X Xu
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 22611 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | X Xu |
| NOMBRES | X |
| APELLIDO | Xu |
| FIRMA | XU X |
| AFILIACIONES | The University of Texas at San Antonio |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1484-6635 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 35 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 130 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 35 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1990 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Prevalence of secondary traumatic stress and its associated factors among oncology nurses
Background Although secondary traumatic stress (STS) is common in nurses and is associated with various psychological disorders such as anxiety and depression, the prevalence and its associated factors of STS specifically among oncology nurses remain unclear. This study aimed to determine the prevalence of STS and its associated factors among oncology nurses. Methods A cross-sectional correlational study was conducted using convenience sampling t…
Knowledge Mapping and Visualization of Ageing Research Based on CiteSpace
Navigating Liminal Spaces
Yann Martel’s Life of Pi reflects a diasporic Indian boy’s transnational experiences from India to Canada. This paper reads the novel as an immigrant narrative in a framework of liminality and diaspora, explores how post-colonial immigrants construct their hybrid, fluid and dynamic national identity in a multicultural society. Through an examination of Pi’s diasporic emotions and agency in the liminal spaces of Pondicherry and the lifeboat, this …
God Knows Best
The reciprocal relationship between depressive symptoms and deliberate self-harm among Chinese rural adolescents
Background While the association between depressive symptoms and deliberate self-harm in adolescence is extensively documented, the nature, bi-directionality, and longitudinal dynamics of this relationship remain underexplored. This study aims to investigate the causal and reciprocal relationship between depressive symptoms and deliberate self-harm among rural adolescents in western China. Methods A 2-year panel study was conducted among 1,840 ad…
Youth Suicide Prevention Programming among the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians
Suicide continues to be a leading cause of mortality for young people. Given persistent intersecting forms of disadvantage, Native American adolescents are especially vulnerable to mental health adversities and other suicide risk factors. The Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians (MBCI) implemented the Choctaw Youth Resilience Initiative (CYRI), a five-year SAMHSA-funded project that began in 2019. This study uses Choctaw student pre-test/post-test…
Time Series of Surface Water Dissolved Inorganic Carbon Isotopes From the Southern California Bight
Dissolved inorganic carbon (DIC) in ocean water is a major sink of fossil fuel derived CO 2 . Carbon isotopes in DIC serve as tracers for oceanic water masses, biogeochemical processes, and air-sea gas exchange. We present a timeseries of surface DIC δ 13 C and Δ 14 C values from 2011 to 2022 from Newport Beach, California. This is a continuation of previous timeseries (Hinger et al. 2010; Santos et al. 2011) that together provide an 18-year reco…
The association between tea consumption and blood pressure in the adult population in Southwest China
Tea consumption was associated with lower SBP and a reduced risk of hypertensive BP. The antihypertensive effect varies across types of tea consumed
The Effects of Parenthood on Grant Application in China
Religion and Help-Seeking
Religious affiliation and attendance have been shown to affect various facets of mental health, including the willingness to seek mental health assistance; however, little is known about how theological beliefs influence people's assessments of religious and secular mental health assistance options. Prior research using theological conservatism (beliefs about scripture, sin, and salvation) has conceptualized this perspective as being a schema in …
A latent profile analysis of the link between sociocultural factors and health-related risk-taking among U.S. adults
By examining potentially modifiable factors related to individuals' inclinations to engage in health protective behaviors, this study is an important step toward improving current health behavior interventions among U.S. adults
Effects of social vulnerability and heat index on emergency medical service incidents in San Antonio, Texas, in 2018
Background Excessive heat is a leading weather-related cause of fatalities in the USA. Vulnerable populations can face greater exposure to health risks during extreme heat events. The aim of this study is to examine the effects of excessive heat and community-level social vulnerability on morbidity in San Antonio, Texas, in 2018. Methods Heat Index (HI) data are from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Social vulnerability is mea…
Time-Integrated Collection of Co 2 for 14 C Analysis From Soils
We developed a passive sampler for time-integrated collection and radiocarbon ( 14 C) analysis of soil respiration, a major flux in the global C cycle. It consists of a permanent access well that controls the CO 2 uptake rate and an exchangeable molecular sieve CO 2 trap. We tested how access well dimensions and environmental conditions affect collected CO 2 , and optimized cleaning procedures to minimize 14 CO 2 memory. We also deployed two gene…
Religion, Families, and Health
Religion is a major social institution in the United States. While the scientific community has experienced a resurgence in the idea that there are important linkages between religion and family life and religion and health outcomes, this area of study is still in its early stages of development, scattered across multiple disciplines, and of uneven quality. To date, no book has featured both reviews of the literature and new empirical findings th…
Buddhism and Depressive Symptoms among Married Women in Urban Thailand
A growing body of research has documented salutary associations between religious involvement and poor mental health outcomes, such as depressive symptoms and psychological distress. However, little scholarly attention has been given to the association between Buddhism, a non-Western religious faith, and depressive symptomatology in Thailand. Using random survey data collected from urban Thailand, this study examines the association between relig…
Housing Conditions, Neighborhood Physical Environment, and Secondhand Smoke Exposure at Home
Over the past two decades, health-related issues among rural-to-urban migrant workers in China have been widely discussed and documented by public health scholars. However, little, if any, scholarly attention has been paid to migrant workers' secondhand smoke (SHS) exposure at home. This study aims to explore the contours of SHS exposure at home and investigate the effects of inadequate housing conditions and poor neighborhood physical environmen…
Substance abuse and HIV/STD prevention at a Hispanic-serving institution in South Texas
The purpose of this study is to examine racial/ethnic and gender variations and intersectionality in the knowledge, attitudes, intentions, and behaviors pertaining to substance abuse (SA) and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)/sexually transmitted disease (STD) prevention among racial/ethnic minority college students (ages 18-24) in South Texas. A total of 535 minority students completed a baseline survey between 2014 and 2016 ( N = 535). Results…
Mixed Blessing
Previous research has linked parental religiosity to a number of positive developmental characteristics in young children. This study introduces the concept of selective sanctification as a refinement to existing theory and, in doing so, adds to a small but growing body of longitudinal research on this topic. We explore how parents' religious attendance (for fathers, mothers, and couples) and the household religious environment (parent-child reli…
Intergenerational Transmission of Family Violence and Depressive Symptoms in Urban Thailand
ObjectiveThis study examines linkages between childhood exposure to family violence (FV) and adulthood depressive symptoms, directly and indirectly, through adulthood experience of FV among ever-married Thai women.BackgroundA growing body of research has shown that childhood experience of FV is not only intergenerationally transmitted but also significantly associated with negative mental health outcomes in adulthood. However, prior research is l…
Religion, Combat Casualty Exposure, and Sleep Disturbance in the US Military
Are Religious Teens Nice Kids? Faith and Congeniality among American Adolescents
One body of extant research has documented the social contours and positive effects of teen religiosity, while another has explored the religious sources of social congeniality ("niceness") among adult Americans. This study integrates these parallel bodies of scholarship by examining the religious bases of niceness among American teens. Using post-hoc interviewer ratings from wave 1 of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Hea…
Religion and Gender Ideologies among Working-Age U.S. Latinas/os
Numerous studies have documented religious variations in gender ideology in the United States. Despite growth, diversification, and religious ferment among Latinas/os, few have investigated this topic within the Latina/o population. Drawing on insights from gender theory and prior empirical research, we develop several hypotheses regarding the links between religious affiliation, belief, and practice and three distinct domains of traditionalist g…
Parental Occupation and the Gender Math Gap
Math proficiency is considered a critical subject for entry into most science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) occupations. This study examines the relationship between parental occupation and gender differences in students' math performance, that is, the gender math gap. Using insights from theories of social and gender reproduction, we hypothesize that daughters of STEM-employed parents, and especially STEM-employed mothers, will score…
Remarriage Timing
Using pooled data from the National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG 2006-2010), we examine the effects of denominational affiliation, worship service attendance, and religious salience on remarriage timing. Survival analyses indicate that both men and women affiliated with conservative Protestant faith traditions are significantly more likely than their unaffiliated and Catholic counterparts to remarry at an accelerated pace following divorce. Resu…
Grass Material as a Modern Process Standard for 14 C Analysis of n -Alkanes
One of the difficulties in reporting accurate radiocarbon results from compound-specific radiocarbon analysis (CSRA) is the lack of suitable process standard materials to correct for the amount and 14 C content of carbon added during extensive sample processing. We evaluated the use of n -alkanes extracted from modern grass material (1.224±0.006 fraction modern) as process standards for CSRA. The n -alkanes were isolated using preparative capilla…
Love Matches and Arranged Marriages
Data from a probability sample of 586 ever-married women in Chengdu Sichuan in the Peoples Republic of China are used to examine the transition from arranged to free-choice marriages in that society. Retrospective data on mate-choice experiences reveal that the role of parents has declined sharply while young people more and more dominate the process of spouse selection....Multiple regression analyses indicate that wives in...love matches are mor…
Patterns of condom use among adolescents
OBJECTIVES: The association between the timing of discussions about condoms between mother and adolescent and adolescents' condom use during their first and subsequent sexual encounters was examined. METHODS: Sexually active adolescents reported whether and when they discussed condoms with their mother and answered questions about their own condom use. RESULTS: Mother-adolescent discussions about condoms that occurred prior to sexual debut were s…
Mixed Blessing
Previous research has linked parental religiosity to a number of positive developmental characteristics in young children. This study introduces the concept of selective sanctification as a refinement to existing theory and, in doing so, adds to a small but growing body of longitudinal research on this topic. We explore how parents' religious attendance (for fathers, mothers, and couples) and the household religious environment (parent-child reli…
Exposure to Family Violence in Childhood and Intimate Partner Perpetration or Victimization in Adulthood
Religion and Marriage Timing
Previous studies have revealed denominational subculture variations in marriage timing in the U.S. with conservative Protestants marrying at a much younger age than Catholics and the unaffiliated. However, the effects of other religious factors, such as worship service attendance and religious salience, remain overlooked. Informed by a theoretical framework that integrates the denominational subculture variation thesis and the gendered religiosit…
Intimate Partner Violence Against Married Women in Uganda
Religion and Help-Seeking
Religious affiliation and attendance have been shown to affect various facets of mental health, including the willingness to seek mental health assistance; however, little is known about how theological beliefs influence people's assessments of religious and secular mental health assistance options. Prior research using theological conservatism (beliefs about scripture, sin, and salvation) has conceptualized this perspective as being a schema in …
Parental Occupation and the Gender Math Gap
Math proficiency is considered a critical subject for entry into most science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) occupations. This study examines the relationship between parental occupation and gender differences in students' math performance, that is, the gender math gap. Using insights from theories of social and gender reproduction, we hypothesize that daughters of STEM-employed parents, and especially STEM-employed mothers, will score…
Secular Volunteerism among Texan Emerging Adults
Prior research suggests that religiosity, especially public religious participation, is related to greater volunteerism. However, less is known about religious transmission across the life course, in particular whether and how religiosity in childhood is linked to later life volunteerism. This study investigates a sample of emerging adults in South Texas (n = 701) with a high percent of Hispanic Americans (53 percent). Specifically, we examine pa…
Religion, Race/Ethnicity, and Norms of Intergenerational Assistance among Older Adults
Using data on adults ages 55 and over from the second wave of the National Survey of Families and Households (NSFH-2), this study models the main and interactive effects of religious involvement and race/ethnicity on four items of attitudes towards intergenerational assistance. Results indicate that African Americans and Hispanics tend to express stronger support for intergenerational assistance than non-Hispanic Whites. Conservative Protestants,…
Remarriage Timing
Using pooled data from the National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG 2006-2010), we examine the effects of denominational affiliation, worship service attendance, and religious salience on remarriage timing. Survival analyses indicate that both men and women affiliated with conservative Protestant faith traditions are significantly more likely than their unaffiliated and Catholic counterparts to remarry at an accelerated pace following divorce. Resu…
Comparison of Independent Δ 14 CO 2 Records at Point Barrow, Alaska
Two independent programs have collected and analyzed atmospheric CO 2 samples from Point Barrow, Alaska, for radiocarbon content (Δ 14 C) over the period 2003–2007. In one program, flask collection, stable isotope analysis, and CO 2 extraction are performed by the Scripps Institution of Oceanography's CO 2 Program and CO 2 is graphitized and measured by accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. In the other pr…
Time-Integrated Collection of Co 2 for 14 C Analysis From Soils
We developed a passive sampler for time-integrated collection and radiocarbon ( 14 C) analysis of soil respiration, a major flux in the global C cycle. It consists of a permanent access well that controls the CO 2 uptake rate and an exchangeable molecular sieve CO 2 trap. We tested how access well dimensions and environmental conditions affect collected CO 2 , and optimized cleaning procedures to minimize 14 CO 2 memory. We also deployed two gene…
A racial comparison of Mississippi’s juvenile violent and property crimes
Love Matches and Arranged Marriages
Data from a probability sample of 586 ever-married women in Chengdu Sichuan in the Peoples Republic of China are used to examine the transition from arranged to free-choice marriages in that society. Retrospective data on mate-choice experiences reveal that the role of parents has declined sharply while young people more and more dominate the process of spouse selection....Multiple regression analyses indicate that wives in...love matches are mor…
Patterns of condom use among adolescents
OBJECTIVES: The association between the timing of discussions about condoms between mother and adolescent and adolescents' condom use during their first and subsequent sexual encounters was examined. METHODS: Sexually active adolescents reported whether and when they discussed condoms with their mother and answered questions about their own condom use. RESULTS: Mother-adolescent discussions about condoms that occurred prior to sexual debut were s…
A racial comparison of Mississippi’s juvenile violent and property crimes
Dingfang Shu
While there are numerous publications abroad on teaching foreign languages in China (e.g., Collins 2001; Gan, Humphreys and Hamp-Lyons 2004; Wu 2001), there are few local publications from China that can inform us about foreign language teaching [FLT] from within. Dingfang Shu's book on FLT in China provides us with a good opportunity for access to this kind of information. This volume, accessibly written in Chinese, offers a comprehensive descri…
Exposure to Family Violence in Childhood and Intimate Partner Perpetration or Victimization in Adulthood
Comparison of Independent Δ 14 CO 2 Records at Point Barrow, Alaska
Two independent programs have collected and analyzed atmospheric CO 2 samples from Point Barrow, Alaska, for radiocarbon content (Δ 14 C) over the period 2003–2007. In one program, flask collection, stable isotope analysis, and CO 2 extraction are performed by the Scripps Institution of Oceanography's CO 2 Program and CO 2 is graphitized and measured by accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. In the other pr…
Intimate Partner Violence Against Married Women in Uganda
Religion and Marriage Timing
Previous studies have revealed denominational subculture variations in marriage timing in the U.S. with conservative Protestants marrying at a much younger age than Catholics and the unaffiliated. However, the effects of other religious factors, such as worship service attendance and religious salience, remain overlooked. Informed by a theoretical framework that integrates the denominational subculture variation thesis and the gendered religiosit…
Religion, Race/Ethnicity, and Norms of Intergenerational Assistance among Older Adults
Using data on adults ages 55 and over from the second wave of the National Survey of Families and Households (NSFH-2), this study models the main and interactive effects of religious involvement and race/ethnicity on four items of attitudes towards intergenerational assistance. Results indicate that African Americans and Hispanics tend to express stronger support for intergenerational assistance than non-Hispanic Whites. Conservative Protestants,…
Grass Material as a Modern Process Standard for 14 C Analysis of n -Alkanes
One of the difficulties in reporting accurate radiocarbon results from compound-specific radiocarbon analysis (CSRA) is the lack of suitable process standard materials to correct for the amount and 14 C content of carbon added during extensive sample processing. We evaluated the use of n -alkanes extracted from modern grass material (1.224±0.006 fraction modern) as process standards for CSRA. The n -alkanes were isolated using preparative capilla…
Secular Volunteerism among Texan Emerging Adults
Prior research suggests that religiosity, especially public religious participation, is related to greater volunteerism. However, less is known about religious transmission across the life course, in particular whether and how religiosity in childhood is linked to later life volunteerism. This study investigates a sample of emerging adults in South Texas (n = 701) with a high percent of Hispanic Americans (53 percent). Specifically, we examine pa…
Religion and Gender Ideologies among Working-Age U.S. Latinas/os
Numerous studies have documented religious variations in gender ideology in the United States. Despite growth, diversification, and religious ferment among Latinas/os, few have investigated this topic within the Latina/o population. Drawing on insights from gender theory and prior empirical research, we develop several hypotheses regarding the links between religious affiliation, belief, and practice and three distinct domains of traditionalist g…
Parental Occupation and the Gender Math Gap
Math proficiency is considered a critical subject for entry into most science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) occupations. This study examines the relationship between parental occupation and gender differences in students' math performance, that is, the gender math gap. Using insights from theories of social and gender reproduction, we hypothesize that daughters of STEM-employed parents, and especially STEM-employed mothers, will score…
Remarriage Timing
Using pooled data from the National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG 2006-2010), we examine the effects of denominational affiliation, worship service attendance, and religious salience on remarriage timing. Survival analyses indicate that both men and women affiliated with conservative Protestant faith traditions are significantly more likely than their unaffiliated and Catholic counterparts to remarry at an accelerated pace following divorce. Resu…
Religion, Combat Casualty Exposure, and Sleep Disturbance in the US Military
Are Religious Teens Nice Kids? Faith and Congeniality among American Adolescents
One body of extant research has documented the social contours and positive effects of teen religiosity, while another has explored the religious sources of social congeniality ("niceness") among adult Americans. This study integrates these parallel bodies of scholarship by examining the religious bases of niceness among American teens. Using post-hoc interviewer ratings from wave 1 of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Hea…
Substance abuse and HIV/STD prevention at a Hispanic-serving institution in South Texas
The purpose of this study is to examine racial/ethnic and gender variations and intersectionality in the knowledge, attitudes, intentions, and behaviors pertaining to substance abuse (SA) and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)/sexually transmitted disease (STD) prevention among racial/ethnic minority college students (ages 18-24) in South Texas. A total of 535 minority students completed a baseline survey between 2014 and 2016 ( N = 535). Results…
Mixed Blessing
Previous research has linked parental religiosity to a number of positive developmental characteristics in young children. This study introduces the concept of selective sanctification as a refinement to existing theory and, in doing so, adds to a small but growing body of longitudinal research on this topic. We explore how parents' religious attendance (for fathers, mothers, and couples) and the household religious environment (parent-child reli…
Intergenerational Transmission of Family Violence and Depressive Symptoms in Urban Thailand
ObjectiveThis study examines linkages between childhood exposure to family violence (FV) and adulthood depressive symptoms, directly and indirectly, through adulthood experience of FV among ever-married Thai women.BackgroundA growing body of research has shown that childhood experience of FV is not only intergenerationally transmitted but also significantly associated with negative mental health outcomes in adulthood. However, prior research is l…
Religion, Families, and Health
Religion is a major social institution in the United States. While the scientific community has experienced a resurgence in the idea that there are important linkages between religion and family life and religion and health outcomes, this area of study is still in its early stages of development, scattered across multiple disciplines, and of uneven quality. To date, no book has featured both reviews of the literature and new empirical findings th…
Buddhism and Depressive Symptoms among Married Women in Urban Thailand
A growing body of research has documented salutary associations between religious involvement and poor mental health outcomes, such as depressive symptoms and psychological distress. However, little scholarly attention has been given to the association between Buddhism, a non-Western religious faith, and depressive symptomatology in Thailand. Using random survey data collected from urban Thailand, this study examines the association between relig…
Housing Conditions, Neighborhood Physical Environment, and Secondhand Smoke Exposure at Home
Over the past two decades, health-related issues among rural-to-urban migrant workers in China have been widely discussed and documented by public health scholars. However, little, if any, scholarly attention has been paid to migrant workers' secondhand smoke (SHS) exposure at home. This study aims to explore the contours of SHS exposure at home and investigate the effects of inadequate housing conditions and poor neighborhood physical environmen…
A latent profile analysis of the link between sociocultural factors and health-related risk-taking among U.S. adults
By examining potentially modifiable factors related to individuals' inclinations to engage in health protective behaviors, this study is an important step toward improving current health behavior interventions among U.S. adults
Effects of social vulnerability and heat index on emergency medical service incidents in San Antonio, Texas, in 2018
Background Excessive heat is a leading weather-related cause of fatalities in the USA. Vulnerable populations can face greater exposure to health risks during extreme heat events. The aim of this study is to examine the effects of excessive heat and community-level social vulnerability on morbidity in San Antonio, Texas, in 2018. Methods Heat Index (HI) data are from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Social vulnerability is mea…
Time-Integrated Collection of Co 2 for 14 C Analysis From Soils
We developed a passive sampler for time-integrated collection and radiocarbon ( 14 C) analysis of soil respiration, a major flux in the global C cycle. It consists of a permanent access well that controls the CO 2 uptake rate and an exchangeable molecular sieve CO 2 trap. We tested how access well dimensions and environmental conditions affect collected CO 2 , and optimized cleaning procedures to minimize 14 CO 2 memory. We also deployed two gene…
Psychology (23 obras) · Medicine (16 obras) · Sociology (14 obras) · Social Psychology (13 obras) · Demography (12 obras) · Environmental health (12 obras) · Political science (9 obras) · Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology (9 obras) · Clinical Psychology (8 obras) · Developmental psychology (8 obras)