A5026611150- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Attachment and Relationship Dynamics
- Early Childhood Education and Development
- Epigenetics and DNA Methylation
- Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum
- Memory Processes and Influences
- Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction
- Infant Development and Preterm Care
- Primate Behavior and Ecology
- Clinical Reasoning and Diagnostic Skills
- Family Support in Illness
- Stress Responses and Cortisol
- Autism Spectrum Disorder Research
- Immune cells in cancer
- Identity, Memory, and Therapy
- Impact of Technology on Adolescents
- Media Influence and Health
- Caveolin-1 and cellular processes
- Child Development and Digital Technology
- COVID-19 and Mental Health
- Visual and Cognitive Learning Processes
- Face Recognition and Perception
- Race, Genetics, and Society
- Educational Strategies and Epistemologies
- Aging and Gerontology Research
University of British Columbia
2023-2024
British Columbia Children's Hospital
2023
The Ohio State University
2019-2022
University of Cambridge
2017-2018
Mother’s beliefs about negative emotions (i.e., meta-emotion philosophy) are deeply influential to how they socialize in their children and can differ across cultures. However, framework of philosophy, such as emotion coaching dismissing, was developed based on minority world population, including European Americans. The current study took an emic approach explore the philosophy three cultural groups, two groups Chinese mothers (living Hong Kong Beijing) American Midwest United States expand...
The socialization of emotion in preschool-aged children is an important developmental task, which associated with a number socioemotional outcomes. This study examined the contribution both fathers' and mothers' coaching to their 3- 4-year-old children's socialization. Two time points data were collected for 69 families. We employed sampling observational method capture process naturalistic home environment. Fathers' expression, as well assessed at using audio recording device. Children's...
Contagious yawning-the urge to yawn when thinking about, listening to, or viewing yawning-is a well-documented phenomenon in humans and animals. The reduced contagion observed the autistic population suggested that it might be empathy related; however, is unknown whether such connection applies nonclinical populations. We examined influences from both (i.e., traits) nonempathy factors individuals' perceptual detection sensitivity yawning, happy, angry faces) on 41 adults. induced contagious...
Abstract Objectives The Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) has been shown to be invariant across informants, developmental stage settings, but tests of cross‐cultural equivalence are limited adolescents' self‐reports. COVID‐19 pandemic makes this gap particularly pertinent, given the need understand whether distinct government approaches (e.g., school closures) uniquely associated with variability in children's psychosocial outcomes reliance on parents' ratings for young...
Abstract. The factor structure and measurement invariance across gender of Mroczek’s Kolarz’s scales positive affect (PA) negative (NA) have been examined in past studies; however, little is known about the age groups over time, which are important psychometric properties for developmental research. current study sought to fill this gap using data from National Survey Midlife Development United States (MIDUS). Multi-group confirmatory analysis (CFA) was used examine increasing levels groups....
Studies on testing effect have showed that a practice test study materials leads to better performance in final than restudying the for same amount of time. Two experiments were conducted how distraction, as triggered by divided attention or experimentally induced anxious mood phase, could modulate benefit (vs. restudying) learning interesting and boring general knowledge facts. individual difference factors (trait anxiety working memory (WM) capacity) measured. Under attention, participants...
The current study examined temporal associations between child emotion and maternal regulatory strategies in mother-child dyads. One hundred 30 mothers their 5-year-old children (46.1% boys) completed a challenging puzzle task, which was videotaped. Child positive negative as well mothers' including problem solving, providing approval, comforting, were coded on second-by-second basis from the videos. Multilevel modeling analyses conducted to examine how behaviors at given time predicted...
Objective The current study examined the psychosocial processes related to health outcomes of depression and obesity. Specifically, mediating role participant's trait conscientiousness on relation between early experiences paternal/maternal warmth later depressive symptoms/obesity across 20 years how this relationship is moderated by age adulthood. Method utilized a national longitudinal data set, Midlife in United States. Participants (N = 2,257) completed survey rating they received from...
<title>Abstract</title> The occurrence of internalizing symptoms is prevalent among young children and can be observed as early preschool years. Using a longitudinal approach, this study examined the moderating role paternal depressive symptoms/emotion dysregulation in prospective associations between maternal children’s problems (depressive anxiety symptoms). Ninety-four preschoolers their mothers fathers participated study. Mothers completed online questionnaires for all variables when...
Abstract Parents, including fathers, contribute to the early development of internalizing symptoms, which is observable and prevalent among young children. This longitudinal study examined moderating role paternal depressive symptoms/emotion dysregulation in prospective associations between maternal children’s problems (depressive anxiety symptoms). Ninety-four preschoolers their mothers fathers participated. Parents completed online questionnaires when children were four years old one year...
<title>Abstract</title> For decades, parental report was used to assess children’s psychological symptoms and social problems. The Berkeley Puppet Interview (BPI) utilizes hand puppets collect questionnaire-style data from children, allowing consideration of own perspective. current longitudinal study compared the feasibility reliability preschoolers’ self-report with BPI at age 4 (<italic>M</italic> = 4.03, <italic>SD</italic> 0.16; 52% boy, 82% White American) 5 5.22, 0.36; 51% 85% as well...
Saliva is a widely used sample in epigenetic research with children due to its non-invasive nature. Since DNA methylation (DNAm) profile cell type (CT) specific, salivary DNAm associations exposures may be influenced by CT compositions, which highly variable saliva as it contains immune and buccal epithelial cells (BEC). Reference-based deconvolution statistically adjusting estimated analyses have become an increasingly common practice. However, careful examinations of how different...
Mother’s beliefs about negative emotions (i.e., meta-emotion philosophy) are deeply influential to how they socialize in their children and can differ across cultures. However, framework of philosophy, such as emotion coaching dismissing, was developed based on minority world population, including European Americans. The current study took an emic approach explore the philosophy three cultural groups, two groups Chinese mothers (living Hong Kong Beijing) American Midwest United States expand...
Mother’s beliefs about negative emotions (i.e., meta-emotion philosophy) are deeply influential to how they socialize in their children and can differ across cultures. However, framework of philosophy, such as emotion coaching dismissing, was developed based on minority world population, including European Americans. The current study took an emic approach explore the philosophy three cultural groups, two groups Chinese mothers (living Hong Kong Beijing) American Midwest United States expand...
Abstract Background Cumulative family adversity (cumulative FA), characterized by co-occurring stressors in a context, may be biologically embedded through DNA methylation (DNAm) and contribute to later health outcomes. Materials & Methods We compared epigenome-wide DNAm associated with cumulative FA buccal epithelial cells (BECs; n =218) peripheral blood mononuclear (PBMCs; =51) from 7-13-year-old children Canada, accounting for sex, age, predicted cell-type proportion, genetic...
Summary Transition theory posits that autobiographical memories are organized by major life transitions, which is often supported the Living‐in‐History effect occurs when people frequently refer to public events support their date estimates of personal events. In present study, 52 Chinese older adults in Hong Kong recalled using cue‐word method and justified They also reported most important assessed impacts. Results showed participants referred only estimating 5.5% word‐cued a few as...
For decades, developmental research has relied on parental reports in assessing children’s psychological symptoms and social experiences. However, the family system perspective urges researchers to consider views of multiple members, including other caregivers children themselves. The Berkeley Puppet Interview (BPI) utilizes hand puppets collect questionnaire-style data from children. current longitudinal study compared feasibility reliability self-report using BPI among preschoolers at age...