Dr. Melanie Zimmer-Gembeck and the Zlab
Measures to Download
Zlab studies have resulted in new measures to use in your research. These measures are freely available and can be downloaded below.
Measures
Interpersonal Mindfulness in Parenting Measure for Youth (IMPM-Y)
Mera, S., Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J., & Conlon, E. G. (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/10.1177/21676968231185888
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Click here for a file with the information about the IMPM-Y, including the items and response format.
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Social Media Appearance Preoccupation Scale (SMAPS)
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.
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Click here for a zip file with the SMAPS and related papers.
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Sexual Subjectivity
Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J., Ducat, W., & Boislard-P., M. (2011). A prospective study of young females’ sexual subjectivity: Associations with age, sexual behavior, and dating. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 40, 927-938.
Click here for a zip file of papers and measures of
sexual subjectivity for women and men
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Coping Flexibility or the Self-Perceived Ability to Cope Flexibly with Stress
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
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Click here for the PCFS
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Appearance-based Rejection Sensitivity Scale (ARS) for adolescents
Webb, H. J., & Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J. (2016). A longitudinal study of appearance-based rejection sensitivity and the peer appearance culture. Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 43, 91-100 doi:10.1016/j.appdev.2016.01.004.
Webb, H., & Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J. (2015). Body image attitudes and body change strategies within best friend dyads and friendship groups: Implications for adolescent appearance-rejection sensitivity, Social Development, 24, 1-19. doi:10.1111/sode.1208
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Click here for the ARS
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Dating Goals
Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J., Hughes, N., Kelly, M., & Connolly, J. (2012). Intimacy, identity, and status: Measuring dating goals in late adolescence and young adulthood, Motivation and Emotion, 36, 311-322
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Click here for the Social Dating Goals-Revised (SDG-R) Measure
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Parents as Social Context - Preschool version
Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J., Webb, H. J., Thomas, R., & Klag, S. (2015). A new measure of toddler parenting practices and associations with attachment and mothers' sensitivity, competence, and enjoyment of parenting, Early Child Development and Care, 185, 1422-1436. doi:10.1080/03004430.2014.1001753
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Click here for the PASC for preschool age children
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The Adolescent Friendship Structure Inventory
Ferguson, S., Duffy A., , 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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Click here for the AFSI
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The Parent Socioemotional Context of Feeding Questionnaire
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
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Click here for the PSCFQ
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Fit Ideal Internalization Test for women
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
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The Multidimensional Youth Body Dysmorphic Inventory (MY BODI)
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
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Click here for the measure pdf
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Click here for the measure Word
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REACTIONS TO IMPLIED REJECTION SCALE: Primary/Secondary School student version & University student version
Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J., & Nesdale, D. (2013). Anxious and angry rejection sensitivity, social withdrawal, and retribution in high and low ambiguous situations. Journal of Personality, 81, 29-38. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-6494.2012.00792.x.
Click here for the child/adolescent version
Click here for the university student version
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(Example) Motivational Theory of Coping Measure
Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J., Van Petegem, S., & Skinner, E. A. (2016). Emotion, controllability and orientation towards stress as correlates of children's coping with interpersonal stress, Motivation and Emotion, 40, 178-191. doi:10.1007/s11031-015-9520-z.
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., 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.
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.
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