Project C-STARS

Journal Publications

Sun, Y., Cheah, C. S. L., Seo, Y. J., Aquino, A. K., Gürsoy, H., & Wu, L.-W. (2024). All in the family: The complementary protective roles of spousal and other family support for Chinese immigrant mothers’ life satisfaction over time. Journal of Family Psychology, 38(5), 831–837. https://doi.org/10.1037/fam0001212

Xue, X., Cheah, C. S. L., & Hart, C. H. (2024). Risk and protective processes in the link between racial discrimination and Chinese American mothers’ psychologically controlling parenting. Cultural Diversity & Ethnic Minority Psychology, 30(1), 143–155. https://doi.org/10.1037/cdp0000545

Sun, Y., Cheah, C. S. L., & Hart, C. H. (2024). Parent-child relationship buffers the impact of maternal psychological control on aggression in temperamentally surgent children. Social Development, 33, e12722. https://doi.org/10.1111/sode.12722

Zong, X., Cheah, C. S. L., Ren, H., & Hart, C. H. (2023). Longitudinal pathways linking racial discrimination and Chinese American mothers’ parenting. Developmental Psychology, 59(11), 2119-2132. https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0001608

Wang, S., Cheah, C. S. L., Zong, X., & Ren, H. (2023). Parental stress and Chinese American preschoolers’ adjustment: The mediating role of parenting. Behavioral Sciences, 13(7), 562. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/bs13070562

Seo, Y. J., Cheah, C. S. L., & Hart, C. H. (2023). Longitudinal relations among child temperament, parenting, and acculturation in predicting Korean American children’s externalizing problems. Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology, 29(2), 247–258. https://doi.org/10.1037/cdp0000493

Vu, K. T. T., Cheah, C. S. L., & Halberstadt, A. G. (2022). Culture moderates bidirectional associations between Chinese immigrant mothers’ socialization and children’s anger and sadness during disappointment. Social Development, 32, (2), 445-462 https://doi.org/10.1111/sode.12619

Xue, X., Cheah, C. S. L., & Hart, C. H. (2022). Risk and protective processes in the link between racial discrimination and Chinese American mothers’ psychologically controlling parenting. Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/cdp0000545

Gao, D., Hart, C. H., Cheah, C. S. L., Balkaya, M., Vu, K. T. T., & Liu, J. (2021). Chinese American children’s temperamental shyness and responses to peer victimization as moderated by maternal praise. Journal of Family Psychology, 35(5), 680–690. https://doi.org/10.1037/fam0000831

Cho, H. S., Cheah, C. S. L., Vu, K. T. T., Selçuk, B., Yavuz, H. M., Şen, H. H., & Park, S.-Y. (2021). Culturally shared and unique meanings and expressions of maternal control across four cultures. Developmental Psychology, 57(2), 284–301. https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0001136

Ren, H., Cheah, C. S. L., Tahseen, M., & Zhou, N. (2021). A person-centered examination of acculturation and psychological functioning among Chinese and Korean immigrant mothers in the United States. Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology, 27, 95-106. https://doi.org/10.1037/cdp0000430

Shen, J. J., Cheah, C. S. L., Leung, C. Y. Y. (2020). The long-term socialization goals of Chinese and Korean immigrant mothers in the United States. Journal of Child and Family Studies, 29, 1771–1779. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10826-019-01652-w

Seo, Y. J., Cheah, C. S. L., & Cho, H. S. (2020). The gender ideology of “Wise Mother and Good Wife” and Korean immigrant women’s adjustment in the U.S. Nursing Inquiry, 27(4), e12357. https://doi.org/10.1111/nin.12357

Vu, K. T. T., Cheah, C. S. L., Sun, S., Zhou, N., & Xue, X. (2020). Adaptation and assessment of the Child Feeding Questionnaire for Chinese immigrant families of young children in the U.S. Child: Care, Health and Development, 46, 74-82, https://doi.org/10.1111/cch.12715

Ren, H., Cheah, C. S. L., Sang, B., & Liu, J. (2019). Maternal attribution and Chinese immigrant children’s social skills: The mediating role of authoritative parenting practices. Parenting: Science and Practice, 20(3), 229-239. https://doi.org/10.1080/15295192.2019.1694834

Seo, Y. J., Sun, S., & Cheah, C. S. L. (2019). Confirming the multidimensionality of psychological well-being among Korean immigrant mothers in the United States. International Journal of Mental Health, 48, 40-61. https://doi.org/10.1080/00207411.2019.1578612

Vu., K. T. T., Castro, M., Cheah, C. S. L. & Yu., J. (2019). Mediating and moderating processes in the association between Chinese immigrant mothers’ acculturation and parenting styles in the U.S. Asian American Journal of Psychology, 10, 307-315. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/aap0000150

Yu, J., Cheah, C. S. L., Hart, C. H., Yang, C., & Olsen, J. (2019). Longitudinal effects of maternal love withdrawal and guilt induction on Chinese American preschoolers’ bullying aggressive behavior. Development and Psychopathology, 31, 1467-1475. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954579418001049

Ren, H., Sun, S., & Cheah, C. S. L, Sang, B., & Liu, J. (2019). Confirmatory factor analyses of the Parent Attributions Questionnaire in Asian American mothers. International Journal for the Study of Behavioral Development, 43, 185-193. https://doi.org/10.1177/0165025418798492

Vu, K. T. T., Cheah, C. S. L., Zhou, N., Leung, C. Y. Y., Li, J., & Yamamoto, Y. (2018). The socialization areas in which European American and Chinese immigrant mothers express warmth and control. Parenting: Science and Practice, 18, 262-280. https://doi.org/10.1080/15295192.2018.1524244

Balkaya, M., Cheah, C. S. L., Yu, J., Hart, C. H., & Sun, S. (2018). Maternal encouragement of modest behavior, temperamental shyness, and anxious withdrawal linkages to Chinese American children’s social adjustment: A moderated mediation analysis. Social Development, 27(4), 876-890. https://doi.org/10.1111/sode.12295

Yu, J., Cheah, C. S. L., Hart, C. H., & Yang, C. (2018). Child inhibitory control and maternal acculturation moderate effects of maternal parenting on Chinese American children’s adjustment. Developmental Psychology, 54(6), 1111-1123. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/dev0000517

Seo, Y. J., Cheah, C. S. L., Bayram Özdemir, S. Hart, C. H., Leung, C. Y. Y., & Sun, S. (2018). The mediating role of Korean immigrant mothers’ psychological well-being in the associations between social support and authoritarian parenting style. Journal of Child and Family Studies, 27, 979-989https://doi.org/10.1007/s10826-017-0936-9

Zhou, N., Cheah, C. S. L., Li. Y., Liu, J., & Sun, S. (2017) The role of maternal and child characteristics in Chinese children’s dietary intake across three groups. Journal of Pediatric Psychology, 43(5), 503–512. https://doi.org/10.1093/jpepsy/jsx131

Seo, Y. J., & Cheah, C. S. L., & Hart, C. H.  (2017).  Korean immigrant mothers’ praise and encouragement, acculturation, and their children’s social and emotional difficulties. Parenting: Science and Practice, 17(2), 143-155. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15295192.2017.1304786

Cheah, C. S. L., Yu, J., Hart, C. H., Bayram Özdemir, S., Sun, S., Zhou, N., Sunohara, M., & Olsen, J. A. (2016).  Parenting hassles mediate predictors of Chinese and Korean immigrants’ psychologically controlling parenting. Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 47, 13-22. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.appdev.2016.09.005

Yu, J., Cheah, C. S. L., & Calvin, G. E. (2016). Acculturation, psychological adjustment, and parenting styles of Chinese immigrant mothers in the U.S. Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology, 22(4), 504-516. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/cdp0000091

Cheah, C. S. L., Li, J., Zhou, N., Yamamoto, Y., & Leung, C. Y. Y. (2015). Understanding Chinese immigrant and European American mothers’ expressions of warmth. Developmental Psychology, 51(12), 1802-1811. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0039855

Yu, J., Sun, S., & Cheah, C. S. L. (2015). Multitrait-multimethod analysis of the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire in young Asian-American children. Assessment, 23(5), 603-613. https://doi.org/10.1177/1073191115586459

Yu, W., Cheah, C. S. L.¸& Sun, S. (2015). The moderating role of English proficiency in the association between immigrant Chinese mothers’ authoritative parenting and children’s outcomes. The Journal of Genetic Psychology: Research and Theory on Human Development, 176(4), 272-279. https://doi.org/10.1080/00221325.2015.1022503

Zhou, N. & Cheah, C. S. L. (2015). An ecological risk model of childhood obesity in Chinese immigrant children. Appetite, 90, 99-107. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.appet.2015.02.028

Zhou, N. & Cheah, C. S. L., Van Hook, J., & Thompson, D.A., & Jones, S. A. (2015). A cultural understanding of Chinese immigrant mothers’ feeding practices. Appetite, 87, 160-167. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.appet.2014.12.215

Yu, J., Cheah, C. S. L., Hart, C. H., Sun, S., & Olsen, J. A. (2015).  Confirming the multidimensionality of psychologically controlling practices among Chinese-American mothers: Love withdrawal, guilt induction, and shaming. International Journal of Behavioral Development, 39(3), 285-292. https://doi.org/10.1177/0165025414562238

Cheah, C. S. L., Leung, C. Y. Y., & Zhou, N. (2013). Understanding “tiger parenting” through the perceptions of Chinese immigrant mothers: Can Chinese and U.S. parenting coexist? Asian American Journal of Psychology, 4(1), 30-40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0031217

Cheah, C. S. L., & Van Hook, J. (2012). Chinese and Korean immigrants’ early life deprivation: An important factor for child feeding practices and children’s body weight in the United States. Social Science and Medicine, 74(5), 744-752. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2011.10.040

Tahseen, M., &  Cheah, C. S. L. (2012). A multidimensional examination of the acculturation and psychological functioning of a sample of immigrant Chinese mothers in the U.S. International Journal of Behavioral Development, 36(6), 430–439. https://doi.org/10.1177/0165025412448605

Shin, J., Bayram Ozdemir, S., Lee, J., & Cheah, C. S. L. (2010). The parenting practices and child social-emotional outcomes of Korean immigrant mothers with different acculturation strategies. Korean Child Study Journal, 31, 179-195.