Welcome
Welcome to Hua Lin’s webpage. I am a developmental and family scientist and quantitative research methodologist, serving as a research assistant professor in the Cennter for Immingrant Health and Eduation at Oklahoma State University.
Research Interests
One of my research interests is the development of parent-child interactions, in that I focus on momentary parenting goals, parental competency, and social withdrawal. I was certified by Active Parenting in 2015 for teaching “Active parenting 4th edition” and “Parenting Your 1- to 4-Year-Old.”
My research interest in immigrant family well-being focuses on how immigrant-related stress impacts adolescent health and behavior and how a psycho-educational intervention can buffer against stress and/or ameliorate the effects of stress in immigrant families from a resilience perspective.
My research interest in quantitative methods is enhancing causal evidence from non-randomized longitudinal research designs, cross-cultural psychometric appropriations (including Item Response Theory), and statistic model comparison (mediation moderation, propensity score matching, SEM models, MLM models, Latent class analysis, dual-centered ANCOVA, etc.).
I am also applying statistical software such as Stata, Mplus, R, SAS, and Python in research and teaching. I have been certified by Data Carpentry to teach data management and statistic programs in Data Carpentry Workshops (e.g., Introduction to R) and Software Workshops (e.g., Python) at OSU.
Seleted Publications
Lin, H., Cox, R. B., Sahbaz S., Washburn, I. J. Larzelere, R. E. & Greder, K. (2022). Hope for Latina youth: A longitudinal test of Snyder’s Hope Scale. Family Relations. https://doi.org/10.1111/fare.12651
Cox, R. B. Jr., DeSouza, D. K., Bao, J., Lin, H., Sahbaz S., Greder, K. A., Larzelere, R., Washburn, I. J., Leon Cartagena, M., & Arredondo, Lopez, A. (2021). Share Language Erosion: Rethinking Immigrant Family Communication and Impacts on Youth development. Children, 8, 256. doi:10.3390/children8040256
Lin, H., & Larzelere, R. E. (2020). Dual-centered ANCOVA: Resolving contradictory results from Lord’s paradox with implications for reducing bias in longitudinal analyses. Journal of Adolescence, 85, 135-147. doi:10.1016/j.adolescence.2020.11.001.
Lin, H., Harrist, A. W., Lansford, J. E., Dodge, K. A., Bates, J. E., & Pettit, G. S. (2020). Adolescent social withdrawal, parental psychological control, and parental monitoring knowledge across seven years: A developmental cascade model. Journal of Adolescence, 81, 124-134. doi:10.1016/j.adolescence.2020.04.007
Lin, H. (2020). Probing two-way moderation effects: A review of software to easily plot Johnson-Neyman figures. Structural Equation Modeling: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 27, 492-502. http://doi.org/10.1080/10705511.2020.1732826.
Recent Presentations
Lin, H. & Larzelere, R. E (April 2021). Dual-Centered ANCOVA Overcomes Bias in ANCOVA with More Statistical Power than Difference-Score Analyses. Paper presented at the 2021 virtual biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development.
Lin, H. Lam, W., & Larzelere, R. E. (April 2021). Using Machine Learning to Identify Key Predictors for Alcohol, Tobacco, and Drug Use in Adolescents. Poster will be presented at the 2021 virtual biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development.
Cox, R., Lin, H. & Larzelere, R. E., Sahbaz S., Washburn, I. J., Greder, K. (June 2021). Latino Immigrant Family Language Erosion and Youth Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drug Use Attitude:Parent-Youth Conflict As a Mediator. Poster will be presented at the Society for Prevention Research 29th Annual Meeting.
Washburn, I. J., Broadbent, C., Cox, R., Lin, H., & Larzelere, R. E. (June, 2021).Theory Driven Model Selection for Outcomes with Many Zeros: Why Are There so Many Zeros in My Data? Poster will be presented at the Society for Prevention Research 29th Annual Meeting.
Sahbaz S., Cox, R., Lin, H., Washburn, I. J., & Greder, K. (June, 2021). Promis Pediatric Psychological Stress Measure Is Gender and Acculturation Invariant for Immigrant Latino Youth. Poster will be presented at the Society for Prevention Research 29th Annual Meeting.