Dr. Cheung is a program supervisor of the Programs for the Gifted and Talented, The Chinese University of Hong Kong and an associate editor of the Journal of Psychology in Chinese Societies.  He is a member of the Advisory Panel on Support Measures for the Exceptionally Gifted Students, Hong Kong Education Department and a member of the Ad Hoc Advisory Committee on Teacher Training Package for School-based Gifted Program, Curriculum Development Council. He is on the Advisory Board of the Center for Child Development of Hong Kong Baptist University.  Dr. Cheung also serves as a specialist referee for applications for research grants for a number of granting agencies including Quality Education Fund, Research Grants Council of the University Grants Committee and Hong Kong Baptist University.

Dr. Cheung's research interests include creativity, self-concept, achievement motivation, psychosocial and personality development.  In collaboration with local and overseas researchers, he has developed the Multi-Trait Personality Inventory (MTPI), the Motivational Orientation Scale (MOS), and the Multi-Perspective Multi-Domain Self-Concept Inventory (MMSI).  He was a co-principal investigator of the norming study of the Wallach-Kogan Creativity Tests in Hong Kong.  Currently he is a co-leader of a large-scale creativity project entitled "An Electronic Version of the Wallach-Kogan Creativity Tests".

1. Cheung, P. C., Conger, A. J., Hau, K.-T., Lew, W. J. F., & Lau, S. (1992). Development of the Multi-Trait Personality Inventory (MTPI): Comparison among four Chinese populations. Journal of Personality Assessment, 59, 528-551. (Lawrence Erlbaum, U.S.A.)

2. Berndt, T. J., Cheung, P. C., Lau, S., Hau, K.-T., & Lew, W. J. F. (1993). Perceptions of parenting in mainland China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong: Sex differences and societal differences. Developmental Psychology, 29, 156-164. (American Psychologial Association, U.S.A.)

3. Cheung, P. C., Ma, H. K., & Shek, D. T. L. (1998). Conceptions of success: Their correlates with prosocial orientation and behavior in Chinese adolescents. Journal of Adolescence, 21, 31-42. (The Association for Professionals in Services for Adolescents, U.K.)

4. Ma, H. K., Shek, D. T. L., Cheung, P. C., & Lam, C. O. B. (2000). Parental, peer, and teacher influences on the social behavior of Hong Kong Chinese adolescents. Journal of Genetic Psychology, 161, 65-78. (Heldref Publications, U.S.A.)

5. Cheung, P. C., & Lau, S. (2001). A multi-perspective multi-domain model of self-concept: Structure and sources of self-concept knowledge. Asian Journal of Social Psychology, 4, 1-22. (Blackwell Publishers, U.K.)

6. Zhang, Y., Kohnstamm, G., Slotboom, A., Elphick, E., & Cheung, P. C. (2002). Chinese and Dutch parents' perceptions of their children's personality. Journal of Genetic Psychology, 163, 165-178. (Heldref Publications, U.S.A.)

7. Cheung, P. C., Lau, S., Chan, D. W., & Wu, W. Y. H. (in press). Creative potential of school children in Hong Kong: Norms of the Wallach-Kogan Creativity Tests and their implications. Creativity Research Journal. (Lawrence Erlbaum, U.S.A.)