Shenyang Guo
Biographic Data
| ID | 3584426 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Shenyang Guo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Shenyang |
| FAMILY NAME | Guo |
| SIGNATURE | GUO S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3643-6415 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 81 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 476 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 81 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 12 |
Collaboration with dissertation chair associated with greater scholarship productivity during social work PhD training
Various disciplines have investigated factors associated with PhD student publication productivity. However, there is a dearth of research on factors related to scholarly productivity during social work PhD training. This retrospective, cross-sectional study explored correlates of scholarly productivity in a sample of early career PhD social work faculty members regarding publications during their PhD training (N = 58). We sent an electronic surv…
Class Peer Network and Heterogeneous Intervention Effects on Children's Social Information Processing Skills
Children's social information processing (SIP) skills notably affect their aggressive behaviour. Previous randomized trials have demonstrated the positive effects of the ‘Let's Be Friends’ (LBF) intervention in enhancing children's SIP skills and promoting prosocial behaviours. However, little attention has been paid to peer influence in the Chinese administrative class system. Taking LBF (Shaanxi) Trial 2 (LBF2) as an example, this study used a …
Enhancing the Rigor of Antiracist Research
Longitudinal Engagement in Modifiable Lifestyle Behaviors and Racial–Ethnic Differences in Dementia Risk
Objectives The objective was to examine racial–ethnic differences in longitudinal engagement for lifestyle behaviors and moderating role of race–ethnicity between lifestyle behaviors and dementia risk. Methods We analyzed 2011–2021 National Health and Aging Trends Study data, a nationally representative U.S. sample of 6155 White, Black, Hispanic, and Asian older adults aged 65+. Cox models regressed dementia on the interaction between lifestyle b…
Comparison of Two Controlled Trials Designed to Reduce Aggressive Behavior in China
Objective: This report describes the outcomes of two controlled trials of a social information-processing intervention, the Let's Be Friends (LBF) program, which was designed to reduce aggressive behavior in primary school children in rural China. Method: A blocked clusters design with random sampling was used in each trial. Combining the two trials and adjusting for differences between the studies, we estimated outcomes across all treated ( n = …
Governance Policy Evaluation in the United States during the Pandemic
Scientific evidence suggests that nonpharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) effectively curb the spread of COVID-19 before a pharmaceutical solution. Implementing these interventions also significantly affects regular socioeconomic activities and practices of social, racial, and political justice. Local governments often face conflicting goals during policymaking. Striking a balance among competing goals during a global pandemic is a fine science of…
Interventions to Reduce Racial Bias and Discrimination in the United States
Objective: This scoping review examines the methods used in studies of antiracism interventions in the United States during 2014–2021. Method: Following PRISMA-ScR guidelines, we used a systematic search and review process to identify, screen, and summarize research on individual-level interventions intended to reduce racial bias and discrimination. Results: The search recovered 1,928 citations. After screening, 17 articles were retained for a fu…
Strengthening the social information processing skills of third graders in rural China
This study presents the findings of Let's Be Friends (Shaanxi), Trial 2 (LBF2), which is a second test of the school‐based intervention. Let's Be Friends (LBF) is designed to promote social competence and prevent maladaptive behaviour by strengthening the social information processing (SIP) skills of third‐grade children in rural China. A cluster‐matched design with random sampling was used in LBF2. Two rural counties in China were selected by pu…
Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Interventions to Improve Children's Social Information-Processing Skills
Purpose: We undertook a systematic review and meta-analysis of intervention research studies focused on strengthening the social information-processing (SIP) skills of children. Methods: A systematic search and review process was employed to identify, screen, and summarize research on SIP-guided interventions. Results: The search recovered 183,184 citations published from 1997 to 2022. After screening, 42 articles were retained for a full-text re…
Improving child behavior through parent training in child welfare services
Behavioral parent training programs, such as Pathways Triple P (Level 5 of the Triple P parent support and training system, hereafter referred to as Pathways), have been shown to improve child behavior. However, Pathways has not been tested with a child welfare services (CWS) population. A mixed-methods, randomized control trial was conducted to examine its effectiveness with CWS-involved families. The sample included parents investigated for mal…
The moderating effects of school resources on the impact of a school‐based intervention on the social information‐processing skills of third graders in rural China
Using a school‐based intervention, Let's Be Friends (LBF), designed to promote the social information‐processing (SIP) skills of third‐grade children in rural China, the specific aim of this study was to assess the moderating effects of school characteristics on program outcomes. We systematically tested the moderating effects of six school‐resource variables (i.e., student–teacher ratio, school size, number of library books per student, number o…
Suubi4StrongerFamilies
[https://clinicaltrials.gov/], identifier [NCT053 68714]
Impact of Moderating Demographic Variables on a Health Intervention for People with Serious Mental Illness
These findings suggest the impact of healthy lifestyle interventions for people with SMI may not be uniform and adaptations may be needed to make these interventions responsive to the needs of diverse populations
Suubi+Adherence-Round 2
ClinicalTrials.gov , ID: NCT01790373
Correlates of Attendance in a Peer-Led Healthy Lifestyle Intervention for People with Serious Mental Illness Living in Supportive Housing
Latent class analysis risk profiles
Propensity Score Analysis
Propensity score analysis is often used to address selection bias in program evaluation with observational data. However, a recent study suggested that propensity score matching may accomplish the opposite of its intended goal—increasing imbalance, inefficiency, model dependence, and bias. We assess common propensity score models and offer our responses to these criticisms. We used Monte Carlo methods to simulate two alternative settings of data …
Mitigation Interventions in the United States
Purpose: To examine the determinants and impacts of implementing the mitigation interventions to combat the COVID-19 disease in the United States during the first 5 weeks of the pandemic. Method: A content analysis identified nine types of mitigation interventions and the timing at which states enacted these strategies. A proportional hazard model, a multiple-event survival model, and a random-effect spatial error panel model in conjunction with …
Strengthening the Social Information Processing Skills of Third Graders in Rural China
Objective: The study aimed to describe findings from a matched clusters trial of a school-based intervention Let’s Be Friends designed to promote social competence and prevent maladaptive behavior by strengthening the social information processing (SIP) skills of third-grade children in rural China. Method: Using a blocked cluster design with random sampling, 13 treatment schools ( n = 355) of a total of 67 schools in the study site were randomly…
Access and utilization of financial services among poor HIV-impacted children and families in Uganda
Correlates of Physical Activity and Cardiorespiratory Fitness in Racially and Ethnically Diverse People with Serious Mental Illness in Supportive Housing
Modeling Ecological Risk, Health Promotion, and Prevention Program Effects for Rural Adolescents
Objective: Universal prevention programs such as Positive Action (PA) mitigate risk factors and enhance promotive factors, often leading to improved adolescent functioning and school climate. The current study used 5 waves of data to assess the impact of PA on adolescent mental health and perceptions of school climate 1 year after completion of the program in a sample of low-income, rural youth. Method: Following multiple imputation and propensit…
Financial Shocks, Liquid Assets, and Material Hardship in Low- and Moderate-Income Households
The North Carolina Youth Violence Prevention Center
Objective: Youth violence is best tackled through a multifaceted approach targeting risk and protective factors at multiple ecological levels. The North Carolina Youth Violence Prevention Center (NC-YVPC) is an example of such an approach. This article provides a comprehensive synthesis of NC-YVPC design, implementation, and results. Method: NC-YVPC packaged and implemented 3 evidence-based programs to decrease youth violence in a rural North Car…
The Mediating Role of Assets in Explaining Hardship Risk among Households Experiencing Financial Shocks
Journal Article The Mediating Role of Assets in Explaining Hardship Risk among Households Experiencing Financial Shocks Get access Mathieu R Despard, Mathieu R Despard Address correspondence to Mathieu R. Despard, George Warren Brown School of Social Work, Washington University in St. Louis, 1 Brookings Drive, St. Louis, MO 63130; e-mail: [email protected]. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Shenyang Guo, Sh…
Reunification and reentry of foster children
Propensity Score Matching Strategies for Evaluating the Success of Child and Family Service Programs
This article presents propensity score matching as a method to implement randomized conditions to analyze service effects using nonexperimental data. Most social work research is challenged to implement randomized clinical trials, whereas administrative and survey data are often available and can provide valuable information about services received under naturalistic conditions. This article discusses the assumptions of this method and the analyt…
Research on Timing of Foster Care Outcomes
This article discusses the use of event history analysis, specifically the Cox proportional hazards model, in research on timing of foster care outcomes. It focuses on the inclusion of autocorrelated data in the model, a statistical problem that has received little attention in studies of the timing of exit from or reentry into foster care. This article describes the Cox model, the problem posed by use of the model with autocorrelated data, and p…
Temporary Migrants in Shanghai Households, 1984
In China, temporary migration is defined as a change in place of residence without a concomitant change in household registration; such mobility therefore encompasses a more heterogeneous set of movements than is usually subsumed under this heading in other nations. Because of China’s strict control of permanent migration to large cities, temporary migration has become an important strategy for adjusting to economic changes and to effecting famil…
Propensity score matching strategies for evaluating substance abuse services for child welfare clients
Reunification of Foster Children Before and After Welfare Reform
This article reports the results of a descriptive study of the speed with which foster children are returned home before and after welfare reform. The study relies on administrative data, has a prospective multiple‐cohort design, and includes a sample of 903 children. Event history analysis identifies several factors that are associated with reunification speed. The analysis shows that mothers’ incomes have a greater effect on the speed of reunif…
Initial behavior outcomes for the PeaceBuilders universal school-based violence prevention program
Immigration, Naturalization, and Residential Assimilation among Asian Americans in 1980
We investigate the residential assimilation of Asian-origin groups in the U.S., paying particular attention to socioeconomic characteristics, immigrant status, and ethnicity. Our primary goal is to disentangle the competing influence of the last two variables. Data from a special tabulation of the 1980 U.S. census (PUMS-F) allow us to express residential outcomes measured in the aggregate as a function of individual characteristics. We restrict o…
Family group decision making
Social Support for Spouse Caregivers of Persons With Dementia
Description of social status characteristics of caregivers as determinants of their social network may be less fruitful in understanding the benefits of social support than a focus on which helpers assist with what kinds of task for which groups of caregivers
A Comparison of the Governmental Costs of Long‐Term Foster Care and Adoption
Child welfare policy and practice have increased their focus on adoption for those children who cannot rapidly be reunified from foster care. The burgeoning numbers of children receiving adoption subsidies have led some states to be concerned about or even to curtail adoption subsidy levels. Yet, little is known about how the cost of foster care compares to that of adoption. This study uses longitudinal adoption subsidy and foster care placement …
The Interrelation of Fertility and Geographic Mobility in Peru
Michael J. White, Lorenzo Moreno, Shenyang Guo, The Interrelation of Fertility and Geographic Mobility in Peru: A Hazards Model Analysis, The International Migration Review, Vol. 29, No. 2 (Summer, 1995), pp. 492-514
The Mediating Role of Assets in Explaining Hardship Risk among Households Experiencing Financial Shocks
Journal Article The Mediating Role of Assets in Explaining Hardship Risk among Households Experiencing Financial Shocks Get access Mathieu R Despard, Mathieu R Despard Address correspondence to Mathieu R. Despard, George Warren Brown School of Social Work, Washington University in St. Louis, 1 Brookings Drive, St. Louis, MO 63130; e-mail: [email protected]. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Shenyang Guo, Sh…
Analyzing grouped data with hierarchical linear modeling
Mothers’ Welfare and Work Income and Reunification with Children in Foster Care
The Interrelation of Fertility and Geographic Mobility in Peru
The effect of place of residence and migration on fertility and the effect of fertility on migration have been long-standing concerns in population studies. This article makes use of novel longitudinal data from the Peru Demographic and Health Survey and associated statistical techniques to estimate these interrelationships for women of childbearing age. In the case of fertility outcomes, our results are consistent with the findings of others tha…
Propensity Score Analysis
Propensity score analysis is often used to address selection bias in program evaluation with observational data. However, a recent study suggested that propensity score matching may accomplish the opposite of its intended goal—increasing imbalance, inefficiency, model dependence, and bias. We assess common propensity score models and offer our responses to these criticisms. We used Monte Carlo methods to simulate two alternative settings of data …
Financial Shocks, Liquid Assets, and Material Hardship in Low- and Moderate-Income Households
Strengthening the Social Information–Processing Skills of Children
Objective: The study had two objectives (a) to adapt for Chinese children an intervention designed to strengthen the social information–processing (SIP) skills of children in the United States, and (b) to pilot test the adapted intervention in China. Methods: Adaptation of the Making Choices program involved reviewing Chinese literature on child development, translating and back-translating a treatment manual, modifying intervention content, and …
Welfare reform and child welfare outcomes
Risk and protective factors across multiple microsystems associated with internalizing symptoms and aggressive behavior in rural adolescents
The current study examined risk and protective factors across microsystems that impact the development of internalizing symptoms and aggression over 4 years in a sample of culturally diverse, rural adolescents. We explored whether risk and protective factors across microsystems were associated with changes in rates of internalizing symptoms and aggressive behavior. Data came from the Rural Adaptation Project (RAP), a 5-year longitudinal panel stu…
The Effect of Marital Status on Home Ownership among Low-Income Households
This research examines whether married low-income renters are more likely to become home owners than comparable single, low-income renters. To do so, it employs data from the Community Advantage Panel Study and discrete-time survival analysis with propensity-score matching. Results suggest that married couples buy homes at higher rates, and buy them more quickly, than do their unmarried counterparts. Estimates in models that use propensity-score …
Gender variation in delinquent behavior changes of child welfare-involved youth
What do we really know about usual care child protective services
Racial disparities in education debt burden among low- and moderate-income households
Temporary Migrants in Shanghai Households, 1984
In China, temporary migration is defined as a change in place of residence without a concomitant change in household registration; such mobility therefore encompasses a more heterogeneous set of movements than is usually subsumed under this heading in other nations. Because of China’s strict control of permanent migration to large cities, temporary migration has become an important strategy for adjusting to economic changes and to effecting famil…
Temporary migration in Shanghai and Beijing
Immigration, Naturalization, and Residential Assimilation among Asian Americans in 1980
We investigate the residential assimilation of Asian-origin groups in the U.S., paying particular attention to socioeconomic characteristics, immigrant status, and ethnicity. Our primary goal is to disentangle the competing influence of the last two variables. Data from a special tabulation of the 1980 U.S. census (PUMS-F) allow us to express residential outcomes measured in the aggregate as a function of individual characteristics. We restrict o…
Infants in Nonpermanent Placement
Nationally, the fastest-growing population in child welfare is infants. This study explores child welfare placement trends for infants initially placed in a nonpermanent living arrangement in Michigan between 1981 and 1987 and examines permanency planning efforts within 4 years of initial placement. Despite policies and service delivery strategies aimed at permanency, the evidence suggests that there is great variation in the extent to which it i…
The Interrelation of Fertility and Geographic Mobility in Peru
The effect of place of residence and migration on fertility and the effect of fertility on migration have been long-standing concerns in population studies. This article makes use of novel longitudinal data from the Peru Demographic and Health Survey and associated statistical techniques to estimate these interrelationships for women of childbearing age. In the case of fertility outcomes, our results are consistent with the findings of others tha…
The Interrelation of Fertility and Geographic Mobility in Peru
Michael J. White, Lorenzo Moreno, Shenyang Guo, The Interrelation of Fertility and Geographic Mobility in Peru: A Hazards Model Analysis, The International Migration Review, Vol. 29, No. 2 (Summer, 1995), pp. 492-514
Reunification and reentry of foster children
Social Support for Spouse Caregivers of Persons With Dementia
Description of social status characteristics of caregivers as determinants of their social network may be less fruitful in understanding the benefits of social support than a focus on which helpers assist with what kinds of task for which groups of caregivers
The Impact of Mobile Crisis Services on the Use of Community-Based Mental Health Services
Objective: To examine the impact of community-based mobile crisis services on postcrisis community-based mental health service use and user characteristics related to likelihood of postcrisis service use. Method: Differences in use of postcrisis mental health services and timing between a community-based intervention cohort and a matched hospital-based cohort were assessed using a Cox proportional hazards model. Results: A mobile crisis intervent…
Behavioral change trajectories of partial hospitalization children
Forecasting treatment outcomes is essential to improving service delivery. Hierarchical linear modeling was used to construct behavioral change trajectories and help predict treatment responsiveness for 97 partial hospitalization children. Overall, children evidenced statistically significant improvement in psychiatric symptomatology. Younger age, female gender, number of previous out-of-home placements, and lower IQ scores were associated with i…
Mothers’ Welfare and Work Income and Reunification with Children in Foster Care
Measuring behavior change in young children receiving intensive school‐based mental health services
An innovative urban school‐based mental health program was developed to treat the subset of elementary school‐referred children who are experiencing severe emotional and behavioral difficulties. The program served a group of 201 students and their families, referred from 15 elementary schools through a large urban school district in Ohio (K through fifth grade). The children in the sample are predominantly African‐American (N = 157, 78.1%), and m…
Research on Timing of Foster Care Outcomes
This article discusses the use of event history analysis, specifically the Cox proportional hazards model, in research on timing of foster care outcomes. It focuses on the inclusion of autocorrelated data in the model, a statistical problem that has received little attention in studies of the timing of exit from or reentry into foster care. This article describes the Cox model, the problem posed by use of the model with autocorrelated data, and p…
Initial behavior outcomes for the PeaceBuilders universal school-based violence prevention program
Nonprobability Sampling in Social Work Research
This study critically reviews sampling procedures commonly found in social work research. Through a Monte Carlo study simulating conditions of probability and nonprobability sampling procedures, the study demonstrates consequences of using nonprobability sampling procedures and identifies conditions under which researchers should examine the issue critically and exercise caution in reporting findings. Five empirical strategies to address dilemmas…
Reunification of Foster Children Before and After Welfare Reform
This article reports the results of a descriptive study of the speed with which foster children are returned home before and after welfare reform. The study relies on administrative data, has a prospective multiple‐cohort design, and includes a sample of 903 children. Event history analysis identifies several factors that are associated with reunification speed. The analysis shows that mothers’ incomes have a greater effect on the speed of reunif…
Forecasting Length of Stay in Child Residential Treatment
Analyzing grouped data with hierarchical linear modeling
Special Reviewers
Propensity score matching strategies for evaluating substance abuse services for child welfare clients
Welfare reform and child welfare outcomes
A Comparison of the Governmental Costs of Long‐Term Foster Care and Adoption
Child welfare policy and practice have increased their focus on adoption for those children who cannot rapidly be reunified from foster care. The burgeoning numbers of children receiving adoption subsidies have led some states to be concerned about or even to curtail adoption subsidy levels. Yet, little is known about how the cost of foster care compares to that of adoption. This study uses longitudinal adoption subsidy and foster care placement …
Partner Violence Among Women Before, During, and After Pregnancy
Propensity Score Matching Strategies for Evaluating the Success of Child and Family Service Programs
This article presents propensity score matching as a method to implement randomized conditions to analyze service effects using nonexperimental data. Most social work research is challenged to implement randomized clinical trials, whereas administrative and survey data are often available and can provide valuable information about services received under naturalistic conditions. This article discusses the assumptions of this method and the analyt…
Changes in family functioning and child behavior following intensive in-home therapy
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