Biography
(Antonia) Yuxin Hua (she/they) is a first-year master’s student in the Psychological Sciences Program, working with Dr. Violeta Rodriguez in the Health, Equity, and Action (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, parenting, and psychopathology.
Research Interests
- Adolescence
- Developmental Psychopathology
- Risk and Protective Processes
- Parenting
- Emotion Regulation
- Mental Health Disparities in Underserved Populations (Ethnoracial Minorities, Sexual and Gender Minorities, Migrants and Immigrants)
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 an NIH-funded study that aims to optimize the measurement of parenting using a multi-method and multi-informant approach in ethnoracially minoritized families.
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. Currently, Antonia is working on an independent project focusing on measurement invariance of the Regulating Emotions in Parenting Scale (REPS) across cisgender and heterosexual parents and sexual and gender minority parents.