- Assistant Professor
- Phone: 979-845-2585
- Email: zezhu@tamu.edu
- Document: CV
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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. Her research interests include employee well-being, recovery from work stress, work-life balance and research methods (e.g., just-in-time adaptive interventions). 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., Kuykendall, L., Baines, J., & Zhang, B. (Accepted). Clarifying the construct of supervisor support for recovery and its impact on employee recovery experiences. Journal of Management.
- 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.