Graduate Student Theses and Dissertations
Jie Li
Master’s thesis: “A Person-Centered Analysis of Triadic Acculturation Gaps in Chinese Immigrant Families.”
Emilie Longtin
Master’s thesis: “Walking Alongside Refugees: The Strengths and Challenges of Canadian Private Sponsorship“
Drexler Ortiz
Master’s thesis: “The Religious Identity of Filipinx Canadian Immigrants: Religious Expressions, Development, and Enculturation/Acculturation”
Cindy Quan
Master’s thesis: “The Immigrant Sibling: An Exploration of Acculturation and Enculturation Profiles”
Dr. Vivien So
Dissertation: “Chinese Canadian Young Adults’ Experiences on Parenting Monitoring”
Master’s thesis: “Exploring mismatches between adolescent perceptions and ideals of parenting in a Chinese Canadian population: Cross-cultural and cultural perspectives”
Dr. Joelle Taknint
Dissertation: “Discrimination, Identity, and Psychological Distress: An Investigation of Adult Immigrants’ Social Identity Management in Identity Threatening Contexts”
Master’s thesis: “Predicting Relations between Discrimination and Identity among Chinese Canadian Immigrants: A Lifespan Approach”
Dr. Sheena Miao
Dissertation: “Longitudinal Effects of Congruence and Incongruence between Ideal and Actual Functioning on Chinese Immigrants’ Psychological Adjustment”
Master’s thesis: “Predictors of Parental Psychological Control in Immigrant Chinese Canadian Families: Universal and Acculturation Stressors“
Dr. Josephine Hua
Dissertation: “Language Brokering Frequency, Feelings and Autonomy Support: Disentangling the Language Brokering Experience within Chinese Immigrant Families”
Master’s thesis: “Predicting Relations between Child Language Brokering and Psychological Adjustment within Immigrant Chinese Families“
Dr. Lauren Chance
Dissertation: “Beyond Somatization: Values Acculturation and the Conceptualization of Mental Health among Immigrant Chinese Canadian Families”
Master’s thesis: “How are mismatched parent-adolescent autonomy beliefs related to psychological adjustment and parenting self-efficacy among immigrant Chinese Canadian families?”
Dr. Celine Koryzma
Dissertation: “Positive parenting and psychological adjustment among Canadian and Chinese emerging adults: The mediation role of emotion regulation.“
Master’s thesis: “The relations among acculturation, parenting, and depressive symptoms for immigrant Chinese mothers and fathers“
Dr. Tina Su
Dissertation “The Socialization of ethnic identity among Chinese adolescents of immigrants: An evaluation of the predictors of parental enculturation and adolescents’ ethnic identity“
Master’s Thesis “Parenting and children’s ethnic identity development”
Dr. Daphne Dokis
Dissertation: “Antecedents of parenting efficacy among Chinese immigrant parents in Canada“
Master’s Thesis: “Ethnic identity and acculturation among Chinese Canadians”
Undergraduate Honour’s Students
Cheiyenne Fontanilla
“Understanding Ethnic Identity and Colonial Mentality Among Filipino Canadian Adolescents“
Nicole Shisko
“Seeking advice from parental figures in early adulthood”
Anmol Swaich
“South Asian Canadian young adults’ culture and sexual health”
Madeleine Wong
“Acculturation and enculturation differences between marital-dyads and parent-child dyads: Resources or risk?”
Andres Montiel
“No man is an island: Conformity to traditional masculine norms and young men’s mental and relational health and well-being”
Buse Bedir
“Relationship between language and Parent-Child Relationship Quality in Immigrant Chinese Families”
Emilie Longtin
“Intergenerational Conflict in Chinese Canadian Immigrant Families: Relations with Adolescent Well-Being”
Jennifer King
“Does Chinese Media Preference Moderate Relations between the Division of Labour and Support Marriage Satisfaction among Chinese Immigrant Mothers in Canada?”
Jas Johal
“Goals for Acculturation in Immigrant Chinese Families.”
Megan Haney
“Social media as a moderator between distal and proximal eating disorder risk factors”
Diane Teixeira
“Understanding adolescent parenting in a cultural context: An intercultural comparison study”
Kerry Hinds
“Rules of engagement: An investigation of conflict processes in immigrant Chinese families”
Heather Scott
“Immigrant Chinese families: Do children endorse their parents’ cultural values?”
Emma Climie
“Do parental expectations moderate academic achievement and self-esteem?”