Areas of Focus
- Stress and Coping
- Sense of Meaning in Life
- Health Behavior
Work Experience
- 2020.10 - Present: Peking University, Institute of Medical Humanities, Department of Medical Psychology, Assistant Professor
- 2016.7-2020.9: China University of Political Science and Law, Department of Psychology, Lecturer, Associate Professor
Academic Background & Achievements
- 2011-2016 Doctor of Science: Peking University, School of Psychology and Cognitive Science
- 2007-2011 Bachelor of Science (Dual Degree): Peking University, School of Psychology and Cognitive Science
- 2006-2011 Bachelor of Medicine: Peking University, School of Nursing
Publications
- Quadripartite existential meaning among Chinese: Internal conceptual structure and reciprocating relationship with psychological flexibility and inflexibility, Qi W, Zhou Z, Miao M*, 2023
- How Health-Related Misinformation Spreads Across the Internet: Evidence for the 'Typhoon Eye' Effect, Zheng L, Cai J, Wang F, Ruan C, Xu M, Miao M*, 2022
- Coping with coronavirus disease 2019: Relationships between coping strategies, benefit finding and well-being, Miao M, Zheng L*, Wen J, Jin S, Gan Y, 2022
- The relationship between active coping and hope during the COVID-19 pandemic: The mediating role of meaning in life, Jin S, Zheng L, Wen J, Miao M*, 2022
- Family Incivility and Cyberbullying Perpetration Among College Students: Negative Affect as a Mediator and Dispositional Mindfulness as a Moderator, Jin S, Miao M*, 2022
- Finding meaning from the present and future: The mediating role of meaning in life between temporal focus and mental health, Zhou Z, Zheng L, Qi W, Miao M*, 2022
- A systematic and meta-analytic review on the neural correlates of viewing high- and low-calorie foods among normal-weight adults, Zheng L, Miao M, Gan Y*, 2022
- Future-oriented function of meaning in life: Promoting hope via future temporal focus, Miao, M., Zheng, L., & Gan, Y., 2021
- Relationships Between Meaning in Life, Positive and Negative Affect, and Eating Behaviors: A Daily Diary Study, Wen J, Miao M*, 2022
- Perceived Control Buffers the Effects of the COVID‐19 Pandemic on General Health and Life Satisfaction: The Mediating Role of Psychological Distance, Zheng L, Miao M*, Gan Y, 2020
- The Promotional Role of Meaning in Life in Future-Oriented Coping: Positive Affect as a Mediator, Miao, M., & Gan, Y., 2020
- Uncovering the Effects of Awe on Meaning in Life, Dai Y, Jiang T*, Miao M, 2020
- How does meaning in life predict proactive coping? The self-regulatory mechanism on emotion and cognition, Miao, M., & Gan, Y., 2019
- Meaning in life promotes proactive coping via positive affect: a daily diary study, Miao, M., Zheng, L., Gan,Y., 2017
- Carry-over effect between diet and physical activity: the bottom-up and top-down hypotheses of hierarchical self-efficacy, Gan,Y., Miao, M., Zheng, L., & Liu, H., 2016