助理教授
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rymcheung@eduhk.hk
Ph.D, University of Notre Dame
B.S., Michigan State University
Research Areas
Mental health
Emotion regulation
Mindfulness
Family process
Culture
Editorial Positions
Associate Editor, Journal of Child and Family Studies (2019-Present)
Editorial Board Member, Journal of Social and Political Psychology (2017-Present)
Editorial Board Member, Journal of Social and Personal Relationships (2021-Present)
Selected Outputs
Journal Publications
Refereed Journal Article
2021 Cheng, W. Y., Cheung, R. Y. M., & Chung, K. K. H. (2021). Understanding adolescents’ perceived social responsibility: The role of family cohesion, interdependent self-construal, and social trust. Journal of Adolescence, 89, 55-62. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.adolescence.2021.04.001
2021 Cheng, L. L. K., Tsang, V. K. L., Cheung, R. Y. M., Sam, K. L., Lo, S. K. (2021). Can social inclusion be evaluated? Investigating the psychometric properties of the social inclusion intervention scale. Journal of Early Childhood Education Research, 10(2), 180-198.
2021 Cheung, R. Y. M., Chung, H.S., & Ng, M.C.Y. (2021). Expressive writing and well-being in Chinese emerging adults: Is emotion regulation an underlying mechanism? Emerging Adulthood, 9(6), 679-689. http://doi.org/10.1177/2167696818824719
2021 Cheung, R. Y. M., Lau, E.N.S. (2021). Is mindfulness linked to subjective well-being? Testing savoring positive experiences and gratitude as mediators. Frontiers in Psychology, 12, 591103. http://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.591103
2021 Cheung, R. Y. M. (2021). Constructive interparental conflict and child adjustment: A moderated mediation model of emotional security and harmony. Journal of Child and Family Studies, 30(3), 733-745. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10826-020-01851-w
2021 Li, K.M., & Cheung, R. Y. M. (2021). Pre-service teachers’ self-efficacy in implementing inclusive education in Hong Kong: The roles of attitudes, sentiments, and concerns. International Journal of Disability, Development and Education, 68(2), 259-269. http://doi.org/10.1080/1034912X.2019.1678743
2021 Chen, M., Cheung, R. Y. M. (2021). Testing interdependent self-construal as a moderator between mindfulness, emotion regulation, and psychological health among emerging adults. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 18(2), 444. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18020444
2020 Cheung, R. Y. M., Ke, Z., & Ng, M. C. Y. (2020). Dispositional mindfulness and mental health: A multilevel model with emotion regulation as a mediating mechanism. PLoS ONE, 15(11), e0239575.https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0239575
2020 Li, J., Yang, A., Dou, K., & Cheung, R. Y. M. (2020). Self-control moderates the association between perceived severity of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and mental health problems among the Chinese public. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 17(13), 4820. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17134820
2020 Cheung, R. Y. M., Chan, L. Y., & Chung, K. K. H. (2020). Emotion dysregulation between mothers, fathers, and adolescents: Implications for adolescents' internalizing problems. Journal of Adolescence, 83, 62-71. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.adolescence.2020.07.001
2020 Cheung, R. Y. M., Bhowmik, M. K., & Hue, M. T. (2020). Why does acculturative stress elevate depressive symptoms? A longitudinal study with emotion regulation as a mediator. Journal of Counseling Psychology, 67(5), 645-652. https://doi.org/10.1037/cou0000412
2020 Chiu, H. T., Yee, L. T. S., Kwan, J. L. Y., Cheung, R. Y. M., & Hou, W. K. (2020). Interactive association between negative emotion regulation and savoring is linked to anxiety symptoms among college students. Journal of American College Health, 68(5), 494-501. https://doi.org/10.1080/07448481.2019.1580712
2020 Cheung, R. Y. M. & Ng, M. C. Y. (2020).Dispositional mindful awareness and savoring positive experiences: A prospective test of cognitive reappraisal as a mediator.Personality and Individual Differences, 163(1), 110050.
2020 Ren, L., Cheung, R. Y. M., Boise, C., Li, X., & Fan, J. (2020). Fathers’ perceived co-parenting and children’s academic readiness among Chinese preschoolers: Longitudinal pathways through parenting and behavioral regulation.Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 53(4), 77-85.doi: 10.1016/j.ecresq.2020.03.005
2020 Leung, M.C., & Cheung, R.Y.M. (2020). Music engagement and well-being in Chinese adolescents: Emotional awareness, positive emotions, and negative emotions as mediating processes. Psychology of Music, 48(1), 105-119. doi: 10.1177/6421
2019 Monroy, J. A., Cheung, R. Y. M., & Cheung, C. S. (2019). Affective underpinnings of the association between autonomy support and self-regulated learning. Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 65(4), 402-422. http://doi.org/10.13110/merrpalmquar1982.65.4.0402
2019 Cheung, R.Y.M., Leung, S.W., & Mak, W.W.S. (2019). Role of mindful parenting, affiliate stigma, and parents’ well-being in the behavioral adjustment of children with autism spectrum disorder: Testing parenting stress as a mediator. Mindfulness, 10, 2352-2362. doi: 10.1007/s12671-019-01208-5
2019 Cheung, R.Y.M., Leung, M.C., Chiu, H.T., Kwan, J.L.Y., Yee, T.S., & Hou, W.K. (2019). Family functioning and psychological outcomes at emerging adulthood: Savoring positive experiences as a mediating mechanism. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 36(9), 2693-2713. doi: 10.1177/8499
2019 Cheung, R.Y.M., & Ng, M.C.Y. (2019). Mindfulness and symptoms of depression and anxiety: The underlying roles of awareness, acceptance, impulse control, and emotion regulation. Mindfulness, 10(6), 1124-1135. doi: 10.1007/s12671-018-1069-y
2019 Cheung, R.Y.M., Leung, M. C., Chan, K. K. S., & Lam, C. B. (2019). Effects of mother-offspring and father-offspring dynamics on emerging adults’ adjustment: The mediating role of emotion regulation. PLoS ONE, 14(2), e0212331. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0212331
2019 Cheung, R.Y.M., & Ng, M. C. Y. (2019). Being in the moment later? Cross-lagged relations between mindfulness and procrastination. Personality and Individual Differences, 141, 123-126. doi: 10.1016/j.paid.2018.12.015
2019 Dalany, D., Cheung, R.Y.M., Takahashi, Y., & Cheung, C.S. (2019). Adolescents’ implicit theories of a creative person: A longitudinal investigation in three countries. Creativity Research Journal, 31(1), 52-61.
2019 Lee, K.W., Cheung, R.Y.M., & Chen, M. (2019). Pre-service teachers' self-efficacy in managing students with symptoms of Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder: The roles of diagnostic label and students’ gender. Psychology in the Schools, 56(4), 595-607. doi: 10.1002/pits.22221
2018 Cheung, R.Y.M., Boise, C., Cummings, E. M., & Davies, P. T. (2018). Mothers’ and fathers’ roles in child adjustment: Parenting practices and mothers’ emotion socialization as predictors. Journal of Child and Family Studies, 27(12), 4033-4043. doi: 10.1007/s10826-018-1214-1
2018 Cheung, R.Y.M., Leung, M. C., Chung, K. K. H., & Cheung, H. Y. (2018). Family risks and child adjustment in Chinese contexts: Testing the mediating role of emotional intelligence. Journal of Child and Family Studies, 27(12), 3887-3896. doi: 10.1007/s10826-018-1233-y
2018
Cheung, R.Y.M., Mak, W. W. S., Tsang, P. S., & Lau, J. T. F. (2018). Stigma of psychosis: Do diagnostic label, symptom manifestation, and gender matter? American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 88(5), 529-537. doi: 10.1037/ort0000315
2018
Bhowmik, M. K., Cheung, R.Y.M., Hue, M. T. (2018). Acculturative stress and coping strategies among Mainland Chinese university students in Hong Kong: A qualitative inquiry. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 88(5), 550-562. doi: 10.1037/ort0000338
2016
Cheung, R.Y.M., Cummings, E. M., Zhang, Z. Y., & Davies, P. T. (2016). Trivariate modeling of interparental conflict and adolescent emotional security: An examination of mother-father-child dynamics. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 11, 2336-2532. doi: 10.1007/s10964-015-0406-x
2016
Li, Y., Cheung, R.Y.M., & Cummings, E. M. (2016). Marital conflict and emotional insecurity among Chinese adolescents: Cultural value moderation. Journal of Research on Adolescence, 26(2), 316-333. doi: 10.1111/jora.12193
2014
Mo, P. K. H., Mak, W. W. S., Chong, E.S.K., Shen, H., & Cheung, R.Y.M. (2014). The prevalence and factors for cancer screening behavior among people with severe mental illness in Hong Kong. PLoS ONE, 9(9), e107237. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0107237
2014
Cummings, E. M., Cheung, R.Y.M., Koss, K. J., & Davies, P. (2014). Parental depressive symptoms and adolescent adjustment: A prospective test of an explanatory model for the role of marital conflict. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 42, 1153-1166. doi: 10.1007/s10802-014-9860-2
2013
Cummings, E. M., Cheung, R.Y.M., & Davies, P. (2013). Prospective relations between parental depression, negative expressiveness, emotional insecurity, and children's internalizing symptoms. Child Psychiatry and Human Development, 44(6), 698-708. doi: 10.1007/s10578-013-0362-1
2012
Mak, W. W. S., & Cheung, R.Y.M. (2012). Psychological distress and subjective burden of caregivers of people with mental illness: The role of affiliate stigma and face concern. Community Mental Health Journal, 48(3), 270-274. doi: 10.1007/s10597-011-9422-9
2011
Macready, D., Cheung, R.Y.M., Kelly, A. E., & Wang, L. (2011). Can public versus private disclosure cause greater psychological symptom reduction? Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, 30(10), 1015-1042. doi: 10.1521/jscp.2011.30.10.1015
2010
Cheung, R.Y.M. & Park, I. J. K. (2010). Anger suppression, interdependent self-construal, and depression among Asian American and European American college students. Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology, 16(4), 517-525. doi: 10.1037/a0020655
2010
Park, I. J. K., Kim, P.Y., Cheung, R.Y.M., Kim, M. (2010). The role of culture, family processes, and anger regulation on Korean American adolescents’ adjustment problems. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 80 (2), 258-266. doi: 10.1111/j.1939-0025.2010.01029.x
2010
Mak, W. W., S., Cheung, R.Y.M. (2010). Self-stigma among concealable minorities in Hong Kong: Conceptualization and unified measurement. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 80 (2), 267-281. doi: 10.1111/j.1939-0025.2010.01030.x
2009
Lin, D., McBride-Chang, C., Aram, D., Levin, I., Cheung, R.Y.M., Chow, Y. Y. Y., & Tolchinsky, L. (2009). Maternal mediation of writing in Chinese children. Language and Cognitive Processes, 24(7), 1286 – 1311. doi: 10.1080/70615
2009
Mak, W. W. S., Cheung, R.Y.M., & Law, L. S. C. (2009). Sense of community in Hong Kong: Relations with individual- and community-level characteristics and residents’ well-being. American Journal of Community Psychology, 44 (1-2), 80-92. doi: 10.1007/s10464-009-9242-z
2008
Mak, W. W. S., & Cheung, R.Y.M. (2008). Affiliate stigma among caregivers of people with intellectual disability or mental illness. Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 21(6), 532–545. doi: 10.1111/j.1468-3148.2008.00426.x
2007
Mak, W. W. S., Cheung, R.Y.M., Law, R. W., Woo, J., Li, P. C. K., Chung, R. (2007). Examining attribution model of self-stigma on social support and psychological well-being among people with HIV+/AIDS. Social Science and Medicine, 64(8), 1549-1559. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2006.12.003
2006
Mak, W. W. S., Mo, P. K. H., Cheung, R.Y.M., Woo, J., Cheung, F. M., Lee, D. (2006). Comparative stigma of HIV/AIDS, SARS, and Tuberculosis in Hong Kong. Social Science and Medicine, 63(7), 1912-1922. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2006.04.016
Scholarly Books, Monographs and Chapters
Chapter in an Edited Book
2014 Cummings, E. M., Koss, K. J., & Cheung, R. Y. M. (2014). Interparental conflict and children’s mental health: Emerging directions in emotional security theory. In South, S. C. & Agnew, C. R. (Eds.), Interpersonal Relationships and Health: Social and Clinical Psychological Mechanisms. (pp. 179-201) New York: Oxford University Press.
2011
Park, I. J. K., Kim, S.Y., Cheung, R. Y. M., & Kim, M. (2011). Family socialization in the development of Asian American child psychopathology. In F. Leong, L. Juang, D. B. Qin, & H. E. Fitzgerald (Eds.), Child Psychology and Mental Health: Cultural and Ethno-Racial Perspectives: Vol 2: Asian American and Pacific Islander Children’s Mental Health: Prevention and Treatment. (pp. 149-174). CA: Praeger/ABC-CLIO.
