Ying Jin

The global aging population has rendered dementia a critical public health challenge, with approximately 47 million people affected worldwide in 2015, a number projected to reach 132 million by 2050. Upholding dignity is widely recognized as a core ethical obligation in dementia care. However, the perspectives of healthcare professionals, who serve as the direct practitioners of dignity care, have not yet been systematically synthesized. This study aims to systematically synthesize qualitative research on healthcare professionals' perspectives regarding dignity care for patients with dementia in order to inform clinical practice, care management, and policy development. This study followed the Enhancing Transparency in Reporting the Synthesis of Qualitative Research (ENTREQ). A systematic search was conducted across ten Chinese and English databases, including PubMed, from database inception to November 25, 2025. Two reviewers independently screened articles against eligibility criteria and assessed quality using the Critical Appraisal Skills Programme (CASP) checklist. A total of 13 studies were included, comprising qualitative studies and the qualitative components of mixed methods studies that explored healthcare professionals' perspectives on dignity care for patients with dementia. Data were synthesized using Thomas and Harden's thematic synthesis approach. The synthesis generated four analytical themes and twelve subthemes: (1) the ethical foundation of dignity care; (2) multidimensional practice strategies for dignity care; (3) dilemmas and adaptive strategies in dignity care; and (4) influencing factors of dignity care. Across these themes, healthcare professionals described central tensions involving the dynamic balance between authenticity and protection, autonomy support and necessary care, and professional boundaries and emotional connection. Dignity care for patients with dementia is not a standardized technical procedure, but a dynamic, context-bound practice grounded in ethical relationships. Its realization requires not only individual ethical sensitivity and practical wisdom but also supportive organizational cultures, adequate institutional resources, and broader societal recognition of the value of elderly care.

This paper investigates offensive animal metaphors in blog comments about the management of donations of money and medical relief during the coronavirus pandemic in China. Rather than understanding the metaphorical usage of language as a cognitive process, we consider its situational usage as a social action and invoke insights from Conversation Analysis. Based on data retrieved from Sina Weibo, we show how discussants use animal metaphors to accomplish varying actions and construct intelligibility between themselves and others about the relationship between actions, moral accountability, and description of social events. We therefore argue that CA with its focus on topicality, action and societal membership can complement the cognitive understanding of the proximity between the source and the target domains.

Using data from user comments to the official social networking account of the Hubei Red Cross Foundation on a participatory web platform, this study attends to the offensive and hateful comments produced by ordinary Internet users to blame the elite authorities for their malfeasance in managing the donation during the COVID-19 in China. Drawing on Discursive Psychology, we focus on the rhetorical strategies that users employ to legitimise their actions as well-founded evidential blame against a norm-breaking act rather than radical extremist speech. The associated hatred among discussants are moral, social judgements. That said, hate speech also helps construct the moral standards of a normalised society.

This study aims to alleviate the current tense employment situation and study the entrepreneurial situation of teachers and students in colleges and universities. Firstly, based on the educational concept of Science Technology Engineering Arts Mathematics, Ideological and Political Education is added to psychological capital to explore the effect of the combination of the two on entrepreneurial performance. An entrepreneurial performance impact model is constructed, and the questionnaire is set. Secondly, the influence of psychological capital combined with IPE on sports morality is explored, and a sports morality questionnaire is designed. Finally, the questionnaire results are analyzed. The results showed that most of the participants in the survey are under the age of 25. The 25- to 29-year-olds are the smallest among those surveyed. The respondents who participated in the survey had the most undergraduate degrees, accounting for 43.4%. The 40 items on entrepreneurial performance this time obey a normal distribution, and the scale has good reliability and validity. The main factor analysis results obtained by principal component analysis include 6 factors. Their total explanatory power exceeds 67%, and the six factors screened out this time are well represented. The model tolerance is between 0.45 and 0.5, and the Variance Inflation Factor value is less than 10. The scale does not suffer from multi-collinearity issues. IPE significantly strengthens the effect of psychological capital on entrepreneurial performance. The influences of various sports on sportsmanship, bravery, self-confidence, and self-transcendence are significantly different, and the P value is less than 0.001. The difference in aggressiveness is less than 0.01, indicating that it is very significant. Different sports have significant differences in the cultivation of sports morality, and the P value is less than 0.05. The differences in self-discipline are also significant, and there are extremely significant differences in compliance with rules, and the P value here is less than 0.001. There are no significant differences in sporting qualities. IPE combined with psychological capital has a significant impact on entrepreneurial performance. These contents provide references for the entrepreneurship education of teachers and students in colleges and universities. The contribution lies in expanding the research on psychological capital in entrepreneurial performance and laying a foundation for the combination of psychological capital and IPE.

This essay explores Zen hermeneutics by locating gong'an episodes at the juncture of Zen Buddhism, Heideggerian ontological hermeneutics, and Derridean deconstructive hermeneutics. Employing Heidegger's understanding of truth as aletheia and the Derridean deconstruction of the subject oriented metaphysical mode of thinking, this essay aims to shed light on the special function that hermeneutics plays in our understanding of philosophy's and philosophers' relation to truth and meaning and show how Zen gong'an shares some visions with the hermeneutical discipline in our time