X Christine Wang
Biographic Data
| ID | 6510156 |
|---|---|
| NAME | X Christine Wang |
| GIVEN NAMES | X Christine |
| FAMILY NAME | Wang |
| SIGNATURE | WANG X C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University at Buffalo, State University of New York |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7247-4035 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 28 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The mediating effect of self-compassion and supportive communication between critical thinking and emotional intelligence in Chinese male nursing students
BACKGROUND: Currently, the emotional intelligence of male nursing students in China should be given high priority. Exploring the level of emotional intelligence among male nursing students and its underlying mechanisms is a crucial research topic. This study aims to investigate the mediating effect between critical thinking and emotional intelligence, with a focus on the mediating role of self-compassion and supportive communication, to provide e…
From creative personality to creative thinking in adolescents
Understanding Teacher-Child Dyadic Interactions Through a Problem-Solving Task
Teacher-child dyadic interactions serve as a key mechanism for promoting educational equity, and their systematic assessment can shed light on core objectives of early childhood education. However, few instruments are available to evaluate the quality of such dyadic interactions. This study attempts to develop and validate a standardized problem-solving task – incorporating variations in learning contexts – along with a multidimensional coding fr…
Exploring the antecedents of creative deviance
Objective Given the pivotal role that creative deviance can play in fostering low‐input, high‐return outcomes for organizations, this study delves into the antecedents of creative deviance. Background Drawing on family communication patterns theory and social learning theory, we propose that the conversation‐orientation communication pattern in one's family of origin influences employee creative deviance through a paradox mindset, with the confor…
A latent profile transition analysis of internet addiction for rural adolescents and its associations with emotional and interpersonal problems
Changes in internet addiction have an impact on adolescent psychosocial maladjustment. Early detection and flexible interventions are essential in rural settings
Teacher educators’ mentoring competence—commonalities and distinctions in supporting learning to teach
Learning to teach during the teaching practicum is a cognitively demanding, emotionally charged, and identity-shaping process for student teachers, requiring meaningful changes that necessitate mentoring from both university-based teacher educators (UBTEs) and school-based teacher educators (SBTEs). Grounded in Transformative Learning Theory, this study examined the mentoring experiences of two groups of teacher educators in supporting learning t…
Obeying, following, imitating, and hoping to shape the academic habitus
Supervisory interactions play an important role in the academic development of doctoral students. Previous studies have recognized and examined the role of supervision in doctoral students’ academic socialization. However, there are few empirical longitudinal studies to investigate the dynamic process of doctoral’ students’ academic capital accumulation, and the role of their supervisory interaction process. To address this gap, this study used a…
Playful Computational Thinking Learning in and Beyond Early Childhood Classrooms
Blending child-led exploration with purposeful teacher guidance and clearly defined learning goals, playful learning has been promoted as a promising approach for introducing computational thinking (CT) in early childhood education (ECE). However, there is a lack of practical guidance for teachers on how to design and implement playful CT learning effectively. To address this gap, we conducted a collaborative action research project and asked the…
Embodied and Shared Self-Regulation Through Computational Thinking Among Preschoolers
While existing research highlights a positive association between computational thinking (CT) and self-regulation (SR) skills, limited attention has been given to the embodied and social processes within CT activities that support young children’s executive functions (EFs)—key components of SR. This study investigates how preschoolers develop basic and higher-order EFs, such as focused attention, inhibitory control, causal reasoning, and problem-…
Active procrastination incubates more creative thinking
Many studies have suggested that procrastination can result in negative effects, such as anxiety and decline in academic performance; however, procrastination can be either active or passive. This study explored the serial mediation effect of personal mastery and creative self- concept in the correlation between active procrastination and creative thinking. A sample of 536 participants was asked to complete a series of questionnaires. The results…
What makes a good mentor of in-service teacher education? —A systematic review of mentoring competence from a transformative learning perspective
Previous research has explored what competence qualified mentors need to possess. However, with the increasing advocacy that mentoring can be a professional learning experience for mentors, no studies have synthesized mentoring competence reflected in their mentoring practice. By using the framework of transformative learning theory, this study systematically synthesized 56 empirical studies on in-service teacher mentoring published between 2015 …
The influence of varying positive affect in approach-motivation intensity on creative idea generation and creative idea evaluation
The aim of this study was to explain previous inconsistent results regarding the effects of positive affect on creative cognition based on the motivational dimensional model of affect theory and provide the underlying neural correlates of the effects of different approach-motivation intensities of positive affect on creative processes (creative idea generation and creative idea evaluation) using the functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) t…
Chinese Preschool Teachers’ Use of Concept Development Strategies in Whole-Group Math Lessons and its Effectiveness
Research Findings: This study investigated teachers' Concept development (CD) strategy use in whole-group math teaching and its associations with children's higher-order thinking processes in 25 Chinese preschool math lessons. We utilized the CD dimension within the Classroom Assessment Scoring System (CLASS) to guide our exploration. CD identifies 12 specific cognitive strategies, grouped into four organizing indicators, and include analysis and…
Accelerating Creativity
Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) over the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) has been shown to enhance divergent and convergent creative thinking. Yet, how stimulation impacts creative performance over time, and what cognitive mechanisms underlie any such enhancement, remain largely unanswered questions. In the present research, we aimed to (1) verify the impact of DLPFC tDCS on both convergent and divergent thinking, and furthe…
Capitalisation of research and development investment and enterprise value
This study uses a mathematical model to explore how enterprises' financialisation levels affect the role of research and development (R&D) investment capitalisation in enterprise value. We construct a mathematical model involving the financialisation level, capitalised R&D investment, and enterprise value. The sample comprises A-share listed companies that disclosed the capitalisation of R&D investment in the Shanghai and Shenzhen stock markets f…
Is the creativity of lovers better? A behavioral and functional near-infrared spectroscopy hyperscanning study
Mother-Toddler Shared Reading with Electronic versus Print Books
Research Findings: Reading e-books is becoming common even among toddlers, but we have limited understanding of how parents-toddlers reading e-books together compares to print books. To address the gap, we investigated interactions of 30 mother-toddler (12 months) dyads, in particular, mothers’ language use, while reading both electronic and print versions of the same book. These shared reading sessions were video-recorded. Mothers’ perceptions o…
Teacher’s Role in Fostering Preschoolers’ Computational Thinking
Research Findings: Computational thinking (CT), which is defined as the systematic analysis, exploration, and testing of solutions to open-ended and often complex problems, is an important skill to foster in early childhood. However, little is known about teachers’ role in fostering CT in early childhood classrooms. To address this gap, we conducted an exploratory case study to investigate how an exemplary teacher supported preschoolers’ CT learn…
Highly Creative Individuals Process Creative Pictorial Information More Effectively
The present study aimed to explore the neural-related mechanism of the creative evaluation process in individual with different levels of creativity. The time course of evaluation process for creative objects was monitored by event-related potentials (EPRs). Forty-five participants were divided into the high-creativity performance (HCP) group and the low-creativity performance (LCP) group and then completed a creative object evaluation task. The …
Role of Avoidance-Motivation Intensity in Creative Thinking
Dynamic, momentary affective states have significant effects on creativity; however, how negative affect modulates the neurocognitive processes involved in creativity is still unclear. This study investigated the neural mechanisms of creative thinking under varying avoidance-motivation intensity. Sixty participants (17 men and 43 women; age range = 18–25 years; mean = 21.22 years, SD = 1.35) randomly assigned to three groups (high-avoidance-motiv…
The discrepant effect of acute stress on cognitive inhibition and response inhibition
Fluid identity play
Informed by positioning theory as well as a nexus of multimembership, the year-long case study examined how a 7-year-old Korean American bilingual child, Meeso, constructed her ethnic identity across different educational contexts. Data were collected through observations of Meeso’s interactions with her monolingual and bilingual peers and teachers. Discourse analysis revealed that Meeso constructed fluid ethnic identity positionings depending up…
Attentional blink affected by acute stress in women
Kindergartener’s meaning making with multimodal app books
Early Childhood Curriculum Reform in China
Two waves of reform have been conducted in China since the 1980s to transform its early childhood curriculum into a Western-style, progressive model. Western curricula and programs such as the Montessori method, the project approach, the Reggio Emilia method, and the high/scope method have been imported and adopted all over the country. But the top-down reforms and these "imported" ideas have been challenged by scholars and practitioners. Aiming …
Affordability, accessibility, and accountability
What makes a good mentor of in-service teacher education? —A systematic review of mentoring competence from a transformative learning perspective
Previous research has explored what competence qualified mentors need to possess. However, with the increasing advocacy that mentoring can be a professional learning experience for mentors, no studies have synthesized mentoring competence reflected in their mentoring practice. By using the framework of transformative learning theory, this study systematically synthesized 56 empirical studies on in-service teacher mentoring published between 2015 …
Transformation of Public Kindergartens in Shenzhen
Since the early 1990s, the central government of China has been gradually privatizing early childhood education. As the main precursor of this large-scale reform in the country, Shenzhen has witnessed several innovative as well as radical changes. The existing public early childhood settings in the city were therefore forced to transform into self-funded enterprises when municipal subsidy was cut in September 2006, and this opened doors to contro…
Kindergartener’s meaning making with multimodal app books
Transformation of Public Kindergartens in Shenzhen
Since the early 1990s, the central government of China has been gradually privatizing early childhood education. As the main precursor of this large-scale reform in the country, Shenzhen has witnessed several innovative as well as radical changes. The existing public early childhood settings in the city were therefore forced to transform into self-funded enterprises when municipal subsidy was cut in September 2006, and this opened doors to contro…
Affordability, accessibility, and accountability
Using story dictation to support young children's vocabulary development
Early Childhood Curriculum Reform in China
Two waves of reform have been conducted in China since the 1980s to transform its early childhood curriculum into a Western-style, progressive model. Western curricula and programs such as the Montessori method, the project approach, the Reggio Emilia method, and the high/scope method have been imported and adopted all over the country. But the top-down reforms and these "imported" ideas have been challenged by scholars and practitioners. Aiming …
Attentional blink affected by acute stress in women
Kindergartener’s meaning making with multimodal app books
Fluid identity play
Informed by positioning theory as well as a nexus of multimembership, the year-long case study examined how a 7-year-old Korean American bilingual child, Meeso, constructed her ethnic identity across different educational contexts. Data were collected through observations of Meeso’s interactions with her monolingual and bilingual peers and teachers. Discourse analysis revealed that Meeso constructed fluid ethnic identity positionings depending up…
Teacher’s Role in Fostering Preschoolers’ Computational Thinking
Research Findings: Computational thinking (CT), which is defined as the systematic analysis, exploration, and testing of solutions to open-ended and often complex problems, is an important skill to foster in early childhood. However, little is known about teachers’ role in fostering CT in early childhood classrooms. To address this gap, we conducted an exploratory case study to investigate how an exemplary teacher supported preschoolers’ CT learn…
Highly Creative Individuals Process Creative Pictorial Information More Effectively
The present study aimed to explore the neural-related mechanism of the creative evaluation process in individual with different levels of creativity. The time course of evaluation process for creative objects was monitored by event-related potentials (EPRs). Forty-five participants were divided into the high-creativity performance (HCP) group and the low-creativity performance (LCP) group and then completed a creative object evaluation task. The …
Role of Avoidance-Motivation Intensity in Creative Thinking
Dynamic, momentary affective states have significant effects on creativity; however, how negative affect modulates the neurocognitive processes involved in creativity is still unclear. This study investigated the neural mechanisms of creative thinking under varying avoidance-motivation intensity. Sixty participants (17 men and 43 women; age range = 18–25 years; mean = 21.22 years, SD = 1.35) randomly assigned to three groups (high-avoidance-motiv…
The discrepant effect of acute stress on cognitive inhibition and response inhibition
Is the creativity of lovers better? A behavioral and functional near-infrared spectroscopy hyperscanning study
Mother-Toddler Shared Reading with Electronic versus Print Books
Research Findings: Reading e-books is becoming common even among toddlers, but we have limited understanding of how parents-toddlers reading e-books together compares to print books. To address the gap, we investigated interactions of 30 mother-toddler (12 months) dyads, in particular, mothers’ language use, while reading both electronic and print versions of the same book. These shared reading sessions were video-recorded. Mothers’ perceptions o…
The influence of varying positive affect in approach-motivation intensity on creative idea generation and creative idea evaluation
The aim of this study was to explain previous inconsistent results regarding the effects of positive affect on creative cognition based on the motivational dimensional model of affect theory and provide the underlying neural correlates of the effects of different approach-motivation intensities of positive affect on creative processes (creative idea generation and creative idea evaluation) using the functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) t…
Chinese Preschool Teachers’ Use of Concept Development Strategies in Whole-Group Math Lessons and its Effectiveness
Research Findings: This study investigated teachers' Concept development (CD) strategy use in whole-group math teaching and its associations with children's higher-order thinking processes in 25 Chinese preschool math lessons. We utilized the CD dimension within the Classroom Assessment Scoring System (CLASS) to guide our exploration. CD identifies 12 specific cognitive strategies, grouped into four organizing indicators, and include analysis and…
Accelerating Creativity
Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) over the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) has been shown to enhance divergent and convergent creative thinking. Yet, how stimulation impacts creative performance over time, and what cognitive mechanisms underlie any such enhancement, remain largely unanswered questions. In the present research, we aimed to (1) verify the impact of DLPFC tDCS on both convergent and divergent thinking, and furthe…
Capitalisation of research and development investment and enterprise value
This study uses a mathematical model to explore how enterprises' financialisation levels affect the role of research and development (R&D) investment capitalisation in enterprise value. We construct a mathematical model involving the financialisation level, capitalised R&D investment, and enterprise value. The sample comprises A-share listed companies that disclosed the capitalisation of R&D investment in the Shanghai and Shenzhen stock markets f…
Active procrastination incubates more creative thinking
Many studies have suggested that procrastination can result in negative effects, such as anxiety and decline in academic performance; however, procrastination can be either active or passive. This study explored the serial mediation effect of personal mastery and creative self- concept in the correlation between active procrastination and creative thinking. A sample of 536 participants was asked to complete a series of questionnaires. The results…
What makes a good mentor of in-service teacher education? —A systematic review of mentoring competence from a transformative learning perspective
Previous research has explored what competence qualified mentors need to possess. However, with the increasing advocacy that mentoring can be a professional learning experience for mentors, no studies have synthesized mentoring competence reflected in their mentoring practice. By using the framework of transformative learning theory, this study systematically synthesized 56 empirical studies on in-service teacher mentoring published between 2015 …
Obeying, following, imitating, and hoping to shape the academic habitus
Supervisory interactions play an important role in the academic development of doctoral students. Previous studies have recognized and examined the role of supervision in doctoral students’ academic socialization. However, there are few empirical longitudinal studies to investigate the dynamic process of doctoral’ students’ academic capital accumulation, and the role of their supervisory interaction process. To address this gap, this study used a…
Playful Computational Thinking Learning in and Beyond Early Childhood Classrooms
Blending child-led exploration with purposeful teacher guidance and clearly defined learning goals, playful learning has been promoted as a promising approach for introducing computational thinking (CT) in early childhood education (ECE). However, there is a lack of practical guidance for teachers on how to design and implement playful CT learning effectively. To address this gap, we conducted a collaborative action research project and asked the…
Embodied and Shared Self-Regulation Through Computational Thinking Among Preschoolers
While existing research highlights a positive association between computational thinking (CT) and self-regulation (SR) skills, limited attention has been given to the embodied and social processes within CT activities that support young children’s executive functions (EFs)—key components of SR. This study investigates how preschoolers develop basic and higher-order EFs, such as focused attention, inhibitory control, causal reasoning, and problem-…
The mediating effect of self-compassion and supportive communication between critical thinking and emotional intelligence in Chinese male nursing students
BACKGROUND: Currently, the emotional intelligence of male nursing students in China should be given high priority. Exploring the level of emotional intelligence among male nursing students and its underlying mechanisms is a crucial research topic. This study aims to investigate the mediating effect between critical thinking and emotional intelligence, with a focus on the mediating role of self-compassion and supportive communication, to provide e…
From creative personality to creative thinking in adolescents
Understanding Teacher-Child Dyadic Interactions Through a Problem-Solving Task
Teacher-child dyadic interactions serve as a key mechanism for promoting educational equity, and their systematic assessment can shed light on core objectives of early childhood education. However, few instruments are available to evaluate the quality of such dyadic interactions. This study attempts to develop and validate a standardized problem-solving task – incorporating variations in learning contexts – along with a multidimensional coding fr…
Psychology (20 works) · Developmental psychology (9 works) · Social Psychology (9 works) · Cognition (8 works) · Creativity (8 works) · Creativity in Education and Neuroscience (8 works) · Pedagogy (8 works) · Mathematics education (7 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Cognitive psychology (5 works)