Yao Zheng
Biographic Data
| ID | 4625527 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Yao Zheng |
| GIVEN NAMES | Yao |
| FAMILY NAME | Zheng |
| SIGNATURE | ZHENG Y |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Alberta |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5264-943X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 55 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 55 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
A daily diary study of reciprocal associations between young adults’ loneliness and problematic social media use through psychological distress symptoms: The buffering roles of mindfulness and self-co…
20.95 years old, 51.2% female), with psychological distress symptoms (PD) tested as a mediator and mindfulness and self-compassion explored as buffers. Results of dynamic structural equation modeling analyses indicated reciprocal positive associations between loneliness and PSMU across days at within-person level. PD mediated such associations, with a stronger indirect effect from PSMU to loneliness (vs. reverse) through PD. At between-person lev…
Multiple agency and the collective paradox in grassroots language management: A netnographic study of the national language protection action in Kazakhstan
The critical and socio-cultural turns in language planning and policy have prompted extensive research on the relationship between agency and structure, highlighting the need for studies in diverse socio-cultural contexts to examine how agency is enacted in language planning. Recognizing the spatiotemporal essence of agency, this netnography-based qualitative inquiry situates agency in language planning and policy within a grassroots, bottom-up n…
Providing emotional support through written feedback: An exploratory study of Chinese EFL teachers
Teacher written feedback serves as both an evaluation of students’ writing and a source of support for their learning. While there is extensive research on teacher written feedback in L2 writing, how teachers incorporate emotional support into their feedback practices remains relatively underexplored. This exploratory study examines the strategies employed by EFL teachers at a Chinese university to provide emotional support through written feedba…
Navigating the emotional journey of writing feedback: A scoping review of empirical studies (2005–2025)
Purpose instructions and task models in multiple-text reading
Bridging the gap through common features: The semantic structure of creative metaphors
Longitudinal and Daily Links Between Impulsivity and Prosocial Behavior: The Moderating Role of Positive Risk‐Taking
INTRODUCTION: There is a growing interest in positive risk-taking (PRT) during adolescence and young adulthood. Emerging evidence has documented positive associations of PRT with multiple positive adolescent socioemotional developmental outcomes, including prosocial behavior. Impulsivity, despite its link with PRT, has shown mixed relations with prosocial behavior. The joint association between PRT and impulsivity with prosocial behavior remains …
How and why writers seek feedback: A scoping review of feedback-seeking behavior
Feedback-seeking behaviour (FSB) has attracted research interest in language education but remains relatively under-reviewed in writing research, where understanding learners’ agentive roles in feedback processes can inform effective writing instruction. This scoping review examines how FSB has been studied in the field of writing, with the aim of outlining the strategies and major influencing factors of FSB, and pinpointing directions for future…
Prospective Associations Between Emotion Regulation Flexibility and Affective Experiences
INTRODUCTION: Theoretical work increasingly highlights emotion regulation flexibility (ERF), instead of ER frequency, as the core of ER effectiveness. Scarce research, however, has examined prospective relations between ERF and emotion intensity and dynamics. METHOD: Adopting a measurement burst design with month-long daily diary assessments at two waves, this study investigated the prospective associations between different operationalizations o…
Ethnic–racial discrimination, peer support, and internalizing problems: A two‐wave daily diary study of Asian university students in Canada from late adolescence to young adulthood
Developmental changes in daily ethnic–racial discrimination and its influence on mental health among ethnic–racial minority young adults remain understudied. Using two waves (30 days at each wave) of daily diary data from 165 Asian university students in Canada (67% women; M age = 18.11 years, SD = 0.94 at Wave 1), this study investigated changes in the daily associations between ethnic–racial discrimination and internalizing problems, as well as…
Research into practice: Collaborative writing in L2 contexts
To shed light on the dynamic interplay between collaborative writing research and its application in L2 contexts, this paper discusses three critical relationships. The first relationship focuses on research findings that have been reasonably well applied in practice, highlighting areas such as activity types and grouping strategies in collaborative writing, computer-mediated collaborative writing, and the impact of collaborative writing activiti…
Daily associations among hassles, self-reported sleep, and impulsivity: Developmental changes in the protective roles of daily peer and family support across university
Life and academic stress during the transition to young adulthood often lends university students particularly susceptible to sleep problems, which in turn adversely impact their well-being. While peer and family support can mitigate the effect of stress on maladjustment through sleep, the short-term, within-person protective roles of such support in daily lives remain largely underexplored. Using a measurement burst design, this study investigat…
Daily Parenting and Adolescent Maladjustment: A Two‐Wave Multi‐Informant Daily Diary Study Before and During the Covid‐19 Pandemic
Introduction The COVID‐19 pandemic posed major challenges to parent–adolescent relationships under global stressors. Scant research has examined changes in the daily links between parenting behaviors and adolescent maladjustment before and after the onset of the pandemic. This study investigated the within‐day associations between two parenting behaviors—positive parenting and psychological control—and three adolescent maladjustments—conduct prob…
How should I assess their writing? It’s a headache for me.”: Understanding teacher assessment literacy in the collaborative writing context
Convergence and divergence in adolescent- and parent-reported daily parental positive reinforcement: Dynamic links with adolescent emotional and behavioral problems
Parents and adolescents often hold concordant and discordant views on parenting behaviors. Scant research has explored short-term within-family dynamics of parent-adolescent congruency and discrepancy on parental positive reinforcement on a micro timescale. Adopting a month-long daily diary design, we examined the convergence and divergence among 86 dyads of adolescents ( M age = 14.5 years, 55% female, 45% non-White) and one of their parents ( M…
Gene–environment interplay linking friends’ antisociality with different developmental trajectories of antisocial behavior during adolescence
This study investigated gene-environment correlations and interactions underlying the association between distinct developmental trajectories of adolescents' antisocial behavior and their friends' antisociality. Participants were 398 twin pairs (53% girls; 87% European descent) followed from age 13 to 19 years. Self-reported antisocial behavior was obtained from the twins and from their friends. Latent class growth modeling identified three antis…
Negotiating understanding, control, and authorship: L2 learners’ experiences with AI-assisted paraphrasing in academic writing
Perceived racism and well-being in University racial/ethnic minority students: The complex roles of racial/ethnic identity and self-esteem
Understanding Teachers' Practices of Implementing Collaborative Writing in L2 Classrooms: A Case Study
Despite the burgeoning research interest in collaborative L2 writing, it is underrepresented in the literature regarding how teachers use such activities within real‐world classroom settings. This case study seeks to offer a comprehensive understanding of the practices adopted by two EFL teachers in implementing collaborative writing within Chinese university contexts. Drawing upon Activity Theory, the study delineates the teachers' practices int…
Gene–environment transactions between peer cigarette use, parental supervision, and Chinese adolescent cigarette smoking initiation
INTRODUCTION: The initiation and continued use of tobacco products constitute an ongoing source of preventable disease that continues to pose a significant risk to global adolescent health. Scarce research has sought to explore the influences of two well-known environmental risk factors, parental supervision and peer cigarette use, on genetic and environmental contributions to adolescent cigarette use, especially in non-Western populations. METHO…
Daily agreeableness and acculturation processes in ethnic/racial minority freshmen: The role of inter‐ethnic contact and perceived discrimination
OBJECTIVES: Having higher levels of mainstream cultural orientation (MCO), an important component of acculturation attitudes and behaviors, is beneficial for ethnic/racial minority students during the transitions into university. Scant research has investigated MCO at a micro daily timescale. This study examined how personality (agreeableness) functions in conjunction with interpersonal processes (inter-ethnic contact and perceived discrimination…
Daily links between leisure activities, stress, and well-being during the transition to university
Leisure activities engagement could promote freshmen’s well-being by providing social support and improving positive mood. Little is known about the day-to-day variability in leisure activities and stress and their links to daily well-being. Using a month-long daily diary design among 273 Canadian freshmen (Mage = 18, 73% female, 32% White), this study investigated the relations between daily leisure activities, stress, and well-being. Multilevel…
Latinx adolescents' daily family assistance and emotional well‐being before and amid the Covid ‐19 pandemic: A pilot measurement burst study
This study examined Latinx adolescents' daily family assistance (assistance day, assistance time, language brokering) in relation to their daily affect and investigated whether the associations changed following the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. Two waves of 14-day daily diary data collected from 13 18-year-old Latinx adolescents (n days = 284; 77% Mexican American, 77% female) before and amid the pandemic were analyzed using multilevel mode…
Embracing the hidden potential: The contribution of majority world research to developmental science
Research on adolescence from the Majority World possesses major hidden potential in contributing to global adolescent research and developmental science more broadly. In this commentary, the authors (1) describe the background and the process through which this special issue came into fruition, (2) introduce the emic approaches to study the influences of macro-contextual variations on developmental science and provide several pertinent examples o…
Teachers’ perceptions of implementing digital multimodal composing in tertiary classrooms: Voices from Chinese EFL teachers
In language education, digital multimodal composing (DMC) pertains to a new literacy practice in which students use digital tools to produce texts incorporating multiple semiotic modes. Despite that many scholars advocate for implementing DMC in language classrooms, it remains marginal in mainstream classrooms, with scant attention being paid to teachers’ perceptions concerning the use of DMC. Situated in Chinese universities, this research probe…
Perspectives of researchers engaging in majority world research to promote diverse and global psychological science
Journal analyses have documented the historical neglect of research pertaining to the Majority World in psychological science, and the need for inclusivity is clearly articulated to ensure a science that is comprehensive and globally applicable. However, no systematic efforts have explored the perspectives of researchers working with Majority World communities regarding the challenges they experience in conducting and disseminating research and w…
Parent- and Child-Driven Daily Family Stress Processes between Daily Stress, Parental Warmth, and Adolescent Adjustment
Capturing Hassles and Uplifts in Adolescents’ Daily Lives: Links with Physical and Mental Well-Being
How should I assess their writing? It’s a headache for me.”: Understanding teacher assessment literacy in the collaborative writing context
Latinx adolescents' daily family assistance and emotional well‐being before and amid the Covid ‐19 pandemic: A pilot measurement burst study
This study examined Latinx adolescents' daily family assistance (assistance day, assistance time, language brokering) in relation to their daily affect and investigated whether the associations changed following the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. Two waves of 14-day daily diary data collected from 13 18-year-old Latinx adolescents (n days = 284; 77% Mexican American, 77% female) before and amid the pandemic were analyzed using multilevel mode…
Embracing the hidden potential: The contribution of majority world research to developmental science
Research on adolescence from the Majority World possesses major hidden potential in contributing to global adolescent research and developmental science more broadly. In this commentary, the authors (1) describe the background and the process through which this special issue came into fruition, (2) introduce the emic approaches to study the influences of macro-contextual variations on developmental science and provide several pertinent examples o…
An Idiographic Examination of Day-to-Day Patterns of Substance Use Craving, Negative Affect, and Tobacco Use Among Young Adults in Recovery
Psychological constructs, such as negative affect and substance use cravings that closely predict relapse, show substantial intra-individual day-to-day variability. This intra-individual variability of relevant psychological states combined with the "one day of a time" nature of sustained abstinence warrant a day-to-day investigation of substance use recovery. This study examines day-to-day associations among substance use cravings, negative affe…
Predicting High School Minority Adolescents’ Drinking from Their Exposure to White Schoolmates: Differences and Similarities among Hispanic, Black, and Asian U.S. Adolescents
White students' drinking may constitute a risk factor for drinking among same-school minority adolescents. Our study examined data from 14,986 ethnic minority American high school students (56% female, mean age = 15.6). Models examined associations between school-level White student drinking and same-school Black, Hispanic, and Asian adolescents' drinking, as well as whether schools' proportions of White students and friendships with White school…
Cross-section analysis of coal workers’ pneumoconiosis and higher brachial-ankle pulse wave velocity within Kailuan study
For patients with CWP, increased baPWV was associated with traditional cardiovascular risk factors and long-term silica dust exposure
Student engagement with teacher written corrective feedback in EFL writing: A case study of Chinese lower-proficiency students
Do Callous–Unemotional Traits and Conduct Disorder Symptoms Predict the Onset and Development of Adolescent Substance Use
Evaluating student motivation and engagement in the Chinese EFL writing context
Understanding student engagement with peer feedback on master’s theses: A Macau study
While research on peer feedback in second language (L2) writing at university/college level has proliferated, scholars have conducted less research on peer feedback in L2 academic and scholarly writing. Drawing upon multiple sources of data including semi-structured interviews, stimulated recalls, online interviews via WeChat, first and revised drafts of master’s theses, peer written feedback, audio-recordings of oral peer feedback conferences an…
Genetic and Environmental Influences on Adolescent Emotional Inertia in Daily Life
Examining Students’ Responses to Teacher Translation Feedback: Insights From the Perspective of Student Engagement
This case study investigated students’ response to feedback in the lens of student engagement with teacher feedback on their translation work. Drawing upon data from multiple sources, including students’ translation assignments, classroom observations, semi-structured interviews, stimulated recalls, and other documents, it explored how three Chinese undergraduates engaged with the feedback affectively, behaviorally, and cognitively. The findings …
Anticoagulant active ingredients identification of total saponin extraction of different Panax medicinal plants based on grey relational analysis combined with UPLC-MS and molecular docking
Corydalis edulis total alkaloids (Ceta) ameliorates cognitive dysfunction in rat model of Alzheimer disease through regulation of the antioxidant stress and MAP2/NF-κB
What works may hurt: The negative side of feedback in second language writing
Validation and measurement invariance of the Inventory of Callous-Unemotional Traits in Chinese incarcerated and normative samples
OBJECTIVE: This study examined the factor structure and psychometric properties of the Inventory of Callous-Unemotional Traits (ICU) in a large sample of incarcerated Chinese male inmates and its measurement invariance with an independent normative sample of Chinese adults. We further investigated the external validity of the ICU in the incarcerated sample. HYPOTHESES: We hypothesized that the short forms of ICU would (a) provide a better model f…
Behavior in childhood is associated with romantic partnering patterns in adulthood
BACKGROUND: Most people will partner at some point during their lives. Yet little is known about the association between childhood behavior and patterns of long-term romantic partnering in adulthood. METHODS: In this population-based cohort study, behavioral ratings were prospectively obtained from teachers when children (n = 2,960) were aged 10-12 years - for inattention, hyperactivity, aggression-opposition, anxiety, and prosociality - and link…
Family socioeconomic status amplifies unique environmental influences on the dynamics of adolescent daily positive affective process
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Affective processes as complex dynamical systems happen in people's daily lives. Affective dynamics characterizing unique features of individual affective systems are linked with long-term developmental outcomes. This study investigated genetic and environmental contributions, and the moderation by family socioeconomic status (SES), to two affective dynamics characterizing affective system sensitivity to the relative lev…
Investigation on the function tropism of Tiaoqin and Kuqin (different specification of Scutellaria baicalensis) by comparing their curative effect on different febrile disease model
Multilevel Dynamic Twin Modeling
Recent developments in the collection and modeling of intensive longitudinal data have enabled us to fit dynamic twin models, in which within-person processes are separated into genetic and environmental components. A well-known dynamic twin model is the genetic simplex model, which is fitted to a few repeated measures for many twins. A more recently developed model is the iFACE model, which is fitted to many repeated measures for a single pair o…
Links between shared and unique perspectives of parental psychological control and adolescent emotional problems: A dyadic daily diary study
Using month-long daily diary data collected between 2019 and 2020 among 99 dyads of Canadian parents (58.6% White, Mage = 43.5, 69.7% female) and adolescents (51.5% White, Mage = 14.6, 53.5% female) from middle to high socioeconomic status families, this study investigated parents' and adolescents' daily shared and unique perceptions of parental psychological control and adolescent emotional problems at within- and between-family level, and exami…
Mapping research on second language writing teachers: A review on teacher cognition, practices, and expertise
Covid-19 Related Stressors, Parent–Child Relationship, and Alcohol Use and Mental Health Profiles Among White and Hispanic/Latinx First-Year College Students
Understanding individual differences in lower-proficiency students’ engagement with teacher written corrective feedback
While research on written corrective feedback (WCF) has proliferated over the past three decades, scant attention has been paid to how lower-proficiency (LP) students engage with teacher WCF in specific contexts and why they (dis)engage in the ways they do. This case study explored two Chinese LP students’ engagement with teacher WCF in English writing for an in-depth understanding of the individual differences in their engagement and the influen…
Voices from L2 learners across different languages: Development and validation of a student writing assessment literacy scale
Genetic and environmental influences on temperament development across the preschool period
BACKGROUND: Preschoolers' temperament characteristics are associated with children's long-term development. Such links underscore the importance of understanding factors that shape temperament during preschool. This is the first study to examine genetic and environmental sources of developmental growth in three temperament dimensions: surgency, negative affectivity, and effortful control, during the preschool period. METHODS: Biometric latent gro…
Gene–environment interplay linking perceived parental supervision and peer drunkenness with Chinese adolescent alcohol initiation
Following 602 Chinese twin pairs (48% male, all Han ethnicity) from primarily lower-than-average socioeconomic status families from early to mid-adolescence (M s = 12 and 15 in 2006 and 2009), this study investigated gene–environment interplay between perceived parental supervision, peer drunkenness, and adolescent alcohol initiation. For alcohol initiation, shared environmental influences were initially negligible but became substantial. Genetic…
Unpacking the impact of teacher assessment approaches on student writing engagement: A survey of university learners across different languages
While teacher assessment and student engagement are emerging topics in the field of second language (L2) writing, little is known about the possible correlations between the two important constructs. This mixed-methods study first surveyed the perceived teacher assessment approaches among L2 learners whose majors are English, Japanese and French in Chinese universities, and then explored their engagement in L2 writing. Follow-up interviews were c…
Psychology (38 works) · Developmental psychology (21 works) · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (16 works) · Medicine (16 works) · EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning (15 works) · Social Psychology (14 works) · Student Assessment and Feedback (14 works) · Mathematics education (13 works) · Clinical Psychology (11 works) · Pedagogy (11 works)