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  • Examining Chinese students’ Internet use and cross-cultural adaptation: does loneliness speak much?

    • Authors: Ying Wang; Shaojing Sun (2009)

  • Guided by uses and gratifications theory and prior research on cross-cultural adaptation (CCA), this article investigated how loneliness influenced Chinese students’ Internet use and CCA. The results showed that chronically lonely, situationally lonely and non-lonely groups were significantly different in their motives for Internet use. Non-lonely Chinese students were more likely to use the Internet for acculturation and less likely to use it for passing time and companionship than did chronically lonely Chinese students. Moreover, lone-liness was a significant negative predictor of both sociocultural adaptation and psychological adaptation. Consistent with previous research on CCA, ...
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  • News use, nationalism, and Internet use motivations as predictors of anti-Japanese political actions in China

    • Authors: Ki Deuk Hyun; Jinhee Kim; Shaojing Sun (2014)

  • Although the rise of nationalistic activism in the Chinese online sphere has drawn much scholarly attention, few studies have examined how nationalism, usages, and motivations of the Internet affect nationalistic actions among general Internet users in China. Using Sino-Japanese diplomatic disputes as a testing ground, this study investigates the effects of news use from traditional and new media, nationalistic attitudes, and motivations for Internet use on anti-Japanese political behaviors such as boycotting and protest participation. Analyses of online survey data revealed that nationalism is positively correlated with information-seeking and social-interaction motivations for Inter...
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  • Self-construal and natural disaster coverage: how self perception influences psychological intrusion and concern for others

    • Authors: Shaojing Sun; Andy J. Merolla; Mihye Seo; Shuangyue Zhang (2013)

  • Individuals can be personally affected, and motivated to empathize with victims, when viewing television coverage of natural disasters. This study examined how individuals’ independent and interdependent self-construals influence how they view and respond to disaster coverage. The findings demonstrated that inter-dependent and independent self-construals had significant effects on individuals’ self-reported psychological intrusion and concern for victims. Additionally, TV viewing motives (i.e., instrumental and ritualized) were found to mediate the relationship between interdependent self-construal and personal responses.