Educational Qualifications

2022
Ph.D. in Psychology, National University of Singapore, Singapore

2018
B.Soc.Sci. (Honours) in Psychology, National University of Singapore, Singapore


Academic and Professional Experience

2025 – Present
Senior Lecturer (Psychology), Singapore University of Social Sciences

2022 – 2024
Lecturer (Psychology), Singapore University of Social Sciences

Selected Publications

Oh, V. Y. S.* (2025 – in press). Money matters for future well-being: A latent growth analysis and meta-analytic integration of associations between income, financial satisfaction, and 22 well-being variables across three datasets. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.

Hoy, E. Q. W.#, & Oh, V. Y. S.* (2024). The consequences of spousal infidelity for long-term chronic health: A two-wave longitudinal analysis. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships. https://doi.org/10.1177/02654075241276713

Oh, V. Y. S.* (2024). A comparison of domain-specific evaluations of life in predicting overall life evaluation and biological inflammation. International Journal of Psychology.https://doi.org/10.1002/ijop.13218

Oh, V. Y. S.* (2023). Direct versus indirect measures of mixed emotions in predictive models: Comparing predictive validities, multicollinearity, and confounding factors. Frontiers in Psychology, 14, 1231845.https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1231845

Oh, V. Y. S.*, & Tong, E. M. W. (2023). Mixed emotional variants of gratitude: Antecedent situations, cognitive appraisals, action tendencies, and psychosocial outcomes. Cognition and Emotion, 37(3), 572–585. https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2023.2205104

Chua, K. Q., Ng, R., Sung, C. L. Q., Hartanto, A., Oh, V. Y. S., & Tong, E. M. W. (2023). Relationship between contentment and working memory capacity: experimental and naturalistic evidence. Current Psychology, 42(30), 26243–26258. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-022-03714-7

Chew, T. W., Ong, C. S. L., & Oh, V. Y. S., & Tong, E. M. W. (2023). Does volunteering improve the psychosocial well-being of volunteers? Current Psychology, 42(26), 22338–22350. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-022-03345-y

>Oh, V. Y. S.*, Ismail, I., & Tong, E. M. W. (2023) Income moderates trajectories of personality change. European Journal of Personality, 37(2) 223-238.https://doi.org/10.1177/08902070221078479

Low, A., Oh, V. Y. S., Tong, E. M. W., Scarf, D., & Ruffman, T. (2022) Older adults have difficulty decoding emotions from the eyes, whereas easterners have difficulty decoding emotion from the mouth. Scientific Reports. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-11381-8

Oh, V. Y. S.*, & Tong, E. M. W. (2022) Specificity in the study of mixed emotions: A theoretical framework. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 26(4), 283–314. https://doi.org/10.1177/10888683221083398

Oh, V. Y. S.* (2022). Torn between valences: Mixed emotions predict poorer psychological well-being and job burnout. Journal of Happiness Studies, 23(5), 2171–2200. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10902-021-00493-z

Oh, V. Y. S.*, & Tong, E. M. W. (2021). Mixed emotions, but not positive or negative emotions, facilitate legitimate virus-prevention behaviors and eudaimonic outcomes in the emergence of the COVID-19 crisis. Affective Science, 2(3), 311–323. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42761-021-00045-x

Tong, E. M. W., & Oh, V. Y. S.* (2021). Gratitude and adaptive coping among Chinese Singaporeans during the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 11. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2020.628937

Oh, V. Y. S.*, & Tong, E. M. W. (2020). Negative emotion differentiation and long-term physical health—The moderating role of neuroticism. Health Psychology, 39(2), 127–136. https://doi.org/10.1037/hea0000809

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