Lu Tang
Biographic Data
| ID | 3914350 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lu Tang |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lu |
| FAMILY NAME | Tang |
| SIGNATURE | TANG L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Texas A&M University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2656-4712 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 34 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 34 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
“We are the Last Generation”
Today, young people in China are advocating for a childfree lifestyle and sharing reasonings, stories, and memes on social media, contributing to a quiet yet significant resistance movement. This article examined the childfree discourse, exploring how men and women resist social expectations and pursue individual aspirations. A thematic analysis of Weibo related to the Childfree movement identified three themes: the unbearable cost of raising a f…
Cycling travel vlog characteristics and low-carbon tourism intention
Cycling travel vlogs-first-person video diaries of long-distance bicycle journeys-are emerging as influential content for sustainable tourism communication, yet how their characteristics shape users' low-carbon travel intention through dual psychological pathways remains unexplored. Grounded in the Stimulus-Organism-Response (S-O-R) framework, this study examines how three vlog characteristics (content dissemination, interactivity, and entertainm…
The Influence of the CF-NFE Trust Relationship on the Sustainable Development Performance of Family Firms
Sustainable development is a crucial way not only of promoting the economic success of family businesses but also of ensuring their long-term stability and prosperity. As a central element of relational governance, trust plays a vital role in efforts to align the interests of principals with those of agents, and this factor has received significant attention in the context of family businesses. Stewardship theory further posits that granting agen…
“I Want to Hold an Umbrella Over You Because I Have Been in the Rain”
Patients can become educator-influencers in promoting the public's understanding of health and illness; however, the underlying motivations driving their engagement in this role remain unclear. Drawing from the Self-Determination Theory, this study explores the motivations of patients-turned-influencers in sharing eating disorders (ED) experiences and information on Chinese social media. Through semi-structured interviews with 33 patient influenc…
“My Body is Betraying Me”
Female infertility remains a taboo and carries stigma across various ethnic/racial communities. Infertility-related stigma impairs women's mental well-being, strains their family relationships, and deters them from seeking treatment. In this article, we seek to understand the perceived/self-stigma of infertility and stigma management through in-depth interviews with 29 women (White, African American, and Hispanic) who were facing fertility challe…
Exploring Emotional Contagion and Reciprocity Between Social Media Influencers and Followers
Alcohol Advertising Across Spanish and English Television and Radio Networks in New York City
Latinx residents in New York City experience greater disparities in alcohol use behaviors, chronic liver disease mortality, and other health and legal consequences from high-risk alcohol use compared to non-Latinx White residents. As media-based advertising of alcohol can influence health behaviors, this study aimed to take an "upstream" approach by analyzing rates of alcohol advertising across primetime English- and Spanish-language television n…
My Story of Depression
Autobiographical accounts on social media could play an essential role in shaping the public's understanding of illnesses and dispelling illness-related stigma. This study examined how people living with depression describe their illness experiences on Douyin, China's leading video-sharing platform, through content analysis. It finds that most videos were created by young women who have lived with the illness for over three years. The top three t…
Self-disclosure and received social support among women experiencing infertility on reddit
Gender differences in mathematics anxiety
Environmental Regulation on Employment
This research breaks away from the existing literature that focuses only on the relationship between environmental regulations and employment size and employment structure, and focuses on the employment creation effect, destruction effect and the net effect of environmental regulations on employment. Accordingly, employing a two-tier stochastic frontier model, this research will answer whether the bilateral effects of environmental regulation on …
Persistent invisibility and stereotyping as forms of mental illness stigma
The effect of illness perception on psychosocial adjustment of patients with breast cancer and their spouses
The psychosocial adjustment of breast cancer patients is affected by both their own and spouse's illness perception. Therefore, in the future, the healthcare staff can implement early psychological interventions for patients diagnosed with breast cancer and their spouses as a unit to promote the psychosocial adjustment of them
Cognition as mediator of pulmonary function and risk of sarcopenia among older adults
Older adults with impaired lung function are more likely to develop sarcopenia. Nevertheless, cognition can explain only a small portion of this association. Thus, other potential pathways between lung function and sarcopenia must be elucidated
A Comparative Study of Prevalence and Associated Factors of Social Support Among Chinese Shidu Parents and Non-Shidu Parents
The number of parents in China who have lost their only child, referred to as shidu parents, currently exceeds one million and is increasing by approximately 76,000 annually. Shidu parents face a unique challenge in long-term care, primarily stemming from the sudden and tragic loss of their only child, which leads to a substantial decrease in their social support network. A multi-stage, stratified, and cluster sampling method was employed across …
Culprits or Victims? Social Media Use, Mediated Ethnic Blame, and Asian American Mental Health During Covid-19
Mechanisms of mental illness anti-stigma messaging matter
Analysis of the Death Penalty System in the Code of Hammurabi
The Code of Hammurabi is an ancient legal code established by the Babylonian King Hammurabi, believed to have been written around the 18th century BCE. This legal code is considered one of the earliest known legal codes in the world and covers a wide range of legal areas, including criminal offenses, marriage and family matters, commercial crimes, and procedural aspects of litigation. The Code of Hammurabi contains relatively strict and distincti…
Trends in Use of Medication to Treat Opioid Use Disorder During the Covid-19 Pandemic in 10 State Medicaid Programs
In this cross-sectional study of Medicaid enrollees, the likelihood of receipt of any MOUD was stable from May 2019 through December 2020 despite concerns about potential COVID-19 pandemic-related disruptions in care. However, immediately after the PHE was declared, there was a reduction in overall MOUD initiations, including a reduction in in-person MOUD initiations that was only partially offset by increased use of telehealth
Media-Based Health Information Seeking Behaviors Among Latinx Populations in the United States
To inform health communication efforts for Latinx communities, we assessed health information seeking behaviors to media sources, healthcare providers, and family/friends among a purposive sample of Latinx adults in 2021 using recruitment quotas by ethnic origin and age. Participants ( N = 1,574) self-completed an online cross-sectional survey using their own digital devices. The survey assessed mental and physical health information scanning and…
Managing government legitimacy during the Covid-19 pandemic in China
China’s state-run media are the mouthpiece of the government. During public health crises such as the COVID-19 pandemic, they are responsible for disseminating essential information to the public on behalf of the government. This study examined the Sina Weibo posts published by three leading state-run media entities (CCTV, People’s Daily, and Xinhua News Agency) during the first wave of the COVID-19 outbreak. Semantic networks were extracted from…
What Satisfies Parents of Pediatric Patients in China
Patient satisfaction is an important intermediate outcome of patient-provider encounters, linking face-to-face interactions between patients and medical professionals with patients' well-being after consultations. Today, physician review websites provide a new venue for the study of patient satisfaction, as patients are utilizing such websites to evaluate their encounters with physicians. This study examined how parents of pediatric patients in C…
Design, Implementation, and Evolution of the Medicaid Outcomes Distributed Research Network (MODRN)
BACKGROUND: In the US, Medicaid covers over 80 million Americans. Comparing access, quality, and costs across Medicaid programs can provide policymakers with much-needed information. As each Medicaid agency collects its member data, multiple barriers prevent sharing Medicaid data between states. To address this gap, the Medicaid Outcomes Distributed Research Network (MODRN) developed a research network of states to conduct rapid multi-state analy…
Media Use During Covid-19
The role of media use on mental health distress is particularly concerning during the COVID-19 global pandemic. The vulnerabilities to and experiences of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States are greatly influenced by racial/ethnic inequalities. The COVID-19 pandemic may present unique mental health challenges for Asian Americans because of racial targeting and limited access to and engagement with mental health care. This present investigat…
Middle-Aged and Older African Americans' Information Use During the Covid-19 Pandemic
African Americans in the United States have been disproportionately affected by the COVID-19 pandemic in infection and mortality rates. This study examined how middle-aged and older African American individuals accessed and evaluated the information about COVID-19. Semi-structured interviews with 20 individuals (age: 41–72) were conducted during the first stay-at-home advisory period in late March and early April 2020. The phronetic iterative app…
Chinese gay men’s coming out narratives
Theorizing the intersection of queer identity and culture values, this study examines Chinese gay men’s coming-out experiences through a narrative analysis of 60 self-reported stories online. It finds that Chinese gay men’s decision to come out, their communication orientations, and the outcomes of their coming out are influenced by traditional Chinese cultural values such as family, marriage, and duty. Assertive assimilation, assertive accommoda…
How gay men’s wives in China practice co-cultural communication
Around 13.6 million heterosexual women in China are married to gay or bisexual men, and they call themselves tongqi. Tongqi belong to both co-cultural groups (as women and wives) and a dominant group (as heterosexuals). Through a narrative analysis of 51 stories told by tongqi, this study examines the co-cultural strategies tongqi use, and identifies two novel co-cultural strategies: self-blaming and enduring. It also examines how tongqi narrativ…
The stigmatization of suicide
This study unpacks the dimensions of suicide stigma through an analysis of the stories told by college students in China. The phronetic iterative approach was used to analyze the interview data of 30 college students. Findings showed that college students use the strategy of othering in creating a distinction between us and them. Those who attempt or die by suicide are labeled as irresponsible, fragile, impulsive, and attention-seeking. Suicides …
Chinese gay men’s coming out narratives
Theorizing the intersection of queer identity and culture values, this study examines Chinese gay men’s coming-out experiences through a narrative analysis of 60 self-reported stories online. It finds that Chinese gay men’s decision to come out, their communication orientations, and the outcomes of their coming out are influenced by traditional Chinese cultural values such as family, marriage, and duty. Assertive assimilation, assertive accommoda…
How gay men’s wives in China practice co-cultural communication
Around 13.6 million heterosexual women in China are married to gay or bisexual men, and they call themselves tongqi. Tongqi belong to both co-cultural groups (as women and wives) and a dominant group (as heterosexuals). Through a narrative analysis of 51 stories told by tongqi, this study examines the co-cultural strategies tongqi use, and identifies two novel co-cultural strategies: self-blaming and enduring. It also examines how tongqi narrativ…
The CDC and State Health Department Facebook Messages
Public health organizations such as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and state and local health departments are increasingly using social media in health education and promotion. Guided by the Extended Parallel Processing Model and framing theory, this study analyzed the Facebook messages of both the CDC and state health departments in 2017 to examine the extent to which such messages used these theories of social influence. A…
Media Use During Covid-19
The role of media use on mental health distress is particularly concerning during the COVID-19 global pandemic. The vulnerabilities to and experiences of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States are greatly influenced by racial/ethnic inequalities. The COVID-19 pandemic may present unique mental health challenges for Asian Americans because of racial targeting and limited access to and engagement with mental health care. This present investigat…
Middle-Aged and Older African Americans' Information Use During the Covid-19 Pandemic
African Americans in the United States have been disproportionately affected by the COVID-19 pandemic in infection and mortality rates. This study examined how middle-aged and older African American individuals accessed and evaluated the information about COVID-19. Semi-structured interviews with 20 individuals (age: 41–72) were conducted during the first stay-at-home advisory period in late March and early April 2020. The phronetic iterative app…
Health Information Consumption under Covid-19 Lockdown
Emerging infectious disease (EID) outbreaks such as the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic create unknown risks, uncertainty, and anxiety around the world. Accurate and timely information can help the public understand the outbreak and manage their lives. Presented here is a study of how residents of Hubei Province, the epicenter of the COVID-19 outbreak in China, use media for information seeking, scanning, and sharing while under lockdown through in-dep…
What Causes Postpartum Depression and How to Cope with It
Culturally specific beliefs about mental illnesses influence people's experience of mental illnesses and their likelihood of seeking help. This study explores how mothers in China understand the causes of postpartum depression (PPD) and their preferred coping strategies through semi-structured interviews. It finds that these mothers often take a situational approach to PPD, attributing it to external factors that could be changed (e.g., lack of s…
The Recreation of Gender Stereotypes in Male Cross-Dressing Performances on Douyin
This article examines the performances of male cross-dressers on Douyin and its underlying cultural ideologies in neo/non-liberal China through critical discourse analysis. Our analysis of male cross-dressing performers’ portrayal of female roles in mother-son/daughter relationships, heterosexual romantic relationships, and friendships shows that such performances highlight four stereotypical feminine characters: fragile, controlling, materialist…
‘Picture me heart disease free’
African Americans have a disproportionately high risk of premature death caused by cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) and related risk factors such as hypertension, high cholesterol, diabetes, and obesity. Heeding the culture-centered approach to communication’s (CCA) call for community-based health solutions for marginalized populations, in this study African Americans living with CVDs and associated risk factors describe their experiences with the …
What do we believe in? Rumors and processing strategies during the Covid-19 outbreak in China
The COVID-19 pandemic is called the first infodemic in history. Those first confronted by the enormous challenge of fighting this infodemic to save their lives were the people of Hubei Province in China. To understand how they defined and processed rumors, we conducted an interview study with Hubei residents when they were under lockdown. We found that they typically defined rumors in terms of one or two of three features: non-factual information…
The stigmatization of suicide
This study unpacks the dimensions of suicide stigma through an analysis of the stories told by college students in China. The phronetic iterative approach was used to analyze the interview data of 30 college students. Findings showed that college students use the strategy of othering in creating a distinction between us and them. Those who attempt or die by suicide are labeled as irresponsible, fragile, impulsive, and attention-seeking. Suicides …
Managing government legitimacy during the Covid-19 pandemic in China
China’s state-run media are the mouthpiece of the government. During public health crises such as the COVID-19 pandemic, they are responsible for disseminating essential information to the public on behalf of the government. This study examined the Sina Weibo posts published by three leading state-run media entities (CCTV, People’s Daily, and Xinhua News Agency) during the first wave of the COVID-19 outbreak. Semantic networks were extracted from…
What Satisfies Parents of Pediatric Patients in China
Patient satisfaction is an important intermediate outcome of patient-provider encounters, linking face-to-face interactions between patients and medical professionals with patients' well-being after consultations. Today, physician review websites provide a new venue for the study of patient satisfaction, as patients are utilizing such websites to evaluate their encounters with physicians. This study examined how parents of pediatric patients in C…
Design, Implementation, and Evolution of the Medicaid Outcomes Distributed Research Network (MODRN)
BACKGROUND: In the US, Medicaid covers over 80 million Americans. Comparing access, quality, and costs across Medicaid programs can provide policymakers with much-needed information. As each Medicaid agency collects its member data, multiple barriers prevent sharing Medicaid data between states. To address this gap, the Medicaid Outcomes Distributed Research Network (MODRN) developed a research network of states to conduct rapid multi-state analy…
Analysis of the Death Penalty System in the Code of Hammurabi
The Code of Hammurabi is an ancient legal code established by the Babylonian King Hammurabi, believed to have been written around the 18th century BCE. This legal code is considered one of the earliest known legal codes in the world and covers a wide range of legal areas, including criminal offenses, marriage and family matters, commercial crimes, and procedural aspects of litigation. The Code of Hammurabi contains relatively strict and distincti…
Trends in Use of Medication to Treat Opioid Use Disorder During the Covid-19 Pandemic in 10 State Medicaid Programs
In this cross-sectional study of Medicaid enrollees, the likelihood of receipt of any MOUD was stable from May 2019 through December 2020 despite concerns about potential COVID-19 pandemic-related disruptions in care. However, immediately after the PHE was declared, there was a reduction in overall MOUD initiations, including a reduction in in-person MOUD initiations that was only partially offset by increased use of telehealth
Media-Based Health Information Seeking Behaviors Among Latinx Populations in the United States
To inform health communication efforts for Latinx communities, we assessed health information seeking behaviors to media sources, healthcare providers, and family/friends among a purposive sample of Latinx adults in 2021 using recruitment quotas by ethnic origin and age. Participants ( N = 1,574) self-completed an online cross-sectional survey using their own digital devices. The survey assessed mental and physical health information scanning and…
My Story of Depression
Autobiographical accounts on social media could play an essential role in shaping the public's understanding of illnesses and dispelling illness-related stigma. This study examined how people living with depression describe their illness experiences on Douyin, China's leading video-sharing platform, through content analysis. It finds that most videos were created by young women who have lived with the illness for over three years. The top three t…
Self-disclosure and received social support among women experiencing infertility on reddit
Gender differences in mathematics anxiety
Environmental Regulation on Employment
This research breaks away from the existing literature that focuses only on the relationship between environmental regulations and employment size and employment structure, and focuses on the employment creation effect, destruction effect and the net effect of environmental regulations on employment. Accordingly, employing a two-tier stochastic frontier model, this research will answer whether the bilateral effects of environmental regulation on …
Persistent invisibility and stereotyping as forms of mental illness stigma
The effect of illness perception on psychosocial adjustment of patients with breast cancer and their spouses
The psychosocial adjustment of breast cancer patients is affected by both their own and spouse's illness perception. Therefore, in the future, the healthcare staff can implement early psychological interventions for patients diagnosed with breast cancer and their spouses as a unit to promote the psychosocial adjustment of them
Cognition as mediator of pulmonary function and risk of sarcopenia among older adults
Older adults with impaired lung function are more likely to develop sarcopenia. Nevertheless, cognition can explain only a small portion of this association. Thus, other potential pathways between lung function and sarcopenia must be elucidated
A Comparative Study of Prevalence and Associated Factors of Social Support Among Chinese Shidu Parents and Non-Shidu Parents
The number of parents in China who have lost their only child, referred to as shidu parents, currently exceeds one million and is increasing by approximately 76,000 annually. Shidu parents face a unique challenge in long-term care, primarily stemming from the sudden and tragic loss of their only child, which leads to a substantial decrease in their social support network. A multi-stage, stratified, and cluster sampling method was employed across …
Psychology (24 works) · Medicine (20 works) · Political science (18 works) · Social Psychology (12 works) · Sociology (11 works) · China (10 works) · Psychiatry (10 works) · Computer Science (9 works) · Clinical Psychology (8 works) · Business (7 works)