Assistant Professor
Missouri State University, United States
Dr. Hailey Hyunjin Choi is an assistant professor in the department of childhood education and family studies at Missouri State University. She is currently teaching Principles of Development in Early Childhood and Advanced Human Development Studies. She taught Ethnic Families in America at Michigan State University. She holds Masters degree in Applied Psychology at New York University and Doctorate degree in Child Development at Michigan State University. She is interested in how children's developmental outcomes (including social-emotional/cognitive skills and health-related outcomes) vary according to parents/teachers' characteristics such as goodness-of-fit, culture, mentalization capacity, etc. In 2021, she analyzed mothers’ comments during mother-child interactions to see their understanding of children’s mental states. In her research, maternal understanding of mental states was related to the children’s cognitive skills through their sustained attention. Also, she found that mothers’ understanding of children’s mental states was associated with children’s emotion regulation as well as their use of regulatory strategies. Recently, she found the associations between mothers’ low emotional awareness and emotion coaching beliefs and toddlers’ self-evaluative negative attributions of difficulty during a challenging task (Perkins, H. A., Brophy-Herb, H. E., Choi, H, et al., 2021). She worked as an evaluator and data analyst for the Children, Youth, and Families at Risk (CYFAR) – Sustainable Community Projects, federally funded by The National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) through Children & Youth Institute, Michigan State University Extension. She evaluated programs that support parents with children that have been exposed to lead during the Flint Michigan water crisis.
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Saturday, November 12, 2022
3:45 PM – 4:45 PM