Student International Research Award

Divrision 52 (International Psychology) offers International Research Awards for undergraduate and graduate students in psychology. This award has been established to encourage and recognize promising  student research in international psychology.

Award recipients will receive a check for $100 and will be recognized during the Division 52 awards ceremony.

Application information can be found on the Division 52 websiteopens in new window.

2017

• Yujia Lei, PhD, “The Chinese Mental Health Value Scale: Measuring Chinese College Students’ Cultural Values, Values of Mental Health, and Subjective Well-being”
  The University of Kansas
  
• Rosanne M. Jocson, MA, MS, “Risk and Protective Factors Among Low-Income Urban Mothers and Fathers in the Philippines”
  University of Michigan
  
• Fang Hong, MA, “Childhood Maltreatment and Negative Mental Health Outcomes in U.S. and Korean Young Adults: The Mediation Role of Emotion Regulation Strategies”
  Boston University
  

2016

• Lauren Dewey, MA, M.Phil., “Providing Care for Many in the Context of Few Resources: Secondary Traumatic Stress, Burnout and Moral Distress Experienced by Healthcare Providers in Rural Uganda”
  City University of New York
  
• Xue Yang, M.Phil., “Culture and Stigma Internalization: The Buffering Effect of Dialectics among Hong Kong Chinese and Mainland Chinese”
  The Chinese University of Hong Kong
  
• Jean-Machelle Benn-Dubois, PhD, “A Cultural Study on Transactional Sexual Abuse in the Caribbean: Professional Perspectives”
  The Chicago School of Professional Psychology
  

2015

• Amanda Long, MA, “Be Proud of Who You Are”: Negotiating Colorism and Identity Among Black Women
  University of Houston
  
• Erin Yiqing Lu, :Bicultural Identity Integration Predicts Well-Being Outcomes: The Mediating Role of Self-Efficacy"
  Hong Kong Polytechnic University
  
• Minjie Lu, "Culture and Group-based Emotion: Examining Group-Based Emotional Complexity among Chinese and Dutch"
  Chinese University of Hong Kong
  
• Destiny Peterson, MS, "Evaluating clinicians’ differential diagnostic decisions for ICD-11 psychotic disorders"
  Mississippi State University
  

2014

• Spencer Evans, MA, “Psychologists’ Perspectives on the Diagnostic Classification of Mental Disorders: Results from the WHO-IUPsyS Global Survey”
  University of Kansa
  
• Sheena Jeswani, MA, “Predicting Depression in College Students: A Cross-Cultural Comparison”
  Fordham University
  
• Maha Y. See, PsyD, “Positive and Protective Factors in the Psychological Well-Being of Refugees from Burma during their Post-Migration Experience”
  Alliant International University
  
• Laura K. Taylor, PhD, “Does violence beget violence? Factors moderating trajectories of youth aggression in a context of political conflict”
  University of Notre Dame
  

2013

• Erica Fung, MA, “Men’s perceptions of, and preferences for, women’s body size: An international comparison of Chinese men in the U.S. and Hong Kong”
  Alliant International University
  
• Sarah L. Kelly, MA. “A contribution to international research on stress, trauma, and coping: An exploratory study with Guatemalan children and adolescents”
  Wheaton College
  
• Heather E. Mitchell, MA, “Guatemalan indigenous youth: Experiences of ethnic discrimination and its impact”
  Wheaton College
  
• Jennifer Mootz, “Gender-based violence in the internally-displaced Olilim community in Northeastern Uganda”
  Texas Woman’s University
  
• Juliana V. Yam, MA, “Evaluation of attachment patterns among Chinese, Cambodian, and European-Americans using the ECR-R scale”
  Alliant International University
  

2012

• Lauren C. Ng, MA, “Risk Pathways from 1994 Rwandan Tutsi Genocide Exposure to Distress and Traumatic Stress in Orphaned Heads of Household”
  University of Southern California
  
• Andrew Ogle, “Young Peruvians¹ Perceptions of Suicide Precipitants”
  Colorado State University
  
• Mrinalini Rao, MS, “Globalization and the ‘Identity Remix’ among Urban Adolescents in India”
  University of Illinois
  

2011

• Elena S. Yakunina, MA, “Personal Growth Initiative among International Students: Predicting Psychological Wellbeing”
  The University of Akron
  
• R. Eric Lewandowski, MS, “Community Impact of Group Interpersonal Psychotherapy in rural Uganda”
  Columbia University
  
• Joseph C. S. Siu, MCS, MBA, “Culture, coping and well-being among Chinese individuals with chronic pain in Hong Kong”
  Alliant International University
  

2010

• Maria Kholodova, “Relational Aggression and Relational Victimization in Russian Children: Negative Correlates and Protective Factors”
  Alliant International University
  
• Daria Diakonova-Curtis, “Gender Roles in Women from the former Soviet Union”
  Alliant International University
  
• Joann Wright Mawasha, “The Experience of Living with HIV/AIDS in the Bahamas: A Qualitative Study”
  Wright State University
  
• Reid Trotter, “Perfectionism, coping, adjustment, and achievement in Taiwanese culture”
  University of Missouri
  

2009

Award of Excellence

• Lena Lim, "The Role of Allocentrism on Male Adolescent Violence in a Collective Society, Singapore"
  Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
  
• Cecilia Sin-Sze Cheung, "Parents’ Involvement in Children’s Learning in the United States and China: Implications for Children’s Academic and Emotional Adjustment"
  University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  

Award of Merit

• Daniel B. Hess, "The Mental Health Sequelae and Treatment of Massive Community Violence in West Africa"
  University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
  
• Jin You, "Age differences in Dispositional Pessimism: A Cross-cultural Study"
  Chinese University of Hong Kong
  
• Melody Wong Kai Yan, "A Cultural Comparison of Cognitive Emotion Regulation Strategies among Hong Kong Chinese and North Americans" 
• The City University of Hong Kong
  

2008

Award of Excellence

• Jeannie Annan, PhD, "The Mental Health of Child Soldiers: Mitigating the Impact of Violence"
  Indiana University – Bloomington
  
  
• Peter Yeomans, PhD, "The Effect of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Psychoeducation on the Nature and Severity of Traumatic Stress Symptoms in a Burundian Sample"
  Drexel University
  
  
• Pizza Chow Ka-yee, BSocSci, "Self-stigma, Homosexual Identity, and “Come Out”: A Comparative Study of Lesbians in Hong Kong and Mainland China"
  City University of Hong Kong
  
  

Award of Merit

• Esmeralda Valdivieso Mora, BPsyc, "Mental Health Literacy of Schizophrenia in El Salvador and the United States"
  San Diego State University
  
  
• Xin Zhang Hare, MPhil, "Age Differences in Emotional Poignancy in Two Different Cultures: Emotion Regulation as a Moderator"
  The Chinese University of Hong Kong
  
  
• Liu Yenling, MS, "Factor Structure and Item Equivalence of the Chinese and English Version of the Dyadic Adjustment Scale"
  Illinois School of Professional Psychology