Biography

(Antonia) Yuxin Hua is a first-year master’s student in the Psychological Sciences Program, working with Dr. Violeta Rodriguez in the HEAL Lab. She earned a B.A. in Social Science with a Psychology concentration from NYU Shanghai. Antonia is broadly interested in child and adolescent development, developmental psychopathology, and parenting.

 

Research Interests

  • Adolescence
  • Developmental Psychopathology
  • Risk and Protective Processes
  • Parenting
  • Emotion Regulation

 

Research Description

The HEAL Lab conducts research to better understand youth and parental mental health in understudied and underserved populations. Antonia is currently working on a study that aims to optimize the measurement of parenting using a multi-method and multi-informant approach. Antonia’s primary research interests focus on examining how risk and protective processes, such as parenting and emotion regulation, shape youth mental health outcomes and vulnerability to psychopathology.