2022-Present - Beijing Normal University - Professor
2015-2022 - Beijing Normal University - Associate Professor
2012-2015 - Beijing Normal University - Assistant Professor
Ministry of Education Yangtze River Scholar Award for Young Scholars
Yuan Dunli Education Award (Beijing Normal University)
Li Yun Outstanding Young Teacher Award (Beijing Normal University)
Capital Talent First Prize (Beijing Normal University)
Outstanding New Teacher Mentor (Beijing Normal University)
Most Promising Doctoral Candidate in Psychology (University of Georgia)
Charles D. Smock Memorial Award (University of Georgia)
Vice President International Travel Award (University of Georgia)
Walter Isaac Memorial Award (University of Georgia)
International Peace Scholarship (Philanthropic Educational Organization)
Excellent Research Award (Columbia University)
Martha E. Currie Scholarship (Teachers College, Columbia University)
Research
Developmental Psychopathology Emotion and Emotion Regulation Anxiety and Depressive Symptoms Family Emotional Processes and Parenting LLM for Mental Health and Emotional Dialogue
A Context-Dependent Perspective to Understand the Relation between Parent-Child Physiological Synchrony and Child Socioemotional Adjustment, Xu, J., Zhang, Y., Wang, H., Peng, M., Zhu, Y., Yi, Z., Wang, X., Chen, L., & Han, Z. R.*
Respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA) dynamics matter for children's emotion regulation: RSA inertia and instability within a stress task, Xu, J., Wang, H., Morrow, K. E., Xu, Y., Gao, M. M., Hu, Y., Suveg, C., & Han, Z. R.*, 2024
Atypical child–parent neural synchrony is linked to negative family emotional climate and children’s psychopathological symptoms, Su, H., Young, C. B., Han, Z. R.*, Xu, J., Xiong, B., Zhou, Z., Wang, J., Hao, L., Yang, Z., Chen, G., & Qin, S.*, 2023
Relations Among Family, Peer, and Academic Stress and Adjustment in Chinese Adolescents: A Daily Diary Analysis, Xu, J., Wang, H., Liu, S., Hale, M. E., Weng, X., Ahemaitijiang, N., Hu, Y.*, Suveg, C., & Han, Z. R.*, 2023
Patterns of childhood maltreatment influence sleep quality: The role of emotion regulation, Liu, S., Ahemaitijiang, N. Xu, J., Chen, L., & Han, Z. R.*, 2023
Parenting links to parent-child interbrain synchrony: a real-time fNIRS hyperscanning study, Liu, S., Han, Z. R.*, Xu, J., Wang, Q., Gao, M. M., Weng, X., Qin, S., Rubin, K. H., 2024
The impacts of anxiety and depressive symptoms on emotional processing in children and their parents: an event-related potential study, Han, Z. R., Yan, J., Yang, X., Guo, M., West, K. B., Suveg, C., & Wang, H.*, 2023
Hypo- or hyperarousal? The mechanisms underlying social information processing in autism, Yi, L.*, Wang, Q., Song, C., & Han, Z. R.*, 2022
Daily experiences and well-being of Chinese parents of children with autism, Wang, H., Liu, S., Xu, J., Hu, X., & Han, Z. R.*, 2023
Synchrony of respiratory sinus arrhythmia in parents and children with autism spectrum disorder: Moderation by interaction quality and child behavior problems, Wang, H., Suveg, C., West, K. B., Han, Z. R.*, Zhang, X., Hu, X., & Yi, L., 2021
Associations from Parental Mindfulness and Emotion Regulation to Child Emotion Regulation Through Parenting: the Moderating Role of Coparenting in Chinese families, Yan, J. J., Schoppe-Sullivan, S., Wu, Q., Han, Z. R.*, 2021
Parent mindfulness, parenting, and child psychopathology in China, Han, Z. R., Ahemaitijiang, N., Yan, J., Hu, X.*, Parent, J., Dale, C., DiMarzio, K., & Singh, N., 2021
A biopsychosocial approach to emotion-related parenting: Physiological responses to child frustration among urban Chinese parents, Zhang, X., Han, Z. R.*, & Gatzke-Kopp, L. M., 2021
Perceived child difficultness, emotion dysregulation, and emotion-related parenting among Chinese parents, Cui, L*., Zhang, X., & Han, Z. R.*, 2021
Psychometric properties of the Chinese version of the Multidimensional Assessment of Parenting Scale (MAPS), Ahemaitijiang, N., Han, Z. R.*, Dale, c., DiMarzio, K., & Parent, J., 2021
Longitudinal association between emotion‐related parenting behavior and child aggression: The moderating role of parent‐child physiological synchrony, Ahemaitijiang, N., Ren, H., Wang, H., & Han, Z. R.*, 2021
Preschoolers’ dynamic Respiratory Sinus Arrythmia (RSA) change during a challenging parent-child interactive task: Relations with preschoolers’socioemotional health, West, K. B., Wickrama, K. A. S., Han, Z. R.*, & Suveg, C., 2021
The mediating role of parenting stress in the relations between parental emotion regulation and parenting behaviors in Chinese families of children with autism spectrum disorders: A dyadic analysis, Hu, X., Han, Z. R.*, Bai, L., & Gao, M., 2019
The role of children’s neurophysiological functioning in the links between emotion-parenting behaviors and child anxiety symptoms: A biological sensitivity to context framework, Han, Z. R.*, Zhang, X., Davis, M., & Suveg, C., 2019
Autism symptoms modulate interpersonal neural synchronization in children with autism spectrum disorder in cooperative interactions, Wang, Q., Han, Z. (co-first author). Han, Z., Hu, X., Feng, S., Wang, H., & Yi, L., 2019
Effects of gesture-based match-to-sample instruction via virtual reality technology for Chinese students with autism spectrum disorders, Hu, X., & Han, Z. R.*, 2019
Correlates of parent-child physiological synchrony and emotional parenting: Differential associations in varying interactive contexts, Han, Z. R., Gao, M. M., Yan, J., Hu, X., Zhou, W., & Li, X., 2019
Psychometric properties of the Chinese version of the Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale (DERS): Factor structure, reliability, and validity, Li, J., Han, Z. R.*, Gao, M., Sun
Area of Focus
Psychology | Applied Psychology | Mental Health | Self-Control | Mediating Effects | University Students | Perfectionism | Anxiety | Coping Mechanisms | Life Beliefs