Welcome to the DREAMS Lab! This is the space to share our research interests, findings, and facilitate collaborations. Our work focuses on understanding ways to promote individual positive development and optimal well-being in the family context, interpersonal settings, and broader ecological systems from the person-centered and transactional dynamic approaches, with an emphasis on fostering adolescent relationship health, social-emotional development, competence and character strengths, and flourishing as a whole. The ultimate goals of our research is to inform prevention/intervention to promote child and adolescent health and well-being in real life.
If you would like to know more about our lab projects and/or have shared research interests, please feel free to contact the lab director, Dr. Mengya Xia at mengya.xia@asu.edu.​
We are now recruiting for our Social Connection & Well-Being Study!
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Scan the QR code or click HERE to see if your child is eligible!
Our Latest Work/Activity
Janurary 2026: Yuan & Mengya's paper on daily stress and adolescent emotional well-being is published in the Journal of Research on Adolescence.
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Zhang, Y, & Xia, M. (2026). Daily Stress and Adolescent Emotional Well-being: Protective Roles of Sport Experience and Sleep Quality. Journal of Research on Adolescence, 36(1), e70139. https://doi.org/10.1111/jora.70139
July 2025: Mengya's paper on family and school associations for adolescents across grades is published in the Journal of Youth and Adolescence.
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Xia, M., Chen, X., & Chi, X. (2025 online first). The Time-Varying Role of Family Climate on Adolescent School Adjustment From 4th Grade to 12th Grade. Journal of Youth and Adolescence. https:// doi.org/10.1007/s10964-025-02219-3
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May 2025: Silvia presented at The Love Consortium. Check out her presentation about gratitude.
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Silvia: The Interplay of Gratitude in Parent-Adolescent Dyads in the Context of Positive Family Processes. [Poster]
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May 2025: The DREAMS lab presented at SRCD. Check out our presentations below:​
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Silvia: Dreaming About Parents Quarreling? Adolescent-Mother-Father Perceived Daily Interparental Interactions and Adolescent Sleep Quality. [Poster]
March 2025: Yuan presented at the Second International Conference on Love Studies. Check out her presentation:
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November 2024: Mengya's paper on linking adolescents' daily dynamics of feeling loved by their caregiver to adolescents' flourishing is published in the Developmental Science.
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Xia, M., Coffey, J. K. & Fosco, G. M. (2024). Daily Dynamics of Feeling Loved by Parents and Their Prospective Implications for Adolescent Flourishing. Developmental Science, 27(6), 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.13495
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September 2024: Mengya's paper on exploring core elements of love across different relationships is published in the Family Process.
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Xia, M., Chen, Y., & Dunne, S. C. (2024). What makes people feel loved? An exploratory study on core elements of love in family, romantic, and friend relationships. Family Process 63(3), 1304-1318. https://doi.org/10.1111/FAMP.12873
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June 2023: Mengya's paper on identifying social connection constellations and their links to individual well-being is published in the Journal of Happiness Studies.
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Xia, M. & Hudac, C. M. (2023). Social Connection Constellations and Individual Well-Being Typologies: Using the Loglinear Modeling Approach with Latent Variables. Journal of Happiness Studies, 24, 1991-2012. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10902-023-00667-x
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March 2023: Mengya's paper on a cross-cultural study examining the links between one's perception of the true self and mental health is published in the Asian Journal of Social Psychology.
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Xia, M., & Xu, X. (2023). Does Authenticity Always Breed Mental Health? A Cross-Cultural Comparison Between the United State and China. Asian Journal of Social Psychology, 25(1), 132-145. https://doi.org/10.1111/AJSP.12549
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