This research note investigates the association between mobile payment adoption and
happiness. We employ the conditional mixed process model to address the selection bias …

Purpose This paper aims to understand how virtual influencers (VIs) can promote interethnic
tolerance, online, among youth as a social good. Design/methodology/approach This paper …

Social media has emerged as a robust medium for discourses on sexuality given its capacity
to challenge mainstream narratives and empower personal views on self-expression. In …

Introduction Studies have identified an association between Internet use frequency and
users' attitudes toward homosexuality. According to the uses and gratifications perspective …

Earlier literature studies the relationship between Internet use and individual tolerance, but
little research explores these links in the context of China. This article analyzes the impact of …

Initiating a romantic relationship is an important developmental task in emerging adulthood.
Previous research has shown a negative association between insecure attachment (such as …

Introduction Public attitudes toward consensual same-sex relations are crucial to lesbians'
and gay men's rights and society's well-being, but research addressing this topic in China is …

Objective Within the context of rapid sociocultural transformation in Chinese society over
recent decades, exploring intergenerational disparities in attitudes toward non-conventional …

Despite sexual orientation not being classified as a mental disorder, homosexual behavior
remains the object of discrimination by society. Many people in the world consider it deviant …

Background The internet has become ubiquitous in contemporary human life. However, little
is known about the association between internet use and older people's aging process …