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Psychol."],"abstract":"<jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Introduction<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Drawing upon Socio-Technical Systems Theory and the Sense of Community Theory, this study examines the associations between digital campus governance participation and the ethnic-cultural identity of multi-ethnic college students, testing the multiple indirect associations of online social support and campus sense of community connection, as well as the potential moderating role of ethnic background.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Utilizing a cross-sectional questionnaire survey method, data were collected from 890 students across multi-ethnic universities in Southwest China.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Regression and bias-corrected Bootstrap analyses indicate that: (1) digital campus governance participation is significantly and positively associated with ethnic-cultural identity; (2) online social support and campus sense of community connection exhibit significant parallel indirect statistical covariations in this relationship, while jointly constructing a sequential chain association structure defined as \u201cdigital participation \u2192 online social support \u2192 campus sense of community connection \u2192 ethnic-cultural identity\u201d; (3) the moderating role of ethnic background on the relationship between digital participation and online social support is not statistically significant. 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