Xiaojin Chen
Biographic Data
| ID | 4228906 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Xiaojin Chen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Xiaojin |
| FAMILY NAME | Chen |
| SIGNATURE | CHEN X |
| AFFILIATIONS | Tulane University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4735-7467 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 422 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Mobile phone addiction as a mediator in the association between alexithymia and self-directed learning among Chinese nursing students: A structural equation modeling analysis
BACKGROUND: Self-directed learning ability is an essential competency for nursing undergraduates to develop professional skills and adapt to evolving healthcare needs. However, the psychological and behavioral factors affecting self-directed learning remain understudied. OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study is to explore the relationship between alexithymia, mobile phone addiction, and self-directed learning among nursing undergraduates. METHODS: Thi…
Interdependency, Perceived Shame, and Probability of Wrongdoing Among Chinese Students: A Partial Test of the Reintegrative Shaming Theory
Compared with other mainstream criminological theories, Reintegrative Shaming Theory (RST) draws insufficient empirical evaluations. Given RST’s unique attention to non-Western societies and the significance of shaming in Chinese society, China provides a strategic setting for RST’s empirical assessment. Utilizing a Chinese youth sample, this study explores the association between interdependency and the probability of wrongdoing, and the mediati…
Not All Screen Time Is Equal: Cultivated Unstructured Socializing and Cyber Delinquency Among Incarcerated Youth in China
Cyber delinquency has become a growing global concern as adolescents’ socialization increasingly unfolds online. This study introduces cultivated unstructured socializing to examine how different online activities, varying in structure, immersion, and peer orientation, are associated with unequal delinquency risks. Using 2023 survey data from a Chinese youth correctional institution, a high-delinquency sample that provides leverage for distinguis…
Does carnival contribute to crime? Examining the spatiotemporal effects of Mardi Gras on New Orleans Crime Trends (2012–2024)
Testing General Strain Theory Among Institutionalized Chinese Juveniles
Existing research on the general strain theory (GST) rarely paid attention to institutionalized juveniles and has seldom employed situational negative emotion measures. Using survey data collected from 361 incarcerated juveniles in a Chinese reformatory to test GST, this study examined the relationship between three types of strain, including financial, child abuse, and victimization strain, and delinquency, with a focus on the mediating effect o…
Virtual Socializing, Peers, and Juvenile Delinquency: A Study of Incarcerated Male Youths in China
This study examines the relationship between virtual socializing and juvenile delinquency among incarcerated boys in China, as traditional theories focused on in-person interactions are reevaluated amid the internet’s influence. Using 2023 data from a youth correctional institute, we conducted multivariate and indirect effect analyses to explore how virtual socializing influences both offline and online delinquency among incarcerated boys, with s…
Testing Self-Control Theory Among Incarcerated Drug Offenders in China
Since its introduction by Gottfredson and Hirschi, self-control theory has been widely applied in criminology for its claimed explanatory breadth and presumed invariance across cultures and populations. Yet empirical assessments of its applicability to high-risk groups in non-Western settings remain scarce. This study draws on survey data from two compulsory drug rehabilitation centers in southwest China to evaluate the psychometric structure of …
Family Attachment and Delinquency Among Chinese Adolescents: The Mediating Roles of Adolescent Self-Disclosure and Parental Knowledge
As a crucial factor in the personal development, social interaction, and emotional maturation of children, family attachment plays a prominent role in the social control theory of delinquency. However, limited attention has been paid to the disentanglement and causal ordering of the elements of family attachment. This study utilizes data drawn from a sample of youth in China aged twelve to seventeen to examine path models that specify the interre…
Education Fever and Adolescent Deviance in China
Is education fever in China, embodied in parents’ high expectations of and heavy investments in children’s education, a source of strain for the offspring? Using a nationally representative sample of children from 6th to 12th grade, we examine the effects of education fever on adolescent deviance in China, controlling for a range of individual and family characteristics. The regression results revealed that parental investment increased adolescen…
Self-Control, Risky Lifestyles, and Victimization among Chinese Adolescents
Violent and property victimization among Chinese adolescents remains a social problem, yet studies that incorporate individual characteristics and situational/contextual factors to explain such victimization remain scarce. Drawing upon survey data collected from a large, representative sample of middle school students from two areas in Guizhou Province, China, we test Schreck’s integrated model of victimization, finding that self-control has both…
Explaining Chinese Delinquency: Self-Control, Morality, and Criminogenic Exposure
This study extends the testing of situational action theory (SAT) to a Chinese population, and sheds new light on the directions of the moderation relationships between self-control and morality, and between crime propensity and criminogenic exposure on delinquency. Relying on a large, representative sample of middle school students from two areas of Guizhou, China ( N = 2,498), we find that both self-control and morality have significant inhibit…
Parental Migration and Risk of Sexual Assault Against Children in Rural China
This study investigates the difference in rates of sexual assault between left-behind children and those living with both parents in rural China and attempts to identify potential social mechanisms explaining this variation. Using data from a probability sample of middle school students in Guizhou Province, China, our study reveals that parental migration, particularly maternal and both-parent migration, significantly increases children’s risk of…
Compulsive immobility: Understanding the role of health on collective efficacy
Most health care approaches to understanding social ills are rooted in strain or ecological models. Strain models assume that the impact of poor physical health operates through the individual, that it is the individual suffering from poor health who engages in social ills as a means of adapting, and that the impact of poor health is rather direct and immediate. Meanwhile, ecological approaches of health acknowledge how poor health may impact oth…
Physical disorder and crime revisited: New evidence from intensive longitudinal data
Parental Migration and Children’s Problem Behaviours in Rural China: Testing an Integrative Theoretical Model
This study aims to investigate the social mechanism underlying the associations between parental migration and left-behind children’s delinquent and deviant behaviours in rural China. Using a middle school student sample, our results reveal that the effects of parental migration on children’s delinquency differ across caretaking arrangements. Specifically, compared with children living with non-migrant parents, those cared for by a remaining fath…
Self-Control, External Environment, and Delinquency: A Test of Self-Control Theory in Rural China
Although self-control consistently emerges as one of the most robust correlates of delinquent behavior, limited empirical attempts have been made to explore the contextual variability of the relationship between self-control and delinquency outside of Western societies. Using data collected from 587 seventh- to ninth-grade students across 10 middle schools in a rural county of Southeast China, we examine self-control’s efficacy in explaining juve…
Children's immigrant generational status and delinquency: The mediating effects of friendship networks
Repeated Strains, Social Control, Social Learning, and Delinquency: Testing an Integrated Model of General Strain Theory in China
In Agnew's general strain theory, repeated strains can generate crime and delinquency by reducing social control and fostering social learning of crime. Using a sample of 615 middle- and high-school students in China, this study examines how social control and social learning variables mediate the effect of repeated strains in school and at home on delinquency. The findings from an integrated model support Agnew's mediating argument in a non-West…
Precursors of Running Away During Adolescence: Do Peers Matter
Although peer influence is a salient predictor of delinquency, how it operates in the etiology of runaway behavior is not fully understood. Using data from the N ational L ongitudinal S tudy of A dolescent H ealth, this study demonstrates the importance of taking peers into account in understanding the etiology of running away. The findings suggest that peer deviance is strongly associated with adolescents’ decision to run away, independent of so…
Food insecurity among homeless and runaway adolescents
Objective The purpose of this study was to investigate the prevalence of food insecurity and factors related to it among homeless and runaway adolescents. Design Computer-assisted personal interviews were conducted with homeless and runaway adolescents directly on the streets and in shelters. Setting Interviews were conducted in eight Midwest cities: Des Moines, Cedar Rapids, Iowa City, Kansas City, Lincoln, Omaha, St. Louis and Wichita. Subjects…
Mental Disorders, Comorbidity, and Postrunaway Arrests Among Homeless and Runaway Adolescents
This study examined the associations between lifetime mental disorder, comorbidity, and self‐reported postrunaway arrests among 428 (187 males, 241 females) homeless and runaway youth. The analysis examined the pattern of arrests across five lifetime mental disorders (alcohol abuse, drug abuse, conduct disorder, major depressive episode, and posttraumatic stress disorder). The adolescents, ranging from 16 to 19 years old, were interviewed directl…
Conceptualizing and Measuring Historical Trauma Among American Indian People
This article reports on the development of two measures relating to historical trauma among American Indian people: The Historical Loss Scale and The Historical Loss Associated Symptoms Scale . Measurement characteristics including frequencies, internal reliability, and confirmatory factor analyses were calculated based on 143 American Indian adult parents of children aged 10 through 12 years who are part of an ongoing longitudinal study of Ameri…
Mental disorder, subsistence strategies, and victimization among gay, lesbian, and bisexual homeless and runaway adolescents
This study compares participation in deviant subsistence strategies, street victimization, and lifetime prevalence of five mental disorders (conduct disorder, major depressive disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, alcohol abuse, and drug abuse) among heterosexual males and females (n = 366) and gay, lesbian, and bisexual (n = 63) homeless and runaway adolescents from the first wave of a longitudinal study of homeless youth in four Midwestern …
Discrimination, historical loss and enculturation: Culturally specific risk and resiliency factors for alcohol abuse among American Indians
This study presents important new evidence that historical loss affects American-Indian alcohol abuse. It also provides evidence for the resiliency effects of enculturation on alcohol abuse
Perceived Discrimination and Early Substance Abuse among American Indian Children
This study investigated internalizing and externalizing symptoms as potential mediators of the relationship between perceived discrimination and early substance abuse among 195 American Indian 5 through 8 graders from three reservations that share a common culture (e.g., language, spiritual beliefs, and traditional practices) in the upper Midwest. The findings indicated that, although perceived discrimination contributed significantly to internal…
Perceived Discrimination and Early Substance Abuse among American Indian Children
This study investigated internalizing and externalizing symptoms as potential mediators of the relationship between perceived discrimination and early substance abuse among 195 American Indian 5 through 8 graders from three reservations that share a common culture (e.g., language, spiritual beliefs, and traditional practices) in the upper Midwest. The findings indicated that, although perceived discrimination contributed significantly to internal…
Conceptualizing and Measuring Historical Trauma Among American Indian People
This article reports on the development of two measures relating to historical trauma among American Indian people: The Historical Loss Scale and The Historical Loss Associated Symptoms Scale . Measurement characteristics including frequencies, internal reliability, and confirmatory factor analyses were calculated based on 143 American Indian adult parents of children aged 10 through 12 years who are part of an ongoing longitudinal study of Ameri…
Mental disorder, subsistence strategies, and victimization among gay, lesbian, and bisexual homeless and runaway adolescents
This study compares participation in deviant subsistence strategies, street victimization, and lifetime prevalence of five mental disorders (conduct disorder, major depressive disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, alcohol abuse, and drug abuse) among heterosexual males and females (n = 366) and gay, lesbian, and bisexual (n = 63) homeless and runaway adolescents from the first wave of a longitudinal study of homeless youth in four Midwestern …
Discrimination, historical loss and enculturation: Culturally specific risk and resiliency factors for alcohol abuse among American Indians
This study presents important new evidence that historical loss affects American-Indian alcohol abuse. It also provides evidence for the resiliency effects of enculturation on alcohol abuse
Repeated Strains, Social Control, Social Learning, and Delinquency: Testing an Integrated Model of General Strain Theory in China
In Agnew's general strain theory, repeated strains can generate crime and delinquency by reducing social control and fostering social learning of crime. Using a sample of 615 middle- and high-school students in China, this study examines how social control and social learning variables mediate the effect of repeated strains in school and at home on delinquency. The findings from an integrated model support Agnew's mediating argument in a non-West…
Mental Disorders, Comorbidity, and Postrunaway Arrests Among Homeless and Runaway Adolescents
This study examined the associations between lifetime mental disorder, comorbidity, and self‐reported postrunaway arrests among 428 (187 males, 241 females) homeless and runaway youth. The analysis examined the pattern of arrests across five lifetime mental disorders (alcohol abuse, drug abuse, conduct disorder, major depressive episode, and posttraumatic stress disorder). The adolescents, ranging from 16 to 19 years old, were interviewed directl…
Precursors of Running Away During Adolescence: Do Peers Matter
Although peer influence is a salient predictor of delinquency, how it operates in the etiology of runaway behavior is not fully understood. Using data from the N ational L ongitudinal S tudy of A dolescent H ealth, this study demonstrates the importance of taking peers into account in understanding the etiology of running away. The findings suggest that peer deviance is strongly associated with adolescents’ decision to run away, independent of so…
Children's immigrant generational status and delinquency: The mediating effects of friendship networks
Parental Migration and Children’s Problem Behaviours in Rural China: Testing an Integrative Theoretical Model
This study aims to investigate the social mechanism underlying the associations between parental migration and left-behind children’s delinquent and deviant behaviours in rural China. Using a middle school student sample, our results reveal that the effects of parental migration on children’s delinquency differ across caretaking arrangements. Specifically, compared with children living with non-migrant parents, those cared for by a remaining fath…
Physical disorder and crime revisited: New evidence from intensive longitudinal data
Perceived Discrimination and Early Substance Abuse among American Indian Children
This study investigated internalizing and externalizing symptoms as potential mediators of the relationship between perceived discrimination and early substance abuse among 195 American Indian 5 through 8 graders from three reservations that share a common culture (e.g., language, spiritual beliefs, and traditional practices) in the upper Midwest. The findings indicated that, although perceived discrimination contributed significantly to internal…
Conceptualizing and Measuring Historical Trauma Among American Indian People
This article reports on the development of two measures relating to historical trauma among American Indian people: The Historical Loss Scale and The Historical Loss Associated Symptoms Scale . Measurement characteristics including frequencies, internal reliability, and confirmatory factor analyses were calculated based on 143 American Indian adult parents of children aged 10 through 12 years who are part of an ongoing longitudinal study of Ameri…
Mental disorder, subsistence strategies, and victimization among gay, lesbian, and bisexual homeless and runaway adolescents
This study compares participation in deviant subsistence strategies, street victimization, and lifetime prevalence of five mental disorders (conduct disorder, major depressive disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, alcohol abuse, and drug abuse) among heterosexual males and females (n = 366) and gay, lesbian, and bisexual (n = 63) homeless and runaway adolescents from the first wave of a longitudinal study of homeless youth in four Midwestern …
Discrimination, historical loss and enculturation: Culturally specific risk and resiliency factors for alcohol abuse among American Indians
This study presents important new evidence that historical loss affects American-Indian alcohol abuse. It also provides evidence for the resiliency effects of enculturation on alcohol abuse
Food insecurity among homeless and runaway adolescents
Objective The purpose of this study was to investigate the prevalence of food insecurity and factors related to it among homeless and runaway adolescents. Design Computer-assisted personal interviews were conducted with homeless and runaway adolescents directly on the streets and in shelters. Setting Interviews were conducted in eight Midwest cities: Des Moines, Cedar Rapids, Iowa City, Kansas City, Lincoln, Omaha, St. Louis and Wichita. Subjects…
Mental Disorders, Comorbidity, and Postrunaway Arrests Among Homeless and Runaway Adolescents
This study examined the associations between lifetime mental disorder, comorbidity, and self‐reported postrunaway arrests among 428 (187 males, 241 females) homeless and runaway youth. The analysis examined the pattern of arrests across five lifetime mental disorders (alcohol abuse, drug abuse, conduct disorder, major depressive episode, and posttraumatic stress disorder). The adolescents, ranging from 16 to 19 years old, were interviewed directl…
Precursors of Running Away During Adolescence: Do Peers Matter
Although peer influence is a salient predictor of delinquency, how it operates in the etiology of runaway behavior is not fully understood. Using data from the N ational L ongitudinal S tudy of A dolescent H ealth, this study demonstrates the importance of taking peers into account in understanding the etiology of running away. The findings suggest that peer deviance is strongly associated with adolescents’ decision to run away, independent of so…
Repeated Strains, Social Control, Social Learning, and Delinquency: Testing an Integrated Model of General Strain Theory in China
In Agnew's general strain theory, repeated strains can generate crime and delinquency by reducing social control and fostering social learning of crime. Using a sample of 615 middle- and high-school students in China, this study examines how social control and social learning variables mediate the effect of repeated strains in school and at home on delinquency. The findings from an integrated model support Agnew's mediating argument in a non-West…
Self-Control, External Environment, and Delinquency: A Test of Self-Control Theory in Rural China
Although self-control consistently emerges as one of the most robust correlates of delinquent behavior, limited empirical attempts have been made to explore the contextual variability of the relationship between self-control and delinquency outside of Western societies. Using data collected from 587 seventh- to ninth-grade students across 10 middle schools in a rural county of Southeast China, we examine self-control’s efficacy in explaining juve…
Children's immigrant generational status and delinquency: The mediating effects of friendship networks
Parental Migration and Children’s Problem Behaviours in Rural China: Testing an Integrative Theoretical Model
This study aims to investigate the social mechanism underlying the associations between parental migration and left-behind children’s delinquent and deviant behaviours in rural China. Using a middle school student sample, our results reveal that the effects of parental migration on children’s delinquency differ across caretaking arrangements. Specifically, compared with children living with non-migrant parents, those cared for by a remaining fath…
Self-Control, Risky Lifestyles, and Victimization among Chinese Adolescents
Violent and property victimization among Chinese adolescents remains a social problem, yet studies that incorporate individual characteristics and situational/contextual factors to explain such victimization remain scarce. Drawing upon survey data collected from a large, representative sample of middle school students from two areas in Guizhou Province, China, we test Schreck’s integrated model of victimization, finding that self-control has both…
Explaining Chinese Delinquency: Self-Control, Morality, and Criminogenic Exposure
This study extends the testing of situational action theory (SAT) to a Chinese population, and sheds new light on the directions of the moderation relationships between self-control and morality, and between crime propensity and criminogenic exposure on delinquency. Relying on a large, representative sample of middle school students from two areas of Guizhou, China ( N = 2,498), we find that both self-control and morality have significant inhibit…
Parental Migration and Risk of Sexual Assault Against Children in Rural China
This study investigates the difference in rates of sexual assault between left-behind children and those living with both parents in rural China and attempts to identify potential social mechanisms explaining this variation. Using data from a probability sample of middle school students in Guizhou Province, China, our study reveals that parental migration, particularly maternal and both-parent migration, significantly increases children’s risk of…
Compulsive immobility: Understanding the role of health on collective efficacy
Most health care approaches to understanding social ills are rooted in strain or ecological models. Strain models assume that the impact of poor physical health operates through the individual, that it is the individual suffering from poor health who engages in social ills as a means of adapting, and that the impact of poor health is rather direct and immediate. Meanwhile, ecological approaches of health acknowledge how poor health may impact oth…
Physical disorder and crime revisited: New evidence from intensive longitudinal data
Family Attachment and Delinquency Among Chinese Adolescents: The Mediating Roles of Adolescent Self-Disclosure and Parental Knowledge
As a crucial factor in the personal development, social interaction, and emotional maturation of children, family attachment plays a prominent role in the social control theory of delinquency. However, limited attention has been paid to the disentanglement and causal ordering of the elements of family attachment. This study utilizes data drawn from a sample of youth in China aged twelve to seventeen to examine path models that specify the interre…
Education Fever and Adolescent Deviance in China
Is education fever in China, embodied in parents’ high expectations of and heavy investments in children’s education, a source of strain for the offspring? Using a nationally representative sample of children from 6th to 12th grade, we examine the effects of education fever on adolescent deviance in China, controlling for a range of individual and family characteristics. The regression results revealed that parental investment increased adolescen…
Testing General Strain Theory Among Institutionalized Chinese Juveniles
Existing research on the general strain theory (GST) rarely paid attention to institutionalized juveniles and has seldom employed situational negative emotion measures. Using survey data collected from 361 incarcerated juveniles in a Chinese reformatory to test GST, this study examined the relationship between three types of strain, including financial, child abuse, and victimization strain, and delinquency, with a focus on the mediating effect o…
Virtual Socializing, Peers, and Juvenile Delinquency: A Study of Incarcerated Male Youths in China
This study examines the relationship between virtual socializing and juvenile delinquency among incarcerated boys in China, as traditional theories focused on in-person interactions are reevaluated amid the internet’s influence. Using 2023 data from a youth correctional institute, we conducted multivariate and indirect effect analyses to explore how virtual socializing influences both offline and online delinquency among incarcerated boys, with s…
Testing Self-Control Theory Among Incarcerated Drug Offenders in China
Since its introduction by Gottfredson and Hirschi, self-control theory has been widely applied in criminology for its claimed explanatory breadth and presumed invariance across cultures and populations. Yet empirical assessments of its applicability to high-risk groups in non-Western settings remain scarce. This study draws on survey data from two compulsory drug rehabilitation centers in southwest China to evaluate the psychometric structure of …
Mobile phone addiction as a mediator in the association between alexithymia and self-directed learning among Chinese nursing students: A structural equation modeling analysis
BACKGROUND: Self-directed learning ability is an essential competency for nursing undergraduates to develop professional skills and adapt to evolving healthcare needs. However, the psychological and behavioral factors affecting self-directed learning remain understudied. OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study is to explore the relationship between alexithymia, mobile phone addiction, and self-directed learning among nursing undergraduates. METHODS: Thi…
Interdependency, Perceived Shame, and Probability of Wrongdoing Among Chinese Students: A Partial Test of the Reintegrative Shaming Theory
Compared with other mainstream criminological theories, Reintegrative Shaming Theory (RST) draws insufficient empirical evaluations. Given RST’s unique attention to non-Western societies and the significance of shaming in Chinese society, China provides a strategic setting for RST’s empirical assessment. Utilizing a Chinese youth sample, this study explores the association between interdependency and the probability of wrongdoing, and the mediati…
Not All Screen Time Is Equal: Cultivated Unstructured Socializing and Cyber Delinquency Among Incarcerated Youth in China
Cyber delinquency has become a growing global concern as adolescents’ socialization increasingly unfolds online. This study introduces cultivated unstructured socializing to examine how different online activities, varying in structure, immersion, and peer orientation, are associated with unequal delinquency risks. Using 2023 survey data from a Chinese youth correctional institution, a high-delinquency sample that provides leverage for distinguis…
Does carnival contribute to crime? Examining the spatiotemporal effects of Mardi Gras on New Orleans Crime Trends (2012–2024)
Psychology (21 works) · Crime Patterns and Interventions (16 works) · Developmental psychology (14 works) · Social Psychology (11 works) · Juvenile delinquency (10 works) · Medicine (10 works) · China (9 works) · Homelessness and Social Issues (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Geography (7 works)