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Hongjian Cao

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Oct 2026

Through an anxious lens: The roles of adolescents' anxiety symptoms in conditioning the relational consequences of parental responses to negative emotions through shaping adolescents' appraisals of parental responses.

Grounded in the cognitive-affective models of anxiety and the emotion socialization theory, the present study aimed to examine how adolescents' anxiety symptoms may moderate the associations of parental earlier responses to adolescents' negative emotions with the subsequent adolescent-parent relationship quality, and w...

Zhong-Huang Su, Hong-Jian Cao, Ru-Yi Ding · Journal of Research on Adole... · 0 citations

Sep 2026

A daily diary study of reciprocal associations between young adults' loneliness and problematic social media use through psychological distress symptoms: The buffering roles of mindfulness and self-compassion.

Loneliness and problematic social media use (PSMU) are two modern epidemics worldwide, which are often comorbid and prevalent among young adults. The design of everyday interventions calls for scientific endeavors that address how they may reciprocally influence each other on microtimescales and identify modifiable mec...

Hong-Jian Cao, Kun-Ru Song, Yao Zheng et al. · Developmental Psychology · 0 citations

Sep 2026

Within-person level dynamics for the interplay between parental psychological control and adolescents' depressive symptoms: A differentiated, multidimensional approach.

Parental psychological control (PPC) has long been proposed as a salient risk factor for adolescent depressive symptoms (ADS). However, findings from prior studies are inconsistent regarding how PPC and ADS may interplay with each other over time. They mostly treat PPC as if it is a monolithic entity rather than a coll...

Hong-Jian Cao, Shao-Fan Wang, Edmund J. S. Sonuga-Barke et al. · Journal of Research on Adole... · 0 citations

Open access Jul 2026

Parents' Gratitude Lability and Its Associations With Adolescents' Psychological Well-Being and Prosocial Behaviors: The Roles of Adolescents' Gratitude and Gender.

Parents play an important role in adolescents' gratitude development, yet little is known about whether and how fluctuations in parents' gratitude (i.e., gratitude lability) over time are associated with adolescents' socioemotional adjustment. Using three-wave data spanning 16 months, this study examined the longitudin...

Yue Liang, Nan Zhou, Hong-Jian Cao · Family Process · 0 citations