Kai Kuang
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 767482 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Kai Kuang |
| NOMBRES | Kai |
| APELLIDO | Kuang |
| FIRMA | KUANG K |
| AFILIACIONES | Tsinghua University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9653-9574 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 31 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 22 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 31 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2015 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Explaining AI-Generated News
This study examines how distinct explanation strategies of AI-generated news influence perceived credibility across different news topics, and whether these effects are mediated by machine heuristic. A 2 (topic: sports vs. politics) × 4 (explanation type: developer vs. procedural vs. combined vs. none) between-subjects experiment was conducted with 377 participants in China. Results showed that procedural explanations and combined explanations si…
Climate race or collaboration? Effects of strategy framing on trust in government, nationalist sentiments, and climate action intention in international politics
Climate change is often used as a bargaining chip for global powers to achieve political goals. Strategy framing, particularly within international political contexts, can serve as a lens to unpack the relationship between countries’ substantial climate policy and underlying political appeals in news coverage. A survey experiment ( n = 331) was conducted to investigate the effects of strategy framing in international politics on trust in governme…
Unpacking the Gendered Nature of Sexual Health Information Seeking
Women during emerging adulthood are disproportionately susceptible to sexually transmitted infections due to biological and socioeconomic vulnerabilities. Central to safe sex is the process by which women seek information regarding their male partners' intentions to use condoms, which is complicated by the gendered nature of sexual risks and the influence of sociocultural factors. Drawing on the theory of motivated information management, we exam…
Constructing Anticipatory Resilience Through Relational Resources
Despite the prevalence of hypertension among young adults and its disruptive impact on daily life, limited research has examined how individuals draw on anticipatory resilience - discursive resources developed over time - to communicatively address hypertension-related challenges. Guided by the communication theory of resilience (CTR), this study investigated disclosure and social support as relational sources of anticipatory resilience. Data fro…
Mental Health Communication Among Sexual and Gender Minority Groups in China
Sexual and gender minority (SGM) individuals are more susceptible to mental illness problems compared to their heterosexual and cisgender counterparts, yet they tend to not actively seek professional help due to a range of help-seeking barriers such as stigma and lack of social support. In this study, we drew on the seeking mental health care model to investigate the effects of knowledge, stigma, and social support, on help-seeking intentions and…
Understanding Chinese Single Mothers’ Communicative Resilience Enactment Across Three Types of Social Interactions
Recent social changes in China have contributed to a growing number of single mothers raising dependent children on their own. However, deep-seated cultural norms continue to stigmatize single motherhood, placing many of these women under considerable psychological and social strain. The well-documented challenges of single motherhood underscore the importance of understanding ways to mitigate these adverse effects. Drawing on the communication t…
Explicating the mechanisms between overwork-related media exposure and workplace resilience
Enactment of resilience is essential to workplace well-being. Drawing on the communication theory of resilience (CTR), this study examined media exposure as a potential source of anticipatory resilience for new employees under the China’s tech industry’s overwork culture. Analyses of survey data (n = 300) revealed that media exposure to overwork culture enhanced occupational self-efficacy and communicative resilience enactment, positively influen…
Climate Communication with Chinese Youth by Chinese Nongovernmental Organizations
Nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) have increasingly played pivotal roles in shaping climate agendas and mobilizing individuals to engage in environmental initiatives. However, the nature of NGOs’ online interaction with users, especially in developing countries, remains largely unexplored. This study focused on the dynamics of engagement between a Chinese NGO, Chinese Weather Enthusiasts (CWE), and Chinese youth on the social media platform of…
The role of emotions in climate change communication
The way in which climate change-related information is framed can influence not only cognitive outcomes but also emotional responses. This web-based experiment ( n = 331) investigated the effects of strategy framing and issue framing on emotions and online climate action intentions in the context of climate relationship between China and the United States. Results indicated that strategy framing increased negative emotions (i.e., anxiety and ange…
Examining the Role of Memorable Messages in the Process of Communication about Aging
Given that individuals have (some) agency to influence their own experiences of aging via communication, it is important to better understand factors that may play a role in these processes. Specifically, this study examined whether and how themes of aging-related memorable messages (e.g. aging involves physical or mental health struggles; age is merely a subjective state) and the extent to which a message offered a sense of positivity and effica…
Predictors and Outcomes of Help-Seeking Behaviors
Millions of people around the world are affected by mental illness, yet a substantive portion of individuals with mental illness do not regularly seek help from medical professionals or utilize mental health services. Help-seeking involves an individual's communicative intention and behaviors to solicit advice and/or treatment and thus is essentially a communicative process. This manuscript reports a longitudinal study that examined predictors an…
A longitudinal analysis of involuntary job loss and communication resilience processes during the Covid-19 pandemic
This longitudinal study explored associations between communication resilience processes, job-search self-efficacy, and well-being for a sample of US adults who involuntarily lost their jobs during the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. Based on the communication theory of resilience (CTR), we tested four possible models regarding how the enactment of resilience processes would be associated with job-search self-efficacy and well-being over ti…
Memorable Messages as Anticipatory Resilience
Memorable messages oftentimes are associated with hope, can foster anticipatory resilience prior to the experience of disruptive events, and can buffer the negative impact of adverse experiences on mental health. However, associations among memorable messages, engagement in resilience processes, and mental health have not been examined. Drawing from the communication theory of resilience (CTR), analyses of data from 262 Chinese adults suggested t…
Family Communication Patterns Predict Anticipatory Resilience and the Enactment of Resilience Processes
The communication theory of resilience (CTR; Buzzanell, 2010 Buzzanell, P. M. (2010). Resilience: Talking, resisting, and imagining new normalcies into being. The Journal of Communication, 60(1), 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1460-2466.2009.01469.x[Crossref], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar], 2019 Buzzanell, P. M. (2019). Communication theory of resilience in everyday talk, interactions, and network structures. In S. R. Wilson & S. W. Smit…
Coping with uncertainty in mental illness
Individuals with mental illness commonly experience uncertainty related to not only the condition itself but also personal and social implications surrounding mental illness. Support from family has the potential to alleviate uncertain feelings and reduce perceived stress. Drawing on the sensitive interaction systems theory, this longitudinal study investigated the support seeking processes and outcomes in mental illness. Results suggested that p…
A longitudinal investigation of information and support seeking processes that alter the uncertainty experiences of mental illness
Communication Monographs
Extending the communicative ecology model of successful aging using talk about careers and retirement
Given the emphasis on work in American lives, this study extended the communicative ecology model of successful aging (CEMSA) by testing two new domains of communication about aging: career meaning and preparing for retirement (N = 340 older adults). Findings supported many of the proposed paths including negative environmental chatter to negative affect, uncertainty, and both domains of communication. Positive environmental chatter was associate…
Development and validation of a culturally adapted measure of communication resilience processes for Chinese contexts
Developing and Validating the Communication Resilience Processes Scale
According to the communication theory of resilience (CTR; P. M. Buzzanell, 2010), people reintegrate from disruptive events and construct a new normal through five interrelated processes: (a) crafting normalcy; (b) affirming identity anchors; (c) maintaining/using communication networks; (d) constructing alternative logics; and (e) foregrounding productive action while backgrounding negative emotions. Enacting these processes creates tensions bet…
Communicating about Retirement Preferences
Americans are increasingly uncertain about when and how they will retire. Couples may address this uncertainty together as they prepare for and envision retirement over the course of many years (e.g., saving money for decades) and, hence, need to learn about one another’s retirement preferences. Based on responses from married individuals, this exploratory study provides initial support for the theory of motivated information management (TMIM) in…
Uncertainty Management in Sexual Communication
Romantic partners' communication about sex has been shown to enhance marital satisfaction and well-being, yet is often associated with high levels of uncertainty due to the challenging and potentially face-threatening topics involved in such discussion. While much literature focuses on sexual health information seeking, relational partners' uncertainty management related to sexual satisfaction has not been examined. This study focused on married …
Problematic integration theory
Theory of Motivated Information Management
The theory of motivated information management ([TMIM]; Afifi & Weiner, 2004) was proposed to explicate the processes through which uncertainty motivates information management. Over the past 15 years, the theory has been tested and applied to a wide range of topics and contexts. The current study meta-analyzes 33 studies from 31 articles that have empirically tested predictions from TMIM. Potential moderating effects of age, issue importance, an…
Relational partners’ uncertainty management
Distinct contexts present different communication challenges, which may influence the processes through which uncertainty motivates information management. To understand the potential moderating effects of context on uncertainty management processes, two studies tested the applicability of the theory of motivated information management (TMIM) across three topics – family health history, retirement preferences, and sexual satisfaction – and compar…
Applying the theory of motivated information management to family health history
This study applied the theory of motivated information management (TMIM) to examine how married couples manage uncertainty about partners' family health history. Spouses reported ( N = 626) on TMIM variables and information seeking/provision at Time 1 and on actual information seeking/provision behavior 3 weeks later. Findings largely supported paths proposed in the TMIM, but the model did not predict actual information management behaviors. As t…
Reexamining Fear Appeal Models from Cognitive Appraisal Theory and Functional Emotion Theory Perspectives
Recognizing inconsistencies between the extant fear appeal theories and emotion literature, this research integrated cognitive appraisal theory and functional emotion theory into a fear appeal literature and proposed a model that describes a process through which both fear and anxiety can contribute to adaptive responses. Findings from an experiment (N = 927) supported the predictions. Fear and anxiety emerged as distinct constructs. Perceived su…
Hukou Status and Sentencing in the Wake of Internal Migration
While the disparate legal treatment of immigrants in Western jurisdictions has been well documented in sociolegal scholarship, the potential legal inequality experienced by rural‐to‐urban migrants in China, who have become China's largest disadvantaged social group, has not garnered much attention. To fill the gap, this article empirically examines sentencing disparities related to the Hukou status of criminal offenders by employing quantitative …
Coping with uncertainty in mental illness
Individuals with mental illness commonly experience uncertainty related to not only the condition itself but also personal and social implications surrounding mental illness. Support from family has the potential to alleviate uncertain feelings and reduce perceived stress. Drawing on the sensitive interaction systems theory, this longitudinal study investigated the support seeking processes and outcomes in mental illness. Results suggested that p…
Extending the communicative ecology model of successful aging using talk about careers and retirement
Given the emphasis on work in American lives, this study extended the communicative ecology model of successful aging (CEMSA) by testing two new domains of communication about aging: career meaning and preparing for retirement (N = 340 older adults). Findings supported many of the proposed paths including negative environmental chatter to negative affect, uncertainty, and both domains of communication. Positive environmental chatter was associate…
Reconceptualizing uncertainty in illness
Communication scholars have been long interested in uncertainty and its connection to communicative actions. Since the special issue of Journal of Communication on uncertainty and communication [Babrow, (2001a). Introduction to the special issue on uncertainty, evaluation, and communication. Journal of Communication, 51, 453–455. doi:10.1111/j.1460-2466.2001.tb02890.x], there is growing literature, including both theoretical advancements and empi…
Family Communication Patterns Predict Anticipatory Resilience and the Enactment of Resilience Processes
The communication theory of resilience (CTR; Buzzanell, 2010 Buzzanell, P. M. (2010). Resilience: Talking, resisting, and imagining new normalcies into being. The Journal of Communication, 60(1), 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1460-2466.2009.01469.x[Crossref], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar], 2019 Buzzanell, P. M. (2019). Communication theory of resilience in everyday talk, interactions, and network structures. In S. R. Wilson & S. W. Smit…
Applying the theory of motivated information management to family health history
This study applied the theory of motivated information management (TMIM) to examine how married couples manage uncertainty about partners' family health history. Spouses reported ( N = 626) on TMIM variables and information seeking/provision at Time 1 and on actual information seeking/provision behavior 3 weeks later. Findings largely supported paths proposed in the TMIM, but the model did not predict actual information management behaviors. As t…
Delivering vaccination messages via interactive channels
New media-based interactive risk communication has gained increasing attention and importance. While extant research has focused on the main effects of interactivity on attitudinal and behavioral outcomes, little research has investigated how risk message content may interact with risk message modality such as interactivity in generating effects, or the psychological processes underlying it. In this study, we examined the interaction effect of in…
Delivering vaccination messages via interactive channels
New media-based interactive risk communication has gained increasing attention and importance. While extant research has focused on the main effects of interactivity on attitudinal and behavioral outcomes, little research has investigated how risk message content may interact with risk message modality such as interactivity in generating effects, or the psychological processes underlying it. In this study, we examined the interaction effect of in…
Reexamining Fear Appeal Models from Cognitive Appraisal Theory and Functional Emotion Theory Perspectives
Recognizing inconsistencies between the extant fear appeal theories and emotion literature, this research integrated cognitive appraisal theory and functional emotion theory into a fear appeal literature and proposed a model that describes a process through which both fear and anxiety can contribute to adaptive responses. Findings from an experiment (N = 927) supported the predictions. Fear and anxiety emerged as distinct constructs. Perceived su…
A Meta-Analysis of Uncertainty and Information Management in Illness Contexts
This study meta-analyzes 32 studies that examined uncertainty’s effects on anxiety and information management within a variety of illness contexts (e.g., cancer, sexually transmitted disease, heart disease). Results indicate that the direction and magnitude of uncertainty’s effects vary for different information management strategies. Illness uncertainty is strongly, positively associated with anxiety and avoidance. In contrast, the average effec…
Reconceptualizing uncertainty in illness
Communication scholars have been long interested in uncertainty and its connection to communicative actions. Since the special issue of Journal of Communication on uncertainty and communication [Babrow, (2001a). Introduction to the special issue on uncertainty, evaluation, and communication. Journal of Communication, 51, 453–455. doi:10.1111/j.1460-2466.2001.tb02890.x], there is growing literature, including both theoretical advancements and empi…
Hukou Status and Sentencing in the Wake of Internal Migration
While the disparate legal treatment of immigrants in Western jurisdictions has been well documented in sociolegal scholarship, the potential legal inequality experienced by rural‐to‐urban migrants in China, who have become China's largest disadvantaged social group, has not garnered much attention. To fill the gap, this article empirically examines sentencing disparities related to the Hukou status of criminal offenders by employing quantitative …
Information Seeking Upon Exposure to Risk Messages
Exposure to risk messages can motivate health information seeking, which can influence message acceptance or rejection. Theories of risk message design and effects (e.g., fear appeal models), however, have not considered information seeking as an integral part of the risk message processing. To address the gap, this experimental study (N = 927) offered participants an opportunity to seek threat- and/or coping-related information online after expo…
Relational partners’ uncertainty management
Distinct contexts present different communication challenges, which may influence the processes through which uncertainty motivates information management. To understand the potential moderating effects of context on uncertainty management processes, two studies tested the applicability of the theory of motivated information management (TMIM) across three topics – family health history, retirement preferences, and sexual satisfaction – and compar…
Applying the theory of motivated information management to family health history
This study applied the theory of motivated information management (TMIM) to examine how married couples manage uncertainty about partners' family health history. Spouses reported ( N = 626) on TMIM variables and information seeking/provision at Time 1 and on actual information seeking/provision behavior 3 weeks later. Findings largely supported paths proposed in the TMIM, but the model did not predict actual information management behaviors. As t…
Developing and Validating the Communication Resilience Processes Scale
According to the communication theory of resilience (CTR; P. M. Buzzanell, 2010), people reintegrate from disruptive events and construct a new normal through five interrelated processes: (a) crafting normalcy; (b) affirming identity anchors; (c) maintaining/using communication networks; (d) constructing alternative logics; and (e) foregrounding productive action while backgrounding negative emotions. Enacting these processes creates tensions bet…
Communicating about Retirement Preferences
Americans are increasingly uncertain about when and how they will retire. Couples may address this uncertainty together as they prepare for and envision retirement over the course of many years (e.g., saving money for decades) and, hence, need to learn about one another’s retirement preferences. Based on responses from married individuals, this exploratory study provides initial support for the theory of motivated information management (TMIM) in…
Uncertainty Management in Sexual Communication
Romantic partners' communication about sex has been shown to enhance marital satisfaction and well-being, yet is often associated with high levels of uncertainty due to the challenging and potentially face-threatening topics involved in such discussion. While much literature focuses on sexual health information seeking, relational partners' uncertainty management related to sexual satisfaction has not been examined. This study focused on married …
Problematic integration theory
Theory of Motivated Information Management
The theory of motivated information management ([TMIM]; Afifi & Weiner, 2004) was proposed to explicate the processes through which uncertainty motivates information management. Over the past 15 years, the theory has been tested and applied to a wide range of topics and contexts. The current study meta-analyzes 33 studies from 31 articles that have empirically tested predictions from TMIM. Potential moderating effects of age, issue importance, an…
A longitudinal investigation of information and support seeking processes that alter the uncertainty experiences of mental illness
Communication Monographs
Extending the communicative ecology model of successful aging using talk about careers and retirement
Given the emphasis on work in American lives, this study extended the communicative ecology model of successful aging (CEMSA) by testing two new domains of communication about aging: career meaning and preparing for retirement (N = 340 older adults). Findings supported many of the proposed paths including negative environmental chatter to negative affect, uncertainty, and both domains of communication. Positive environmental chatter was associate…
Development and validation of a culturally adapted measure of communication resilience processes for Chinese contexts
A longitudinal analysis of involuntary job loss and communication resilience processes during the Covid-19 pandemic
This longitudinal study explored associations between communication resilience processes, job-search self-efficacy, and well-being for a sample of US adults who involuntarily lost their jobs during the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. Based on the communication theory of resilience (CTR), we tested four possible models regarding how the enactment of resilience processes would be associated with job-search self-efficacy and well-being over ti…
Memorable Messages as Anticipatory Resilience
Memorable messages oftentimes are associated with hope, can foster anticipatory resilience prior to the experience of disruptive events, and can buffer the negative impact of adverse experiences on mental health. However, associations among memorable messages, engagement in resilience processes, and mental health have not been examined. Drawing from the communication theory of resilience (CTR), analyses of data from 262 Chinese adults suggested t…
Family Communication Patterns Predict Anticipatory Resilience and the Enactment of Resilience Processes
The communication theory of resilience (CTR; Buzzanell, 2010 Buzzanell, P. M. (2010). Resilience: Talking, resisting, and imagining new normalcies into being. The Journal of Communication, 60(1), 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1460-2466.2009.01469.x[Crossref], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar], 2019 Buzzanell, P. M. (2019). Communication theory of resilience in everyday talk, interactions, and network structures. In S. R. Wilson & S. W. Smit…
Coping with uncertainty in mental illness
Individuals with mental illness commonly experience uncertainty related to not only the condition itself but also personal and social implications surrounding mental illness. Support from family has the potential to alleviate uncertain feelings and reduce perceived stress. Drawing on the sensitive interaction systems theory, this longitudinal study investigated the support seeking processes and outcomes in mental illness. Results suggested that p…
Climate Communication with Chinese Youth by Chinese Nongovernmental Organizations
Nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) have increasingly played pivotal roles in shaping climate agendas and mobilizing individuals to engage in environmental initiatives. However, the nature of NGOs’ online interaction with users, especially in developing countries, remains largely unexplored. This study focused on the dynamics of engagement between a Chinese NGO, Chinese Weather Enthusiasts (CWE), and Chinese youth on the social media platform of…
The role of emotions in climate change communication
The way in which climate change-related information is framed can influence not only cognitive outcomes but also emotional responses. This web-based experiment ( n = 331) investigated the effects of strategy framing and issue framing on emotions and online climate action intentions in the context of climate relationship between China and the United States. Results indicated that strategy framing increased negative emotions (i.e., anxiety and ange…
Examining the Role of Memorable Messages in the Process of Communication about Aging
Given that individuals have (some) agency to influence their own experiences of aging via communication, it is important to better understand factors that may play a role in these processes. Specifically, this study examined whether and how themes of aging-related memorable messages (e.g. aging involves physical or mental health struggles; age is merely a subjective state) and the extent to which a message offered a sense of positivity and effica…
Predictors and Outcomes of Help-Seeking Behaviors
Millions of people around the world are affected by mental illness, yet a substantive portion of individuals with mental illness do not regularly seek help from medical professionals or utilize mental health services. Help-seeking involves an individual's communicative intention and behaviors to solicit advice and/or treatment and thus is essentially a communicative process. This manuscript reports a longitudinal study that examined predictors an…
Explicating the mechanisms between overwork-related media exposure and workplace resilience
Enactment of resilience is essential to workplace well-being. Drawing on the communication theory of resilience (CTR), this study examined media exposure as a potential source of anticipatory resilience for new employees under the China’s tech industry’s overwork culture. Analyses of survey data (n = 300) revealed that media exposure to overwork culture enhanced occupational self-efficacy and communicative resilience enactment, positively influen…
Psychology (22 obras) · Social Psychology (21 obras) · Attachment and Relationship Dynamics (9 obras) · Clinical Psychology (9 obras) · Social Psychology (9 obras) · Computer Science (8 obras) · Mental health (8 obras) · Political science (8 obras) · Resilience and Mental Health (8 obras) · Developmental psychology (7 obras)