Dr. Melanie Zimmer-Gembeck and the Zlab
Publications
Stress and Coping Flexibility
see the list below
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Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J., & Skinner, E. A. (2024). Stress appraisals and coping across and within academic, parent, and peer stressors: The roles of adolescents’ emotional problems, coping flexibility, and age. Adolescents, 4(1), 120-137.
https://doi.org/10.3390/adolescents4010009
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Skinner, E. A., & Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J. (Eds). (2023). Cambridge handbook of the development of coping. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108917230
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Skinner, E. A., & , M. J. (2023). A systems perspective on the development of coping: “We’re Going to Need a Bigger Boat”. In E. A. Skinner & M. J. Zimmer-Gembeck (Eds.), Cambridge handbook of the development of coping (Chapter 1, pp. 1-58). Cambridge University Press.
Modecki, K., Duvenage, M., Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J., Robbins, S, & Uink, B. (2023). Capturing coping: Innovative designs and considerations for studying the topography of adolescents’ coping. In E. A. Skinner & M. J. Zimmer-Gembeck (Eds.), Cambridge handbook of the development of coping (Chapter 7, pp. 157-182). Cambridge University Press.
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Gardner, A. A., Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J., & Skinner, E. A (2023) Coping skills. In: B. Halpern-Felsher (Eds) Encyclopedia of Child and Adolescent Health (pp. 257-267). Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-818872-9.00029-7
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Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J. (2021). Coping flexibility: Variability, fit, and associations with efficacy, emotion regulation, decentering, and responses to stress. Stress and Health, 37(5), 846-861. https://doi.org/10.1002/smi.3043
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Duncan, N., Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J., Gardner, A. A., & Modecki, K. M. (2021). The measurement and benefit of decentering for coping self-efficacy, flexibility, and ways of coping with interpersonal stress. Personality and Individual Differences, 179, 110932. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2021.110932
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Duvenage, M., Uink, B. N., Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J., Barber, B., Donovan, C., & Modecki, K. L. (2019). Ambulatory assessment of adolescent coping: It’s a complicated process. Journal of Research on Adolescence, 29, 578-594. doi:10.1111/jora.12468
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Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J., Skinner, E. A., Modecki, K., Webb, H. J., & Rapee, R. M., Hawes, T., & Gardner, A. (2018). The self-perception of flexible coping with stress: A new measure and relations with emotional adjustment. Cogent Psychology. doi:10.1080/23311908.2018.1537908
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Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J, & Skinner, E. A. (2016). The development of coping and regulation: Implications for psychopathology and resilience. In D. Cicchetti (Ed.) Developmental psychopathology (3rd Ed., Vol. 4, pp. 485-544). New York: Wiley. http://au.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-1118121791.
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Skinner, E. A. & Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J. (2015). Coping across the lifespan. J. Wright (Series Ed.). International Encyclopedia of Social and Behavioral Sciences (2nd Ed., pp. 887-894). New York: Elsevier.
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Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J., Lees, D, & Skinner, E. A. (2011). Children’s emotions and coping with interpersonal stress as correlates of social competence, Australian Journal of Psychology, 63, 131-141.
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Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J., & Skinner, E. A. (2011). The development of coping across childhood and adolescence: An integrative review and critique of research, International Journal of Behavioral Development, 35, 1-17
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Aldwin, C. A., Skinner, E. A., Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J., & Taylor, R. (2011). Coping and self-regulation across the lifespan. In K. Fingerman, C. Berg, T. Antonucci, & J. Smith (Eds.), Handbook of lifespan development (pp. 563-590). New York: Springer.
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Skinner, E. A., & Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J. (2011). Perceived control and the development of coping. In S. Folkman (Ed.) & P. E. Nathan (Series Editor), The Oxford handbook of health, stress and coping (pp. 35-62). New York: Oxford University Press.​
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Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J., Lees, D., Bradley, G., & Skinner, E. A. (2009). Use of an analogue method to examine children’s appraisals of threat and emotion in response to stressful events. Motivation and Emotion, 33, 136-149.
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