style of their subordinates (employees' direct supervisors). This paper studies how authoritarian manager leadership trickles down to unethical employee behavior through authoritarian supervisor leadership (through social learning theory and ASA theory) and discusses the moderating effect of leader member exchange (LMX) and an ethical climate. Through a questionnaire survey of 406 pairs of leaders, supervisors, and employees, the research results of the multilevel model show that (1) authoritarian supervisor leadership is positively related to unethical employee behavior, (2) authoritarian supervisor leadership mediates the relationship between authoritarian manager leadership and unethical employee behavior, (3) LMX positively moderates the relationship between authoritarian manager leadership and authoritarian supervisor leadership and moderates the mediating effect of authoritarian supervisor leadership, and (4), that an ethical climate negatively moderates the relationship between authoritarian supervisor leadership and unethical employee behavior and moderates the mediating effect of authoritarian supervisor leadership. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2021
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30. Impact of workplace ostracism on unethical pro-organizational behaviors.
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Zhang, Suchuan
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WORK environment ,ORGANIZATIONAL identification ,BEHAVIOR ,DATA analysis - Abstract
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine the effect of workplace ostracism on unethical pro-organizational behavior (UPB), by focusing on the moderating role of value alignment of WPS. Design/methodology/approach: The theoretical model was tested using data collected from 434 employees in different companies from Shanxi provinces in China. Analysis of lagged data is used to empirically test the relationship between workplace ostracism and UPB. Findings: The study found that ostracized individuals are more likely to engage in UPB when they embrace high value alignment with the organization. Originality/value: This study examines the moderating effect of WPS, providing boundary condition for the relationship between workplace ostracism and UPB. So far, most of the empirical work has identified moderators that only buffer the relationship between ostracism and negative outcomes, and the result for moderators that actually determine pro-social responses has not yet to be discovered. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2020
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31. Monitoring vegetation change and their potential drivers in Yangtze River Basin of China from 1982 to 2015.
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Xu, Lili, Yu, Guangming, Tu, Zhenfa, Zhang, Yucui, and Tsendbazar, Nandin-Erdene
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VEGETATION monitoring ,VEGETATION dynamics ,WATERSHEDS ,BEHAVIOR ,BEHAVIORAL assessment ,GEOLOGIC hot spots - Abstract
Monitoring vegetation change and their potential drivers are important to environmental management. Previous studies on vegetation change detection and driver discrimination were two independent fields. Specifically, change detection methods focus on nonlinear and linear change behaviors, i.e., abrupt change (AC) and gradual change (GC). But driver discrimination studies mainly used linear coupling models which rarely concerned the nonlinear behaviors of vegetation. The two diagnoses need be treated as sequential flow because they have inner causality mechanisms. Furthermore, ACs concealed in time series may induce over/under-estimate contributions from human. We chose the Yangtze River Basin of China (YRB) as a study area, first separated ACs from GCs using breaks for additive and seasonal trend method, then discriminated drivers of GCs using optimized Restrend method. Results showed that (1) 2.83% of YRB were ACs with hotspots in 1998 (30.2%), 2003 (10.4%), and 2002 (7.6%); 66.7% of YRB experienced GC with 94.8% of which were positive; and (2) climate induced more area but less dramatic GCs than human activities. Further analysis showed that temperature was the main climate driver to GCs, while human-induced GCs were related to local eco-policies. The widely occurring ACs in 1998 were related to the flooding catastrophe, while the dramatic ACs in sub-basin 12 in 2003 may result from urbanization. This paper provides clear insights on the vegetation changes and their drivers at a relatively long perspective (i.e., 34 years). Sequential combination of specifying different vegetation behaviors with driver analysis could improve driver characterizations, which is key to environmental assessment and management in YRB. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2020
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32. The contextualization and de-contextualization of Confucian morality: Making Confucianism relevant to China's contemporary challenges in business ethics.
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Liu, T. and Stening, Bruce
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CONFUCIANISM ,CHRISTIANITY & culture ,CULTURAL policy ,BEHAVIOR ,BUSINESS ethics - Abstract
In response to serious ethical problems in China, Confucianism is being invoked as a possible solution. We argue that to apply Confucianism as a useful resource for developing business ethics in China, two processes are needed-contextualization and de-contextualization. This paper puts Confucian moral concepts back into their original context for more accurate interpretation and better understanding, and then discusses the adjustments that need to be made before applying them in today's business environment. Five important Confucian concepts- ren, yi, li, zhi, and xin-are examined and two suggestions are provided for the effective application of Confucian morality in business ethics in present-day China: the introduction of codified ethics and a clear focus on individual behavior. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2016
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33. The antecedents of salespeople's relational behaviors.
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Guo, Lei and Ng, Irene C.L.
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RELATIONSHIP marketing ,SALES personnel ,BEHAVIOR ,INDUSTRIAL marketing - Abstract
Purpose – This paper aims to examine the driving factors of salespeople's relational behaviors in the business to business marketing context. Design/methodology/approach – The hypotheses were tested through a quantitative study via an online survey. Data were collected from 224 salespeople dealing with business customers in manufacturing as well as service industries in China. Findings – The results showed that perceived consequences, affect-based judgment and salespeople's communal or exchange orientation influenced their relational behaviors. In particular, communal orientation, perceived reciprocity from the customer, and a liking for the customer positively affected relational behaviors, whilst exchange orientation had a negative impact on those behaviors. Originality/value – This paper provides a framework of the antecedents to salespeople's relational behaviors in the business to business marketing context, filling in the gaps found in previous research by studying the driving factors, not the outcomes, of individual salespeople's relational behaviors. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2012
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34. Experimental and Numerical Studies on the Evolution of Shear Behaviour and Damage of Natural Discontinuities at the Interface Between Different Rock Types.
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Wu, Qiong, Jiang, Yaofei, Tang, Huiming, Luo, Hongming, Wang, Xiaohan, Kang, Jintao, Zhang, Shu, Yi, Xin, and Fan, Liangliang
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SHEAR strength ,BEHAVIOR ,ROCKS - Abstract
Recent research has paid little attention to the shear damage of discontinuities with different joint wall material (DDJM). In this paper, we present an investigation on the evolution of the shear behaviour and the damage of three typical types of natural DDJM in a sliding-prone stratum of China. Experimental direct shear tests were performed on 14 pairs of natural DDJM specimens to examine the changes in the shear strengths and surface damages of the DDJM with increasing normal stresses and an increasing number of shear cycles by evaluating surface damages via damage zone distribution, damage area percentage, and variation of joint roughness coefficient (JRC). The results indicate that the differences in the shear damage between the two halves are closely related to the difference in strength of the two joint walls of the DDJM specimens with similar initial JRC values of the two joint surfaces. Simultaneously, parallel numerical direct shear tests were conducted in PFC3D. The performance of the numerical modeling was examined by comparing the parameters of shear strength, damage area and damage depth of DDJM specimens with those obtained in the experimental direct shear tests. Then the validated models were used to explore the evolution of the damage depth of DDJM specimens during the shearing process. The results demonstrate that the proposed numerical approach has the ability to reproduce the shear behavior and damage of DDJM reasonably and could be used to examine the internal damage of DDJM which are not easy to investigate via laboratory experiments. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2020
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35. THE DETERMINANTS OF WASTE-SORTING INTENTION AND BEHAVIOR AMONG CHINESE UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS: A CASE STUDY IN BEIJING.
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HAO, YU, WANG, LING-OU, CHEN, XI-SHENG, and WANG, LU
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UNDERGRADUATES ,PLANNED behavior theory ,WASTE recycling ,INTENTION ,BEHAVIOR - Abstract
In China, waste sorting has been tested in eight pilot cities for more than a decade. However, these pilot programs have shown little success. Given that waste sorting is a prerequisite for waste recycling, more attention and financial resources must be provided. Considering that among the entire population undergraduate students might be the most active and willing to engage in recycling, in this paper, the waste-sorting intention and behavior of undergraduate students in Beijing are investigated in depth. By adopting a model that comprehensively incorporates the expanded Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) and the Attitude–Behavior–Condition (A–B–C) theory, a questionnaire survey with data from 536 undergraduate students at eight universities in Beijing is analyzed by employing logistic and probit models. The estimation results indicate that the most important factors that affect students' waste-sorting intention and behavior include the attitudes of the surrounding people, a moral sense when failing to sort waste, and knowledge based on the students' subjective judgments. In comparison, situational factors have less impact on the dependent variables; however, some demographic factors may influence intention or actual behavior significantly. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2020
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36. Linking supervisor support to innovation implementation behavior via commitment: The moderating role of coworker support.
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Yang, Weiguo, Hao, Qi, and Song, Hongfeng
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EMPLOYEE attitudes ,SUPERVISORS ,BEHAVIOR ,REGRESSION analysis ,TECHNOLOGICAL innovations - Abstract
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to investigate how perceived supervisor support (PSS) affects employees' innovation implementation behavior (IIB), the psychological mechanisms of this relationship, and the role of perceived coworker support (PCS). Design/methodology/approach: Using a three-phase survey, data were collected from 307 employees of a state-owned coal company located in the central region of China. The study tests the hypotheses by using hierarchical regression analyses. The mediating effects and the moderated mediating effects are further examined by using bias-corrected bootstrapping methods. Findings: Affective commitment (AC) fully mediates the positive relationship between PSS and IIB, and this mediating effect can be moderated by PCS. Practical implications: Companies should foster supportive supervisors and colleagues by investing in appropriate training programs. In addition, managers should emphasize the psychological changes of employees and provide more supportive feelings for them. Originality/value: The study explicitly tests the entire causal chain implied by organizational support theory in predicting IIB. It specifies the different role of two similar support constructs (i.e. supervisor support and coworker support) in affecting employees' attitudes and behaviors. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2020
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37. Extending the theory of planned behavior to predict public participation behavior in air pollution control: Beijing, China.
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Xu, Zhihua, Shan, Jingzhu, Li, Jingmei, and Zhang, Wensi
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PLANNED behavior theory ,AIR pollution control ,RISK perception ,PARTICIPATION ,AT-risk behavior ,BEHAVIOR - Abstract
Public participation is playing an increasingly important role in the process of environmental protection, especially in some developing countries such as China. However, the studies that have focused on public participation in air pollution control, especially those that have used quantitative research, are comparatively insufficient in China. This paper investigated residents' participation intention and behavior in air pollution control in Beijing, China, and related the theory of planned behavior and the concepts of risk perception to analyze the formation mechanism of participation behavior. The results indicated a remarkable discrepancy between participation intention and behavior. Subjective norm was the major factor in predicting participation intention, followed by risk perception and attitude. Income was observed to have a negative effect on participation intention and a positive effect on participation behavior. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2020
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38. Political Connections and Firm Pollution Behaviour: An Empirical Study.
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Deng, Yuping, Wu, Yanrui, and Xu, Helian
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POLLUTION ,PUBLIC officers ,BEHAVIOR - Abstract
This paper uses Chinese data to examine the link between political connections and pollution discharge by firms. Our empirical results show that political connections are the institutional means by which firms acquire strategic pollution discharge protection. This situation may lead to inadequate enforcement of pollution control regulations. Government officials who are young, of low education, promoted locally, and in office for a relatively long time are more likely to build political connections with polluters. We find that the pollution discharge of politically connected firms also varies considerably due to firm heterogeneity. This study also shows that pollution protection effects caused by political connections are more evident in the Central and Western regions, and capital-intensive industries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2020
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39. Exploring the influence of paternalistic leadership on voice behavior: A moderated mediation model.
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Jia, Jianfeng, Zhou, Shunyi, Zhang, Long, and Jiang, Xiaoxiao
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MEDIATION ,EMPLOYEE participation in management ,LEADERSHIP ,BEHAVIOR - Abstract
Purpose: Drawn upon the perspective of implicit voice theory, the purpose of this paper is to explore the underlying mechanism as well as the boundary effect in the relationship between paternalistic leadership and voice behavior. Design/methodology/approach: Multiple-wave survey data from a sample of 368 employees in China were used to test the hypothesized moderated mediation model. Findings: The findings show that both benevolent leadership and moral leadership related positively to voice behavior, whereas authoritative leadership played a negative role in influencing voice behavior. Employees' implicit voice belief played a partial mediating role between paternalistic leadership and voice behavior. Furthermore, perceived HRM strength weakens both the mediation relationship among benevolent leadership, implicit voice belief and voice behavior, and the mediation relationship among moral leadership, implicit voice belief and voice behavior. However, the moderated mediation effect of implicit voice belief on the relationship between authoritative leadership and voice behavior is not significant. Practical implications: Leaders are encouraged to behave benevolently and morally whereas to avoid excessive authoritative style at work, so that employees can be encouraged to speak out. Organizations are advised to introduce management practices like training and development sessions and to improve employees' perceived HRM strength so that the implicit voice belief can be reduced, and the voice behavior can be stimulated. Originality/value: The research provided a fresh theoretical perspective on the underlying mechanism between paternalistic leadership and employees' voice behavior by unveiling employee implicit voice belief's partial mediating role between paternalistic leadership and employee voice behavior. Furthermore, the study contributed to the literature of voice by adopting a more integrative perspective and exploring the role of the implementation of the organization's system, i.e., perceived HRM strength that provided a boundary condition in the above mediation model. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2020
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40. Unethical leader behavior and employee performance: a deontic justice perspective.
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Gan, Chenjing, Guo, Weixiao, Chai, Yandong, and Wang, Duanxu
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JUDGES ,EMPLOYEES ,BEHAVIOR - Abstract
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine the mediating effect of deontic justice in the relationship between unethical leader behavior and employee performance, and whether leader–member exchange (LMX) moderates the effect. Design/methodology/approach: A two-time-point questionnaire survey was used to collect data from 225 employees of nine firms in China at two points in time separated by approximately three weeks. Findings: The hypothesized moderated mediation model used in this study was supported. Deontic justice mediates the negative relationship between unethical leader behavior and employee performance, and higher LMX tends to strengthen this indirect relationship. Originality/value: Previous scholars mainly focused on the cognitive and conscious thought process to explain employees' reactions to unethical leader behavior, and largely ignored the research on the nonconscious thought process. Drawing on deontic justice theory, this study extends the previous research on the nonconscious system of moral decision-making processing by introducing employee deontic justice as a mediator in the relationship between unethical leader behavior and employee performance and further exploring LMX as a boundary condition of this indirect relationship. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2020
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41. Why Am I Willing to Speak Up? The Impact of Spiritual Leadership on Employee Voice Behavior.
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Yang, Xuhua, Meng, Yuchen, Qiu, Yong, and Feng, Yaqian
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EMPLOYEE participation in management ,SOCIAL cognitive theory ,LEADERSHIP ,OCCUPATIONAL achievement ,BEHAVIOR - Abstract
The sustainability of organizations highlights the significance of inspiring employees, especially their inner lives or spiritual identities, and leaders play a vital role. Consistent with social cognitive theory, the purpose of this paper is to explore the linking mechanisms and conditional processes underlying the relationship between spiritual leadership and employee voice behavior. Three-wave survey data were collected from 366 full-time employees and their line managers, and a moderated mediation analysis was performed. The results show that career success expectation fully mediates the relationship between spiritual leadership and employee voice behavior. Additionally, felt obligation is found to indirectly strengthen the effect of spiritual leadership on employee voice behavior via career success expectation. In light of the results, practical implications are provided for managers and future researchers to enhance the sustainability of organizations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2019
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42. How does abusive supervision restrict employees' feedback-seeking behavior?
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Shen, Chuangang, Yang, Jing, He, Peixu, and Wu, Yenchun Jim
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SUPERVISION of employees ,ABUSIVE behavior ,PATH analysis (Statistics) ,REGRESSION analysis ,BEHAVIOR - Abstract
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore the restrictive effect of abusive supervision on employees' feedback-seeking behavior (FSB) through organizational-based self-esteem (OBSE) and the moderation of this mediation by leader-member exchange (LMX). Design/methodology/approach: This study conducted hierarchical regression and path analysis to analyze the 312 manager–employee dyads data gathered from five companies in China. Findings: The authors found that abusive supervision had a detrimental effect on employee FSB, partially through OBSE, and that both the direct and indirect effects were moderated by LMX. Practical implications: Organizations should seek to inhibit supervisors' abusive behavior in the workplace. Supervisors should not occasionally mistreat subordinates with whom they have a good relationship. Originality/value: This study reveals the underlying influence mechanism of abusive supervision on employee FSB using the self-concept theory and suggests that OBSE is critical in determining how abusive supervision influences employee FSB. Furthermore, LMX quality (especially high LMX) moderates the above mediation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2019
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43. A Case Study on the Asymmetric Deformation Characteristics and Mechanical Behavior of Deep-Buried Tunnel in Phyllite.
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Chen, Ziquan, He, Chuan, Xu, Guowen, Ma, Gaoyu, and Wu, Di
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ROCK deformation ,PHYLLITE ,TUNNELS ,SHEARING force ,MECHANICAL failures ,BEHAVIOR ,ARCHES ,DIGITAL image correlation - Abstract
When tunneling through deep-buried layered soft strata, asymmetric deformation of surrounding rock and asymmetric mechanical behavior of supporting structures are often encountered. This paper investigates the anisotropic mechanical properties of deep-buried carbonaceous phyllite and its influence on the asymmetrical mechanical behavior of supporting structures in the Zhegu mountain tunnel in Sichuan Province, China. It is a typical road tunnel that suffered from large asymmetrical deformation and cracking of the secondary lining due to layered strata and high geo-stresses. Firstly, experimental tests were conducted to investigate the influence of bedding angle on the mechanical properties and failure behavior of phyllite. Then, the UDEC numerical software was adopted to study the effects of the lateral pressure coefficient, rock layer inclination angle, bedding spacing and shear stress on the mechanical behavior of supporting structures. Moreover, a field test was conducted to measure the pressure between the surrounding rock and the primary support as well as the internal force of the steel arch and the secondary lining. Based on the field data and numerical simulation results, it can be concluded that the asymmetrical deformations of surrounding rock and the cracking of secondary lining in the Zhegu mountain tunnel were results of the coupling effect of layered soft rock and shearing action along the foliation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2019
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44. A Comprehensive Review of the Mechanical Behavior of Suspension Bridge Tunnel-Type Anchorage.
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Han, Yafeng, Liu, Xinrong, Wei, Ning, Li, Dongliang, Deng, Zhiyun, Wu, Xiangchao, and Liu, Dongshuang
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SUSPENSION bridges ,ANCHORAGE (Structural engineering) ,FAILURE mode & effects analysis ,BEHAVIOR ,ROCK testing - Abstract
The recent surge of interest towards the mechanical response of rock mass produced by tunnel-type anchorage (TTA) has generated a handful of theories and an array of empirical explorations on the topic. However, none of these have attempted to arrange the existing achievements in a systematic way. The present work puts forward an integrative framework laid out over three levels of explanation and practical approach, mechanical behavior, and calculation method of the ultimate pullout force to compare and integrate the existing findings in a meaningful way. First, it reviews the application of TTA in China and analyzes its future development trend. Then, it summarizes the research results of TTA in terms of load transfer characteristics, deformation characteristics, failure modes, and calculation of ultimate uplift resistance. Finally, it introduces four field model tests in soft rock (mainly mudstone formations), and some research results are obtained. Furthermore, it compares the mechanical behavior of TTA in hard rock strata and soft rock strata, highlighting the main factors affecting the stability of TTA in soft rock formation. This paper proposes a series of focused topics for future investigation that would allow deconstruction of the drivers and constraints of the development of TTA. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2019
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45. The interaction effects of information cascades, word of mouth and recommendation systems on online reading behavior: an empirical investigation.
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Liu, Qihua, Zhang, Xiaoyu, Zhang, Liyi, and Zhao, Yang
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ELECTRONIC books ,CONSUMER preferences ,MOUTH ,PANEL analysis ,INTERNET marketing ,BEHAVIOR - Abstract
While ranking systems, electronic word of mouth (eWOM) channels and recommendation systems might appear as three separate tools that influence consumer choice, consumers at online reading platforms are often exposed to all three simultaneously during a searching session of e-books. This study conducts an empirical analysis to examine the interaction effects of these three decision-supporting tools on online reading behavior. To do so, we collect a 25-week panel data set on Yuedu.163.com, which is one of the earliest online reading platforms in China. Our results indicate that informational cascades are particularly prominent on the online reading market. Under the influence of informational cascades, eWOM volume and valence have no impact on the clicks of e-books with high rankings, but have positive impact on the clicks of e-books with low rankings. Recommendation strength has a positive impact on popular e-books clicks, but has no impact on the clicks of less popular e-books. Moreover, we find that eWOM valence and recommendation strength have a substitute relationship in affecting the clicks of e-books with high rankings. However, eWOM and recommendation system have a complementary relationship in affecting the clicks of less popular e-books. To our best knowledge, this paper is the first to investigate the interaction effects of information cascades, eWOM and recommendation systems on online user behavior. Our findings provide important theoretical contributions and managerial implications. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2019
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46. Mobile Hailing Technology and Taxi Driving Behaviors.
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Wang, Yanwen, Wu, Chunhua, and Zhu, Ting
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BEHAVIOR ,WORKING hours ,TECHNOLOGY ,MOBILE apps ,TAXICAB industry - Abstract
This paper investigates the impact of mobile hailing technology with destination information on taxi driving behaviors and productivity change. This paper investigates the impact of mobile hailing technology on taxi driving behaviors. A controversial feature of mobile hailing applications in China is the disclosure of not only pickup locations but also drop-off destinations before drivers accept offers. It provides taxi drivers two different mechanisms to improve their hourly earnings: reducing cruising time and selecting more profitable trips. We examine 3.6-terabyte minute-by-minute geolocation data of 2,106 single-shift drivers in Beijing. A modified change-point model is proposed to infer the adoption decisions and estimate the changes in driving behaviors. We show that mobile hailing technology adoption is associated with an average increase of 6.8% in hourly earnings, equivalent to an extra CNY 750 monthly income. A typical taxi driver greatly improves hourly earnings through trip selection in favor of longer trips rather than aiming for cruising-time reduction. We find that the relative importance of cruising-time reduction and trip selection depends on driver skills and market conditions. We do not find market expansions on the number of trips or working hours, but rather a redistribution of realized trips toward long distances. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2019
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47. Characteristic Analysis of Unsafe Behavior by Coal Miners: Multi-Dimensional Description of the Pan-Scene Data.
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Tong R, Zhang Y, Cui P, Zhai C, Shi M, and Xu S
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- Adult, China, Humans, Middle Aged, Young Adult, Accidents, Occupational, Behavior, Coal Mining, Miners
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As a high-risk occupation, coal mining has many accidents, primarily due to the unsafe behavior of coal miners. Based on the research of analysis of unsafe behavior and pan-scenario data of miners, a theoretical framework for the analysis of unsafe behavior characteristics was proposed in this paper. The collected data were divided into realistic scenes and abstract scenes according to different manifestations; the pan-scene data were described from the eight dimensions of time, behavioral trace, location, behavioral property, behavioral individual, degree, unsafe action, and specialty using a quantitative method for the structure conversion; and the rules were discovered through cluster analysis and association analysis. A total of 225 coal mine gas explosion accidents were used for analysis, and the pan-scene data description and structure conversion of unsafe behavior that caused these accidents were realized. In a certain cluster, the distribution rules of dimensions and the interaction between different dimensions of unsafe behavior were explored after analysis. The results show that the proposed eight dimensions can fully explain the basic characteristics and attributes of the unsafe behavior of coal miners. The structure conversion can reduce the workload of managers and effectively improve the safety data processing capabilities, and the result of data analysis can provide data support and a management basis for safety management. A new method and thought for the data analysis of miners' unsafe behavior is provided.
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- 2018
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48. Slap or clap? Impact of controversial governance practice on media coverage.
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Wu, Chao, Lv, Rongjie, and Xue, Youzhi
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CONFORMITY ,SOCIAL impact ,SOCIAL sciences education ,AGENCY theory ,ATTRIBUTION of authorship ,MULTIPURPOSE buildings - Abstract
Purpose: This study aims to examine the impact of controversial governance practices on media coverage under a specific context. Based on the attribution theory, this study develops a theoretical framework to explore how antecedent factors can influence attribution process under a particular cultural context. Design/methodology/approach: This paper presents a behavioral view of the media and corporate governance to demonstrate how media attributes different reasons for the same controversial governance practice in Chinese-specific context. Using 1,198 non-state-owned listed company observations in China as the study sample, cross-section data are used to build a multiple linear regression mode to test hypotheses. Findings: The analysis indicates that the media imposes fewer penalties on founder-CEO firms than on non-founder-CEO firms for engaging in controversial governance practices, such as CEO compensation. CEO tenure negatively moderates the effect of CEO compensation on negative media coverage in non-founder-CEO firms. The positive media bias evidence for founder-CEO firms exists only when the firm is better performed. Social implications: This study's contribution to the governance literature starts with its logical reasoning of basic assumptions in the agency theory, and that media penalty will arise when managers impose actions that against interests of shareholders or other stakeholders. This study shows that the rule is not always true. The findings also bridge the connection of governance literature and reputation literature to better explain how media can act as a social arbitration role. Originality/value: This study provides insights into how belief and information of reputational evaluators affect attribution consequences on controversial governance practices. Moreover, this study looks beyond the internal elements and focuses on China's traditional cultural context as well. Specifically, the authors concentrate on the attribution process by showing the importance of evaluators' framing tendency with regard to controversial practices. The results extend the knowledge about how conformity makes media coverage shows a bias effect on interactions during the evaluation process. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2020
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49. The Impact of Inclusive Leadership on Employees' Innovative Behaviors: The Mediation of Psychological Capital.
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Fang, Yang-Chun, Chen, Jia-Yan, Wang, Mei-Jie, and Chen, Chao-Ying
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LEADERSHIP ,BEHAVIOR ,EMPLOYEES - Abstract
Employee innovation is the cornerstone of the organization, and the motivation for employee innovative behavior largely depends on the leadership style of the leader. With the economic development of society, the traditional authoritative style of leadership can no longer adapt to the psychological characteristics of employees, who use new-era work concepts, techniques, and social rules (hereafter, new generation employees). Inclusive leadership is based on the concept of "fully inclusive and equitable" in traditional Chinese culture, and it can adapt to the independent needs of new generation employees. At present, the research on the relationship between the traditional leadership style and employee innovative behavior is relatively extensive, but there is little research on the relationship between inclusive leadership style and employee innovative behavior, and this needs further exploration. This paper takes new generation employees as the sample and uses psychological capital as an intermediary variable to explore the influence of inclusive leadership style on the innovative behaviors of new generation employees. We found that inclusive leadership is significantly and positively related to new generation employees' innovative behavior. Theoretical and practical implications are discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2019
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50. Monitoring and Analysis of Dynamic Behaviour of High-Speed Trains in Long-Term Service using an Unattended Test System.
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Xin Ding, Xingqiao Ai, Yongsheng Li, Jintian Wang, and Zhendong Liu
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HIGH speed trains ,TEST systems ,DATA transmission systems ,BEHAVIOR ,INTELLIGENT transportation systems ,TELEMETRY - Abstract
Dynamic behaviour and its evolution are concerns for those operating high-speed trains. In this paper, a cloud server is applied to establish a connection between the vehicle-mounted equipment and users to decrease the influence of network instability. To ensure the accuracy and consistency of data transmission, MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport) protocol is used to transfer data measured from the vehicle. The paper discovers the vibration transfer characteristic and the evolution of the dynamic behaviour of several types of high-speed trains, along with wheel wear under several operation conditions, over time. The turbulence caused by high-order wheel polygonalization formed during long-term service, which cannot be weakened by the suspended system sufficiently, is harmful to the ride quality of high-speed trains. The results confirm the operational reliability of the high-speed trains in China and provide useful references for the optimisation and maintenance of high-speed trains. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2019
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