Dr. Juyeon Lee
Lab Director
Dr. Juyeon Lee
Dr. Juyeon Lee
Lab Director
CURRENT JOB TITLE
Assistant Professor
AFFILIATION
Department of Social Work and Social Administration, The University of Hong Kong
EDUCATION
Ph.D. in Social Welfare, The University of California--Berkeley
Biography
As the founder and director of the SELASIA+ Lab, I lead various research projects on social and emotional learning (SEL) across Hong Kong SAR, Mainland China, and South Korea, while collaborating with partners in diverse global contexts.
Through my interdisciplinary and research–practice collaborative work, I aim to build an evidence base for SEL that is beneficial for diverse populations, sustainable in routine practice settings, and equity-enhancing at a systemic level.
Research Projects List
Development and Evaluation of a Novel Educator SEL Program
This study aims to develop a culturally-tailored SEL program for East Asian educators and to evaluate its feasibility and effectiveness for both educators and students.
Recruitment for the pilot test and main evaluation are now open!
RESEARCHERS INVOLVED
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Teachers’ Social-Emotional Competence: A Key to Successful Social and Emotional Learning for Students
This study aims to investigate whether and how teachers’ own SEC relates to students’ SEC development in the context of practicing school-based SEL.
RESEARCHERS INVOLVED
Juyeon Lee (PI), Hui Hu, Ingrid D. Lui
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Building Resilient Futures: Fostering Rural Adolescents’ Positive Development Through Two Innovative School-Based Social-Emotional Learning Programs
This study aims to implement and evaluate two innovative universal school-based SEL programs aimed to promote positive youth development and prevent digital addiction.
RESEARCHERS INVOLVED
Juyeon Lee (PI), Linyun Fu, Hui Hu
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Youth Social-Emotional Competence Assessment, Development, Predictors, and Outcomes
This study aims to investigate how social-emotional competence is assessed across different informants and contexts, how it develops over time, what factors predict its development, and how it relates to later outcomes.
RESEARCHERS INVOLVED
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An International Study on Teachers’ Social-Emotional Competence, Well-being, and Practices
This study aims to examine the relationships among teachers’ SEC, well-being, and SEL-related practices across diverse sociocultural contexts.
RESEARCHERS INVOLVED
Juyeon Lee (PI), Linyun Fu, Chenxiao Wang, Hui Hu, Ingrid D. Lui, Eunkyung Chung, Se-na Choi, Changyong Choi, Min Sang Yoo, Seungmin Lee
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The Development and Validation of the Multidimensional Assessment of Teacher Social-Emotional Competence (MATSEC)
This study aims to develop and validate a new measure of teachers’ social-emotional competence (SEC) that is comprehensive, practical, and culturally relevant in the East Asian school contexts and potentially other parts of the world.
RESEARCHERS INVOLVED
Juyeon Lee (PI), Linyun Fu, Chenxiao Wang, Hui Hu, Ingrid D. Lui, Eunkyung Chung, Se-na Choi, Changyong Choi, Min Sang Yoo, Seungmin Lee
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From Risk to Resilience: Leveraging School-based Social-Emotional Learning to Address Digital Addiction among Adolescents in Underserved Contexts
Dr. Hu's dissertation research at HKU, supervised by Dr. Juyeon Lee, Dr. Shuang Lu, and Prof. Siuman Ng.
RESEARCHERS INVOLVED
Hui Hu (PI), Juyeon Lee (Supervisor)
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2026
Journal Article
Social and emotional competencies as gender-specific moderators of the co-occurrence of bullying victimization and perpetration: Evidence from Chinese youth
Child and Adolescent Social Work Journal
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Publication List
Publication List
2026
Journal Article
Social and emotional competencies as gender-specific moderators of the co-occurrence of bullying victimization and perpetration: Evidence from Chinese youth
Child and Adolescent Social Work Journal
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2026
Conference Oral Presentation
Exploring profiles and predictors of multi-informant social–emotional competence assessment
The 28th Biennial Meeting of the International Society for the Study of Behavioural Development (Incheon, South Korea)
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2026
Conference Oral Presentation
The bidirectional association between social emotional competencies and bullying: A meta-analysis of longitudinal studies
Xuan Wang, Jiayi Liu, Juyeon Lee
The 28th Biennial Meeting of the International Society for the Study of Behavioural Development (Incheon, South Korea)
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2026
Conference Oral Presentation
Fostering rural adolescents’ healthy development through school-based social and emotional learning: A cluster RCT
Linyun Fu, Hui Hu, Zhen Zhang, Jesus Alfonso D. Datu, Juyeon Lee
The 28th Biennial Meeting of the International Society for the Study of Behavioural Development (Incheon, South Korea)
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2026
Conference Oral Presentation
Teachers’ social-emotional competence matters: Predicting students’ social-emotional learning outcomes in routine school settings
The 28th Biennial Meeting of the International Society for the Study of Behavioural Development (Incheon, South Korea)
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2026
Journal Article
Development and evaluation of a mental health and suicide prevention student leadership training programme for secondary school students in Hong Kong
Ingrid D. Lui, Tiffany W. S. Law, Cherie L. Chung, Stephen S. Y. Wong, Wendy W. Y. So, Juyeon Lee, Paul S. F. Yip
BMC Pediatrics, 26, 137
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2026
Conference Oral Presentation
Addressing Digital Addiction Among Chinese Rural Adolescents: Development and Evaluation of an Innovative School-Based Social-Emotional Learning Program
Society for Social Work and Research 30th Annual Conference (Washington, DC, USA)
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2025
Journal Article
초등학생의 사회정서역량에 관한 교사의 인식과 사회정서학습 실천 경험에 대한 탐색적 질적 연구 [An exploratory qualitative study of elementary school teachers’ perceptions of student social-emotional competence and their experiences of practicing social and emotional learning]
Korean Journal of Elementary Education, 36(4), 393-421
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2025
Journal Article
Exploring gender differences in multidimensional social-emotional competence from developmental and cross-cultural perspectives
Social and Emotional Learning: Research, Practice, and Policy, 6, 100137
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2025
Journal Article
Social-emotional competence growth profiles in upper elementary school years and pathways to mental health outcomes in middle school
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 22(11), 1744
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2025
Journal Article
The development and validation of the Multidimensional Assessment of Teacher Social-Emotional Competence (MATSEC) in East Asian school contexts
Juyeon Lee, Linyun Fu, Hui Hu, Chenxiao Wang, Eunkyung Chung, Se-na Choi, Changyong Choi, Seungmin Lee, Ingrid D. Lui, Min Sang Yoo
Social and Emotional Learning: Research, Practice, and Policy, 5, 100093
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2025
Journal Article
Social-emotional competence as the promotive and protective factor for Chinese school teachers’ mental well-being
Social and Emotional Learning: Research, Practice, and Policy, 5, 100091
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2025
Conference Oral Presentation
Longitudinal Risk and Protective Factors for Problematic Internet Use Among Adolescents: A Multilevel Meta-Analysis
Hui Hu, Yinan Ji, Shuang Lu, Yinkai Zhang, Juyeon Lee
Society for Research on Child Development (SRCD) Biennial Meeting (Minnesota, USA)
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2025
Conference Poster
A cross-cultural comparative study on gender and age-cohort differences in multidimensional social-emotional competence
Society for Social Work and Research 29th Annual Conference (Seattle, WA, USA)
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2025
Conference Oral Presentation
Social-emotional competence as the promotive and protective factor for Chinese school teachers’ mental well-being
Society for Social Work and Research 29th Annual Conference (Seattle, WA, USA)
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2025
Conference Oral Presentation
The roles of teachers’ social-emotional competence in integrated and equity-enhancing social-emotional learning: Evidence from preschool to high school teachers in California
Juyeon Lee, Hui Hu, Chenxiao Wang, Kamryn Morris, Addison Duane, Valerie Shapiro
Society for Social Work and Research 29th Annual Conference (Seattle, WA, USA)
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2025
Conference Poster
Social-emotional competence growth trajectories in middle childhood: Different patterns of development and pathways to adolescent mental health
Society for Social Work and Research 29th Annual Conference (Seattle, WA, USA)
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2024
Journal Article
초등교사의 사회정서역량이 교사의 웰빙에 미치는 영향: 정서행동상 어려움을 보이는 학생 비율 및 학교풍토의 조절효과 탐색 [The effects of elementary school teachers’ social-emotional competence on well-being: Moderation by students’ emotional-behavioral needs and school climate]
Korean Journal of Elementary Education, 35(4), 379-399
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2024
Journal Article
Gender, racial-ethnic, and socioeconomic disparities in the development of social-emotional competence among elementary school students
Juyeon Lee, Valerie B. Shapiro, Jennifer L. Robitaille, Paul LeBuffe
Journal of School Psychology, 104. 101311
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2024
Conference Oral Presentation
Enhancing well-being and preventing problematic Internet use through school-based social-emotional learning program for underserved rural adolescents: Evidence from China
2024 EASP FISS Joint Conference (Kyoto, Japan)
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2024
Journal Article
Differences and similarities in youth social-emotional competence measurement between North American and East Asian countries: Exploratory graph analysis using the OECD Survey on Social and Emotional Skills data
Juyeon Lee, Alvin Junus
Child Indicators Research, 17, 57-79
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2023
Journal Article
Measuring the development of social-emotional competence using behavioral rating scales in the context of school-based social and emotional learning
Juyeon Lee, Valerie B. Shapiro, Jennifer L. Robitaille, Paul LeBuffe
Social and Emotional Learning: Research, Practice, and Policy, 2, 100015
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2023
Conference Oral Presentation
The Effects of Childhood Social-Emotional Competence Development Trajectories on Adolescent Mental Health: Exploring Mediational Pathways Based on Self-determination Theory
National Youth Policy Institute 12th Conference on the Korean Children and Youth Panel Survey (virtual)
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2023
Journal Article
Universal school-based social and emotional learning (SEL) for diverse student subgroups: Implications for enhancing equity through SEL
Juyeon Lee, Valerie B. Shapiro & Bo-Kyung Elizabeth Kim
Prevention Science, 24, 1011–1022
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