Yan Bing Zhang
Biographic Data
| ID | 655473 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Yan Bing Zhang |
| GIVEN NAMES | Yan Bing |
| FAMILY NAME | Zhang |
| SIGNATURE | ZHANG Y B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Kansas |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8740-2699 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 41 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 180 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 41 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Intraparty and Interparty Political Disagreement as Predictors of Affective Polarization and Willingness to Engage in Interparty Contact: The Moderating Role of Political Difference Management Styles
Interpersonal political discussion is a normatively valued practice in a democracy, shaping polarizing attitudes and influencing future contact intentions in divided political landscapes. Applying social identity, intergroup contact, and conflict management styles theories, in this article, we investigate the associations between political disagreement with in-party and out-party members, affective polarization, and willingness to engage in inter…
Who We Are and How We Talk About Volunteering: Older Adult Volunteers’ Perspective
Guided by the Communicative Ecology Model of Successful Aging (CEMSA), we conducted an interview study with 25 older adult volunteers ( M = 71.8 years old, SD = 5.19) to explore how they discursively negotiated their identities and communicated about volunteering during the aging process. The conventional view of old age and aging tends to be negative, however, our findings from the older adult volunteers’ accounts revealed positive themes regard…
Chinese International students’ Culturally Salient Communication Experiences with U.S. Host Nationals
Guided by communication accommodation theory (CAT), this study examined Chinese international students’ perspectives on their communication experiences with U.S. host nationals. Thematic analysis revealed that differences in communication styles, education system, food and table manners, and family relations were frequently associated with Chinese international students’ identity salience. The findings also highlighted how participants perceived …
Understanding Chinese Weibo Users’ Frames of the LGBTQ+ Athletes During the 2024 Olympic Games: A Content Analysis
Guided by framing theory (FT) and moral foundations theory (MFT), this study investigated Chinese Weibo users’ social media posts ( N = 598) about LGBTQ + athletes, focusing on: (1) the prevalent valence of the posts about LGBTQ + athletes, (2) the dominant moral frames of the posts, (3) sources of information and views conveyed in the posts, and (4) the associations among the key variables. Results revealed that more than half of the posts (60.7…
Intergroup Contact, Relational Solidarity, and Cognitive Attitudes Toward Chinese International Students
From the intergroup contact perspective, we examined the influence of American college students’ ( N = 375) contact quality and frequency with their most frequent Chinese international student (CIS) contact on their cognitive attitudes toward Chinese international students (CISs), as well as the mediating role played by relational solidarity with the contact and the moderating role of the type of outgroup contact. Results showed that contact qual…
The Associations of Family Communication Patterns With Young Adults’ Depression in Hungary and China: The Mediating Role of Maternal Psychological Control
In this survey study ( N = 235), we examined the associations among young adults’ perceptions of family communication patterns (FCPs), maternal psychological control (MPC), and depression in Hungary and China. The results revealed that Chinese young adults reported higher levels of family conformity orientation, MPC, and depression compared to their Hungarian counterparts. Additionally, Chinese and Hungarian young adults reported similar levels o…
Improving Interability Attitudes: Examining Positive and Negative Communication Processes
Integrating intergroup contact theory and communication accommodation theory, this study examined associations between participants’ ( N = 780) communication experiences with people with visible physical disabilities (PWVPD) and intergroup attitudes. Findings revealed that accommodative communication functioned as a positive form of intergroup contact. Specifically, perceptions of communication accommodation to PWVPD were positively associated wi…
Social media intergroup expression and White Americans’ attitudes toward ethnic Chinese during Covid-19
Guided by intergroup contact theory, this survey study investigates how White American adults’ (N = 697, Mage = 44.42, SD = 14.6, age range = 18–67) social media intergroup expression frequency and valence, direct contact quality, and perceptions of institutional bias were associated with behavioral and affective attitudes toward ethnic Chinese during COVID-19. Structural Equation Modeling analyses indicate that social media intergroup expression…
Women Journalists’ Contact Quality with Male Coworkers, Affective Attitudes Toward Men and Intention to Quit: Intergroup Anxiety in Saudi Arabia
Along with Saudi women’s increased presence and participation in mixed-gender workforces and the current government’s reform initiative, Saudi Vision 2030, their communication opportunities with male coworkers have also increased. Guided by intergroup contact theory, the current online survey tested the influences of Saudi female journalists’ (N = 198) report of communication quantity and communication quality with male coworkers on their affecti…
Communication frequency, identity accommodation, and attitudes toward people with disabilities in the United States: Disability salience and intergroup anxiety
Cognitive, emotional, and behavioral responses to interability communication styles in the workplace: Perspectives of people with disabilities
This experimental study, extending the communication accommodation theory and the Communication Predicament of Disability Model, examined people with disabilities’ perceptions of four manipulated communication styles and tested the effects on their cognitive, emotional, and behavioral responses. Results revealed that participants in the integrative talk condition judged the coworker as the most competent and satisfying and had the least anxiety, …
Accommodation, social attraction, and intergroup attitudes on social media: The Effects of Outgroup Self-Presentation and Ingroup Accommodation
This experiment examines whether exposure to outgroup members' self-presentation on Facebook and ingroup members' accommodative versus nonaccommodative responses influence perceptions of outgroup members' social attractiveness and attitudes toward the target outgroup. U.S. college students ( N = 865) saw one of four fictitious Facebook pages with wall posts representing a Chinese international student's self-presentation (positive vs. negative) a…
Parasocial Relationship and Reduction of Intergroup Prejudice against the Chinese LGBT Community: Intergroup Anxiety and Direct Contact
Guided by intergroup contact theory, this survey study investigated whether the formation of pseudo-socioemotional ties with well-known LGBT media personas in China (i.e., parasocial relationships) could reduce cisgender heterosexual Chinese participants’ anxiety toward and prejudice against the LGBT community. Results indicated a significant indirect effect of parasocial relationship with LGBT media personas on prejudice against this community t…
Intergenerational Conflict-Initiating Factors and Management Styles: U.S. Older Adults’ Report
Guided by the theoretical frameworks of communication accommodation theory and conflict management, this study examines U.S. older participants’ (65 or older) written conflict scenario either with a grandchild or a nonfamily young adult. Using content analysis approach, we analyzed these written conflict scenarios to uncover major conflict initiating factors and conflict management styles. Results revealed that intergenerational conflict initiate…
Cultural values in Chinese proverbs reported by Chinese college students
Proverbs listed by Chinese college students, who are often at the leading edge of cultural change, provide a window into the dynamic interplay of traditionality and modernity. Using thematic analysis, Study 1 examined popular proverbs listed frequently by Chinese college students ( n = 298) and the embedded values. Study 2, which was a survey, examined Chinese college students’ ( n = 240) endorsement of individualism, collectivism, and the values…
Direct and indirect effects of contact quality and perceived cultural identification on conflict management styles in an American–Chinese context
From the theoretical perspectives of anxiety and uncertainty management and intergroup contact, this study examined U.S. American participants’ ( N = 487) perceptions of conflict management styles with Chinese international students. Specifically, this study tested the indirect effects of participants’ perceptions of contact quality with the Chinese in general and strength of Chinese international students’ identification with home culture on con…
The effects of Latino immigrants’ acculturation strategy and U.S. Americans' assimilation attitudes on perceptions of accommodation satisfaction and willingness to communicate
Social support and cultural distance: Sojourners’ experience in China
Warranting theory, stereotypes, and intercultural communication: U.S. Americans’ perceptions of a target Chinese on Facebook
International Students’ Acculturation and Attitudes towards Americans as a Function of Communication and Relational Solidarity with Their Most Frequent American Contact
Guided by frameworks of intergroup contact and the Common Ingroup Identity Model, this study examined international students’ (N = 233) communication with their most frequent U.S. contact and attitudes towards Americans. Results revealed significant positive indirect effects of contact quantity and quality on affective and behavioural attitudes towards Americans through sequential mediators of relational solidarity with the contact and identifica…
Interability Contact and the Reduction of Interability Prejudice: Communication Accommodation, Intergroup Anxiety, and Relational Solidarity
Guided by intergroup contact and communication accommodation theories, this study tested the effects of U.S. participants' ( N = 286) communication with their most frequent contact who had a visible physical disability and its effects on attitudes toward and stereotypes of people with disabilities as a whole. As predicted, mediation analysis showed the type of interability contact (i.e., nonfamily = 1 and family = 2), and participants' perception…
Intergroup Anxiety and Willingness to Accommodate: Exploring the Effects of Accent Stereotyping and Social Attraction
Guided by communication accommodation theory, the current study examined the effects of accent stereotyping on native English speakers' ( N = 243) perceptions of and willingness to communicate with the nonnative speaker and willingness to accommodate to Hispanic/Latino Americans in general. Accent stereotyping was manipulated through two experimental conditions: presence or absence of an explicit and negative stereotype in a written paragraph. Af…
Initial Communication with and Attitudes toward International Students: Testing the Mediating Effects of Friendship Formation Variables
From the theoretical perspectives of intergroup contact, predicted outcome value (POV), and similarity-attraction, this study examined U.S. host nationals’ (N = 342) communicative behaviours in a recent initial encounter with an international student and attitudes toward the student’s cultural group as a whole. Testing of two models indicated the significant sequential mediator effects of perceived similarity-social attraction and POV-social attr…
Conflict Initiating Factors and Management Styles in Family and Nonfamily Intergenerational Relationships: Young Adults’ Retrospective Written Accounts
Using a content analytic approach, this study examined young adults’ retrospective written accounts about their perceived communication with family and nonfamily elders in conflict situations to uncover conflict initiating factors and management styles. Results revealed that old-to-young criticism (especially in nonfamily contexts) and competition were the most frequently reported conflict initiating factor and management style in intergeneration…
English Proficiency, Identity, Anxiety, and Intergroup Attitudes: US Americans’ Perceptions of Chinese
Guided by the Common Ingroup Identity Model and Berry’s acculturation framework, this study examined the roles that perceptions of language proficiency, cultural identity, and communication anxiety had on intergroup attitudes and stereotypes in the American–Chinese contact context. Serial mediation analyses with 10,000 bootstrap samples revealed that perceived English proficiency of a Chinese contact had significant indirect effects on affective …
Social Interactions Across Media: Interpersonal Communication on the Internet, Telephone and Face-to-Face
Two studies compared college students’ interpersonal interaction online, face-to-face, and on the telephone. A communication diary assessed the relative amount of social interactions college students conducted online compared to face-to-face conversation and telephone calls. Results indicated that while the internet was integrated into college students’ social lives, face-to-face communication remained the dominant mode of interaction. Participan…
Social support and cultural distance: Sojourners’ experience in China
Relational quality and media use in interpersonal relationships
This study examines the relationship between relational quality and media use in relationships. In addition, the impacts of other potentially important variables such as the sex and relationship type of the participants and their partners are explored. College student participants focused on interaction experiences with an acquaintance, friend, romantic partner or family member. The results indicated that participant sex and partner sex did not a…
The Portrayal of Older Adults in Advertising: A Cross-National Review
From a multinational perspective, this article provides an overview of a number of research programs examining portrayals of older adults in advertising. The research described includes both quantitative and qualitative analyses of the place of older people in advertising and the ways this is associated with older adults' place in society. This article is organized around three central themes: an overview of the major theoretical perspectives sur…
Stereotypes of Chinese international students held by Americans
Perceptions of Conflict Management Styles in Chinese Intergenerational Dyads
We examined intergenerational communication and conflict management styles in China. Older and younger Chinese adults were randomly assigned to evaluate one of four conversation transcripts in which an older worker criticizes a young co-worker. The young worker's communication was varied across the transcripts to reflect four conflict management styles: competing, avoiding, accommodating, and problem-solving. As expected, older participants favor…
Direct and Mediated Intercultural Contact: Koreans' Attitudes toward U.S. Americans
Guided by the intergroup contact hypothesis, this study tested two models examining the associations among Korean young adults' consumption of U.S. dramas, direct contact with a U.S. American person, and their attitudes toward U.S. Americans in general. Results demonstrated that personal contact and mediated contact had a positive effect on intergroup attitudes, but that frequency of personal contact was a negative contributor. Mediated contact h…
Functions of the common ingroup identity model and acculturation strategies in intercultural communication: American host nationals’ communication with Chinese international students
Husbands' Conflict Styles in Chinese Mother/Daughter-In-Law Conflicts: Daughters-in-Law's Perspectives
This study examined Chinese daughters-in-law's (N = 287) perceptions of the husband's conflict management styles in their dyadic interaction regarding mother/daughter-in-law conflicts and associations with marital satisfaction and relational satisfaction with the mother-in-law. Results showed that the problem-solving style was perceived to be used most by the husband, followed by the accommodating, avoiding, and competing styles. In addition, the…
Intergroup Anxiety and Willingness to Accommodate: Exploring the Effects of Accent Stereotyping and Social Attraction
Guided by communication accommodation theory, the current study examined the effects of accent stereotyping on native English speakers' ( N = 243) perceptions of and willingness to communicate with the nonnative speaker and willingness to accommodate to Hispanic/Latino Americans in general. Accent stereotyping was manipulated through two experimental conditions: presence or absence of an explicit and negative stereotype in a written paragraph. Af…
Conflict-Initiating Factors in Intergenerational Relationships
This study examined American young adults' written accounts of intergenerational communication with a focus on factors that initiate conflict. Analysis of the conflict scenarios in intergenerational relationships revealed seven types of initiating factors. Results also indicated that the type of relationship with older adults was associated with the frequency distribution of five of the seven initiating factors. Specifically, young adults perceiv…
Taiwanese Young Adults' Intergenerational Communication Schemas
Initiating Factors of Chinese Intergenerational Conflict: Young Adults' Written Accounts
Warranting theory, stereotypes, and intercultural communication: U.S. Americans’ perceptions of a target Chinese on Facebook
The effects of Latino immigrants’ acculturation strategy and U.S. Americans' assimilation attitudes on perceptions of accommodation satisfaction and willingness to communicate
Accommodation, social attraction, and intergroup attitudes on social media: The Effects of Outgroup Self-Presentation and Ingroup Accommodation
This experiment examines whether exposure to outgroup members' self-presentation on Facebook and ingroup members' accommodative versus nonaccommodative responses influence perceptions of outgroup members' social attractiveness and attitudes toward the target outgroup. U.S. college students ( N = 865) saw one of four fictitious Facebook pages with wall posts representing a Chinese international student's self-presentation (positive vs. negative) a…
Modernization and Tradition in an Age of Globalization: Cultural Values in Chinese Television Commercials
The authors analyzed commercials (N= 496) shown on 3 Chinese TV stations in the summer of 2000 to uncover the dominant value themes and identified 13 value themes as applicable in the current sample. This study found that the most dominant value themes in the Chinese commercials were product quality/effectiveness, family, modernity, beauty/youth, and pleasure indicating the prevalence of utilitarian values and the coexistence of both traditional …
Social Interactions Across Media: Interpersonal Communication on the Internet, Telephone and Face-to-Face
Two studies compared college students’ interpersonal interaction online, face-to-face, and on the telephone. A communication diary assessed the relative amount of social interactions college students conducted online compared to face-to-face conversation and telephone calls. Results indicated that while the internet was integrated into college students’ social lives, face-to-face communication remained the dominant mode of interaction. Participan…
Taiwanese Young Adults' Intergenerational Communication Schemas
Initiating Factors of Chinese Intergenerational Conflict: Young Adults' Written Accounts
Harmony, Hierarchy and Conservatism: A Cross-Cultural Comparison of Confucian Values in China, Korea, Japan, and Taiwan
This study examined 1,631 college students’ endorsement of traditional Confucian values in four East Asian cultural contexts (i.e., China, Korea, Japan and Taiwan). Findings showed that young people endorsed values of interpersonal harmony the most, followed by the relational hierarchy and traditional conservatism respectively. Results also indicated that participants in China provided the highest ratings for interpersonal harmony and relational …
Perceptions of Conflict Management Styles in Chinese Intergenerational Dyads
We examined intergenerational communication and conflict management styles in China. Older and younger Chinese adults were randomly assigned to evaluate one of four conversation transcripts in which an older worker criticizes a young co-worker. The young worker's communication was varied across the transcripts to reflect four conflict management styles: competing, avoiding, accommodating, and problem-solving. As expected, older participants favor…
The Portrayal of Older Adults in Advertising: A Cross-National Review
From a multinational perspective, this article provides an overview of a number of research programs examining portrayals of older adults in advertising. The research described includes both quantitative and qualitative analyses of the place of older people in advertising and the ways this is associated with older adults' place in society. This article is organized around three central themes: an overview of the major theoretical perspectives sur…
Relational quality and media use in interpersonal relationships
This study examines the relationship between relational quality and media use in relationships. In addition, the impacts of other potentially important variables such as the sex and relationship type of the participants and their partners are explored. College student participants focused on interaction experiences with an acquaintance, friend, romantic partner or family member. The results indicated that participant sex and partner sex did not a…
Older Adults in Prime-Time Television Dramas in Taiwan: Prevalence, Portrayal, and Communication Interaction
Conflict-Initiating Factors in Intergenerational Relationships
This study examined American young adults' written accounts of intergenerational communication with a focus on factors that initiate conflict. Analysis of the conflict scenarios in intergenerational relationships revealed seven types of initiating factors. Results also indicated that the type of relationship with older adults was associated with the frequency distribution of five of the seven initiating factors. Specifically, young adults perceiv…
Japanese College Students’ Media Exposure to Sexually Explicit Materials, Perceptions of Women, and Sexually Permissive Attitudes
The present study examined Japanese college students’ ( N = 476) use of sexually explicit material (SEM) and associations with perceptions of women as sex objects and sexually permissive attitudes. Results indicate that Japanese college students used print media most frequently as a source for SEM followed by the Internet and the television/video/DVD. Male participants used SEM significantly more than females. In addition, sexual preoccupancy med…
Conflict Management Styles: The Role of Ethnic Identity and Self-Construal among Young Male Arabs and Americans
This cross-cultural study compared young male Arabs’ and young male Americans’ perceptions of their ethnic identity, self-construal, and conflict management styles. Findings indicated that Arabs had stronger ethnic identity than Americans. Arabs were both more independent and interdependent than American participants. Conflict style comparisons demonstrated that Americans chose the emotional expression, dominating, and neglect styles more than Ar…
Direct and Mediated Intercultural Contact: Koreans' Attitudes toward U.S. Americans
Guided by the intergroup contact hypothesis, this study tested two models examining the associations among Korean young adults' consumption of U.S. dramas, direct contact with a U.S. American person, and their attitudes toward U.S. Americans in general. Results demonstrated that personal contact and mediated contact had a positive effect on intergroup attitudes, but that frequency of personal contact was a negative contributor. Mediated contact h…
Husbands' Conflict Styles in Chinese Mother/Daughter-In-Law Conflicts: Daughters-in-Law's Perspectives
This study examined Chinese daughters-in-law's (N = 287) perceptions of the husband's conflict management styles in their dyadic interaction regarding mother/daughter-in-law conflicts and associations with marital satisfaction and relational satisfaction with the mother-in-law. Results showed that the problem-solving style was perceived to be used most by the husband, followed by the accommodating, avoiding, and competing styles. In addition, the…
Stereotypes of Chinese international students held by Americans
Functions of the common ingroup identity model and acculturation strategies in intercultural communication: American host nationals’ communication with Chinese international students
English Proficiency, Identity, Anxiety, and Intergroup Attitudes: US Americans’ Perceptions of Chinese
Guided by the Common Ingroup Identity Model and Berry’s acculturation framework, this study examined the roles that perceptions of language proficiency, cultural identity, and communication anxiety had on intergroup attitudes and stereotypes in the American–Chinese contact context. Serial mediation analyses with 10,000 bootstrap samples revealed that perceived English proficiency of a Chinese contact had significant indirect effects on affective …
Initial Communication with and Attitudes toward International Students: Testing the Mediating Effects of Friendship Formation Variables
From the theoretical perspectives of intergroup contact, predicted outcome value (POV), and similarity-attraction, this study examined U.S. host nationals’ (N = 342) communicative behaviours in a recent initial encounter with an international student and attitudes toward the student’s cultural group as a whole. Testing of two models indicated the significant sequential mediator effects of perceived similarity-social attraction and POV-social attr…
Conflict Initiating Factors and Management Styles in Family and Nonfamily Intergenerational Relationships: Young Adults’ Retrospective Written Accounts
Using a content analytic approach, this study examined young adults’ retrospective written accounts about their perceived communication with family and nonfamily elders in conflict situations to uncover conflict initiating factors and management styles. Results revealed that old-to-young criticism (especially in nonfamily contexts) and competition were the most frequently reported conflict initiating factor and management style in intergeneration…
Intergroup Anxiety and Willingness to Accommodate: Exploring the Effects of Accent Stereotyping and Social Attraction
Guided by communication accommodation theory, the current study examined the effects of accent stereotyping on native English speakers' ( N = 243) perceptions of and willingness to communicate with the nonnative speaker and willingness to accommodate to Hispanic/Latino Americans in general. Accent stereotyping was manipulated through two experimental conditions: presence or absence of an explicit and negative stereotype in a written paragraph. Af…
International Students’ Acculturation and Attitudes towards Americans as a Function of Communication and Relational Solidarity with Their Most Frequent American Contact
Guided by frameworks of intergroup contact and the Common Ingroup Identity Model, this study examined international students’ (N = 233) communication with their most frequent U.S. contact and attitudes towards Americans. Results revealed significant positive indirect effects of contact quantity and quality on affective and behavioural attitudes towards Americans through sequential mediators of relational solidarity with the contact and identifica…
Interability Contact and the Reduction of Interability Prejudice: Communication Accommodation, Intergroup Anxiety, and Relational Solidarity
Guided by intergroup contact and communication accommodation theories, this study tested the effects of U.S. participants' ( N = 286) communication with their most frequent contact who had a visible physical disability and its effects on attitudes toward and stereotypes of people with disabilities as a whole. As predicted, mediation analysis showed the type of interability contact (i.e., nonfamily = 1 and family = 2), and participants' perception…
Warranting theory, stereotypes, and intercultural communication: U.S. Americans’ perceptions of a target Chinese on Facebook
Cultural values in Chinese proverbs reported by Chinese college students
Proverbs listed by Chinese college students, who are often at the leading edge of cultural change, provide a window into the dynamic interplay of traditionality and modernity. Using thematic analysis, Study 1 examined popular proverbs listed frequently by Chinese college students ( n = 298) and the embedded values. Study 2, which was a survey, examined Chinese college students’ ( n = 240) endorsement of individualism, collectivism, and the values…
Direct and indirect effects of contact quality and perceived cultural identification on conflict management styles in an American–Chinese context
From the theoretical perspectives of anxiety and uncertainty management and intergroup contact, this study examined U.S. American participants’ ( N = 487) perceptions of conflict management styles with Chinese international students. Specifically, this study tested the indirect effects of participants’ perceptions of contact quality with the Chinese in general and strength of Chinese international students’ identification with home culture on con…
Psychology (41 works) · Social Psychology (37 works) · Sociology (20 works) · Social and Intergroup Psychology (18 works) · Developmental psychology (16 works) · Perception (16 works) · Political science (16 works) · Social Psychology (15 works) · Anxiety (11 works) · Cultural Differences and Values (10 works)