Areas of Focus
- Personality Psychology
- Disaster Psychology
- Psychometrics and Psychological Testing
- Psychological Counseling and Psychotherapy
- Individual Differences and Behavioral Problems in Children
Work Experience
- 1999-2000 - Postdoctoral Researcher: The Chinese University of Hong Kong
- Not mentioned - Intern Researcher and Assistant Researcher: China Children's Development Center
- Not mentioned - Associate Researcher, Master's and Doctoral Supervisor: Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Academic Background & Achievements
- 1986 - Bachelor's Degree in Psychology: Peking University
- 1989 - Master's Degree in Clinical and Personality Psychology: Peking University
- 1997 - PhD in Personality Psychology: Peking University and Leiden University
Publications
- Risk factors of posttraumatic stress disorder among survivors after the 512 Wenchuan Earthquake in China, Zhang, Y., Ho, S.M.Y, 2011
- The Children’s Revised Impact of Event Scale (CRIES) with children and adolescents exposed to debris flood: validity and factor structure, Chen, Z., Zhang, Y., Zhang, N., Liu, Y., and Dyregrov, A, 2012
- Psychometric properties of the 10-item Connor–Davidson Resilience Scale in Chinese earthquake victims, Wang, L., Shi, Z., Zhang, Y., and Zhang, Z., 2010
- Chinese and Dutch Parents' perceptions of their child's personality, Zhang, Y., Kohnstamm, G., Slotboom, A., Elphick, E., Cheung, P.C., 2002
- Factor Structure of the Children’s Revised Impact of Event Scale with Children and Adolescents Survived the 2008 Sichuan Earthquake in China, Zhang, N., Zhang, Y., Wu, K., Zhu, Z., & Dyregrov A, 2011
- A new look at the old “Little Emperor”: Developmental changes in the personality of only children in China, Zhang, Y., Kohnstamm, G.A., Cheung, P.C., Lau, S., 2001
- Look into the mind or look at the eyes: A comparison of Chinese and Westerner's Beliefs of Lies, Zhang, N., Zhang, Y.Q., Zhang, T.Y., Wu, K.K., 2010
- The development of a Chinese PTSD inventory for natural disaster victims, Liu, Y., Chen Z., Zhang, Y., Zhang, N., and Wu, K.
- Posttraumatic growth among adult survivors of the 2008 Sichuan earthquake, Zhang, N., Zhang, Y.
- Cross-Informant Agreement Between Parent-Reported and Adolescent Self-Reported Problems in 25 Societies, Leslie A. Rescorla, etc., 2012
- A World of Lies: The global deception research team, Not mentioned
- Symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder among adult survivors three months after the Sichuan earthquake in China, Wang, L., Zhang, Y., Wang, W., etc., 2009
- Sensation seeking scales and traits delineating personality disorders in a sample of Chinese students, Ke, X., Ye, X., Xu, Y., Shen, M., Gao, X., Zhang, Y., 2007
- Diagnostic utility of the PTSD in Chinese earthquake victims, Li, H., Wang, L., Shi, Z., Zhang, Y., Wu, K., Liu, P., 2010
- Symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder among adult survivors two months after the Wenchuan earthquake, Wang, L., Zhang, Y., Shi, Z., WANG, W., 2009
- The equate-to-differentiate’s way of seeing the prisoner’s dilemma, Li, S., Taplin, J.E., & Zhang, Y., 2007
- Factor structure of acute stress disorder symptoms in Chinese earthquake victims: A confirmatory factor analysis of the acute stress disorder scale, Wang, L., Li, Z., Shi, Z., Zhang, Y., Shen, J., 2010