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Feng Kong is affiliated with Shaanxi Normal University in China and has contributed extensively to the field of psychology, with a primary focus on psychological well-being and related topics. Their research spans a wide range of subjects including resilience, mental health, and adolescent development.

The publications of Feng Kong have appeared in various academic journals and encompass topics related to subjective well-being, gratitude, and social support. Notable recent papers include:

  • How Does Trait Gratitude Relate to Subjective Well-Being in Chinese Adolescents? The Mediating Role of Resilience and Social Support (2020, Journal of Happiness Studies)

Other frequently cited papers in the broader research context of their field, though not authored by Kong directly, provide a thematic context, such as studies on hedonic and eudaimonic motivations, mindfulness and psychological well-being, family socioeconomic status, and longitudinal analyses of gratitude and well-being in adolescents.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Feng Kong include:

  • Linting Zhang
  • Wenjie Li
  • Ningzhe Zhu
  • Chengcheng Li
  • Ning Jia

Kong's work has been published frequently in a range of psychological journals, with the most common venues being:

  • The Journal of Positive Psychology
  • Current Psychology
  • Applied Psychology Health and Well-Being
  • Child Abuse & Neglect
  • Journal of Happiness Studies

Their academic output covers mainly the field of psychology with 154 publications, focusing on several subfields: clinical psychology, social psychology, experimental and cognitive psychology, cognitive neuroscience, and applied psychology.

Major research topics addressed by Feng Kong include:

  • Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction
  • Resilience and Mental Health
  • COVID-19 and Mental Health
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Psychological and Temporal Perspectives Research
  • Health Disparities and Outcomes
  • Child Abuse and Trauma

This profile illustrates the breadth of Feng Kong's research interests and collaborative activities, emphasizing their role in advancing understanding in psychological well-being and adolescent mental health within the Chinese population and beyond.

Best Publications

  • The Relationships Among Gratitude, Self-esteem, Social Support and Life Satisfaction Among Undergraduate Students

    Feng Kong;Ke Ding;Jingjing Zhao

  • Loneliness and Self-Esteem as Mediators between Social Support and Life Satisfaction in Late Adolescence.

    Feng Kong;Xuqun You

  • Emotional intelligence and life satisfaction in Chinese university students: The mediating role of self-esteem and social support

    Feng Kong;Jingjing Zhao;Xuqun You

  • Dispositional mindfulness and life satisfaction: The role of core self-evaluations

    Feng Kong;Xu Wang;Jingjing Zhao

  • Self-Esteem as Mediator and Moderator of the Relationship between Social Support and Subjective Well-Being among Chinese University Students.

    Feng Kong;Jingjing Zhao;Xuqun You

  • Dispositional mindfulness and perceived stress: The role of emotional intelligence

    Xueming Bao;Song Xue;Feng Kong

  • How Is Emotional Intelligence Linked to Life Satisfaction? The Mediating Role of Social Support, Positive Affect and Negative Affect

    Feng Kong;Xinyu Gong;Sonia Sajjad;Kairong Yang

  • The Role of Emotional Intelligence in the Impact of Mindfulness on Life Satisfaction and Mental Distress

    Yu Wang;Feng Kong

  • Affective mediators of the relationship between trait emotional intelligence and life satisfaction in young adults

    Feng Kong;Jingjing Zhao

  • Neural correlates of psychological resilience and their relation to life satisfaction in a sample of healthy young adults.

    Feng Kong;Feng Kong;Xu Wang;Xu Wang;Siyuan Hu;Jia Liu

  • Psychometric Assessment of the Short Grit Scale Among Chinese Adolescents

    Jingguang Li;Yajun Zhao;Feng Kong;Shuailing Du

  • Social support mediates the impact of emotional intelligence on mental distress and life satisfaction in Chinese young adults

    Feng Kong;Jingjing Zhao;Xuqun You

  • Neural correlates of the happy life: the amplitude of spontaneous low frequency fluctuations predicts subjective well-being.

    Feng Kong;Siyuan Hu;Xu Wang;Yiying Song

  • Self-esteem and humor style as mediators of the effects of shyness on loneliness among Chinese college students

    Jingjing Zhao;Feng Kong;Yonghui Wang

  • The role of social support and self-esteem in the relationship between shyness and loneliness

    Jingjing Zhao;Feng Kong;Yonghui Wang

  • Parenting stress and life satisfaction in mothers of children with cerebral palsy: The mediating effect of social support

    Yongli Wang;Zhaoming Huang;Feng Kong

  • Gender Differences in Large-Scale and Small-Scale Spatial Ability: A Systematic Review Based on Behavioral and Neuroimaging Research.

    Li Yuan;Feng Kong;Yangmei Luo;Siyao Zeng

  • Exploring the mediation effect of social support and self-esteem on the relationship between humor style and life satisfaction in Chinese college students

    Jingjing Zhao;Yonghui Wang;Feng Kong

  • The validity of the Wong and Law Emotional Intelligence Scale in a Chinese sample: Tests of measurement invariance and latent mean differences across gender and age

    Feng Kong

  • Resting-state functional connectivity of the default mode network associated with happiness

    Yangmei Luo;Feng Kong;Senqing Qi;Xuqun You

  • Affective Mediators of the Influence of Gratitude on Life Satisfaction in Late Adolescence

    Peizhen Sun;Feng Kong

Frequent Co-Authors

Wataru Sato
Wataru Sato Kyoto University
Carien M. van Reekum
Carien M. van Reekum University of Reading

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