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Zhiyong Han, Dan Wang, Chuanyun Jiang, Yuliang Zhang School of Business Administration, Anhui University of Finance and Economics, Bengbu, People’s Republic of ChinaCorrespondence: Yuliang Zhang, School of Business Administration, Anhui University of Finance and Economics, 962, Caoshan Road, Bengbu, 233030, People’s Republic of China, Email zyl_1203@163.comPurpose: The COVID-19 pandemic has dramatically affected all aspects of people’s lives and work, negatively impacting personal well-being and job satisfaction. Based on the conservation of resources theory, this study examines the relationship of organizational adaptive practices (OAP) responding to COVID-19 and psychological resilience (PR) with employee job satisfaction (JS) while incorporating the mediating role of emotional exhaustion (EE).Methods: We surveyed 340 employees from China through an online questionnaire, which was used under convenience sampling and finally recovered a valid sample size of 314. We used SPSS and AMOS to analyze the correlation and hypothesis testing of the collected data through structural equation modelling (SEM) and bootstrapping.Results: Both OAP and PR facilitate JS and inhibit employee EE. EE negatively predicted employee JS. EE mediated both the relationship between OAP and subordinate JS and the relationship between PR and subordinate JS.Conclusion: The study provides a new perspective on increasing JS during the COVID-19 pandemic, thereby expanding the scope of the antecedents of employee JS in crisis situations. It also reveals the mediating role of EE and deepens the research on the mechanism by which OAP and PR affect individuals, providing practical guidance for organizations to improve employee satisfaction in sudden public crisis situations.Keywords: COVID-19, organizational adaptive practices, psychological resilience, job satisfaction, emotional exhaustion

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Chao Liu,1 Dong Yang,2 Zhiyong Han2 1School of Public Administration, Hohai University, Nanjing, People’s Republic of China; 2School of Business Administration, Anhui University of Finance and Economics, Bengbu, People’s Republic of ChinaCorrespondence: Zhiyong Han, School of Business Administration, Anhui University of Finance and Economics, Bengbu, People’s Republic of China, Email hzyong@aufe.edu.cnPurpose: Although social networking services (SNSs) have attracted billions of people to maintain and extend their social relationships online, more and more passive usage behaviors have been found during the daily SNS usage. The aim of this paper is to investigate how SNS users’ continuance intention is affected by passive SNS use, subjective well-being, as well as perceived concern regarding privacy and impression management.Methods: A research model was developed according to the proposed hypotheses, and then partial least square (PLS) SEM was adopted to empirically assess the valid data collected from 389 WeChat users.Results: The findings show that passive SNS use cannot significantly undermine continuance intention, but it has a negative moderating effect on the relationship between subjective well-being and continuance intention. Besides, the results of empirical research also reveal the antecedents of passive SNS use and subjective well-being from the perspectives of privacy concern and impression management concern, and thereby present the mechanism underlying users’ continuance intention.Conclusion: This study enriches the SNS literature by indicating the moderating role of passive SNS use in the process of SNS usage, which facilitates the understanding regarding how users’ continuance intention can be influenced when they use SNSs passively. This study can help SNS providers to better understand the factors affecting users’ continuance intention in the case of passive SNS use, and then formulating effective strategies for retaining users and av

Variability in East Asian summer monsoon precipitation during the Holocene remains of debate. In this study, we use a closed lake with well‐dated lake beach ridges located on the margin of the East Asian summer monsoon, a region highly sensitive to monsoon precipitation changes, to obtain a temporal sequence of water volume in North China. The elevation of each beach ridge calibrated to the modern lake level was surveyed. Optically stimulated luminescence dating of undisturbed sediments of beach ridges was performed. The lake area and water volume corresponding to each beach ridge were calculated using a digital elevation model. This study reveals relatively reduced monsoon precipitation from ~12 to 7 ka interrupted by strengthening of the monsoon circulation to a maximum from ~7 to ~5 ka and followed by greatly reduced monsoon intensity until the present day. These results demonstrate that changes in the East Asian summer monsoon precipitation may not be directly driven by global temperature or atmospheric CO2 content. Rather, we suggest that variation in the the monsoon margin precipitation is probably mainly driven by ice volume and subordinately by the summer solar insolation difference between mid‐latitude land and low‐latitude ocean.