心理学院

NAME：Zhang, Mengrun

Gender：female
Appointment Post：
Academic Credentials：
Tel：
Email：zhangmengrun@shnu.edu.cn
Address：100 Guilin Rd

Department：Psychology
Degree：Ph.D.
Graduate School：CUHK
Office Location：Jiaoyuan Building A1211

Honor Reward：

2024 Early Career Scholar Travel Grant awarded by International Society for the Study of Behavioural Development

2023 Best Poster & Best Oral Presentation awarded by NYU Shanghai

2020 International Young Scholars Program awarded by Society for Research on Adolescence

2019 Graduate Student Travel Award awarded by Society for Research in Child Development

2017–2021 Postgraduate Studentship awarded by The Chinese University of Hong Kong

2015–2017 Dean’s Tuition Scholarship awarded by Vanderbilt University

2012 Academic Excellence Scholarship awarded by Tsinghua University

Research Direction：

Mengrun Zhang obtained her Ph.D. from Faculty of Education, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Her major research interests include parenting, culture and socialization, adolescent academic development and mental health. She has published more than 10 papers in SSCI journals including Early Childhood Research Quarterly, Journal of Adolescent Health, Journal of Youth and Adolescence. Now she is an editorial board member of Journal of Research on Adolescence, Journal of Youth and Adolescence, and Cultural Diversity & Ethnic Minority Psychology.

Work Experience:

2026.03–Present, School of Psychology, Shanghai Normal University

2024.01–2025.01, Psychology Department, Fordham University, Postdoctoral Fellow (Supervisors: Prof. Tiffany Yip, Prof. Yijie Wang)

2022.01–2023.12, NYU Shanghai, Postdoctoral Fellow of Psychology (Supervisor: Prof. Lixian Cui)

Educational Background:

2017.09–2021.11, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Educational Psychology, Doctor of Philosophy (Supervisor: Prof. Florrie Fei-Yin Ng)

2015.07–2017.05, Vanderbilt University, Child Studies, Master of Education

2011.08–2015.07, Tsinghua University, Information Management and Information Systems, Bachelor of Management

Research Interests:

- Parenting

- Culture and Socialization

- Child/Adolescent Academic and Social-Emotional Development

- Stress and Mental Health

Academic Achievement：

Zhao, Z., Zhang, M. R., Yan, J., Cham, H., El-Sheikh, M., & Yip, T. (2026). Associations between daily sleep and mood among ethnically and racially minoritized adolescents during high school: A longitudinal study. Journal of Adolescence. Advance online publication. (Co-first authorship)

Yip, T., Yan, J., Zhang, M. R., Wang, Y., Zhao, Z., Cham, H., & Alegría, M. (2026). School start times and racial disparities in early adolescent sleep. Sleep Health, 12(1), 30–38.

Choi, Y., Park, M., Shen, Y., Zhang, M. R., & Kim, K. (2026). Measures of family process: Psychometric properties and invariance testing across South Koreans, Korean Chinese, and Korean Americans. Developmental Psychology, 62(1), 254–273.

Zhang, M. R., & Ng, F. F. Y. (2025). Ethnic and gender variations in adolescents’ future aspirations. Journal of Adolescence, 97(8), 2172–2184.

Zhang, M. R., Wang, Y., Zhao, Z., Yan, J., Zhang, Y., Cham, H., Alegría, M., & Yip, T. (2025). Immigrant status, socioeconomic status, and sleep disparities in early adolescence: Findings from the national Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development Study. Journal of Adolescent Health, 77(6), 1205–1214.

Cui, L., Zhang, M. R., Way, N., Waters., T. E. A., Zhang, G., Chen, X., Okazaki, S., & Yoshikawa, H. (2025). Maternal and paternal emotion socialization practices and psychosocial adjustment from early- to mid-adolescence among urban Chinese families. Developmental Psychology. Advance online publication.

Wang, Y., Zhao, Z., Zhang, M. R., Zhang, Y., Yan, J., Jelsma, E., Cham, H., Alegría, M., & Yip, T. (2025). Sleep as a protective factor: Multiple forms of discrimination and substance use intention among racially and ethnically minoritized U.S. youth. Journal of Adolescent Health, 76(4), 718–726.

Zhang, M. R., Ng, F. F. Y., Yu, D., & Von Suchodoletz, A. (2024). Granny and Mama: Grandmothers’ and mothers’ interactions with toddlers during block play in urban China. Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 67, 148–158.

Wang, H., Zhang, M. R., He, J., Saiding A., Zong, C., Zhang, Y., & Chen, C. (2024). Exploring the association between bullying victimization and poor mental health in rural Chinese adolescents: The mediating effects of emotion regulation. School Mental Health, 16(4), 1107–1119.

Wang, Y., Zhao, Z., Zhang, Y., Yan, J., Zhang, M. R., Jelsma, E., Johnson, S., Cham, H., Alegría, M., & Yip., T. (2024). Race, ethnicity, and sleep in US children. JAMA Network Open, 7(12), e2449861.

Zhang, M. R., Shen, Y., Choi, Y., & Kim, K. (2023). Parental academic socialization and youth adjustments: A comparison of Korean youth in South Korea, China, and the United States. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 52, 2526–2544.

Zhang, M. R., Ng, F. F. Y., Hong, Y. Y., Wei, J., Liu, R. D., & Chan, S. L. (2023). My child and I: Self- and child-reference effects among parents with self-worth contingent on children’s performance. Memory, 31(9), 1244–1257.

Zhang, M. R., & Ng, F. F. Y. (2022). Chinese adolescents’ perceptions of parental socialization goals: Variations by ethnicity and gender. Journal of Early Adolescence, 42(8), 995–1025.

Teaching WORK：

Social Appointments：

Editorial Board:

Journal of Research on Adolescence (2025-present), Journal of Youth and Adolescence (2025-present), Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology (2026-present)

Journal Reviewer:

Asian American Journal of Psychology, Child Development, Developmental Psychology, Early Childhood Research Quarterly, Family Relations, International Journal of Behavioral Development, Journal of Child and Family Studies, Journal of Educational Psychology, Journal of Family Psychology, Journal of Research on Adolescence, Journal of Youth and Adolescence, Parenting: Science and Practice, Sleep Health, Social Science & Medicine