Vincent Ng

Biographic Data

ID127541
NAMEVincent Ng
GIVEN NAMESVincent
FAMILY NAMENg
SIGNATURENG V
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Houston
ORCID0000-0002-5114-3883
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS10
TOTAL CITATIONS51
AUTHOR COUNT10
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2015
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX2

  • Vagueness as imprecision is a bug to be mitigated: Commentary on Hutmacher and Franz (2025)

    Vincent Ng, Kaylee LitsonARTICLEAmerican Psychologist2026

    Hutmacher and Franz (2025) argue that psychological concepts are inherently vague and prescribe to embrace vagueness. Ironically, despite the argument that embracing inherent vagueness of concepts entails concept clarification and discussing definitions, Hutmacher and Franz do neither with their own focal concept. This allows them to engage in a motte-and-bailey fallacy through the equivocal meaning of concepts such as "feature," "bug," "embrace,…

  • Character Traits Predict Health and Well-Being beyond Personality

    Danielle Wilson, Vincent Ng et al.ARTICLEJournal of Personality Assessment2024

    We examined the incremental validity of character in predicting health outcomes and well-being beyond personality traits and investigated the extent to which health-related behaviors mediate the relationship between character and well-being. Findings indicate that several character cores (e.g., transcendence, fortitude) predict well-being, health behaviors, and health outcomes beyond different measures of personality traits, indicating that chara…

  • Conceptualizing “positive attributes” across psychological perspectives

    Open AccessDanielle Wilson, Vincent Ng et al.ARTICLEJournal of Personality2024

    BACKGROUND: The growth of positive psychology has birthed debate on the nature of what "positive" really means. Conceptualizations of positive attributes vary across psychological perspectives, and it appears these definitional differences stem from standards for "positive" espoused by three normative ethical frameworks: consequentialism, deontology, and virtue ethics. When definitions of "positive" do not align with one of these ethical schools,…

  • A Meta-Analysis of Religion/Spirituality and Life Satisfaction

    Open AccessDavid B Yaden, Cassondra Batz-Barbarich et al.ARTICLEJournal of Happiness Studies2022

  • A Review of Key Likert Scale Development Advances: 1995–2019

    Open AccessAndrew T Jebb, Vincent Ng et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Psychology2021

    Developing self-report Likert scales is an essential part of modern psychology. However, it is hard for psychologists to remain apprised of best practices as methodological developments accumulate. To address this, this current paper offers a selective review of advances in Likert scale development that have occurred over the past 25 years. We reviewed six major measurement journals (e.g., Psychological Methods , Educational , and Psychological M…

  • The Development and Validation of a Multidimensional Forced-Choice Format Character Measure: Testing the Thurstonian IRT Approach

    Vincent Ng, Philseok Lee et al.ARTICLEJournal of Personality Assessment2021

    There has been reemerging interest within psychology in the construct of character, yet assessing it can be difficult due to social desirability of character traits. Forced-choice formats offer one way to address response bias, but traditional scoring methods (i.e., ipsative) associated with this format makes comparing scores between people problematic. Nevertheless, recent advances in modeling item responding (Thurstonian IRT) enable scoring tha…

  • Lost in Translation: The Construct Representation of Character Virtues

    Open AccessVincent Ng, Louis TayARTICLEPerspectives on Psychological…2020

    A seemingly universal lesson is that anything taken to its extreme is detrimental. Indeed, there has been growing interest in testing this idea within psychology. These studies have often been framed in terms of Aristotle’s doctrine of the golden mean or the idea that virtue lies between the vices of deficiency and excess. Recent explicit reviews of this hypothesis in the psychological literature have led to the paradoxical conclusion that one ca…

  • No ethical divide between China and the West in human embryo research

    Open AccessXiaomei Zhai, Vincent Ng et al.ARTICLEDeveloping World Bioethics2016

    This is a discussion of the reaction to the recent research article publication in the journal Protein & Cell by a group of scientists at Sun Yat‐sen University using the CRISPR /Cas9 technique on editing non‐viable human zygotes. Many commentators condemned the Chinese scientists for overstepping ethical boundaries long accepted in Western countries and accused China of having lax regulations on genomic research in general. We argue that not onl…

  • Examining Variability in Values Attributed to Culture: Using Personality as a Relative Benchmark

    Open AccessVincent Ng, Sang Eun Woo et al.ARTICLEJournal of Cross-Cultural…2016Cited by: 2References: 48

    Prior work examining the role of cultural groupings (i.e., national membership) on personal values showed small to moderate amounts of variability attributable to culture, refuting the idea that culture determines values. We extend this research by examining the proportion of variance in values that could be explained by cultural membership. Because there is no definitive level of proportion of variance that would lead to a conclusion that values…

  • Leisure engagement and subjective well-being: A meta-analysis

    Lauren Kuykendall, Louis Tay et al.ARTICLEPsychological Bulletin2015Cited by: 49

    Numerous studies show a link between leisure engagement and subjective well-being (SWB). Drawing on common experiential features of leisure, psychological need theories, and bottom-up models of SWB, we suggest that leisure engagement influences SWB via leisure satisfaction. We examine the proposed cross-sectional relations and mediation model using random-effects meta-analyses that include all available populations. To provide a stronger test of …