Chun Bun Lam
Biographic Data
| ID | 138169 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Chun Bun Lam |
| GIVEN NAMES | Chun Bun |
| FAMILY NAME | Lam |
| SIGNATURE | LAM C B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Education University of Hong Kong |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3195-7919 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 47 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 130 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 47 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Adaptation and Validation of the Chinese Inventory of Children’s Socioemotional Competence (Cicsec-N) Among 2-Year-Old Chinese Nursery Children
Research Findings: Few measures have been developed to assess young children’s socioemotional competence in non-western cultures. The present study adapted and validated the Chinese Inventory of Children’s Socioemotional Competence (CICSEC-N) – an indigenously developed and culturally relevant measure of socioemotional competence of Chinese kindergarten children aged 3 to 6 years – so that it could be used with nursery children aged 2 years. To e…
Metalinguistic Skills Were Uniquely Linked to Chinese Word Reading and Writing Among First and Second Language Learners
This cross-sectional study examined the associations of orthographic knowledge, phonological awareness, and morphological awareness with Chinese word reading and writing among first and second language learners of Chinese. It also examined whether these associations differed across these two groups of children. Participants were 480 Chinese children (mean age = 58.26 months; 50% of them were girls) and 347 ethnic minority children (mean age = 57.…
Work‐Related Outcomes Mediate the Associations of Job Demands With Psychological Well‐Being Among Chinese Kindergarten Teachers
Teaching in a kindergarten can be demanding. Prior research has linked the job demands of kindergarten teachers to their psychological well‐being. However, whether different types of job demands are uniquely associated with kindergarten teachers' psychological well‐being and whether work‐related outcomes may mediate these associations remain underexplored. Therefore, this cross‐sectional study examined whether physical, psychological, social, and…
Monkey see, monkey do: Daily variation in maternal addictive smartphone use longitudinally predicts daily variation in child addictive smartphone use in Hong Kong, China
This study examined whether daily variation in maternal addictive smartphone use predicted daily variation in child addictive smartphone use on the following day and tested child gender as a moderator. Data were collected from 74 fourth graders (mean age = 9.2 years; 69% were girls) and their mothers living in Hong Kong, China. On each of 5 consecutive days, children and mothers completed online questionnaires in the evening about their own smart…
Linking maternal phubbing (smartphone distractions in the presence of children) to child behavioral adjustment: A daily diary study
This study examined whether daily variation in maternal phubbing (smartphone distractions in the presence of children) was associated with daily variation in child inattentive and oppositional behaviors. Daily diary data were provided by the mothers of 78 fourth graders (mean age = 9.20 years; age range = 8–10 years) studying in five elementary schools in Hong Kong. On each of five consecutive days, mothers filled in an online questionnaire in th…
Linking Positive and Negative Affect to Socioemotional Competence: A Multi-Informant Correlational Study
Although positive and negative affect may play unique roles in understanding child socioemotional development, few studies have simultaneously tested the associations of both positive and negative affect with socioemotional competence among children. Therefore, this multi-informant study examined the longitudinal associations of positive and negative affect with socioemotional competence among Chinese children. On two occasions separated by about…
Depressive Symptoms Mediate the Associations of Family Economic Pressure With Social Functioning: A Three‐Wave Longitudinal Study of Chinese Families
Objective This three‐wave longitudinal study examined if maternal and paternal depressive symptoms mediated the associations of family economic pressure with maternal and paternal social functioning among Chinese families. Background Most research on family economic pressure has focused on its implications for family relationships and child adjustment. Its potential impact on parental social functioning and the possibly unique roles of mothers ve…
Linking Professional Development Opportunities to Work Performance Among Chinese Kindergarten Teachers: The Mediating Roles of Commitment and Engagement
Kindergarten teachers’ performance at work has important implications for the quality of early childhood education and the development of children. Therefore, promoting teachers’ work performance is of interest to kindergarten managers and policymakers. Evidence suggests that professional development opportunities may play an important role in understanding employees’ work performance. However, the possible mechanism underlying the relationship b…
A visual ethnography of parent-child interactions during ‘story-time’ in Chinese family settings
Story-time serves as an interactive linguistic tool through which parents encourage their children to share narratives. Grounded in sociocultural and narrative theories, this study employed a visual ethnographic approach to explore how parents perceive and engage in story-time interactions within 33 Chinese families. Data were collected through video recordings of story-time sessions and semi-structured interviews. The findings suggest that story…
Linking affiliate stigma to individual adjustment among parents of children with intellectual disability: An actor–partner interdependence approach
Organizational, interpersonal, and intrapersonal resources are uniquely associated with physical, psychological, and occupational well-being among Chinese kindergarten teachers
Kindergarten teachers’ well-being has important implications for young children’s development. Therefore, it is important to identify resource factors that may promote teachers’ well-being. This cross-sectional study examined whether organizational, interpersonal, and intrapersonal resources were associated with the physical, psychological, and occupational well-being of Chinese kindergarten teachers. Online questionnaire data were collected from…
Mindful parenting and coparenting uniquely mediate the association of family economic pressure with child adjustment
Prior research has examined the roles of family processes in the association between family economic pressure and child adjustment among Western families. Expanding on this work, this study examined whether family economic pressure was linked to child internalizing behaviours, externalizing behaviours, and school readiness among Chinese families and tested two family processes – mother mindful parenting and mindful coparenting – as mediators. Par…
The joint effects of individual-level and classroom-level teacher−child relationships on children’s psychosocial adjustment: A longitudinal study
This longitudinal study examined the interactive effects of individual- and classroom-level teacher−child relationships on developing externalizing, internalizing, and prosocial behaviors in kindergarten children over time. On two occasions separated by about 1 year, data were collected from 473 kindergarten children (52% boys, M age = 4.36 years) and their class teachers and mothers in Hong Kong, China. Class teachers reported the closeness and …
Are General Anxiety, Reading Anxiety, and Reading Self-Concept Linked to Reading Skills Among Chinese Adolescents With and Without Dyslexia
This study investigated the cross-sectional relationships between reading-related affective and cognitive factors and reading skills among adolescents with and without dyslexia. Participants were 120 Chinese-speaking eighth graders, including 60 adolescents with dyslexia and 60 typically developing adolescents from Hong Kong, China. Adolescents completed questionnaires on general anxiety, reading anxiety, and reading self-concept. They were also …
Improving Chinese children's socioemotional competence, behavioral adjustment, and pre-academic skills: Impacts of the 3Es Program
Despite the importance of socioemotional competence, few social and emotional learning programs have been developed for and evaluated with non-Western communities. The Early Prevention, Early Identification, and Early Intervention Program is a tiered, school-based program targeting the socioemotional skills of all second-year kindergarten students in Chinese communities with the Little Garden Curriculum and providing additional training to third-…
Child surgency and child aggression: The moderating effect of parental nurturance, emotion coaching, and family income
Linking school‐ and classroom‐level characteristics to child adjustment: A representative study of children from Hong Kong, China
BACKGROUND: The school is one of the most salient developmental contexts for children. However, little is known about the associations linking the school environment to child adjustment in a non-Western context, not to mention the potential processes that may mediate these associations. AIMS: This study examined the associations of school- and classroom-level characteristics with child adjustment and tested whether these associations were mediate…
Child behavioral problems and parental adjustment: Family, interparental, and parent–child processes as simultaneous mediators
This study examined the associations of child behavioral problems with parental adjustment and whether family processes mediated such associations. Cross-sectional data were collected from the fathers, mothers, and class teachers of 186 kindergarten-aged children with special educational needs from Hong Kong, China (mean age = 61.6 months, and 136 of them were boys). Using questionnaires, parents reported their children's behavioral problems and …
The Longitudinal Associations of Household Economic Pressure and Home Chaos with Children’s Executive Functioning, Word Reading, and School Readiness
If Culture is All Around Us, Where Is It In Our Theories and Our Research
Linking Social-Emotional Competence to Behavioral and Academic Adjustment among Chinese Kindergarten Children: A Multilevel Approach
Research Findings: This cross-sectional study examined the class- and child-level associations of social-emotional competence with behavioral and academic adjustment among Chinese kindergarten children and tested teacher collectivistic socialization goals as a moderator. Participants were 523 kindergarten children and their mothers and class teachers from Hong Kong, China. The mean age of children was 4.37 years (SD = 0.60), and 53% of them were …
The Effects of Bilingual Reading Program on Chinese Children from Low Socioeconomic Status Families
Research Findings: This study evaluated the impacts of a bilingual Chinese-English reading program on Chinese children from low socioeconomic status (SES) families. Ninety-nine children in the third year of kindergarten (K3) were recruited from five local kindergartens in two low-SES districts in Hong Kong, China. Children in the intervention group who participated in 15-weeks of language and literacy intervention were compared to a control group…
Parental self‐efficacy: Examining its mediating and reciprocally predictive roles in supportive emotion socialization
This longitudinal study examined the associations between child negative affect, parental self‐efficacy (PSE), and parents’ approaches to the provision of supportive socialization. It also investigated the bidirectionality between PSE, problem‐focus socialization, and emotion‐focus socialization across two time points separated by one year. Participants were 757 Hong Kong Chinese parents (47.4% fathers) of kindergarten children. At both time 1 an…
Linking maternal involvement in child online learning to child adjustment during the Covid-19 pandemic: The moderating role of maternal mindfulness
In the face of COVID-19, many schools have to educate their students using online activities. During this time, whether and how parents are involved may be of particular importance for young children—who are less able to learn independently via the Internet due to their developmental immaturity. Therefore, this study examined the cross-sectional association of maternal involvement in child online learning with child adjustment during the COVID-19…
Sibling relationships and civic engagement: A longitudinal study of Chinese young adults
This study examined the longitudinal associations of sibling intimacy and conflict with civic attitudes and behaviours among Chinese young adults. At two time points separated by about 12 months, questionnaire data were collected from 272 Chinese college students (mean age at Time 1 = 19.68 years; 69% female), students who studied in Hong Kong and had at least one sibling. Students rated their intimacy and conflict with their siblings and their p…
Family Patterns of Gender Role Attitudes
The Use of Cyberpornography by Young Men in Hong Kong: Some Psychosocial Correlates
Housework time from middle childhood through adolescence: Links to parental work hours and youth adjustment
The developmental course, family correlates, and adjustment implications of youth housework participation from age 8-18 were examined. Mothers, fathers, and 2 siblings from 201 European American families provided questionnaire and/or daily diary data on 6 occasions across 7 years. Multilevel modeling within an accelerated longitudinal design revealed that girls spent more time on housework than did boys, but that housework time of both girls and …
Sibling Relationships and Empathy Across the Transition to Adolescence
Grandparental involvement and young adults' cognitive and social adjustment: The moderating role of filial piety in Hong Kong
Grandparents play a critical role in child-rearing both in the evolutionary history of human beings and in modern societies. The current study examined how grandparental involvement might contribute to young adults' cognitive and social adjustment and whether grandchildren's filial piety beliefs might moderate the impact of grandparental involvement. A total of 287 Hong Kong college students completed questionnaire measures of grandparental invol…
Links Between Sibling Experiences and Romantic Competence from Adolescence Through Young Adulthood
The Division of Household Labor: Longitudinal Changes and Within‐Couple Variation
This study examined how the division of household labor changed as a function of marital duration and whether within‐couple variation in spouses' relative power and availability were linked to within‐couple variation in the division of labor. On 4 occasions over 7 years, 188 stably married couples reported on their housework activities using daily diaries. Multilevel models revealed that wives' portions of household responsibilities declined over…
Fit in but stand out: A qualitative study of parents’ and teachers’ perspectives on socioemotional competence of children
Risky Sexual Behaviors in Emerging Adults: Longitudinal Changes and Within-Person Variations
This study examined longitudinal changes in condom use inconsistency and sexual encounters involving alcohol use and the within-person associations of these two risky sexual behaviors with other personal and contextual factors. Data were drawn from a sample of college students who completed surveys on four occasions across 3 years and included 317 participants (48 % male; 32 % African American, 28 % Latino American, and 40 % European American) wh…
Resilience in Young Adulthood: The Moderating Influences of Gender-related Personality Traits and Coping Flexibility
Gender Dynamics in Mexican American Families: Connecting Mothers’, Fathers’, and Youths’ Experiences
Maternal differential treatment and child socioemotional competencies: A multi-informant longitudinal study of Chinese families
Research based on Western communities indicates that parents' differential treatment may be linked to their children's psychological and behavioral problems. Very little is known, however, about the potential implications of parental differential treatment for child socioemotional competencies or in non-Western communities. Focusing on families from Hong Kong, China, this multi-informant study tested the longitudinal associations of mothers' diff…
Child surgency and child aggression: The moderating effect of parental nurturance, emotion coaching, and family income
Resilience in Young Adulthood: The Moderating Influences of Gender-related Personality Traits and Coping Flexibility
The Use of Cyberpornography by Young Men in Hong Kong: Some Psychosocial Correlates
Examining The Job-Related, Psychological, and Physical Outcomes of Workplace Sexual Harassment: A Meta-Analytic Review
This study was designed to examine the job-related, psychological, and physical outcomes of sexual harassment in the workplace. Using a meta-analytic approach, we analyzed findings from 49 primary studies, with a total sample size of 89,382, to obtain estimates of the population mean effect size of the association between sexual harassment and job-related outcomes (e.g., job satisfaction and organizational commitment), psychological outcomes (e.g…
Family Patterns of Gender Role Attitudes
Parent–Child Shared Time From Middle Childhood to Late Adolescence: Developmental Course and Adjustment Correlates
The development and adjustment correlates of parent–child social (parent, child, and others present) and dyadic time (only parent and child present) from age 8 to 18 were examined. Mothers, fathers, and firstborns and secondborns from 188 White families participated in both home and nightly phone interviews. Social time declined across adolescence, but dyadic time with mothers and fathers peaked in early and middle adolescence, respectively. In a…
Gender Dynamics in Mexican American Families: Connecting Mothers’, Fathers’, and Youths’ Experiences
Sibling Relationships and Empathy Across the Transition to Adolescence
The Division of Household Labor: Longitudinal Changes and Within‐Couple Variation
This study examined how the division of household labor changed as a function of marital duration and whether within‐couple variation in spouses' relative power and availability were linked to within‐couple variation in the division of labor. On 4 occasions over 7 years, 188 stably married couples reported on their housework activities using daily diaries. Multilevel models revealed that wives' portions of household responsibilities declined over…
Risky Sexual Behaviors in Emerging Adults: Longitudinal Changes and Within-Person Variations
This study examined longitudinal changes in condom use inconsistency and sexual encounters involving alcohol use and the within-person associations of these two risky sexual behaviors with other personal and contextual factors. Data were drawn from a sample of college students who completed surveys on four occasions across 3 years and included 317 participants (48 % male; 32 % African American, 28 % Latino American, and 40 % European American) wh…
Time With Peers From Middle Childhood to Late Adolescence: Developmental Course and Adjustment Correlates
This study examined the developmental course and adjustment correlates of time with peers from age 8 to 18. On seven occasions over 8 years, the two eldest siblings from 201 European American, working- and middle-class families provided questionnaire and/or phone diary data. Multilevel models revealed that girls' time with mixed-/opposite-sex peers increased beginning in middle childhood, but boys' time increased beginning in early adolescence. F…
Links Between Sibling Experiences and Romantic Competence from Adolescence Through Young Adulthood
Male Role Attitudes and Self-Esteem: A 3-Year Longitudinal Study of Heterosexual College Students
This study examined the developmental pattern of male role attitudes and the within-person association of male role attitudes with self-esteem among college students. On four occasions across 3 years, 408 heterosexual college students (48% male; 28% Latino American, 32% African American, and 40% European American; mean age at Time 1 = 18.46 years) completed surveys. Multilevel models revealed that, although men’s male role attitudes became more t…
Housework time from middle childhood through adolescence: Links to parental work hours and youth adjustment
The developmental course, family correlates, and adjustment implications of youth housework participation from age 8-18 were examined. Mothers, fathers, and 2 siblings from 201 European American families provided questionnaire and/or daily diary data on 6 occasions across 7 years. Multilevel modeling within an accelerated longitudinal design revealed that girls spent more time on housework than did boys, but that housework time of both girls and …
Fit in but stand out: A qualitative study of parents’ and teachers’ perspectives on socioemotional competence of children
The impact of familial expressed emotion on clinical and personal recovery among patients with psychiatric disorders: The mediating roles of self-stigma content and process
The present study examined the associations of familial expressed emotion (EE) with clinical and personal recovery among patients with psychiatric disorders, as well as the potential mechanisms underlying these associations. Guided by the content-process theory of self-stigma, we hypothesized that EE would be negatively associated with clinical and personal recovery and that these associations would be mediated by self-stigma content and process.…
Grandparental involvement and young adults' cognitive and social adjustment: The moderating role of filial piety in Hong Kong
Grandparents play a critical role in child-rearing both in the evolutionary history of human beings and in modern societies. The current study examined how grandparental involvement might contribute to young adults' cognitive and social adjustment and whether grandchildren's filial piety beliefs might moderate the impact of grandparental involvement. A total of 287 Hong Kong college students completed questionnaire measures of grandparental invol…
Bidirectionality in kindergarten children's school readiness and emotional regulation
This study examined the longitudinal associations of emotional regulation and school readiness among Chinese kindergarten children. Data were collected from 523 children (mean age at time 1 = 52.42 months; 52.9% male) at two time points separated by approximately 1 year in Hong Kong, China. At times 1 and 2, children's school readiness was assessed by their teachers and parents while their emotional regulation was directly tested. Teachers also r…
Linking parents’ self-stigma to the adjustment of children with disabilities
This study examined the association of parental self-stigma with child adjustment, and whether parenting self-efficacy and parenting distress mediated the association. Cross-sectional data were collected from 186 families living with kindergarten children identified to have disabilities in Hong Kong, China (mean age = 61.62 months; 76% of them were boys). Using questionnaires, 173 mothers and 112 fathers reported their own self-stigma, parenting …
Development and Validation of the Chinese Inventory of Children’s Socioemotional Competence (Cicsec)
Research findings This study explored the latent structure of socioemotional competence among Chinese kindergarten children in Hong Kong, China, developing and validating a culturally relevant, teacher-reported measure, the Chinese Inventory of Children’s Socioemotional Competence (CICSEC). Cross-sectional questionnaire data were collected on two samples of children from Hong Kong (N1 = 1,731; N2 = 475). Exploratory and confirmatory factor analys…
Studying Children’s Social-Emotional Development in School and at Home through a Cultural Lens
The importance of social-emotional development has been increasingly recognized by educators, parents, and policymakers. Social-emotional competencies allow children to manage emotions and regulate
Executive functioning and word reading in Hong Kong Chinese children: A 1‐year longitudinal perspective
This study examined the bidirectionality between kindergarten children's executive functioning (EF) and word reading across two time points. Participants were 523 Hong Kong Chinese‐speaking children (mean age at Time 2 = 64.59 months; 52.9% male) and their parents. At Time 1, children were administered the measures of EF skills: inhibitory control, attention shifting, working memory and Chinese word reading. They were reassessed with these measur…
Sibling relationships and civic engagement: A longitudinal study of Chinese young adults
This study examined the longitudinal associations of sibling intimacy and conflict with civic attitudes and behaviours among Chinese young adults. At two time points separated by about 12 months, questionnaire data were collected from 272 Chinese college students (mean age at Time 1 = 19.68 years; 69% female), students who studied in Hong Kong and had at least one sibling. Students rated their intimacy and conflict with their siblings and their p…
Maternal differential treatment and child socioemotional competencies: A multi-informant longitudinal study of Chinese families
Research based on Western communities indicates that parents' differential treatment may be linked to their children's psychological and behavioral problems. Very little is known, however, about the potential implications of parental differential treatment for child socioemotional competencies or in non-Western communities. Focusing on families from Hong Kong, China, this multi-informant study tested the longitudinal associations of mothers' diff…
If Culture is All Around Us, Where Is It In Our Theories and Our Research
Linking Social-Emotional Competence to Behavioral and Academic Adjustment among Chinese Kindergarten Children: A Multilevel Approach
Research Findings: This cross-sectional study examined the class- and child-level associations of social-emotional competence with behavioral and academic adjustment among Chinese kindergarten children and tested teacher collectivistic socialization goals as a moderator. Participants were 523 kindergarten children and their mothers and class teachers from Hong Kong, China. The mean age of children was 4.37 years (SD = 0.60), and 53% of them were …
Psychology (37 works) · Developmental psychology (31 works) · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (22 works) · Social Psychology (22 works) · Early Childhood Education and Development (20 works) · Social Psychology (13 works) · Longitudinal study (12 works) · Parental Involvement in Education (9 works) · Clinical Psychology (8 works) · Medicine (8 works)