Title:
Research Assistant Professor

Qualifications:

PhD (UGent)

MEd (BNU)

BA (CUPL)

 

Email:

diya.dou@polyu.edu.hk

Phone:

2766 5731

Office:

GH415

My URLs:

ORCID

Specialism:

Educational leadership

School climate

Teacher development

Positive youth development

 

Teaching

Service Leadership

Service Leadership through Serving Children and Families with Special Needs

 

Selected Publications

Journal articles

Zhou, Z. Shek, D.T., Zhu, X., & Dou, D. (2020). Positive Youth Development and Adolescent Depression: A Longitudinal Study Based on Mainland Chinese High School Students. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 17, 4457.

Shek, D. T. L., Lin, L., Ma, C., Yu L. Leung, J. T. Y., Wu, F., Leung, H., & Dou, D. (2020). Perceptions of Adolescents, Teachers and Parents of Life Skills Education and Life Skills in High School Students in Hong Kong.  Applied Research in Quality of Life.

Shek, D. T. L, & Dou, D. (2020).  Perceived parenting and parent-child relational qualities in fathers and mothers: Longitudinal findings based on Hong Kong adolescents.  International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 17, 4083.

Shek, D. T. L., Zhu, X., Dou, D., & Chai, W. Y. (2019). Influence of family factors on substance use in early adolescents: A longitudinal study in Hong Kong. Journal of Psychoactive Drugs, 52:1, 66-76.

Shek, D. T. L., Zhu, X., & Dou, D. (2019). Influence of family processes on Internet addiction among late adolescents in Hong Kong. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 10:113.

Shek, D. T. L., Dou, D., & Ma, L. K. Y. (2019). Development and validation of a pioneer scale on service leadership behavior in the service economies. Frontiers in Psychology, 10:1770.

Shek, D. T. L., Dou, D., Zhu, X., & Chai, W. Y. (2019). Positive youth development: Current perspectives. Adolescent Health, Medicine and Therapeutics, 10, 131-141.

Dou, D., Devos, G., & Valcke, M. (2017). The relationships between school autonomy gap, principal leadership, teachers’ job satisfaction and organizational commitment. Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 45(6), 959–977.

Dou, D., Devos, G., & Valcke, M. (2016). The effects of autonomy gap in personnel policy, principal leadership and teachers’ self-efficacy on their organizational commitment. Asia Pacific Education Review, 17(2), 339–353.

Book chapters

Shek, D. T. L., To, S. M., & Dou, D. (2020). Parental beliefs about parental roles and responsibilities in Chinese parents: Pioneer findings [Reprint]. In D. T. L. Shek, M. Y. M. Law, & J. Merrick (Eds.), Parenting and family life in a Chinese society (pp. 73-93). New York, NY: Nova Science Publishers.

Shek, D. T. L., Zhu, X., Dou, D., Law, M. Y. M., Yu, L., Ma, C. M. S., & Lin, L. (2019). Nurturing holistic development in university students through leadership courses: The Hong Kong experience. In G. H. Tonon (Ed.), Teaching quality of Life in Different Domains, Social Indicators Research Series 79 (pp. 61-81). Switzerland: Springer.

Shek, D. T. L., Ma, L. K., Low, S. S., Zhu, X., & Dou, D. (2019). A user manual for the Service Leadership Knowledge Scale. In D. T. L. Shek, X. Zhu, L. Lin, & J. Merrick (Eds.), Service leadership: Tools to assess knowledge, attitude and behavior (pp. 209-226). New York, NY: Nova Science Publishers.

Shek, D. T. L., Zhu, X. & Dou, D. (2019). A user manual for the Service Leadership Behavior Scale. In D. T. L. Shek, X. Zhu, L. Lin, & J. Merrick (Eds.), Service leadership: Tools to assess knowledge, attitude and behavior (pp. 253-276). New York, NY: Nova Science Publishers.

Shek, D. T. L., Chung, P. P. Y., & Dou, D. (2019). The dark side of service leaders. In A. Alvinius (Eds.). Dark sides of organizational behavior and leadership (pp. 125-146). London, UK: IntechOpen.

Shek, D. T. L., Dou, D., & Snell, R. S. (2019). The Service Leadership Behavior Scale: Norms and personal correlates [Reprint]. In D. T. L. Shek, X. Zhu, L. Lin, & J. Merrick (Eds.), Service leadership: Tools to assess knowledge, attitude and behavior (pp. 189-206). New York, NY: Nova Science Publishers.

 

Conference presentations

Dou, D., & Shek, D. T. L., (2019, September). Relationship between service leadership qualities and positive youth development in university students in Hong Kong. Paper presented at the 17^th International Society for Quality-of-Life Studies Annual Conference (ISQOLS). Granada, Spain.

Dou, D., & Shek, D. T. L., (2018, June). Subjective Outcome Evaluation of a Leadership Training Program for University Students. Paper presented at the 16^th International Society for Quality-of-Life Studies Annual Conference (ISQOLS). Hong Kong, China.

Dou, D., Devos, G., & Valcke, M., (2014, November). Leadership for changing: principals’ responses to the school autonomy reform in China. Paper presented at the Asia Pacific Educational Research Association and the Hong Kong Educational Research Association Conference (APERA), Hong Kong, China.

Dou, D., Liu, C., & Lin, Z., (2014, April). Teachers' responses to curriculum reform in China: An organizational behavior perspective. Paper presented at the American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting (AERA), Philadelphia, US.

Dou, D., Devos, G., Valcke, M., & Zeng, X., (2014, March) Does school autonomy matter? The influence of educational decentralization on teacher commitment and job satisfaction in China. Paper presented at the Comparative and International Education Society conference (CIES), Toronto, Canada.

Cheng, L., Dou, D., Valcke, M., & Zhao, N., (2011, November). The relationship between students' learning motivation and their Mathematics achievements in Grade 4 and Grade 8: A case study in Beijing. Paper presented at the 3^rd Asia Pacific Educational Research Association Conference (APERA), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

 

Current Research Projects

Co-PI, “Service Leadership Theory: Theoretical Development and Empirical Inquiry” (Donation, 2019-2023, HK$ 500,000)

 

Reviewer for Academic Journals

Educational Management Administration & Leadership

Applied Research in Quality of Life

Teaching and Teacher Education

Asia Pacific Journal of Education