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Confucian culture is an important traditional culture in China, which has a profound influence on the daily behavior and thinking of university students. However, it is not clear how Confucian culture affects Chinese university students' online self-disclosure behavior, and how it acts through the mediating role of life satisfaction. We use the Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) and the bootstrapping analysis method to explore the relationships among the three variables.According to an empirical analysis of 795 college students randomly collected from the internet questionnaire platform "Credamo", we have reached the following conclusions: (1) Tolerance- altruism in Confucianism positively predicts life satisfaction level(γ = 0.15, t = 3.58, p < 0.001); (2) Introspection (on affairs, on myself)in Confucianism positively predicts life satisfaction (γ = 0.23, t = 3.71, p < 0.001;γ = 0.24,t = 3.93, p < 0.001); but introspection on the others has no effect on life satisfaction(γ = 0.00,t = 0.06, p > 0.01); (3) Life satisfaction positively predicts less online self-disclosure (β = 0.12, t = 2.88, p < 0.01).(4) Life satisfaction can mediate between Confucianism(Tolerance- altruism, Introspection on affairs, Introspection on myself) and less online self-disclosure (δ1 = 0.02,t = 2.25, p < 0.01;δ2 = 0.03,t = 2.28, p < 0.01;δ3 = 0.03,t = 2.33, p < 0.01). Therefore, Confucian cultural inheritance and promotion play an important role in college students' psychological health and their perception of life happiness, and it will weaken the depth and breadth of online self-disclosure. Meantime, it can avoid college students 'excessive dependence on online communication and improve their satisfaction with face-to-face communication in real life.It can offer insights for the research on positive psychology and adolescent internet addiction behavior, and further promote in-depth research on the differential expressions of cultural values on online-self disclosure behavior in different countries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Based on the elaboration likelihood model (ELM), this study examined the role of consumers' initial trust in the persuasion process in e-commerce advertising in China. The results of two experiments revealed two significant moderators of the central route for processing of information: the disposition to trust (negative moderator) and institution-based trust (IBT; positive moderator). Specifically, low disposition to trust strengthened the influence of argument quality on consumers' product attitude and purchase intention. The same effect occurred under conditions of high IBT. However, when it came to the peripheral route, the effects of disposition to trust and IBT were not significant. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background: Cryptococcosis is caused by a fungi of the Cryptococcus neoformans/Cryptococcus gattii complex and is a severe concern for public health worldwide. C. neoformans species are globally distributed, and C. gattii species are mostly found in America, Australia, and Sub-Saharan Africa. Cryptococcus usually infects an immunocompromised population; however, the majority of cryptococcosis in China has been reported in patients without any recognizable immunosuppression, i.e., HIV infection. To date, very few studies investigated this disease in South Central China., Methods: The present study recruited 230 clinically suspected cryptococcosis cases in the last 5 years at two hospitals in Jiangxi Province, South Central China. All isolated strains were subjected to multilocus sequence typing (MLST) and phylogenetic analysis. Serotype and mating type were assessed by PCR, in vitro antifungal susceptibility was assessed by the CLSI-M27-A3 protocol., Results: A total of 230 patients were identified as infected by C. neoformans , including 12 cases with Talaromyces marneffei coinfection. All seven MLST markers were successfully amplified and used to identify the ST genotype in 199 strains. C. gattii strains were not detected. In contrast to previous studies, 59.3% of the patients had an immunocompromised status, and 61.9% of these patients were infected with HIV. All isolates manifested serotype A and mating type α. The ST5 genotype was common (89.5%) in the Jiangxi region, and three novel genotypes (ST656, ST657, and ST658 in six isolates) were detected in the present study. A total of 86 of the isolates (43.2%) were not sensitive to fluconazole at a MIC 50 ≥ 8 μg/ml, most of the isolates were resistant to amphotericin B, and nearly all isolates were resistant to itraconazole and posaconazole. Resistances to 5-Flucytosine and voriconazole were very rare., Conclusions: The results of the present study indicated that C. neoformans is the predominant species for cryptococcosis in Jiangxi Province, and a large proportion of the strains were not sensitive to fluconazole, which may be related to treatment failure and relapse. A high percentage of HIV-related C. neoformans infections was reported in Jiangxi, supporting a previous hypothesis that cryptococcosis is more frequent among the HIV-infected population in China. Continuous monitoring of species distribution and antifungal sensitivity is important for the investigation of this severe disease in the Jiangxi region., Competing Interests: The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest., (Copyright © 2021 Yang, Bian, Blechert, Deng, Chen, Li, Yang, Chen and Zhan.)