Selected Publications (*denotes student or postdoctoral mentee as author)

Shen, Y., Lee*, H., Choi, Y., Hu, Y., & Kim, K. (2022). Ethnic-racial socialization, ethnic-racial identity, and depressive symptoms in Korean adolescents in the United States and China. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 51(2), 377–392. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10964-021-01523-y

Shen, Y., Seo*, E., Walt*, D. C., & Kim, S. Y. (2020). Stress of language brokering and Mexican American adolescents’ adjustment: The role of cumulative risk. Journal of Early Adolescence, 40(3), 400–425. https://doi.org/10.1177/0272431619847526

Seo, E., Shen, Y., & Benner, A. D. (2019). The paradox of positive self-concept and low achievement among Black and Latinx youth: A test of psychological explanations. Contemporary Educational Psychology, 59,101796 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cedpsych.2019.101796

Shen, Y., Seo, E., Walt, D. C., & Kim, S. Y. (2020). Stress of language brokering and Mexican American adolescents’ adjustment: The Role of Cumulative Risk. The Journal of Early Adolescence, 40(3), 400-425. https://doi.org/10.1177/0272431619847526

Hatzenbuehler, M. L., Shen, Y., Vandewater, E. A., & Russell, S. T. (2019). Proposition 8 and homophobic bullying in California. Pediatrics, 143(6), e20182116. https://doi.org/10.1542/peds.2018-2116

Sim, L., Kim, S. Y., Zhang, M., & Shen, Y. (2019). Parenting and centrality: The role of life meaning as a mediator for parenting and language broker role identity. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 48(3), 510-526. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10964-018-0963-x

Shen, Y., Kim, S. Y., & Benner, A. D. (2019). Burdened or efficacious? Subgroups of Chinese American language brokers, predictors, and long-term outcomes. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 48(1), 154-169. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10964-018-0916-4

Seo, E., Shen, Y., & Alfaro, E. C. (2018). Adolescents’ beliefs about math ability and their relations to STEM career attainment: Joint consideration of race/ethnicity and gender. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 48(2), 306-325.  https://doi.org/10.1007/s10964-018-0911-9

Shen, Y., Seo, E., Hu, Y., Zhang, M., & Chao, R. K. (2019). Measurement invariance of language brokering extent and attitudes in linguistic minority adolescents: Item response theory analyses. Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology, 25(2), 170-178. https://doi.org/10.1037/cdp0000224

Juang, L. P., Shen, Y., Costigan, C. L., & Hou, Y. (2018). Time-varying associations of racial discrimination and adjustment among Chinese-heritage adolescents in the United States and Canada. Development and Psychopathology, 30(5), 1661-1678. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0954579418001128

Benner, A. D., Wang, Y., Shen, Y., Boyle, A. E., Polk, R., & Cheng, Y. (2018). Racial/ethnic discrimination and well-being during adolescence: A meta-analytic review. American Psychologist, 73(7), 855-883. https://doi.org/10.1037/amp0000204

*Shen, Y., Tilton*, K., & Kim, S. Y. (2017). Outcomes of language brokering, mediators, and moderators: A systematic review. In R. S. Weisskirch (Ed.), Language brokering in immigrant families: Theories and contexts. New York, NY: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group

Kim, S. Y., Hou, Y., Shen, Y., & Zhang, M. (2017). Longitudinal measurement equivalence of subjective language brokering experiences scale in Mexican American adolescents. Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology, 23(2), 230-243. https://doi.org/10.1037/cdp0000117

Shen, Y., Kim, S. Y., & Wang, Y. (2016). Intergenerational transmission of educational attitudes in Chinese American families: Interplay of socioeconomic status and acculturation. Child Development, 87(5), 1601-1616. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.12545