Shou Chun (Nathan) Chiang, Ph.D.

Research Focus

My research examines daily family and emotion dynamics that shape the development of adolescent psychopathology and substance use. I investigate how risk and resilience factors in the family (e.g., interparental and parent-adolescent interactions) and larger sociocultural contexts (e.g., cultural stress) contribute to youth internalizing problems, suicide risk, and alcohol/drug use. Current research projects include: (1) real-time youth depression and suicidal risk in the family context; (2) the impact of emotion dynamics on adolescent psychopathology and alcohol use; and (3) daily processes of dyadic emotional experiences.

As a quantitative methodologist, I am interested in using advanced methods such as multilevel modeling, structural equation modeling, time-varying effect model, mixture model, and dyadic data analysis for complex data, including daily diary, EMA, and large-scale longitudinal datasets.

Areas of Expertise

• Child and adolescent development
• Social and cultural determinants of health
• Emotion and emotion regulation
• Family relationships
• Quantitative methods

Selected Publications

Chiang, S. C., Ting, S. J., & Yu‐Hsien, S. (2025). Emotional variability and late adolescent suicidal ideation: Buffering role of parent–youth connectedness. Suicide and Life‐threatening Behavior, 55(2), e13146.

Chiang, S. C. (2025). Daily association between parent‐adolescent emotion contagion: The role of parent‐adolescent connectedness. Journal of Research on Adolescence, 35(1), e13038.

Chiang, S. C., Bai, S., & Linden-Carmichael, A. N. (2025). Timing of Adolescent Alcohol Initiation and Mental Health Problems in Adulthood: The Role of Parent-Adolescent Closeness. Psychological Reports, 00332941251358489.

Linden-Carmichael, A. N., Chiang, S.-C., Van Doren, N., & Bhandari, S. (2025). Early-day psychosocial predictors of later-day simultaneous alcohol and cannabis use among college-attending young adults. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 39(3), 278–289. https://doi.org/10.1037/adb0001043 

Chiang, S. C., Rahl, D., Bai, S., & Linden-Carmichael, A. N. (2024). Age-varying association between discrimination, childhood family support, and substance use disorders among Latin American immigrants in the U.S. Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology, 30(4), 917-926.

Chiang, S. C., Bai, S., Mak, H. W., & Fosco, G. M. (2024). Dynamic characteristics of parent–adolescent closeness: Predicting adolescent emotion dysregulation. Family process, 63(4), 2243-2257.