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Ni Yan
Psychology
Southwest University
Chongqing
Language: English, Chinese
Early Adversity
Children
Problem Behaviors
Impact Mechanisms
Family Systems
Reverse Effects
Sensory Processing
Sensitivity
Differential Susceptibility
Family Environment
Areas of Focus
- Impact Mechanisms of Early Adversity on Children's Problem Behaviors
- Reverse Effects of Children's Problem Behaviors on Family Systems
- Children's Sensory Processing Sensitivity and Differential Susceptibility Mechanisms
Work Experience
- 2022.06 - Present - Southwest University - Professor
- 2016.07 - 2022.06 - Southwest University - Associate Researcher
- 2014.07 - 2016.06 - Southwest University - Lecturer
- 2013.05 - 2014.02 - University of Texas at Austin - Research Assistant
Academic Background & Achievements
- 2014 PhD: University of Texas at Austin
- 2012 Master's: University of Texas at Austin
- 2009 Bachelor's: Beijing Normal University
- 2022 Selected for Chongqing Talent Program · Young Top Talent
- Member of the Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD)
- Member of the Chongqing Humanities and Social Sciences Popularization Expert
- Member of the Chongqing Maternal and Child Health Association's Child Psychology and Behavior Development Committee
- Member of the Child Psychological Care Alliance
- Member of the Jiusan Society
Publications
- Children's sensory processing sensitivity and prosocial behaviors: Testing the differential susceptibility theory, Li, X., Li, Z., Jiang, J., & Yan, N., 2022
- Mothers’ Emotional Reactions towards Chinese Preschoolers’ Behavioral Problems: Examining the Specificity of Emotions and Contexts, Li, X., Ansari, A., Gao, P., & Yan, N., 2022
- Mothers’ implicit and explicit attitudes towards infant crying: predicting postpartum depressive symptoms, Sun, A., Peng, W., Ansari, A., Li, X., Xu, Y., & Yan, N., 2022
- 母亲的情景特异性归因与儿童问题行为：儿童消极情绪的调节作用, 李喜乐,孙安琪,高平圆,晏妮, 2021
- Mothers’ Depressive Symptoms and Children’s Internalizing and Externalizing Behaviors: Examining Reciprocal Trait‐State Effects from Age 2 to 15, Yan, N., Liu, Y., Ansari, A., Li, K., & Li, X., 2021
- The moderating role of sensory processing sensitivity in the link between stress and depression: A VBM study, Wu, X., Zhang, R., Li, X., Feng, T., & Yan, N., 2021
- Reconsidering the relation between parental functioning and child externalizing behaviors: A meta-analysis on child-driven effects, Yan, N., Ansari, A., Peng, P., 2021
- Transactional Effects Between Parental Sensitivity and Child Social Adjustment: Specifying Trait-State Aspects of Parenting, Ding, X., Ansari, Y., Li, X., Liu, Y., & Yan, N., 2020
- Executive Function Training Improves Emotional Competence for Preschool Children: The Roles of Inhibition Control and Working Memory, Li, Q., Liu, P.W., Yan, N., & Feng, T., 2020
- Trajectories of internalizing and externalizing problems in preschoolers of depressed mothers: Examining gender differences, Wang, Y. & Yan, N., 2019
- Intrusive parenting and child externalizing behaviors across childhood: The antecedents and consequences of child-driven effects, Yan, N., Ansari, A., & Wang, Y., 2019
- Change in risk patterns across early childhood and children’s first-grade adjustment, Yan, N., Ansari, A., Sattler, K., & Zhou, N., 2019
- Mothers’ affective experiences and child behaviors: A diary study examining child-driven effects among Chinese preschoolers, Yan, N., Hooper, S., Ansari, A., & Hao, H., 2018
- Parent-child separation: The relationship between separation and psychological adjustment among Chinese rural children, Xu, W., Yan, N., Chen, G., Zhang, X., & Feng, T., 2018
- Bidirectional relations between intrusive caregiving among parents and teachers and children's externalizing behavior problems, Yan, N., & Ansari, A., 2017
- The effect of regulatory mode on procrastination: Bi-stable parahippocampus connectivity with dorsal anterior cingulate and anterior prefrontal cortex, Zhang, C., Yan, N., & Feng, T., 2017
- Mothers’ early depressive symptoms and preschoolers’ behavioral problems: The moderating role of genetic influences, Yan, N., Benner, A. D., Tucker-Drob, E. M., & Harden, K. P., 2017
- 在美国样本中母亲抑郁症状与儿童退缩的关系:教养行为的中介作用, 晏妮, 于尧, 2017
- Mothers’ depressive symptoms and children’s cognitive and social agency: Predicting first-grade cognitive functioning, Yan, N., & Dix, T., 2016
- Children’s resilience in the presence of mothers’ depressive symptoms: Examining regulatory processes related to active agency, Yan, N., 2016
- Child adjustment and parent functioning: Considering the role of child-driven effects, Yan, N., & Ansari, A., 2016
- Maternal depression and children’s cognitive and socio-emotional development at first grade: The moderating role of classroom emotional climate, Yan, N., Zhou, N., & Ansari, A., 2016
- Multi-family group therapy for adolescent Internet addiction: Exploring the underlying mechanisms, Liu, Q., Fang, X., Yan, N., Zhou, Z., & Yuan, X., 2015
- Classroom race/ethnic composition, family-school connections, and the transition to school, Benner, A. D., & Yan, N., 2015
- Mothers’ early depressive symptoms and children’s first‐grade adjustment: A transactional analysis of child withdrawal as a mediator, Yan, N., & Dix, T., 2014
- Mothers' depressive symptoms and infant negative emotionality in the prediction of child adjustment at age 3: Testing the maternal reactivity and child vulnerability hypotheses, Dix, T., & Yan, N., 2014
- Parent–child acculturation discrepancy, perceived parental knowledge, peer deviance, and adolescent delinquency in Chinese immigrant families, Wang, Y., Kim, S. Y., Anderson, E. R., Chen, A. C.-C., & Yan, N., 2011
Awards
- 2020: Core Curriculum Construction Project, Southwest University
- 2019: Demonstration Course for International Students, Chongqing Education Committee
- 2018: Excellent Class Teacher, Southwest University
- 2018: Excellent Teacher, Department of Psychology, Southwest University
- 2016, 2018: Excellent Teaching Award/Third Prize, Southwest University
- 2015: International Conference Scholarship, SRCD
- 2014: Excellent Scholarship, College of Natural Sciences, University of Texas at Austin
- 2013: Student Conference Scholarship, SRCD
- 2012: HDFS Summer Scholarship, University of Texas at Austin
- 2011: Helen Strow International Graduate Scholarship, American Association of Family and Consumer Sciences
- 2009: Dean's Excellent Scholarship, College of Natural Sciences, University of Texas at Austin
