J Heng
Biographic Data
| ID | 22957 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J Heng |
| GIVEN NAMES | J |
| FAMILY NAME | Heng |
| SIGNATURE | HENG J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cambridge |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8083-0930 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Parental Strategies for Managing Externalizing and Internalizing Behaviors in Young Children: A Comparison Across Two Countries
Across cultures, how parents manage children’s problem behaviors shapes the environment for children’s development. Our study addressed the existing lack of cross-cultural comparison on parents’ strategies for addressing young children’s externalizing and internalizing-type behaviors. A total of 104 parents of preschool-aged children from the United States ( n = 50, M age = 36.24) and China ( n = 54, M age = 35.68) participated in a semi-structur…
Assessing school readiness domains in a large cohort of refugee children: Validation and links with family factors
Despite the growing global presence of refugee populations, few validated tools exist to assess early learning and development in these contexts. This study examined the use of the International Development and Early Learning Assessment (IDELA) with a large sample of 1033 refugee children aged 4–6 years living in Malaysia, a non-resettlement, low- to middle-income country. Using Rasch modelling, we evaluated the psychometric properties of IDELA a…
Changes in children’s well-being and mental health across the early school years: Links with academic and social competence
The aim of the present study was to examine the relation between children's well-being and mental health in the early years of primary school and the developmental association between well-being and mental health and children's early social and academic skills. Two hundred fifty-two children (131 girls, M age = 5.40 years, 80% White) and their caregivers (89.8% mothers) from the United Kingdom participated in a 1-year longitudinal study. Children…
Links Between Child Executive Function and Adjustment: A Three-Site Study
Cross-site comparisons indicate that East Asian children typically excel on tests of executive function (EF), but interpreting this contrast is made difficult by both the heavy reliance on testing in school settings and by the scarcity of studies that assess across-site measurement invariance. Addressing these gaps, our study included remote home-based assessments of EF for 1002 children (Mage = 5.19 years, SD = 0.51; 49% male) from England, Hong…
Examining Malaysian mothers' causal attributions of maladaptive externalizing and internalizing behaviors in young children
Parents’ ethnotheories of the nature and causes of children’s misbehaviors: A comparison of mothers across two cultures
Across all cultures, parents have intuitive ideas (“ethnotheories”) of what undesirable child characteristics are as well as how to explain them. Yet there have been relatively few cross-cultural comparisons of parents’ ethnotheories about the nature and causes of child misbehavior. 108 mothers of 5-year-old children from the United States ( N = 52; M age = 5.26, SD = 0.07) and mainland China ( N = 56; M age = 5.31, SD = 0.20) were recruited to p…
What Mediates the Effect of Family Disruption in the Covid-19 Pandemic on Children's Prosocial Behavior: A Multisite Study
At the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, unprecedented social distancing rules (including mass school closures) dramatically constrained children's social lives, jeopardizing human connections that foster prosocial development. This study of 2,516 families of 3-8-year-olds from six countries (China, Sweden, Australia, Italy, the USA, and the United Kingdom) examined whether children's understanding or feelings about COVID-19 regulations mediated th…
Social changes and changing address norms in China
The paper is concerned with the changing address norms in China since the founding of the People's Republic in 1949. The first part of the paper deals with the termtóngzhì'comrade' as well as some other address terms relevant to it. Emphasis is on the discussion of why official titles rather thantóngzhìare preferred by certain Chinese officials. The second part focuses on how traditional address terms such asxiānsheng'Mr.',tàitai'Mrs.' andxiaojie…
Social changes and changing address norms in China
The paper is concerned with the changing address norms in China since the founding of the People's Republic in 1949. The first part of the paper deals with the termtóngzhì'comrade' as well as some other address terms relevant to it. Emphasis is on the discussion of why official titles rather thantóngzhìare preferred by certain Chinese officials. The second part focuses on how traditional address terms such asxiānsheng'Mr.',tàitai'Mrs.' andxiaojie…
Changes in children’s well-being and mental health across the early school years: Links with academic and social competence
The aim of the present study was to examine the relation between children's well-being and mental health in the early years of primary school and the developmental association between well-being and mental health and children's early social and academic skills. Two hundred fifty-two children (131 girls, M age = 5.40 years, 80% White) and their caregivers (89.8% mothers) from the United Kingdom participated in a 1-year longitudinal study. Children…
What Mediates the Effect of Family Disruption in the Covid-19 Pandemic on Children's Prosocial Behavior: A Multisite Study
At the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, unprecedented social distancing rules (including mass school closures) dramatically constrained children's social lives, jeopardizing human connections that foster prosocial development. This study of 2,516 families of 3-8-year-olds from six countries (China, Sweden, Australia, Italy, the USA, and the United Kingdom) examined whether children's understanding or feelings about COVID-19 regulations mediated th…
Social changes and changing address norms in China
The paper is concerned with the changing address norms in China since the founding of the People's Republic in 1949. The first part of the paper deals with the termtóngzhì'comrade' as well as some other address terms relevant to it. Emphasis is on the discussion of why official titles rather thantóngzhìare preferred by certain Chinese officials. The second part focuses on how traditional address terms such asxiānsheng'Mr.',tàitai'Mrs.' andxiaojie…
What Mediates the Effect of Family Disruption in the Covid-19 Pandemic on Children's Prosocial Behavior: A Multisite Study
At the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, unprecedented social distancing rules (including mass school closures) dramatically constrained children's social lives, jeopardizing human connections that foster prosocial development. This study of 2,516 families of 3-8-year-olds from six countries (China, Sweden, Australia, Italy, the USA, and the United Kingdom) examined whether children's understanding or feelings about COVID-19 regulations mediated th…
Examining Malaysian mothers' causal attributions of maladaptive externalizing and internalizing behaviors in young children
Parents’ ethnotheories of the nature and causes of children’s misbehaviors: A comparison of mothers across two cultures
Across all cultures, parents have intuitive ideas (“ethnotheories”) of what undesirable child characteristics are as well as how to explain them. Yet there have been relatively few cross-cultural comparisons of parents’ ethnotheories about the nature and causes of child misbehavior. 108 mothers of 5-year-old children from the United States ( N = 52; M age = 5.26, SD = 0.07) and mainland China ( N = 56; M age = 5.31, SD = 0.20) were recruited to p…
Changes in children’s well-being and mental health across the early school years: Links with academic and social competence
The aim of the present study was to examine the relation between children's well-being and mental health in the early years of primary school and the developmental association between well-being and mental health and children's early social and academic skills. Two hundred fifty-two children (131 girls, M age = 5.40 years, 80% White) and their caregivers (89.8% mothers) from the United Kingdom participated in a 1-year longitudinal study. Children…
Links Between Child Executive Function and Adjustment: A Three-Site Study
Cross-site comparisons indicate that East Asian children typically excel on tests of executive function (EF), but interpreting this contrast is made difficult by both the heavy reliance on testing in school settings and by the scarcity of studies that assess across-site measurement invariance. Addressing these gaps, our study included remote home-based assessments of EF for 1002 children (Mage = 5.19 years, SD = 0.51; 49% male) from England, Hong…
Parental Strategies for Managing Externalizing and Internalizing Behaviors in Young Children: A Comparison Across Two Countries
Across cultures, how parents manage children’s problem behaviors shapes the environment for children’s development. Our study addressed the existing lack of cross-cultural comparison on parents’ strategies for addressing young children’s externalizing and internalizing-type behaviors. A total of 104 parents of preschool-aged children from the United States ( n = 50, M age = 36.24) and China ( n = 54, M age = 35.68) participated in a semi-structur…
Assessing school readiness domains in a large cohort of refugee children: Validation and links with family factors
Despite the growing global presence of refugee populations, few validated tools exist to assess early learning and development in these contexts. This study examined the use of the International Development and Early Learning Assessment (IDELA) with a large sample of 1033 refugee children aged 4–6 years living in Malaysia, a non-resettlement, low- to middle-income country. Using Rasch modelling, we evaluated the psychometric properties of IDELA a…
Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (5 works) · Developmental psychology (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Attachment and Relationship Dynamics (3 works) · China (3 works) · Early Childhood Education and Development (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works) · Political science (2 works) · Social Psychology (2 works) · 2019-20 coronavirus outbreak (1 works)