Dr. Melanie Zimmer-Gembeck and the Zlab
Past Publications:
Journal Articles
2018-2022
see the list below
Research articles and reviews published by Dr. Zimmer-Gembeck
2018 to 2022
2022
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.2022.104166
Rudolph, J. I., Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J., & Walsh, K. (2022). Recall of sexual abuse prevention education at school and home: Associations with sexual abuse experience, disclosure, protective parenting, and knowledge. Child Abuse & Neglect, 129, 105680. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chiabu.2022.105680
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
Rudolph, J. I., Walsh, K., Shanley, D. C., & Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J. (2022). Child sexual abuse prevention: Parental discussion, protective practices and attitudes. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 37(23-24), NP22375-NP22400. https://doi.org/10.1177/08862605211072258
Swan, K., Shanley, D. C. & Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J. (2022). Development and validation of the Professional Sense of Competence Scale (ProSOCS) for practitioners who treat disruptive behaviours in children, Higher Education, Skills and Work-Based Learning, 12(4), 645-660. https://doi.org/10.1108/HESWBL-08-2021-0167
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, 822-839https://doi.org/10.1007/s10578-021-01184-9
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
Havighurst, S.S., Chainey, C., Doyle, F.L., Higgins, D.J., Mathews, B., Mazzucchelli, T.G., Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J., Andriessen, K., Cobham, V.E., Dadds, M.R., Dawe, S., Gray, K.M., Guastella, A.J., Harnett, P., Haslam, D.M., Middeldorp, C.M., Morawska, A., Ohan, J.L., Sanders, M.R., Stallman, H.M., Tonge, B.J., Toumbourou, J.W., Turner, K.M.T., Williams, K.E., Yap, M.B.H., & Nicholson, J.M. (2022). A review of Australian government funding of parenting intervention research. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, 46(3), 262-268 http://doi.org/10.1111/1753-6405.13235
Farrell, L. J., Waters, A. M.…, Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J.,…,& Storch, E. A. (2022). Efficacy of D-Cycloserine augmented brief intensive cognitive-behavioural therapy for paediatric obsessive-compulsive disorder: A randomised clinical trial. Depression and Anxiety, 39(6), 461-473. http://doi.org/10.1002/da.23242
Lloyd#, O., Ownsworth, T., Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J., Fleming, J., & Shum, D. H. K. (2022) Measuring domain-specific deficits in self-awareness in children and adolescents with acquired brain injury: Component analysis of the Paediatric Awareness Questionnaire. Neuropsychological Rehabilitation, 32(8), 1814-1834. https://doi.org/10.1080/09602011.2021.1926290
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
Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J., Rudolph, J., Polak, E.-J., Swan, K., Hawes, T., Campbell, S. M., & Webb, H. J. (2022). Circle of Security: A randomized controlled trial of a low intensity, individualized attachment-based program with at-risk parents. Behavior Therapy, 53(2), 208-223. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.beth.2021.07.003
Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J., Rudolph, J., & Pariz, J. (2022). A cascade of rejection and appearance preoccupation: Adolescents’ body dysmorphic symptoms and appearance rejection sensitivity over 4 years. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 40(1), 17-34. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjdp.12377
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
2021
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. (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
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., Rudolph, J., Webb, H. J., Henderson, L., & Hawes, T. (2021). Face-to-face and cyber-victimization: A longitudinal study of offline appearance anxiety and online appearance preoccupation. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 50(12), 2311–2323. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10964-020-01367-y
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
Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J., Webb, H. J., Kerin, J., Farrell, L. J., & Waters, A. M. (2021). Risk factors and temporal patterns of disordered eating differ in adolescent boys and girls: Testing gender-specific appearance anxiety models. Development and Psychopathology, 33(3), 856-867. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954579420000188
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
Lloyd, O., Ownsworth, T. Fleming, J., Jackson, M., & Zimmer-Gembeck, M. (2021). Impaired self-awareness after pediatric traumatic brain injury: Protective factor or liability? Journal of Neurotrauma, 38(5), 615-627. https://doi.org/10.1089/neu.2020.7191
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. Awarded #2 top article of 2020 across all 86 American Psychological Association (APA) journal articles. See https://www.apa.org/monitor/2021/01/top-journal-articles. Also, #3 downloaded article of 2021 across all 86 APA journal articles.
Dowell, T., Waters, A. M., Usher, W., Farrell, L. J., Donovan, C. L., Modecki, K. L., Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J.,…,& Hinchey, J. (2021). Tackling mental health in youth sporting programs: A pilot study of a holistic program. Child Psychiatry & Human Development, 52(1), 15-29. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10578-020-00984-9
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.
2020
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.2020.100535
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: An International Journal of Research, 33, 66-76. doi:10.1016/j.bodyim.2020.02.010
Farrell, L. J., Lavell, C., Baras, E., Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J., & Waters, A. M. (2020). Clinical expression and treatment response among children with comorbid obsessive-compulsive disorder and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder. Journal of Affective Disorders, 266, 585-594. doi:10.1016/j.jad.2020.01.144
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
Uhlmann, L., Donovan, C., & Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J. (2020). Beyond the thin ideal: Development and validation of the Fit Ideal Internalization Test (FIIT) for women. Psychological Assessment, 32, 140-153. doi:10.1037/pas0000773
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
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
2019
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
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
Roberts, C., Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J., & Farrell, L. J. (2019). The Multidimensional Youth Body Dysmorphic Inventory (MY BODI): Development and preliminary validation. Child Psychiatry & Human Development, 50, 927-939. doi:10.1007/s10578-019-00893-6
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
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
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
Ferguson, S., Duffy A., Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J., & Laursen, B. (2019). The Adolescent Friendship Structure Inventory (AFSI): A review and empirical consolidation of existing measures. European Journal of Developmental Psychology, 16, 654-665. doi:10.1080/17405629.2018.1488684
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Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J., Joyce, J., Kerin, J., Webb, H. J., & Morrissey, S. (2019). Self-Determination Theory and food-related parenting: The Parent Socioemotional Context of Feeding Questionnaire. Journal of Family Psychology, 33, 476-486. doi:10.1037/fam0000524
Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J., Duffy, A., & Stuart, J. (2019). Let's get physical: Recent research on relations of adolescent peer victimization with psychosomatic symptoms, sleep, and body weight. Invited review for Journal of Applied Biobehavioral Psychology, 24, e12162. doi:10.1111/jabr.12162
White, C., Shanley, D., , M. J., Walsh, K., Hawkins, R., & Lines, K. (2019). Outcomes of in-situ training in disclosure as a standalone and a booster to a child protective behaviours education program, Child Maltreatment, 24(2), 193-202. doi:10.1177/1077559518816877
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(4), 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. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.adolescence.2019.06.016
Hurst, K., & Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J. (2019). Family‐based treatment with cognitive behavioural therapy for anorexia. Clinical Psychologist, 23, 61-70. doi:10.1111/cp.12152.
Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J., Kerin, J., Webb, H. J., Gardner, A., Mastro, S., & Swan, K. (2019). Improved perceptions of emotion regulation and reflective functioning in parents: Two additional positive outcomes of Parent-Child Interaction Therapy. Behavior Therapy, 50, 340-352. doi:10.1016/j.beth.2018.07.002
Ryan, K., Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J., Neumann, D. L., & Waters, A. M. (2019). The need for standards in the design of studies on fear conditioning and extinction in youth: A systematic review and recommendations for research on anxiety. Behavior Research and Therapy, 112, 42-62.
Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J., 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.
2018
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.
Rudolph, J., & Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J. (2018). Parents as protectors: A qualitative study of parents’ views on child sexual abuse prevention. Child Abuse and Neglect, 85, 28-38. doi:10.1016/j.chiabu.2018.08.016
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
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
Rudolph, J., & , M. J. (2018). Reviewing the focus: A summary and critique of child-focused sexual abuse prevention. Trauma, Violence, & Abuse. doi:10.1177/1524838016675478.
Farrell, L., Waters, A. M., Oar, E., Tiralongo, E., Garbharran, V….Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J…,Ollendick, T. (2018). D-cycloserine augmented one-session treatment of specific phobias in children and adolescents. Brain and Behavior, 8, 1-14. doi:10.1002/brb3.984
Webb, H. J., Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J., Scuffham, P., Rani, B., & Barber, B. (2018). Family stress predicts poorer dietary quality in children: Examining the role of the parent?child relationship. Infant and Child Development, 27, e2088. doi:10.1002/icd.2088.
White, C., Shanley, D., Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J., Walsh, K., Hawkins, R., Lines, K., Pickering, K., & Webb, H. (2018). Promoting young children’s interpersonal safety knowledge, intentions, confidence, and protective behaviour skills: Outcomes of a randomised controlled trial. Child Abuse & Neglect, 82, 144-155. doi:10.1016/j.chiabu.2018.05.024
White, C., Shanley, D., Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J., Walsh, K., & Hawkins, R. (2018). “Tell, tell, tell again”: The prevalence and correlates of young children’s response to and disclosure of an in-vivo lure from a stranger. Child Abuse & Neglect, 82, 134-143. doi:10.1016/j.chiabu.2018.06.001.
Uhlmann, L. R., Donovan, C. L., Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J., Bell, H. S., & Ramme, R. A. (2018). The fit beauty ideal: A healthy alternative to thinness or a wolf in sheep’s clothing? Body Image: An International Journal of Research, 25, 23-30. doi:10.1016/j.bodyim.2018.01.005
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
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
Rudolph, J., , M. J., Shanley, D., & Hawkins, R. (2018). Child sexual abuse prevention opportunities: Parenting, programs and the reduction of risk. , 96-106. doi:10.1177/1077559517729479.
Van Petegem, S., Brenning, K., Beyers, W., & Baudet, A, & Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J. (2018). Intimacy development in late adolescence: Longitudinal associations with perceived parental autonomy support and adolescents? self-worth. Journal of Adolescence, 65, 111-122. doi:10.1016/j.adolescence.2018.03.008
Rudolph#, J., Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J., Walsh, K., Shanley, D., & Hawkins, R. (2018). Parental Discussion of Child Sexual Abuse: Is It Associated with the Parenting Practices of Involvement, Monitoring, and General Communication? Journal of Child Sexual Abuse, 27, 195-216. doi:10.1080/10538712.2018.1425946
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
Lloyd, O., Ownsworth, T., Fleming, J., & Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J. (2018). Development and preliminary validation of the Paediatric Awareness Questionnaire for children and adolescents after traumatic brain injury. Child Neuropsychology, 24, 702-722. doi:10.1080/09297049.2017.1332173.