Research

Hua Lin, Ph.D

Research

Grants Funded

  • 2023 Oklahoma Tobacco Settlement Endowment Trust Programs G100063367 (2024-2027). Unidos Against Tobacco. $750,000. Cox Jr. (PI), Role: Co-Principal Investigator – FTE = 15%.

  • 2023 National Institute of Child Health and Human Development R15 HD112867-01 (2023-2026). Shared Language Erosion Among Chinese Immigrant Families. $448,800. Principal Investigator – FTE = 21%.

  • 2023 National Institute of Child Health and Human Development R15 HD112895-01 (2023-2026). Randomized Control Trial of the Co-Parenting for Resilience Program. $443,317. Cox Jr. (PI), Role: Co-Principal Investigator – FTE = 15%.

  • 2023 United States Department of Agriculture (2023-2028). Oklahoma State University Sustainable Community Project – The United We Can: Positive Youth Development Program. $640,000. Cox Jr. (PI), Role: Co-I, Project Evaluator – FTE = 15%.

  • 2021 National Institute of Child Health and Human Development R03 HD107307 (2021-2023). Improving Causal Inferences in Child and Family Behavioral Research (ranked in the top 2% of all NIH submissions, awarded in Sep. 2021). $148,600. Co-Principal Investigator – FTE = 33%.

  • 2021 National Institute of Food and Agriculture, 2018-41520-28907 (2021-2026). CYFAR Oklahoma State University and West Virginia University Multi-State Sustainable Community Project The United We Can: Positive Youth Development Program ($1,280,000). Cox Jr. (MPI), Role: Co-I, Project Evaluator – FTE = 20%.

Research Interests

The Development of Parent-child Interactions

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.”

  • Larzelere, R. E., Knowles, S. J., Adkison-Johnson, C., Cox, R. B., Lin. H., & Mandara, J. (2023). Ethnic Differences in the Effects of Five Disciplinary Techniques on Subsequent Externalizing Behavior Problems. Marriage and Family Review. https://doi.org/10.1080/01494929.2023.2199732

  • Larzelere, R. E., Ritchie, K. L., Knowles, S. J., Curtis, J., Lin H., Oliver, M. G., Bigler, J. F., & Larzelere W. A. (2022). Immediate and longer-term effects of modeling desired behavior and collaborating when toddlers are noncompliant. Journal of Child and Family Studies. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10826-022-02367-1

  • 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., Richie, K. L., & Larzelere, R. E. (2020). Applying a momentary parenting goal-regulation model to discipline episodes with toddlers. Journal of Child and Family Studies, 29, 1055–1069.http://doi.org/10.1007/s10826-020-01698-1.

  • Larzelere, R. E., Beasley, L. & Lin, H. (June, 2020). Can Age-Appropriate Reasoning Potentially Improve Behavioral Parent Training for Oppositional Preschoolers? Poster was presented at the Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology 4th Future Directions Forum, Virtual conference.

  • Lin, H., & Larzelere, R. E. (August, 2016). Maternal Negative Affect: Moderator and Mediator of Using Power Assertion for Toddler Noncompliance. Poster presented at the 2016 annual American Psychological Association Convention, Denver, CO. Poster Snapshop

  • Harrist, A. W., Rutledge, J., Liu, C., & Lin, H. (March, 2015). Inter-Parent Aggression Predicts Children’s Relationally but not Physically Aggressive Social Problem Solving. Poster presented at the 2015 biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Philadelphia, PA.

Resilience in Immigrant Families

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.

  • Lin, H., Greder, K., Larzelere, R. E., Washburn, I. J. & Cox. Jr., R. B, (2025). The influence of parent-youth shared language erosion on Hispanic immigrant youth anxiety problems. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease. 213(7), 180-185. https://doi.org/10.1097/NMD.0000000000001842

  • Cox, R. B., Lin, H., Larzelere, R. E., & Bao J., (2023). Fear of deportation, stress, and Hispanic early adolescents’ substance use: hope as a moderator. Prevention Science. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11121-023-01593-3

  • DeSouza, D. K., Lin. H., & Cox, R. B. Jr. (2023). Navigating two languages and immigrant parent-child relationships: A scoping review. Journal of Family Theory & Review, 15(1), 133-161. https://doi.org/10.1111/jftr.12484.

  • Cox, R., Washburn, I. J., Greder, K., Sahbaz S., & Lin, H. (2022). Preventing substance use among Latino youth: Initial results from a multistate family-based program focused on youth academic success. The American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse. https://doi.org/10.1080/00952990.2021.1981357

  • 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

  • Cox, R., Lin, H. & Larzelere, R. E., Sahbaz S., Washburn, I. J., Greder, K., Leon, M., Lopez, A. (April 2021). Latino Immigrant Family Language Discrepancies and Problematic Youth Outcomes: Parent-Youth Conflict as a Mediator. Poster will be presented at the 2021 virtual biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development.

  • Lin, H., Sahbaz, S., Anderson, M., Nolasco, H., Washburn, I. J., Cox, R. (May, 2019). Emerging, Hot Topic: Substance Use, Fear of Deportation, Stress, and Hope Among Latino Immigrant Youth. Paper presented in a paper symposium at the Society for Prevention Research 27th Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA.

  • Lin, H., Sahbaz, S., Nolasco, H., Anderson, M., & Cox, R. (November, 2019). Cognitive Functioning, Fear of Deportation, Stress, and Hope in Latino Immigrant Youth. Paper was presented in a paper symposium at the 2019 annual conference of the National Council on Family Relations, Fort Worth, Texas.

  • Lin, H., & Henry C. S. (March, 2015). A Conceptual Framework of Family Resilience: Resilience in International Graduate Student Families. Paper presented at the Oklahoma Council on Family Relations Conference, Oklahoma City, OK.

Making Causal Inference in Longitudinal Analyses

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.).

  • Larzelere, R. E. & Lin, H. (2025). An innovation to test treatment X Pretest Interactions with difference-in-differences. Journal of Behavioral Data Science. 5(1), 1–28. https://doi.org/10.35566/jbds/larzelere

  • Brorsen W., Lin, H., & Larzelere, R. E. (2025). Critique of enhanced power claimed for quasi-ANCOVA and dual-centered ANCOVA. PLoS One, 20(1), e0317860. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0317860

  • Lin, H., & Larzelere, R. E. (2024). Lord’s paradox illustrated in three-wave longitudinal analyses: cross lagged panel models versus linear latent growth models. Journal of Behavioral Data Science. 4(2), 51-63. https://doi.org/10.35566/jbds/lin

  • 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.

  • Larzelere, R. E., Lin, H., Payton, M. E., & Washburn, I. J. (2018). Longitudinal biases against corrective actions. Archives of Scientific Psychology, 6, 243-250. doi:10.1037/arc0000052.

  • Larzelere, R.E., Gunnoe, M. L., Roberts, M. W., Lin, H., Ferguson, C. J. (2020). Causal evidence for exclusively positive parenting and timeout. Marriage & Family Review, 56, 287-319. doi:10.1080/01494929.2020.1712304.

  • Lin, H. & Larzelere, R. E. (invited resubmission). Toward understanding contradictory methods for reducing selection bias in longitudinal analyses: A simulation of treatment for physical health. Practical Assessment, Research, and Evaluation.

  • Lin, H. & Larzelere, R. E. (August, 2020). A Reanalysis of the Effect of Child Care Subsidies on Maternal Characteristics in Fragile Families. Poster was presented at the 2020 annual American Psychological Association Convention, Washington, DC.

  • Lin, H. & Larzelere, R. E (March 2019). Two Methods for Getting Consistent Results from Simple Change Scores and Residualized Change Scores. Poster was presented at the 2019 biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Baltimore, MD.

Measurements

  • Hsu, F., Liu, J., Lin, H. (2022). Affective components of gastronomy tourism: Measurement scale development and validation. International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJCHM-09-2021-1112

  • Cox, R. B. Jr., Lin, H., Leon Cartagena, M., Greder, K., Larzelere, R. E., & Washburn, I. J. (2022). Validation fo the Family Fear of Deportation Scale for Youth. Family Relations. https://doi.org/10.1111/fare.12719

  • Atiles, J., Lin, H., Buffington, J. D., & Larzelere, R. E. (2022). A measure of educators’ teaching style and its relationship with efficacy. The Australian Educational Researcher.

  • 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

  • Sahbaz, S., Cox, R. B. Jr., Lin, H., Washburn, I. J., & Greder, K. (2022). PROMIS Pediatric Psychological Stress Measure: Validity for immigrant Latino youth. Family Relations. https://doi.org/10.1111/fare.12652

  • Liu, J., Lin, H., Hu, B., Zhou, Z., Agyeiwaah, E., & Xu, Y. (2022), Advancing the understanding of Residents’ Pro-tourism Behavior Scale: an integration of Item Response Theory and Class Test Theory. Journal of Business Research. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2021.12.013

Machine Learning

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.

  • 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.

Data Visualization

  • 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. doi:10.1080/10705511.2020.1732826.