Jinjin Lu
Biographic Data
| ID | 3917691 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jinjin Lu |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jinjin |
| FAMILY NAME | Lu |
| SIGNATURE | LU J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8193-4160 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Family support and facilitation activities for young children’s bidirectional connection between preschool and primary school
Family support and facilitation activities are essential for the transition from preschool to primary school as they serve to bridge the gap between the home and school learning environments. Previous studies focused on examining the transition from lower levels to higher levels (e.g., preschool to primary school), few researchers shed high on the bidirectional connection between preschool to primary schools for children aged 6–7 years old. In or…
China’s returned migrant parents’ perspectives on how culture shapes their parenting in a culturally diverse community
With technological and economic developments, several Chinese migrant families have returned to China from the West to China. Families with multilingual and multicultural backgrounds might experience more challenges in child-rearing than the locals. Drawing on a life-course perspective, we used a qualitative research method to investigate 18 Chinese returned migrant families with young children to enhance our understanding of the complex cultural…
Can Drawings Really Facilitate Children’s Symbolic Understanding of Metaphor
Despite the numerous studies on children’s symbolic understanding of metaphors, much remains unknown about the facilitating effect of drawings on the comprehension of metaphor and how it is associated with drawing skills and metaphor explicitness among young speakers of logo-graphic languages. To this end, 139 Chinese children between 7 and 11 year’s old were administered to three experimental conditions of draw-explain, explain-draw, and draw-ex…
Qishentaohong granules alleviate heart failure by modulating mitochondrial fission and mitophagy balance
Social anxiety and loneliness among older adults
The study found that social anxiety can contribute to loneliness by narrowing older adults' social network. High perceived social support can buffer this process, but do not overstate its protective effects. Thus, interventions to reduce social anxiety and improve social network and social support may help prevent and alleviate loneliness in older adults
Conceptualising English L1 speakers’ motivation for learning L2 Chinese in Australian universities
This study investigated English first language (L1) speakers’ motivation for learning Chinese as a second language (L2) in Australia and the links of underlying motivational components to learner sociobiographical (e.g. gender and reasons for learning) and language learning variables (i.e. experience abroad, hours of self-study, and speaking with Chinese L1 speakers). A total of 164 Australian university students participated in the study. The fi…
Health literacy and health outcomes among older patients suffering from chronic diseases
Introduction: Aging brings with an increased risk of chronic diseases among older adults, which could affect health outcomes. Evidence has showed that health literacy is associated with health outcomes. However, limited studies explore the underlying mechanism between health literacy and health outcomes. Hence, this study aimed to determine whether self-efficacy for managing chronic disease mediates the relationship between health literacy and he…
Gender differences in factors associated with the health literacy of hospitalized older patients with chronic diseases
Background: To identify gender differences in factors associated with the health literacy of hospitalized older patients with chronic diseases. Methods: A total of 471 hospitalized older patients with chronic diseases in four hospitals were investigated from May 2019 to June 2020. The self-developed demographic information questionnaire, the "Health Literacy Scale for Patients with Chronic Diseases" and the "Self-Efficacy for Managing Chronic Dis…
Exploring the Impact of University Student Engagement on Junior Faculty’s Online Teaching Anxiety and Coping Strategies during Covid-19
(1) Background: When online teaching or blended teaching becomes the new normal in college teaching and learning during the pandemic phase, how to cope with teaching anxiety and enhance online student engagement has been frequently discussed among scholars and practitioners. (2) Methods: This qualitative study aims to investigate the impact of online college student engagement on junior faculty’s online teaching anxiety in the pandemic era, with …
Exploring the adoption of social media in self-paced physical activity in early childhood education
Comparing the Efficacy of Two School-Based Approaches of Neurocognitive Training for Enhancing Executive Functions
Neurocognitive training has been shown to improve a range of cognitive/executive functions and behavior in children. Delivering this training in a school context may enhance its ecological validity and improve training outcomes. The current study examined the efficacy of two school-based neurocognitive training approaches for enhancing executive functions (EF) in typically developing children: neurocognitive training with no teacher positive feed…
Associations of Adolescents’ Excessive Electronic Device Use, Emotional Symptoms, Sleep Difficulty, and Communication with Parents
Adolescents' excessive electronic device use is associated with psychological problems. However, it is unknown which psychological symptom, including emotional symptoms and sleep difficulty, correlates with excessive electronic device use most strongly. Besides, according to the social displacement theory, parent-adolescent communication might mediate the relationship between excessive electronic device use and psychological symptoms. Using the C…
Inclusive EFL Teaching for Young Students with Special Needs
In China, English as a foreign language is important and compulsory from primary education to higher education, essentially because English has become a global language. The Ministry of Education emphasizes that school principals should attempt to train teachers in special education and in assisting students with special education needs (SEN) in regular classes via supportive services. However, EFL teachers usually have insufficient training and …
Parental Knowledge, Preference and Needs of Child-Rearing Family Programmes
Core parenting knowledge is critical for enhancing children's physical and mental development throughout the early stages of life, and it is essential to understand parents' preferences and needs in acquiring core parenting knowledge. In particular, with the launch of the Family Education Law in China, parents, community workers, and early childhood (EC) teachers gather together to engage in scientific and evidence-based programmes. However, Chin…
Chinese University Students’ Experience of WeChat-Based English-Language Vocabulary Learning
The outbreak of COVID-19 worldwide in 2020 has posed tremendous challenges to higher education globally. Teaching English as a foreign language (TEFL) is among the many areas affected by the pandemic. The unexpected transition to online teaching has increased challenges for improving and/or retaining students’ language proficiency. WeChat, a popular social application in China, was widely used for TEFL at Chinese universities before COVID-19. How…
Teacher-child relationships, self-concept, resilience, and social withdrawal among Chinese left-behind children
Cinderella and Pandora’s box – Autoethnographic Reflections on My Early Career Research Trajectory between Australia and China
In the last decade, the world has witnessed significant changes in terms of economic, educational, and cultural development both inside and outside China, creating valuable opportunities to better understand the cultural stereotypes Asians and Westerners have regarding each other. In this paper, I examine my immigrant experiences as a female, bilingual early-career researcher in multilingual and multicultural environments and my subsequent re-ent…
The WeChat public platform
The WeChat public platform has become a low-cost, synchronistic and effective social media channel for daily communications between the Chinese and the West. This project aims to enhance Chinese and European humanities and social sciences (HSS) academics’ global competitiveness in international scholarships via WeChat public platforms. The study was conducted in three parts, the pre-survey, the intervention using the WeChat public programme and t…
Publish or Perish in Social Science
The national “Double First-class” strategic plan, a new ambitious higher education policy, which was officially launched at the end of September 2017. This emphasises that 42 Chinese universities have a target of being ranked in the global “First-class” category within ten years. Under the guidance of the strategic plan, Chinese academics in Humanities and Social Sciences ( HSS ) will face significant opportunities and challenges. Compared with t…
Educating Chinese-heritage students in the global-local nexus
The expanding number of Chinese migrants and the young generation of Chinese international students living and studying overseas in the last two decades has aroused attention to understand Chinese
Confucius stands on the London eye- an auto-ethnographic study
Confucianism has had a profound influence on Chinese learners’ academic achievements, moral education and education for citizenship. It is often suggested that the influence of Confucianism leads to educational success. Situating the Confucian ideology in a Western educational setting in so far as how those involved in teaching and learning according to Chinese Confucian-based education. This paper is based on a BBC documentary that leads me to r…
Investigation of Chinese University Students’ Attributions of English Language Learning
Despite the importance of developing students’ learning autonomy in Chinese schools similar to Western cultured schools, many concerns are raised regarding the influence and effectiveness that learner autonomy has on students’ academic achievements. The aim of this study was to identify the attribution patterns of Chinese university students for success and failure toward students who learnt through autonomy learning (student-centered approaches)…
Conceptualising English L1 speakers’ motivation for learning L2 Chinese in Australian universities
This study investigated English first language (L1) speakers’ motivation for learning Chinese as a second language (L2) in Australia and the links of underlying motivational components to learner sociobiographical (e.g. gender and reasons for learning) and language learning variables (i.e. experience abroad, hours of self-study, and speaking with Chinese L1 speakers). A total of 164 Australian university students participated in the study. The fi…
Teacher-child relationships, self-concept, resilience, and social withdrawal among Chinese left-behind children
Confucius stands on the London eye- an auto-ethnographic study
Confucianism has had a profound influence on Chinese learners’ academic achievements, moral education and education for citizenship. It is often suggested that the influence of Confucianism leads to educational success. Situating the Confucian ideology in a Western educational setting in so far as how those involved in teaching and learning according to Chinese Confucian-based education. This paper is based on a BBC documentary that leads me to r…
Investigation of Chinese University Students’ Attributions of English Language Learning
Despite the importance of developing students’ learning autonomy in Chinese schools similar to Western cultured schools, many concerns are raised regarding the influence and effectiveness that learner autonomy has on students’ academic achievements. The aim of this study was to identify the attribution patterns of Chinese university students for success and failure toward students who learnt through autonomy learning (student-centered approaches)…
Confucius stands on the London eye- an auto-ethnographic study
Confucianism has had a profound influence on Chinese learners’ academic achievements, moral education and education for citizenship. It is often suggested that the influence of Confucianism leads to educational success. Situating the Confucian ideology in a Western educational setting in so far as how those involved in teaching and learning according to Chinese Confucian-based education. This paper is based on a BBC documentary that leads me to r…
Educating Chinese-heritage students in the global-local nexus
The expanding number of Chinese migrants and the young generation of Chinese international students living and studying overseas in the last two decades has aroused attention to understand Chinese
Publish or Perish in Social Science
The national “Double First-class” strategic plan, a new ambitious higher education policy, which was officially launched at the end of September 2017. This emphasises that 42 Chinese universities have a target of being ranked in the global “First-class” category within ten years. Under the guidance of the strategic plan, Chinese academics in Humanities and Social Sciences ( HSS ) will face significant opportunities and challenges. Compared with t…
Cinderella and Pandora’s box – Autoethnographic Reflections on My Early Career Research Trajectory between Australia and China
In the last decade, the world has witnessed significant changes in terms of economic, educational, and cultural development both inside and outside China, creating valuable opportunities to better understand the cultural stereotypes Asians and Westerners have regarding each other. In this paper, I examine my immigrant experiences as a female, bilingual early-career researcher in multilingual and multicultural environments and my subsequent re-ent…
The WeChat public platform
The WeChat public platform has become a low-cost, synchronistic and effective social media channel for daily communications between the Chinese and the West. This project aims to enhance Chinese and European humanities and social sciences (HSS) academics’ global competitiveness in international scholarships via WeChat public platforms. The study was conducted in three parts, the pre-survey, the intervention using the WeChat public programme and t…
Chinese University Students’ Experience of WeChat-Based English-Language Vocabulary Learning
The outbreak of COVID-19 worldwide in 2020 has posed tremendous challenges to higher education globally. Teaching English as a foreign language (TEFL) is among the many areas affected by the pandemic. The unexpected transition to online teaching has increased challenges for improving and/or retaining students’ language proficiency. WeChat, a popular social application in China, was widely used for TEFL at Chinese universities before COVID-19. How…
Teacher-child relationships, self-concept, resilience, and social withdrawal among Chinese left-behind children
Gender differences in factors associated with the health literacy of hospitalized older patients with chronic diseases
Background: To identify gender differences in factors associated with the health literacy of hospitalized older patients with chronic diseases. Methods: A total of 471 hospitalized older patients with chronic diseases in four hospitals were investigated from May 2019 to June 2020. The self-developed demographic information questionnaire, the "Health Literacy Scale for Patients with Chronic Diseases" and the "Self-Efficacy for Managing Chronic Dis…
Exploring the Impact of University Student Engagement on Junior Faculty’s Online Teaching Anxiety and Coping Strategies during Covid-19
(1) Background: When online teaching or blended teaching becomes the new normal in college teaching and learning during the pandemic phase, how to cope with teaching anxiety and enhance online student engagement has been frequently discussed among scholars and practitioners. (2) Methods: This qualitative study aims to investigate the impact of online college student engagement on junior faculty’s online teaching anxiety in the pandemic era, with …
Exploring the adoption of social media in self-paced physical activity in early childhood education
Comparing the Efficacy of Two School-Based Approaches of Neurocognitive Training for Enhancing Executive Functions
Neurocognitive training has been shown to improve a range of cognitive/executive functions and behavior in children. Delivering this training in a school context may enhance its ecological validity and improve training outcomes. The current study examined the efficacy of two school-based neurocognitive training approaches for enhancing executive functions (EF) in typically developing children: neurocognitive training with no teacher positive feed…
Associations of Adolescents’ Excessive Electronic Device Use, Emotional Symptoms, Sleep Difficulty, and Communication with Parents
Adolescents' excessive electronic device use is associated with psychological problems. However, it is unknown which psychological symptom, including emotional symptoms and sleep difficulty, correlates with excessive electronic device use most strongly. Besides, according to the social displacement theory, parent-adolescent communication might mediate the relationship between excessive electronic device use and psychological symptoms. Using the C…
Inclusive EFL Teaching for Young Students with Special Needs
In China, English as a foreign language is important and compulsory from primary education to higher education, essentially because English has become a global language. The Ministry of Education emphasizes that school principals should attempt to train teachers in special education and in assisting students with special education needs (SEN) in regular classes via supportive services. However, EFL teachers usually have insufficient training and …
Parental Knowledge, Preference and Needs of Child-Rearing Family Programmes
Core parenting knowledge is critical for enhancing children's physical and mental development throughout the early stages of life, and it is essential to understand parents' preferences and needs in acquiring core parenting knowledge. In particular, with the launch of the Family Education Law in China, parents, community workers, and early childhood (EC) teachers gather together to engage in scientific and evidence-based programmes. However, Chin…
Health literacy and health outcomes among older patients suffering from chronic diseases
Introduction: Aging brings with an increased risk of chronic diseases among older adults, which could affect health outcomes. Evidence has showed that health literacy is associated with health outcomes. However, limited studies explore the underlying mechanism between health literacy and health outcomes. Hence, this study aimed to determine whether self-efficacy for managing chronic disease mediates the relationship between health literacy and he…
Social anxiety and loneliness among older adults
The study found that social anxiety can contribute to loneliness by narrowing older adults' social network. High perceived social support can buffer this process, but do not overstate its protective effects. Thus, interventions to reduce social anxiety and improve social network and social support may help prevent and alleviate loneliness in older adults
Conceptualising English L1 speakers’ motivation for learning L2 Chinese in Australian universities
This study investigated English first language (L1) speakers’ motivation for learning Chinese as a second language (L2) in Australia and the links of underlying motivational components to learner sociobiographical (e.g. gender and reasons for learning) and language learning variables (i.e. experience abroad, hours of self-study, and speaking with Chinese L1 speakers). A total of 164 Australian university students participated in the study. The fi…
Family support and facilitation activities for young children’s bidirectional connection between preschool and primary school
Family support and facilitation activities are essential for the transition from preschool to primary school as they serve to bridge the gap between the home and school learning environments. Previous studies focused on examining the transition from lower levels to higher levels (e.g., preschool to primary school), few researchers shed high on the bidirectional connection between preschool to primary schools for children aged 6–7 years old. In or…
China’s returned migrant parents’ perspectives on how culture shapes their parenting in a culturally diverse community
With technological and economic developments, several Chinese migrant families have returned to China from the West to China. Families with multilingual and multicultural backgrounds might experience more challenges in child-rearing than the locals. Drawing on a life-course perspective, we used a qualitative research method to investigate 18 Chinese returned migrant families with young children to enhance our understanding of the complex cultural…
Can Drawings Really Facilitate Children’s Symbolic Understanding of Metaphor
Despite the numerous studies on children’s symbolic understanding of metaphors, much remains unknown about the facilitating effect of drawings on the comprehension of metaphor and how it is associated with drawing skills and metaphor explicitness among young speakers of logo-graphic languages. To this end, 139 Chinese children between 7 and 11 year’s old were administered to three experimental conditions of draw-explain, explain-draw, and draw-ex…
Qishentaohong granules alleviate heart failure by modulating mitochondrial fission and mitophagy balance
Psychology (16 works) · Political science (10 works) · China (9 works) · Pedagogy (7 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · Developmental psychology (6 works) · Mathematics education (6 works) · Medicine (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Computer Science (4 works)