All Publications
2026 and in press |
Li, S. M., Zhu, Y., & Chen, M. S. (in press). Comparing indices of mixed emotions: Associations with depression, anxiety, and stress in daily life. Journal of Emotion and Psychopathology. |
Xu, J., Liu, S., Zhang, H., Chen, L., Lv, X., Gao, M., Qian, J., Hu, Y., Chen, M. S., & Han, Z. R. (2026). Symptom network reorganization associated with an internet-based emotion regulation program: Evidence from a large real-world cohort. American Psychologist. [PDF] |
Bi, K., Wang, E. Y., Chen, X., Cunningham, T. J., Yip, P. S. F., & Chen, M. S. (in press). The role of adverse childhood experiences in the prospective link between sleep–affect spillover and anxiety symptoms: A daily diary study combined with panel data. Clinical Psychological Science. |
Liu, A. Y., Bi, K., Lee, B., & Chen, M. S. (2026). Is the more the merrier? Affective outcomes of emotion polyregulation depend on the idiographic effective strategy ratio across cultures. Affective Science. [PDF] |
Qiu, T., Jiang, H., Chen, M. S., & Lin, T. (2026). A prompt-based tutorial for large language model–assisted screening in systematic reviews and meta-analyses. International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care, 1–31. [PDF] |
Hay, D. E., Porat-Butman, S., Chen, M. S., Joormann, J., Klein, Z., Gilboa-Schechtman, E., & Levy-Gigi, E. (2026). When good news falls short: Prospective role of positive belief updating in predicting post-trauma distress. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 205, 105137. [PDF] |
Deng, W., Chong, B., Zhu, Y., Chen, M., Joormann, J., & Cannon, T. (2026). From stress to strength: Temporal links between emotion regulation, perceived control, and positive affect. Affective Science. [PDF] |
Pan, X., Chen, M. S., & Bonanno, G. A. (2026). Better together? Polyregulation across interpersonal and intrapersonal strategies in civilian and veteran daily life. Cognition and Emotion, 1–15. [PDF] |
Chen, M. S., & Joormann, J. (2026). Emotion regulation flexibility in resilience and psychopathology: Status, challenges, and future directions. Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice, 33(3), 275–286. [PDF] |
Chen, M. S., Li, S. M., & Bonanno, G. A. (2026). Emotion regulation flexibility and momentary psychopathology symptoms among trauma‐exposed veterans with and without posttraumatic stress disorder. Journal of Traumatic Stress, jts.70078. [PDF] |
Deng, W., Zhu, Y., Chen, M. S., Glatt, S., Cannon, T. D., & Joormann, J. (2026). Task-based interpretation flexibility predicts real-world emotion regulation variability. Scientific Reports, 16(1), 11654. [PDF] |
Chen, M. S., Bi, K., Deng, W., Zhu, Y., & Joormann, J. (2026). Variability is not flexibility: Emotion regulation switching predicts increased momentary distress when context is stable. Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science. [PDF] |
Capellini, S. J. D., & Chen, M. S. (2026). Situational controllability moderates the link between cognitive reappraisal, but not problem solving, and momentary distress. Journal of Affective Disorders, 403, 121501. [PDF] |
Ma, X., Xu, J., Wang, H., Zhao, P., Lin, Q., & Chen, M. S. (2026). When negative emotions stick together: Interconnectedness explains how emotion regulation strategies shape distress. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 55(7), 1911–1928. [PDF] |
Pan, X., Bi, K., Ma, R., Chen, M. S., & Bonanno, G. A. (2026). Depressive symptom trajectories in suicide-bereaved individuals: A 24-year study from adolescence to adulthood. Development and Psychopathology, 38(1), 201–210. [PDF] |
Zhu, Y., Chen, M. S., & Bonanno, G. A. (2026). Comparing indices of emotion regulation variability across culturally diverse samples: Associations with negative affect. Cognitive Therapy and Research, 50(3), 504–516. [PDF] |
2025 |
Chen, M. S., Zhang, S. X., Capellini, S. J. D., Irani, K., Rhodes, C. A., Cunningham, T. J., & Bonanno, G. A. (2025). Emotion regulation repertoire moderates the association between sleep and depression: A daily diary study. Cognitive Therapy and Research, 50(3), 586–594. [PDF] |
Bi, K., Chen, M. S., Zhang, C., Li, T., Liu, Y., Chen, J., Chen, H., Xie, Z., Merrin, G. J., & Yip, P. S. F. (2025). Day-to-day dynamic coupling of affective symptoms in chinese mother–adolescent and father–adolescent dyads. Clinical Psychological Science, 21677026251369840. [PDF] |
Li, S. M., Zhang, C., Bi, K., & Chen, M. S. (2025). Longitudinal impacts of adverse childhood experiences on multidimensional health outcomes: Predicting trajectories in mental, physical, and behavioral health. Child Abuse & Neglect, 168, 106543. [PDF] |
Chen, M. S., Cai, Q., Omari, D., Sanghvi, D. E., Lyu, S., & Bonanno, G. A. (2025). Emotion regulation and mental health across cultures: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Nature Human Behaviour, 9(6), 1176–1200. [PDF] |
Li, S. M., Kobrinsky, V., Bi, K., & Chen, M. S. (2025). An initial exploration of mechanisms contributing to higher suicidal ideation in bisexual+ compared to lesbian/gay individuals. Psychology of Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity. [PDF] |
Zhu, Y., Li, S. M., Liu, Y., Niu, Y. Y., & Chen, M. S. (2025). The associations between cognitive flexibility and suicidal thoughts and behaviors: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Cognitive Therapy and Research, 49(6), 1103–1122. [PDF] |
Bi, K., Merrin, G. J., Li, T., Sun, X., Chai, Y., Lu, Z., & Chen, M. S. (2025). Navigating unmeasured confounding in nonexperimental psychological research: A practical guide to computing and interpreting e-value. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science, 8(2), 25152459251326571. [PDF] |
Haag, A., Nick, E. A., Chen, M. S., Telzer, E. H., Prinstein, M. J., & Bonanno, G. A. (2025). Investigating risk profiles of smartphone activities and psychosocial factors in adolescents during the COVID ‐19 pandemic. Journal of Research on Adolescence, 35(1), e13045. [PDF] |
Pia, T., Sanghvi, E., Chen, M. S., Kim, T., Hoptman, M. J., & Ahmed, A. O. (2025). Circuitry correlates of negative urgency and suicidality in schizophrenia spectrum disorders: A LASSO regression study. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 16, 1678555. [PDF] |
Ahmed, A. O., Maatouk, O., Chen, S. M., Schneider, R., Bell, J., Ramjas, E., Ceccolini, C., & Mehdi, K. (2025). Psychometric properties and factor structure of the arabic translation of the brief negative symptom scale. Complex Psychiatry, 11(1), 142–154. [PDF] |
Barkhorn, A., Chen, M. S., & Bonanno, G. A. (2025). Motivation and regulatory flexibility: Testing the moderating role of optimism and coping self-efficacy. Personality and Individual Differences, 244, 113232. [PDF] |
Irani, K., Chen, M. S., Bi, K., Cunningham, T. J., & Bonanno, G. A. (2025). Trajectories of psychopathology and sleep quality during a collective stressful event: The role of sexual minority identity, personality, and emotion regulation. Journal of Psychiatric Research, 187, 311–318. [PDF] |
Hart, R. P., Chen, M. S., & Bonanno, G. A. (2025). Trajectories of poststroke depression among older adults. PM&R, 17(8), 927–935. [PDF] |
2024 |
Liu, S., Wang, L.-X., Chen, M. S., Cao, H., Cunningham, T. J., & Joormann, J. (2024). Sleep bad, feel bad: Unpacking the role of exercise and socializing. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 183, 104652. [PDF] |
Chen, M. S., & Soto, J. A. (2024). Expanding the scope of diverse contexts in affective science. Affective Science, 5(3), 184–189. [PDF] |
Sanghvi, D. E., Chen, M. S., & Bonanno, G. A. (2024). Prospective trajectories of depression predict mortality in cancer patients. Journal of Behavioral Medicine, 47(4), 682–691. [PDF] |
Nardelli, C., Bonanno, G. A., Chen, S., & Bortolon, C. (2024). Emotion regulation flexibility and psychosis: A longitudinal study disentangling components of flexibility in psychosis‐proneness. British Journal of Clinical Psychology, 63(1), 54–72. [PDF] |
Bi, K., Li, T., Merrin, G. J., Zhang, C., Wang, Y., Xiao, Y., & Chen, M. S. (2024). Are there reciprocal interplays among Chinese adolescents’, fathers’, and mothers’ depression at the within-family level? A family systems perspective. Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science, 133(2), 140–154. [PDF] |
Bonanno, G. A., Chen, S., Bagrodia, R., & Galatzer-Levy, I. R. (2024). Resilience and disaster: Flexible adaptation in the face of uncertain threat. Annual Review of Psychology, 75(1), 573–599. [PDF] |
Chen, M. S., Bi, K., Han, X., Sun, P., & Bonanno, G. A. (2024). Emotion regulation flexibility and momentary affect in two cultures. Nature Mental Health, 2(4), 450–459. [PDF] |
2023 |
Bi, K., Yeoh, D., Jiang, Q., Wienk, M. N. A., & Chen, S. (2023). Psychological distress and everyday discrimination among Chinese international students one year into COVID-19: A preregistered comparative study. Anxiety, Stress, & Coping, 36(6), 727–742. [PDF] |
Bonanno, G. A., Chen, S., & Galatzer-Levy, I. R. (2023). Resilience to potential trauma and adversity through regulatory flexibility. Nature Reviews Psychology, 2(11), 663–675. [PDF] |
Roberts, C., Sahakian, B. J., Chen, S., Sallie, S. N., Walker, C., White, S. R., Weber, J., Skandali, N., Robbins, T. W., & Murray, G. K. (2023). Impact and centrality of attention dysregulation on cognition, anxiety, and low mood in adolescents. Scientific Reports, 13(1), 9106. [PDF] |
Bortolon, C., Chen, S., & Bonanno, G. A. (2023). Components of emotion regulation flexibility and psychosis: The association between psychosis‐proneness and context sensitivity. British Journal of Clinical Psychology, 62(1), 82–95. [PDF] |
Haag, A.-C., Bonanno, G. A., Chen, S., Herd, T., Strong-Jones, S., S., S., & Noll, J. G. (2023). Understanding posttraumatic stress trajectories in adolescent females: A strength-based machine learning approach examining risk and protective factors including online behaviors. Development and Psychopathology, 35(4), 1794–1807. [PDF] |
2022 |
Chen, S., Bi, K., Lyu, S., Sun, P., & Bonanno, G. A. (2022). Depression and PTSD in the aftermath of strict COVID-19 lockdowns: A cross-sectional and longitudinal network analysis. European Journal of Psychotraumatology, 13(2), 2115635. [PDF] |
Bi, K., Chen, S., Yip, P. S. F., & Sun, P. (2022). Domains of life satisfaction and perceived health and incidence of chronic illnesses and hospitalization: Evidence from a large population-based Chinese cohort. BMC Public Health, 22(1), 1703. [PDF] |
Chen, S., Bi, K., Sun, P., & Bonanno, G. A. (2022). Psychopathology and resilience following strict COVID-19 lockdowns in Hubei, China: Examining person- and context-level predictors for longitudinal trajectories. American Psychologist, 77(2), 262–275. [PDF] |
Bi, K., & Chen, S. (2022). Sleep profiles as a longitudinal predictor for depression magnitude and variability following the onset of COVID-19. Journal of Psychiatric Research, 147, 159–165. [PDF] |
2021 |
Han, X., Chen, S., Bi, K., Yang, Z., & Sun, P. (2021). Depression following covid-19 lockdown in severely, moderately, and mildly impacted areas in china. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 12, 596872. [PDF] |
Lyu, Y., Yu, Y., Chen, S., Lu, S., & Ni, S. (2021). Positive functioning at work during COVID‐19: Posttraumatic growth, resilience, and emotional exhaustion in Chinese frontline healthcare workers. Applied Psychology: Health and Well-Being, 13(4), 871–886. [PDF] |
Chen, S., & Bonanno, G. A. (2021). Components of emotion regulation flexibility: Linking latent profiles to depressive and anxious symptoms. Clinical Psychological Science, 9(2), 236–251. [PDF] |
2020 |
Chen, S., Bagrodia, R., Pfeffer, C. C., Meli, L., & Bonanno, G. A. (2020). Anxiety and resilience in the face of natural disasters associated with climate change: A review and methodological critique. Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 76, 102297. [PDF] |
Chen, S., & Bonanno, G. A. (2020). Psychological adjustment during the global outbreak of COVID-19: A resilience perspective. Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy, 12(S1), S51–S54. [PDF] |
Chen, S., Burton, C. L., & Bonanno, G. A. (2020). The suppression paradox: A cross-cultural comparison of suppression frequency, suppression ability, and depression. Journal of Affective Disorders, 274, 183–189. [PDF] |
2018 |
Chen, S., Chen, T., & Bonanno, G. A. (2018). Expressive flexibility: Enhancement and suppression abilities differentially predict life satisfaction and psychopathology symptoms. Personality and Individual Differences, 126, 78–84. [PDF] |
Chen, S., Kong, J., Yu, F., & Peng, K. (2018). Psychopathological symptoms under smog: The role of emotion regulation. Frontiers in Psychology, 8, 2274. [PDF] |