Dr Derwin Chan
First Name: Derwin King Chung
Degrees/ tittles: PhD, CPsychol, CSci, AFBPsS, OSHCR
Email: derwin@eduhk.hk
Research Profile: Google Scholar ResearchGate OSF
Affiliation:
Faculty of Education and Human Development
Centre for Child and Family Science
Department of Early Childhood Education
The Education University of Hong Kong
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Chan, D. K. C., Lee, A. S. Y., & Hamilton, K. (2020). Descriptive epidemiology and correlates of children’s swimming competence. Journal of Sports Sciences. 38(19), 2253-2263. doi: 10.1080/02640414.2020.1776947
Chan, D. K. C. , Lee, A. S. Y., Macfarlane, D. J., Hagger, M. S., & Hamilton, K (2020). Validation of the Swimming Competence Questionnaire for children.Journal of Sports Sciences. doi: 10.1080/02640414.2020.1754724
Chan, D. K. C., Stenling, A., Yusainy, C., Hikmiah, Z., Ivarsson, A., Hagger, M. S., Rhodes, R. E., Beauchamp, M. R. (2020). Consistency tendency and the theory of planned behavior: A randomized controlled crossover trial in a physical activity context. Psychology & Health. 35(6), 665-684. doi: 10.1080/08870446.2019.1677904
Chan, D. K. C. , Zhang, L., Lee, A. S. Y., Hagger, M. S. (2020).Reciprocal relations between autonomous motivation from self-determination theory and social cognition constructs from the theory of planned behavior: A cross-lagged panel design in sport injury prevention. Psychology of Sport and Exercise. 48, 101660. doi: 10.1016/j.psychsport.2020.101660
Chan, D. K. C., Keegan, R. J., Lee, A. S. Y., Yang, S. X., Zhang, L., Rhodes R. E., & Lonsdale, C. (2019). Toward a better assessment of perceived social influence: The relative role of significant others on young athletes. Scandinavian Journal of Science and Medicine in Sports. 29(2), 286-298.
Chan, D. K. C., Ntoumanis, N., Gucciardi, D. F., Donovan, R. J., Dimmock, J. A., Hardcastle, S. J., & Hagger, M. S. (2016). What if it really was an accident? The psychology of unintentional doping. British Journal of Sports Medicine, 50, 898-899. doi: 10.1136/bjsports-2015-094678
Chan, D. K. C., Hardcastle, S. J., Dimmock, J. A., Lentillon-Kaestner, V., Donovan, R. J., Burgin, M., & Hagger, M. S., (2015). Modal salient belief and social cognitive variables of anti-doping behaviors in sport: Examining an extended model of the theory of planned behavior. Psychology of Sport and Exercise, 16(2), 164-174. doi: 10.1016/j.psychsport.2014.03.002
Chan, D. K. C., Dimmock, J. A., Donovan, R. J., Hardcastle, S., Lentillon-Kaestner, V., & Hagger, M. S. (2015). Self-determined motivation in sport predicts anti-doping motivation and intention: A perspective from the trans-contextual model. Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport, 18(3), 315-322. doi: 10.1016/j.jsams.2014.04.001
Chan, D. K. C. , Hardcastle, S. J., Lentillon-Kaestner, V., Donovan, R. J., Dimmock, J. A., & Hagger, M. S. (2014). Athletes’ beliefs about and attitudes towards taking banned performance-enhancing substances: A qualitative study.Sport, Exercise, and Performance Psychology, 3(4), 241-257. doi: 10.1037/spy0000019
Chan, D. K. C., & Hagger, M. S. (2012). Theoretical integration and the psychology of sport injury prevention. Sports Medicine, 42(9), 725-732.
2020-Present
Associate Head of Department
Department of Early Childhood Education
Education University of Hong Kong
2019-Present
Associate Professor
Faculty of Education and Human Development
Education University of Hong Kong
2015-2019
Assistant Professor
School of Public Health
University of Hong Kong
Adjunct Senior Lecturer
School of Psychology and Speech Pathology
Curtin University
2012-2015
Research Fellow/ Lecturer
School of Psychology and Speech Pathology
Curtin University
2009-2012
PhD in Psychology
University of Nottingham
2008 -2009
Master of Science in Psychology of Sport and Exercise (Distinction)
2004-2007
Bachelor of Social Science
The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)
Dr Derwin Chan is an applied social psychologist with diverse research interests in the areas of health education, sport and exercise, and behavioural medicine. He is an Associate Professor and Associate Head of the Department of Early Childhood Education at Education University of Hong Kong. Derwin is a Chartered Psychologist and an Associate Fellow with the British Psychological Society, a Chartered Scientist with British Science Council, and a registered consultant of occupational safety and health. Derwin’s research primarily focuses on psychosocial, motivational, and social cognitive processes underpinning individuals’ health behaviours, including (but not exclusive to) sport and exercise, treatment adherence, and the prevention of work-related injury (e.g., sport/ occupational injury), deficiency (e.g., myopia), diseases (e.g., influenza, COVID-19), and illegal substance-use (e.g., doping in sport). Derwin examines the relative influence of significant others (e.g., teachers, parents, teammates, physicians, and physiotherapists) on the promotion of health behaviours, and he develops evidence-based digital health interventions (e.g., eHealth, mHealth systems) to facilitate health behaviour change in school, and other health settings. He is the Editor-in-Chief of Stress and Health, Executive Editor of Health Psychology Bulletin, and editorial board member of six other scholarly journals.
- How do we motivate people to act healthily (e.g., exercise more, better diet)?
- Will patients be less likely to follow their prescribed treatments if they feel that it is their obligation to do so?
- Why athletes who like to do sport are more likely to commit to safety guidelines and to prevent sport injuries?
- What can supervisors do in order to promote workers’ initiative and sense of ownership towards health behaviours?