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Research

We are actively working on various projects including scale development and validation, survey and interview research, intervention and implementation research, and secondary data analysis.

Our lab name stands for Social-Emotional Learning for Adults and Students In Asia and beyond+

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!

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Differences and Similarities in Student Social-Emotional Competence Measurement Between Eastern and Western Cultures

This study aims to identify the differences and similarities in the measurement and development of student social-emotional competence between Eastern and Western cultures.

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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.

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Hui Hu (PI), Juyeon Lee (Supervisor)

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The Development of and Disparities in Student Social-Emotional Competence in the Context of School-Based Social and Emotional Learning Initiatives

Dr. Lee's dissertation research at UC Berkeley, supervised by Dr. Valerie Shapiro, serves as a foundation for her ongoing work at the SELASIA+ lab.

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Juyeon Lee (PI), Valerie Shapiro (Supervisor)

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