Dr. David W. Chan is Professor at the Department of Educational Psychology and Program Supervisor of the Programs for the Gifted and Talented. He is a registered Psychologist of the College of Psychologists of Ontario and the Canadian Register of Health Service Providers in Psychology, a Chartered Psychologist of the British Psychological Society, and a Registered Psychologist of the Hong Kong Psychological Society.

Dr. Chan has broad research interests covering diverse areas. These areas include stress, coping and health, depression and general psychopathology, clinical judgment and person perception, psychometric and psychological assessment, therapeutic metaphors and psychotherapy, therapeutic compliance and adherence, self-concept and self-efficacy, creativity and intelligence, and gifted education and talent development.

1. Chan.D.W. (2001). Learning styles of gifted and non-Gifted secondary students in Hong Kong. Gifted Child Quarterly, 45, 35-44.

2. Chan.D.W. (2000). Dimensionality of hardiness and its role in the stress-distress relationships among Chinese adolescents in Hong Kong. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 29, 147-161.

3. Chan.D.W. & Chan.L.K. (1999). Implicit theories of creativity: Teachers' perception of student characteristics in Hong Kong. Creativity Research Journal, 12, 185-195.

4. Chan, D.W. (1998). Stress, coping strategies, and psychological distress among secondary school teachers in Hong Kong. American Educational Research Journal, 35, 145-163.

5. Chan.D.W. (1997). Defensive styles and psychological symptoms among
   Chinese adolescents in Hong Kong. Journal of Youth and Adolescence,
   Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, 32. 269-276.