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Prof. Catherine Alexandra McBRIDE-CHANG
Professor
Ph.D., Southern California

Address: Rm 359, Sino Building,
  Department of Psychology,
  The Chinese University of Hong Kong,
  Shatin, New Territories,
  Hong Kong
   
Phone: (852) 2609-6576
Fax: (852) 2603-5019
E-mail: cmcbride at psy.cuhk.edu.hk
Curriculum Vitae:
     

Professor Catherine McBride-Chang received her Ph.D. in 1994 from the University of Southern California . She has published on a variety of topics in developmental psychology, including parenting, child abuse, peer relations, creativity, and reading development and impairment. The author of approximately ninety peer-reviewed journal articles, she has also edited one book (2003, Praeger) entitled Reading Development in Chinese Children (with Professor H.-C. Chen) and written one book entitled Children’s Literacy Development (2004, Oxford University Press). Catherine McBride-Chang is an Associate Editor of Developmental Psychology and currently serves on the editorial boards of six additional journals; these are the Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, the Scientific Studies of Reading, Annals of Dyslexia, Reading Research Quarterly, the Journal of Educational Psychology, and Psychological Science. She is also a Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science and serves on the Board of the Scientific Studies of Reading.

Research

Research Interests

Cognitive and social development, especially reading and vocabulary development and impairment in children and approaches to parenting.

Representative Publications

  • McBride-Chang, C., Cho, J.-R., Liu, H., Wagner, R. K., Shu, H., Zhou, A., Cheuk, C. S.-M., & Muse, A. (2005). Changing models across cultures: Associations of phonological and morphological awareness to reading in Beijing, Hong Kong, Korea, and America. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 92, 140-160.
  • Chiu, M. M. , Chow, B. W.-Y., & McBride-Chang, C. (2007). Universals and specifics in learning strategies: Explaining Adolescent Achievement in mathematics, science, and reading across 34 countries. Learning and Individual Differences, 17, 344-365.
  • Ip, H. M., Cheung, S. K., Chang, L., & McBride-Chang, C. (2008). Associations of parenting styles of Filipina domestic helpers and mothers with Hong Kong kindergarten children’s social competence. Early Education and Development, 19, 284-301.
  • LMcBride-Chang, C., Lam, F., Lam, C., Doo, S., Wong, S. W. L., & Chow, Y. Y. Y. (2008). Word recognition and cognitive profiles of Chinese pre-school children at-risk for dyslexia through language delay or familial history of dyslexia. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 49, 211-218.
  • Chow, B. W.-Y., McBride-Chang, C., & Cheung, H. (2008). Dialogic Reading and Morphology Training in Chinese Children: Effects on Language and Literacy. Developmental Psychology, 44, 233-244.

Books

Teaching

Courses

Current Academic Year

  • PSY3540 Psychology of Adolescence & Adulthood
  • PSY5000 Major Psychological Approaches
  • PSY5041 Seminar in Developmental Psychology
  • PSY5300 Writing and Presentation