Jing Wang, PhD

Scientist, Center for the Study of Traumatic Stress
Research Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry

Jing Wang is a Research Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the Uniformed Services University. She also holds a secondary appointment in the Department of Medical and Clinical Psychology and serves as an instructor in the IDO520 Special Topics in Statistics course, where she teaches the Psychometrics module covering Confirmatory Factor Analysis, Structural Equation Modeling, Item Response Theory, and measurement invariance. She has been a Research Psychologist at the Center for the Study of Traumatic Stress since 2012. Dr. Wang received her Master’s degrees in Health Promotion and Experimental Psychology from Morehead State University, and her PhD in Quantitative Psychology from Bowling Green State University. She completed fellowship training in the Prevention Research Branch at the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development.

Dr. Wang’s research focuses on applying advanced statistical modeling to psychological and behavioral research. One major line of her current work uses large-scale data from the Army Study to Assess Risk and Resilience in Servicemembers (Army STARRS), where she has examined the association between suicidal behaviors, attachment styles, and social support network size among US Army Soldiers. This work highlights interpersonal mechanisms of suicide risk and identifies potential targets for prevention and intervention. A second line of her research involves an intensive longitudinal study using daily diary methods to examine within-person variation in posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms, sleep disturbance, suicidal ideation, and symptom clusters. Her primary role is conducting advanced quantitative analysis, including multilevel modeling to disentangle between-person differences from short-term dynamic processes. Through this work, she contributes methodological expertise to better understand day-to-day and intraday fluctuations in mental health and behavioral outcomes.

Visit ResearchGate for a list of Dr. Wang’s publications.