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Research
Latest papers
Perfect image, depressed mood: Pathways from perfectionistic self-presentation to depressive symptoms through online and in-person connectedness among Canadian adolescents.
Journal of research on adolescence : the official journal of the Society for Research on Adolescence · 2025 · senior author
Dynamic changes in perfectionism dimensions and psychological distress among adolescents assessed before and during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Child development · 2023
Assessing changes to adolescent health-promoting behaviors following the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic: A multi-methods exploration of the role of within-person combinations of trait perfectionism.
Personality and individual differences · 2022
Latest funding
- $78,095
Intersecting Identities and the Pressure to be Perfect: Examining the Roles of Gender, Sexuality, Race, and Class in the Manifestation and Experience of Perfectionism in Diverse Emerging Adults
SSHRC · 2025 · Co-investigator
- $484,818
Perfect Performance: Contextual Pressure to Perform Perfectly, Injury Risk, Artistic Expression and Wellbeing in Female Competitive Dancers
SSHRC · 2025 · Principal investigator
- $74,950
Mapping Competitive Dancer Development: A Multidisciplinary Examination of Training Trajectories, Injury, Social Comparison, and Well-being
SSHRC · 2023 · Principal investigator
4 publications.
Perfect image, depressed mood: Pathways from perfectionistic self-presentation to depressive symptoms through online and in-person connectedness among Canadian adolescents.
Blackburn M, Molnar DS, Zinga D
Dynamic changes in perfectionism dimensions and psychological distress among adolescents assessed before and during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Molnar DS, Thai S, Blackburn M, Zinga D, Flett GL, Hewitt PL
Assessing changes to adolescent health-promoting behaviors following the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic: A multi-methods exploration of the role of within-person combinations of trait perfectionism.
Blackburn M, Methot-Jones T, Molnar DS, Zinga D, Spadafora N, Tacuri N
Postpartum depression: we know the risks, can it be prevented?
Zinga D, Phillips SD, Born L
Intersecting Identities and the Pressure to be Perfect: Examining the Roles of Gender, Sexuality, Race, and Class in the Manifestation and Experience of Perfectionism in Diverse Emerging Adults
Principal investigators: Molnar, Danielle S.
Keywords: adjustment; emerging adults; girlhood studies; high achievers; intersectionality; multidisciplinary; perfect; perfectionism; personality; pressure; psychology; sociology; supergirls; top girls; wellbeing
Perfect Performance: Contextual Pressure to Perform Perfectly, Injury Risk, Artistic Expression and Wellbeing in Female Competitive Dancers
Principal investigators: Zinga, Dawn M.
Mapping Competitive Dancer Development: A Multidisciplinary Examination of Training Trajectories, Injury, Social Comparison, and Well-being
Principal investigators: Zinga, Dawn
Keywords: Motion Capture; Movement Analysis; Training Trajectories; Skill Acquisition; Social Comparison; Injury; Ecological Momentary Analysis; Biomechanics; Competitive Dancers; Mental Health and Well-Being
Living with Perfectionism: Through the Eyes of Adolescents and their Parents
Principal investigators: Sirianni Molnar, Danielle
Keywords: perfectionism; psychological distress; mental health; social comparison; dyadic maladjustment; personality; youth; parent; adolescent; dyad
Why do competitive dancers commit to dance? Exploring the lived experiences of young competitive dancers within a motivational framework.
Principal investigators: Zinga, Dawn
Keywords: (1) Competitive dance; (2) Children and youth; (3) Individual differences; (4) Lived experiences; (5) Phenomenology; (6) Commitment to dance; (7) Performance; (8) Engagement and motivation; (9) Parental factors; (10) Social context
Breaking down barriers: first generation students and programming that addresses barriers to post-secondary achievement
Principal investigators: Zinga, Dawn M.
Keywords: first generation youth; transitions; post-secondary education; secondary education; personality; motivation; achievement; self-regulation
Contested Places: Indigeneity and Indigenization within Mainstream Higher Education
Principal investigators: Styres, Sandra
Keywords: (1) Indigeneity; (2) Indigenous Education; (3) First Nations, Métis and Inuit Education; (4) Higher Learning; (5) Transforming Educational Spaces; (6) Indigenous Research Methods; (7) Indigenous Philosophies and Ways of Knowing
Creating a multidisciplinary child and youth research network
Principal investigators: Zinga, Dawn M.
Keywords: children and youth; multidisciplinarity; networking; outreach; graduate students; dissemination; research collaboration
Virtual relations: A collaborative approach to creating culturally aligned blended distance teaching methods within Indigenous contexts
Principal investigators: Zinga, Dawn M.
Contested places creating an indigenous consortium of educators
Principal investigators: Zinga, Dawn M.
Keywords: indigenous education; indigenous students; pedagogy; collaboration; land based education; place and education; contested spaces; methods; school contexts; higher education
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
Frequent collaborators
- Leslie Elana Born and Dawn Zinga: 1 shared paper
- Dawn Zinga and Sabrina Thai: 1 shared paper
- Dance
- Psychiatry & Behavioural Neurosciences
- Social Psychology
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