Xiaomei Cai
Biographic Data
| ID | 3758917 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Xiaomei Cai |
| GIVEN NAMES | Xiaomei |
| FAMILY NAME | Cai |
| SIGNATURE | CAI X |
| AFFILIATIONS | South China Normal University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7414-5323 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 36 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 96 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 36 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Affordable yet constrained: Is shared housing a long-term strategy for migrants' settlement in high-cost cities?
Spatially decoupled sulfur emissions in global photovoltaic supply chains and their vulnerability to trade barriers
From role identity to place attachment: A cross-scale emotions study of urban migrant volunteers
Although research has established cross-scale emotions, limited attention has been given to the cross-scale emotional processes of migrant volunteers. This study employed survey research with migrant volunteers in Shenzhen, China, to collect data on their role identity, place attachment, job crafting, perceived institutional support, and social capital. Drawing on identity process theory and place embeddedness theory, the findings revealed a cros…
Promoting volunteer tourist service performance in protected area: The Impacts of Self-Efficacy
Enhancing volunteer tourist service performance in protected area is significantly important. While the majority of studies have concentrated on the influence of external factors, the role of internal factors, particularly self-efficacy, on volunteering service performance has not been sufficiently elucidated. This study aims to examine the influence of volunteer tourists' self-efficacy and volunteering service performance, including the mediatin…
The impact of perceived amount of information on impulsive travel intention: An application of information gap theory
The research aims to explore the predictors of impulsive travel intention and to unveil the underlying mechanism based on the information gap theory. We conducted three experiments, collecting data from 533 tourists. The research results indicate that the perceived amount of information positively influences impulsive travel intention, and this effect is mediated by curiosity. Furthermore, the information gap and need for cognition moderate the i…
The Effect of Emotional Labor Strategies on Hotel Employees' Mental Health: A Person‐Centered Longitudinal Study
This study used the Emotional Dissonance Theory and the Conservation of Resources Theory to investigate how emotional labor affects new hotel employees' anxiety over time. 534 employees were involved in the study, participating in three rounds of data collection. A latent class growth model and a repeated‐measure analysis of variance were utilized to analyze the data. Study 1 identified two distinct groups of employees; one group exhibited a low …
Can AI Generate Useful Messages for Smoking Cessation Campaigns? A Test with Different Emotional Appeals and Source Attribution
This study investigates the viability of using ChatGPT 3.5 to produce smoking cessation messages featuring different emotional appeals. The effect of source attribution to Artificial Intelligence (AI) vs. human experts is also examined. A sample of current smokers ( N = 480) was recruited from Prolific and randomly assigned to read one of five ChatGPT-generated messages reflecting a 2 (appeal: threat vs. humor) × 2 (source: AI vs. human experts) …
Home: Developing and testing a scale
Children’s tourism memory: An Iconological Analysis of Drawings
Building rural public cultural spaces for enhanced well-being: Evidence from China
Rural public cultural spaces are important living environments that improve resident well-being. According to space theory, this research explored the core dimensions of rural public cultural spaces, and analyzed the relationship between these spaces and resident well-being through a case study. The moderation of place attachment and mediation of space openness between rural public cultural space on resident well-being was tested based on a surve…
Beyond Experience: Uncovering the Travel Experience of Cancer Patients
Vulnerable groups, such as those with life-threatening diseases and cancer patients, have been overlooked in current tourism activities despite their capability and need to participate. Therefore, this study analyzes the tourist-generated content published by cancer patients or their caregivers in the popular online community, Xiaohongshu, in order to gain a better understanding of their travel experiences. The unique perspective on tourism exper…
Introduction to mobility China
Framing Effects in Youth E-Cigarette Use Prevention: Individual Text Messages Versus Simulated Text Exchanges
Electronic cigarettes are the most widely used tobacco product among youth in the United States. Although rapidly growing, research on effective message strategies for e-cigarette use prevention is still limited. This study examined the relative effectiveness of gain framing versus loss framing in youth-targeting prevention text messages delivered either as individual expository texts or simulated text exchanges between a youth patient and a pedi…
Framing Youth Vaping Prevention Messages: The Role of Uncertainty Tolerance
Vaping is the most prevalent form of tobacco use among youth in the United States. Motivated by the certainty effect in prospect theory, this study investigated the role of uncertainty tolerance as a potential moderator of the effects of gain- vs. loss-framed text messages for youth vaping prevention. Youth susceptible to future vaping (N = 536) were randomized to view a series of eight gain- or loss-framed text messages about the health conseque…
Do I have the right to share? Sharenting and psychological ownership of children’s information in the U.S
Sharenting refers to parents sharing private information about their children online. While satisfying important needs among parents, sharenting poses privacy risks to children and may interfere with children’s autonomy in constructing their own online identity. Drawing on the concept of psychological ownership in organizational psychology and applying it to the Communication Privacy Management (CPM) framework, this study examines the interrelati…
The gaps between policy design and peasant migrants' intention of citizenization: The study of China's Guangdong Province
How emotional labor affect hotel employees’ mental health: A longitudinal study
Well-being and its associated factors among migrant workers in food and beverage industry: A cross-sectional study in China
Purpose Drawing upon Hofstede's cultural dimensions theory, a comprehensive model exploring the relationships among four distinct culture values and their influence on employees' turnover intention through the mediating roles of organizational commitment and organizational citizenship behavior was developed and tested. Design/methodology/approach This study covers 585 migrant workers from nine countries who work in the food and beverage industry …
Volunteering and pro-environmental behavior: The Relationships of Meaningfulness and Emotions in Protected Areas
This investigation focused on the antecedents and impacts on volunteer pro-environmental behavior, and explored the effects of meaningfulness through pride and environmental passion according to the cognitive appraisal theory of emotions. A mixed method research design was used, consisting of interviews, observations, and surveys with volunteers. The research was conducted at Danxia Mountain in Guangdong Province, China, a protected area, UNESCO …
A Content Analysis of Social Support Messages about Environmental Breast Cancer Risk within Blogs for Mothers
Bloggers can help stimulate online conversations among their readers about a variety of health topics, including breast cancer. However, in previous studies, researchers have not specifically examined supportive messages within an online blogger community that stem from an intervention where bloggers were provided with evidence-based information about breast cancer risk that they could tailor and disseminate to their readers. In the current study…
Green-Induced tourist equity: The cross-level effect of regional environmental performance
This study extends the customer equity paradigm to propose a green induced tourist equity model in the tourism context. Drawing on the attitude literature pertaining to subliminal persuasion and priming, we argue that the environment performance of the source market plays a pivotal role in inadvertently stimulate tourists to grave from a greener place to visit and hence, greater revisit desire for the destination. We develop a series of multileve…
Pro-Poor Tourism and Local Practices: An Empirical Study of an Autonomous County in China
Pro-poor tourism increases net benefits for the poor or directs profits back into the community by employing local staff and manufacturing. Existing studies have provided a theoretical understanding of how pro-poor tourism can produce environmental, economic, social, and cultural impacts. Little research has been conducted on the power dynamics that are specific to pro-poor tourism, especially in developing countries. This study contributes to pr…
The Influence of Masculinity and the Moderating Role of Religion on the Workplace Well-Being of Factory Workers in China
This paper explores how the intersection of masculinity and religion shapes workplace well-being by focusing on Christianity and the social construction of masculinity among factory workers in a city in China. While existing work on public and occupational health has respectively acknowledged masculinity's influences on health and the religious and spiritual dimensions of well-being, there have been limited efforts to examine how variegated, and …
Investigating the “Embodied Spaces of Health” in Marathon Running: The Roles of Embodiment, Wearable Technology, and Affective Atmospheres
This paper examines how spaces of health are produced through embodied and affective practices in marathon running in China. While the social-cultural effects of distance running have gained increasing attention among public health scholars and policymakers, there has been little effort paid to the spatiality of running and its contributions to producing healthy spaces for the general public. This paper therefore fills the lacuna through a qualit…
Running bodies and the affective spaces of health in and beyond marathon running in China
Dwelling-in-Travelling: Western expats and the making of temporary home in Guangzhou, China
As China continues to open its economy to the world, more and more expats migrate to Chinese cities for employment and business investment. Little research exists on their practices of everyday life and translocal connections. Echoing the emphasis on the intersection between expatriation and everydayness, this article focuses on Western expats and explores their daily experience of homemaking in Guangzhou, the third largest city in China. We deve…
Space of Compromise: Border Control and the Limited Inclusion of Burmese Migrants in China
Enforcement of border control has become a global trend as nation-states endeavor to regulate cross-border flows and handle security risks posed by migrants. This article analyzes the China–Myanmar border, which is hitherto neglected in the literature but undergoes innovative experimentation in border control, to complement the well-established literature on border enforcement. We draw on a theoretical framework based on the work of Gramsci in re…
Lifestyle, profit, and the selling of home to tourists in Lijiang, China
Home, as a site of daily dwelling and a set of meanings, offers a way into studying the relationship between lifestyle and profit in tourist destinations. Situated in the context of lifestyle entrepreneurship, we explore the synergy of lifestyle and profit within the space of tourism production. Using Lijiang Old Town, China, as a study case, we have two objectives. First, we examine how lifestyle entrepreneurs make lifestyles for themselves as w…
Volunteering and pro-environmental behavior: The Relationships of Meaningfulness and Emotions in Protected Areas
This investigation focused on the antecedents and impacts on volunteer pro-environmental behavior, and explored the effects of meaningfulness through pride and environmental passion according to the cognitive appraisal theory of emotions. A mixed method research design was used, consisting of interviews, observations, and surveys with volunteers. The research was conducted at Danxia Mountain in Guangdong Province, China, a protected area, UNESCO …
Gaps in Chinese geopolitical research
Eating Out Ethically: An Analysis of the Influence of Ethical Food Consumption in a Vegetarian Restaurant in Guangzhou, China
For exploring vegetarian eating in contemporary Guangzhou, this article employs the concept of ‘ethical eating’ and the framework of ethical consumption as outlined by Clive Barnett and his coauthors to examine food practices in a vegetarian restaurant through two dimensions: the restaurant dimension and the consumer dimension (2005b). Drawing on the ethnographic observations and interviews on food practices in a vegetarian restaurant conducted b…
How emotional labor affect hotel employees’ mental health: A longitudinal study
Prostitution, variegated homes, and the practice of unhomely life in China
This paper studies a group of female sex workers and their ambivalent experiences of home in Dongguan, China’s so-called sin city, before the local government technically cracked down on the city’s sex industry in 2014. It has two objectives. First, we explore these workers’ life journey: spatially from their rural hometown to Dongguan, socially from domestic migrants to sex workers, and subjectively from poor persons to extravagant spenders. Thr…
Performing Guangzhou and Guangzhou Ren: Analysing popular music in Guangzhou
The main purpose of this article is to examine the ways in which popular music in Guangzhou is implicated in the performance of places and identities, and how it is located in Guangzhou. Drawing on the qualitative methods of participant observation and interviews, this research analyses the popular music and musical performances in Guangzhou through three spatial dimensions: the place of Guangzhou, the performance venues and the human bodies. The…
Running bodies and the affective spaces of health in and beyond marathon running in China
From Self-Enhancement to Supporting Censorship: The Third-Person Effect Process in the Case of Internet Pornography
This study examined the relationship between self-enhancement and third-person perception. It also investigated the behavioral consequences of third-person perception within a theory of reasoned action framework. A survey on the issue of Internet pornography was administered to 462 undergraduate students. A positive relationship was found between self-enhancement and third-person perception. Behavioral attitude emerged as a key mediator in the re…
The gaps between policy design and peasant migrants' intention of citizenization: The study of China's Guangdong Province
An experimental examination of the computer’s time displacement effects
Past research has presented mixed results in regards to the time displacement effects of the computer. In this field experiment, subjects were asked to give up using the computer (except for school work) for one day. The amount of time shift within each traditional medium between the normal day and the non-computer day was examined. The results showed that giving up computer use did not increase time allotted to other media. In addition, no diffe…
An experimental examination of the computer’s time displacement effects
Past research has presented mixed results in regards to the time displacement effects of the computer. In this field experiment, subjects were asked to give up using the computer (except for school work) for one day. The amount of time shift within each traditional medium between the normal day and the non-computer day was examined. The results showed that giving up computer use did not increase time allotted to other media. In addition, no diffe…
From Self-Enhancement to Supporting Censorship: The Third-Person Effect Process in the Case of Internet Pornography
This study examined the relationship between self-enhancement and third-person perception. It also investigated the behavioral consequences of third-person perception within a theory of reasoned action framework. A survey on the issue of Internet pornography was administered to 462 undergraduate students. A positive relationship was found between self-enhancement and third-person perception. Behavioral attitude emerged as a key mediator in the re…
Click here, Kids: Online advertising practices on popular children's websites
Information processing theory suggests that children may be particularly vulnerable to online advertising. This study examined the structural and privacy features of advertisements placed on popular children's websites. A total of 697 advertisements on 133 of the most popular children's websites were analyzed. Results revealed an online advertising world for children that is both tempting and confusing. Moreover, protection of children's privacy …
Performing Guangzhou and Guangzhou Ren: Analysing popular music in Guangzhou
The main purpose of this article is to examine the ways in which popular music in Guangzhou is implicated in the performance of places and identities, and how it is located in Guangzhou. Drawing on the qualitative methods of participant observation and interviews, this research analyses the popular music and musical performances in Guangzhou through three spatial dimensions: the place of Guangzhou, the performance venues and the human bodies. The…
Eating Out Ethically: An Analysis of the Influence of Ethical Food Consumption in a Vegetarian Restaurant in Guangzhou, China
For exploring vegetarian eating in contemporary Guangzhou, this article employs the concept of ‘ethical eating’ and the framework of ethical consumption as outlined by Clive Barnett and his coauthors to examine food practices in a vegetarian restaurant through two dimensions: the restaurant dimension and the consumer dimension (2005b). Drawing on the ethnographic observations and interviews on food practices in a vegetarian restaurant conducted b…
Gaps in Chinese geopolitical research
Prostitution, variegated homes, and the practice of unhomely life in China
This paper studies a group of female sex workers and their ambivalent experiences of home in Dongguan, China’s so-called sin city, before the local government technically cracked down on the city’s sex industry in 2014. It has two objectives. First, we explore these workers’ life journey: spatially from their rural hometown to Dongguan, socially from domestic migrants to sex workers, and subjectively from poor persons to extravagant spenders. Thr…
Helping Mothers and Daughters Talk about Environmental Breast Cancer Risk and Risk-Reducing Lifestyle Behaviors
Background : Mothers and daughters struggle to talk about breast cancer risk. Even less attention is paid to environmental determinants of cancer. Third-party online approaches can be helpful navigating these conversations. The aim of this study was to obtain feedback from mothers exposed to a social media intervention ("mommy bloggers") and identify their preferences for message-design approaches that could help them talk to their daughter(s) ab…
Space of Compromise: Border Control and the Limited Inclusion of Burmese Migrants in China
Enforcement of border control has become a global trend as nation-states endeavor to regulate cross-border flows and handle security risks posed by migrants. This article analyzes the China–Myanmar border, which is hitherto neglected in the literature but undergoes innovative experimentation in border control, to complement the well-established literature on border enforcement. We draw on a theoretical framework based on the work of Gramsci in re…
A Content Analysis of Social Support Messages about Environmental Breast Cancer Risk within Blogs for Mothers
Bloggers can help stimulate online conversations among their readers about a variety of health topics, including breast cancer. However, in previous studies, researchers have not specifically examined supportive messages within an online blogger community that stem from an intervention where bloggers were provided with evidence-based information about breast cancer risk that they could tailor and disseminate to their readers. In the current study…
Green-Induced tourist equity: The cross-level effect of regional environmental performance
This study extends the customer equity paradigm to propose a green induced tourist equity model in the tourism context. Drawing on the attitude literature pertaining to subliminal persuasion and priming, we argue that the environment performance of the source market plays a pivotal role in inadvertently stimulate tourists to grave from a greener place to visit and hence, greater revisit desire for the destination. We develop a series of multileve…
Pro-Poor Tourism and Local Practices: An Empirical Study of an Autonomous County in China
Pro-poor tourism increases net benefits for the poor or directs profits back into the community by employing local staff and manufacturing. Existing studies have provided a theoretical understanding of how pro-poor tourism can produce environmental, economic, social, and cultural impacts. Little research has been conducted on the power dynamics that are specific to pro-poor tourism, especially in developing countries. This study contributes to pr…
The Influence of Masculinity and the Moderating Role of Religion on the Workplace Well-Being of Factory Workers in China
This paper explores how the intersection of masculinity and religion shapes workplace well-being by focusing on Christianity and the social construction of masculinity among factory workers in a city in China. While existing work on public and occupational health has respectively acknowledged masculinity's influences on health and the religious and spiritual dimensions of well-being, there have been limited efforts to examine how variegated, and …
Investigating the “Embodied Spaces of Health” in Marathon Running: The Roles of Embodiment, Wearable Technology, and Affective Atmospheres
This paper examines how spaces of health are produced through embodied and affective practices in marathon running in China. While the social-cultural effects of distance running have gained increasing attention among public health scholars and policymakers, there has been little effort paid to the spatiality of running and its contributions to producing healthy spaces for the general public. This paper therefore fills the lacuna through a qualit…
Running bodies and the affective spaces of health in and beyond marathon running in China
Lifestyle, profit, and the selling of home to tourists in Lijiang, China
Home, as a site of daily dwelling and a set of meanings, offers a way into studying the relationship between lifestyle and profit in tourist destinations. Situated in the context of lifestyle entrepreneurship, we explore the synergy of lifestyle and profit within the space of tourism production. Using Lijiang Old Town, China, as a study case, we have two objectives. First, we examine how lifestyle entrepreneurs make lifestyles for themselves as w…
Dwelling-in-Travelling: Western expats and the making of temporary home in Guangzhou, China
As China continues to open its economy to the world, more and more expats migrate to Chinese cities for employment and business investment. Little research exists on their practices of everyday life and translocal connections. Echoing the emphasis on the intersection between expatriation and everydayness, this article focuses on Western expats and explores their daily experience of homemaking in Guangzhou, the third largest city in China. We deve…
Well-being and its associated factors among migrant workers in food and beverage industry: A cross-sectional study in China
Purpose Drawing upon Hofstede's cultural dimensions theory, a comprehensive model exploring the relationships among four distinct culture values and their influence on employees' turnover intention through the mediating roles of organizational commitment and organizational citizenship behavior was developed and tested. Design/methodology/approach This study covers 585 migrant workers from nine countries who work in the food and beverage industry …
Volunteering and pro-environmental behavior: The Relationships of Meaningfulness and Emotions in Protected Areas
This investigation focused on the antecedents and impacts on volunteer pro-environmental behavior, and explored the effects of meaningfulness through pride and environmental passion according to the cognitive appraisal theory of emotions. A mixed method research design was used, consisting of interviews, observations, and surveys with volunteers. The research was conducted at Danxia Mountain in Guangdong Province, China, a protected area, UNESCO …
Framing Effects in Youth E-Cigarette Use Prevention: Individual Text Messages Versus Simulated Text Exchanges
Electronic cigarettes are the most widely used tobacco product among youth in the United States. Although rapidly growing, research on effective message strategies for e-cigarette use prevention is still limited. This study examined the relative effectiveness of gain framing versus loss framing in youth-targeting prevention text messages delivered either as individual expository texts or simulated text exchanges between a youth patient and a pedi…
Framing Youth Vaping Prevention Messages: The Role of Uncertainty Tolerance
Vaping is the most prevalent form of tobacco use among youth in the United States. Motivated by the certainty effect in prospect theory, this study investigated the role of uncertainty tolerance as a potential moderator of the effects of gain- vs. loss-framed text messages for youth vaping prevention. Youth susceptible to future vaping (N = 536) were randomized to view a series of eight gain- or loss-framed text messages about the health conseque…
Do I have the right to share? Sharenting and psychological ownership of children’s information in the U.S
Sharenting refers to parents sharing private information about their children online. While satisfying important needs among parents, sharenting poses privacy risks to children and may interfere with children’s autonomy in constructing their own online identity. Drawing on the concept of psychological ownership in organizational psychology and applying it to the Communication Privacy Management (CPM) framework, this study examines the interrelati…
The gaps between policy design and peasant migrants' intention of citizenization: The study of China's Guangdong Province
How emotional labor affect hotel employees’ mental health: A longitudinal study
Building rural public cultural spaces for enhanced well-being: Evidence from China
Rural public cultural spaces are important living environments that improve resident well-being. According to space theory, this research explored the core dimensions of rural public cultural spaces, and analyzed the relationship between these spaces and resident well-being through a case study. The moderation of place attachment and mediation of space openness between rural public cultural space on resident well-being was tested based on a surve…
Psychology (21 works) · Political science (19 works) · Social Psychology (16 works) · Business (14 works) · China (13 works) · Economics (12 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Computer Science (8 works) · Geography (8 works) · Social Psychology (8 works)