Dr. Christian S. CHAN – on leave (2023/24)

EDUCATION

• BA (Psychology, McGill)
• MA, PhD (Clinical Psychology, UMass Boston)
• Pre-Doctoral Internship (NewYork Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center)

RESEARCH INTERESTS

I study community psychology, clinical psychology, political psychology, and their intersections. My students and I explore issues pertinent to the wellbeing–broadly defined–of our city. We strive to make life easier and more meaningful for as many people as possible, with as little resources as possible. Quite often our work leads us to unfamiliar territories, both geographical and intellectual. We employ a wide range of research methodologies, including online and lab experiments, longitudinal questionnaires, randomized trials, as well as qualitative interviews.

RECENT REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS

* = corresponding author, Italicized = student/trainee

Xu, X., Chan, C. S.*, Tsang, C., Cheung, F., Chan, E., & Yip, P. S. F.* (accepted). Evaluating the effectiveness of concurrent sessions and counselor attention allocation in online counseling. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology. Manuscript accepted for publication.

Gulliver, R. E., Chan, C. S.*, Chan, W. W. L., Tam, K. Y. Y., & Louis, W. R. (in press). By-standers, Protesters, Journalists: A qualitative examination of different stakeholders’ motiva- tions to participate in collective action. Journal of Pacific Rim Psychology. Manuscript in press for publication.

Liang, Y. X., Labarda, C. E., & Chan, C. S.* (in press). Revisiting the factor structure of the Insomnia Severity Index among survivors of the 2013 Super Typhoon Haiyan. Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy. Manuscript in press for publication.

Hazan, H., & Chan, C. S.* (2023). Indirect contact with nature, lifestyle, and mental health outcomes during mandatory hotel quarantine in Hong Kong. Journal of Mental Health, 32(4), 835-841.

Chan, C. S.*, Yang, C. T., X u, Y., H e, L., & Yip, S. F.* (2023). Variability in the psychological impact of four waves of COVID-19: A time series study of 60,000 text-based counseling ses- sions. Psychological Medicine, 53, 3920-3931.

Xu, Z., Chan, C. S.*, Fung, J., Tsang, C, Zhang, Q., Xu, Y., Cheung, F., Cheng, W., Chan, E., & Yip, P. S. F.* (2023). Developing and validating a parser-based suicidality detection model in text-based mental health services. Journal of Affective Disorders, 335(15), 228-232.

Chan, C. S.*, Gulliver, R. E., Awale, A., Tam, K. Y. Y., & Louis, W. R. (2023).The influence of perceived threat and political mistrust on politicized identity and normative and violent non-normative collective action. Journal of Social and Political Psychology, 11(1), 126-144.

Chan, C. S.*, Wong, C. Y. F., Yu, B, Y. M, Hui, V. K. Y., Ho, F. Y. Y., & Cuijpers, P. (2023). Treating depression with a smartphone-delivered self-help cognitive behavioral therapy for in- somnia: A parallel-group randomized controlled trial. Psychological Medicine, 53(5), 1799-1813.

Poon, C. Y. S., Chan, C. S.*, Chau, P. P. L., & Chan, C. Y. (2023). Be still and you will know: A mixed-method study on solitude and consideration of future consequences among high-risk youth in rehabilitation. International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, 67, 687-706.

Gulliver, R. E., Chan, C. S.*, Tam, K. Y. Y., Lau, S. K., Hong, Y. Y., & Louis, W. R. (2023). Political distrust, perceived threat, and intentions to engage in normative and violent collective action: A mixed-methods study. European Journal of Social Psychology, 53, 401-417.

Tam, K. Y. Y., van Tilburg, W. A. P., & Chan, C. S.* (2023). Whatever will bore, will bore: The mere anticipation of boredom exacerbates its occurrence in lectures. British Journal of Educa- tional Psychology, 93,. 198-210.

Xu, Z., Chan, C. S.*, Zhang, Q., Xu, Y., He, L., Chan, E., Cheung, F., Yang, J., Chan, E., Fung, J., Tsang, C., & Yip, P. S. F.* (2022). Network-based prediction of the disclosure of ideation about self-harm and suicide in online counseling sessions. Communications Medicine, 2, 156.

Leung, G., Hazan, H., & Chan, C. S.* (2022). Exposure to nature in immersive virtual reality increases connectedness to nature among people with low nature affinity. Journal of Environ- mental Psychology, 83, 101863.

Awale, A., Chan, C. S.*, Tam, K. Y. Y., & Karasawa, M. (2022). Perceived warmth of offending group moderates the effect of intergroup apologies. Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, 25, 1372-1394.

Chan, C. S.* & Hazan, H. (2022). The Health Hexagon Model: Postulating a holistic lifestyle approach to mental health for times and places of uncertainty. Social Science & Medicine – Mental Health, 2, 100071.

Xu, Y., Chan, C. S.*, Tsang, C., Cheung, F., Chan, E., Chow , J., Chow , J., He, L., Xu, Z., & Yip, S. F.* (2021). Detecting premature departure in online text-based counseling using logic-based pattern matching. Internet Interventions, 26, 100486.

Chan, C. S.*, Wong, C. Y. F., & Fan, A. Y. C. (2021). Firing the monk when the ceremony is over: A study on the split between student protesters and their leaders after the 2014 Umbrella Movement. Asian Journal of Social Psychology, 24, 565-572.

Tam, K. Y. Y., van Tilburg, W. A. P., & Chan, C. S.* (2021). What is boredom proneness? A comparison of three characterizations. Journal of Personality, 89, 831-846.

Tam, K. Y. Y., van Tilburg, W. A. P., Chan, C. S.*, Igou, E. R., & Lau, H. (2021). Attention drifting in and out: The Boredom Feedback Model. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 25, 251-272.

Poon, C. Y. S., Chan, C. S.*, & Tang, K. N. S. (2021). Delayed gratification and psychosocial wellbeing among high-risk youth in rehabilitation: A latent change score analysis. Applied Developmental Science, 25, 272-288.

Lam, C., Chan, C. S.*, & Hamamura, T. (2021). Time-dependent association between mass protests and psychological distress on social media: A text mining study during the 2019 anti-government social unrest in Hong Kong. Journal of Affective Disorders, 291, 177-187. 

RESEARCH INTERNSHIP OPPORTUNITIES

Dr. Christian Chan is not accepting new MPhil/PhD students in 2023/24. Research interns are welcome to apply.