Shin Ling Wu

• Development in Child Psychology, PhD
• Senior Lecturer at Sunway University

Adolescence is a developmental phase marked by a high risk of depressive symptoms. The Diathesis-Stress Model of Depression proposed that different types of coping strategy can determine depression level in individuals differently. It was found that low self-esteem is linked with greater depressive symptoms among adolescents. Although past studies...

Background: In Malaysia, the prevalence of adolescents’ suicidal ideation has increased over the years. Therefore, it is crucial to investigate the predictors of suicidal ideation among adolescents. Hence, the aim of this study was to examine the predicting effects of depression and self-esteem on suicidal ideation among Malaysian adolescents. In a...

Background and aim: Adolescent suicide has become a central issue around the world, including in Malaysia, which needs attention. The current study investigated the mediating effect of coping strategy in the association between family functioning and suicidal ideation among adolescents in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Method: A total of 852 school-attend...

This study examined the relationship between Machiavellianism and self-monitoring on Facebook. In addition, the mediating influence of ethical positions, i.e. relativism and idealism, on the relationship between Machiavellianism and self-monitoring on Facebook was tested. A cross-sectional study conducted on university students yielded 276 response...

Background: Suicide has become a serious worldwide mental health problem, including Asian countries. Suicidal ideation happens prior to the actual suicidal behaviour; thus, identifying the roots of suicidal ideation is vital. This study investigated the relationships between parental closeness, self-efficacy and suicidal ideation among adolescents...

The burgeoning food waste problem is driving environmental pollution and climate change due to landfilling of waste. It is imperative to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and lower carbon footprint through food waste management. In the culinary setting, a vast amount of food waste is generated from food preparation. However, there is no module to edu...

Background As the recognition of psychological factors in chronic illness management grows, this study examined the interplay of psychological traits – grit, self-efficacy, resilience, and nature-relatedness – and their collective impact on the Quality of Life (QoL) among patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) in Malaysia. Methods A cross-section...

The book delves into the intersection of Artificial Intelligence (AI), health information, and wellness, offering readers novel perspectives on the transformative role of AI in shaping the future of healthcare and well-being. It explores the intricacies of AI-generated health information, reshaping patterns of healthcare information consumption, an...

Background: The escalating suicide rates among young adults, including those in Malaysia, necessitate a deeper understanding of the factors contributing to suicidal ideation. This study investigates the relationship between depressive symptoms and perceived problem-solving ability, including problem-solving confidence, approach-avoidance style, per...

Advancements such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT are part of cutting-edge megatrends in artificial intelligence (AI). ChatGPT has the potential to reshape education. This article applies the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) to investigate the correlation between attitude, subjective norms, perceived behavioral control, and the inclination to utilize ChatGPT f...

This quantitative cross-sectional study assessed the serial mediation effect of perceived parental acceptance and adolescents’ grit on the relationship between effective parenting practices and adolescents’ mental health. A total of 761 school-going adolescents (468 females; aged 13–18 years) from the Klang Valley area were recruited using purposiv...

Food waste is a global challenge that threatens the sustainable development of human societies. Although food waste is produced in all stages of the food supply chain, household food waste is the biggest contributor to the food waste fraction. In this research, we systematically reviewed 54 empirical studies to explore drivers and barriers to house...

The COVID-19 pandemic has taken most part of the world by surprise. The orders of nationwide movement control and social distancing by the Malaysian authority to curb the spread of the airborne virus have sent working-class families into a novel work-from-home condition. This study aimed to examine the association between positive experiences in pa...

Intention to use memory implants for non-therapeutic purposes has recently received attention among researchers. The present study examined perfectionism with two dimensions namely personal standards (PS) and evaluative concerns (EC) as possible dispositional factors associated with the intent to use memory implants. This study also examined the mo...

Mobile health (mHealth) is an important service that has remarkable effects on the development of the health care system. Health-related cognitive factors, such as perceived susceptibility (PSU), perceived severity (PSE), and health consciousness (HC), are associated with health-related technology adoption behavior. However, the underlying mechanis...

Parenting practices are essential in promoting children’s mental health, especially in effective and ineffective parenting. The use of ineffective parenting practices is no longer encouraged in the west; however, it remains a common practice among Asian households. Ineffective parenting consists of inconsistent discipline, corporal punishment, and...

One of the main challenges developing nations face is curbing bribery. While there are many efforts to curb bribery, most focused at macro level, such as law, while little has been examined at the micro level, e.g., individual behavior and intention. Those who did investigate at the micro level tend to focus on the recipients rather than the ones g...

Mental health issues are a serious problem globally and have worsened since the Covid-19 pandemic. School students are experiencing high levels of stress due to the closure of schools. Students have to quickly adapt to online learning with minimal guidance during the early stage of the pandemic. Subsequently, students are allowed to go to school on...

Exposure to Instagram Fitspiration images creates negative perceptions toward one’s body. Drawing on third-person effect (TPE) theory, this study aims to explain such feelings among viewers and examine the effect of appearance self-schema as an underlying cause of negative body image and the perceived impact of Fitspiration images on the self and o...

Depression is one of the most common mental health issues due to different factors such as family functioning, social support and self-efficacy. There have been opposing views on how these factors affect depressive symptoms. Thus, this study aims to investigate the predicting effects of family functioning, social support and self-efficacy on depres...

The present study investigated the relationship between internal locus of control and the perceived impact of Instagram fitspiration images on the self with media literacy as the mediating role in this relationship. This study also examined the importance of body mass index (BMI) as a moderating factor in the mediated model, where higher BMIs could...

Background Mobile health (mHealth) as an innovative form of information and communications technology can efficiently deliver high-quality health care by enhancing communication and health management, reducing costs, and increasing access to health services. An individual’s internal health locus of control (HLOC) is found to be associated with the...

The Family Adaptability and Cohesion Scale III (FACES-III) has been widely used to measure an individual’s family functioning in terms of cohesion and adaptability. In Malaysia, the FACES-III has been translated into the Malay language for the community, but its psychometric properties in this context remain unknown. Thus, the purpose of this resea...

The prevalence of conspiracy theories about COVID-19 in the wide-open social media environment has raised considerable concerns about the adverse effects of believing such theories. The previous work showed that skepticism is negatively associated with acceptance of media content. However, this association has yet to be investigated between skeptic...

Educators in higher education have been utilizing numerous assessments to assess students’ understanding of one subject. A single-subject could have three to four types of assessments which causes university students to have up to sixteen assessments in a semester. The huge amounts of assessments have posed a risk to students whereby they are overb...

Purpose: Life satisfaction was found to be very crucial for one’s development. Thus, this study aimed to investigate the level of life satisfaction in different types of family functioning (balanced, midrange, and unbalanced) among Malaysian adolescents. The predicting effects of the dimensions of family functioning (cohesion and flexibility) on ad...

Purpose: Recent studies revealed increasing youth involvement in antisocial behaviours as the sign of decrease in prosocial tendencies. Past studies found contradicting correlations between cognitive empathy (CE) and affective empathy (AE) with prosocial behaviour (PB). Therefore, the current study investigated the role of emotion regulation, inclu...

A new scale to measure core social motives was developed based on the BUC(K)ET framework (Belong, Understand, Control, Esteem, and Trust). The scale was completed by 1,516 university students from seven countries: Australia, the United States, New Zealand, the Philippines, Malaysia, China (Macao), and Austria. Multigroup confirmatory factor analysi...

This study investigated the impact of social support (family and friends), FoMO and autonomous functioning on Malaysian students’ psychological well-being. 154 Malaysian undergraduate students (56 males, 96 females) aged between 18 – 24 were recruited via convenience sampling. They completed the Index of Autonomous Functioning, Multidimensional Sur...

Past studies examining the direct relationship between private self-consciousness and online self-presentation behavior have not met with much success. The aim of this study was to examine the direct relationship between private self-consciousness and self-monitoring as well as the indirect relationship between these two variables through the media...

Suicide phenomenon among young generation has become a leading cause of death especially among adolescents. In Asian countries, suicidal rate is at an alarming state in which it has contributed around 60% of the world suicide cases. In order to prevent suicidal behavior, suicidal ideation need to be investigated as it happened prior any suicidal be...

Suicide among adolescents is a serious problem worldwide that needs attention, including Malaysia. Suicidal ideation is a significant predictor of further suicidal planning, attempts, and behaviour. Therefore, it is important to find out the demographic factors contributing to suicidal ideation in order to determine the high-risk groups of adolesce...

Prevalence rate of orphanage children has been increasing in every part of the world. In Malaysia, there is an estimated of 13,700 orphanage children living in orphanage home. Past studies found that orphanage children were less happy due to several reasons such as being lonely and have lower self-esteem. Therefore, the current study aimed to deter...

Suicidal behavior is a critical mental health problem worldwide including Asian countries. This is evidenced by the high number of suicidal cases in the world, especially among the youth. Past research suggested that parental pressure is one of the factors contributing to suicide among youth. Thus, this study aimed to investigate the relationships...

Suicide has been increasing at an alarming rate throughout the world including our nation. Adolescents have become one of the high risk groups for suicidality. Thus, it is important to explore suicidal ideation especially among adolescents in order to curb this issue. This study aimed to investigate stress, life satisfaction, satisfaction with pare...

The occurrence of suicide has become a serious phenomenon throughout the world. This study investigated the relationships between peer relationship satisfaction, self-efficacy and adolescents' suicidal ideation in Malaysia. The mediation effect of self-efficacy on the relationship between peer relationship satisfaction and adolescents' suicidal ide...

This study was designed to examine the gender differences in children's mental health. A total of 427 children (205 male and 222 female) aged between 3 to 6 years old were recruited from 29 pre-schools in Malaysia using cluster sampling technique. Children's mental health status was measured by using Achenbach & Rescorla's Child Behavior Checklist...