Compliant, Cynical, or Critical

Zhao, Xu; Haste, Helen; Selman, Robert L.; Luan, Ziyan

doi:10.1177/0044118x14559504

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“…Close friends were also often seen as rivals or enemies in academic competition. Consistently, interviews with individual students as well as focus group discussions with both boys and girls revealed that choosing to mind one's own business (rather than coming to the aid of others in distress or protesting against unfair practices in school and society) was associated with a deep cynicism and a sense of civic powerlessness (Li, Zhao, & Selman, 2013;Zhao, Haste, Selman, & Luan, 2014). Trusting another person is very difficult.…”

Section: Exam-related Stress and Its Debilitating Effects On Chinese mentioning

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Academic stress in Chinese schools and a proposed preventive intervention program

2015

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While American educators fret about the mediocre educational performance of American students in international contests (e.g. the Program for International Student Assessment) and wonder why the Chinese education system produces such high-achieving students, educators, journalists, and public officials in China want to know what causes and how to prevent the high levels of academic stress that Chinese students, their families, and their school systems experience. So far, much of the blame for these toxic levels of stress has been directed to the Gaokao, the Chinese national college entrance exam that takes place in June each year. But to date, top-down Chinese educational reforms have been ineffective in reducing the problem. In this article, we build a case for strengthening bottom-up efforts at the school level in China and propose an evidence-based approach for addressing the challenge of academic stress experienced by Chinese students.

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Section: Exam-related Stress and Its Debilitating Effects On Chinese mentioning

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Academic stress in Chinese schools and a proposed preventive intervention program

2015

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“…China’s is very different from the Western education system. China has the largest number of undergraduate students and the special shared student accommodation, and the fast social changes and high level of social competition dramatically influence young adults in every aspects [27]. Facing the fact that a large proportion of Chinese university students are suffering from poor sleep quality [28] and mental health problems [2], this paper is timely and necessary.…”

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The Role of Sleep Quality in the Psychological Well-Being of Final Year UndergraduateStudents in China

Zhai

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Wang

2018

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There are increasing numbers of university students in China suffering from poor sleep and psychological well-being problems. In particular, the issues are more severe among the final year undergraduate students, because they are experiencing a transitory period from university life to the workplace. However, extant research has rarely explored sleep quality and psychological well-being of final year university students. To better understand the role of sleep quality in psychological well-being, we examined the association between different sleep quality and mental health. Based on a cross-sectional survey of 2495 full-time final year university students in China, we employed multivariable logistic regression to assess association between sleep quality and psychological well-being by controlling for sociodemographic factors such as age, gender, education, marital or relationship status, household conditions, place of birth, study subjects and etc. According to the research results, we can find strong association between sleep quality and psychological well-being. Having normal sleep quality is associated with lower level of psychological well-being problems. By contrast, poor sleep quality is associated with high level of negative psychological well-being. Poor sleep quality has higher potency than normal sleep quality due to negative bias. Among covariates, age, gender and education have significant effects on psychological well-being.

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“…People, especially youth, have civic engagement intentions in China; however, the lack of participation opportunities made them turn to moderate issues with less radical action forms, and online collective actions with less political appeals have become the important participation form (G. Yang, 2009;Y. Yang, 2022;X. Zhao et al, 2017).…”

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Civic Engagement Intention and the Data-Driven Fan Community: Investigating the Motivation Behind Chinese Fans’ Online Data-Making Behavior From a Collective Action Perspective

2023

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Enabled by social media, the data frenzy in the data-driven fandom culture in China has attracted widespread attention. Unlike most forms of data labor and fan activities, Chinese fans’ online data-making behavior ( zuoshuju) appears tedious, time- and money-consuming, and overwhelmingly irrational. Therefore, this study aimed to examine the sociopsychological motivation of fans’ online data-making behavior from a collective action perspective. Based on survey data from 588 respondents with fandom experiences online in China, this study (1) distinguished two types of online data-making (operational and monetary); (2) suggested that celebrity worship and civic engagement intention were antecedents of online data-making; and (3) found that fan communities facilitated by social media bridged the effects of sociopsychological factors and data-making behavior. This research introduced the collective action perspective and constructed a quantitative path model to test the underlying mechanism and impetus of fans’ data-making practices in China, adding quantitative support to the knowledge of the hybrid pattern of collective actions embedded in the datafication world. It contributes to the understanding of Chinese youth culture and civic engagement through social media.

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Compliant, Cynical, or Critical

Cited by 12 publications

References 29 publications

Academic stress in Chinese schools and a proposed preventive intervention program

Academic stress in Chinese schools and a proposed preventive intervention program

The Role of Sleep Quality in the Psychological Well-Being of Final Year UndergraduateStudents in China

Civic Engagement Intention and the Data-Driven Fan Community: Investigating the Motivation Behind Chinese Fans’ Online Data-Making Behavior From a Collective Action Perspective

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