- Assistant Professor
- Phone: 979-845-2585
- Email: zezhu@tamu.edu
- Document: CV
- Lab Website
Research Areas
- Industrial/Organizational
Research Interests
Dr. Zhu is an assistant professor in the Industrial and Organizational Psychology (I/O)
program at Texas A&M University (TAMU). She received her Ph.D. in Industrial and
Organizational Psychology from George Mason University, and her master’s degree and
bachelor’s degree in Psychology from Beijing Normal University. Her research interests
include occupational health psychology (e.g., employee well-being, recovery from work
stress, supervisor support for recovery, work-life balance) and research methods. Her
ultimate goal is to help employees have a healthy, happy, and sustainable working life.
Accepting Students for 2025-2026: Yes
Certifications & Memberships
- Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP), Academy of Management (AOM), American Psychological Association (APA)
Selected Publications
- Zhu, Z., Hu, X. Y. & Zhang, B. (In press). The role of resilience in navigating work stress and achieving daily work goals. Journal of Organizational Behavior.
- Zhu, Z., Aitken, J. A., Dalal, R. S.*, & Kaplan, S. A.* (2024). The promise of just-in-time adaptive interventions for organizational scholarship and practice: Conceptual development and research agenda. Organizational Research Methods, 27(4): 543-587. [*The last two authors contributed equally; their ordering is purely alphabetical.]
- Chen, J., Tetrick, L., Fan, Q., & Zhu, Z. (2023). SIE identity strain, job embeddedness and expatriate outcomes: Within-domain and spillover buffering effects of off-the-job relationship building.The International Journal of Human Resource Management, 34(19), 3613-3655.
- Folberg, A. M.,Zhu, Z., He, Y., & Ryan, C. S. (2022). The primacy of nurturance and dominance/assertiveness: Unidimensional measures of the Big Two mask gender differences in subdimensions. International Review of Social Psychology. 35(1), 16, 1-13.
- Zhu, Z., Tomassetti, A. J., Dalal, R. S., Schrader, S., Loo, K., Sabat, I., Alaybek, B., Zhou, Y., Jones, C. & Fyffe, S. (2022). A test-retest reliability generalization meta-analysis of judgments via the policy-capturing technique. Organizational Research Methods, 25(3), 541-574.
- Da, S., Zhu, Z., Cen, H., Gong, X., Siu, O. L., & Zhang, X. (2021). Psychological capital, positive affect, and organizational outcomes: A three-wave cross-lagged study. Journal of Pacific Rim Psychology, 15, 1-13.
- Kuykendall, L., Zhu, Z., & Craig, L. (2020). How work constrains leisure: New ideas and directions for interdisciplinary research. Journal of Leisure Research, 51(5), 635-642.
- Kuykendall, L., Lei, X., Zhu, Z., & Hu, X. (2020). Leisure choices & employee well-being: Examining the well-being benefits of TV compared to other leisure activities. Applied Psychology: Health & Well-Being, 12, 532-558.
- Zhu, Z., Kuykendall, L., & Zhang, X. (2019). The impact of within-day work breaks on daily recovery processes: An event-based pre-/post-experience sampling study. Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, 92(1), 191-211.