Renxing Chen
Biographic Data
| ID | 4460331 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Renxing Chen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Renxing |
| FAMILY NAME | Chen |
| SIGNATURE | CHEN R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Shandong University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7634-5908 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Understanding public attitudes towards progressive delayed retirement policy in China: Evidence from social media topic modelling and sentiment analysis
With China’s rapidly ageing population, the recently introduced progressive delayed retirement policy has attracted significant public attention and generated widespread debate. This study investigates public responses during the early implementation phase of the reform. Based on 10,788 Sina Weibo posts collected between September 2024 and March 2025, sentiment analysis and Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) topic modelling were employed to trace …
The silent path: Exploring the underutilization of tactile paving by persons with visual impairment in China
Social security as a buffer: Examining the relationship between economic policy uncertainty and rural consumption
Social security serves as a crucial mechanism for income redistribution and significantly shapes rural residents’ consumption patterns. Using panel data from 31 Chinese provinces (2000–2021), this study employs fixed-effects and threshold models to examine how economic policy uncertainty (EPU) affects rural consumption, with a particular focus on the dual role of social security. Key findings reveal the following: (1) EPU stimulates essential con…
The identity of “others”: Media reproduction of youth and young adults with intellectual disabilities in mainland China
The mass media has become the main source of public understanding of persons with intellectual disabilities in China. This research explores what images are constructed for persons with intellectual disabilities through media reproduction. The data came from TVMVDB. This paper uses inductive content analysis to analyze the content of reports on youth and young adults with intellectual disabilities in television information. Their images in televi…
A comparison of subjective well-being between urban and rural elderly in China: Differences and influences
Background: Among urban and rural elderly in China, comprehensive contextual factors of subjective well-being (SWB) have not yet been investigated systematically. Using a large and representative sample of Chinese elderly people, this study explored the predictors of SWB. As outlined in Andersen’s behavioral model, predictors can be classified as predisposing, enabling, needing, and health factors. Methods: The Chinese General Social Survey (CGSS…
Social media’s impact on environmental awareness: A marginal treatment effect analysis of WeChat usage in China
Environmental awareness serves as an intrinsic motivator for individuals' engagement in environmental protection behaviors, and social media platforms can foster such awareness. Drawing on the 2018 China General Social Survey data (CGSS 2018), this study employs non-parametric and semi-parametric approaches within the framework of marginal treatment effect (MTE) to examine the influence of WeChat usage on the environmental awareness of Chinese re…
Why Do Families of Children with Disabilities Discontinue Using Rehabilitation Services? A Qualitative Study in Rural Mainland China
Rehabilitation services play a vital role in the quality of life for children with disabilities. China has established a system of rehabilitation services, in which eligible children with disabilities are entitled to free rehabilitation services at designated institutions. This study reveals, however, that some rural families decide to discontinue the free rehabilitation services. This study attempts to explore the reasons for their decision thro…
Exploring the Mechanisms of the Development of Social Welfare Policies for Vulnerable Children in China—A Multicase Study
With China's shift from its planned economy to a market economy in the early 1980s, followed by the tremendous socioeconomic changes in the 1990s and beyond that were initiated by the reform and opening‐up, vulnerable children have emerged as a growing population. In response to the rising needs of those vulnerable children, the Chinese government has developed a series of social welfare policies (SWPs). However, few studies have examined the pol…
The Causal Effects of Urban-to-Urban Migration on Left-behind Children’s Well-Being in China
As China's urbanization process deepens, more and more residents of small and medium-sized cities are moving to large cities, and the number of left-behind children is increasing. In this paper, using data from the China Education Panel Survey (CEPS), a nationally representative survey sample, we examine the well-being of left-behind children with urban household registration at the junior high school level and the causal effects of parental migr…
Emerging resilience: Stress and coping strategies in Chinese families living with children with disabilities
China is a country with a strong tradition of family-centered care, and family members are the main caregivers for children with disabilities. This article aims to explore how they overcome difficulties when faced with challenges and to examine the emergence of family resilience. This study adopted a qualitative research method, and two rounds of in-depth interviews were conducted with 15 families. The findings combined family resilience theory a…
From being trapped to breaking through: Manifestations of cabin fever in young people in response to Covid-19 and suggestions for adaptation
COVID-19 affects the physiology and significantly impacts the psychology and emotions of young people. In response to continuous home quarantine, young people suffer from cabin fever due to long-term exposure to negative emotions, such as fear and anxiety. This study adopted qualitative research methods and followed an interpretive analysis paradigm to conduct semi-structured in-depth interviews with 12 young people suffering from cabin fever. Th…
Emerging resilience: Stress and coping strategies in Chinese families living with children with disabilities
China is a country with a strong tradition of family-centered care, and family members are the main caregivers for children with disabilities. This article aims to explore how they overcome difficulties when faced with challenges and to examine the emergence of family resilience. This study adopted a qualitative research method, and two rounds of in-depth interviews were conducted with 15 families. The findings combined family resilience theory a…
From being trapped to breaking through: Manifestations of cabin fever in young people in response to Covid-19 and suggestions for adaptation
COVID-19 affects the physiology and significantly impacts the psychology and emotions of young people. In response to continuous home quarantine, young people suffer from cabin fever due to long-term exposure to negative emotions, such as fear and anxiety. This study adopted qualitative research methods and followed an interpretive analysis paradigm to conduct semi-structured in-depth interviews with 12 young people suffering from cabin fever. Th…
The Causal Effects of Urban-to-Urban Migration on Left-behind Children’s Well-Being in China
As China's urbanization process deepens, more and more residents of small and medium-sized cities are moving to large cities, and the number of left-behind children is increasing. In this paper, using data from the China Education Panel Survey (CEPS), a nationally representative survey sample, we examine the well-being of left-behind children with urban household registration at the junior high school level and the causal effects of parental migr…
Emerging resilience: Stress and coping strategies in Chinese families living with children with disabilities
China is a country with a strong tradition of family-centered care, and family members are the main caregivers for children with disabilities. This article aims to explore how they overcome difficulties when faced with challenges and to examine the emergence of family resilience. This study adopted a qualitative research method, and two rounds of in-depth interviews were conducted with 15 families. The findings combined family resilience theory a…
The identity of “others”: Media reproduction of youth and young adults with intellectual disabilities in mainland China
The mass media has become the main source of public understanding of persons with intellectual disabilities in China. This research explores what images are constructed for persons with intellectual disabilities through media reproduction. The data came from TVMVDB. This paper uses inductive content analysis to analyze the content of reports on youth and young adults with intellectual disabilities in television information. Their images in televi…
A comparison of subjective well-being between urban and rural elderly in China: Differences and influences
Background: Among urban and rural elderly in China, comprehensive contextual factors of subjective well-being (SWB) have not yet been investigated systematically. Using a large and representative sample of Chinese elderly people, this study explored the predictors of SWB. As outlined in Andersen’s behavioral model, predictors can be classified as predisposing, enabling, needing, and health factors. Methods: The Chinese General Social Survey (CGSS…
Social media’s impact on environmental awareness: A marginal treatment effect analysis of WeChat usage in China
Environmental awareness serves as an intrinsic motivator for individuals' engagement in environmental protection behaviors, and social media platforms can foster such awareness. Drawing on the 2018 China General Social Survey data (CGSS 2018), this study employs non-parametric and semi-parametric approaches within the framework of marginal treatment effect (MTE) to examine the influence of WeChat usage on the environmental awareness of Chinese re…
Why Do Families of Children with Disabilities Discontinue Using Rehabilitation Services? A Qualitative Study in Rural Mainland China
Rehabilitation services play a vital role in the quality of life for children with disabilities. China has established a system of rehabilitation services, in which eligible children with disabilities are entitled to free rehabilitation services at designated institutions. This study reveals, however, that some rural families decide to discontinue the free rehabilitation services. This study attempts to explore the reasons for their decision thro…
Exploring the Mechanisms of the Development of Social Welfare Policies for Vulnerable Children in China—A Multicase Study
With China's shift from its planned economy to a market economy in the early 1980s, followed by the tremendous socioeconomic changes in the 1990s and beyond that were initiated by the reform and opening‐up, vulnerable children have emerged as a growing population. In response to the rising needs of those vulnerable children, the Chinese government has developed a series of social welfare policies (SWPs). However, few studies have examined the pol…
Social security as a buffer: Examining the relationship between economic policy uncertainty and rural consumption
Social security serves as a crucial mechanism for income redistribution and significantly shapes rural residents’ consumption patterns. Using panel data from 31 Chinese provinces (2000–2021), this study employs fixed-effects and threshold models to examine how economic policy uncertainty (EPU) affects rural consumption, with a particular focus on the dual role of social security. Key findings reveal the following: (1) EPU stimulates essential con…
Understanding public attitudes towards progressive delayed retirement policy in China: Evidence from social media topic modelling and sentiment analysis
With China’s rapidly ageing population, the recently introduced progressive delayed retirement policy has attracted significant public attention and generated widespread debate. This study investigates public responses during the early implementation phase of the reform. Based on 10,788 Sina Weibo posts collected between September 2024 and March 2025, sentiment analysis and Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) topic modelling were employed to trace …
The silent path: Exploring the underutilization of tactile paving by persons with visual impairment in China
China (8 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Political science (5 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Developmental psychology (4 works) · Geography (4 works) · Medicine (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works) · Business (3 works)