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Primary Area of Research:

• Risk and Resilience Factors
• Parenting and Child Developmental Outcomes
• Preventative Interventions

Recent Publications:

• Prime, H., Andrews, K., Markwell, A. et al. Positive Parenting and Early Childhood Cognition: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials. Clin Child Fam Psychol Rev 26, 362–400 (2023).
• Harris, M., MacMillan, H., Mepham, J., Joshi, D., Wekerle, C., Atkinson, L., & Gonzalez, A. (2023). Maternal Childhood Maltreatment History and Child Behavior Problems: Developmental Patterns and Mediation via Maternal Depressive Symptoms and Parenting Behavior. Child maltreatment, 28(2), 254–264.
• Andrews, K., Khoury, J. E., Tiwari, A., Kirupaharan, S., & Gonzalez, A. (2023). Maternal History of Child Maltreatment and Household Chaos: Examining the Mediating Role of Maternal and Child Psychopathology. Child maltreatment, 28(2), 221–231.

Current Research Projects:

•  CMAJOpen-2020-0064, “Prevalence of adverse childhood experiences among individuals aged 45 to 85 years: a cross-sectional analysis of the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging”
• MEPP (Maternal Executive Processes & Parenting) Study – a longitudinal study examining the impact of maternal cognitive function on parenting processes and infant cognitive and emotional development (funded by SSHRC)
• Healthy Foundations Study – an adjunct study of the British Columbia Healthy Connections Project (BCHCP), examining the impact of a preventive home visitation intervention – the Nurse Family Partnership, on biological outcomes in infants across the first two years of life (funded by CIHR)
• Postpartum Depression Biological Study (PPD – BioStudy) – examining biological factors (immune and stress system markers and oxytocin) in relation to postpartum depression and parenting processes in new mothers (funded by NARSAD)

Primary Area of Research:

• Poverty-Related Risks on Child Health and Development
• Inequities in Child Health Outcomes
• Clinical and Policy-Level Interventions

Recent Publications:

• Edwards, J., Wang, L., Fuller, A. E., Anderson, K. K., & Georgiades, K. (2023). Comparing youth with vs without outpatient mental health services on subsequent acute mental health care visits. Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology, 58(3), 501–504.
• Duh-Leong, C., Fuller, A. E., Johnson, S. B., Coble, C. A., Nagpal, N., & Gross, R. S. (2023). Social Capital and Sleep Outcomes Across Childhood in United States Families. Academic pediatrics, S1876-2859(23)00001-3.
• Fuller, A. E., Zaffar, N., Cohen, E., Pentland, M., Siddiqi, A., Vandermorris, A., Van Den Heuvel, M., Birken, C. S., Guttmann, A., & de Oliveira, C. (2022). Cash transfer programs and child health and family economic outcomes: a systematic review. Canadian journal of public health = Revue canadienne de sante publique, 113(3), 433–445.

Past Grant/Research Projects:

• Academic Pediatric Association Young Investigator Award for Evidence Based Health Supervision Using Bright Futures , 2017.  Strategies for Improving Care for Children with Special Health Care Needs. Principal Investigator: Fuller AE, with Mentor: Gross RS.  $15,000 USD.
• Academic Pediatric Association Resident Investigator Award, 2012.  Food Insecurity, Nutrition and Body Mass in Early Childhood: A TARGet Kids! Study.  Principal Investigator: Fuller AE, with Mentor: Birken CS.  $2500 USD.

Primary Area of Research

• Health and Mortality
• Demography
• Race, Gender, Sexual Orientation

Primary Area of Research:

• Mental Benefits of Video Games
• Emotion-Regulation Processes
• Developmental Science

Recent Publications:

• Griffioen, N., Scholten, H., Lichtwarck-Aschoff, A. et al. Heterogeneity in some relationships between social media use and emerging adults’ affective wellbeing. Curr Psychol (2022).
• Tuijnman, A., Kleinjan, M., Olthof, M., Hoogendoorn, E., Granic, I., & Engels, R. C. (2022). A Game-Based School Program for Mental Health Literacy and Stigma on Depression (Moving Stories): Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial. JMIR mental health, 9(8), e26615.
• Weerdmeester, J., van Rooij, M. M. J. W., & Granic, I. (2022). Visualization, Self-Efficacy, and Locus of Control in a Virtual Reality Biofeedback Video Game for Anxiety Regulation. Cyberpsychology, behavior and social networking, 25(6), 360–368.

Current Research Projects:

•  Bloombox: A Toolkit for Creating Transformative Tech
  • Creating digital tech—whether it be videogames or apps—that makes a real impact on human flourishing is hard! Luckily, at the GEMH Lab we have amassed many lessons learned, tips, tricks and caveats over the years of our existence. All of which we aim to bring together in the Bloombox: a toolkit for creating transformative tech.
• Nonspecific Factors in Video Games for Mental Health
  • More and more games are designed to promote mental health. If these games are found to be effective, it is important to investigate which factors are responsible for the improvements in mental health. Most often, this type of research focuses on the specific clinical techniques that were designed into the game. However, from the clinical literature it is known that, for instance, expectations, motivation, and one’s mindset about the malleability of symptoms play a major role in positive intervention outcomes. In my project I aim to investigate these nonspecific factors and examine how we can manipulate these factors in order to optimize video games for mental health.

Past Grant/Research Projects:

•  Social Media & Mental Health
  • Social media are immensely popular, and – as it happens – a dense source of social information. In this project, we investigate what sort of information and experiences young people encounter on these social media, and how these things relate to their mental wellbeing, as well as how young people’s momentary wellbeing relates to their social media behaviours.
• European Research Council, 2016-2021.  Video games for the prevention of depression and anxiety: A 21st century approach to emotional and mental health in adolescents.  $683,262.
• Dutch Research Council, 2016-2022.  Journey out of Depression.

Primary Area of Research:

• Social Determinants of Children’s Health
• Early Child Development
• Transition to School for Children with Special Needs

Recent Publications:

• Omand, J. A., Li, X., Keown-Stoneman, C. D. G., Borkhoff, C. M., Duku, E., Lebovic, G., Maguire, J. L., Mamdani, M. M., Parkin, P. C., Reid-Westoby, C., Randall Simpson, J., Tremblay, M. S., Janus, M., Birken, C. S., & TARGet Kids! Study Group (2023). Body Weight at Age Four Years and Readiness to Start School: A Prospective Cohort Study. Childhood obesity (Print), 19(4), 267–281.
• Prime, H., Andrews, K., Markwell, A., Gonzalez, A., Janus, M., Tricco, A. C., Bennett, T., & Atkinson, L. (2023). Positive Parenting and Early Childhood Cognition: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials. Clinical child and family psychology review, 26(2), 362–400.
• Bando, N., Walton, K., O’Connor, D. L., Janus, M., & Unger, S. L. (2023). Examination of school readiness and factors related to developmental vulnerability in children born very low birth weight. Child: care, health and development, 49(3), 444–455.

Current Research Projects:

•  Monitoring of child development at school entry with the Early Development Instrument (EDI) – measuring five core areas of early child development known to be good predictors of adult health, education and social outcomes
• Pan-Canadian Examination of Social Determinants of Children’s Developmental Health – examining the association between developmental health outcomes and socioeconomic and demographic variables according to local geographic areas where children spent their early years
• Fit for School, Fit for Life-Child Health and School Readiness – investigating association between BMI and other health and developmental trajectories (e.g. physical activity, sedentary behaviours, sleep, nutritional risk, etc.) and emotion regulation trajectories in early childhood and school readiness at school entry

Past Grant/Research Projects:

•  Early Development Instrument (EDI)
  • Dr. Janus, together with the late Dr. Dan Offord, has been involved in a community-linked project (School Readiness to Learn Project) developing a measure of children’s readiness to learn at school entry, called the Early Development Instrument (EDI). The focus of this research is to provide communities with the information that will inform them about the state of early childhood development and provide a tool for mobilization of resources. Magdalena and her team have now supported the implementation of the EDI for over 1,000,000 children in Canada, and its adaptation in over a dozen international sites, including developed as well as developing countries, e.g., Australia, USA, Sweden, Brazil, Peru, and Jordan.

Primary Area of Research:

• Sociology of Work and Occupations
• Sociology of Mental Health
• Quantitative Methods

Recent Publications:

• Glavin, P., & Schieman, S. (2022). Dependency and Hardship in the Gig Economy: The Mental Health Consequences of Platform Work. Socius, 8.
• Glavin, P., Bierman, A., & Schieman, S. (2021). Über-Alienated: Powerless and Alone in the Gig Economy. Work and Occupations, 48(4), 399–431.
• Bierman, A., Upenieks, L., Glavin, P., & Schieman, S. (2021). Accumulation of economic hardship and health during the COVID-19 pandemic: Social causation or selection?. Social science & medicine (1982), 275, 113774.

Past Grant/Research Projects:

•  Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, 2018-2020.  Regional Economic Determinants of Canadians’ Transitions into Precarious and Entrepreneurial Self-Employment.  $37,329.
• Canadian Institutes of Health Research, 2010-2019.  Work-Family Demands and Resources and their Implications for Health Among Canadians: Waves 3-5.  $1,656,424.
• Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), 2010.  Demands and Resources in Work and Family Life and their Implications for Stress and Health among Canadians. Principal Investigator: Scott Schieman, $800,240.
• McMaster University Arts Research Board Grant, 2013.  The Meaning and Health Consequences of Job Insecurity Across the Life Course.  Principal Investigator, $6,671.

Primary Area of Research:

• Risk and Resilience of Families in Adversity
• Refugee and Immigrant Children’s Mental Health
• Development and Evaluation of Family-Based Interventions

Recent Publications:

• Sim, A., Ahmad, A., Hammad, L. et al. Reimagining mental health care for newcomer children and families: a qualitative framework analysis of service provider perspectives. BMC Health Serv Res 23, 699 (2023).
• Sim, A., Puffer, E., Ahmad, A. et al. Resettlement, mental health, and coping: a mixed methods survey with recently resettled refugee parents in Canada. BMC Public Health 23, 386 (2023).
• Sim, A., Georgiades, K. Neighbourhood and family correlates of immigrant children’s mental health: a population-based cross-sectional study in Canada. BMC Psychiatry 22, 447 (2022).

Current Research Projects:

• Thriving Together: Art Exhibition
  • A research program led by McMaster University’s Offord Centre for Child Studies that explores the mental health of newcomer children and families in Hamilton is engaging participants beyond data collection through an unexpected method: art.  Through a series of art workshops, study participants reflected on their new lives in Hamilton and their hopes and dreams for the future.

Past Grant/Research Projects:

• Global Parenting Initiative (GPI)
  • As Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences and core faculty of the Global Health Program, Amanda Sim’s research focuses on improving the mental health and well-being of forcibly displaced children and families. Sim recently received a $1.2 million grant from The LEGO Foundation to develop innovative strategies to prevent child maltreatment and promote positive parenting among families displaced by armed conflict at the Thai-Myanmar border.

Current Research Projects:

• Soulful Therapy: a storytelling project where racially Black students share personal narratives on lived experiences relating to race-induced stress using poetry, spoken word, and visual storytelling techniques.

Primary Area of Research:

• Inequities in Child and Adolescent Health
• Immigrant and Refugee Children
• Contextual Influences on Child and Adolescent Health

Recent Publications:

• Emerson, S. D., Petteni, M. G., Puyat, J. H., Guhn, M., Georgiades, K., Milbrath, C., Janus, M., & Gadermann, A. M. (2023). Neighbourhood context and diagnosed mental health conditions among immigrant and non-immigrant youth: a population-based cohort study in British Columbia, Canada. Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology, 58(5), 693–709.
• Sim, A., Ahmad, A., Hammad, L. et al. Reimagining mental health care for newcomer children and families: a qualitative framework analysis of service provider perspectives. BMC Health Serv Res 23, 699 (2023).
• Halladay, J., Georgiades, K., MacKillop, J., Lipman, E., Pires, P., & Duncan, L. (2023). Identifying patterns of substance use and mental health concerns among adolescents in an outpatient mental health program using latent profile analysis. European child & adolescent psychiatry, 1–9.

Current Research Projects:

• Hamilton Youth Study– a study of 1,450 recent immigrant, longer-term immigrant and non-immigrant students Hamilton
• 2014 Ontario Child Health Study – examining the mental health and functioning of 10,530 children in families and neighbourhoods across Ontario
• 2014 Ontario Child Health Study School Mental Health Surveys – a component of the larger 2014 OCHS that will enlist schools across Ontario to study school-level influences on student mental health

Primary Area of Research:

• Masculinity
• Mental Health
• Work-family interface

Recent Publications:

• Shifting toward intensive parenting culture? A comparative analysis of top mommy blogs and dad blogs.  Family Relations.  72:495-514. 2023
• Who Are the Real Team Players in the Sport Marriage?.  Symbolic Interaction.  46:109-112. 2023
• Fathers stepping up? A cross-national comparison of fathers’ domestic labour and parents’ satisfaction with the division of domestic labour during the COVID-19 pandemic.  Journal of Family Studies.  ahead-of-print:1-30. 2023
• “Kareem Hunt cut by the Chiefs for brutalizing woman on video”: online framings of racialized and gendered violence by a professional athlete.  Sport in Society.  25:2323-2338. 2022
• “Why Can’t Boys Be #LikeAGirl?”: Sticky Essentialism and Ambivalent (De)gendering in Fathers’ Online Accounts of Children’s Gender and Sexuality.  Sex Roles: a journal of research.  86:366-378. 2022

Current Research Projects:

• Early Career Scholar Fellowship (2022), The Work and Family Researchers Network
• Insight Development Grant (2020-2022), Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council of Canada
• Standard Research and Research Creation Grant (2019), McMaster University Arts Research Board

Primary Area of Research:

• Environment policy
• Health equity
• Structural determinants of health
• Ecological violence

Recent Publications:

• Addressing Stigma and Promoting Help-Seeking Among African Nova Scotian Youth Experiencing Psychosis and Other Mental Health Problems.  Canadian Journal of Psychiatry.  68:200-207. 2023
  
• Fostering Equity, Diversity, and Cultures of Inclusiveness Through Curricular Development.  Journal of Nursing Education.  60:614-617. 2021
  
• Educators’ strategies for engaging diverse students in undergraduate nursing education programs: a scoping review protocol.  The JBI Database of Systematic Reviews and Implementation Reports.  19:1178-1185. 2021

Primary Area of Research:

• Gender, Sexuality, and Family
• Social Psychology
• Sexuality and Interpersonal Relationships

Recent Publications:

• Joel, S., Maxwell, J. A., Khera, D., Peetz, J., Baucom, B. R. W., & MacDonald, G. (2023). Expect and you shall perceive: People who expect better in turn perceive better behaviors from their romantic partners. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 124(6), 1230–1255.
• Peragine, D. E., Skorska, M. N., Maxwell, J. A., Impett, E. A., & VanderLaan, D. P. (2022). A Learning Experience? Enjoyment at Sexual Debut and the Gender Gap in Sexual Desire among Emerging Adults. Journal of sex research, 59(9), 1092–1109.
• Baxter, A., Maxwell, J. A., Bales, K. L., Finkel, E. J., Impett, E. A., & Eastwick, P. W. (2022). Initial impressions of compatibility and mate value predict later dating and romantic interest. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 119(45), e220692511

Current Research Projects:

•  Her current research focuses on the generalisability of existing findings in the literature, such as examining whether findings hold true across different sexual orientations and socioeconomic statuses.

Past Grant/Research Projects:

•  Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, 2013-2016.  Attachment and detecting positive cues from a romantic partner.  $105,000.
• Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, 2014-2015.  Expectations for sexual frequency in marriage.  $6,000.
• Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, 2011-2012.  The relationship between perceived partner regard and appearance as influenced by attachment anxiety and partner.  $17,500.

Primary Area of Research:

• Work and Stratification
• Job Qualities
• Work-Family Life
• Mental Health
• Quantitative Methods
• Research Methods
• Social Psychology
• Aging and Life Course

Recent Publications:

• Badawy, Philip, J. Accepted for publication. “Unequal Upsides? Status-Based Inequalities in the Relationship between Schedule Control and Job Pressure.” Social Problems.
• Schieman, Scott, Quan Mai, and Philip J. Badawy, and Jasmine Kang. Accepted for publication. “A Forced Vacation? The Psychological Effects of Being Temporarily Laid Off During the COVID-19 Pandemic.” Work and Occupations.
• Schieman, Scott, Philip J. Badawy, and Daniel Hill. 2022. “Did Perceptions of Work-Life Culture Change During the COVID-19 Pandemic?” Journal of Marriage and Family 1- 18.
• Badawy, Philip J., and Scott Schieman. 2021. “Controlling or Channeling Demands? Schedule Control, Job Pressure, and the Work-Family Interface.” Work and Occupations 48(3):320-352. *Nominated for the 2022 Rosabeth Kanter Award for Excellence in Work-Family Research (1 of 17 nominees out of 2,500 considered).