Junwen M Hu
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 757284 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Junwen M Hu |
| PRENOMES | Junwen M |
| SOBRENOME | Hu |
| ASSINATURA | HU J M |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Michigan State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9571-9947 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 13 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 4 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 13 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2023 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
Are anxiously attached dating app users less successful and feeling worse after use? The moderating role of perceived anonymity affordance
Previous research has demonstrated that anxiously attached individuals have frustrating dating experiences in face-to-face communication. However, little research has tested the association between attachment anxiety and dating experiences in mediated communication. To fill this gap, we drew upon attachment theory to examine how dating app users’ attachment anxiety is associated with how they feel after using dating apps via their perceived datin…
Networked intimacy via post visibility
Theoretical Distinctions Between Emotion and Cognition Content in Supportive Messages
What constitutes effective supportive message content is a topic of intense interdisciplinary scholarly interest and has palpable real-world implications for individuals’ well-being. Emotion and cognition content are two commonly theorized supportive message forms. Although both are theorized to operate through conversationally induced reappraisal, their relative effects, underlying mediating mechanisms, and boundary conditions for effectiveness …
Re-examining relational pursuit and mate selection in online dating
Having too many online dating options has been theorized to hamper relational pursuit by making people choosier and ponder their options. However, daters do not make a choice just by comparing the value of their mates – they also consider how they will be evaluated by these mates and adapt behaviors accordingly. Therefore, being exposed to a larger option set may instead enhance relational pursuit outcomes by facilitating a compatible match and a…
Stronger Algorithmic Beliefs Were Associated with More Benign Interpretations in Unideal Online Dating Scenarios
Communication scholars have approached heterogeneous experiences in romantic interactions online from the perspective of algorithmic beliefs. People with higher algorithmic beliefs trust more that algorithms can help them find compatible matches in online dating. Such algorithmic beliefs have been theorized to have their effect through the mechanism of self-fulfilling prophecy. The current study offers a more granular test of the underlying cogni…
What Friendship Characteristics Are Associated With Well‐Being Among Unpartnered Individuals in the United States
This paper replicates and extends prior work that demonstrated the general importance of friendships for maintaining well‐being, with a focus on unpartnered/single individuals. Using data from two quota samples of U.S. adults ( N single2022 = 552, N single2023 = 391), we systematically examined how 10 theoretically derived characteristics of single people's friendships are associated with three aspects of well‐being (i.e., life satisfaction, lone…
Understanding availability of comforting support messages from a networked attachment perspective
Drawing upon attachment theory, social network research, and social support research, this paper forwards a networked attachment perspective to understand how verbal comforting support may go undersupply. An initial test of the perspective was conducted with multilevel modeling on data reported by 505 young individuals about themselves and their 2124 friends nested within individuals' ego-centric support networks. Results showed that perceiving g…
A longitudinal analysis of how romantic and friendship involvement are associated with depressive symptoms
People often value romantic relationships more than friendships, believing that the former bring greater psychological enhancement and well-being benefits. Some studies, however, have challenged this belief. Extending these studies, a secondary analysis was conducted using a four-wave longitudinal dataset that spans twenty-two years from adolescence to early midlife. Mixed effects modeling revealed that friendship involvement (i.e., being in clos…
Does Online Dating Make Relationships More Successful? Replication and Extension of a Previous Study
A previous study has found a negative correlation between meeting one’s romantic partner in online dating (vs. offline) and marriage quality through a quota sample of the U.S. population. This current study replicates and extends this previous study by analyzing another sample of the U.S. population from the Pew Research Center ( N = 2,787). Largely consistent with the previous finding, we found that meeting one’s partner in online dating (vs. of…
The affective and relational correlates of algorithmic beliefs among U.S. online daters
Exploring the impact of a ‘confining’ imaginary of user-recommendation systems on platform usage and relationship development among dating app users
Algorithmic recommendation systems (ARM) on dating apps serve users with a personalised feed of profiles from other users based on the inferred preferences of the user being served. Despite concerns linking ARM to problematic dating app use and negative social outcomes, it has been suggested that critical awareness of ARM's limitations, such as that ARM restrict user choice (i.e. a ‘confining’ perception of ARM, or CP-ARM), can mitigate problemat…
Algorithm awareness in online dating
Prior research has produced contradictory findings regarding online daters’ potential to navigate the algorithmic systems to find compatible matches. Drawing upon a structuration algorithm media effects model, we examine whether online daters with a higher level of algorithm awareness experience less online mate-searching difficulty and report more optimism and hope after using online dating services. Analysing data from a national representative…
The relationship between preference for online social interaction and affective well-being via compulsive dating app use
This study examined whether preference for online social interaction (POSI) was related to poorer affective well-being via compulsive dating app use and whether algorithmic beliefs attenuated the negative association between compulsive use and affective well-being. An online survey among Chinese dating app users (N = 361) was conducted. The sample included participants aged 18–60, with the majority (89.47%) falling within the 18–35 age range (M =…
A longitudinal analysis of how romantic and friendship involvement are associated with depressive symptoms
People often value romantic relationships more than friendships, believing that the former bring greater psychological enhancement and well-being benefits. Some studies, however, have challenged this belief. Extending these studies, a secondary analysis was conducted using a four-wave longitudinal dataset that spans twenty-two years from adolescence to early midlife. Mixed effects modeling revealed that friendship involvement (i.e., being in clos…
Understanding availability of comforting support messages from a networked attachment perspective
Drawing upon attachment theory, social network research, and social support research, this paper forwards a networked attachment perspective to understand how verbal comforting support may go undersupply. An initial test of the perspective was conducted with multilevel modeling on data reported by 505 young individuals about themselves and their 2124 friends nested within individuals' ego-centric support networks. Results showed that perceiving g…
The relationship between preference for online social interaction and affective well-being via compulsive dating app use
This study examined whether preference for online social interaction (POSI) was related to poorer affective well-being via compulsive dating app use and whether algorithmic beliefs attenuated the negative association between compulsive use and affective well-being. An online survey among Chinese dating app users (N = 361) was conducted. The sample included participants aged 18–60, with the majority (89.47%) falling within the 18–35 age range (M =…
Does Online Dating Make Relationships More Successful? Replication and Extension of a Previous Study
A previous study has found a negative correlation between meeting one’s romantic partner in online dating (vs. offline) and marriage quality through a quota sample of the U.S. population. This current study replicates and extends this previous study by analyzing another sample of the U.S. population from the Pew Research Center ( N = 2,787). Largely consistent with the previous finding, we found that meeting one’s partner in online dating (vs. of…
The affective and relational correlates of algorithmic beliefs among U.S. online daters
Exploring the impact of a ‘confining’ imaginary of user-recommendation systems on platform usage and relationship development among dating app users
Algorithmic recommendation systems (ARM) on dating apps serve users with a personalised feed of profiles from other users based on the inferred preferences of the user being served. Despite concerns linking ARM to problematic dating app use and negative social outcomes, it has been suggested that critical awareness of ARM's limitations, such as that ARM restrict user choice (i.e. a ‘confining’ perception of ARM, or CP-ARM), can mitigate problemat…
Algorithm awareness in online dating
Prior research has produced contradictory findings regarding online daters’ potential to navigate the algorithmic systems to find compatible matches. Drawing upon a structuration algorithm media effects model, we examine whether online daters with a higher level of algorithm awareness experience less online mate-searching difficulty and report more optimism and hope after using online dating services. Analysing data from a national representative…
Stronger Algorithmic Beliefs Were Associated with More Benign Interpretations in Unideal Online Dating Scenarios
Communication scholars have approached heterogeneous experiences in romantic interactions online from the perspective of algorithmic beliefs. People with higher algorithmic beliefs trust more that algorithms can help them find compatible matches in online dating. Such algorithmic beliefs have been theorized to have their effect through the mechanism of self-fulfilling prophecy. The current study offers a more granular test of the underlying cogni…
What Friendship Characteristics Are Associated With Well‐Being Among Unpartnered Individuals in the United States
This paper replicates and extends prior work that demonstrated the general importance of friendships for maintaining well‐being, with a focus on unpartnered/single individuals. Using data from two quota samples of U.S. adults ( N single2022 = 552, N single2023 = 391), we systematically examined how 10 theoretically derived characteristics of single people's friendships are associated with three aspects of well‐being (i.e., life satisfaction, lone…
Understanding availability of comforting support messages from a networked attachment perspective
Drawing upon attachment theory, social network research, and social support research, this paper forwards a networked attachment perspective to understand how verbal comforting support may go undersupply. An initial test of the perspective was conducted with multilevel modeling on data reported by 505 young individuals about themselves and their 2124 friends nested within individuals' ego-centric support networks. Results showed that perceiving g…
A longitudinal analysis of how romantic and friendship involvement are associated with depressive symptoms
People often value romantic relationships more than friendships, believing that the former bring greater psychological enhancement and well-being benefits. Some studies, however, have challenged this belief. Extending these studies, a secondary analysis was conducted using a four-wave longitudinal dataset that spans twenty-two years from adolescence to early midlife. Mixed effects modeling revealed that friendship involvement (i.e., being in clos…
Are anxiously attached dating app users less successful and feeling worse after use? The moderating role of perceived anonymity affordance
Previous research has demonstrated that anxiously attached individuals have frustrating dating experiences in face-to-face communication. However, little research has tested the association between attachment anxiety and dating experiences in mediated communication. To fill this gap, we drew upon attachment theory to examine how dating app users’ attachment anxiety is associated with how they feel after using dating apps via their perceived datin…
Networked intimacy via post visibility
Theoretical Distinctions Between Emotion and Cognition Content in Supportive Messages
What constitutes effective supportive message content is a topic of intense interdisciplinary scholarly interest and has palpable real-world implications for individuals’ well-being. Emotion and cognition content are two commonly theorized supportive message forms. Although both are theorized to operate through conversationally induced reappraisal, their relative effects, underlying mediating mechanisms, and boundary conditions for effectiveness …
Re-examining relational pursuit and mate selection in online dating
Having too many online dating options has been theorized to hamper relational pursuit by making people choosier and ponder their options. However, daters do not make a choice just by comparing the value of their mates – they also consider how they will be evaluated by these mates and adapt behaviors accordingly. Therefore, being exposed to a larger option set may instead enhance relational pursuit outcomes by facilitating a compatible match and a…
Psychology (10 obras) · Attachment and Relationship Dynamics (9 obras) · Social Psychology (9 obras) · Computer Science (7 obras) · Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior (7 obras) · Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology (5 obras) · Behavioral Health and Interventions (2 obras) · Clinical Psychology (2 obras) · Cognition (2 obras) · Developmental psychology (2 obras)