Chenxiao WangGraduate Student

As a PhD student in Human Development & Family Studies, my research hopes to examine children’s and adolescents’ social-emotional development in family and school settings. I am interested in using quantitative research methods with longitudinal, cross-cultural, and multi-informant study designs. I aim to build research-practice connections by informing evidence-based policy and social-emotional learning (SEL) interventions that are sustainable and equity-enhancing.

Before pursuing my PhD, I completed both my bachelor’s and master’s degrees in sociology and gained interdisciplinary research experience in my role as a research assistant in psychology and social work.

Selected Publications and Presentations

Fu, L., et al. [including Wang, C.] (drafting). Social-emotional competence as the promotive and protective factor for Chinese school teachers’ well-being.

Lee, J., Wang, C., & Lui, I. D. (under review). Exploring gender differences in multidimensional social-emotional competence from developmental and cross-cultural perspectives: Based on evidence of measurement invariance.

Lee, J., et al. [including Wang, C.] (under review). The development and validation of the Multidimensional Assessment of Teacher Social-Emotional Competence (MATSEC) in East Asian school contexts.

Lee, J., & Wang, C. (under review). Middle childhood social-emotional competence growth trajectories and pathways to adolescent mental health.

Yang, J., & Wang, C. (2021). The young netizens’ preference for media use and political trust. Youth Studies, (4), 1-10+94. [Chinese full text]

Niu, G., Li, Z., Wang, C., Ma, X., Sun, X., & Zhou, Z. (2019). The influence of online parent-child communication on left-behind junior high school students’ social adjustment: A moderated mediation model. Psychological Development and Education, 35(6), 678-685. [Chinese full text]