Areas of Focus
- Psychological Counseling and Mental Health
- Perfectionism
- Rumination
- Subjective Well-being
Work Experience
- 1997 - Youth Counseling Work: Chicago
- Current - Associate Professor: Zhejiang University
Academic Background & Achievements
- 1994 - Visiting Scholar: University of Kiel, Germany
- 1996 - Master's Degree in Psychological Counseling: State University of New York
- 2002 - Visiting Scholar: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Publications
- The Positive and Negative Rumination Scale: Development and Preliminary Validation, Yang, H., Wang, Z., Song, J. Lu, J. Huang, X., Zou, Z., & Pan, L, 2018
- Perfectionism and emotional reactions to perfect and flawed achievements: Satisfaction and pride only when perfect, Stoeber, Joachim & Yang, Hongfei, 2010
- Do girls and boys perceive themselves as equally engaged in school? The results of an international study from 12 countries, Lam, Shui-Fong, et al., 2012
- The Physical Appearance Perfectionism Scale (PAPS): Development and Preliminary Validation, Yang, Hongfei & Stoeber, Joachim, 2012
- Examining the structure, reliability, and validity of the Chinese Personal Growth Initiative Scale-II: Evidence for the importance of intentional self-change among Chinese, Yang, Hongfei & Chang, C. Edward, 2014
- Understanding and Measuring Student Engagement in School: The Results of an International Study From 12 Countries, Lam, S. Et al., 2014
- Chinese Version of the Response to Positive Affect Questionnaire: Testing the Factor Structure, Reliability, and Validity in a College Student Sample, Yang, Hongfei & Guo, Wenjing, 2014
- Moral perfectionism and moral values, virtues, and judgments: A preliminary investigation, Yang, Hongfei, Stoeber, Joachim & Wang, Yanchun, 2015
- Reliability and Validity of the Chinese Version of the Solution-Focused Inventory in College Students, Yang, Hongfei & Hai, Tang, 2015
- Revising the Child and Adolescent Perfectionism Scale: A Test of the Four-Factor Structure in a Chinese Sample, Yang, Hongfei; Hong, Chaoqin; Tao, Xiaodan & Zhu, Lingyi, 2015
- Learning Perfectionism and Learning Bournout: A test of A Learning-stress Mediation Model, Yang, Hongfei & Chen, Jiaying, 2015
- Cultural universality and specificity of student engagement in school: The results of an international study from 12 countries, Lam, et al, 2015
- Physical appearance perfectionism explains variance in eating disorder symptoms above general perfectionism, Stoeber, Joachim., & Yang, Hongfei, 2015
- Moral perfectionism explains variance in moral values, virtues, and judgments: A further investigation, Stoeber, Joachim & Yang, Hongfei, 2016
- Linking and Psychological Functioning in a Chinese Sample: The Multiple Mediation of Response to Positive Affect, Yang, Hongfei & Li, Juan, 2016
- Is the PGIS-II Redundant with the Hope Scale?: Evidence for the Utility of the PGIS-II in Predicting Psychological Adjustment in Adults, Yang, Hongfei & Chang, C. Edward, 2016
- Cultural universality and specificity of student engagement in school: The results of an international study from 12 countries, Lam, Shui-fong, et al., 2016
- Personal and family growth initiative as predictors of study engagement in Chinese and American college students: Is there any evidence for group differences?, Chang, C. Edward & Yang, Hongfei, 2016
- Moral perfectionism explains variance in moral values, virtues, and judgments: A further investigation, Stoeber, J., & Yang, H., 2016
- Learning Perfectionism and Learning Bournout: a test of a Learning-stress Mediation Model, Yang, Hongfei & Chen, Jiaying, 2016
- Linking and Psychological Functioning in a Chinese Sample: The Multiple Mediation of Response to Positive Affect, Yang, Hongfei & Li, Juan, 2016
- Is the PGIS-II Redundant with the Hope Scale?: Evidence for the Utility of the PGIS-II in Predicting Psychological Adjustment in Adults, Yang, Hongfei & Chang, C. Edward, 2016
- Personal and Family Perfectionism in Elementary and High School Students: Relationships with Learning Stress, Learning Satisfaction and Self-Reported Academic Performance Level, Yang, Hongfei et al., 2016
- The relation of physical appearance perfectionism with body dissatisfaction among school students 9–18 years of age, Yang, Hongfei et al., 2017
Awards
- 2004 - Second Prize for Outstanding Achievements in Philosophy and Social Sciences of Zhejiang Province
- 2007 - Excellent Class Advisor of Zhejiang University
- 2016 - Second Prize for Classroom Teaching Reform of Zhejiang University
- 2018 - First Prize for Quality Teaching of Zhejiang University