Yabin Tang

Education

Research

Yabin’s scholarship draws from her cross-culture training as a mental health scholar-practitioner, her experience as an international Asian student in the US., and her clinical background working with diverse individuals and families. Guided by social justice principles as a core value on her educational journey, her research centers on promoting culturally diverse populations’ especially Asian and Asian American individuals’, couples’, and families’ mental health and well-being.

Teaching

1. Co-teach the class “HDFS3930E 21st-Century Intimate Relation” 
2. Some guest lectures Yabin has given:

• "Sharing Experiences in Conducting Qual" presented at the class “Qualitative Research Practicum” at Western Michigan University
• “Mate selection patterns and theories in current society,” presented at the class HDFS 2100 “Development within families.”
• “Romantic relationship formation” presented at the class HDFS “21st Century Intimate Relationship.”           

3. Work as a teaching assistant for various faculties in the HDFS department since 2020

Service

Outreach

• Diversity and Outreach Representative in the Graduate Students Organization in the year of 2020.
• Student-faculty liaison in the year 2020.
• Due to the exacerbated anti-Asian sentiment since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, Yabin, as an Asian herself and outreach representative, was compelled to send a statement to my department, “Stop Asian Hate,” to raise awareness of hate crimes against Asians and to work towards creating a united force to fight against anti-Asian racism.
• Yabin launched a research project to investigate Chinese international doctoral students’ marginalized experiences in the US during COVID-19 to center their voices and highlight how the negative sociopolitical climate is delivered via academic institutions and policies that often drive what appears to be individual-level stress.

Advisory Committee

Co-chairs: Dr. Elizabeth Wieling & Dr. Maureen Flint

Members: Dr. Yoon Joon Choi & Dr. Jennifer Gonyea

Areas of Expertise

Research-wise, Yabin's expertise centers on promoting culturally diverse populations, especially Asian and Asian American individuals’, couples’, and families’ mental health and well-being.

Clinically, Yabin's expertise focuses on promoting couples, especially Asian couples as well as interracial and intercultural couple relationship well-being.

Current Research

Currently, Yabin's dissertation investigates Chinese-American/White Euro-American couples’ experiences over time in navigating marginalization and discrimination.

Publications

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0565-2871 

• Tang, Y., & Flint, M. (2022). Buffering or perpetuating?—Exploring the role of academic institutions in Chinese international doctoral students’ double pandemic experience in the United States. Journal of Comparative & International Higher Education, 14(3a). https://doi.org/10.32674/jcihe.v14i3a.4244
• Tang, Y., Hans, J. D., & Vowels, L. M. (2022). Comparison of indirect and direct approaches to identifying an unfaithful partner. Journal of Sex & Marital Therapy, 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1080/0092623X.2022.2102098 
• Ross, D. B., Gale, J., Wickrama, K., Goetz, J., Vowels, M. J., & Tang, Y. (2020). Couple perceptions as mediators between family economic strain and marital quality: Evidence from longitudinal dyadic data. Journal of Financial Counseling and Planning. 32(1). https://doi.org/10.1891/jfcp-18-00065

Working Papers

• Tang, Y., Wieling, E., & Flint, M. (under peer-review). Chinese international doctoral students' stress-coping processes and family dynamics during the covid-19 pandemic in the United States: A phenomenological study
• Tang, Y., Choi, YJ., & Sonne, J (manuscript). Risk factors of overlapping experience of intimate partner violence victimization and perpetration among Asian college students: The impact of childhood adversities