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Overview

Yin-Leng Theng is affiliated with Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. Their research primarily spans interdisciplinary areas across social sciences, medicine, and psychology with a focus on several specific subfields such as sociology and political science, psychiatry and mental health, demography, general health professions, and neuropsychology and physiological psychology.

Their work encompasses key topics including misinformation and its impacts, psychosomatic disorders and their treatments, aging and gerontology research, health disparities and outcomes, technology use by older adults, psychological well-being and life satisfaction, as well as psychological and temporal perspectives research.

Yin-Leng Theng has contributed to multiple academic journals and publication venues. Frequent outlets for their research include Innovation in Aging, Telematics and Informatics, Internet Research, Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, and Computers in Human Behavior.

Several recent papers demonstrate their focus areas and collaborative efforts. These include:

  • "Cyberchondria: a systematic review," 2020, Internet Research
  • "A theoretical model of cyberchondria development: Antecedents and intermediate processes," 2021, Telematics and Informatics
  • "Understanding the effects of message cues on COVID-19 information sharing on Twitter," 2021, Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology
  • "The effects of exergames on emotional well-being of older adults," 2020, Computers in Human Behavior
  • "Exploring developmental trajectory of cyberchondria over time: A three-wave panel study," 2022, Telematics and Informatics

Collaborations are an integral aspect of Yin-Leng Theng's research, with frequent coauthors including Yuezhong Liu, Han Zheng, Moon-Ho Ringo Ho, Dion Hoe-Lian Goh, and Jinhui Li.

Best Publications

  • Why Students Share Misinformation on Social Media: Motivation, Gender, and Study-level Differences

    Xinran Chen;Sei-Ching Joanna Sin;Yin-Leng Theng;Chei Sian Lee

  • Game-based digital interventions for depression therapy: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

    Jinhui Li;Yin Leng Theng;Schubert Foo

  • Altmetrics: an analysis of the state-of-the-art in measuring research impact on social media

    Mojisola Erdt;Aarthy Nagarajan;Sei-Ching Joanna Sin;Yin-Leng Theng

  • Effect of Exergames on Depression: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

    Jinhui Li;Yin-Leng Theng;Schubert Foo

  • The Use of Videogames, Gamification, and Virtual Environments in the Self-Management of Diabetes: A Systematic Review of Evidence

    Yin-Leng Theng;Jason W Y Lee;Paul V Patinadan;Schubert S B Foo

  • Mixed reality classroom: learning from entertainment

    Wei Liu;Adrian David Cheok;Charissa Lim Mei-Ling;Yin-Leng Theng

  • Predictors of online health information seeking behavior: Changes between 2002 and 2012.

    Jinhui Li;Yin-Leng Theng;Schubert Foo

  • Let's play together: Effects of video-game play on intergenerational perceptions among youth and elderly participants

    Puay-Hoe Chua;Younbo Jung;May O. Lwin;Yin-Leng Theng

  • Cognitive Absorption and Trust for Workplace Collaboration in Virtual Worlds: An Information Processing Decision Making Perspective

    Shalini Chandra;Shirish C. Srivastava;Yin Leng Theng

  • The Social Effects of Exergames on Older Adults: Systematic Review and Metric Analysis

    Jinhui Li;Mojisola Erdt;Luxi Chen;Yuanyuan Cao

  • A 21st century approach to tackling dengue: Crowdsourced surveillance, predictive mapping and tailored communication.

    May O. Lwin;Santosh Vijaykumar;Owen Noel Newton Fernando;Siew Ann Cheong

  • Wii as entertainment and socialisation aids for mental and social health of the elderly

    Yin-Leng Theng;Puay Hoe Chua;Tan Phat Pham

  • Assessing students’ information literacy skills in two secondary schools in Singapore

    Yun-ke Chang;Xue Zhang;Intan Azura Mokhtar;Schubert Foo

  • Sentence-level sentiment polarity classification using a linguistic approach

    Luke Kien-Weng Tan;Jin-Cheon Na;Yin-Leng Theng;Kuiyu Chang

  • Sentiment lexicons for health-related opinion mining

    Lorraine Goeuriot;Jin-Cheon Na;Wai Yan Min Kyaing;Christopher Khoo

  • An attentional recurrent neural network for personalized next location recommendation

    Qing Guo;Zhu Sun;Jie Zhang;Yin Leng Theng

  • iCLUB: an integrated clustering-based approach to improve the robustness of reputation systems

    Siyuan Liu;Jie Zhang;Chunyan Miao;Yin-Leng Theng

  • Information literacy skills of secondary school students in Singapore

    Schubert Foo;Shaheen Majid;Intan Azura Mokhtar;Xue Zhang

  • An exploratory study on senior citizens' perceptions of the Nintendo Wii: the case of Singapore

    Yin-Leng Theng;Amirrudin Bin Dahlan;Meutia Latifah Akmal;Thant Zin Myint

  • Information needs and information seeking behaviour of people with dementia and their non-professional caregivers: a scoping review

    Aijia Soong;Shu Ting Au;Bhone Myint Kyaw;Yin Leng Theng

  • Cyberchondria: a systematic review

    Han Zheng;Sei-Ching Joanna Sin;Hye Kyung Kim;Yin-Leng Theng

  • Mobile G-Portal supporting collaborative sharing and learning in geography fieldwork: an empirical study

    Yin-Leng Theng;Kuah-Li Tan;Ee-Peng Lim;Jun Zhang

  • Influence detection between blog posts through blog features, content analysis, and community identity

    Luke Kien-Weng Tan;Jin-Cheon Na;Yin Leng Theng

  • Why Do Social Media Users Share Misinformation

    Xinran Chen;Sei-Ching Joanna Sin;Yin-Leng Theng;Chei Sian Lee

  • Creativity in digital libraries and information retrieval environments

    Shu Shing Lee;Yin-Leng Theng;Dion Hoe-Lian Goh

Frequent Co-Authors

Dion Hoe-Lian Goh
Dion Hoe-Lian Goh Nanyang Technological University
Schubert Foo
Schubert Foo Nanyang Technological University
Ee-Peng Lim
Ee-Peng Lim Singapore Management University
Jinhui Li
Jinhui Li Tsinghua University
Aixin Sun
Aixin Sun Nanyang Technological University
May O. Lwin
May O. Lwin Nanyang Technological University
Chunyan Miao
Chunyan Miao Nanyang Technological University
Harold Thimbleby
Harold Thimbleby Swansea University
Xingwang Zhang
Xingwang Zhang Chinese Academy of Sciences
Jie Zhang
Jie Zhang Nanyang Technological University

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