Assistant professor

 

General Information

Current appointment：Assistant professor Research Field：Geropsychology; Educational Psychology; Ageism; Educational Gerontology E-Mail：yangsf@gs.ncku.edu.tw Office/Phone：(06) 2757575 ext. 56519 Courses Offered：Seminar on Adult Development and Aging; Writing in Psychology; Psychological Approach to Successful Aging

Professional Experience

TEACHING EXPERIENCE 2022/08-2023/01 Assistant professor, Graduate Institute of Adult Education, National Kaohsiung Normal University 2016/02-2016/07 Adjunct lecturer, Department of Applied Foreign Languages, Cheng Shiu University   RESEARCH EXPERIENCE 2016/09-2018/07 Research assistant, Education Division, Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in San Francisco (U.S.A.)

Honors & Awards

2020/ International Symposium on Computer, Consumer, and Control/Best paper award 2020/ The 6th IEEE & 7th The International Conference on Science, Education, and Viable Engineering/Best presentation award 2016/ Graduate Student Academic Achievement Scholarship

Education

Ph.D., Educational Psychology and Counseling, National Taiwan Normal University M.Ed., Educational Psychology, University at Hawaii at Manoa

Publications

Hsu, H.I., Liu, Z.C., Yang, S. F.*, & Chen, H. C*. (2022). A health promotion program for older adults (KABAN!): Effects on health literacy, quality of life, and emotions. Educational Gerontology. https://doi.org/10.1080/03601277.2022.2147331 (SSCI)   Yang, S., Chen, H. C.*, Wu, C. H., Wu, M. N., & Yang, C. H.* (2021). Forecasting of the prevalence of dementia using the LSTM neural network in Taiwan. Mathematics, 9(5), Article 488. (SCI)   Yang, S., Chen, H. C.*, Chen, W. C., & Yang, C. H.* (2020). Forecasting outbound student mobility: A machine learning approach. PLoS One, 15(9), Article e0238129. (SCI)   Yang, S., Chen, H. C.*, Chen, W. C., & Yang, C. H.* (2020). Student Enrollment and Teacher Statistics Forecasting Based on Time-Series Analysis. Computational Intelligence and Neuroscience, 1-15. (SCI)   Yang, S.*, Chen, Y. L., & Moi, S.H. (2018). Risk Factors of Internet Addiction Among Southern Taiwanese Vocational High School Students. NPUST Humanities and Social Science Research: Pedagogy 14(2), 25-40.   Yang, S., Hsu, W. C.*, Moi, S. H., Chen, H. C., & Chang, Y. L. (2016). The Effects of Psychological Factors on Intention to seek Counseling in International Students in Taiwan. International Journal of Development Research, 6(12), 10691-10697.   Yang, S., Hsu, W. C., & Chen, H. C.* (2016). Age and gender interactive effects on learning satisfaction among senior university students. Educational Gerontology, 42(12), 835-844. (SSCI)   Yang, S.*, Salzman, M., & Yang, C.H. (2015). Exploring the Adjustment Problems among International Graduate Students in Hawaii. Universal Journal of Educational Research, 3, 214-219.

Books/Chapters

Conference Presentations

Yang, S., Chen, H. C., Chen, W. C., Yang, C. H. (2020, November). Forecasting enterovirus patient visits using Long Short-Term Memory. Presented at the International Symposium on Computer, Consumer, and Control, Taichung, Taiwan.   Yang, S., & Chen, H.C. (2020, November). Attitude towards old people and their relation to mental health and filial piety among university students in Taiwan. Presented at The 6th IEEE & 7th The International Conference on Science, Education, and Viable Engineering, Penghu, Taiwan.   Yang, C.H., Chen, Y.L., Moi, S.H., Yang, S. (2019, April). Internet addiction of vocational high school teenagers in Taiwan: A cross-sectional study. Presented at the 2nd International Conference on Social Entrepreneurship, Economics and Management Studies, Osaka, Japan.   Yang, S., Salzman, M., & Yang, C.H. (2014, December). Exploring the adjustment problems among international graduate students in Hawaii. Presented at the 3rd Hong Kong International Conference on Education, Psychology, and Society, Hong Kong, China.   Yang, S., & Salzman, M. (2014, November). Predictors of anxiety among international graduate students in Hawaii. Presented at the International Conference on Educational Innovation (ICEI), Hsinchu, Taiwan

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