Dr. Melanie Zimmer-Gembeck and the Zlab
Publications
Academic Engagement, Achievement, Stress
see the list below
Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J., & Scott, R. A. (2026). The role of peers in academic performance and relationship success. To appear in Laursen, B., Bukowski, W. M., Veenstra, R., & Rubin, K. H. (Eds.). Handbook of Peer Interactions, Relationships, and Groups (3rd Ed.). Guilford.
Mera, S., Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J., & Conlon, E. (2025). Youth’s experience of mindful parenting: Associations with dispositional and interpersonal mindfulness, self-compassion, and ways of coping with academic and social stress. Journal of Adolescence, 97(6), 1634-1644. http://doi.org/10.1002/jad.12524
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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Raine, K. E., Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J., & Skinner, E. A. (2023). The role of coping in processes of resilience: The sample case of academic coping during late childhood and early adolescence. Development and Psychopathology, 35(5), 2103-2112. https://doi.org/10.1017/S095457942300072X
Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J., Skinner, E. A., Scott, R. A., Ryan, K. M., Hawes, T., Gardner, A. A., & Duffy, A. L. (2023). Parental support and adolescents’ coping with academic stressors: A longitudinal study of parents’ influence beyond academic pressure and achievement. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 52(12), 2464-2479. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10964-023-01864-w
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Bradley, G. Ferguson, S., Duffy, A., & Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J. (2021). Connection, engagement, and achievement: Social relations as predictors of adolescent academic attainment. In R. Dimitrova & N. Wiium (Eds.), Handbook of positive youth development (pp. 219-236). Springer Series of Child and Family Studies. Springer. https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783030702618. 2022
Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J. (2020). Introduction to the special section: Mindfulness in me and in you – Measurement, development, and implications for adolescents’ emotional and academic resilience. International Journal of Behavioral Development, 44, 1-4. doi:10.1177/0165025419885029
Rowe, S., Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J., & Hood, M. (2016). From the child to the neighbourhood: Longitudinal ecological correlates of young adolescents’ emotional, social, conduct, and academic difficulties. Journal of Adolescence, 49, 218-231. doi:10.1016/j.adolescence.2016.4.001.
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Waters, A. M., Groth, T. A., Sanders, M., & O’Brien, R, & Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J. (2015). Developing partnerships in the provision of youth mental health service delivery and clinical education: A school-based cognitive behavioural intervention targeting anxiety symptoms in children. Behavior Therapy, 46, 844-855. doi:10.1016/j.beth.2015.07.003
Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J., & Locke, E. M. (2007). The socialization of adolescent coping: Relationships at home and school. Journal of Adolescence, 30, 1-16.
Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J., Chipuer, H. M., Hanisch, M., Creed, P. A., & McGregor, L. (2006). Relationships at school and environmental fit as resources for adolescent engagement and achievement, Journal of Adolescence, 29, 911-933.
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Skinner, E. A., Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J., & Connell, J. P. (1998). Individual differences and the development of perceived control. Monographs of the Society of Research in Child Development (Series 254, Vol. 63, No. 2-3).
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