Dr. Melanie Zimmer-Gembeck and the Zlab
Publications:
Journal Articles, Books, and Book Chapters
2023 - 2026
see the list below
Research articles and reviews published by Dr. Zimmer-Gembeck
2023 - 2025
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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. Accepted Dec 2025.
Shanley, D., Page, M., Shelton, D., Harbeck, E. L., Ware, R. S., Byrnes, J., Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J., Towers, K., Brown, N., Marshall, J., Barnsbee, L., Reid, N., Reilly, S., Chandler-Mather, N., Liu, W., Khan, N., Madigan, S., & Hawkins, E. (2026). Advancing equity in neurodevelopmental care with the Tracking Cube: Protocol for an effectiveness-implementation hybrid (Type 1) stepped-wedge randomised controlled trial. BMC Health Services. Accepted Nov 2025
Ryan, K. M., Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J., Stuart, J., Soenens, B., Zimmermann, G., & Van Petegem, S. (2026). Overprotective parenting: Examining pressures to be perfect, social media comparisons, world instability and parent anxiety. Family Relations. Accepted Sept 2025.
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 Reviews. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10567-025-00555-1
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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https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/FWUUUXUAS5SA6RJGURYI/full?target=10.1080/08870446.2025.2607708
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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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Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J., Hawes, T., Scott, R. A., Skinner, E., A., & Kindermann, T. A. (2025). Seeking support or concealing? A longitudinal study of adolescents’ friendships, peer victimization, depression, and coping with peer relationship stressors. Developmental Psychology.
https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0002096
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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
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Lan, H., Lawrence, R., Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J., & Conlon. E. (2025). Internal and predictive validity of subscale scores of the short-form Barkley Deficits in Executive Functioning Scale (BDEFS) in research. Applied Neuropsychology: Adult, 1-13.
https://doi.org/10.1080/23279095.2025.2542498
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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. (2025). Mental health outcomes for teenage boys and girls following a youth sports development program including a mental health program. Journal of Applied Sport Psychology, 1-26.
https://doi.org/10.1080/10413200.2025.2495590
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Dellers, L. Y. E., Duffy, A. L., & , Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J.. (2025). Sexual minority men’s mental health: Associations with gay community intragroup marginalisation beyond heterosexist discrimination. Journal of Homosexuality, 1-31
https://doi.org/10.1080/00918369.2025.2485157
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Luskin-Saxby, S., Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J., Sulek, R., & Paynter, J. (2025). Autism early intervention providers: Their priorities, use of empirically supported practices, and professional development needs. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-025-06808-w
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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., 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
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Campbell, T., Shanley, D. C., Page, M., McDonald, T., Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J., Hess, M., Watney, J., & Hawkins, E. (2025). Psychometric properties of the Rapid Neurodevelopmental Assessment in detecting social-emotional problems during routine child developmental monitoring in primary healthcare. BMC Primary Care, 26, Article number 106.
https://doi.org/10.1186/s12875-025-02807-z
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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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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
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Campbell, S. M., Edwards, E.-J., Hambour, V., Horan, N., Hawes, T., Swan, K., Wotton, M., Melloy, B., & , Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J. (2025). The effects of Parent-Child Interaction Therapy on parent feeding practices and children’s problematic mealtime behaviors, Behavior Therapy, 56(3), 566-579.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.beth.2024.08.005
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Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J. (2025). The Social Media Appearance Preoccupation Scale (SMAPS). V. L. Ramseyer Winter, T. Tylka, & A. M. Landor (Eds.). Handbook of Body Image Related Measures. Cambridge University Press.
Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J. (2025). The Sexual Subjectivity Inventory for Females and Males (FSSI and MSSI). V. L. Ramseyer Winter, T. Tylka, & A. M. Landor (Eds.). Handbook of Body Image Related Measures. Cambridge University Press.
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Eira Nunes, C., Lamprianidou, E., Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J.; Van Petegem, S. (2025). The relations between parents’ gender equality values and (co)parenting: Examining actor-partner effects in an Australian community sample. Journal of Family Issues , 46(1), 3-25. https://doi.org/10.1177/0192513X241236552
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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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Dellers, L. Y. E., Duffy, A. L., & Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J. (2024). Manifestations and harms of intragroup marginalization within the male gay community: A qualitative study of gay and bisexual men. Psychology of Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity.
https://dx.doi.org/10.1037/sgd0000724
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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, 2826-2843.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10826-024-02896-x
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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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Speechley, M., Stuart, J. A., Scott, R. A., Barber, B., L., & Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J. (2024). Provision of gender affirming care among medical and allied health practitioners: The influence of transnormative beliefs in working with gender diverse patients . Social Science & Medicine, 348, 116876.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2024.116876
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Kellij, S., Lodder, G. M. A., Giletta, M., Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J., GüroÄŸlu, B., & Veenstra, R. (2024). Are there negative cycles of peer victimization and rejection sensitivity? Testing ri-CLPMs in two longitudinal samples of young adolescents. Development and Psychopathology, 36(2), 844-856.
https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954579423000123
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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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Luskin-Saxby, S., Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J., Sulek, R., & Paynter, J. (2024). Professional development and use of evidence-based practice in autism early intervention. Journal of Early Intervention, 46(1), 94-112.
http://doi.org/10.1177/10538151231159638
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Rudolph, J. I., Van Berkel, S., Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J., Walsh, K., Straker, D., & Campbell, T. (2024). Parental involvement in programs to prevent child sexual abuse: A systematic review of four decades of research. Trauma, Violence, & Abuse, 25(1), 560-576.
https://doi.org/10.1177/15248380231156408
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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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Skinner, E. A., & Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J. (Eds). (2023). Cambridge handbook of the development of coping. Cambridge University Press.
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Skinner, E. A., & Zimmer-Gembeck, 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). Cambridge University Press.
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Modecki, K., Duvenage, M., Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J., Robins, 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). 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 23). Cambridge University Press. ***In memory of Dr. Thomas Kindermann***
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Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J., Stansfield, H., Kerin, J., & Donovan, C. (2023). Measurement of intuitive and mindful eating (Chapter 6, pp. 71-81). In A. Meule (Ed.) Assessment of eating behavior. Hogrefe.
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Gardner, A. A., Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J., & Skinner, E. A. (2023). Coping skills. In A. Epperson (Section Editor), B. Halpern-Felsher (Editor). The Encyclopedia of Child and Adolescent Health: Cognitive and Psychosocial Development (pp. 257-267). https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-818872-9.00029-7.
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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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Campbell, S. M., Hawes, T., Swan, K., Thomas, R., & Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J. (2023). Evidence-based treatment in practice: Parent-Child Interaction Therapy research on addressing individual differences and diversity through the lens of 20 years of service. Psychology Research and Behavior Management, 16, 2599—2617.
https://doi.org/10.2147/PRBM.S360302
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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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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. https://doi.org/10.1111/jasp.12994
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Shanley, D., Zimmer-Gembeck, M., Wheeler, A. J., Byrnes, J., Ware, R. S., Liu, W.,...Hawkins, E. (2023). Diagnostic accuracy and economic value of a tiered assessment for fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (DATAforFASD): Protocol. BMJ Open, 12, e071004
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Howe, S. L., & Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J. (2023). Maternal socialization profiles, child gender, and later child regulation and internalizing symptoms. Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 86, 1–10.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.appdev.2023.101521
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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.
https://doi.org/10.1002/jad.12524
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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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Rudolph, J. I., Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J., Straker, D., Hambour, V., Hawes, T., & Swan, K. (2023). Parental-led sexual abuse education amongst at-risk parents: Associations with parenting practices, and parent and child symptomology. Journal of Child Sexual Abuse, 32(5), 575-595.
https://doi.org/10.1080/10538712.2023.2222116
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Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J., Hawes, T., Scott, R. A., Campbell, T., & Webb, H. J. (2023). Adolescents’ online appearance preoccupation: A 5-year longitudinal study of the influence of peers, parents, beliefs, and disordered eating. Computers in Human Behavior, 140, 187569.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2022.107569
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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
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Greenhalgh, K., Mahler, N., Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J., & Shanley, D. (2023). Childhood hearing loss: An uncertain context for parenting. Deafness and Education International, 25(2), 121-139.
https://doi.org/10.1080/14643154.2022.2125626
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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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Romero Saletti, S. M., Van den Broucke, S., Billieux, J., Karila, L., Kuss, D. J., Rivera Espejo, J. M., Sheldon, P., Lang, C. P., Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J., Zollo, P., Courboin, C., Diez, D., Madison, T. P., Ramos-Diaz, J., Elias, C. E., & Otiniano, F. (2023). Development, psychometric validation, and cross-cultural comparison of the “Instagram Motives Questionnaire” (IMQ) and the “Instagram Uses and Patterns Questionnaire” (IUPQ). Journal of Behavioral Addictions, 12(1), 105-127.
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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
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Hawes, D., Dadds, M. R., Tully, L. A., Northam, J. C., & Growing Minds Australia Clinical Trials Network. (2023). Building a national clinical trials network in child and youth mental health: Growing Minds Australia. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry (ANZJP), 57(2), 164-168.
https://doi.org/10.1177/00048674221082525
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