Lab Director

Han Na Suh, Ph.D.

PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Han Na Suh is an assistant professor in the Counseling Psychology program in the Department of Psychology at University of Hawaii at Hilo. She received her doctorate in Counseling Psychology from the University of Missouri-Columbia.
Her research focuses on investigating culturally crucial constructs among Asian/Asian Americans (e.g., model minority stereotype, perfectionism, acculturation stress, somatization) to better understand their impact on academic, career, and life satisfaction and mental health issues. She is also currently involved in an NSF grant project, clarifying what fosters and hinders women engineers' persistence within the engineering profession.
For self-care, she enjoys practicing yoga and meditation.

Internal Grant (Funded, 2023)

Primary Investigator, Toolbox for Asian Americans: Coping with Model Minority Stereotype through Mindfulness. $12,750.

APF Grant (Funded, 2022)

Primary Investigator, Hyper-visible and Invisible: The effect of Model Minority Stereotype Stress on Depressive Symptoms among Asian/Asian American Engineering Students. $2,747

NSF Grant (Funded, 2020)

Co-Investigator, Should I Stay or Should I Go? Understanding the Retention of Latinx in Engineering Jobs. National Science Foundation, EHR Core Research Program (Collaborative Research Proposal with L. Y. Flores & R. L. Navarro, P.I.s) $2,498,500.

GRANT

SELECTED PUBLICATION

Suh, H. N. (in press). Model minority stereotype stress and depressive symptoms among Asian American STEM students: The mediating role of rumination. Journal of Counseling Psychology
Suh, H. N., Flores, L. Y., & Gong, E. (2024). Unseen and Unheard. Investigating invisibility in vocational psychology through a systemic lens. Journal of Career Assessment. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1177/10690727241300696
Suh, H. N., Park. S.*, & H. H.* (in press). Perceived discrimination, depressive symptoms, and somatic symptoms across social class among Asian Americans. Asian American Journal of Psychology
Wilcox, M. M., Pérez-Rojas, A. E., Marks, L. R., Reynolds, A. L., Suh, H. N., Flores, L. Y., McCubbin, L., Wilkins-Yel, K., & Miller, M. (in press). Structural Competencies: Re-Grounding Counseling Psychology in Antiracist and Decolonial Praxis. The Counseling Psychologist.
Suh, H. N., Rice, K. G., & Osborne, A.* (2024). Model Minority Stereotype-Response Scale: Development and initial psychometric evaluation. The Counseling Psychologist. 52, 1, 6-32.
Kim, B. S. K., Suh, H. N., & Subica, A. (in press). Asian American Child-Parent Cultural Value Discrepancies, Family Conflict, Life Satisfaction, and Self-Esteem. Journal of Counseling Psychology.
Suh, H. N., Flores, L. Y., Johanson-Murray, R.*, Park, S.*, & Lee, F. Y.* (2023). Invisibility and negative career outcome expectations among Black, Indigenous, and People of Color Students at a Predominantly White Institution. Journal of Career Assessment
Suh, H. N., DeBlaere, C., Kwak, D.*, & Osborne, A.* (in press). Interaction of unrestricted mobility, discrimination, and perfectionism on depressive symptoms. Asian American Journal of Psychology
Suh, H. N. Pigott, T., Rice, K. G., Davis, D. E., & Andrade A. C.* (2023). Meta-analysis of the Relationship between Self-Critical Perfectionism and Depressive Symptoms: Comparison between Asian American and Asian International College Students. Journal of Counseling Psychology.
Suh, H. N., Ashby, J. S., Rice, K. G., & Bruner, L. P. (2022). Korean and English Versions of the Short Almost Perfect Scale: Implications of Measurement Invariance Across Language of Choice. Counselling Psychology Quarterly.
Suh, H. N. & Flores, L. Y. (2022). Role of Perfectionism in the Career Decision Self-Efficacy and Outcome Expectations of Asian American College Students. Asian American Journal of Psychology.
Suh, H. N., Nelson, B., Goergen, J., Clinton, L., & Osborne, A. (2022). The role of model minority stereotype on general self-efficacy and depressive symptoms. The Counseling Psychologist.
Jun, H., Wang, K. T., Suh, H. N. & Yeung, J. G. (2022). Family profiles of maladaptive perfectionists among international students. The Counseling Psychologist.
Suh, H. N., Goergen, J., Nelson, B., Flores, L. Y. (2020). Acculturative strategies and mental distress among Asian American college students: The role of Asian values across acculturative strategies. Asian American Journal of Psychology, 11, 4, 269-279.
Flores, L. Y., Atilano, R., Suh, H. N., & Navarro, R. (2020). A latent growth modeling analysis of the effects of perceived supports, perceived barriers, and coping efficacy on Latino/a engineering students’ life satisfaction. Journal of Career Development, 1-15.
Flores, L. Y., Suh, H. N., Rojas Perez, O., Aguayo, D., Harvath, J., Valdivia, C., Jeanetta, S., & Martinez, D. (2019). Negative Immigrant Community Experiences (N.I.C.E): A scale development study. Journal of Latino/a Psychology, 7, 2, 91-104.
Suh, H. N., Flores, L. Y., & Wang, K. T. (2019). Perceived discrimination, ethnic identity, and mental distress among Asian international students in Korea. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 50, 8, 991-1007.
Suh, H. N., & Flores, L. Y. (2017). Relative deprivation and career decision self-efficacy among female college students in Korea: A moderated mediation analysis. The Career Development Quarterly, 65, 2, 145-158.
Lee, H. S., Flores, L. Y., Navarro, R. L., & Suh, H. N. (2016). Development of a Negative Outcome Expectations Scale for engineering students. Journal of Career Assessment, 1-16.
Suh, H. N, & Wang, K. T., & Arterberry, B. (2014). Development and validation of the Self-Directed Learning Scale for college students. Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 1-11
Suh, H. N., & Yuen, M., Wang, K. T., Fu, C., & Trotter, R. H. (2014). Comparing Perfectionist Types on Family Environment and Well-Being among Hong Kong Adolescents. Personality and Individual Differences, 70, 111-116