Research interests

Parenting and mental health of children and adolescents, psychological support for families of children with autism spectrum disorders, mental health of healthcare workers and patients

Education experience

2010,9-2014,7 Department of Psychology, Peking University, Ph.D

2008,9-2010,11 Department of Psychology, National University of Singapore Master of Social Science (Psychology)

2003,9–2008,7 School of Public Health, Peking University Health Science Centre, Bachelor of Medicine

Work experience

2025.8- Tenured associate professor, Department of Medical Psychology, School of Health Humanities, Peking University Health Science Centre

2019.4- 2025.7 Assistant professor, Department of Medical Psychology, School of Health Humanities, Peking University Health Science Centre

2014,7-2019.3  Lecturer, School of Management, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine

Publications

1. Xu, C., Zhang, C., Zhou, T.* (2025). A Cross-Lagged Panel Analysis of Basic Psychological Needs Satisfaction and Depressive Symptoms in Parents of Autistic Children: The Mediating Role of Parenting Stress. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-025-07149-4

2. Zhang, C., Xu, C., Zhang, B., Zhou, T. * (2025). Reciprocal Associations between Parental Reflective Functioning and Behavioral Problems in Chinese Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Cross-Lagged Panel Analysis. Development and Psychopathology. In press.

3. Zhou, T., Wang, C., Hu, J., Zhang, S., Fu, L., Huang, Z., & Qi, H. (2025). Multiple Risks and Adolescent Depressive Symptoms in Ethnic Regions of China: Analyses Using Cumulative Risk Model, Logistic Regression, and Association Rule Mining. Behavioral sciences, 15(5), 657.

4. Zhou, T., Liu, L., Chen, K., Hu, J., & Shang, Z. (2025). Parent-adolescent emotional communication patterns and adolescent depressive symptoms: A dyadic, mixed methods study. Journal of research on adolescence, 35(1), e70010.

5. Zhou, T., Lin, Z., Sha, S., Tian, T., Liang, S., Zhou, L., & Wang, Q. (2025). Cognitive Emotion‐Regulation and Depressive Symptoms in a Group of Healthcare Workers During the COVID‐19 Pandemic: A Person‐Based Approach. Stress and health, 41(1), e70013-n/a.

6. Liu Zaitian, Hu Jennifer, Zhou Ting*, Wang Rui.(2024) Parental Emotion Dysregulation and Preschoolers' Externalizing Problems: Roles of Family Emotional Expressiveness and Chinese Familism; Journal of Family Psychology; https://dx.doi.org/10.1037/fam0001287

7. Zheng Q, Chen M, Hu J, Zhou T*, Wang P*(2024). Appearance Comparison, Body Appreciation, and Adolescent Depressive Symptoms: Roles of Gender, Age, and Body-Mass Index. Psychology Research and Behavior Management. In Press.

8. Zhang, C., Fu, L., Chen, Y., Wang, R., Zhou, T*., Yi, C*. (2024). The Association between Parenting Stress and Parenting Behaviors in Chinese Parents of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders: The Mediating Role of Parental Anxiety and Depression. Journal of Mental Health Research in Intellectual Disabilities , 17(4), 275–296.

9. Hu, J., & Zhou, T*. (2024). Parent- and Adolescent-Driven Effects in Emotion-Related Communication and Longitudinal Relationships with Depressive Symptoms in Adolescents Journal of Youth and Adolescence. , 54(2), 310–325.10.1007/s10964-024-02067-7

10. Hu, J., Zheng, Q., Zhou, T*., & Huang, Z. (2024). Development and initial validation of the parental response to adolescents' emotions scale: A mixed methods approach. Journal of Research on Adolescence, , 34(2), 599–613. https://doi.org/10.1111/jora.12945

11. Shang, Z., Zuo, C., Shi, Y., & Zhou, T.* (2024). Does overqualification play a promoting or a hindering role? the impact of public employees' perceived overqualification on workplace behaviors. Behavioral Sciences, 14(1), 48. https://doi.org/10.3390/bs14010048

12. Hu, J., & Zhou, T*. (2023). Parent-adolescent Congruence and Discrepancy in Perceived Parental Emotion Socialization to Anger and Sadness: Using Response Surface Analysis to Examine the Links with Adolescent Depressive Symptoms. Journal of youth and adolescence, 53(1), 67–78. doi:10.1007/s10964-023-01919-y

13. Zhou, T., Wang, Q., Wang, Y., & Cheng, L. (2023). Coping with epidemic-related job stressors in healthcare workers during the late stage of the COVID-19 pandemic: Effects of reflective functioning and cognitive emotion regulation. Psychology Research and Behavior Management, 16, 4377-4388. https://doi.org/10.2147/PRBM.S429109

14. Wang, C^&., Zhou, T.^&, Fu, L., Xie, D., Qi, H*., & Huang, Z*. (2023). Risk and protective factors of depression in family and school domains for chinese early adolescents: An association rule mining approach. Behavioral Sciences, 13(11), 893. https://doi.org/10.3390/bs13110893

15. Hu, J., Zhou, T.*, & Huang, Z.* (2023). Parental emotion socialization, emotion regulation and depressive symptoms in chinese adolescence: The role of family cohesion. The Journal of Early Adolescence, , 27243162311769. https://doi.org/10.1177/02724316231176955、

16. Zhang, C., Zhou, T*., Yi, C., Liu, S., Hong, Y., & Zhang, Y. (2022). Adaptation and validation of the parental behaviour scale for autism spectrum disorder in Chinese parents. Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders, 98. doi:10.1016/j.rasd.2022.102048

17. Zhou T., Zhang C.,& Yi C*. (2022) Caregivers and Interventionists: Developing a Dual Role Behaviors Scale for Parents of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders. Family Process, doi: 10.1111/famp.12831

18. Zhou, T., Xu, C., Wang, C., Sha, S., Wang, Z., Zhou, Y., . . . Wang, Q. (2022). Burnout and well-being of healthcare workers in the post-pandemic period of covid-19: A perspective from the job demands-resources model. BMC health services research, 22(1), 284-284. doi:10.1186/s12913-022-07608-z；

19. Chen, C., Guan, Z., Sun, L., Zhou, T.*, & Guan, R. (2022;2021). COVID‐19 exposure, pandemic‐related appraisals, coping strategies, and psychological symptoms among the frontline medical staff and gender differences in coping processes. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 36(1), 111-120. https://doi.10.1002/acp.3902

20. Zhou, T., Guan, R., Rosenthal, S. L., Moerdler, S., Guan, Z., & Sun, L. (2021). Supporting health-care workers and patients in quarantine wards: Evidence from a survey of frontline health-care workers and inpatients with COVID-19 in wuhan, china. Frontiers in Public Health, 9, 705354-705354. https://doi.10.3389/fpubh.2021.705354

21. Zhou, T., Guan, R., & Sun, L. (2021). Perceived organizational support and PTSD symptoms of frontline healthcare workers in the outbreak of COVID-19 in wuhan: The mediating effects of self-efficacy and coping strategies. Applied Psychology : Health and Well-being, , 13(4), 745-760 https://doi.org/10.1111/aphw.12267

22. Zhou, T., Wang Y., Yi, C. Affiliate stigma and depression in caregivers of children with Autism Spectrum Disorders in China: Effects of self-esteem, shame and family functioning [J] Psychiatry Research 2018, 264, 260-265.

23. Wang, Q., Zhou T., Gao J. et al. Attachment, Social Support, Resilience and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Symptoms in Chinese Adults Living with HIV/AIDS [J] Journal of Loss and Trauma 2018, 23(2),113-127.

24. Zhou, T. & Yi, C. Autism as an Infantile Post-trauma Stress Disorder: A Hypothesis [J]. Journal of Mental Disorder and Treatment 2017, 3:1 DOI: 10.4172/2471-271X.1000142

25. Zhou, T., Onojima, M., Kameguchi, K., & Yi, C. Family structures and women’s status in rural areas of Xining, China: A family image study in the villages of Qinghai province. [J]. Asian Journal of Women's Studies, 2017, 23(1), 89-109.

26. Zhou, T., Shang, Z., & Wang, D. Emotion Suppression in Multiple Social Contexts and its Effects on Psychosocial Functioning: An Investigation with Chinese Samples [J]. Asian Journal of Social Psychology, 2016, 19, 311-324

27. Zhou, T., Li, X., Pei, Y., Gao, J. & Kong, J. Internet-based Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Subthreshold Depression: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis [J]. BMC Psychiatry, 2016, 16: 356

28. Wang, Q., & Zhou, T. The impact of family functioning and mental health condition on the child's behavioral problems [J]. Social Behavior & Personality: An International Journal, 2015, 43：1135-1146.

29. Zhou, T. & Yi, C. Parenting styles and parents’ perspectives on how their own emotions affect the functioning of children with Autism Spectrum Disorders [J]Family Process, 2014, 53:67–79.

30. Zhou, T. ,Yi, C., Zhang, X., Wang, Y. Factors Impacting the Mental Health of the Caregivers of Children with Asthma in China: Effects of Family Socioeconomic Status, Symptoms Control, Proneness to Shame, and Family Functioning [J] Family Process 2014, 53: 717-730.

31. Zhou, T. &Bishop, G. D. Culture moderates the cardiovascular consequences of anger regulation strategy. International Journal of Psychophysiology 2012, 86:291-298