Qingyang Liu
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Mail code: 1104Campus: Tempe
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Qingyang is a Postdoctoral Research Scholar in the Child Emotion Center and Arizona Twin Project at ASU. She is an interdisciplinary developmental and family scientist whose research examines how distinct domains of self-regulation develop through ongoing transactions between children and their families and broader socioeconomic contexts and, in turn, shape resilience and health across childhood and adolescence. Integrating developmental, family, and behavioral-genetic perspectives, her work investigates the developmental and etiological processes underlying self-regulation, with particular attention to socioeconomic adversity, family dynamics, and intergenerational influences on mental, behavioral, relational, and physical health.
Guided by relational developmental systems and strengths-based perspectives, she employs multi-method, multi-informant longitudinal designs that integrate questionnaires, behavioral tasks, daily diaries, and observational measures with person-centered, longitudinal, and genetically informed quantitative approaches. Drawing on large-scale national longitudinal cohorts and intensive longitudinal twin data, her research seeks to identify modifiable family and contextual processes that contribute to individual differences in self-regulation, resilience, and health across development.
- Ph.D. in Human Development and Family Science, Syracuse University (2025)
- M.S. in Educational Psychology and Methodology, University at Albany (2020)
- B.A. in Psychology, San Francisco State University (2018)
- B.S. in Applied Psychology, Guangzhou Medical University (2018)
- Self-regulation and temperament: Developmental stability and change across childhood and adolescence
- Socioeconomic and contextual adversity: Poverty, material hardship, and early-life stressors
- Family and intergenerational processes: Parenting, household chaos, and intergenerational transmission of self-regulation
- Behavioral genetics and developmental health: Genetic and environmental influences on self-regulation, resilience, and mental, behavioral, and physical health
- Advanced quantitative methods: Longitudinal and genetically informed modeling, growth mixture modeling, latent transition analysis, structural equation modeling, and machine learning
Arizona Twin Project
Selected Publications; See full list via Google Scholar
- Liu, Q., Davis, M., Doane, L., & Lemery-Chalfant, K. (2026). Intergenerational transmission of effortful control and reactive control: Evidence from a twin study. Child Development. https://doi.org/10.1093/chidev/aacag132
- .*Davis, I., Liu, Q., Doane, L., & Lemery-Chalfant, K. (2026). Etiology of parental knowledge, youth effortful control, and externalizing behaviors: A study of evocative-gene environment correlations. Journal of Adolescence. http://doi.org/10.1002/jad.70265
- Liu, Q., Doane, L., Davis, M., & Lemery-Chalfant, K. (2026). Self-regulation development: Continuity, change, and parenting daily hassles. Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.appdev.2026.101957
- . Liu, Q., Merrin, G. J., Razza, R., & Vasilenko, S. (2026). Transient fluctuation and persistent exposure to material hardship: Implications for behavioral self-regulation in childhood. Family Relations. https://doi.org/10.1111/fare.70340
- Liu, Q., Zhang, Y., & Razza, R. (2025). Reciprocal Relationships among Household Chaos, Parenting Stress, and Children’s Behavioral Self-regulation from Early to Middle Childhood. Family Process. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/famp.70053
- Liu, Q., Merrin, G. J., Vasilenko, S., & Razza, R. (2024). Continuity and change in early material hardship domains on the development of children’s behavioral self-regulation in middle childhood. Children and Youth Services Review. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.childyouth.2024.107995
- Liu, Q., Zhang, Y., & Razza, R. (2024). Poverty and preschoolers’ attentional and behavioral regulation: Differential pathways through poverty and parenting. Journal of Child and Family Studies.https://doi.org/10.1007/s10826-024-02917-9
- Liu, Q., Razza, R., Zhang, Y., & Merrin, G. J., (2024). Differential growth trajectories of behavioral self-regulation from early childhood to adolescence: Implication for youth domain-general and school-specific outcomes. Applied Developmental Science. https://doi.org/10.1080/10888691.2024.2405578
- Liu, Q., Wang, X., Razza, R., & Vasilenko, S. (2024). Early adverse childhood experiences and preschoolers’ self-regulation: A latent class analysis. Child Abuse & Neglect. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chiabu.2024.106703
- Liu, Q., Razza, R., Vasilenko, S. & Merrin, G. J. (2024). Associations between early material hardship and behavioral self-regulation development across childhood: A person-centered approach. Research in Human Development. https://doi.org/10.1080/15427609.2024.2310449
- Liu, Q., Merrin, G. J., Razza, R. (2023). Reciprocal associations between maternal behaviors and children’s self-regulation during the transition from early to middle childhood. Journal of Child and Family Studies. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10826-023-02703-z
- Advisory Editorial Board, Family Process
- Editorial Fellow, Family Relations
- American Psychological Association (APA)
- Association for Psychological Science (APS)
- Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD)
- Cognitive Development Society (CDS)
- National Council on Family Relations (NCFR)
- Society for the Study of Human Development (SSHD)