Articles
(* graduate student author; ** undergraduate student author; # postdoctoral fellow)
Many of the papers are open access, and the preprints of most non-open access papers are freely available online as well (e.g., ResearchGate, PsyArXiv). Please contact Dr. Yao Zheng if you cannot find them online and would like a free copy of any of these papers.
2025
Racz, S. J., Goulter, N., & Zheng, Y. (2025). Introduction to the Special Issue: Prevention science and youth conduct problems: Development, prevention, and treatment. Prevention Science.
*Wu, Y., *Li, K., & Zheng, Y. (2025). Daily parenting and adolescent maladjustment: A two-wave multi-informant daily diary study before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. Journal of Adolescence.
Brendgen, M., Vitaro, F., Zheng, Y., Girard, A., Dionne, G., & Boivin, M. (2025). Gene–environment interplay linking friends’ antisociality with different developmental trajectories of antisocial behavior during adolescence. Developmental Psychology.
Zheng, Y., *Meyer, Z., & *Wu, Y. (2025). Taking stock and moving forward: Synthesizing ethnic-racial diversity in Canadian social genomics research. Canadian Psychology / Psychologie canadienne.
*Li, K., & Zheng, Y. (2025). Convergence and divergence in adolescent- and parent-reported daily parental positive reinforcement: Dynamic links with adolescent emotional and behavioral problems. Developmental Psychology.
*Bohn, L., Zheng, Y., #McFall, G. P., Andrew, M. K., & Dixon, R. A. (2025). Frailty in motion: Amnestic mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer’s disease cohorts display heterogeneity in multimorbidity classification and longitudinal transitions. Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease, 104(3), 732–750.
*Li, K., #Cooke, E. M., & Zheng, Y. (2025). Dynamic links between daily anxiety symptoms and young adults’ daily well-being. Anxiety, Stress, & Coping, 38(3), 349–364.
2024
Hu, Y., *Purol, S. M., Shen, Y., & Zheng, Y. (2024). Perceived racism and well-being in university racial/ethnic minority students: The complex roles of racial/ethnic identity and self-esteem. Current Psychology, 43(48), 37196–37207.
Zheng, Y., *Li, K., *Zheng, H., & Pasalich, D. (2024). Daily associations between parental warmth and discipline and adolescent conduct problems and callous-unemotional traits. Prevention Science.
*Zheng, H., & Zheng, Y. (2024). Understanding the within- and between-person structure of daily psychopathology among adolescents and young adults. Assessment.
Shen, Y., Zheng, Y., *Garza, A. R., & Reisz, S. L. (2024). Latinx adolescents’ daily family assistance and emotional well-being before and amid the COVID-19 pandemic: A pilot measurement burst study. Journal of Research on Adolescence, 34(3), 1107–1114.
Baiden, P., Zheng, Y., Nguyen, A. J., Espinosa-Hernandez, G., Magis-Weinberg, L., & Titzmann, P. F. (2024). Embracing the hidden potential: The contribution of Majority World research to developmental science. Journal of Research on Adolescence, 34(2), 521–525.
*Meyer, Z., Unger, J., & Zheng, Y. (2024). Gene–environment transactions between peer cigarette use, parental supervision, and Chinese adolescent cigarette smoking initiation. Journal of Adolescence, 96(5), 1034–1047.
Zhang, J., Cooke, E. M., *Wei, X., *Liu, Y., & Zheng, Y. (2024). Intergenerational cascade processes from parental childhood adversity to child emotional and behavioral problems. Child Abuse & Neglect, 149, 106695.
Zheng, Y., & Goulter, N. (2024). Introduction to the Special Issue: Novel insights into the externalizing psychopathology spectrum in childhood and adolescence from intensive longitudinal data. Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology, 52(1), 1–6.
Goulter, N., #Cooke, E. M., & Zheng, Y. (2024). Callous-unemotional traits in adolescents’ daily life: Associations with affect and emotional and conduct problems. Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology, 52(1), 51–63.
Zheng, Y., #Xu, J., *Li, K., & Hu, Y. (2024). A dynamical systems investigation of the co-regulation between perceived daily parental warmth and adolescent attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder symptoms. Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology, 52(1), 111–124.
*Zheng, H., & Zheng, Y. (2024). Daily links between leisure activities, stress, and well-being during the transition to university. Applied Developmental Science, 28(4), 580–595.
**Wu, Y., #Xu, J., Shen, Y., Wang, Y., & Zheng, Y. (2024). Daily agreeableness and acculturation processes in ethnic/racial minority freshmen: The role of inter-ethnic contact and perceived discrimination. Journal of Personality, 92(5), 1299–1314.
Raval, V., Baiden, P., Espinosa-Hernandez, G., Magis-Weinberg, L., Nguyen, A. J., Titzmann, P. F., & Zheng, Y. (2024). Perspectives of researchers engaging in Majority World research to promote diverse and global psychological science. American Psychologist, 79(3), 352–367.
2023
Zheng, Y., **Li, J., & Vergunst, F. (2023). Drinking behaviors of Chinese adolescents over the past three decades: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Preventive Medicine, 173:107558.
*Li, K., *Zhang, J., Wu, Z., & Zheng, Y. (2023). Intelligence mindset in Chinese children: The role of parental praise and autonomy support. Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 87:101555.
Arden, R., Abdellaoui, A., Li, Q., Zheng, Y., Wang, D., & Su, Y. (2023). Majestic tigers: Personality structure in the great Amur cat. Royal Society Open Science, 10(4):220957.
*Rai, J., *Predy, M., Wiebe, S., Rinaldi, C., Zheng, Y., & Carson, V. (2023). Patterns of preschool children’s screen time, parent–child interactions, and cognitive development in early childhood: A pilot study. Pilot and Feasibility Studies, 9:39.
Zheng, Y., *Meyer, Z., Unger, J. B., & Rijsdijk, F. (2023). Gene–environment interplay linking perceived parental supervision and peer drunkenness with Chinese adolescent alcohol initiation. Child Development, 94(4), 853–864.
#Xu, J., & Zheng, Y. (2023). Parent- and child-driven daily family stress processes between daily stress, parental warmth, and adolescent adjustment. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 52(3), 490–505.
*Zheng, H., #Cooke, E. M., *Li, K., & Zheng, Y. (2023). Capturing hassles and uplifts in adolescents’ daily lives: Links with physical and mental well-being. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 52(1), 177–194.
#Liu, C., Zheng, Y., Ganiban, J., & Saudio, K. (2023). Genetic and environmental influences on temperament development across the preschool period. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 64(1), 59–70.
Brendgen, M., Zheng, Y., Vitaro, F., Dionne, G., & Boivin, M. (2023). Gene–environment interplay linking peer victimization with adolescents’ trajectories of depressive symptoms. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 62(2), 261–271.
Su, J., **Conroy, I., *Trevino, A., Zheng, Y., & Kuo, S. I. C. (2023). COVID-19 related stressors, parent–child relationship, and alcohol use and mental health profiles among White and Hispanic/Latinx college freshmen. Child Psychiatry and Human Development, 54(5), 1287–1296.
2022
#Cooke, E. M., Schuurman, N. K., & Zheng, Y. (2022). Examining the within- and between-person structure of a short form of the Positive and Negative Affect Schedule: A multilevel and dynamic approach. Psychological Assessment, 34(12), 1126–1137.
Shen, Y., #Seo, E., *Jiles, A., Zheng, Y., & Wang, Y. (2022). Language brokering and immigrant-origin youth’s well-being: A meta-analytic review. American Psychologist, 77(8), 921–939.
#Xu, J., & Zheng, Y. (2022). Links between shared and unique perspectives of parental psychological control and adolescent emotional problems: A dyadic daily diary study. Child Development, 93(6), 1649–1662.
Zheng, Y., & McMahon, R. J. (2022). Lability in parental warmth in childhood: Antecedents and early adolescent outcomes. Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology, 51(5), 610–622.
*Cyr, M., Zheng, Y., & McMahon, R. J. (2022). A long-term look at “early starters”: Predicting adult psychosocial outcomes from childhood conduct problem trajectories. Development and Psychopathology, 34(1), 225–240.
Schuurman, N. K., Zheng, Y., & Dolan, C. V. (2022). Multilevel dynamic twin modeling. Structural Equation Modeling: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 29(1), 101–121.
2021
Zheng, Y., Zhang, J., **Huang, L., & #Goulter, N. (2021). Validation and measurement invariance of the Inventory of Callous-Unemotional Traits in Chinese incarcerated and normative samples. Law and Human Behavior, 45(6), 542–553.
*Caballero, H. S., #McFall, G. P., Zheng, Y., & Dixon, R. A. (2021). Data-driven approaches to executive function performance and structure in aging: Integrating person-centered analyses and machine learning risk prediction. Neuropsychology, 35(8), 889–903.
Zheng, Y., Brendgen, M., *Meyer, Z., Vitaro, F., Dionne, G., & Boivin, M. (2021). Maternal parenting behaviors amplify environmental influences on developmental trajectories of alcohol use during adolescence. Behavior Genetics, 51(5), 528–542.
*Bohn, L., Zheng, Y., #McFall, G. P., & Dixon, R. A. (2021). Portals to frailty? Data-driven analyses detect early frailty profiles. Alzheimer’s Research & Therapy, 13, 1.
#Goulter, N., *Cyr, M., Kotler, J. S., Zheng, Y., & McMahon, R. J. (2021). Childhood conduct problems trajectories are associated with distinct Antisocial Process Screening Device dimensions. Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment, 43(3), 455–465.
#Vergunst, F., Zheng, Y., #Domond, P., Vitaro, F., Tremblay, R. E., Nagin, D., Park, J., & Côté, S. M. (2021). Behavior in childhood is associated with distinct patterns of partnering in adulthood. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 62(7), 842–852.
Zheng, Y., & Hu, Y. (2021). Family socioeconomic status amplifies unique environmental influences on the dynamics of adolescent daily positive affective process. Journal of Personality, 89(4), 706–719.
2020
#Vergunst, F., Tremblay, R. E., Nagin, D., Zheng, Y., Galera, C., Park, J., Beasley, E., Algan, Y., Vitaro, F., & Côté, S. M. (2020). Inattention in boys from low-income backgrounds predicts welfare receipt: A 30-year prospective study. Psychological Medicine, 50(12), 2001–2009.
Zheng, Y., Pingault, J-B., Unger, J., & Rijsdijk, F. (2020). Genetic and environmental influences on attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder symptoms in Chinese adolescents: A longitudinal twin study. European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 29(2), 205–216.
2019
Zheng, Y., Brendgen, M., Girard, A., Dionne, G., Boivin, M., & Vitaro, F. (2019). Peer alcohol use differentially amplifies genetic and environment effects on different developmental trajectories of adolescent alcohol use. Journal of Adolescent Health, 65(6), 752–759.
Zheng, Y., & Asbury, K. (2019). Genetic and environmental influences on adolescent emotional inertia in daily life. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 48(9), 1849–1860.
Zheng, Y., Brendgen, M., Dionne, G., Boivin, M., & Vitaro, F. (2019). Genetic and environmental influences on developmental trajectories of adolescent alcohol use. European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 28(9), 1203–1212.
Zhang, J., & Zheng, Y. (2019). Neuroticism and extraversion are differentially related to between- and within-person variation of daily negative emotion and physical symptoms. Personality and Individual Differences, 141, 138–142.
*Schuberth, D., Zheng, Y., Pasalich, D., McMahon, R. J., Kamboukos, D, Dawson-McClure, S., & Brotman, L. M. (2019). The role of emotion understanding in the development of aggression and callous-unemotional features across early childhood. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 47(4), 619–631.
2018
*Lu F., Zheng, Y., Cleveland, H., Burton, C., & Madigan, D. (2018). Bayesian hierarchical vector autoregressive models for patient-level predictive modeling. PLoS One, 13(12), e0208082.
Zhang, J., & Zheng, Y. (2018). Childhood maltreatment profiles among incarcerated Chinese males and their associations with personality disorder symptoms and criminal behaviors. Psychiatry Research, 268, 272–278.
*Anderson, S. L., Zheng, Y., & McMahon, R. J. (2018). Do callous-unemotional traits and conduct disorder symptoms predict the onset and development of adolescent substance use? Child Psychiatry and Human Development, 49(5), 688–698.
Zheng, Y., Albert, D., McMahon, R. J., Dodge, K., Dick, D., & the Conduct Problems Prevention Research Group. (2018). Glucocorticoid receptor (NR3C1) gene polymorphisms moderate intervention effects on the developmental trajectory of African American adolescent alcohol abuse. Prevention Science, 19(1), 79–89.
Zheng, Y., Rijsdijk, F., & Arden, R. (2018). Differential environmental influences on the development of cognitive abilities during childhood. Intelligence, 66, 72–78.
Wiebe, R. P., *Griffin, A., Zheng, Y., Harris, K. S., & Cleveland, H. H. (2018). Twelve steps, two factors: Coping strategies moderate the association between craving and daily 12-step use in a College Recovery Community. Substance Use & Misuse, 53(1), 114–127.
2017
Zhang, J., & Zheng, Y. (2017). How do academic stress and leisure activities influence college students’ emotional well-being? A daily diary investigation. Journal of Adolescence, 60, 114–118.
*Oberth, C., Zheng, Y., & McMahon, R. J. (2017). Violence exposure subtypes differentially mediate the relation between callous-unemotional traits and adolescent delinquency. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 45(8), 1565–1575.
*Anderson, S. L., Zheng, Y., & McMahon, R. J. (2017). Predicting risky sexual behavior: The unique and interactive roles of childhood conduct disorder symptoms and callous-unemotional traits. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 45(6), 1147–1156.
Zheng, Y., Pasalich, D., *Oberth, C., McMahon, R., & Pinderhughes, E. E. (2017). Capturing parenting as a multidimensional and dynamic construct with a person-oriented approach. Prevention Science, 18(3), 281–291.
2016
Zheng, Y., Plomin, R., & von Stumm, S. (2016). Heritability of intraindividual mean and variability of positive and negative affect: Genetic analysis of daily affect ratings over a month. Psychological Science, 27(12), 1611–1619.
Pasalich, D. S., Fleming, C. B., Oxford, M. L., Zheng, Y., & Spieker, S. J. (2016). Can parenting intervention prevent cascading effects from placement instability to disrupted attachment to externalizing problems in maltreated toddlers? Child Maltreatment, 21(3), 175–185.
Zheng, Y., Molenaar, P. C. M., Arden, R., Asbury, K., & Almeida, D. M. (2016). Person-specific non-shared environmental influences in intra-individual variability: A preliminary case of daily school feelings in monozygotic twins. Behavior Genetics, 46(5), 705–717.
Zheng, Y., Rijsdijk, F., Pingault, J-B, McMahon, R., & Unger, J. (2016). Developmental changes in genetic and environmental influences on Chinese child and adolescent anxiety and depression. Psychological Medicine, 46(9), 1829–1838.
Pasalich, D., *Cyr, M., Zheng, Y., McMahon, R., & Spieker, S. (2016). Child abuse history in teen mothers and parent-child risk processes for offspring conduct problems. Child Abuse & Neglect, 56, 89–98.
2015
Zheng, Y., & Cleveland, H. H. (2015). Differential genetic and environmental influences on developmental trajectories of antisocial behavior from adolescence to young adulthood. Journal of Adolescence, 45, 204–213.
Pingault, J-B., Viding, E., Galéra, C., Greven, C. U., Zheng, Y., Plomin, R., & Rijsdijk, F. (2015). Genetic and environmental influences on the developmental course of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder symptoms from childhood to adolescence. JAMA Psychiatry, 72(7), 651–658.
Cleveland, H. H., Wiebe, R. P., McGuire, J., & Zheng, Y. (2015). Predicting high school minority adolescents’ drinking from their exposure to White schoolmates: Differences and similarities among Hispanic, Black, and Asian U.S. adolescents. Journal of Ethnicity in Substance Abuse, 14(2), 166–186.
Pingault, J-B., Rijsdijk, F., Zheng, Y., Plomin, R., & Viding, E. (2015). Developmentally dynamic genome: Evidence of genetic influences on increases and decreases in conduct problems from early childhood to adolescence. Scientific Reports, 5: 10053.
Zheng, Y., Cleveland, H. H., Molenaar P. C. M., & Harris, K. S. (2015). An alternative framework to investigating and understanding intra-individual processes in substance abuse recovery: An idiographic approach and demonstration. Evaluation Review: A Journal of Applied Social Research, 39(2), 229–254.
2013 and before
Vasilenko, S. A., **Duntzee, C. I., Zheng, Y., & Lefkowitz, E. S. (2013). Testing two process models of religiosity and sexual behavior. Journal of Adolescence, 36(4), 667–673.
Zheng, Y., & Cleveland, H. H. (2013). Identifying gender-specific developmental trajectories of nonviolent and violent delinquency from adolescence to young adulthood. Journal of Adolescence, 36(2), 371–381.
Zheng, Y., Wiebe, R. P., Cleveland, H. H., Molenaar P. C. M., & Harris, K. S. (2013). An idiographic examination of day-to-day patterns of substance use craving, negative affect and tobacco use among young adults in recovery. Multivariate Behavioral Research, 48(2), 241–266.
Chapters
Cleveland, H. H., Beekman, C., & Zheng, Y. (2011). The independence of criminological “predictor” variables: A good deal of concerns and some answers from behavioral genetic research. In K. M. Beaver, & W. Anthony (Eds.), The Ashgate research companion to biosocial theories of crime (pp. 249–272).Farnham, UK: Ashgate Publishing.