New!!! PhD Thesis Submitted July 2021!
Kathy Ryan – PhD Psychology
Methodological Differences in Pavlovian Fear Learning, Extinction and Return of Fear (Principal supervisor Professor Allison Waters)
Ryan, K., Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J., Neumann, D. L., & Waters, A. M. (2019). The need for standards in the design of studies on fear conditioning and extinction in youth: A systematic review and recommendations for research on anxiety. Behavior Research and Therapy, 112, 42-62.
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PhD Degrees Awarded 2005-2021
2021 Dr. Owen Lloyd. Children’s psychological recovery from traumatic brain injury (PhD Psychology)
2021 Dr. Sarah Clear. Positive but rarely protective: Associations of adolescents’ mindfulness with emotional adjustment and responses to rejection by peers. (PhD Clinical)
2020 Dr. Juliane Pariz. Antisocial behaviour in boys and girls: A review and two longitudinal studies of the developmental origins. (PhD)
2020 Dr. Mitchell Masters. Emotionality and emotion regulation as risk markers for social anxiety: Considering development, multiple dimensions, and social threat (PhD Clinical)
2020 Dr. Jessica Kerin. Intersecting approaches to the study of eating: A focus on intuitive, mindful, emotional, and external eating (PhD Clinical)
2019 Dr. Alex Gardner. Rejection sensitivity and internalising symptoms in youth: A focus on parenting and self-regulation (PhD Clinical) WINNER 2020 VC Medal for Excellence in a PhD Thesis
Dr. Laura Uhlmann. Unpacking the fitness fallacy: An examination of the cognitions, affect and behaviour related to the belief that a fit female body aesthetic is ideal (PhD Clinical)
Dr. Carly Roberts. Body dysmorphic disorder in adolescents: A new multidimensional measure and associations with social risk, mindfulness and self-compassion (PhD Clinical) VC Medal for Excellence in a PhD Thesis Nominated
Dr. Shawna Mastro Campbell. At the junction of developmental and clinical science: Youth identity processes and disturbance as related to emotional, behavioural and borderline symptoms (PhD Clinical) VC Medal for Excellence in a PhD Thesis Nominated
2018 Julia Rudolph. Parents as protectors: Reviewing the focus of child sexual abuse prevention to include parenting (PhD) VC Medal for Excellence in a PhD Thesis Nominated
2018 Dr. Robert Teese. Risk-taking and reckless behaviour in emerging adulthood (PhD)
2018 Dr. Codi White. Interpersonal safety skills: Assessing and evaluating outcomes for children (PhD Clinical)
2017 Dr. Kim Hurst. Placing the focus on perfectionism in female adolescent anorexia nervosa: Augmented Maudsley family-based treatment (PhD)
2017 Dr. Santosh Kumar Tadakamadla. Parenting and dental hygiene (PhD)
2017 Dr. Ourania Antokis. Toddlers’ behaviour regulation during a separation task: How does it relate to parenting, temperament, and externalising and internalising problems? (DPsych Clinical)
2016 Dr. Samantha Ferguson. Peer Group Status and Friendship Forms in Adolescence and Their Social and Emotional Consequences. (PhD)
2016 Dr. Rhonda Stoertebecker. Differentiating anger and resentment: Implications for forgiveness, depression and anxiety. (PhD Clinical)
2016 Dr. Brooke Mitchell. Differential susceptibility to conduct problems among abused children (DPsych Clinical)
2015 Dr. Susan Rowe. Adolescents, families, neighbourhoods: An ecological approach to understanding resilience, competence, and vulnerability. (PhD)
2013 Dr. Haley Webb. Body image and rejection sensitivity. (PhD Clinical)
2013 Dr. Dian Sawitri. Vocational development and parenting. (PhD)
2013 Dr. Clare Bell. Anxiety in mums and their children. (PhD Clinical)
2013 Dr. Judith Warner. Biology and environment, mums and infants: Linking stress physiology and attachment. (PhD Clinical)
2013 Dr. Jessica French-Spillane. Sexual Self-Conceptions among Young Men: A New Measure of Sexual Subjectivity, Well-being, and Comparison to Women. (DPsych Clinical)
2013 Dr. Laurenne See (Eising). An Examination of Females’ Sexual History and Sex-Related Communication as Correlates of Sexual Subjectivity, Efficacy and Health Behaviour. (DPsych Clinical)
2013 Dr. Vanessa Anseline. Couple disagreements, forgiveness, and emotion-related parenting: Associations with preschoolers’ social-emotional competence (DPsych Clinical)
2012 Dr. Nicola Sheeran, Teen mothers of premature infants. (PhD Clinical)
2012 Dr. Claire Cooper. Cyber and non-cyber aggression and victimisation: Associations with depression and anxiety symptoms, and the roles of behavioural reactions and friendship. (DPsych Clinical)
2011 Dr. Michelle Hanisch. Mindful regulation of emotion and impulsivity: A controlled trial of mindfulness for bulimia nervosa. (PhD Clinical)
2011 Dr. Karen Gallaty. A longitudinal investigation of the impact of romantic relationships on adolescent development and well-being. (PhD Clinical)
2010 Dr. Leanne McGregor. The effects of parental divorce, the parent-child relationship, and inter-parental conflict on children’s relationship expectations. (PhD)
2010 Dr. Michalle Wright. Negative mood in adolescence: Testing the Competence-Contingency-Control Model and changes from a school-based intervention. (PhD Clinical)
2009 Dr. Wendy Ducat. Self and partner qualities in romantic relationships of emerging adulthood: A self-determination approach to individual well-being. (PhD Clinical) Winner APS Relationships Interest Group Thesis Award
2009 Dr. Jessica Joyce. A longitudinal investigation of the bidirectional associations between children’s eating behaviour and parental feeding styles. (PhD Clinical)
2009 Dr. Rhiarne Pronk-Scholes. Relational aggression, peer relationships and social-psychological functioning: A cross-gender examination amongst early adolescents. (PhD Clinical)
2008 Dr. Tracy Ludlow. Learned helplessness in children. (PhD Clinical)
2008 Dr. Rae Thomas. Parenting research to guide policy: Evidence from a comparative meta-analysis and trial of Parent-Child Interaction Therapy with families at child maltreatment risk. (PhD)
2007 Dr. Allison Bocquee. Conceptualising adolescent self-harm as a process of affect regulation, coping, attachment and stressful life circumstances. (PhD Clinical)
2007 Dr. Danielle Lees (Stebbins). An empirical investigation of the motivational theory of coping in middle and late childhood. (PhD Clinical)
2006 Dr. Kate McCarthy (Owens). An observational study of high risk mothers and children with behavioural problems during a frustrating task. (DPsych Clinical)
2005 Dr. Sharon Horne. Female sexual health: The definition and development of sexual subjectivity, and linkages with sexual agency, sexual experience and well-being in late adolescents and emerging adults. (PhD)
2005 Dr. Tracey Hunter. A longitudinal path model of children’s depression and externalising problems as outcomes of behaviours, peer rejection, and peer-related attributions and perceptions. (PhD Clinical)
2005 Dr. Angela Anthonysamy. The peer relations and social behaviours of maltreated children and their classmates: A multimethod study. (DPsych Clinical)2005 Dr. Mark Scholes. The effectiveness of Parent-Child Interaction Therapy with depressed caregivers. (DPsych Clinical)
Master’s Degree Graduates 2005-2021
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2017 Anna McKay: Parental mindfulness and young children’s temperament as correlates of food-related parenting
Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J., McKay, A., & Webb, H. J. (2019). Parents’ mindfulness, and child effortful control and negative affectivity are associated with food-related parenting Mindfulness. doi:10.1007/s12671-019-01219-2
2016 Monique Sharrad: Dating goals and sexual subjectivity as correlates of relationship satisfaction
2016 Katie Waller: Rejection sensitivity and conflict in romantic relationships
2016 Gillian Hewitt-Stubbs: The development of sexual subjectivity in young women and men
Hewitt-Stubbs, G., Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J., Mastro, S., & Boislard, M.-A. (2016). Sexual subjectivity among young men and women. Behavioral Sciences, 6, 4. doi:10.3390/bs6010004
2015 Sorcha Healy: Rejection sensitivity, appearance-concerns, and valuing of appearance
2008 Elizabeth Locke: Executive Functioning, Temperament and Parental Coping Behaviors as Correlates of Early Adolescents’ Coping and Regulatory Outcomes
2006 Karen White: Well-being, Internalised Homonegativity, Stress, and Coping among Men who Have Sex with Men attending a Health Clinic
2005 Carolyn Vickers: A Longitudinal Study of Depressive Symptoms, Rejection Sensitivity and Relationship Satisfaction in Late Adolescent Romantic Relationships
Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J., & Vickers, C. (2007). Romantic experiences and depressive symptoms: Testing the intensifying roles of rejection sensitivity and relationship commitment. In Pearce, Z. J. (Ed.), Proceedings of the 7th Annual Australian Psychological Society Relationships Interest Group and the International Association for Relationship Research Conference (pp. 112-117), Melbourne, Australia: Australian Psychological Society
2005 Jillian Petherick: Change and stability in attachment style during Year 12: Associations with life events, psychological health, and representations of self and others
Petherick, J., & Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J. (2006). Attachment patterns during year 12: Rejection sensitivity, loneliness, social competence, and support as correlates of stability and change, Australian Journal of Educational and Developmental Psychology, 23, 65-86.
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Honour’s (4th Year) Degree Graduates 2002-2021
2020 Nina Horan: Children’s Fussy Eating and Mealtime Aggression: Testing Direct and Interactive Associations with Parenting, Internalising and Externalising Symptoms, and Child Sex
2018 Narelle Duncan: Emotional Maladjustment as a Correlate of Sexual Harassment and In-person and Cyber Teasing in High School and University Students
Duncan, N., Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J., & Furman, W. (2019). Sexual harassment and appearance-based peer victimization: Unique associations with emotional adjustment by gender and age. Journal of Adolescence, 75, 12-21. doi:1016/j.adolescence.2019.06.016
2016 Tanya Hawes: Relational Victimisation and Adolescent Social Anxiety: The Role of Emotion Dysregulation in a Stress Generation Model
2016 Victoria Hambour: The Role of Dispositional Mindfulness and Emotional Regulation in Explaining Adolescent Social Anxiety
Hambour, V. K., Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J., Clear, S., Rowe, S., & Avdagic, E. (2018). Emotion regulation and mindfulness in adolescents: Conceptual and empirical connection and associations with social anxiety symptoms. Personality and Individual Differences, 134, 7-12. doi:10.1016/j.paid.2018.05.037
2016 Kelly Densham: Parent Factors as Correlates of Body Dysmorphic Symptoms in Young Adolescents
Densham, K., Webb, H. J., Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J., & Nesdale, D. (2017). Early adolescents’ body dysmorphic symptoms as compensatory responses to appearance-based rejection sensitivity: Testing a parental socialization model. Body Image, 23, 162-170. doi:10.1016/j.bodyim.2017.09.005
2015 Kathy Ryan: Attachment Relationships and Adolescent Regulation of Sadness, Worry and Anger: A Comparison of Interpersonal and Academic Stressful Events
2014 Sarah Clear: Regulating Specific Emotions and Symptoms of Psychopathology: Associations with Attachment Patterns in Emerging Adults
Clear, S. J., Gardner, A. A., Webb, H. J., Rowe, S. L., & Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J. (2019). Common and distinct correlates of depression, anxiety and aggression: Attachment and emotion regulation of sadness and anger. Journal of Adult Development. doi:10.1007/s10804-019-09333-0
Clear, S. J., & Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J. (2017). Associations between attachment and emotion-specific emotion regulation with and without relationship insecurity priming. International Journal of Behavioral Development, 41, 64-73. doi:10.1177/0165025415620057
2014 Mitchell Masters: Adolescents’ Appearance-Based Rejection Sensitivity and Emotional Eating: Sociocultural Correlates and Moderation by Physical Competence and Coping
2014 Shawna Mastro: Let’s Talk (Openly) About Sex: Testing a Mediational Model Linking Communication, with Romantic and Sexual Well-being via Sexual Esteem and Efficacy
Mastro, S., & Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J. (2016). Let’s talk openly about sex: Sexual communication, self-esteem and efficacy as correlates of sexual well-being. In van de Bongardt, D., Yu, R., Deković, M., & Meeus, W. (Eds.) Romantic relationships and sexuality in adolescence and young adulthood. Oxfordshire, U.K.: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Books (ISBN: 978-1-138-20991-6)
Mastro, S., & Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J. (2015). Let’s talk openly about sex: Sexual communication, self-estem and efficacy as correlates of sexual well-being. (2015). European Journal of Developmental Psychology, 12, 579-598. doi:10.1080/17405629.2015.1054373
2012 Carissa Croft: The Conflict Resolution Tactics and Friendship Correlates of Anxious and Angry Rejection Sensitivity
Croft, C., & Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J. (2014). Friendship conflict, conflict responses, and instability: Unique links to anxious and angry forms of rejection sensitivity, Journal of Early Adolescence, 34, 1094-1119. doi: 10.1177/0272431613518972
2012 Sarah Trevaskis Adolescent Loneliness and Depressive Symptoms: Associations with Self and Peer-Reports of Rejection Sensitivity and Peer Relationship Problems
Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J., Trevaskis, S, Nesdale, D, & Downey, G. (2014). Relational victimization, loneliness and depressive symptoms: Indirect associations via self and peer reports of rejection sensitivity, Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 43, 568-582. doi:10.1007/s10964-013-9993-6
2011 Mahsa Khatibi
Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J., Nesdale, D., Webb, H. J., Khatibi, M., & Downey, G. (2016). A longitudinal rejection sensitivity model of depression and aggression: Unique roles of anxiety, anger, blame, withdrawal, and retribution. (2016). Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 44, 1291-1307. doi:10.1007/s10802-016-0127-y
2011 Samantha Ferguson
Ferguson, S., & Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J. (2014). Associations of parental and peer rejection with preadolescents’ loneliness: Emotional sensitivities as mediators, Journal of Relationships Research, 5, 1-11
2011 Jade Fersterer
Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J., Nesdale, D., Fersterer, J, & Wilson, J. (2014). An experimental manipulation of rejection: Effects on children’s attitudes and mood depend on rejection sensitivity and relationship history, Australian Journal of Psychology, 66, 8-17. doi: 10.1111/ajpy.12029
2011 Jasmine Wilson
Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J., Nesdale, D., Fersterer, J, & Wilson, J. (2014). An experimental manipulation of rejection: Effects on children’s attitudes and mood depend on rejection sensitivity and relationship history, Australian Journal of Psychology, 66, 8-17. doi: 10.1111/ajpy.12029
2010 Vanessa Arnold: Social Dating Goals Among Young Couples: The implications for Relationship Satisfaction and Romantic Partner Behaviour
Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J, Arnhold, V., & Connolly, J. (2014). Intercorrelations of intimacy and identity dating goals with relationship behaviors and satisfaction among young heterosexual couples. Social Sciences: Special Issue on Social and Personal Relationships (edited by S. Duck), 3, 44-59. doi:10.3390/socsci3010044
2009 Annie Bundall: Probing the Aging Paradox: Can Personal Goals, Motives, and Coping Skills Account for Well-being in Later Life?
2009 Helen Goldsmith (Morris): Children’s Threat Appraisals and Emotional Reactions to Interpersonal and Academic Stressors
Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J., Skinner, E. A., Morris, H., & Thomas, R. (2013). Anticipated coping with interpersonal problems: Links with the emotional reactions of sadness, anger, and fear, Journal of Early Adolescence, 33, 682-706
2009 Marguerite Kelly: Dating goals as Correlates of Behaviour and Satisfaction among Same-sex and Other-sex Attracted Young People
Kelly, M., Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J., & Boislard-P., M. (2012). Goals, behavior and satisfaction: The associations of sexual orientation and gender with identity, intimacy, status and sex. Adolescent Behaviour (pp. 71-94). New York: NOVA Science Publishers.
Kelly, M., Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J., & Boislard-P., M. (2012). Identity, intimacy, status and sex dating goals as correlates of goal-consistent behavior and satisfaction in Australian youth. Journal of Adolescence, 35, 1441-1454
Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J., Hughes, N., Kelly, M., & Connolly, J. (2012). Intimacy, identity, and status: Measuring dating goals in late adolescence and young adulthood, Motivation and Emotion, 36, 311-322
2008 Julie McLachlan: Features of Parent and Peer Relationships as Covariates of Preadolescents’ Rejection Sensitivity
McLachlan, J., Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J., & McGregor, L. (2010). Rejection sensitivity in childhood and early adolescence: Peer rejection and protective effects of parents and friends. Journal of Relationships Research. 1, 31-40
2008 Lyndall Kopp: Autonomy Support and the Thin Ideal: Applying Self-Determination Theory to Explain Women’s Body Dissatisfaction and Regulation of Eating
Kopp, L., & Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J. (2011). Resisting the thin ideal and access to autonomy support: Women’s global self-determination, body dissatisfaction and eating, Eating Behaviors, 2, 222-224
2007 Kym Hendricksen: Observing Parents’ Behaviours to Identify Mechanisms Linking Parents’ Socioemotional Functioning to Young Children’s Symptomatology
Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J., Thomas, R., Hendrickson, K., Avdagic, E., Webb, H., & McGregor, L. (2013). Maternal emotional distress and children’s internalizing and externalizing in families at high risk of child abuse: Child gender moderates parenting sensitivity as a mediator, Infant and Child Development, 22, 480-500
2007 Nicole Hughes: Measuring Intimacy and Self-focused Identity Dating Goals in Late Adolescence: A Revision of the Social Dating Goals Scale
Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J., Hughes, N., Kelly, M., & Connolly, J. (2012). Intimacy, identity, and status: Measuring dating goals in late adolescence and young adulthood, Motivation and Emotion, 36, 311-322
2007 Natasha Ward: Mental Health among Adolescents: Associations with Disclosure and Secrecy from Parents and Best Friends
2006 Hanne Samson (Graduate Diploma): Contingencies of Self-Esteem as Correlates of Reckless and Unlawful Behaviour in Emerging Adults
2006 Rachel Johnson
2005 Michelle Hanisch Parents and Partners: Emotional Autonomy, and Context Specificity of Voice and Relationship Quality.
Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J., Madsen, S. D., & Hanisch, M. (2011). Connecting the intrapersonal and the interpersonal: Autonomy, voice and relationships with parents and romantic partners during late adolescence. European Journal of Developmental Psychology, 8, 509-525
2005 Tammie Wilkinson: Attachment Style, Parental Psychological Control and Adolescent Adjustment
2005 Melissa Williams: A Multiinformant, Multimeasure Study of Young Children’s Social Behaviours, Peer Relationships, and Psychosocial Adjustment
2003 Rhiarne Pronk: The Peer Group Environment and Children’s Psychological Functioning: Investigation of an Extended Social-cognitive Mediation Model.
Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J., Hunter, T. A., Waters, A. M., & Pronk, R. (2009). Depression as a longitudinal outcome and antecedent of young adolescents’ peer relationships and peer-relevant cognition. Development and Psychopathology, 21, 555-577
Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J., Hunter, T. A., & Pronk, R. (2007). A model of behaviors, peer relations and depression: Perceived social acceptance as a mediator and the divergence of perceptions, Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, 26, 273-283
2003 June Wright: The Influence of Parental Psychological Control and Rejection Sensitivity: Expectations and Behaviors in Adolescent Romantic Relationships
Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J., & Wright, J. L. (2007). Rejection sensitivity and romantic attachment orientation are associated with parental psychological control. In R. S. Grenell (Ed.), Adolescent Behavior Research Studies (pp. 121-139). New York: NOVA Science Publishers, Inc.
2002 Jillian Petherick: Dating as a Context for the Late Adolescent Life Tasks of Identity and Intimacy and the Role of Gender
Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J. & Petherick, J. (2006). Intimacy dating goals and relationship satisfaction during adolescence and emerging adulthood: Identity formation, age and sex as moderators, International Journal of Behavioral Development, 30, 189-199
2002 Elizabeth Locke: The Context of Coping: Connection, Regulation and Autonomy Support Within the Family and School
Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J., & Locke, E. M. (2007). The socialization of adolescent coping: Relationships at home and school. Journal of Adolescence, 30, 1-16
