Szu-Chia Chang, Professor

Chang, Szu-Chia

Introduction : 中文介紹
Contact Information
Affiliations
  • Professor, Department of Social Psychology, Shih Hsin University
Education
  • Ph.D. Educational Psychology, University of Texas at Austin, USA
  • B.A. Educational Psychology, National Taiwan Normal University
Research Interests & Specialty Areas
  • Interpersonal & Family Relationships
  • Marriage, Gender, & Mate Selection Processes
  • Culture, Self-Concept, & Indigenous Social Psychology
  • Micro-Social Interactions & Psychological Well-being
  • Cross-Cultural & Longitudinal Relationship Research
Academic Biography / Faculty Profile

Dr. Szu-Chia Chang is a Professor in the Department of Social Psychology at Shih Hsin University, Taiwan. She earned her B.A. from National Taiwan Normal University and her Ph.D. in Educational Psychology from the University of Texas at Austin. Throughout her academic career, she has taught courses across developmental, social, and personality psychology.

Grounded in indigenous social psychology, Dr. Chang’s research investigates close relationships, mate selection, marital adjustment, and gender studies. Her work explores how socio-cultural contexts—including indigenous Chinese concepts such as Yuan (fate/affinity) and filial piety—shape interpersonal relationship development, commitment, and well-being. She has led and collaborated on several research projects funded by the National Science and Technology Council (NSTC). Her active research program focuses on cross-cultural comparative analyses of micro-social interactions and iGen interpersonal dynamics.

Her scholarship appears in prominent international and peer-reviewed journals, including the Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, Chinese Journal of Psychology, Indigenous Psychological Research in Chinese Societies, Chinese Journal of Guidance and Counseling, and Research in Applied Psychology.

 

Publications

A. Journal Articles
  1. Chen, T.-H., & Chang, S.-C. (2025). Strategies of trust-building in close relationship development when using dating apps [in Chinese]. Journal of Information Society, 49, 133–158.
  2. Wu, C.-W., & Chang, S.-C. (2022). The effects of positive and negative marital quality on couples’
  3. marital self-concept and familial self-concept: An analysis of the actor-partner interdependence model [in Chinese]. Chinese Journal of Guidance and Counseling, 64, 65–98.
  4. Chang, S., Chang, J. H., Low, M., Chen, T., & Kuo, S. (2020). Self-regulation of the newlyweds in Taiwan: Goals and strategies. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 37(8–9), 2674–2690.
  5. Chang, S.-C., Hsu, S.-C., & Li, W.-H. (2018). “Good new men” and “Good new women”? role obligations in contemporary Chinese marital relationship [in Chinese]. Indigenous Psychology Research in Chinese Society, 50, 209–261.
  6. Yang, S.-C., & Chang, S.-C. (2018). Conflict between Qing and Li: Free love and patriarchal marriage in A Dream of Red Chambers [in Chinese]. Academic Research in East Asia, 4, 71–95.
  7. Kuo, S.-H., & Chang, S.-C. (2011). Control beliefs in Chinese marriage [in Chinese]. Formosa Journal of Mental Health, 24(4), 583–610.
  8. Chang, S.-C. (2009). Premarital relationship and marital adjustment: A longitudinal study [in Chinese]. Chinese Journal of Psychology, 51(3), 319–339.
  9. Chang, S.-C., & Lee, Y.-W. (2009). Critical events associated with relationship development during mate selection processes [in Chinese]. Chinese Journal of Guidance and Counseling, 25, 179–212.
  10. Chang, S.-C., Chou, Y.-H., & Huang, T.-C. (2008). Newlyweds’ marital adjustment: Scale development and model testing [in Chinese]. Chinese Journal of Psychology, 50(4), 425–446.
  11. Chang, S., & Chan, C. (2007). Perceptions of commitment change during mate selection: The case of Taiwanese newlyweds. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 24(1), 55–68.
  12. Chang, S.-C. (2006). Family and marriage research in Taiwan: A review of post 80’s studies [in Chinese]. Indigenous Psychology Research in Chinese Society, 26, 3–34.
  13. Kuo, S.-H., & Chang, S.-C. (2006). The cultural-psychological significance of analogical thinking: Fortune-telling behavior as an example [in Chinese]. Journal of Religion and Folk Medicine, 3, 213–236.
  14. Kuo, S.-H., & Chang, S.-C. (2004). The multidimensional causal thinking in Chinese life world [in Chinese]. Indigenous Psychology Research in Chinese Society, 21, 233–267.
  15. Chang, S.-C., & Chou, Y.-H. (2004). Yuan and the development of premarital relationships [in Chinese]. Indigenous Psychology Research in Chinese Society, 21, 85–123.
  16. Chang, S.-C. (2001). Mate selection processes and the formation and development of premarital relationships [in Chinese]. Formosa Journal of Mental Health, 14(4), 1–29.
  17. Chang, S.-C. (2001). A qualitative study of newlyweds’ marital adjustment processes [in Chinese]. Indigenous Psychology Research in Chinese Society, 16, 91–133.
  18. Chang, S.-C. (1999). A systems framework for marital adjustment study [in Chinese]. Research in Applied Psychology, 2, 111–123.
  19. Chang, S. (1997). Marriage as environment: Toward a model of processes of adaptation in marriage. Shih Hsin University Journal, 7, 219–250.
B. Books and Book Chapters
  1. Eckensberger, L. H., & Chang, S. (in press). Education for becoming a good citizen in the West and in Asia: An action theory approach. In Asia’s educational miracle: Psychological, social and cultural perspectives. Springer.
  2. Chang, S.-C., & Yang, S.-C. (2022). The historical evolution of Chinese views on love and marriage [in Chinese]. In C.-F. Yang & J.-H. Chang (Eds.), Thirty years of indigenous Chinese psychology: Self, interpersonal relationships, and family (pp. 65–89). Wu-Nan Book.
  3. Chang, S.-C., & Yang, S.-C. (2012). Moving between culture and self: Qing and yuan in The Peony Pavilion [in Chinese]. In C. Chiao, T.-C. Chiu, & H.-N. Lo (Eds.), Discourses across boundaries: Emotion, marriage, and interculturality (pp. 65–89). Center for Intercultural Studies, Shih Hsin University.
  4. Chang, S., Kuo, S., Chiang, Y., & Hiew, C. (2011). Self and marital adjustment of newlyweds: A test of the four-component theory of Chinese self. In P. Singh, P. Bain, C. H. Leong, G. Mishra, & Y. Ohtsubo (Eds.), Psychological, group, and cultural processes in changing societies: The Progress in Asian Social Psychology Series (Vol. 8, pp. 231–246). Macmillan.
  5. Chang, Y. L., Liu, Y. L., Hwang, Y. J., & Chang, S. (1998). A comparison between only children and non-only children in peer acceptance. In A. Richardson (Ed.), Childhood and youth: A universal odyssey (pp. 119–130). The Kanata Learning Company.