Dr. Melanie Zimmer-Gembeck and the Zlab
Publications
Stress, Coping, Emotion Regulation,
and the Development of Coping
see the list below
Mera, S., Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J., & Conlon, E. (2026). Youth’s experience of mindful parenting: Exploration and confirmation of a revised measure for youth and a model of emotional adjustment. Mindfulness. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12671-025-02751-0
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Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J., Hawes, T., Scott, R. A., Skinner, E. A., & Kindermann, T. A. (2026). Seeking support or concealing? A longitudinal study of adolescents’ friendships, peer victimization, depression, and coping with peer relationship stressors.Developmental Psychology, 62(2), 350–364. https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0002096
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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
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Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J., Scott, R. A., & Hawes, T. (2024). Appearance-related teasing, rejection sensitivity, acceptance, and coping as risks and resources associated with online appearance preoccupation over one year. Computers in Human Behavior, 158, Article 108319.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2024.108319
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Scott, R. A., Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J., Gardner, A. A., Hawes, T., Modecki, K. L., Duffy, A. L., Farrell, L. J., & Waters, A. M. (2024). Daily use of digital technologies to feel better: Adolescents’ digital emotion regulation, emotions, loneliness, and recovery, considering prior emotional problems. Journal of Adolescence, 96 (3), 539-550.
https://doi.org/10.1002/jad.12259
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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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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), 2499-2515.
https://doi.org/10.1017/S095457942300072X
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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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Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J., Modecki, K., Duffy, A. L., Hawes, T., Farrell, L. J., Waters, A. M., Gardner, A. A., Shum, D., & Skinner, E. A. (2023). A pattern-centered analysis of adolescents’ concerns and hopes about future crises: Differences in ways of coping and personal adjustment. Journal of Adolescence, 95, 1195-1204.
https://doi.org/10.1002/jad.12194
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Masters, M. R., Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J., Farrell, L. J., & Modecki, K. L. (2023) Coping and emotion regulation in response to social stress tasks among young adolescents with and without social anxiety. Applied Developmental Science, 27(1), 18-33.
https://doi.org/10.1080/10888691.2021.1990060
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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., , 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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Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J., Kindermann, T. A., & Gardner, A. A. (2023). Peer stressors and peer relationship dynamics in the development of coping. In E. A. Skinner & M. J. Zimmer-Gembeck (Eds.), Cambridge handbook of the development of coping (Chapter 22, pp. 538-559). Cambridge University Press.
Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J., & Skinner, E. A. (2023). Coping with stress: Person-environment transactions, diversity, and development. In H. S. Friedman & C. H. Markey (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Mental Health (Vol. 1, pp. 480–489. Elsevier, Academic Press. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-323-91497-0.00125-9
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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., Rudolph, J., & Gardner, A. A. (2022). Are you looking at me? A longitudinal vignette study of adolescent appearance rejection sensitivity and coping with peer evaluation. Body Image, 43, 253-263. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bodyim.2022.09.002
Titova, S., Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J., Mendez, N., Zimmermann, G., & Van Petegem, S. (2022) Adolescent coping with peer exclusion: A person-centered analog approach. Journal of Child and Family Studies, 31(5), 1290-1305. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10826-021-02060-9
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Clear, S. Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J., Hawes, T., Duffy, A. L., & Barber, B. L. (2021). Mindfulness, rejection and recovery of positive mood and friendliness: A Cyberball study. Emotion, 21(8), 1731-1743. https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0000987
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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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Gardner, A. A., Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J., & Campbell, S. M. (2020). Attachment and emotion regulation: A person-centered examination and relations with coping with rejection, friendship closeness, and emotional adjustment. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 38, 125-143. doi:10.1111/bjdp.12310
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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
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Clear, S. J., Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J., Duffy, A. L., & Barber, B. L. (2020). Internalizing symptoms and loneliness: Direct effects of mindfulness and protection against the negative effects of peer victimization and exclusion. International Journal of Behavioral Development, 44, 51-61. doi:10.1177/0165025419876358
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Skinner, E. A., & Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J. (2020). The development of coping during infancy and early childhood. In J. B. Benson (Ed.). Encyclopedia of infant and early childhood development (2nd edition. vol. 1, pp. 417–429). Elsevier. doi:10.1016/B978-0-12-809324-5.23778-4
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van Petegem, S., Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J, Baudet, S., Soenens, B., Vansteenkiste, M. & Zimmermann, G. (2019). Adolescents’ responses to parental regulation: The role of communication style and self-determination. Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 65, Article 101073. doi:10.1016/j.appdev.2019.101073
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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Masters, M., Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J., & Farrell, L. J. (2019). Transactional associations between adolescents’ emotion regulation and symptoms of social anxiety and depression: A longitudinal study. Journal of Early Adolescence, 39, 1085-1109. doi:10.1177/0272431618806053
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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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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 See: https://sciencetrends.com/?p=44777&preview=1&_ppp=f8ef0acaed
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Van Petegem, S., Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J., Soenens, B., Vansteenkiste, M., Brenning, K., Mabbe, E., Vanhalst, J., & Zimmermann, G. (2017). Does the general parenting context modify adolescents’ appraisals and coping with a situation of parental regulation? The case of autonomy-supportive parenting. Journal of Child and Family Studies, 26, 2623-2639. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10826-017-0758-9.
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Modecki, K., Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J., & Guerra, N. (2017). Emotion regulation, coping, and decision making: Three linked skills for preventing externalizing problems in adolescence, Child Development, 88, 417-426. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.12734.
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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. https://doi.org/10.1177/0165025415620057
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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. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 44, 1291-1307. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10802-016-0127-y
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Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J. (2016). Peer rejection, victimization, and relational self-system processes in adolescence: Toward a transactional model of stress, coping, and developing sensitivities. Child Development Perspectives, 10(2), 122-127. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdep.12174.
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Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J., Van Petegem, S., & Skinner, E. A. (2016). Emotion, controllability and orientation towards stress as correlates of children’s coping with interpersonal stress, Motivation and Emotion, 40, 178-191. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11031-015-9520-z.
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Skinner, E. A., & Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J. (2016). The development of coping from birth to emerging adulthood: Neurophysiological and social underpinnings, qualitative shifts, and differential pathways towards psychopathology and resilience. New York: Springer.
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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. In H. S. Friedman (Ed.). Encyclopedia of Mental Health (2nd Ed., Vol. 1, pp. 350-357). Waltham, MA: Academic Press.
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., & Skinner, E. A. (2015). Adolescent vulnerability and the distress of rejection: Associations of adjustment problems and gender with control, emotions, and coping. Journal of Adolescence, 45, 149-159. doi:10.1016/j.adolescence.2015.09.004
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Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J. (2015). Emotional sensitivity before and after coping with rejection: A longitudinal study, Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 41(Nov-Dec), 28-37. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.appdev.2015.05.001
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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.
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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., & Skinner, E. A. (2010). Adolescent coping: Development & diversity. School Nurse News, 27, 23.
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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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Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J., & Skinner, E. A. (2008). Adolescents coping with stress: Development and diversity. Prevention Researcher, 15, 3-7.
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Skinner, E. A., & Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J. (Eds.). (2009). Coping and the development of regulation. New Directions in Child and Adolescent Development (Issue 124). San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
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Skinner, E. A., & Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J. (2009). Introduction. In E. A. Skinner & M. J. Zimmer-Gembeck (Eds.), Coping and the development of regulation. New Directions in Child and Adolescent Development (Issue 124, pp. 1-4). San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
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Skinner, E. A., & Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J. (2009). Challenges to the developmental study of coping. In E. A. Skinner & M. J. Zimmer-Gembeck (Eds.), Coping and the development of regulation. New Directions in Child and Adolescent Development (Issue 124, pp. 5-17). San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
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Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J., & Skinner, E. A. (2009). Coping, developmental influences. In H. T. Reis & S. Sprecher (Eds.). Encyclopedia of human relationships. Newbury Park, CA: Sage.
Skinner, E. A., & Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J. (2007). The development of coping, Annual Review of Psychology, 58, 119-144.
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Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J., & Locke, E. M. (2007). The socialization of adolescent coping: Relationships at home and school. Journal of Adolescence, 30, 1-16.
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