Dr. Melanie Zimmer-Gembeck and the Zlab
PhD Graduates from the ZLab
Graduate student success is a Priority in the Zlab. Since the first PhD graduate in 2005, see below for a full list of those professionals who have received their PhDs in Psychology or Clinical Psychology while affiliated with the School of Applied Psychology Zlab at Griffith University.
You can also find the many master's students and honour's graduates from the Zlab below. Many honour's graduates have gone on to complete their PhDs affiliated with the Zlab.
PhD Graduates
Under assessment
Sarah Howe
Supervisors Professor Melanie Zimmer-Gembeck, Professor David Neumann
Parents’ socialization of young children’s emotion regulation and its impact on internalizing symptom patterns over one year
2024
Dr. Kellie Swan
Supervisors Professor Dianne Shanley, Professor Melanie Zimmer-Gembeck
Disseminating effective treatments for children with disruptive behaviours
2023
Dr. Henriette Steinvik
Why do youth intend to defend against bullying?: The roles of compassion, empathic distress and anger, and social costs (PhD Psychology)
2021
Dr. Kathy Ryan
Methodological differences in Pavlovian fear learning, extinction and return of fear (PhD Psychology)
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Dr. Owen Lloyd. Children’s psychological recovery from traumatic brain injury (PhD Psychology)
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Dr. Sarah Clear. Positive but rarely protective: Associations of adolescents’ mindfulness with emotional adjustment and responses to rejection by peers. (PhD Clinical Psychology)
2020
Dr. Juliane Pariz. Antisocial behaviour in boys and girls: A review and two longitudinal studies of the developmental origins. (PhD Psychology)
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Dr. Mitchell Masters. Emotionality and emotion regulation as risk markers for social anxiety: Considering development, multiple dimensions, and social threat (PhD Clinical Psychology)
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Dr. Jessica Kerin. Intersecting approaches to the study of eating: A focus on intuitive, mindful, emotional, and external eating (PhD Clinical Psychology)
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2019
Dr. Alex Gardner. Rejection sensitivity and internalising symptoms in youth: A focus on parenting and self-regulation (PhD Clinical Psychology) WINNER 2020 VC Medal for Excellence in a PhD Thesis
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Dr. Laura Uhlmann. Unpacking the fitness fallacy: An examination of the cognitions, affect and behaviour related to the belief that a fit female body aesthetic is ideal (PhD Clinical Psychology)
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Dr. Carly Roberts. Body dysmorphic disorder in adolescents: A new multidimensional measure and associations with social risk, mindfulness and self-compassion (PhD Clinical Psychology) VC Medal for Excellence in a PhD Thesis Nominated
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Dr. Shawna Mastro Campbell. At the junction of developmental and clinical science: Youth identity processes and disturbance as related to emotional, behavioural and borderline symptoms (PhD Clinical Psychology) VC Medal for Excellence in a PhD Thesis Nominated
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2018
Dr. Julia Rudolph. Parents as protectors: Reviewing the focus of child sexual abuse prevention to include parenting (PhD Psychology) VC Medal for Excellence in a PhD Thesis Nominated
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Dr. Robert Teese. Risk-taking and reckless behaviour in emerging adulthood (PhD Psychology)
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Dr. Codi White. Interpersonal safety skills: Assessing and evaluating outcomes for children (PhD Clinical Psychology)
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2017
Dr. Kim Hurst. Placing the focus on perfectionism in female adolescent anorexia nervosa: Augmented Maudsley family-based treatment (PhD Psychology)
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Dr. Santosh Kumar Tadakamadla. Parenting and dental hygiene (PhD Dental Science)
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Dr. Ourania Antokis. Toddlers’ behaviour regulation during a separation task: How does it relate to parenting, temperament, and externalising and internalising problems? (DPsych Clinical Psychology)
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2016
Dr. Samantha Ferguson. Peer Group Status and Friendship Forms in Adolescence and Their Social and Emotional Consequences. (PhD Psychology)
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Dr. Rhonda Stoertebecker. Differentiating anger and resentment: Implications for forgiveness, depression and anxiety. (PhD Clinical Psychology)
Dr. Brooke Mitchell. Differential susceptibility to conduct problems among abused children (DPsych Clinical Psychology)
2015
Dr. Susan Rowe. Adolescents, families, neighbourhoods: An ecological approach to understanding resilience, competence, and vulnerability. (PhD Psychology)
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2013
Dr. Haley Webb. Body image and rejection sensitivity. (PhD Clinical Psychology)
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Dr. Dian Sawitri. Vocational development and parenting. (PhD Psychology)
Congratulations Professor Sawitri for your 2023 International Alumni Award! Click here for more information on Prof Sawitri.
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Dr. Clare Bell. Anxiety in mums and their children. (PhD Clinical Psychology)
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Dr. Judith Warner. Biology and environment, mums and infants: Linking stress physiology and attachment. (PhD Clinical Psychology)
Dr. Jessica French-Spillane. Sexual Self-Conceptions among Young Men: A New Measure of Sexual Subjectivity, Well-being, and Comparison to Women. (DPsych Clinical Psychology)
Dr. Laurenne See (Eising). An Examination of Females’ Sexual History and Sex-Related Communication as Correlates of Sexual Subjectivity, Efficacy and Health Behaviour. (DPsych Clinical Psychology)
Dr. Vanessa Anseline. Couple disagreements, forgiveness, and emotion-related parenting: Associations with preschoolers’ social-emotional competence (DPsych Clinical Psychology)
2012
Dr. Nicola Sheeran, Teen mothers of premature infants. (PhD Clinical Psychology)
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Dr. Claire Cooper. Cyber and non-cyber aggression and victimisation: Associations with depression and anxiety symptoms, and the roles of behavioural reactions and friendship. (DPsych Clinical Psychology)
2011
Dr. Michelle Hanisch. Mindful regulation of emotion and impulsivity: A controlled trial of mindfulness for bulimia nervosa. (PhD Clinical Psychology)
Dr. Karen Gallaty. A longitudinal investigation of the impact of romantic relationships on adolescent development and well-being. (PhD Clinical Psychology)
2010
Dr. Leanne McGregor. The effects of parental divorce, the parent-child relationship, and inter-parental conflict on children’s relationship expectations. (PhD Psychology)
Dr. Michalle Wright. Negative mood in adolescence: Testing the Competence-Contingency-Control Model and changes from a school-based intervention. (PhD Clinical Psychology)
2009
Dr. Wendy Ducat. Self and partner qualities in romantic relationships of emerging adulthood: A self-determination approach to individual well-being. (PhD Clinical Psychology) Winner APS Relationships Interest Group Thesis Award
Dr. Jessica Joyce. A longitudinal investigation of the bidirectional associations between children’s eating behaviour and parental feeding styles. (PhD Clinical Psychology)
Dr. Rhiarne Pronk-Scholes. Relational aggression, peer relationships and social-psychological functioning: A cross-gender examination amongst early adolescents. (PhD Clinical Psychology)
2008
Dr. Tracy Ludlow. Learned helplessness in children. (PhD Clinical Psychology)
Dr. Rae Thomas. Parenting research to guide policy: Evidence from a comparative meta-analysis and trial of Parent-Child Interaction Therapy with families at child maltreatment risk. (PhD Psychology)
2007
Dr. Allison Bocquee. Conceptualising adolescent self-harm as a process of affect regulation, coping, attachment and stressful life circumstances. (PhD Clinical Psychology)
Dr. Danielle Lees (Stebbins). An empirical investigation of the motivational theory of coping in middle and late childhood. (PhD Clinical Psychology)
2006
Dr. Kate McCarthy (Owens). An observational study of high risk mothers and children with behavioural problems during a frustrating task. (DPsych Clinical Psychology)
2005
Dr. Sharon Horne. Female sexual health: The definition and development of sexual subjectivity, and linkages with sexual agency, sexual experience and well-being in late adolescents and emerging adults. (PhD Psychology)
Dr. Tracey Hunter. A longitudinal path model of children’s depression and externalising problems as outcomes of behaviours, peer rejection, and peer-related attributions and perceptions. (PhD Clinical Psychology)
Dr. Angela Anthonysamy. The peer relations and social behaviours of maltreated children and their classmates: A multimethod study. (DPsych Clinical)
Dr. Mark Scholes. The effectiveness of Parent-Child Interaction Therapy with depressed caregivers. (DPsych Clinical)
MASTER'S DEGREE GRADUATES
2017 Anna McKay: Parental mindfulness and young children’s temperament as correlates of food-related parenting
2016 Monique Sharrad: Dating goals and sexual subjectivity as correlates of relationship satisfaction
2016 Katie Waller: Rejection sensitivity and conflict in romantic relationships
2016 Gillian Hewitt-Stubbs: The development of sexual subjectivity in young women and men
2015 Sorcha Healy: Rejection sensitivity, appearance-concerns, and valuing of appearance
2008 Elizabeth Locke: Executive Functioning, Temperament and Parental Coping Behaviors as Correlates of Early Adolescents’ Coping and Regulatory Outcomes
2006 Karen White: Well-being, Internalised Homonegativity, Stress, and Coping among Men who Have Sex with Men attending a Health Clinic
2005 Carolyn Vickers: A Longitudinal Study of Depressive Symptoms, Rejection Sensitivity and Relationship Satisfaction in Late Adolescent Romantic Relationships
2005 Jillian Petherick: Change and stability in attachment style during Year 12: Associations with life events, psychological health, and representations of self and others
Honour’s (4th Year) Degree Graduates 2002-2022
2022 Bethany Melloy: Unique and interactive effects of social anxiety, prosocial behaviour, and likeability: A multi-reporter study of early adolescents’ dyadic and group peer relationships
2021 Lisa Porritt: Eating when Sad: Exploring the Psychosocial Risk Factors of Emotional and Binge Eating Among Adolescents
2020 Nina Horan: Children’s Fussy Eating and Mealtime Aggression: Testing Direct and Interactive Associations with Parenting, Internalising and Externalising Symptoms, and Child Sex
2018 Narelle Duncan: Emotional Maladjustment as a Correlate of Sexual Harassment and In-person and Cyber Teasing in High School and University Students
2016 Tanya Hawes: Relational Victimisation and Adolescent Social Anxiety: The Role of Emotion Dysregulation in a Stress Generation Model
2016 Victoria Hambour: The Role of Dispositional Mindfulness and Emotional Regulation in Explaining Adolescent Social Anxiety
2016 Kelly Densham: Parent Factors as Correlates of Body Dysmorphic Symptoms in Young Adolescents
2015 Kathy Ryan: Attachment Relationships and Adolescent Regulation of Sadness, Worry and Anger: A Comparison of Interpersonal and Academic Stressful Events
2014 Sarah Clear: Regulating Specific Emotions and Symptoms of Psychopathology: Associations with Attachment Patterns in Emerging Adults
2014 Mitchell Masters: Adolescents’ Appearance-Based Rejection Sensitivity and Emotional Eating: Sociocultural Correlates and Moderation by Physical Competence and Coping
2014 Shawna Mastro: Let’s Talk (Openly) About Sex: Testing a Mediational Model Linking Communication, with Romantic and Sexual Well-being via Sexual Esteem and Efficacy
2012 Carissa Croft: The Conflict Resolution Tactics and Friendship Correlates of Anxious and Angry Rejection Sensitivity
2012 Sarah Trevaskis Adolescent Loneliness and Depressive Symptoms: Associations with Self and Peer-Reports of Rejection Sensitivity and Peer Relationship Problems
2011 Mahsa Khatibi
2011 Samantha Ferguson
2011 Jade Fersterer
2011 Jasmine Wilson
2010 Vanessa Arnold: Social Dating Goals Among Young Couples: The implications for Relationship Satisfaction and Romantic Partner Behaviour
2009 Annie Bundall: Probing the Aging Paradox: Can Personal Goals, Motives, and Coping Skills Account for Well-being in Later Life?
2009 Helen Goldsmith (Morris): Children’s Threat Appraisals and Emotional Reactions to Interpersonal and Academic Stressors
2009 Marguerite Kelly: Dating goals as Correlates of Behaviour and Satisfaction among Same-sex and Other-sex Attracted Young People
2008 Julie McLachlan: Features of Parent and Peer Relationships as Covariates of Preadolescents’ Rejection Sensitivity
2008 Lyndall Kopp: Autonomy Support and the Thin Ideal: Applying Self-Determination Theory to Explain Women’s Body Dissatisfaction and Regulation of Eating
2007 Kym Hendricksen: Observing Parents’ Behaviours to Identify Mechanisms Linking Parents’ Socioemotional Functioning to Young Children’s Symptomatology
2007 Nicole Hughes: Measuring Intimacy and Self-focused Identity Dating Goals in Late Adolescence: A Revision of the Social Dating Goals Scale
2007 Natasha Ward: Mental Health among Adolescents: Associations with Disclosure and Secrecy from Parents and Best Friends
2006 Hanne Samson (Graduate Diploma): Contingencies of Self-Esteem as Correlates of Reckless and Unlawful Behaviour in Emerging Adults
2006 Rachel Johnson
2005 Michelle Hanisch Parents and Partners: Emotional Autonomy, and Context Specificity of Voice and Relationship Quality.
2005 Tammie Wilkinson: Attachment Style, Parental Psychological Control and Adolescent Adjustment
2005 Melissa Williams: A Multiinformant, Multimeasure Study of Young Children’s Social Behaviours, Peer Relationships, and Psychosocial Adjustment
2003 Rhiarne Pronk: The Peer Group Environment and Children’s Psychological Functioning: Investigation of an Extended Social-cognitive Mediation Model.
2003 June Wright: The Influence of Parental Psychological Control and Rejection Sensitivity: Expectations and Behaviors in Adolescent Romantic Relationships
2002 Jillian Petherick: Dating as a Context for the Late Adolescent Life Tasks of Identity and Intimacy and the Role of Gender
2002 Elizabeth Locke: The Context of Coping: Connection, Regulation and Autonomy Support Within the Family and School