Dr DONG, Shuyang

My current research focuses are on:

• Early childhood development and education in Chinese families

• Bronfenbrenner’s bioecological theory (Process-Person-Context-Time model)

• Social inequality in early childhood development across countries

• Parental cognitions of child development, education, and rearing

My previous (and continuing) research interests include:

• Self-control and social adjustment throughout early and middle childhood
• Person×Environment transactions, parenting-by-temperament effects, goodness-of-fit model
• Cross-cultural perspectives of parenting and child development
• Social-emotional development of vulnerable populations (e.g., children with disabilities or disorders)
• Research methods related to longitudinal data, observational data, and network analysis

The CAS (Child and Adolescent Studies) Best Article Award (Utrecht University) 2023

RGC Postdoctoral Fellowship Scheme 2022/23

Book Chapters

1. Dong S. (2016). Infant physical growth, nutrition, and health. In Wu. M., Wang, Z., & Zhao, J.(Eds), Infant psychology (pp. 135–159). Hangzhou, CN: Zhejiang Education Press. [in Chinese]

Journal Publications

^† Co-first Author

^‡ Corresponding Author

1. Dong, S., Wang, Z., & Chen, N. (2023). Maternal cognitive mind-mindedness and maternal time as predictors of inhibitory control in toddlerhood. Early Child Development and Care. https://doi.org/10.1080/03004430.2023.2231659 

2. Dong, S.‡ & Rao, N. (2023). Associations between parental wellbeing and early learning at home before and during the COVID-19 pandemic: Observations from the China Family Panel Studies. Frontiers in Psychology, 14, 1163009.

3. Dong, S.‡, Dubas, J.S., Dekovic, M., Verhoeven, M., & Wang, Z. (2023). To excel and to be happy: Parenting behaviors, parenting stress, and sociocultural contexts in Chinese and Dutch families. Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 62, 139–149.

4. Zhang, Q., Wang, L., Dong, S., Cao, L., Wu, C., & Liu, S. (2022). Exploring proximal mechanisms behind intergenerational association between maternal childhood abuse and Chinese preschool children’s executive function. Child Abuse & Neglect, 134, 105931.
5. Dong, S., Dubas, J.S., Dekovic, M., & Wang, Z. (2022). Goodness of fit in the Chinese context of socialization in the first three years. Developmental Psychology, 58(10), 1875–1886.
6. Fan, M., Dong, S., Wang, Q., & Wang, Z. (2022). Maternal mind-mindedness predicts creative potential of Chinese preschool children: Moderation of attachment. Chinese Psychological Science, 45(3), 1–6. [in Chinese] 
7. Dong, S., Dubas, J.S., & Dekovic, M. (2022). Revisiting goodness of fit in the cultural context: Moving forward from post hoc explanations. Child Development Perspectives, 16(2), 82–89.
8. Dong, S., Dubas, J.S., Dekovic, M., Wang, Z., van Aken, M.A.G., & Wu, M. (2022). Committed compliance and maternal parenting behaviors predict internalization of rules and externalizing behaviors in Chinese preschool children. Early Education and Development, 33(1), 58–74. 
9. Dong, S., Dubas, J.S., Dekovic, M., & Wang, Z. (2021). Chinese version of comprehensive early childhood parenting questionnaire (CECPAQ-CV): Factor structure, reliability, and validity. Current Psychology, DOI: 10.1007/s12144-020-01268-0.
10. Dong, S., Dubas, J.S., Dekovic, M., & Wang, Z. (2021). Cool and hot effortful control moderate how parenting predicts child internalization in Chinese families. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 206, 105099.
11. Hu, Y., Dong, S.†, Guan, F., Chen, O., Chen, J., & Xu, S. (2021). Emotion understanding correlates with parental emotional expressivity in Chinese youths with hearing loss and typical hearing. Frontiers in Psychology, 12, 662356.
12. Liu, S., Dong, S., & Wang, Z. (2021). Maternal history of childhood maltreatment and control strategies: A search for mechanisms. Journal of Marriage and Family, 83(4), 1099–1115.
13. Cai, Y., Dong, S., Yuan, S., & Hu, C. (2020). Network analysis and its applications in psychology. Advances in Psychological Science, 28(1), 178–190. [in Chinese] 
14. Wang, Z. & Dong, S.‡ (2019). Autonomy as core of creativity and compliance: Moderated moderation model of maternal parenting behaviors. Creativity Research Journal, 31(1), 74–82.
15. Liu, S., Zhou, N., Dong, S., Wang, Z., & Hao, Y. (2019). Maternal childhood emotional abuse predicts Chinese infant behavior problems: Examining mediating and moderating processes. Child Abuse and Neglect, 88, 307–306.
16. Hao, Y., Wang, Z., Dong, S., Liu, S., Wu, M., & Lu, S. (2019). The predictive effects of maternal life event stress in early childhood on 5-year-old child behavioral problems: A chained mediation model. Acta Psychologica Sinica, 51(1), 85–95. [in Chinese]
17. Dong, S., Wang, Z., Lu, S., Liang, X., & Xing, X. (2018). Children’s temperament and maternal behavioral control: Origins of heterogeneity in developmental trajectories of committed compliance from infancy to age 3. Journal of Child and Family Studies, 27(8), 2668–2677.
18. Song, C., Xing, Y., Dong, S., & Wang, J. (2018). The relation between availability of social support and resilience in migrant children: The mediating role of self-esteem. Psychological Exploration, 38(3), 248–253. [in Chinese]
19. Song, C., Dong, S., Xu, X., & Wang, J. (2018). Relationship between social support and loneliness in homosexuals: The mediating role of self-esteem. Chinese Journal of Clinical Psychology, 26(2), 401–404. [in Chinese]
20. Zhang, Q., Wang, Z., & Dong, S. (2017). Developmental cascades: Children’s cognitive functioning and social adjustment. Chinese Psychological Science, 40(5), 1142–1147. [in Chinese]
21. Dong, S.^†, Liang, X., Zhang, Y., & Wang, Z. (2017). Maternal positive parenting behaviors and toddler’s compliance: Prediction from maternal sensitivity in infancy and bidirectional effects of autonomy encouragement in toddlerhood. Acta Psychologica Sinica, 49(4), 460–471. [in Chinese]

Peer Reviewer

• Child Psychiatry & Human Development
• Creativity Research Journal
• Developmental Psychology
• Early Child Development and Care
• European Journal of Personality
• Infant and Child Development
• Journal of Child and Family Studies
• Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology
• Journal of Early Adolescence
• Journal for the Study of Education and Development
• SSM-Population Health

Chair

• Paper symposium Understanding the Now and the Future: Parental Cognitions About Child Development, Education, and Rearing in the 2023 Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Salt Lake City, U.S.A., 2023.
• Paper symposium Parenting-Temperament Transactions in Early Childhood Across Cultures in the 2021 Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development (online, 2021)
• 3rd Meeting of Chinese Association for Psychological and Brain Science (Utrecht NL, 2019)

Organizer

• 4th Meeting of Chinese Association for Psychological and Brain Science (online, 2020)
• Invited symposia on advanced statistical methods at Capital Normal University (Beijing CN, 2018)
• International Conference on Family and Child Development in Changing Societies (Beijing CN, 2018)