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Coplan-Lab: 2009-2010

 

Current Students

 

PhD                                  MA               

Mandy Armer                         Amanda Bullock          

Kathleen Hughes                  Adam Kingsbury   

Mila Reichel                           Claire Rowsell

Murrray Weeks                   

                                            

Undergraduate Honours

Katy Hill 

Christopher Hnain 

Jessica Paul   

Malie Teng

 

Research Assistants & Volunteers

Kim Rowan (Lab Coordinator)

Robert Hill

Bihn Tam Le

 

Completed Student Theses

 

PhD

 

Kimberly Arbeau (2008). Are you the right friend for me? The effects of friendships on shy children’s adjustment in middle childhood

 

Adrienne DeBow (2008). I like my class and my class likes me! Links between children’s perceptions of their classroom environment and socio-emotional adjustment.

 

Leanne Findlay (2006). Come out and play: Shyness in childhood and the benefits of sports participation.    

 

Kavita Prakash (2003). A cross-cultural examination of the childhood correlates of shyness in New Delhi, India.

 

Daniel Lagace-Seguin (2001). Fostering emotional and social well-being: Examining the correlates of maternal emotional styles in early childhood.

 

Cherami Wichmann (2001). The social cognitions of withdrawn children.

 

MA  

 

Allison Graham (2009). Exploring the protective role of siblings in shy children’s socio-emotional adjustment.

 

Mila Reichel (2009). The role of gender stereotypes in maternal attitudes and reactions to children’s prosocial, nonsocial, and antisocial behaviours

 

Kathleen Hughes (2008).Too shy to achieve? Clarifying the relation between shyness and academic achievement in childhood.

 

Murray Weeks (2007). Exploring solitude: Differentiating between shyness and social disinterest in middle childhood.

 

Alberta Girardi (2005). Predictors of behavioural treatment outcome for young children with Autism.

 

Kimberly Arbeau (2004). Classroom control and kindergarten teachers' tolerances, beliefs, and responses to child behaviours and misbehaviours.

 

Lori Beckstead (2004). The differential role of protective factors in pure versus mixed syndrome childhood behaviour problems. 

 

Julie Wilson (2004). Exploring conceptual and empirical links between maternal personality, maternal parenting styles, and child well-being. 

 

Mandana Armer (2003). A longitudinal investigation of the stability and outcomes of shyness from preschool to elementary school.

 

Kim O’Neil (2003). Anxious mothers – fussy babies? Relating maternal anxiety to infant temperament.

 

Melissa Madger (2001). Examining the associations between shyness, anxiety, and health problems in preschoolers.

 

Dana Stimpson (2001). Child temperament, social play, and early academic achievement in the kindergarten classroom.

 

Marie-Helene Gavinski-Molina (1999). What children know about social withdrawal: Age-related changes in children's descriptions of socially withdrawn behaviours.

 

Catherine Mills (1999). The friendship quality of aggressive and non-aggressive early adolescents.

 

Caryn Moulton (1998). Child-rearing in the home and in the classroom: Linking daycare teachers' parenting beliefs and classroom practices.

 

Undergraduate Honours (last 3 years)  

 

Laura Doey (2008). Differences in children’s  self- and peer-reported victimization.           

Erica Dutschek (2008). Assessment and implications of social avoidance in childhood.

Adam Kingsbury (2008). Social anxiety and golf performance.

Natalie Langdon (2008). The friendships of shy children in elementary school.     

Kelsey Sheehan (2008).  Teacher-child relationships, shyness, and social outcomes.

 

Kim Bowen (2007). Teacher-child relationships, emotion dysregulation, and child adjustment.

Ross Hogg (2007). Temperament, SES, and young children’s academic achievement.  

Ashley Hunkin (2007). Gender, pragmatic language, and social competence with peers.

Maria Ma (2007). Chinese immigrant children’s attitudes towards socially-withdrawn peers.

Christina Pickett (2007). Maternal neuroticism, child shyness and internalizing problems.

Jenna Robinson (2007). Shyness, teacher-child relationships, and adjustment in Grade 1.

Kim Rowan (2007). Maternal personality, parenting style/ and child outcomes at school.

 

Madelena Arnone (2006), Shyness, social disinterest and adjustment in kindergarten.

Jenna Schleien (2006), Gender differences in the outcomes of maladaptive coping in childhood.

Carla Sowinski (2006), Parental and teacher correlates of self-concept in early childhood.

Carolyn Warrener (2006), Child predictors of teacher-child relationships in kindergarten.

Emily Wheeler (2006), Temperamental dysregulation, coping style and social adjustment