Josephine Hua

Program affiliation: Clinical Psychology, Lifespan

Supervisor: Dr. Catherine Costigan

Research interests

My research and clinical interests focus on risk and resilience factors related to child and youth adjustment and family relationships. As part of the Intercultural Family Studies team at the University of Victoria, I am investigating relations between acculturation and individual and relational adjustment outcomes within immigrant Chinese families residing in Canada. My masters and doctoral research more specifically focuses on the process of youth language brokering, a familiar but relatively poorly understood phenomenon in which children mediate communication through informal translation and interpretation for their immigrant parents and others. I am examining relations among language brokering, parent-adolescent relationships, and youth and parent psychological adjustment.

Awards

• SSHRC Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship – Doctoral (2009-2012)
• MSFHR Junior Graduate Trainee Award (2008-2010)
• University of Victoria President’s Research Scholarship (2007-2008)
• SSHRC Canada Graduate Scholarship – Masters (2007-2008)
• Robert and Douglas Vickery Graduate Merit Award (2006-2007)
• University of Victoria Fellowship (2006-2007)

Representative publications and presentations

Costigan, C. L., Su, T. F., & Hua, J. M. (in press). Ethnic identity among Chinese Canadian youth: A review of the Canadian literature. Canadian Psychology.

Costigan, C. L., Koryzma, C. M., Hua, J. M., & Chance, L. J. (in press). Ethnic identity, achievement, and psychological adjustment: Risk and resilience among youth from immigrant Chinese families in Canada. Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology.

Hua, J. M., & Costigan, C. L. (2009). Emotional context of language brokering in Chinese immigrant families. Poster presented at the American Psychological Association 117th Annual Convention, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Hua, J. M., & Costigan, C. L. (2008). Language brokering and psychological adjustment in Chinese immigrant families in Canada. Symposium paper presented at the Jean Piaget Society 2008 Annual Conference, Quebec City, Quebec, Canada.

Costigan, C. L., Dokis, D. P., Hua, J. M., Koryzma, C. M., & Chance, L. J. (2008). Ethnic identity and adjustment among adolescents from immigrant Chinese in Canada. Symposium paper presented at the Society for Research in Adolescence, Chicago, Illinois, USA.

Costigan, C. L., Hua, J. M., & Su, T. F. (2007). Understanding differences in psychological adjustment among immigrant Chinese parents. Symposium paper presented at the Canadian Psychological Association 68th Annual Convention, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

Waddell, C., Hua, J. M., Garland, O. M., Peters, R. D., & McEwan, K. (2007). Preventing mental disorders in children: A systematic review to inform policy-making. Canadian Journal of Public Health, 98(3), 166-173.

Contact

E-mail: jhua@uvic.ca
Office: A208 - Cornett
Phone: 250 853 3788*

*Please do not leave clinic-related information on this voicemail as it is a shared phone and is not confidential.  All calls of a clinical nature should be directed to the University of Victoria Psychology Clinic (250-721-7538).