• Ph.D., University of California, Irvine
• M.A., Columbia University
• B.A., Oberlin College

• Culture, parenting and education
• Adolescence and the transition to adulthood
• Shared agency in social relationships

• Chang, E.S., Heckhausen, J., Greenberger, E., & Chen, C. (2010). Shared agency with parents for educational goals: Ethnic differences and implications for college adjustment. Journal of Youth and Adolesence, 39, 1293-1304. DOI:10.1007/s10964-009-9488-7. 
• Heckhausen, J. & Chang, E.S. (2009). How ambition can help overcome social inequality in the transition to adulthood. Research on Human Development, 6, 235-251.
• Chang, E.S., Greenberger, E., Chen, C., Heckhausen, J., & Farruggia, S.P. (2010). Non-parental adults as social resources for adolescents in the transition after high school. Journal of Research on Adolescence,20, 1065-1082. DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-7795.2010.00662.x *This is the official journal of the Society of Research on Adolescence.
• Germo, G., Chang, E.S., Keller, M., & Goldberg, W.A. (2007). Child sleep arrangements and family life: Perspectives from mothers and fathers. Infant and Child Development, 16, 433-456.    
• Lench, H. & Chang, E.S. (2007). Belief in an unjust world: when beliefs in a just world fail. Journal of Personality assessment, 89, 1-10. 
• Chang E.S., Chen, C., Greenberger, E., Dooley, D., & Heckhausen, J. (2006). What do they want in life?: The life goals of a multi-ethnic, multi-generational sample of high school seniors. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 35, 321-332. 
• Makiuchi, H., Ogawa, Y., & Chang, E. S. If you're really my friend you would leave me alone, I'm not into school!: Correlates of depressive symptomatology and peer agency among older youth. Poster presentation presented at the annual meetings of the Western Psychological Association, Portland, April, 2009. 
• Chang, E.S. & Heckhausen, J. Shared Agency in regulating educational goals between college students and parents.  Paper presented at the symposium "Parents' Influences and Individual Agency in Adolescent Self-Regulation: Differences Across Domains and Ethnic Groups" at the biennial meetings of the Society for Research on Child Development, Denver, April, 2009.
• Tsuchiya, K. & Chang, E.S. I have a lot of thing to do!": Educational Time Management and College Student Health. Poster presentation presented at the annual meetings of the Western Psychological Association, Irvine.  
• Suzuki, F., Low, X., Shimura, Y. & Chang, E.S. Not Happy to Decide by Myself: Cultural Differences and Similarities in College Students' Decision -Making with Parents. Poster presentation presented at the annual meetings of the Western Psychological Association.Irvine, CA, April, 2008. 
  * This presentation was selected by the  WPA Program Review Committee for the 2008 Western Psychological Foundation Student Scholarship Award and was described as "one of the most outstanding papers received this year."
• Chang, E.S., Greenberger, E., & Chen, C. Parenting satisfaction at midlife: A comparison of East Asian and White -European mothers of college students. Poster presented at the annual adult development symposium of the Society for Research in Adult Development, Boston, March, 2007.
• Chang, E.S., & Heckhausen, J. Cultural differences in shared agency with parents during the transition to adulthood. Paper presented at the symposium "Culture, ethnicity and the transition to adulthood" at the biennial meetings of the Society for Research on Child Development, Boston, March , 2007.

• Introduction to Psychology (Psyc 100)
• Lifespan Developmental Psychology (Psyc 350)
• Cross-Cultural Psychology (Psyc 360)
• Psychology of Education (Psyc 370)
• Parenting Research and Applications (Psyc 450)
• Core 200
• Learning Cluster

• Ford Foundation Diversity Dissertation Fellowship, Honorable Mention, 2007.
• School of Social Ecology Dean's Dissertation Writing Fellowship, UCI, 2007.
• School of Social Ecology Dean's Dissertation Data Gathering Award, UCI, 2006.
• Ford Foundation Predoctoral Diversity Fellowship, Honorable, 2005
• Outstanding Social Ecology School Mentor Award, UCI,2004-2006.
• Martha Newkirk Fellowship Endowment, UCI 2001

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