Jiuchang Wei
Biographic Data
| ID | 3700249 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jiuchang Wei |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jiuchang |
| FAMILY NAME | Wei |
| SIGNATURE | WEI J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Science and Technology of China |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4884-0669 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 37 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 40 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 37 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The smarts behind the switch
The impact of geographic, mobility and social media ties on massive-scale regional public emotional interaction
Grounded in the universal human predisposition to seek social connection, this study uniquely integrates social media data with mobility patterns to provide a holistic view of public emotional dynamics during the pandemic. Drawing on 45 million geocoded tweets from SINA.com, 57 billion trip records across 335 cities from Tencent Location Big Data, and 296 million mutual following records from social media users, we construct a large-scale, daily …
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Employees exhibit rhythmic variations in effort and recovery on the sub-weekly scale, and this leads to varying degrees of physiological responses to workplace stress during the workweek
The impact mechanisms of climate change on the transition to residents’ green lifestyles
Adoption of coping behaviours
The role of emotion and social connection during the Covid-19 pandemic phase transitions
Leveraging substantial data from China’s Weibo and datasets from Reddit and X (previously Twitter) in the United States, this research explores the disparities and complex dynamics of emotions and social connections among social media users in China and the United States during the COVID-19 pandemic. The findings indicate that the expression of three negative emotions (anxiety, sadness, and anger) and positive emotions exhibited distinctive dynam…
Quantifying the Psychological Online Communities Considering the Relationship between Covid-19-Related Threat, Information Uncertainty, and Risk Perception
This study employed deep learning to analyze a substantial data set of 109.13 million COVID-19-related microblogs, leading to the construction of a specialized risk perception indicator dictionary. Employing this dictionary, we were able to capture the dynamic fluctuations in risk perception within online communities across various cities in real time. This approach highlighted the varying intensities of public response to the evolving crisis dur…
Untying green budgeting towards green economy and green environment in dominican republic
Promoting Public Compliance through Information Disclosure
Governments often disclose pandemic-related information to reduce public mobility behavior during the initial outbreak stage of a pandemic like COVID-19. Previous studies have examined the effects of whether to disclose relevant information on public behavior but neglected the effects of information content. Based on the disclosed personal information of COVID-19 confirmed cases from 316 cities in China, we find that disclosing demographic inform…
What contributes to the collaborative network of emergency information release? A case study of Covid-19 response in China
Transparent and proactive emergency communication plays a crucial role in effectively responding to public crises. The effectiveness of emergency management throughout a crisis event depends on the organizations the local government collaborates with in information release. This study reviewed the institutional basis of Chinese emergency information release and explored the mechanism of collaborative networks in press conferences through the Expo…
Determinants of consumers’ intention to participate in automobile recalls for environmental defects
Consumers’ participation in automobile recalls for environmental defects (ARED) can enhance the recall’s completion rate, reduce vehicle exhaust emissions, and improve air quality. This study investigates consumers’ intention to participate in ARED on the basis of the theory of planned behavior (TPB) and extends it by adding the constructs of perceived environmental benefits, personal benefits, and personal costs. A total of 628 respondents parti…
Can the Ebola experience in West Africa help to combat the Covid-19 pandemic? Testing the critical incident management systems model in the Covid-19 context
Purpose This study explored whether the critical incident management systems (CIMS) model can predict the EMS performance in the COVID-19 context. Past research has established the significance of early detection and response (ER) in the context of Ebola virus disease (EVD), prompting a question of whether the model can also be helpful in the COVID-19 context. Consequently, the authors assessed whether ER influences the impact of communication ca…
What captures attention in the risk communication process
Understanding the effects of the textual complexity on government communication
Climate Change and Homicide
The link between climate change and human conflict has received substantial attention in academic research using different measures of “conflict”; however, it is yet to interpret interpersonal violence in terms of homicide. This study takes a global perspective to investigate how climate change, typically represented by temperature and precipitation, directly and indirectly affects national homicide rates across countries. From longitudinal archi…
Understanding and Predicting the Adoption of Fitness Mobile Apps
Increasing global interest in diet and fitness mobile applications (apps) has prompted the question: What are the factors affecting users' adoption and usage behaviors on a specific fitness app? By combining the unified theory of acceptance and use of technology (UTAUT) with the health belief model (HBM), and including risk perception of information technology with the farsighted planner and myopic doer from the theory of self-control, we explore…
An empirical study of consumers’ intention to use ride-sharing services
The Use of Smartphone Fitness Applications
With the popularity of the health and wellness trend in recent years, smartphone fitness applications have become more and more popular. Thus, this study explored factors affecting the behavioral intention to use and the actual usage behavior of smartphone fitness apps from technical, health, and social perspectives by integrating the Social Cognitive Theory (SCT) and Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT). We examined whether…
Texas households’ expected responses to seasonal influenza
This study examined people’s expected responses to seasonal influenza in terms of risk perceptions from different exposure paths and protective actions that could avoid illness. The data reveal significant differences among ten exposure paths and seven protective actions. Among the exposure paths, drinking from an infected person's glass without washing it received the highest hazard rating, whereas walking past that person on the sidewalk got th…
Promoting corporate sustainability through sustainable resource management
Public Attention to Natural Hazard Warnings on Social Media in China
Hazard warning is vital in disaster management. The rapid development of social media allows warning producers and receivers to exchange warning messages effectively and sufficiently. This study investigates the factors that influence public attention to natural hazard warning information on social media. Drawing from the protective action decision model and framing theory, this study classifies antecedents into three groups, namely, hazard infor…
Pollution Stigma and Manufacturing Firms’ Disengagement Effort
Firms’ stigmatization due to deviation from social norms has received extensive attention in recent years. The increasing significance of the social norm requiring firms to protect the natural environment contributes to the emergence of pollution stigma over the heavily polluting firms. We apply the stigma theory to the National Specially Monitored firms of China and expand past research by developing a framework to understand the interactive eff…
The influence of parents’ information processing on childhood vaccine acceptance after a vaccine crisis in China
Drawing upon the protective action decision model and the heuristic-systematic model, this study investigated the determinants of parents’ response to the 2016 vaccine crisis in Shandong Province, China. A survey was conducted from Anhui Province (N = 456). The findings showed that both perceived vaccine knowledge and perceptions of risk from the vaccine crisis were vital in predicting parents’ information insufficiency (the perceived discrepancy…
Humanitarian Organizations in International Disaster Relief
This study explores how humanitarian organizations (HOs) link donors and recipients in a disaster relief coordination mechanism. Based on an analysis of real data collected from the financial tracking service, our results show that disaster assistance through the HO channel greatly exceeds the funding delivered by the non-HO channel. The severity of the disaster is positively correlated with the involvement of HOs. Disaster-stricken countries tha…
Public’s perceived overcrowding risk and their adoption of precautionary actions
The importance of travel risk has been recognized, but only a limited number of studies have been conducted on this risk and the precautionary actions the public may take to manage it during holidays. This study applied the protective action decision model and the protection motivation theory to examine the public’s intent to take precautionary actions during holiday times to handle the risk of overcrowding in China. Our survey showed that effica…
Public’s perceived overcrowding risk and their adoption of precautionary actions
The importance of travel risk has been recognized, but only a limited number of studies have been conducted on this risk and the precautionary actions the public may take to manage it during holidays. This study applied the protective action decision model and the protection motivation theory to examine the public’s intent to take precautionary actions during holiday times to handle the risk of overcrowding in China. Our survey showed that effica…
Timing crisis information release via television
When and how often to release information on television are important issues in crisis and emergency risk communication. There is a lot of crisis information, including warnings and news, to which people should have access, but most of it is not significantly urgent to interrupt the broadcasting of television programmes. Hence, the right timing for the release of crisis information should be selected based on the importance of the crisis and any …
The orientation of disaster donations
This study analyses the influence of gift giving, geographical location, political regime, and trade openness on disaster donation decisions, using five severe earthquakes that occurred between 2008 and 2012 as case studies. The results show that global disaster donation is not dominated by only philanthropy or trade interests, and that the determinants of donation decisions vary with the scale of the natural disaster and the characteristics of t…
Promoting corporate sustainability through sustainable resource management
Compliance with recommended protective actions during an H7N9 emergency
This study investigates the factors determining an individual's response to official recommended protective measures, based on the Health Belief Model and the Protective Action Decision Model, to understand the adoption of protective behaviour during an H7N9 (Avian Influenza A) emergency. A public survey involving 1,375 respondents was conducted in Anhui Province, China, during the 2013 H7N9 outbreak to test the research model and hypotheses. The…
Public reactions to the 2013 Chinese H7N9 Influenza outbreak
This study used the Protective Action Decision model to guide a survey of 762 respondents in Anhui province, China during the 2013 Avian Influenza A (H7N9) outbreak. The data suggest that three types of psychological variables – risk perceptions, protective action perceptions, and stakeholder perceptions – influenced people’s behavioral expectations of adopting protective actions. In addition, the effects of demographic variables on behavioral ex…
Household adoption of smog protective behavior
This study compares residents of two Chinese cities - one with a high risk and one with a low risk of air pollution, in terms of their smog experience, reliance on smog information sources, risk perception, attribution of responsibility and intention for adoption of protective behavior regarding smog. The results indicate that the two cities differ considerably in their smog experience, somewhat less so in reliance on smog information sources and…
Collective Behavior in Mass Incidents
Mass incidents are inevitable in contemporary China and the first thing we should learn is to adopt a correct attitude towards them. Based on the three elements—activity, interaction and sentiment—of collective behaviors in 52 mass incidents in China during 2007–2011, we find that collective behaviors in mass incidents show significant differences in activity, interaction and sentiment. A grade evaluation method is proposed to estimate the evolut…
Promoting Public Compliance through Information Disclosure
Governments often disclose pandemic-related information to reduce public mobility behavior during the initial outbreak stage of a pandemic like COVID-19. Previous studies have examined the effects of whether to disclose relevant information on public behavior but neglected the effects of information content. Based on the disclosed personal information of COVID-19 confirmed cases from 316 cities in China, we find that disclosing demographic inform…
Texas households’ expected responses to seasonal influenza
This study examined people’s expected responses to seasonal influenza in terms of risk perceptions from different exposure paths and protective actions that could avoid illness. The data reveal significant differences among ten exposure paths and seven protective actions. Among the exposure paths, drinking from an infected person's glass without washing it received the highest hazard rating, whereas walking past that person on the sidewalk got th…
Humanitarian Organizations in International Disaster Relief
This study explores how humanitarian organizations (HOs) link donors and recipients in a disaster relief coordination mechanism. Based on an analysis of real data collected from the financial tracking service, our results show that disaster assistance through the HO channel greatly exceeds the funding delivered by the non-HO channel. The severity of the disaster is positively correlated with the involvement of HOs. Disaster-stricken countries tha…
Residents’ behavioural intentions to resist the nuclear power plants in the vicinity
Nuclear power is growing rapidly in China. The ultimate goal of developing nuclear power is to mitigate the energy crisis, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and ensure sustainable economic development. However, the ‘not-in-my-backyard’ (NIMBY) attitude may influence the implementation of nuclear power projects. This study explores the determinants of behavioural intentions to resist nuclear power plants (NPPs) based on the protective action decisi…
The Effectiveness of Chinese Regulations on Occupational Health and Safety
To assess the effectiveness of Chinese regulations on occupational health and safety, this study provides an exploratory method by applying multiple interrupted time series (MITS) analysis. Taking coal mine safety in China as a case study, this article analyzes the background of the coal industry, especially during the period 1980–2009, and selects three typical pieces of national legislation specific to mining and work safety as the intervention…
Timing crisis information release via television
When and how often to release information on television are important issues in crisis and emergency risk communication. There is a lot of crisis information, including warnings and news, to which people should have access, but most of it is not significantly urgent to interrupt the broadcasting of television programmes. Hence, the right timing for the release of crisis information should be selected based on the importance of the crisis and any …
A Quantifiable Risky Decision Model
People memory system plays a key role in the decision‐making process (DMP). In order to examine its influence on decision‐making, an individual's memory‐based decision‐making system is developed, and then, we integrate the multi‐agent decision systems and construct a sequential risky decision model on the basis of an informational cascade. This study aims at exploring the public's decisions on whether or not to take protective actions under risk.…
Strategically manipulating social reputation by scheduling corporate social responsibility events
This study intends to develop an effect assessment model to better understand how firms build social reputation by leveraging sequential corporate social responsibility (CSR) events. It incorporates the rehearsal, association, and recency effects to construct a model of social reputation that is derived from sequential CSR events with fixed and random corporate audiences. The results show that the evolution model of social reputation over time is…
The effects of firm actions on customers’ responses to product recall crises
In times of product-harm crises, the involved firms always employ some countermeasures, such as releasing messages relevant to their response actions. To evaluate the influence of these messages on the perceptions and behavioral responses of corporate customers relative to the recalls, we conducted a case study of the Volkswagen automobile recall in China in 2013. Guided by the protective action decision model, we developed a conceptual model to …
Collective Behavior in Mass Incidents
Mass incidents are inevitable in contemporary China and the first thing we should learn is to adopt a correct attitude towards them. Based on the three elements—activity, interaction and sentiment—of collective behaviors in 52 mass incidents in China during 2007–2011, we find that collective behaviors in mass incidents show significant differences in activity, interaction and sentiment. A grade evaluation method is proposed to estimate the evolut…
The orientation of disaster donations
This study analyses the influence of gift giving, geographical location, political regime, and trade openness on disaster donation decisions, using five severe earthquakes that occurred between 2008 and 2012 as case studies. The results show that global disaster donation is not dominated by only philanthropy or trade interests, and that the determinants of donation decisions vary with the scale of the natural disaster and the characteristics of t…
Public reactions to the 2013 Chinese H7N9 Influenza outbreak
This study used the Protective Action Decision model to guide a survey of 762 respondents in Anhui province, China during the 2013 Avian Influenza A (H7N9) outbreak. The data suggest that three types of psychological variables – risk perceptions, protective action perceptions, and stakeholder perceptions – influenced people’s behavioral expectations of adopting protective actions. In addition, the effects of demographic variables on behavioral ex…
The Effectiveness of Chinese Regulations on Occupational Health and Safety
To assess the effectiveness of Chinese regulations on occupational health and safety, this study provides an exploratory method by applying multiple interrupted time series (MITS) analysis. Taking coal mine safety in China as a case study, this article analyzes the background of the coal industry, especially during the period 1980–2009, and selects three typical pieces of national legislation specific to mining and work safety as the intervention…
Household adoption of smog protective behavior
This study compares residents of two Chinese cities - one with a high risk and one with a low risk of air pollution, in terms of their smog experience, reliance on smog information sources, risk perception, attribution of responsibility and intention for adoption of protective behavior regarding smog. The results indicate that the two cities differ considerably in their smog experience, somewhat less so in reliance on smog information sources and…
Media attention and corporate disaster relief
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of media attention on corporate disaster relief. Design/methodology/approach The authors used a matched sample research design, which is considered more appropriate than a random sample design for studying events that have low-occurrence rates in general. For each donor firm in the Yushu earthquake, the authors matched the firm with a non-donor firm in the same industry and with a firm si…
Residents’ behavioural intentions to resist the nuclear power plants in the vicinity
Nuclear power is growing rapidly in China. The ultimate goal of developing nuclear power is to mitigate the energy crisis, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and ensure sustainable economic development. However, the ‘not-in-my-backyard’ (NIMBY) attitude may influence the implementation of nuclear power projects. This study explores the determinants of behavioural intentions to resist nuclear power plants (NPPs) based on the protective action decisi…
Public’s perceived overcrowding risk and their adoption of precautionary actions
The importance of travel risk has been recognized, but only a limited number of studies have been conducted on this risk and the precautionary actions the public may take to manage it during holidays. This study applied the protective action decision model and the protection motivation theory to examine the public’s intent to take precautionary actions during holiday times to handle the risk of overcrowding in China. Our survey showed that effica…
Compliance with recommended protective actions during an H7N9 emergency
This study investigates the factors determining an individual's response to official recommended protective measures, based on the Health Belief Model and the Protective Action Decision Model, to understand the adoption of protective behaviour during an H7N9 (Avian Influenza A) emergency. A public survey involving 1,375 respondents was conducted in Anhui Province, China, during the 2013 H7N9 outbreak to test the research model and hypotheses. The…
Public Attention to Natural Hazard Warnings on Social Media in China
Hazard warning is vital in disaster management. The rapid development of social media allows warning producers and receivers to exchange warning messages effectively and sufficiently. This study investigates the factors that influence public attention to natural hazard warning information on social media. Drawing from the protective action decision model and framing theory, this study classifies antecedents into three groups, namely, hazard infor…
Pollution Stigma and Manufacturing Firms’ Disengagement Effort
Firms’ stigmatization due to deviation from social norms has received extensive attention in recent years. The increasing significance of the social norm requiring firms to protect the natural environment contributes to the emergence of pollution stigma over the heavily polluting firms. We apply the stigma theory to the National Specially Monitored firms of China and expand past research by developing a framework to understand the interactive eff…
The influence of parents’ information processing on childhood vaccine acceptance after a vaccine crisis in China
Drawing upon the protective action decision model and the heuristic-systematic model, this study investigated the determinants of parents’ response to the 2016 vaccine crisis in Shandong Province, China. A survey was conducted from Anhui Province (N = 456). The findings showed that both perceived vaccine knowledge and perceptions of risk from the vaccine crisis were vital in predicting parents’ information insufficiency (the perceived discrepancy…
Humanitarian Organizations in International Disaster Relief
This study explores how humanitarian organizations (HOs) link donors and recipients in a disaster relief coordination mechanism. Based on an analysis of real data collected from the financial tracking service, our results show that disaster assistance through the HO channel greatly exceeds the funding delivered by the non-HO channel. The severity of the disaster is positively correlated with the involvement of HOs. Disaster-stricken countries tha…
An empirical study of consumers’ intention to use ride-sharing services
The Use of Smartphone Fitness Applications
With the popularity of the health and wellness trend in recent years, smartphone fitness applications have become more and more popular. Thus, this study explored factors affecting the behavioral intention to use and the actual usage behavior of smartphone fitness apps from technical, health, and social perspectives by integrating the Social Cognitive Theory (SCT) and Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT). We examined whether…
Texas households’ expected responses to seasonal influenza
This study examined people’s expected responses to seasonal influenza in terms of risk perceptions from different exposure paths and protective actions that could avoid illness. The data reveal significant differences among ten exposure paths and seven protective actions. Among the exposure paths, drinking from an infected person's glass without washing it received the highest hazard rating, whereas walking past that person on the sidewalk got th…
Promoting corporate sustainability through sustainable resource management
Understanding and Predicting the Adoption of Fitness Mobile Apps
Increasing global interest in diet and fitness mobile applications (apps) has prompted the question: What are the factors affecting users' adoption and usage behaviors on a specific fitness app? By combining the unified theory of acceptance and use of technology (UTAUT) with the health belief model (HBM), and including risk perception of information technology with the farsighted planner and myopic doer from the theory of self-control, we explore…
Climate Change and Homicide
The link between climate change and human conflict has received substantial attention in academic research using different measures of “conflict”; however, it is yet to interpret interpersonal violence in terms of homicide. This study takes a global perspective to investigate how climate change, typically represented by temperature and precipitation, directly and indirectly affects national homicide rates across countries. From longitudinal archi…
Determinants of consumers’ intention to participate in automobile recalls for environmental defects
Consumers’ participation in automobile recalls for environmental defects (ARED) can enhance the recall’s completion rate, reduce vehicle exhaust emissions, and improve air quality. This study investigates consumers’ intention to participate in ARED on the basis of the theory of planned behavior (TPB) and extends it by adding the constructs of perceived environmental benefits, personal benefits, and personal costs. A total of 628 respondents parti…
Can the Ebola experience in West Africa help to combat the Covid-19 pandemic? Testing the critical incident management systems model in the Covid-19 context
Purpose This study explored whether the critical incident management systems (CIMS) model can predict the EMS performance in the COVID-19 context. Past research has established the significance of early detection and response (ER) in the context of Ebola virus disease (EVD), prompting a question of whether the model can also be helpful in the COVID-19 context. Consequently, the authors assessed whether ER influences the impact of communication ca…
Political science (24 works) · Psychology (21 works) · Business (20 works) · Computer Science (14 works) · Social Psychology (13 works) · China (11 works) · Disaster Management and Resilience (11 works) · Medicine (11 works) · Economics (9 works) · Risk Perception and Management (9 works)