Yang
Biographic Data
| ID | 4461 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Yang |
| FAMILY NAME | Yang |
| SIGNATURE | YANG |
| AFFILIATIONS | Inha University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9787-5617 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 70 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1119 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 70 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 14 |
Natural gas pipeline integrity management efficiency evaluation and prediction
Resolving the mystery of Chinese developmental dyslexia
Developmental dyslexia is a specific learning disability for which early identification and intervention are crucial. In alphabetic languages, phonological awareness and letter naming are well-established early markers of reading disorders. For developmental dyslexia in Chinese, a language that differs from alphabetic languages in multiple aspects, little is known about its early markers. Here, we report findings from a 2.5-year longitudinal beha…
All-pay contests with unordered cost asymmetry
Does Tourism Growth Influence Destination Residents’ Welfare in China? The Mediating Effect of Cuisine Diversity
This paper examines whether tourism can improve the diversity of cuisine and destination residents’ welfare. We constructed a theoretical model of tourism development-driven diversified welfare and found that, in open cities which receive tourists, non-tradable goods can be diversified by tourism development, which can enhance residents’ welfare. We further used cuisine diversity as a proxy of the diversity of non-tradable goods and established a…
Exploring the built environment impacts on Online Car-hailing waiting time
Can price regulation based on income groups help to solve the environmental-nutritional dilemma of the Chinese diet
Dietary adjustment is widely recognized as an effective way to solve the environment or health predicament, but price regulation's efficacy in balancing nutrition and sustainability remains unclear. This study evaluated the changes in environmental impacts and nutritional benefits of dietary patterns resulting from price regulation across income groups in China from 2000 to 2022. The results revealed that food expenditures in urban areas were sig…
Analyzing the typology and livability of 15-minute travel at metro stations in high-density cities
Impact of innovation drivers in Chinese cities
Institutional drivers for circular economy implementation in transitional housing
Provincial border effects on capital flows in China
Female top managers and layoffs
The Structural Contradictions of Capitalist AI
Rhythmanalysis of care
How growing up without siblings affects the adult brain and behaviour in the CHIMGEN cohort
The Cultural Accommodation and Linguistic Activities of the Jesuits in China in the 16th-18th Centuries
From the 16th to the 18th century, Jesuit missionaries in China pioneered inter-cultural exchange by integrating cultural accommodation with groundbreaking linguistic research. By adopting Confucian scholarly practices and systematically studying the Chinese language, they developed innovative approaches to Chinese phonetics, grammar, lexicography, rhetoric, and teaching. Their linguistic achievements not only facilitated missionary work but also…
Media Framing of Racial and Ethnic Narratives in the Winter Olympics and its Role in Shaping National Identity
Revisiting Transnational Activities
Immigrant mothers engage in numerous transnational activities. In this qualitative study, we explored one distinct type of transnational activity, a return trip to the home country for visit, as experienced by Korean immigrant mothers. Through purposeful sampling, 11 married middle-class Korean immigrant women with children were recruited to be interviewed during their visit to South Korea. By exploring the transcripts through the thematic analys…
Does Administrative Burden Influence Support for a Low-Income Child Care Supplement? Evidence from a Survey Experiment
The Canada-wide Early Learning and Child Care Plan promises to help low-income parents, especially women, participate in the economy. But even under this plan, care will be too expensive for many families. Several provinces offer targeted subsidies to reduce fees—unfortunately, these benefits are often hard to access and their popularity with voters is unclear. Using a pre-registered survey experiment (N=821), this research note investigates supp…
Life after Death Today in the United States, Japan, and China
When are trans women treated worse than trans men
Purpose This paper aims to test penis panic theory, which predicts that trans women will face more discrimination than trans men in some but not all situations. Design/methodology/approach Respondents were 262 American college students who were all enrolled in the same undergraduate course. They were presented with a case about coworker resistance to transgender employees' use of the workplace restrooms of their choice. Four versions of a case we…
Co-producing ethnicity in urban Asia
The articles in this special issue examine engagements across ethnic boundaries in Asian cities over the past two centuries.We see these cities as stages for the co-production of ethnicity, where multiple actors, including but not limited to state authorities, have attempted to define, manage, and challenge the social boundaries between their diverse inhabitants.These articles direct our attention to the convergence of three critical themes: the …
Earnings of persons with disabilities
Purpose Persons with disabilities (PWD) are among the largest and most diverse minority groups and among the most disadvantaged in terms of employment. Entrepreneurial pursuit is often advocated as a path toward employment, inclusion, and equality, yet few studies have investigated earning variation among PWD. Design/methodology/approach The authors draw on social cognitive career theory (SCCT), and the disability employment and entrepreneurship …
Young Generation's Perceptions of Same-Sex Sexuality and Attitudes Toward Same-Sex Marriage in South Korea
It is important to pay attention to the rights of lesbians and gay men within the global context of antidiscrimination. This study focused on the young generation's perceptions of same-sex sexuality and their attitudes toward same-sex marriage with revisiting Korean Confucianism as a conceptual framework. A total of 110 college students residing in the Seoul metropolitan areas of South Korea participated in this study. The study used participant-…
Women's peer to peer support inside a jail support group
Social support plays an integral role in health and well-being. Behind bars, support from peers on the inside is also beneficial, facilitating prosocial behavior, sobriety, coping mechanisms, and re-entry success. Social support frequently is delivered through supportive communication. However, it is not clear how such communication is enacted, as the majority of studies relies upon participants' recollections of supportive communication during a…
China's Belt and Road Initiative
a bundle of intertwined discourses, policies, and projects that sometimes align but are sometimes contradictory. We move beyond policy-level, macro-economic, and classic geopolitical analysis to study China's global investments "from the ground". Our case studies reveal the BRI to be dynamic and unstable, rhetorically appropriated for different purposes that sometimes but do not always coalesce as a coherent geopolitical and geoeconomic strategy.…
Social Inequalities in Happiness in the United States, 1972 to 2004
This study conducts a systematic age, period, and cohort analysis that provides new evidence of the dynamics of, and heterogeneity in, subjective well-being across the life course and over time in the United States. I use recently developed methodologies of hierarchical age-period-cohort models, and the longest available population data series on happiness from the General Social Survey, 1972 to 2004. I find distinct life-course patterns, time tr…
A Mixed Models Approach to the Age-Period-Cohort Analysis of Repeated Cross-Section Surveys, with an Application to Data on Trends in Verbal Test Scores
We develop a mixed (fixed and random effects) models approach to the age-period-cohort (AFC) analysis of micro data sets in the form of a series of the repeated cross-section sample surveys that are increasingly available to sociologists. This approach recognizes the multilevel structure of the individual-level responses. As a substantive illustration, we apply our proposed methodology to data on verbal test scores from 15 cross-sections of the G…
Age-Period-Cohort Analysis of Repeated Cross-Section Surveys
Yang and Land (2006) and Yang (forthcoming-b) developed a mixed (fixed and random) effects model for the age-period-cohort (APC) analysis of micro data sets in the form of a series of repeated cross-section sample surveys that are increasingly available to demographers. The authors compare the fixedversus random-effects model specifications for APC analysis. They use data on verbal test scores from 15 cross sections of the General Social Survey (…
A Methodological Comparison of Age-Period-Cohort Models
Age-period-cohort (APC) accounting models have long been objects of attention in statistical studies of human populations. It is well known that the identification problem created by the linear dependency of age, period, and cohort (Period = Age + Cohort or P = A + C) presents a major methodological challenge to APC analysis, a problem that has been widely addressed in demography, epidemiology, and statistics. This paper compares parameter estima…
How Africans Pursue Low-End Globalization in Hong Kong and Mainland China
This article looks at the livelihoods and lives of African traders coming to Hong Kong and Guangzhou. These traders are practising "low-end globalization", involving small amounts of capital, and semilegal or illegal transactions under the radar of the law. The article first considers who these traders are, portraying them as, typically, members of the upper crust of their home societies. It then considers these traders in Chungking Mansions, Hon…
Do birth cohorts matter? Age-period-cohort analyses of the obesity epidemic in the United States
The Intrinsic Estimator for Age-Period-Cohort Analysis
A new approach to the statistical estimation of age‐period‐cohort (APC) accounting models, called the intrinsic estimator (IE), recently has been developed. This article (1) further describes the IE algebraically, geometrically, and verbally, (2) reviews properties of the IE as a statistical estimator, (3) provides model validation evidence for the IE both from an empirical example and from a simulation exercise, (4) relates the coefficients of t…
Social Change and Socioeconomic Disparities in Health over the Life Course in China
This article examines social stratification in individual health trajectories for multiple cohorts in the context of China's dramatically changing macro-social environment. Using data from the China Health and Nutrition Survey, we find significant socioeconomic status (SES) differences in the mean level of health and that these SES differentials generally diverge over the life course. We also find strong cohort variations in SES disparities in th…
Spatial Distribution of Tourist Flows to China's Cities
This paper investigates the spatial distribution of inbound and domestic tourist flows to cities in China and their growth rates using exploratory spatial data analysis. This method is a set of GIS spatial statistical techniques that are useful in describing and visualizing the spatial distribution, detecting patterns of hot-spots, and suggesting spatial regimes. The global Moran's I statistics for inbound and domestic tourist flows reveal strong…
Bayesian Inference for Hierarchical Age-Period-Cohort Models of Repeated Cross-Section Survey Data
This study applies methods of Bayesian statistical inference to hierarchical APC models for the age-period-cohort analysis of repeated cross-section survey data. It examines the impacts of small sample sizes of birth cohorts and time periods and unbalanced data on statistical inferences based on the usual restricted maximum likelihood-empirical Bayes (REML-EB) estimators through Monte Carlo simulations. A full Bayesian analysis using Gibbs sampli…
China's Belt and Road Initiative
a bundle of intertwined discourses, policies, and projects that sometimes align but are sometimes contradictory. We move beyond policy-level, macro-economic, and classic geopolitical analysis to study China's global investments "from the ground". Our case studies reveal the BRI to be dynamic and unstable, rhetorically appropriated for different purposes that sometimes but do not always coalesce as a coherent geopolitical and geoeconomic strategy.…
How Does Functional Disability Affect Depressive Symptoms in Late Life? The Role of Perceived Social Support and Psychological Resources
This study examines the process whereby functional disability amplifies depressive symptoms through decreasing perceived social support and psychological resources. The study analyzed two waves of panel data (1986 to 1992) of a large sample of older adults from the National Institutes of Aging Established Populations for Epidemiologic Studies of the Elderly. The results of longitudinal change models and path analyses show that the perceived avail…
Hearthholds of mobile money in western Kenya
Kenyans use mobile money services to transfer money to friends and relatives via mobile phone text messaging. Kenya's M-Pesa is one of the most successful examples of digital money for financial inclusion. This article uses social network analysis and ethnographic information to examine ties to and through women in 12 mobile money transfer networks of kin, drawn from field data collected in 2012, 2013, and 2014. The social networks are based on r…
Confucian Family Values and Childless Couples in South Korea
The Korean family has long met Confucian values by producing children to maintain and support the paternal family line, but in South Korea's transition to a low birth rate, an increasing number of couples have remained childless. Have Confucian family values been abandoned? In this study, 103 young single South Koreans wrote protocols describing their thoughts about childless couples and having children. Most of them viewed childless couples nega…
How to Evade States and Slip Past Borders
This paper analyzes how traders, overstayers, and asylum seekers inHongKong and southChina experience and evade the state. It does this by utilizing two ofAnanyaRoy's key ideas-the organizational logic of informality, and "unmapping" as an informalization of the state. It considers the organizational logic of informality by examining the individual strategies followed by traders, overstayers, and asylum seekers in their conduct of low-end globali…
Sentimental value and its influence on hedonic adaptation
Sentimental value is a highly prevalent, yet largely understudied phenomenon. We introduce the construct of sentimental value and investigate how and why sentimental value influences hedonic adaptation. Across 7 studies, we examine the antecedents of sentimental value and demonstrate its effect on hedonic adaptation using both naturally occurring and experimentally manipulated items with sentimental value. We further test the underlying process l…
Specification Seeking
We offer a framework about when and how specifications (e.g., megapixels of a camera and number of air bags in a massage chair) influence consumer preferences and report five studies that test the framework. Studies 1-3 show that even when consumers can directly experience the relevant products and the specifications carry little or no new information, their preference is still influenced by specifications, including specifications that are self-…
Shame in Korean Families
Although shame may be a pan-human feeling and concept, it may be different in important ways from culture to culture. This paper offers a view of shame in Korean families. It is based on intensive qualitative interviews with a single informant who is also the first author of the paper. The paper outlines the cultural roots of shame in Korea, the central place of shame in the functioning of Korean families, the ways that shame in Korea is not only…
Barriers and Facilitators to Treatment Engagement Among Clients in Inpatient Substance Abuse Treatment
There is a call for drawing on client voice to provide a rich, nuanced understanding of factors influencing substance treatment engagement as to maximizing treatment benefits. We interviewed 60 clients in a short-term inpatient substance treatment program and examined facilitators and barriers to treatment engagement. Thematic analysis yielded four themes, including perceived treatment needs, trust and counselor rapport, peer inspiration, and org…
Population heterogeneity in the impact of body weight on mortality
When in China, drink as the Chinese do
2020). When in China, drink as the Chinese do: methodological considerations of alcohol consumption in research and fieldwork. Social & Cultural Geography: Vol. 21, Special Issue: Living Protocols, pp. 1029-1036
An Autoethnography of a Childless Woman in Korea
The study presented here explored the experiences of a Korean childless woman through self-reflection. The autoethnographic narrative describes the social encounters of the childless woman and how she constructs and presents her childlessness to others. It reveals her divided self experiencing ambivalence and inner conflict between her authentic self and her regard for cultural values. It shows her efforts to achieve the integration of the self a…
Analyzing the typology and livability of 15-minute travel at metro stations in high-density cities
Earnings of persons with disabilities
Purpose Persons with disabilities (PWD) are among the largest and most diverse minority groups and among the most disadvantaged in terms of employment. Entrepreneurial pursuit is often advocated as a path toward employment, inclusion, and equality, yet few studies have investigated earning variation among PWD. Design/methodology/approach The authors draw on social cognitive career theory (SCCT), and the disability employment and entrepreneurship …
Women's peer to peer support inside a jail support group
Social support plays an integral role in health and well-being. Behind bars, support from peers on the inside is also beneficial, facilitating prosocial behavior, sobriety, coping mechanisms, and re-entry success. Social support frequently is delivered through supportive communication. However, it is not clear how such communication is enacted, as the majority of studies relies upon participants' recollections of supportive communication during a…
An Investigation into the Problems of the Ages of Marriage and Reproduction
Using results of a 6 month 1981 extensive social survey in urban districts of Beijing Municipality this paper shows that there is not only a tendency for young people to shift their actual marriage age to an earlier time but also, their earlier marriage does not necessarily result in earlier reproduction. The key to the success of this work of separating marriage and giving birth after a proper interval lies in propaganda and education. Based on …
Shame in Korean Families
Although shame may be a pan-human feeling and concept, it may be different in important ways from culture to culture. This paper offers a view of shame in Korean families. It is based on intensive qualitative interviews with a single informant who is also the first author of the paper. The paper outlines the cultural roots of shame in Korea, the central place of shame in the functioning of Korean families, the ways that shame in Korea is not only…
"Chaemyoun-saving (Face saving)" due to Korean Job Loss
The paper reports on a qualitative analysis of ten personal interviews with unemployed men in Korea who lost their jobs due to the national economic crisis. The study design was exploratory in considering the unique sociocultural context of job loss in Korea. The following question was asked: "What were your greatest concerns after the job loss?" The findings of the study showed that the Korean unemployed men's greatest concern was "chaemyoun-sav…
The value tensions in Korean–American mother–child relationships while facilitating academic success
The current study explored mothers’ perspectives concerning their experiences in facilitating the academic success of their adolescents in American schools, using a naturalistic study design, data from transcribed personal interviews of 17 Korean–American mothers, and a phenomenological analysis approach (Giorgi, 1985, 1997). The purposes of this study were to (a) reveal the layers of context that influenced mothers’ thoughts, actions, and mother…
Self-Sacrificing Wife, Gruff Husband
A Methodological Comparison of Age-Period-Cohort Models
Age-period-cohort (APC) accounting models have long been objects of attention in statistical studies of human populations. It is well known that the identification problem created by the linear dependency of age, period, and cohort (Period = Age + Cohort or P = A + C) presents a major methodological challenge to APC analysis, a problem that has been widely addressed in demography, epidemiology, and statistics. This paper compares parameter estima…
When a caregiver is dying
What if a terminally ill person has the responsibility for caring for an elderly family member who cannot care for herself? And what if it seems that no person and no institution can replace the care she provides? The dilemma may occur in any society, and in each society there will be cultural understandings and resources for dealing with the situation. This paper focuses on Korea, turning to a best-selling Korean novel by Hee Gyung Noh for ideas…
Korean-American Mothers' Experiences in Facilitating Academic Success for Their Adolescents
The study reported a phenomenological analysis of interviews with 17 Korean-born mothers raising adolescents in the United States. The two research questions were: What does academic success mean to Korean-American mothers? What do they experience in facilitating the academic success of their adolescents? Results indicated that academic success meant admission to an Ivy League University by studying well and getting straight A grades. Mothers' ex…
Bayesian Inference for Hierarchical Age-Period-Cohort Models of Repeated Cross-Section Survey Data
This study applies methods of Bayesian statistical inference to hierarchical APC models for the age-period-cohort analysis of repeated cross-section survey data. It examines the impacts of small sample sizes of birth cohorts and time periods and unbalanced data on statistical inferences based on the usual restricted maximum likelihood-empirical Bayes (REML-EB) estimators through Monte Carlo simulations. A full Bayesian analysis using Gibbs sampli…
A Mixed Models Approach to the Age-Period-Cohort Analysis of Repeated Cross-Section Surveys, with an Application to Data on Trends in Verbal Test Scores
We develop a mixed (fixed and random effects) models approach to the age-period-cohort (AFC) analysis of micro data sets in the form of a series of the repeated cross-section sample surveys that are increasingly available to sociologists. This approach recognizes the multilevel structure of the individual-level responses. As a substantive illustration, we apply our proposed methodology to data on verbal test scores from 15 cross-sections of the G…
How Does Functional Disability Affect Depressive Symptoms in Late Life? The Role of Perceived Social Support and Psychological Resources
This study examines the process whereby functional disability amplifies depressive symptoms through decreasing perceived social support and psychological resources. The study analyzed two waves of panel data (1986 to 1992) of a large sample of older adults from the National Institutes of Aging Established Populations for Epidemiologic Studies of the Elderly. The results of longitudinal change models and path analyses show that the perceived avail…
Social Inequalities in Happiness in the United States, 1972 to 2004
This study conducts a systematic age, period, and cohort analysis that provides new evidence of the dynamics of, and heterogeneity in, subjective well-being across the life course and over time in the United States. I use recently developed methodologies of hierarchical age-period-cohort models, and the longest available population data series on happiness from the General Social Survey, 1972 to 2004. I find distinct life-course patterns, time tr…
Confucian Family Values and Childless Couples in South Korea
The Korean family has long met Confucian values by producing children to maintain and support the paternal family line, but in South Korea's transition to a low birth rate, an increasing number of couples have remained childless. Have Confucian family values been abandoned? In this study, 103 young single South Koreans wrote protocols describing their thoughts about childless couples and having children. Most of them viewed childless couples nega…
Age-Period-Cohort Analysis of Repeated Cross-Section Surveys
Yang and Land (2006) and Yang (forthcoming-b) developed a mixed (fixed and random) effects model for the age-period-cohort (APC) analysis of micro data sets in the form of a series of repeated cross-section sample surveys that are increasingly available to demographers. The authors compare the fixedversus random-effects model specifications for APC analysis. They use data on verbal test scores from 15 cross sections of the General Social Survey (…
The Intrinsic Estimator for Age-Period-Cohort Analysis
A new approach to the statistical estimation of age‐period‐cohort (APC) accounting models, called the intrinsic estimator (IE), recently has been developed. This article (1) further describes the IE algebraically, geometrically, and verbally, (2) reviews properties of the IE as a statistical estimator, (3) provides model validation evidence for the IE both from an empirical example and from a simulation exercise, (4) relates the coefficients of t…
Do birth cohorts matter? Age-period-cohort analyses of the obesity epidemic in the United States
Specification Seeking
We offer a framework about when and how specifications (e.g., megapixels of a camera and number of air bags in a massage chair) influence consumer preferences and report five studies that test the framework. Studies 1-3 show that even when consumers can directly experience the relevant products and the specifications carry little or no new information, their preference is still influenced by specifications, including specifications that are self-…
Social Change and Socioeconomic Disparities in Health over the Life Course in China
This article examines social stratification in individual health trajectories for multiple cohorts in the context of China's dramatically changing macro-social environment. Using data from the China Health and Nutrition Survey, we find significant socioeconomic status (SES) differences in the mean level of health and that these SES differentials generally diverge over the life course. We also find strong cohort variations in SES disparities in th…
Surviving as a qualitative researcher in a quantitative world
This autoethnography describes how a Korean woman made a decision to be a qualitative researcher, what she has confronted in a positivistic culture, and how she has survived as a qualitative researcher. The author, using self-reflection, raises issues of professional development, academic politics, and coping strategies for qualitative researchers
An Autoethnography of a Childless Woman in Korea
The study presented here explored the experiences of a Korean childless woman through self-reflection. The autoethnographic narrative describes the social encounters of the childless woman and how she constructs and presents her childlessness to others. It reveals her divided self experiencing ambivalence and inner conflict between her authentic self and her regard for cultural values. It shows her efforts to achieve the integration of the self a…
A Life History of a Korean Adolescent Girl Who Attempted Suicide
The present study explores the life history of a South Korean adolescent girl who attempted suicide. The study focuses on how sociocultural values affected her suicide attempt and how she made meaning out of the experience. The results revealed that her life history was a process of seeking independence and autonomy, and freeing herself from social stigmatization. The study highlights the need for professionals to examine the sociocultural contex…
How Africans Pursue Low-End Globalization in Hong Kong and Mainland China
This article looks at the livelihoods and lives of African traders coming to Hong Kong and Guangzhou. These traders are practising "low-end globalization", involving small amounts of capital, and semilegal or illegal transactions under the radar of the law. The article first considers who these traders are, portraying them as, typically, members of the upper crust of their home societies. It then considers these traders in Chungking Mansions, Hon…
Population heterogeneity in the impact of body weight on mortality
Spatial Distribution of Tourist Flows to China's Cities
This paper investigates the spatial distribution of inbound and domestic tourist flows to cities in China and their growth rates using exploratory spatial data analysis. This method is a set of GIS spatial statistical techniques that are useful in describing and visualizing the spatial distribution, detecting patterns of hot-spots, and suggesting spatial regimes. The global Moran's I statistics for inbound and domestic tourist flows reveal strong…
How to Evade States and Slip Past Borders
This paper analyzes how traders, overstayers, and asylum seekers inHongKong and southChina experience and evade the state. It does this by utilizing two ofAnanyaRoy's key ideas-the organizational logic of informality, and "unmapping" as an informalization of the state. It considers the organizational logic of informality by examining the individual strategies followed by traders, overstayers, and asylum seekers in their conduct of low-end globali…
Psychology (40 works) · Social Psychology (27 works) · Sociology (24 works) · Political science (21 works) · Geography (18 works) · Medicine (16 works) · Economics (15 works) · Business (12 works) · China (12 works) · Developmental psychology (12 works)