Y Joel Wong
Biographic Data
| ID | 343169 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Y Joel Wong |
| GIVEN NAMES | Y Joel |
| FAMILY NAME | Wong |
| SIGNATURE | WONG Y J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Indiana University Bloomington |
| ORCID | 0009-0006-6502-6537 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 94 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 364 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 94 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
Item response theory: Applications to the psychology of men and masculinities.
If I Can’t Take Care of Myself Then Why Should I Have a Child?” Women’s Lay Beliefs About Mental Health and Unintended Pregnancy
About half of all pregnancies experienced in the U.S. are unintended. Women who have mental health conditions may be more likely to become pregnant unintentionally, yet very little research has examined how they conceptualize their mental health and reproductive decision-making. In this study, 349 women living with a mental health condition responded to an online questionnaire about the intersection of their mental health and a hypothetical unint…
Existential Meaninglessness Scale: Scale Development and Psychometric Properties
Grounded in a tripartite existential meaninglessness model, the authors developed the 18-item Existential Meaninglessness Scale (EMS) to assess one’s concern and anxiety of existential meaninglessness. Across three samples, the EMS’s factor structure and evidence of convergent, criterion-related, and incremental validity, internal consistency, and test–retest reliability were examined. Exploratory factor analyses demonstrated three dimensions of …
Understanding the Determinants of Use of the Australian Guide to Diagnosis of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder: Informing the Review, Development and Dissemination of New National Clinical Practice Gui…
An experimental evaluation of a Black encouragement and empowerment intervention for university students
Cross-Racial Microaffirmations: Concepts and Applications
In contrast to the burgeoning body of work on microaggressions, microaffirmations have been under-theorized, under-researched, and under-emphasized in anti-racist efforts. To address this imbalance, we highlight the relevance of cross-racial microaffirmations (CRMs). CRMs are brief, everyday allyship-based social actions and messages, extending beyond social conventions and occupational requirements, that proximally enhance or protect people of c…
Gratitude in a culturally adapted psychotherapy group and in Chinese culture: Interpretative phenomenological analysis
Clients’ Race/Ethnicity as a Moderator of the Relationship Between the Therapeutic Alliance and Treatment Outcome
Beliefs in Free Will Versus Determinism: Search for Meaning Mediates the Life Scheme–Depressive Symptom Link
A life scheme can be understood as the cognitive representation of individuals’ life events and their goal attainment in the past and future. We conceptualize beliefs in free will and determinism as two life schemes. The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between beliefs in free will and determinism, search for meaning, and depressive symptoms. While belief in free will uniquely and negatively predicted depressive symptoms, det…
The Psychometric Properties of the Chinese Version of the Encouragement Character Strength Scale in Selected Undergraduate Students and Teachers
The Encouragement Character Strength Scale (ECSS) is a self-report measure of encouragement, which refers to a tendency to enjoy and perceive oneself as being accomplished in communicating affirmations to motivate others. Although it is theoretically assumed as an overarching construct consisting of two domain-specific factors (i.e., perceived ability and enjoyment), there is inconclusive evidence regarding the most optimal factor structure of th…
The sum of it all: Meta-analyses and metasyntheses in the psychology of men and masculinities
Pregnancy Decision Making for Women With Mental Health Conditions: The Roles of Distress, Lay Beliefs, and Self-Efficacy
Millions of people face unintended pregnancy each year, including thousands who are living with a mental health disorder, and must decide to terminate the pregnancy, become a parent, or place a child for adoption. While people of various genders, such as nonbinary people and transgender men, also face pregnancy, the current study highlighted the perspectives of women in particular, seeking to understand what unique circumstances may predict their…
A two-way street: Immigrants’ mental health challenges, resilience, and contributions
[He] gave me a 30-minute lecture on how I was a shitty grad student”: Examining how male faculty can eradicate systemic oppression and support women in STEM
Men’s masculinity contingency and social anxiety symptomology in higher education: The moderating role of depressive symptoms
Toward an integrative psychology of masculinities
Psychology of men and masculinities: The journal of big ideas
The intersectional prototypicality model: Understanding the discriminatory experiences of Asian American women and men
Are Asian Americans invisible or hypervisible? Depending on the context, both types of experiences are relevant. The authors present the Intersectional Prototypicality Model (IPM), which provides a nuanced account of Asian Americans’ discriminatory experiences through the intersectional lenses of race and gender. The IPM proposes that the intersection of racial and gender stereotypes influences the extent to which Asian American women and men are…
Please forgive me: ” Asian and Pacific Islander Americans’ suicide notes
Covid-19 racism, anxiety, and racial/ethnic attitudes among Asian American college students
COVID-19 represents a unique psychosocial challenge for Asian Americans, because they have been scapegoated for the virus. Accordingly, this study examined: (a) the types of racism related to COVID-19, particularly scapegoating (verbal blaming, physical shunning), reported by Asian American college students (N = 120); (b) the consequences of COVID-19 racism, particularly mental health (i.e. anxiety symptoms) and attitudes about their race/ethnici…
Covid-19 anti-Asian racism: A tripartite model of collective psychosocial resilience
Anti-Asian racism has spiked since the outbreak of the coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, creating compounded threats to Asian Americans' psychological wellbeing on top of other pandemic stressors (e.g., fears of infection, financial insecurity, or quarantine isolation). COVID-19 anti-Asian racism signifies the relevance of race and racism during public health crises and highlights the importance of examining the psychological impacts of racia…
Examining Nietzsche’s Epigram: Having a Why Helps You Bear Almost Any How
How does having purpose in life help people develop successful routes to achieve their life goals? The authors address this question in the current study by examining the relationships among U.S. college students’ purpose in life, resilience, and pathways thinking, defined as the belief that one can successfully generate plans to achieve one’s life goals. Purpose in life was positively associated with resilience and pathways. Moreover, a mediatio…
Exploring the connections between watching Asian American YouTubers, racial identity, and self-esteem
We explored the relationship between watching Asian American YouTubers and self-esteem among East and Southeast Asian Americans, specifically investigating 3 components of racial identity (i.e., in-group solidarity, satisfaction, and centrality) as mediators. Participants were 409 Asian Americans aged 18 to 34 years who stated that they watch Asian American YouTubers (i.e., users of YouTube who produce and often star in their own videos). Structu…
“I am very proud to be Taiwanese”: Taiwanese internationals’ experience of race, ethnicity, and nationality in the United States
A Phenomenological Study of East Asian International Students’ Experience of Counseling
Covid-19 anti-Asian racism: A tripartite model of collective psychosocial resilience
Anti-Asian racism has spiked since the outbreak of the coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, creating compounded threats to Asian Americans' psychological wellbeing on top of other pandemic stressors (e.g., fears of infection, financial insecurity, or quarantine isolation). COVID-19 anti-Asian racism signifies the relevance of race and racism during public health crises and highlights the importance of examining the psychological impacts of racia…
Asian American male college students' perceptions of people's stereotypes about Asian American men
Indiana University BloomingtonAlthough Asian American men are a heterogeneous group with diverse ethnic andsocioeconomic backgrounds, they are frequently depicted in rigid, stereotypical waysthat assume few differences exist among them. Guided by social identity theory, thepurpose of this study was to examine 158 Asian American male college students perceptions of people s stereotypes about Asian American men. Based on a discovery-oriented explor…
Stressful Experiences of Masculinity Among U.S.-Born and Immigrant Asian American Men
Explaining how stereotypes and norms influence role-identities during reflected appraisal processes, we develop a theory about diverse groups of minority men—the “minority masculinity stress theory”—and apply it to Asian American men. We conceptually integrate hegemonic masculinity, stereotypes, and mental health to examine how Asian American men experience masculinity and how their experiences are uniquely stressful. We analyze elicited text fro…
Content analysis of Psychology of men & masculinity (2000–2008)
Demystifying Men's Emotional Behavior: New Directions and Implications for Counseling and Research
Using a tripartite framework focusing on the causes, modes, and consequences of men’s emotional expression and nonexpression, this article provides a critical review of the theories and research relevant to men’s emotional behavior. It is argued that current conceptualizations of male emotional behavior do not adequately capture its multidimensional nature and would be enriched through integration with theories and research from the science of em…
The Psychology of Encouragement: Theory, Research, and Applications
Despite the frequent use of encouragement in everyday social life, encouragement remains an understudied topic in positive psychology and counseling psychology. To address this gap, this article resolves ambiguity in terminology and synthesizes diverse streams of theorizing and research to propose an integrative psychological science of encouragement. The author offers a definition of encouragement, delineates its conceptual boundaries, and propo…
Perceived masculinity: The potential influence of race, racial essentialist beliefs, and stereotypes
The Racial-Cultural Framework: A Framework for Addressing Suicide-Related Outcomes in Communities of Color
Suicide-related outcomes are a major public health challenge in communities of color in the United States. To address these challenges, this Major Contribution makes theoretical, empirical, and practice-related contributions to scholarship on suicide-related outcomes among people of color. In this article, the authors present a new framework to conceptualize previous suicidology scholarship, address existing literature gaps, and inform counseling…
Development and validation of the African American Men's Gendered Racism Stress Inventory
African American men encounter unique experiences of stereotypes and racism (Hall, 2001; Majors & Billson, 1993). However, to date, conceptualizations and measures of racism-related stress have not adequately accounted for these unique experiences. Furthermore, although theories of masculinity provide useful conceptualizations of the stressful consequences of men’s masculinity experiences, they do not account for the unique gendered racism stress…
The Inventory of Subjective Masculinity Experiences: Development and Psychometric Properties
The purpose of this article is to describe the development of the Inventory of Subjective Masculinity Experiences (ISME) and to provide preliminary evidence for the psychometric properties of this scale. Subjective masculinity experiences are defined as men's subjective experiences of what it means to be a man (e.g., As a man, I need to be strong). Participants (220 men) completed the sentence, “As a man...” 10 times. Participants' open-ended res…
Men's restrictive emotionality: An investigation of associations with other emotion-related constructs, anxiety, and underlying dimensions
Using Kennedy-Moore and Watson’s cognitive-evaluative model of emotional expression and nonexpression, in the current study the authors investigated the relationship between men’s restrictive emotionality and other emotion-related constructs. Among the emotion-related variables represented by the above model, negative attitudes toward emotional expression were found to be most closely associated with men’s restrictive emotionality. In addition, r…
The intersection of race and gender: Asian American men’s experience of discrimination
Multicultural training on American Indian issues: Testing the effectiveness of an intervention to change attitudes toward Native-themed mascots
This study investigated attitudes toward Native-themed mascots in the context of color-blind racial attitudes. Results indicate that higher color-blind racial attitudes are related to lower awareness of the offensiveness of Native-themed mascots. The researchers tested the effectiveness of a training intervention designed to produce attitudinal change among master's level counseling students. Results demonstrate that the training intervention pro…
Perceived racial discrimination on the change of suicide risk among ethnic minorities in the United States
Objective: Suicide ideation and attempts are serious public health concerns in the U.S. Previous studies focus mainly on individual factors that cause suicide and therefore, it is imperative to examine the impact of the environment on the onset of suicide risk. This study explored the effects of perceived race/ethnicity-based discrimination (PD; perceived institutional discrimination and perceived interpersonal discrimination) on the change in su…
The Masculinity Contingency Scale (MCS): Scale development and psychometric properties
Race and gender as moderators of the relationship between the endorsement of traditional masculinity ideology and alexithymia: An intersectional perspective
Using a large (n 1127) racially diverse (Black Americans, 24.3%; Latino/a Americans, 40.7%; and White Americans, 35.0%) dataset from a prior study (Levant, Richmond, et al., 2003), this study examined the role of race and gender as moderators of the relationship between the endorsement of traditional masculinity ideology and alexithymia. While neither race nor gender moderated the relationship between these two variables, the moderating effect of…
Men's tears: Football players' evaluations of crying behavior
Guided by social constructionist and social norms perspectives on masculinity, this study examined male college football players’ evaluations of crying behavior. Using an experimental design, 150 college football players were randomly assigned to four conditions in which they read different vignettes about Jack, a football player who cries after a football game. Participants who read vignettes of Jack tearing up (vs. sobbing) tended to report hig…
Asian Americans’ adherence to Asian values, attributions about depression, and coping strategies
Using Brickman et al.'s (1982) theoretical framework of responsibility attributions, the authors examined the relationships among adherence to Asian values, attributions about the cause of and solution to depression, and preferred coping strategies in a nonclinical sample of Asian Americans. Results of a path analysis (N = 238) indicate that attribution of cause fully mediated the relations between adherence to Asian values and use of coping stra…
Outcomes of a Brief Sexual Health Intervention for Homeless Youth
Homeless youth face various health challenges. The effectiveness of a short intervention to promote sexual health in 572 homeless 16-23-year-olds ( M = 19.467+1.89) was conducted using a quasi-experimental repeated measures design. Data collected at three time points (pre-intervention, immediately post-intervention and follow-up) via laptop computers were analyzed using multivariate general linear mixed models. A significant condition by time int…
Perceived discrimination and academic distress among Latinx college students: A cross-lagged longitudinal investigation
Although the empirical link between experience of racism and academic concerns has been documented, researchers have not used a cross-lagged longitudinal design to disentangle the temporal relations between perceived discrimination and academic outcomes among Latinx college students. It is important to identify whether perceived discrimination predicts greater academic concerns or whether academic concerns predict higher levels of sensitivity to …
A latent profile analysis of Asian American men's and women's adherence to cultural values
The goal of this study was to identify diverse profiles of Asian American women's and men's adherence to values that are salient in Asian cultures (i.e., conformity to norms, family recognition through achievement, emotional self-control, collectivism, and humility). To this end, the authors conducted a latent profile analysis using the 5 subscales of the Asian American Values Scale-Multidimensional in a sample of 214 Asian Americans. The analysi…
Beliefs in Free Will Versus Determinism: Search for Meaning Mediates the Life Scheme–Depressive Symptom Link
A life scheme can be understood as the cognitive representation of individuals’ life events and their goal attainment in the past and future. We conceptualize beliefs in free will and determinism as two life schemes. The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between beliefs in free will and determinism, search for meaning, and depressive symptoms. While belief in free will uniquely and negatively predicted depressive symptoms, det…
Perspectives of Social Justice Activists: Advocating Against Native-Themed Mascots, Nicknames, and Logos
This study investigated perspectives of social justice activists who directly advocate for eliminating Native-themed mascots, nicknames, and logos. Using consensual qualitative research methodology, the research team analyzed transcripts of interviews conducted with 11 social justice activists to generate themes, categories, and domains within the data. The five domains included (a) deleterious impact of Native-themed mascots, nicknames, and logo…
Covid-19 racism, anxiety, and racial/ethnic attitudes among Asian American college students
COVID-19 represents a unique psychosocial challenge for Asian Americans, because they have been scapegoated for the virus. Accordingly, this study examined: (a) the types of racism related to COVID-19, particularly scapegoating (verbal blaming, physical shunning), reported by Asian American college students (N = 120); (b) the consequences of COVID-19 racism, particularly mental health (i.e. anxiety symptoms) and attitudes about their race/ethnici…
Racial/ethnic and gender differences in the antecedents of youth suicide
The findings suggest considerable gender and racial/ethnic heterogeneity in suicide risk factors and highlight the need for more research on suicidal behavior in minority youths, as well as culturally tailored prevention efforts. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved)
Male Restrictive Emotionality and Evaluations of Online Versus Face-to-Face Counseling
The present study investigated men’s perceptions of online versus face-to-face counseling. One hundred ninety-one men with a range of restrictive emotionality and online counseling attitudes reviewed face-to-face or online counseling vignettes using a cognition- or emotion-based thera-peutic approach. Overall, participants ’ evaluations of counseling approaches were similar across modality and theoretical approach. However, men with low as oppose…
Demystifying Men's Emotional Behavior: New Directions and Implications for Counseling and Research
Using a tripartite framework focusing on the causes, modes, and consequences of men’s emotional expression and nonexpression, this article provides a critical review of the theories and research relevant to men’s emotional behavior. It is argued that current conceptualizations of male emotional behavior do not adequately capture its multidimensional nature and would be enriched through integration with theories and research from the science of em…
A Systematic Review of Recent Research on Adolescent Religiosity/Spirituality and Mental Health
A systematic review of associations among religiosity/spirituality and adolescent health attitudes and behaviors
Men's restrictive emotionality: An investigation of associations with other emotion-related constructs, anxiety, and underlying dimensions
Using Kennedy-Moore and Watson’s cognitive-evaluative model of emotional expression and nonexpression, in the current study the authors investigated the relationship between men’s restrictive emotionality and other emotion-related constructs. Among the emotion-related variables represented by the above model, negative attitudes toward emotional expression were found to be most closely associated with men’s restrictive emotionality. In addition, r…
Outcomes of a Brief Sexual Health Intervention for Homeless Youth
Homeless youth face various health challenges. The effectiveness of a short intervention to promote sexual health in 572 homeless 16-23-year-olds ( M = 19.467+1.89) was conducted using a quasi-experimental repeated measures design. Data collected at three time points (pre-intervention, immediately post-intervention and follow-up) via laptop computers were analyzed using multivariate general linear mixed models. A significant condition by time int…
Potential benefits of expressive writing for male college students with varying degrees of restrictive emotionality
This study examined the potential psychosocial benefits of writing about one's best possible emotional connectedness with a romantic partner for male college students with varying levels of restrictive emotionality. One hundred and fifty-eight male college students were randomly assigned to either an experimental or a control writing condition. Experimental participants wrote for 20 minutes each day for three days about how their lives would be d…
Associations Among Asian Americans' Enculturation, Emotional Experiences, and Depressive Symptoms
Using a computer-based text analysis of 218 Asian Americans' writing samples, the authors found that enculturation as well as use of negative emotion and positive emotion words were associated with depressive symptoms. Enculturation was also found to moderate the relation between use of negative emotion words and cognitive-affective depressive symptoms.Utilizando un análisis de texto computerizado de muestras escritas por 218 individuos Asiático-…
Annual review of Asian American Psychology, 2009
The purpose of this study was to provide a systematic and critical review of research articles on Asian American psychology that were published in 2009. A search using PsycINFO led to the identification of 134 articles, and each of these articles were evaluated in terms of its topic areas, research methodology, and findings. The results showed that the articles covered a wide array of topics, including acculturation and enculturation, adoptees, c…
Novice Counselors’ Conceptualizations and Experiences of Therapeutic Relationships
Masculinity socialization in sports: Influence of college football coaches
Men's tears: Football players' evaluations of crying behavior
Guided by social constructionist and social norms perspectives on masculinity, this study examined male college football players’ evaluations of crying behavior. Using an experimental design, 150 college football players were randomly assigned to four conditions in which they read different vignettes about Jack, a football player who cries after a football game. Participants who read vignettes of Jack tearing up (vs. sobbing) tended to report hig…
Content analysis of Psychology of men & masculinity (2000–2008)
Multicultural training on American Indian issues: Testing the effectiveness of an intervention to change attitudes toward Native-themed mascots
This study investigated attitudes toward Native-themed mascots in the context of color-blind racial attitudes. Results indicate that higher color-blind racial attitudes are related to lower awareness of the offensiveness of Native-themed mascots. The researchers tested the effectiveness of a training intervention designed to produce attitudinal change among master's level counseling students. Results demonstrate that the training intervention pro…
Asian Americans’ adherence to Asian values, attributions about depression, and coping strategies
Using Brickman et al.'s (1982) theoretical framework of responsibility attributions, the authors examined the relationships among adherence to Asian values, attributions about the cause of and solution to depression, and preferred coping strategies in a nonclinical sample of Asian Americans. Results of a path analysis (N = 238) indicate that attribution of cause fully mediated the relations between adherence to Asian values and use of coping stra…
An untold story: A qualitative study of Asian American family strengths
The potential impact of violent victimization on somatic symptoms among Asian American adolescents: A national longitudinal study
This study explored the mental health repercussions among Asian American adolescents following experiences of violent victimization. Utilizing a subsample of Asian American adolescents from Waves I and II of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health), this study examined the relationship between violent victimization and somatic symptoms one year later, as well as moderators of this relationship. Results from a hierarchical…
Asian American male college students' perceptions of people's stereotypes about Asian American men
Indiana University BloomingtonAlthough Asian American men are a heterogeneous group with diverse ethnic andsocioeconomic backgrounds, they are frequently depicted in rigid, stereotypical waysthat assume few differences exist among them. Guided by social identity theory, thepurpose of this study was to examine 158 Asian American male college students perceptions of people s stereotypes about Asian American men. Based on a discovery-oriented explor…
A contextual examination of gender role conflict among college football players
This mixed methods study examined the contextual nature of gender role conflict (GRC). Using \na quasi-experimental design, 153 male college football players were randomly assigned to two \ngroups wherein they were instructed to report levels of GRC based on the assigned life domain \n(within the football environment vs. life outside of football). Results indicated that participants \ndid not differ significantly in levels of GRC across life doma…
The Inventory of Subjective Masculinity Experiences: Development and Psychometric Properties
The purpose of this article is to describe the development of the Inventory of Subjective Masculinity Experiences (ISME) and to provide preliminary evidence for the psychometric properties of this scale. Subjective masculinity experiences are defined as men's subjective experiences of what it means to be a man (e.g., As a man, I need to be strong). Participants (220 men) completed the sentence, “As a man...” 10 times. Participants' open-ended res…
Predictors of Asian American Adolescents’ Suicide Attempts: A Latent Class Regression Analysis
Perspectives of Social Justice Activists: Advocating Against Native-Themed Mascots, Nicknames, and Logos
This study investigated perspectives of social justice activists who directly advocate for eliminating Native-themed mascots, nicknames, and logos. Using consensual qualitative research methodology, the research team analyzed transcripts of interviews conducted with 11 social justice activists to generate themes, categories, and domains within the data. The five domains included (a) deleterious impact of Native-themed mascots, nicknames, and logo…
Asian International Students’ Willingness to Seek Counseling: A Mixed-Methods Study
The Subjective Masculinity Stress Scale: Scale development and psychometric properties
This article describes the development and psychometric properties of the Subjective Masculinity Stress Scale (SMSS), which assesses the stress associated with men’s subjective experiences of what it means to be male. Two hundred twenty men from the United States completed the sentence, “As a ma n... ” 10 times, after which they indicated the frequency with which each of the 10 experiences was stressful. Evidence for the internal consistency and …
Race and gender as moderators of the relationship between the endorsement of traditional masculinity ideology and alexithymia: An intersectional perspective
Using a large (n 1127) racially diverse (Black Americans, 24.3%; Latino/a Americans, 40.7%; and White Americans, 35.0%) dataset from a prior study (Levant, Richmond, et al., 2003), this study examined the role of race and gender as moderators of the relationship between the endorsement of traditional masculinity ideology and alexithymia. While neither race nor gender moderated the relationship between these two variables, the moderating effect of…
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