Appeal of word of mouth: Influences of public opinions and sentiment on ports in corporate choice of import and export trade in the post-COVID-19 era

The prolonged COVID-19 has caused a global lockdown and greatly impacts the supply chain and consumers’ consumption behavior of aquatic products. Specifically, consumers’ increasing awareness of environmental protection drives the marine aquaculture enterprises to supply green products and establish empathy with consumers in a bid to achieve sustainable consumption. This paper conducts a study on the international green marketing paths of marine aquatic products through PLS-SEM analysis of the 407 valid samples collected from the questionnaire survey. The findings indicate that empathy marketing has a significant positive effect on consumers’ purchase intention; subjective norm has a significant positive effect on consumers’ purchase intention. Additionally, perceived behavior control has a significant mediating effect between consumers’ subjective norm and purchase intention; the consumption environment has a significant positive moderating effect on individual consumption intention. The study suggests that sustainable development can be further propelled by means of coordinating the consumers’ awareness of ecological environment protection and their enhanced consumption intention.

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Empathy of Marine Aquaculture on Aquatic Products Consumption

Xilin

Zeng

et al. 2022

“…Existing studies have explored the impacts of the self-affirmation theory on interpersonal relationships from the perspective of self-cognitive value ( Hurst et al, 2020 ); besides, researchers have verified a positive relationship between the self-affirmation theory and pro-environmental behavior ( Graham-Rowe et al, 2019 ). Studies on self-affirmation and empathy have shown that empathic processing is actually a concern for oneself, and that the effect of self-affirmation on empathy causes people to show more positive emotions and strength ( Exline and Zell, 2009 ); another study on empathy also showed that self-affirmation affects the likelihood of paying attention to and helping others out of empathy ( Ministero et al, 2018 ); emotional and cognitive errors arising in multicultural contexts shape people’s risk prevention and control behavior, which is guided by empathic factors to make choices out of self-protection and self-affirmation ( Li and Katsumata, 2020 ; Yi et al, 2022 ). Based on the above background analysis, to clarify the research direction of the formation of adolescent Internet addiction, this study will introduce empathy theory as a potential theoretical support, in order to explore the inner relationship between self-affirmation theory, empathy process and cognitive bias, so as to systematically analyze the formation mechanism of adolescent Internet addiction.…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

Cognitive bias toward the Internet: The causes of adolescents’ Internet addiction under parents’ self-affirmation consciousness

Zhou

Zhu²,

Zhou³

et al. 2022

The Internet plays a crucial part in the adolescent life. However, as a product of modernization, the Internet has brought a lifestyle different from that of our parents who tend to regard excessive exposure to the Internet as a manifestation of the adolescent Internet addiction. The cognitive bias against the Internet seem to have been arisen among the parents. Under the theoretical framework of self-efficacy and empathy, this study adopts PLS-SEM to analyze the contributing factors of the adolescent Internet addiction from the perspective of self-affirmation consciousness of parents. The result demonstrates that self-affirmation consciousness has a significant positive effect on the empathy process; the empathy process and self-affirmation have a significant positive effect on cognitive bias; and the empathy process acts as a mediator between self-affirmation and cognitive bias. To sum up, through the investigation of the causes of adolescent Internet addiction, this study explores the formation process of parents’ cognitive bias toward the Internet under the influence of self-affirmation consciousness, verifying the practical effects of empathy in the process of promoting rational thinking of parents toward the Internet and adolescent Internet use, and at the same time promoting the harmonious development of parent–child relationships to a certain extent.

“…More scholars’ findings imply that public opinion is formed earlier than crises actually materialize ( Asano et al, 2021 ). When social media becomes the “main forum” for public discussion, it is crucial to understand the public’s psychological state and provide inspiration for communicators to conduct positive public opinion guidance ( Chiang et al, 2021 ; Yi et al, 2022 ).…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

Research on the Public Opinion Guidance Mechanism of Major Public Health Incidents

Wang

Zeng

et al. 2022

Public opinion guidance plays a crucial role in the management of major public health incidents, and thus, exploring its mechanism is conducive to the comprehensive governance of social security. This study conducts a case study on the anti-pandemic public opinion guidance and analyzes the public opinion representation and the internal mechanism of public opinion guidance in the context of the COVID-19 in China. The findings suggest that the public opinion on the COVID-19 manifested a three-stage progressive and stable tendency and witnessed the strength of China, specifically, benefiting from the systematic and complete integration and release mechanism for anti-pandemic information, the three-dimensional mechanism for the dissemination of knowledge related to pandemic prevention and health, the innovative disclosure mechanism for precise information, and diversified channels for international public opinion guidance. The guidance mechanism proposed in this study provides significant suggestions for the public opinion guidance of global major public health incidents in future.