1. Background

2. Research

3. Mentors

4. Publications

5. References

6. Feihong Wang

Background

Feihong Wang is currently a Department of Psychology lecturer at the University of Florida and assistant professor at Santa Fe College in Gainesville, Florida; she also specializes in Adolescent Development and Youth Development. Wang was also a middle school teacher in China at one point, as well as an International Admissions Advisor for the International Student Services. Wang grew up in China and attended high school in Hunan, unaware of her interest in psychology. She attended Changsha University for college and received a degree in English Education and then went on to Central South University to receive a masters in linguistics. Wang originally aimed to study and teach English but realized her talent in mathematics upon taking her National Entrance Exam to study in America. She achieved a perfect score on the quantitative portion of her test, which indicated her abilities to pursue a STEM-related field. When Wang arrived in America, her passions changed as she began to interact with students; it stimulated her interests in why people behave the way that they do. She was accepted as a student at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill and obtained a PHD degree in developmental psychology. Language wasn't the deepest question she always wanted to answer, human behavior was. Wang believed that psychology was a perfect merge of the natural sciences and social sciences, both of which she had a passion in.

Research

Wang has taken on multiple research endeavors throughout her career. Her research focuses on adolescent development, such as early attachment in children and how family dynamics predict children's later psychological outcomes. Wang's papers on Parental Behaviors and Beliefs, Child Temperament, and Attachment Disorganization and Infant Attachment Disorganization are among some of her highest achievements. Wang also considers her paper on Children's Task Oriented Patterns to be another achievement; all of these papers were pursued over an extended period of time and weren't required but her interests led her to dig deeper anyways. Wang won an award during her post doctorate: "Best in Group for Posters" at the PostDoc Research Symposium for her accomplishments.

Mentors

One of Wang's main mentors was Martha Cox at UNC Chapel Hill, who participated in research with her. Cox was her PHD mentor and dissertation mentor. Cox trained Wang to be a master coder and they coded children's positive and negative moods. This led her to embark a research program of children's early task engagement; she was able to keep pursuing this line of research at UF as well. Eventually, Wang obtained grants and labs for her research. Other notable mentors include Daniel Bower (Department Chair at UNC), James Algina (Quantitative Mentor at UF), Patricia Snider (Early Childhood Studies), and Fondot Davis Eyler.

Publications

"Parental Behaviors and Beliefs, Child Temperament, and Attachment Disorganization" (2015)

“Peer and Teacher Preference, Student-Teacher Relationships, Student Ethnicity, and Peer Victimization in Elementary School” (2016)

"Infant attachment disorganization and moderation pathways to level and change inexternalizing behavior during preschool ages" (2016)

"Children's Task-Oriented Patterns in Early Childhood: A Latent Transition Analysis" (2017)

"Children’s Task Engagement During Challenging Puzzle Tasks" (2017)

"A meta‐analytic review of social problem‐solving interventions in preschool settings" (2018)

References

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