Validating measures of male body attitudes in Chinese adults and examining their links with eating disorder psychopathology and muscle dysmorphia (Body Image, 2025).
Investigating how acculturative stress and self-construal contribute to maladaptive eating behaviors among young adult women from diverse backgrounds (Appetite, 2025).
Examining the role of bicultural identity integration and depressive symptoms in eating behavior problems among ethnic minority undergraduates (Eating Behaviors, 2025).
Exploring how family, peer, and media pressures relate to disordered eating among Arab, Middle Eastern, and North African American women (IJAC, 2025).
Testing how internalized weight bias and self-construal are related to eating disorder risk among culturally diverse young women (Sigma and Health, 2024).
Analyzing how social media appearance comparisons, negative body talk, and sociocultural influences shape body shame and body image outcomes (Journal of Health Psychology, 2024).
Next, we aim to identify culturally specific protective factors that buffer against sociocultural pressures and support positive body image and healthy eating.
Investigating how maternal diet quality and economic well-being interact to predict prenatal depressive symptoms (Nutrients, 2023).
Evaluating the feasibility and acceptability of a mindfulness-based smartphone app for pregnant women with obesity (IJERPH, 2023).
Exploring how older adults in China experience emotion regulation difficulties and their prospective links with eating-related impairment (European Eating Disorders Review, 2025).
Our ongoing work is extending to longitudinal studies that track how cultural and developmental transitions impact mental and physical health over time.
Testing the role of depressive symptoms in the link between acculturative stress and eating disinhibition among Asian young adults (Appetite, 2021).
Investigating how perceived family, peer, and partner support buffer the relationship between acculturative stress and problematic eating behaviors (International Journal of Eating Disorders, 2023).
Examining how coronavirus-related stress and anxiety contributed to overeating and burnout during the pandemic (Journal of Eating Disorders, 2022).
Studying how alexithymia is linked to adjustment outcomes among Chinese young adults (Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 2023).
Investigating how rumination mediates the relationship between COVID-19 stressors and sleep quality, and how emotion regulation strategies buffer this association (International Journal of Behavioral Medicine, 2021).
Exploring how social anxiety undermines subjective well-being through maladaptive cognitive and emotional pathways among Chinese college students (Personality and Individual Differences, 2021).