Professor of Developmental Psychology, School of Psychology and Cognitive Science, East China Normal University
Email: yjwang@psy.ecnu.edu.cn
Phone: 021-62238722
Office: Junxiu Building 402, 3663 North Zhongshan Road, Shanghai, China, 200062
Socioemotional development in children and adolescents, developmental psychopathology, maternal depression, bullying and peer victimization
Yiji Wang is a professor of Developmental Psychology at the School of Psychology and Cognitive Science, East China Normal University. Her current research interests center on two topics: 1) how environmental risk factors (e.g. maternal depression, school bullying) affect child and youth development; and 2) the development of internalizing and externalizing problems at various age groups. She has been supported by grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China and the National Social Science Fund of China. Her research was published in top journals, such as Child Development, Developmental Psychology, and Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry.
2015 Ph.D. University of Texas at Austin
2010 Ed.M. Harvard University
2009 M.S. University of Rochester
2005 B.A. Tsinghua University
2022-present Professor, East China Normal University
2018–2021 Associate Professor, East China Normal University
2015-2017 Assistant Professor, East China Normal University
- Wang, Y.* & Liu, Y. (2021). The development of internalizing and externalizing problems in primary school: Contributions of executive function and social competence. Child Development, 92(3), 889-903.
- Wang, Y.,* & Zhou, X. (2021). Maternal involvement in education mediates longitudinal associations between maternal depressive symptoms and child adjustment. Journal of Family Psychology, 35(5), 660-670.
- Wang, Y.* & Zhou, X. (2019). Longitudinal relations between executive function and internalizing problems in grade school: The role of peer difficulty and academic performance. Developmental Psychology, 55 (10), 2147–2158.
- Wang, Y.* & Yan, N. (2019). Trajectories of internalizing and externalizing problems in preschoolers of depressed mothers: Examining gender differences. Journal of Affective Disorders, 257, 551–561.
- Wang, Y.* & Dix, T. (2017). Mothers' depressive symptoms in infancy and children's adjustment in grade school: The role of children's sustained attention and executive function. Developmental Psychology, 53(9), 1666-1679.
- Wang, Y.* & Dix, T. (2017). Mothers' depressive symptoms and children's externalizing behavior: Negative emotionality in the development of hostile attributions. Journal of Family Psychology, 31(2), 214-223.
- Wang, Y., & Dix, T.* (2015). Mothers' early depressive symptoms predict children's low social competence in first grade: mediation by children's social cognition. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 52(2), 183-192.
- Wang. Y., & Dix, T.* (2013). Patterns of depressive parenting: Why they occur and their role in early developmental risk. Journal of Family Psychology, 27(6), 884-895.