Project SAFER

Journal Publications

Aquino, A. K., Cheah, C. S. L., Zhang, B., Cho, H. S., & Sun, Y. (in press). Competency matters: Chinese American parents’ racial socialization and adolescents’ well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic. Asian American Journal of Psychology.

Zhang, B., Cheah, C. S. L., Aquino, A. K., & Ren, H. (in press). Becoming civically engaged adolescents: Individual and parenting mechanisms in Chinese American families. Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology.

Zong, X., Cheah, C. S. L. & Ren, H. (2024). Age-varying associations between COVID-19-related racial discrimination and Chinese American adolescents’ political civic engagement. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 53, 446–458. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10964-023-01879-3

Cho, H. S., Gürsoy, H., Cheah, C. S. L., Zong, X., & Ren, H. (2024). To maintain or conceal one’s cultural identity? Chinese American parents’ ethnic–racial socialization during COVID-19. Journal of Family Psychology, 38(1), 26–37. https://doi.org/10.1037/fam0001169

Ren, H., Cheah, C. S. L., Cho, H. S., & Aquino, A. K. (2023). Cascading effects of Chinese American parents’ COVID-19 racial discrimination and racial socialization on adolescents’ adjustment. Child Development, 95(3), 862-878. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.14037

Liu, J. L., Cheong, Y., Wang, C., Cheah C. S. L., Ma, R., & Zhang, Z. (2023). The voices of Chinese American parents during COVID-19: Recommendations for addressing anti-Asian racism and supporting adolescents in school. Asian American Journal of Psychology, 15(1), 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1037/aap0000320

Schmidt, C., Cho, H. S., & Cheah, C. S. L. (2023). To be in Harmony: Chinese American adolescents’ and parents’ bicultural integration during the COVID-19 pandemic. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 54(4), 475–489. https://doi.org/10.1177/00220221231171062

Cheah, C. S. L., Ren, H., Zong, X., & Wang C. (2023). COVID-19 racism and Chinese American families’ mental health: A comparison between 2020 versus 2021. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 20(8), 5437. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20085437

Wang, C., Cheah, C. S. L., Liu, J., Zhu, Q., Havewala, M., Ma, R., Cheong, Y. & Housden, M. (2022). Parents’ perspectives regarding anti-Asian racism during COVID-19: Supporting elementary students at school. School Psychology Review. https://doi.org/10.1080/2372966X.2022.2098813

Ren, H., Cheah, C. S. L., Zong, X., Wang, S., Cho, H. S., Wang, C., & Xue, X. (2022). Age-varying associations between Chinese American parents’ racial-ethnic socialization and children’s difficulties during the COVID-19 pandemic. Asian American Journal of Psychology, 13(4), 351–363. https://doi.org/10.1037/aap0000278

Zong, X., Cheah C. S. L., & Ren, H. (2022). Chinese American adolescents’ experiences of COVID-19-related racial discrimination and anxiety: Person-centered and intersectional approaches. Journal of Research on Adolescence, 32(2), 451-469. https://doi.org/10.1111/jora.12696

Cheah, C. S. L., Zong, X., Cho, H. S., Ren, H., Wang, S., Xue, X., & Wang, C. (2021). Chinese American adolescents’ experiences of COVID-19 racial discrimination: Risk and protective factors for internalizing difficulties. Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology, 27(4), 559–568. https://doi.org/10.1037/cdp0000498

Cheah, C. S. L., Wang, C., Ren, H., Zong, X., Cho, H. S., & Xue, X. (2020). COVID-19 racism and mental health in Chinese American families. Pediatrics, 146(5), 021816. https://doi.org/10.1542/peds.2020-021816

Infographic: COVID-19 racism impacts the mental health of Chinese American families