Juan Meng
Biographic Data
| ID | 3620679 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Juan Meng |
| GIVEN NAMES | Juan |
| FAMILY NAME | Meng |
| SIGNATURE | MENG J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Georgia |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0143-9819 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 27 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Promoting employee well-being and commitment in communication industries
Purpose The purpose of this study is to examine the well-being initiatives and programs offered to full-time communication employees and identifies antecedents of employee subjective well-being and commitment in the workplace (e.g. organizational attention to mental health in the workplace and perceived organizational support, POS). Design/methodology/approach Guided by organizational support theory (OST), we conducted an online survey with 262 f…
Characterisation of cardiovascular disease (CVD) incidence and machine learning risk prediction in middle-aged and elderly populations: Data from the China health and retirement longitudinal study (CH…
Gender, age, ethnicity, and region are significant factors influencing CVD incidence. Although the LGB model demonstrates good overall performance, its low F1 score and recall rate reveal limitations in identifying high-risk cardiovascular disease patients
Toward an Integrated Model of Healthy Food Purchase via the Impact of Online Nutrition Information Seeking
Healthy eating is critical to consumers' overall health. The purpose of this study was to examine body mass index (BMI), obesity knowledge, and self-efficacy, along with online nutrition information seeking (ONIS), as antecedents to healthy food purchase (HFP) in a moderated mediation model. An online survey was conducted using Amazon Mechanical Turk to recruit 897 participants, with 484 women and 380 men. A moderated mediation analysis was then …
The Impact of Crucibles in Developing Public Relations’ Character and Competencies as Servant Leaders
Crucible experiences are essential in the development of leaders. Crucibles refer to trials and challenges that test and mold the character, values and behavior of leaders. Through in-depth interviews with 32 public relations leaders, we examined how crucible experiences specifically shaped them to practice servant leadership. Through the narratives they constructed about these experiences, we were able to learn specific details about these exper…
Promoting healthy eating: The intervening role of health and nutrition-related claims in food advertisements
Objective: Factors contributing to the obesity epidemic have powerful effects on people who are frequently exposed to the extensive advertisement of unhealthy foods. This study aimed to examine how consumers’ attitudes towards health and nutrition-related (HNR) claims in food advertisements affected their healthy food choice (HFC) and how online searching for nutrition information (OSNI) about food products mediated the impact of obesity knowledg…
Strategic Communication and the Global Pandemic: Leading through Unprecedented Times
This article serves as the introduction article of the special issue, titled Strategic Communication and the Global Pandemic. This special issue of the International Journal of Strategic Communication (IJSC) has one primary purpose–to stimulate serious scholarly research on strategic communication and its management and execution during challenging times, such as the COVID-19 global pandemic. To achieve this purpose, the special issue is organize…
The effect of monetary policy on China’s housing prices before and after 2017: A dynamic analysis in DSGE model
Strategic Communication in a Global Crisis: National and International Responses to the Covid-19 Pandemic
Digital competencies in communication management: A conceptual framework of Readiness for Industry 4.0 for communication professionals in the workplace
Purpose This research is motivated to explore communication professionals' understanding of the digital changes brought by the Industry 4.0 revolution and how such changes may affect the strategies and skills expected in effective communication management. A specific focus of the research is to define the concept of Readiness for Industry 4.0 in communication and propose a theoretical framework to address the key dimensions of Readiness for Indus…
Leadership Excellence in Corporate Communications: A Multi-Group Test of Measurement Invariance
This study aims at advancing leadership research in corporate communications by introducing a more rigorous statistical approach to test whether communication professionals of different hierarchical reporting levels, years of experience, and educational backgrounds would ascribe the same meanings to the construct of leadership excellence in corporate communications via survey research. By using an established measurement model of leadership excel…
Maximizing the Potential of Millennial Communication Professionals in the Workplace: A Talent Management Approach in the Field of Strategic Communication
Although millennials have been extensively examined in the popular and academic literature, there have not been sufficient studies in strategic communication that help us fully understand this unique and influential cohort in the communication profession. The purpose of this research is to take a talent management approach to gain a deep understanding of millennial communication professionals’ (MCPs) generational attributes as related to their wo…
The Role of Leadership Development in Issues Management: An Online Survey of Communication Practitioners in the Greater China Area
By using an online survey, the study investigated how communication practitioners (N = 132) in the Greater China area can acquire effective leadership capabilities through appropriate leadership developmental approaches when managing critical professional issues and challenges. Results indicate that three critical professional issues (i.e., developing and retaining talented professionals, managing the rise of social media, and dealing with high v…
Media-Source Preferences and Trust Building: How They Influence Relationship Management
This study investigates the critical role of media-source preferences in building trust in organizations. Data from the 2013 Edelman Trust Barometer survey was used to analyze the relationship between stakeholders’ media use patterns and their trust in different types of organizations. Specifically, we focus our analysis on eight countries (four Western ones and the BRIC nations). Results suggest that media-source preferences do have an impact on…
Morality or equality? Ideological framing in news coverage of gay marriage legitimization
This content analytic study investigated the approaches of two mainstream newspapers—The New York Times and the Chicago Tribune—to cover the gay marriage issue. The study used the Massachusetts legitimization of gay marriage as a dividing point to look at what kinds of specific political or social topics related to gay marriage were highlighted in the news media. The study examined how news sources were framed in the coverage of gay marriage, bas…
Morality or equality? Ideological framing in news coverage of gay marriage legitimization
This content analytic study investigated the approaches of two mainstream newspapers—The New York Times and the Chicago Tribune—to cover the gay marriage issue. The study used the Massachusetts legitimization of gay marriage as a dividing point to look at what kinds of specific political or social topics related to gay marriage were highlighted in the news media. The study examined how news sources were framed in the coverage of gay marriage, bas…
Media-Source Preferences and Trust Building: How They Influence Relationship Management
This study investigates the critical role of media-source preferences in building trust in organizations. Data from the 2013 Edelman Trust Barometer survey was used to analyze the relationship between stakeholders’ media use patterns and their trust in different types of organizations. Specifically, we focus our analysis on eight countries (four Western ones and the BRIC nations). Results suggest that media-source preferences do have an impact on…
The effect of monetary policy on China’s housing prices before and after 2017: A dynamic analysis in DSGE model
The Role of Leadership Development in Issues Management: An Online Survey of Communication Practitioners in the Greater China Area
By using an online survey, the study investigated how communication practitioners (N = 132) in the Greater China area can acquire effective leadership capabilities through appropriate leadership developmental approaches when managing critical professional issues and challenges. Results indicate that three critical professional issues (i.e., developing and retaining talented professionals, managing the rise of social media, and dealing with high v…
Morality or equality? Ideological framing in news coverage of gay marriage legitimization
This content analytic study investigated the approaches of two mainstream newspapers—The New York Times and the Chicago Tribune—to cover the gay marriage issue. The study used the Massachusetts legitimization of gay marriage as a dividing point to look at what kinds of specific political or social topics related to gay marriage were highlighted in the news media. The study examined how news sources were framed in the coverage of gay marriage, bas…
Media-Source Preferences and Trust Building: How They Influence Relationship Management
This study investigates the critical role of media-source preferences in building trust in organizations. Data from the 2013 Edelman Trust Barometer survey was used to analyze the relationship between stakeholders’ media use patterns and their trust in different types of organizations. Specifically, we focus our analysis on eight countries (four Western ones and the BRIC nations). Results suggest that media-source preferences do have an impact on…
The Role of Leadership Development in Issues Management: An Online Survey of Communication Practitioners in the Greater China Area
By using an online survey, the study investigated how communication practitioners (N = 132) in the Greater China area can acquire effective leadership capabilities through appropriate leadership developmental approaches when managing critical professional issues and challenges. Results indicate that three critical professional issues (i.e., developing and retaining talented professionals, managing the rise of social media, and dealing with high v…
Maximizing the Potential of Millennial Communication Professionals in the Workplace: A Talent Management Approach in the Field of Strategic Communication
Although millennials have been extensively examined in the popular and academic literature, there have not been sufficient studies in strategic communication that help us fully understand this unique and influential cohort in the communication profession. The purpose of this research is to take a talent management approach to gain a deep understanding of millennial communication professionals’ (MCPs) generational attributes as related to their wo…
Digital competencies in communication management: A conceptual framework of Readiness for Industry 4.0 for communication professionals in the workplace
Purpose This research is motivated to explore communication professionals' understanding of the digital changes brought by the Industry 4.0 revolution and how such changes may affect the strategies and skills expected in effective communication management. A specific focus of the research is to define the concept of Readiness for Industry 4.0 in communication and propose a theoretical framework to address the key dimensions of Readiness for Indus…
Leadership Excellence in Corporate Communications: A Multi-Group Test of Measurement Invariance
This study aims at advancing leadership research in corporate communications by introducing a more rigorous statistical approach to test whether communication professionals of different hierarchical reporting levels, years of experience, and educational backgrounds would ascribe the same meanings to the construct of leadership excellence in corporate communications via survey research. By using an established measurement model of leadership excel…
The Impact of Crucibles in Developing Public Relations’ Character and Competencies as Servant Leaders
Crucible experiences are essential in the development of leaders. Crucibles refer to trials and challenges that test and mold the character, values and behavior of leaders. Through in-depth interviews with 32 public relations leaders, we examined how crucible experiences specifically shaped them to practice servant leadership. Through the narratives they constructed about these experiences, we were able to learn specific details about these exper…
Promoting healthy eating: The intervening role of health and nutrition-related claims in food advertisements
Objective: Factors contributing to the obesity epidemic have powerful effects on people who are frequently exposed to the extensive advertisement of unhealthy foods. This study aimed to examine how consumers’ attitudes towards health and nutrition-related (HNR) claims in food advertisements affected their healthy food choice (HFC) and how online searching for nutrition information (OSNI) about food products mediated the impact of obesity knowledg…
Strategic Communication and the Global Pandemic: Leading through Unprecedented Times
This article serves as the introduction article of the special issue, titled Strategic Communication and the Global Pandemic. This special issue of the International Journal of Strategic Communication (IJSC) has one primary purpose–to stimulate serious scholarly research on strategic communication and its management and execution during challenging times, such as the COVID-19 global pandemic. To achieve this purpose, the special issue is organize…
The effect of monetary policy on China’s housing prices before and after 2017: A dynamic analysis in DSGE model
Strategic Communication in a Global Crisis: National and International Responses to the Covid-19 Pandemic
Toward an Integrated Model of Healthy Food Purchase via the Impact of Online Nutrition Information Seeking
Healthy eating is critical to consumers' overall health. The purpose of this study was to examine body mass index (BMI), obesity knowledge, and self-efficacy, along with online nutrition information seeking (ONIS), as antecedents to healthy food purchase (HFP) in a moderated mediation model. An online survey was conducted using Amazon Mechanical Turk to recruit 897 participants, with 484 women and 380 men. A moderated mediation analysis was then …
Promoting employee well-being and commitment in communication industries
Purpose The purpose of this study is to examine the well-being initiatives and programs offered to full-time communication employees and identifies antecedents of employee subjective well-being and commitment in the workplace (e.g. organizational attention to mental health in the workplace and perceived organizational support, POS). Design/methodology/approach Guided by organizational support theory (OST), we conducted an online survey with 262 f…
Characterisation of cardiovascular disease (CVD) incidence and machine learning risk prediction in middle-aged and elderly populations: Data from the China health and retirement longitudinal study (CH…
Gender, age, ethnicity, and region are significant factors influencing CVD incidence. Although the LGB model demonstrates good overall performance, its low F1 score and recall rate reveal limitations in identifying high-risk cardiovascular disease patients
Political science (10 works) · Public relations (8 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Business (6 works) · Medicine (4 works) · Public Relations and Crisis Communication (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · China (3 works) · Communication in Education and Healthcare (3 works) · Environmental health (3 works)