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Danhua Lin is affiliated with Beijing Normal University in China and has contributed extensively to the fields of psychology and social sciences. Their research interests primarily focus on clinical psychology, social psychology, experimental and cognitive psychology, education, and safety research.

The scientist's work covers several key topics including:

  • Resilience and Mental Health
  • COVID-19 and Mental Health
  • Youth Development and Social Support
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Early Childhood Education and Development
  • Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction
  • Stress Responses and Cortisol

Danhua Lin has published 136 works in psychology and 54 in social sciences, with a strong emphasis on mental health and developmental psychology. Their studies frequently appear in prominent journals such as:

  • Applied Psychology Health and Well-Being
  • Journal of Youth and Adolescence
  • Current Psychology
  • AEA Randomized Controlled Trials
  • Journal of Research on Adolescence

Several recent papers reveal Lin's focus on the psychological effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, with works addressing stress, coping mechanisms, and mental health interventions for university students in quarantine. Selected publications include:

  • Resilience, Social Support, and Coping as Mediators between COVID-19-related Stressful Experiences and Acute Stress Disorder among College Students in China, 2020, Applied Psychology Health and Well-Being
  • Negative cognitive and psychological correlates of mandatory quarantine during the initial COVID-19 outbreak in China., 2020, American Psychologist
  • Psychiatric symptoms, risk, and protective factors among university students in quarantine during the COVID-19 pandemic in China, 2021, Globalization and Health
  • A mindfulness-based mobile health (mHealth) intervention among psychologically distressed university students in quarantine during the COVID-19 pandemic: A randomized controlled trial., 2021, Journal of Counseling Psychology
  • Interest in COVID-19 vaccine trials participation among young adults in China: Willingness, reasons for hesitancy, and demographic and psychosocial determinants, 2021, Preventive Medicine Reports

Danhua Lin commonly collaborates with a set of frequent co-authors, including Mingjun Xie, Xiaoming Li, Shufang Sun, Don Operario, and Xiaoyan Li, reflecting a networked approach to multidisciplinary research. The number of collaborations with these co-authors indicates ongoing partnerships, with some coauthors having contributed to multiple publications alongside Lin.

Best Publications

  • Child Development in Rural China: Children Left behind by Their Migrant Parents and Children of Nonmigrant Families.

    Ming Wen;Danhua Lin

  • Resilience, Social Support, and Coping as Mediators between COVID-19-related Stressful Experiences and Acute Stress Disorder among College Students in China.

    Zhi Ye;Xueying Yang;Chengbo Zeng;Yuyan Wang

  • HIV/Std Risk Behaviors and Perceptions Among Rural-to-Urban Migrants in China

    Xiaoming Li;Xiaoyi Fang;Danhua Lin;Rong Mao

  • Psychological adjustment among left-behind children in rural China: the role of parental migration and parent-child communication.

    S. Su;X. Li;D. Lin;X. Xu

  • Heterosexual transmission of HIV in China: a systematic review of behavioral studies in the past two decades.

    Hongmei Yang;Xiaoming Li;Bonita Stanton;Hongjie Liu

  • Social stigma and mental health among rural-to-urban migrants in China: A conceptual framework and future research needs.

    Xiaoming Li;Bonita Stanton;Xiaoyi Fang;Danhua Lin

  • Psychiatric symptoms, risk, and protective factors among university students in quarantine during the COVID-19 pandemic in China.

    Shufang Sun;Simon B. Goldberg;Danhua Lin;Shan Qiao

  • Negative cognitive and psychological correlates of mandatory quarantine during the initial COVID-19 outbreak in China.

    Meiqi Xin;Sitong Luo;Rui She;Yanqiu Yu

  • Discrimination, perceived social inequity, and mental health among rural-to-urban migrants in China.

    Danhua Lin;Xiaoming Li;Bo Wang;Yan Hong

  • A mindfulness-based mobile health (mHealth) intervention among psychologically distressed university students in quarantine during the COVID-19 pandemic: A randomized controlled trial.

    Shufang Sun;Danhua Lin;Simon Goldberg;Zijiao Shen

  • Stressful Life Events, Depression, and Non-Suicidal Self-Injury Among Chinese Left-Behind Children: Moderating Effects of Self-Esteem

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  • Alcohol intoxication and sexual risk behaviors among rural-to-urban migrants in China

    Danhua Lin;Xiaoming Li;Hongmei Yang;Xiaoyi Fang

  • Social Stigma, Social Capital Reconstruction, and Rural Migrants in Urban China: A Population Health Perspective

    Xinguang Chen;Bonita Stanton;Linda M. Kaljee;Xiaoyi Fang

  • Rural-to-Urban Migrants and the HIV Epidemic in China

    Yan Hong;Bonita Stanton;Xiaoming Li;Hongmei Yang

  • Positive youth development in rural China: The role of parental migration

    Ming Wen;Shaobing Su;Xiaoming Li;Danhua Lin

  • HIV/AIDS-related sexual risk behaviors among rural residents in China: potential role of rural-to-urban migration.

    Xiaoming Li;Liying Zhang;Bonita Stanton;Xiaoyi Fang

  • Interest in COVID-19 vaccine trials participation among young adults in China: Willingness, reasons for hesitancy, and demographic and psychosocial determinants

    Shufang Sun;Danhua Lin;Don Operario

  • Parental HIV/AIDS and Psychosocial Adjustment among Rural Chinese Children

    Xiaoyi Fang;Xiaoming Li;Bonita Stanton;Yan Hong

  • Cigarette smoking among rural-to-urban migrants in Beijing, China.

    Xinguang Chen;Xiaoming Li;Bonita Stanton;Xiaoyi Fang

  • Too Costly To Be Ill: Healthcare Access and Health-Seeking Behaviours among Rural-to-Urban Migrants in China.

    Yan Hong;Xiaoming Li;Bonita Stanton;Danhua Lin

  • HIV-related knowledge, stigma, and willingness to disclose: A mediation analysis.

    Hongmei Yang;X. Li;B. Stanton;X. Fang

  • HIV-Related Risk Behaviors and History of Sexually Transmitted Diseases Among Male Migrants Who Patronize Commercial Sex in China

    Bo Wang;Xiaoming Li;Bonita Stanton;Xiaoyi Fang

Frequent Co-Authors

Xiaoyi Fang
Xiaoyi Fang Beijing Normal University
Bonita Stanton
Bonita Stanton Seton Hall University
Xinguang Chen
Xinguang Chen University of Florida
Hongfei Du
Hongfei Du Beijing Normal University
Ming Wen
Ming Wen University of Hong Kong
Brian J. Hall
Brian J. Hall New York University Shanghai
Eric G. Benotsch
Eric G. Benotsch Virginia Commonwealth University
Sylvie Naar-King
Sylvie Naar-King Florida State University
Antonia Abbey
Antonia Abbey Wayne State University
Qing Zhou
Qing Zhou University of California, Berkeley

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