Wesley C H Wu
Biographic Data
| ID | 4233637 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Wesley C H Wu |
| GIVEN NAMES | Wesley C H |
| FAMILY NAME | Wu |
| SIGNATURE | WU W C H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Hong Kong Polytechnic University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7535-6333 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Understanding Covid-19 attributions
The COVID-19 pandemic has presented an unprecedented global health crisis, raising important questions about how individuals attribute responsibility to the pandemic and how these attributions shape psychological responses. Drawing on attribution theory, stigma theory, and the globalization orientations framework, the present study examined two moderated mediation models to clarify the associations among attribution (personal attribution and envi…
When conduct achievement does (and does not) make you smile
202412 bcch
Who do we trust and how do we cope with Covid-19? A mixed-methods sequential exploratory approach to understanding supportive messages across 35 cultures
Based upon a mixed-methods follow-up exploratory model, we examined the link between trust and coping during the early outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic at the society level. Qualitative data were collected from the supportive messages written by 10,072 community adults across 35 societies. Trust and coping were used as the two pre-defined themes in the conceptual content analysis. Five subthemes emerged from the theme trust, depicting five disti…
Global Consciousness Predicts Behavioral Responses to the Covid-19 Pandemic
COVID-19 has drastically changed human behaviors and posed a threat to globalism by spurring a resurgence of nationalism. Promoting prosocial behavior within and across borders is of paramount importance for global cooperation to combat pandemics. To examine both self-report and actual prosocial behavior, we conducted the first empirical test of global consciousness theory in a multinational study of 35 cultures ( N = 18,171 community adults stra…
Social axiom and group identity explain participation in a societal event in Hong Kong
The present research aims to identify cognitive and affective factors that explain participation in societal events from a social psychological perspective. This study examined the role of generalized beliefs about the world in the prediction of collective action, and adopted a diary method by collecting daily measures for two consecutive weeks during the 2014 Hong Kong protests. Social identity was significantly associated with group-related emo…
Relationships between global orientations and attitudes toward integration policies
202211 bcww
Does Believing in Fate Facilitate Active or Avoidant Coping? The Effects of Fate Control on Coping Strategies and Mental Well-Being
The development of control-related constructs has involved different approaches over time, and yet internal and external locus of control are conceptualized as dichotomous factors influencing active versus avoidant coping strategies. While external control is associated with avoidance, a similar belief construct fate control, which denotes that life events are pre-determined and influenced by external forces but predictable and alterable, challen…
Do people’s world views matter? The why and how
Over the past decades, personality and social psychologists have extensively investigated the role of self-views in individual functioning. Research on world views, however, has been less well studied due to overly specific conceptualizations, and little research about how and why they impact life outcomes. To answer why and how world views matter, we conducted 7 studies to examine the functions, antecedents, and consequences of generalized belie…
The Role of Dialectical Self and Bicultural Identity Integration in Psychological Adjustment
OBJECTIVE: We applied the concept of naïve dialecticism (Peng & Nisbett, ), which characterizes East Asians' greater tendency to encompass contradictory, ever-changing, and interrelated features of an entity, to bicultural contexts and examined its effects on psychological well-being across various acculturating groups. METHOD: We administered questionnaire measures of the dialectical self, bicultural identity integration (BII; Benet-Martínez & H…
Do people’s world views matter? The why and how
Over the past decades, personality and social psychologists have extensively investigated the role of self-views in individual functioning. Research on world views, however, has been less well studied due to overly specific conceptualizations, and little research about how and why they impact life outcomes. To answer why and how world views matter, we conducted 7 studies to examine the functions, antecedents, and consequences of generalized belie…
The Role of Dialectical Self and Bicultural Identity Integration in Psychological Adjustment
OBJECTIVE: We applied the concept of naïve dialecticism (Peng & Nisbett, ), which characterizes East Asians' greater tendency to encompass contradictory, ever-changing, and interrelated features of an entity, to bicultural contexts and examined its effects on psychological well-being across various acculturating groups. METHOD: We administered questionnaire measures of the dialectical self, bicultural identity integration (BII; Benet-Martínez & H…
Do people’s world views matter? The why and how
Over the past decades, personality and social psychologists have extensively investigated the role of self-views in individual functioning. Research on world views, however, has been less well studied due to overly specific conceptualizations, and little research about how and why they impact life outcomes. To answer why and how world views matter, we conducted 7 studies to examine the functions, antecedents, and consequences of generalized belie…
Does Believing in Fate Facilitate Active or Avoidant Coping? The Effects of Fate Control on Coping Strategies and Mental Well-Being
The development of control-related constructs has involved different approaches over time, and yet internal and external locus of control are conceptualized as dichotomous factors influencing active versus avoidant coping strategies. While external control is associated with avoidance, a similar belief construct fate control, which denotes that life events are pre-determined and influenced by external forces but predictable and alterable, challen…
Social axiom and group identity explain participation in a societal event in Hong Kong
The present research aims to identify cognitive and affective factors that explain participation in societal events from a social psychological perspective. This study examined the role of generalized beliefs about the world in the prediction of collective action, and adopted a diary method by collecting daily measures for two consecutive weeks during the 2014 Hong Kong protests. Social identity was significantly associated with group-related emo…
Relationships between global orientations and attitudes toward integration policies
202211 bcww
Who do we trust and how do we cope with Covid-19? A mixed-methods sequential exploratory approach to understanding supportive messages across 35 cultures
Based upon a mixed-methods follow-up exploratory model, we examined the link between trust and coping during the early outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic at the society level. Qualitative data were collected from the supportive messages written by 10,072 community adults across 35 societies. Trust and coping were used as the two pre-defined themes in the conceptual content analysis. Five subthemes emerged from the theme trust, depicting five disti…
Global Consciousness Predicts Behavioral Responses to the Covid-19 Pandemic
COVID-19 has drastically changed human behaviors and posed a threat to globalism by spurring a resurgence of nationalism. Promoting prosocial behavior within and across borders is of paramount importance for global cooperation to combat pandemics. To examine both self-report and actual prosocial behavior, we conducted the first empirical test of global consciousness theory in a multinational study of 35 cultures ( N = 18,171 community adults stra…
When conduct achievement does (and does not) make you smile
202412 bcch
Understanding Covid-19 attributions
The COVID-19 pandemic has presented an unprecedented global health crisis, raising important questions about how individuals attribute responsibility to the pandemic and how these attributions shape psychological responses. Drawing on attribution theory, stigma theory, and the globalization orientations framework, the present study examined two moderated mediation models to clarify the associations among attribution (personal attribution and envi…
Psychology (8 works) · Social Psychology (8 works) · Cultural Differences and Values (7 works) · Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction (4 works) · Developmental psychology (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Social and Intergroup Psychology (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Clinical Psychology (2 works)