Dr. Melanie Zimmer-Gembeck and the Zlab
Publications:
Journal Articles, Books, and Book Chapters
2023 - 2025
see the list below
Research articles and reviews published by Dr. Zimmer-Gembeck
2023 & 2024
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Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J., Ryan, K. M., & Campbell, S. M. (2025). Parent-Child Interaction Therapy: A focus on meta-analyses to identify benefits and new approaches. To appear in A. Scudder, T. Hembree-Kigin, & C. M. McNeil (Eds.), Clinical Handbook of Advancements in Parent-Child Interaction Therapy. Springer.
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Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J. (2025). The Social Media Appearance Preoccupation Scale (SMAPS). To appear in V. L. Ramseyer Winter, T. Tylka, & A. M. Landor (Eds.). Handbook of Body Image Related Measures. Cambridge University Press.
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Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J. (2025). The Sexual Subjectivity Inventory for Females and Males (FSSI and MSSI). To appear in V. L. Ramseyer Winter, T. Tylka, & A. M. Landor (Eds.). Handbook of Body Image Related Measures. Cambridge University Press.
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. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.beth.2024.08.005
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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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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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
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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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. (2024). 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. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10578-023-01647-1
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.
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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
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
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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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), 2103-2112.
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.
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.
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.
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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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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.
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