Yue Liang     Assistant Professor

Research interests: parent–child relationships in infancy and early childhood, child and adolescent development, child and adolescent mental health

Email:  liangyue@bnu.edu.cn

            liangyue1989@gmail.com

Education:

2008-2012  China University of Political Science and Law, Department of Applied Psychology  B.S.

2012-2014  Beijing Normal University, School of Psychology   M.A.

2014-2018  The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Department of Human Development and Family Studies  Ph.D.

Grant:

1. A grant from China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (2018M643038): Gratitude and its relation to prosocial behaviors in friendships: Behavioral, physiological, and neural mechanisms. 2019–2021, PI

2. The Humanities and Social Science Fund of the Ministry of Education The People’s Republic of China (22YJC190012): Parent–Child Synchronization and Child Gratitude Development: Behavioral and Neural mechanisms. 2022 – 2024, PI

3. The National Natural Science Foundation of China (32300912): Parent–Child Multi-Dimensional Synchronization and Adolescent Virtuous Gratitude Development: Interpersonal and Intrapersonal Mechanisms. 2023–2026, PI

Publications:

1. Liang, Y., Zhou, N., & Cao, H. (2023). Stability and change in the configuration patterns of various career-related parental behaviors and their associations with adolescent career adaptability: A longitudinal person-centered analysis. Journal of Vocational Behavior. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvb.2023.103916 (SSCI, Q1; 2022 IF: 11.1)

2. Liang, Y., Zhou, N., Cao, H., Li, J., & Bao, R. (2023). Revisiting implications of early family economic conditions for adolescent adaptations: An integrative cascade model. Journal of Family Psychology. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/fam0001124 (SSCI, Q2; 2022 IF = 3.302)

3. Cao, H., Zhou, N., Buehler, C., Li, X., Liang, Y.*, & Chen, Y. (2023). Mothers’ work-to-family conflict, depressive symptoms, and parental role functioning: A five-wave, cross-lagged panel model from infancy through middle childhood. Family Relations. Advance online publication. http://doi.org/10.1111/fare.12931 (SSCI, Q2; 2022 IF: 2.2) *通讯作者

4. Zhou, N., Cao, H., Wang, S., Li, X., & Liang, Y.* (2023). Parental career expectation predicts adolescent career development through career-related parenting practice: Transactional dynamics across high school year. Journal of Career Assessment. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/10690727231184609 (SSCI, Q2; 2022 IF: 3.5) *通讯作者

5. Zhou, N., Meng, H., Cao, H., & Liang, Y. (2023). Too much of a good thing? The curvilinear association between parental career expectation and adolescent career development through adolescent internalizing problems: A three-wave longitudinal study. Journal of Counseling Psychology. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/cou0000687 (SSCI Psychology-Educational, Q1; 2021 IF: 5.088)

6. Liang, Y., Tudge, J. R., Cao, H., Freitas, L. B., Chen, Y., & Zhou, N. (2022). Gratitude as a moral virtue: a psychometric evaluation of the Gratitude Assessment Questionnaire in Chinese children. Applied Developmental Science, 26(3), 578–591. https://doi.org/10.1080/10888691.2021.1941964 (SSCI, Q1; 2022 IF = 3.8)

7. Liang, Y., Zhou, N., Cao, H., Li, J. B., Dou, K., Wu, F., Liu, Q., Wu, Q., Nie, Y., Ning, Z., & Wang, G. (2022). Configuration of parent-reported and adolescent-perceived career-related parenting practice and adolescents’ career development: A person-centered, longitudinal analysis of Chinese parent–adolescent dyads. Journal of Child and Family Studies, 31, 1373–1386. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10826-021-02135-7 (SSCI, Q2; 2021 IF = 2.784)

8. Dou, K., Zhang, M. -C., Wang, L. -X., & Liang, Y.* (2022). Future negative time perspective and risk-taking behaviors among Chinese adolescents: A longitudinal moderated mediation model. Current Psychology. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-022-03808-2 *Corresponding author (SSCI, Q2; 2021 IF = 2.387) *通讯作者

9. Zhou, N., Liang, Y., Cao, H., Song, K., Chen, Y., Hao, R., & Zhang, J. (2022). Chinese adolescents’ problematic cellphone use: Exploring the implications of configuration profiles of cellphone-specific parenting behaviors. Computers in Human Behavior, 137, 107408. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2022.107408 (SSCI, Q1; 2021 IF = 8.957)

10. Zhou, N., Liang, Y., Cao, H., Chen, Y., Lin, X., & Zhang, J. (2021). Body mass index and internalizing symptoms from early childhood through early adolescence: Trend of codevelopment and directionality. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1111/jcpp.13474 (SSCI, Q1; 2020 IF = 8.982)

11.周楠, 王少凡, 朱曦淳, 汪怡, 陈玲, 曹洪健, 梁玥* & 张锦涛. (2022). 中国儿童青少年手机使用与手机成瘾行为及相关因素分析. 中国学校卫生, 43(8), 1179–1184. (北大核心) *通讯作者

12. Chen, Y., Liang, Y., Zhou, N., Cao, H., Tudge, J. R., Nie, R., & Yu, M. (2022). Parental socialization goals and behaviors for appreciation, parents’ own appreciation, and children’s appreciation: a longitudinal study of Chinese parent–child dyads. Applied Developmental Science. Advance online publication. (SSCI, Q1; 2022 IF = 3.8) https://doi.org/10.1080/10888691.2022.2157832

13. Liang, Y., Tudge, J., Mokrova, I., Freitas, B. L., Merçon-Vargas, E., Mendonça, S. E., O’Brien, L., Cao, H., & Zhou, N. (2021). Measuring parents’ developmental goals for their children: Updating Kağıtçıbaşı’s approach to autonomy–relatedness in the United States and China. Current Psychology, 40, 4791–4800. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-019-00421-8 (SSCI, Q2; 2021 IF = 2.387)

14. Liang, Y., Cao, H., Zhou, N., Li, J., & Zhang, L. (2020). Early home learning environment predicts early adolescents' adjustment through cognitive abilities in middle childhood. Journal of Family Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1037/fam0000675 (SSCI, Q1; 2018 IF: 2.354)

15. Liang, Y., Zhou, N., Dou, K., Cao, H., Li, J., Wu, Q., Liang, Y. X., Lin, Z., & Nie, Y. (2020). Career-related parental behaviors, adolescents’ consideration of future consequences, and career adaptability: A three-wave longitudinal study. Journal of Counseling Psychology, 67, 208–221. https://doi.org/10.1037/cou0000413. (SSCI, Q1; 2018 IF: 3.850)

16. Cao, H., Liang, Y., & Zhou, N. (2020). Proximal interpersonal processes in early childhood, socioemotional capacities in middle childhood, and behavioral and social adaptation in early adolescence: A process model toward greater specificity. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 48(11), 1395–1410. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10802-020-00696-7 (SSCI, Q1; 2019 IF: 2.864)

17. Cao, H., Liang, Y., & Zhou, N. (2020). Early Tobacco Smoke Exposure, Preschool Cool/Hot Inhibitory Control, and Young Adolescents’ Externalizing/Internalizing Problems. Journal of Family Psychology, 34(8), 905–917. https://doi.org/10.1037/fam0000739 (SSCI, Q1; 2018 IF: 2.354)

Chapters:

1. O’Brien, L., Liang, Y., Merçon-Vargas, E., Price, U., & Leon, E. (2018). Relations between parents’ and children’s gratitude. In J. Tudge, & L. Freitas (Eds.), Developing gratitude in children and adolescents (pp. 177-198). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

2. Tudge, J., Merçon-Vargas, E., Liang, Y., & Payir, A. (2017). The importance of Urie Bronfenbrenner’s bioecological theory for early childhood educators and early childhood education. In L. Cohen & S. Stupiansky (Eds.), Theories of early childhood education: Developmental, behaviorist, and critical (pp. 45-57). New York: Routledge.