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Born in Nanjing china, Weining C. Chang was educated in Taiwan (BA, Law, National Taiwan University) and the United States of America (MA & PhD, Psychology, University of Houston). Her interests in culture and psychology have brought her for further training in Harvard University and the University of Michigan Ann Arbor. Using a blend of anthropological and psychological methodologies, she has conducted research in the conceptualization and assessment of various personality constructs and processes. Her more recent research projects have been in mental health and subjective wellbeing, resilience and achievement motivation and goals.
Education
BA,Law, National Taiwan University
MA, Psychology, University of Houston
Ph.D, Psychology, University of Houston
Research Interests
- Personality and assessment
- Culture, parenting and self-development
- Resilience in the individual and the family
- Achievement and achievement motivation
- Adaptive and maladaptive behaviors in the Asian context
Selected Publications
- Essau, C. A. & Chang, W. C. (in press). Epidemiology, In C. Essau (Ed.). Mental health issues of adolescents, London: Oxford University Press.
- Tong, E. M. W., & Chang, W. C. (2008). Group entity belief: An individual difference construct based on implicit theories of social identities. Journal of Personality, 76(4), 707 – 732.
- Chang, W. C. & Wong, K. (2008). The socially oriented achievement goals of Singaporean Chinese students, International Journal of Psychology, 43(5), 880 – 885.
- Chang, W. C. (2007). Forged in fire: Indigenous resilience factors of Singaporean Chinese and Malays. In Advances in Asian Social Psychology, Vol. IV: The self, relationships, and subjective well-being in Asia: Psychological, social and cultural perspectives, 17-39.
- Chang, W. C. & Lim, L. H., (2007). Resilience and Subjective Wellbeing in an Asian Context: Singapore. Journal of Psychology in the Chinese Societies, 8(1), 47-69.
- Koh, J. B. K., Chang, W. C., Fung, D., Woo, B., & Kee, C. (2007). Conceptualization and manifestation of depression in an Asian context: Formal construction and validation of a children's depression scale in Singapore, Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry, 31, 225-249.
- Chang, W. C., & Sivam, R. (2004). Constant vigilance: Heritage values and defensive pessimism in coping with SARS in Singapore, Asian Journal of Social Psychology: Special Issue on SARS, 7, 35-53.
- Chang, W. C., Wong, W. K., & Koh, J. B. K. (2003). Chinese values in Singapore: Tradition and modern, Asian Journal of Social Psychology, 6(1), 5-29.
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