Hwajin Yang
Biographic Data
| ID | 4266596 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hwajin Yang |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hwajin |
| FAMILY NAME | Yang |
| SIGNATURE | YANG H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Singapore Management University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0762-7194 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Investigating the bidirectional association between executive functions and well-being in middle-aged and older adults: A cross-lagged modeling approach
Neuroticism predicts constructive conflict resolution styles in conscientious individuals: Evidence from self-reports and observer ratings
Bilingual profiles differentially predict executive functions during early childhood: A latent profile analysis
Recent studies suggest that heterogeneous bilingual experiences implicate different executive functions (EF) in children. Using a latent profile analysis, we conducted a more nuanced investigation of multifaceted bilingual experiences. By concurrently considering numerous bilingual indicators – age of L1 and L2 acquisition, interactional contexts of verbal exchanges, L1 and L2 proficiency, balance of language use at home and school, and receptive…
Smartphone-use profiles and cognitive and socioemotional outcomes in middle-aged and older adults: A latent profile analysis
Leveraging Instagram to enhance self-esteem: A self-affirmative intervention study and multilevel mediation analysis
Social anxiety and emotion regulation flexibility: A daily diary approach
Previous research suggests that social anxiety symptoms are maintained and intensified by inflexible emotion regulation (ER). Therefore, we examined whether trait-level social anxiety moderates ER flexibility operationalised at both between-person (covariation between variability in emotional intensity and variability in strategy use across occasions) and within-person (associations between emotional intensity and strategy use on a given day) lev…
Nuanced relationships between indices of smartphone use and psychological distress: Distinguishing problematic smartphone use, phone checking, and screen time
Recent theoretical and empirical accounts maintain that different indices of smartphone use—including problematic smartphone use, phone-checking, and screen time—tap distinct facets of smartphone use. This highlights the importance of disentangling potentially unique associations between facets of smartphone use and psychological distress outcomes. The present study examined fine-grained relationships between several smartphone-use indices and fa…
Multidimensional predictors of adolescents’ nonacademic digital media use in the United States: Insights from a bioecological perspective
Using the revised bioecological model, we examined whether three broad factors predict adolescents' nonacademic media use, with the exception of TV: (a) process factors that highlight a child's fundamental and proximal interactional activities (e.g., eating meals together); (b) person factors (e.g., age, sex, ethnicity); and (c) contextual factors that delineate a child's immediate physical and social environments (such as family, school, and com…
Bilingual interactional contexts predict executive functions in older adults
Drawing on the adaptive control hypothesis, we examined whether older adults’ bilingual interactional contexts of conversational exchanges would predict important indices of executive functions (EF). We assessed participants’ engagement in each bilingual interactional context – single-language, dual-language, and dense code-switching – and their performance on a series of nonverbal EF measures. Sixty-nine healthy older adults (M age = 70.39 years…
Disentangling the effects of smartphone screen time, checking frequency, and problematic use on executive function: A structural equation modelling analysis
To switch or not to switch? Individual differences in executive function and emotion regulation flexibility
Emotion regulation (ER) constitutes strategies that modulate the experience and expression of emotions. While past work has predominantly assumed that ER strategies are consistently adaptive (or maladaptive) across situations, recent research has begun to examine individual-difference factors that are associated with the flexible use of ER strategies in line with contextual demands (i.e., ER flexibility). Theoretical accounts maintain that the ch…
Code-Switching patterns differentially shape cognitive control: Testing the predictions of the adaptive control hypothesis
Bilinguals engage in qualitatively different code-switching patterns (alternation, insertion, and congruent lexicalization) to different degrees, according to their engagement in different types of interactional contexts (single-language context, dual-language context, and dense code-switching context). Drawing on the adaptive control hypothesis, we examined whether bilinguals’ code-switching patterns would differentially shape multiple aspects o…
Multidimensional Profiles of Addictive Smartphone Use: A Latent Profile Analysis
Given that crucial psychological attributes of smartphone addiction have been studied in isolation from each other, we examined latent profiles of emotional distress (depression, stress, loneliness, and fear of missing out; i.e., FoMO); protective traits (self-control, mindfulness, grit); the behavioral inhibition system (BIS) and approach system (BAS; drive, reward responsiveness, and fun seeking) in relation to addictive smartphone use. We iden…
Inconsistent Media Mediation and Problematic Smartphone Use in Preschoolers: Maternal Conflict Resolution Styles as Moderators
Previous studies suggest that inconsistent parenting leads to undesired consequences, such as a child's defiant reactance or parent-child conflicts. In light of this, we examined whether mothers' inconsistent smartphone mediation strategies would influence their children's problematic smartphone use during early childhood. Furthermore, given that harsh parenting often escalates a child's behavioral problems, we focused on parent-child conflict re…
Executive functions predict the trajectories of rumination in middle-aged and older adults: A latent growth curve analysis
Previous studies suggest that executive functions (EF)-a set of domain-general cognitive control processes that contribute to the regulation of emotion-are generally associated with ruminative tendencies. However, there is a dearth of research that examines how EF influences changes in rumination over time, especially in middle-aged and older adults who typically experience a decline in EF. To fill this gap in the literature, we analyzed a large-…
Socializing Targets of Older Adults' SNS Use: Social Strain Mediates the Relations Between Older Adults' SNS Use With Friends and Well-Being Outcomes
Studies have yielded mixed findings regarding the relation between older adults' social networking site (SNS) use and well-being. Drawing on socioemotional selectivity theory, we sought to examine whether older adults' SNS use with different socializing targets (i.e., family vs friends) would differentially predict global, social, and mental well-being outcomes indexed by life satisfaction, loneliness, and depressive symptoms, respectively. Furth…
Mental disengagement mediates the effect of rumination on smartphone use: A latent growth curve analysis
Smartphone Addiction and Checking Behaviors Predict Aggression: A Structural Equation Modeling Approach
Despite the potential risks of excessive smartphone use for maladaptive outcomes, the link between smartphone use and aggression remains less understood. Furthermore, prior findings are inconclusive due to a narrow focus on limited aspects of smartphone use (e.g., screen time) and reliance on self-reported assessments of smartphone use. Therefore, using objective measures of smartphone use, we sought to examine the associations between several ke…
Social media use improves executive functions in middle-aged and older adults: A structural equation modeling analysis
Testing theoretical assumptions underlying the relation between anxiety, mind wandering, and task-switching: A diffusion model analysis
Despite the well-documented negative effects of anxiety on task-switching (switch costs), few studies have directly tested major theoretical assumptions about (a) the specific processing component of task-switching that is impaired by anxiety, (b) anxious individuals' strategies during task-switching, and (c) the mediating role of mind wandering in the relation between anxiety and task-switching. We addressed these issues using a stochastic diffu…
Effects of Social Media and Smartphone Use on Body Esteem in Female Adolescents: Testing a Cognitive and Affective Model
We examined the predictive relations of social media and smartphone use to body esteem in female adolescents and the mechanism that underlies these relations. As a result of frequent social media and smartphone use, adolescents are continually exposed to appearance-related media content. This likely reinforces a thin ideal and fosters appearance-based comparison and increases fear of external evaluation. Hence, we investigated a cognitive-affecti…
Executive function moderates the effect of reappraisal on life satisfaction: A latent variable analysis
Emotion regulation strategies, such as reappraisal and suppression, have been shown to dissimilarly affect life satisfaction. Specifically, reappraisal is linked to higher life satisfaction, while suppression is associated with lower life satisfaction. Less is known, however, about the potential moderators of these established relations. Given that reappraisal and suppression are contingent, in part, on executive function (EF), which comprises a …
Executive Function and Subjective Well-being in Middle and Late Adulthood
We found that EF in later adulthood facilitates a sense of control over obstacles that interfere with the attainment of goals, which in turn is associated with greater life satisfaction and positive affect. This underscores the role of EF as an increasingly valuable resource that buffers against declines in sense of control and SWB in late adulthood
Disparate bilingual experiences modulate task-switching advantages: A diffusion-model analysis of the effects of interactional context on switch costs
Socializing Targets of Older Adults' SNS Use: Social Strain Mediates the Relations Between Older Adults' SNS Use With Friends and Well-Being Outcomes
Studies have yielded mixed findings regarding the relation between older adults' social networking site (SNS) use and well-being. Drawing on socioemotional selectivity theory, we sought to examine whether older adults' SNS use with different socializing targets (i.e., family vs friends) would differentially predict global, social, and mental well-being outcomes indexed by life satisfaction, loneliness, and depressive symptoms, respectively. Furth…
Executive Function and Subjective Well-being in Middle and Late Adulthood
We found that EF in later adulthood facilitates a sense of control over obstacles that interfere with the attainment of goals, which in turn is associated with greater life satisfaction and positive affect. This underscores the role of EF as an increasingly valuable resource that buffers against declines in sense of control and SWB in late adulthood
Disparate bilingual experiences modulate task-switching advantages: A diffusion-model analysis of the effects of interactional context on switch costs
Executive Function and Subjective Well-being in Middle and Late Adulthood
We found that EF in later adulthood facilitates a sense of control over obstacles that interfere with the attainment of goals, which in turn is associated with greater life satisfaction and positive affect. This underscores the role of EF as an increasingly valuable resource that buffers against declines in sense of control and SWB in late adulthood
Social media use improves executive functions in middle-aged and older adults: A structural equation modeling analysis
Testing theoretical assumptions underlying the relation between anxiety, mind wandering, and task-switching: A diffusion model analysis
Despite the well-documented negative effects of anxiety on task-switching (switch costs), few studies have directly tested major theoretical assumptions about (a) the specific processing component of task-switching that is impaired by anxiety, (b) anxious individuals' strategies during task-switching, and (c) the mediating role of mind wandering in the relation between anxiety and task-switching. We addressed these issues using a stochastic diffu…
Effects of Social Media and Smartphone Use on Body Esteem in Female Adolescents: Testing a Cognitive and Affective Model
We examined the predictive relations of social media and smartphone use to body esteem in female adolescents and the mechanism that underlies these relations. As a result of frequent social media and smartphone use, adolescents are continually exposed to appearance-related media content. This likely reinforces a thin ideal and fosters appearance-based comparison and increases fear of external evaluation. Hence, we investigated a cognitive-affecti…
Executive function moderates the effect of reappraisal on life satisfaction: A latent variable analysis
Emotion regulation strategies, such as reappraisal and suppression, have been shown to dissimilarly affect life satisfaction. Specifically, reappraisal is linked to higher life satisfaction, while suppression is associated with lower life satisfaction. Less is known, however, about the potential moderators of these established relations. Given that reappraisal and suppression are contingent, in part, on executive function (EF), which comprises a …
Mental disengagement mediates the effect of rumination on smartphone use: A latent growth curve analysis
Smartphone Addiction and Checking Behaviors Predict Aggression: A Structural Equation Modeling Approach
Despite the potential risks of excessive smartphone use for maladaptive outcomes, the link between smartphone use and aggression remains less understood. Furthermore, prior findings are inconclusive due to a narrow focus on limited aspects of smartphone use (e.g., screen time) and reliance on self-reported assessments of smartphone use. Therefore, using objective measures of smartphone use, we sought to examine the associations between several ke…
Code-Switching patterns differentially shape cognitive control: Testing the predictions of the adaptive control hypothesis
Bilinguals engage in qualitatively different code-switching patterns (alternation, insertion, and congruent lexicalization) to different degrees, according to their engagement in different types of interactional contexts (single-language context, dual-language context, and dense code-switching context). Drawing on the adaptive control hypothesis, we examined whether bilinguals’ code-switching patterns would differentially shape multiple aspects o…
Multidimensional Profiles of Addictive Smartphone Use: A Latent Profile Analysis
Given that crucial psychological attributes of smartphone addiction have been studied in isolation from each other, we examined latent profiles of emotional distress (depression, stress, loneliness, and fear of missing out; i.e., FoMO); protective traits (self-control, mindfulness, grit); the behavioral inhibition system (BIS) and approach system (BAS; drive, reward responsiveness, and fun seeking) in relation to addictive smartphone use. We iden…
Inconsistent Media Mediation and Problematic Smartphone Use in Preschoolers: Maternal Conflict Resolution Styles as Moderators
Previous studies suggest that inconsistent parenting leads to undesired consequences, such as a child's defiant reactance or parent-child conflicts. In light of this, we examined whether mothers' inconsistent smartphone mediation strategies would influence their children's problematic smartphone use during early childhood. Furthermore, given that harsh parenting often escalates a child's behavioral problems, we focused on parent-child conflict re…
Executive functions predict the trajectories of rumination in middle-aged and older adults: A latent growth curve analysis
Previous studies suggest that executive functions (EF)-a set of domain-general cognitive control processes that contribute to the regulation of emotion-are generally associated with ruminative tendencies. However, there is a dearth of research that examines how EF influences changes in rumination over time, especially in middle-aged and older adults who typically experience a decline in EF. To fill this gap in the literature, we analyzed a large-…
Socializing Targets of Older Adults' SNS Use: Social Strain Mediates the Relations Between Older Adults' SNS Use With Friends and Well-Being Outcomes
Studies have yielded mixed findings regarding the relation between older adults' social networking site (SNS) use and well-being. Drawing on socioemotional selectivity theory, we sought to examine whether older adults' SNS use with different socializing targets (i.e., family vs friends) would differentially predict global, social, and mental well-being outcomes indexed by life satisfaction, loneliness, and depressive symptoms, respectively. Furth…
Bilingual interactional contexts predict executive functions in older adults
Drawing on the adaptive control hypothesis, we examined whether older adults’ bilingual interactional contexts of conversational exchanges would predict important indices of executive functions (EF). We assessed participants’ engagement in each bilingual interactional context – single-language, dual-language, and dense code-switching – and their performance on a series of nonverbal EF measures. Sixty-nine healthy older adults (M age = 70.39 years…
Disentangling the effects of smartphone screen time, checking frequency, and problematic use on executive function: A structural equation modelling analysis
To switch or not to switch? Individual differences in executive function and emotion regulation flexibility
Emotion regulation (ER) constitutes strategies that modulate the experience and expression of emotions. While past work has predominantly assumed that ER strategies are consistently adaptive (or maladaptive) across situations, recent research has begun to examine individual-difference factors that are associated with the flexible use of ER strategies in line with contextual demands (i.e., ER flexibility). Theoretical accounts maintain that the ch…
Bilingual profiles differentially predict executive functions during early childhood: A latent profile analysis
Recent studies suggest that heterogeneous bilingual experiences implicate different executive functions (EF) in children. Using a latent profile analysis, we conducted a more nuanced investigation of multifaceted bilingual experiences. By concurrently considering numerous bilingual indicators – age of L1 and L2 acquisition, interactional contexts of verbal exchanges, L1 and L2 proficiency, balance of language use at home and school, and receptive…
Smartphone-use profiles and cognitive and socioemotional outcomes in middle-aged and older adults: A latent profile analysis
Leveraging Instagram to enhance self-esteem: A self-affirmative intervention study and multilevel mediation analysis
Social anxiety and emotion regulation flexibility: A daily diary approach
Previous research suggests that social anxiety symptoms are maintained and intensified by inflexible emotion regulation (ER). Therefore, we examined whether trait-level social anxiety moderates ER flexibility operationalised at both between-person (covariation between variability in emotional intensity and variability in strategy use across occasions) and within-person (associations between emotional intensity and strategy use on a given day) lev…
Nuanced relationships between indices of smartphone use and psychological distress: Distinguishing problematic smartphone use, phone checking, and screen time
Recent theoretical and empirical accounts maintain that different indices of smartphone use—including problematic smartphone use, phone-checking, and screen time—tap distinct facets of smartphone use. This highlights the importance of disentangling potentially unique associations between facets of smartphone use and psychological distress outcomes. The present study examined fine-grained relationships between several smartphone-use indices and fa…
Multidimensional predictors of adolescents’ nonacademic digital media use in the United States: Insights from a bioecological perspective
Using the revised bioecological model, we examined whether three broad factors predict adolescents' nonacademic media use, with the exception of TV: (a) process factors that highlight a child's fundamental and proximal interactional activities (e.g., eating meals together); (b) person factors (e.g., age, sex, ethnicity); and (c) contextual factors that delineate a child's immediate physical and social environments (such as family, school, and com…
Investigating the bidirectional association between executive functions and well-being in middle-aged and older adults: A cross-lagged modeling approach
Neuroticism predicts constructive conflict resolution styles in conscientious individuals: Evidence from self-reports and observer ratings
Psychology (24 works) · Developmental psychology (20 works) · Social Psychology (16 works) · Cognition (14 works) · Impact of Technology on Adolescents (12 works) · Computer Science (10 works) · Clinical Psychology (9 works) · Structural equation modeling (8 works) · Cognitive psychology (7 works) · Psychiatry (7 works)