Jacqueline Gun Chin Hun

Jacqueline Gun Chin Hun

  • Senior Teaching Fellow
Department of Psychology

Biography

Jacqueline Gun has been with Sunway University for the past six years. Her research interests include sexual and reproductive health, and maternal-related issues (e.g. breastfeeding practices, post-partum depression). She obtained the Sunway Internal Grant in 2012 for a research pertaining to sexual knowledge and attitudes as predictors of sexual behaviour among young adults. She is a certified counsellor, registered under the Board of Counselling Malaysia (Lembaga Kaunseling Malaysia).

Academic & Professional Qualifications

  • Masters in Counselling, HELP University, Malaysia (2011)
  • BSc (Hons) Psychology, Bemidji State University, USA (2006)

Research Interests

  • Sexual & reproductive health
  • Maternal-related issues

Notable Publications

  1. Gun, C. H. (2011). Sexual knowledge & attitudes among high school students in Klang District. Poster presented at the 1st Malaysian Psychology Conference in University of Nottingham.
  2. Gun, C. H. (2013). Sexual knowledge and attitudes as predictors of sexual behaviour. Paper presented at the Engineering Information Institute’s Conference on Psychology and Applications, Beijing, China.
  3. Lee, W. C., Nuah, M., Ridzwan, S. S., Tee, K. Y., & Gun, C. H. (2012). I can do better when you are watching me: Studying social facilitation among Malaysian university students. Poster presented at the 2nd Malaysian Psychology Conference in Monash University.
  4. Ridzwan, S. S., & Gun, C. H. (2015). The effects of interethnic attitudes and ethnic identity on prosocial behaviour. Poster presented at the 5th ASEAN Regional Union of Psychological Societies (ARUPS), Singapore.
  5. Tan, A. J., & Gun, C. H. (2016). Let’s talk about sex: Family communication predicting sexual attitudes, experience and behaviours. Paper presented at the Seminar Psikologi Malaysia-III in Universiti Sabah Malaysia, Kota Kinabalu. (Paper has been accepted with minor amendment in the Southeast Asia Psychology Journal)                                                                                               
  6. Tang, Y. K., & Gun, C. H. (2013). Predictors of sexual experience: Comparison between Christianity and Chinese religion. Paper presented at the 3rd Malaysian Psychology Conference in UTAR, Kampar (Received best abstract award).