Li‐fang Zhang

Biographic Data

ID2896283
NAMELi‐fang Zhang
GIVEN NAMESLi‐fang
FAMILY NAMEZhang
SIGNATUREZHANG L F
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Hong Kong
ORCID0000-0003-0751-5720
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS32
TOTAL CITATIONS3
AUTHOR COUNT32
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1997
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX1

  • Research agendas and teaching emotions among academics

    Open AccessLi‐fang Zhang, Zhengli Xie et al.ARTICLEThinking Skills and Creativity2026

  • Perceived professional learning communities and attitudes towards teaching science among kindergarten teachers

    Open AccessQi Wen, Wen Qi et al.ARTICLETeaching and Teacher Education2026

    Science education is essential for holistic early childhood development and is mandated in many kindergarten curricula; it typically involves encouraging children to observe nature and fostering their scientific curiosity. Using Job Demands–Resources (JD-R) model, this study explored if professional learning communities in science education (PLC-SE) function as work resources shaping kindergarten teachers’ attitudes toward teaching science (ATTS)…

  • Do PhD students’ research styles predict their perceived competencies

    Open AccessSook Mun Sim, Li‐fang Zhang et al.ARTICLEHigher Education2026

    Most empirical studies on PhD students’ competencies lack a conceptual framework, and no study has examined a comprehensive list of competencies necessary for both an academic and a non-academic career. The study pioneered the operationalization of (Shin’s Higher Education Forum, 16 , 27–43, 2019) conceptualization of the competencies that novice academics and knowledge professionals need to possess. Furthermore, the present study investigated ho…

  • The Development and Validation of the Perceived Social Support Scale for Doctoral Students (PSSS-DS)

    Open AccessFei Cao, Li‐fang Zhang et al.ARTICLEResearch in Higher Education2025

  • Forgiveness and health-related quality of life in older adults

    Open AccessFei Cao, Linjin Tao et al.ARTICLECurrent Psychology2025

  • Attitudes towards inclusive education and organizational commitment

    Zhengli Xie, Li‐fang ZhangARTICLEAsia Pacific Journal of Education2025

    This study compared attitudes towards inclusive education and organizational commitment, as well as their relationship, amongst three types of teachers working in Chinese inclusive education schools. A total of 623 teachers, including general education teachers (n = 168), inclusive education teachers (n = 246), and resource room teachers (n = 209), from 112 elementary schools in Beijing, China, participated in this study. The results showed that …

  • Enhancing Autonomous Work Motivation and Engagement for Diverse Teaching Styles Among Chinese Inclusive Education Teachers

    Open AccessLi‐fang Zhang, Zhengli Xie et al.ARTICLEEuropean Journal of Education2025

    High‐quality teaching is vital for accommodating the individualised learning needs of diverse students. However, compared with specific explicit teaching practices, teaching styles that determine their use of teaching methods have received much less attention. This study investigated the contributions of inclusive education teachers' work motivation to their teaching styles and the mediating role of work engagement. A total of 515 teachers from i…

  • Family system profiles and career decision self-efficacy among Chinese university students

    Open AccessXin Gao, Mengting Li et al.ARTICLECurrent Psychology2024

  • What Matters in PhD Students' Creativity? The Roles of Academic Psychological Capital and Academic Engagement

    Open AccessFei Cao, Mengting Li et al.ARTICLEEuropean Journal of Education2024

    Drawing on the job demands–resources theory, this study pioneered the investigation of the influence of academic psychological capital (including self‐efficacy, hope, resilience, and optimism) on PhD students' creativity (including novelty and usefulness). It further explored the mediating role of academic engagement (including vigour, dedication, and absorption) in this relationship. A sample of 376 PhD students at two comprehensive universities…

  • Research agendas and organizational commitment among academics in mainland China

    Open AccessLi‐fang Zhang, Zhengli XieARTICLEHigher Education2023

  • Research agendas and job dissatisfaction among Hong Kong academics

    Open AccessLi‐fang Zhang, Helena HortaARTICLEHigher Education2023

  • Third World Crossings

    Jodie Yuzhou Sun, Mingqing Yuan et al.ARTICLEInterventions2023

    The Bandung Conference of 1955 is often described as the beginning of what Vijay Prashad called the “Third World” project. While it is undeniable that intergovernmental gatherings had largely facilitated the political connections between Chinese and African leaders, no less significant in cultivating a heightened Bandung Spirit in the decolonizing world were the “transnational networks” such as the Afro-Asian People’s Solidarity Conference (1957)…

  • The evaluation and obstacle analysis of urban resilience from the multidimensional perspective in Chinese cities

    Open AccessRuidong Zhao, Chuanglin Fang et al.ARTICLESustainable Cities and Society2022

  • Factors fostering and hindering research collaboration with doctoral students among academics in Hong Kong

    Open AccessJisun Jung, Helena Horta et al.ARTICLEHigher Education2021

  • Hong Kong academics’ perceived work environment and job dissatisfaction

    Li‐fang Zhang, Mingchen Fu et al.ARTICLEJournal of Educational Psychology2020

    Much research has been conducted to investigate the impact of work environment on academics’ job satisfaction. However, little is known about what contributes to academics’ job dissatisfaction. Job satisfaction and job dissatisfaction are two distinct entities because a lack of job satisfaction cannot be simply equated with job dissatisfaction. This research investigated the mediating role of academic self-efficacy in the relationship between per…

  • Developing and Validating the Career Personality Styles Inventory

    Mingchen Fu, Li‐fang ZhangARTICLEMeasurement and Evaluation in…2018

    The article describes the development and validation of the Career Personality Styles Inventory (CPSI). The CPSI comprehensively assesses Holland's career personality styles with only 22 items. Based on a series of 3 studies, we found satisfactory internal consistency, factor structure, and criterion validities of the newly constructed CPSI

  • Thinking Styles and University Self-Efficacy Among Deaf, Hard-of-Hearing, and Hearing Students

    Sanyin Cheng, Li‐fang Zhang et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Deaf Studies and…2016

    This study explores how students' thinking styles are related to their university self-efficacy, by administering the Thinking Styles Inventory-Revised II and the University Self-Efficacy Scale to 366 deaf or hard-of-hearing (DHH) and 467 hearing university students in mainland China. Results showed that, among all participants, those with Type I styles (i.e., more creativity-generating, less structured, and cognitively more complex) had higher l…

  • Erikson's Theory of Psychosocial Development

    Open AccessLi‐fang Zhang, Li-Fang ZhangCHAPTERInternational Encyclopedia of the…2015

  • Thinking Style Changes Among Deaf, Hard-of-Hearing, and Hearing Students

    Shuai Cheng, Li‐fang Zhang et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Deaf Studies and…2015

    This study explores how university students' thinking styles changed over a single academic year by twice administering the Thinking Styles Inventory-Revised II to 256 deaf or hard-of-hearing (DHH) students and 286 hearing students from art and design academic disciplines in China. Results showed that after having studied at the university for one academic year, hearing students showed increased use of Type I thinking styles (more creativity gene…

  • Thinking Styles Across Cultures

    Li‐fang Zhang, Li-Fang Zhang et al.CHAPTERPerspectives on Thinking,…2014

    Thinking Styles Across Cultures: Their Relationships With Student Learning - 1

  • Revisiting the concept of 'style match

    Open AccessLi‐fang Zhang, Robert J Sternberg et al.ARTICLEBritish Journal of Educational…2013Cited by: 1References: 17

    BackgroundIntellectual style, an encompassing term for such constructs as learning style, teaching style, teaching approach, and thinking style, refers to one's preferred way of processing information. For the past several decades, whether or not there is a need for a match between teachers' teaching styles and students' learning styles has been the focal point for debate among researchers, educators, and the general public.AimsThe preliminary ob…

  • Effects of Verb’s Trait of Continuance and Adverb of Instantaneous Time about Representation of Events of Temporal Shifts in Chinese Text Readin

    Yu-Guang TONG, Qi Zhang et al.ARTICLEActa Psychologica Sinica2010

    摘要: 为考察语篇阅读中, 汉语动词的延续性特征以及瞬时时间副词对时间转换事件表征的影响, 采用探测-判断的语篇实时阅读技术分别进行了两个实验。实验1的结果表明, 当描述转换前事件的动词是延续性动词时, 短时转换句与瞬时转换句的阅读时间无显著差异; 而当描述转换前事件的动词是短暂性动词时, 短时转换句的阅读时间明显长于瞬时转换句的阅读时间。实验2的结果表明, 当不在时间转换句前添加瞬时时间副词时, 长时与短时转换句前探测词的再认时间存在显著差异; 而当在时间转换句前添加瞬时时间副词时, 长时与短时转换句前探测词的再认时间无显著差异。两个实验结果分别说明, 动词的延续性特征和时间转换短句的结合影响了时间转换事件的表征, 在长时转换句的前面添加瞬时时间副词缩短了长时转换事件的表征时间

  • The Functions of Goal State and Temporal Information on Situation Model Processing

    Zhong-Yi LU, Yu-Guang TONG et al.ARTICLEActa Psychologica Sinica2010

    摘要: 采用移动窗口和记录探测句阅读时间的实时阅读技术, 对情境模型中目标状态与时间信息的关系进行了探索。运用重复测量的实验设计进行了三个实验, 实验发现(1)在顺序发生的事件结构中, 未达成目标作为持续追踪的焦点, 使得时间转换增大的条件下, 也不会对信息的整合产生影响; 而对时间距离的表征不仅起到了提高速度的作用, 而且也没有产生时间距离的远近效应。(2)同样是在顺序语篇中, 无目标和目标达成条件下, 随着时间转换的增大, 则出现了时间转换的大小效应, 也出现了时间距离的远近效应。(3)在回溯事件的建构中, 读者把回溯事件表征为时间距离的背景信息, 目标促进了信息的整合

  • Mental Health and Thinking Styles in Sternberg's Theory

    Open AccessGuo-Hai Chen, Guohai Chen et al.ARTICLEPsychological Reports2010

    The relationship between thinking styles, as defined in Sternberg's theory of mental self-government, and mental health was investigated. 583 university students (362 women, 221 men; M age = 21.4 yr., SD = 0.9) in Guangzhou, P. R. China, were invited to fill out the Thinking Styles Inventory-Revised and the Symptom Checklist-90 on a voluntary basis. Results indicated that scores on six of Sternberg's 13 thinking styles were significantly correlat…

  • Styles of Thinking as a Basis of Differentiated Instruction

    Robert J Sternberg, Li‐fang Zhang et al.ARTICLETheory Into Practice2005Cited by: 2References: 15

    We consider how to differentiate instruction using a theory of thinking styles as a basis for differentiation. The article opens with a consideration of why styles are important. Then it considers some general characteristics of styles, presents the theory of mental self-government, considers issues of measurement, and presents data supporting the theory. Next, it discusses application of the theory in the classroom. Finally, it draws conclusions