Contact

Phone: 470-578-6346

Email: mdai@kennesaw.edu

Office Location: EB 065

Office Hours:
Tuesday and Thursday 11:00 - 12:30 or by virtual appointment

Research

For the most recent list of publcations, please visit my ORCID page.

Selected Peer-Reviewed Article

^Denotes student co-author at the time the research was conducted; +Denotes equal or shared first authorship 
  
+Dai, M., +^Chen, T., & Harrington, N. G. (2023). Understanding the audience in framing research: Empirical evidence from three studies examining HIV framing in China. Frontiers in Public Health, 11. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2023.1172020 
 
Dai, M. (2023). Examine the association between smartphone hook-up application uses and  
sexual health and relationship outcomes among college students. Journal of American College Health, 71(2), 554-561. https://doi.org/10.1080/07448481.2021.1898406  
 
Dai, M. (2023). The demographic and psychological moderators to the associations between  
geosocial networking apps (GSNA) use and risky sexual behaviors. Sexuality Research and Social Policy, 20(2), 664-675. http://doi.org/10.1007/s13178-022-00706-x 
 
Dai, M., & ^Chen, T. (2023). Stress contagion and proliferation in diverse cisgender gay  
couples: Influences of sexual minority stressors and race on high-risk behaviors. Sex Roles, 89, 46-64. http://doi.org/10.1007/s11199-023-01378-6 
 
Dai, M., & ^Calabrese, C. J. (2022). Socio-behavioral factors related to prep non- 
adherence among gay male PrEP users living in California and New York: A behavioral theory grounded approach. Journal of Behavioral Medicine, 45, 240-251. http://doi.org/10.1007/s10865-021-00275-1 
 
Dai, M., & Harrington, N. G. (2022). The need to examine behaviors within “actual” constraints: A systematic review of research using the integrative model of behavioral prediction. Journal of Human Behavior in the Social Environment, 33(1), 126-142.  https://doi.org/10.1080/10911359.2021.2019166 
 
Wang, X., Dai, M., & Mathis, R. (2022). The influences of student- and school-level factors on engineering undergraduate student success outcomes: A multi-level multi-school study. International Journal of STEM Education, 9(23), 1-13. http://doi.org/10.1186/s40594-022-00338-y  
 
^Chen, T., Dai, M., & ^Xia, S. (2021). Perceived facilitators and barriers to intentions of receiving the COVID-19 vaccines among elderly Chinese adults. Vaccine, 40(1), 100-106. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2021.11.039 
 
^Chen, T., Dai, M., ^Xia, S., & Zhou, Y. (2021). Do messages matter? Investigating the combined effects of framing, outcome uncertainty, and number format on COVID-19 vaccination attitudes and intention. Health Communication, 37(8), 944-951. https://doi.org/10.1080/10410236.2021.1876814 
 
Dai, M. (2021). Exploring relationships of cognitive complexity, person-centeredness, and  
communication outcomes in computer-mediated patient-provider communication. Communication Studies, 72(1), 33-51. https://doi.org/10.1080/10510974.2020.1807375 
   
Dai, M., & Harrington, N. G. (2021). Intention to behavior: Using the integrative model of  
behavioral prediction to understand actual control of PrEP uptake among gay men. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 50(4), 1817-1828. http://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-020-01802-y 
 
Dai, M., & Harrington, N. G. (2021). Understanding beliefs, intention, and behavior on daily  
PrEP uptake among MSM in California and New York. AIDS Education and Prevention, 33(2), 129-142. https://doi.org/10.1521/aeap.2021.33.2.129 
 
Dai, M., & ^Morgan, D. (2021). Talking is hard: A mixed-methods exploration of factors  
associated with communication about mental health issues among black college students. Communication Studies, 72(4), 634-651. http://doi.org/10.1080/10510974.2021.1953555 
 
Dai, M., & ^Robbins, R. (2021). Exploring the influences of profile perceptions and different pick-up lines on dating outcomes on Tinder: An online experiment. Computers in Human Behavior, 117(106667). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2020.106667 
 
Mark, K., Leistner, C. E., & Dai, M. (2018). An actor-partner account of daily sexual desire and  
its impact on next-day desire and behavior in mixed-sex couples. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 48(3), 795-801. http://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-018-1320-6 

Current Research Funding

Radow College of Humanities and Social Sciences Scholarship Support Grant, $5,000, Kennesaw State University, 2021. 

OVPR Research/Scholarship Seed Grants, $14,856, Kennesaw State University, 2021. 

College of Humanities and Social Sciences Start-Up Research Fund, $10,600, Kennesaw State University, 2020. 

 

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