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Dr Jacky C.K. Ng
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Dr Jacky NG

Assistant Professor

Biography

Dr Jacky Ng is a quantitative psychologist with a keen interest in exploring how different methodological issues (e.g., spurious effect, analytically equivalent models, and unreliability) impact research findings in social and behavioral sciences. He obtained his PhD in Psychology from The Chinese University of Hong Kong and currently serves as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Applied Social Sciences at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University.

Dr Ng's research revolves around psychometrics and its applications in psychological research. His current focus in psychometrics includes 1) integrating mediation and moderation analyses, 2) distinguishing analytically equivalent models using SEM and multilevel modeling, 3) identifying spurious mediation and moderation effects, and 4) assessing measurement invariance in cross-cultural research. In addition to his methodological research, Dr Ng conducts psychological research in various areas such as malicious and benign envy, social axioms, globalization, and mental health.

Dr Ng's research has been published in esteemed journals across disciplines, including Structural Equation Modeling: A Multidisciplinary Journal, Computers in Human Behavior, American Psychologist, Psychological Bulletin, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Social Psychological and Personality Science, Journal of Personality, The Journal of Positive Psychology, and Journal of Happiness Studies.

Education and Academic Qualifications

PhD (CUHK)
MPhil (PolyU)
BA (PolyU)

Research Interests

  • Mediation and moderaion analysis
  • Structural equation mdoeling
  • Multilevel modeling
  • Cross-cultural research methodology
  • Malcious and benign envy
  • Social axioms

Grants (selected)

PI. Effect Conservation in Process Analysis: The Reason, Solution, and Promotion. Early Career Scheme, Research Grants Council, Hong Kong SAR, 2023/24. (Funded HK$659,449).

PI. Two Novel Advances in Testing a Moderated Mediation Model. APSS Research Fund, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, 2022/23. (Funded HK$1,000,000).

Co-PI. Evaluation of the Strive and Rise Programme. The Hong Kong Federation of Youth Groups, 2022/23. (Funded HK$1,988,000).

PI. The Multiplicative Investigations between Self-views and Worldviews on Life Satisfaction: The Conceptual and Methodological Advances. Start-up Fund, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, 2021/22. (Funded HK$500,000).

PI. Combining Temperamentalist, Instrumentalist, and Interactionalist: A Methodological Synthesis of Three Perspectives in a Conditional Process Model. Departmental General Research Fund, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, 2021/22. (Funded HK$100,000).

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