Dr. Melanie Zimmer-Gembeck and the Zlab
Publications
Mindfulness, Self-Compassion, Resilience
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, 17(2), 464-483.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s12671-025-02751-0
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Steinvik, H., Duffy, A. L., & Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J. (2025). Adolescents' compassion is distinctly associated with more prosocial and less aggressive defending against bullying when considering multiple empathic emotions and costs. Journal of Adolescence, 97(6), 1494-1506. https://doi.org/10.1002/jad.12513
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
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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Steinvik#, H., Duffy, A., & Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J. (2024). Bystanders’ responses to witnessing cyberbullying: The role of empathic distress, empathic anger, and compassion. International Journal of Bullying Prevention, 6(4), 399-410. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42380-023-00164-y
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Steinvik, H. R., Duffy, A. L. & Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J. (2024). Can empathy and compassion activation affect adolescents’ empathic responses, compassion, and behavioral intentions when witnessing bullying? International Journal of Bullying Prevention. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42380-024-00254-5.
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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
Mera#, S., Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J., & Conlon, L. (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
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
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
Allen, L. M., Roberts, C., Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J., & Farrell, L. J. (2021). Exploring the relationship between self-compassion and body dysmorphic symptoms in adolescents. Journal of Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders, 25, Article 100535. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jocrd.2020.10053
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
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
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
Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J., McKay, A., & Webb, H. J. (2019). The food-related parenting context: Associations with parent mindfulness and children’s temperament. Mindfulness, 10, 2415-2428. doi:10.1007/s12671-019-01219-2
Kerin, J. L., Webb, H. J., & Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J. (2019). Intuitive, mindful, emotional, external and regulatory eating behaviours and beliefs: An investigation of the core components. Appetite, 132, 139-146. doi:10.1016/j.appet.2018.10.011.
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
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
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
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.
Rowe, S. L., Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J., & Hood, M. (2016). Community, family, and individual factors associated with adolescents’ resilience and vulnerability, daily stress, and well-being following family separation. Journal of Divorce & Remarriage, 57, 87-111. doi:10.1080/10502556.2015.1127875.
Pepping, C. A., O'Donovan, A., Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J., & Hanisch, M. (2015). Individual differences in attachment and eating pathology: The mediating role of mindfulness, Personality and Individual Differences, 75, 24-29.
Pepping, C. A., O'Donovan, A., & Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J., & Hanisch, M. (2014). Is emotion regulation the process underlying the relationship between low mindfulness and psychosocial distress? Australian Journal of Psychology, 66, 130-138. doi: 10.1111/ajpy.12050.
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