Publications by authors named "Shue Zhang"
Background: Digital leadership might be an innovative approach to decreasing the elevated rates of anxiety and depression symptoms among medical professionals, while also enhancing their psychological well-being. This emerging pathway may offer promising strategies to support the mental health of medical professionals. This study seeks to investigate the association among digital leadership, organizational identity, family-work conflict, and anxiety and depression symptoms, and further to uncover the underlying moderating mechanisms interplay.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Depressive symptoms and multimorbidity are global public health concerns, the relationship between the two variables remains unclear. This study was an intervention attempt through the lens of regional relational culture to identify and reduce adverse consequences of this relationship. We aimed to explore the prevalence of multimorbidity and depressive symptoms among older Chinese adults, the association between the two variables, and the underlying moderating mechanism.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: This study aimed to identify distinct trends among Chinese residents based on their health-related quality of life (HR-QoL) outcomes and to analyze the demographic characteristics that contribute to these trends.
Materials And Methods: The study conducted latent class analysis using baseline data obtained from a survey of health service utilization behaviors (from July to December 2016) among residents of Hubei Province, China (N = 1517). Latent classes were used to implement the HR-QoL grouping of different trends among the respondents.
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- Transformational leadership is crucial for enhancing the competitiveness, adaptability, and sustainability of medical organizations, influenced by individual, organizational, and environmental factors.
- A study conducted through an online questionnaire of 31 core hospital leaders used fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA) to identify factors contributing to high-level transformational leadership, noting professional background, critical thinking, and initiative spirit, among others.
- The findings reveal that an "initiative spirit" is essential for achieving high-level transformational leadership, highlighting the need for proactive core leaders and the importance of tailoring management practices to different professional backgrounds for effective leadership development.
Background: Medical students face a heavy burden as they are tasked with acquiring a vast amount of medical knowledge within a limited time frame. Self-directed learning (SDL) has become crucial for efficient and ongoing learning among medical students. However, effective ways to foster SDL ability among Chinese medical students are lacking, and limited studies have identified factors that impact the SDL ability of medical students.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: The competing interests of the government, smart senior care technology service providers, and older adults have led to a serious fragmentation of governance in China. This study aims to identify the collaboration mechanisms and evolutionary stabilization strategies for these agents.
Methods: An evolutionary game model is developed to analyze the strategic decisions made by the government, smart senior care technology service providers, and older adults.
Purpose: This cross-sectional study aims to assess the level of academic burnout among Chinese medical students during the controlled COVID-19 pandemic and identify the potential demographic factors affecting academic burnout. It also explored the relationship between career calling, family functioning, resource support, and academic burnout, as well as investigated whether family functioning and resource support could moderate the relationship between career calling and academic burnout among Chinese medical students.
Methods: The study was conducted in five Chinese cities in 2021.
Aim: To clarify the mediating role of burnout and the moderating role of turnover intention in the association between fatigue and job satisfaction among Chinese nurses in intensive care units (ICU) during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Methods: A cross-sectional survey of fifteen provinces in China was conducted, using an online questionnaire, from December 2020 to January 2021, during the COVID-19 pandemic. A total of 374 ICU nurses (effective response rate: 71.
Objectives: This study assesses the style of tutor-postgraduate interactions in Chinese medical colleges and explores the association between postgraduates' demographic factors and tutors' demographic characteristics.
Methods: With the stratified sampling method, a cross-sectional online survey was used. A total of 813 medical postgraduates were recruited as participants, with an effective response rate of 85.
Purpose: The COVID-19 pandemic sets specific circumstances that may accelerate academic procrastination behavior of medical students. Career calling is a protective factor that fights against academic procrastination and may further improve medical students' mental health and academic achievement. This study aims to determine the status of Chinese medical students' academic procrastination during controlled COVID-19 pandemic.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: Recently, Chinese ministries and commissions have issued a series of policies and systems in response to violent injuries to doctors, physical violence have been managed to a certain extent. However, verbal violence has not been deterred and is still prevalent, it has not received appropriate attention. This study thus aimed to assess the impact of verbal violence on the organisational level and identify its risk factors among healthcare workers, so as to provide practical methods for verbal violence reduction and treatment of the complete period.
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- This study explored how proactive personality, psychological safety, and academic self-efficacy relate to critical thinking in Chinese medical students.
- It involved a large sample of 5,920 students across four universities, using questionnaires to gather data on these variables and employing regression analysis to understand their interconnections.
- Results indicated that both psychological safety and academic self-efficacy significantly moderated the relationship between proactive personality and critical thinking, suggesting that enhancing these factors could improve critical thinking skills among medical students.
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- Chinese physicians face significant physical and verbal attacks, which stem from poor relationships with patients, prompting this study to evaluate perceived intergroup threats and their impact on physicians' psychological well-being during COVID-19.
- An online survey conducted with 604 physicians across three provinces in China yielded 423 valid responses, helping to create a 25-item intergroup threat scale focusing on four key dimensions related to perceived threats.
- The results indicate high levels of perceived threats among physicians are linked to increased psychological stress, emotional exhaustion, and intention to leave their jobs, while negatively affecting job satisfaction and overall well-being.
Background: Nurses working in the intensive care unit (ICU) clung tenaciously to their job during the COVID-19 pandemic in spite of enduring stressed psychological and physical effects as a result of providing nursing care for the infected patients, which indicates that they possessed a high degree of professionalism and career calling. The aim of this study was to explain the associations between resilience, thriving at work, and ethical leadership influencing the calling of ICU nurses.
Methods: From December 2020 to January 2021 during the COVID-19 pandemic, a cross-sectional survey of 15 provinces in China was conducted using an online questionnaire.
Purpose: This study aims to 1) investigate inhabitants' perceptions of doctors' inconsiderate behaviors during diagnosis and treatment, 2) explore the factors influencing inhabitants' attitudes toward doctors' professional reputation, and 3) examine the status of doctors' inconsiderate behaviors and inhabitants' attitudes and behaviors toward these doctors in China.
Patients And Methods: A cross-sectional online survey was conducted with 2050 participants from over 30 Chinese cities, from March to June 2018. In total, 1598 valid questionnaires were obtained (with an effective response rate of 77.
Background: Boosting the individual learning passion of medical students is a novel approach to improve their academic performance. It facilitates the medical education reform, motivating both policymakers and educators to focus on the function of positive psychology in the career development of medical students. Therefore, this study aimed (1) to assess the status of two types of learning passion; (2) to clarify the relationship between self-esteem and two types of learning passion among Chinese medical students; (3) to examine the mediating role of psychological capital (PsyCap) in the relationship between self-esteem and two types of learning passion, respectively; and (4) to identify the moderating role of professional identity in the relationship between PsyCap and two types of learning passion, respectively.
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- * The research involved a survey of 764 older adults from three provinces in China, measuring self-perceived stigma, attitudes toward aging, traditional values, and their effects on quality of life.
- * Findings indicate that higher self-perceived stigma and negative attitudes toward aging correlate with lower quality of life, with traditionality amplifying this relationship.
To investigate the prevalence of burnout syndrome among Chinese female nurses during the controlled coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) period and explore its associated socio-demographic factors and job characteristics. With the multistage, stratified sampling method, a cross-sectional online survey was conducted from September to October 2020 in China. The survey tool included revised Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI) with 15 items, socio-demographic and job characteristics.
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- * Conducted in 2019, it involved 3,511 students completing an online survey that measured demographic factors, mobile phone use, procrastination, and academic performance.
- * Results indicated that addiction and procrastination were both prevalent and negatively correlated with learning dedication and performance, suggesting a need for better learning environments to address these issues.
Objectives: The current study aimed to evaluate the status quo of perceived job demands and resources respectively among Chinese doctors, to examine the mediating role of work-family conflicts in the relationship between perceived job demands and various indicators of well-being, and to test the mediating role of psychological attachment in the relationship between perceived job resources and thriving at work among Chinese doctors.
Design: A cross-sectional online survey study.
Setting: Online questionnaires were administered across 30 provinces.
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- * The findings revealed that nurses had high levels of CSs, with caring, self-control, and inquisitiveness being the most prominent traits, and these strengths significantly influenced their stress levels and health outcomes.
- * The results suggest that psychological stress partially mediates the relationship between CSs and health, highlighting the need for strength-based interventions in hospitals to improve the well-being of healthcare professionals.
Objectives: This study assesses the status of public service motivation and explains it's the positive association with public cooperation during the initial stage of the COVID-19 crisis. Moreover, potential causes of Chinese citizens' public service motivation have been explored.
Methods: A cross-sectional survey of 30 provinces in China was conducted using an online questionnaire.
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- Learning motivation is crucial for medical education quality and affects student performance and well-being.
- A study surveyed 3,511 medical students in China, examining their achievement goal orientations and how these relate to academic performance and well-being.
- Results indicated that mastery goals positively impact student performance and well-being, suggesting that focusing on achievement goal orientations could enhance both academic outcomes and overall student health.
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- The study explores the "Chaxu atmosphere" in Chinese nursing, which refers to the complex emotional dynamics between nurses and their leaders, and its potential negative impact on workplace behavior.
- Researchers conducted a survey with 1,740 nurses to investigate how the Chaxu atmosphere influences organizational responsibility behavior through feelings of envy and silence.
- Results showed that while the Chaxu atmosphere didn't directly affect nurses' responsibility behavior, it led to increased envy and silence, both of which contributed to a decline in their organizational responsibility.