Xin Tang
Biographic Data
| ID | 3605754 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Xin Tang |
| GIVEN NAMES | Xin |
| FAMILY NAME | Tang |
| SIGNATURE | TANG X |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Helsinki |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0372-478X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 37 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 31 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 37 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Enhancing Well-Being Among Chinese University Students
Many university students in China are suffering from mental health problems, and the need for preventative well-being trainings has been recognised. Given limited resources, innovative approaches are needed to increase university students’ well-being skills. The present case study aims to explore the change in Chinese university students’ psychological flexibility, well-being, and study-related burnout during an ACT-based online course and explor…
Be curious and persistent
Success in STEM subjects requires students to be inquisitive and willing to invest sustained efforts in learning. Curiosity and persistence, in particular, emerge as two pillars of STEM achievement. However, some studies have observed potential drawbacks of curiosity and persistence, indicating their intricate dynamics on STEM achievement that cannot be captured by traditional linear analyses. This study examined the linear and non-linear roles o…
Teachers' emotional support matters for adolescents' creative self-efficacy and performance
Using the UTAUT-TPACK model to explain digital teaching behaviour of elementary school mathematics teacher
The appropriate use of digital technology in the classroom is very helpful to improve mathematics teaching in elementary school. However, the current situation of elementary school mathematics teachers’ digital teaching behaviour is not optimistic. This study analysed the factors influencing elementary school mathematics teachers’ digital teaching behaviour. A revised unified theory of acceptance and use of technology (UTAUT) model with technolog…
Seeking effective school and family supports for adolescents' curiosity in learning
BACKGROUND: Curiosity in learning is a driving force for students' knowledge acquisition and academic achievement, yet its declining trend during adolescence has been observed across multiple countries. AIMS: This study aimed to identify key supports for adolescents' learning curiosity across countries by examining the associations of learning curiosity with psychological need-based supports from family and school and further comparing the effect…
Multi-Omics for Mothers and Infants (Momi) Consortium
Background: The Multi-Omics for Mothers and Infants (MOMI) Consortium aims to define biological mechanisms associated with preterm birth, small for gestational age, preeclampsia, and stillbirth. Globally, the burden of adverse pregnancy outcomes (APOs) is highest in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). The MOMI Consortium consists of six different LMIC sites established by The Alliance for Maternal and Newborn Health Improvement in Banglades…
Bodily maps of subject-specific feelings and academic emotions among high school students
Learning is an embodied process in which emotion and cognition converge through the body’s expressive patterns. However, the bodily manifestation of learning-related emotions, potential gender differences in these patterns, and their impact on academic performance remain unclear. We examined high school students’ bodily sensation maps (BSMs) during learning across different school subject contexts within the Chinese high-school curriculum, and as…
Children’s extracurricular learning participation under household energy transition
Key drivers of medical crowdfunding success
Medical crowdfunding, an emerging form of internet-based financing, has seen immense growth globally in recent years, playing a significant role in supporting vulnerable groups to afford medical expense. In China, the insufficiency of medical insurance to cover all medical expenses, coupled with significant urban-rural disparities, leaves certain households, especially those in impoverished regions, unable to bear unforeseen high healthcare costs…
Environmental Heterogeneity Among Microhabitats Shapes the Diversity and Community Composition of Soil Eukaryotes in the Gurbantunggut Desert
The landscape of the drylands is characterized by patches of shrub plants and various successional stages of biocrusts, creating microhabitats that influence soil microbial communities. While previous studies have primarily focused on soil prokaryotes and a limited subset of eukaryotes—mainly fungi—a critical knowledge gap remains: the intrinsic effects of different microhabitat types on the diversity, community composition, and assembly processe…
Unveiling AI literacy in K-12 education
With the rise of AI, students must develop AI literacy for digital citizenship and future careers. Many countries are promoting AI curriculum integration in K-12 education. However, reviews summarizing empirical studies on AI literacy in K-12 education are scarce. This study conducts a systematic review of 22 studies from three databases. Bibliometric analysis indicated an increasing academic interest in this field, with most studies employing mi…
Factors Influencing University Students' Behavioural Intention to Use Generative Artificial Intelligence for Educational Purposes Based on a Revised UTAUT2 Model
‘I Survived the First Year!’
Teacher resilience exerts a significant influence on the professional development of teachers in their early career stages. Especially for novice mathematics teachers, the development of their resilience directly impacts their job satisfaction, sense of well‐being and other aspects. Nevertheless, existing research has rarely delved into teacher resilience from the perspective of specific subject backgrounds. The aim of this study is to explore ho…
Multi-Informant Profiles of Helicopter Parenting and Parent-Child Intimacy
Implicit measure of growth mindset
Frailty mediated the association between tooth loss and mortality in the oldest old individuals
Introduction: Tooth loss is associated with increased mortality risk; however, the mechanism underlying this is still not clear. The objective of this study was to explore whether frailty mediates the association between tooth loss and mortality risk among the oldest old individuals. Methods: The participants were followed up from 1998 to 2018 in the Chinese Longitudinal Healthy Longevity Survey (CLHLS). Frailty was constructed following a standa…
Networks and directed acyclic graphs
Early career gender differences in job burnout trajectories in Finland
The gender gap in job burnout research indicates that women score higher on job burnout. However, this gender difference has rarely been studied from developmental perspectives. Moreover, the underlying gender differences in job resources—driven by gendered socialization in early career years—have been under-investigated. The present study examined the trajectory of early career job burnout, gender differences in job burnout development, and gend…
Implementing translanguaging strategies in the English writing classroom in higher education
Over the past two decades, translanguaging has become a powerful concept in applied linguistics, enabling teachers and students to respond to linguistic and cultural diversity in the classroom. However, how teachers and students prepare for translanguaging pedagogy and practice in writing has so far received less attention ( Huang & Chalmers, 2023 ). Therefore, this systematic review focuses on the application of translanguaging strategies in the…
Developmental Trajectories in Mathematical Performance Among Chinese Adolescents
Facilitating Youth’s Curiosity in Learning
Using spectrum allocations to address indigenous rights claims
In February 2022, the New Zealand Government announced that a yet-to-be-formed “Māori Spectrum Entity” would “receive an ongoing allocation of 20 percent of future national commercial spectrum allocations, at no cost.” This is in addition to the 25 percent of spectrum designated for 5G technology (mid-band, 3.4–3.8 GHz) under the Māori Spectrum Working Group agreement. The novel arrangement, which creates a perpetual obligation rather than simply…
What Drives Daily Perseverance and Passion? Grit, Conscientiousness, and Goal Pursuit Experiences
Two studies were conducted to further the understanding of daily experiences of perseverance and passion and the influences of personality traits (e.g., grit and conscientiousness) and contextual factors. Study 1 applied the experience sampling method ( n = 116; observations = 5,187) and found that perseverance of effort (PE) predicted passion when controlling for conscientiousness. Study 2 used the day reconstruction method ( n = 468; observatio…
Killing the cats or satisfying the human? The role of epistemic curiosity in adolescents’ multidimensional well-being
The role of epistemic curiosity in achievement has been widely acknowledged. In recent years, research has started to understand the broad effect of curiosity, and thus the association between curiosity and well-being is of special interest. Yet, studies so far have found both beneficial and detrimental effects of curiosity on well-being, leaving inconclusive findings. The present study aimed to understand the associations between epistemic curio…
Tax Revenues in Low-Income Countries
We quantitatively investigate the welfare costs of increasing tax revenues in low-income countries. We consider three tax instruments: consumption, labour income and capital income taxes. The analysis is based on a general equilibrium model featuring heterogeneous agents, incomplete financial markets, and rural and urban areas. We calibrate the model to Ethiopia and decompose the welfare costs into their aggregate and distributional components. W…
Autonomy-related Parenting Profiles and their Effects on Adolescents’ Academic and Psychological Development
The important role of parenting is widely acknowledged, but as most studies have understood and examined it as a stable attribute (e.g., parenting style), the stability of and changes in parenting are less well understood. Using longitudinal person-oriented approaches (i.e., latent profile analyses and latent transition analyses), this study aimed to examine the stability of and changes in autonomy-related parenting profiles and their effects on …
Building Grit
Despite academics' enthusiasm about the concept of grit (defined as consistency of interest and perseverance of effort), its benefit for academic achievement has recently been challenged. Drawing from a longitudinal sample (N = 2018; 55.3% female; sixth-nineth grades) from Finland, this study first aimed to investigate and replicate the association between grit and achievement outcomes (i.e., academic achievement and engagement). Further, the pre…
The roles of social–emotional skills in students’ academic and life success
41); (b) inclusion of multi-informant ratings substantially enhanced the ability of social-emotional skills in predicting outcome variables, with parent- and self-rated skills playing important, unique roles; (c) by modeling skills at the facet level rather than at the domain level, we identified the key skills for different outcomes and found significant variation in facets' predictive utility even within the same domain; and (d) although the ol…
Developmental Trajectories in Mathematical Performance Among Chinese Adolescents
Tax Revenues in Low-Income Countries
We quantitatively investigate the welfare costs of increasing tax revenues in low-income countries. We consider three tax instruments: consumption, labour income and capital income taxes. The analysis is based on a general equilibrium model featuring heterogeneous agents, incomplete financial markets, and rural and urban areas. We calibrate the model to Ethiopia and decompose the welfare costs into their aggregate and distributional components. W…
Putting the Goal Back into Grit
Grit has recently been challenged for its weak predictive power and the incompleteness of its measurement. This study addressed these issues by taking a developmental, person-oriented approach to study academic-related goal commitment and grit and their effects on academic achievement. Using longitudinal data among Finnish eighth and ninth graders ( n = 549, 59.4% female, age = 14–16), the longitudinal changes in grit and academic goal commitment…
Profiles of teaching practices and reading skills at the first and third grade in Finland and Estonia
Double Reference Points
The existing literature is inconsistent about how social comparison affects risk attitudes. We propose a framework where the total utility is composed of the social and financial utilities. The financial utility is consistent with prospect theory (i.e., an S‐shaped utility function with a financial reference point), whereas the social utility is affected by both social and financial reference points. Therefore, social risk attitudes are determine…
Double Reference Points
The existing literature is inconsistent about how social comparison affects risk attitudes. We propose a framework where the total utility is composed of the social and financial utilities. The financial utility is consistent with prospect theory (i.e., an S‐shaped utility function with a financial reference point), whereas the social utility is affected by both social and financial reference points. Therefore, social risk attitudes are determine…
Profiles of teaching practices and reading skills at the first and third grade in Finland and Estonia
Policy distortions, farm size, and the overuse of agricultural chemicals in China
Significance Overuse of agricultural chemicals has resulted in enormous damages to environmental quality and human health in China. Reducing the use of agricultural chemicals to an optimal level is a crucial challenge for the sustainable development of agriculture. We demonstrate that small farm size (in China, typically ∼0.1 ha for each parcel) is strongly related to overuse of agricultural chemicals. Farm size increases with economic developmen…
Building Grit
Despite academics' enthusiasm about the concept of grit (defined as consistency of interest and perseverance of effort), its benefit for academic achievement has recently been challenged. Drawing from a longitudinal sample (N = 2018; 55.3% female; sixth-nineth grades) from Finland, this study first aimed to investigate and replicate the association between grit and achievement outcomes (i.e., academic achievement and engagement). Further, the pre…
Students’ Trait Emotional Intelligence and Perceived Teacher Emotional Support in Preventing Burnout
The current study sought to investigate the role of trait emotional intelligence and perceived teacher emotional support in school burnout. Furthermore, the moderating role of academic anxiety in these relationships was examined. A sample of 493 Italian high school students (81.9% female) aged 14-19 years (M = 16.27, SD = 1.48) was involved in the study. A latent moderated structural equation approach was performed to test the hypothesized model.…
School burnout and psychosocial problems among adolescents
INTRODUCTION: The present study investigated whether grit can mitigate the associations between school burnout, loneliness, and depressive symptoms among adolescents. It also examined gender differences. METHODS: This study included 1296 seventh and 1166 eighth graders from Finland. The study variables were self-reported and regression analysis was performed. RESULTS: This study found that two grit facets - consistency of interest and perseveranc…
Student Engagement in Adolescence
We systematically mapped and analyzed the longitudinal research on adolescent student engagement published during 2010–2020. A total of 104 studies of 104,304 adolescents met inclusion criteria. Studies were mainly conducted in North America (43%) or Europe (34%). Over half studied engagement across one or more years. Most studies (93%) focused on antecedents of engagement rather than outcomes of engagement (38%). Data were commonly collected usi…
Putting the Goal Back into Grit
Grit has recently been challenged for its weak predictive power and the incompleteness of its measurement. This study addressed these issues by taking a developmental, person-oriented approach to study academic-related goal commitment and grit and their effects on academic achievement. Using longitudinal data among Finnish eighth and ninth graders ( n = 549, 59.4% female, age = 14–16), the longitudinal changes in grit and academic goal commitment…
Longitudinal associations between third‐grade teaching styles and sixth‐grade reading skills
Background Most previous studies of teaching styles and reading skills have been cross‐sectional. Longitudinal research is needed to clarify the direction of effects. The present longitudinal study examined the degree to which differences in teaching styles in the third grade predict the sixth‐grade reading performance. The consistency of the findings was addressed by comparing results across students in two countries (Finland and Estonia). Metho…
U.S. and Finnish high school science engagement during the Covid‐19 pandemic
When the COVID‐19 pandemic struck, research teams in the United States and Finland were collaborating on a study to improve adolescent academic engagement in chemistry and physics and the impact remote teaching on academic, social, and emotional learning. The ongoing “Crafting Engaging Science Environments” (CESE) intervention afforded a rare data collection opportunity. In the United States, students were surveyed at the beginning of the school …
Autonomy-related Parenting Profiles and their Effects on Adolescents’ Academic and Psychological Development
The important role of parenting is widely acknowledged, but as most studies have understood and examined it as a stable attribute (e.g., parenting style), the stability of and changes in parenting are less well understood. Using longitudinal person-oriented approaches (i.e., latent profile analyses and latent transition analyses), this study aimed to examine the stability of and changes in autonomy-related parenting profiles and their effects on …
Using spectrum allocations to address indigenous rights claims
In February 2022, the New Zealand Government announced that a yet-to-be-formed “Māori Spectrum Entity” would “receive an ongoing allocation of 20 percent of future national commercial spectrum allocations, at no cost.” This is in addition to the 25 percent of spectrum designated for 5G technology (mid-band, 3.4–3.8 GHz) under the Māori Spectrum Working Group agreement. The novel arrangement, which creates a perpetual obligation rather than simply…
What Drives Daily Perseverance and Passion? Grit, Conscientiousness, and Goal Pursuit Experiences
Two studies were conducted to further the understanding of daily experiences of perseverance and passion and the influences of personality traits (e.g., grit and conscientiousness) and contextual factors. Study 1 applied the experience sampling method ( n = 116; observations = 5,187) and found that perseverance of effort (PE) predicted passion when controlling for conscientiousness. Study 2 used the day reconstruction method ( n = 468; observatio…
Killing the cats or satisfying the human? The role of epistemic curiosity in adolescents’ multidimensional well-being
The role of epistemic curiosity in achievement has been widely acknowledged. In recent years, research has started to understand the broad effect of curiosity, and thus the association between curiosity and well-being is of special interest. Yet, studies so far have found both beneficial and detrimental effects of curiosity on well-being, leaving inconclusive findings. The present study aimed to understand the associations between epistemic curio…
Tax Revenues in Low-Income Countries
We quantitatively investigate the welfare costs of increasing tax revenues in low-income countries. We consider three tax instruments: consumption, labour income and capital income taxes. The analysis is based on a general equilibrium model featuring heterogeneous agents, incomplete financial markets, and rural and urban areas. We calibrate the model to Ethiopia and decompose the welfare costs into their aggregate and distributional components. W…
The roles of social–emotional skills in students’ academic and life success
41); (b) inclusion of multi-informant ratings substantially enhanced the ability of social-emotional skills in predicting outcome variables, with parent- and self-rated skills playing important, unique roles; (c) by modeling skills at the facet level rather than at the domain level, we identified the key skills for different outcomes and found significant variation in facets' predictive utility even within the same domain; and (d) although the ol…
Frailty mediated the association between tooth loss and mortality in the oldest old individuals
Introduction: Tooth loss is associated with increased mortality risk; however, the mechanism underlying this is still not clear. The objective of this study was to explore whether frailty mediates the association between tooth loss and mortality risk among the oldest old individuals. Methods: The participants were followed up from 1998 to 2018 in the Chinese Longitudinal Healthy Longevity Survey (CLHLS). Frailty was constructed following a standa…
Networks and directed acyclic graphs
Early career gender differences in job burnout trajectories in Finland
The gender gap in job burnout research indicates that women score higher on job burnout. However, this gender difference has rarely been studied from developmental perspectives. Moreover, the underlying gender differences in job resources—driven by gendered socialization in early career years—have been under-investigated. The present study examined the trajectory of early career job burnout, gender differences in job burnout development, and gend…
Implementing translanguaging strategies in the English writing classroom in higher education
Over the past two decades, translanguaging has become a powerful concept in applied linguistics, enabling teachers and students to respond to linguistic and cultural diversity in the classroom. However, how teachers and students prepare for translanguaging pedagogy and practice in writing has so far received less attention ( Huang & Chalmers, 2023 ). Therefore, this systematic review focuses on the application of translanguaging strategies in the…
Developmental Trajectories in Mathematical Performance Among Chinese Adolescents
Facilitating Youth’s Curiosity in Learning
Key drivers of medical crowdfunding success
Medical crowdfunding, an emerging form of internet-based financing, has seen immense growth globally in recent years, playing a significant role in supporting vulnerable groups to afford medical expense. In China, the insufficiency of medical insurance to cover all medical expenses, coupled with significant urban-rural disparities, leaves certain households, especially those in impoverished regions, unable to bear unforeseen high healthcare costs…
Environmental Heterogeneity Among Microhabitats Shapes the Diversity and Community Composition of Soil Eukaryotes in the Gurbantunggut Desert
The landscape of the drylands is characterized by patches of shrub plants and various successional stages of biocrusts, creating microhabitats that influence soil microbial communities. While previous studies have primarily focused on soil prokaryotes and a limited subset of eukaryotes—mainly fungi—a critical knowledge gap remains: the intrinsic effects of different microhabitat types on the diversity, community composition, and assembly processe…
Unveiling AI literacy in K-12 education
With the rise of AI, students must develop AI literacy for digital citizenship and future careers. Many countries are promoting AI curriculum integration in K-12 education. However, reviews summarizing empirical studies on AI literacy in K-12 education are scarce. This study conducts a systematic review of 22 studies from three databases. Bibliometric analysis indicated an increasing academic interest in this field, with most studies employing mi…
Psychology (24 works) · Developmental psychology (15 works) · Social Psychology (12 works) · Clinical Psychology (7 works) · Education, Achievement, and Giftedness (7 works) · Mathematics education (7 works) · Medicine (7 works) · Pedagogy (7 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Grit, Self-Efficacy, and Motivation (6 works)