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Yee Shiun Ryan Hong is an Associate Professor and Deputy Head of the Research & Ph.D. Department at the National University of Singapore's Department of Psychology. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Western Ontario, and a Master of Social Sciences and a Bachelor of Social Sciences from the National University of Singapore. His primary research interests focus on personality and psychopathology, exploring the assessment of individual differences and their interplay with various psychosocial outcomes. His work delves into the nuances of personality traits and their impact on aspects such as performance, subjective well-being, and health outcomes. Currently, he investigates the relationships between dispositional trait structures, such as the Big Five personality traits, and social-cognitive processes, including depressogenic inferential and ruminative styles, anxiety sensitivity, and self-control. Through his research, he aims to elucidate the etiological processes involved in the development of psychopathology forms, focusing particularly on depression, anxiety, and substance abuse from a personality perspective.
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