Biography
Antonia (Yuxin) Hua is a second-year master’s student in the Psychological Sciences Program, working with Dr. Violeta Rodriguez in the HEAL Lab. Antonia's research examines risk and protective processes that shape vulnerability to psychopathology in children and adolescents, with a particular focus on understudied and underserved populations (e.g., racial and ethnic minorities, sexual and gender minorities).
Research Interests
- Child and Adolescent Development
- Developmental Psychopathology
- Risk and Protective Processes
- Parenting
- Emotion Regulation
- Psychometrics and Advanced Quantitative Methods
Research Description
The HEAL Lab conducts research to better understand youth and parental mental health in understudied and underserved populations. Within the lab, Antonia has worked on independent and collaborative projects, including examining the psychometric properties of an emotion regulation measure in sexual and gender minority parents, characterizing parenting profiles in diverse populations, and investigating the intergenerational transmission of adversity.
Currently, Antonia is leading a secondary data analysis study using a large national longitudinal dataset to examine reciprocal associations between parental depression, parenting aggravation, and youth psychopathology. She also contributes to data collection for several ongoing lab grants, applying both quantitative and qualitative methods. This involvement includes a project on parenting stigma and child outcomes in LGBTQIA+ families, a daily diary and actigraphy study on how parental discrimination impacts child sleep, and a multi-method and multi-informant project aimed at optimizing the assessment of parenting.
Education
B.A. in Social Science with a Psychology Concentration, NYU Shanghai