Professor Nelson Yeung (楊竣堯教授)                                                                                                      

PhD (University of Houston)                                                                    

Research Assistant Professor


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Biography 

Professor Nelson Yeung joined the Jockey Club School of Public Health and Primary Care at the Chinese University of Hong Kong as Research Assistant Professor in 2016. He received his PhD in Social and Health Psychology at the University of Houston in 2015. 

His research interests are chronic illness prevention and management, mental health promotion, adjustment to traumatic events, men’s health, and development of theory-driven psychosocial interventions. Throughout the years, he has actively engaged in research examining the interplay among psychological processes, individual characteristics, cultural factors, and health outcomes in Asia-Pacific populations. 

He was also a recipient of the American Psychological Association Dissertation Research Award in 2014, the Diversity Fund Graduate Travel Award of the 16th Annual Meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology in 2015, and the Early Career Researcher Award of the International Society of Behavioral Medicine in 2016.

 

Teaching Modules
Undergraduate (Course Coordinator)
  • BSc in Public Health -- PHPC 1022 Lifestyle and Health
  • BSc in Community Health Practice -- CHPR 4012 - Mental Health as a Public Health Issue 
Taught Postgraduate (Course Coordinator)
  • MSc in Public Health -- HPSB5005 - Health Communication
Research interests 
  • Chronic illness prevention and management
  • Mental health promotion
  • Adjustment to traumatic events
  • Men’s health
  • Development of theory-driven psychosocial interventions
Publications
Yeung, N. C. Y., Lu, Q. (in press). Perceived stress as a mediator between social support and posttraumatic growth among Chinese American breast cancer survivors. Cancer Nursing.

Yeung, N.C.Y., Lau, J.T.F., Yu, X., Zhang, J., Xu, Z., Choi, K.C., Zhang, Q., Mak, W.W.S., & Lui, W.W.S. (in press). Media exposure related to the 2008 Sichuan Earthquake predicted probable PTSD among Chinese adolescents in Kunming, China: A longitudinal study. Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy.

Yeung, N.C.Y., Mak, W.W.S., & Cheung, L.K.L. (2016). Sexual identity and its disclosure as moderators between norms of heterosexual self-presentation and well-being among Hong Kong Chinese men. Psychology of Men and Masculinity, 17, 165-176.

Yeung, N.C.Y., Lu, Q., Wong, C.C.Y., & Huynh, H.C. (2016). The roles of needs satisfaction, cognitive appraisals, and coping strategies in promoting posttraumatic growth: A stress and coping perspective. Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy, 8, 284-292.

Lu, Q., Yeung, N.C.Y., You, J., & Dai, J. (2015). Using expressive writing to explore thoughts and beliefs about cancer and treatment among Chinese American immigrant breast cancer survivors. Psycho-Oncology. 

Yeung, N.C.Y., Mak, W.W.S., & Cheung, L.K.L. (2015). Conformity to emotional control masculine norm and psychological well-being among Chinese men in Hong Kong: The mediating role of stress appraisal for expressing tender emotions. Psychology of Men and Masculinity, 16, 304-311.

Yeung, N.C.Y., Lu, Q., & Lin, W. (2014). Specificity may count: Not every aspect of coping self-efficacy is beneficial to quality of life among Chinese cancer survivors in China. International Journal of Behavioral Medicine, 21, 629-637.

Yeung, N.C.Y. & Lu, Q. (2014). Affect as a mediator between self-efficacy and quality of life among Chinese cancer survivors in China. European Journal of Cancer Care, 23, 149-155. 

Yeung, N.C.Y. & Lu, Q. (2014). Affects mediate the association between mental adjustment styles and quality of life among Chinese cancer survivors in China. Journal of Health Psychology, 19, 1420-1429.

Foster, D.W., Young, C. M., Bryan, J.L., Steers, M. L.N., Yeung, N.C.Y., & Prokhorov, A. (2014). Interactions among drinking identity, gender and decisional balance in predicting alcohol use and problems among college students. Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 143, 198-205.

Foster, D.W., Yeung, N. C. Y., & Quist, M. C. (2014). The influence of individualism and drinking identity on alcohol problems. International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction, 12, 747-758.

Foster, D.W., Yeung, N.C.Y., & Neighbors, C. (2014). I think I can’t: Drink refusal self-efficacy as a mediator of the relationship between self-reported drinking identity and alcohol use. Addictive Behaviors, 39, 461-468.

Yeung, N.C.Y., Lau, J.T.F., Yu, X., Chu, Y., Shing, M.M.K., Leung, T.F., Li, C.K., Fok, T.F., & Mak, W.W.S. (2013). Measuring health-related quality of life among childhood cancer patients: Psychometric properties of the Chinese version of the Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory 4.0 (PedsQL) Generic Core Scales. Cancer Nursing, 36, 463-473.

Lau, J.T.F, Yeung, N.C.Y., Yu, X., Zhang, J., Mak, W.W.S., Lui, W.W.S., & Zhang, J. (2013). Psychometric properties of the Chinese version of the revised Post-Traumatic Growth Inventory for Children (PTGI-C-R). Asia-Pacific Journal of Public Health. DOI: 10: 1177/1010539513479967  

Lau, J.T.F, Yeung, N.C.Y. *, Yu, X., Zhang, J., Mak, W.W.S., Lui, W.W.S., & Zhang, J. (2013). Validation of the Chinese version of the revised Impact of Event Scale for Children (CRIES). Comprehensive Psychiatry, 54, 83-90. (*as corresponding author).

Lau, J.T.F., Cheng, Y., Gu, J., Zhou, R., Yu, C., Holroyd, E., & Yeung, N.C.Y. (2012). Suicides in a mega-size factory in China: Poor mental health among young migrant workers in China. Occupational and Environmental Medicine, 69, 526.

Lau, J.T.F, Yeung, N.C.Y., Mui, L.W.H., Tsui, H.Y., & Gu, J. (2011). A simple new method to triangulate self-reported risk behavior data – the Bean Method. Sexually Transmitted Diseases, 38, 788-792.

Lau, J.T.F, Yeung, N.C.Y., Choi, K., Cheng, M.Y.M., Tsui, H.Y., & Griffiths, S. (2010). Factors in association with acceptability of A/H1N1 vaccination during the influenza A/H1N1 pandemic phase in the Hong Kong general population. Vaccine, 28, 4632-4637.

Lau, J.T.F, Yeung, N.C.Y., Choi, K., Cheng, M.Y.M., Tsui, H.Y., & Griffiths, S. (2009). Acceptability of A/H1N1 vaccination during pandemic phase of influenza A/H1N1 in Hong Kong: Population-based cross-sectional survey. British Medical Journal, 339, b4164.

 
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