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Stress and coping processes in families and relationships; the role of social support in coping; emotion transmission and regulation in families; Asian-American mental health, particularly youth adjustment in immigrant families; life goals, personality, and motivation.
I am currently in my second year of study in the Clinical Psychology PhD program at UCLA. I received my B.A. from Barnard College, Columbia University, in 2004 with a double major in Psychology and Anthropology. After college, I worked at the Arlene R. Gordon Research Institute at Lighthouse International, researching life goals, social support, and coping responses to vision loss. I started my graduate studies at UCLA in 2006, and am pursuing research interests with Dr. Rena Repetti and Dr. Anna Lau in the Department of Psychology. I recently finished my master’s thesis under Dr. Repetti’s guidance looking at the spillover of daily work stress into marital interactions.
Selected Publications:
Repetti, R. L., & Wang, S. (in press). Parental employment and chaos in the family. In G. W. Evans and T. D. Wachs (Eds.) Chaos and Children’s Development: Levels of Analysis and Mechanisms. New York: Cornell University Press.
Repetti, R. L., Wang, S., & Saxbe, D. (in press). How does stress get “under the skin” of the family. Current Directions in Psychological Science.
Repetti, R. L., & Wang, S. (forthcoming, 2009). Work-Family Spillover. In H. T. Reis and S.K. Sprecher (Eds.) Encyclopedia of Human Relationships. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Liu, L.L., Wang, S., Fung, J., Gudiño, O. G., Tao, A. X., & Lau, A.S. (in press). Psychology of Asian American Children: Contributions of Cultural Heritage and the Minority Experience. In E. C. Chang and C. A. Downey (Eds.) Cross-cultural mental health: Positive psychology in changes across the lifespan. New York: Springer.
Boerner, K., Wang, S., & Cimarolli, V. R. (2006). The impact of functional loss: Nature and implications of life changes. Journal of Loss and Trauma, 11(4), 265-287.
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