Firing the Monk when the Ceremony is Over: A Study on the Split Between Student Protesters and their Leaders after the 2014 Umbrella Movement

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christian Shaunlyn Chan ◽  
Christy Wong ◽  
Alan YC Fan
Keyword(s):  
Logistic Regression ◽  
Hong Kong ◽  
Indirect Effect ◽  
Mediation Analysis ◽  
Psychological Factors ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Group Identification ◽  
Perceived Competence ◽  
Mediation Effects ◽  
The Relationship

The Anti-Extradition Bill Movement of 2019 has caught the attention of international headlines by being a large-scale leaderless movement. This leaderless feature may have spawned from the aftermath of the 2014 Umbrella Movement, soon after which, university students voted to disaffiliate with its leadership, the Hong Kong Federation of Students. We conducted a study to examine the psychological factors that contributed to such disaffiliation, including perceived integrity-based trustworthiness and perceived competence-based trustworthiness. We tested their mediation effects on the relationship between group identification with the movement protesters and the corresponding voting decision in disaffiliation with the leader. This study recruited voters in a referendum at a university in Hong Kong to decide on its fate with the Federation of Students (N = 113). Results of ordinal logistic regression suggest that lower perceived integrity-based trustworthiness and perceived competence-based trustworthiness significantly predicted voting decision to disaffiliate with the leader. Mediation analysis with bootstrapping found a significant indirect effect of voters’ group identification with UM protesters on voting decision through perceived integrity, but not perceived competence.

scholarly journals Secular and religious volunteering among immigrants and natives in Denmark

2017 ◽  
Vol 61 (2) ◽  
pp. 202-218 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hans-Peter Y Qvist
Keyword(s):  
Logistic Regression ◽  
Intergenerational Transmission ◽  
Indirect Effect ◽  
Mediation Analysis ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Economic Status ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Self Rated Health ◽  
Socio Economic Status ◽  
The Social

During the last 20–30 years Western societies have witnessed large scale migration from the Global South. This has given rise to important challenges in securing the social, civic and political integration of non-Western immigrants into Western societies. Previous research has suggested that participation in volunteering in civil society can serve as a ‘stepping stone’ towards integration for immigrants. Whilst the previous studies have shown marked gaps in the propensity to participate in volunteering between immigrants and natives, little work has been done to identify the mechanisms that explain these gaps. In this study, high-quality survey data, linked with data from administrative registers, are used, with the application of logistic regression based on the Karlson–Holm–Breen method to conduct mediation analysis. The mediation analysis shows that non-Western immigrants are significantly less likely to participate in secular volunteering compared to natives; however, over half of this gap is explained by an indirect effect via socio-economic status, self-rated health, generalized trust, informal social networks and the intergenerational transmission of volunteering. Moreover, the mediation analysis suggests that non-Western immigrants are more likely to participate in religious volunteering: this is completely explained by a strong indirect effect occurring via religiosity.

Loneliness as a Predictor of Work Disability Onset Among Nondisabled, Working Older Adults in 14 Countries

2019 ◽  
Vol 32 (7-8) ◽  
pp. 554-563 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zachary A. Morris
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Logistic Regression ◽  
Mediation Analysis ◽  
Work Disability ◽  
Multivariate Logistic Regression ◽  
Work Limitations ◽  
Disablement Process ◽  
Health Aging ◽  
Future Work ◽  
The Relationship

Objective: The objective of this study is to examine the relationship between loneliness and work disability and whether depression mediates the hypothesized relationship. Method: We draw on data from the 2013 and 2015 waves of the Survey of Health, Aging, and Retirement in Europe. We limited the sample to adults between the ages of 50 and 65 who were working and without work limitations in 2013, which consisted of 10,154 adults from 14 countries. We apply multivariate logistic regression and a binary mediation analysis with logistic regression to examine predictors of the onset of work disability in 2015. Results: Loneliness was predictive of future work disability onset when adjusting for other factors in the disablement process. Depression partly mediated the longitudinal relationship between loneliness and work disability. Discussion: The results indicate that addressing loneliness could mitigate the risk of depression and, in turn, work disability onset.

Gross Motor Skills and School Day Physical Activity: Mediating Effect of Perceived Competence

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 287-300 ◽  
Author(s):  
You Fu ◽  
Ryan D. Burns
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
Motor Skills ◽  
Mediation Analysis ◽  
Sixth Grade ◽  
Perceived Competence ◽  
Gross Motor ◽  
Gross Motor Skills ◽  
Motivational Constructs ◽  
School Day ◽  
The Relationship

The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between gross motor skills and school day steps per minute, testing various motivational constructs as potential mediators. A convenience sample of 66 sixth-grade children (mean age = 11.6 ± 0.5 years; 30 boys, 36 girls) were recruited from one public “Zoom” school. Gross motor skills were assessed using the Test for Gross Motor Development-3rd Edition. Motivational constructs were assessed using a series of validated questionnaires. Children wore a pedometer for one school week. A bootstrap mediation analysis was employed using gross motor skills scores as the predictor variable and steps per minute as the outcome variable; the motivational constructs consisted of perceived competence, enjoyment, and self-efficacy as potential mediators. The results from a bootstrap mediation analysis yielded a statistically significant average causal mediation effect (ACME) using perceived competence as the mediator (ACME = 0.022, 95% CI [0.001, 0.054], p = .018). Perceived competence mediated 30.8% of the total effect between gross motor skill scores and steps per minute, with the entire model explaining approximately 13.6% of the variance. The relationship between gross motor skills and school day physical activity may be mediated through perceived competence in sixth-grade children.

scholarly journals Higher Incidence of Atrial Fibrillation in Left Ventricular-to-Right Atrial Shunt Patients

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hongda Chou ◽  
Hongxia Chen ◽  
Juan Xie ◽  
Aiqing Xu ◽  
Guanyu Mu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Atrial Fibrillation ◽  
Logistic Regression ◽  
Mediation Analysis ◽  
Left Ventricular ◽  
Right Atrial ◽  
Tertiary Center ◽  
Atrial Shunt ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Right Atrial Area ◽  
Atrial Area

Background: The possible association between atrial fibrillation (AF) and left ventricular-to-right atrial shunt (LVRAS) has never been reported yet. The present study investigated the incidence of AF in LVRAS.Methods: This was a retrospective study of consecutive patients undergoing echocardiography at a single tertiary center. Clinical data, laboratory results and echocardiography parameters such as right atrial area (RAA), right ventricular end diastolic diameter (RVDD) and left atrial diameter (LAD) were compared between LVRAS group and non-LVRAS patients, and between AF and non-AF patients. Propensity score matching was performed to decrease the effect of confounders. Logistic regression analysis and mediation analysis were used to estimate the relationship between LVRAS and AF.Results: A total of 3,436 patients were included, and the incidence of LVRAS was 1.16% (n = 40). The LVRAS group had significantly larger RAA, RVDD and LAD compared with non-LVRAS group. Those who suffered from AF showed larger RAA, RVDD and LAD compared with those who maintained sinus rhythm. Multivariable logistic regression showed that gender (OR: 0.608), age (OR: 1.048), LAD (OR: 1.111), mean pulmonary artery blood pressure (mPAP, OR: 1.023), TR (OR: 2.309) and LVRAS (OR: 12.217) were significant factors for AF. RAA could partially mediate the relationship between LVRAS and AF according to the result of mediation analysis.Conclusions: Our study suggested that LVRAS, TR, LAD, mPAP, age and male were risk factors for AF. RA enlargement might underlie mechanism in the higher incidence of AF in LVRAS patients. These findings should be confirmed in larger prospective studies.

The relationship between the age at first computer use and students' perceived competence and autonomy in ICT usage: A mediation analysis

2019 ◽  
Vol 141 ◽  
pp. 103614 ◽  
Author(s):  
Libor Juhaňák ◽  
Jiří Zounek ◽  
Klára Záleská ◽  
Ondřej Bárta ◽  
Kristýna Vlčková
Keyword(s):  
Mediation Analysis ◽  
Computer Use ◽  
Perceived Competence ◽  
The Relationship

Humor Styles, Self-Esteem, and Subjective Happiness

2014 ◽  
Vol 115 (2) ◽  
pp. 517-525 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiao Dong Yue ◽  
Katy Wing-Yin Liu ◽  
Feng Jiang ◽  
Neelam Arjan Hiranandani
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Subjective Happiness ◽  
Humor Styles ◽  
Mediation Effects ◽  
Future Studies ◽  
Subjective Happiness Scale ◽  
Aggressive Humor ◽  
The Relationship

This study examined how humor styles could mediate the effect of self-esteem on subjective happiness. 227 Hong Kong undergraduate students completed the Humor Styles Questionnaire, the Roxsenberg Self-esteem Scale, and the Subjective Happiness Scale. Results showed adaptive humor styles (affiliative humor and self-enhancing humor) significantly predicted self-esteem and subjective happiness and mediated the relationship between self-esteem and subjective happiness. Maladaptive humor styles (aggressive humor and self-defeating humor) did not strongly predict self-esteem or subjective happiness. The mediation effects of humor styles found in the present research provided useful suggestions for future studies.

Unravelling the Relation Between Fear of Missing Out, Time Spent on the Phone, Sex, Alienation, and Nomophobia

2021 ◽  
pp. 003329412110434
Author(s):  
Zeynep Oznur Ergin ◽  
Arif Ozer
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Indirect Effect ◽  
Mediation Analysis ◽  
Personal Information ◽  
Direct Effects ◽  
Social Alienation ◽  
Fear Of Missing Out ◽  
Bivariate Correlation ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Academic Year

The prevalence of nomophobia is growing among adolescents. This study aimed to disentangle the relationship between nomophobia, the fear of missing out, time spent on the phone, sex, and social alienation. Participants, who were 595 students (313 females and 282 males) attending high school during the 2019–2020 academic year, filled out personal information forms and a series of scales involving nomophobia, the fear of missing out, and social alienation. Then, data were analyzed through a moderated mediation analysis. The results showed that the bivariate correlation was significant but not the direct effect of gender on nomophobia; still, other direct effects were significant. The partial indirect effect of the fear of missing out on nomophobia was only significant for females when social alienation was controlled for. In the model where nomophobia was the outcome model, the power values for the time spent on the phone and its interaction with sex were low but high for other factors. Furthermore, the effect size was small for the model where the mediator was the outcome and high for the model that had nomophobia as the outcome. Thus, it is crucial to consider that the motives underlying the fear of missing out and nomophobia differ between the sexes in planning interventions.

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