Research

Primary Research Interests

Presentations, Posters, and Exhibits

1. Yu, H., & Zuiker, V. S. (Accepted, Scheduled April 2026). The effects of economic hardship and financial resilience on post-pandemic financial stress and anxiety [Poster presentation]. American Council on Consumer Interests Annual Conference, Long Beach, CA, United States.

2. Dias, A., Yang, Y., Sun, X., Chen, S., Tang, Y., & Yu, H. (2026, Scheduled April 2026). Identifying family predictors of adolescents’ future educational attainment across different race/ethnic groups: A machine learning study. Paper presented at the Society for Research on Adolescence Biennial Meeting, Toronto, Canada.

3. Yu, H., Sun, X., Tang, Y., Chen, S., & Xu, T. (2025). From family experiences to childfree: Exploring the decision not to have kids in young adults with supervised machine learning [Paper presentation]. National Council on Family Relations Annual Conference, Baltimore, MD, United States.

4. Nakanishi, Č., Yu, H., & Pasco, M. (2025). Exploring the decision-making processes of childfree couples: A phenomenological exploration [Paper presentation]. National Council on Family Relations Annual Conference, Baltimore, MD, United States.

5. Green, L.E., Yu, H., & Zuiker, V.S. (2025). The role of financial socialization and financial capability in financial independence among college students. In M.B. Russell and J. Ketterman, Proceedings of the Association for Financial Counseling and Planning Education, Glendale, AZ, 51. 

6.     Tang, Y., Sun, X., Yu, H., & Chen, S. (2025). How adolescent family experiences predict adulthood marriage decisions: Analysis with supervised machine learning [Paper presentation]. National Council on Family Relations Annual Conference, Baltimore, MD, United States.

7.     Wheeler, B. E., Egbunu, A., Yu, H., Zuiker, V. S., & Smith, R. C. (2025). Breaking one size fits all: The unique needs of BIPOC and White students in financial education [Paper presentation]. 2025 Alabama Association of Family and Consumer Sciences (ALAFCS) Conference, Huntsville, AL, United States.

8. Faucette, R. N., Grant, S. B., Mendenhall, T., Yu, H., & Macchi, C. R. (2025). Mapping the evolution of APA’s Family, Systems & Health journal: A systematic review [Poster presentation]. American Psychological Association (APA) 2025 Convention, Washington, DC, United States.

9.     Yu, H., Zuiker, V.S., Quiñones, M., & Li, Y. (2024). Red, blue, or green? Investigating the relationship between political preferences and money scripts. In A. Betz-Hamilton, Proceedings of the Association for Financial Counseling and Planning Education, Columbus, OH, 218 – 223.

10.  Green, L.E., Yu, H., & Zuiker, V.S. (2024, November). Housing insecurity among college students: An exploratory study of first-generation and non-first-generation college students at two universities [Paper presentation]. Housing, Education, Research Association, Online

11.  Green, L.E., Yu, H., & Zuiker, V.S. (2024). Financial independence and financial anxiety: Does first-generation college student status matter? In A. Betz-Hamilton, Proceedings of the Association for Financial Counseling and Planning Education, Columbus, OH, 136.

12.  Yu, H., & Zuiker, V. S. (2023). Navigating economic hardship: The impact of losing work hours, working remotely, and childcare in families with children [Poster presentation]. National Conference on Family Relations, Orlando, Florida.

13.  Yu, H., Zuiker, V.S., & Li, Y. (2023). Examining financial anxiety through cognitive appraisals and coping during a global pandemic. In A. Betz-Hamilton, Proceedings of the Association for Financial Counseling and Planning Education, New Orleans, LA, p. 46.

14.  Yu, H., Routon, J., Rice, T.M. (2021, April). Sexual and gender minority populations' housing instability in rural areas and health outcomes [Poster presentation]. 2021 Undergraduate Research Symposium, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, Illinois

15.  Yu, H., Rice, T.M., Ogolsky, B. G. (2020, April). Associations between preferred and actual leisure time and romantic relationship wellbeing [Poster presentation]. 2020 Undergraduate Research Symposium, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, Illinois.

Responses from the audience

Please share what you liked most and/or one thing you would change after participating in the session Examining financial anxiety through cognitive appraisals and coping during a global pandemic, In-person presentation presented at the 2023 Association for Financial Counseling and Planning Education, New Orleans, Louisiana. 

• "Very relevant for coping strategies due to Covid19. It’s surprising the respondents didn’t reach out to financial professions for advice. Perhaps there needs to be concrete resources for online resources stressing the importance of an AFC and the fiduciary responsibility."

• "I could relate to subject matter."

• "Values and priorities change when outside factors are added to your financial situation."