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Annual Report
Rapport annuel
2005-2006
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Credits
CRDH Steering Committee; 2005-2006
Lisa Serbin, Director (Psychology; Concordia University)
Danielle Julien, Associate Director (Psychologie; Université du Québec à Montréal)
Karen Li, Associate Director (Psychology; Concordia University)
Jamshid Etezadi, Researcher (Decision Science & MIS; Concordia University)
David Forman, Researcher (Psychology; Concordia University)
Dolores Pushkar, Researcher (Psychology; Concordia University)
Giovani Burgos, Researcher (Sociology; McGill University
Émilie Jodoin, Graduate Student (Psychologie; Université du Québec à Montréal)
Émilie Jouvin, Graduate Student (Psychologie; Université du Québec à Montréal)
Holly Recchia, Graduate Student (Psychology; Concordia University)
Jennifer Nachshen, Post-Doctoral Fellow (Concordia University)
CRDH Staff
Donna Craven, Administrative Coordinator
Lucie Bonneville, Statistical Consultant
Michelle Cormier, Document Assistant
Serge Wright, Systems Manager
Pippa Ross, Secretary
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Christine Daviault
Printers
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Table of
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Welcome and description of CRDH
A Word from the Director •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 7
Message de la directrice adjointe •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 8
Message from the Associate Director •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 9
What is CRDH? ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 10
Our Mission Statement ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 12
Research Theme and Axes ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 14
Members
Introduction •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 20
CRDH Members ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 22
International Members ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 23
Carsten Wrosch •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 24
Jamshid Etezadi ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 25
Research
Introduction •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 26
Selected Grants 2005-2006 ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 28
Featured Research Project—Internalization Problems ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 34
Featured Research Project—Generalized Anxiety Disorder •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 36
Publications ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 38
Training
Introduction •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 50
CRDH Students ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 54
Training Activities •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 60
Featured Postdoctoral Fellow—Jennifer Nachshen ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 62
Featured Graduate Students ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 64
Graduate Student Perspective •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 66
Selected Thesis Titles ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 68
Recognizing Excellence in Research Training •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 69
Communication
Introduction •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 70
Selected Members in the News ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 72
Members in the community •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 73
Conference Presentations ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 74
CRDH Conference ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 92
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Part One - Welcome
A word from
the Director
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s we complete the second year as a “Regroupement
Stratégique” of the FQRSC, our Centre continues to transform and expand in exciting new directions. New research
programs, projects, seminars, workshops, and community
outreach activities have been implemented and expanded
over the past twelve months. Most exciting of all, our members and
their students from a wide variety of complementary social science and
health disciplines, across five universities and colleges, have rapidly
continued their integration within our research team this year. These
additions have more than doubled the size of our CRDH faculty to 35
members since 2004. We have also expanding our research and training
programs over the past year, with over 150 graduate students and postdocs from many different departments and disciplines participating in
our Centre’s activities during the 2005-2006 academic year!
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During 2005-06, we have continued
to build momentum as new research
and training programs are being
implemented. New (and “old”!)
members are increasingly finding
opportunities to participate in the
Centre’s expanding programs, and to
initiate new directions for research
projects and training activities.
The theme of our Regroupement Stratégique is “Navigating critical transitions across the life course”. A renewed emphasis on integrating basic
and applied research strategies drawn from across the social-science
and health disciplines to solve urgent social problems is the central
focus of our mandate. The ongoing goal of our Centre’s research and
training programs, as described in our Mission Statement, is to promote
outstanding, multi-disciplinary research on human development across
the life-course, and to provide unique research training opportunities
for young scientists in Quebec. In addition, new mandates in the areas
of research transfer, policy consultation, and community outreach are
now included within the goals of our Regroupement Stratégique program.
During 2005-06, we have continued to build momentum as new research and training programs are being implemented. New (and “old”!)
members are increasingly finding opportunities to participate in the
Centre’s expanding programs, and to initiate new directions for research
projects and training activities. Some examples of these activities are
highlighted in this report, along with summaries of our activities over
the past year. I am extremely proud of our members, graduate and
post-doctoral trainees, and incredible STAFF for all their hard work. It
has been an incredibly exciting year: seeing many new initiatives get
off the ground and get underway! In this report, you will see some
highlights of our accomplishments this year, as well as new projects that
have been initiated and will be expanded during the coming year….
Lisa Serbin, Director
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Message de la
directrice adjointe
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e CRDH termine sa deuxième année de soutien en provenance
du programme de Regroupement stratégique du FQRSC. Je
suis fière d’être associée aux efforts d’ouverture à la pluri-disciplinarité du CRDH. Cette ouverture dynamise les initiatives de
recherche en réunissant les chercheurs du centre et des chercheurs périphériques au centre autour d’objets communs de recherche.
En tant que professeure et chercheure à l’UQAM, ce dynamisme prend
sa mesure avec la création d’une nouvelle équipe de recherche en centre subventionnée par le FQRSC et les IRSC pour se pencher sur la vulnérabilité, la résilience et la santé des individus au croisement de multiples
identités, sexuelles et ethnoculturelles, et de multiples discriminations.
Cette équipe comprend quatorze chercheurs au sein de 8 universités
canadiennes situées dans 5 provinces canadiennes et représentant plus
de 10 disciplines du savoir. Elle inclut trois membres du CRDH respectivement associés à Concordia (Paul Hastings), au College de Maisonneuve (Line Chamberland) et à l’UQAM (Danielle Julien) et collabore avec
des partenaires majeurs du milieu communautaire. Ce faisant, le CRDH
expose les jeunes chercheurs et les étudiants du CRDH à la diversité des
théories et des méthodes sur ces objets, et il s’applique à former cette
nouvelle génération de chercheurs et de praticiens qui auront à fournir
des réponses adaptées à la complexité des problèmes sociaux de notre
société.
C’est donc avec enthousiasme que je me joins aux efforts du CRDH dans
sa poursuite des conditions optimales favorisant la circulation des idées
et des savoirs entre institutions et disciplines diverses.
Danielle Julien, Associate Director
Message from the
Associate Director
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his past year marks the beginning of my involvement as a CRDH Associate Director,
replacing Dr. Diane Poulin-Dubois. Following in her considerable footsteps, the
year has been a learning experience for me in terms of getting familiar with the
administrative side of the Centre, and meeting some of the FQRSC Administrators.
It has been an exciting year to be closely involved in CRDH activites, as the transition to our more comprehensive, multidisciplinary and multi-university Centre structure has
begun to prove its worth. The outcomes to date have been very encouraging, and pave the
way for even more multi-disciplinary collaborations. The wealth of complementary expertise
in CRDH provides great potential for innovation in that specific research questions can be
tackled simultaneously with newly combined methods. We have already seen this multimethod approach yield results in terms of student training (see feature on page 68).
In my own research on successful aging and multi-task performance, I have profited a great
deal from the complementary expertise of CRDH members Drs. Richard DeMont and Virginia
Penhune. Dr. DeMont’s expertise in athletic injury and gait analysis, and Dr. Penhune’s expertise in motor learning, have enabled the completion of a project on the influence of age,
balance status, and attention on walking performance. Sarah Fraser (CRDH graduate trainee)
and I presented these findings at the first ever International Conference on Gait and Mental
Functioning in Madrid this winter, and were delighted to see the gait community’s growing
interest in cognitive factors. As a trained cognitive aging researcher, I did not predict that
I would ever measure the electrical output of leg muscles in my studies! We are presently
venturing further into multi-disciplinary work by incorporating 3-D motion capture technology in our studies of aging and keyboard fingering performance during full and divided
attention. This line of research is truly like a three-legged table: we could not possibly carry it
out as individual researchers.
There are several highlights about the CRDH worth noting. There were opportunities to
showcase the Centre’s current research and facilities to Concordia’s new President, Dr. Claude
Lajeunesse. During the Learning, Human Development and Human Environment session, a
speaker event with the President of Concordia University, our two Canada Research Chairs
Drs. Mark Ellenbogen and David Forman, were invited to present their latest findings. Overall, these opportunities to raise awareness about the scientific output of the CRDH, and the
recent expansion of Centre membership to multiple disciplines and Québec universities were
useful vehicles for strengthening relations between the CRDH and University administration.
Another notable development within the Centre involves the recognition of new, up-andcoming researchers. Dr. Carsten Wrosch’s research on coping and its consequences for
psychological and physical health was recently recognized with a CIHR New Investigator
Award (see feature on Wrosch). Dr. Virginia Penhune was recognized for her research on motor learning across the lifespan with a FQRSC Chercheure Boursier award. Together, these
awards underscore the high calibre of research activity at our Centre, which should help to
attract future collaborators and trainees alike.
Karen Li, Associate Director
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What is the Centre for Research
in Human Development?
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he CRDH is an internationally recognized research and training centre, with central facilities housed at Concordia University, in Montreal, Quebec. The Centre is a multi-disciplinary
and multi-institutional organization with a membership of 35
faculty researchers and over 100 graduate and post-doctoral
trainees, from 7 disciplines at 5 universities and colleges across Quebec. The Centre includes a growing number of community partners
and international research associates who help to guide our research
program, and participate in our ongoing research and training projects.
The Centre and its members are committed to advancing our understanding and support of human growth and development from birth
through old age. Using a model that focuses on key transitions in the
human life cycle, CRDH serves as a centre for advanced research training, collaboration, and cross-disciplinary work.
Life transitions present opportunities for growth. But they can also
present serious challenges across the life-course. A baby learning to
talk, an adolescent beginning to take on more adult responsibilities,
and an adult becoming a parent for the first time, all face critical tests of
the skills they have learned up to that point. When a life transition does
not go well, for whatever reason, that individual is likely to be ill-prepared for the next inevitable challenge. A negative cascade begins, and
it can affect the individual, the family, and the community. On the other
hand, when developmental challenges are successfully met, positive
outcomes and enhanced contributions to society are likely to follow.
The CRDH is committed not only to state-of-the-art science and training, but also to bringing the best research to the community. CRDH and
its members reach out to service organizations and policymakers whose
goals are to translate understanding of human development into effective public policy.
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Qu’est-ce que le Centre de
recherche en développement
humain ?
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e Centre de recherche en développement humain (CRDH) est
un centre de recherche et de formation de réputation internationale basé à l’Université Concordia, Montréal, Québec.
Organisation multidisciplinaire et multi-institutionnelle, le
Centre regroupe 35 chercheurs-enseignants et plus de 100
étudiants des programmes de maîtrise, de doctorat et de post-doctorat.
Le CRDH recoupe sept disciplines dans cinq universités et collèges du
Québec. De plus, il comprend de nombreux partenaires de la collectivité et d’associés de recherche internationaux qui aident à orienter son
programme de recherche et qui participent à ses projets de recherche
et de formation. L’objectif du Centre et de ses chercheurs consiste à
comprendre, à soutenir et à faire progresser la croissance et le développement humain, de la naissance à la vieillesse. Axé sur les transitions
clés du cycle de la vie, le CRDH favorise la collaboration, la formation
avancée en recherche et les travaux multidisciplinaires.
Les transitions qui jalonnent la vie sont certes des occasions de croissance, mais elles posent également de sérieux défis. Qu’il s’agisse d’un
bébé qui apprend à parler, d’un adolescent qui commence à prendre
de plus en plus de responsabilités ou d’un adulte qui devient parent
pour la première fois, tous sont confrontés à des situations qui mettent
à l’épreuve les habiletés acquises jusque là. Une transition mal franchie,
peu importe la raison, rendra la personne vraisemblablement mal préparée pour négocier les inévitables défis qui vont suivre. S’ensuit une
cascade d’événements négatifs qui l’affecteront ainsi que sa famille et
sa communauté. Par contre, il y a de fortes chances qu’un défi développemental surmonté avec succès s’accompagne de retombées positives
pour un individu, incluant une plus grande contribution à la société.
Le CRDH est engagé non seulement à promouvoir la science et la formation de pointe, mais aussi à produire la meilleure recherche possible
pour la communauté. Ainsi, le CRDH et ses membres bénéficient du
partenariat des organismes de service et de ceux et celles qui établissent les politiques et qui ont pour mandat de traduire notre compréhension du développement humain en des politiques sociales publiques et communautaires efficaces.
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Our Mission Statement Notre Mission
Finding effective and economical solutions to complex social and
health issues requires a focused, multi-disciplinary research approach. The Centre for Research in Human Development (CRDH)
was established in 1981, with the mission of promoting excellent
research and training highly qualified personnel in the field of
human development. Our mission also includes research dissemination, communication, and consultation with government
policy and community service agencies. With a renewed mandate
in 2004 from the Regroupements Stratégiques program of the
Fonds de recherche sur la sociéte et la culture (FQRSC), the Centre
for Research in Human Development provides researchers and
trainees with exceptional opportunities to collaborate with fellow
investigators working on basic and applied developmental issues,
from across related disciplines and institutions.
La complexité des questions sociales et des problèmes de santé
requiert une approche de recherche multidisciplinaire afin de
trouver des solutions à la fois efficaces et économiques. Créé en
1981, le Centre de recherche en développement humain (CRDH)
s’est donné comme mission de promouvoir l’excellence en
recherche et la formation d’un personnel hautement qualifié
dans le domaine du développement humain. Notre mission
inclut également la dissémination des résultats scientifiques,
la communication et la consultation auprès des agences
gouvernementales chargées des politiques et des agences
des services communautaires. Avec le renouvellement de sa
subvention en 2004 (FQRSC), le Centre de recherche en
développement humain offre aux chercheurs, aux étudiants et
aux stagiaires des occasions uniques de réaliser des projets de
recherche de nature fondamentale ou appliquée, avec des
collègues en provenance de disciplines connexes.
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The CRDH was
established in 1981,
with the mission of
promoting excellent
research and training
highly qualified
personnel in the
field of human
development.
Créé en 1981, le CRDH s’est
donné comme mission de
promouvoir l’excellence en
recherche et la formation
d’un personnel hautement
qualifié dans le domaine du
développement humain.
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Research Theme
&Axes
Thème et axes
de recherche
Critical transitions and challenges across the life-course
Les transitions et les défis critiques qui jalonnent la vie
The members of the Centre for Research in Human Development study
human development from infancy to old age. The main objective of our
research program is to examine individual and family adaptation across
critical developmental transitions. Our research program focuses on the
acquisition and maintenance of human competencies across the life
course, and the social and environmental factors that allow individuals
to successfully use these competencies to face the challenges of successive developmental transitions. The theoretical and methodological underpinnings of our approach are drawn from the social and life
sciences. This approach integrates models and methods drawn from
related social, health, and neuroscience disciplines. To have the most
innovative and comprehensive approach possible, CRDH integrates the
unique and complementary strengths of researchers from psychology,
sociology, education, geography, political science, decision science, and
exercise science.
Les membres du CRDH étudient le développement, de la petite enfance
à la vieillesse. Notre principal objectif est d’examiner l’adaptation de
l’individu et de sa famille lors des principales transitions développementales. Notre programme de recherche se consacre, d’une part, à l’acquisition et au maintien des compétences humaines tout au long de la vie
et, d’autre part, aux facteurs environnementaux et sociaux qui permettent à l’individu de bien utiliser ces compétences pour faire face aux
défis successifs qui accompagnent les transitions développementales.
Les assises théoriques et méthodologiques de notre approche relèvent
des sciences sociales et des sciences de la vie. Cette perspective intègre
les modèles et les méthodes puisées dans des disciplines connexes en
santé et en sciences sociales et neurologiques. Afin d’avoir l’approche
la plus innovatrice et la plus globale possible, CRDH intègre les forces
uniques et complémentaires de chercheurs en psychologie, sociologie,
sciences de l’éducation, géographie, sciences politiques, sciences de la
décision et sciences de l’exercice.
We include normative, atypical, and clinical populations within our
research program. Each distinct group can contribute to our understanding of specific developmental, health, and policy issues, including
population needs and potential solutions. Because basic competencies
and adaptations to successive transitions affect future developmental
outcomes, we take a life-course approach to understanding and studying development. Due to the complexity of the issues, we have intensified our cross-disciplinary approach to the specific areas of transition
within our research program. Our methods are integrated from across
disciplines, in order to have the most innovative and comprehensive
approach possible. Accordingly, the development and application of
innovative methods is one of the basic research priorities of our program. Health, education, and social policy in relation to developmental
transitions is integrated within each axis, enabling us to integrate policy
needs and implications within each of our research and dissemination
programs. The specific axes of our research program are described in
the following pages.
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Notre programme de recherche inclut des populations normatives aussi bien qu’atypiques et cliniques, car chacun de ces groupes contribue, à
sa façon, à notre compréhension des problématiques liées au développement, à la santé et aux politiques, y compris les besoins des populations et les solutions possibles. Parce que les compétences de base et
l’adaptation aux diverses transitions successives ont des répercussions
sur le développement ultérieur, notre programme couvre tous les cycles
de vie. Étant donnée la complexité des problématiques, nous avons
intensifié notre approche interdisciplinaire face aux diverses transitions
qui font l’objet de notre programme de recherche. Nos méthodologies
intégrées recoupent diverses disciplines pour arriver à une approche
qui soit la plus innovatrice et la plus globale possible. En fait, l’élaboration et l’application de méthodes novatrices constituent l’une de
nos priorités. Nous intégrons les problématiques en matière de santé,
d’éducation et de politiques à l’intérieur de chaque axe de recherche,
afin d’inclure les besoins en matière de politiques et leurs implications
dans chacun de nos programmes de recherche et de dissémination. Les
descriptions de chacun de nos axes de recherche sont dévoilées dans
les pages suivantes.
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Axes
Axes
Infancy and Early Childhood
Enfance
Acquiring basic skills and entering the social world
Acquisition des habiletés de base pour s’intégrer au monde social
Our general goal is to identify the risk and protective factors that influence children’s development of essential skills and abilities in the years leading up to the critical transition
into school. Our current research projects focus on, (a) learning basic skills and interpersonal competencies, (b) temperament, disposition, and individual vulnerability, (c) environmental and socioeconomic factors, community and neighborhood effects on early
development and health, (d) school (e.g., classroom composition and environment)
and neighborhood effects on school adjustment and achievement, (e) understanding
and overcoming the inequities faced by children within socially vulnerable groups (e.g.,
economically disadvantaged, low birthweight, cultural minorities).
Notre objectif général est d’identifier les facteurs de risque et de protection qui contribuent au développement des aptitudes et des habiletés essentielles pendant les années qui mènent à l’importante transition
vers l’école. Nos projets actuels portent sur: a) l’acquisition des habiletés et des compétences interpersonnelles de base; b) les variations de tempérament, la disposition et les vulnérabilités personnelles; c) les effets des facteurs environnementaux et socio-économiques, et ceux de la communauté où habite l’enfant,
sur son développement et sa santé pendant ses premières années; d) l’école (par ex. composition de la
classe et environnement scolaire) et le quartier comme facteurs d’adaptation et de rendement scolaire; et
e) la compréhension et la remédiation des inégalités avec lesquelles composent les enfants des groupes
socialement vulnérables (par ex., le désavantage économique, le faible poids à la naissance, les minorités
culturelles).
Members: Aboud, Bouffard, Des Rivieres-Pigeon, Forman, Hastings, Howe, Jacobs, Petrakos, Poulin-Dubois, Ross, Sandberg, Serbin, Stack, Tessier, Weinfeld, Zelazo
Adolescence
Membres : Aboud, Bouffard, DesRivieres-Pigeon, Forman, Hastings, Howe, Jacobs, Petrakos, Poulin-Dubois,
Ross, Sandberg, Serbin, Stack, Tessier, Weinfeld, Zelazo
A period of multiple transitions and challenges
Adolescence
Our main objective is to examine how the key transitions of adolescence (e.g., puberty,
rapid cognitive and physical changes, school transitions, increasing autonomy and
individualization; entering the workforce and accepting new social and family roles) are
affected by the interactions between individual characteristics and the environment,
using an interdisciplinary approach. Ongoing research projects concern (a) genetic
influences on the development of psychopathology in childhood through early adulthood, (b) the effects of behavioural predisposition, family relationships, experience, and
cultural context on healthy adaptation, (c) the effects of neighborhood poverty, racial
inequality, school characteristics and social networks on health outcomes, (d) parental,
peer, and romantic relationships and their subsequent influence on adjustment (e.g.,
school achievement, drug use, delinquency).
Notre objectif principal, ici, est d’identifier comment les transitions clés de l’adolescence (par ex. puberté,
changements cognitifs et physiques rapides, transition scolaire, autonomie et individualisation accrues,
entrée sur le marché du travail, acceptation de nouveaux rôles sociaux et familiaux) sont affectées par les
interactions entre les caractéristiques individuelles et l’environnement, en utilisant une approche multidisciplinaire. Les projets en cours traitent a) des influences génétiques sur l’étiologie de la psychopathologie,
de l’enfance au début de l’âge adulte; b) des effets de la prédisposition comportementale, des relations
familiales, de l’expérience et du contexte culturel sur l’adaptation; c) des effets de la pauvreté du voisinage, des inégalités raciales, des caractéristiques du milieu scolaire sur la santé; et d) des relations avec
les parents et les pairs, des relations amoureuses, et de leur influence sur l’adaptation (par ex. rendement
scolaire, usage de drogues, délinquance).
Members: Abela, Bukowski, Burgos, Doyle, Dugas, Ellenbogen, Etezadi, Hastings, Penhune, Phillips, Serbin, Stack, Schwartzman
Membres : Abela, Bukowski, Burgos, Doyle, Dugas, Ellenbogen, Etezadi, Hastings, Penhune, Phillips, Serbin, Stack, Schwartzman
Parenthood
Parentage
Période où se multiplient transitions et défis
New roles and responsibilities
Nouveaux rôles, nouvelles responsabilités
Our general goal is to identify differences in family structure and child-rearing approaches, and to understand the diversity of parenting strategies used to promote
healthy outcomes in children. We presently focus on the following problems: (a) social
and economic factors that impact family structure, parenting distress, and post-partum
health, (b) the transfer of parenting style from one generation to the next, (c) diverse
family structures (e.g., lesbian, single parent) and influence of immigrant and minority
status on parenting practices, (d) parenting in the context of special populations (e.g.,
very low birthweight infants, low income families, autistic toddlers, aggressive or withdrawn children).
Notre objectif général est d’identifier les différences dans la structure familiale et les approches pour
élever les enfants pour mieux comprendre la diversité des stratégies de parentage utilisées pour promouvoir la santé chez les enfants. Nos travaux actuels portent sur les différents problèmes: a) les facteurs
sociaux et économiques qui affectent la structure familiale, la détresse parentale et la santé post-partum;
b) le transfert de style parental d’une génération à l’autre; c) l’influences de certaines structures familiales
(par ex. parents lesbiennes, monoparentalité) et celles du statu d’immigrant, de groupe minoritaire sur les
pratiques parentales; d) le parentage chez les populations spéciales (par ex. enfants de faible poids à la
naissance, enfants autistiques, enfants agressifs-renfermés, familles à faible revenu).
Members: Abela, Chamberland, Des Rivieres-Pigeon, Doyle, Forman, Hastings, Howe,
Julien, Petrakos, Sandberg, Scala, Schwartzman, Serbin, Stack, Weinfeld
(continued, page 18)
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Membres : Abela, Chamberland, DesRivieres-Pigeon, Doyle, Forman, Hastings, Howe, Julien, Petrakos,
Sandberg, Scala, Schwartzman, Serbin, Stack, Weinfeld
(suite, page 19)
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Axes
(continued from page 16)
Healthy Aging
Axes
(suite de la page 17)
Vieillissement en santé
Managing loss and maintaining quality of life
Gestion des pertes et maintien de la qualité de vie
This axis focuses on identifying specific losses, potentially positive or negative outcomes, and adaptive processes that seniors use to manage late-life transitions. Our
current projects focus on (a) how seniors use active strategies (e.g., use of external support structures) versus internal adjustments (e.g., downscaling, re-prioritizing) to handle
losses, (b) how societal factors (e.g., social networks, health care institutions) facilitate
successful outcomes, (c) lifestyle and individual factors that lead to smooth retirement
transition, (d) the epidemiological examination of risk factors for Alzheimer’s disease,
vascular-related dementias, and depression, (e) the identification of normative patterns
of cognitive, sensorimotor, and neuronal decline in healthy seniors.
Cet axe préoccupe d’identifier les pertes précises, les issues négatives comme positives et les processus
d’adaptation qu’utilisent les personnes âgées pour gérer les dernières transitions de la vie. Notre point de
mire ici est: a) de voir comment les séniors utilisent des stratégies actives (structures externes de soutien)
par opposition à des adaptations internes (par ex. diminution, redéfinition des priorités) pour gérer les
pertes; b) de cerner comment les nouveaux facteurs sociétaux (par ex. les réseaux sociaux, les institutions
de soins de santé) facilitent le vécu; c) d’identifier le style de vie et les facteurs individuels qui mènent à
une transition harmonieuse vers la retraite; l’examen épidémiologique des facteurs de risque de la maladie
d’Alzheimer, des démences reliées au système vasculaire et la dépression; et e) l’identification des modes
normatifs de déclins cognitifs, sensorimoteurs et neuronaux chez les personnes âgées en santé.
Members: Conway, DeMont, Etezadi, Fuhrer, Li, Penhune, Phillips, Pushkar, Ross,
Schwartzman, Wrosch
Membres : Conway, DeMont, Etezadi, Fuhrer, Li, Penhune, Phillips, Pushkar, Ross, Schwartzman, Wrosch
Methodology
L’apport d’innovations en recherche sur le développement humain
Bringing innovation to research in human development
Our researchers employ a diverse range of innovative methodologies, both in terms of
measurement (e.g., eye movements, brain activity, stress hormones, motor skills) and
data analyses (e.g., Hierarchical Linear Modeling, Growth Curve Analysis). CRDH has
significant strengths in the analysis of longitudinal data sets, neighborhood effects, and
epidemiological data. The Centre’s multidisciplinary composition facilitates the emergence of new applications of these cutting-edge research methods in the context of
developmental phenomena.
Méthodologie
Nos chercheurs ont recours à une panoplie de méthodologies novatrices, tant sur le plan de la mesure (p.
ex. mouvements oculaires, activité cérébrale, hormones liées au stress, habiletés motrices) que sur celui de
l’analyse (p. ex. modélisation linéaire hiérarchique [HLM], analyse des courbes de croissance). Le CRDH est
particulièrement versé en ce qui touche aux analyses de banques de données longitudinales, à celles des
caractéristiques du voisinage et celles des données épidémiologiques. La composition multidisciplinaire
du Centre facilite l’émergence de nouvelles applications à ces méthodes de pointe dans le contexte des
phénomènes liés au développement.
Membres : Tous les membres
Members: All Members
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Part Two - Members
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Members
Membres
T
he 35 members of CRDH comprise an extraordinary group of
researchers, ranging in experience from outstanding young
faculty to senior scientists who have achieved world-recognition for their research accomplishments and unique expertise. Each of our members holds research grants, and reviews
regularly for scientific journals and funding agencies, several serving
in senior editorial positions or as members of standing review committees for provincial, federal, or US funding agencies. Many of our current
members play leadership roles in the direction of research networks
in the areas of health, education, and social services and also serve in
ongoing research advisory roles to public policy and service agencies.
Ten of our members currently hold research chairs or special research
awards, funded by Concordia (Bukowski, Serbin), McGill (Abela, Weinfeld), the Canada Research Chairs program (Ellenbogen, Forman), and
other external funding agencies (CIHR/SSHRC, Phillips, Wrosch; CIHR,
Dugas, Ross).
Each of our members
holds research grants,
and reviews regularly
for scientific journals and
funding agencies, several
serving in senior editorial
positions or as members
of standing review
committees for provincial,
federal, or US funding
agencies.
L
es 35 membres du CRDH forment un groupe remarquable de
chercheurs, allant de jeunes professeurs exceptionnels à des
scientifiques chevronnés qui se sont taillés une réputation
mondiale par leurs réalisations et leur expertise unique. Chaque membre détient une ou plusieurs subventions et siège régulièrement sur des comités d’évaluation de revues scientifiques (dont
plusieurs à titre d’éditeurs seniors) ou sur les comités d’agences subventionnaires québécoises, fédérales ou américaines. Un grand nombre
de nos membres jouent des rôles clés à la tête de réseaux de recherche
dans les domaines de la santé, de l’éducation et des services sociaux,
en plus d’agir à titre de consultants auprès d’organismes de politiques
et de services publiques. De plus, dix de nos membres détiennent des
chaires de recherche ou ont reçu des bourses spéciales de recherche
subventionnées par Concordia (Bukowski, Serbin); par McGill (Abela,
Weinfeld); par le Programme canadien des chaires de recherche (Ellenbogen, Forman); et d’autres agences subventionnaires (IRSC/CRSHC :
Phillips, Wrosch; IRSC : Dugas, Ross).
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CRDH Members
Membres du CRDH
ABELA, John; Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, McGill University
ABOUD, Frances; Professor, Department of Psychology, McGill University
BOUFFARD, Thérèse; Professeure titulaire, Département de psychologie, Université du
Québec à Montréal
BUKOWSKI, William; Professor, Department of Psychology, Concordia University
BURGOS, Giovani; Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, McGill University
CHAMBERLAND, Line; Enseignement, Département de sciences sociales, Collège de
Maisonneuve
CONWAY, Michael; Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, Concordia University
DEMONT, Richard; Assistant Professor, Department of Exercise Science, Concordia
University
DES RIVIERES-PIGEON, Catherine; Professeure, Département de sociologie, Université
du Québec à Montréal
DOYLE, Anna-Beth; Professor, Department of Psychology, Concordia University
DUGAS, Michel; Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, Concordia University
ELLENBOGEN, Mark; Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Concordia University
ETEZADI, Jamshid; Associate Professor, Department of Dec. Science & MIS, Concordia
University
FORMAN, David; Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Concordia University
FUHRER, Rebecca; Professor & Chair, Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics & Occupational Health, McGill University
HASTINGS, Paul; Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, Concordia University
HOWE, Nina; Professor, Department of Education, Concordia University
JACOBS, Ellen; Professor & Chair, Department of Education, Concordia University
JULIEN, Danielle; Professeure titulaire, Département de psychologie, Université du
Québec à Montréal
LI, Karen; Associate Director of CRDH & Associate Professor, Department of Psychology,
Concordia University
PENHUNE, Virginia; Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, Concordia University
PETRAKOS, Hariclia; Assistant Professor, Department of Education, Concordia University
PHILLIPS, Natalie; Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, Concordia University
POULIN-DUBOIS, Diane; Professor, Department of Psychology, Concordia University
PUSHKAR, Dolores; Professor, Department of Psychology, Concordia University
ROSS, Nancy; Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, McGill University
SANDBERG, John; Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, MGill University
SCALA, Francesca; Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Concordia
University
SCHWARTZMAN, Alex; Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Department of Psychology,
Concordia University
SERBIN, Lisa; Director of CRDH & Professor, Department of Psychology, Concordia
University
STACK, Dale; Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, Concordia University
TESSIER, Réjean; Professeur titulaire, École de psychologie, Université Laval
WEINFELD, Morton; Professor & Chair, Department of Sociology, McGill University
WROSCH, Carsten; Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Concordia University
ZELAZO, Philip; Professor, Department of Psychology, McGill University
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CRDH International
Members
BOURQUE, Paul; Director, School of Psychology, University of Moncton (New Brunswick,
Canada)
COPLAN, Robert; Department of Psychology, Carleton University (Ontario, Canada)
FELDMAN, Maurice; Director, Department of Child and Youth Studies, Brock University
(Ontario, Canada)
FOGEL, Alan; Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Utah (Utah, USA)
FORBES, James; Assistant Professor of Psychology, Department of Psychology and Sociology, Angelo State University (Texas, USA)
FRANK, Ilana; Faculty of Education, Haifa University (Haifa, Israel)
GEE, Gilbert; Assistant Professor, Department of Health Behavior and Health Education,
The University of Michigan School of Public Health (Michigan, USA)
HODGINS, Sheilagh; University College of London (England, UK)
KABANI, Noor Jehan; University of Toronto (Ontario, Canada)
KOTZ, Sonja A.; Max-Planck-Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience (Germany)
LEMMEL, David; Harvard Graduate School of Education, Post-Doctoral Fellow - Race,
Culture & Education, Harvard University (Massachusetts, USA)
MILLS, Rosemary; Associate Professor, Department of Family Studies, University of
Manitoba (Manitoba, Canada)
MUIR, Darwin; Emeritus Professor, Department of Psychology, Queen’s University (Ontario, Canada)
RUBIN, Kenneth; Professor & Director, Center for Children, Relationship and Culture,
Department of Human Develoment, University of Maryland (Maryland, USA)
ULLISPERGER, Markus; Max-Planck-Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience (Germany)
VON HECKER, Ulrich; School of Psychology, Cardiff University (Wales, UK)
ZAHN-WAXLER, Carolyn; Senior Scientist, Developmental Psychopathology, NIMH
(Maryland, USA) & Department of Psychology, University of Wisconsin (Wisconsin, USA)
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Jamshid Etezadi
Carsten Wrosch
M
any older adults live longer than ever before. However, despite the increase in
longevity, older adults are likely to experience common age-related challenges
that can influence their psychological and physical health. For example, health
declines are common and often inevitable in old age. Moreover, the experience of
chronic health threats (e.g., arthritis) may lead to functional disabilities (e.g., constraints
in basic activities of daily living) and acute physical symptoms (e.g., pain). Psychological
challenges also have the potential to compromise an older person’s quality of life. For
example, research shows that up to 90% of older adults experience psychological challenges associated with regret of major life decisions. Importantly, both the occurrence
of health threats and the experience of regret have been shown to increase older adults’
risk of experiencing depressive symptoms. In addition, several studies have demonstrated that depression can adversely affect a person’s biological health (e.g., cortisol
dysregulation) and physical health.
Considering these negative consequences of common age–related challenges on older
adults’ health, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) recently awarded a New
Investigator Award to CRDH Researcher, Dr. Carsten Wrosch (Psychology; Concordia University). Dr. Wrosch’s application received the top ranking in CIHR open competition in
research on aging and was further awarded with the CIHR IA Recognition Prize in Research
in Aging. These awards will support his research program, which is aimed at identifying
protective factors involved in effective self-regulation of health threats and life regrets.
Dr. Wrosch’s research and theories predict that older adults can adaptively manage the
occurrence of challenges. For example, they can engage in overcoming a challenge and
thereby prevent possible negative consequences on their psychological and physical
health. In addition, older adults can engage in self-protective processes by adjusting
their goals. This alternative may be adaptive especially when it becomes more difficult to
pursue the original goals.
To test the model’s basic principles, Dr. Wrosch received operating funding from CIHR
in 2003 and began to study a heterogeneous sample of 215 older adults as part of the
Montreal Aging and Health Study. Analyses from the first wave of the study demonstrated meaningful associations between health threats, life regrets, depressive symptoms,
and diurnal cortisol secretion. For example, the experience of intense regret was shown
to be associated with higher levels of diurnal cortisol secretion. In addition, adaptive
self-regulation buffered the effects of daily physical symptoms on daily depressive
symptoms. Finally, the findings indicated that the beneficial emotional consequences of
adaptive self-regulation further reduced the adverse effects of physical threats on older
adults’ diurnal cortisol secretion.
Given these promising findings and the possibility that cortisol dysregulation may
represent early manifestations of later health problems, Dr. Wrosch’s research will follow
the study’s participants over the next 5 years and examine long-term effects of adaptive
self-regulation on indicators of older adults’ mental and physical health. It is expected
that the results of this research program will contribute to understanding pathways to
psychological, biological, and physical health in the elderly, and are applicable to developing intervention techniques aimed at improving older adults’ quality of life.
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M
y primary research interest is methodological development with my present
focus being in two areas: preference elicitation/utility assessment and structural
equation modeling (SEM), particularly non-linear relations. The utility assessment method is applied mainly to the development of e-Negotiation systems while
SEM is used for data analysis issues that are particularly relevant to the study of human
development. My affiliation with the CRDH provides many opportunities for complex
data analysis, particularly in the area of aging. Recently, because of my involvement in
a new grant (featured in the Research sections of this report; Internalizing Problems),
I have also become involved in research issues pertinent to adolescent development.
Because of my affiliation with the business school and my applied approach to problem
solving, I try to provide a practical and business-like application for all of our research
findings, such that they may influence or alter social policies. Conversely, since the
Centre’s activities cover various stages of human development, collaborating within the
CRDH and attending its colloquia not only broadens my world view but also affords me a
rich opportunity to engage in complex research methodologies.
Collaboration with researchers in different fields can complement our expertise and
permit us to study complex research issues in a more holistic manner, thus providing
a thorough and complete view of the research problem along with superior solutions
or recommendations. One such collaboration at CRDH is in the aging research project,
in which researchers are looking into the impact of aging from different perspectives,
focusing on how to improve the quality of life of older adults. Advanced quantitative
methods like SEM have been used to draw a complete picture of this important stage
of development. Similar thinking and methodology has also been used to study ‘at risk’
children with the intention of flagging them and perhaps applying preventative measures before they reach adulthood.
I feel that my collaboration with CRDH members has enabled me to introduce a degree
of creativity into the research, as many of the projects are done longitudinally using
complex methodologies. This provides an opportunity to both design and test multilayered methodologies, as well as to see their application for future endeavors. We have
already led a major project that involved working in partnership within various disciplines and academic institutions. We have recently completed collecting the first wave
of data for a longitudinal study on aging (CIHR Operating Grant), and are developing two
general models examining continuity and satisfaction in retirement which are expected
to result in a number of research journal and conference publications.
Complex methodologies generally require advancement in the existing methods. Entering uncharted territories has been both a great pleasure and challenge for all of us at
CRDH. Indeed, over the last few years, I have put significant effort into helping the centre provide an excellent opportunity for the graduate students to experience both the
joy of research and the hard work that goes into getting one paper published. Students
of the John Molson School of Business (JMSB) have also benefited from being exposed
to some fundamental issues in developmental science and being engaged in a multidisciplinary approach to the study of research phenomenon.
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Part Three - Research
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Researchers
Chercheurs
S
ince the funding of CRDH under the new Regroupements
Statégiques program in 2004, a large number of new research
collaborations have resulted in an enormous growth at CRDH.
In 2005-2006, CRDH Researchers held 105 grants, corresponding to $ 9,626,282 of research funds. Many of these
projects were new initiatives from teams composed of faculty affiliated
to psychology, sociology, exercise science, public health, neurosciences,
gerontology, psychiatry, education, and political science departments
from across Québec and Canada.
D
epuis l’obtention de la subvention sous le programme des
Regroupements stratégiques, en 2004, un grand nombre
de nouvelles collaborations de recherche ont vu le jour, ce
qui a entraîné une croissance phénoménale des subventions de recherche obtenues sous la bannière du CRDH. En
2005-2006, les chercheurs du CRDH ont reçu 105 subventions, pour
un total de 9 626 282 $. Nombre de ces projets émanaient d’initiatives prises par des équipes composées de professeurs provenant d’un
peu partout au Québec et au Canada, dans les départements suivants :
psychologie, sociologie, sciences de l’exercice, santé publique, sciences
neurologiques, gérontologie, psychiatrie, éducation, sciences politiques.
In 2005-2006, CRDH
Researchers held 105 grants,
corresponding to $ 9,626,282
of research funds.
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Subventions
2005-2006
Selected Grants
2005-2006
Abela, J., McWhinnie, C.M., & Rashid, T. Fostering the development of strengths and
values in Canadian and Chinese youth. POD; 2004-2006.
Ellenbogen, M. Une étude longitudinale du fonctionnement social chez des adoloscents à risque. FQRSC; 2005-2008.
Aboud, F.E. Impact of Succeed Program. Save the Children; 2005-2008.
Ellenbogen, M., Hodgins, S., Walker, C.D., & Walker, E. A prospective study of stress and
basal cortisol levels in the offspring of parents with bipolar disorder. CIHR; 2005-2008.
Alison, P. & Fuhrer, R. The life course approach to the aetiology of squamous cell carcinoma in the upper aerodigestive tract. CIHR; 2004-2007.
Forest, J.C., Tessier, R., Giguère, Y., Lafond, J., Moutquin, J.M., & Dodds, L. Pregnancy
disorders and impact on child development and well-being. CIHR; 2005-2010.
Barr, R. Young, S., & Zelazo, P.R. Feeding enhancement of memory in normal human
newborns. CIHR; 2001-2006.
Forest, J-C. & Tessier, R. Réseau de recherche sur le développement, la santé et le bienêtre de l’enfant. FRSQ/FQRSC; 2001-2007.
Bouffard, T. & Vezeau, C. Les biais dans l’évaluation de ses competences. CRSH; 20042007.
Forman, D. Laboratory for the study of children’s collaborative motivation and social
development. CFI; 2004-2006.
Bukowski, W., Hastings, P., & Brendgen, R.M. Heart, soul, mind, and body: Mechanisms
of defence and psycho-social outcome in school-age children. SSHRC; 2003-2006.
Forman, D. Faculty Research Development Award. Concordia University, Arts and Science; 2004-2006.
Bukowski, W., Wrosch, C., & Burgos, G. La motivation à la réussite des enfants en fonction de la participation des parents à des jeux hasard et en fonction des caractéristiques
de vie: Un modèle sociocultural. FQRSC; 2004-2006.
Forman, D. Social determinants of children’s imitation. SSHRC; 2005-2008.
Fuhrer, R. International Centre for the Comparative Study of Social Environments and
Health. Max Bell Foundation; 2004-2007.
Bukowski, W., Waldman, I., Hoza, B., Vitaro, F., Brendgen, R.M., & Bagwell, C. Gene environment correlations and interactions and the prediction of internalizing and externalizing problems in childhood and adulthood. CIHR; 2003-2007.
Other ($369,025)
Chamberland, L. & Julien, D. Dynamiques d’exclusion et stratégies d’adaptation des
travailleurs gais et des travailleuses lesbiennes dans leur milieu de travail. FQRSC; 20032006.
Chouinard, R., Bouffard, T., Janocs, M., & Bowen, F. Les attitudes des enseignants et leurs
practiques pédagogiques selon le statu socioéconomique des élèves et leur impact sur
la motivation, l’adaptation sociale et le rendement scolaire. FQRSC; 2005-2008.
Doyle, A.B. & Markiewicz, D. A longitudinal study of parenting, attachment, and adolescent coping and adjustment. SSHRC; 2004-2008.
Dugas, M. Cognitive-behavioral therapy and extended-release venlafaxine in the treatment of generalized anxiety disorder: Outcomes and processes. CIHR; 2003-2008.
Dugas, M.J., Phillips, N.A., & Radomsky, A.S. Intolerance of uncertainty and fear of anxiety in generalized anxiety disorder: Cognitive processing in non-clinical samples. CIHR;
2004-2007.
Research Dollars
Chamberland, L., Julien, D., & Legault, M-J. Homosexualité et environnement de travail:
L’intégration en emploi des travailleuses lesbiennes salaries. SSHRC; 2003-2006.
FRSQ ($253,492)
FQRSC ($789,064)
Health Canada
($907,053)
SSHRC ($1,798,673)
NSERC ($68,800)
VRQ ($601,350)
CFI ($212,301)
Ellenbogen, M. Faculty Research Development Award. Concordia University, Arts and
Science; 2004-2006.
Ellenbogen, M. Canada Research Chair. SSHRC; 2004-2009.
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CIHR ($4,626,525)
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Selected Grants
2005-2006
Goldner, E. & Fuhrer, R. Building capacity in mental health and addictions services and
policy research. CIHR; 2003-2008.
Hastings, P. Parents prevention of aggressive development in children through the
socialization of empathic responsiveness. CIHR; 2004-2009.
Hodgins, S., Cyr, F., Ellenbogen, M., Serbin, L. Stack, D., & Walker, C-D. A prospective
longitudinal three generation investigation of the development of major affective disorders. CIHR; 2002-2007.
Howe, N. Intersubjectivity: The case of sibling teaching. SSHRC: 2004-2007.
Jacobs, E. & Howe, N. Canadian Child Care Curriculum Study. HRDC; 2003-2006.
Julien, D. Identité sexuelle et adaptation chez les enfants de familles homoparentales et
hétéroparentales. SSHRC; 2007-2007.
Julien, D., Chamberland, L., Dorais, M., & Ryan, W. Variabilité de l’expérience parentale
chez les pères gais. FQRSC; 2004-2006.
Julien, D., Ryan, B., Brotman, S., Chamberland, L., Dorais, M., Frank, B., Hastings, P., Lévy,
J., Morrison, M., Otis, J., Peterkin, A., Ristock, J., Ross, L., & Smith, M. Homosexualités,
identités/affirmations culturelles, santé/vulnérabilité. FQRSC; 2004-2006.
Li, K. Attentional control of sequential action in adulthood and aging. NSERC; 20052010.
Li, K. & Penhune, V. Age differences in the role of attention in motor learning, sequencing, and locomotion using dual-task and cognitive neuroimaging methods. CIHR;
2004-2007.
Marchand, A., Reinharz, D., Stravynski, A., Dugas, M.J., Dupuis, G., Landry, P., & O’Connor,
K. Évaluation du rapport coût/efficacité de la thérapie cognitivo-comportementale
pour les troubles anxieux. CIHR; 2003-2008.
Meaney, M. & Fuhrer, R. Genes, environment and health training program. CIHR; 20032008.
Mills, R., Hastings, P.D., Serbin, L.A., Abela, J.R., Coplan, R., Cox, B.J., Elgar, F.J., Etezadi,
J., Freeman, W., Schwartzman, A.E., & Stack, D.M. Harnessing and extending Canadian
developmental trajectories research on early-emerging internalizing problems. CIHR;
2005-2010.
Mills, R., Serbin, L.A., & Stack, D. Harnessing Canadian development and intervention
research to address early emerging internalizing problems. CIHR; 2004-2009.
Moss, E., Tarabulsy, G., Tessier, R., & Bernier, A. Les relations d’attachement dans le développement de l’enfant. FQRSC; 2004-2008.
Nadeau, L. & Tessier, R. Adjustement social d’enfants atteints de déficience motrice
cérébrale (DMC) inclus en class régulière. SSHRC; 2005-2007.
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Subventions
2005-2006
Paradis, G., Ross, N.A., & Fuhrer, R. et al. Programme de formation transdisciplinaire
en recherche en sante publique et en santé des populations: Accroître la capacité de
recherche et d’action dans le systeme de santé publique au Canada. CIHR; 2003-2009.
Penhune, V. Neural and developmental bases of human motor learning. FRSQ; 20052007.
Penhune, V. Developmental contributions to human motor skill learning. NSERC; 20052010.
Penhune, V. & Li, K. Laboratory for motor and cognitive performance across the
lifespan. CFI; 2004-2007.
Penhune, V. & Li, K. Laboratory for motor and cognitive performance across the
lifespan. CFI; 2002-2007.
Petrakos, H. A 2-year study of the psycho-social and contextual factors associated with
children’s early transitions to school. SSHRC; 2005-2007.
Petrakos, H. The impact of family and school collaborative efforts on children’s academic, social and behavioural functioning. FQRSC; 2004-2007.
Phillips, N.A., Gagné, J.-P., & Saumier, D. Perceptual and cognitive mechanisms of audiovisual speech perception in aging. CIHR; 2005-2006.
Phillips, N.A., Klein, D., Genesee, & Titone, D. Language processing in young and old
bilingual and monolingual adults. CRLMB; 2005-2006.
Poulin-Dubois, D. Infant conceptual categorization: The roles of featural and dynamic
cues. NSERC; 2003-2007.
Poulin-Dubois, D. From a “theory of action” to a “theory of mind”: Mental attributions to
human and non-human agents in normal and autistic children. SSHRC; 2005-2008.
Pushkar, D., Chaikelson, J., Conway, M., Etezadi, J., Giannopoulos, C., Li, K., & Wrosch, C.
Reconstructing life after employment: Transition to retirement. CIHR; 2004-2009.
Radomsky, A.S. & Dugas, M.J. Experimental analyses of compulsive checking in obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). CIHR; 2003-2006.
Rinaldi, C. & Howe, N. Mutuality in parent-child interactions: The emergence of emotion
regulation strategies and social competence in early childhood. SSHRC; 2005-2008.
Robaey, P., Hastings, P + 11 others. Inattention, impulsiveness and restlessness in childhood: Heritability, genetics, neuropsychology and psychophysiology (KIDNET). CIHR;
2002-2007.
Ross, N. Multilevel patterns and processes of health in Canada. CIHR (Operating); 20022007.
Ross, N. Multilevel patterns and processes of health in Canada. CIHR (New Investigator);
2002-2007.
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Selected Grants
2005-2006
Ross, N. Community and health in Québec. FRSQ (Nouveau chercheur); 2002-2006.
Ross, N. Community and health in Québec. FRSQ (Equipement); 2002-2006.
Ross, N., Dunn, J., Berthelot, Lynch, et al. Metropolitan socioeconomic inequality and
population health.
CIHR; 2001-2006.
Ross, N., Gilliand, J., Deverensky, J.L. et al. Urban opportunity structures for youth gambling. FQRSC; 2002-2006.
Rousseau, C., Petrakos, H., Ghosh, R., Lashley, M., Guzder, J., Montgomery, C., & Measham, T. Ecoles, culture et santé mental: Une articulation à repenser dans une société en
transformation. FRSQ; 2005-2009.
Subventions
2005-2006
Tessier, R., Nadeau, L., & Lefebvre, F. Impact des déterminants familiaux et biomédicaux
sur la préparation à l’école et l’intégration scolaire des enfants extrêmement prématurés. SSHRC; 2004-2007.
Tremblay, R., Bukowski, W., Doyle, A.B., Howe, N., Tessier, O., + 11 others. Étude longitudinale et expérimentale du développement des enfants de la naissance à l’adolescence
du Québec. SSHRC; 2001-2006.
Tremblay, R., & Howe, N., et al. Centre of Excellence for Early Child Development. Health
Canada; 2000-2006.
Trudeau, N., Poulin-Dubois, D., Frank, I., & Sutton, A. Normalisation et validation de la
version québécoise des MacArthur Communicative Development Inventories (MCDI).
CLLRN; 2005-2006.
Sandberg, J. Children’s time use and the construction of self. SSHRC; 2004-2007.
Weisz, G. & Fuhrer, R. Managing differences: The institutions of medical objectivity,
1930-2000. SSHRC; 2003-2006.
Scala, F. The politics and regulation of human biotechnology: Cases from Canada, Sweden and Norway. CIHR (Nouveau Chercheur); 2003-2006.
Willms, D., Ross, N., et al. Raising and leveling the bar: A collaborative research initiative
on children’s learning, behaviour and health outcomes. CIHR; 2003-2006.
Schneider, B., Li, K., Phillips, N., et al. Strategic research training program in communication and social interaction in healthy aging. CIHR; 2002-2008.
Wrosch, C. & Gagné, M. What facilitates family business transmission? The adaptive
roles of goal adjustment and autonomous motivation. SSHRC; 2003-2006.
Schwartzman, A.E., Abrahamowicz, M., Serbin, L., Stack, D., Cote, G., Hodgins, S., Ledingham, J., & Tamblyn, R. Psychosocial determinants of health in a high-risk sample: A
longitudinal study. CIHR; 2003-2006.
Wrosch, C., Miller, G., & Lupien, S. Self regulation of health challenges in old age: Relations to well-being and stress. CIHR; 2003-2006.
Schwartzman, K. & Ross, N.A. TB in Montreal: Where is it? CIHR; 2002-2007.
Serbin, L.A., Bukowski, W., Stack, D.A., Burgos, G., & Petrakos, H. La transition du
primaire au secondaire: Trajectoires de succès chez les population vulnérables. FQRSC;
2004-2007.
Serbin, L. et al. Centre de recherche en développement humain. FQRSC-Regroupement
Stratégique; 2004-2010.
Serbin, L.A. & Stack, D. Navigating the transition to adolescence: Predicting continuity versus discontinuity of risk within a disadvantaged, longitudinal sample of children.
SSHRC; 2005-2008.
Stack, D., Serbin, L., Hastings, P., Phillips, N., Poulin-Dubois, D., & Schwartzman, A. Development of emotional competence: Innovative methodologies and focused applications. FQRSC; 2004-2008.
Stack, D. & Serbin, L. Intergenerational trajectories of childhood aggression: A longitudinal study of two high-risk samples. SSHRC; 2004-2007.
Tannenbaum, C., Serbin, L.A., Schwartzman, A.E., et al. Psychotropic drug use as a gender-sensitive marker of emotional health for women. Health Canada; 2004-2006.
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Internalization Problems
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This team’s objective is to investigate the interplay
between biological, psychosocial, and environmental
influences, and determine how the interactions among
these factors direct developmental trajectories toward
anxiety and/or depression, or toward healthy adaptation
in childhood.
Internalization
Problems
Harnessing and Extending Canadian Developmental Trajectories Research on EarlyEmerging Internalizing Problems
I
n 2005, several CRDH members and their colleagues were awarded a major new
research grant by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (Institute of Human
Development, Child and Youth Health), to conduct an innovative investigation of
children’s risk for development of internalizing problems, specifically anxiety and
depression. This team is led by CRDH International Member, Dr. Rosemary Mills
(University of Manitoba), and involves CRDH Members Paul Hastings, Lisa Serbin, Dale
Stack, Jamshid Etezadi, John Abela, and Alex Schwartzman, and CRDH International
Member Dr. Robert Coplan (Carleton University). Drs. Mills, Hastings, and Serbin recognized that, in each of their three independent studies of early childhood development,
they had been collecting complementary measures of child and family functioning at
the same points of development. Their measures of young children’s physiology and
temperament, parental well-being and socialization practices, and family circumstances
were ideal for evaluating the conditions contributing to children’s future development
of anxiety and depression. These internalizing problems (IP) are the most common
class of mental health problems in children, affecting 14% to 18% of young people.
Building effective new means of helping anxious and depressed children will require
efforts to bridge large-sample research with the intensive, detailed measures obtained
in more focused studies.
This team’s objective is to investigate the interplay between biological, psychosocial,
and environmental influences, and determine how the interactions among these factors direct developmental trajectories toward anxiety and/or depression, or toward
healthy adaptation in childhood. Progress toward this goal is being made by pooling
the three prospective longitudinal samples, creating a combined sample of more than
450 families, and combining the expertise of researchers with diverse skills and specializations, to forge an inter-institutional and multi-disciplinary environment for training
excellent new researchers to become the next generation of developmental scientists. The model guiding our perspective on likely pathways to internalizing problems
suggests that IP most likely originate from the interactive effects of high physiological
reactivity to stress, inhibited temperament, experiences of parental overcontrol, and
exposure to stressful familial, economic and social disadvantages. Depending on how
risk and protective factors interact, there will be many different pathways, some leading
to various forms of IPs and others leading away from problems and toward health.
In the first year of collaborative activity, the team members have integrated the existing databases of child, parent and family variables, and begun to test the relations that
these factors have to early-emerging IPs. The three samples are continuing to be followed prospectively, providing glimpses of how the children are faring as they proceed
through elementary school. With the team’s collaborative efforts continuing for the next
four years, we can expect to learn many valuable new insights that will lead to new treatments for the common and serious problems of childhood anxiety and depression.
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Generalized Anxiety Disorder
With the goal of improving the efficacy of our treatment,
we are investigating biases in the way individuals with
GAD process information from their environment.
Generalized Anxiety
Disorder
Intolerance of uncertainty and fear of anxiety in generalized anxiety disorder : Cognitive processing in nonclinical and clinical samples
Generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) is a condition characterized by chronic and excessive worry and anxiety. Although important advances have been made in the conceptualization and treatment of generalized anxiety disorder (GAD), it remains one of the
most intractable anxiety disorders. Over the past decade, our research team (Dr. Michel
Dugas and colleagues from Concordia and Université Laval) has developed a cognitive
model and treatment for GAD that primarily focuses on its hallmark feature, pathological worry. In our model, intolerance of uncertainty (IU) is considered a cognitive risk
factor for the development and maintenance of GAD. Recent findings suggest that IU
leads to biases in the processing of ambiguous information which in turn contributes
to the symptoms of GAD. Given that numerous studies suggest that the well-established avoidant function of worry is linked to fear of anxiety (FA), we have now turned
our attention to the role of FA in worry and GAD. The primary objective of our current
research is to examine the combined effects of IU and FA on cognitive processing and
GAD worry.
With the goal of improving the efficacy of our treatment, we are investigating biases in
the way individuals with GAD process information from their environment. This investigation, which is funded by CIHR, uses a series of computer tasks to examine biases
in attention (e.g., paying more attention to ambiguous information than to neutral
information) and appraisal (e.g., making more threatening appraisals of ambiguous information) in individuals seeking help for GAD at the Anxiety Disorders Clinic at SacréCoeur Hospital of Montreal. Co-investigators include CRDH member Dr. Natalie Phillips
(Concordia University, Psychology), and Dr. Adam Radomsky (Concordia University,
Psychologyy). In the study, we will examine the impact of these information processing
biases, measured at intake, on the efficacy of cognitive-behavioural treatment for GAD,
and also the impact of residual information processing biases, measured at post-treatment, on the maintenance of treatment gains over 18 months following treatment. We
expect that high levels of pre-treatment biases will predict poorer outcomes immediately following therapy, and that high levels of post-treatment biases will predict
relapse during the 18 months following therapy.
The proposed studies will shed light on the relationship between intolerance of uncertainty and fear of anxiety, and will yield new information regarding their combined
effects on various cognitive processing biases and GAD worry. The integration of fear
of anxiety in our current model of GAD promises to increase our understanding of the
mechanisms underlying the development and maintenance of this disorder, which will
permit us to enhance our current treatment.
Michel Dugas
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Publications
Publications
Abela, J.R.Z. (2006). Phobic and anxiety disorders in children and adolescents. Journal
of Cognitive Psychotherapy: An International Quarterly, 20, 109-110.
Benibgui, M. & Hastings, P.D. (in press). The role of stress physiology in the well-being of
gay, lesbian and bisexual young adults. In D. Julien and J.J. Lévy (Eds.), Homosexualités:
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Quebec.
Abela, J.R.Z., Aydin, C., & Auerbach, R.P. (in press). Operationalizing the “vulnerability”
and “stress” components of the hopelessness theory of depression: A multi-wave longitudinal study. Behavior Research and Therapy.
Bouffard, T. (2006). L’apprentissage autorégulé. Dans E. Bourgeois et G. Chapelle (Eds.),
La motivation en situation d’apprentissage et de formation: Approches récentes et perspectives pratiques (pp. 137-149). Presses Universitaires de France.
Abela, J.R.Z., Gagnon, H., & Auerbach, R. (in press). Hopelessness depression in children:
An examination of the symptom component of the hopelessness theory. Cognitive
Therapy and Research.
Bouffard, T., Bouchard, M., Denoncourt, I., & Goulet, G. (2005). Influence of type of goals
and self-efficacy on self-regulation on a problem solving task. International Journal of
Psychology, 40, 373-384.
Abela, J.R.Z. & Hankin, B.L. (2005). A vulnerability-stress perspective on the development of psychopathology. In B.L. Hankin and J.R.Z. Abela (Eds.), Development of Psychopathology: A Vulnerability-Stress Perspective, pp. vii-ix. Thousand Oaks, California: Sage
Publications.
Bouffard, T., Roy, M., & Vezeau, C. (sous presse). Temperamental and attitudinal correlates of socioemotional adjustment among low achiever children. International Journal
of Educational Research.
(CRDH Researcher names are bolded and current Trainee names are underlined.)
Abela, J.R.Z., Hankin, B.L., Haigh, E.A.P., Vinokuroff, T., Trayhern, L., & Adams, P. (2005).
Interpersonal vulnerability to depressive episodes in high risk children: The role of
insecure attachment and reassurance seeking. Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent
Psychology, 34, 182-192.
Abela, J.R.Z., Sakellaropoulo, M., & Taxel, E. (in press). Integrating two subtypes of depression: Psychodynamic theory and its relation to hopelessness depression in schoolchildren. Journal of Early Adolescence.
Abela, J.R.Z., Skitch, S.A., Adams, P., & Hankin, B.L. (2006). The timing of parent and child
depression: A hopelessness theory perspective. Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent
Psychology, 35, 253-263.
Abela, J.R.Z., Skitch, S.A., Auerbach, R.P., & Adams, P. (2005). The impact of borderline
personality disorder on vulnerability to depression in children of affectively-ill parents.
Journal of Personality Disorders, 19, 68-83.
Abela, J.R.Z., Webb, C.A., Wagner, C., Ho, M., & Adams, P. (2006). The role of self-criticism,
dependency, and hassles in the course of depressive illness: A multiwave longitudinal
study. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 32, 328-338.
Abela, J.R.Z., Zuroff, D.C., Ho, M.R., Adams, P., & Hankin, B.L. (2006). Excessive reassurance
seeking, hassles, and depressive symptoms in children of affectively-ill parents: A multiwave longitudinal study. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 34, 171-187.
Aboud, F.E. (2005). The development of prejudice in childhood and adolescence. In J.F.
Dovidio, P. Glick, and L. Rudman (Eds.), Reflecting on the nature of prejudice, pp. 310-326.
Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing.
Aboud, F.E. (2006). Evaluation of an early childhood preschool program in rural Bangladesh. Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 21, 46-60.
Aboud, F.E. (in press). Evaluation of an early childhood parenting program in Bangladesh. Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition.
Adams, R., Bukowski, W.M., & Bagwell, C. (2005). Stability of aggression during early
adolescence as moderated by reciprocated friendship status and friend’s aggression.
International Journal of Behavioral Development, 29, 139-145.
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Bouffard, T., Vezeau, C., & Chouinard, R. (sous presse). L’illusion d’incompétence chez
l’élève du primaire: Plus qu’un problème de biais d’évaluation. Dans B. Galand (Ed.), La
motivation en situation d’apprentissage et de formation: Approches récentes et perspectives
pratiques. Presses universitaires de France.
Bouffard, T., Vezeau, C., Chouinard, R., & Marcotte, G. (sous presse). L’illusion
d’incompétence et les facteurs associés chez l’élève du primaire. Revue française de
pédagogie.
Bourque, P., Dionne, J., Pakzad, S., Pushkar, D., & Beland, F. (in press). La douleur arthritique, les limites et les incapacités functionnelles chez les personnes âgées. Canadian
Journal on Aging.
Bourque, P., Pushkar, D., Beland, F., & Bonneville, L. (2005). Contextual effects on life
satisfaction of older men and women. Canadian Journal on Aging, 24 (1), 31-44.
Brass, M., Ullsperger, M., Knoesche, T.R., von Cramon, D.Y., & Phillips, N.A. (2005). Who
comes first? The role of the prefrontal and parietal cortex in cognitive control. Journal of
Cognitive Neuroscience, 17, 1367-1375.
Brozina, K. & Abela, J.R.Z. (in press). Behavioral inhibition, anxious symptoms, and depressive symptoms: A short-term prospective examination of a diathesis-stress model.
Behavior Research and Therapy.
Brun de Pontet, S., Bauer, I., Dunne, E., & Wrosch, C. (in press). Goal adjustment and
quality of life. In F. Columbus (Ed.), Focus on Lifestyle and Health Research. New York, NY:
Nova Science Publishers.
Bukowski, W.M. & Adams, R. (in press). Peers and culture: Details, local knowledge, and
essentials. In X. Chen, D. French, and B. Schneider (Eds.), Peer relations, culture, and development. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
Bukowski, W.M., Adams, R., & Santo, J.B. (in press). Research on peers and adolescent
development: What’s doing in North America? In H. Merkens and J. Zinnecker (Eds.),
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Bukowski, W.M., Adams, R., & Santo, J.B. (in press). Recent advances in the study of
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Bukowski, W.M. & Lisboa, C. (2005). Using qualitative methods to study friendship. In
N. Way and J. Hamm (Eds), Qualitative studies of friendship: New directions for child and
adolescent development, 107, 79-86.
Dorsaint-Pierre, R., Penhune, V.B., Watkins, K.E., Neelin, P., Lerch, J.P., Bouffard, M., &
Zatorre, R.J. (2006). Asymmetries of the planum temporale and Heschl’s gyrus: Relationship to language lateralization. Brain, 129 (5), 1164-76.
Bukowski, W.M. & Lisboa, C. (in press). The place of place in developmental psychology.
In R. Engels, M. Kerr, and H. Stattin (Eds.), Friends, lovers, and groups: Who is important in
adolescence and why? London, UK: John C. Wiley Publishers.
Doyle, A.B. & Markiewicz, D. (2005). Parenting, marital conflict, and adjustment from
early- to mid- Adolescence: Mediated by adolescent attachment style? Journal of Youth
and Adolescence, 34, 97-110.
Bukowski, W.M. & Sippola, L.K. (2005). Friendship and development: Putting the most
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Dufouil, C., Fuhrer, R., & Alpérovitch, A. (2005). Subjective cognitive complaints and
cognitive decline: consequence or predictor? The EVA Study. Journal of the American
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Bukowski, W.M., Vitaro, F., & Brendgen, R.M. (in press). Peers and socialization: Effects on
externalizing and internalizing. In J. Grusec and P. Hastings (Eds.), Handbook of socialization. New York: Guilford Press.
Dugas, M.J., Hedayati, M., Karavidas, A., Buhr, K., Francis, K., & Phillips, N.A. (2005).
Intolerance of uncertainty and information processing: Evidence of biased recall and
interpretations. Cognitive Therapy and Research, 29, 57-70.
Buhr, K. & Dugas, M.J. (2006). Investigating the construct validity of intolerance of
uncertainty and its unique relationship with worry. Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 20, 222236.
Dugas, M.J. & Koerner, N. (2005). The cognitive-behavioral treatment for generalized
anxiety disorder: Current status and future directions. Journal of Cognitive Psychotherapy: An International Quarterly, 19, 61-81.
Burgos, G. (2006). Understanding the needs of low-income children and youth in
Canada. In L. John and R. Wright (Eds.), Programs for Positive Youth Development in LowIncome Communities. Waterloo, Ontario: Wilfrid Laurier Press.
Dugas, M.J., Marchand, A., & Ladouceur, R. (2005). Further validation of a cognitivebehavioral model of generalized anxiety disorder: Diagnostic and symptom specificity.
Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 19, 329-343.
Burt, K.B., Van Dulmen, M.H.M., Carlivati, J., Egeland, B., Sroufe, L.A., Forman, D.R., Appleyard, K., & Carlson, E.A. (2005). Mediating links between maternal depression and
offspring psychopathology: The importance of independent data. Journal of Child
Psychology and Psychiatry and Allied Disciplines, 46, 490-499.
Dunn, J.R., Burgess, W., & Ross, N.A. (2005). Income distribution, public services expenditures, and all-cause mortality in U.S. states. Journal of Epidemiology and Community
Health, 59, 768-774.
Cameli, L., Phillips, N.A., Kousaie, S., & Panisset, M. (2005). Memory and language in bilingual Alzheimer and Parkinson patients: Insights from verb inflection. In J. Cohen, K.T.
McAlister, K. Rolstad, and J. MacSwan (Eds.), Proceedings of the 4th International Symposium on Bilingualism (pp. 452-476). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.
Charpak, N., Ruiz, J.G., Zupan, J., Cattaneo, A., Figueroa, Z., Tessier, R., Cristo, M., Anderson, G., Ludington, S., Mendoza, S., Mokhachane, M., & Worku, B. (2005). Kangaroo
mother care: 25 years after. Acta Paediatrica, 94 (5), 514-522.
Chen, J.L., Zatorre, R.J., & Penhune, V.B. (in press). Interactions between auditory and
dorsal premotor cortex during synchronization to musical rhythms. Neuroimage.
Coen, S.E. & Ross, N.A. (in press). Exploring the material basis for health: a study of park
quality in neighbourhoods with contrasting health outcomes. Health and Place.
Conway, M., Irannejad, S., & Giannopoulos, C. (2005). Status-based expectancies for
aggression, with regard to gender differences in aggression in social psychological
research. Aggressive Behavior, 31, 381-398.
DeGenna, N., Stack, D.M., Serbin, L.A., Schwartzman, A.E., & Ledingham, J. (in press).
From risky behavior to health risk: Continuity across two generations. Developmental
and Behavioral Pediatrics.
DeMont, R.G. & Leroux, A. (2005). Desire for graduate athletic therapy programs within
Canada is high. Journal of Athletic Training, 40 (2), S19.
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Dunn, J.R., Frohlich, K., Ross, N.A., Curtis, L., Sanmartin, C. (2006). Geography matters:
The role of place in explaining social inequalities in health and human development. In
J. Heymann, C. Hertzman, M. Barer, and R.G. Evans (Eds.), Healthier Societies. Oxford, UK:
Oxford University Press.
Dunn, J.R., Veenstra, G., & Ross, N.A. (in press). Psychosocial and neo-material dimensions of SES and health revisited: Determinants of self-rated health in a Canadian national survey. Social Science and Medicine.
Ellenbogen, M.A. (2005). Stress, psychopathology, and the regulation of mood and
cortisol levels. In Anita V. Clark (Ed.), Causes, Role and Influence of Mood State. New York,
NY: Nova Science Publishers.
Ellenbogen, M.A., Schwartzman, A.E., Stewart, J., & Walker, C.-D. (2006). Automatic
and effortful cognitive processes in depressed and anxious participants: The interplay
of mood, cortisol, and emotional information processing during a stressful challenge.
Psychoneuroendocrinology, 31, 373-387.
Fleury-Roy, M.H. & Bouffard, T. (sous presse). Teachers’ recognition of children with an
illusion of incompetence. European Journal of Psychology of Education.
Forman, D.R. (in press). Autonomy, compliance, and conscience. In C.A. Brownell and
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York, NY: Guilford Press.
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Hastings, P.D., Zahn-Waxler, C., & McShane, K.E. (2005). We are, by nature, moral creatures: Biological bases of concern for others. In M. Killen and J. Smetana (Eds.), Handbook of moral development (pp. 483-516). New York, NY: Lawrence Erlbaum Assc., Inc.
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Goffaux, P., Phillips, N.A., Sinai, M., & Pushkar, D. (2006). Behavioural and electrophysiological measures of task switching during single and mixed-task conditions. Biological
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Hankin, B.L. & Abela, J.R.Z. (2005). Depression from childhood through adolescence and
adulthood: A developmental vulnerability and stress perspective. In B.L. Hankin and
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Hankin, B.L. & Abela, J.R.Z. (2005). Development of psychopathology: A vulnerability-stress
perspective. Thousand Oaks, California: Sage Publications.
Hankin, B.L., Abela, J.R.Z., Auerbach, R.P., McWhinnie, C.M., & Skitch, S.A. (2005). Development of behavioral problems over the life course: A vulnerability and stress perspective. In B.L. Hankin and J.R.Z. Abela (Eds.), Development of Psychopathology: A Vulnerability-Stress Perspective, pp. 385-416. Thousand Oaks, California: Sage Publications.
Hankin, B.L., Fraley, C.R., & Abela, J.R.Z. (2005). Daily depression and cognitions about
stress: Evidence for a trait-like depressogenic cognitive style and predicting depressive symptoms trajectories in a prospective daily diary study. Journal of Personality and
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Hankin, B.L., Kassel, J.D., & Abela, J.R.Z. (2005). Adult attachment styles and specificity of
emotional distress: Prospective investigations of cognitive risk and interpersonal stress
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Hastings, P.D. & Nuselovici, J. (in press). Review of ‘Development of Psychopathology: A
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Hastings, P.D., Rubin, K.H., & DeRose, L. (2005). The links between gender, inhibition,
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Hastings, P.D. & Utendale, W. (in press). The heart of the matter: The biology of shyness
and inhibition. In A. LoCoco, K. Rubin, and C. Zappula (Eds.), Relazioni tra pari e percorsi
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Hastings, P.D., Utendale, W., & Sullivan, C. (in press). The socialization of prosocial development and its implications for antisocial behavior. In J.E. Grusec and P.D. Hastings
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Hastings, P.D., Zahn-Waxler, C., & Usher, B.A. (in press). Cardiovascular and affective
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Heath, N., McLean-Heywood, D., Rousseau, C., Petrakos, H., Finn, C. & Karagiannakis, A.
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Howe, N., Petrakos, H., Rinaldi, C., & LeFebvre, R. (2005). This is a bad dog, you know…:
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Howe, N. & Recchia, H. (2005). Teachers and playmates: Reciprocal and complementary
interactions between siblings. Journal of Family Psychology, 19, 497-502.
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Julien, D. & Chartrand, E. (2005). Recension des études utilisant un échantillon
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Julien, D. & Vyncke, J. (2005). Homosexualité, parenté et grand-parentalité : le cas du
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Kirmayer, L., Weinfeld, M., Burgos, G., du Fort, G.G., Lasry, J.C., & Young, A. (2005).
“Utilization of health care services for psychological distress by immigrants in an urban
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Klimes-Dougan, B., Brand, A.E., Zahn-Waxler, C., Usher, B.A., Hastings, P.D., Kendziora, K.,
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Kochanska, G., Forman, D.R., Aksan, N., & Dunbar, S.B. (2005). Pathways to conscience:
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19-34.
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variability in the prevalence of cerebral white matter lesions: A MRI study in 9 European
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Lefebvre, F., Mazurier, E., & Tessier, R. (2005). Cognitive and educational outcome in
early adulthood for infants weighing 1000 g or less at birth. Acta Paediatrica, 94 (6),
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Levinoff, E.J., Phillips, N.A., Verret, L., Babins, L., Kelner, N., Akerib, V., & Chertkow, H.
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Nadeau, L. & Tessier, R. (2006). Social adjustment of children with cerebral palsy in
mainstream class: Peer perception. Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology, 48,
331-336.
Nasreddine, Z.S., Phillips, N.A., Bédirian, V., Charbonneau, S., Whitehead, V., Collin, I.,
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A brief screening tool for mild cognitive impairment. Journal of the American Geriatric
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Nicholson, A., Fuhrer, R., & Marmot, M.G. (2005). Psychological distress as predictor of
CHD events in men: The effect of persistence and components of risk. Psychosomatic
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Nilsson, L.G., Soderlund, H., Berger, K., Breteler, M., de Ridder, M., Dufouil, C., Fuhrer, R., Giampaoli, S., Hofman, A., Pajak, A., Sans, S., Schmidt, R., & Launer, L.J. (2005). Cognitive test
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Olineck, K. & Poulin-Dubois, D. (2005). Infants’ ability to distinguish between intentional
and accidental actions and its relation to internal state language. Infancy, 8, 91-100.
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Penhune, V.B. & Doyon, J. (2005). Cerebellum and M1 interaction during early learning
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McShane, K.E., Smylie, J.K., Hastings, P.D., Martin, C.M., & Inuit Family Resource Centre (in
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Poulin-Dubois, D. & Graham, S.A. (in press). Cognitive processes in early word learning.
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Poulin-Dubois, D., Frenkiel-Fishman, S., Nayer, S., & Johnson, S. (in press). Infants’ inductive generalization of motion and sensory properties to animals and people. Journal of
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Poulin-Dubois, D. & Serbin, L.A. (in press). L’origine des concepts et stéréotypes de
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Ristock, J.L. & Julien, D. (2005). Disrupting normalcy: Lesbian, gay, queer issues and
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Robichaud, M. & Dugas, M.J. (2005). Negative problem orientation (part I): Psychometric
properties of a new measure. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 43, 391-401.
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Development Canada-sponsored expert meeting on place-based policy frameworks,
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Ross, N.A., Tremblay, S., Khan, S., Crouse, D., Tremblay, M., & Berthelot, J.-M. (in press).
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Rubin, K.H., Hemphill, S. A., Chen, X., Hastings, P.D., Sanson, A., LoCoco, A., Chung, O.B.,
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Rubin, K.H., Hemphill, S.A., Chen, X., Hastings, P.D., Sanson, A., LoCoco, A., Chung, O.B.,
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Sandberg, J.F. (2005). The influence of network mortality experience on nonnumeric
response concerning expected family size: Evidence from a Nepalese mountain village.
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Savion-Lemieux, T. & Penhune, V.B. (2005). The effects of practice and delay on motor
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Schwartz, K.D., Bukowski, W.M., & Aoki, W. (in press). Friends, mentors, and gurus: Peer
and non-parent influences on spiritual development. The Handbook of Spiritual Development.
Siegal, M. & Aboud, F.E. (2005). Characterizing the scope of socialization and its impact
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Stack, D.M., Serbin, L.A., Grunzeweig, N., DeGenna, N., Ben-Dat Fisher, D., Temcheff, C.,
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Hodgins, S., Schwartzman, A.E., & Ledingham, J. (2005). A 30-year longitudinal study
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Part Four - Training
Training
T
he CRDH provides an enriched training milieu in terms of quality and variety of research
training experiences, support services, state of the art facilities, and many other resources
available to trainees. Following our distinctive model of integrated research training,
students at CRDH receive a broad background in both basic and applied aspects of human development, along with intensive training within their specialized research area.
Students receive direct exposure to trans-disciplinary conceptual and methodological approaches
and policy applications are being integrated into our training program. There are currently over
100 graduate students and post-doctoral fellows supervised by CRDH members, plus numerous
undergraduate students completing advanced research projects (e.g., honours theses) or summer
projects (e.g., NSERC Undergraduate awards). In addition, CRDH annually trains and employs a
large number of BA and MA level research assistants who work closely with faculty, senior research
coordinators, graduate students and laboratory technicians. These individuals typically enroll in
graduate programs following this “hands-on” training experience, or become advanced research
technicians at the Centre or at other research facilities across Quebec.
Following our distinctive model
of integrated research training,
students at CRDH receive a broad
background in both basic and
applied aspects of human
development, along with
intensive training within their
specialized research area.
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During their training at CRDH, students are expected to engage in multiple research projects in addition to their thesis research, are strongly encouraged to publish their research findings (please see
the list of publications in this report), and are supported in presenting their research at national and
international conferences. All CRDH students participate in a regular series of research seminars,
methodological workshops, and colloquia focusing on specific topics, including basic, applied, and
policy implications of the topic under discussion. The CRDH Developmental Seminar Series provides a forum for the presentation and discussion of important issues in developmental science by
faculty and students. Graduate students participating in the CRDH Seminar Series, called “Seminar
in Developmental Research” are able to receive course credit. Designed to give students an opportunity to participate actively in planning, presenting, and moderating the seminar series, the course
allows students to receive credit and an acknowledgement of their participation in the Developmental Research Seminar on their official university transcripts. This course is open to students
from all participating departments and institutions in CRDH, with the consent of their research
advisor. Our CRDH Colloquium Series is held in partnership with our various participating academic
departments, through which distinguished speakers are invited to present their research and hold
informal round table discussions with CRDH faculty and student members. Monthly workshops
are given by the CRDH Statistical and Technical Consultants on design issues, advanced methods of
data analyses, and the use of equipment and software.
Another important aspect of training at CRDH involves introducing students to evolving state-ofthe-art methodologies (see Axis 5). Laboratories are well-equipped with specialized equipment, a
significant percentage of which has been purchased with awards from the Canadian Foundation for
Innovation (CFI) program. Technical and methodological support for training is provided by research professionals, as well as post-doctoral fellows, consultants and faculty who provide training
and workshops in their areas of expertise.
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Part Four - Formation
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Formation
L
e CRDH fournit un environnement riche, tant par la qualité que par la diversité des expériences
de formation en recherche, ainsi que par ses services de soutien, ses aménagements à la fine
pointe de l’art et les nombreuses autres ressources mises à la disposition des étudiants. Selon
notre modèle distinctif de formation intégrée, les étudiants reçoivent une base solide sur les
aspects fondamentaux et appliqués du développement humain, combinée à une formation
intensive dans les domaines de recherche propres à chacun. Les étudiants sont exposés directement
aux approches conceptuelles et méthodologiques transdisciplinaires, et nous intrégrons les applications
politiques à nos programmes. Les membres du CRDH supervisent collectivement plus de 100 étudiants
des cycles supérieurs et de boursiers postdoctoraux, sans compter les nombreux étudiants de premier
cycle inscrits au cours de recherche avancé (p. ex. thèse « honours ») ou à des projets d’été (p. ex. bourses
de premier cycle du CRSNG). Par ailleurs, le Centre forme et embauche annuellement un grand nombre
d’étudiants au baccalauréat et à la maîtrise comme assistants de recherche. Ces derniers travaillent en
étroite collaboration avec les professeurs, les coordonnateurs de recherche seniors, les étudiants de
cycles supérieurs et les techniciens de laboratoire. Cette expérience de formation sur le terrain les conduit habituellement aux cycles supérieurs en recherche ou à des postes de techniciens d’expérience en
recherche, que ce soit au CRDH ou dans d’autres organismes à travers le Québec.
Selon notre modèle distinctif de
formation intégrée, les étudiants
reçoivent une base solide sur les
aspects fondamentaux et
appliqués du développement
humain, combinée à une
formation intensive dans les
domaines de recherche propres
à chacun.
Nous nous attendons à ce que nos étudiants participent à plusieurs projets de recherche et non seulement au leur, et nous les encourageons fortement à publier les résultats de leurs travaux (voir la liste des
publications ci jointe) et à les présenter dans des congrès nationaux et internationaux, grâce à un soutien monétaire. Tous nos étudiants prennent part aux séminaires de recherche, aux ateliers de méthodologie et aux colloques offerts régulièrement par le Centre, notamment sur les implications fondamentales, appliquées et politiques du sujet traité. Ainsi, les séminaires sur le développement fournissent
aux professeurs et aux étudiants un forum où ils peuvent faire un exposé sur des questions importantes
en science développementale et en discuter avec d’autres membres du Centre. Les étudiants de cycles
supérieurs qui participent aux séminaires sur le développement, intitulés Séminaires en recherche
développementale, ont la chance de participer activement, de planifier et d’agir comme présentateur et
modérateur. Pour leur participation à cette série de Séminaires, ils reçoivent des crédits et une attestation sur leur relevé universitaire. Ce cours est ouvert aux étudiants de tous les départements et institutions rattachés au CRDH, avec l’assentiment de leur superviseur. Ajoutons à cela les colloques offerts
par le CRDH, conjointement avec les divers départements du Regroupement, sont l’occasion pour les
professeurs et les étudiants d’entendre des conférenciers de renom parler de leur recherche et de discuter avec eux de façon informelle.De plus, nos consultants statistiques et techniques donnent chaque
mois un atelier portant sur différents modèles, sur des méthodes avancées de traitement statistique et
sur l’utilisation de divers équipements et logiciels.
Un autre aspect important de la formation au CRDH consiste à familiariser les étudiants avec les
méthodologies de pointe (voir l’Axe 5). Nos laboratoires sont bien équipés avec des appareils spécialisés achetés en grande partie avec l’aide d’une subvention de la FCI. Le soutien technique et méthodologique est assuré par les professionnels de recherche, les stagiaires postdoctoraux, les consultants et
les professeurs qui offrent des ateliers et des sessions de formation dans leurs domaines d’expertise.
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CRDH Students
Cycle 2 (Masters Level)
Adou, Marina (supervised by Ellen Jacobs)
Akl, Paola (supervised by Rejean Tessier)
Alfonsi, Giuseppe (supervised by Michael Conway); SSHRC Fellowship
Bucci, Lucie (supervised by Francesca Scala)
Buchsbaum, Roxana (supervised by Michael Conway); Concordia University & SSHRC Fellowships
Burns, Cathy (supervised by Ellen Jacobs)
Burr, Andrew (supervised by Dolores Pushkar); SSHRC & FQRSC Fellowships
Bye, Dorothea (supervised by Dolores Pushkar); SSHRC & FQRSC Fellowships
Chantzinicolaou, Pavlina (supervised by Harriet Petrakos)
Clouston, Sean (supervised by Giovani Burgos)
Coen, Stephanie (supervised by Nancy Ross)
De Iacco, Assunta (supervised by Harriet Petrakos)
Devlin, Christine (supervised by Ellen Jacobs)
Doucet, Amélie (supervised by Michel Dugas); CRDH, Concordia University
& CIHR Fellowships
Drouin, Amélie (supervised by Giovani Burgos)
Dunne, Erin (supervised by Carsten Wrosch); CRDH & SSHRC Fellowships
Fitzpatrick, Caroline (supervised by Michael Conway); Concordia University
& CRDH Fellowships
Gillis, Janna (supervised by Harriet Petrakos)
Goldberg, Erin (supervised by Lisa Serbin); SSHRC & CRDH Fellowships
Goldman, Natalie (supervised by Michel Dugas); CRDH & Concordia University Fellowships
Goldstein, Cathy (supervised by Harriet Petrakos)
Gosselin, Marie-Pierre (supervised by David Forman); SSHRC & CRDH Fellowships
Hickey, Amelia (co-supervised by Nina Howe & Ellen Jacobs)
Jean, Amélie (supervised by Dale Stack); SSHRC & FQRSC Fellowships
Kwan, Julie (supervised by Harriet Petrakos)
Kyriakidou, Christina (supervised by Harriet Petrakos)
Latour, Mathieu (supervised by Line Chamberland); bourse du CRSH
Linnen, Anne-Marie (supervised by Mark Ellenbogen); NSERC Fellowship
Martin, Julie (supervised by Dale Stack); SSHRC & FQRSC Fellowships
Martin-Storey, Alexa (supervised by Lisa Serbin); CRDH & SSHRC Fellowships
Meyer, Felicia (supervised by Bill Bukowski); SSHRC Fellowship
Morvan, Valerie (supervised by Harriet Petrakos)
Noor, Michael (supervised by Ellen Jacobs)
Nuselovici, Jacob (supervised by Paul Hastings)
O’Connell, Laura (supervised by Diane Poulin-Dubois); SSHRC Fellowship
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Étudiants du CRDH
Ostiguy, Caroline (supervised by Mark Ellenbogen); CRDH & Concordia
University Fellowships
Perez, Madiane (supervised by Dale Stack); FQRSC Fellowship
Pietraoia, Caroline (supervised by Harriet Petrakos)
Prazoff, Janice (supervised by Harriet Petrakos); CRDH Fellowship
Randoll, Nadine (supervised by Harriet Petrakos)
Roy, Philippe (supervised by Catherine DesRivières)
Ruttle, Paula (supervised by Lisa Serbin); NSERC Fellowship
Sandrin, Ann (supervised by Ellen Jacobs)
Santo, Jonathan (supervised by Bill Bukowski); CRDH Fellowship
Sénéchal, Anne-Marie (supervised by Réjean Tessier)
Sharma, Ramona (supervised by Harriet Petrakos)
Skea, Donna (supervised by Harriet Petrakos)
Steele, Christopher (supervised by Virginia Penhune); CRDH Fellowship
Tabing, Reena (supervised by Giovani Burgos)
Tabri, Nassim (supervised by Michael Conway)
Taillefer, Anne (supervised by Catherine DesRivières)
Tang, Patrick (supervised by Harriet Petrakos)
Torrico, Geneviève (supervised by Anna Beth Doyle); CRDH Fellowship
Trewartha, Kevin (supervised by Karen Li & Virginia Penhune); CRDH Fellowship
Xianhua, Huang (supervised by Jamshid Etezadi)
Yu, Bo (supervised by Jamshid Etezadi)
Cycle 3 (Doctorate Level)
Adams, Philippe (supervised by John Abela); SSHRC-CGS Fellowship
Auchterlonie, Sarah (supervised by Natalie Phillips); CIHR & Concordia
University Fellowships
Auerbach, Randy (supervised by John Abela)
Bauer, Isabelle (supervised by Carsten Wrosch); SSHRC-CGS Fellowship
Beaman, Amanda (supervised by Dolores Pushkar); SSHRC-CGS Fellowship
Benibgui, Michael (supervised by Paul Hastings); FCAR & Concordia University Fellowships
Bennett, Paula (supervised by Diane Poulin-Dubois); NSERC Fellowship
Boisclair, Annick (supervised by Réjean Tessier); FRSQ Fellowship
Boivin, Ariane (supervised by Réjean Tessier)
Brozina, Karen (supervised by John Abela)
Brun de Pontet, Stephanie (supervised by Carsten Wrosch); FQRSC Fellowship
Buhr, Kristin (supervised by Michel Dugas); CIHR & Concordia University
Fellowships
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The Numbers
Les statistiques
CRDH Students
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Number of Fellowships
Post-Doctoral Fellows (3)
Cycle 2/Masters (25)
Cycle 3/Doctoral (76)
Number of Students
Cameli, Luisa (supervised by Natalie Phillips); Alzheimers Society of Canada
& Concordia Fellowships
Campini, Clairalice (supervised by Anna-Beth Doyle)
Campisi, Lisa (supervised by Lisa Serbin)
Carré, Amélie (supervised by Réjean Tessier)
Chatterjee, Papia (supervised by Nancy Ross); Commonwealth Scholar
Chow, Virginia (supervised by Diane Poulin-Dubois)
Côté, Sébastien (supervised by Thérèse Bouffard); bourse du CRSH
Crouse, Daniel (supervised by Nancy Ross); SSHRC-CGS Fellowship
D’Amico, Emilie (supervised by Danielle Julien); bourse de FQRSC
DeGenna, Natacha (supervised by Dale Stack); CQRS Fellowship
Demke, Tamara (supervised by Diane Poulin-Dubois); SSHRC Fellowship
Denoncourt, Isabelle (supervised by Thérèse Bouffard)
Di Iaco, Gilda (supervised by Morton Weinfeld)
Dubois, Valérie (supervised by Thérèse Bouffard); bourse du CRSH
Dudeck, Marcie (supervised by Anna Beth Doyle & Dorothy Markiewicz)
Duhamel, Claudie (supervised by Thérèse Bouffard)
Fisher, Dahlia (supervised by Lisa Serbin); SSHRC Fellowship
Fleury-Roy, Marie-Hélène (supervised by Thérèse Bouffard); bourse du
CRSH
Fortin, Mélissa (supervised by Danielle Julien); bourse de FQRSC
Francis, Kylie (supervised by Michel Dugas); FRSQ Fellowship
Fraser, Sarah (co-supervised by Karen Li & Virginia Penhune); NSERC Fellowship
Frenkiel, Sarah (supervised by Diane Poulin-Dubois); NSERC Fellowship
Goffaux, Philippe (co-supervised by Dolores Pushkar & Natalie Phillips);
CRDH Fellowship
Goron, Stéphanie (supervised Catherine DesRivières)
Grunzeweig, Naomi (supervised by Dale Stack); FQRSC & SSHRC Fellowships
Isenberg-Grzeda, Connie (supervised by Dolores Pushkar); UQAM Fellowship
Jodoin, Emilie (supervised by Danielle Julien); bourse de l’Université du
Québec à Montréal
Jomphée, Mélanie (supervised by Réjean Tessier)
Jouvin, Emilie (supervised by Danielle Julien); bourse de l’Université du
Québec à Montréal
Kakuma, Ritsuko (supervised by Rebecca Fuhrer)
Kamkar, Katy (supervised by Anna Beth Doyle); SSHRC Fellowship
Karavasilis, Leigh (supervised by Nina Howe); SSHRC & Concordia Fellowships
Katerelos, Marina (supervised by Diane Poulin-Dubois); FQRSC Fellowship
Koerner, Naomi (supervised by Michel Dugas); CIHR & Concordia Fellowships
Post-Doctoral Fellows (7)
Cycle 2/Masters (56)
Cycle 3/Doctoral (100)
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CRDH Students
Kousaie, Shanna (supervised by Natalie Phillips); CIHR Fellowship
Kucey, Katrina (supervised my Nancy Ross)
L’Archevêque, Alexandre (supervised by Danielle Julien); bourse de CRSH
Larouche, Marie-Noëlle (supervised by Thérèse Bouffard); bourse du CRSH
Laugesen, Nina (supervised by Michel Dugas); FQRNT & Concordia Fellowships
Lawford, Heather (supervised by Anna Beth Doyle); SSHRC & CRDH Fellowships
Leblond de Brumath, Annie (supervised by Danielle Julien); bourse de CRSH
Lee-Genest, Kevyn (supervised by Alex Schwartzman); SSHRC Fellowship
Leiba, Elka (supervised by Dale Stack); CQRS & Concordia University Fellowships
Levy-Ajzenkopf, Judith (supervised by Karen Li); SSHRC & Concordia University Fellowships
Linden-Anderson, Stine (supervised by Anna Beth Doyle & Dorothy
Markiewicz)
Lister, Suzy (supervised by Dolores Pushkar); CRDH Fellowship
Longo dos Santos, Clarisse (supervised by Virginia Penhune); Brazilian
Gov’t., CRDH & Concordia University Fellowships
McDonald, Sheila (supervised by Rebecca Fuhrer)
McIntyre, Mélina (supervised by Thérèse Bouffard); bourse du CRSH
McShane, Kelly (supervised by Paul Hastings); SSHRC Fellowship
McWhinnie, Chad (supervised by John Abela); Thomlinson Scholarship
Marcotte, Geneviève (supervised by Thérèse Bouffard); bourse du FQRSC
Martin, Valérie (supervised by John Sandberg)
Matsuda, Tomoko (supervised by Ellen Jacobs)
Maximova, Katerina (supervised by Rebecca Fuhrer); CIHR-CGS Fellowship
Mayman, Shari (supervised by Bill Bukowski)
Milovan, Denise (supervised by Natalie Phillips)
Miners, Richard (supervised by Bill Bukowski)
Moszkowski, Robin (supervised by Dale Stack); FQRSC Fellowship
Motzoi, Claireneige (supervised by Anna Beth Doyle); SSHRC Fellowship
Olineck, Kara (supervised by Diane Poulin-Dubois); NSERC Fellowship
Payne, Andrew (supervised by John Abela)
Pranesh, Anand (supervised by Richard DeMont)
Recchia, Holly (supervised by Nina Howe); SSHRC-CGS Fellowship
Richmond, Chantelle (supervised by Nancy Ross); CIHR & SSHRC Fellowships
Robichaud, Melissa (supervised by Michel Dugas)
Roy, Mathieu (supervised by Thérèse Bouffard); bourse du CRSH
Sabongui, Amir (supervised by Bill Bukowski); SSHRC Fellowship
St-Amand, Pascale (supervised by Réjean Tessier); bourses du CRSH & IRSC
St-Laurent, Danny (supervised by Thérèse Bouffard); bourse de l’Université
du Québec à Montreal
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Étudiants du CRDH
Salerno, Frank (supervised by Alex Schwartzman); SSHRC Fellowship
Savion-Lemieux, Tal (supervised by Virginia Penhune); FRSQ Fellowship
Sexton, Kathryn (supervised by Michel Dugas); CIHR-CGS Fellowship
Simard, Marie-Claude (supervised by Danielle Julien); bourse de CRSH
Sinai, Marco (supervised by Natalie Phillips); CIHR Fellowship
Skitch, Steve (supervised by John Abela); SSHRC Fellowship
Sullivan, Caroline (supervised by Paul Hastings); SSHRC-CGS Fellowship
Synnott, Lindie (supervised by Réjean Tessier)
Temcheff, Caroline (supervised by Lisa Serbin); SSHRC Fellowship
Trussler, Tanya (supervised by John Sandberg); SSHRC-SRG
Utendale, Bill (supervised by Paul Hastings); CRDH Fellowship
Vaillancourt, Marie-Eve (supervised by Thérèse Bouffard); bourse de CRSH
Vukelich, Goranka (supervised by Ellen Jacobs); CRDH Fellowship
Vyncke, Johanna (supervised by Danielle Julien); bourse de FQRSC
Wilson, Dana (supervised by Nancy Ross); CIHR-CGS Fellowship
Winneke, Axel (supervised by Natalie Phillips); DAAD & CRDH Fellowships
Wood, Wendy (supervised by Michael Conway); CRDH Fellowship
Yoshida, Yoko (supervised by John Sandberg); SSHRC-SRG Fellowship
Post-Doctoral Fellows
Basu, Madhavi (supervised by Natalie Phillips)
Dolatshahi, Leila Jala (supervised by Phil Zelazo)
Fines, Philippe (supervised by Nancy Ross)
Nachshen, Jennifer (supervised by Lisa Serbin); CIHR Fellowship
Quesnel-Vallée, Amélie (supervised by Rebecca Fuhrer); FQRSC Fellowship
Taler, Vanessa (supervised by Natalie Phillips); Montreal Alzheimers Society
& FRSQ Fellowships
Vedenina, Maria (supervised by Phillip Zelazo)
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Training
Activities
Sept. 19/05
Seminar
Isabelle Bauer, Sarah Fraser & Caroline Sullivan (CRDH Graduate Students). Hot
topics across the lifespan
Sept. 26/05
Workshop
Serge Wright (CRDH Systems Manager). Introduction to CRDH computing
Oct. 3/05
Workshop
Lucie Bonneville (CRDH Statistical Consultant). Basics: SPSS for Windows
Oct. 24/05
Seminar
Karen Li (CRDH Member; Psychology, Concordia University). Slow down - I have
to stop and think! Recent developments in the study of motor and cognitive
performance in old age
Oct. 29/05
Colloquium
Anne Russon (Dept. of Psychology, Geldon College of York University).
Orangutan intelligence and culture
Nov. 7 /05
Workshop
Serge Wright (CRDH Systems Manager). What you don’t know about OFFICE
Activités de
formation
Jan. 30/06 Seminar
Ellen Jacobs (CRDH Member; Education, Concordia University).
Regulations and practices: The impact of provincial regulations on childcare
practices
Feb. 6/06
Workshop
Beth Mitchell (Director, Mental Health Care Program, London Health Science
Centre). Mental health administration & program evaluation
Feb. 9/06
Colloquium
Miriam Ehrensaft (Child Psychiatry, Columbia University). The intergenerational
transmission of antisocial behavior: Findings from a 3-generation study
Feb. 27/06 Seminar
Line Chamberland (CRDH Member; Sociologie, UQAM & Collège de Maisonneuve). Heterosexism in the work environment and the adaptive strategies of
gay and lesbian workers / L’hétérosexisme dans l’environnement de travail et
les stratégies d’adaptation des travailleurs gais et des travailleuses lesbiennes
Mar. 2/06
Colloquium
Virginia Douglas (Dept. of Psychology, McGill University). Self-regulation in
ADHD and stimulant effects
Nov. 21/05
Seminar
Frances Aboud (CRDH Member; Psychology, McGill University). Responsive
child feeding in Bangladesh
Mar. 6/06
Workshop
Lucie Bonneville (CRDH Statistical Consultant). HLM: Part III
Nov. 28/05 Workshop
Bill Bukowski, Nina Howe, & Jonathan Santo (CRDH Members & Trainee).
Manuscript writing and review
Mar. 9/06 Colloquium
Thomas Dishion (Dept. of Psych., University of Oregon). Deviant by design:
Peer dynamics that undermine intervention effectiveness
Dec. 5/05
Seminar
Jennifer Nachshen (CRDH Post-Doctoral Fellow, Concordia University). From
parent to professional: Pathways to empowerment in families of children with
developmental disabilities
Mar. 20/06
Seminar
Anna Beth Doyle (CRDH Member; Pscychology, Concordia University).
Attachment(s), parenting, and adjustment in adolescence: A longitudinal view
Dec. 8/05
Colloquium
Katharina Manassis (Dept. of Psychiatry, The Hospital for Sick Children). Beyond behavioural inhibition: Development of childhood anxiety and its clinical
implications
Jan. 16/06 Workshop
Lucie Bonneville (CRDH Statistical Consultant). HLM: Part I
Jan. 23/06
Workshop
Lucie Bonneville (CRDH Statistical Consultant). HLM: Part II
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Mar. 23/06 Colloquium
Sheilagh Hodgins (Forensic Mental Health Science, Institute of Psychiatry,
King’s College, London). A new understanding of schizophrenia: Implications
for etiology and services
Mar. 27/06
Workshop
Serge Wright (CRDH Systems Manager). How to “defrag” your computer
April 3/06 Seminar
Jennifer McGrath & Andrew Ryder (Dept. of Psych., Concordia University).
Seminar with new faculty in Concordia Psychology
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Featured Post-Doctoral Fellow
Jennifer Nachshen
J
ennifer Nachshen’s research career has been motivated by a
desire to understand the factors that enable individuals with
Intellectual Disabilities (ID) and their families to be resilient in
the face of extreme stressors and succeed despite formidable
obstacles. She has published articles and presented extensively
on the experiences of families coping with the challenges of raising
a child with special needs. In particular, Jennifer has focused on how
parents act as advocates in their quest to provide a future for their child
with a disability, and how parents develop a sense of empowerment
in their interactions with professionals, particularly in regard to their
child’s education. Currently, she is broadening her research horizons
through a postdoctoral fellowship at the Centre for Research in Human
Development by applying her in-depth knowledge of family stress and
coping to families made vulnerable by socioeconomic status. Jennifer’s current CIHR-funded postdoctoral fellowship has afforded her
the unique opportunity to examine health and psychiatric disparities
between children with and without ID, drawn from the third-generation
of the Concordia Longitudinal Research Project (CLRP). A unique aspect
to this project has been the use of medical billing data from Régie de
l’assurance maladie du Québec (RAMQ), incorporating data from multiple generations of families from high-risk backgrounds. She is currently
in the process of applying for further funding to examine the educational outcomes of children identified through medical records as being
high-risk for cognitive delays.
Jennifer’s varied interests are tied by her commitment to conduct relevant, policy-minded, applied research, in partnership with individuals
in need and the organizations that serve them.
Dual Diagnosis. A recent growing interest is the etiology and treatment
of psychopathology in children and adults with intellectual disabilities.
Individuals with ID are at higher risk than nondisabled individuals for
developing a psychiatric disorder in addition to their cognitive disability
(Borthwick-Duffy, 1994), often referred to as a dual diagnosis. Recently,
Jennifer presented a poster regarding the relationship between behaviour problems and stress and coping in families of children with and
without dual diagnoses, which garnered recognition as the Best Scientific Poster at the Annual Meeting of the National Association on Dual
Diagnosis in 2005.
High-Risk Populations. Jennifer’s current position as a Canadian Institute of Health Research Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre for Research
in Human Development at Concordia University, working with Dr. Lisa
Serbin, has afforded her excellent opportunities to increase her knowledge of research on intergenerational transfer of risk and resilience.
Integrating new and old data from the Concordia Longitudinal Research
Project (CLRP), this fellowship offers her the unique experience of working with an extremely large longitudinal data set, and the opportunity
to learn new statistical methodologies such as Hierarchical Linear Modeling and Trajectory Analysis. According to previous research in this lab,
a large proportion of children in CLRP sample are at-risk for a cognitive
disability and/or behavioural disorder. Jennifer is excited to bring her
expertise in the area of disability and dual diagnosis to this project. In
collaboration with Drs. Lisa Serbin and Dale Stack, as well as two graduate students, she is examining health and psychiatric disparities in
children of varying levels of risk (low IQ, low SES, and normal IQ and SES)
to determine whether there are differences in health service utilization,
medical, and psychiatric diagnoses.
Empowerment Theory and Disabilities. Despite the widespread use of
the term “empowerment” in clinical literature to describe both a desirable process and outcome of service delivery (Dempsey & Foreman,
1997), and the term’s status as a “buzzword” in disability literature, the
term empowerment remains more of a theoretical rather than practical
construct (Salzer, 1997). Based on Jennifer’s work in this area, she was
selected by the Academy on Mental Retardation to be a recipient of
their Dissertation Award at the International Summit for the Alliance on
Social Inclusion conference in Montreal in the spring of 2006, where she
also presented findings from her postdoctoral research.
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Featured Graduate
Students
I
t is always gratifying to encounter someone who is so engaged in
their research that they can’t help but spread the enthusiasm to
others. Goranka Vukelich’s research is certainly worth getting
excited about. In many ways, her work exemplifies many of the goals
advocated by CRDH. As a 3rd year student in the Special Individualized Programs at Concordia, Goranka’s research is inherently multidisciplinary in nature, drawing on the fields of psychology, lifespan education,
sociology, and sociopolitical feminism for inspiration.
Goranka’s decision to enter a doctoral program followed an impressive
history of experience in the workforce. After completing an undergraduate degree in Early Childhood Education at Ryerson University, Goranka
was awarded her M.A. at Pacific Oaks College in California, with practical
training from the High Scope Educational Research Foundation in Michigan. Following this, Goranka obtained more than 20 years of experience
working in early childhood education. Some of her experiences included
working as a college faculty member and administrator in Ontario and
Nova Scotia. During that time, Goranka received the Children’s Services
Pin, given to a person in recognition of their commitment to making
life better for children. Beyond her experience in the a college setting,
Goranka also spent time as the Director of Child Care for the province of
Nova Scotia, administering regulations and policies for the province as
well as providing support to families.
When Goranka met Ellen Jacobs and Nina Howe, their vision around
early childhood education, educational philosophies, and constructivist
approach immediately resonated with her. In collaboration with Ellen
Jacobs, Goranka’s dissertation research examines the factors facilitating
teachers’ successful implementation of the skills they obtain during their
own pre-service education. In particular, Goranka is interested in examining how teachers’ knowledge and belief systems, as well as their educational experiences, impact upon their ability to create quality experiences
for young children. In doing so, she will importantly identify the barriers
to the successful transfer of teachers’ skills. Her research takes a rich
ecological systems approach to these questions, examining the mutual
influences of teachers’ values and training, institutional philosophies,
cultural climate, economic conditions, and governmental policy. Though
she admits with a laugh that her research project will be quite a challenge
to conduct, the timely and relevant nature of the results will certainly be
worth the effort.
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Featured Graduate
Students
Si vous croisez Mathieu Roy dans un congrès, arrêtez-vous à son affiche ou
allez l’écouter. Sa passion pour la recherche est contagieuse; il ne se lasse pas
d’expliquer ses recherches et d’entendre vos commentaires sur ses travaux. Ses
talents dans ce domaine lui ont d’ailleurs prévalu le prix de la meilleure affiche
lors du congrès annuel du CRDH en mars 2006. Sa participation aux activités
du CRDH ou à d’autres modes de diffusion des connaissances lors de congrès
est l’occasion pour lui de pousser plus loin ses réflexions et de prendre note de
différentes méthodologies, perspectives et interprétations.
Mathieu s’intéresse depuis longtemps aux recherches portant sur les différentes
variables motivationnelles liées au fonctionnement scolaire et à l’autorégulation
des apprentissages. Plus particulièrement, son travail dans l’équipe de Thérèse
Bouffard à l’UQAM l’a mené à étudier les sources et les impacts de modes de
pensées dysfonctionnels, comme le perfectionnisme ou l’illusion d’incompétence. Son projet doctoral propose quant à lui d’analyser les trajectoires d’élèves
qui quittent le secondaire à l’aide d’une étude longitudinale de trois ans. Il a
obtenu une bourse du CRSH pour réaliser ce projet.
Pour Mathieu, il est essentiel de faire partager les connaissances acquises en
recherche aux populations qui en ont besoin et, on le cite, « que les jeunes puissent arriver à se réaliser à la mesure de leur potentiel et de leurs aspirations ».
C’est pour cela qu’il veut poursuivre une carrière qui lui permettra de garder un
pied en recherche et l’autre en clinique, domaine dans lequel il pourra retransmettre les résultats des recherches.
Annick Boisclair peut être fière de son parcours, qui en est un des plus
intéressants. En effet, après avoir obtenu son Diplôme du Barreau du Québec
à l’Université de Sherbrooke, elle s’est dirigée vers des études en psychologie à
l’Université Laval où elle a complété un baccalauréat et une maîtrise. Annick y
termine actuellement son doctorat en psychologie (Ph.D.,orientation clinique).
Pendant son cheminement académique, elle a aussi récolté de nombreuses
bourses d’excellence, dont la Bourse doctorale du Conseil de Recherche en
Sciences Humaines du Canada (CRSH), la Bourse doctorale du Centre de recherche de l’Hôpital St-François d’Assise-CHUQ, et l’année dernière, elle s’est mérité
la Bourse doctorale du Fond de recherche en santé du Québec (FRSQ). Tout au
long de ses études, elle a présenté de nombreuses conférences, symposia et
affiches, tant dans des congrès québécois qu’internationaux. Elle a également
rédigé des articles et rapports de recherche qui portent notamment sur l’adoption internationale et la prématurité.
Non seulement Annick se démarque par son excellence académique, mais elle
possède un dynamisme contagieux. Elle a toujours su épauler ses collègues et
être disponible pour les étudiants sous sa supervision, tout particulièrement au
Laboratoire Enfance, Famille et Santé de l’Université Laval. Elle est aussi impliquée dans de nombreuses activités paraprofessionnelles. Entre autres, elle a mis
sur pied la Clinique Enfance, Famille et Santé, un bureau privé où elle exerce la
profession de psychologue clinicienne spécialisée dans l’évaluation et l’intervention auprès d’enfants et leur famille.
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Graduate Student Perspective
It was through the assistance of the collaborative
environment of CRDH that I was able to both complete
my own thesis research, and also embark upon on a new
and exciting direction for investigating and understanding
developmental science.
Training Across Disciplines
T
his past academic year, I worked with Dr. Paul Hastings to complete my Honours thesis. My
thesis was an extension of an earlier research project, in which I investigated the relation
between parents’ use of physical punishment and children’s empathic concern toward their
mothers and others. For my Honours thesis, we continued investigating the issue of physical
punishment by adopting Bronfenbrenner’s ecological systems theory to investigate factors
surrounding the child and family which, whether directly or indirectly, could influence the child’s development. We identified children’s vagal tone (parasympathetic regulation of cardiac arousal) and quality
of neighbourhood as two factors that could affect the relation between mothers’ use of physical punishment and children’s externalizing problems. Deciding to study quality of neighbourhood meant that
we needed to consider more than just children’s home environments, as would be reflected in measures
like family income. We wanted to create an index of the surrounding community, which would allow
us to assess how living in conditions of risky neighbourhood characteristics would affect the child and
family.
Dr. Hastings recommended that I contact Dr. Giovani Burgos, a member of CRDH, working in the Sociology Department at McGill University. Dr. Burgos’ research examines the effects of neighbourhood
characteristics and ethnicity on adolescents’ mental health. I met with Dr. Burgos and he kindly set
up a meeting for me at the Electronic Data Resource Service Centre (EDRS) at McGill. It was there, and
through the help of Dr. Burgos and Susan Czarnocki of EDRS that I learned how to use 2001 Canada
Census Data to convert family’s postal codes into census tract numbers, in order to obtain the neighbourhood characteristic information that was used to create a neighbourhood risk index for each family.
To convert each family’s postal code into a census data tract number, I used a postal code conversion program through the Council for the Humanities, Arts & Social Sciences at the University of Toronto. Once
each family had a census tract number, I accessed the various 2001 Canada Census Data tables from the
EDRS website in order to obtain the information that made up a neighbourhood risk index for my thesis:
proportion of single-parent families, proportion of families with income < $30,000, proportion of adults
who had not received a high school diploma, unemployment rate, and average dwelling value.
Through our research, we found that children in higher-risk neighbourhoods were more likely to have
externalizing problems, and were also more likely to be physically punished. An implication for future
neighbourhood risk research, would involve breaking down the components of what makes a neighbourhood “higher-risk”, and examining how each of these components contribute to children’s development of externalizing problems. Another implication would be to explore the numerous other neighbourhood characteristics that were not investigated in this research, and their possible contribution to
children’s externalizing problems.
It was through the assistance of the collaborative environment of CRDH that I was able to both complete my own thesis research, and also embark upon on a new and exciting direction for investigating
and understanding developmental science.
Erin Price
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Selected Thesis Titles
2005-2006
ADOU, Marina, M.A. The anatomy of preschoolers’ conflicts using a modified highscope approach (May, 2005; supervised by Ellen Jacobs)
BENNETT, Paula, Ph.D. The object of my desire: Infants’ ability to infer desire from
behaviors exhibited by a human and a non-human agent (April, 2005; supervised
by Diane Poulin-Dubois)
CAMELI, Luisa, Ph.D. Implicit linguistic competence and metalinguistic knowledge:
A double dissociation between Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s disease (April, 2006;
supervised by Natalie Phillips)
CAMPINI, Clairalice, PhD. Attachment style stability, life events, and adjustment
across adolescence: A longitudinal study (August, 2005; supervised by Anna-Beth
Doyle)
CAMPISI, Lisa, M.A. Precursors of speech and language ability in childhood: A longitudinal study of at-risk Québec children (August, 2005; supervised by Lisa Serbin)
DE GENNA, Natacha, Ph.D. Problem behaviour and health problems: An intergenerational study of parents with childhood histories of aggression and social
withdrawal with their offspring (December, 2005; supervised by Dale Stack)
DI IACO, Gilda, Ph.D. Juvenile street gang members and ethnic identity in Montreal, Canada (March, 2006; supervised by Morton Weinfeld)
FAIT, Philippe, UQAT. Effet d’un programme personnalisé d’exercices correctifs de
la posture sur les douleurs dorsolombaires et sur la posture chez des hockeyeurs
masculine d’age junior (October, 2005; co-supervised by Richard DeMont)
KOUSAIE, Shanna, M.A. The effects of context on processing inter-lingual homographs in young and old bilingual adults (August, 2005; supervised by Natalie
Phillips)
LEVY-AJZENKOPF, Judith (née Levy-Bencheton), Ph.D. A study of age group differences in multiple measures of executive functioning (February, 2006; supervised by
Karen Li)
LISTER, Suzy, Ph.D. Meaning making in bereaved parents: Process and outcome
(April, 2005; supervised by Dolores Pushkar)
MILOVAN, Denise, Ph.D. A neuropsychological investigation of chronic migraine
(December, 2005; supervised by Natalie Phillips)
PEREZ, Madiane, M.A. Emotional expressiveness and parenting behaviors in mothers with histories of aggression and social withdrawal: An intergenerational study
(August, 2005; supervised by Dale Stack)
RECCHIA, Holly, M.A. Social-cognitive predictors of siblings’ self-serving biases
(June, 2005; supervised by Nina Howe)
ROBICHAUD, Melisa, Ph.D. An in-depth investigation of social problem solving
(November, 2005; supervised by Michel Dugas)
SABONGUI, Amir, Ph.D. Diamonds or dust: Personality and social predictors of
adaptation to the military (February, 2006; supervised by Bill Bukowski)
SEXTON, Kathryn, M.A. An investigation of cognitive avoidance in worry (September, 2005; supervised by Michel Dugas)
TANG, Patrick, M.A. An analysis of a preschool classroom using the self-determination theory (August, 2005; supervised by Harriet Petrakos)
UTENDALE, Bill, M.A. Cardiovascular reactivity during stress induction differentiates ADHD subtypes (September, 2005; supervised by Paul Hastings)
WOOD, Wendy, PhD. Subjective impact, emotions, and self-defining memories
(September, 2005; supervised by Michael Conway)
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Recognizing Excellence in Research Training
O
ur commitment to training is being recognized by our
member institutions as well as by professional associations. For example, in the past year, CRDH members
John Abela and Virginia Penhune have received teaching
awards from their universities, while Karen Li and Natalie
Phillips received an American Psychological Association prize for innovative practices in graduate education. Additionally, the awards our students are receiving reflect on their training and opportunities as well as
on their own hard work. Many of their recent major fellowship awards
are listed along with our graduate students’ names. Our students have
also had their research achievements recognized at society meetings.
Finally, our undergraduate students have received recognition as well.
To chose one illustrative example, Marie-Hélène Fleury-Roy’s undergraduate honor’s thesis was awarded a prize by the Canadian Psychological Association. We are proud of our trainees at every level, from our
undergraduate students to our postdoctoral fellows.
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Part Five - Communication
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Communication, Public Policy, and Community Outreach
A
n important function of the Centre is to act as a source of
expertise for policy makers, community groups, service
agencies, and the general public. As the Centre has developed over the past few years, with additional new members
and a growing reputation for being a multi-disciplinary and
multi-institution centre, it is no surprise that we have been contacted
and recognized by numerous community organizations, to provide
public lectures and workshops. As well, our growing network has facilitated new research partnerships with community organizations, who
play a significant role in information exchange and feedback to Center
members’ research objectives. In addition, CRDH members have been
very active serving on advisory boards, consulting with policy makers,
and providing information to news media. Also, the dissemination of
research findings to other experts and research trainees has taken CRDH
members around the world to numerous international conferences, as
well as meetings and seminars within the Québec scientific community.
U
An important function of the
Centre is to act as a source of
expertise for policy makers,
community groups, service
agencies, and the general
public.
ne des fonctions importantes des membres du Centre est
d’agir à titre d’experts auprès des responsables ministériels,
des groupes communautaires, des agences de services et
du grand public. Avec l’expansion qu’a pris le CRDH depuis
quelques années, grâce à l’ajout de nouveaux membres et
à l’accroissement de sa réputation en tant que centre multidisciplinaire
et multi-institutionnel, il n’est pas surprenant que nos membres soient
reconnus et sollicités par de nombreux organismes communautaires
pour donner des présentations et des ateliers ouverts au public. En
outre, notre réseau gandissant facilite de nouveaux partenariats de
recherche avec les organismes communautaires qui jouent un rôle
importantdans l’échange d’information et de commentaires par rapport
à nos objectifs de recherche. De plus, les membres du CRDH ont très
activement participé à des conseils consultatifs, ont servi d’experts pour
ceux qui élaborent les politiques et fourni de l’information aux médias.
Aussi, la dissémination de nos résultats auprès d’autres experts et d’étudiants en recherche a conduit les membres du CRDH un peu partout sur
le globe pour prendre part à nombre de congrès internationaux ainsi
qu’à des rencontres et à des séminaires dans la communauté scientifique québécoise.
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Selected Members in the News
Des membres du CRDH
défraient la chronique
T
he research conducted by many CRDH members has been featured
in provincial, national, and international media over the past year,
increasing the visibility of the Centre and contributing to public
awareness about developmental challenges and current findings.
For example, the research of CRDH member Line Chamberland (Collège
de Maisonneuve) on gay marriage was featured in articles in “The Gazette”,
“Chateleine” magazine, and TV5.
Nina Howe was interviewed for CBC Radio on the topic of daycare practices.
Paul Hastings was interviewed for a recent piece on gay parenting for
L’Actuelle magazine.
Nancy Ross’s research on youth gambling was featured on CBC TV and Radio.
Rejean Tessier’s work on international adoption in Quebec has received frequent coverage on television and in print media.
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u cours de la dernière année, les recherches de plusieurs des membres du CRDH ont fait l’objet d’une couverture médiatique, aussi
bien sur le plan provincial et national qu’international.
Line Chamberland (membre du CRDH du Collège de Maisonneuve), par exemple, a été interviewée par The Gazette, le magazine Chatelaine et la
chaîne de télévision TV5 sur la question des mariages gais.
Nina Howe a été interviewée par le poste CBC Radio sur le sujet des pratiques
en garderie.
Paul Hastings a été interviewé récemment par le magazine L’Actuelle sur le
sujet des parents gais.
La recherche de Nancy Ross sur la jeunesse et les jeux d’argent a fait la une sur
la chaîne CBC et le poste CBC Radio.
Members in
the community
T
his past year, CRDH members have been sought after as
guest speakers for community organizations and have forged
new links and strengthened existing links with community
organizations. For example, Thérèse Bouffard spoke at the
Congrès annuel de L’Association québécoise pour les troubles
d’apprentissage, and the Conférence sur invitation aux enseignants de
l’école Lionel-Groulx, Commission scolaire des Affluents, on pedagogy
and the motivation of students. David Forman spoke to the Institut
Suzuki Montreal on the development of talent, and Natalie Phillips gave
a public lecture on aging and memory at the Health Forum focusing on
memory, sponsored by the Nurses Council of Montreal Hadassah-WIZO.
CRDH members have also presented numerous workshops to the community. For example, Michel Dugas has provided workshops on anxiety
disorders for Centre hospitalier Pierre-Janet in Gatineau, the Anxiety
Disorders Association of Canada, and the Programme de formation à la
psychothérapie cognitivo-comportementale in Montreal. Other members gave workshops abroad: Bill Bukowski, on hierarchical linear modelling techniques in Colombia, and Line Chamberland, on sexual diversity in Brazil. Phil Zelazo has given regular talks on the development of
autistic children to the Montreal Autism Centre at the Queen Elizabeth
Hospital Complex in Montreal. Finally, our members have formed new
partnerships with community organizations such as the Department
of Health and Community Services, Government of Newfoundland and
Labrador, Commission scolaire des Affluents, Conseil permanent de
la jeunesse, Centrale des syndicats du Québec, Fédération nationale
des enseignants et enseignantes du Québec, Fondation Émergence
Gai-écoute, Coalition d’aide aux lesbiennes, gais et bisexuel-le-s AbitibiTémiscamingue, Coalition Multi Mondo (regroupement de membres individuels et d’organismes communautaires travaillant avec une clientèle
lesbienne, gaie, bisexuelle, transsexuelle, transgenre appartenant à des
communautés ethnoculturelles), Association des mères lesbiennes, and
the Montreal West Readaptation Centre.
Les recherches de Réjean Tessier sur l’adoption internationale au Québec a
aussi reçu beaucoup de couverture médiatique á la télévision et dans les médias imprimés.
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Conference
Presentations
Présentations à
des congrès
Once again this year, all of our researchers have been active in presenting their work, within their universities
and at scientific conferences, nationally and internationally. Our participation in scientific meetings ranges
from student-authored posters to delivering invited keynote addresses. These presentations often reach
beyond their scientific and professional audience, welcoming students, practitioners, and the general public,
and are often reported on in the local media. In the following selected list, our researchers are listed in bold,
while the names of current CRDH trainees are underlined.
Arruda, C., Morrison, E., & Abela, J.R.Z. (2005, June). Excessive reassurance, hassles, and depressive symptoms in high-risk children using experience sampling analysis: The moderating role of self-esteem. Annual
convention of the Canadian Psychological Association, Montreal, Quebec.
Conference Presentations (partial list):
Auerbach, R. & Abela, J.R.Z. (2005, November). A hierarchical analysis of engagement in risky behaviors
and depressive symptoms. Annual convention of the Association for the Advancement of Behavior Therapy,
Washington DC.
Abela, J.R.Z. (2005, September). The dark side of the American dream: Culture, cognition, interpersonal relations, stress, and depression in Canadian and Chinese adolescents. The International Partnership for Mental
Health Research (IPMHR) Research Symposium and Dinner: Making the Connection, Toronto, Ontario.
Abela, J.R.Z. (2005, September). The early detection and prevention of depression. Keynote speech. Seventh
National Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics Conference, Urumuqi, China.
Abela, J.R.Z. (2005, June). The early detection and prevention of depression. Keynote speech, Fifth Chinese
National Child Psychological and Behavioral Health Conference, Chongqing, China.
Abela, J.R.Z. (2005, June). The early detection and prevention of depression. Department of Behavioral Pediatrics, Chongqing Children’s Hospital, Chongqing, China.
Abela, J.R.Z., McGirr, A.R.A., & Skitch, S.A. (2005, November). Operationalizing the “vulnerability” and “stress”
components of the hopelessness theory of depression: A multi-wave longitudinal study of third- and seventh-grade schoolchildren. Annual convention of the Association for the Advancement of Behavior Therapy,
Washington, DC.
Abela, J.R.Z., Zinck, S., Kryger, S., & Hankin, B.L. (2005, November). Negative attachment cognitions as a
moderator of the temporal association between parental and child depression. Annual convention of the
Association for the Advancement of Behavior Therapy, Washington DC.
Aboud, F.E. & Moore, A.C. (2006, April). Pilot study of a community-based intervention to promote responsive feeding in Bangladesh. ICDDR,B: Centre for Health and Population Research, Scientific Forum, Dhaka,
Bangladesh.
Aboud, F.E. (2005, February). Responsive complementary feeding in Bangladesh. ICDDR,B: Centre for Health
and Population Research, Scientific Forum, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Abrahamowicz, M., Sylvestre, M.-P., Schwartzman, A.E., Tamblyn, R., Senneville, C., Serbin, L.A., Stack, D.M.,
Hodgins, S., & Ledingham, J. (2005, June). Simulations for the comparison and validation of imputation methods for missing diagnoses of lifetime disorders. Presentation at the Joint meeting of SER and CSEB. Toronto,
Ontario. Abstract to be published in the June 1, 2005 supplement of the American Journal of Epidemiology.
Adams, P., Abela, J.R.Z., & Lewin, W. (2005, June). Insecure attachment and the development of depressive
symptoms in children of parents with borderline personality disorder. Presented at the annual convention of
the Canadian Psychological Association, Montreal, Quebec.
Ariyama, J., Oshima-Takane, Y., Katerelos, M., & Poulin-Dubois, D. (2005, April). Use of morphosyntactic cues
to word learning in 20-month-old Japanese children. Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child
Development, Atlanta, Georgia.
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Auchterlonie, S., Phillips, N.A., & Saumier, D. (2005, August). Effects of categorical and featural encoding
cues on proactive interference. Annual Meeting of the American Psychological Association, Washington, DC.
Bauer, I. & Wrosch, C. (2006, January). Management of life regrets in the elderly: Disengagement through
disclosure. Annual Meeting of the Association for Research in Personality, Palm Springs, CA.
Bauer, I., Light, R., Rezazadeh, S.M., & Wrosch, C. (2005, September). Life regrets in older adults: Disengagement through disclosure. Presented at the conference of the Canadian Coalition for Seniors‚ Mental Health,
Ottawa, Ontario.
Bauer, I. & Wrosch, C. (2005, June). Life regrets in older adults: disengagement through disclosure. Presented
at the conference of the Canadian Psychological Association, Montreal, Quebec.
Béchard-Evans, L., Ho, R.M., & Abela, J.R.Z. (2005, November). Transactional relations between parent-child
depressive symptoms and hopelessness: A multi-wave longitudinal study of high-risk youth. Presented at
the annual convention of the Association for the Advancement of Behavior Therapy, Washington DC.
Béchard-Evans, L., Abela, J.R.Z., & Ho, R.M. (2005, June). Transactional relations between parent-child depression and hopelessness: A multi-wave longitudinal study of high-risk youth. Presented at the annual convention of the Canadian Psychological Association, Montreal, Quebec.
Benibgui, M. & Hastings, P.D. (2005, June). Biopsychosocial factors associated with psychological distress in
gay, lesbian and bisexual youth and young adults. In symposium: Advancing the use of psychophysiology to
understand developmental psychopathology, 66th Annual Meeting of the Canadian Psychological Association, Montreal, Quebec.
Bloch-Torrico, G., Motzoi. C., Doyle, A.B., & Markiewicz, D. (2006, March). Parenting strategies as predictors of
change in adolescent self-esteem. Presented at Society for Research on Adolescence, San Francisco, California.
Bloch-Torrico, G., Doyle, A.B., & Markiewicz, D. (2005, June). Parenting strategies and time: Parental warmth
as a predictor of change in delinquent adolescent behaviour. Presented presented at the Annual Convention of the Canadian Psychological Association, Montreal, Quebec.
Bouffard, T., Fleury-Roy, M.H., & Dubois, V. (2005, août). Parents’ Involvement in Children’s Perceived Competence, Intrinsic Motivation and Achievement. 11th European Conference on Learning and Instruction, Chypres.
Bouffard, T., Vezeau, C., Chouinard, R., Fleury-Roy, M.H., Dubois, V., & Roy, M. (2005, juin). Parents and teachers’ awareness of children’s illusion of incompetence. Jean Piaget Society, Vancouver, British Columbia.
Bouffard, T., Brodeur, M., & Vezeau, C. (2005, mai). Pratiques pédagogiques et motivation des élèves au
primaire. ACFAS, Chicoutimi, Quebec.
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Conference
Presentations
Présentations à
des congrès
Brozina, K., Schwab, L., & Abela, J.R.Z. (2005, November). Anxiety sensitivity in children: Do the three factors of the CASI differentially predict the four symptom subscales of the MASC. Presented at the annual
convention of the Association for the Advancement of Behavior Therapy, Washington DC.
Chamberland, L. (2005, mai). Vers une nouvelle normativité sexuelle. Colloque de la Société québécoise de
Science politique (SQSP), Université d’Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario.
Brozina, K. & Abela, J.R.Z. (2005, June). The role of rumination in the comorbidity of depression and anxiety in children. Presented at the annual convention of the Canadian Psychological Association, Montreal,
Quebec.
Brun de Pontet, S., Wrosch, C., & Gagné, M. (2005, October). Building a foundation of family business
succession knowledge: A role of psychological variables. Presented at the Family Firm International (FFI)
conference, Chicago, Illinois.
Buchsbaum, R., Fitzpatrick, C., & Conway, M. (2005, June). Autobiographical memory, warmth, and selfdisclosure. Presented at the Canadian Psychological Association convention, Montreal, Quebec.
Burgos, G. & Quesnel-Vallée, A. (2006, February). Anglophone minorities and social inequalities in health
in Québec. Presented at Six Provincial Conference On Accessibility Of Health And Social Services In The English Language at The Plaza Hotel, Montreal, Quebec.
Burgos, G. (2005, April). The impact of school level neighborhood segregation on adolescent mental
health. Presented at the Center for Research and Health on Human Development, Concordia University,
Montreal, Quebec.
Burgos, G. (2005, April). Discrimination and depression among Latino youth. Presented at the Jewish
General Hospital, Institute for Cultural Psychiatry and Mental Health, Montreal, Quebec.
Burr, A., Pushkar, D., & Wrosch, C. (2005, October). What’s important when: Personal values and goal adjustment in the transition from work to retirement. Presented at the Canadian Association on Gerontology
Conference, Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Cameli, L., Phillips, N.A., Kousaie, S., Dwivedi, V., Panisset, M., & Nasreddine, Z. (2006, April). The effect of
aging and age-related diseases on first and second language narratives. Presented at the 11th Biennial
Cognitive Aging Conference, Atlanta, Georgia.
Cameli, L., Phillips, N.A., Kousaie, S., & Panisset, M. (2005, June). Memory and language in bilingual alzheimer and Parkinson patients: Insights from verb inflection. Presented at the 16th Annual conference on
Theoretical and Experimental Neuropsychology, TENNET XVI, Montreal, Quebec.
Campisi, L., Asgary, V., Serbin, L.A., Stack, D.M., & Fisher, D.B.-D. (2005, April). Complexity in the language
of young children from disadvantaged families: Is Mean Length of Utterance (MLU) an early predictor of
school-aged language and reading skills within at-risk populations? Presented at the Biennial Meeting of
the Society for Research in Child Development, Atlanta, Georgia.
Carré, A., Tessier, R., Moss, E., Nadeau, L., & Tarabulsy, G.M. (2005, mars). L’adoption internationale au
Québec depuis 15 ans: Résultats d’enquête. 27ième congrès de la Société Québécoise de Recherche en psychologie (SQRP), tenu au Mont Ste-Anne, Québec. Québec.
Chamberland, L. & Paquin, J. (2005, juillet). Le dire ou ne pas le dire : Comment les lesbiennes gèrent-elles
leur identité dans leur environnement de travail. 4e Congrès international des Recherches féministes dans la
francophonie plurielle. Citoyennes sans frontières, Université d’Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario.
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Chamberland, L. (2005, avril). Visibilité lesbienne dans le monde du travail. Colloque sur la visibilité lesbienne dans la société québécoise. Colloque organisé par Gai-écoute.
Chamberland, L. (2006, avril). Homophobie et hétérosexisme dans l’environnement de travail, Groupe de travail mixte sur l’homophobie, Commission des droits de la personne et de la jeunesse.
Chen, E., Etezadi, J., Kersten, G.E., & Vetschera, R. (2005, July). User assessment of internet-based negotiation
support systems: A confirmatory study. Group Decision and Negotiation Conference, Vienna, Austria.
Chevrier, E., Pushkar, D., & Chaikelson, J. (2005, October). Predictors of personal happiness and marital adjustment in retired couples. Presented at the Canadian Association on Gerontology Conference, Halifax, Nova
Scotia.
Coen, S.E. & Ross, N.A. (2005, April). Exploring a material basis for neighbourhood health effects: Characteristics of parks in Montréal neighbourhoods with contrasting health outcomes. Presented to the Annual
Meetings of the American Association of Geographers, Denver, Colorado.
Côté, S., Larouche, M.N., & Bouffard, T. (2005, avril). Development of accuracy in perception of competence.
American Educational Research Association.
Côté, S., Bouffard, T., Larouche, M.N., Cottin, F., & Sarrat-Vézina, E. (2006, mars). Sécurité d’attachement et
illusion d’incompétence. Société québécoise pour la recherche en psychologie. Montréal, Quebec.
Cottin, F., Bouffard, T., & Vezeau, C. (2006, mars). Identification des variables parentales reliées aux perceptions de compétence de l’élève et à sa motivation intrinsèque. Société québécoise pour la recherche en
psychologie. Montréal, Quebec.
De Genna, N, Stack, D.M., Serbin, L.A., Ledingham, J., & Schwartzman, A.E. (2006, March). Aggression in girls,
adolescent risk-taking, and physical health across generations. Presentated at the Society for Research on
Adolescence, San Francisco, California.
DeMont, R.G., Fraser, S.A., Li, K.Z.H., & Penhune, V.B. (2005, May). The effect of cognitive distraction on muscle activity during dynamic tasks. Canadian Athletic Therapists Association, Calgary, Alberta.
Di Francesco, N. & Jacobs, E.V. (2005, July). Modern times and the impact of toys: An exploratory study of toy
type, focused attention, and temperament in young children. Childhoods 2005 Oslo; Children and Youth in
Emerging and Transforming Societies, Oslo, Norway.
Di Francesco, N. & Jacobs, E.V. (June, 2005). An exploratory study of toy type, focused attention, and temperament in young children. Annual convention of the Canadian Psychological Association. Montreal, Canada.
Din, L., Martin, J., De Genna, N., Grunzeweig, N., Stack, D.M., Serbin, L.A., Schwartzman, A.E., & Ledingham,
J. (2005, June). Maternal responsivity to child attention-seeking and noncompliance in high-risk dyads: An
intergenerational study. Presentation at the Canadian Psychological Association’s annual convention, Montreal, Quebec.
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Conference
Presentations
Présentations à
des congrès
Din, L., De Genna, N., Stack, D.M., Serbin, L.A., Schwartzman, A.E., & Ledingham, J.E. (2005, April). Maternal
responsivity to child attention-seeking in mothers with childhood histories of aggression and withdrawal:
An inter-generational study. Presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Atlanta, Georgia.
Dupuis, K., Li, K.Z.H., & Ward, M. (2005, July). Investigating age-related deficits in inhibition using the serial
flanker task. 15th annual meeting of the Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour and Cognitive Science, Montreal, Quebec.
Doyle, A.B. (2006, March). Parenting, attachment and adjustment in adolescence: Longitudinal studies. Centre for Studies in Behavioural Neurobiology Workshop - Adolescence Seminar, Concordia University, Montreal,
Quebec.
Doyle, A.B. (2006, March). Attachment(s) in adolescence. In Attachment: Causes and consequences. Centre
for Studies in Behavioural Neurobiology Workshop - Adolescence Seminar, Concordia University, Montreal,
Quebec.
Dubois, V., Bouffard, T., Roy, M., & Vaillancourt, M.E. (2005, août). Are parent’s beliefs, practices and personal
characteristics linked to negative self-appraisal of competence in children? 11th European Conference on
Learning and Instruction, Chypres.
Dudeck, M., Markiewicz, D., & Doyle, A.B. (2005, June). Stressful life events and adolescent externalizing and
internalizing problems: The role of attachment. Presented at the Annual Convention of the Canadian Psychological Association, Montreal, Quebec.
Dugas, M.J. (2005, November). La thérapie cognitivo-comportementale pour le trouble d’anxiété généralisée. Workshop: Programme de formation à la psychothérapie cognitivo-comportementale, Montreal, Quebec.
Dugas, M.J., Savard, P., Gaudet, A., Turcotte, J., Laugesen, N., Robichaud, M., Francis, K., & Koerner, N. (2005,
November). Can the components of a cognitive-behavioral model predict the severity of generalized anxiety disorder? Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, Washington, DC.
Dugas, M.J. (2005, October). La psychothérapie pour le trouble d’anxiété généralisée. Workshop: Congrès
santé mentale 2005, Centre hospitalier Pierre-Janet, Gatineau, Quebec.
Dugas, M.J. (2005, May). Understanding and treating generalized anxiety disorder. Pre-conference institute:
Anxiety Disorders Association of Canada, Toronto, Ontario.
Dugas, M.J. (2005, May). Update of the treatment of generalized anxiety disorder. Plenary session: Anxiety
Disorders Association of Canada, Toronto, Ontario.
Dugas, M.J., Savard, P., Gaudet, A., Turcotte, J., Laugesen, N., Robichaud, M., Francis, K., & Koerner, N. (2005,
November). Can the components of a cognitive-behavioral model predict the severity of generalized anxiety disorder? Presented to the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, Washington, DC.
Dupuis, K. & Li, K.Z.H. (2005, June). Investigating age differences in inhibitory abilities and sequential action
regulation using the serial flanker task. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Psychological Association, Montréal, Quebec.
Dwivedi, V., Phillips, N., Laguë-Beauvais, M., & Baum, S. (2005, April). An electrophysiological investigation
of on-line discourse comprehension. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience Suppl., 25. Presented at the Annual
Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, New York, N.Y.
Etezadi, S., Pushkar, D., Conway, M., Chaikelson, J., Mason, S., Isenberg-Grzeda, C., & Basevitz, P. (2005, October). Older adults’ attitudes towards death and dying. Presented at the Canadian Association on Gerontology
Annual Conference, Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Etezadi, J., Kersten, G., & Tamim, H. (2005, July). Electronic Negotiation User Satisfaction, Group Decision and
Negotiation Conference, Vienna, Austria.
Etezadi, J., Mak, T., & Kersten, G. (2005, May). Treatment of measurement error in assessing parameters of
multi-attribute utility functions. Proceedings of the FINEXIN 2005: Workshop on the Analysis of Informal and
Formal Information Exchange during Negotiations, Ottawa, Ontario.
Fines, P., Sanmartin, C., & Ross, N.A. (2005, June). Income source and health status. Presented to the Population Society meetings, SSHRC Congress, London Ontario.
Finn, C., Petrakos, H., & Heath, N. (2006, March). Preventing emotional and behavioral disorders using an
ecologically-based intervention approach. Presented at the Annual Convention of the National Association of
School Psychologists, Anaheim, California.
Firestone-Fischel, M., Gervais, N., Grassia, M., & Abela, J.R.Z. (2005, June). A test of the cognitive vulnerability
hypothesis of the theory in a youth sample: Lifetime history of depressive episodes. Presented at the annual
convention of the Canadian Psychological Association, Montreal, Quebec.
Fisher, D.B.-D., Temcheff, C., Serbin, L.A., Stack, D.M., & Schwartzman, A.E. (2005, June). Cortisol reactivity
research: The impact of the individual. Presented at the Canadian Psychological Association’s annual convention, Montreal, Quebec.
Fisher, D.B.-D., Serbin, L.A., Stack, D.M., Campisi, L., & Schwartzman, A.E. (2005, April). Individual differences
in the stability of diurnal cortisol in middle childhood. Presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for
Research in Child Development, Atlanta, Georgia.
Dunne, E. & Wrosch, C. (2005, September). Regret in later life: Adaptive coping strategies, health, and
psychological well-being. Presented at the conference of the Canadian Coalition for Seniors‚ Mental Health,
Ottawa, Canada.
Fitzpatrick, C., Buchsbaum, R., & Conway, M. (2005, June). Autobiographical memory, warmth, and emotional involvement. Presented at the Canadian Psychological Association convention, Montreal, Quebec.
Dunne, E. & Wrosch, C. (2005, June). Physical health symptoms and negative emotions in older adults: The
effects of goal adjustment capacity across subsequent days. Presented at the annual meeting of the Canadian Psychological Association, Montreal, Quebec.
Fleury-Roy, M.H., Sarrat-Vézina, E., Roy, M., & Bouffard, T. (2006, mars). Anticipations envers le secondaire, anxiété et estime de soi: Différences entre des élèves de 6ème année ayant ou non une illusion
d’incompétence. Société québécoise pour la recherche en psychologie, Montréal, Quebec.
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Forman, D.R. (2005, April). Collaborative motivation: The child’s contribution to reciprocity at age three.
Presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Atlanta, Georgia.
Hastings, P.D., Bellefontaine, S., Parker, R., & Forman, D. (2006, March). Acting and reacting: Family relationships and reciprocal influences in parent-preschooler interactions. In symposium: Les effets des caractéristiques de l’enfant sur le comportement parental au cours de la petite enfance (Chair N. Forget-Dubois),
Societé Québécoise de recherche en psychologie (SQRP), Montréal, Quebec.
Forman, D.R. (2005, February). Compliance, general social responsiveness, and eagerness to learn in very
young children. Department of Educational and Counseling Psychology, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec.
Fraser, S.A., Li, K.Z.H., Penhune, V.B., & DeMont, R.G. (2006, February). Sharing resources, the importance of
attention during the stance phase of the gait cycle. Presented at the first International Conference on Gait
and Mental Function, Madrid, Spain.
Hastings, P.D. (2006, January). Heart is where the home is: Vagal tone and parental socialization of emotion
regulation. In symposium: Building interdisciplinary bridges in developmental research on emotion and
emotion regulation (Chair: Tracy Dennis), 21st Annual Winter Conference on Current Issues in Developmental
Psychobiology, Cabo San Lucas, Mexico.
Fraser, S.A., Li, K.Z.H., Penhune, V.B., & DeMont, R.G. (2005, June). Walking while judging: Cognitive facilitation in younger and older adults during the concurrent performance of cognitive and sensorimotor tasks.
Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Psychological Association, Montréal, Quebec.
Hastings, P.D., Klimes-Dougan, B., Usher, B.A., Bonneville, L., & Zahn-Waxler, C. (2005, April). Subjective emotions and cardiovascular arousal in adolescents with internalizing and externalizing problems. Presented at
the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Atlanta, Georgia.
Fraser, S.A., Li, K.Z.H., Penhune, V.B., & DeMont, R.G. (2005). Cognitive facilitation in dual task performance.
Behavioural, Brain, and Cognitive Science Meeting, Université de Montréal, Montreal, Quebec.
Hastings, P.D. & Sullivan, C.S. (2005, June). Parasympathetic regulation of arousal predicts social behaviour in
children with anxiety problems. In symposium: Advancing the use of psychophysiology to understand developmental psychopathology, 66th Annual Meeting of the Canadian Psychological Association, Montreal, Quebec.
Fréchette, S., Bouffard, T., Brodeur, M., Vezeau, C., Legault, F., Mc Intyre, M. & Roy, M. (2005, avril). What
teachers and preservice teachers think about the usefulness of motivational strategies used in primary classrooms? American Educational Research Association, Washington, DC.
Gilliland, J., Wilson, D., Ross, N.A., Derevensky, J., & Gupta, G. (2005, October). Environmental influences on
youth gambling: Is the deck stacked? Presented to the 4th Annual International Conference on Urban Health,
Toronto, Ontario.
Girouard, N., Jean, A., Moszkowski, R., Stack, D.M., Serbin, L.A., & Schwartzman, A.E. (2006, March). The quality
of mother-infant interactions in fullterm, VLBW preterm, and high risk infants: A longitudinal study. Presented
to the CSBN workshop on Attachment: Causes and consequences, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec.
Girouard, N., Stack, D.M., Serbin, L.A., & Schwartzman, A.E. (2006, mars). Étude longitudinale portent sur
la qualité de la relation mère-enfant, le stress maternal et le temperament du nourrisson auprès de dyads
à risqué. Affiche accepté au 28 Congrès Annuel de la Société Québécoise de Recherche en Psychologie,
Montréal, Québec.
Girouard, N., Stack, D.M., Serbin, L.A., Schwartzman, A.E. & Ledingham, J. (2005, June). A longitudinal, intergenerational investigation of the mother-child relationship in high-risk dyads. Presentation at the Canadian
Psychological Association’s annual convention, Montreal, Quebec.
Gosselin, P., Ladouceur, R., Morin, C., Dugas, M.J., & Baillargeon, L. (2005, November). Efficacy of cognitivebehavioral therapy to facilitate benzodiazepine discontinuation among GAD patients: A randomized clinical
trial using a nonspecific treatment control group. Presented to the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive
Therapies, Washington, DC.
Hastings, P.D., Bellefontaine, S., Parker, R. & Forman, D.R. (2006, March). Acting and reacting: Family relationships and reciprocal influences in parent-preschooler interactions. Presented at the Société Québécoise de
Recherche en Psychologie, Montréal, Quebec.
Hastings, P.D. (2005, May). Nato per correre… via: Le radici biologiche dell’inhibizione della timidezza e
dell’isolamento (Born to run… Away: The biological underpinning of shyness and social withdrawal). Presented at the Department of Psychology, University of Palermo, Sicily.
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Heinecke, N., Koerner, N., Dugas, M.J., & Hedayati, M. (2005, June). The relationship between worry and
processing of negative and ambiguous pictorial stimuli. Presented to the Canadian Psychological Association, Montreal, Quebec.
Howe, N., Karavasilis, L., Aquan-Assee, J., & Rinaldi, C. (2006, March). The role of reciprocal interactions, relationship dynamics, and admiration in predicting sibling intimacy in early adolescence. Society for Research in
Adolescence, San Francisco.
Howe, N., Petrakos, H., Rinaldi, C., & LeFebvre, R. (2005, June). Siblings’ construction of shared meanings in
pretend play and internal state language. Jean Piaget Society, Vancouver, British Columbia.
Howe, N., Recchia, H., & Brody, M-H. (2005, April). Sibling teaching in early and middle childhood: The role of
gender and teacher birth order. Society for Research in Child Development, Atlanta, Georgia.
Howe, N. (2005). You didn’t teach me, you showed me: Variations in children’s approaches to sibling teaching. Department of Educational Psychology, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec.
Jacobs, E., Vukelich, G., & Howe, N. (2005, December). An action model to support children’s guided discovery: How to make observations and interpretations work for you. National Association for the Education of
Young Children, Washington, D.C.
Jacobs, E.V. (2005, June). Full day kindergarten in Alberta. Discussant, annual conference of the Canadian
Society for the Study of Education, London, Ontario.
Jean, A., Girouard, N., Stack, D.M., & Fogel, A. (2006, mars). Le toucher maternel durant les interactions mèrenourrisson: L’influence de l’age du nourrisson et du contexte social. Affiche presenté au 28ième Congrès Annuel
de la Société Québécoise de Recherche en Psychologie, Montréal, Quebec.
Jean, A., Moszkowski, R., Barrieau, L., Girouard, N., & Stack, D.M. (2006, March). Parental and infant touching
behavior during mother-infant and father-infant face-to-face interactions: The influence of parental availability and responsiveness. Presented to the CSBN workshop on Attachment: Causes and consequences, Montreal,
Quebec.
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Jean, A., Moszkowski, R., Girouard, N., & Stack, D.M. (2005, April). The quality of mother-infant and fatherinfant face-to-face interactions: Parental touching behavior across interaction contexts. Presented at the
Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Atlanta, Georgia.
Larouche, M.N., Sarrat-Vézina, E., Côté, S., Roy, M., & Bouffard, T. (2006, mars). Illusion d’incompétence scolaire et syndrome de l’imposteur. Société québécoise pour la recherche en psychologie. Montréal, Quebec.
Julien, D., Fortin, M., & Jodoin, E. (2005, octobre). Liens entre les enfants de familles lesboparentales et leurs
grands-parents : Une analyse comparative entre la France et le Canada. Présentation invitée au colloque
Homoparentalités 2005 : 3ième Conférence Internationale sur l’Homoparentalité, Paris, France.
Laurin, J.C., Ellenbogen, M.A., Schwartzman, A.E., & Linnen, A.M. (2005, October). Emotional information
processing in clinically anxious individuals: A comparison of the “anxious arousal” and “anxious apprehension” categorization of symptoms. 20th Annual Meeting of the Society for Research in Psychopathology, Miami,
Florida. (Presented online due to a hurricane).
Julien, D. (2005, juillet). Lesbian mothers, gay fathers, and their children. Communication présentée dans
le cadre du Symposium invité Your Parent is a What? Lesbians, Gays, and Transsexuals as Moms and Dads, R.
Green (Chair), International Academy of Sex Research, Ottawa, Ontario.
Lawford, H., Doyle, A.B., & Markiewicz, D. (2006, March). Early generativity: An Exploration of caring for
future generations and the desire to leaving a legacy in adolescence. Presented at Society for Research on
Adolescence, San Francisco, California.
Julien, D. (2005, avril). Family systems correlates of relationship quality among lesbian mothers and their
children in Canada. Communication présentée dans le cadre du Symposium invité Lesbian Mothers and
Their Children: New Data from Three Countries, C. Patterson (Chair), Society for Research in Child Development,
Atlanta, Georgia.
Lawford, H., Markiewicz, D., & Doyle, A.B. (2005, March). Turning towards security: How attachment style
contributes to who adolescents turn to. Society for Research in Child Development, Atlanta, Georgia.
Julien, D. (2005, mai). Contrastes urbains/régionaux de l’environnement social des familles homoparentales
au Québec et au Canada. Communication présentée dans le cadre du colloque Homosexualités et régions.
(J. Josi-Levy & D. Julien, Chair), 73ième congrès de l’ACFAS, UQAC, Chicoutimi, Quebec.
Kalmar, M. & Tessier, R. (2005, August). Mother infant interactions in atypical dyads. Symposium presented
at the XIIth European Conference on Developmental Psychology, Tenerife, Spain.
Kamkar, K., Doyle, A.B., & Markiewicz, D. (2005, June). Attachment to parents, self-esteem, and sepression:
Mediating and moderating associations. Presented at the Annual Convention of the Canadian Psychological
Association, Montreal, Quebec.
Li, K.Z.H. (2006, February). Aging and multiple-task performance: interactions between sensorimotor and
cognitive functioning. Invited colloquium presented at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development,
Berlin, Germany.
Li, K.Z.H. (2006, February). Age differences in sequential performance and attentional control. Invited colloquium presented at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany.
Li, K.Z.H. (2005, November). Don’t look back! Age differences in sequential performance and attentional
control. Paper presented at the McGill University Cognitive Area Seminar, Montreal, Quebec.
Li, K.Z.H. & Fraser, S.A. (2005, October). Aging and multiple-task performance: Interactions between sensorimotor and cognitive functioning. Paper presented at the Aging and Speech Communication conference,
Bloomington, Indiana.
Karagiannakis, A., Heath, N.L., Petrakos, H., Finn, C., McLean-Heywood, D., & Rousseau, C. (2005, August).
Qualitative investigation of a three-way school-hospital-university collaboration. Presented at the American
Psychological Association annual convention, Washington, D.C.
Linden-Andersen, S., Markiewicz, D., & Doyle, A.B. (2005, March). Personality similarity in adolescent friendships predicting to well-being. Society for Research in Child Development, Atlanta, Georgia.
Koerner, N., Dugas, M.J., & Hedayati, M. (2005, June). Worry-related cognitive-affective variables and the
processing of ambiguity. In N. Koerner (chair), New approaches to thorny issues in the study of anxiety-related information processing biases. Symposium: Canadian Psychological Association, Montreal, Quebec.
Linden-Andersen, S., Markiewicz, D., Dougan, C., & Doyle, A.B. (2005, June). Perceived versus actual similarity
of personality in adolescent intimate friendships predicting to quality of friendship and depression. Presented at the Annual Convention of the Canadian Psychological Association, Montreal, Quebec.
Koerner, N., Dugas, M.J., Savard, P., Gaudet, A., Turcotte, J., & Marchand, A. (2005, September). Changes in
health care use and work impairment following the delivery of cognitive and behavioural treatments for
generalized anxiety disorder. Open paper: European Association of Behavioural and Cognitive Therapies, Thessaloniki, Greece.
Linnen, A-M, Ellenbogen, M.A., & Hodgins, S. (2005, October). Salivary cortisol levels are associated with ratings of sad mood in response to social interactions: A longitudinal study. 20th Annual Meeting of the Society
for Research in Psychopathology, Miami, Florida. (Presented online due to a hurricane).
Koerner, N. & Dugas, M.J. (2005, September). Worry and content specificity of interpretive biases for ambiguity. Presented to the European Association of Behavioural and Cognitive Therapies, Thessaloniki, Greece.
Kousaie, S. & Phillips, N.A. (2005, September). Bilingualism and aging: Electrophysiological and behavioural
measures of interlingual priming. Presented at the Ninth International Conference on Cognitive Neuroscience
(ICON9), Cubanacan, Playa, Cuba.
Krausz, T., Koerner, N., & Dugas, M.J. (2005, June). Worry-related cognitive processes and their relationships
with mental imagery. Presented to the Canadian Psychological Association, Montreal, Quebec.
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Longo dos Santos, C., Penhune, V.B., & Dellerba, M. (2006). Competition of primary and secondary rules in
a biconditional grammar learning task. Society for Cognitive Neuroscience Annual Meeting, San Francisco,
California.
Longo DosSantos, C. & Penhune, V.B. (2005, August). Learning of secondary rules in a biconditional grammar. Cognitive Neuroscience Annual Meeting. New York, New York.
McGirr, A., Skitch, S., & Abela, J.R.Z. (2005, June). An examination of the hopelessness theory of depression in
third- and seventh-grade schoolchildren: A multi-wave longitudinal study. Presented at the annual convention of the Canadian Psychological Association, Montreal, Quebec.
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McGirr, A., Skitch, S., & Abela, J.R.Z. (2005, June). A test of negative life events importance in third- and
seventh-grade schoolchildren. Presented at the annual convention of the Canadian Psychological Association,
Montreal, Quebec.
Pallanca, D., Duchesne, D., Tessier, R., & Moss, E. (2005, mars). Le développement d’une relation
d’attachement parmi les enfants adoptés à l’étranger: résultats préliminaires. 27ième congrès de la Société
Québécoise de Recherche en psychologie (SQRP), tenu au Mont Ste-Anne, Québec, Québec.
McIntyre, M., Vezeau, C., Bouffard, T., Roy, M., Brodeur, M., & Legault, F. (2005, août). Teachers and students’
judgements of usefulness of motivational strategies. 11th European Conference on Learning and Instruction,
Nicosia, Cyprus.
Parsons, A.L. & Howe, N. (2005, July). Superhero play and boys’ aggressive play. Childhoods 2005: Children
and Youth in Emerging and Transforming Societies, Olso, Norway.
McWhinnie, C.M. & Abela, J.R.Z. (2005, November). Self-critical perfectionism, personal standards perfectionism, and vulnerability to depressive symptoms in youth. Presented at the annual convention of the
Association for the Advancement of Behavior Therapy, Washington DC.
Martin, J., Grunzeweig, N., Stack, D.M., Rayner, V., Serbin, L.A., & Schwartzman, A.E. (2005, April). Maternal
responses to child compliant and noncompliant behavior following maternal requests: A high-risk intergenerational study. Presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Atlanta,
Georgia.
Montero-Odasso, M.M., Bergman, H., Phillips, N.A., Wong, C., Sourial, N., & Chertkow, H. (2006, February).
Slow gait velocity is associated with executive and memory dysfunction in subjects with mild cognitive
impairment. Presented at the International Congress on Gait & Mental Function, Madrid, Spain.
Montero-Odasso, M.M., Bergman, H., Phillips, N.A., Wong, C., Sourial, N., & Chertkow, H. (2006, February). Effect of executive and memory dysfunction on gait performance in a mild cognitive impairment population.
Presented at the American Geriatrics Society Meeting.
Moszkowski, R., Jean, A., Chiarella, C., & Stack, D.M. (2006, March). Infant smiling during early interactions:
Exploring the role of touch. Presentation presented to the Centre for Research in Human Development Annual
conference, Development in the face of challenge, Montreal, Quebec.
Moszkowski, R., Jean, A., & Stack, D.M. (2005, June). Infant smiling as a function of mother and infant tactile
behaviours during early social interactions. Poster presented at the Canadian Psychological Association’s annual convention, Montreal, Quebec.
Moskowski, R., Jean, A., & Stack, D.M. (2005, April). The co-occurrence of maternal and infant touching during early social exchanges. Presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development,
Atlanta, Georgia.
Motzoi, C., Dudeck, M., Doyle, A.B., & Markiewicz, D. (2005, June). Do attachment security and gender
moderate the relation between stressful life events and autonomy in adolescence? A Longitudinal Study.
Presented at the Annual Convention of the Canadian Psychological Association, Montreal, Quebec.
Ostiguy, C. & Abela, J.R.Z. (2005, June). A diathesis-stress test of additive and ‘weakest link’ of cognitive
and interpersonal vulnerabilities in high risk children. Presented at the annual convention of the Canadian
Psychological Association, Montreal, Quebec.
Pagé, G. & Abela, J.R.Z. (2005, June). Attributional styles for positive events as a predictor of recovery from
depression in a sample of high risk children. Poster presented at the annual convention of the Canadian
Psychological Association, Montreal, Qc.
Parsons, A.L. & Howe, N. (2005, June). The effects of superhero toys on boys’ play. Canadian Psychological
Association, Montreal, Quebec.
Parsons, A.L. & Howe, N. (2005, April). Superhero toys and boys’ physically active and imaginative play.
American Educational Research Association, Montreal, Quebec.
Payne, A. & Abela, J.R.Z. (2005, June). Hopelessness depression in schoolchildren: The buffering role of social
support. Presented at the annual convention of the Canadian Psychological Association, Montreal, Quebec.
Payne, A. & Abela, J.R.Z. (2005, June). Protection against depressive reactions in cognitively vulnerable individuals: Social support and the hopelessness theory of depression. Poster presented at the annual convention of the Canadian Psychological Association, Montreal, Quebec.
Penhune, V.B., Longo dos Santos, C., & Robitaille, N. (2006). Consolidation of implicit and explicit learning in
a biconditional grammar task. Society for Cognitive Neuroscience Annual Meeting, San Francisco, California.
Perez, M., Stack, D.M., Serbin, L.A., Schwartzman, A.E., & Ledingham, J. (2005, June). Parenting as a pathway
for the transfer of risk and resilience in a disadvantaged high-risk sample: Impact on the next generation’s
development. Canadian Psychological Association’s annual convention, Montreal, Quebec.
Perez, M., Stack, D.M., Serbin, L.A., Schwartzman, A.E., & Ledingham. J.E. (2005, April). The prediction of
emotional expressiveness and parenting behaviors in a high-risk intergenerational sample. Presented at the
Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Atlanta, Georgia.
Petrakos, H., Finn, C., & Heath, N. (2006, March). Family-school connections and their benefits for children
with behavioral difficulties. Presented at the annual convention of the National Association of School Psychologists, Anaheim, California.
Petrakos, H., Pietraroia, C., Gillis, J., & Kyriakidou, C. (2005, June). Young children’s connectedness to their
mothers and fathers during parent-child joint play. Presented at the annual convention of the Canadian
Psychological Association, Montreal, Quebec.
Petrakos, H., Finn, C., Hunt, M., & Constant, N. (2005, April). Creating family and school support systems for
children with behavioral needs: Research and practice. Comité québécois pour les jeunes en difficulté de comportement, Cowansville, Quebec.
Phillips, N.A. & Matousek, R. (2005, July). The effects of phonological noise on speech processing and working memory in younger and older adults. Paper presented at the symposium on “An updated view of working memory constraints on language,” (D. Titone, chair) at the 15th Annual Conference of the Canadian Society
for Brain, Behaviour and Cognitive Science (CSBBCS), Montreal, Québec.
Phillips, N. (2005, November). Normal aging versus cause to worry: A not-so-fine line. Keynote lecture,
“Where Did I Put My Glasses?”....A Health Forum focusing on memory”; Sponsored by the Nurses Council of
Montreal Hadassah-WIZO.
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Piedboeuf, B., Tessier, R., Ferland, S., St-Amand, P., & Lefebvre, F. (2005, juin). Protocole de suivi systématique
des prématurés de 28 semaines et moins au Québec. Communication présentée au 2ième colloque du Réseau
mère-enfant de la francophonie, tenu à Genève, Suisse.
Recchia, H., Howe, N., & Alexander, S. (2005, April). “You’re determined to fall on your nose”: Children’s
understanding and production of verbal irony in family conversations. Paper for Symposium, What can we
make of what children make of irony? Findings from Canada, US, UK, and Japan, Society for Research in Child
Development, Atlanta, Georgia.
Poulin-Dubois, D. (2005, November). The foundations of the Animate-Inanimate Distinction in Infancy: How
motion gets babies off the ground. McGill Cognitive Area Seminar, McGill University, Montréal, Québec.
Poulin-Dubois, D. (2005, November). L’origine des catégories conceptuelles. Laboratoire Dynamique du
Langage, Institut des Sciences de l’Homme, Université de Lyon, France.
Poulin-Dubois, D. (2005, November). L’émergence des catégories conceptuelles: la distinction animé-inanimé. Invited colloquium, Laboratoire de Psychologie et NeuroCognition, Université Pierre Mendes France,
Grenoble, France.
Poulin-Dubois, D. & Oshima-Takane, Y. (2005, July). Do novel words map to actions or objects? A cross-linguistic study of the noun bias. Presented at the Xth International Congress for the Study of Child Language,
Berlin, Germany.
Poulin-Dubois, D. (2005, June). Infants’ reasoning about others’ intentions, perceptions, and desires. Invited
colloqiuim, Département de psychologie développementale et différentielle, Université de Provence, Aix-enProvence, France.
Poulin-Dubois, D. (2005, June). Mind knowledge in infancy: Agency, animacy and the attribution of psychological states. Invited address at conference in honour of Luigia Camaioni, Communication, language and
typical and atypical development of a theory of mind, University of Rome, Italy.
Poulin-Dubois, D., Olineck, K.M, & Demke, T.L. (2005, April). Infants’ understanding of intentional action and
referential intent: Relation to later theory of mind and concept of animacy. Paper presented in the symposium, « New perspectives on infants’ understanding of intentional action », Biennial Meeting of the Society for
Research in Child Development, Atlanta. Georgia.
Reinharz, D., Tessier, R., & Moutquin, J.M. (2005, juin). Le Réseau québécois de recherche sur le développement, la santé et le bien-être de l’enfant. Communication présentée au 2ième colloque du Réseau mère-enfant
de la francophonie, tenu à Genève, Suisse.
Richmond, C., Ross, N.A., & Egeland, G.M. (2006, March). Social support and health in place: An exploration
among the Canadian Aboriginal population. Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers,
Chicago, Illinois.
Richmond, C., Ross, N.A., & Bernier, J. (2005, October). Dimensions of Métis and Inuit health. Poster presented at the Rural and Northern Health Society Meetings, Québec City, Québec.
Richmond, C., Ross, N.A. & Bernier, J. (2005, July). Dimensions of aboriginal health in Canada. Paper presented to the International Medical Geography Symposium, Fort Worth, Texas.
Richmond, C., Bernier, J., & Ross, N.A. (2005, April). The dimensions of Canadian Aboriginal health. Paper
presented to the Annual Meetings of the American Association of Geographers, Denver, Colorado.
Ross, N.A. (2006, February). Obesity and urban sprawl. Panelist at the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada
Annual Conference: What Are We Eating?, Montréal Quebec.
Ross, N.A. (2005, November). Expert panel on neighbourhoods and place-based policy frameworks. Social
Development Canada, Ottawa, Ontario.
Ross, N.A. (2005, October). Income segregation and neighbourhood effects. Panelist at the 4th Annual International Conference on Urban Health, Toronto, Ontario.
Poulin-Dubois, D., Péloquin, K., & Misrachi, S. (2005, April). Categorization of Animate Being and Inanimate
Objects in 9- and 12-month-old infants. Poster presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in
Child Development, Atlanta, Georgia.
Ross, N.A. (2005, October). The impact of trade agreements on the capacity to address poverty, inequality
and health. Paper presented to the Trade and Health Policy Conference for Human Development (a conference
sponsored by the World Health Organization), Montréal, Quebec.
Poulin-Dubois, D. (2005, February). Infants’ reasoning about others’ intentions, perceptions, and sesires. Invited colloqium, Department of Human Development and Applied Psychology, OISE, University of Toronto, Ontario.
Ross, N.A. (2005, September). Place and health. Panelist at the Canadian Public Health Association Meetings,
Ottawa, Ontario.
Radomsky, A.S., Lavoie, S.L., & Dugas, M.J. (2005, May). An experimental approach to evaluating different
cognitive aspects of compulsive checking in obsessive compulsive disorder. Presented to the Anxiety Disorders Association of Canada, Toronto, Ontario.
Ross, N.A. (2005, April). A critical geography of neighbourhood effects. Session discussant, Annual Meetings
of the American Association of Geographers, Denver, Colorado.
Radomsky, A.S., Lavoie, S.L., & Dugas, M.J. (2005, March). An experimental analysis of the cognitive model of
compulsive checking. Presented to the Anxiety Disorders Association of America, Seattle, Washington.
Ross, N.A. (2005, April). Unpacking the socioeconomic gradient in health: Revealing patterns and processes
of social pathologies in urban Canada. Presentation to the Health Canada Policy Forum, Ottawa, Ontario.
Recchia, H. Howe, N., & Alexander, S. (2005, June). Siblings as teachers: Individual differences in children’s
teaching styles. Jean Piaget Society, Vancouver, British Columbia.
Ross, N.A., Dunn, J.R., & Houle, C. (2005, April). The dynamics of income segregation in the 1990s: A comparison of Canadian and U.S. metropolitan areas. Presented to the Annual Meetings of the American Association
of Geographers, Denver, Colorado.
Recchia, H. & Howe, N. (2005, April). Family talk about internal states and children’s self-serving biases in
recall of sibling conflicts. Society for Research in Child Development, Atlanta, Georgia.
Roy, M., Vaillancourt, M. E., & Bouffard, T. (2005, avril). Correspondence between self-reported and observed
responses to peer-provocation among first and second graders. American Educational Research Association.
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Roy, M. & Bouffard, T. (2006, mars). Perfectionnisme de l’enfant, perception des buts valorisés par ses parents et perception du caractère conditionnel de leur soutien affectif. Société québécoise pour la recherche en
psychologie. Montréal, Quebec.
Sinai, M. & Phillips, N.A. (2005, April). Mild cognitive impairment and task switching: ERP and behavioural
measures. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience Suppl., 223. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive
Neuroscience Society, New York, New York.
Sandberg, J.F. & Rafail, P. (2005, November). Measurement models of women’s status claims in India: extension to hierarchical models. Presented at the University of Western Ontario Demography Colloquium, London,
Ontario.
Skitch, S.A., & Abela, J.R.Z. (2005, November). Alcohol outcome expectancies and emotion-focused coping
as moderators of the relationship between emotion-focused coping and problematic drinking: A longitudinal study. Presented at the annual convention of the Association for the Advancement of Behavior Therapy,
Washington DC.
Sandberg, J.F. (2005, July). Measurement models of women’s autonomy using the 1998/1999 India DHS.
Presented at the meetings of the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP) general
meeting, Tours, France.
Sarrat-Vézina, E., Bouffard, T., Côté, S., & Larouche, M.N. (2006, mars). Le sentiment d’imposteur chez les
enfants du primaire. Société québécoise pour la recherche en psychologie, Montréal, Quebec.
Scala, F. (2005, June). Evidence-based medicine, infertility treatments and the right to parent: The case of
the Royal Commission on new reproductive technologies. Presented at the Annual General Meeting of the
Canadian Political Science Association, London, Ontario.
Scala, F. & Tremblay, R. (2005, March). Making babies, making families: Exploring Canadian policy on reproductive technologies. Presented at the one day conference entitled, “Emerging Issues and Challenges in Public
Policy”. Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec.
Schwartzman, A.E. (2006, March). Skiing the developmental slopes of aggression and withdrawal in childhood: A thirty-year adventure. Invited speaker at the Annual conference on Development in the Face of Challenge, CRDH, Montreal, Quebec.
Schwartzman, A.E., Serbin, L.A., Stack, D.M., Hodgins, S., & Ledingham, J.E. (2005, April). Peer likeability and
psychiatric risk in aggressive and withdrawn children: A 25-year longitudinal perspective. Presented at the
Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Atlanta, Georgia.
Schwartzman, A.E., Serbin, L.A., Stack, D.M., Hodgins, S., & Ledingham, J.E. (2005, April). Peer likeability and
psychiatric risk in aggressive and withdrawn children: A 25-year longitudinal perspective. Presented at the
Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Atlanta, Georgia.
Serbin, L.A. (2005, September). Family dysfunction as a mediator of health risk across generations: A prospective, intergenerational study. Life History Society Meeting, Portland, Oregon.
Serbin, L.A., Temcheff, C., Nachshen, J., Stack, D.M., Hodgins, S., & Schwartzman, A.E. (2005, September).
Family dysfunction as a mediator of health risk across generations: A prospective intergenerational study.
Paper presentation as part of a symposium entitled: The effects of family dysfunction on children’s health
and development: Results from ongoing intergenerational studies. Symposium presented to the Society for
Life History Research on Psychopathology, Portland, Oregon.
Serbin, L.A., Stack, D.M., Schwartzman, A.E., & Ledingham, J.E. (2005, April). Parenting and family stress as
mediators in the transfer of risk for behavioral problems from parent to child. Paper presentation as part of
a symposium entitled: From parent to child: Parenting, family stress, and the intergenerational transfer of
risk for psychopathology. Symposium presented to the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child
Development, Atlanta, Georgia.
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Stack, D.M. (2006, March). Commentatrice, Les effect des caractéristiques de l’enfant sur le comportement
parental au cours de la petite enfance. Symposium presenté au 28ième Congrès Annuel de la Société Québécoise de Recherche en Psychologie, Montréal, Quebec.
Stack, D. (2005, April). Mother and infant touching during social exchanges. Invited Speaker, Touch Research
Institute Symposium Preconference Society for Research in Child Development, Atlanta, Georgia.
Sullivan, C. & Hastings, P.D. (2005, April). Bidirectional influences in the development of parental socialization and preschooler’s internalizing problems. Presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research
in Child Development, Atlanta, Georgia.
Temcheff, C.E., Serbin, L.A., Stack, D.M., Schwartzman, A.E., Hodgins, S. & Ledingham, J.E. (2005, April). Continuity and pathways from aggression in childhood to family violence in adulthood: A 25-year longitudinal
study. Presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Atlanta, Georgia.
Tessier, R., St-Amand, P., Boisclair, A., & Nadeau, L. (2005, August). The impact of “Co-Naître” Intervention
Program on very premature infants: Follow-up at 18 months of corrected age. The XIIth European Conference
on Developmental Psychology, Tenerife, Spain.
Tessier, R., Moss, E., Nadeau, L., Tarabulsy, G.M., & Larose, S. (2005, mars). L’adaptation sociale des enfants de
6 à 18 ans adoptés de l’étranger : Le rôle de l’encadrement parental. 27ième congrès de la Société Québécoise de
Recherche en psychologie (SQRP), tenu au Mont Ste-Anne, Québec, Québec.
Thompson, S. & Jacobs, E.V. (2005, June). Creating shared understanding through documentation: A case
study in the Concordia University observation nursery. The Annual Conference of the American Education
Research Association. Montreal, Quebec.
Tremblay, N., Julien, N., & Chartrand, E. (2005, mai). L’adaptation des jeunes GLB et de leurs parents : Examen
des différences en fonction du type d’agglomération habitée. Communication présentée dans le cadre du
colloque Homosexualités et régions (J. Josi-Levy & D. Julien, Chair), 73ième congrès de l’ACFAS, UQAC, Chicoutimi, Quebec.
Trewartha, K., Li, K.Z.H., & Penhune, V.B. (2006). Age differences in error correction and learning in a multifinger movement task. Society for Cognitive Aging, Atlanta, Georgia.
Utendale, W. & Hastings, P.D. (2005). Comorbid emotional and behavioural problems predict stress responses in children with ADHD. In symposium: Advancing the use of psychophysiology to understand developmental psychopathology. 66th Annual Meeting of the Canadian Psychological Association. Montreal, QC.
Vezeau, C., Chouinard, C., & Bouffard, T. (2005, août). A longitudinal study of student’s theory of intelligence
and achievement goals. 11th European Conference on Learning and Instruction, Chypres.
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Wagner, C., Abela, J.R.Z., & Brozina, K. (2005, June). Measuring stressful life events in children and adolescents: A comparison of a self-report checklist and an objectively-rated interview. Presented at the annual
convention of the Canadian Psychological Association, Montreal, Qc.
Wilson, D., Ross, N.A., & Gilliland J. (2005, July). Neighbourhood contexts and opportunities for youth gambling in Montréal, Québec. Paper presented to the International Medical Geography Symposium, Fort Worth,
Texas.
Wagner, C., Webb, C.A., Skitch, S., & Abela, J.R.Z. (2005, June). Specific vulnerability to depression in children
and early adolescents: A test of the self-esteem buffering hypothesis. Presented at the annual convention of
the Canadian Psychological Association, Montreal, Quebec.
Wilson, D.H., Ross, N.A., & Gilliland, J. (2005, April). Opportunities for risky behaviour at the neighbourhoodlevel: Exploring local geographies of youth gambling in Montréal, Québec. Annual Meetings of the American
Association of Geographers, Denver, Colorado.
Watanabe, D., Penhune, V.B., & Savion-Lemieux, T. (2005, August). The effect of early musical training on
adult motor performance: Evidence for a sensitive period in motor learning. Society for the Neural Control of
Movement, Key Biscayne, Florida.
Wood, W., Conway, M., & Burr, A. (2005, June). Subjective impact, meaning making, and self-defining memories. Presented at the Canadian Psychological Association Convention, Montreal, Quebec.
Watanabe, D., Penhune, V.B., & Savion-Lemieux, T. (2005). Effect of the start of musical training on the acquisition and retention of a temporal motor sequence task. Cognitive Neuroscience Annual Meeting, New York,
New York.
Zelazo, P.R. (2005, February). Developmental psychopathology assessment and treatment of early autism.
Developmental Seminar, McGill University School of Education, Montreal, Quebec.
Webb, C. A., Wagner, C., Adams, P., & Abela, J.R.Z. (2005, November). Dependency, self-criticism, self-esteem,
and negative events as predictors of the course of depressive illness. Presented at the annual convention of
the Association for the Advancement of Behavior Therapy, Washington DC.
Webb, C.A., Abela, J.R.Z., & Brozina, K. (2005, June). The development of cognitive vulnerability to hopelessness depression. Canadian Psychological Association, Montreal, Quebec.
Webb, C.A., Wagner, C., Adams, P., & Abela, J.R.Z. (2005, June). Personality predispositions and the course of
depressive illness: A diathesis-stress perspective. Presented at the annual convention of the Canadian Psychological Association, Montreal, Quebec.
Weinfeld, M. (2005, December). Am I my brother’s keeper? Symposium on Human rights, sponsored by Faculty of Arts, Canadian Ethnic Studies and Faculty of law, Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism. McGill
University, Montreal, Quebec.
Weinfeld, M. (2005, July). Antisemitism in Quebec. Paper presented at the World Congress of Jewish Studies,
Jerusalem.
Weinfeld, M. (2005, April). Cultural Diversity in Canada and the United States. Sociology Department Seminar, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia.
Weinfeld, M. (2005, May). Jewish diasporas: like all other diasporas, but different. Keynote address at the
Jewish Diasporas: Myths and Realities Conference, York University, Toronto, Ontario.
Weston, P., Lawford, H., Doyle, A.B., & Markiewicz, D. (2005, June). Parenting style: The effects of autonomy
granting on the quality of adolescent peer relationships. Presented at the Annual Convention of the Canadian
Psychological Association, Montreal, Quebec.
Wilson, D., Ross, N.A., Gilliland, J., Derevensky, J., & Gupta, R. (2006, March). Modest but modifiable: Neighbourhood effects on youth gambling in Montréal, Québec. Annual Meeting of the Association of American
Geographers, Chicago, Illinois.
Wilson, D., Ross, N.A., & Gilliland, J. (2005, September). Neighbourhood opportunities for youth gambling in
Montréal. Paper presented to the Canadian Public Health Association Meetings, Ottawa, Ontario.
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March 9 & 10, 2006
I
n the beginning of March, the CRDH hosted its second annual conference, bringing
together a stellar cast of researchers and graduate students under the theme of “Development in the Face of Challenge”. Given the longstanding emphasis on development
in high-risk environments and mechanisms of risk and resiliency at the CRDH, this year’s
topic was a veritable success, attracting participants from all of the CRDH affiliated institutions. The success of this event should not be surprising, given the keynote address was given
by Tom Dishion of the University of Oregon. Dr. Dishion is among the pioneers of research
aimed at understanding the development of antisocial behavior and substance abuse in children and adolescents. His stellar work has led to the implementation of effective interventions
and prevention programs that are used around the world. In particular, he and colleagues
have examined the contribution of peer and family dynamics to escalations in adolescent substance use, delinquency, and violence. Dr Dishion’s keynote address, entitled “Deviant by design: Peer dynamics that undermine intervention effectiveness”, described the circumstances
and mechanisms by which unsupervised peer interactions among antisocial youth during an
intervention program can actually impede the success of such a program. More importantly,
he and his colleagues have identified ways of minimizing these effects. Dr. Dishion graciously
accepted to give a second lecture during the conference, entitled “An ecological approach to
family intervention: Effectiveness during developmental transitions”. Here, he outlined the key
components of his multifaceted ecological approach to intervention in antisocial youth.
Development in the Face of Challenge
Thursday, March 9, 2006 / Jeudi, 9 mars 2006
Thomas Dishion, Ph.D. (Director of Research, Child & Family Center, and Department of Psychology, University of Oregon). Deviant by design: Peer dynamics that undermine intervention effectiveness
Friday, March 10, 2006 / Vendredi, 10 mars 2006
Réjean Tessier, Ph.D. (CRDH & Département de psychologie, Université Laval). The cognitive and emotional development of asian adoptees18 months after arrival
Alex E. Schwartzman, Ph.D. (CRDH & Department of Psychology, Concordia University).
Skiing the developmental slopes of aggression and withdrawal in childhood: A thirty-year
adventure
Thomas Dishion, Ph.D. (Director of Research, Child & Family Center, and Department of Psychology, University of Oregon). An ecological approach to family intervention: Effectiveness
during developmental transitions
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Réjean Tessier (CRDH Member from Université Laval) lectured on “The cognitive and emotional
development of Asian adoptees 18 months after arrival”. Dr. Tessier presented the preliminary results of a unique Canadian study which evaluate the health-related, cognitive, social,
and emotional development of international adoptees from the time of arrival in Quebec. In
addition to documenting the consequences of early developmental adversity in infancy, his
work has important implications for social policy on adoption in Quebec. Alex Schwartzman
(CRDH Member from Concordia University) gave a lecture entitled “Skiing the developmental
slopes of aggression and withdrawal in childhood: A thirty year adventure”. Dr. Schwartzman
provided an overview of 30 years of research that follows the trajectories of children identified
as aggressive, withdrawn, and both aggressive and withdrawn in childhood. His talk on this
seminal longitudinal study of high-risk children emphasized the complex multidisciplinary
nature of developmental psychopathology, with a particular emphasis on the relationship between early child behaviour and changes in stress-sensitive biological systems in adulthood.
Overall, the conference successfully navigated the interface between biobehavioral research
in high-risk populations, empirically-informed interventions, and social policy.
Graduate students also had a wonderful opportunity to share their work in three oral and 21
poster presentations. At this years conference, we introduced a new symposium that featured
the research of three of our graduate students. Exceptional talks were given by Anne-Marie
Linnen, Alexa Martin-Storey, and Jonathan Santo (please see below for more information on
the Graduate Student talks). In the poster session, there were 21 presentations featuring research from all CRDH institutions. The presentations truly reflect the variety of interests in the
CRDH, ranging across discipline, language, methodology, and the lifespan. Prizes for the three
best student posters were awarded to (1) Mathieu Roy (UQAM), (2) Sarah Frenkiel-Fishman
(Concordia), and (3) Jacob Nuselovici (Concordia).
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Salivary cortisol levels are associated with ratings of sad mood in response to social interactions: a longitudinal study (AnneMarie Linnen, Mark Ellenbogen, Sheilagh Hodgins, and Julie Laurin)
Abnormal salivary cortisol at awakening has been associated with both externalizing and internalizing problems in youth.
Abnormal levels of cortisol at awakening may therefore be related to impaired interpersonal behaviors, independent of psychopathology. We examined whether cortisol levels sampled at awakening (time 1) would be associated with maladaptive social functioning three years later (time 2). The sample consisted of 25 adolescents, 13 having a parent with bipolar disorder and 12 controls,
ranging from 12 to 16 years of age at time 1. Salivary cortisol was collected at awakening and at 30 and 60 minutes after awakening
over two days. Social functioning was assessed through ratings of sadness following social interactions, averaged over 12 days.
Lower mean cortisol levels at awakening at time 1 were significantly associated to elevated ratings of sadness in response to social
interactions at time 2 (r (25) = -.43, p < .05). However, increased cortisol change (peak minus baseline) from awakening was positively
associated to elevated ratings of sadness during social interactions (r (25) = 0.47, p < .05). Regression analyses revealed that this relationship was independent of psychopathology. These preliminary results imply that a complex pattern of low cortisol at awakening,
followed by a robust cortisol post-awakening response, are prospectively related to maladaptive social functioning in youth.
Early childhood aggression and withdrawal predicts adult neighbourhood perceptions: A longitudinal study using the Concordia
Longitudinal Risk Project (Alexa Martin-Storey, Lisa A. Serbin, Lisa Campisi, Erin Goldberg, Paula Ruttle, and Dale M. Stack)
Plans have already begun for the 2007 Conference which will be
entitled « Health, Poverty, and Human Development », and will
take place on February 8 and 9, 2007. Please join us !
Les préparatifs sont déjà amorcés pour le congrès de 2007
intitulé « Santé, pauvreté et développement humain » qui se
tiendra les 8 et 9 février 2007. Joignez-vous à nous.
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The relationship between early childhood aggression and withdrawal and later neighbourhood perceptions was examined
in a high-risk sample. Previous research indicated that perception of neighbourhood safety was an important predictive factor in a
number of variables related to child functioning. The aim of the current study was to see how early interactional styles influenced
adult neighbourhood perception. A group of 563 individuals who had been part of larger study examining the longitudinal development of children selected by their peers as being particularly aggressive and withdrawn were asked as adults to rate their neighbourhoods. Even after controlling for current and childhood SES variables, higher early aggression predicted the perception of higher
rates of neighbourhood disorder, fear of being victimized in a crime and likelihood of having a neighbour retaliate in response to
verbal correction. High early withdrawal and not having children interacted to predict neighbourhood mobility. Future research
plans on using additional sources of information such as census tract data to assess the neighbourhoods of the participants.
Predicting children’s liking of peers: An examination of care, justice and aggression in children from Colombia and Canada
(Jonathan B. Santo, William M. Bukowski, Luz S. Lopez, and Shari B. Mayman)
The current project examined the predictive strength of children’s peer rated care, justice and aggression on expressed liking. Method: 780 children (mean age = 10.23 years, SD = 1.11; 409 male, 371 female) participated in the current study. Data collection took place in Montreal, Canada (n = 311) and Barranquilla, Columbia (n = 469). Participants were rated by classmates for levels
of justice, care, aggression and their liking of others. Analyses of the predictive ability of the variables and also the effect of rating
a same-sex peer or another sex peer (same/other sex rating) were performed through the use of a multilevel modeling technique.
Results: Perceived care, justice and same/other sex rating significantly positively predicted children’s liking of peers while aggression
was negatively related. Care and justice however were identified as fixed effects while aggression and same/other sex rating were
identified as random effects (variability in these remained to be accounted for). Level 2 analyses revealed that the predictive strength
of the same/other sex rating was related to the sex and the perceived care of the child. To explain, girls and children who were high
in caring showed a significantly stronger effect of the same/other sex rating on attributed liking. Conclusion: The current study
demonstrates that though both perceived care and justice predicted children’s attributed liking of classmates, the predictive validity
of perceived aggression and same/other sex rating are more complex. Further elucidation of the variables remains to be performed.
Factors such as individualism and collectivism and socioeconomic status remain to be explored.
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