Y. Anthony Chen

Peer-reviewed Journal Articles

1. Chen, Y. A. & Mares, M. L. (2025). Negotiating parental support for LGBTQ identity: Media-based interactions across sociocultural contexts. Psychology of Popular Media. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/ppm0000602

2. Chen, Y. A., Peebles, A., & Lu, R. M.* (2025). “Anyway, I love you, text me please”: Exploring attachment, affordances, and support-seeking via texting. Journal of Media Psychology. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1027/1864-1105/a000469

3. Mares, M. L., McClain, A., Matins, N., Booth, M., & Chen, Y. A. (2024). Media as a locus for family ethnic-racial socialization: US youth report on discussions and mutual mediation. Media Psychology. Advanced online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/15213269.2024.2410770

4. Taylor, S. H. & Chen, Y. A. (2024). The Lonely Algorithm Problem: The relationship between algorithmic personalization and social connectedness on TikTok. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication. 29(5), zmae017. https://doi.org/10.1093/jcmc/zmae017

5. Chen, Y. A. & Fan, T. (2024). Adolescents’ mental health, problematic internet use, and their parents’ rules on internet use: A latent profile analysis. Computers in Human Behavior. 156. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2024.108232

6. Chen, Y. A. & Toma, C. L. (2024). To text or talk in person?: Social anxiety, media affordances, and preferences for texting over face-to-face communication in dating relationships. Media Psychology. 27(3), 428-454. https://doi.org/10.1080/15213269.2023.2246895

7. Peebles, A. & Chen, Y. A. (2024). Internet rules for me, problematic Internet use for them? The role of adolescent development and parent Internet practices on the parent-adolescent relationship. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships. 41(6), 1347-1369. https://doi.org/10.1177/02654075231221581

8. Chen, Y. A. & Lu, R. M. (2024). Texting or face-to-face for support-seeking in romantic relationships: The role of affordances and attachment. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships. 41(5), 1136-1156. https://doi.org/10.1177/02654075231152910

9. Mares, M. L., Chen, Y. A., & Bond, B. J. (2023). Mutual socialization during shared media moments: US LGBTQ teens and their parents negotiate identity support. Journal of Communication, 73(2), 113–125. https://doi.org/10.1093/joc/jqac046

10. Geusens, F., Chen, Y. A., Kerr, B., & Moreno, M. A. (2022). Disentangling between-person level from within-person level relationships: How sharing alcohol references on Facebook and alcohol use are associated over time. Media Psychology, 26(3), 252-277. https://doi.org/10.1080/15213269.2022.2138443

11. Chen, Y. A., Fan, T., Toma, C. L., & Scherr, S. (2022). International students’ psychosocial well-being and social media use at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic: A latent profile analysis. Computers in Human Behavior, 137. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2022.107409

12. Chen, Y. A. & Zhang, Y. B. (2022). Parasocial relationship and reduction of intergroup prejudice against the Chinese LGBT community: Intergroup anxiety and direct contact. Communication Studies, 73(4), 397-411. https://doi.org/10.1080/10510974.2022.2113415

13. Mares, M. L., Chen, Y. A.., & Bond, B. J. (2022). Mutual influence in LGBTQ teens’ use of media to socialize their parents. Media Psychology, 25(3), 441-468. https://doi.org/10.1080/15213269.2021.1969950

14. Sarmiento, I. G., Olson, C., Yeo, G., Chen, Y. A., Toma, C. L., Brown, B. B., ... & Mares, M. L. (2020). How does social media use relate to adolescents’ internalizing symptoms? Conclusions from a systematic narrative review. Adolescent Research Review, 5, 381-404. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40894-018-0095-2

15. Chen, Y. A. (2018). Media coverage and social changes: Examining the valence of portrayal of the LGBT community from 2000 to 2014 in two U.S. magazines. Intercultural Communication Studies, 27(1), 83-95.

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Book Chapter & Encyclopedia Entry

1. Mares, M. L. & Chen, Y. A.(2024). Facilitating conversations? LGBTQ youth report on media-based interactions with their parents. In S. Hust, J. Willoughby, & R. Ortiz (Eds.), Teens, sex and media effects (pp. 58-68). Routledge. (Link to the Book)

2. Toma, C. L., Chen, Y. A., Olson, C., Fan, T., & Brown, B. B. (2020). Youth social media use and well-being. In J. Van den Bulck, D. Ewoldsen, M. L. Mares, & E. Scharrer (Eds.), The international encyclopedia of media psychology. John Wiley and Sons. (Link to the Book)

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