Publications by authors named "Weiqi Mu"

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  • Evidence suggests that addictive social media use negatively impacts marital satisfaction among older couples by reducing time and focus on each other.
  • This study involved 264 older couples and examined the effects of short-video platform usage on emotional well-being and relationship quality.
  • Findings reveal that addictive use by wives affects both their own and their husbands' emotions and satisfaction, while husbands' usage mainly impacts their own emotional state and satisfaction.
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Using 318 household data concerning children during middle childhood (8-13), we examined the association among each parent's marital satisfaction, the child's perceived family functioning, and the child's anxiety and depression. Second, we investigated whether the other parent could buffer or facilitate this chain effect by co-viewing programs via various devices with their child so as to improve the child's perceived family functioning. Results verified the mediation effect that maternal marital satisfaction was positively associated with the child's perceived family functioning, which, in turn, decreased the child's depression.

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The COVID-19 pandemic severely hit small and micro-businesses. In the face of the impact of the pandemic, how to help entrepreneurs, especially small- and micro-businesses that are more sensitive to the impact of the pandemic, make decisions to reduce losses has become an issue worth paying attention to. From the perspective of personality approach, this article studied openness, which is the strongest predictor of entrepreneurial performance among the big five personality traits, and explored the impact of entrepreneurs' openness on entrepreneurial performance during the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as the inconsistent mediating role of strategic decision comprehensiveness on entrepreneurial performance.

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Filling out long questionnaires can be frustrating, unpleasant, and discouraging for respondents to continue. This is why shorter forms of long instruments are preferred, especially when they have comparable reliability and validity. In present study, two short forms of the Cross-cultural (Chinese) Personality Assessment Inventory (CPAI-2) were developed and validated.

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The personality of entrepreneurs is associated with their entrepreneurial success, and the regional personality plays a crucial role in the entrepreneurial ecosystem. Recently, scholars have called for an indigenous personality perspective and combining the personality of entrepreneurs with the regional personality. The current study aimed to investigate the indigenous Confucian personality (e.

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Background: A pandemic is a very stressful event, especially for highly vulnerable people (e.g., older adults).

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First-year college students' adaptation problems and related mental health have attracted researchers' attention. The current research focuses on the depressive symptoms of first-year college students and aims to explore the relationship between the neuroticism trait and depressive symptoms, the mediating effect of addictive use of social media, and the moderating effect of psychological resilience. Three-wave longitudinal data from 1128 first-year students at a university in Fujian Province, China, were collected within three months of their enrollment.

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