Rate My Professor Mengya Xia

Mengya Xia is an Assistant Professor in the T. Denny Sanford School of Social and Family Dynamics at Arizona State University, a position she has held since 2023. Previously, she was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Alabama from 2019 to 2023 and a Senior Affiliate at the Center for Youth Development and Intervention there from 2022 to 2023. She received her Ph.D. in Human Development and Family Studies from The Pennsylvania State University in 2019, an M.Ed. in General Psychology from Wuhan University in 2012, and a B.S. in Psychology along with a B.E. in Computer Science and Technology from Wuhan University in 2010. Xia's research centers on family system dynamics and adolescent positive development. She investigates individual, interpersonal, and contextual assets that promote well-being, resilience, and health. Her methodological expertise includes advanced techniques such as mixture modeling, time-varying effect modeling, and dynamical systems modeling to analyze complex systems, dynamic processes, and interventions.

Xia has earned numerous honors, including the Early Career Research Award from the Society for Research on Adolescence in 2023, the Outstanding Mentorship of Undergraduate Students in Research from the University of Alabama in 2022, the Early Career Preventionists Network Travel Award from the Society for Prevention Research in 2019, and the Prevention and Methodology Training Fellowship from The Pennsylvania State University from 2016 to 2018. Among her key publications are "Different Families, Diverse Strengths: Long-Term Implications of Early Childhood Family Processes on Adolescent Positive Functioning" in Developmental Psychology (2022), "When Do Adolescents Feel Loved? A Daily Within-Person Study of Parent-Adolescent Relations" in Emotion (2022), "Social Connection Constellations and Individual Well-Being Typologies: Using the Loglinear Modeling Approach with Latent Variables" in Journal of Happiness Studies (2023), "Triadic Family Structures and Their Day-to-Day Dynamics From an Adolescent Perspective: A Multilevel Latent Profile Analysis" in Family Process (2022), and "Profiles of Low-Income Help-Seeking Couples and Implications for Intervention Gains: A Couple-Centered Approach" in Behavior Therapy (2023). Her scholarship advances understanding of relational dynamics and their implications for adolescent health and development.