Ning Zhang

Zhejiang University | ZJU · School of Public Health

The COVID-19 pandemic exposed the public to enormous health risks and induced wide-ranging impacts on people’s mental health. Post-traumatic growth is a possible psychological benefits that may occur during struggling with the COVID-19 pandemic. This research explored 1) demographics differences on risk perception of COVID-19 pandemic, engagement i...

Introduction There is growing evidence that implicit theories of smoking—whether smokers perceive smoking behavior as malleable or fixed—are significant predictors of quitting intentions. The present study aims to investigate the underlying mechanisms of implicit theories on smoking in predicting smokers’ intentions to quit. Methods This was a cro...

This research investigated how implicit theories of mental health (ITMH) influence people's experience of anxiety and depression symptoms during the COVID-19 pandemic in China. Two thousand and 44 Chinese completed the study during an emergent outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in Shaanxi, China. The results suggested that ITMH significantly influen...

目的:探究局部疫情爆发地区封校大学生的压力心态与抑郁症状的关系及其影响机制。方法:采用压力心态量表(SMM)、积极与消极情绪量表(PANAS)、患者健康问卷(PHQ-9),邀请陕西省西安市疫情爆发地区的1038名大学生完成调查。结果:①压力心态与积极情绪呈正相关(r=0.221,P <0.01),压力心态与消极情绪呈负相关(r=-0.175,P <0.01),压力心态与抑郁症状呈显著负相关(r=-0.230,P <0.01),积极情绪与抑郁症状呈负相关(r=-0.290,P <0.01),消极情绪与抑郁症状呈正相关(r=0.603,P <0.01);②压力心态不仅可以直接预测封校大学生的抑郁症状,还可以通过积极情绪与消极情绪的中介作用间接预测封校大学生的抑郁症状,直接效应和间接效应分别为:-...

Background: Childhood adversity and lifestyle have been associated with frailty in later life, but not much is known about factors that may explain these associations. An unhealthy lifestyle may play an important role in the pathway from childhood adversity to frailty. Therefore, this study aims to investigate the association of childhood adversity...

Aim: Vaccination is one of the most effective strategies to contain the transmission of infectious diseases; however, people's intentions and behavior for vaccination vary across different regions and countries around the world. It is not clear how socioecological factors such as residential mobility influence people's vaccination behaviors for inf...

Smoking is one of the major public health challenges around the world. Traditional tobacco control strategies, which include health education, taxes on tobacco products, and restrictions on smoking in public spaces, have greatly contributed to the reduction of smoking behavior around the world. However, these strategies are not enough to help smoke...

Objective: Recent research suggests that stress mindset influences how people response to stress, however, there is a dearth of research investigates the underlying mechanism accounting for the effects of stress mindset on psychological health. The current research investigated how stress mindset and engagement in proactive coping behaviors predict...

Importance: Accelerated aging makes adults more vulnerable to chronic diseases and death. Whether childhood adversity is associated with accelerated aging processes, and to what extent lifestyle mediates the association, remain unknown. Objective: To examine the associations of childhood adversity with a phenotypic aging measure and the role of...

Short-form video applications (SVAs) have been gaining increasing popularity among users, which has raised the concern of problematic SVA use. Flow—a positive experience in which individuals feel immersion, enjoyment, temporal dissociation, and curiosity—contributes to the development of problematic SVA use. Most of the prior research examined the...

This study investigated lifestyle changes in physical activity, sleep, and diet among healthcare workers and their impact on their mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic in China. Healthcare workers (N = 589) completed an online survey about demographic and personal characteristics, working experiences, COVID-19-related stressors, lifestyle cha...

Maintaining optimal hand hygiene is an important strategy for infection control and prevention. However, how to increase adherence to hand hygiene practices has been a major challenge to prevent infectious diseases and reduce hospital acquired infections (HAIs), especially in the critical period of COVID-19 epidemic regular prevention and control....

This study investigated the impacts of risk perception of COVID-19 on anxiety and depression symptoms among hospital pharmacists in China. We conducted a cross-sectional study with hospital pharmacists during the COVID-19 pandemic in China. Some 4,219 hospital pharmacists completed an online survey including demographic questions, risk perception o...

Background Accelerated aging makes adults more vulnerable to chronic diseases and death. This study evaluates the association of childhood traumas with a phenotypic aging measure that captures mortality and morbidity risk, and the role of unhealthy lifestyle in mediating these associations. Methods We assembled data from 110,596 members of the UK...

The study investigated how different time perspectives predict people's self-rated health and engagement in healthy lifestyles, and explored the mediating effects of consideration of future consequences (CFC) and self-control as the underlying mechanisms. Young adults (n = 299, M age = 23.65, ranges from 18 to 30 years old) completed measures of ti...

保持手卫生是感染防控的重要策略, 但是如何提高其依从性成为预防传染性疾病和减少医疗机构获得性感染的一大挑战。以行为科学为基础的手卫生助推干预以更“隐性”的方式将洗手转变为一种可自动触发的行为习惯, 弥补了以知识分享和健康宣教为主的传统手卫生干预策略的诸多局限性。基于影响机制的不同,手卫生助推干预策略可分为提供决策信息、优化决策选项、影响决策结构、提醒决策方向4 个大类的框架体系。多模式助推策略的有效性也已在实践中得到印证, 但目前还非常缺乏在中国社会文化情境下开展的助推洗手行为的干预研究, 今后可尝试基于行为科学理论有针对性地在医院、学校和社区等公共场所开展此类干 预研究和实践, 为感染防控、疾病预防和改善公共健康做出相应的贡献。

虽然人类的生命健康状况伴随着经济社会发展和医疗健康技术进步得到持续改善，但是突发传染性疾病仍然是人类所面临的重要公共健康威胁之一。2019年年底发生的新型冠状病毒肺炎进一步凸显了中国公共卫生应急管理体系所存在的短板：（1）公共卫生部门的预防职能持续弱化；（2）突发公共卫生事件的信息传播机制不够畅通；（3）公共卫生部门的协调联动效率较差；（4）公共卫生部门的人才培养体系不够健全。基于社会与行为科学在过去几十年的快速发展及其在改善公共健康领域的广泛应用，本文为应用行为科学来完善和优化突发公共卫生事件应急管理体系提供了一系列的建议：（1）将行为科学应对策略纳入突发公共卫生事件管理的“工具箱”；（2）将行为科学应用于完善疾病预防控制体系，提高常态化疫情防控的应对准备度；（3）将行为科学应用于完善和优...

目的：探究新冠疫情期间公众的内隐健康信念对焦虑、抑郁状态的影响及其机制。方法：采用内隐健康信念量表、健康防护行为参与度量表、亲社会行为参与度量表、广泛性焦虑量表（GAD-7）、患者健康问卷（PHQ-9），邀请全国各地942位18岁以上的成年人参与调查。结果：①内隐健康信念与焦虑、抑郁呈显著负相关；②健康防护行为参与度部分中介了内隐健康信念对抑郁的预测效应，但在内隐健康信念和焦虑之间没有中介效应；③亲社会行为参与度调节了内隐健康信念对抑郁的影响，但不调节内隐健康信念对焦虑的影响。结论：内隐健康信念能够通过健康防护行参与度对抑郁症状起预测作用，在该作用中亲社会行为参与度起调节作用。

The COVID-19 pandemic has brought unprecedented disruptions to people’s everyday life and induced wide-ranging impacts on people’s physical health, mental health and well-being. This research investigated the relationship between risk perception, mental health distress, and flourishing during the peak period of the COVID-19 pandemic in China. Three...

Engaging in a healthy lifestyle could be helpful to decrease lifestyle-related health risks and bring long-term health benefits. This research investigated how implicit theories of body weight influence people’s engagement in healthy lifestyle among young adults in China. The results suggested that implicit theories of body weight significantly inf...

Aim To explore current research on the ethics of smart home technologies including artificial intelligence and information technologies for elderly care by conducting a scoping review. Background The development of smart home technologies for care of the older adults provides potential solutions to reduce the caregiver burden within families where...

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic poses wide-ranging impacts on the physical and mental health of people around the world, increasing attention from both researchers and practitioners on the topic of resilience. In this article, we review previous research on resilience from the past several decades, focusing on how to cultivate resi...

Background Risk perception is an important predictor of health-protective behaviors during pandemics. However, the underlying mechanism connecting risk perception and health-protective behaviors is not well understood. The current study investigates how risk perception predicts hospital pharmacists’ engagement in health-protective behaviors during...

Past research suggests that East Asians engage in less positive thinking than Westerners, but cultural differences in positive thinking may depend on context. The present research investigates how culture and context may interactively influence positive thinking. In Studies 1 ( N = 287) and 2 ( N = 245), participants read hypothetical positive or n...

This research investigated how implicit theories of health and consideration of future consequences influence people’s engagement in health-protective behaviors during the COVID-19 pandemic in China. Three hundred and ninety Chinese completed the study during the peak period of COVID-19 pandemic in China. Gender, education level, implicit theories...

Vaccination programs are cost-effective for preventing communicable diseases, yet vaccine events caused vaccine crises among parents nationwide, which has created challenges for current and future vaccination programs. This study aimed to investigate parents’ emotional reactions (i.e., anger and anxiety) toward the 2018 vaccine event in China and e...

Although China’s central and local governments do not have behavioral insights teams, they nonetheless incorporated strategies consistent with behavioral science research when they instituted plans to contain the COVID-19 pandemic. They made it easy for the public to implement health-protective behaviors; eliminated financial barriers to obtaining...

新冠肺炎疫情是新中国成立以来所遭遇的传播速度最快、感染范围最广、防控难度最大的一次重大突发公共卫生事件,也是自世界卫生组织成立以来全球遭遇的一次规模巨大的公共健康挑战。随着疫情在全球的大范围蔓延，当前的疫情防控依旧任重而道远。因此，有必要对现有的突发公共卫生事件应急管理策略进行比较、总结和反思，为优化我国公共卫生应急管理体系和增强政府的公共健康危机治理能力提供借鉴。以行为科学为基础的干预措施为及时有效传递疫情信息，在落实疫情防控政策的同时兼顾社会需求，提高公众对相应健康防护行为的支持度、配合度和参与度，保护医务人员的身心健康，通过精准疫情防控助力复工、复产、复学等问题上提供了新的视角。采取软硬兼施、刚柔并济的应对策略将有助于更快速、高效、精准地打赢这次疫情防控的人民战争，有效保障全民公共健康...

The current research investigates the applicability of the posttraumatic growth inventory and psychological predictors of posttraumatic growth among adult survivors of the Wenchuan earthquake in China. The results indicated that although the survivors reported a high degree of posttraumatic stress symptoms, they also experienced a moderate to high...

The COVID-19 pandemic is the most severe public health crisis in the 21st century. The pandemic not only posed great challenges to people's physical health but also induced wide-ranging impacts on mental health of infected and suspected patients, frontline healthcare workers, and the general public whose normal life was disrupted by the pandemic. I...

Selfish behaviors widely occur in adolescence and can be detrimental to adolescents’ moral development and social well-being. However, little is known about the antecedents of selfish behaviors among adolescents in collectivist samples (e.g., East Asia). As social dominance orientation (SDO) is negatively related to morality and concerns about othe...

Lay theories of change refer to beliefs people hold about how events develop over time and are related to each other. This chapter reviews cultural differences in lay theories of change between East Asians and Euro-Americans/Canadians. The overarching theme from the existing research is that East Asians tend to believe more than Westerners that phe...

We investigated consequences of receiving thanks in close relationships across cultures. Chinese reported more negative feelings than Euro-Canadians after a close other said thanks to them. Likewise, Chinese participants predicted, more than Euro-Canadians did, that a close other would experience negative feelings after receiving thanks from them....

Two studies were conducted to investigate cultural differences in opportunity cost consideration between Chinese and Euro-Canadians. Opportunity cost is defined as the cost of a benefit that must be forgone in order to pursue a better alternative (Becker et al., 1974). In both studies, participants read about hypothetical purchase scenarios, and th...

In the target article, Gelfand and Harrington have outlined three important motivations concerning when and for whom descriptive norms (i.e., personal cognition about what people do) guide behavior. The effects of these motivations likely vary substantially across and even within cultures, as informed by research in cultural psychology. In this com...

信任是建立在对他人的意向或行为的积极预期基础上而敢于托付(愿意承受风险) 的一种心理状态. 心理学家以及组织管理学家通过对信任发展的研究提出了信任发展的二元互动模型, 理性选择模型, 动机归因模型和可信赖程度——合作双螺旋模型. 背叛行为会对信任关系的 建立与发展带来永久性的伤害. 已有的关于信任的神经生理机制的研究表明: 人们所表现出的信任行为与其催产素水平密切相关, 而且信任与背纹状体, 前脑岛以及处理奖赏信息相关的脑区——伏隔核, 尾状核, 腹内侧额叶/前额脑区底部和侧前扣带皮层——的活动相关联. 尽管目前关于信任的研究已经取得了很大进展, 但是要解开信任的心理机制及其神经生理机制之谜, 还需要进一步的研究.

本文采用问卷调查的方法对中国被试对说谎行为, 谎言识别的信念及其群体差异进行了探索性研究. 研究结果表明: 法律工作者, 学生群体对说谎者行为和谎言识别的信念与其他群体存在显著差异; 中国被试对说谎行为的认识存在显著的性别偏见, 年龄偏见, 文化偏见和亲疏偏见; 中国被试对说谎频率的报告相对比较保守, 对自己的谎言识别能力的估计相对来说比较一致客观而对他人谎言识别能力的估计则很不一致.

Zhang, N., Zhang, Y., Wu, K., Zhu, Z. & Dyregrov, A. (2011). Factor structure of the Children’s Revised Impact of Event Scale among children and adolescents who survived the 2008 Sichuan earthquake in China. Scandinavian Journal of Psychology 52 , 236–241. To evaluate the psychometric properties of the Chinese version of Children’s Revised Impact o...

性格优点是通过个体的认知, 情感和行为而反映出来的一组积极人格特质, 它是积极心理学的核心研究领域. 研究表明性格优点存在跨文化的普遍性, 并且性格优点与优良表现, 主观幸福感以及创伤后成长呈显著的正相关. 同时, 研究表明遗传, 年龄, 性别以及个体的宗教信仰可能会影响个体性格优点的发展及其表现. 文章对性格优点未来的研究方向及其应用进行了探讨.

目的: 评估汶川大地震对幸存者所带来的心理影响, 以便为进行心理援助和治疗的临床工作者提供更有价值的诊断信息. 方法: 对安置在绵竹体育中心灾民安置点的956 名地震幸存者施测了创伤暴露水平问卷, 事件冲击量表(IES-R) 和D 型人格量表(DS-14). 结果: 在地震发生之后不久, 有82.6% 的被试表现出创伤后应激障碍; 在地震中创伤暴露水平高的被试更有可能表现出创伤后应激障碍; 女性被试, 中年被试, 已婚被试以及拥有D 型人格的被试更可能产生创伤后应激障碍; 回归分析的结果表明性别, 年龄, 婚姻状态, 创伤暴露水平以及D 型人格中的负性情绪是影响被试是否表现出创伤性应激障碍的关键因素. 结论: 有较高比例的地震幸存者表现出创伤后应激障碍, 高创伤暴露水平, 女性, 中年, 已...