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Gengfeng Niu
Psychology
Central China Normal University
Hubei
Language: Chinese, English
Personality
Social Development
Internet Interaction
Social Networking Sites
Internet Literacy
Electronic Products
Artificial Intelligence
Children
Adolescents
Mental Health Education
Areas of Focus
- Personality and Social Development
- Internet Psychology and Behavior
Publications
- Negative family body talk and negative emotional eating among Chinese adolescent girls and young adult women: The role of body dissatisfaction and feminism consciousness, Yang, W. C., Niu, G. F.*, Shi, X. H., Song, K., Zhang, Y. M., & Yuan, Z., 2023
- Teaching presence promotes learner affective engagement: The roles of cognitive load and need for cognition, Zhang, Y. M., Tian, Y., Yao, L. S., Duan, C. Y., Sun, X. J. *, & Niu, G. F.*, 2023
- Parental Phubbing and Adolescent Depressive Symptoms during COVID-19: A Serial Meditating Model, Yang, W., Tang, L., Shen, X., Niu, G. *, Shi, X., Jin, S., Zhang, Y., et al., 2023
- Development and validation of a scale to measure internet self-expansion, Niu, G. F., Wang, Y. P., Li, Z. X., Zhou, Z. K, Ni, X. L., & Sun, X. J., 2023
- Photo Activity on Social Networking Sites and Body Dissatisfaction: The Roles of Thin-Ideal Internalization and Body Appreciation, Duan, C., Lian, S., Yu, L., Niu, G*., & Sun, X*., 2022
- Social exclusion and depression among undergraduate students: The mediating roles of rejection sensitivity and social self-efficacy, Niu, G. F., Shi, X. H., Yao, L. S., Yang, W. C., Jin. S. Y., & Xu, L.*, 2022
- Can smartphone presence affect cognitive function? The moderating role of fear of missing out, Niu, G. F., Shi, X. H., Zhang, Z. L., Yang, W. C., Jin. S. Y., & Sun, X. J.*, 2022
- Teaching presence predicts cyberloafing during online learning: From the perspective of the community of inquiry framework and social learning theory, Zhang, Y. M., Tian, Y., Yao, L. S., Duan, C. Y., Sun, X. J. *, & Niu, G. F.*, 2022
- Relational Victimization and Video Game Addiction among Female College Students during COVID-19 Pandemic: The Roles of Social Anxiety and Parasocial Relationship, Niu, G. F., Jin, S. Y., Xu, F., Lin, S. Y. *, Zhou. Z. K. *, & Longobardi, C.*, 2022
- Parental Mediation Moderates the Association Between Social Media Exposure and Tobacco and Alcohol Use: Differences Between Elementary and Middle School Students, Yao, L., Sun, X*., Niu, G*., Zheng, Y., & Chinyani, T., 2022
- Machiavellianism and gift-giving in live video streaming: The mediating role of desire for control and the moderating role of materialism, Niu, G. F., Shi, X. H., Jin. S. Y., Yang, W. C., Wu, Y. *, & Sun, X. J*., 2022
- Individual differences matter in the effect of teaching presence on perceived learning: From the social cognitive perspective of self-regulated learning, Zhang, Y. M., Tian, Y., Yao, L. S., Duan, C. Y., Sun, X. J. *, & Niu, G. F.*, 2022
- Body image flexibility moderates the association between photo-related activities on WeChat moments and the body dissatisfaction of female adolescents in China, Wu, L., Niu G. F. *, Ni, X. L., Shao X. Y., & Luo Y. J., 2022
- Active Social Network Sites Use and Loneliness: the Mediating Role of Social Support and Self-Esteem, Lin, S., Liu, D., Niu, G. *, & Longobardi, C., 2022
- Purchasing social attention by tipping: Materialism predicts online tipping in live-streaming platform through self-enhancement motive, Wu, Y., Niu, G. *, Chen, Z., & Zhang, D., 2022
- Information overload and the intention to reduce SNS usage: The mediating roles of negative social comparison and fatigue, Niu, G. F., Yao, L. S., Tian, Y., Sun, X. J., & Zhou, Z. K., 2022
- Mindfulness buffers the influence of stress on cue-induced craving for Internet among Chinese colleges with problematic Internet use, Sun, X. J., Duan, C. Y., Niu, G. F.*, & Zhang, Y. M., 2021
- Parental active internet mediation and children's academic adaptation: the mediating role of video gaming and moderating role of deviant peer affiliation, Sun, X., Zhang, X., Duan, C., Yao, L., Niu, G.*, & Tian, Y., 2021
- Ostracism and problematic smartphone use: the mediating effect of social self‑efficacy and moderating effect of rejection sensitivity, Sun, X., Zhang, Y., Niu, G.*, Tian, Y, Xu, L., &Duan, C., 2021
- Socioeconomic status and social networking site addiction among children and adolescents: examining the roles of parents' active mediation and ICT attitudes, Sun, X. J., Duan, C. Y., Yao, L. S., Zhang, Y. M., Chinyani , T., & Niu, G. F. *, 2021
- The Moderating Role of Deviant Peer Affiliation in the Relation between Cyber-Victimization, Tobacco and Alcohol Use, and Age Differences, Sun, X., Yao, L., Niu, G. *, Lin, S., 2021
- Perceived Stress and Short-Form Video Application Addiction: A Moderated Mediation Model, Liu, Y., Ni, X., & Niu, G. *, 2021
- Selfie-posting on social networking sites, body surveillance, and exercise for weight control among Chinese young women with low body mass index, Yao, L. S., Niu, G. F.,* & Sun, X. J*., 2020
- Behavioural and ERP evidence of the self‑advantage of online self‑relevant information, Niu, G. F., Yao, L. S., Kong, F. C., Luo, Y. J., Duan, C. Y., Sun, X. J., & Zhou, Z. K., 2020
- Parental phubbing and adolescent problematic mobile phone use: The role of parent-child relationship and self-control, Niu, G. F., Yao, L. S., Wu, L., Tian, Y., Xu, L., & Sun, X. J., 2020
- The influence of active social networking services use and social capital on flourishing in chinese adolescents, Liu, Y. , Ni, X. , & Niu, G. *, 2020
- Cyberbullying Victimization and Adolescent Depression: The Mediating Role of Psychological Security and the Moderating Role of Growth Mindset, Niu, G. F., He, J, Lin, S. Y., Sun, X. J., & Longobardi, C., 2020
- Selfie-posting and young adult women’s restrained eating: The role of commentary on appearance and self-objectification, Niu, G. F., Sun, L. J., Liu, Q. Q., Chai, H. Y., Sun, X. J., & Zhou, Z. K., 2020
- Online Parent-Child Communication and Left-Behind Children’s Subjective Well-Being: the Effects of Parent-Child Relationship and Gratitude, Niu, G. F., Chai, H. Y., Li, Z. X., Li, W., Sun, X. J., & Zhou, Z. K., 2020
- Trait aggression affects the response inhibition to angry expressions: An event-related brain potential study, Sun, L. J. #, Niu, G. #, Li, J. Y., Du, H. Q., Yang, S. C., Luo, Y. Y., 2020
- Qzone use and depression among Chinese adolescents: A moderated mediation model, Niu, G. F., Luo, Y., Sun, X., Zhou, Z., Yu, F., Yang, S., & Zhao, L., 2018
- Cyber-ostracism and its relation to depression among Chinese adolescents: The moderating role of optimism, Niu, G. F., Zhou, Z. K., Sun, X. J., Yu, F., Xie, X. C., Liu, Q. Q., Lian, S. L., 2018
- From growth mindset to grit in Chinese schools: the mediating roles of learning motivations, Zhao, Y. #, Niu, G. #, Hou, H., Zeng, G., Xu, L., & Peng, K., et al., 2018
- Gender, negative life events and coping on different stages of depression severity: A cross-sectional study among Chinese university students, Sun, X. J. #, Niu, G. F. #, You, Z. Q., Zhou, Z. K., Tang, Y., 2017
- Resilience moderates the relationship between ostracism and depression among Chinese adolescents, Niu, G. F., Sun, X. J., Tian, Y., Fan, C. Y., & Zhou, Z. K., 2016
- Cue-induced Craving for Internet among Internet addicts, Niu, G. F., Sun, X. J., Subrah
Awards
- Psychological Science Popularization Advanced Worker of Hubei Province (2023)
- Second Prize of Wuhan Outstanding Social Science Achievement Award (2022, ranked first)
- Guizi Young Scholar of Central China Normal University (2022)
- Second Prize of Henan Province Higher Education Philosophy and Social Science Outstanding Research Achievement Award (2020, ranked second)
- Third Prize of Xi'an Jiaotong University 'Net Science and Technology Award' (2018)
- Excellent Paper Award of 'Psychological Science' Journal and Chinese Psychological Society (2017)
- National Scholarship for Graduate Students (2013 and 2016)
- First 'President's Award' of Central China Normal University (2016)
