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Name	Ni Yan
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Language ability	English, Chinese
Province	Chongqing

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Name

Ni Yan

Contact Information

niyan@swu.edu.cn

Language ability

English, Chinese

Province

Chongqing

University/Lab Affiliation and Title	Southwest University
Faculty	Psychology
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
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
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

University/Lab Affiliation and Title

Southwest University

Faculty

Psychology

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

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

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

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
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

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

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

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