Areas of Focus
- Development and intervention of social and emotional behaviors in children and adolescents (social withdrawal, prosocial behavior, aggressive behavior)
Academic Background & Achievements
- 2017.07 – 2019.12 Postdoctoral: University of Toronto
- 2011.08 – 2016.12 Ph.D.: Arizona State University, Family and Human Development
- 2008.08 – 2011.07 Master's: Peking University, Developmental and Educational Psychology
- 2004.08 – 2008.07 Bachelor's: Tsinghua University, Mathematics and Applied Mathematics
Publications
- Ugandan adolescents’ knowledge of gender stereotypes and attitudes about women’s behaviors and roles, Farago, F., Eggum-Wilkens, N. D., Zhang, L., & Martin, C. L., 2019
- Co-occurrence and cross-informant agreement of shyness, unsociability, and social avoidance during early adolescence, Eggum-Wilkens, N. D., An, D., & Zhang, L., & Costa, M., 2019
- Adults’ conceptualizations of social competence in Nepal and Malawi, An, D., Eggum-Wilkens, N. D., Glick, J. E., Hayford, S. R., Chae, S., Bradley, R., & Zhang, L., 2018
- An exploratory study of Eastern Ugandan adolescents’ descriptions of social withdrawal, Eggum-Wilkens, N. D., Zhang, L., & An, D., 2018
- The relation of Respiratory Sinus Arrhythmia to later shyness: Moderation by neighborhood quality, Zhang, H., Spinrad, T. L., Eisenberg, N., & Zhang, L., 2018
- Unsociability in Chinese adolescents: Cross-informant agreement and relations with social and school adjustment, Zhang, L., & Eggum-Wilkens, N. D., 2018
- Karamojong Adolescents in Tororo, Uganda: Life Events, Adjustment Problems, and Protective Factors, Eggum-Wilkens, N. D., Zhang, L., & Farago, F., 2017
- Children’s shyness, peer acceptance, and academic achievement in the early school years, Zhang, L., Eggum-Wilkens, N. D., Eisenberg, N., & Spinrad, T. L., 2017
- Assessing the impact of homophobic name-calling on early adolescent mental health: A longitudinal social network analysis of competing peer influence effects, DeLay, D., Hanish, L. D., Zhang, L., & Martin, C. L., 2017
- Peer influence on academic performance: A social network analysis of social-emotional intervention effects, DeLay, D., Zhang, L., Hanish, L. D., Miller, C., Fabes, R. A., Martin, C. L., Kochel, K. P., & Updegraff, K. A., 2016
- Correlates of shyness and unsociability during early adolescence in urban and rural China, Zhang, L., & Eggum-Wilkens, N. D., 2017
- Playing with others: Head Start children’s peer play and relations with kindergarten school competence, Eggum-Wilkens, N. D., Fabes, R. A., Castle, S., Zhang, L., Hanish, L. D., & Martin, C. L., 2014
- Relation between diurnal cortisol rhythm and school adjustment in children, Geng, Y., Wang, L., He, S., Chen, X., Zhang, L., & Xie, X., 2010
- Parenting programme in an informal settlement in Nairobi, Kenya: Priority needs and identification of delivery platforms, Abubakar, A., Angwenyi, V., Kabue, M., Zhang, L., & AKU-AHD Research Group, 2019
- Shyness in school, Eggum-Wilkens, N. D., Zhang, L., & An, D., & Clifford, B. N., 2019
- Emotions in contexts of conflict and morality: Developmental perspectives, Malti, T., Zhang, L., Myatt, E., Peplak, J., & Acland, E., 2019