Key Research Areas
- Environmental psychology
- Identity construction and motives
- Environmental identity and behaviours
- Social media
- Social cognition
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Core Areas of Expertise
Dr Szeto’s expertise integrates environmental psychology, media psychology, and social psychology to examine how identities are constructed, negotiated, and expressed. Her work focuses particularly on environmental identity construction, identity motives, and social media use.
Her research employs qualitative, quantitative, and mixed-methods approaches, including interpretative phenomenological analysis, to understand psychological and behavioural processes.
Recent Publications
Ongoing
- Barriers and motivators to pro-environmental behaviour: observations and recommendations from environmentalists in Hong Kong. [Manuscript in preparation]
- Motives for constructing a pro-environmental identity: an interpretative phenomenological analysis. [Manuscript in preparation]
- Platformised ageism: Facebook news framing of public transport fare concession. [Manuscript in preparation]
2025
- Exploring the motivational influences on pro-environmental identity construction: an interpretative phenomenological analysis among environmentalists [Oral presentation]. The International Conference on Environmental Psychology, Vilnius, Lithuania.
2024
- Identity motives on cognitive and behavioural dimensions of Facebook identity construction [Oral presentation].
- 33rd International Congress of Psychology, Prague, Czech Republic.
- Support from social media during the COVID-19 pandemic: a systematic review. Behavioral Sciences, 14(9), 759.
2022
- Understanding the role of financial health literacy in old age: A scoping Health & Social Care in the Community, 30(6), e3921-e3933.
Professional membership
- Chartered Psychologist, The British Psychological Society
- Associate Fellow, The British Psychological Society
- Member, International Association of Applied Psychology
- Member, International Council of Psychologists
- Member, Society for Personality and Social Psychology
Professional service
- Reviewer of Frontiers in Psychology
- Ad hoc reviewer of Bulletin of the World Health Organization
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