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| Tracy VaillancourtSummaryAffiliation: University of Ottawa Country: Canada Publications
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Intolerance of sexy peers: intrasexual competition among womenTracy Vaillancourt
University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Aggress Behav 37:569-77. 2011..Results indicated that as hypothesized, women did not want to introduce her to their boyfriend, allow him to spend time alone with her, or be friends with her. Findings from both studies are discussed in terms of evolutionary theory...- Psychopathy and indirect aggression: the roles of cortisol, sex, and type of psychopathyTracy Vaillancourt
Faculty of Education and School of Psychology, University of Ottawa, Canada
Brain Cogn 77:170-5. 2011..Cortisol was not related to indirect aggression. Results are discussed from both an evolutionary and developmental perspective... - Peer victimization, depressive symptoms, and high salivary cortisol predict poorer memory in childrenTracy Vaillancourt
Faculty of Education and School of Psychology, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Brain Cogn 77:191-9. 2011..These findings highlight that peer abuse is harmful and may impact children's long-term mental health and memory functioning... - Androgen dynamics in the context of children's peer relations: an examination of the links between testosterone and peer victimizationTracy Vaillancourt
Department of Psychology, Neuroscience and Behaviour, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Aggress Behav 35:103-13. 2009..Sex differences are discussed in terms of empirically validated differences in coping styles, as girls tend to internalize, whereas boys tend to externalize, their abuse... - Variation in hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis activity among bullied and non-bullied childrenTracy Vaillancourt
Department of Psychology, Neuroscience and Behaviour, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Aggress Behav 34:294-305. 2008.... - Influence of reporting effects on the association between maternal depression and child autism spectrum disorder behaviorsTeresa Bennett
Offord Center for Child Studies, Mc Master University, Hamilton, ON, Canada
J Child Psychol Psychiatry 53:89-96. 2012..Using structural equation modeling, we disaggregated shared from unique variation in the association between latent variable measures of maternal depression and ASD behaviors... - Confirmatory factor structure of anxiety and depression: evidence of item variance across childhoodKhrista R Boylan
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Int J Methods Psychiatr Res 20:194-202. 2011..However, items indicating factors of anxiety and depression in the NLSY may not be sufficient to permit developmentally-sensitive measurement of these factors... - Perceived maternal stress during pregnancy and its relation to infant stress reactivity at 2 days and 10 months of postnatal lifeEman Leung
McMaster University, Ontario, Canada
Clin Pediatr (Phila) 49:158-65. 2010..Although the negative impact of maternal stress during pregnancy on stress reactivity in offspring is well documented in nonhuman animals, we know little about these relations in humans and their lasting effects... - Trajectories and predictors of indirect aggression: results from a nationally representative longitudinal study of Canadian children aged 2-10Tracy Vaillancourt
McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Aggress Behav 33:314-26. 2007..Although this study provides unique information regarding the early development of indirect aggression and its predictors, more longitudinal research is needed to fully understand its development... - Shyness, sociability, and eating problems in a non-clinical sample of female undergraduatesJessie L Miller
Department of Psychology, Neuroscience and Behaviour, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Eat Behav 9:352-9. 2008..These findings extend earlier work on shyness to another form of psychopathology (i.e., eating problems) not previously examined in a non-clinical sample... - Relation between childhood peer victimization and adult perfectionism: are victims of indirect aggression more perfectionistic?Jessie L Miller
Department of Psychology, Neuroscience and Behaviour, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Aggress Behav 33:230-41. 2007..Discussion addresses the implications of these results, which hold importance for both the bullying and perfectionism literatures... - Modeling the bullying prevention program design recommendations of students from grades five to eight: a discrete choice conjoint experimentCharles E Cunningham
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Aggress Behav 37:521-37. 2011..The simulated introduction of mandatory uniforms, surveillance cameras, and long suspensions reduced overall support for a comprehensive program, particularly among students involved as bullies or bully-victims... - The measurement of "eating-disorder-thoughts" and "eating-disorder-behaviors": Implications for assessment and detection of eating disorders in epidemiological studiesJessie L Miller
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences, McMaster University, 1200 Main Street West, Chedoke Site, Central building, 3rd Floor, Hamilton, Ontario L8N 3Z5, Canada
Eat Behav 10:89-96. 2009.... - Linking oppositional behaviour trajectories to the development of depressive symptoms in childhoodKhrista Boylan
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences, McMaster University, 1200 Main Street West, Hamilton, ON, L8N 3Z5, Canada
Child Psychiatry Hum Dev 43:484-97. 2012..Of all children who developed depressive symptoms, all had moderate or high levels of pre-existing oppositional symptoms. Oppositional symptoms typically precede, or co-occur with depressive symptoms in childhood... - Comorbidity of internalizing disorders in children with oppositional defiant disorderKhrista Boylan
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences, McMaster University, 1200 Main St West, Hamilton, ON, Canada, L8N 3Z5
Eur Child Adolesc Psychiatry 16:484-94. 2007..This could have important implications for the treatment of these ODD children and the prevention of sequential comorbidity... - Neuroticism and introversion: a risky combination for disordered eating among a non-clinical sample of undergraduate womenJessie L Miller
Department of Psychology, Neuroscience and Behaviour, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Eat Behav 7:69-78. 2006..Thus, a combination of neuroticism and introversion may be a risk-factor for symptoms of eating disorders in a non-clinical sample of university women... - Phenotypic overlap between core diagnostic features and emotional/behavioral problems in preschool children with autism spectrum disorderStelios Georgiades
Offord Centre for Child Studies, McMaster University, 1200 Main St W, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
J Autism Dev Disord 41:1321-9. 2011..This exploratory study contributes to our understanding of the ASD phenotype and provides further support for including emotional/behavioral problems as part of the clinical characterization of children with ASD... - Modeling the bullying prevention program preferences of educators: a discrete choice conjoint experimentCharles E Cunningham
Offord Centre for Child Studies, McMaster Children s Hospital, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada
J Abnorm Child Psychol 37:929-43. 2009.... - A longitudinal confirmatory factor analysis of indirect and physical aggression: evidence of two factors over time?Tracy Vaillancourt
Department of Psychology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Child Dev 74:1628-38. 2003..Findings did not support the notion that maturation is associated with changes in the ways children aggress but rather suggest that children are consistent in the type of aggression they use over time, whether it be indirect or physical...