Shu Fai Cheung
Biographic Data
| ID | 224361 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Shu Fai Cheung |
| GIVEN NAMES | Shu Fai |
| FAMILY NAME | Cheung |
| SIGNATURE | CHEUNG S F |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Macau |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9871-9448 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 127 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 31 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
From barriers to benefits: A personalized sleep intervention enhances sleep duration and emotional health in chronic short sleepers
This pilot study evaluated a personalized sleep intervention incorporating motivational interviewing techniques to address sleep barriers, along with tailored sleep hygiene and extension for chronic short sleepers. Eleven university students completed a 14‐day sequential intervention (baseline, sleep hygiene and a combined phase adding 90‐min extension), assessed via actigraphy, daily diaries, ecological momentary assessments and qualitative inte…
Betaselectr: Selective (and Proper) Standardization in Structural Equation Models
Standardization is used in many common methods in psychology to enhance the interpretability of results. For example, the so-called "betas" are usually reported in structural equation modeling (SEM). However, there are three situations in which standardization, as is usually conducted by SEM programs, makes the results difficult to interpret and sometimes even misleading: standardizing dummy variables, standardizing the product term in moderation…
Semfindr: An R Package for Identifying Influential Cases in Structural Equation Modeling
Measuring case influence on parameter estimates and model fit measures, which is one type of sensitivity analysis, is important for assessing the robustness of findings in structural equation modeling (SEM). However, it was rarely reported clearly or was conducted inappropriately, mistaking outlier detection for influential cases assessment. Some existing tools have limitations in the models or estimation methods they support, or in the types of …
Network Analysis of Ideal Life Pursuit and Food Addiction Among Chinese Adults
Using Mplus to detect careless responses with the help of a simple-to-use online application
Careless responding poses a notable challenge in measurement due to its potential to distort relationships between items. Factor mixture modeling, as a statistical modeling tool adept at identifying heterogeneous clusters within a population, has emerged as a promising avenue for careless-responding detection. The recent development of three factor mixture models, by Arias et al., Steinmann et al., and Kam and Cheung has advanced the field of car…
Doing, Reporting, and Interpreting Moderation Right: Recommendations for Selected Common Practices
Moderation is a commonly used technique in psychological studies to investigate how the relationship between two variables is affected by a third variable, the moderator. The findings have practical implications because they inform practitioners when a relationship is strong or weak, or how to reduce the adverse impact of a factor or enhance the positive impact of a factor. However, insufficient details have been reported in some cases, making it…
Semlbci: An R package for Forming Likelihood-Based Confidence Intervals for Parameter Estimates, Correlations, Indirect Effects, and Other Derived Parameters
There are three common types of confidence interval (CI) in structural equation modeling (SEM): Wald-type CI, bootstrapping CI, and likelihood-based CI (LBCI). LBCI has the following advantages: (1) it has better coverage probabilities and Type I error rate compared to Wald-type CI when the sample size is finite; (2) it correctly tests the null hypothesis of a parameter based on likelihood ratio chi-square difference test; (3) it is less computat…
BetaDelta and betaSandwich: Confidence Intervals for Standardized Regression Coefficients in R
The multivariate delta method was used by Yuan and Chan to estimate standard errors and confidence intervals for standardized regression coefficients. Jones and Waller extended the earlier work to situations where data are nonnormal by utilizing Browne's asymptotic distribution-free (ADF) theory. Furthermore, Dudgeon developed standard errors and confidence intervals, employing heteroskedasticity-consistent (HC) estimators, that are robust to non…
How is forgivingness linked to religiousness, pessimism, and social cynicism? A longitudinal investigation for directional relationships
Causal relationship between religiosity and value priorities: Cross-sectional and longitudinal investigations
Simple use of BIC to Assess Model Selection Uncertainty: An Illustration using Mediation and Moderation Models
The Bayesian information criterion (BIC) has been used sometimes in SEM, even adopting a frequentist approach. Using simple mediation and moderation models as examples, we form posterior probability distribution via using BIC, which we call the BIC posterior, to assess model selection uncertainty of a finite number of models. This is simple but rarely used. The posterior probability distribution can be used to form a credibility set of models and…
Psychological changes during faith exit: A three-year prospective study
This prospective study explored psychological changes during faith exit and attempted to identify individual characteristics of believers who would within a 3-year time frame become disengaged from their faith. Data were collected from 632 Chinese Protestant Christians, of whom 188 left their faith within 3 years after the 1st survey. The faith exiters' subsequent changes in personality, beliefs, and values, if any, were not any different from wh…
In search of the psychological antecedents and consequences of Christian conversion: A three-year prospective study
Religious conversion is often an overwhelming experience. Although self-reports by some converts about life before and after conversion often contain vivid descriptions of the type and extent of changes, few rigorous empirical studies have documented them. This 3-year longitudinal prospective study aimed to understand the precursors of conversion, and whether this event would result in psychological changes. A logistic regression on 455 non-Chris…
Psychological predictors of Chinese Christians’ church attendance and religious steadfastness: A three-wave prospective study
In this research we addressed three questions: (1) In what ways are Christians who do not attend church different from Christians who do? (2) Can we predict which church-attending Christians will later stop going to church?(3) Can we predict which Christians will eventually leave their faith altogether?Large-sample longitudinal research on psychological predictors of religious transition is rare.To fill this gap, a 3-wave prospective study was co…
Psychometric Evaluation of the Spiritual Transcendence Scale in a Chinese Sample: Is There Factorial Invariance Across Gender, Occupation, and Religion
This study investigated the reliability and validity of the widely used 23-item Spiritual Transcendence Scale and tested whether there was factorial invariance of the scale by demographic variables such as gender, occupation, and religion in a large Chinese sample (n = 1,894). Exploratory factor analysis with a random subsample supported the original 3-factor structure (prayer fulfillment, universality, and connectedness) in a revised 16-item sca…
Does Church Size Matter? A Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Study of Chinese Congregants' Religious Attitudes and Behaviors
Despite the proliferation of megachurches, it is unclear how the size of a religious organization affects its members. Two opposing assumptions are (1) size is a liability and (2) size is an asset. According to the first assumption, size negatively impacts the religious attitudes and behaviors of church attendees through the reduction of motivation and a loss of coordination (Hypothesis 1). According to the second assumption, a large church benef…
Personal Spiritual Values and Quality of Life: Evidence from Chinese College Students
The role of religion in moderating the impact of life events on material life goals: Some evidence in support of terror management theory
How would religion and a life event carrying an existential threat (LEET) jointly impact a person's life goals of becoming wealthy and successful in one's career? Goal reprioritisation, socioemotional selectivity, and gerotranscendence theories predict a shift away from material goals following a LEET, independent of the effect of religion. However, terror management theory (TMT) predicts that the effect of death thoughts depends on one's prevail…
Predictors and Outcomes of Experiences Deemed Religious: A Longitudinal Investigation
Experiences deemed religious (EDRs) are events that a person regards as religious and/or supernatural. This study considered four such experiences—miraculous healing, glossolalia, unusual joy and peace during meditation or prayer, and prayer answered. We proposed a process model and conducted a longitudinal study to address three main research questions: (a) Who are more likely to have EDRs? (b) What effects would the experiences have on the pers…
Cultural meaning of perceived control: A meta-analysis of locus of control and psychological symptoms across 18 cultural regions
Faith Maturity Scale” for Chinese: A Revision and Construct Validation
Using a large sample of Chinese Christians (n = 2,196), we examined the internal structure, reliability, and validity of the Faith Maturity Scale (FMS). Despite its being developed in North America, and for a mainline Protestant population, the FMS was shown to have validity among non-Western, non-mainline Protestants. There is convergent validity with self-reported religious practices and a belief measure of religiosity. Our analyses also confir…
The role of meaning in life and optimism in promoting well-being
Dependent Correlations in Meta-Analysis: The Case of Heterogeneous Dependence
In meta-analysis, it is common to have dependent effect sizes, such as several effect sizes from the same sample but measured at different times. Cheung and Chan proposed the adjusted-individual and adjusted-weighted procedures to estimate the degree of dependence and incorporate this estimate in the meta-analysis. The present study extends the previous study by examining the case of heterogeneous degree of dependence. Simulation results reveal t…
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…
Relevance of Openness as a Personality Dimension in Chinese Culture: Aspects of its Cultural Relevance
The Openness factor was missing from the original Chinese Personality Assessment Inventory (CPAI). We used a combined emic-etic approach to generate six culturally relevant Openness scales. In Study 1, the Openness scales were added to the revised CPAI and standardized using a representative sample of 1,911 adults in China and Hong Kong. Factor analysis showed that the Openness scales merged with the original factors of the CPAI. In Study 2, 1,09…
Meta-analysis of stigma and mental health
Cultural meaning of perceived control: A meta-analysis of locus of control and psychological symptoms across 18 cultural regions
The English Version of the Chinese Personality Assessment Inventory
The article examines the structure of the Chinese Personality Assessment Inventory (CPAI), an indigenous Chinese assessment instrument, in two English-speaking samples. In Study 1, the English version of the CPAI was developed and administered to a sample of 675 Singaporean Chinese. Factor analysis showed that the factor structure of the English version CPAI was similar to the structure of the original Chinese version in the normative sample. Joi…
Personality and Life Events as Predictors of Adolescents' Life Satisfaction: Do Life Events Mediate the Link Between Personality and Life Satisfaction
Relevance of Openness as a Personality Dimension in Chinese Culture: Aspects of its Cultural Relevance
The Openness factor was missing from the original Chinese Personality Assessment Inventory (CPAI). We used a combined emic-etic approach to generate six culturally relevant Openness scales. In Study 1, the Openness scales were added to the revised CPAI and standardized using a representative sample of 1,911 adults in China and Hong Kong. Factor analysis showed that the Openness scales merged with the original factors of the CPAI. In Study 2, 1,09…
Psychometric Evaluation of the Spiritual Transcendence Scale in a Chinese Sample: Is There Factorial Invariance Across Gender, Occupation, and Religion
This study investigated the reliability and validity of the widely used 23-item Spiritual Transcendence Scale and tested whether there was factorial invariance of the scale by demographic variables such as gender, occupation, and religion in a large Chinese sample (n = 1,894). Exploratory factor analysis with a random subsample supported the original 3-factor structure (prayer fulfillment, universality, and connectedness) in a revised 16-item sca…
Faith Maturity Scale” for Chinese: A Revision and Construct Validation
Using a large sample of Chinese Christians (n = 2,196), we examined the internal structure, reliability, and validity of the Faith Maturity Scale (FMS). Despite its being developed in North America, and for a mainline Protestant population, the FMS was shown to have validity among non-Western, non-mainline Protestants. There is convergent validity with self-reported religious practices and a belief measure of religiosity. Our analyses also confir…
Does Church Size Matter? A Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Study of Chinese Congregants' Religious Attitudes and Behaviors
Despite the proliferation of megachurches, it is unclear how the size of a religious organization affects its members. Two opposing assumptions are (1) size is a liability and (2) size is an asset. According to the first assumption, size negatively impacts the religious attitudes and behaviors of church attendees through the reduction of motivation and a loss of coordination (Hypothesis 1). According to the second assumption, a large church benef…
Predictors and Outcomes of Experiences Deemed Religious: A Longitudinal Investigation
Experiences deemed religious (EDRs) are events that a person regards as religious and/or supernatural. This study considered four such experiences—miraculous healing, glossolalia, unusual joy and peace during meditation or prayer, and prayer answered. We proposed a process model and conducted a longitudinal study to address three main research questions: (a) Who are more likely to have EDRs? (b) What effects would the experiences have on the pers…
Reexamining the Theory of Planned Behavior in Understanding Wastepaper Recycling
Using Ajzen’s theory of planned behavior (TOPB), this study examined wastepaper-recycling behavior among college students in Hong Kong. Two hundred and eighty-two college students completed a questionnaire designed to measure various constructs related to recycling behavior. The results reveal that TOPB significantly predicted both behavioral intention and subsequent wastepaper-recycling behavior self-reported a month later. Perceived difficulty …
Measuring Personality and Values Across Cultures: Imported Versus Indigenous Measures
Cross-cultural studies of personality have shown cultural similarities and differences in the manifestation of personality traits. In interpreting cultural differences in personality traits, we should consider not only the experiences of people in different cultures, but also the measures adopted and the cultural orientations of researchers themselves. In this chapter, we discuss the considerations in adapting an instrument from one culture to an…
The English Version of the Chinese Personality Assessment Inventory
The article examines the structure of the Chinese Personality Assessment Inventory (CPAI), an indigenous Chinese assessment instrument, in two English-speaking samples. In Study 1, the English version of the CPAI was developed and administered to a sample of 675 Singaporean Chinese. Factor analysis showed that the factor structure of the English version CPAI was similar to the structure of the original Chinese version in the normative sample. Joi…
Identifying the psychosocial correlates of condom use by female sex workers in Hong Kong
This study examined factors affecting condom use by Hong Kong female sex workers when they have sex with their clients and steady partners. Our respondents consisted of 109 active female sex workers, mainly streetwalkers or sex workers who worked in villas. During a 30-minute interview, respondents were interviewed individually and were asked questions regarding their condom use practice. These questions were designed to measure various factors a…
Meta-analysis of stigma and mental health
Dependent Correlations in Meta-Analysis: The Case of Heterogeneous Dependence
In meta-analysis, it is common to have dependent effect sizes, such as several effect sizes from the same sample but measured at different times. Cheung and Chan proposed the adjusted-individual and adjusted-weighted procedures to estimate the degree of dependence and incorporate this estimate in the meta-analysis. The present study extends the previous study by examining the case of heterogeneous degree of dependence. Simulation results reveal t…
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…
Relevance of Openness as a Personality Dimension in Chinese Culture: Aspects of its Cultural Relevance
The Openness factor was missing from the original Chinese Personality Assessment Inventory (CPAI). We used a combined emic-etic approach to generate six culturally relevant Openness scales. In Study 1, the Openness scales were added to the revised CPAI and standardized using a representative sample of 1,911 adults in China and Hong Kong. Factor analysis showed that the Openness scales merged with the original factors of the CPAI. In Study 2, 1,09…
Personality and Life Events as Predictors of Adolescents' Life Satisfaction: Do Life Events Mediate the Link Between Personality and Life Satisfaction
The role of meaning in life and optimism in promoting well-being
Faith Maturity Scale” for Chinese: A Revision and Construct Validation
Using a large sample of Chinese Christians (n = 2,196), we examined the internal structure, reliability, and validity of the Faith Maturity Scale (FMS). Despite its being developed in North America, and for a mainline Protestant population, the FMS was shown to have validity among non-Western, non-mainline Protestants. There is convergent validity with self-reported religious practices and a belief measure of religiosity. Our analyses also confir…
Cultural meaning of perceived control: A meta-analysis of locus of control and psychological symptoms across 18 cultural regions
Personal Spiritual Values and Quality of Life: Evidence from Chinese College Students
The role of religion in moderating the impact of life events on material life goals: Some evidence in support of terror management theory
How would religion and a life event carrying an existential threat (LEET) jointly impact a person's life goals of becoming wealthy and successful in one's career? Goal reprioritisation, socioemotional selectivity, and gerotranscendence theories predict a shift away from material goals following a LEET, independent of the effect of religion. However, terror management theory (TMT) predicts that the effect of death thoughts depends on one's prevail…
Predictors and Outcomes of Experiences Deemed Religious: A Longitudinal Investigation
Experiences deemed religious (EDRs) are events that a person regards as religious and/or supernatural. This study considered four such experiences—miraculous healing, glossolalia, unusual joy and peace during meditation or prayer, and prayer answered. We proposed a process model and conducted a longitudinal study to address three main research questions: (a) Who are more likely to have EDRs? (b) What effects would the experiences have on the pers…
Psychological predictors of Chinese Christians’ church attendance and religious steadfastness: A three-wave prospective study
In this research we addressed three questions: (1) In what ways are Christians who do not attend church different from Christians who do? (2) Can we predict which church-attending Christians will later stop going to church?(3) Can we predict which Christians will eventually leave their faith altogether?Large-sample longitudinal research on psychological predictors of religious transition is rare.To fill this gap, a 3-wave prospective study was co…
Psychometric Evaluation of the Spiritual Transcendence Scale in a Chinese Sample: Is There Factorial Invariance Across Gender, Occupation, and Religion
This study investigated the reliability and validity of the widely used 23-item Spiritual Transcendence Scale and tested whether there was factorial invariance of the scale by demographic variables such as gender, occupation, and religion in a large Chinese sample (n = 1,894). Exploratory factor analysis with a random subsample supported the original 3-factor structure (prayer fulfillment, universality, and connectedness) in a revised 16-item sca…
Does Church Size Matter? A Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Study of Chinese Congregants' Religious Attitudes and Behaviors
Despite the proliferation of megachurches, it is unclear how the size of a religious organization affects its members. Two opposing assumptions are (1) size is a liability and (2) size is an asset. According to the first assumption, size negatively impacts the religious attitudes and behaviors of church attendees through the reduction of motivation and a loss of coordination (Hypothesis 1). According to the second assumption, a large church benef…
In search of the psychological antecedents and consequences of Christian conversion: A three-year prospective study
Religious conversion is often an overwhelming experience. Although self-reports by some converts about life before and after conversion often contain vivid descriptions of the type and extent of changes, few rigorous empirical studies have documented them. This 3-year longitudinal prospective study aimed to understand the precursors of conversion, and whether this event would result in psychological changes. A logistic regression on 455 non-Chris…
Psychological changes during faith exit: A three-year prospective study
This prospective study explored psychological changes during faith exit and attempted to identify individual characteristics of believers who would within a 3-year time frame become disengaged from their faith. Data were collected from 632 Chinese Protestant Christians, of whom 188 left their faith within 3 years after the 1st survey. The faith exiters' subsequent changes in personality, beliefs, and values, if any, were not any different from wh…
Causal relationship between religiosity and value priorities: Cross-sectional and longitudinal investigations
Simple use of BIC to Assess Model Selection Uncertainty: An Illustration using Mediation and Moderation Models
The Bayesian information criterion (BIC) has been used sometimes in SEM, even adopting a frequentist approach. Using simple mediation and moderation models as examples, we form posterior probability distribution via using BIC, which we call the BIC posterior, to assess model selection uncertainty of a finite number of models. This is simple but rarely used. The posterior probability distribution can be used to form a credibility set of models and…
How is forgivingness linked to religiousness, pessimism, and social cynicism? A longitudinal investigation for directional relationships
Semlbci: An R package for Forming Likelihood-Based Confidence Intervals for Parameter Estimates, Correlations, Indirect Effects, and Other Derived Parameters
There are three common types of confidence interval (CI) in structural equation modeling (SEM): Wald-type CI, bootstrapping CI, and likelihood-based CI (LBCI). LBCI has the following advantages: (1) it has better coverage probabilities and Type I error rate compared to Wald-type CI when the sample size is finite; (2) it correctly tests the null hypothesis of a parameter based on likelihood ratio chi-square difference test; (3) it is less computat…
BetaDelta and betaSandwich: Confidence Intervals for Standardized Regression Coefficients in R
The multivariate delta method was used by Yuan and Chan to estimate standard errors and confidence intervals for standardized regression coefficients. Jones and Waller extended the earlier work to situations where data are nonnormal by utilizing Browne's asymptotic distribution-free (ADF) theory. Furthermore, Dudgeon developed standard errors and confidence intervals, employing heteroskedasticity-consistent (HC) estimators, that are robust to non…
Psychology (22 works) · Social Psychology (21 works) · Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology (10 works) · Social Psychology (8 works) · Statistics (8 works) · Developmental psychology (7 works) · Mathematics (7 works) · Medicine (7 works) · Personality (6 works) · Clinical Psychology (5 works)