Qinghua Yang
Biographic Data
| ID | 3645694 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Qinghua Yang |
| GIVEN NAMES | Qinghua |
| FAMILY NAME | Yang |
| SIGNATURE | YANG Q |
| AFFILIATIONS | Texas Christian University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1358-8096 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 31 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Daily Associations Between Social Media Exposure and E-Cigarette Use Among Mexican American College Students
INTRODUCTION: Vaping-related content is prevalent on social media, including industry-sponsored advertising and user-generated content that normalizes use. While previous research suggests a link between social media exposure and vaping, this relationship remains understudied among vulnerable populations like Mexican Americans. This study examined the relationship between daily social media exposure and vaping among Mexican American young adults.…
Perceptions of Scientific Recommendations Mediate the Effects of Message Valence on Adult Smokers’ Intention to Use E-Cigarettes to Quit: A Conditional Process Analysis
Although electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes) have been widely used by smokers as a quitting device, the explanatory mechanisms and boundary conditions in which message characteristics influence their intention to use e-cigarettes as cessation devices remain unclear. To fill this gap, the current between-subjects experiment investigated how the valence of the messages (pro-e-cigarette, anti-e-cigarette, conflicting recommendations) current smoker…
Predictors and Outcomes of Online Health Information Avoidance in the Context of Covid-19: Application and Extension of the PRIA Model
Despite its significant implications for public health and individual decision-making, research on information avoidance remains limited. In this study, we applied and extended the model of planned risk information avoidance (PRIA) to examine how sociocultural, cognitive, and affective factors shape online health information avoidance (OHIA). Using a three-wave longitudinal online survey, we found that risk perception, attitude toward information…
The Paradox of Tailored Messaging: When Precision Interferes with Privacy
451) investigates the effects of message specificity (explicit vs. implicit) on behavioral intention across two health topics. The evidence points to an interesting tradeoff between precision and invasiveness. Specifically, across two topics, greater tailoring precision enhances perceived invasiveness, which, in turn, triggers felt anger and negative cognitions, ultimately decreasing behavioral intention. These findings contribute to a gradually …
Why People Turn to ChatGPT for Health Information: Extending UTAUT with Healthcare Dissatisfaction and Perceived Credibility
Generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools, such as ChatGPT, have become a convenient source of information. This study proposes and tests a model predicting intentions to use ChatGPT for health information and examines whether significant predictors differ by condition severity. The model included the original predictors of the unified theory of acceptance and use of technology (UTAUT). Guided by channel complementarity theory, which highligh…
Consistency and divergence in drivers of soil erosion risk: Insights from heterogeneous watersheds
Health Behavior Change Interventions Using Mobile Phones: A Meta-Analysis
Examining Social Support Conversations on Reddit During Covid-19 Using Computational Methods
Public health crises like the COVID-19 pandemic have posed unprecedented challenges to both physical and mental health. To better understand related social support conversations on online support groups, and how the topics of these conversations are associated with producing conversation and with authors' mental health status, we analyzed 65,004 posts and comments on the subreddit r/COVID19_support using structural topic modeling. Among the 22 va…
Future Antarctic marine accessibility in a warming world
Antarctic sea ice is projected to decline under continued global warming, reshaping marine accessibility in the Southern Ocean with far-reaching implications for navigation, ecosystem stability, and polar governance. Leveraging optimally selected sea ice projections from the coupled model intercomparison project phase 6, we assess future Antarctic marine accessibility for open water and polar class 6 (PC6) vessels under 1.5 °C, 2 °C, and 3 °C war…
Understanding the Associations Between Adolescents’ Exposure to E-Cigarette Information and Vaping Behavior Through the Theory of Planned Behavior
Adolescents have actively looked for and passively scanned information about electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes) from a variety of media and interpersonal sources. Despite the evidence that exposure to e-cigarette information is associated with youth's increased vaping intention, there is a paucity of scholarship that differentiates the sources where adolescents obtain e-cigarette information in their investigation, which limits our understandin…
When Arguments Meet a Story: An Experiment Testing Message Design Strategies for Skin Cancer Prevention and Detection
Persuasion research often suggests combining different message formats such as facts, statistics, and narratives in message design to maximize persuasive effects. However, the effect of the combination, especially between fact-based arguments and long-form narratives, varies depending on many factors which have been understudied. Our study therefore tested how argument strength, argument position, and target behavior interacted in impacting behav…
Discrepancy of eye injuries in mechanism, clinical features, and vision prognosis by different causative sports
Objective To investigate the epidemiological and clinical characteristics of sports-related eye injuries in China, as well as how they differ depending on the sport or other specific factor that caused them. Methods Consecutive medical records from 2015 to 2019 of sports-related eye injuries from a standardized database in nine tertiary referral hospitals in China were retrospectively reviewed and analyzed. Results A total of 377 eyes in 376 inpa…
How Does Social Media Exposure and Engagement Influence College Students’ Use of ENDS Products? A Cross-lagged Longitudinal Study
Electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS) products have been marketed heavily on social media throughout the past years, which exerts great influence on young adults' ENDS use. Despite scholars' pioneering efforts in investigating the influence of tobacco and nicotine products marketing on young adults' vaping behavior, scholarly attention has been paid primarily to passive exposure to rather than active engagement with the information on socia…
Better synoptic and subseasonal sea ice thickness predictions are urgently required: A lesson learned from the Yopp data validation
In the context of global warming, Arctic sea ice has declined substantially during the satellite era (Kwok 2018). The retreating and thinning of Arctic sea ice provide opportunities for human activities in the Arctic, such as tourism, fisheries, shipping, natural resource exploitation, and wildlife management; however, new risks emerge. To ensure the safety and emergency management of human activities in the Arctic, reliable Arctic sea ice predic…
Evaluation of Antarctic sea ice thickness and volume during 2003–2014 in CMIP6 using Envisat and CryoSat-2 observations
Sea ice thickness (SIT), which is a crucial and sensitive indicator of climate change in the Antarctic, has a substantial impact on atmosphere-sea-ice-ocean interactions. Despite the slight thinning in SIT and reduction in sea ice volume (SIV) in the Antarctic in the recent decade, challenges remain in quantifying their changes, primarily because of the limited availability of high-quality long-term observational data. Therefore, it is crucial to…
Contrasting trends in short-lived and long-lived mesoscale eddies in the Southern Ocean since the 1990s
Mesoscale eddies play an important role in the transport of heat, carbon, and nutrients in the Southern Ocean. Previous studies have documented an increasing intensity of the Southern Ocean eddy field during recent decades; however, it remains unclear whether the mesoscale eddies with different lifetimes have different temporal variations. Using satellite altimeter observations from 1993 to 2020, we found that the increasing trend in the intensit…
Understanding Information Processing and Protective Behaviors during the Pandemic: A Three-Wave Longitudinal Study
The study has made important contributions in that it extends the scholarship on health information behaviors by (a) highlighting that relevant hazard experience in risk information seeking and processing model should be expanded to include indirect experience, and (b) providing the mechanism of subsequent systematic information processing following prior information processing. Our study also provides practical implications on health/risk commun…
Cosmetics for the non-elite 2000 years ago: Affordable Raw Materials and a Complex Production Process
Theme and sentiment of posts in a weight loss subreddit predict popularity, engagement, and users' weight loss: A Computational Approach
Despite the common use of social media to discuss health issues, little is known about how features of user-generated content influence users' health outcomes. To address this gap, we longitudinally studied large-scale conversations on the subreddit r/loseit, an online weight loss community, by computationally analyzing the themes and sentiment of users' posts and examining their associations with users' self-reported weight loss. Our study ident…
Circular RNA, hsa_circRNA_102049, promotes colorectal cancer cell migration and invasion via binding and suppressing miRNA‐455‐3p
Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the second most prevalent malignant gastrointestinal tumor type worldwide, displaying poor prognosis. Accumulating studies have reported the significance of circular RNAs (circRNAs) and microRNAs (miRNAs) in CRC carcinogenesis and development. At present, the functions and mechanisms of action underlying the circular RNA, hsa_circRNA_102049, in CRC are not completely understood. The present study aimed to establish the …
The Effects of Tobacco Coverage in the Public Communication Environment on Young People’s Decisions to Smoke Combustible Cigarettes
In today’s complex media environment, does media coverage influence youth and young adults’ (YYA) tobacco use and intentions? We conceptualize the “public communication environment” and effect mediators, then ask whether over time variation in exogenously measured tobacco media coverage from mass and social media sources predicts daily YYA cigarette smoking intentions measured in a rolling nationally representative phone survey (N = 11,847 on 1,1…
Health Disparities in Online Covid-19 Information Seeking and Protective Behaviors: A Two-Wave Longitudinal Study
The COVID-19 outbreak was declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization and claimed hundreds of thousands of lives in the U.S. However, the adoption of protective behaviors in response to COVID-19 varies among sociodemographic groups. To better understand the disparities in U.S. adults' adoption of protective behaviors in relation to sociodemographic factors, we conducted a two-wave panel survey in the U.S. Although sociodemographic factor…
Association between social network sites use and mental illness: A meta-analysis
The existing literature shows mixed results of how the use of social networking sites (SNSs) is related to mental health. Some studies provided evidence that SNS users are more mentally healthy because of the exchanged social support, while others argued that users tend to engage in upward social comparison, which would result in mental illness. To shed light on this relationship, we conducted a meta-analytic review to examine a) the association …
Unprecedented Arctic sea ice thickness loss and multiyear-ice volume export through Fram Strait during 2010–2011
The satellite-observed sea ice thickness (SIT) records from 2003 to 2020 identify an extreme SIT loss during 2010–2011. Ice thickness budget analysis demonstrates that the thickness loss was associated with an extraordinarily large multiyear ice (MYI) volume export through the Fram Strait during the season of sea ice advance. High cloudiness led to positive anomalies of net longwave radiation, and positive net surface energy flux anomalies suppor…
Record-breaking rain falls at Greenland summit controlled by warm moist-air intrusion
On 14 August 2021, rain fell on the peak of Greenland for the first time on record. The atmospheric circulation and water vapour transport responsible for the rain were investigated. A high-pressure ridge favoured southwesterly advection of warm and moist air, the intrusion of which contributed to the rainfall. At the same time, Summit station observed above-freezing temperatures, which was the third time in a decade, after summers 2012 and 2019.…
Cosmetics for the non-elite 2000 years ago: Affordable Raw Materials and a Complex Production Process
The role of information avoidance in managing uncertainty from conflicting recommendations about electronic cigarettes
Insufficient scientific evidence about electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes) has led to conflicting recommendations (CRs) by credible scientific organizations, creating a public health debate that could prove especially difficult to reconcile as current and former smokers make decisions about whether to use e-cigarettes. To investigate how CRs about e-cigarettes may affect intentions to engage in healthy behaviors, 717 former and current smokers w…
Theme and sentiment of posts in a weight loss subreddit predict popularity, engagement, and users' weight loss: A Computational Approach
Despite the common use of social media to discuss health issues, little is known about how features of user-generated content influence users' health outcomes. To address this gap, we longitudinally studied large-scale conversations on the subreddit r/loseit, an online weight loss community, by computationally analyzing the themes and sentiment of users' posts and examining their associations with users' self-reported weight loss. Our study ident…
Exploring Environmental Health on Weibo: A Textual Analysis of Framing Haze-Related Stories on Chinese Social Media
According to the latest report by the World Health Organization, air pollution, one of the planet's most dangerous environmental carcinogens, has become one of the leading causes of cancer-related deaths. In China this is a particularly crucial issue, with more than 100 cities and close to one billion individuals threatened by haze due to heavy air pollution in recent years. Beyond traditional channels, the rise of social media has led to greater…
The role of information avoidance in managing uncertainty from conflicting recommendations about electronic cigarettes
Insufficient scientific evidence about electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes) has led to conflicting recommendations (CRs) by credible scientific organizations, creating a public health debate that could prove especially difficult to reconcile as current and former smokers make decisions about whether to use e-cigarettes. To investigate how CRs about e-cigarettes may affect intentions to engage in healthy behaviors, 717 former and current smokers w…
Would Older Adults Perform Preventive Practices in the Post-Covid-19 Era? A Community-Based Cross-Sectional Survey in China
During the post-COVID-19 era, preventive practices, such as washing hands and wearing a mask, remain key measures for controlling the spread of infection for older adults. This study investigated the status of preventive practices among older adults and identified the related influencing factors. Participants who were ≥60 years old were recruited nationwide. Data were collected through self-designed questionnaires, including demographic variables…
Theory-Based Social and Non-Social Engagement Features in Smoking Cessation Mobile Apps: A Content Analysis
Despite the ubiquity of smartphone ownership and the increasing integration of social engagement features in smoking cessation apps to engage users, the social and non-social engagement features that are present in current smoking cessation apps and the effectiveness of these features in engaging users remain understudied. To fill the gap in the literature, a content analysis of free and paid smoking cessation mobile apps was conducted to examine…
Circular RNA, hsa_circRNA_102049, promotes colorectal cancer cell migration and invasion via binding and suppressing miRNA‐455‐3p
Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the second most prevalent malignant gastrointestinal tumor type worldwide, displaying poor prognosis. Accumulating studies have reported the significance of circular RNAs (circRNAs) and microRNAs (miRNAs) in CRC carcinogenesis and development. At present, the functions and mechanisms of action underlying the circular RNA, hsa_circRNA_102049, in CRC are not completely understood. The present study aimed to establish the …
The Effects of Tobacco Coverage in the Public Communication Environment on Young People’s Decisions to Smoke Combustible Cigarettes
In today’s complex media environment, does media coverage influence youth and young adults’ (YYA) tobacco use and intentions? We conceptualize the “public communication environment” and effect mediators, then ask whether over time variation in exogenously measured tobacco media coverage from mass and social media sources predicts daily YYA cigarette smoking intentions measured in a rolling nationally representative phone survey (N = 11,847 on 1,1…
Health Disparities in Online Covid-19 Information Seeking and Protective Behaviors: A Two-Wave Longitudinal Study
The COVID-19 outbreak was declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization and claimed hundreds of thousands of lives in the U.S. However, the adoption of protective behaviors in response to COVID-19 varies among sociodemographic groups. To better understand the disparities in U.S. adults' adoption of protective behaviors in relation to sociodemographic factors, we conducted a two-wave panel survey in the U.S. Although sociodemographic factor…
Association between social network sites use and mental illness: A meta-analysis
The existing literature shows mixed results of how the use of social networking sites (SNSs) is related to mental health. Some studies provided evidence that SNS users are more mentally healthy because of the exchanged social support, while others argued that users tend to engage in upward social comparison, which would result in mental illness. To shed light on this relationship, we conducted a meta-analytic review to examine a) the association …
Unprecedented Arctic sea ice thickness loss and multiyear-ice volume export through Fram Strait during 2010–2011
The satellite-observed sea ice thickness (SIT) records from 2003 to 2020 identify an extreme SIT loss during 2010–2011. Ice thickness budget analysis demonstrates that the thickness loss was associated with an extraordinarily large multiyear ice (MYI) volume export through the Fram Strait during the season of sea ice advance. High cloudiness led to positive anomalies of net longwave radiation, and positive net surface energy flux anomalies suppor…
Record-breaking rain falls at Greenland summit controlled by warm moist-air intrusion
On 14 August 2021, rain fell on the peak of Greenland for the first time on record. The atmospheric circulation and water vapour transport responsible for the rain were investigated. A high-pressure ridge favoured southwesterly advection of warm and moist air, the intrusion of which contributed to the rainfall. At the same time, Summit station observed above-freezing temperatures, which was the third time in a decade, after summers 2012 and 2019.…
The evolution of the Fram Strait sea ice volume export decomposed by age: Estimating with parameter-optimized sea ice-ocean model outputs
Sea ice export through the Fram Strait is crucial in the dynamic evolution of Arctic sea ice and can further modulate Arctic sea ice mass balance as well as the ocean thermohaline circulation. In this study, based on outputs from a parameter-optimized and fully physical ocean–sea ice coupled model and sea ice age observation, we estimate sea ice volume (SIV) flux and its age evolution via the Fram Strait. The estimate of mean annual SIV flux is a…
An Empirical Investigation of Inadequate Statistical Reporting Practices in Communication Meta-Analyses and Their Consequences
Insufficient statistical reporting practices (ISRPs) involve failure to report effect sizes or the information necessary to compute them in quantitative research. ISRPs can present problems for advancing knowledge in the field of Communication. Because, among other issues, studies containing ISRPs cannot be included in meta-analytic reviews, this practice undermines our ability to quantitatively summarize the findings from communication research …
Discrepancy of eye injuries in mechanism, clinical features, and vision prognosis by different causative sports
Objective To investigate the epidemiological and clinical characteristics of sports-related eye injuries in China, as well as how they differ depending on the sport or other specific factor that caused them. Methods Consecutive medical records from 2015 to 2019 of sports-related eye injuries from a standardized database in nine tertiary referral hospitals in China were retrospectively reviewed and analyzed. Results A total of 377 eyes in 376 inpa…
How Does Social Media Exposure and Engagement Influence College Students’ Use of ENDS Products? A Cross-lagged Longitudinal Study
Electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS) products have been marketed heavily on social media throughout the past years, which exerts great influence on young adults' ENDS use. Despite scholars' pioneering efforts in investigating the influence of tobacco and nicotine products marketing on young adults' vaping behavior, scholarly attention has been paid primarily to passive exposure to rather than active engagement with the information on socia…
Better synoptic and subseasonal sea ice thickness predictions are urgently required: A lesson learned from the Yopp data validation
In the context of global warming, Arctic sea ice has declined substantially during the satellite era (Kwok 2018). The retreating and thinning of Arctic sea ice provide opportunities for human activities in the Arctic, such as tourism, fisheries, shipping, natural resource exploitation, and wildlife management; however, new risks emerge. To ensure the safety and emergency management of human activities in the Arctic, reliable Arctic sea ice predic…
Evaluation of Antarctic sea ice thickness and volume during 2003–2014 in CMIP6 using Envisat and CryoSat-2 observations
Sea ice thickness (SIT), which is a crucial and sensitive indicator of climate change in the Antarctic, has a substantial impact on atmosphere-sea-ice-ocean interactions. Despite the slight thinning in SIT and reduction in sea ice volume (SIV) in the Antarctic in the recent decade, challenges remain in quantifying their changes, primarily because of the limited availability of high-quality long-term observational data. Therefore, it is crucial to…
Contrasting trends in short-lived and long-lived mesoscale eddies in the Southern Ocean since the 1990s
Mesoscale eddies play an important role in the transport of heat, carbon, and nutrients in the Southern Ocean. Previous studies have documented an increasing intensity of the Southern Ocean eddy field during recent decades; however, it remains unclear whether the mesoscale eddies with different lifetimes have different temporal variations. Using satellite altimeter observations from 1993 to 2020, we found that the increasing trend in the intensit…
Understanding Information Processing and Protective Behaviors during the Pandemic: A Three-Wave Longitudinal Study
The study has made important contributions in that it extends the scholarship on health information behaviors by (a) highlighting that relevant hazard experience in risk information seeking and processing model should be expanded to include indirect experience, and (b) providing the mechanism of subsequent systematic information processing following prior information processing. Our study also provides practical implications on health/risk commun…
Cosmetics for the non-elite 2000 years ago: Affordable Raw Materials and a Complex Production Process
Theme and sentiment of posts in a weight loss subreddit predict popularity, engagement, and users' weight loss: A Computational Approach
Despite the common use of social media to discuss health issues, little is known about how features of user-generated content influence users' health outcomes. To address this gap, we longitudinally studied large-scale conversations on the subreddit r/loseit, an online weight loss community, by computationally analyzing the themes and sentiment of users' posts and examining their associations with users' self-reported weight loss. Our study ident…
Understanding the Associations Between Adolescents’ Exposure to E-Cigarette Information and Vaping Behavior Through the Theory of Planned Behavior
Adolescents have actively looked for and passively scanned information about electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes) from a variety of media and interpersonal sources. Despite the evidence that exposure to e-cigarette information is associated with youth's increased vaping intention, there is a paucity of scholarship that differentiates the sources where adolescents obtain e-cigarette information in their investigation, which limits our understandin…
When Arguments Meet a Story: An Experiment Testing Message Design Strategies for Skin Cancer Prevention and Detection
Persuasion research often suggests combining different message formats such as facts, statistics, and narratives in message design to maximize persuasive effects. However, the effect of the combination, especially between fact-based arguments and long-form narratives, varies depending on many factors which have been understudied. Our study therefore tested how argument strength, argument position, and target behavior interacted in impacting behav…
Health Behavior Change Interventions Using Mobile Phones: A Meta-Analysis
Examining Social Support Conversations on Reddit During Covid-19 Using Computational Methods
Public health crises like the COVID-19 pandemic have posed unprecedented challenges to both physical and mental health. To better understand related social support conversations on online support groups, and how the topics of these conversations are associated with producing conversation and with authors' mental health status, we analyzed 65,004 posts and comments on the subreddit r/COVID19_support using structural topic modeling. Among the 22 va…
Future Antarctic marine accessibility in a warming world
Antarctic sea ice is projected to decline under continued global warming, reshaping marine accessibility in the Southern Ocean with far-reaching implications for navigation, ecosystem stability, and polar governance. Leveraging optimally selected sea ice projections from the coupled model intercomparison project phase 6, we assess future Antarctic marine accessibility for open water and polar class 6 (PC6) vessels under 1.5 °C, 2 °C, and 3 °C war…
Medicine (16 works) · Psychology (14 works) · Political science (9 works) · Computer Science (8 works) · Geology (8 works) · Social Psychology (8 works) · Behavioral Health and Interventions (7 works) · Climatology (7 works) · Environmental Science (7 works) · Social media (7 works)