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School of Arts and Humanities

Dr. Iris Rong Wei SUN (孫榕蔚博士)

Senior Lecturer (高級講師)
Office: 20/F, School of Arts and Humanities, Tung Wah College Cheung Kung Hai Memorial Building, 90A Shantung Street, Mong Kok, Kowloon
Telephone: (852) 3468 6759
Email: [email protected]

Biography
Dr. Iris Sun is currently a Senior Lecturer of the School of Arts and Humanities at Tung Wah College. Before joining Tung Wah College, she has worked as a postdoc researcher in the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, and was the part-time lecturer in University of Saint Joseph. Dr. Sun’s research interest includes meta-analysis, structural equation modeling, mediation and moderation analysis, sleep, and elderly abuse.

Academic and Professional Qualifications
BSc, MEd, PhD

Author Identifications
ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0034-1422

Google Scholar: Rong-Wei Sun (Iris) https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=qkxLMvAAAAAJ&view_op=list_works&sortby=pubdate

Education
Doctor of Philosophy in Psychology, Department of Psychology, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Macau
Master of Education in Educational Psychology, Faculty of Education, University of Macau
BSc in Applied Psychology, Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine

Teaching Areas

Statistics in Social Science

Research Methods in Psychology

Career Development and Planning

Psychological Assessments

Personal Growth and Mental Health

Research Interests

Meta-analysis

Structural Equation Modeling

Mediation and Moderation

Health Psychology

Funded Projects

Problematic social media usage among emerging adults/college students in Hong Kong: The mediating roles of social axioms and moderating roles of meaning in life on psychological well-being. Funded by School Research Grant (SRG), School of Arts and Humanities, Tung Wah College (as Principal Investigator, Project No.: 2022-05-52 SRG220501)

Publications

Journal Articles

Lau, E. Y. Y., Zhang, X., Sun, R. W., & Lee, J. C.-K. (2024). “The Sum is Greater than the Parts?” The Role of Student Covitality in Flourishing. Journal of Happiness Studies, accepted. (Impact factor: 3.852, 2022)

Yan, E., Lo, I. P. Y., Sun, R., Chan, A., Ng, H., & Wu, A. M. S. (2024). Intimate partner violence among lesbian, gay, and bisexual adults: A cross-sectional study. LGBT Health. doi: 10.1089/lgbt.2023.0294 (Impact factor: 4.151, 2022)

Sun, R. W., Lau, E. Y. Y., Cheung, S. H., & Chan, C. K. (2023). Meaning in Life, Social Axioms, and Emotional Outcomes during the First Outbreak of COVID-19 in Hong Kong. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 20(13), 6224. doi: 10.3390/ijerph20136224

Pesigan, IJA., Sun, R. W., Cheung, S. F. (2023). betaDelta and betaSandwich: Confidence Intervals for Standardized Regression Coefficients in R, Multivariate Behavioral Research. doi: 10.1080/00273171.2923.2291277 (Impact Factor: 3.8, 2022; 4.9, 5 year IF)

Yan, E., Lai, D. W., Sun, R., Cheng, S. T., Ng, H. K., Lou, V. W., Fong, D., & Kwok, T. (2023). Typology of family caregivers of older persons: A latent profile analysis using elder mistreatment risk and protective factors. Journal of Elder Abuse & Neglect, 1-31. doi:10.1080/08946566.2023.2197269 (Impact Factor: 1.9, 2022; 2.4, 5 year IF)

Sun, R. W., Yan, E., & Anise, Wu, M.- S., Lai, D. W. L., & Lee, V., W.P. (2022). The impact of pandemic-related life stress on internet gaming: Social cynicism and gaming motivation as serial mediators. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19 (14): 8332. doi: 10.3390/ijerph19148332

Yan, E., Ng, H. K., Sun, R., Lai, D. W., Cheng, S. T., Lou, V. W., ... & Kwok, T. (2022). Resilience as a protective factor against elder abuse by family caregivers: findings from a cross-sectional study in Hong Kong. The Journal of Adult Protection, 24(5/6), 255-269. doi: 10.1108/JAP-06-2022-0012

Sun, R. W., & Cheung, S. F. (2020). The influence of nonnormality in primary studies on standardized mean difference in meta-analysis. Behavior Research Methods, 1552-1567. doi: 10.3758/s13428-019-01334-x (Impact Factor: 5.40, 2022; 7.7, 5 year; Psychology, Experimental: rank 7, Q1; Psychology, Mathematical, rank 1, Q1)

Cheung, S. F., Chan, D. K. S., & Sun, R. W. (2019). Meta-analyzing dependent correlations with correction for artifacts that multiplicatively attenuate the true correlation. Behavior Research Methods, 793-810. doi: 10.3758/s13428-018-1111-y (Impact Factor: 5.40, 2022; 7.7, 5 year; Psychology, Experimental: rank 7, Q1; Psychology, Mathematical, rank 1, Q1)

Cheung, S. F., Sun, R. W., & Chan, D. K. S. (2018). Correlation-Based Meta-Analytic Structural Equation Modeling: Effects of Parameter Covariance on Point and Interval Estimates. Organizational Research Methods, 892-916. doi: 10.1177/1094428118770736 (Impact Factor: 9.50, 2023; 11.4, 5 year; Management, rank 27 out of 227, Q1; Psychology, Applied, rank 6 out of 83, Q1).

Ibáñez-Alfonso, J., Sun, R. W., & van Schalkwyk, G. J. (2016). The influence of family context on identity processing. Journal of Pacific Rim Psychology, 10. doi: 10.1017/prp/2015.6

Conferences

Sun. R. W., Leung, N. M., & Lau, E. Y. Y. (2022, August). #1008 Sleep-dating: Bidiretional link between sleep and dating relationship quality in the cyber age. 22nd WPA World Congress of Psychiatry, Bangkok.

Sun. R. W., & Cheung, S. F. (2017, July). Mean difference of standardized mean difference in fixed-effect meta-analysis. Poster session presented at International Meeting of Psychological Society (IMPS), University of Zurich, Switzerland.

R Packages

Developer and maintainer of the R package detectnorm (R package officially in CRAN)

Sun R., Cheung S (2022). detectnorm: Detect Nonnormality in Meta-Analysis without Raw Data. R package version 1.0.0, https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=detectnorm.

Developer of the R package semdplot available in github (https://sfcheung.github.io/semdplot/)

Community/Professional Contributions

Member of Psychometric Society

International Affiliate of American Psychological Association (APA), Divisions 005 (Quantitative and Qualitative Methods)

Review Committee Member of American Psychological Foundation

Core Members of Sleep, Spirituality, and Human Flourishing (https://ftbc-psych.wixsite.com/sshf)

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