Qingyang Liu

Postdoctoral Research Scholar,

Psychology

[email protected]

Mail code: 1104

Campus: Tempe
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Long Bio

Qingyang is a Postdoctoral Research Scholar in the Child Emotion Center-Arizona Twin Project at ASU. Her research examines children’s self-regulation development across childhood, focusing on how early poverty-related stressors intersect with family dynamics and broader socio-environmental contexts to shape self-regulation, particularly among racially/ethnically minoritized children.

Education

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)

Google Scholar URL

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=0fofrm8AAAAJ&hl=en

ORCID Profile ID

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4062-6764

Research Interests

Longitudinal methods, including growth mixture modeling, latent transition analysis, structural equation modeling, and machine learning
Stability and changes of self-regulation, temperament
poverty, early contextual adversity
family dynamics (e.g., household chaos, parenting processes)

Research Group

Arizona Twin Project

Publications

Selected Publication; See full list via Google Scholar

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

Editorships

Advisory Editorial Board, Family Process
Editorial Fellow, Family Relations

Professional Associations

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)