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Wang Q, Liu X, Zhang C. Evolutionary game analysis of FinTech transformation: A social co-governance pattern of peer-to-peer lending market in China. Front Psychol 2022; 13:954132. [PMID: 36571022 PMCID: PMC9769221 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.954132] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/27/2022] [Accepted: 11/08/2022] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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Benign exit has become the main theme of the transformation in China's peer-to-peer (P2P) lending industry. To protect the interests of investors in the benign exit process, this paper proposes a social co-governance pattern using a tripartite evolutionary game model to capture the behavior strategies of P2P lending platforms, investors, and financial regulators. The results demonstrate that there are four evolutionary stable strategies for the game model, among which the positive disposal of P2P lending platforms, the participation of the investors, and the co-governance policy of financial regulators is the optimal strategy in the benign exit process. The results also show that the initial proportion of P2P lending platforms, investors, and financial regulators would significantly affect the convergence speed of the evolutionary stable strategy. The proposed social co-governance pattern would effectively safeguard the interests of investors if incentive, penalty, and reputation mechanisms are well-designed. This paper provides in-depth implications for protecting investors' interests in the transformation of the P2P lending industry and enhancing the sustainable development of the FinTech industry.
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Wu L, Qin K, Chen X. Responsibility of citizens in food safety social co-governance in the context of China. Front Public Health 2022; 10:962629. [PMID: 35983356 PMCID: PMC9378987 DOI: 10.3389/fpubh.2022.962629] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/06/2022] [Accepted: 07/18/2022] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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Objective This study aims to identify all actors that hold some responsibility for ensuring food safety based on the complete food supply chain in the context of China's current circumstances. Methods The study was conducted among citizens in Wuxi, Jiangsu, China. All citizens fully understood the purpose of the study and voluntarily agreed to participate. From December 10 to 14, 2020, a total of 398 valid samples were collected by the researchers using a structured questionnaire. Survey data were assessed using best–worst scaling and a mixed logit model from the perspective of citizen responsibility. Results In descending order, responsibility for ensuring food safety goes from food producers and traders (including producers, distributors, and retailers) to the government, social organizations, news media, and finally to citizens. Food producers and traders are the actors who should take the greatest responsibility, whereas citizens bear the least responsibility. Conclusion The responsibility of citizens in food safety co-governance should be recognized but it should not be arbitrarily extended.
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- Linhai Wu
- Institute for Food Safety Risk Management, School of Business, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, China
- School of Business, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, China
- *Correspondence: Linhai Wu
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- School of Business, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, China
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- Institute for Food Safety Risk Management, School of Business, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, China
- School of Business, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, China
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Li J, Xu C, Huang L. Evolutionary Game Analysis of the Social Co-governance of E-Commerce Intellectual Property Protection. Front Psychol 2022; 13:832743. [PMID: 35282263 PMCID: PMC8916480 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.832743] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/10/2021] [Accepted: 01/24/2022] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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By introducing the theory of social co-governance into the field of e-commerce intellectual property protection, this paper builds an evolutionary game model among the government, e-commerce platforms, and rights holders, and studies the conditions under the stakeholders form a stable equilibrium state under different constraints. Combined with numerical simulation, the influence of individual factors and factor combinations on the system stability is analyzed. Results shows that: Strictly controlling the action costs and response costs of all parties can enhance their willingness to actively deal with infringement issues; reasonable adjustment of the reward and punishment measures of government supervisory agencies can produce sufficient reverse shock and positive guidance to platform and operators; penalties should be imposed on government supervisory agencies that are not sufficiently supervised; strengthen the construction of the social environment for intellectual property protection, improve the social benefits of actively responding to infringement issues, and increase the sense of acquisition by the government, platforms and rights holders. And it provides certain positive references and suggestions for the government to formulate relevant policies.
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- Ji Li
- School of Management, Shanghai University, Shanghai, China
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- Shanghai International College of Intellectual Property, Tongji University, Shanghai, China
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- School of Fintech, Shanghai Lixin University of Accounting and Finance, Shanghai, China
- *Correspondence: Lufei Huang
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Chen X, Qin K, Wu L. Citizen Characteristics and Their Participation in Food Safety Social Co-governance: Public Health Implications. Front Public Health 2021; 9:772117. [PMID: 34900916 PMCID: PMC8652086 DOI: 10.3389/fpubh.2021.772117] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/07/2021] [Accepted: 10/21/2021] [Indexed: 12/02/2022] Open
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Objective: Given that positive psychological capital motivates citizens to actively participate in social affairs, this study aims to provide insight into food safety risk management in China by empirically determining which individual characteristics are associated with positive psychological capital for actively participating in social co-governance. Methods: A questionnaire-based survey was undertaken between December 5 and 10, 2020. The study participants were residents of Wuxi in China over the age of 18 years. A validated and pretested questionnaires was used to elicit responses with the participants. Student's t-test and one-way analysis of variance were performed to determine which individual characteristics are significantly correlated with the psychological capital of citizens who participate in co-governance. Post-hoc multiple comparisons were performed for each individual characteristic with a significant correlation to determine which categories of these characteristics yielded the significant differences. Study data were analyzed using IBM SPSS Statistics 24.0. Results: A total of 752 completed responses were received. Most respondents were females (52.39%), aged 26–45 (66.09%), married (70.48%), company employees (44.28%), and in good health (89.76%). Most had a household size of 3 (55.98%), a bachelor's degree (40.96%), a personal annual income of more than 100,000 yuan (26.46%), and no children aged under 18 (50.27%) or pregnant women (93.22%) in their households. Data analysis indicated that education, income, and health status significantly associate with the psychological capital of citizens to participate in co-governance. Citizens with high education, high income, and good health status have higher psychological capital to participate in co-governance. Conclusion: The present study suggested citizens are likely to actively participate in food safety social co-governance only when they have at least one of the following three characteristics: (1) higher than average income in their city of residence; (2) a bachelor's degree or higher education; or (3) good health. Therefore, motivating citizens to participate in co-governance is a long-term process in China. The fundamental strategy is to increase the income of citizens, especially among low-income groups, promote education to improve the food safety literacy of the public, and improve sanitation and public health.
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- Xiujuan Chen
- School of Business, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, China.,Institute for Food Safety Risk Management, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, China
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- School of Business, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, China
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- School of Business, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, China.,Institute for Food Safety Risk Management, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, China
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Palacios-Ceña D, Fernández-Peña R, Ortega-López A, Fernández-Feito A, Bautista-Villaécija O, Rodrigo-Pedrosa O, Arnau-Sánchez J, Lizcano-Álvarez Á. Long-Term Care Facilities and Nursing Homes during the First Wave of the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Scoping Review of the Perspectives of Professionals, Families and Residents. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH 2021; 18:10099. [PMID: 34639401 PMCID: PMC8508277 DOI: 10.3390/ijerph181910099] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/26/2021] [Revised: 09/19/2021] [Accepted: 09/21/2021] [Indexed: 01/24/2023]
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The COVID-19 pandemic has had significant repercussions for nursing home residents, their families, and professionals. The objective was to describe the perspectives of residents, their families, and nursing home employees during the COVID-19 pandemic. A scoping review was carried out using the PRISMA Extension for Scoping Reviews. The inclusion criteria were: qualitative and/or mixed methods studies in English, French, Portuguese, and Spanish. The review covers studies published from 11 March 2020 to 15 February 2021. CINAHL, PubMed, Web of Science, ScienceDirect, Scopus, British Nursing Index, Proquest, PsycInfo, and Google Scholar databases were used. We conducted a systematic narrative synthesis, presenting the results narratively and showing descriptive statistics on the studies reviewed. Sixteen documents were obtained from 175 results. Two studies focused on residents and one on their families. The remaining studies looked at professionals. Nursing homes had great difficulty managing resources, which was exacerbated by emotional exhaustion among residents, employees, and family members. In nursing homes, creative initiatives and new forms of leadership appeared to meet emerging needs during the pandemic. The results of the study show the impact of the pandemic on nursing homes and the response capacity present among residents, family members, and professionals.
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- Domingo Palacios-Ceña
- Humanities and Qualitative Research in Health Science Research Group, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos (Hum&QRinHS), 28922 Alcorcón, Spain;
- Department of Physical Therapy, Occupational Therapy, Physical Medicine, and Rehabilitation, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, 28922 Alcorcón, Spain
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- Faculty of Nursing, Universidad de Cantabria, 39008 Santander, Spain;
- Nursing Research Group, IDIVAL, 39011 Santander, Spain
- SALBIS Research Group, University of León, 24071 León, Spain
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- Hospital Universitario Virgen de la Victoria de Málaga, 29010 Málaga, Spain;
- Instituto de Investigación Biomédica de Málaga-IBIMA, 29010 Málaga, Spain
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- Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universidad de Oviedo, 33006 Oviedo, Spain
- Nursing Research Group, Health Research Institute of Asturias (ISPA), 33011 Oviedo, Spain
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- Directorate General of Health Planning, Research, Pharmacy and Citizen Services, Murcia Region Health Counseling, 30071 Murcia, Spain;
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- Department of Nursing and Stomatology, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, 28922 Alcorcón, Spain;
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Huang GQ, Lin KL. Well-Designed Food Governance as Psychological Mechanism of Consumer Perceptions in the Context of Tourism Poverty Alleviation. Front Psychol 2021; 11:590816. [PMID: 33679495 PMCID: PMC7928344 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.590816] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/03/2020] [Accepted: 12/14/2020] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Poverty is a challenge leading to food insecurity in people's minds. This article discusses food governance as a psychological mechanism to facilitate the sense of wellness in people's minds in the context of tourism poverty alleviation. Mainly, we argue that, when a government is implementing tourism poverty alleviation, not only are economic efforts, but also positive psychological feelings are required. We, thus, argue that sound food governance may increase the sense of wellness in the minds of people as food consumers by increasing food safety and security. This perspective paper contributes by explicating the influences of macrolevel governance design of safer and more secure food systems on people's psychological wellness, especially against the background of tourism poverty alleviation in developing countries.
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- Guo-Qing Huang
- College of Economic and Management, Southwest University, Chongqing, China
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Meng C, Sun L, Guo X, Wu M, Wang Y, Yang L, Peng B. Development and Validation of a Questionnaire on Consumer Psychological Capital in Food Safety Social Co-governance. Front Psychol 2021; 11:584810. [PMID: 33488452 PMCID: PMC7817848 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.584810] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/18/2020] [Accepted: 12/07/2020] [Indexed: 12/02/2022] Open
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Consumers play an important role as one of the main actors in food safety social co-governance. To create a pattern of food safety social co-governance, the active and effective participation of consumers is critical. To encourage consumers to participate in food safety social co-governance voluntarily and positively, we attempted to develop and preliminarily validate a multidimensional questionnaire on consumer psychological capital that could be used to measure the degree of consumer participation in food safety social co-governance. The aim of the initial sample (N = 170) and test sample 2 (N = 204) was to investigate the factor structure of a preliminary measure of consumer psychological capital. A 4-factor model with 23 items explained 61.05% of the total variance in item scores. The aim of test sample 3 (N = 30) was to measure the retest reliability. Test sample 4 (N = 1,076) was randomly allocated to the modeling sample (N = 538) and validation sample (N = 538) to verify questionnaire reliability and validity. Convergent validity, discriminant validity, and the internal inconsistency coefficients of the questionnaire were assessed in the modeling sample. While processing CFA, we deleted 9 items with small standardized factor loadings. The remaining 14 items in the final revised 4-factor model included self-efficacy, resilience, hope, and optimism. The fit indices of the revised four-factor model and second-order factor model in the modeling sample revealed an acceptable model fit. The convergent validity and discriminant validity of the revised model were good and acceptable, respectively. A cross-validation procedure confirmed the appropriateness of the revised four-factor model and second-order factor model in the validation sample. The cross-validation results confirmed that the fit indices of the revised four-factor model fitted the data well and the second-order factor model in the validation sample reached acceptable values. We concluded that the questionnaire developed in this study had good reliability and stable and acceptable construct validity. It could provide a theoretical basis for measuring psychological capital in food safety co-governance.
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- Chun Meng
- School of Public Health and Management, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China
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- School of Public Health and Management, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China
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- School of Public Health and Management, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China
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- School of Public Health and Management, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China
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- School of Public Health and Management, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China
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- School of Public Health and Management, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China
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- School of Public Health and Management, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China
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Lee YL, Yang DJ. Potential Contributions of Psychological Capital to the Research Field of Marketing. Front Psychol 2019; 10:2111. [PMID: 31607978 PMCID: PMC6761885 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02111] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/04/2019] [Accepted: 08/30/2019] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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- Yu-Lun Lee
- Postgraduate Program in Management, I-Shou University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.,Department of Business Administration, Cheng Shiu University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
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- Postgraduate Program in Management, I-Shou University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
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