Jun Xiang
Biographic Data
| ID | 4099512 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jun Xiang |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jun |
| FAMILY NAME | Xiang |
| SIGNATURE | XIANG J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2675-5167 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 33 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 145 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 33 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
The impact of social support on exercise persistence in adolescents: The mediating effect of exercise self-efficacy and autonomic motivation
This study aims to explore the relationship between social support and exercise persistence among junior high school students. Furthermore, it introduces exercise self-efficacy and autonomous motivation as mediating variables to analyze the pathway through which social support influences exercise persistence in this population. A total of 4,294 junior high school students from 13 prefecture-level cities in Jiangsu Province were surveyed using the…
Technology-based physical activities and adults’ physical activity levels, mental health, life satisfaction, and happiness: A mixed methods study
These results highlight the need for designing culturally adaptable, user-centered digital physical activity programs that specifically address motivational triggers, such as gamified features, social interactivity, and convenience. Moreover, interventions should be personalized to align with participants' age, personality traits, and technological familiarity to optimize engagement and impact. Public health practitioners and policymakers are enc…
Xiaoxuming decoction enhanced neuroprotection after cerebral ischemia/reperfusion via the JAK2/STAT3 signaling pathway based on UPLC/HRMS, network pharmacology and experimental validation
ESports and Gaming: China’s Quest for Global Soft Power
This study argues that China strategically utilizes eSports and gaming as tools to expand its global influence, diverging from traditional soft power approaches. The Chinese government embeds historical and cultural elements of China into video games such as “Honor of Kings” and “Black Myth: Wukong.” The combination of broad popularity and official backing enables games to serve as cultural diplomacy tools for China while advancing its cultural e…
All Things Work Together for Good: How Bilateral Investment Treaties Affect the Allocation of Foreign Aid
Bilateral investment treaties’ (BITs) intended effects can hardly be achieved independent of other policy instruments. We argue that foreign aid offers an external reinforcement for BITs through two mechanisms: compensation and enforcement. First, foreign aid compensates FDI host states for policy autonomy losses incurred by BITs. In addition, FDI home states deploy aid to enforce compliance with BITs. It is thus expected that BITs increase forei…
Resource Disparities in Formal and Informal Volunteering
Analyzing data from the Chinese Social Survey (2017, 2019, 2021), this study reveals a structural transformation in volunteerism in China: state-led formal volunteering has increased, while socially autonomous informal volunteering has declined, shifting from a positive correlation to statistical independence. Against this backdrop, we extend resource theory by incorporating political capital alongside human, social, and cultural capital. Of thes…
The relationship between parenting style and the stigma of mental illness in adolescent athletes: The chain mediating role of self-esteem and mental toughness
The stigma surrounding mental illness is pervasive among athletes competing at the highest levels, and the adolescent athlete’s parenting style, self-esteem, and mental toughness are intimately linked to this stigma. These factors are particularly influential in determining the future career trajectory and athletic pursuits of young athletes. The objective of this study is to examine the correlation between parenting style and the stigma of menta…
Parental involvement and adolescent athletes' mental health: The mediating role of psychological resilience
The stigmatization of mental health among adolescent athletes is influenced by external factors. We explored the impact of parental involvement on mental health stigma, examining the mediating roles of psychological resilience and subjective well-being. Utilizing a nonprobability convenience sampling technique, we recruited 250 Chinese university student athletes who completed paper questionnaires on site at a single time point. The results revea…
A critical review of green growth indicators in G7 economies from 1990 to 2019
Green growth policies aim to address both climate change and economic growth and are now prevalent throughout many economies. While green growth is sufficiently assessed in qualitative, case-study-based literature, quantitative and cross-country analyses are still limited. In response to this research deficit, our aim is twofold: (1) to develop a classification framework to quantitatively analyse green growth and (2) to identify key policy inputs…
Intra-couple comparison, intra-gender comparison and class identity of Chinese couples
Spatial Distribution Profiles and Human-Health Risks of Heavy Metals in Surrounding Area Surface Soils of a Petrochemical Complex
Despite the growing concern raised by organic pollutants from the petrochemical industry to the surrounding soils, the heavy metal (HM) pollution in these soils remains understudied. This study investigated the levels, potential sources, and human-health risks of 12 HMs in soils inside and in surrounding areas of a petrochemical complex. Generally, the levels of 12 HMs in all soil samples were lower than the national standard of China, except for…
Channeled through trade: How foreign environmental regulations induce domestic renewable energy innovation
Gut microbiota modulation and anti-inflammatory properties of Xuanbai Chengqi decoction in septic rats
Asymmetrical Attribution of Performance in China
Existing studies of the impact of economic development on political trust in China have two major gaps: they fail to explain how economic development contributes to the hierarchical trust pattern, and they do not pay enough attention to the underlying mechanisms. In light of cultural theory and political control theory, we propose adapting performance theory into a theory of “asymmetrical attribution of performance” to better illuminate the case …
Environmental regulatory spillovers, institutions, and clean technology innovation: A panel of 32 countries over 16 years
The power transition and the US response to China’s expanded soft power
Many scholars have examined how the United States should respond to a rising non-democratic China. Contrary to the well-debated hard power domain, little attention has been devoted to China’s soft power. This study is arguably the first to systematically investigate the US response to the establishment of Confucius Institutes—China’s global initiative to expand soft power. We argue that the US decision to establish Confucius Institutes is influen…
Pursuing Soft Power through the Confucius Institute: A Large-N Analysis
Jia-Jian-Di-Huang-Yin-Zi decoction reduces apoptosis induced by both mitochondrial and endoplasmic reticulum caspase12 pathways in the mouse model of Parkinson’s disease
Tongxinluo reduces brain edema and inhibits post-ischemic inflammation after middle cerebral artery occlusion in rats
PI3K/Akt pathway contributes to neuroprotective effect of Tongxinluo against focal cerebral ischemia and reperfusion injury in rats
Alternative Views and Eroding Support: The Conditional Indirect Effects of Foreign Media and Internet Use on Regime Support in China
Increased access to information poses a threat to authoritarian rulers’ hold on power. In this article, we assess the relationship between use of the Internet and foreign media on regime support in China using data from the Asian Barometer survey. Based on the O-S-O-R model, we examine whether use of the Internet and foreign media correlate with lower levels of regime support, and whether there are indirect effects of media use through trust in t…
Stereotype reduction through humor and accommodation during imagined communication with older adults
Ageism can generate conflict and harm well-being. Our paper integrates the Aging Stereotypes in Interaction model with intergroup contact theory to predict how communicative elements mediate the effect of intergenerational contact on warmth and competence stereotypes of older adults as a group. Students (N = 288) were randomly assigned to imagine having a conversation with an older adult in one of six experimentally manipulated contact conditions…
Dyadic Effects, Relevance, and the Empirical Assessment of the Kantian Peace
Dyadic effects to a large extent account for the difficulty of explaining and predicting international conflict. In this study, I derive a statistical model to estimate unobserved dyadic effects in the dyadic analysis of conflict. The proposed model employs a hierarchical modeling approach to estimate dyadic effects, thereby avoiding the problems caused by the use of fixed effects models. Furthermore, it simultaneously addresses the important sam…
Diffusion or Confusion? Clustered Shocks and the Conditional Diffusion of Democracy
Scholars, observing clustering in transitions to democracy, argue that democratization diffuses across borders as citizens in autocracies demand the same reforms they witness in neighboring states. We disagree. This article demonstrates that diffusion plays only a highly conditional role in democratization. We advance and test an alternative two-step theory of clustered democratization: (1) economic and international political shocks, which are c…
Voting in the UN: A Second Image of China’s Human Rights
How Opportunity Costs Decrease the Probability of War in an Incomplete Information Game
This article shows that the opportunity costs resulting from economic interdependence decrease the probability of war in an incomplete information game. This result is strongly consistent with existing empirical analyses of the inverse trade-conflict relationship but is the opposite of the conclusion reached by Gartzke, Li, and Boehmer, who reject the opportunity cost argument in a game-theoretic framework. As a result of our findings, one cannot…
Diffusion or Confusion? Clustered Shocks and the Conditional Diffusion of Democracy
Scholars, observing clustering in transitions to democracy, argue that democratization diffuses across borders as citizens in autocracies demand the same reforms they witness in neighboring states. We disagree. This article demonstrates that diffusion plays only a highly conditional role in democratization. We advance and test an alternative two-step theory of clustered democratization: (1) economic and international political shocks, which are c…
Relevance as a Latent Variable in Dyadic Analysis of Conflict
This study introduces split population binary choice models to address the issue of irrelevant dyads in the dyadic analysis of conflict with binary dependent variables. The advantage of employing a statistical model instead of directly identifying relevant dyads manifests itself in the selection of relevant dyads: rather than researchers making take-it-or-leave-it decisions, covariates are used to estimate relevance as a latent variable. An appli…
Power: The Missing Link in the Trade Conflict Relationship
We join the debate on trade interdependence and conflict with a reexamination of Barbieri's (1996) intriguing empirical results showing that under certain circumstances, trade interdependence causes conflict. We argue that these findings resulted from a specification that was missing a variable. We return to Barbieri's models and introduce two independent power measures for countries within each dyad. When a correctly specified trade-conflict reg…
Stereotype reduction through humor and accommodation during imagined communication with older adults
Ageism can generate conflict and harm well-being. Our paper integrates the Aging Stereotypes in Interaction model with intergroup contact theory to predict how communicative elements mediate the effect of intergenerational contact on warmth and competence stereotypes of older adults as a group. Students (N = 288) were randomly assigned to imagine having a conversation with an older adult in one of six experimentally manipulated contact conditions…
Environmental regulatory spillovers, institutions, and clean technology innovation: A panel of 32 countries over 16 years
Gendered pathways to hukou status mobility in China
One of China’s most important institutions is its hukou system, a registry that assigns benefits to household members based on rural or urban location. Changes in hukou status are not easy, but hukou mobility from rural to urban status is an important path to upward social mobility in China. While this hukou conversion is well covered in the literature pertaining to other research, previous studies have failed to solve the puzzle as to why this s…
The power transition and the US response to China’s expanded soft power
Many scholars have examined how the United States should respond to a rising non-democratic China. Contrary to the well-debated hard power domain, little attention has been devoted to China’s soft power. This study is arguably the first to systematically investigate the US response to the establishment of Confucius Institutes—China’s global initiative to expand soft power. We argue that the US decision to establish Confucius Institutes is influen…
Channeled through trade: How foreign environmental regulations induce domestic renewable energy innovation
Alternative Views and Eroding Support: The Conditional Indirect Effects of Foreign Media and Internet Use on Regime Support in China
Increased access to information poses a threat to authoritarian rulers’ hold on power. In this article, we assess the relationship between use of the Internet and foreign media on regime support in China using data from the Asian Barometer survey. Based on the O-S-O-R model, we examine whether use of the Internet and foreign media correlate with lower levels of regime support, and whether there are indirect effects of media use through trust in t…
Voting in the UN: A Second Image of China’s Human Rights
Pursuing Soft Power through the Confucius Institute: A Large-N Analysis
All Things Work Together for Good: How Bilateral Investment Treaties Affect the Allocation of Foreign Aid
Bilateral investment treaties’ (BITs) intended effects can hardly be achieved independent of other policy instruments. We argue that foreign aid offers an external reinforcement for BITs through two mechanisms: compensation and enforcement. First, foreign aid compensates FDI host states for policy autonomy losses incurred by BITs. In addition, FDI home states deploy aid to enforce compliance with BITs. It is thus expected that BITs increase forei…
Asymmetrical Attribution of Performance in China
Existing studies of the impact of economic development on political trust in China have two major gaps: they fail to explain how economic development contributes to the hierarchical trust pattern, and they do not pay enough attention to the underlying mechanisms. In light of cultural theory and political control theory, we propose adapting performance theory into a theory of “asymmetrical attribution of performance” to better illuminate the case …
Power: The Missing Link in the Trade Conflict Relationship
We join the debate on trade interdependence and conflict with a reexamination of Barbieri's (1996) intriguing empirical results showing that under certain circumstances, trade interdependence causes conflict. We argue that these findings resulted from a specification that was missing a variable. We return to Barbieri's models and introduce two independent power measures for countries within each dyad. When a correctly specified trade-conflict reg…
Neuroprotective effects of water-soluble Ganoderma lucidum polysaccharides on cerebral ischemic injury in rats
Chinese medicine Nao-Shuan-Tong attenuates cerebral ischemic injury by inhibiting apoptosis in a rat model of stroke
Relevance as a Latent Variable in Dyadic Analysis of Conflict
This study introduces split population binary choice models to address the issue of irrelevant dyads in the dyadic analysis of conflict with binary dependent variables. The advantage of employing a statistical model instead of directly identifying relevant dyads manifests itself in the selection of relevant dyads: rather than researchers making take-it-or-leave-it decisions, covariates are used to estimate relevance as a latent variable. An appli…
How Opportunity Costs Decrease the Probability of War in an Incomplete Information Game
This article shows that the opportunity costs resulting from economic interdependence decrease the probability of war in an incomplete information game. This result is strongly consistent with existing empirical analyses of the inverse trade-conflict relationship but is the opposite of the conclusion reached by Gartzke, Li, and Boehmer, who reject the opportunity cost argument in a game-theoretic framework. As a result of our findings, one cannot…
An-Gong-Niu-Huang Wan protects against cerebral ischemia induced apoptosis in rats: Up-regulation of Bcl-2 and down-regulation of Bax and caspase-3
Xiao-Xu-Ming decoction preserves mitochondrial integrity and reduces apoptosis after focal cerebral ischemia and reperfusion via the mitochondrial p53 pathway
Gendered pathways to hukou status mobility in China
One of China’s most important institutions is its hukou system, a registry that assigns benefits to household members based on rural or urban location. Changes in hukou status are not easy, but hukou mobility from rural to urban status is an important path to upward social mobility in China. While this hukou conversion is well covered in the literature pertaining to other research, previous studies have failed to solve the puzzle as to why this s…
Tongxinluo reduces brain edema and inhibits post-ischemic inflammation after middle cerebral artery occlusion in rats
PI3K/Akt pathway contributes to neuroprotective effect of Tongxinluo against focal cerebral ischemia and reperfusion injury in rats
Alternative Views and Eroding Support: The Conditional Indirect Effects of Foreign Media and Internet Use on Regime Support in China
Increased access to information poses a threat to authoritarian rulers’ hold on power. In this article, we assess the relationship between use of the Internet and foreign media on regime support in China using data from the Asian Barometer survey. Based on the O-S-O-R model, we examine whether use of the Internet and foreign media correlate with lower levels of regime support, and whether there are indirect effects of media use through trust in t…
Stereotype reduction through humor and accommodation during imagined communication with older adults
Ageism can generate conflict and harm well-being. Our paper integrates the Aging Stereotypes in Interaction model with intergroup contact theory to predict how communicative elements mediate the effect of intergenerational contact on warmth and competence stereotypes of older adults as a group. Students (N = 288) were randomly assigned to imagine having a conversation with an older adult in one of six experimentally manipulated contact conditions…
Dyadic Effects, Relevance, and the Empirical Assessment of the Kantian Peace
Dyadic effects to a large extent account for the difficulty of explaining and predicting international conflict. In this study, I derive a statistical model to estimate unobserved dyadic effects in the dyadic analysis of conflict. The proposed model employs a hierarchical modeling approach to estimate dyadic effects, thereby avoiding the problems caused by the use of fixed effects models. Furthermore, it simultaneously addresses the important sam…
Diffusion or Confusion? Clustered Shocks and the Conditional Diffusion of Democracy
Scholars, observing clustering in transitions to democracy, argue that democratization diffuses across borders as citizens in autocracies demand the same reforms they witness in neighboring states. We disagree. This article demonstrates that diffusion plays only a highly conditional role in democratization. We advance and test an alternative two-step theory of clustered democratization: (1) economic and international political shocks, which are c…
Voting in the UN: A Second Image of China’s Human Rights
Jia-Jian-Di-Huang-Yin-Zi decoction reduces apoptosis induced by both mitochondrial and endoplasmic reticulum caspase12 pathways in the mouse model of Parkinson’s disease
Environmental regulatory spillovers, institutions, and clean technology innovation: A panel of 32 countries over 16 years
The power transition and the US response to China’s expanded soft power
Many scholars have examined how the United States should respond to a rising non-democratic China. Contrary to the well-debated hard power domain, little attention has been devoted to China’s soft power. This study is arguably the first to systematically investigate the US response to the establishment of Confucius Institutes—China’s global initiative to expand soft power. We argue that the US decision to establish Confucius Institutes is influen…
Pursuing Soft Power through the Confucius Institute: A Large-N Analysis
Asymmetrical Attribution of Performance in China
Existing studies of the impact of economic development on political trust in China have two major gaps: they fail to explain how economic development contributes to the hierarchical trust pattern, and they do not pay enough attention to the underlying mechanisms. In light of cultural theory and political control theory, we propose adapting performance theory into a theory of “asymmetrical attribution of performance” to better illuminate the case …
Gut microbiota modulation and anti-inflammatory properties of Xuanbai Chengqi decoction in septic rats
Spatial Distribution Profiles and Human-Health Risks of Heavy Metals in Surrounding Area Surface Soils of a Petrochemical Complex
Despite the growing concern raised by organic pollutants from the petrochemical industry to the surrounding soils, the heavy metal (HM) pollution in these soils remains understudied. This study investigated the levels, potential sources, and human-health risks of 12 HMs in soils inside and in surrounding areas of a petrochemical complex. Generally, the levels of 12 HMs in all soil samples were lower than the national standard of China, except for…
Channeled through trade: How foreign environmental regulations induce domestic renewable energy innovation
A critical review of green growth indicators in G7 economies from 1990 to 2019
Green growth policies aim to address both climate change and economic growth and are now prevalent throughout many economies. While green growth is sufficiently assessed in qualitative, case-study-based literature, quantitative and cross-country analyses are still limited. In response to this research deficit, our aim is twofold: (1) to develop a classification framework to quantitatively analyse green growth and (2) to identify key policy inputs…
Intra-couple comparison, intra-gender comparison and class identity of Chinese couples
Political science (14 works) · Economics (12 works) · Medicine (11 works) · Psychology (10 works) · Pharmacology (9 works) · Biology (8 works) · China (8 works) · Internal Medicine (8 works) · Biochemistry (7 works) · Ischemia (7 works)