Yi-Hui Christine Huang
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 132167 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Yi-Hui Christine Huang |
| NOMBRES | Yi-Hui Christine |
| APELLIDO | Huang |
| FIRMA | HUANG Y C |
| AFILIACIONES | City University of Hong Kong |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2621-9700 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 34 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 14 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 34 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2009 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Media’s embrace of technology
The digital health capital framework
The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the adoption of e-health technologies while simultaneously amplifying existing digital health disparities. To identify the digital health divide, we propose the Digital Health Capital (DHC) framework, an integrated multidimensional measure including usage, literacy and transformative capacity, to scrutinize the digital health divide in the emerging technology landscape. Utilizing a mixed-mode dataset that com…
Vertical and horizontal trust in relation to post-pandemic resilience
OBJECTIVE: This study examines how vertical (institutional) and horizontal (in-group social) trust relate to post-pandemic resilience through threat appraisals (perceived severity and loss-based negative emotions) and coping appraisal (self-efficacy), and whether these associations remain stable across health-crisis contexts and over time. METHODS AND MEASURES: = 694). RESULTS: Across the two cross-sectional datasets, vertical trust was positivel…
Health Messaging During an Infodemic
This study used online survey data collected from four Asian cities to reveal how individuals' health beliefs are shaped in a time of trust deficits and changing media environments. We discovered a negative relationship between individuals' competence-based government trust and their anti-vaccine attitudes, thereby underscoring the important role played by trust in risk communication with individuals during public health crises. We further examin…
Immediate Affect, Enduring Cognition
Media attention plays a crucial role in shaping individual risk perceptions and health behaviors during health crises. However, extant research relying on cross-sectional data struggles to capture the temporal dynamics of media influence on preventive behaviors and the evolving mediating roles of affective and cognitive risk perceptions. To address this gap, this study proposed and empirically tested two alternative theoretical models: the affect…
Which Negative Emotions Drive Preventive Behaviors? Comparing Emotion Conceptualizations and Their Conditional Effects Across Health and Environmental Risk
5,531) to assess cross-risk generalizability. Results show that, in COVID-19, appraisal-based emotions outperform general negative emotions in predicting preventive behaviors, with loss-based emotions exhibiting stronger positive associations than ethics-based emotions. Moderation inferences are largely invariant across conceptualizations: cognitive risk perception does not moderate the emotion-preventive behavior associations, whereas macro-leve…
Determining or Mediating Media? Model Comparisons on the Role of Media and Risk in Shaping Preventive Behaviors During Crises
This study investigates the role of media in risk communication during crises by comparing two theoretical perspectives. The first paradigm views media as a determining factor, while the second sees media as a mediator. The study analyzes two survey data sets: cross-sectional data on nuclear waste issues from eight regions (Mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, Japan, South Korea, the United States, and the United Kingdom; N = 8,591) and …
Trust subdimensions as mediators between crisis response and satisfaction
Purpose This study aims to examine how crisis response content and form influence relational satisfaction, with trust – categorized as ability-based and benevolence-based – serving as a mediator. Design/methodology/approach Using demographically representative survey data from 3,515 respondents across Mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan, the authors used structural equation modeling to examine the mediating effects of trust and distinct roles of…
The Impact of Expert Opinions in Covid-19 News Coverage on Vaccination During the Fifth Outbreak in Hong Kong
The role of experts in news coverage has become increasingly prominent, but the evidence regarding the effectiveness of expert opinions in affecting public behavior remains mixed. This study seeks to examine the influence of expert opinions covered in the news on the public's response to public health crises. By adopting a macro-level framing perspective, we investigated how framing consistency, a macro-level concept indicating the agreement betw…
Navigating crossroads
International audience
From Frequency to Diversity
Public health emergencies underscore the importance of crisis information acquisition. This study validated its multidimensional measures (i.e., frequency, breadth, diversity, and repertoire) using a five-wave longitudinal survey ( N = 698) and a two-wave cross-topic survey ( N = 969). Results confirmed the reliability and validity of frequency, breadth, diversity, and repertoire across contexts and time. These measures correlated differently wit…
What drives public support for health policies ? The protection-motivated mediating model of institutional trust and risk paradox
This study examined how institutional trustworthiness shapes public attitudes toward the health policy across Mainland China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. Using stratified quota sampling to recruit participants from each region (Ntotal = 4812), we applied Protection Motivation Theory (PMT) to explore the roles of threat appraisal (perceived probability and unfamiliarity) and coping appraisal (self-efficacy and response efficacy). Our findings showed th…
Understanding the conditional media effects
This study analyzed three-wave panel survey data gathered from August 2020 (n = 3,190) to April 2022 (n = 1,153) in Hong Kong to examine the effects of conditional media on preventive behaviors during the COVID-19 (coronavirus disease) pandemic. By using the differential susceptibility to media effects model (DSMM), this study demonstrates the usefulness of trust as an effective cultivator of media exposure, especially with regard to the contradi…
Measuring up in a pandemic
This study examines the interaction effects of attention to COVID-19 information and perceived source credibility on the evaluation of government performance in the Hubei province of mainland China; the study is based on two waves of panel data drawn from a sample of 1896 respondents. The results demonstrated that COVID-19 information attention positively influences the evaluation of both central and local government performance. These direct rel…
The Media-Mediated Model of Information Seeking Behavior
This study aims to unravel the key determinants of individuals’ information seeking behavior during health crises. It challenges conventional perspectives that solely emphasize individual experiences. It also undermines frameworks that draw direct parallels between individual experiences and media factors, disregarding the mediating role of media. Models like the Comprehensive Model of Information Seeking (CMIS) also have limitations as they prio…
A context‐sensitive collectivism during the Covid ‐19 pandemic
This study investigates individuals' adoption of containment measures (e.g., wearing masks) from the perspectives of cultural values and trust in two countries—China and the US. Distinguished from previous definitions that characterise cultural values as rigid and fixed concepts, this study reconceptualizes collectivism to be a context‐sensitive construct. With survey data from a collectivism‐prevalent culture (China, n = 1578) and an individuali…
Rallying around the vaccine
This article presents new arguments on the role of trust in the government and nationalist sentiments in fostering policy-compliant behaviors. In July and September 2020, we launched two waves of a COVID-related survey in China with stratified quota sampling, and formed a longitudinal panel dataset of 822 responses. Based on the data, we examined how risk perceptions and nationalist sentiments jointly elicited trust in government agencies and, co…
Assessing the Interplay Between Public Attention and Government Responsiveness With Digital Trace Data
China’s digital campaign to “vaccinate all who can be vaccinated,” officially launched in December 2020, carries global implications. Grounded in the agenda-setting framework to reveal how the responses of different groups are shaped and their agendas interact, this study analyzed two years of Sina Weibo (the largest Chinese microblogging service) and Baidu (the leading search engine in China) search index data to investigate the interrelationshi…
Fake news in a time of plague
Examining the Pathways From Information Acquisition to Preventive Behaviors
This study proposed an information-response model, which hypothesized that information acquisition determines individuals’ preventive behaviors during the pandemic through cognitive, affective, and instrumental processes. Through a two-wave survey ( N = 1,501) conducted in Hong Kong, results revealed that information acquisition was associated with perceived risk, perceived efficacy, affective response, and preventive behaviors. Moreover, source …
Victim, villain, or scapegoat? Mediating organizational crises embedded in social problems and the transformation of order
Western crisis communication theories focusing on individual attribution and stable underlying norms fail to account for crises embedded in larger social problems that lead to regulatory changes. By analysing three cases that Chinese crisis managers initially identified as “commission”, “control” and “agreement” situations (Bradford & Garrett, 1995 Bradford, J. L., & Garrett, D. E. (1995). The effectiveness of corporate communicative responses to…
Self-Transcendence
The COVID-19 pandemic and the steps governments took to combat it tormented societies across the globe. Accordingly, existential positive psychologists have emphasized the importance of self-transcendence in mitigating the distress and agony caused by prolonged and rigorous health measures. In this cross-cultural study, the correlation between self-transcendence, people’s confidence in government, and democracy was examined. Based on the findings…
Country/Region Level Pandemic Severity Moderates the Relationships among Risk Experience, Perceived Life Satisfaction, and Psychological Distress in Covid-19
Scholars and communications practitioners worldwide have sought novel resilience models amid heightened rates of psychological distress caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. We examined perceived life satisfaction as a determinant of resilience. Additionally, we investigated the assumption that perceived pandemic severity at the country/region level moderates structural relationships within our risk-resilience model. Analyzing more than 34,000 valid s…
A Shot in the Arm for Vaccination Intention
This large-sample study of three Chinese societies-Mainland China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong-demonstrates the importance of media exposure for people's vaccination intentions during the COVID-19 pandemic. By employing two constructs (i.e., perceived susceptibility and severity) in the health belief model (HBM), the study identifies significant indirect effects of media exposure on individuals' vaccination intention in all three Chinese societies. Tha…
The paradoxical effects of institutional trust on risk perception and risk management in the Covid-19 pandemic
Adopting the theoretical lenses of social amplification of risk framework and trust paradox, this study examines how people’s attention to media information influences their risk perception and risk management behaviors (i.e. vaccination intention) in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic in three Chinese societies (i.e. Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Mainland China). A total of 9,575 valid samples were obtained via online survey panels. The results revea…
The paradoxical effects of institutional trust on risk perception and risk management in the Covid-19 pandemic
Adopting the theoretical lenses of social amplification of risk framework and trust paradox, this study examines how people’s attention to media information influences their risk perception and risk management behaviors (i.e. vaccination intention) in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic in three Chinese societies (i.e. Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Mainland China). A total of 9,575 valid samples were obtained via online survey panels. The results revea…
How trust and dialogue shape political participation in mainland China
This study aims to examine how the perceived propinquity of government (defined by responsiveness and transparency) influences citizens’ perception about government and affects the relationship between political trust and contact-type political participation in mainland China. Specifically, we believe that trust in government’s ability, benevolence and integrity matter more to contact-type political participation under a high level of perceived d…
Contextuality, Commensurability, and Comparability in Comparative Research
To ward off naïve universalism, researchers are urged to stay context sensitive in conducting comparative research. But robust hypothesis testing requires making comparisons across cultures with not only different traditions but also different knowledge paradigms, which in turn calls for more sophisticated contextualization and thicker interpretations that risk eroding the basis of comparison. To respond to these issues, this study has used resea…
Examining the Pathways From Information Acquisition to Preventive Behaviors
This study proposed an information-response model, which hypothesized that information acquisition determines individuals’ preventive behaviors during the pandemic through cognitive, affective, and instrumental processes. Through a two-wave survey ( N = 1,501) conducted in Hong Kong, results revealed that information acquisition was associated with perceived risk, perceived efficacy, affective response, and preventive behaviors. Moreover, source …
Making the Long March Online
This study examines the authoritarian conditioning of political expression on social media in three Chinese societiesby analyzing three parallel surveys comprising 6942 respondents from mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. Results demonstrate that the use of social media to gather political information triggers politically expressive use of social media and indirectly predicts offline non-institutionalized political participation. Individuals' …
Examining the Role of Trust in Regulators in Food Safety Risk Assessment
Considerable efforts have been made to depict the causal patterns of trust, risk perception, and risk acceptance. Yet, it remains far from clear whether the established models are over-simplistic and to what extent the observed associations are contingent upon risk contexts. Extending the theorizing based on the Causal Chain model, this study adopts a comparative approach to examining the role of trust in regulators in the case of post-Fukushima …
The Role of Cross-Cultural Factors in Integrative Conflict Resolution and Crisis Communication
This article offers an integrated theoretical and policy-oriented framework for cross-cultural conflict resolution by exploring relationships among conflict resolution styles and crisis communicative strategies with emphasis on both conflict structure and cross-cultural factors. Using the Hainan negotiation between China and the United States as a case study, the factors inherent in conflict are investigated with respect to Chinese cultural chara…
Contextuality, Commensurability, and Comparability in Comparative Research
To ward off naïve universalism, researchers are urged to stay context sensitive in conducting comparative research. But robust hypothesis testing requires making comparisons across cultures with not only different traditions but also different knowledge paradigms, which in turn calls for more sophisticated contextualization and thicker interpretations that risk eroding the basis of comparison. To respond to these issues, this study has used resea…
How trust and dialogue shape political participation in mainland China
This study aims to examine how the perceived propinquity of government (defined by responsiveness and transparency) influences citizens’ perception about government and affects the relationship between political trust and contact-type political participation in mainland China. Specifically, we believe that trust in government’s ability, benevolence and integrity matter more to contact-type political participation under a high level of perceived d…
The relational orientation framework for examining culture in Chinese societies
Individualist and collectivist cultural frameworks have been the dominant research paradigm in cross-cultural studies despite evidence of conceptual and measurement problems with collectivism. We propose a new theoretical framework of psychological functioning in Chinese societies that captures some of the useful elements of collectivism without its drawbacks. The relational orientation framework takes into account the variety of relations in an …
Mainframes and mandarins
Reimagining a glocal framework
This paper provides a national narrative of the rise of public relations (PR) as an academic discipline in China, particularly how the PR discipline has emerged and figured in global and local historical events and struggled for legitimacy throughout China’s modernization from 1985 to 2018. Based on our historical review, five distinct periods in search of academic legitimacy have characterized the national modernization in China. Universal theor…
Exploring the Effects of Instructional Message Strategies on Risk Perceptions and Behavioral Intentions
Extending the recent theorizing of the message-centric approach to instructional risk and crisis communication, this study identifies two distinct instructional strategies used by regulatory authorities and adopts a goal-attainment approach to measuring the effectiveness of both strategies in instructing nonscientific publics about impending risks. Specifically, we conducted a quasi-experiment immediately after a substandard vaccine incident in C…
Making the Long March Online
This study examines the authoritarian conditioning of political expression on social media in three Chinese societiesby analyzing three parallel surveys comprising 6942 respondents from mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. Results demonstrate that the use of social media to gather political information triggers politically expressive use of social media and indirectly predicts offline non-institutionalized political participation. Individuals' …
Examining the Role of Trust in Regulators in Food Safety Risk Assessment
Considerable efforts have been made to depict the causal patterns of trust, risk perception, and risk acceptance. Yet, it remains far from clear whether the established models are over-simplistic and to what extent the observed associations are contingent upon risk contexts. Extending the theorizing based on the Causal Chain model, this study adopts a comparative approach to examining the role of trust in regulators in the case of post-Fukushima …
Country/Region Level Pandemic Severity Moderates the Relationships among Risk Experience, Perceived Life Satisfaction, and Psychological Distress in Covid-19
Scholars and communications practitioners worldwide have sought novel resilience models amid heightened rates of psychological distress caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. We examined perceived life satisfaction as a determinant of resilience. Additionally, we investigated the assumption that perceived pandemic severity at the country/region level moderates structural relationships within our risk-resilience model. Analyzing more than 34,000 valid s…
A Shot in the Arm for Vaccination Intention
This large-sample study of three Chinese societies-Mainland China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong-demonstrates the importance of media exposure for people's vaccination intentions during the COVID-19 pandemic. By employing two constructs (i.e., perceived susceptibility and severity) in the health belief model (HBM), the study identifies significant indirect effects of media exposure on individuals' vaccination intention in all three Chinese societies. Tha…
The paradoxical effects of institutional trust on risk perception and risk management in the Covid-19 pandemic
Adopting the theoretical lenses of social amplification of risk framework and trust paradox, this study examines how people’s attention to media information influences their risk perception and risk management behaviors (i.e. vaccination intention) in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic in three Chinese societies (i.e. Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Mainland China). A total of 9,575 valid samples were obtained via online survey panels. The results revea…
Fake news in a time of plague
Examining the Pathways From Information Acquisition to Preventive Behaviors
This study proposed an information-response model, which hypothesized that information acquisition determines individuals’ preventive behaviors during the pandemic through cognitive, affective, and instrumental processes. Through a two-wave survey ( N = 1,501) conducted in Hong Kong, results revealed that information acquisition was associated with perceived risk, perceived efficacy, affective response, and preventive behaviors. Moreover, source …
Victim, villain, or scapegoat? Mediating organizational crises embedded in social problems and the transformation of order
Western crisis communication theories focusing on individual attribution and stable underlying norms fail to account for crises embedded in larger social problems that lead to regulatory changes. By analysing three cases that Chinese crisis managers initially identified as “commission”, “control” and “agreement” situations (Bradford & Garrett, 1995 Bradford, J. L., & Garrett, D. E. (1995). The effectiveness of corporate communicative responses to…
Self-Transcendence
The COVID-19 pandemic and the steps governments took to combat it tormented societies across the globe. Accordingly, existential positive psychologists have emphasized the importance of self-transcendence in mitigating the distress and agony caused by prolonged and rigorous health measures. In this cross-cultural study, the correlation between self-transcendence, people’s confidence in government, and democracy was examined. Based on the findings…
Understanding the conditional media effects
This study analyzed three-wave panel survey data gathered from August 2020 (n = 3,190) to April 2022 (n = 1,153) in Hong Kong to examine the effects of conditional media on preventive behaviors during the COVID-19 (coronavirus disease) pandemic. By using the differential susceptibility to media effects model (DSMM), this study demonstrates the usefulness of trust as an effective cultivator of media exposure, especially with regard to the contradi…
Measuring up in a pandemic
This study examines the interaction effects of attention to COVID-19 information and perceived source credibility on the evaluation of government performance in the Hubei province of mainland China; the study is based on two waves of panel data drawn from a sample of 1896 respondents. The results demonstrated that COVID-19 information attention positively influences the evaluation of both central and local government performance. These direct rel…
The Media-Mediated Model of Information Seeking Behavior
This study aims to unravel the key determinants of individuals’ information seeking behavior during health crises. It challenges conventional perspectives that solely emphasize individual experiences. It also undermines frameworks that draw direct parallels between individual experiences and media factors, disregarding the mediating role of media. Models like the Comprehensive Model of Information Seeking (CMIS) also have limitations as they prio…
A context‐sensitive collectivism during the Covid ‐19 pandemic
This study investigates individuals' adoption of containment measures (e.g., wearing masks) from the perspectives of cultural values and trust in two countries—China and the US. Distinguished from previous definitions that characterise cultural values as rigid and fixed concepts, this study reconceptualizes collectivism to be a context‐sensitive construct. With survey data from a collectivism‐prevalent culture (China, n = 1578) and an individuali…
Rallying around the vaccine
This article presents new arguments on the role of trust in the government and nationalist sentiments in fostering policy-compliant behaviors. In July and September 2020, we launched two waves of a COVID-related survey in China with stratified quota sampling, and formed a longitudinal panel dataset of 822 responses. Based on the data, we examined how risk perceptions and nationalist sentiments jointly elicited trust in government agencies and, co…
Assessing the Interplay Between Public Attention and Government Responsiveness With Digital Trace Data
China’s digital campaign to “vaccinate all who can be vaccinated,” officially launched in December 2020, carries global implications. Grounded in the agenda-setting framework to reveal how the responses of different groups are shaped and their agendas interact, this study analyzed two years of Sina Weibo (the largest Chinese microblogging service) and Baidu (the leading search engine in China) search index data to investigate the interrelationshi…
Determining or Mediating Media? Model Comparisons on the Role of Media and Risk in Shaping Preventive Behaviors During Crises
This study investigates the role of media in risk communication during crises by comparing two theoretical perspectives. The first paradigm views media as a determining factor, while the second sees media as a mediator. The study analyzes two survey data sets: cross-sectional data on nuclear waste issues from eight regions (Mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, Japan, South Korea, the United States, and the United Kingdom; N = 8,591) and …
Trust subdimensions as mediators between crisis response and satisfaction
Purpose This study aims to examine how crisis response content and form influence relational satisfaction, with trust – categorized as ability-based and benevolence-based – serving as a mediator. Design/methodology/approach Using demographically representative survey data from 3,515 respondents across Mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan, the authors used structural equation modeling to examine the mediating effects of trust and distinct roles of…
The Impact of Expert Opinions in Covid-19 News Coverage on Vaccination During the Fifth Outbreak in Hong Kong
The role of experts in news coverage has become increasingly prominent, but the evidence regarding the effectiveness of expert opinions in affecting public behavior remains mixed. This study seeks to examine the influence of expert opinions covered in the news on the public's response to public health crises. By adopting a macro-level framing perspective, we investigated how framing consistency, a macro-level concept indicating the agreement betw…
Political science (22 obras) · Psychology (21 obras) · Social Psychology (18 obras) · Medicine (12 obras) · China (11 obras) · Sociology (11 obras) · Misinformation and Its Impacts (10 obras) · Public relations (10 obras) · Law (9 obras) · Pandemic (9 obras)