SUA Faculty Scholarship: Chang, Esther

Shao, Jianmin, Esther S Chang, Yuying Tsong, Chuansheng Chen, and Jessica L Borelli. “The Mother–Daughter Shared Agency in Weight Management Scale (Sawms): Development, Validation, and Implications for Body Dissatisfaction.” Journal of Eating Disorders 11 (2023).

Chang, Esther S. and Gary Germo. "Generativity and shared agency with foster youth for education." Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology 72, (January-February 2021).

Shao, Jianmin, Esther S. Chang, and Chuansheng Chen. “The Relative Importance of Parent–Child Dynamics and Minority Stress on the Psychological Adjustment of LGBs in China.” Journal of Counseling Psychology 65, no. 5 (October 2018): 598-604.

Chang, Esther S., and Boram Lee. “Parenting Goals and Perceived Shared and Non-Shared Agency among Kirogi Mothers of a Youth.” International Journal of Adolescence and Youth 22, no. 4 (October 2017): 470–83.

Lemus, Daisy, Susan P. Farruggia, Gary Germo, and Esther S. Chang. “The Plans, Goals, and Concerns of Pre-Emancipated Youth in Foster Care.” Children and Youth Services Review 78 (July 2017): 48–55.

Chang, Esther S. “Kirogi Women’s Psychological Well-Being: The Relative Contributions of Marital Quality, Mother–Child Relationship Quality, and Youth’s Educational Adjustment.” Journal of Family Issues 39, no. 1 (February 2016): 209-29.

Chang, Esther S., Chuansheng Chen, and Elizabeth Kim. “Have You Set Your Life Priorities Straight?: Intergenerational Differences in Life Goals among European and East Asian Americans College Students and Their Mothers.” Journal of Comparative Family Studies 46, no. 4 (September 2015): 541–55.

Heckhausen, Jutta, Esther S. Chang, Ellen Greenberger, and Chuansheng Chen. “Striving for Educational and Career Goals During the Transition After High School: What Is Beneficial?” Journal of Youth and Adolescence 42, no. 9 (September 2013): 1385–98.

Chang, Esther S. “Negotiating Family Obligations and Educational Goals Among College-Enrolled Youth on Jeju Island, Korea.” Journal of Research on Adolescence 23, no. 1 (February 2013): 25–34.

Chang, Esther S., and Ellen Greenberger. “Parenting Satisfaction at Midlife among European- and Chinese-American Mothers with a College-Enrolled Child.” Asian American Journal of Psychology 3, no. 4 (December 2012): 263-74.

Chang, Esther S., Ellen Greenberger, Chuansheng Chen, Jutta Heckhausen, and Susan P. Farruggia. “Nonparental Adults as Social Resources in the Transition to Adulthood.” Journal of Research on Adolescence 20, no. 4 (November 2010): 1065–82.

Chang, Esther S., Jutta Heckhausen, Ellen Greenberger, and Chuansheng Chen. “Shared Agency with Parents for Educational Goals: Ethnic Differences and Implications for College Adjustment.” Journal of Youth and Adolescence 39, no. 11 (November 2010): 1293–1304.

Heckhausen, Jutta, and Esther S. Chang. “Can Ambition Help Overcome Social Inequality in the Transition to Adulthood? Individual Agency and Societal Opportunities in Germany and the United States.” Research in Human Development 6, no. 4 (November 2009): 235–51.

Lench, Heather C., and Esther S. Chang. “Belief in an Unjust World: When Beliefs in a Just World Fail.” Journal of Personality Assessment 89, no. 2 (December 2007): 126-35.

Germo, Gary R., Esther S. Chang, Meret A. Keller, and Wendy A. Goldberg. “Child Sleep Arrangements and Family Life: Perspectives from Mothers and Fathers.” Infant and Child Development 16, no. 4 (August 2007): 433–56.

Lee, Jennifer, Lisa Miller, and Esther S. Chang. “Religious Identity among Christian Korean-American Adolescents.” Psychological Reports 98, no. 1 (February 2006): 43-56.

Chang, Esther S., Chuansheng Chen, Ellen Greenberger, David Dooley, and Jutta Heckhausen. “What Do They Want in Life?: The Life Goals of a Multi-Ethnic, Multi-Generational Sample of High School Seniors.” Journal of Youth and Adolescence 35, no. 3 (June 2006): 302–13.

Lee, Jennifer, Esther S. Chang, and Lisa Miller. “Ethnic-Religious Status and Identity Formation: A Qualitative Study of Korean American Christian Youth.” Journal of Youth Ministry 5, no.1 (Fall 2006): 9-40.