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Yang, Yang
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- PublicationOpen AccessLongitudinal relations of emotion knowledge to psychosocial adjustment in European and Chinese American school-age children.The study is the first to examine the developmental trajectory of emotion knowledge as it relates to psychosocial adjustment in a cross-cultural context. European American (EA, n = 68, 28 boys) and Chinese American (CA, n = 62, 31 boys) children and their mothers participated. Children's emotion knowledge was assessed, and their psychosocial adjustment was reported by mothers at three time points when children were 6.5, 7, and 8 years of age. Although EA children had greater emotion knowledge at Time 1, CA children's emotion knowledge grew faster over the following 1.5 years. In addition, emotion knowledge predicted fewer internalizing problems in CA children but predicted fewer externalizing problems in EA children. Thus, emotion knowledge was associated with psychosocial adjustment for both cultural groups, and particularly helpful for children to cope with issues to which they are most vulnerable in their respective cultural contexts. The findings shed critical light on the developmental trajectories of emotion understanding and psychosocial adjustment in specific cultural contexts.
WOS© Citations 1Scopus© Citations 2 50 84 - PublicationMetadata onlyDistinctiveness and uniformity: Teaching language in Singapore primary grades 1 & 2(Springer, 2016)
; ; ; This chapter presents data from a study of primary grade 1 and grade 2 (P1 and P2) lessons for Chinese, English, Malay and Tamil. There are few, if any, comparative studies which examine pedagogy in all four official languages in Singapore; therefore, our primary purpose is to investigate how classroom teaching is similar or different for the four languages. For this investigation, data are drawn from 62 lessons observed in 2009 after new language syllabi were introduced. Despite a continuing policy of maintaining separate teaching teams, materials, syllabi/curricula and teacher training for each language, many of the policies for language and education apply across all four languages. These include recent emphases on oral skill development, recommendations that schools develop more engaging pedagogies for young learners and common policies on assessment. Our data show that teaching across the four languages is remarkably similar, which we take to be evidence of the impact of the common policies and cultural beliefs about language education in Singapore primary schools.WOS© Citations 2 37 - PublicationOpen AccessRational-design of polyaniline cathode using proton doping strategy by graphene oxide for enhanced aqueous zinc-ion batteries(Elsevier, 2020)
; ; WOS© Citations 64Scopus© Citations 89 167 233 - PublicationOpen AccessMaternal reactions to children’s negative emotions: Relations to children's socio-emotional development among European American and Chinese immigrant childrenThis study examined the relations between maternal reactions to children’s negative emotions and children’s socio-emotional outcomes, including psychological adjustment, emotion knowledge, and coping strategies. European American and Chinese immigrant mothers reported on their reactions to children’s (N = 117, M = 7.14 years) negative emotions and on children’s psychological adjustment. One year later, children were interviewed for emotion knowledge and mothers reported on children’s use of coping strategies. Mothers from the two cultural groups reported the same level of supportive reactions to their children’s negative emotions, whereas Chinese immigrant mothers more often adopted what are commonly considered to be non-supportive strategies than did European American mothers. Whereas supportive maternal reactions were associated with better child outcomes in both cultures, maternal non-supportive reactions were negatively associated with children’s functioning for European American children but not for Chinese immigrant children. The findings shed critical light on the functional meaning of parenting practices in specific cultural contexts in shaping developmental outcomes.
WOS© Citations 19Scopus© Citations 24 148 254 - PublicationOpen AccessImportance of emotion understanding on academic outcomes(National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University (NIE NTU), Singapore, 2024)
; Adelia, Kelly71 481 - PublicationOpen AccessA 1D–3D interconnected δ-MnO2 nanowires network as high-performance and high energy efficiency cathode material for aqueous zinc-ion batteries(Elsevier, 2021)
; ; WOS© Citations 47Scopus© Citations 62 194 206 - PublicationOpen AccessInterlayer engineering of molybdenum trioxide toward high-capacity and stable sodium ion half/full batteries(Wiley, 2020)
; ; WOS© Citations 55Scopus© Citations 71 348 368 - PublicationMetadata onlyCOVID-19, family dynamics, and perceived mental health among families in Singapore
The COVID-19 pandemic presents a significant challenge to the well-being of families with children. Although previous studies have documented COVID-related deterioration in parents’ mental health, the underlying mechanisms remain unclear. It is also unclear how much of the deterioration is due to the pandemic itself, versus mandated lockdown measures. We conducted a cross-sectional study in Singapore to examine perceived changes in parents’ lives and mental health related to the pandemic and lockdown measures. In June 2020, when Singapore had just exited a nationwide lockdown, we asked families to retrospectively report on the family dynamics, daily activities, and mental health of family members during the phases before local transmission (Pre-pandemic), during local transmission but before the lockdown (Pre-lockdown), and during the lockdown (Lockdown). Results from 180 mothers and 166 fathers from 198 families showed significant changes in jobs and income, childcare arrangements, family dynamics, and parents’ perceived mental health across the three timepoints. Mothers’ increased time spent on housework was associated with the increase in their mental health problems from Pre-lockdown to Lockdown. Parents’ increased conflict with other adults in the household was associated with the increase in their mental health problems from Pre-pandemic to Pre-lockdown, and from Pre-lockdown to Lockdown. Mental health problems increased more for young mothers, parents with a graduate or professional degree, and fathers high on authoritarian values. Findings suggest that both the pandemic and the imposed lockdown measures impact parents’ lives and family dynamics, in turn leading to deterioration in parents’ mental health.
18 - PublicationMetadata onlyMaster your feelings: Emotional competence in early childhood parent-related antecedents and child outcomesBoth researchers and practitioners increasingly realize that socioemotional competence is important to many child developmental outcomes. In this chapter, we first describe three major components of children’s emotional competence: emotion understanding, emotion regulation, and empathy. Then, we discuss emotional competence’s (1) typical development; (2) relation with other child outcomes, such as social competence, internalizing and externalizing problems, and education, internationally and within Singapore; and (3) variance as a function of parent-related factors, including parental mental health, parents’ sensitive caregiving, parent-child attachment, parent-child conversations, parental reactions to children’s emotions, and parenting styles and practices. The importance and need for more studies on children’s emotional competence in Singapore are discussed. Toward the end of the chapter, we provide tips for parents and teachers in an effort to help them promote emotional competence in their children and students.
88 - PublicationOpen AccessAn advanced cathode composite design for co-utilization of cations and anions in lithium batteries(Elsevier, 2021)
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