Xuetong Zhang

xtzhang@psy.ecnu.edu.cn

English, Chinese

Shanghai

East China Normal University

Psychology and Cognitive Science

• 2016-2021 PhD in Human Development and Family Studies: Pennsylvania State University
• 2012-2016 Bachelor's in Psychology: Beijing Normal University

• 2023-06 to Present - East China Normal University - Researcher, Zijiang Young Scholar
• 2021-09 to 2023-05 - McMaster University - Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences

• Shanghai Leading Talent Program (Overseas), 2023
• Basmajian Award for Excellence in Post-Doctoral Research Work, McMaster University, 2022
• Postdoctoral Fellowship Award, Canadian Institutes of Health Research, 2022-2023
• Summer Research Institute Scholarship, Kempe Center for the Prevention & Treatment of Child Abuse & Neglect, 2018
• Knoll Distinguished Fellowship, The Pennsylvania State University, 2016

Parental complex emotional experiences and emotion regulation strategies
Dynamic physiological and psychological processes of parental self-regulation and parent-child co-regulation in parent-child interaction contexts
Developmental mechanisms of emotion regulation difficulties and behavioral problems in children with early adverse experiences
Social cognition of parental emotional distress and negative parenting behaviors, and evaluation of supportive preventive intervention programs

• Assessing parental emotion regulation in the context of parenting: A systematic review, Zhang, X.*, Beatty, A., Abela, K., Melo, M. F., Kenny, M., Atkinson, L., & Gonzalez, A., 2023
• Dynamic regulatory processes among child welfare parents: Temporal associations between physiology and parenting behavior, Zhang, X.*, Gatzke-Kopp, L. M., & Skowron, E. A., 2023
• A dynamic systems account of parental self-regulation processes in the context of challenging child behavior, Zhang, X.*, Gatzke-Kopp, L. M., Cole, P. M., & Ram, N., 2022
• The role of strategy-use and parasympathetic functioning in maternal emotion regulation, Zhang, X.*, Gatzke-Kopp, L. M., Cole, P. M., & Ram, N., 2023
• An event-based analysis of maternal physiological reactivity following aversive child behaviors, Gatzke-Kopp, L. M.*, Zhang, X., Creavey, K. L., Skowron, E. A., 2022
• Mental health help-seeking in parents and trajectories of depressive and anxiety symptoms: Lessons learned from the Ontario Parents Survey during the COVID-19 pandemic, Zhang, X., Jambon, M., Afifi, T. O., Atkinson, L., Bennett, T., …, Gonzalez, A.*, 2022
• Concordance of mother-child respiratory sinus arrythmia is continually moderated by dynamic changes in emotional content of film stimuli, Ravindran, N.*, Zhang, X., Green, L. M., Cole, P. M., Gatzke-Kopp, L. M., & Ram, N., 2021
• Early executive and school functioning: Protective roles of home environment vary socioeconomically, Murphy, Y. E.*, Zhang, X., & Gatzke-Kopp, L. M., 2022
• The developmental cascade of early parenting, emergence of executive functioning, and emotional symptoms across childhood, Murphy, Y. E.*, Zhang, X., & Gatzke-Kopp, L. M., 2021
• Parental support of self-regulation among children at risk for externalizing symptoms: Developmental trajectories of physiological regulation and behavioral adjustment, Zhang, X.*, Gatzke-Kopp, L. M., Fosco, G. M., & Bierman, K. L., 2020
• The heart of parenting: Parent HR dynamics and negative parenting while resolving conflict with child, Zhang, X., Cui, L., Han, Z. R.* & Yan, J., 2017