Xin Ma
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3589260 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Xin Ma |
| PRENOMES | Xin |
| SOBRENOME | Ma |
| ASSINATURA | MA X |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Kentucky |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1197-3006 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 96 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 71 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 96 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1997 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Network analysis of the associations among parental age, primary caregivers, parenting stress, and children’s emotional–behavioral difficulties
Parenting stress is a central mechanism associated with parental and caregiving characteristics and children’s socioemotional development. However, the combined role of parental age and primary caregiver role in these associations remains unclear. This study applied network analysis to examine their associations with parenting stress and children’s emotional–behavioral difficulties. A cross-sectional study was conducted in October 2023 among 2454…
The cumulative effect of multiple high-sugar and high-fat dietary patterns on acne vulgaris in school aged children
Objective Acne vulgaris is highly prevalent among adolescents, and diet is considered a significant modifiable associated factor. However, evidence regarding the association between popular modern beverages and adolescent acne remains limited. This study aimed to investigate the prevalence of acne and to explore the influence of the cumulative effect of multiple high-sugar and high-fat dietary patterns on acne vulgaris in school aged children in …
Daily fall risk assessment for older adults using a balance sensor with machine learning
Introduction: Fall-risk assessment is important for preventing falls in older adults, but many conventional balance tests are time-consuming and difficult to use frequently in daily practice. This study aimed to evaluate a rapid 30-s quiet-standing assessment using a balance sensor combined with machine learning for fall-history classification and fall-risk assessment. Methods: A total of 394 older adults (mean age 71.56 ± 6.69 years) participate…
A study on the correlation between frailty, sleep quality, and cognitive function in low-income older adults living in the urban–rural fringe of China
Objective This cross-sectional study aims to explore the independent and combined effects of physical frailty and sleep quality on cognitive function in low-income older adults in the urban–rural fringe of China, and to examine whether daily activities (ADL) play a mediating role between frailty and cognitive function. Methods A combination of convenience sampling and stratified sampling was used to recruit 198 people over 55 and above from a com…
School Renewal and School Well-Being
In this longitudinal case study, we examined school well-being during the change process. We operationalized the change process as the school renewal model and viewed school well-being from the perspective of the PERMA (positive emotion, engagement, relationships, meaning, and accomplishment) model. We found that all elements of the PERMA model were manifested in the school renewal process and that the school renewal process was not dominated sol…
A Moderated Sequential Mediation Model
This study examined how extraversion relates to psychological well-being among 335 Chinese international students at a public university in Malaysia, focusing on positive emotional intensity, cognitive reappraisal, and positive emotional expression. Using structural equation modeling, the model explained 48.1% of the variance in psychological well-being. Extraversion was significantly associated with both psychological well-being and positive emo…
Leadership in school renewal
Purpose There has been a strong emphasis on leadership in school renewal (SR) to promote educational improvement. The literature discerns three major aspects of leadership in SR (orientation to SR, SR principles and practices (PP) and implementation fidelity and integrity). As a methodological advancement for the field of educational administration, we introduced a general analytical framework to measure the consistency of the three major aspects…
Building community resilience and calling for collective actions
Understanding how corporations communicate their disaster aid efforts, an emerging form of corporate social responsibility (CSR), and how publics respond provides insight into how public relations can better serve communities’ needs. Guided by fully functioning society theory, this study examines corporations’ disaster aid messages and the Chinese publics’ responses to these messages on Weibo. The computational analysis of 761 disaster aid posts …
Latent profile analysis of change fatigue and its relationship with work withdrawal behavior in clinical nurses
Objective To investigate the latent categories of clinical nurses' change fatigue profiles, analyze the factors influencing these categories, and explore their correlation with work withdrawal behavior. Methods A total of 733 nurses from various provinces and cities across China were selected as research subjects using convenience sampling. The subjects were investigated using a general information questionnaire, a change fatigue scale, and a wor…
Citizen’s Policy Compliance With Stringent Measures in Public Health Crisis
This study aims to portray the policy compliance landscape among Chinese citizens, focusing on their adherence to strict public health measures during the COVID-19 pandemic. Utilizing data from the 2021 Chinese General Social Survey, we employed ordinary least squares and ordered Logit models to explore factors influencing compliance with government epidemic prevention policies. Findings indicate that individuals with higher education levels, chr…
Anemarrhena asphodeloides Bunge and Phellodendri Chinensis Cortex inhibits the PTGS2/EP2/cAMP/Epac1 signaling pathway to reduce microglial M1 polarization, thereby blocking chronic stress-induced depr…
AP improves the potential therapeutic benefits of depression by targeting the PTGS2 signaling pathway, thereby promoting the wider use of AP in depression
Unique effects of home language on academic achievement among Myanmar students
WeChat Use, Cognitive Function, and Depressive Symptoms
Middle-aged old mothers” on Chinese social media
Factors affecting attitude and intention to adopt artificial intelligence for sustainable triage
Effects of the “High Impact Leadership for School Renewal” Project on Principal Leadership, School Leadership, and Student Achievement
In this study, we designed an educational experiment to evaluate the High Impact Leadership for School Renewal project’s impact on principal leadership, school leadership, and student achievement. Principals in the experimental group reported statistically significantly greater improvement in principal leadership than their counterparts in the control group (Hedge’s g of 0.73), but teachers in the experimental and control groups showed no differe…
The association between helicopter parenting and college freshmen’s depression
Validating the distinctiveness between transilience and efficacy constructs in China
How does goal orientation affect employees’ perception of abusive supervisors
Purpose Goal orientation shapes employees’ approach to and interpretation of workplace aspects such as supervisors’ behavior. However, research has not fully examined the effect of goal orientation as an antecedent of abusive supervision. Drawing from victim precipitation theory, this study aims to fill this research gap by investigating how employees’ goal orientation influences their perception of abusive supervision. Design/methodology/approac…
Proximity still matters in research collaboration! Evidence from the introduction of new airline routes and high-speed railways in China
Does interdisciplinarity improve research performance? An empirical study of faculty members at Chinese universities
The butterfly effect of cloud computing on the low-carbon economy
Weakening achievement gap and strengthening school renewal
Exploring Factors Contributing to High Turnover Rate Among Digital Film Technicians
This study aimed to clarify the core elements affecting the turnover intention of grassroots employees in the digital film industry and to construct a model of the factors affecting the turnover rate in this industry. Adopting the grounded theory approach, which encompasses coding techniques such as open, axial, and selective coding, this research involved the participation of 21 grassroots practitioners to explore the causal and influencing fact…
The development and validation of a tablet-based assessment battery of general cognitive ability
BOCAS offers a digital solution for cognitive assessment, providing automated, remote, and precise evaluations. It demonstrates reliability, validity, and potential for use in clinical and research settings
Bullying and Being Bullied
The purpose of this study was to examine the victim-bully cycle in middle school and to identify student and school characteristics that contributed to the cycle of bullying, using cross-sectional data from the New Brunswick School Climate Study (N = 6,883 in grade 6 and N = 6,868 in grade 8). The results of a multivariate, multilevel analysis clearly indicated that the relationship of bully to victim was reciprocal. At the student level, gender,…
Shaping China's Energy Policy
This article develops an analytical framework for examining China's energy policy-making processes, and uses it to explain the recent shifts in the country's energy priorities. The authors analyze the decisive factors in China's energy sector reforms by looking at the different stages from agenda setting, through policy choices, to decision making and implementation. The article attempts to identify the actors behind, the drivers for, and the con…
Are Principal Background and School Processes Related to Teacher Job Satisfaction? A Multilevel Study Using Schools and Staffing Survey 2003-04
Using nationally representative samples for public school teachers and principals, the authors inquired into whether principal background and school processes are related to teacher job satisfaction. Employing hierarchical linear modeling (HLM), the authors were able to control for background characteristics at both the teacher and school levels. They found that 17% of the total variance in teacher job satisfaction is between schools, a statistic…
The First Ten Years in Canada
Xin Ma, The First Ten Years in Canada: A Multi-Level Assessment of Behavioural and Emotional Problems of Immigrant Children, Canadian Public Policy / Analyse de Politiques, Vol. 28, No. 3 (Sep., 2002), pp. 395-418
The Emergy Perspective of Sustainable Trends in Puerto Rico From 1960 to 2013
The role of adult attachment in international students’ acculturation process
Energy Production and Social Marginalisation in China
The exploitation and production of primary energy resources and the supply of this energy is critical for China's economic development. Despite the obvious economic benefit to the nation, this energy production has had significant negative socio-economic impacts on certain groups of people at local and national scales. This paper documents three cases of energy production in China and demonstrates that, in each case, marginalisation of social gro…
Determining the Causal Ordering between Attitude toward Mathematics and Achievement in Mathematics
The purpose of this study was to determine the causal ordering (predominance) between attitude toward mathematics and achievement in mathematics in secondary school (grades 7–12). Structural equation models were employed to analyze data from the Longitudinal Study of American Youth. Results showed that achievement demonstrated causal predominance over attitude across the entire secondary school. Gender differences in this causal relationship were…
A multiple regression analysis of mathematics achievement in the Dominican Republic
Factors affecting attitude and intention to adopt artificial intelligence for sustainable triage
Loneliness, Purpose in Life, and Protective Behaviors
Objectives Existing literature on the effects of psychological resources on health-protective behaviors in coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and other contexts has focused heavily on cross-sectional relationships. Informed by self-determination theory, the current study aims to overcome this limitation by investigating the cross-sectional and longitudinal relationships among loneliness, purpose in life, and protective behaviors before and durin…
A Partial Simulation Study of Phantom Effects in Multilevel Analysis of School Effects
Hierarchical linear modeling (HLM) is often used to estimate the effects of socioeconomic status (SES) on academic achievement at different levels of an educational system. However, if a prior academic achievement measure is missing in a HLM model, biased estimates may occur on the effects of student SES and school SES. Phantom effects describe the phenomenon in which the effects of student SES and school SES disappear once prior academic achieve…
School Disciplinary Climate
Seven dimensions of school disciplinary climate were identified based on a representative sample of grade 8 students in the United States. Within schools students varied considerably in their perceptions and experiences about discipline. The variation was related mainly to students' socioeconomic status (SES), sex, and ethnicity. There was a significant contextual effect of school mean SES on disciplinary climate, larger titan the individual effe…
Assessing the Relationship between Attitude toward Mathematics and Achievement in Mathematics
Xin Ma, Nand Kishor, Assessing the Relationship between Attitude toward Mathematics and Achievement in Mathematics: A Meta-Analysis, Journal for Research in Mathematics Education, Vol. 28, No. 1 (Jan., 1997), pp. 26-47
A multiple regression analysis of mathematics achievement in the Dominican Republic
A Meta-Analysis of the Relationship between Anxiety toward Mathematics and Achievement in Mathematics
Gender Differences in Growth in Mathematical Skills During Secondary Grades
The purpose of this study was to examine differences in the rate at which males and females acquired mathematical skills during secondary grades and to determine the relationship between their rates of growth and student- arid school-level characteristics. Based on data from the Longitudinal Study of American Youth (LSAY), a three-level hierarchical linear model (HLM) indicated that males and females acquired mathematical skills at the same rate.…
Bullying and Being Bullied
The purpose of this study was to examine the victim-bully cycle in middle school and to identify student and school characteristics that contributed to the cycle of bullying, using cross-sectional data from the New Brunswick School Climate Study (N = 6,883 in grade 6 and N = 6,868 in grade 8). The results of a multivariate, multilevel analysis clearly indicated that the relationship of bully to victim was reciprocal. At the student level, gender,…
Effects of Educational Productivity on Career Aspiration Among United States High School Students
The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of mathematics-related educational productivity on student career aspiration. We developed a structural model describing the relationship between educational productivity and career aspiration based on Walberg's (1981, 1992) theory of educational productivity. Using data from the Longitudinal Study of American Youth (LSAY), we identified eight mathematics-related factors of educational producti…
Improving Social Policy with National Data
The purpose of this study was to examine social support for students as it related to individual and provincial characteristics in Canada, with data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth and census data. The data included 7,648 students aged 8 to 11 years from 10 provinces. Factor analysis indicated two latent factors underlining social support for students: perceived personal support and perceived institutional support. Res…
The First Ten Years in Canada
Xin Ma, The First Ten Years in Canada: A Multi-Level Assessment of Behavioural and Emotional Problems of Immigrant Children, Canadian Public Policy / Analyse de Politiques, Vol. 28, No. 3 (Sep., 2002), pp. 395-418
Early Acceleration of Mathematics Students and its Effect on Growth in Self-esteem
Sense of Belonging to School
Using education survey data from 6,883 Grade 6 students in 148 schools and from 6,868 Grade 8 students in 92 schools in New Brunswick, Canada, the author applied student and school characteristics to explain differences among students and schools regarding students' sense of belonging to school. Results of hierarchical linear modeling showed that in Grades 6 and 8, discrepancies in students' sense of belonging were mainly within schools, rather t…
Measuring up
Determining the Causal Ordering between Attitude toward Mathematics and Achievement in Mathematics
The purpose of this study was to determine the causal ordering (predominance) between attitude toward mathematics and achievement in mathematics in secondary school (grades 7–12). Structural equation models were employed to analyze data from the Longitudinal Study of American Youth. Results showed that achievement demonstrated causal predominance over attitude across the entire secondary school. Gender differences in this causal relationship were…
School Disciplinary Climate
Seven dimensions of school disciplinary climate were identified based on a representative sample of grade 8 students in the United States. Within schools students varied considerably in their perceptions and experiences about discipline. The variation was related mainly to students' socioeconomic status (SES), sex, and ethnicity. There was a significant contextual effect of school mean SES on disciplinary climate, larger titan the individual effe…
Estimating correlates of growth between mathematics and science achievement via a multivariate multilevel design with latent variables
A longitudinal assessment of early acceleration of students in mathematics on growth in mathematics achievement☆
Ecological benefit assessment of the South-North Water Transfer Project
The South-North Water Transfer Project in China is a massive inter-basin water transfer project and one of the country's most important projects. The project will not only solve water shortage problems, promote regional economic development and improve living conditions in northern China, but also facilitate ecological environmental restoration of the region. Water quantity and quality and the quality and level of social and economic development …
Cognitive and Affective Changes as Determinants for Taking Advanced Mathematics Courses in High School
Using data from the Longitudinal Study of American Youth, this analysis tested whether changes during middle and high school in mathematics‐related cognitive and affective factors influence participation in the most advanced mathematics course work, with control over confounding factors associated with student background. No significant interaction effects between cognitive and affective factors were found. Although changes in cognitive factors h…
Provincial Effects on Reading Achievement
Although Canadian students performed well on the 2000 Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), there were considerable differences among provinces. Based on the Canadian sample of PISA 2000, our multilevel analysis examined the extent to which schools in various provinces produced differential effects on the reading achievement of their students. School characteristics that showed significant provincial effects on reading achievemen…
Energy Production and Social Marginalisation in China
The exploitation and production of primary energy resources and the supply of this energy is critical for China's economic development. Despite the obvious economic benefit to the nation, this energy production has had significant negative socio-economic impacts on certain groups of people at local and national scales. This paper documents three cases of energy production in China and demonstrates that, in each case, marginalisation of social gro…
The challenge of separating effects of simultaneous education projects on student achievement
Shaping China's Energy Policy
This article develops an analytical framework for examining China's energy policy-making processes, and uses it to explain the recent shifts in the country's energy priorities. The authors analyze the decisive factors in China's energy sector reforms by looking at the different stages from agenda setting, through policy choices, to decision making and implementation. The article attempts to identify the actors behind, the drivers for, and the con…
Dike Breach Risks of Different Flood Conditions in the Lower Yellow River
Cordyceps militaris extract stimulates Cl− secretion across human bronchial epithelia by both Ca2+- and cAMP-dependent pathways
Total flavonoids of Flos Chrysanthemi protect arterial endothelial cells against oxidative stress
Are Principal Background and School Processes Related to Teacher Job Satisfaction? A Multilevel Study Using Schools and Staffing Survey 2003-04
Using nationally representative samples for public school teachers and principals, the authors inquired into whether principal background and school processes are related to teacher job satisfaction. Employing hierarchical linear modeling (HLM), the authors were able to control for background characteristics at both the teacher and school levels. They found that 17% of the total variance in teacher job satisfaction is between schools, a statistic…
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