Ongoing Projects 在研项目
Young Adults Stress, Coping, and Health (YAH) 青年人压力，应对，和身心健康
This study was designed to study Chinese young adults’ adverse childhood experiences, current stress status, stressors, coping and regulating skills, social support system, and their physical, behavioral, and psychological health. Stress coping and emotion regulation skills were assessed in the lab using physiological measures including functioning of both sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems. Stress status, stressors, and social support were investigated in family and work contexts as well as in other social relationships. Sexual minority males were recruited particularly to examine whether being sexual minority is an extra stressor comparing to heterosexual males, which further contributes to their mental health problems. We have collected questionnaire, observational, physiological data from 259 young adults aged from 21-30. Jingwei Xu, Hang Wang, Houqin Wang, and Fanyi Yu used the data from this project to complete their master's thesis. Yue Guan is also working on a paper using data on sleep and physiological functioning. We found evidence for the protective effects of physiological regulation against the detrimental effects of early adversity on adjustment problems, such as depression, aggressive behavior, and sleep problems. Some findings of this study have been presented at SRCD 2019. We have published one article in Biological Psychology.
本研究旨在探究中国青年人的儿童期不良经历、当前遭受压力情况、压力来源、压力应对和情绪调节能力、社会支持系统，以及身心健康状况。在研究室里，我们通过测量交感和副交感神经系统功能，对压力应对和情绪调节能力进行评估。我们通过问卷在家庭和工作环境以及其他社会关系中，考察青年人遭受压力情况、压力来源以及社会支持。我们特别招募了一组性少数男性，考察性少数群体相对于异性恋来说，是否有额外的压力来源，进而导致他们的身心健康问题。我们已经收集了259位青年人（21-30岁）的问卷、观察，以及生理数据。 徐经纬、王航、王候勤、郁凡怡以及管玥使用该项目的数据完成了他们的硕士毕业论文。管玥正在使用该项目的睡眠和生理数据完成一篇文章。我们发现了一些证据，可以支持适应性生理调节对青年人的保护作用，防止早期逆境对适应问题的不利影响，包括抑郁症、攻击性行为和睡眠问题。这个项目的一些研究发现在SRCD 2019会议上有报告。我们已发表一篇文章在Biological Psychology杂志。
Adolescent Social and Emotional Adjustment (SEA) 青少年压力应对与适应
This project aims to examine adolescents’ family contexts and their socioemotional development. We assessed adolescents’ emotional and physiological reactivity to emotional event discussions, their sensitivity to being social excluded, as well as their academic, behavioral, and psychological adjustment, and physical health. The second goal of this project is to study how adolescents’ emotion regulation abilities protect them from the adverse contextual influences. Dynamic Systems Theory will be adopted to examine youth’s emotional and physiological dynamics in the social context. This project, funded by Shanghai Pujiang Talents Program, will ultimately contribute to our understanding of youth’s abilities of handling social and emotional stress and help improve strategies and policies to enhance youth mental health. We have collected questionnaire, observational, physiological data from 78 adolescents and their parents aged from 11-15. Qin Xiao and Yaru Wu used the data from this project to complete their master's theses. We are currently seeking for funding to do longitudinal follow-ups.
这个项目旨在考察青少年的家庭环境及其社交情感发展。我们测量青少年面对情绪事件的情绪和生理反应、对于同伴排斥的敏感度、以及学业、行为、心理的适应状况和身体健康。这个项目的第二个目的是研究青少年的情绪调节能力如何保护他们免于受到环境的不良影响。研究将运用动态系统理论来研究青少年在社交情境下的情绪和生理动态变化。这项研究受上海市浦江人才计划资助，将最终有助于我们理解青少年处理社交和情绪压力的能力，并帮助制定旨在促进青少年身心健康的干预项目和政策法规。到目前为止，我们收集了78名11-15岁的青少年及其父母的问卷、观察、生理数据。肖秦和武亚茹使用该项目的数据完成了他们的硕士论文。我们正在寻求研究经费资助该项目的追踪研究。
Adolescent Depression Project (ADP) 青少年抑郁症项目
We are collaborating with Dr. Xudong Zhao’s research team from Tongji University, and Dr. Yan Chao from East China Normal University. The project, funded by the National Science Foundation of China (NSFC), aims to study how familial factors contributing to depressive disorder in adolescents and young adults aged 12-24, and to evaluate the effects of psychological counseling, family therapy, as well as medical intervention. Until now, a total of 101 families (51 families with adolescents who meet clinical diagnosis of depression and 50 control families) have participated in the project. We have assessed family interactions, autonomic nervous system functioning during family dynamics, and adolescents’ brain structure and functioning to parental comments.
我们与同济大学赵旭东老师的研究团队和华东师范大学严超老师合作。这项由国家自然科学基金资助的项目旨在研究家庭因素如何影响12-24岁青少年及青年人的抑郁障碍，以及评估心理咨询、家庭治疗和药物干预的疗效。目前，已有101个家庭（51个家庭的青少年被临床诊断为抑郁症，50个控制组家庭）参与我们的研究。我们测量了家庭互动、家庭动态变化中的自主神经系统功能，以及青少年面对父母评价的脑结构和功能。
Nanjing MetroBaby and MetroTeen Project 南京都市宝宝和都市少年项目
The Nanjing MetroBaby is a 16-year longitudinal study of Nanjing urban families with young infants and the Nanjing MetroTeen is a 16-year longitudinal study of Nanjing adolescents and their families. Both projects aim to examine socialization processes and child development across a dramatic socioeconomic transition in China, particularly focusing on the impacts of contextual change and parents’ beliefs and practices on child cognitive, social, and emotional development. The projects, led by Dr. Niobe Way and Dr. Hirokazu Yoshikawa from New York University Steinhardt School, Dr. Xinyin Chen from the University of Pennsylvania, and researchers from Southeast University in Nanjing, started in 2006 when the children were 6-month old and when the adolescents were in the 1st grade of middle school. We have just finished collecting the 7th wave of data in 2021-2022 when the children were 15 years old, funded by the NYU-ECNU Institute for Social Development. Dr. Cui’s team is particularly focusing on culture values and Chinese parenting, emotion socialization and emotion dynamics during parent-child interactions, and child emotion regulation and social skills. We are currently preparing the 5th wave of data collection for the MetroTeen project (they are in their 20s now).
南京都市宝宝项目是一个对南京都市婴儿及其家庭的16年追踪研究，南京都市少年项目是一个对南京青少年及其家庭的16年追踪研究。这两个项目旨在研究中国社会快速变迁和经济转型加速的背景下，儿童社会化过程和发展情况，特别关注社会环境变化对父母教养观念和实践的影响，进而对儿童认知能力、社会能力和情绪能力发展的影响。这两个研究项目由纽约大学文化、教育和人类发展学院的Niobe Way博士和Hirokazu Yoshikawa博士，宾夕法尼亚大学的 Xinyin Chen博士，以及南京市东南大学的研究者合作。研究开始于2006年，第一次数据收集时的婴儿仅为六个月大、青少年为初中一年级学生。我们已经完成2021-2022年进行的第7轮数据收集，此时儿童为15岁，由纽约大学-华东师范大学社会发展中心资助。我们的研究团队主要侧重于文化价值观和中国父母教养，情绪社会化和亲子互动中的情绪动态变化，以及儿童情绪调节和社会能力。我们正在筹备都市少年项目的跟踪数据收集（少年如今已经20多岁）。
Social and Emotional Development in US Families 美国青少年的社会与情绪能力发展
Dr. Cui’s team is working with Dr. Amanda Sheffield Morris and Dr. Michael M. Criss on data collected from the Family and Youth Development (FYDP) project and R15 Girls project, which are focusing on predictors and outcomes of adolescent emotion regulation and parent emotional socialization in the US. We have observational (parent-youth, youth-peer interactions), psychophysiological (ECG, respiration), genetic and cortisol (through saliva samples), and survey and interview data. Dr. Cui is also working with Dr. Amanda W. Harrist on the longitudinal Families and Schools for Health (FiSH) project. Across various projects, Dr. Cui’s team is focusing on children and adolescents’ emotion regulation skills, physiological regulation, and parenting.
我们团队与Amanda Sheffield Morris博士和Michael M. Criss博士合作，正在分析“家庭和青少年发展”（FYDP）项目和R15“青少年女生”项目中收集的数据。这两个项目关注美国青少年情绪调节能力和发展结果，预测他们情绪能力的因素，尤其是父母对青少年的情绪能力的影响。我们拥有观察数据（亲子互动、青少年同伴互动）、心理生理数据（心电，呼吸）、基因和皮质醇的数据（通过唾液样本），以及调查和采访的数据。我们团队还与Amanda W. Harrist博士合作分析家庭和学校对儿童健康的影响（FiSH）项目数据。跨不同的研究项目，我们团队主要致力于儿童和青少年的情绪调节技能、生理反应与调节、以及父母情绪教养的研究。
Social Emotional Learning and Intervention among Chinese Migrant Children
上海外来务工人员随迁子女社会情绪能力评估与干预
This 3-year longitudinal SEL intervention and learning project involved more than 3000 primary school students, and their parents and teachers. Students were attending 4 schools in Minhang district of Shanghai and were from migrant families in Shanghai. This project examined social and emotional competences of migrant children across time and develop SEL learning programs to facilitate their social and emotional development. We have collected data regarding students' social-emotional competence, parenting styles, teacher efficacy, etc. Our intervention team have finished the development of our own SEL programs for all 5 grades. This project, funded by Save the Children China Program, facilitates our understanding of migrant children’s social emotional skills and contexts of development, and helps us design tailored SEL intervention program for Chinese children. The evaluation showed that our intervention has significantly increased children’s emotion regulation skills, self-esteem, and reduced their depressive symptoms. Yue Guan is using the data from this project to complete her doctoral dissertation, focusing on the sleep patterns of school-age children and how sleep affects their adjustment and academic performance.
这个关于社会情感学习干预课程的3年追踪项目涉及超过3000名小学生及其父母和学校老师。学生就读于上海市闵行区4所民工子弟学校，来自上海外来务工人员随迁家庭。该项目评估中国上海外来务工人员随迁子女的社会情绪能力，以及编写和实施儿童社会情绪能力的干预课程，旨在促进儿童社交情感发展。我们已经完成了全部三轮的数据收集，涉及学生的社会情绪能力、家长教养方式、教师的教学效能感等多方面内容。我们的干预课程编写组已经圆满完成我们自己的社会情绪学习课程的编写，项目学校的5个年级都已经实施了该项目。该项目获英国救助儿童会中国项目资助，项目将会帮助我们更好地理解在随迁子女的社会情绪能力的发展和影响因素，以及设计专门针对中国儿童社会情绪能力学习的干预课程。评估研究发现，我们的干预课程有效地提高了儿童的情绪调节能力和自尊，降低了儿童的抑郁情绪。管玥正在使用这个项目的数据来完成她的博士论文，重点研究学龄儿童的睡眠模式以及睡眠如何影响他们的适应性问题和学业成就。
This study was designed to study Chinese young adults’ adverse childhood experiences, current stress status, stressors, coping and regulating skills, social support system, and their physical, behavioral, and psychological health. Stress coping and emotion regulation skills were assessed in the lab using physiological measures including functioning of both sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems. Stress status, stressors, and social support were investigated in family and work contexts as well as in other social relationships. Sexual minority males were recruited particularly to examine whether being sexual minority is an extra stressor comparing to heterosexual males, which further contributes to their mental health problems. We have collected questionnaire, observational, physiological data from 259 young adults aged from 21-30. Jingwei Xu, Hang Wang, Houqin Wang, and Fanyi Yu used the data from this project to complete their master's thesis. Yue Guan is also working on a paper using data on sleep and physiological functioning. We found evidence for the protective effects of physiological regulation against the detrimental effects of early adversity on adjustment problems, such as depression, aggressive behavior, and sleep problems. Some findings of this study have been presented at SRCD 2019. We have published one article in Biological Psychology.
本研究旨在探究中国青年人的儿童期不良经历、当前遭受压力情况、压力来源、压力应对和情绪调节能力、社会支持系统，以及身心健康状况。在研究室里，我们通过测量交感和副交感神经系统功能，对压力应对和情绪调节能力进行评估。我们通过问卷在家庭和工作环境以及其他社会关系中，考察青年人遭受压力情况、压力来源以及社会支持。我们特别招募了一组性少数男性，考察性少数群体相对于异性恋来说，是否有额外的压力来源，进而导致他们的身心健康问题。我们已经收集了259位青年人（21-30岁）的问卷、观察，以及生理数据。 徐经纬、王航、王候勤、郁凡怡以及管玥使用该项目的数据完成了他们的硕士毕业论文。管玥正在使用该项目的睡眠和生理数据完成一篇文章。我们发现了一些证据，可以支持适应性生理调节对青年人的保护作用，防止早期逆境对适应问题的不利影响，包括抑郁症、攻击性行为和睡眠问题。这个项目的一些研究发现在SRCD 2019会议上有报告。我们已发表一篇文章在Biological Psychology杂志。
Adolescent Social and Emotional Adjustment (SEA) 青少年压力应对与适应
This project aims to examine adolescents’ family contexts and their socioemotional development. We assessed adolescents’ emotional and physiological reactivity to emotional event discussions, their sensitivity to being social excluded, as well as their academic, behavioral, and psychological adjustment, and physical health. The second goal of this project is to study how adolescents’ emotion regulation abilities protect them from the adverse contextual influences. Dynamic Systems Theory will be adopted to examine youth’s emotional and physiological dynamics in the social context. This project, funded by Shanghai Pujiang Talents Program, will ultimately contribute to our understanding of youth’s abilities of handling social and emotional stress and help improve strategies and policies to enhance youth mental health. We have collected questionnaire, observational, physiological data from 78 adolescents and their parents aged from 11-15. Qin Xiao and Yaru Wu used the data from this project to complete their master's theses. We are currently seeking for funding to do longitudinal follow-ups.
这个项目旨在考察青少年的家庭环境及其社交情感发展。我们测量青少年面对情绪事件的情绪和生理反应、对于同伴排斥的敏感度、以及学业、行为、心理的适应状况和身体健康。这个项目的第二个目的是研究青少年的情绪调节能力如何保护他们免于受到环境的不良影响。研究将运用动态系统理论来研究青少年在社交情境下的情绪和生理动态变化。这项研究受上海市浦江人才计划资助，将最终有助于我们理解青少年处理社交和情绪压力的能力，并帮助制定旨在促进青少年身心健康的干预项目和政策法规。到目前为止，我们收集了78名11-15岁的青少年及其父母的问卷、观察、生理数据。肖秦和武亚茹使用该项目的数据完成了他们的硕士论文。我们正在寻求研究经费资助该项目的追踪研究。
Adolescent Depression Project (ADP) 青少年抑郁症项目
We are collaborating with Dr. Xudong Zhao’s research team from Tongji University, and Dr. Yan Chao from East China Normal University. The project, funded by the National Science Foundation of China (NSFC), aims to study how familial factors contributing to depressive disorder in adolescents and young adults aged 12-24, and to evaluate the effects of psychological counseling, family therapy, as well as medical intervention. Until now, a total of 101 families (51 families with adolescents who meet clinical diagnosis of depression and 50 control families) have participated in the project. We have assessed family interactions, autonomic nervous system functioning during family dynamics, and adolescents’ brain structure and functioning to parental comments.
我们与同济大学赵旭东老师的研究团队和华东师范大学严超老师合作。这项由国家自然科学基金资助的项目旨在研究家庭因素如何影响12-24岁青少年及青年人的抑郁障碍，以及评估心理咨询、家庭治疗和药物干预的疗效。目前，已有101个家庭（51个家庭的青少年被临床诊断为抑郁症，50个控制组家庭）参与我们的研究。我们测量了家庭互动、家庭动态变化中的自主神经系统功能，以及青少年面对父母评价的脑结构和功能。
Nanjing MetroBaby and MetroTeen Project 南京都市宝宝和都市少年项目
The Nanjing MetroBaby is a 16-year longitudinal study of Nanjing urban families with young infants and the Nanjing MetroTeen is a 16-year longitudinal study of Nanjing adolescents and their families. Both projects aim to examine socialization processes and child development across a dramatic socioeconomic transition in China, particularly focusing on the impacts of contextual change and parents’ beliefs and practices on child cognitive, social, and emotional development. The projects, led by Dr. Niobe Way and Dr. Hirokazu Yoshikawa from New York University Steinhardt School, Dr. Xinyin Chen from the University of Pennsylvania, and researchers from Southeast University in Nanjing, started in 2006 when the children were 6-month old and when the adolescents were in the 1st grade of middle school. We have just finished collecting the 7th wave of data in 2021-2022 when the children were 15 years old, funded by the NYU-ECNU Institute for Social Development. Dr. Cui’s team is particularly focusing on culture values and Chinese parenting, emotion socialization and emotion dynamics during parent-child interactions, and child emotion regulation and social skills. We are currently preparing the 5th wave of data collection for the MetroTeen project (they are in their 20s now).
南京都市宝宝项目是一个对南京都市婴儿及其家庭的16年追踪研究，南京都市少年项目是一个对南京青少年及其家庭的16年追踪研究。这两个项目旨在研究中国社会快速变迁和经济转型加速的背景下，儿童社会化过程和发展情况，特别关注社会环境变化对父母教养观念和实践的影响，进而对儿童认知能力、社会能力和情绪能力发展的影响。这两个研究项目由纽约大学文化、教育和人类发展学院的Niobe Way博士和Hirokazu Yoshikawa博士，宾夕法尼亚大学的 Xinyin Chen博士，以及南京市东南大学的研究者合作。研究开始于2006年，第一次数据收集时的婴儿仅为六个月大、青少年为初中一年级学生。我们已经完成2021-2022年进行的第7轮数据收集，此时儿童为15岁，由纽约大学-华东师范大学社会发展中心资助。我们的研究团队主要侧重于文化价值观和中国父母教养，情绪社会化和亲子互动中的情绪动态变化，以及儿童情绪调节和社会能力。我们正在筹备都市少年项目的跟踪数据收集（少年如今已经20多岁）。
Social and Emotional Development in US Families 美国青少年的社会与情绪能力发展
Dr. Cui’s team is working with Dr. Amanda Sheffield Morris and Dr. Michael M. Criss on data collected from the Family and Youth Development (FYDP) project and R15 Girls project, which are focusing on predictors and outcomes of adolescent emotion regulation and parent emotional socialization in the US. We have observational (parent-youth, youth-peer interactions), psychophysiological (ECG, respiration), genetic and cortisol (through saliva samples), and survey and interview data. Dr. Cui is also working with Dr. Amanda W. Harrist on the longitudinal Families and Schools for Health (FiSH) project. Across various projects, Dr. Cui’s team is focusing on children and adolescents’ emotion regulation skills, physiological regulation, and parenting.
我们团队与Amanda Sheffield Morris博士和Michael M. Criss博士合作，正在分析“家庭和青少年发展”（FYDP）项目和R15“青少年女生”项目中收集的数据。这两个项目关注美国青少年情绪调节能力和发展结果，预测他们情绪能力的因素，尤其是父母对青少年的情绪能力的影响。我们拥有观察数据（亲子互动、青少年同伴互动）、心理生理数据（心电，呼吸）、基因和皮质醇的数据（通过唾液样本），以及调查和采访的数据。我们团队还与Amanda W. Harrist博士合作分析家庭和学校对儿童健康的影响（FiSH）项目数据。跨不同的研究项目，我们团队主要致力于儿童和青少年的情绪调节技能、生理反应与调节、以及父母情绪教养的研究。
Social Emotional Learning and Intervention among Chinese Migrant Children
上海外来务工人员随迁子女社会情绪能力评估与干预
This 3-year longitudinal SEL intervention and learning project involved more than 3000 primary school students, and their parents and teachers. Students were attending 4 schools in Minhang district of Shanghai and were from migrant families in Shanghai. This project examined social and emotional competences of migrant children across time and develop SEL learning programs to facilitate their social and emotional development. We have collected data regarding students' social-emotional competence, parenting styles, teacher efficacy, etc. Our intervention team have finished the development of our own SEL programs for all 5 grades. This project, funded by Save the Children China Program, facilitates our understanding of migrant children’s social emotional skills and contexts of development, and helps us design tailored SEL intervention program for Chinese children. The evaluation showed that our intervention has significantly increased children’s emotion regulation skills, self-esteem, and reduced their depressive symptoms. Yue Guan is using the data from this project to complete her doctoral dissertation, focusing on the sleep patterns of school-age children and how sleep affects their adjustment and academic performance.
这个关于社会情感学习干预课程的3年追踪项目涉及超过3000名小学生及其父母和学校老师。学生就读于上海市闵行区4所民工子弟学校，来自上海外来务工人员随迁家庭。该项目评估中国上海外来务工人员随迁子女的社会情绪能力，以及编写和实施儿童社会情绪能力的干预课程，旨在促进儿童社交情感发展。我们已经完成了全部三轮的数据收集，涉及学生的社会情绪能力、家长教养方式、教师的教学效能感等多方面内容。我们的干预课程编写组已经圆满完成我们自己的社会情绪学习课程的编写，项目学校的5个年级都已经实施了该项目。该项目获英国救助儿童会中国项目资助，项目将会帮助我们更好地理解在随迁子女的社会情绪能力的发展和影响因素，以及设计专门针对中国儿童社会情绪能力学习的干预课程。评估研究发现，我们的干预课程有效地提高了儿童的情绪调节能力和自尊，降低了儿童的抑郁情绪。管玥正在使用这个项目的数据来完成她的博士论文，重点研究学龄儿童的睡眠模式以及睡眠如何影响他们的适应性问题和学业成就。
Research Funding 研究经费
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NYU Shanghai Social Development Group Fund 上海纽约大学社会发展研究组基金
NYU-ECNU Institute for Social Development Grant 华东师范大学-纽约大学社会发展联合研究中心基金
NYU Shanghai Seed Grant 上海纽约大学种子基金
NYU University Research Challenge Fund 纽约大学教员研究挑战基金
Pujiang Talents Program 上海市浦江人才计划
Save the Children China 救助儿童会中国项目上海基础教育
NYU-ECNU Institute for Social Development Grant 华东师范大学-纽约大学社会发展联合研究中心基金
NYU Shanghai Seed Grant 上海纽约大学种子基金
NYU University Research Challenge Fund 纽约大学教员研究挑战基金
Pujiang Talents Program 上海市浦江人才计划
Save the Children China 救助儿童会中国项目上海基础教育
