Yifei HOU
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Yifei HOU Assistant Professor
Graduate institution: Purdue University
E-mail: yifeihou@sjtu.edu.cn
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Research area
Aging and the Life Course; Family Caregiving, Child Development; Gender; Family Relationships and Well-Being; Comparative Perspectives; Parental Differential Treatment
Biography
Yifei Hou is an Assistant Professor in the School of International and Public Affairs at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. She received a dual-title Ph.D. in Sociology and Gerontology from Purdue University. Her research focuses on the inter-linked lives of family members in middle and later life, which takes comparative, life course, and within-family differences perspectives. Her work has appeared in top international journals including the Journal of Marriage and Family, Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, and Research on Aging. She has received several national and international educational and research awards. She has been featured as the “Emerging Scholar” by the Section on Aging & the life course of the American Sociological Association.
Selected courses
Introductory Sociology, Population and Family in China
Selected publications
●Gilligan, Megan, J. Jill Suitor, Yifei Hou (correspondence), Reilly Kincaid, Destiny Ogle, and Eunbea Kim. "Adult Sibling Tension and Psychological Well-Being in the Context of Older Mothers' Health Limitations: Variations by Gender and Race". Journal of Social and Personal Relations (SSCI Q1). Online First. 10.1177/02654075241309378
●Hou, Yifei, J. Jill Suitor, Megan Gilligan, Destiny Ogle, and Catherine Stepniak. "Differential Costs of Raising Grandchildren on Older Mother-Adult Child Relations in Black and White Families" Research on Aging (SSCI Q2). 47(1):21-32. https://doi.org/10.1177/01640275241259463
●Hou, Yifei, and J. Jill Suitor. 2023 “Childhood Parental Differential Treatment and Chinese Adults’ Psychological Well-Being: The Moderating Effect of Gender. Journals of Gerontology, Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gbad138 (SSCI Q1, IF 6.2)
●Hou, Yifei, J. Jill, Suitor, and Megan Gilligan. 2022. “Intergenerational Transmission of Relationship Quality in Later Life Families.” Journal of Marriage and Family. http://doi.org/10.1111/jomf.12884 (SSCI Q1, IF 6.0)
●Hou, Yifei, Marissa Rurka, Siyun Peng. 2021. “New Structure, Traditional Essence: Patterns of Helping Non-Coresident Parents by Own and Sibling(s)’ Gender in China.” Research on Aging 44: 215-226. http://doi.org/10.1177/01640275211018814 (SSCI Q2)
Expertise & public engagement
Memberships
Gerontological Society of America
American Sociological Association (Section memberships: Family, Aging and the Life Course)
International Chinese Sociological Association
Chinese Sociological Association
Served as a reviewer for:
Journal of Marriage and Family, Journals of Gerontology, Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, The Gerontologist, Aging & Mental Health, Research on Aging, Chinese Sociological Review, Sociological Review of China