Recent Publications

*Dolan, S. C., Carrasco, E.E.,  Kwan, M.Y.,  Barkley-Levenson, E.,  Singh, S., and  Reilly, E.E.  (2026). Preliminary investigation of effort expenditure for food and monetary rewards in loss-of-control eating. European Eating Disorders Review, 1–8. https://doi.org/10.1002/erv.70160.

Kwan, M.Y.,  Bardin, A.,  Lee, A.H., and  Gordon, K.H.  (2026). Interpersonal functioning and problematic exercise behaviours in undergraduate men. European Eating Disorders Review, 34(2),  500–508. https://doi.org/10.1002/erv.70051.

Kwan, M.Y., *Gioia, A.N., *Braverman, R., and Drumheller, K. (2025). Fitspiration and thinspiration on twitter: A content analysis. European Eating Disorder Review, https://doi.org/10.1002/erv.3190.

George, N., Lee, A. H., *Gonzalez-Gaspar, J., & Kwan, M. Y. (2024). A systematic review of barriers and facilitators impacting the utilization of mental health services among Asian American youth. Evidence-Based Practice in Child and Adolescent Mental Health, 1–15. https://doi.org/10.1080/23794925.2024.2392250.

Kwan, M. Y., Dodd, D. (2024). Social cognition and bulimic symptoms in male undergraduate students: The conditional effect of emotion dysregulation. European Eating Disorder Review, https://doi.org/10.1002/erv.3120.

Kwan, M. Y., Gordon, K. H., Castro, Y., Douglas, V., & Minnich, A. M. (2023). Perceived discrimination and acculturative stress among ethnic  minority college students: The impact on suicide risk via perceived burdensomeness and thwarted belongingness. Trends in Psychology.  https://doi.org/10.1007/s43076-023-00345-0.

Kwan, M.Y., Bentley, D., & Serper, M. (2023). Body dissatisfaction, negative affect, and engagement in healthy behaviors: The conditional effect of future-self continuity. Journal of Health Psychology, https://doi.org/10.1177/13591053231185685.

Kwan, M. Y., Macaulay, C. C., Gartrell, H. N., & Doggett, H. M (2022). Weight stigmatization in political contexts: An interaction with gender. Trends in Psychology, https://doi.org/10.1007/s43076-022- 00238-8.

Douglas, V. J., Kwan, M. Y., Minnich, A. M., Converse, J. N., Wonderlich, J. A., & Gordon, K. H. (2022). An examination of the link between empathy and weight-based victimization. Social Sciences & Humanities Open, 5(1). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssaho.2022.100247.

Douglas, V. J., Kwan, M. Y., & Gordon, K. H. (2021). Pet attachment and the interpersonal theory of suicide. Crisis: The Journal of Crisis Intervention and Suicide, https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/p67bu.

Douglas, V. J., Kwan, M. Y., & Gordon, K. H. (2021). The roles of weight stigma, emotion dysregulation, and eating pathology in suicide risk. Body Image, 38, 162-170. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bodyim.2021.04.005.

Douglas, V. J., Kwan, M. Y., Minnich, A. M., & Gordon, K. H. (2019). The interaction of sociocultural attitudes and gender on disordered eating. Journal of Clinical Psychology, 75, 2140–2146. https://doi.org/10.1002/jclp.22835.

Kwan, M. Y. (2019). Understanding suicide in physicians: Risk factors and interventions. Panhandle Health, 29, 25-28.

Kwan, M. Y., Haynos, A. F., Blomquist, K. K., & Roberto, C. A. (2018). Warning labels on fashion images: Short- and longer-term effects on body dissatisfaction, eating disorder symptoms, and eating behavior. International Journal of Eating Disorders, 51, 1153-1161. https://doi.org/10.1002/eat.22951.

Kwan, M. Y., Gordon, K. H., Minnich, A. M. (2018). An examination of the relationships between acculturative stress, perceived discrimination, and eating disorder symptoms among ethnic minority college students. Eating Behaviors, 2825-2831. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eatbeh.2017.12.003.

Stevenson, B. L., Kwan, M. Y., Dvorak. R. D., & Gordon, K. H. (2018). Empirically derived classes of eating pathology in male and female college students. Eating Disorders, 26, 200-211. https://doi.org/10.1080/10640266.2017.1378525.