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Dini Xue

Dini Xue
Dini Xue
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Summary Statement

Dini's research interests include adolescent mental health, dynamic perspective, emotion regulation, interrelationship, and intensive longitudinal data.

Department
  • Graduate Student
Education
  • Ph.D. Candidate in Human Development and Family Studies, The Pennsylvania State University
  • M.Ed. in Developmental Psychology, Beijing Normal University
  • B.S. in Applied Psychology, Tianjin Normal University
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Graduate awards:

  • First-Class Academic Scholarship, Beijing Normal University, 2023
  • Third-Class Academic Scholarship, Beijing Normal University, 2022

Undergraduate awards:

  • Second-Class Academic Scholarship, Tianjin Normal University, 2019 & 2020
  • Excellent Work Award, 5th National Youth Photography Competition
  • Second Prize (Team), 1st Campus AIDS Prevention Debate Competition, Tianjin Normal University

 

Publications
  • Xu, S., Bai, R., Xue, D., & Liu, X. (2025). The Relationship between Nonsuicidal Self-Injury and Depression
    Symptoms in Chinese Adolescents: A Cross-Lagged Panel Network Analysis. Psychology research and
    behavior management, 18, 1809–1823. https://doi.org/10.2147/PRBM.S530888
  • Li, J., Xue, D., Xu, C., & Liu, X. (2025). Linking Friendship Quality Trajectories and Fluctuations to
    Adolescent Depressive Symptoms: A Four-wave Longitudinal Study. Journal of Youth Adolescence 54,
    2481–2493. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10964-025-02213-9
  • Chao, M., Liu, J., Xue, D., Zhang, B., & Hall, B. J. (2025). Sympathy towards people infected with COVID-
    19 mediates relations between media use and death anxiety. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 16, 1570747.
    https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2025.1570747
  • Xue, D., Yan, J., Chao, M., & Liu, T. (2025) The Relationship Between Different Media Information
    Exposure and Mental Health During Public Health Incidents. Psychological Research. (a Chinese
    Journal)
  • Zhang, S., Zhang, Y., Xue, D., Zhang, H., Chao, M., & Liu, T. (2023). What Are the Differences in
    Psychological Outcomes Between People Who Posted COVID-19-Related Content on social media and
    Those Who Did Not? Psychiatry investigation, 20(1), 43–51. https://doi.org/10.30773/pi.2022.0146
  • Chao, M., Xue, D., Liu, T., Yang, H., & Hall, B. J. (2020). Media use and acute psychological outcomes
    during COVID-19 outbreak in China. Journal of anxiety disorders (382 citations), 74, 102248.
    https://doi.org/10.1016/j.janxdis.2020.102248