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Lei Chai

@lchai.bsky.social
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Assistant Professor of Social Work and Social Administration at the University of Hong Kong | PhD in Sociology from University of Toronto | Research on health and mental health

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Pallavi Banerjee @pallavib.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
JOB ALERT FOR #SOCIOLOGIST: Come work with me. We have FOUR Assistant Professor positions in the Sociology Department at the University of Calgary. careers.ucalgary.ca/jobs/1672106...
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Assistant Professors - Sociology, Faculty of Arts in Calgary, AB, ...
Assistant Professors - Sociology, Faculty of Arts in Calgary, AB, ...
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Lei Chai @lchai.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
New publication with @zhuofeilu.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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Lei Chai @lchai.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
My latest paper is out! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Food Insecurity and Mental Health: A Moderated Mediation Analysis
Extensive research has demonstrated the negative impact of food insecurity on mental health; however, the mediating and moderating mechanisms underlying this relationship remain underexplored. Using ....
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Lei Chai @lchai.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Our paper (with Senhu Wang and Zhuofei Lu) is out! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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The role of loneliness in mediating the relationship between financial strain and mental health: Exploring gender differences in a UK longitudinal study
This study explores the association between financial strain and loneliness over time, investigates loneliness as a mediator in the relationship betwe…
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Lei Chai @lchai.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Excited to join the editorial board of the Journal of Hunger & Environmental Nutrition!
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Lei Chai @lchai.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Our paper (with @zhuofeilu.bsky.social) is out! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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The association between financial strain and mental health: The mediating and moderating roles of sleep problems in the UK household longitudinal study (UKHLS)
Financial strain is a well-documented stressor that negatively affects mental health, yet the mechanisms underlying this relationship remain insuffici…
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Trenton Mize @trentonmize.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Are you tired of analyzing your nominal and ordinal variables like its the 1950s? Then read @sociologicalsci.bsky.social today and see if ME inequality and total ME are right for you. We develop new methods for summarizing effects for nominal/ordinal independent and dependent variables.
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Lei Chai @lchai.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
My first co-authored paper, affiliated with the University of Hong Kong, is out!
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Lei Chai @lchai.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
I’m excited to join the editorial review board of Social Science Research.
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Lei Chai @lchai.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
I have reached 400 citations--a small milestone!
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