Da Jiang
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 654044 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Da Jiang |
| SOBRENOME | Da Jiang |
| ASSINATURA | DA JIANG |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Education University of Hong Kong |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8505-7078 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 24 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 39 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 24 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2012 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Study Protocol
Background: Loneliness is a widespread global issue among older adults that negatively impacts physical and mental health, cognitive functioning, quality of life, and longevity, while also burdening society with healthcare costs. Resulting from factors at individual, interpersonal, and community levels. Multi-level interventions targeting these levels show promise in addressing this complex issue. Objective: This trial aims to develop, implement,…
My Purpose Drives Me Forward
A sense of purpose in life may promote health by fostering a future-oriented perspective, but little research has examined whether purposeful individuals think more about the future in everyday life, or whether this varies by age. This study investigated links between sense of purpose, age, future-oriented thinking, and physical activity. A total of 256 younger and older adults in Canada and Hong Kong ( M age = 48.0, SD = 24.6, range = 18–85; 68%…
A meta-analytic review of cultural variation in affect valuation
What affective states do people ideally want to feel and why? In Affect Valuation Theory, Tsai et al. (2006) proposed and observed that (a) how people would ideally like to feel (their "ideal affect") differs from how they actually feel (their "actual affect"), and (b) cultural factors shape people's ideal affect even more than their actual affect. In this individual participant data meta-analysis, we reexamined these two premises in a combined d…
More Grateful Today, Less Depressive Tomorrow
OBJECTIVE: Previous research has documented a negative between-person association between gratitude and depressed mood. However, how gratitude relates to depressed mood at the within-person level remains less understood. The current study aimed to revisit the association between gratitude and depressed mood using a daily diary approach and examine the potential moderating effects of trait gratitude, neuroticism, and extraversion. METHOD: = 19.12)…
Misremembering Solitude
BACKGROUND: Affect recall is key to psychological assessment and decision-making. However, self-concepts (self-beliefs) may bias retrospective affect reports such that they deviate from lived experiences. Does this experience-memory gap apply to solitude experiences? We hypothesized that individuals misremember how they feel overall and when in solitude, in line with self-concepts of introversion, self-determined/not-self-determined solitude moti…
The association between implicit culture beliefs and intercultural sensitivity
South Asians and Chinese mainlanders are two distinct cultural minority groups in the Hong Kong context. Grounded in theories and findings on implicit beliefs, this study examined the mediating roles of anticipated intergroup exclusion and stigma toward these cultural minority groups in the link between implicit culture beliefs and intercultural sensitivity. A total of 192 university students aged between 18 and 26 years old ( M = 21.18; SD = 1.8…
Reducing discrepancies between actual and ideal affect across adulthood
Previous findings demonstrate that people often do not feel how they want to feel, supporting the distinction between “actual affect” and “ideal affect.” But are there certain activities that reduce the discrepancy between actual and ideal affect? Based on flow theory and socioemotional selectivity theory, we examined whether the discrepancy between people’s actual and ideal positive affect would be smaller during activities that were more conduc…
Intergenerational Interactions and Relationship Quality
The findings highlight the importance of daily reciprocity and daily support exchanges on relationship quality during a public health emergency
Memory Trajectories and Disability Among Older Couples
The wife's low and rapid decline trajectory was associated with her own and her husband's more depressive symptoms, which in turn increased the disability risk for both partners. Timely identification and treatment of memory decline among wives have the potential to mitigate couples' depressive symptoms and, ultimately, disability risks
Distressed yet bonded
It is a common understanding that the 2019 coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) significantly harmed mental health. However, findings on changes in overall life satisfaction have been mixed and inconclusive. To address this puzzling phenomenon, we draw upon the domain-specific perspective of well-being and research on catastrophe compassion and propose that the pandemic can have opposing effects on mental health and communal satisfaction, which then d…
Daily Positive Support and Perceived Stress During Covid-19 Outbreak
Intercultural sensitivity and prosocial behavior towards South Asians in Hong Kong
The Magnifying Effect of Marital Satisfaction on the Dyadic Effect of Disabilities on Life Satisfaction
(1) Background. Extending previous work, the present study examined whether marital satisfaction would magnify the dyadic effect of disabilities on life satisfaction among older married couples. (2) Methods. With responses collected from 11,694 participants (5847 couples; M age = 63.36 years, median: 62 years) in a large-scale survey study in China in 2015, the actor-partner interdependence model (APIM) analyses were conducted to examine how mari…
Learning from Covid-19
Environmental problems, such as climate change, pollution, and environmental degradation, are important contributors to the spread of infectious diseases, such as COVID-19 and SARS. For instance, a greater concentration of ambient NO 2 was associated with faster transmission of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, which causes COVID-19. However, it remains unclear whether outbreaks of infectious diseases arouse individuals' concern on the need to protect the en…
Do People Become More or Less Materialistic during Disasters? The Mediating Roles of Mortality Salience and Gratitude
Studies have yielded inconclusive findings regarding the relationship between disaster experience and materialism. Whereas some have found a positive relationship, others have reported a negative relationship. To clarify the mechanisms underlying these mixed findings, we proposed and examined two mechanisms, namely mortality salience and gratitude. A total of 214 participants ( M age = 42.05 years, SD = 16.49 years) were randomly assigned into ei…
Daily Reciprocity and Well-Being
This study provides evidence of daily intergenerational support during a global public health emergency. The findings shed light on the importance of daily reciprocity and its implications for well-being
Feeling Gratitude Is Associated With Better Well-being Across the Life Span
These findings demonstrate the benefits of gratitude in a naturalistic situation that induced stress and anxiety
Contrasting the Effects of Mortality Salience and Future Time Limitation on Goal Prioritization in Older and Younger Adults
These results suggest that future time perspective and death reflection shift age-related goals more than mortality salience
Asian Americans respond less favorably to excitement (vs. calm)-focused physicians compared to European Americans
These findings suggest that while physicians who promote and emphasize excitement states may be effective with European Americans, they may be less so with Asian Americans and other ethnic minorities who value different affective states. (PsycINFO Database Record
Leaders’ smiles reflect cultural differences in ideal affect
Cultures differ in the emotions they teach their members to value ("ideal affect"). We conducted 3 studies to examine whether leaders' smiles reflect these cultural differences in ideal affect. In Study 1, we compared the smiles of top-ranked American and Chinese government leaders, chief executive officers, and university presidents in their official photos. Consistent with findings that Americans value excitement and other high-arousal positive…
Associations between religiosity and death attitudes
This study investigated the association between religiosity and death attitudes among Christians and Buddhists. A hundred and 23 Christians and 137 Buddhists from both sexes, matched in demographic characteristics, completed a battery of tests on death attitudes and religiosity. Multiple linear regr
Limited time perspective increases the value of calm
Previous findings indirectly suggest that the more people perceive their time in life as limited, the more they value calm. No study, however, has directly tested this hypothesis. To this end, using a combination of survey, experience sampling, and experimental methods, we examined the relationship between future time perspective and the affective states that people ideally want to feel (i.e., their "ideal affect"). In Study 1, the more people re…
Wanting to maximize the positive and minimize the negative
Previous studies have demonstrated that European Americans have fewer mixed affective experiences (i.e., are less likely to experience the bad with the good) compared with Chinese. In this article, we argue that these cultural differences are due to "ideal affect," or how people ideally want to feel. Specifically, we predict that people from individualistic cultures want to maximize positive and minimize negative affect more than people from coll…
Culture and Subjective Well-Being
Adopting the dynamic constructivist approach, the present research tested the hypothesis that bicultural people's subjective well-being (SWB) is more contingent on satisfaction with relationship-related domains and less contingent on satisfaction with self-related domains when Chinese cultural ideas are activated than when American ideas are activated. Two studies on Hong Kong undergraduates with different activation procedures (exposure to cultu…
Wanting to maximize the positive and minimize the negative
Previous studies have demonstrated that European Americans have fewer mixed affective experiences (i.e., are less likely to experience the bad with the good) compared with Chinese. In this article, we argue that these cultural differences are due to "ideal affect," or how people ideally want to feel. Specifically, we predict that people from individualistic cultures want to maximize positive and minimize negative affect more than people from coll…
Culture and Subjective Well-Being
Adopting the dynamic constructivist approach, the present research tested the hypothesis that bicultural people's subjective well-being (SWB) is more contingent on satisfaction with relationship-related domains and less contingent on satisfaction with self-related domains when Chinese cultural ideas are activated than when American ideas are activated. Two studies on Hong Kong undergraduates with different activation procedures (exposure to cultu…
Distressed yet bonded
It is a common understanding that the 2019 coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) significantly harmed mental health. However, findings on changes in overall life satisfaction have been mixed and inconclusive. To address this puzzling phenomenon, we draw upon the domain-specific perspective of well-being and research on catastrophe compassion and propose that the pandemic can have opposing effects on mental health and communal satisfaction, which then d…
Daily Reciprocity and Well-Being
This study provides evidence of daily intergenerational support during a global public health emergency. The findings shed light on the importance of daily reciprocity and its implications for well-being
Feeling Gratitude Is Associated With Better Well-being Across the Life Span
These findings demonstrate the benefits of gratitude in a naturalistic situation that induced stress and anxiety
Asian Americans respond less favorably to excitement (vs. calm)-focused physicians compared to European Americans
These findings suggest that while physicians who promote and emphasize excitement states may be effective with European Americans, they may be less so with Asian Americans and other ethnic minorities who value different affective states. (PsycINFO Database Record
Misremembering Solitude
BACKGROUND: Affect recall is key to psychological assessment and decision-making. However, self-concepts (self-beliefs) may bias retrospective affect reports such that they deviate from lived experiences. Does this experience-memory gap apply to solitude experiences? We hypothesized that individuals misremember how they feel overall and when in solitude, in line with self-concepts of introversion, self-determined/not-self-determined solitude moti…
Culture and Subjective Well-Being
Adopting the dynamic constructivist approach, the present research tested the hypothesis that bicultural people's subjective well-being (SWB) is more contingent on satisfaction with relationship-related domains and less contingent on satisfaction with self-related domains when Chinese cultural ideas are activated than when American ideas are activated. Two studies on Hong Kong undergraduates with different activation procedures (exposure to cultu…
Associations between religiosity and death attitudes
This study investigated the association between religiosity and death attitudes among Christians and Buddhists. A hundred and 23 Christians and 137 Buddhists from both sexes, matched in demographic characteristics, completed a battery of tests on death attitudes and religiosity. Multiple linear regr
Limited time perspective increases the value of calm
Previous findings indirectly suggest that the more people perceive their time in life as limited, the more they value calm. No study, however, has directly tested this hypothesis. To this end, using a combination of survey, experience sampling, and experimental methods, we examined the relationship between future time perspective and the affective states that people ideally want to feel (i.e., their "ideal affect"). In Study 1, the more people re…
Wanting to maximize the positive and minimize the negative
Previous studies have demonstrated that European Americans have fewer mixed affective experiences (i.e., are less likely to experience the bad with the good) compared with Chinese. In this article, we argue that these cultural differences are due to "ideal affect," or how people ideally want to feel. Specifically, we predict that people from individualistic cultures want to maximize positive and minimize negative affect more than people from coll…
Leaders’ smiles reflect cultural differences in ideal affect
Cultures differ in the emotions they teach their members to value ("ideal affect"). We conducted 3 studies to examine whether leaders' smiles reflect these cultural differences in ideal affect. In Study 1, we compared the smiles of top-ranked American and Chinese government leaders, chief executive officers, and university presidents in their official photos. Consistent with findings that Americans value excitement and other high-arousal positive…
Asian Americans respond less favorably to excitement (vs. calm)-focused physicians compared to European Americans
These findings suggest that while physicians who promote and emphasize excitement states may be effective with European Americans, they may be less so with Asian Americans and other ethnic minorities who value different affective states. (PsycINFO Database Record
Contrasting the Effects of Mortality Salience and Future Time Limitation on Goal Prioritization in Older and Younger Adults
These results suggest that future time perspective and death reflection shift age-related goals more than mortality salience
Feeling Gratitude Is Associated With Better Well-being Across the Life Span
These findings demonstrate the benefits of gratitude in a naturalistic situation that induced stress and anxiety
The Magnifying Effect of Marital Satisfaction on the Dyadic Effect of Disabilities on Life Satisfaction
(1) Background. Extending previous work, the present study examined whether marital satisfaction would magnify the dyadic effect of disabilities on life satisfaction among older married couples. (2) Methods. With responses collected from 11,694 participants (5847 couples; M age = 63.36 years, median: 62 years) in a large-scale survey study in China in 2015, the actor-partner interdependence model (APIM) analyses were conducted to examine how mari…
Learning from Covid-19
Environmental problems, such as climate change, pollution, and environmental degradation, are important contributors to the spread of infectious diseases, such as COVID-19 and SARS. For instance, a greater concentration of ambient NO 2 was associated with faster transmission of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, which causes COVID-19. However, it remains unclear whether outbreaks of infectious diseases arouse individuals' concern on the need to protect the en…
Do People Become More or Less Materialistic during Disasters? The Mediating Roles of Mortality Salience and Gratitude
Studies have yielded inconclusive findings regarding the relationship between disaster experience and materialism. Whereas some have found a positive relationship, others have reported a negative relationship. To clarify the mechanisms underlying these mixed findings, we proposed and examined two mechanisms, namely mortality salience and gratitude. A total of 214 participants ( M age = 42.05 years, SD = 16.49 years) were randomly assigned into ei…
Daily Reciprocity and Well-Being
This study provides evidence of daily intergenerational support during a global public health emergency. The findings shed light on the importance of daily reciprocity and its implications for well-being
Daily Positive Support and Perceived Stress During Covid-19 Outbreak
Intercultural sensitivity and prosocial behavior towards South Asians in Hong Kong
Intergenerational Interactions and Relationship Quality
The findings highlight the importance of daily reciprocity and daily support exchanges on relationship quality during a public health emergency
Memory Trajectories and Disability Among Older Couples
The wife's low and rapid decline trajectory was associated with her own and her husband's more depressive symptoms, which in turn increased the disability risk for both partners. Timely identification and treatment of memory decline among wives have the potential to mitigate couples' depressive symptoms and, ultimately, disability risks
Distressed yet bonded
It is a common understanding that the 2019 coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) significantly harmed mental health. However, findings on changes in overall life satisfaction have been mixed and inconclusive. To address this puzzling phenomenon, we draw upon the domain-specific perspective of well-being and research on catastrophe compassion and propose that the pandemic can have opposing effects on mental health and communal satisfaction, which then d…
Reducing discrepancies between actual and ideal affect across adulthood
Previous findings demonstrate that people often do not feel how they want to feel, supporting the distinction between “actual affect” and “ideal affect.” But are there certain activities that reduce the discrepancy between actual and ideal affect? Based on flow theory and socioemotional selectivity theory, we examined whether the discrepancy between people’s actual and ideal positive affect would be smaller during activities that were more conduc…
A meta-analytic review of cultural variation in affect valuation
What affective states do people ideally want to feel and why? In Affect Valuation Theory, Tsai et al. (2006) proposed and observed that (a) how people would ideally like to feel (their "ideal affect") differs from how they actually feel (their "actual affect"), and (b) cultural factors shape people's ideal affect even more than their actual affect. In this individual participant data meta-analysis, we reexamined these two premises in a combined d…
More Grateful Today, Less Depressive Tomorrow
OBJECTIVE: Previous research has documented a negative between-person association between gratitude and depressed mood. However, how gratitude relates to depressed mood at the within-person level remains less understood. The current study aimed to revisit the association between gratitude and depressed mood using a daily diary approach and examine the potential moderating effects of trait gratitude, neuroticism, and extraversion. METHOD: = 19.12)…
Misremembering Solitude
BACKGROUND: Affect recall is key to psychological assessment and decision-making. However, self-concepts (self-beliefs) may bias retrospective affect reports such that they deviate from lived experiences. Does this experience-memory gap apply to solitude experiences? We hypothesized that individuals misremember how they feel overall and when in solitude, in line with self-concepts of introversion, self-determined/not-self-determined solitude moti…
The association between implicit culture beliefs and intercultural sensitivity
South Asians and Chinese mainlanders are two distinct cultural minority groups in the Hong Kong context. Grounded in theories and findings on implicit beliefs, this study examined the mediating roles of anticipated intergroup exclusion and stigma toward these cultural minority groups in the link between implicit culture beliefs and intercultural sensitivity. A total of 192 university students aged between 18 and 26 years old ( M = 21.18; SD = 1.8…
Study Protocol
Background: Loneliness is a widespread global issue among older adults that negatively impacts physical and mental health, cognitive functioning, quality of life, and longevity, while also burdening society with healthcare costs. Resulting from factors at individual, interpersonal, and community levels. Multi-level interventions targeting these levels show promise in addressing this complex issue. Objective: This trial aims to develop, implement,…
My Purpose Drives Me Forward
A sense of purpose in life may promote health by fostering a future-oriented perspective, but little research has examined whether purposeful individuals think more about the future in everyday life, or whether this varies by age. This study investigated links between sense of purpose, age, future-oriented thinking, and physical activity. A total of 256 younger and older adults in Canada and Hong Kong ( M age = 48.0, SD = 24.6, range = 18–85; 68%…
Psychology (21 obras) · Social Psychology (14 obras) · Social Psychology (13 obras) · Developmental psychology (12 obras) · Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction (12 obras) · Cultural Differences and Values (9 obras) · Medicine (6 obras) · Cognitive psychology (5 obras) · Health disparities and outcomes (5 obras) · Psychiatry (5 obras)