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Chen Xi
Psychology and Cognitive Science
East China Normal University
Shanghai
Language: English, Chinese
Toddlerhood
Early Adolescence
Social-Emotional Development
Behavioral Regulation
Emotional Regulation
Physiological Regulation
Parent-Child Interaction
Dynamic Processes
Social-Cultural Contexts
Influence
Areas of Focus
- Social-emotional development from toddlerhood through early adolescence
- Children's behavioral, emotional and physiological regulation
- Dynamic processes of parent-child interaction
- Influence of social-cultural contexts
Work Experience
- 2020-09 to Present - East China Normal University - Associate Professor
Academic Background & Achievements
- 2012 B.S. in Psychology: Peking University
- 2014 M.S.Ed in Education: University of Pennsylvania
- 2019 M.S. in Statistics: University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
- 2020 Ph.D. in Human Development and Family Studies: University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
Publications
- Parental reactions to child negative emotions and child behavioral adjustment: The moderating role of child inhibitory control, Wang, M., Chen, X.*, & Zheng, S., 2024
- Maternal autonomy support and intrusive control in the united states and china: Moment-to-moment associations with preschoolers' agency and defeat, Chen, X.*, McElwain, N. L., Pomerantz, E. M., & Wang, M., 2024
- Moment-to-moment within-person associations between maternal autonomy support and child defeat predicting child behavioral adjustment, Chen, X.*, Wang, M., & Huang, H., 2024
- Examining a complex model linking maternal reflective functioning, maternal meta-emotion philosophies, and child emotion regulation, Shao, R., Liu, S., Coplan, R. J., Chen, X.*, & Liu, J., 2023
- Growth of preference for solitude in urban and rural Chinese adolescents, Chen, X., Sun, X., Wu, X., Liu, J.*, Li, D., & Chen, X., 2023
- A parallel latent growth model of affinity for solitude and depressive symptoms among chinese early adolescents, Hu, N., Xu, G., Chen, X., Yuan, M., Liu, J.*, Coplan, R. J., Li, D., & Chen, X., 2022
- The role of early attachment and parental presence in adolescent behavioral and neurobiological regulation, Rogers, C. R.*, Chen, X., Kwon, S., McElwain, N. L., & Telzer, E. H., 2022
- Autonomy- and connectedness-oriented behaviors of toddlers and mothers at different historical times in urban china, Chen, X.*, Chen, X., Zhao, S., Way, N., Yoshikawa, H., Zhang, G., Deng, H., Cao, R., Chen, H., & Li, D., 2021
- Maternal emotion socialization in early childhood predicts adolescents’ amygdala-vmPFC functional connectivity to emotion faces, Chen, X.*, McElwain, N. L., Berry, D., & Emery, H. T., 2020
- Within-person fluctuations in maternal sensitivity and child functioning: Moderation by child temperament, Chen, X.*, McElwain, N. L., Berry, D., & Emery, H. T., 2019
- Interactive contributions of attribution biases and emotional intensity to child-friend interaction quality during preadolescence, Chen, X.*, McElwain, N. L., & Lansford, J. E., 2019
- Emotion understanding and maternal sensitivity as protective factors against hostile attribution bias in anger-prone children, Wong, M. S.*, Chen, X., & McElwain, N. L., 2019
- “She is looking at me! Shall I share?” How Chinese and American preschoolers respond to eye gaze, Wu, Z.*, Chen, X., Su, Y., & Gros-Louis, J., 2018
- The influence of peer behavior as a function of social cultural closeness: A meta-analysis of normative influence on adolescent smoking initiation and continuation, Liu, J.*, Zhao, S., Chen, X., Folk, E., & Albarracin, D., 2017
