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  • 2021 - Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA)

Overview

Charissa S. L. Cheah is affiliated with the University of Maryland, Baltimore County in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Social Sciences and Psychology, with specific focus on Clinical Psychology, Sociology and Political Science, Education, Social Psychology, and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health.

The main topics addressed in Cheah's work include Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development, Racial and Ethnic Identity Research, Early Childhood Education and Development, Migration, Health and Trauma, Attachment and Relationship Dynamics, COVID-19 and Mental Health, and Youth Development and Social Support.

Cheah has published extensively, contributing to leading journals and venues such as Cultural Diversity & Ethnic Minority Psychology, Appetite, Developmental Psychology, Journal of Family Psychology, and International Journal of Behavioral Development. Their frequent collaborators include Huiguang Ren, Xiaoli Zong, Hyun Su Cho, Cixin Wang, and Craig H. Hart.

Some recent papers authored or co-authored by Cheah are:

  • COVID-19 Racism and Mental Health in Chinese American Families (2020, PEDIATRICS)
  • Chinese American Adolescents' Experiences of COVID-19 Racial Discrimination: Risk and Protective Factors for Internalizing Difficulties (2021, Cultural Diversity & Ethnic Minority Psychology)
  • Validation of a Virtual Reality Buffet Environment to Assess Food Selection Processes Among Emerging Adults (2020, Appetite)

Other notable publications related to Cheah's research network but with different lead authors include:

  • Rendered invisible: Are Asian Americans a model or a marginalized minority? (2021, American Psychologist)
  • Chinese American Adolescents' Experiences of COVID-19-Related Racial Discrimination and Anxiety: Person-Centered and Intersectional Approaches (2021, Journal of Research on Adolescence)

Cheah's work addresses the intersection of racial discrimination, mental health, and developmental psychology particularly in the context of Chinese American communities and adolescents. This focus includes examining psychosocial risks and protective factors under stressors such as the COVID-19 pandemic.

In recognition of contributions to the field, Cheah was named a Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA) in 2021.

Best Publications

  • Longitudinal trajectories and predictors of adolescent suicidal ideation and attempts following inpatient hospitalization.

    Mitchell J. Prinstein;Matthew K. Nock;Valerie Simon;Julie Wargo Aikins

  • Adolescent girls' interpersonal vulnerability to depressive symptoms : A longitudinal examination of reassurance-seeking and peer relationships

    Mitchell J. Prinstein;Jessica L. Borelli;Charissa S. L. Cheah;Valerie A. Simon

  • Peer victimization, cue interpretation, and internalizing symptoms: preliminary concurrent and longitudinal findings for children and adolescents.

    Mitchell J. Prinstein;Charissa S. L. Cheah;Amanda E. Guyer

  • COVID-19 Racism and Mental Health in Chinese American Families.

    Charissa S.L. Cheah;Cixin Wang;Huiguang Ren;Xiaoli Zong

  • Emotion Regulation, Parenting and Display of Social Reticence in Preschoolers.

    Kenneth H. Rubin;Charissa S. L. Cheah;Nathan Fox

  • The Place of "Culture and Parenting" in the Ecological Contextual Perspective on Developmental Science.

    Marc H. Bornstein;Charissa S. L. Cheah

  • Authoritative parenting among immigrant Chinese mothers of preschoolers.

    Charissa S. L. Cheah;Christy Y. Y. Leung;Madiha Tahseen;David Schultz

  • Understanding “tiger parenting” through the perceptions of Chinese immigrant mothers: Can Chinese and U.S. parenting coexist?

    Charissa S. L. Cheah;Christy Y. Y. Leung;Nan Zhou

  • The Role of Maternal Behavior in the Relation between Shyness and Social Reticence in Early Childhood and Social Withdrawal in Middle Childhood

    Amie Ashley Hane;Charissa Cheah;Kenneth H. Rubin;Nathan A. Fox

  • Maternal Over-Control Moderates the Association Between Early Childhood Behavioral Inhibition and Adolescent Social Anxiety Symptoms

    Erin Lewis-Morrarty;Kathryn A. Degnan;Andrea Chronis-Tuscano;Kenneth H. Rubin

  • European American and Mainland Chinese mothers' responses to aggression and social withdrawal in preschoolers

    Charissa S.L. Cheah;Kenneth H. Rubin

  • The role of acculturation in the emerging adulthood of aboriginal college students

    Charissa S. L. Cheah;Larry J. Nelson

  • Preliminary evaluation of a multimodal early intervention program for behaviorally inhibited preschoolers.

    Andrea Chronis-Tuscano;Kenneth H. Rubin;Kelly A. O'Brien;Robert J. Coplan

  • Understanding Chinese immigrant and European American mothers' expressions of warmth

    Charissa S. L. Cheah;Jin Li;Nan Zhou;Yoko Yamamoto

  • Korean mothers' proactive socialisation beliefs regarding preschoolers' social skills

    Sung-Yun Park;Charissa S.L. Cheah

  • European American and Mainland Chinese Mothers' Socialization Beliefs Regarding Preschoolers' Social Skills

    Charissa S. L. Cheah;Kenneth H. Rubin

  • Moving beyond the model minority

    Lisa Kiang;Virginia W. Huynh;Charissa S.L. Cheah;Yijie Wang

  • Rendered invisible: Are Asian Americans a model or a marginalized minority?

    Tiffany Yip;Charissa S. L. Cheah;Lisa Kiang;Gordon C. Nagayama Hall

  • Shyness, parenting, and parent-child relationships.

    Paul D. Hastings;Jacob N. Nuselovici;Kenneth H. Rubin;Charissa S. L. Cheah

  • Parents' Personal and Cultural Beliefs Regarding Young Children A Cross-Cultural Study of Aboriginal and Euro-Canadian Mothers

    Charissa S. L. Cheah;Valery Chirkov

  • Parenting Dimensions and Internalizing Difficulties in Italian and U.S. Emerging Adults: The Intervening Role of Autonomy and Relatedness

    Cristiano Inguglia;Sonia Ingoglia;Francesca Liga;Alida Lo Coco

Frequent Co-Authors

Craig H. Hart
Craig H. Hart Brigham Young University
Robert J. Coplan
Robert J. Coplan Carleton University
Kenneth H. Rubin
Kenneth H. Rubin University of Maryland, College Park
Mitchell J. Prinstein
Mitchell J. Prinstein University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Larry J. Nelson
Larry J. Nelson Brigham Young University
Cixin Wang
Cixin Wang University of Maryland, College Park
Paschal Sheeran
Paschal Sheeran University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Nathan A. Fox
Nathan A. Fox University of Maryland, College Park
Hirokazu Yoshikawa
Hirokazu Yoshikawa New York University
Espen Røysamb
Espen Røysamb University of Oslo

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