Personal Profile

Qian Sun, Ph.D., lecturer of Psychology, my research focus on 1) acculturation gaps in migrant families and adolescents' adjustment; 2) international students' acculturation and cultural identity.

Main publication were published in Journal of Youth and Adolescence, International Journal of Intercultural Relations, Biological Psychology, Current Psychology.

Publications

Sun, Q., & Geeraert, N.* (2021). We are (migrant) families: The interdependence between family members’ actual and perceived acculturation. International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 82, 74-80. (JCR Q2)

Cui, L.*, Sun, Q., Yu, F., Xu, J., & Wang, H. (2021). Exploring emotional dynamic within-person concordance across laboratory tasks: Moderation of between-person factors. Biological Psychology, 161, 108055. (JCR Q2)

Sun, Q.*, Geeraert, N.*, & Simpson, A. (2020). Never Mind the Acculturation Gap: Migrant Youth’s Wellbeing Benefit when They Retain Their Heritage Culture but Their Parents Adopt the Settlement Culture. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 49(2), 520-533. (JCR Q1)

Lan, X.*, & Sun, Q.* (2020). Exploring psychosocial adjustment profiles in Chinese adolescents from divorced families: The interplay of parental attachment and adolescent’s gender. Current Psychology, 1-17. (JCR Q2)

Sun, Q., Geeraert, N.*, Lamarche, V. (under review). Home is Where the Heart is: Implications of Dyadic Acculturation for Migrant Couples' Personal and Relational Well-being. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.

Cui, L.*, Sun, Q., Waters, T., Li, X., Zhang, C., Zhang, G. Z., Way, N., Chen, X. Y., Okazaki, S., Yoshikawa, H. (under review) Prospective Between- and Within-Family Bidirectional Effects between Parental Emotion Socialization Practices and Adolescents’ Psychosocial Adjustment. Development and Psychopathology.