| Name | Yu-Chih Chen |
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| Office Tel No. | 02-3366-1256 |
| Job Title | Associate Professor |
| Research Expertise | Social determinants of healthy aging, productive engagement, financial capability, and cross-national comparative research |
| Teaching Field | Social Determinants of Healthy Aging, Big Data Analysis in Social Welfare, Quantitative Methods |
| Education | PhD in Social Work, Washington University in St Louis |
| 服務機構 | Associate Professor (with Tenure), Department of Social Work, National Taiwan University (February 2025 - Present) Assistant Professor, Department of Social Work and Social Administration, The University of Hong Kong (August 2019 to January 2025) |
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Dr. Yu-Chih Chen (陳昱志) is an Associate Professor in the Department of Social Work at National Taiwan University (NTU). His research focuses on the social determinants of healthy aging (e.g., economic, neighborhood, and social engagement), productive engagement (e.g., employment, volunteering, and caregiving), financial capability, and cross-national comparative research. He is currently leading multiple projects, including studies on how self-employment and work in later life affect health (China), how social isolation shapes cognition and frailty (US, UK, South Korea, and China), and the impacts of financial capability (US). Dr. Chen has received funding from the Hong Kong Research Grants Council, the Social Policy Institute at Washington University in St. Louis, Taiwan’s Ministry of Education, and Taiwan’s Ministry of Health and Welfare. His work has been published in leading journals in gerontology, social policy, and the social sciences, including Innovation in Aging, The Journals of Gerontology: Social Sciences, The Gerontologist, International Journal of Health Policy and Management, and Social Science & Medicine. In 2025, he received the Ministry of Education’s Yushan Young Scholar Award and, in the same year, was named an NTU Eminent Scholar (a NTU professorship). Dr. Chen is actively engaged in several academic communities. He currently serves as an Associate Editor of Aging & Mental Health and as an editorial board member of the Journal of Gerontological Social Work, and he is also an Academic Editor for PLoS One. In addition, he has served as an anonymous reviewer for 39 journals, including Age and Ageing, American Journal of Epidemiology, BMJ Open, Demography, Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health, Social Science & Medicine, and Scientific Reports. He is a member of the Gerontological Society of America and the Society for Social Work and Research, and he is an Honorary Associate Professor at the University of Hong Kong. Dr. Chen’s practice interests center on the health of older adults in community and long-term care settings. His research draws on large-scale social and administrative data, as well as primary data collection, and applies rigorous quantitative methods to evaluate how social determinants shape healthy aging. Before joining National Taiwan University, he served as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Social Work and Social Administration at the University of Hong Kong. Dr. Chen earned both his BSW and MSW degrees in Social Work from National Taiwan University. In 2011, he was awarded a Ministry of Education government fellowship to pursue doctoral study in the United States (with a focus on economic security in later life). He subsequently completed his PhD in Social Work at the Brown School, Washington University in St. Louis, and was named a McDonnell International Scholar at Washington University. Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=J0-i7MUAAAAJ&hl=en Personal website: https://sites.google.com/view/yu-chih-chen |
| Year | Paper Title |
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| 2025 | Zhang, J., Chen, Y. C., Shi, C., & Wang, J. S. H., Developing an operationalized framework for comparing consumer-directed care for older adults: Evidence from expert survey and cross-national comparison, Journal of Aging & Social Policy, vol. 1, pp. 71-91, 2025 |
| 2025 | Shi, S., Peng, C., Zhang, Q., Wen, M., Chen, Y. C., & Yip, P. S. F., Does religion buffer the negative effects of economic and subjective poverty on life satisfaction? Longitudinal evidence from Hong Kong, Applied Research in Quality of Life, pp. 523-542, 2025 |
| 2025 | Zhang, Y., Chen, Y. C., How public pension and age shape the effects of intergenerational support patterns on older adults’ frailty: Evidence from China, Applied Research in Quality of Life, pp. 1443-1468, 2025 |
| 2024 | Hung, N., Chen, Y. C., Choy Yung, R. M. P., Kwan, M. S. M., To, A. K. Y., Fung, E. S. M., & Chan, C. L. W., Generativity in later-life: The interplay between retirement status and human, social, and financial capital., Journal of Gerontological Social Work, vol. 1, pp. 35-54, 2024 |
| 2024 | Taylor, H., Chen, Y. C., Tsuchiya, K, Cudjoe, T., Qin, W., & Nguyen, A., Racial/Ethnic differences in loneliness among older adults: The role of income and education as mediators., Innovation in Aging, vol. 8, 2024 |
| 2024 | Shi, S., Chen, Y. C., Gugushvili, A., & Yip, P. S. F., Intergenerational educational mobility and cognitive trajectories among middle-aged and older Chinese people: An application of growth mixture and mobility contrast models in longitudinal analysis, The Journals of Gerontology, Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, vol. 9, 2024 |
| 2024 | Hu, T., Chen, Y. C., & Halvorsen, C., Self-employment transitions and health outcomes in later life: evidence from China, Innovation in Aging, vol. 9, 2024 |
| 2023 | Shi, S., Chen, Y. C., Yip, P. S. F., Relative deprivation patterns in social and geographical references for health trajectories in China: Investigations of gender and urban-rural disparities, Social Science & Medicine, 2023 |
| 2023 | Chen, Y. C., Taylor, H. O., Hung, N., & Chan, C. L. W., Later-life depressive symptoms during the Covid-19 pandemic: Investigations of individual, cumulative, and synergistic effects of social isolation, Aging & Mental Health, vol. 9, pp. 1702-1710, 2023 |
| 2023 | Chen, Y. C., Morrow-Howell, N., Hung, N., & Chan, C. L. W., Civic activities and mental health in later life: The moderating role of generative concerns, Journal of Gerontological Social Work, vol. 7, pp. 844-863, 2023 |
| 2023 | Motley, R., Chen, Y. C., Finner, A., Masood, Y., & Joe, S., Prevalence and correlates of police contact anxiety among male and female black emerging adults in St. Louis, Missouri., Social Work Research, vol. 1, pp. 50-61, 2023 |
| 2023 | Motley, R., Chen, Y. C., Motley, J., Prevalence and correlates of adverse mental health outcomes among male and female black emerging adults with a history of exposure (direct versus indirect) to police use of force., Social Work Research, vol. 2, pp. 125-134, 2023 |
| 2023 | Chen, Y. C., Sun, S., Gender difference in the relationship between financial capability and health in later life: Evidence from Hong Kong, Innovation in Aging, vol. 6, 2023 |
| 2023 | Zhang, Y., Chen, Y. C., Wang, J. S. H., Long-term care insurance and health and perceived satisfaction of older Chinese: Comparisons between urban/rural areas, chronic conditions, and their intersectionality, International Journal of Health Policy and Management, vol. 1, pp. 1-13, 2023 |
| 2022 | Yip, P. S. F., Yeung, C. Y., Chen, Y. C., Lai, C. C. S., & Wong, C. L. H., An evaluation of the long-term sustainability of suicide prevention programs in an offshore island, Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, vol. 1, pp. 4-13, 2022 |
| 2022 | Chen, Y. C., Hung, N., Lau, B. H. P., Choy Yung, R. M. P., Fung, E. S. M., & Chan, C. L. W., Generativity and gendered pathways to health: The role of human, social, and financial capital past mid-life, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, vol. 9, 2022 |
| 2022 | Zeng, Y., Lum, T., & Chen, Y. C., The intersectionality of life course socioeconomic status, race, and cognitive decline: A 18-year follow-up., International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, vol. 8, 2022 |
| 2022 | Yeung, C. Y., Men, Y., Chen, Y. C, & Yip, P. S. F., Home as the first site for suicide prevention: A Hong Kong experience, Injury Prevention, vol. 3, pp. 225-230, 2022 |
| 2022 | Leung, Z., Huang, Y. T., Chen, Y. C., & Chan, L. S., “Pattern matters”: a latent class analysis of Internet use and users’ attitudes toward homosexuality in China, Sexuality Research and Social Policy, pp. 1572-1580, 2022 |
| 2022 | Sun, S., Chen, Y. C., Ansong, D., Huang, J., & Sherraden, M. S., Household financial capability and economic hardship: an empirical examination of the financial capability framework, Journal of Family and Economic Issues, pp. 716-729, 2022 |
| 2022 | Sun, S. & Chen, Y. C., Is financial capability a determinant of health? Theory and evidence, Journal of Family and Economic Issues, pp. 744-755, 2022 |
| 2021 | Zeng, Y., Chen, Y. C., & Lum, T., Longitudinal impacts of grandparent caregiving on cognitive, mental, and physical health in China, Aging & Mental Health, vol. 11, pp. 2053-2060, 2021 |
| 2020 | Chiang, C. J., Chen, Y. C., Wei, H. S., Jonson-Reid, M., Social bonds and profiles of delinquency among adolescents: Differential effects by gender and age., Children and Youth Services Review, 2020 |
| 2020 | Motley, R., Chen, Y. C., Johnson, C., & Joe, S., Exposure to community-based violence on social media among black male emerging adults involved with the criminal justice system., Social Work Research, vol. 2, pp. 87-97, 2020 |
| 2020 | Wu, H. C., Chen, Y. C., Chen, Y. C., & Yang, C. Y., The development and validation of strength and empowerment scale for caregivers of persons with psychiatric disability, China Journal of Social Work, vol. 3, pp. 213-231, 2020 |
| 2019 | Halvorsen, C. & Chen, Y. C., The diversity of interest in later-life entrepreneurship: Results from a nationally representative survey of Americans aged 50 to 70, PLoS One, vol. 6, 2019 |
| 2019 | Chen, Y. C., Putnam, M., Lee, Y. S., & Morrow-Howell, N., Activity patterns and health outcomes in later life: The role of nature of engagement, The Gerontologist, vol. 4, pp. 698-708, 2019 |
| 2019 | Chao, S. F. & Chen, Y. C., Environment patterns and mental health of older adults in long-term care facilities: The role of activity profiles, Aging & Mental Health, vol. 10, pp. 1307-1316, 2019 |
| 2019 | Park, S., Cho, J., & Chen, Y. C., Subsidized housings and geographic accessibility to neighborhood resources for low-income older people: From later year social exclusion perspective, Geoforum, pp. 297-304, 2019 |
| 2018 | Wang, Y., Chen, Y. C., Shen, H. W., & Morrow-Howell, N., Neighborhood and depressive symptoms: A comparison of rural and urban Chinese older adults, The Gerontologist, vol. 1, pp. 68-78, 2018 |
| 2018 | Chen, Y. C., Wang, Y., Cooper, B., McBride, T., Chen, H., Wang, D., Lai, C. Y., Montemuro, L. C., & Morrow-Howell, N., A research note on challenges of cross-national aging research: An example of productive activities across three countries, Research on Aging, vol. 1, pp. 54-71, 2018 |
| 2017 | Motley, R., Sewell, W., & Chen, Y. C., Community violence exposure and risk-taking behaviors among black emerging adults: A systematic review., Journal of Community Health, vol. 5, pp. 1069-1078, 2017 |
| 2010 | 鄭麗珍,林子倫,陳昱志,張玉薇, 兒少保護體系的政府職能分工：英美臺三國論述, 兒童及少年福利期刊, pp. 96-118, 2010 |
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