Robert Jiqi Zhang
Biographic Data
| ID | 163835 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert Jiqi Zhang |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert Jiqi |
| FAMILY NAME | Zhang |
| SIGNATURE | ZHANG R J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Massey University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9198-0432 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 32 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Conceptualizing and measuring global consciousness
To examine the conceptualization and the measurement of global consciousness (GC) in cross‐national contexts, we conducted a secondary analysis on survey data collected from 16,241 individuals across 35 societies. Results demonstrate that GC is best conceptualized as a multidimensional construct by a bifactor ESEM model, in which GC captures an overarching and direct source of common variance across all manifest indicators, whereas domain‐specifi…
A cross‐cultural investigation of the effects of individual privilege, group identification and societal perceptions on global consciousness
Amidst growing polarization and nationalism across societies, global consciousness (GC) provides an important construct for addressing the political challenges of our era. GC is a holistic and complex psychological orientation constituted by the distinct components of awareness, identity and morality. The current studies investigated whether measures of individual privilege (income, education, subjective status, frequent travel and multilingual c…
Interdependency or submission to authority? The impacts of horizontal and vertical collectivist orientation on vaccine attitudes in mainland China
Culture has a profound impact on preventive measures during the COVID‐19 pandemic. Previous research has revealed that collectivism is associated with more effective responses to COVID‐19 on the national or regional level. However, the impact of different components of collectivist orientation on vaccine attitudes remains insufficiently explored on the individual level. Two survey studies conducted in August 2021 in mainland China consistently fo…
Identity and Institutions as Foundations of Ingroup Favoritism
Ingroup favoritism can represent a challenge for establishing cooperation beyond group boundaries. In a behavioral experiment conducted across 17 societies ( N = 3,236), we tested pre-registered hypotheses forwarded by social identity and material security frameworks to account for ingroup favoritism in trust toward national ingroups. We related individual-level measures of national identification and perception of institutions to trust, trustwor…
Better support for national than local system during the Covid‐19 pandemic in China
Individuals increase their support for social systems in response to the threat, panic, and uncertainty that characterized the COVID‐19 pandemic. This could be because a powerful social system can compensate for a lack of control at the individual level. However, the levels of public support for national versus local systems could be different in China. Two studies investigate whether people support the national more strongly than the local syste…
Demographic inequalities or personality differences? Exploring six types of social media usage divides in Mainland China
With the wider penetration of information and communication technologies (ICTs), digital divide scholars have turned attention from physical access to the difference in usage. Based on a national representative survey conducted in mainland China (N = l,004), this exploratory study contributes to the literature by explicating a new typology of social media usage divides predicted by demographic factors and personality traits (the Big Five) and by …
Accessing the Role of Trust Profiles for the Economic Growth of Societies
According to Robert Putnam, trust can be a proxy for social capital. Thus, a higher societal trust could be related to economic growth. To test this hypothesis, we simulated the association between trust and economic growth in two artificial societies. One artificial society (New Zealand) exhibited higher levels of initial trust, and the other (Argentina) had lower levels of trust. Initial starting points for simulations were set using representa…
A typology of masspersonal information seeking repertoires (Misr)
Masspersonal information seeking repertoires are a person-centered method of gaining insight into the relationship between Internet use, subjective well-being, and political participation. Through latent profile analysis, three person types were identified in two waves of stratified samples in 18 countries ( N = 8352). In accord with the “augmentation hypothesis,” high levels of interpersonal contact and traditional mass media usage covaried with…
How Do Religiosity and National Identity Relate to Cosmopolitanism? An Empirical Study Using Representative Samples in Christian, Muslim, and Buddhist Societies
Cosmopolitan Orientation’s (COS) relationship with personal religiosity, organizational religiosity, and national identity was examined in nationally representative samples from 19 societies (13 mainly Christian, 2 Muslim, and 4 societies with historically Buddhist influences, N = 8740). Multi-group structural equation models found that personal religiosity was a positive and significant predictor of global prosociality (willingness to help other…
A Network Analysis of Global Trust Across 11 Democratic Countries
Trust is seen as a glue in modern societies that facilitates economic prosperity and political functioning (e.g., Fukuyama, 1995; Newton, 2001; Putnam, 2000; see a more critical view of trust in Warren, 1999). In this literature, there exists a conventional division between social and political trust, as they are believed to have different foundations (e.g., Uslaner, 2002, 2018) and therefore should be treated as distinct concepts. However, more …
Empirical Correlates of Cosmopolitan Orientation
Psychology has begun contributing to social theory by providing empirical measures of actually existing cosmopolitanism that complements more purely theoretical conceptions of the construct common in philosophy and sociology. Drawing from two waves of research on representative adult samples from 19 countries (N = 8740), metric invariance was found for the three factors of cosmopolitan orientation (COS): cultural openness (CO), global prosocialit…
Social trust and satisfaction with life
The Global Trust Inventory as a "Proxy Measure" for Social Capital
The Global Trust Inventory (GTI), conceptually assessing trust in others ranging from close interpersonal relationships to relationships with government and financial institutions as a whole, was administered to representative online samples in 11 democratic states ( N = 11,917 from Europe, the Americas, and New Zealand). A seven-factor solution had configural, metric, and reasonable scalar invariance in multi-group confirmatory factor analysis. …
Empirical Correlates of Cosmopolitan Orientation
Psychology has begun contributing to social theory by providing empirical measures of actually existing cosmopolitanism that complements more purely theoretical conceptions of the construct common in philosophy and sociology. Drawing from two waves of research on representative adult samples from 19 countries (N = 8740), metric invariance was found for the three factors of cosmopolitan orientation (COS): cultural openness (CO), global prosocialit…
The Global Trust Inventory as a "Proxy Measure" for Social Capital
The Global Trust Inventory (GTI), conceptually assessing trust in others ranging from close interpersonal relationships to relationships with government and financial institutions as a whole, was administered to representative online samples in 11 democratic states ( N = 11,917 from Europe, the Americas, and New Zealand). A seven-factor solution had configural, metric, and reasonable scalar invariance in multi-group confirmatory factor analysis. …
A typology of masspersonal information seeking repertoires (Misr)
Masspersonal information seeking repertoires are a person-centered method of gaining insight into the relationship between Internet use, subjective well-being, and political participation. Through latent profile analysis, three person types were identified in two waves of stratified samples in 18 countries ( N = 8352). In accord with the “augmentation hypothesis,” high levels of interpersonal contact and traditional mass media usage covaried with…
How Do Religiosity and National Identity Relate to Cosmopolitanism? An Empirical Study Using Representative Samples in Christian, Muslim, and Buddhist Societies
Cosmopolitan Orientation’s (COS) relationship with personal religiosity, organizational religiosity, and national identity was examined in nationally representative samples from 19 societies (13 mainly Christian, 2 Muslim, and 4 societies with historically Buddhist influences, N = 8740). Multi-group structural equation models found that personal religiosity was a positive and significant predictor of global prosociality (willingness to help other…
A Network Analysis of Global Trust Across 11 Democratic Countries
Trust is seen as a glue in modern societies that facilitates economic prosperity and political functioning (e.g., Fukuyama, 1995; Newton, 2001; Putnam, 2000; see a more critical view of trust in Warren, 1999). In this literature, there exists a conventional division between social and political trust, as they are believed to have different foundations (e.g., Uslaner, 2002, 2018) and therefore should be treated as distinct concepts. However, more …
Social trust and satisfaction with life
Demographic inequalities or personality differences? Exploring six types of social media usage divides in Mainland China
With the wider penetration of information and communication technologies (ICTs), digital divide scholars have turned attention from physical access to the difference in usage. Based on a national representative survey conducted in mainland China (N = l,004), this exploratory study contributes to the literature by explicating a new typology of social media usage divides predicted by demographic factors and personality traits (the Big Five) and by …
The Global Trust Inventory as a "Proxy Measure" for Social Capital
The Global Trust Inventory (GTI), conceptually assessing trust in others ranging from close interpersonal relationships to relationships with government and financial institutions as a whole, was administered to representative online samples in 11 democratic states ( N = 11,917 from Europe, the Americas, and New Zealand). A seven-factor solution had configural, metric, and reasonable scalar invariance in multi-group confirmatory factor analysis. …
Accessing the Role of Trust Profiles for the Economic Growth of Societies
According to Robert Putnam, trust can be a proxy for social capital. Thus, a higher societal trust could be related to economic growth. To test this hypothesis, we simulated the association between trust and economic growth in two artificial societies. One artificial society (New Zealand) exhibited higher levels of initial trust, and the other (Argentina) had lower levels of trust. Initial starting points for simulations were set using representa…
A typology of masspersonal information seeking repertoires (Misr)
Masspersonal information seeking repertoires are a person-centered method of gaining insight into the relationship between Internet use, subjective well-being, and political participation. Through latent profile analysis, three person types were identified in two waves of stratified samples in 18 countries ( N = 8352). In accord with the “augmentation hypothesis,” high levels of interpersonal contact and traditional mass media usage covaried with…
How Do Religiosity and National Identity Relate to Cosmopolitanism? An Empirical Study Using Representative Samples in Christian, Muslim, and Buddhist Societies
Cosmopolitan Orientation’s (COS) relationship with personal religiosity, organizational religiosity, and national identity was examined in nationally representative samples from 19 societies (13 mainly Christian, 2 Muslim, and 4 societies with historically Buddhist influences, N = 8740). Multi-group structural equation models found that personal religiosity was a positive and significant predictor of global prosociality (willingness to help other…
A Network Analysis of Global Trust Across 11 Democratic Countries
Trust is seen as a glue in modern societies that facilitates economic prosperity and political functioning (e.g., Fukuyama, 1995; Newton, 2001; Putnam, 2000; see a more critical view of trust in Warren, 1999). In this literature, there exists a conventional division between social and political trust, as they are believed to have different foundations (e.g., Uslaner, 2002, 2018) and therefore should be treated as distinct concepts. However, more …
Empirical Correlates of Cosmopolitan Orientation
Psychology has begun contributing to social theory by providing empirical measures of actually existing cosmopolitanism that complements more purely theoretical conceptions of the construct common in philosophy and sociology. Drawing from two waves of research on representative adult samples from 19 countries (N = 8740), metric invariance was found for the three factors of cosmopolitan orientation (COS): cultural openness (CO), global prosocialit…
Social trust and satisfaction with life
Demographic inequalities or personality differences? Exploring six types of social media usage divides in Mainland China
With the wider penetration of information and communication technologies (ICTs), digital divide scholars have turned attention from physical access to the difference in usage. Based on a national representative survey conducted in mainland China (N = l,004), this exploratory study contributes to the literature by explicating a new typology of social media usage divides predicted by demographic factors and personality traits (the Big Five) and by …
Better support for national than local system during the Covid‐19 pandemic in China
Individuals increase their support for social systems in response to the threat, panic, and uncertainty that characterized the COVID‐19 pandemic. This could be because a powerful social system can compensate for a lack of control at the individual level. However, the levels of public support for national versus local systems could be different in China. Two studies investigate whether people support the national more strongly than the local syste…
Interdependency or submission to authority? The impacts of horizontal and vertical collectivist orientation on vaccine attitudes in mainland China
Culture has a profound impact on preventive measures during the COVID‐19 pandemic. Previous research has revealed that collectivism is associated with more effective responses to COVID‐19 on the national or regional level. However, the impact of different components of collectivist orientation on vaccine attitudes remains insufficiently explored on the individual level. Two survey studies conducted in August 2021 in mainland China consistently fo…
Identity and Institutions as Foundations of Ingroup Favoritism
Ingroup favoritism can represent a challenge for establishing cooperation beyond group boundaries. In a behavioral experiment conducted across 17 societies ( N = 3,236), we tested pre-registered hypotheses forwarded by social identity and material security frameworks to account for ingroup favoritism in trust toward national ingroups. We related individual-level measures of national identification and perception of institutions to trust, trustwor…
A cross‐cultural investigation of the effects of individual privilege, group identification and societal perceptions on global consciousness
Amidst growing polarization and nationalism across societies, global consciousness (GC) provides an important construct for addressing the political challenges of our era. GC is a holistic and complex psychological orientation constituted by the distinct components of awareness, identity and morality. The current studies investigated whether measures of individual privilege (income, education, subjective status, frequent travel and multilingual c…
Conceptualizing and measuring global consciousness
To examine the conceptualization and the measurement of global consciousness (GC) in cross‐national contexts, we conducted a secondary analysis on survey data collected from 16,241 individuals across 35 societies. Results demonstrate that GC is best conceptualized as a multidimensional construct by a bifactor ESEM model, in which GC captures an overarching and direct source of common variance across all manifest indicators, whereas domain‐specifi…
Psychology (9 works) · Social Psychology (9 works) · Political science (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Cultural Differences and Values (6 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Social and Intergroup Psychology (5 works) · Social Capital and Networks (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Politics (4 works)