Cecilia CHENG
Professor Cecilia CHENG 鄭思雅
Professor Cecilia Cheng is a Professor of Psychology at the University of Hong Kong, specializing in areas including personality, social, health, applied, cross-cultural, and cyber-psychology. She is an elected Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science (APS) and serves as the Director-at-Large of the International Council of Psychologists (ICP). Professor Cheng has received several notable accolades, including the Fulbright Senior Scholar Award, Cambridge Hughes Hall Fellowship, ICP Early Career Research Award, and Humanities and Social Sciences Prestigious Fellowship from the Research Grants Council (RGC).
Professor Cheng has served as an Associate Editor for the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (Personality Processes and Individual Differences section), a flagship journal in the social psychology field, and an Associate Editor of Health Psychology Review, a flagship journal in the clinical psychology field. Currently, she holds the position of Senior Editor for Social Science and Medicine (Health Psychology Office) and also serves as a Consulting Editor for esteemed journals such as Psychological Bulletin and the British Journal of Social Psychology. She is also an Editor of the second edition of the SAGE Handbook of Health Psychology. During her tenure at the University of Hong Kong, she held the position of Associate Dean (Postgraduate Education) at the Faculty of Social Sciences and currently serves as the Associate Dean (Personal Development) at the Graduate School.
Professor Cheng’s research team is dedicated to improving the mental and physical wellness of the Hong Kong population. Her work applies theoretical frameworks from personality and social psychology to address real-life pressing issues such as gaming disorder, cyberbullying and school bullying, information technology addiction, digital citizenship, positive education, stress and coping, psychosomatic disorders, emotional disorders, and health-risk behaviors. Her team regularly organizes workshops, courses, and lectures to raise public awareness about mental and physical well-being.
Cecilia Cheng is a professor of psychology at the University of Hong Kong. She specializes in personality, social, health, applied, cross-cultural, and cyber-psychology. She is an elected Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science (APS) and has served as the board secretary of the International Council of Psychologists (ICP). She received the Fulbright Senior Scholar Award, Cambridge Hughes Hall Fellowship, ICP Early Career Research Award, and Humanities and Social Sciences Prestigious Fellowship of the Research Grants Council (RGC).
Professor Cheng was an Associate Editor of Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (Personality Processes and Individual Differences section), a flagship journal in the social psychology field; and is currently a Senior Editor of Social Science and Medicine (Health Psychology office) and Associate Editor of Health Psychology Review, both of which are flagship journals in the clinical and health psychology field. She is a Consulting Editor of Psychological Bulletin, British Journal of Social Psychology, and Personality and Social Psychology Review; and a Review Editor of Frontiers in Psychology (Psychopathology). She is also an Editor of the second edition of the SAGE Handbook of Health Psychology. At the University of Hong Kong, she was the Associate Dean (Postgraduate Education) at the Faculty of Social Sciences and now the Associate Dean (Personal Development) at the Graduate School.
Professor Cheng's research team seeks to enhance both mental and physical health for quality living for Hong Kong people. To realize this aim, the team applies theoretical frameworks from personality and social psychology to the understanding of real-life problems such as gaming disorder, cyberbullying and school bullying, information technology addiction, digital citizenship, stress and coping, psychosomatic disorders, emotional disorders, and health-risk behaviors. The research group also organizes workshops, courses, and lectures to promote public awareness regarding mental and physical well-being.
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