Mowei Liu
Associate Professor
M.Ed. (Shanghai Normal University)
M.A., Ph.D. (University of Western Ontario)
Office: DNA C121
Phone: 705-748-1011 ext. 7472
Email: moweiliu@trentu.ca
Webpage: http://people.trentu.ca/moweiliu/
Research interests:
My general research interests are in social development from a cultural perspective. Specifically, I am interested in child and adolescent peer relationships, friendship networks, and parental socialization processes (e.g., belief systems, disciplinary styles) in children’s social and emotional development. Among various factors that may contribute to individual social development, I am particularly interested in parenting styles and parental socialization goal-oriented behaviors and their relations to children’s social, emotional and school adjustment in Chinese and Canadian children. Both within-culture and cross-culture approaches have been taken in my research to understand the impact of cultural context on human development.
Teaching:
- PSYC 3500H-A WI PTBO: Child Development
- PSYC 4530H-A WI PTBO: Cross Cultural Human Development
Selected publications:
- Zhu, J., Liu, M., Li, Y., Wang, L., & Huang, M. (2023). Maternal control strategies and social functioning in Chinese preschoolers: The moderating effect of child surgency. Early Education and Development, https://doi.org/10.1080/10409289.2023.2244858
- Sun, J., Liu, M., Li, X., Zhou, Y., & Li, Y. (2023). Effectiveness of group Parent-Child Interaction Therapy on problem behaviors in Chinese kindergartners. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 20(4), 3446. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20043446
- Zhu, J., Liu, M., Shu, X., Xiang, S., Jiang, Y., & Li, Y. (2022). The moderating effect of marital conflict on the relationship between social avoidance and socio-emotional functioning among young children in suburban China. Frontiers in Psychology, section Developmental Psychology, Vol. 13. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1009528
- Cao, R., Wu, M., & Liu, M. (2019). The roles of connectedness-oriented behaviors of toddlers and mothers in predicting Chinese children’s school adjustment: A longitudinal study. Early Child Development and Care. 191(9), 1481-1493. https://doi.org/10.1080/03004430.2019.1658085
- Wang, Q., Liu, M., Shi, W., & Kang, J. (2018). Mechanism of the SNARC effect in numerical magnitude, time sequence and spatial sequence tasks: Involvement of LTM and WM. Frontiers in Psychology, section Cognition. 9: 1558-1558. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01558
- Morrissey, K., Liu, M., Kang, J., Hallett, D., & Wang, Q. (2016). Cross-cultural and intra-cultural differences in finger-counting habits and number magnitude processing: Embodied numerosity in Canadian and Chinese university students. Journal of Numerical Cognition. Vol. 2(1), 1-19. https://doi.org/10.5964/jnc.v2i1.14
- Liu, M., & Guo, F. (2010). Parenting practices and their relevance to child behaviors in Canada and China. Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, 51(2), 109-114. doi:10.1111/j.1467-9450.2009.00795.x
- Liu, M., Chen, X., Zheng, S., Chen, H., & Wang, L. (2009). Maternal autonomy- and connectedness-oriented parenting behaviors as predictors of children’s social behaviors in China. Social Development, 18(3), 671-689. doi:0.1111/j.1467-9507.2008.00501.x
- Liu, M., Chen, X., Rubin, K.H., Zheng, S., Cui, L., Li, D., & Wang, L. (2005). Autonomy- vs. connectedness-oriented parenting behaviors in Chinese and Canadian mothers. International Journal of Behavioral Development, 29(6), 489-495. doi:10.1080/01650250500147063
- Liu, M., & Chen, X. (2003). Friendship networks and social, school and psychological adjustment in Chinese junior high school students. Psychology in the Schools Species Issue: Psychoeducational and Psychosocial Functioning of Chinese Children, 40(1), 5-17. doi:10.1002/pits.10066