Areas of Focus
- Internalizing and externalizing problems in children and adolescents (e.g., social anxiety, ADHD)
- Cognitive processing
- Psychological mechanisms
- Cognitive-behavioral therapy interventions (including single-session interventions, dynamic assessment-based interventions, group interventions)
Work Experience
- 2023.6—Present - Southern Medical University, School of Public Health, Department of Psychology - Associate Professor
- 2019.9-2023.5 - Sun Yat-sen University, Department of Psychology - Postdoctoral Researcher, Associate Researcher
Academic Background & Achievements
- 2015.9-2019.6 PhD in Clinical and Counseling Psychology: Beijing Normal University
- 2017.9-2018.8 Joint PhD in Developmental and Educational Psychology: Leiden University
- 2011.9-2014.6 Master's in Applied Psychology: South China Normal University
- 2006.9-2010.6 Bachelor's in Applied Psychology: Chongqing Normal University
Publications
- Longitudinal relationship of empathy and social anxiety among adolescents: The mediation roles of psychological inflexibility and rejection sensitivity, Tan, X., Yang, Y., & Yu, M., 2023
- The impact of Cognitive Restructuring on Post-event Rumination and its Situational Effect on Socially Anxious Adolescents, Yu, M., Zhu, Y., Gao, D., Xu, Q., Wang, Y., & Wang, J., 2023
- Psychometric properties of the Adolescents’ Interpretation and Belief Questionnaire (AIBQ) for Measuring Interpretation Bias in Chinese adolescents, Yu, M., Westenberg, P.M., Wang, Y., Wang, J., & Miers, A.C., 2022
- How negative automatic thoughts trigger Chinese adolescents’ social anxiety: The mediation effect of meta‑worry, Yu, M., Lv, F., Liu, Z., & Gao, D., 2022
- The bidirectional effects of obsessive-compulsive symptoms and difficulties in emotion regulation in Chinese adults during the COVID-19 pandemic—a dynamic structural equation model, Hong, D., Zhu, Y., Chen, R., Xiao, B., Huang, Y., & Yu, M., 2022
- Co-development of mindfulness awareness and Chinese youth’s mental health problem: based on parallel-process latent growth curve model, Wang, Y., Yu, M., & Zhou, H., 2021
- The latent profile analysis of Chinese adolescents’ depressive symptoms: Examination and validation, Chen, R., Huang, Y., & Yu, M., 2021
- Chinese adolescents’ mindfulness and internalizing symptoms: the mediating role of rumination and acceptance, Yu, M., Zhou, H., Xu, H., & Zhou, H., 2021
- The Hierarchical Structure and Predictive Validity of the Personality Inventory for DSM-5 in Chinese Nonclinical Adolescents, Zhang, W., Wang, M., Yu, M., & Wang, J., 2021
- The Heterogeneity of Social Anxiety Symptoms Among Chinese Adolescents: Results of Latent Profile Analysis, Yu, M., Zhou, H., Wang, M., & Tang, X., 2020
- Culture Evidence for Interpretation Bias as a Feature of Social Anxiety in Chinese Adolescents, Yu, M., Westenberg, P.M., Li, W., Wang, J., Miers, A.C., 2019
- The Latent Profile Analysis of Chinese Adolescents’ Anxiety: Examination and Validation, Yu, M., Chasson, G.S., Xu, Q., Zhu, Y., Wang, J., 2018
- Automatic thoughts as a predictor of internalizing and externalizing problems in Chinese adolescents: A test of the cognitive content‐specificity hypothesis with age effects, Yu, M., Xu, W., Xie, Q., Zhu, Y., Chasson, G. S., & Wang, J., 2017
- 特质性事后加工过程量表的汉化及在高中生中应用的信效度检验, 余萌,潘俊豪,朱雅雯,徐慊,& 徐慰, 2020
- 青少年内外化症状现状调查及预测因素, 余萌, 徐慰, 朱雅雯, 徐慊, 周宁宁, &王建平, 2017