Shanting Chen

Biographic Data

ID3583122
NAMEShanting Chen
GIVEN NAMESShanting
FAMILY NAMEChen
SIGNATURECHEN S
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Florida
ORCID0000-0003-3390-2513
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS38
TOTAL CITATIONS74
WORKS AS AUTHOR38
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2018
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX6

  • Violence exposure across the life-course and allostatic load

    Open AccessAriana Burga, Shanting ChenARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2026

    Exposure to violence is a major public health concern whose physiological consequences accumulate across the life-course in ways that are not yet fully understood. Although violence exposure has been linked to elevated allostatic load markers (AL), no study has directly compared whether developmental timing, cumulative burden or recency of exposure most strongly drives this relationship, nor whether adolescent social connectedness operates throug…

  • Discrimination and Vaping Among Black and Hispanic Young Adults

    Olanrewaju L Lawal, Shanting Chen et al.ARTICLESubstance Use & Misuse2026

    Background Discrimination is a salient psychosocial stressor linked to both mental health challenges and substance use among racially minoritized populations. However, few studies have examined how perceived discrimination contributes to vaping device use and whether depressive symptoms and familial-like support shape this relationship. The present study tested a moderated mediation model in which depressive symptoms mediate the relationship betw…

  • Child maltreatment and young adult depressive symptoms and metabolic risk

    Open AccessYongyong Xu, Shanting ChenARTICLEJournal of Research on Adolescence2026

    Child maltreatment is a significant risk factor for mental and metabolic health, with negative effects that can persist into adulthood. Using data from a U.S.-nationwide study, the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health), this study examined the associations between child maltreatment, specifically childhood threat (i.e., harm or threat of harm) and deprivation (i.e., absence of expected environmental inputs), and y…

  • Peer discrimination and diurnal cortisol output in a rural boarding school in China

    Yijie Wang, Youchuan Zhang et al.ARTICLEDevelopmental Psychology2026

    Adolescents' experiences of discrimination and their health consequences are understudied in non-Western cultures. Using data from 90 rural Chinese adolescents ( M age = 13.70; 49% female), this study examined cumulative and daily experiences of peer discrimination (based on socioeconomic status, gender, parental migration status, appearance, grades) and their associations with diurnal cortisol output. Data highlighted a high prevalence of peer d…

  • Teacher unfairness in adolescence, educational attainment, and adult Health

    Open AccessShanting Chen, Stephanie Koning et al.ARTICLESSM - Population Health2025

    Teacher unfairness in adolescence predicted higher depression.•Greater perceived teacher unfairness relative to peers predicted higher depression.•School-wide teacher unfairness predicted poorer self-rated health in adulthood.•Educational attainment mediates the link of teacher unfairness and adult health

  • The association of depressive symptoms and telomere length among Mexican‐origin youth

    Open AccessWen, Shanting Chen et al.ARTICLEJournal of Research on Adolescence2025References: 4

    Telomere length is an important indicator of aging and related diseases. Identifying risk and protective factors for telomere shortening early in life among youth from Mexican immigrant families is critical for reducing ethnic health disparities. This study investigates how familial environmental factors (i.e., culture-general and culture-specific parenting and parentification experiences) shape individual differences in the association between d…

  • Are parents as great as they think they are? A longitudinal study of parent–child perceived parenting discrepancies on adolescent depressive symptoms in U.S. families of Chinese origin

    Open AccessWen, Cindy J Huang et al.ARTICLEJournal of Research on Adolescence2025Cited by: 1References: 8

    A developmental perspective is needed to reveal the long-lasting influence of perceived parenting discrepancies on youth depressive symptoms from early adolescence to emerging adulthood. This is particularly important for U.S. families of Chinese origin, an understudied U.S. population in research on perceived parenting discrepancies. The current study used an 8-year longitudinal dataset of 444 youth (M wave1.age = 13.51, SD = 0.64; 54% girls) an…

  • Stress Spillover Among Mother-Adolescent Dyads in Mexican Immigrant Families

    Open AccessWen, Adriana Galván et al.ARTICLEJournal of Youth and Adolescence2025References: 43

    Mothers and adolescent children in Mexican immigrant families may encounter various sociocultural stressors, which may spill over into family interactions and impede each other’s internalizing symptoms based on the Family Systems Theory. Empirical evidence is needed to identify the sensitive developmental age when mothers and adolescents are most vulnerable to each other’s stressors, addressing gaps in understanding which types of sociocultural s…

  • Neighborhood Disadvantage, Parenting, and Adolescent Internalizing Symptoms in Mexican-Origin Families

    Open AccessYayu Du, Wen et al.ARTICLEJournal of Youth and Adolescence2025References: 53

  • Cultural stress, parenting practices, and mental health among Mexican-origin mothers and adolescents

    Open AccessJinjin Yan, Tiffiny Sakahara et al.ARTICLEDevelopmental Psychology2025

    Extensive research on the Family Stress Model demonstrated the negative indirect impacts of parental cultural stress on adolescents' mental health via disrupted parenting. However, limited attention has been paid to testing how adolescents' cultural stress could affect parents' mental health through adolescent-reported parenting. According to Family Systems Theory, the family serves as an interdependent system, suggesting that adolescents' cultur…

  • Survival Analysis and Socio-Cognitive Factors in the Timing of Covid-19 Vaccination Among Mexican-Origin Youth

    Open AccessY Kim, Su Yeong Kim et al.ARTICLEJournal of Racial and Ethnic…2025References: 28

  • Peer-based discrimination and adolescent emotional and sleep health

    Open AccessShanting Chen, Aprile D Benner et al.ARTICLEChild Development2024

    Using 10-day daily diary data collected in 2019 from 10th grade students in southern U.S. (N = 161, 57% Latina/x/o, 21% Biracial, 10% Asian, 9% White, 4% Black; 55% female, Mage = 15.51), this study examined various forms of peer-based discrimination in adolescents’ everyday lives. Results showed that personally experienced discrimination, peer racial teasing, and vicarious discrimination were frequent and impactful events. Results also provided …

  • “Some people will tell jokes to you; some people be racist

    Open AccessAprile D Benner, Francheska Alers-Rojas et al.ARTICLEChild Development2024

    This study examined how adolescents make meaning of racist jokes and their impact on daily well-being using a sequential mixed-methods research design with interview (N = 20; 60% girls, 5% gender-nonconforming; 45% Asian American, 40% Latina/o/x, 10% Black, 5% biracial/multiethnic) and daily diary data (N = 168; 54% girls; 57% Latina/o/x, 21% biracial/multiethnic, 10% Asian American, 9% White, 4% Black). Qualitative results revealed that racist j…

  • Daily and ethnic discriminatory experiences and cognitive control in Mexican-origin bilingual language brokers

    Su Yeong Kim, Jinjin Yan et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2024

    Few studies have considered bilingualism’s impact on cognitive development within the sociolinguistic and cultural context of the immigrant communities where bilingualism is commonly practiced. In the United States, many Mexican-origin bilingual youth practice their bilingual skills by brokering (i.e. translating/interpreting between languages) for their immigrant parents who have low English proficiency. Meanwhile, these youth may also experienc…

  • Sociocultural Antecedents and Mechanisms of Covid-19 Vaccine Uptake among Mexican-Origin Youth

    Su Yeong Kim, Wen et al.ARTICLEBehavioral Medicine2024

    Mexican-origin youth, as a large and growing population among U.S. youth, have been disproportionately affected by COVID-19. Understanding what, when, and how sociocultural factors may influence their COVID-19 vaccine uptake could inform current and future pandemic-response interventions promoting vaccination behaviors among Mexican-origin youth. The current study takes a developmental approach to reveal the long-term and short-term sociocultural…

  • Violence victimisation and young adult cardiometabolic health

    Open AccessStephanie Koning, Jacob E Aronoff et al.ARTICLEAnnals of Human Biology2024

    In sum, adolescent exposure to direct interpersonal violence significantly affects young adult cardiometabolic health in ways suggesting adolescence is a sensitive period for the onset of harmful cardiometabolic effects in early adulthood. Findings warrant future study of underlying pathways and how these effects shape social inequities in cardiometabolic health among U.S. adults broadly

  • The Potential for Using a Shortened Version of the Everyday Discrimination Scale in Population Research with Young Adults

    Open AccessAprile D Benner, Shanting Chen et al.ARTICLESociological Methods & Research2024Cited by: 2References: 38

    Discrimination is associated with numerous psychological health outcomes over the life course. The nine-item Everyday Discrimination Scale (EDS) is one of the most widely used measures of discrimination; however, this nine-item measure may not be feasible in large-scale population health surveys where a shortened discrimination measure would be advantageous. The current study examined the construct validity of a combined two-item discrimination m…

  • Perceived Parenting Discrepancy Profiles, Feelings about Language Brokering, and Internalizing Symptoms among Mexican-origin Adolescents in Immigrant Families

    Open AccessWen, Lorraine Scott et al.ARTICLEJournal of Youth and Adolescence2023Cited by: 1References: 26

  • Mother-Adolescent Perceived Parenting Profiles and Mexican-origin Adolescents’ Academic Performance

    Open AccessWen, Shanting Chen et al.ARTICLEJournal of Youth and Adolescence2023Cited by: 4References: 43

  • Change patterns of mother–adolescent perceived parenting and the corresponding trajectories in their internalizing symptoms

    Open AccessWen, Lester Sims et al.ARTICLEDevelopmental Psychology2023Cited by: 3References: 5

    Adolescence is a challenging and sensitive developmental period in which mothers and adolescents may be vulnerable to internalizing symptoms. The current study aimed to understand how patterns of changes in mother-adolescent perceived parenting (i.e., mother-adolescent perceived parenting transition profiles) corresponded with trajectories of mothers' and adolescents' internalizing symptoms from early to late adolescence. The current study utiliz…

  • Cultural stressors, internalizing symptoms, and parent–child alienation among Mexican‐origin adolescents

    Open AccessWen Wen, Shanting Chen et al.ARTICLEFamily Relations2022

  • Mexican-origin youths’ language brokering for fathers and mothers

    Open AccessSu Yeong Kim, Wen Wen et al.ARTICLEChild Development2022

    This study examined the associations of language brokering stress intensity and exposure with Mexican-origin youths’ cortisol responses when brokering for fathers and mothers, and the moderating role of youths’ brokering efficacy in these relations. Participants were 289 adolescents (Mage = 17.38, SD = .94, 52% girls) in immigrant families. When brokering for mothers, stress exposure was related to flatter (less healthy) same-day diurnal slopes i…

  • Measurement considerations in the link between racial/ethnic discrimination and adolescent well-being

    Open AccessAprile D Benner, Yijie Wang et al.ARTICLEDevelopmental Review2022

  • Invisibly Oppressed

    Open AccessShanting Chen, Wei Wei et al.ARTICLEJournal of Research on Adolescence2022References: 17

    Despite being portrayed as model minorities, Chinese American adolescents still face challenges of discrimination. Using data from 444 Chinese American adolescents (M age = 13.04, 54% female), this study examined the independent and joint influence of individual cultural characteristics (adolescents' acculturation and enculturation) and contextual factors (parental discrimination experiences, neighborhood disadvantage, and ethnic concentration) o…

  • Reconsidering the “Acculturation Gap”

    Open AccessJinjin Yan, Lester Sims et al.ARTICLEJournal of Youth and Adolescence2022Cited by: 3References: 46