Xiangyu Tao

Publications

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Journal articles

In press
  1. Contreras-Pérez, M. E., Tao, X., Vezina, O., Spirito, A., Sheinkopf, S. J., Cragin, C. A., & Jackson, K. M. (in press). Understanding the impact of living arrangements and social satisfaction on mental health and substance use in autistic young adults. Autism in Adulthood.
2026
  1. Tao, X., Contreras-Pérez, M. E., Estes, A., DiGioia-Laird, V., Swarbrick, M., & Jackson, K. M. (2026). Online support and co-rumination experiences among adults in substance use recovery. Journal of Substance Use and Addiction Treatment, 189, 210007. doi:10.1016/j.josat.2026.210007
  2. Linden-Carmichael, A. N., Tao, X., Shipley, J. L., Contreras-Pérez, M. E., White, H. R., Sokolovsky, A. W., Lanza, S. T., & Jackson, K. M. (2026). Day-level latent classes of alcohol and cannabis use motives: Associations by combined use, level of use, and consequences. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors. Advance online publication. doi:10.1037/adb0001173
  3. Park, Y. W., Tao, X., & Fisher, C. B. (2026). Exposure to online racial discrimination, anti-racism, and antisocial risk-taking: Associations with college adjustment and health risks among Black and Latine students. Journal of American College Health, 74(4), 1123–1134. doi:10.1080/07448481.2025.2503831
2025
  1. Park, Y. W., Tao, X., & Fisher, C. B. (2025). Profiles of antiracist and antisocial online behaviors among Asian American college Instagram users: Associations with academic adjustment and substance use. Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities. Advance online publication. doi:10.1007/s40615-025-02681-6
  2. Park, Y. W., Tao, X., & Fisher, C. B. (2025). Race and anti-racist online coping as moderators of college adjustment associated with exposure to social media racism among Asian, Black, and Hispanic/Latine students. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 54(8), 2062–2076. doi:10.1007/s10964-025-02177-w
  3. Tao, X., & Fisher, C. B. (2025). The role of friendship in mediating and moderating the relationship between exposure to gendered racism and mental health among young women of color. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 54(5), 1281–1300. doi:10.1007/s10964-024-02130-3
2024
  1. Fisher, C. B., Tao, X., & Ford, M. (2024). Social media: A double-edged sword for LGBTQ+ youth. Computers in Human Behavior, 156, 108194. doi:10.1016/j.chb.2024.108194
  2. Tao, X., Yip, T., & Fisher, C. B. (2024). Employment, coronavirus victimization distress, and substance use disorders among Black and non-Hispanic White young adults during the COVID-19 pandemic. Journal of Ethnicity in Substance Abuse, 23(2), 320–339. doi:10.1080/15332640.2022.2091702
  3. Tao, X., Yip, T., & Fisher, C. B. (2024). Psychological well-being and substance use during the COVID-19 pandemic: Ethnic/racial identity, discrimination, and vigilance. Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities, 11(1), 62–71. doi:10.1007/s40615-022-01497-y
2023
  1. Tao, X., Liu, T., Giorgi, S., Fisher, C. B., & Curtis, B. (2023). Extended impact of the COVID-19 pandemic: Trajectories of mental health and substance use among U.S. adults, September 2020–August 2021. Drug and Alcohol Dependence Reports, 8, 100186. doi:10.1016/j.dadr.2023.100186
  2. Tao, X., & Fisher, C. B. (2023). Associations among web-based civic engagement and discrimination, web-based social support, and mental health and substance use risk among LGBT youth: Cross-sectional survey study. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 25, e46604. doi:10.2196/46604
  3. Tao, X., Liu, T., Fisher, C. B., Giorgi, S., & Curtis, B. (2023). COVID-related social determinants of substance use disorder among diverse U.S. racial/ethnic groups. Social Science & Medicine, 317, 115599. doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2022.115599
  4. Fisher, C. B., Tao, X., & Yip, T. (2023). The effects of COVID-19 victimization distress and racial bias on mental health among AIAN, Asian, Black, and Latinx young adults. Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology, 29(2), 119–131. doi:10.1037/cdp0000539
2022
  1. Tao, X., & Fisher, C. B. (2022). Exposure to social media racial discrimination and mental health among adolescents of color. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 51(1), 30–44. doi:10.1007/s10964-021-01514-z
    Emerging Scholar Best Article Award, Journal of Youth and Adolescence
2021
  1. Tao, X., Bragard, E., & Fisher, C. B. (2021). Risks and benefits of adolescent girls’ participation in online sexting survey research. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 50(6), 2335–2346. doi:10.1007/s10508-021-02003-x
  2. Azhar, S., Tao, X., Jokhakar, V., & Fisher, C. B. (2021). Barriers and facilitators to participation in long-acting injectable PrEP research trials for MSM, transgender women, and gender-nonconforming people of color. AIDS Education and Prevention, 33(6), 465–482. doi:10.1521/aeap.2021.33.6.465
  3. Fisher, C. B., Tao, X., Liu, T., Giorgi, S., & Curtis, B. (2021). COVID-related victimization, racial bias, and employment and housing disruption increase mental health risk among U.S. Asian, Black, and Latinx adults. Frontiers in Public Health, 9, 772236. doi:10.3389/fpubh.2021.772236

Peer-reviewed conference proceedings

  1. Liu, T., Giorgi, S., Tao, X., Guntuku, S. C., Bellew, D., Curtis, B., & Ungar, L. (2023). Different affordances on Facebook and SMS text messaging do not impede generalization of language-based predictive models. Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media, 17(1), 1153–1157. doi:10.1609/icwsm.v17i1.22226

Invited book chapters

  1. Fisher, C. B., Tao, X., & Jaber, R. (2026). The Adolescent Discrimination Distress Index: Contributions and challenges in the measurement of ethnic and racial discrimination. In T. Yip (Ed.), The Cambridge handbook of ethnic and racial discrimination and youth development (pp. 172–205). Cambridge University Press.
  2. Tao, X. (2026). Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on college students’ well-being. In L. Tay & B. M. McCuskey (Eds.), The Oxford handbook of well-being in higher education (pp. 105–114). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/9780197759424.003.0011