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Chongming Yang

Research Scientist

Chongming Yang joined the Center as research scientist in 2005. His substantive research interests lie in parenting and child behavioral problems, while his methodological research interests focus on measurement issues. He is very familiar with the statistical modeling program Mplus.

Through extensive training and experience with many research projects, he has accumulated expertise in applying structural equation modeling, multilevel modeling, and mixture modeling and has coauthored many publications.

Yang received his Ph.D. in 2001 from the Marriage, Family, and Human development Program of Brigham Young University, with a focus on research methodology and statistical modeling.

Recent Publications   (More Publications)

1. Fontaine, R.G., Pettit, G.S., Yang, C., Dodge, K., Burks, V.S., Price, J.M., Bates, J.E. (2009). Loneliness as a Partial Mediator of the Relation Between Low Social Preference in Childhood and Anxious/Depressed Symptoms in Adolescence. Development and Psychopathology, 21, 479-491.


2. Fontaine, R.G., Yang, C., Dodge, K., Pettit, G., Bates, J. (2009). Development of Response Evaluation and Decision (RED) and Antisocial Behavior in Childhood and Adolescence. Developmental Psychology, 45, 447-459.


3. Wu, L.T., Ringwalt, C.L., Yang, C., Reeve, B.B., Pan, J.J., Blazer, D.G. (2009). Construct and differential item functioning in the assessment of prescription opioid use disorders among American adolescents. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 48(5), 563-572.


4. Yang, C., Nay, S., & Hoyle, H.R. (2009 in press). Three Approaches to Using Lengthy Ordinal Scales in Structural Equation models: Parceling, Latent Scoring, and Shortening Scales. Applied Psychological Measurement.


5. Wu, L.T., Parrott, A.C., Ringwalt, C.L., Yang, C., Blazer, D.G. (in press). The variety of ecstasy/MDMA users: results from the National Epidemiologic Survey on Alcohol and Related Conditions. American Journal on Addictions.