T X Tan
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 51129 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | T X Tan |
| NOMBRES | T X |
| APELLIDO | Tan |
| FIRMA | TAN T X |
| AFILIACIONES | University of South Florida |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9496-3470 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 52 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 87 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 52 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2004 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
U.S. clinical mental health counselors’ responses to requests for emotional support animal letters
This article focused on how clinical mental health counselors (CMHCs) in the U.S.-handled emotional support animals (ESA) letter requests and whether the assessments used by CMHCs for clinical decision making were related to whether they would decline or agree to write the ESA letter. Following a three-stage approach, we first used polling responses from continuing education participants on issues related to ESAs to identify the needs for researc…
Child-Mother and child-Father Conflict and Closeness in Early Childhood
Young children’s pre-academic and social skills
Our study examined young children’s pre-academic and social skills in relation to parental locus of control and children’s behaviours of ADHD. The participants were parents of 1,502 children from four Chinese kindergartens (Mage = 4.59, SD = 0.93; Girls: 51.40%). Data on six domains of children’s pre-academic and social skills, parental external and internal locus of control, and children’s inattention and hyperactivity/impulsivity were obtained …
Covid ‐19 school closures and Chinese children's school readiness
AIMS: To determine the associations between COVID-19 school closures and school readiness skills for Chinese kindergarteners. DESIGN: We utilized the natural experimental condition created by local COVID-19 outbreaks in 2022 (Study 1) to compare school readiness skills of children whose kindergartens were closed for 5 months (Group 1) with children whose kindergartens stayed open (Group 2). We further compared the school readiness skills of one p…
Child–parent relationship during the Wuhan Covid ‐19 lockdown
Parenting stress in lockdown
Objectives This study examined parenting stress in relation to changes in preschool‐aged children's routines and change in relationship quality between parents and live‐in grandparents caused by the lockdown. Background The Chinese city of Wuhan was the first city in the world to enforce a strict citywide lockdown to curtail the spread of Covid‐19. The 76‐day (1/23–4/8/2020) lockdown affected about 13 million of Wuhan's residents, many of whom we…
Inattention, hyperactivity/impulsivity, and academic competence
Behaviours of inattention presented a risk for academic competence but the effect of behaviours of hyperactivity/impulsivity varied. Implications for instructional strategies for behaviours of inattention were discussed
Comparing Chinese youth with American youth on adjustment
In this article, we used results from two studies to show the need to go beyond linguistic equivalence to establish construct validity and measurement invariance in cross‐cultural research. Study 1 examined Rosenberg Self‐Esteem (RSE; 10 items) data from 156 Mainland Chinese youth ( M = 13.8 years, SD = .53) and 213 Chinese‐American youth ( M = 13.6 years, SD = 2.1) from high socioeconomic status (SES) families. The Chinese translation of the RSE…
Testing Measurement Invariance Across Unobserved Groups
Factor mixture modeling (FMM) has been increasingly used to investigate unobserved population heterogeneity. This study examined the issue of covariate effects with FMM in the context of measurement invariance testing. Specifically, the impact of excluding and misspecifying covariate effects on measurement invariance testing and class enumeration was investigated via Monte Carlo simulations. Data were generated based on FMM models with (1) a zero…
The Neglect of Left-Behind Children in China
The risk of child removal by child protective services among pregnant women in medication-assisted treatment for opioid use disorder
For parenting women with substance use disorders, enrolling in medication-assisted treatment often means being involved with child protective services. This study examines the impact of biopsychosocial factors on treatment outcomes for opioid-dependent pregnant women in methadone treatment, linking these outcomes with removal of a child by child protective services. This study evaluates factors associated with a client’s success in treatment, usi…
The effect of academic performance, individualistic and collectivistic orientation on Chinese youth’s adjustment
In their voices
Female adopted Chinese-American youth’s sense of exclusion and short-and long-term adjustment
2.1) completed the 3rd edition of the Behavioral Assessment System for Children-Self Report of Personality (BASC-3-SRP) that measures School Problems (i.e., negative attitudes toward teacher, negative attitudes toward school, and sensation seeking), Internalizing Problems (i.e., atypicality, locus of control, social stress, anxiety, depression, sense of inadequacy, and somatization), Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD; i.e., inattenti…
Clinical Course and Clinical Features in MDD Patients
Our study focused on childhood emotional neglect and several forms of abuse (i.e., physical, sexual, and emotional) and the diagnosis and clinical courses of disease in Chinese adults with major depressive disorder (MDD), including MDD with anxiety, with suicidality, and with other presentations. MDD and other clinical presentations were determined with the American Psychiatric Association’s (2000) Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Diso…
Is Adoption Equally Beneficial to Different Aspects of Youth's Behavioral Health? Findings From Comparing Adopted Chinese Youth With Non-Adopted American and Chinese Youth
To test whether adoption differentially benefited adopted youth's behavioral health, 243 female American youth who were adopted from China were compared with 234 non-adopted American peers, and 955 non-adopted Chinese peers living in China on four composite scales: School Problems, Internalizing Problems, Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), and Personal Adjustment. The adopted youth were from high socioeconomic status (SES) families,…
Maternal education, home environment and chinese primary school children’s academic performance
This paper reports a follow up analysis of longitudinal date. We (1) examined urban Chinese mothers’ occupations as a function of their educational levels, (2) tested mediating effects of home environment variables after fine-tuning key variables of maternal education and home environment by excluding data that were provided by the children’s fathers, and (3) tested if home environment variables mattered differently for academic performance in th…
Mothers’ feeding profiles among overweight, normal weight and underweight Chinese preschoolers
High family SES and youth adjustment
The impact of social stratification on morbidity during the Covid-19 pandemic
Purpose Socioeconomic status (SES) has been known to be associated with many aspects of social life such as health. We argue that social stratification remains relevant in understanding differentials in health during a pandemic, as countries globally have encouraged or enforced social distancing and remote work measures. Design/methodology/approach By examining data sources and news reports on the COVID-19 pandemic, we aim to highlight the relati…
Linguistic Equivalence, Construct Validity, But Lack Measurement Invariance
In this study, we illustrated issues related to measure invariance in cross-cultural research involving instrument translation between Chinese and English. We translated and back-translated the third edition of the Behavioral Assessment for Children-Self Report of Personality (BASC-3-SRP) and administered it to 1,574 youth in China and 512 youth in the United States. We found that despite a rigorous approach to achieving linguistic equivalence, s…
The effect of increased family finance and dual-parental absence since infancy on Children's cognitive Abilities
Development and Evaluation of the Disinhibited Social Engagement Scale (DSES)
Identity Development in an International Transracial Adoptive Family
Our case study focused on the adoptive identity development of two female Chinese adoptees over the course of five years (from when they were 7 and 9 until they were 12 and 14 years old, respectively). The study investigated the adoptive parent’s and family identities through six interviews with the adoptive mother, adoptees’ behavioral adjustment reported by the mother, two unstructured observations, and exploration of adoptees’ narratives. The …
The relationship between licensed mental health counselors’ political ideology and counseling theory preference
Given the current political climate in the United States, it is ever more important to understand the role political ideology plays in the counseling profession. Our study examined the role of political ideologies in 467 licensed mental health counselors' preferred counseling theories in clinical practice. We found (a) most participants reported liberal political ideologies; (b) the participants preferred cognitive-behavior therapy (CBT), humanis…
Family stress, parenting styles, and behavioral adjustment in preschool-age adopted Chinese girls
Special needs adoption from China
History of Early Neglect and Middle Childhood Social Competence
This comparative study examined whether history of neglect in infancy was associated with middle childhood competence in (1) participation and performance in Extracurricular Activities, (2) quality of Social Relations, and (3) Academic Achievement. The sample included 115 girls aged 6–8 years who were adopted from China before their second birthday by American families. Based on evidence of pre-adoption neglect, the sample was divided into a negl…
Language development of Chinese adoptees 18–35 months old
White Parents' Attitudes Towards Their Adopted Chinese Daughters' Ethnic Identity
This qualitative study of 11 white families with adopted Chinese daughters found that 8 of the 11 white adoptive parents used “Chinese American” to describe their daughters' ethnic identity. Jewish adoptive parents additionally attached “Jewish” to their children's ethnic identity descriptions. Overall, parents reported that their perceptions of their adopted Chinese daughters were influenced by the dominant culture, the adoptive parents' own eth…
Race, Ethnicity, and Gender of Faculty Members in APA- and Cacrep-Accredited Programs
This study examined changes in race, ethnicity, and gender of faculty members in APA- and CACREP-accredited counseling programs over 5 decades based on the year of their degree. Of those faculty members working in accredited programs who graduated in the 1960s/1970s, 26.7% were female, 5.6% were racially diverse, and 1.7% were Latina/o. Of those who graduated 5 decades later, 63% were female, 18% were racially diverse, and 4.9% were Latina/o. Imp…
The effect of increased family finance and dual-parental absence since infancy on Children's cognitive Abilities
Adopted children's country of origin and post-adoption parent–child relationship quality
Impact of Biological Children's Adjustment on Their Siblings Who Were Adopted From China
This study investigated how biological children's adjustment influenced the adjustment of their younger siblings who were adopted from China. It included 40 families with 40 biological children (average age, 7.9 years; SD = 2.3) and 40 adopted Chinese children (average age, 3.5 years; SD = 2.0). Data provided by the adoptive mothers showed that the biological children's average age was 5.3 years (SD = 3.0) when the adopted children arrived. While…
Behavioral Adjustment of Adopted Chinese Girls in Single-Mother, Lesbian-Couple, and Heterosexual-Couple Households
This study compared the behavioral adjustment of girls from families headed by single mothers and lesbian couples with their peers from married heterosexual households. The sample included 93 Chinese girls adopted by the three types of families (31 girls in each type of family). The girls in the three types of families were matched on age at adoption, age at assessment, and number of adoptive siblings. The Child Behavior Checklist was used to mea…
The effect of academic performance, individualistic and collectivistic orientation on Chinese youth’s adjustment
Youth psychiatrically hospitalized for suicidality
Mental health service utilization in children adopted from US foster care, US private agencies and foreign countries
Social skills of adopted Chinese girls at home and in school
Child Adjustment of Single-Parent Adoption from China
A sample of 126 single-mother adoptive families was compared with 415 dual-parent adoptive families on their adopted Chinese daughters' internalizing and externalizing problem behaviors as measured by the Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL) parent report form. The single-mother families included 110 preschool (1.5–5 yrs) and 34 school-aged adoptees (6–11 yrs). The dual-parent families included 378 preschool and 131 school-aged adoptees. No group diff…
The impact of social stratification on morbidity during the Covid-19 pandemic
Purpose Socioeconomic status (SES) has been known to be associated with many aspects of social life such as health. We argue that social stratification remains relevant in understanding differentials in health during a pandemic, as countries globally have encouraged or enforced social distancing and remote work measures. Design/methodology/approach By examining data sources and news reports on the COVID-19 pandemic, we aim to highlight the relati…
Preschool-Age Adopted Chinese Girls’ Behaviors That Were Most Concerning to Their Mothers
Children's behavioral difficulties are a major source of parental concern. The goals of the current study were to (1) describe preschool-age adopted Chinese girls’ behaviors that were most concerning to their adoptive mothers and (2) examine the relation between children's concerning behaviors and parent/child demographics. Qualitative data from 422 mothers on 480 adopted Chinese girls (M = 44.2 months, SD = 15.2) were collected using three seque…
Mothers’ feeding profiles among overweight, normal weight and underweight Chinese preschoolers
Identity Development in an International Transracial Adoptive Family
Our case study focused on the adoptive identity development of two female Chinese adoptees over the course of five years (from when they were 7 and 9 until they were 12 and 14 years old, respectively). The study investigated the adoptive parent’s and family identities through six interviews with the adoptive mother, adoptees’ behavioral adjustment reported by the mother, two unstructured observations, and exploration of adoptees’ narratives. The …
Adopted Chinese girls come of age
White Parents' Attitudes Towards Their Adopted Chinese Daughters' Ethnic Identity
This qualitative study of 11 white families with adopted Chinese daughters found that 8 of the 11 white adoptive parents used “Chinese American” to describe their daughters' ethnic identity. Jewish adoptive parents additionally attached “Jewish” to their children's ethnic identity descriptions. Overall, parents reported that their perceptions of their adopted Chinese daughters were influenced by the dominant culture, the adoptive parents' own eth…
Child Adjustment of Single-Parent Adoption from China
A sample of 126 single-mother adoptive families was compared with 415 dual-parent adoptive families on their adopted Chinese daughters' internalizing and externalizing problem behaviors as measured by the Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL) parent report form. The single-mother families included 110 preschool (1.5–5 yrs) and 34 school-aged adoptees (6–11 yrs). The dual-parent families included 378 preschool and 131 school-aged adoptees. No group diff…
Language development of Chinese adoptees 18–35 months old
History of Early Neglect and Middle Childhood Social Competence
This comparative study examined whether history of neglect in infancy was associated with middle childhood competence in (1) participation and performance in Extracurricular Activities, (2) quality of Social Relations, and (3) Academic Achievement. The sample included 115 girls aged 6–8 years who were adopted from China before their second birthday by American families. Based on evidence of pre-adoption neglect, the sample was divided into a negl…
Special needs adoption from China
Impact of Biological Children's Adjustment on Their Siblings Who Were Adopted From China
This study investigated how biological children's adjustment influenced the adjustment of their younger siblings who were adopted from China. It included 40 families with 40 biological children (average age, 7.9 years; SD = 2.3) and 40 adopted Chinese children (average age, 3.5 years; SD = 2.0). Data provided by the adoptive mothers showed that the biological children's average age was 5.3 years (SD = 3.0) when the adopted children arrived. While…
Behavioral Adjustment of Adopted Chinese Girls in Single-Mother, Lesbian-Couple, and Heterosexual-Couple Households
This study compared the behavioral adjustment of girls from families headed by single mothers and lesbian couples with their peers from married heterosexual households. The sample included 93 Chinese girls adopted by the three types of families (31 girls in each type of family). The girls in the three types of families were matched on age at adoption, age at assessment, and number of adoptive siblings. The Child Behavior Checklist was used to mea…
School-age adopted Chinese girls’ behavioral adjustment, academic performance, and social skills
Longitudinal data on 177 school-age adopted Chinese girls (Time 1: mean age = 8.92 years, SD = 1.76; Time 2: mean age = 11.18 years, SD = 1.79) were analyzed to determine their long-term outcomes in behavioral adjustment, academic performance (measured with the Child Behavior Checklist/6-18), and social skills (measured with the Social Skills Rating System) and how these outcomes were related to preadoption adversity. More than 90% of the girls w…
Preschool-Age Adopted Chinese Girls’ Behaviors That Were Most Concerning to Their Mothers
Children's behavioral difficulties are a major source of parental concern. The goals of the current study were to (1) describe preschool-age adopted Chinese girls’ behaviors that were most concerning to their adoptive mothers and (2) examine the relation between children's concerning behaviors and parent/child demographics. Qualitative data from 422 mothers on 480 adopted Chinese girls (M = 44.2 months, SD = 15.2) were collected using three seque…
Continuity of Parental Behavioural Ratings of Children Adopted from China and Parenting Competence, Confidence and Enjoyment
Mary Beth Bruder, Carl J Dunst, Cristina Mogro-Wilson and Tony Xing Tan used an analytic procedure called structural equation modelling (SEM) to evaluate the effects of adoption and post-adoption child behaviour measures on parents' self-judgements of their parenting competence, confidence and enjoyment. SEM is a statistical procedure for investigating complex relationships among multiple variables simultaneously. The study participants were 314 …
Family stress, parenting styles, and behavioral adjustment in preschool-age adopted Chinese girls
Social skills of adopted Chinese girls at home and in school
Second-first language acquisition
In this study we investigated adopted Chinese girls' expressive English language outcomes in relation to their age at adoption, chronological age, length of exposure to English and developmental risk status at the time of adoption. Vocabulary and phrase utterance data on 318 girls were collected from the adoptive mothers using the Language Development Survey (LDS) (Achenbach & Rescorla, 2000). The girls, aged 18–35 months ( M =26·2 months, SD =4·…
Adopted Chinese girls come of age
Pre-menarche Pubertal Development Following Unique Form of Immigration
Mental health service utilization in children adopted from US foster care, US private agencies and foreign countries
Adopted children's country of origin and post-adoption parent–child relationship quality
Developmental delays at arrival and postmenarcheal Chinese adolescents’ adjustment
Internationally adopted (IA) children often have delays at adoption and undergo massive catch-up after adoption. Before achieving developmental catch-up, however, delays at adoption present a risk for IA children's adjustment, but it remains unknown whether such delays foreshadow IA children's outcomes after catch-up development has completed or ceased. In the current analysis, we utilized menarche as a practical marker to indicate the cessation …
Emotional and Behavioral Disorders in 1.5th Generation, 2nd Generation Immigrant Children, and Foreign Adoptees
Adoption of Black children by White parents in heterosexual and homosexual relationships
We investigated 163 (82.2% female; 73% White; and 91.4% heterosexual) mental health trainees' explicit and implicit attitudes toward heterosexual, lesbian, and gay White couples adopting and raising Black children. Explicit attitudes were assessed with a vignette depicting a Black child in need of a home. Implicit attitudes were assessed with the multifactor implicit association test (IAT) protocol. Explicit data showed that most participants ind…
Youth psychiatrically hospitalized for suicidality
Beyond adoption status
In this study, we went beyond adoption status to examine the associations between postadoption parental involvement and children's reading and math performance from kindergarten to first grade. Secondary data on a sample of adopted children and nonadopted children were drawn from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study-Kindergarten Class of 1998 to 1999 (ECLS-K). Weighted data on the children's reading performance were available for 13,900 childre…
Race, Ethnicity, and Gender of Faculty Members in APA- and Cacrep-Accredited Programs
This study examined changes in race, ethnicity, and gender of faculty members in APA- and CACREP-accredited counseling programs over 5 decades based on the year of their degree. Of those faculty members working in accredited programs who graduated in the 1960s/1970s, 26.7% were female, 5.6% were racially diverse, and 1.7% were Latina/o. Of those who graduated 5 decades later, 63% were female, 18% were racially diverse, and 4.9% were Latina/o. Imp…
Mental Health Trainees' Explicit and Implicit Attitudes Toward Transracial Adoptive Families Headed by Lesbian, Gay, and Heterosexual Couples
We investigated 109 (79.8% female; 76% White, and 83.5% Heterosexual) mental health trainees' explicit and implicit attitudes toward heterosexual, lesbian, and gay White couples adopting and raising Black children. To determine explicit attitudes, we used a vignette depicting a Black child ready for adoption and three types of equally qualified White families who were headed by a heterosexual couple, gay couple, or lesbian couple. The trainees we…
A Multilevel Bifactor Approach to Construct Validation of Mixed-Format Scales
Wording effects associated with positively and negatively worded items have been found in many scales. Such effects may threaten construct validity and introduce systematic bias in the interpretation of results. A variety of models have been applied to address wording effects, such as the correlated uniqueness model and the correlated traits and correlated methods model. This study presents the multilevel bifactor approach to handling wording eff…
Psychology (46 obras) · Developmental psychology (36 obras) · Child Welfare and Adoption (26 obras) · Medicine (23 obras) · Social Psychology (18 obras) · Clinical Psychology (17 obras) · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (16 obras) · Demography (13 obras) · Psychiatry (13 obras) · Social Psychology (13 obras)