Psychology Ph.D.

Last updated: March 18, 2016

Yen-Ling Chen
Curriculum Vitae
PERSONAL

Current Address: Room 420, NTU Women 2nd Dorm,

No. 1, Sec. 4, Roosevelt Rd., Daan Dist.,
Taipei City, Taiwan, 10617
Mobile: 886-987695181

Email: b01207004@ntu.edu.tw
yenling.chen1101@gmail.com
Birthplace: Tainan, Taiwan
Citizenship: Taiwan

EDUCATION

National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

Department of Psychology, B.S. (anticipated). GPA: 4.17/4.30
Fall 2012 present
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC
Undergraduate exchange student. GPA: 3.92/4.00
Fall 2014 Spring 2015

AWARDS AND
HONORS

Excellent Exchange Student Scholarship

National Taiwan University. A stipend of $5,000 for a full-time study abroad year
August 2014 June 2015
Presidential Award (3 times)
National Taiwan University. GPA ranking with the top 5% of class
March 2014, November 2013, March 2013

RESEARCH
EXPERIENCE

Part-time Project Research Assistant

Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
September 2015 present
Project title: The mutual shaping between family and social relationship and the
context of urban development in Taiwan: Positive psychological capital
as the dynamic basis for sustainable urban life.
Duties: Literature review, weekly meeting and discussion, new personality items
selection and test construction
Supervisor: Kuang-Hui Yeh, Ph.D.
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Undergraduate Project Research Assistant
National Taiwan University. Psychiatric Epidemiology Lab
September 2015 present
Project title: The role of sleep quality in suicidality among children and adolescents
in general population.
Duties: Literature review, weekly meeting and discussion, regular progress report,
poster oral presentations
Supervisor: Po-Hsiu Kuo, Ph.D.
Undergraduate Research Assistant
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Mood, Emotions, and Clinical Child
Assessment Lab
August 2014 present
Duties: Literature review, coding for meta-analyses, data analyses using SPSS and R,
Qualtrics/online survey design, copy of translated measures tracking,
assessment teaching tools reorganized, Web search for fellowship/scholarship
opportunities, poster oral presentations, academic readings related to mood,
sleep, evidence-based assessment.
Supervisor: Eric A. Youngstrom, Ph.D.
Undergraduate Research Assistant
National Taiwan University. Culture and Emotion Lab
September 2013 June 2014
Duties: Experiment arrangement (e.g., advertisement, organization and setting up,
participant notifications and email tracking), data collecting, data coding,
literature review, readings and discussion related to emotion regulation.
Supervisor: Jenny Chen-I Su, Ph.D.

PROFESSIONAL
SOCIETY

Association of Behavioral Cognitive Therapy

Student member
November 2015 present
Society for Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology
American Psychological Association Division 53
Student member
February 2015 present

CONFERENCE
PRESENTATIONS

Chen, Y. & Youngstrom, E. A. (under review). Diagnostic Efficiency of the Child

Behavior Checklist (CBCL) Internalizing Score for Identifying Mood Disorders.
Poster abstract submitted to the 31st International Congress of Psychology,
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Yokohama, Japan.
Chen, Y., Chiu, W., & Kuo, P. (2016, March). Evaluating effect of sleep problems on
suicidality in youth: Is emotion regulation a moderator? Poster accepted by the
4th International Pediatric Sleep Association Congress, Taipei, Taiwan.
Salcedo, S., Chen, Y., Youngstrom, E. A., & Fristad, M. (under review). Diagnostic
efficiency of the Child and Adolescent Symptom Inventory (CASI-4R)
Depression Subscale for identifying youth mood disorders. Symposium paper
submitted to the 2016 American Psychological Association Annual
Convention, Denver, CO.
Chen, Y., Halverson, T. F., Ong, M., Youngstrom, J. K., Findling, R. L., &
Youngstrom, E. A. (2015, November). The relationship between sleep
disturbance and diagnosis of bipolar disorder: Testing incremental effect after
controlling for age and gender. Poster presented at the Association for
Behavioral and Cognitive Therapy 49th Annual Convention, Chicago, IL.
Chen, Y., Halverson, T. F., Ong, M., Youngstrom, J. K., Findling, R. L., &
Youngstrom, E. A. (2015, April). The relationship between sleep disturbance
and diagnosis of bipolar disorder: Testing incremental effect after controlling
for age and gender. Poster presented at the 2015 North Carolina Psychological
Association Spring Conference, Chapel hill, NC.
Chen, Y., Halverson, T. F., Ong, M., & Youngstrom, E. A. (2015, April). The
relationship between sleep disturbance and diagnosis of bipolar disorder:
Testing incremental effect after controlling for age and gender. Poster
presented at the Sixteenth Annual Celebration of Undergraduate Research,
Chapel Hill, NC.

RESERCH
TRAINING

The Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative (CITI)

IRB required ethics training; entered in national certification database

SERVICE
LEARNING

Department of Psychiatry, Taipei Veteran General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Adolescent daycare center volunteer. Provided academic help for adolescents with
emotional disturbances, behavioral problems or low learning motivation
September 2015 present
University of North Carolina Childrens Hospital, Chapel Hill, NC
Pediatric playroom volunteer. Assisted in supervising and interacting with
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hospitalized children and adolescents
January 2015 May 2015
Brookdale Senior Living Community, Chapel Hill, NC
Student volunteer. Learned the teaching strategies and assisted in teaching senior
exercise class
January 2015 April 2015
Huashan Social Welfare Foundation, Taipei, Taiwan
Student volunteer. Visited solitary senior citizens and reported current status to social
workers
February 2014 June 2014
National Taiwan University Office of International Affairs, Taipei, Taiwan
Consultor of international students. Offered help for incoming international students
on academic issue, campus life, accommodation, etc.
August 2013 January 2014
Gong Guan Elementary School, Taipei, Taiwan
Academic tutor. Offered academic help for students from low socioeconomic family
April 2013 June 2013

CAMPUS
ACTIVITIES

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Taiwanese Student Association

Student member
August 2014 May 2015
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Badminton Club
Student member
August 2014 May 2015
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Psychology Club
Student member
August 2014 May 2015
National Taiwan University, Official Magazine of Psychology Department
Group of activities and publicity, member
January 2014 June 2014
National Taiwan University Azalea Festival, Psychology Department Exposition
Exhibit section, director
March 2014
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Psychology Ph.D.
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National Taiwan University, Student Association of Psychology Department

Academic department, member
September 2013 June 2014

SKILLS

Languages
Mandarin (native), Taiwanese (native)
English (TOEFL-iBT 112/120; R: 30, L: 28, S: 26, W: 28
GRE V: 153, Q: 170, AWA: 4.0)
Computer
Statistics: SPSS
Productivity software: Microsoft Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Evernote, Trello,
Wikipedia
Research tool: Qualtrics, Open Science Framework, Endnote

REFERENCES

Eric A. Youngstrom, Ph.D.

Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience, and Psychiatry
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC
eay@unc.edu
Li-Jen Weng, Ph.D.
Professor of Psychology
National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
ljweng@ntu.edu.tw
Jenny Su, Ph.D.
Assistant professor of Psychology
St. Lawrence University, Canton, NY
jsu@stlawu.edu