Publications

Tue, 05 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

My full publication record is available on Google Scholar and ORCID. Google Scholar currently lists 9,992 citations, an h-index of 46, and an i10-index of 77.

Recent Publications

2026 - Student engagement declines across adolescence: A meta-analysis of longitudinal studies. Review of Education. DOI: 10.1002/rev3.70134.
2026 - Investigating the effects of class average achievement: attending a high-achieving class is neither beneficial for student achievement nor for academic self-concept. Contemporary Educational Psychology. DOI: 10.1016/j.cedpsych.2025.102441.
2026 - Mapping the intellectual landscape of educational psychology: Citation rankings and network structures of 60 journals, scholars, and institutions. Learning and Individual Differences. DOI: 10.1016/j.lindif.2025.102816.
2026 - Predictive modelling of Australian school principals’ turnover intentions using machine learning with random effects. Discover Computing. DOI: 10.1007/s10791-025-09838-1.
2026 - Shaping the socio-emotional landscape: Advances, mechanisms, and contexts in learning and individual differences. Learning and Individual Differences. DOI: 10.1016/j.lindif.2025.102844.
2025 - Basic Psychological Needs Under Constrained Autonomy: A Substantive–Methodological Reflection and Analysis of School Leaders’ Needs from a Self-Determination Theory Perspective. Educational Psychology Review. DOI: 10.1007/s10648-025-10079-3.
2025 - Implicit measure of growth mindset: reducing social desirability bias and linking to academic performance. Social Psychology of Education. DOI: 10.1007/s11218-025-10125-6.
2025 - A Cultural Explanation of Motivation-Achievement Paradox in Math. Educational Researcher. DOI: 10.3102/0013189x251370677.
2025 - The Reciprocal Effects Model is Robust to Alternative Modeling Specifications: A Response to Sorjonen et al., 2025. Educational Psychology Review. DOI: 10.1007/s10648-025-10059-7.
2025 - How does university students’ academic major (STEM vs. non-STEM) affect their acceptance of e-learning: a multi-group analysis. International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education. DOI: 10.1186/s41239-025-00543-z.
2025 - Which social-emotional skills are most important for students’ learning and well-being? An international comparison among China, USA and Finland. Learning and Individual Differences. DOI: 10.1016/j.lindif.2025.102703.
2025 - Emotionally and Cognitively Drained: Longitudinal Associations Between Cognitive Emotion Regulation and Parental Burnout From Between- and Within-Person Perspectives. Stress and Health. DOI: 10.1002/smi.70053.
2025 - Towards Better Social and Emotional Learning: The Way Forward. Advancing Inclusive and Special Education in the Asia-Pacific. DOI: 10.1007/978-981-96-5202-0_16.
2024 - Harnessing Artificial Intelligence in Generative Content for enhancing motivation in learning. Learning and Individual Differences. DOI: 10.1016/j.lindif.2024.102547.
2024 - Applying machine learning to understand the role of social–emotional skills on subjective well-being and physical health. Applied Psychology: Health and Well-Being. DOI: 10.1111/aphw.12624.
2024 - Gritty Parenting: The Development and Validation of the Parental Grit Scale. Assessment. DOI: 10.1177/10731911241289242.
2024 - Cracking chicken-egg conundrums: Juxtaposing contemporaneous and lagged reciprocal effects models of academic self-concept and achievement’s directional ordering. Educational Psychology Review. DOI: 10.1007/s10648-024-09887-w.
2024 - Cross-Cultural Patterns of Gender Differences in STEM: Gender Stratification, Gender Equality and Gender-Equality Paradoxes. Educational Psychology Review. DOI: 10.1007/s10648-024-09872-3.

Highly Cited Work on Google Scholar

Classroom climate and children’s academic and psychological wellbeing: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Developmental Review 57, 100912, 2020. 798 citations.
The murky distinction between self-concept and self-efficacy: Beware of lurking jingle-jangle fallacies. Journal of educational psychology 111 (2), 331, 2019. 699 citations.
Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA), exploratory structural equation modeling (ESEM), and set-ESEM: Optimal balance between goodness of fit and parsimony. Multivariate behavioral research 55 (1), 102-119, 2020. 574 citations.
Building grit: The longitudinal pathways between mindset, commitment, grit, and academic outcomes. Journal of youth and adolescence 48 (5), 850-863, 2019. 503 citations.
Achievement, Motivation, and Educational Choices: A Longitudinal Study of Expectancy and Value Using a Multiplicative Perspective. Developmental Psychology 51 (8), 1163–1176, 2015. 484 citations.
Parental ethnic–racial socialization practices and the construction of children of color’s ethnic–racial identity: A research synthesis and meta-analysis. Psychological bulletin 145 (5), 437, 2019. 424 citations.
Parental ethnic-racial socialization practices and children of color’s psychosocial and behavioral adjustment: A systematic review and meta-analysis. American Psychologist 75 (1), 1, 2020. 413 citations.
Job satisfaction of teachers and their principals in relation to climate and student achievement. Journal of educational psychology 112 (5), 1061, 2020. 369 citations.
Expectancy-value in mathematics, gender and socioeconomic background as predictors of achievement and aspirations: A multi-cohort study. Learning and individual differences 37, 161-168, 2015. 367 citations.
An integrated model of academic self-concept development: Academic self-concept, grades, test scores, and tracking over 6 years. Developmental psychology 54 (2), 263, 2018. 362 citations.
What to do When Scalar Invariance Fails: The Extended Alignment Method for Multi-Group Factor Analysis Comparison of Latent Means Across Many Groups. Psychological Methods 21 (4), 1-22, 2017. 362 citations.
Mindfulness and its association with varied types of motivation: A systematic review and meta-analysis using self-determination theory. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin 46 (7), 1121-1138, 2020. 288 citations.
Extending expectancy-value theory predictions of achievement and aspirations in science: Dimensional comparison processes and expectancy-by-value interactions. Learning and Instruction 49, 81-91, 2017. 248 citations.
Directionality of the Associations of High School Expectancy-Value, Aspirations, and Attainment A Longitudinal Study. American Educational Research Journal 52 (2), 371-402, 2015. 239 citations.
Probing the Unique Contributions of Self-Concept, Task Values, and Their Interactions Using Multiple Value Facets and Multiple Academic Outcomes. AERA Open 2 (1), 1-20, 2016. 216 citations.