Wenjing Pan
Biographic Data
| ID | 140163 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Wenjing Pan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Wenjing |
| FAMILY NAME | Pan |
| SIGNATURE | PAN W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Renmin University of China |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4174-3305 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 24 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Association between electronic device use time and self-rated health in medical students
Background The physical and mental health of medical students not only directly affects academic performance and professional development but also significantly impacts the quality and safety of future healthcare services. Currently, this population faces multiple stressors, including heavy academic workloads, intense clinical training demands, and career-related anxiety. Given these challenges, medical education should prioritize student wellbei…
Cultural Influence on Planned Alcohol Consumption
Although alcohol consumption has negative influences on individuals’ well-being, drinking holds a significant place in Chinese traditional culture. This study examined how Chinese culture, especially Chinese people’s perceptions of their self-identity may be associated with intentions of alcohol consumption. Adopting the perspective of self-views and the theory of planned behaviors as two theoretical frameworks, this study conducted a cross-secti…
Understanding Problematic Gaming Through Self-Determined Versus Non-Self-Determined Motivation
Problematic gaming has detrimental effects on individuals’ mental and physical health. Adopting the self-determination theory as a theoretical framework and differentiating two types of game motivation (self-determined vs. non-self-determined), this study examined how these two types of game motivation may be oppositely associated with gamers’ problematic gaming behaviors. By conducting a cross-sectional survey on massively multiplayer online vid…
Psychological status of healthcare workers in the post-Covid 19 period in China
There was a high prevalence of anxiety, depression, insomnia, and PTSD in the HCWs after the COVID-19 pandemic
Explaining differences in self-focused and other-involved public health preventive behaviors between the US and China
Background: This study examined national similarities and differences in people's engagement in health preventive behaviors during a public health crisis, as well as investigated the underlying individual-level psychological mechanisms. A conceptual distinction was made between self-focused and other-involved preventive behaviors in response to public health crises. Method: = 844) during the early stage of the COVID-19 pandemic. Hayes' PROCESS wa…
Academic Development of Chinese Social Psychology
Chinese social psychology developed vigorously, and its scientific achievement showed explosive growth from 2000 to 2015. Based on typical Chinese social psychology articles published between 2006 and 2015, the development trend of this discipline was investigated in this article by means of citation analysis. There were 61,284 references in 1,982 typical Chinese social psychology essays, which were retrieved from the database of China National K…
Miscommunicating the Covid-19 Pandemic
Human–AI communication in initial encounters
Artificial intelligence (AI) agency plays an important role in shaping humans’ perceptions and evaluations of AI. This study seeks to conceptually differentiate AI agency from human agency and examine how AI’s agency manifested on source and language dimensions may be associated with humans’ perceptions of AI. A 2 (AI’s source autonomy: autonomous vs human-assisted) × 2 (AI’s language subjectivity: subjective vs objective) × 2 (topics: traveling …
Female Users' TikTok Use and Body Image
This study examined two ways of using the TikTok application (active vs. passive use), and their association with female users' self-esteem pertaining to appearance and weight. By adopting a cross-sectional online survey design, this study recruited 7,750 adult female TikTok users from China (Douyin), and acquired self-reported data on 2 ways of using TikTok, state-level social comparison, appearance-esteem, weight-esteem, body mass index, and ag…
A replication and expansion of the exposure effects of online model photos and social comparison goals on planned behaviors and self-efficacy to lose weight
This study replicated and expanded social comparison theory predictions in regard to how exposure to online models and explicit comparison goals affected planned behaviors and self-efficacy to lose weight in men and women. A 2 (models’ attractiveness: more attractive vs less attractive) × 2 (models’ weight status: lower vs higher) × 2 (explicit social comparison instructions: present vs absent) × 2 (gender: female vs male) factorial design was ad…
The Influence of Self-Disclosure in Online Support Seeking on Quality of Received Advice
Advice of varying quality can be provided to support seekers online. This study examined whether the type of self-disclosure (demographic vs. self-concept) included in a support-seeking post elicits varying levels of advice quality in support provision. Participants ( N = 624) read and responded to an online support-seeking post. Their advice messages were assessed for quality as indexed by the use of reasoning and the sequencing of advice relati…
Fake images
Fake or manipulated images propagated through the Web and social media have the capacity to deceive, emotionally distress, and influence public opinions and actions. Yet few studies have examined how individuals evaluate the authenticity of images that accompany online stories. This article details a 6-batch large-scale online experiment using Amazon Mechanical Turk that probes how people evaluate image credibility across online platforms. In eac…
What You Say Is What You Get
This experimental study examined how depth of self-disclosure (baseline, peripheral, core) in support-seeking posts influenced forum viewers' interaction involvement and reciprocal self-disclosure in their responses. A series of competing hypotheses derived from several theoretical frameworks were tested. Results obtained from computerized text analyses showed that self-concept self-disclosure was associated with higher levels of interaction invo…
Fake images
Fake or manipulated images propagated through the Web and social media have the capacity to deceive, emotionally distress, and influence public opinions and actions. Yet few studies have examined how individuals evaluate the authenticity of images that accompany online stories. This article details a 6-batch large-scale online experiment using Amazon Mechanical Turk that probes how people evaluate image credibility across online platforms. In eac…
What You Say Is What You Get
This experimental study examined how depth of self-disclosure (baseline, peripheral, core) in support-seeking posts influenced forum viewers' interaction involvement and reciprocal self-disclosure in their responses. A series of competing hypotheses derived from several theoretical frameworks were tested. Results obtained from computerized text analyses showed that self-concept self-disclosure was associated with higher levels of interaction invo…
Human–AI communication in initial encounters
Artificial intelligence (AI) agency plays an important role in shaping humans’ perceptions and evaluations of AI. This study seeks to conceptually differentiate AI agency from human agency and examine how AI’s agency manifested on source and language dimensions may be associated with humans’ perceptions of AI. A 2 (AI’s source autonomy: autonomous vs human-assisted) × 2 (AI’s language subjectivity: subjective vs objective) × 2 (topics: traveling …
A replication and expansion of the exposure effects of online model photos and social comparison goals on planned behaviors and self-efficacy to lose weight
This study replicated and expanded social comparison theory predictions in regard to how exposure to online models and explicit comparison goals affected planned behaviors and self-efficacy to lose weight in men and women. A 2 (models’ attractiveness: more attractive vs less attractive) × 2 (models’ weight status: lower vs higher) × 2 (explicit social comparison instructions: present vs absent) × 2 (gender: female vs male) factorial design was ad…
Fake images
Fake or manipulated images propagated through the Web and social media have the capacity to deceive, emotionally distress, and influence public opinions and actions. Yet few studies have examined how individuals evaluate the authenticity of images that accompany online stories. This article details a 6-batch large-scale online experiment using Amazon Mechanical Turk that probes how people evaluate image credibility across online platforms. In eac…
What You Say Is What You Get
This experimental study examined how depth of self-disclosure (baseline, peripheral, core) in support-seeking posts influenced forum viewers' interaction involvement and reciprocal self-disclosure in their responses. A series of competing hypotheses derived from several theoretical frameworks were tested. Results obtained from computerized text analyses showed that self-concept self-disclosure was associated with higher levels of interaction invo…
The Influence of Self-Disclosure in Online Support Seeking on Quality of Received Advice
Advice of varying quality can be provided to support seekers online. This study examined whether the type of self-disclosure (demographic vs. self-concept) included in a support-seeking post elicits varying levels of advice quality in support provision. Participants ( N = 624) read and responded to an online support-seeking post. Their advice messages were assessed for quality as indexed by the use of reasoning and the sequencing of advice relati…
A replication and expansion of the exposure effects of online model photos and social comparison goals on planned behaviors and self-efficacy to lose weight
This study replicated and expanded social comparison theory predictions in regard to how exposure to online models and explicit comparison goals affected planned behaviors and self-efficacy to lose weight in men and women. A 2 (models’ attractiveness: more attractive vs less attractive) × 2 (models’ weight status: lower vs higher) × 2 (explicit social comparison instructions: present vs absent) × 2 (gender: female vs male) factorial design was ad…
Female Users' TikTok Use and Body Image
This study examined two ways of using the TikTok application (active vs. passive use), and their association with female users' self-esteem pertaining to appearance and weight. By adopting a cross-sectional online survey design, this study recruited 7,750 adult female TikTok users from China (Douyin), and acquired self-reported data on 2 ways of using TikTok, state-level social comparison, appearance-esteem, weight-esteem, body mass index, and ag…
Explaining differences in self-focused and other-involved public health preventive behaviors between the US and China
Background: This study examined national similarities and differences in people's engagement in health preventive behaviors during a public health crisis, as well as investigated the underlying individual-level psychological mechanisms. A conceptual distinction was made between self-focused and other-involved preventive behaviors in response to public health crises. Method: = 844) during the early stage of the COVID-19 pandemic. Hayes' PROCESS wa…
Academic Development of Chinese Social Psychology
Chinese social psychology developed vigorously, and its scientific achievement showed explosive growth from 2000 to 2015. Based on typical Chinese social psychology articles published between 2006 and 2015, the development trend of this discipline was investigated in this article by means of citation analysis. There were 61,284 references in 1,982 typical Chinese social psychology essays, which were retrieved from the database of China National K…
Miscommunicating the Covid-19 Pandemic
Human–AI communication in initial encounters
Artificial intelligence (AI) agency plays an important role in shaping humans’ perceptions and evaluations of AI. This study seeks to conceptually differentiate AI agency from human agency and examine how AI’s agency manifested on source and language dimensions may be associated with humans’ perceptions of AI. A 2 (AI’s source autonomy: autonomous vs human-assisted) × 2 (AI’s language subjectivity: subjective vs objective) × 2 (topics: traveling …
Understanding Problematic Gaming Through Self-Determined Versus Non-Self-Determined Motivation
Problematic gaming has detrimental effects on individuals’ mental and physical health. Adopting the self-determination theory as a theoretical framework and differentiating two types of game motivation (self-determined vs. non-self-determined), this study examined how these two types of game motivation may be oppositely associated with gamers’ problematic gaming behaviors. By conducting a cross-sectional survey on massively multiplayer online vid…
Psychological status of healthcare workers in the post-Covid 19 period in China
There was a high prevalence of anxiety, depression, insomnia, and PTSD in the HCWs after the COVID-19 pandemic
Association between electronic device use time and self-rated health in medical students
Background The physical and mental health of medical students not only directly affects academic performance and professional development but also significantly impacts the quality and safety of future healthcare services. Currently, this population faces multiple stressors, including heavy academic workloads, intense clinical training demands, and career-related anxiety. Given these challenges, medical education should prioritize student wellbei…
Cultural Influence on Planned Alcohol Consumption
Although alcohol consumption has negative influences on individuals’ well-being, drinking holds a significant place in Chinese traditional culture. This study examined how Chinese culture, especially Chinese people’s perceptions of their self-identity may be associated with intentions of alcohol consumption. Adopting the perspective of self-views and the theory of planned behaviors as two theoretical frameworks, this study conducted a cross-secti…
Psychology (10 works) · Social Psychology (8 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Impact of Technology on Adolescents (5 works) · Medicine (4 works) · Applied Psychology (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works) · Applied Psychology (2 works) · Behavioral Health and Interventions (2 works)