Hua Lin, Ph.D.
Research Associate Professor Department of Human Development and Family Science @Oklahoma State University
Family Relations Scholar ｜ Federally Funded Research Investigator ｜ Parenting Education Instructor
- 5 federally funded research projects
- Over $2.4 million in total research funding
- 20+ peer-reviewed publications
- 70+ research presentations
- 20+ parenting and family education workshops
- English ｜ Mandarin ｜ Cantonese
About Me
I am a developmental and family scientist and quantitative research methodologist, serving as Research Associate Professor in the Department of Human Development and Family Science at Oklahoma State University. My work sits at the intersection of family relationships, child and adolescent well-being, and research methods — with a particular focus on families navigating stress and adversity.
My research spans three connected areas. I study parent-child relationships — how parenting goals, parental competence, and family dynamics shape children’s social and emotional development over time. I examine ** family resilience under stress, including how stressors such as immigration-related challenges affect adolescent health and how psychoeducational interventions can buffer those effects. And I work on **quantitative methods — developing better approaches to causal inference in longitudinal, non-randomized research, including propensity score methods, structural equation modeling, latent class analysis, and cross-cultural psychometrics.
My early training in physics continues to inform my approach to quantitative research, particularly in how I think about structure, modeling, and inference in complex developmental systems.
This work is supported by the National Institutes of Health, the USDA, and other federal agencies. I am currently Principal Investigator or Co-Investigator on several active grants.
Alongside my research, I have spent years bringing this work into communities. I am a certified Active Parenting instructor and have facilitated more than twenty parenting workshops — in university settings, community organizations, and faith communities — translating research into practical conversations for real families. I am fluent in Mandarin, Cantonese, and English, which has shaped both where I do this work and how.
I came to family science in part because I live it. Raising children between two cultures is its own kind of education, and that experience runs underneath my research without defining it.
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hua.lin@okstate.edu