Attending cram school has long been a trend in ethnic Chinese culture areas, including Taiwan. Despite the fact that school reform policies have been implemented in Taiwan, cram schools have continued to prosper. Therefore, in this educational culture, how to achieve a good educational effect is also a topic worthy of discussion. However, whether students really engage in those tutoring programs provided by cram schools has seldom been studied. To address this gap, this study explored how parents’ hovering attitude toward life and coursework influences their children’s engagement in cram schools. This study targeted those students who attend English cram schools to test the correlates between two types of helicopter parenting, tutoring engagement and continued attendance at cram schools. A total of 320 questionnaires were sent out, and 300 were returned, giving an overall response rate of 93.75%. Excluding seven incomplete or invalid questionnaires, 293 valid questionnaires were re
The COVID-19 pandemic has devastated the economic and social wellbeing of communities worldwide. Within the general population, certain groups are at greater risk than others, namely, persons with pre-existing mental disorders and those disproportionately impacted by the economic strain of the pandemic (Diaz et al. 2021; Calderón-Larrañaga et al. 2020) . Classical musicians, who bear a disproportionately high incidence of mental illnesses, and whose subsistence is primarily reliant upon live performances (van Fenema and van Geel 2014), fall into both categories. The COVID-19 pandemic has greatly harmed the classical music industry, silencing the world’s concert halls and theatres. In an industry characterized by instability, a shock as great as COVID-19 may bring negative effects that far outlast the pandemic itself. This study investigates the wellbeing of classical musicians during the COVID-19 pandemic. 68 professional classical musicians completed a questionnaire compos
Background: Globally, diabetes brought an enormous burden to public health resources and the situation of disease burden caused by diabetes in China is especially severe. China is currently facing the dual threat of aging and diabetes, and wearable activity trackers could promote elderly diabetic patients’ physical activity levels and help them to manage blood glucose control. Therefore, examining the influencing factors of elderly patients’ adoption intention is critical as wearing adoption determines actual wearing behaviors. Objective: This study aims to explore the predicting factors of Chinese elderly type 2 diabetic patients’ adoption intention to wearable activity trackers and their actual wearing behavior, using Diffusion of Innovation Theory as the theoretical framework. We hope to provide insights to future interventions using wearable activity trackers as tools to improve patients’ outcome. Methods: Wearable activity trackers were freely distributed to type 2 diabeti