Ningxin Wang

Teaching Specializations

• Organizational behavior
• Communication
• Leadership and decision making

Research Specializations

• Technology-mediated communication
• Communicative correlates of health and well-being
• Social support and support gaps

Education

• Ph. D. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Department of Communication
  8/2013 – 7/2017
• M. A. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Department of Communication
  8/2011- 5/2013
• B. A. Renmin University of China, School of Journalism and Communication,
  9/2007-7/2011

Academic Positions

• 1/2019 – present Lecturer, Department of Management and Organization, National University of Singapore
• 9/2018 – 12/2018 Visiting Scholar, Department of Management and Organization, National University of Singapore
• 8/2017 – 8/2018 Assistant Professor, Department of Communication Studies, Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania
• 8/2013 – 5/2017 Graduate Research Assistant, Department of Communication, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• 8/2014 – 5/2017 Instructor/Teaching Assistant, Department of Communication, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Peer-reviewed Journal Articles

• Wang, N. (2019). Support gaps in parent-emerging adult dyads: The role of support quality. Personal Relationships, 26, 232-261.
• Wang, N. (2019). Emerging adults’ received and desired support from parents: Evidence for optimal received-desired support matching and optimal support surpluses. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 36, 3448–3470.
• Lou, M., Wang, N., & Bigman-Calimore, C. (2019). Effects of opinion climate, efficacy messages, and publicness of social media on intentions to retransmit anti-binge drinking messages on Facebook. Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking, 22, 677-683.
• Wang, N., Roaché, J. D., & Pusateri, K. B. (2019). Associations between parents’ and young adults’ face-to-face and technologically mediated communication competence: The role of family communication patterns. Communication Research, 46, 1171-1196.
• Guntzviller, L. M., & Wang, N. (2019). Mother-adolescent communication in low-income, Latino families during language brokering: Examining the theory of resilience and relational load. Journal of Family Communication, 19, 228-242.
• Guntzviller, L. M., Wang, N., Martinez Gonzalez, A., & Ratcliff, C. L. (2019). Situating advice response theory in a cultural and relational context: How Hispanic adults perceive exercise advice from parents. Online first publication. Communication Research.
• Wang, N., Roaché, J. D., & Pusateri, K. B. (2018). The interconnection of multiple communication modes in long-distance dating relationships. Online first publication. Western Journal of Communication.
• Basinger, D. E., Caughlin, J. P., & Wang, N. (2018). Coping with type 2 diabetes in the family: An examination of discrepancies between actual and desired communal coping. Online first publication. Personal Relationships.
• Guntzviller, L. M., & Wang, N. (2018). Latino adolescent pursuit and mother inference of language brokering interaction goals with adolescent self-esteem outcomes. Human Communication Research, 44, 473-502.
• Guntzviller, L. M., & Wang, N. (2018). Short acculturation scale for Hispanics (SASH-Y and SASH) reliability and validity in low-income, Mexican-heritage youth and parents. Online first publication. Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Science.
• Lee, C-J., Nagler, R., & Wang, N. (2018). Source-specific exposure to contradictory media information: Documenting prevalence and effects on adverse cognitive and behavioral outcomes. Health Communication, 33, 453-461.
• Wang, N. (2016). Parent-child communication about sexuality in China. Journal of Family Communication, 16, 229-246.
• Pusateri, K. B., Roaché, J. D., & Wang, N. (2015). Technology use in serial conflict: A communicative interdependence perspective. Argumentation and Advocacy, 52, 44-60.
• Kam, J. A., Castro, F. G., Wang, N. (2015). Parent-child communication’s attenuating effects on Mexican-heritage early-stage adolescents’ depressive symptoms and substance use. Human Communication Research, 41, 204-225.
• Kam, J. A., & Wang, N. (2015). Examining the longitudinal effects of best-friend communication against substance use among Latino and European American adolescents. Journal of Research on Adolescence, 25, 534-550.
• Kam, J. A., Wang, N., & Harvey, J. (2014). Latino and European American early adolescents' exposure to music with substance-use references: Examining parent-child communication as a moderator. Journal of Adolescence. 37, 185-196.