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  1. Constructing Anticipatory Resilience Through Relational Resources: Examining the Role of Disclosure and Social Support in Resilience Enactment Among Young Adults with Hypertension

    Article • Health Communication, October 2025, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Kai Kuang

  2. Explicating the mechanisms between overwork-related media exposure and workplace resilience: a study of tech employees in China

    Article • Journal of Applied Communication Research, January 2025, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Kai Kuang

  3. Climate race or collaboration? Effects of strategy framing on trust in government, nationalist sentiments, and climate action intention in international politics

    Article • Journalism, September 2024, SAGE Publications

    Dr. Kai Kuang

  4. Cultivating resilience in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education

    Article • Engineering Education Review, September 2024, Spring Media Publishing

    Dr. Kai Kuang

  5. The role of emotions in climate change communication: Examining the effects of strategy and issue framing on emotional responses and online climate action intentions

    Article • Current Psychology, July 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Kai Kuang

  6. Climate Communication with Chinese Youth by Chinese Nongovernmental Organizations: A Case Study of Chinese Weather Enthusiasts on Bilibili

    Article • Weather Climate and Society, July 2024, American Meteorological Society

    Dr. Kai Kuang

  7. Examining the Role of Memorable Messages in the Process of Communication about Aging

    Article • Health Communication, September 2023, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Kai Kuang

  8. Predictors and Outcomes of Help-Seeking Behaviors: A Longitudinal Investigation in Mental Illness

    Article • Health Communication, August 2023, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Kai Kuang

  9. A longitudinal analysis of involuntary job loss and communication resilience processes during the COVID-19 pandemic

    Article • Journal of Communication, February 2023, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr. Kai Kuang

  10. Family Communication Patterns Predict Anticipatory Resilience and the Enactment of Resilience Processes

    Article • Journal of Family Communication, January 2023, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Kai Kuang

  11. Coping with uncertainty in mental illness: Associations among desired support, support seeking strategies, and received support from family members

    Article • Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, August 2022, SAGE Publications

    Dr. Kai Kuang

  12. Extending the communicative ecology model of successful aging using talk about careers and retirement

    Article • Communication Monographs, January 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Kai Kuang

  13. A longitudinal investigation of information and support seeking processes that alter the uncertainty experiences of mental illness

    Article • Communication Monographs, January 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Kai Kuang

  14. Memorable Messages as Anticipatory Resilience: Examining Associations among Memorable Messages, Communication Resilience Processes, and Mental Health

    Article • Health Communication, October 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Kai Kuang

  15. Problematic integration theory: a systematic review

    Article • Annals of the International Communication Association, October 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Kai Kuang

  16. Communicating about Retirement Preferences: Testing the Moderating Role of Age, Marital Quality and Communal Coping in the Theory of Motivated Information Management

    Article • Communication Studies, May 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Kai Kuang

  17. Developing and Validating the Communication Resilience Processes Scale

    Article • Journal of Communication, April 2021, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr. Kai Kuang

  18. Interactions among Actual Uncertainty, Desired Uncertainty, and Uncertainty Discrepancy on Anxiety and Information Seeking

    Article • Journal of Health Communication, March 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Kai Kuang

  19. Applying the theory of motivated information management to family health history

    Article • Personal Relationships, November 2020, Wiley

    Dr. Kai Kuang

  20. Relational partners’ uncertainty management: testing the moderating effect of context in the theory of motivated information management

    Article • Communication Quarterly, October 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Kai Kuang

  21. Uncertainty Management in Sexual Communication: Testing the Moderating Role of Marital Quality, Relational Closeness, and Communal Coping

    Article • Health Communication, April 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Kai Kuang

  22. Theory of Motivated Information Management: A Meta-Analytic Review

    Article • Communication Theory, February 2020, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr. Kai Kuang

  23. Extending Communication Campaign from Health to Peacebuilding: A Locally Driven Communication Campaign Approach as Part of A Peacebuilding Initiative in Liberia

    Article • Health Communication, April 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Arunima Krishna, Dr. Kai Kuang

  24. Reconceptualizing uncertainty in illness: commonalities, variations, and the multidimensional nature of uncertainty

    Article • Annals of the International Communication Association, July 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Kai Kuang

  25. Chinese Post80s Generational Resilience: Chengyu (成语) as Communicative Resources for Adaptation and Change

    Article • International Journal of Business Communication, February 2018, SAGE Publications

    Dr. Kai Kuang

  26. Explicating the relationally attentive approach to conducting engaged communication scholarship

    Article • Journal of Applied Communication Research, September 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Arunima Krishna, Dr. Kai Kuang

  27. A Meta-Analysis of Uncertainty and Information Management in Illness Contexts

    Article • Journal of Communication, May 2017, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr. Kai Kuang

  28. Information Seeking Upon Exposure to Risk Messages: Predictors, Outcomes, and Mediating Roles of Health Information Seeking

    Article • Communication Research, November 2016, SAGE Publications

    Dr. Kai Kuang

  29. Positioning Work Amid Discontinuities and Continuities

    Article • Management Communication Quarterly, August 2016, SAGE Publications

    Dr. Kai Kuang

  30. Reexamining Fear Appeal Models from Cognitive Appraisal Theory and Functional Emotion Theory Perspectives

    Article • Communication Monographs, June 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Kai Kuang

  31. Delivering vaccination messages via interactive channels: examining the interaction among threat, response efficacy, and interactivity in risk communication

    Article • Journal of Risk Research, January 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Kai Kuang

  32. Legitimizing and Elevating Telework

    Article • Journal of Business and Technical Communication, March 2013, SAGE Publications

    Dr. Kai Kuang