Areas of Focus
- 家长的复杂情绪体验及情绪调节策略
- 亲子互动情境中,家长自我调节、亲子共同调节的动态生理心理过程
- 有早期不利经历的儿童中,情绪调节困难和行为问题的发展机制
- 针对家长情绪困扰和负面养育行为的社会认知,以及支持性预防干预项目的评估
Work Experience
- 2023-06 至今 - 华东师范大学 - 研究员, 紫江青年学者
- 2021-09 至 2023-05 - 麦克马斯特大学 - 精神病学与行为神经科学系博士后
Academic Background & Achievements
- 2016-2021 人类发展与家庭研究博士: 宾夕法尼亚州立大学
- 2012-2016 心理学学士: 北京师范大学
Publications
- 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
Awards
- 上海市领军人才计划(海外), 2023
- Basmajian Award for Excellence in Post-Doctoral Research Work, 麦克马斯特大学, 2022
- Postdoctoral Fellowship Award, 加拿大卫生研究院, 2022-2023
- Summer Research Institute Scholarship, Kempe Center for the Prevention & Treatment of Child Abuse & Neglect, 2018
- Knoll Distinguished Fellowship, 宾夕法尼亚州立大学, 2016