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Depression, Social Anxiety, Loneliness
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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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Seeto, C. J., Uhlmann, L. R., Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J., & Donovan, C. L. (2026). Vulnerability to appearance-based social media use and preoccupation: A model of young women’s appearance values, depression, and self-esteem via uses and gratification. Body Image, 56, 102034. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bodyim.2026.102034

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Ryan, K. M., Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J., Hawes, T., Kovacs, T., & Leahy, N. (2026). Intrusive parenting and adolescent internalizing and externalizing symptoms: Three-level meta-analytic reviews considering parenting concepts and methodology. Child and Family Clinical Psychology Review. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10567-025-00555-1

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Porritt, L. M. M., Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J., Green, H. J., & Edwards, E.-J. (2026). Psychosocial factors related to women’s persistent or recurrent vulvovaginal pain: A systematic review and suggestions for future research. Psychology & Health, https://doi.org/10.1080/08870446.2025.2607708.

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Dellers, L. Y. E., Duffy, A. L., & Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J. (2026). Sexual minority men’s mental health: Associations with gay community intragroup marginalisation beyond heterosexist discrimination. Journal of Homosexuality, 73(4), 792-822. https://doi.org/10.1080/00918369.2025.2485157

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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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Waters, A. M., Sluis, R. A., Usher, W., Farrell, L. J., Donovan, C. L., Modecki, K. L., Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J., Knox, C., Castle, M., & Hinchey, J. (2026). Mental health outcomes for teenage boys and girls following a youth sports development program including a mental health program. Journal of Applied Sport Psychology, 38(1), 75-100. https://doi.org/10.1080/10413200.2025.2495590

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Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J., Seekis, V., & Duffy, A. L. (2026). Online appearance preoccupation in and beyond adolescence: A longitudinal study of social media use, anxiety, and depression as correlates of stability and change. Psychology of Popular Media, 15(1), 11-21. https://doi.org/10.1037/ppm0000587. 

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Mera, S., Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J., Conlon, E., Ryan, K. M., & Dower, A. (2025). A scoping review of the role of mindful parenting in youth's emotional, behavioral and social adjustment, coping, and emotion regulation. International Journal of Behavioral Development. https://doi.org/10.1177/01650254251381983

 

Waters, A.M., Sluis, R.A., Usher, W., Farrell, L.J., Donovan, C.L., Modecki, K.L., Zimmer-Gembeck, M.J., Castle, M., & Hinchey, J. (2025) Reaching young people in urban and rural communities with mental health and wellbeing support within a youth sports development program: Integrating in-person and remote modes of service delivery. Journal of Child Psychiatry & Human Development, 56, 1446-1456. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10578-023-01647-1.

 

Ryan, K. M., Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J., Speechley, M., Stuart, J., Soenens, B., Zimmermann, G., & Van Petegem, S. (2024). Identifying correlates of demanding and responsive features in helicopter and overprotective parenting. Journal of Child & Family Studies, 33(9), 2826-2843. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10826-024-02896-x

 

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

 

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

 

Hambour, V. K., Duffy, A. L., & Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J. (2023). Social identification dimensions, sources of discrimination, and sexuality support as correlates of well-being among sexual minorities. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 53, 1045-1058. http://doi.org/10.1111/jasp.12994

 

Howe#, S., & Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J. (2023). Maternal socialization profiles, child gender, and later child regulation and internalizing symptoms. Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 86, 101521. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.appdev.2023.101521

 

Mera, S.(2023). Emerging adults’ experience of mindful parenting: Distinct associations with their dispositional and interpersonal mindfulness, self-compassion, and adjustment. Emerging Adulthood, 11(5), 1180-1195. http://doi.org/10.1177/21676968231185888

 

Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J., Modecki, K., Duffy, A. L., Hawes, T., Farrell, L. J., Waters, A. M., Garder, 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. http://doi.org/10.1002/jad.12194 

 

Waters, A.M., Sluis, R.A., Ryan, K.M., Usher, W., Farrell, L.J., Donovan, C.L., Modecki, K.L., Zimmer-Gembeck, M.J., Castle, M., & Hinchey, J. (2023). Evaluating the multi-technology delivery of a mental health and wellbeing system of care within a youth sports development program during the COVID-19 pandemic. Behaviour Change. https://doi.org/10.1017/bec.2022.17

 

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 

 

Seekis, V., Farrell, L. J., & Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J. (2023). A classroom-based pilot of a self-compassion intervention to increase wellbeing in early adolescents. Explore: The Journal of Science and Healing, 19(2), 267-270. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.explore.2022.06.003

 

Waters, A.Kick-starting youth wellbeing and access to mental health care: Efficacy of an integrated model of care within a junior sports development program. Behavior Research & Therapy, 157, 104166. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.brat.2022.10416

 

Howe#, S., & Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J. (2022). Person-centred parent emotion socialization and child temperament: Relations to children’s emotion regulation and anxiety and depressive symptoms. Journal of Child and Family Studies, 31, 2644-2659. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10826-022-02289-y

 

Waters, A. M., Sluis, R. A….Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J., & Spence, S. H. (2022). Examining the process of implementing a three-step mental health and wellbeing system of care for children and adolescents across multiple community settings. Child Psychiatry and Human Development, 53, 822-839. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10578-021-01184-9

 

Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J., Rudolph, J., Kerin, J., & Bohadana-Brown, G. (2022). Parent emotional regulation: A meta-analytic review of its association with parenting and child adjustment. International Journal of Behavioral Development, 46(1), 63-82. https://doi.org/10.1177/01650254211051086

 

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

 

Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J., Clear, S. J., & Campbell, S. M. (2021). Peer relationships and stress: Indirect associations of dispositional mindfulness with loneliness, social anxiety and depression via ways of coping. Journal of Adolescence, 93 (Dec), 177-189. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.adolescence.2021.11.003

 

Campbell, S. M., Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J., & Duffy, A. (2021) At the junction of clinical and developmental science: Associations of borderline identity disturbance with identity formation processes in adolescence. Journal of Personality Disorders, 35(Supplement B), 8-28. https://doi.org/10.1521/pedi_2020_34_484

 

Webb, H. J., Kerin, J., & Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J. (2021). Increases in emotional eating during early adolescence and associations with appearance teasing by parents and peers, peer victimization, depression and social anxiety. Journal of Early Adolescence, 41(5), 754-777. https://doi.org/10.1177/0272431620950469

 

Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J., Gardner, A. A., Hawes, T., Masters, M. R., Waters, A. M., & Farrell, L. J. (2021). Rejection sensitivity and the development of social anxiety symptoms during adolescence: A five-year longitudinal study. International Journal of Behavioral Development, 45(3), 204-215. https://doi.org/10.1177/0165025421995921

 

Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J., Hawes, T., & Pariz, J. (2021). A closer look at appearance and social media: Measuring activity, self-presentation, and social comparison and their associations with emotional adjustment. Psychology of Popular Media, 10(1), 74-86. https://doi.org/.1037/ppm0000277. 

 

Gardner#, A. A., Hawes, T., Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J., Webb, H. J., Waters, A. M., & Nesdale, D. (2021). Emotion regulation and support from others: Buffering of body dysmorphic symptoms in adolescent and young adult men but not women. Journal of Adolescence, 86(January), 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.adolescence.2020.11.008.

 

Gardner#, A. A., Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J., & Modecki, K. L. (2020). A longitudinal model of rejection sensitivity and internalizing symptoms: Testing emotion regulation deficits as a mechanism and outcome of symptoms. Journal of Personality, 88, 1045-1057. doi:10.1111/jopy.12549

 

McKenzie#, M. L., Donovan, C. L., Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J., Waters, A. M., Mathieu, S. L., & Farrell, L. J. (2020). Examining parental perception of children’s emotion regulation in paediatric OCD: Associations with child symptoms, parental distress, and family accommodation. Journal of Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders. Article 100508. doi:10.1016/j.jocrd.2020.100508

 

Hawes, T., Campbell, S. M., & Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J. (2020). Unique associations of social media use and online appearance preoccupation with depression, anxiety, and appearance rejection sensitivity. Body Image:, 33, 66-76. doi:10.1016/j.bodyim.2020.02.010

 

Clear, S. J., Gardner, A. A., Webb, H. J., Rowe, S. L., & Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J. (2020). 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

 

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

 

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

 

Waters, A. M., Candy, S., Groth, T. A., Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J., Craske, M. G., Bradley, B. P., & Mogg, K. (2019). A school-based comparison of positive search training to enhance adaptive attention regulation with a cognitive-behavioural intervention for reducing anxiety symptoms in children. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 47, 1821-1840. doi:10.1007/s10802-019-00551-4

 

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

 

Mastro Campbell#, S., Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J., & Duffy, A. (2019). Friends and education: Identity patterns across domains and associations with emotion dysregulation and identity disturbance. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 48, 703-716. doi:10.1007/s10964-018-0924-4.

 

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:10.1016/j.adolescence.2019.06.016

 

Roberts, C., Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J., Lavell, C., Gregertsen, E. C., Miyamoto, T., & Farrell, L. J. (2018). The Appearance Anxiety Inventory: Factor structure and associations with appearance-based rejection sensitivity and social anxiety. Journal of Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders, 19, 124-130.

 

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:

 

Gardner#, A., & Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J. (2018). Rejection sensitivity and responses to rejection: Serial mediators linking parenting to emerging adults' depression and trait anxiety. Journal of Relationships Research, 9. doi:10.1017/jrr.2018.8

 

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

 

Kerin, J. L., Webb, H. J., Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J., & Mastro, S. (2018). Resisting the temptation of food: A new measure of regulating overeating and associations with emotion regulation and mindfulness. Australian Journal of Psychology, 70, 167-178. doi:10.1111/ajpy.12169. May 2018: Journal’s top 20 most downloaded recent papers

 

Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J., Webb, H. J., Farrell, L. J., & Waters, A. M. (2018). Girls' and boys' trajectories of appearance anxiety from age 10 to 15 years are associated with earlier maturation and appearance-related teasing. Development and Psychopathology, 30(1), 337-350. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954579417000657.

 

Waters, A. M. Cao, Y., Kershaw, R., Kerbler, G. M., Shum, D. Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J., Craske, M. G., Bradley, B. P., Mogg, K., Pine, D. S., & Cunnington, R. (2018). Changes in neural activation underlying attention processing of emotional stimuli following treatment with positive search training in anxious children. Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 55, 22-30. doi:j.janxdis.2018.02.004

 

Lavell, C. H., Webb, H. J., Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J, & Farrell, L. J. (2018). A prospective study of adolescents’ body dysmorphic symptoms: Peer victimization and the direct and protective roles of emotion regulation and mindfulness. Body Image: An International Journal of Research, 24, 17-25. doi:10.1016/j.bodyim.2017.11.006

 

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. doi:10.1111/cdev.12734.

 

Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J. (2017) Introduction to the special section on Social in the Emotional and the Emotional in the Social, International Journal of Behavioral Development, 41, 1-3. doi:10.1177/0165025416653483.

 

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

 

Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J., Webb, H. J., Pepping, C. A., Swan, K., Merlo, O., Skinner, E. A., Avdagic, E., & Dunbar, M. (2017). Review: Is parent–child attachment a correlate of children’s emotion regulation and coping? International Journal of Behavioral Development, 4, 74-93. doi:10.1177/0165025415618276. 

 

Farrell, L., Gregersten, E., Donovan, C., Pemmenter, A., & Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J. (2016). Maternal rejection and idealized value of appearance: Exploring the origins of body dysmorphic concerns among young adults. Journal of Cognitive Psychotherapy, 30, 154-167.

 

Waters, A. M., Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J., Craske, M. G., Pine, D. S., Bradley, B. P., & Mogg, K. (2016). A Preliminary Evaluation of a Home-based, Computer-delivered Attention Training Treatment for Anxious Children Living in Regional Communities. Journal of Experimental Psychopathology, 3, 511-527. doi:10.5127/jep.053315

 

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. doi:10.1007/s10802-016-0127-y.

 

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.

 

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.

 

Rowe, S. L., Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J., & Hood, M. (2016). Community, family, and . Journal of Divorce & Remarriage, 57, 87-111. doi:10.1080/10502556.2015.1127875.

 

Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J., & French, J. (2016). Associations of sexual subjectivity with global and sexual well-being: A new measure for young males and comparison to females, Archives of Sexual Behavior, 45, 315-327. doi:10.1007/s10508-014-0387-y

 

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., & 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

 

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

 

Waters, A. M., Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J., Craske, M. G., Pine, D. S., Bradley, B. P., & Mogg, K. (2015). Look for good and never give up: A novel attention training treatment for childhood anxiety disorders. Behavior Research & Therapy, 73, 111-123. doi:10.1016/j.brat.2015.08.005

 

Rowe, S., Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J, Rudolph, J., & Nesdale, D. (2015). A longitudinal study of rejecting and autonomy-relevant parenting, rejection sensitivity, and socioemotional symptoms in early adolescents, Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 43(6), 1107-1118. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10802-014-9966-6

 

Bell, C., Waters, A. M., & Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J. (2015). The impact of mothers’ trait anxiety on their expectations of approach-avoidance behavior in anxious and non-anxious children. Australian Journal of Psychology, 67, 55-64. doi:10.1111/ajpy.12060.

 

Webb, H. J., Ferguson#, S., & Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J. (2015). Loneliness, inhibition, and friendlessness: Associations with adolescents' appearance-related concerns, attractiveness, and teasing about appearance. In K. T. Rowe (Ed.), Social isolation, participation and impact on mental health (pp. 51-78). New York: NOVA Science Publishers.

 

Waters, A. M., Farrell., L. J., Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J., Tiralonga, E., Donovan, C. L., McConnell, H., Bradley, B. O., Mogg, K., Ollenidck, T. H. (2014). Augmenting one-session treatment of children’s specific phobias with attention training to positive stimuli, Behavior Research and Therapy, 62, 107-119. 

 

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. https://doi.org/10.1017/jrr.2014.9

 

Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J. & Duffy, A. (2014). Heightened emotional sensitivity intensifies the association between relational aggression and victimization among girls but not boys. Development & Psychopathology, 26, 661-673.

 

Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J., Dunbar, M., Ferguson, S., Rowe, S. D., Webb, H., & Skinner, E. A. (2014). Introduction to the special issue: Developmental and clinical approaches to coping and emotion regulation, Australian Journal of Psychology, 66, 65-70. doi:10.1111/ajpy.12056.

 

Rudolph, J., & Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J. (2014). Parent relationships and adolescents’ depression and social anxiety: Indirect associations via emotional sensitivity to rejection threat. Australian Journal of Psychology, 66, 110-121. doi: 10.1111/ajpy.12042.

 

Waters, A. M., Peters, R., Forrest, K., & Zimmer-Gembeck, M. (2014) Fear acquisition and extinction in offspring of anxious and depressed mothers. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 7, 30-42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.dcn.2013.10.007.

 

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.

 

Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J., Trevaskis, S, Nesdale, D, & Downey, G. (2013). Relational victimization, loneliness and depressive symptoms: Indirect associations via self and peer reports of rejection sensitivity, Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 43(4), 568-582. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10964-013-9993-6.

 

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 doi: 10.1002/icd.1804.

 

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.

 

Waters, A. M., Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J. & Farrell, L. J. (2012). The relationships of child and parent factors with anxiety symptoms in children? Parental anxious rearing as a mediator. Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 26(7), 737-745. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.janxdis.2012.06.002 

 

Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J., & Pronk, R. E. (2012), Relation of depression and anxiety to self- and peer-reported relational aggression. Aggressive Behavior, 38, 16-30. https://doi.org/10.1002/ab.20416

 

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.

 

Mathieson, L. C., Murray-Close, D., Crick, N. R., Woods, K. E., Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J., Geiger, T. C., & Morales, J. R. (2011). Hostile intent attributions and relational aggression: The moderating roles of emotional sensitivity, gender, and victimization. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 39, 977-987

 

Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J., & Ducat, W. (2010). Positive and negative romantic relationship quality: Age, familiarity, attachment and well-being as correlates of couple agreement and projection. Journal of Adolescence, 33, 879-890.

 

Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J., Waters, A. M., & Kindermann, T. (2010). A social relations analysis of liking for and by peers: Associations with gender, depression, peer perception, and worry. Journal of Adolescence, 33, 69-81.

 

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.

 

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.

 

Waters, A. M., Wharton, T. A., Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J., & Craske, M. G. (2008). Threat-based cognitive biases in anxious children: Comparison with non-anxious children before and after cognitive-behavioural treatment. Behavior Research and Therapy, 46, 358-374.

 

Gallaty, K., & Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J. (2008). The daily social and emotional worlds of adolescents who are psychologically maltreated by their partners, Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 37, 310-323.

 

Waters, A. M., Donaldson, J., & Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J. (2008). Cognitive behavioural therapy combined with an interpersonal skills component in the treatment of generalized anxiety disorder in adolescent females: A case series. Behaviour Change. 25, 35-43.

 

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.

 

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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​Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J., & Gallaty, K. J. (2006). Hanging out or hanging in? Young females’ socioemotional functioning and the changing motives for dating and romance. In A. M. Columbus (Ed.). Advances in psychology research (Vol. 44, pp. 81-112), New York: NOVA Science Publishers, Inc.

 

Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J., Siebenbruner, J., & Collins, W. A. (2001). Diverse aspects of dating: Associations with psychosocial functioning from early to middle adolescence. Journal of Adolescence, 24, 313-336.

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