簡介

伍斐然教授在美國伊利諾大學香檳分校取得發展心理學博士學位，並曾於紐約大學及紐約城市大學研究生院進行博士後研究。她曾擔任學術期刊 Child Development 的副編輯，現為香港中文大學大腦與認知研究所的副所長。伍教授曾獲頒香港中文大學的青年學者研究成就獎、傑出研究學者獎以及教育學院的模範教學獎。她的研究可見於海外及本地傳媒 (包括半島電視台英語頻道、美國廣播公司、英國廣播公司、紐約時報等) 的報導。伍教授於香港中文大學主要負責教授有關學習動機、青少年發展及育兒心理學的課程。

研究領域

• Parenting cognitions and practices
• Parental socialization and child development in understudied populations
• Dysfunctional self-regulation and parenting intervention
• Neuroscience of parenting
• Children’s motivation and achievement
• Early childhood development and school readiness

最近發表的刊物

1. von Suchodoletz, A., Leyva, D., Ren, L., Li, Y., Zhang, Z., Yu, D., & Ng, F. F. (in press). How Chinese grandmothers and mothers share books with toddlers and relations with toddlers’ verbal contributions. Developmental Psychology.

2. Li, Y., Ng, F. F., Sze, I., & Yau, J. Y. P. (2025). A self-guided, academic-focused online parenting program to promote positive parenting and parent well-being: A randomized controlled trial in Hong Kong. Children and Youth Services Review, 173, 108275.

3. Ng, F. F. & Li, Y. (2025). Parenting goals and values in Asian cultures. In X. Chen (Ed.), Asian parenting: meanings, characteristics, and implications (pp. 43-66). Routledge.

4. Rothenberg, W. A., Ng, F. F., & Bornstein, M. H. (2025). Parenting in Majority World Asian countries. In X. Chen (Ed.), Asian parenting: meanings, characteristics, and implications (pp. 294-318). Routledge.

5. Tsethlikai, M., Cole, A., Hoffman, A. J., Bang, M., & Ng, F. F. (2024). To heal, grow, and thrive: Engaging Indigenous paradigms and perspectives in developmental science. Child Development, 95, 1817–1828.

6. Zeng, T., Ng, J. Y. Y., Lubans, D. R., Lonsdale, C., Ng, F. F., & Ha, A. S. (2024). A family-based physical activity intervention guided by self-determination theory: facilitators’ and participants’ perceptions. International Journal of Educational Research, 127, 102385.

7. Li, W., Ng, F. F., & Chiu, C.-D. (2024). When parents are at fault: development and validation of the parental guilt and shame proneness scale. Journal of Personality Assessment, 106, 595-608.

8. Zhang, M., Ng, F. F., Yu, D., & Von Suchodoletz (2024). Granny and Mama: Grandmothers’ and mothers’ interactions with toddlers during block play in urban China. Early Childhood Research Quarterly.

9. Zhang, M., Ng, F. F., Hong, Y. Y., Wei, J., & Liu, R.-D. (2023). My child and I: Self-and child-reference effects among parents with self-worth contingent on children’s performance. Memory, 31, 1244-1257.
10. Wei, J., Pomerantz, E. M., Ng, F. F., Yu, Y., Wang, M., & Wang, Q. (2022). Do the effects of parents’ involvement on youth’s academic adjustment vary with youth’s developmental phase? Contemporary Educational Psychology, 71, 102118.
11. Zhang, M. & Ng, F. F. (2022). Chinese adolescents’ perceptions of parental socialization goals: Variations by ethnicity and gender. Journal of Early Adolescence, 42, 995-1025.
12. Qu. Y., Rompilla, D., Wang, Q., & Ng, F. F. (2020). Youth’s negative stereotypes of teen emotionality: Reciprocal relations with emotional functioning in Hong Kong and Mainland China. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 49, 2003-2019.
13. Wei, J., Sze, I., Ng, F. F., & Pomerantz, E. M. (2020). Parents’ responses to their children’s performance: A process examination in the United States and China. Developmental Psychology, 56, 2331-2344.
14. Ng, F. F., & Wei, J. (2020). Delving into the minds of Chinese parents: What beliefs motivate their learning-related practices? Child Development Perspectives, 14, 61-67.
15. Ng, J., Xiong, Y., Qu, Y., Cheung, C., Ng, F. F., Wang, M. & Pomerantz, E. M. (2019). Implications of Chinese and American mothers' goals for children’s emotional distress. Developmental Psychology, 55, 2616-2629.
16. Suh, D., Liang, E., Ng, F. F., & Tamis-LeMonda, C. S. (2019). Children’s block-building skills and mother-child block-building interactions across four U.S. ethnic groups. Frontiers in Psychology, 10, 1626.
17. Wei, J., Pomerantz, E. M., Ng, F. F., Yu, Y., Wang, M., & Wang, Q. (2019). Why does parents’ involvement in youth’s learning vary across elementary, middle, and high school? Contemporary Educational Psychology, 56, 262-274.
18. Ng, F. F. & Wang, Q. (2019). Asian and Asian American parenting. In M. H. Bornstein (Ed.), Handbook of Parenting. Vol. 4. Special Conditions and Applied Parenting (3rd ed., pp. 108-169). New York: Routledge.
19. Ng, F. F., Pomerantz, E. M., Lam, S. F., & Deng, C. (2019). The role of mothers’ child-based worth in their affective responses to children’s performance. Child Development, 90, e165-181.