Faculty profile
Melanie Dirks
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Research
Latest papers
Early experiences of maternal warmth buffer against effects of proximal stress on neural responses to reward in a sample of adult women.
Journal of affective disorders · 2025
Gender-Based Victimization and Gender Norms Among Adolescent Girls: A Latent Profile Analysis.
Journal of interpersonal violence · 2025
The Slut-Shaming Instrument: Preliminary validation, correlates, and links with psychological distress among adolescent girls.
Journal of research on adolescence : the official journal of the Society for Research on Adolescence · 2023
Latest funding
- $123,144
A multilevel provisions model of positive peer effects
SSHRC · 2025 · Co-investigator
- $309,842
Better Angels: Examining the Development of Prosocial Behaviour and its Associations with Social Well-being
SSHRC · 2025 · Co-investigator
- $672,436
Reducing Unwanted Stress in the Home (RUSH): A prevention program for the children of parents with an affective disorder
CIHR · 2025 · Co-investigator
12 publications.
Early experiences of maternal warmth buffer against effects of proximal stress on neural responses to reward in a sample of adult women.
Sejourne C, Freeman C, Sandre A, Dirks M, Malcolm IB, Ethridge P, Weinberg A
Gender-Based Victimization and Gender Norms Among Adolescent Girls: A Latent Profile Analysis.
Beischel WJ, Martin-Storey A, Lemelin JP, Boutin S, Dirks M, Paquette G
The Slut-Shaming Instrument: Preliminary validation, correlates, and links with psychological distress among adolescent girls.
Martin-Storey A, Dirks M, Paquette G, Boutin S, Dryburgh NSJ, Leduc K, Bolduc ML, Temcheff C
Teen perceptions of adolescent dating violence.
Morrison KE, Hymel S, Craig W, Dirks M, Holfeld B
Adolescents and young adults differ in their neural response to and recognition of adolescent and adult emotional faces.
Sandre A, Morningstar M, Farrell-Reeves A, Dirks M, Weinberg A
Associations between peer stress in early adolescence and multiple event-related potentials elicited during social feedback processing.
Panier L, Ethridge P, Farrell-Reeves A, Punturieri C, Kujawa A, Dirks M, Weinberg A
Family relationship quality during the COVID-19 pandemic: The value of adolescent perceptions of change.
Martin-Storey A, Dirks M, Holfeld B, Dryburgh NSJ, Craig W
Neural response to rewards predicts risk-taking in late but not early adolescent females.
Freeman C, Dirks M, Weinberg A
Early-Life Exposure to Income Inequality and Adolescent Bullying-Reply.
Elgar FJ, Gariepy G, Dirks M
Association of Early-Life Exposure to Income Inequality With Bullying in Adolescence in 40 Countries.
Elgar FJ, Gariepy G, Dirks M, Walsh SD, Molcho M, Cosma A, Malinowska-Cieslik M, Donnelly PD, Craig W
A multilevel provisions model of positive peer effects
Principal investigators: Bukowski, William
Better Angels: Examining the Development of Prosocial Behaviour and its Associations with Social Well-being
Principal investigators: Dunfield, Kristen A.
Reducing Unwanted Stress in the Home (RUSH): A prevention program for the children of parents with an affective disorder
Principal investigators: Ellenbogen, Mark A
Keywords: Bipolar Disorder; Children; Event-Related Potential; Family Envrionment; Internalizing Problems; Major Depressive Disorder; Prevention; Randomized Controlled Trial; Salivary Cortisol; Stress
Mid-Adolescents' Everyday Interactions with Siblings and Best Friends: Associations with Relationship Quality and Well-Being
Principal investigators: Dirks, Melanie A.
Keywords: friendship; sibling relationships; adolescence; interpersonal relationships
Mid-Adolescents' Everyday Interactions with Siblings and Best Friends: Associations with Relationship Quality and Well-Being
Principal investigators: Dirks, Melanie A.
Keywords: friendship; sibling relationships; adolescence; interpersonal relationships
Using the features and dynamics of the peer system to explain the effects of socioeconomic inequality
Principal investigators: Bukowski, William
Keywords: socioeconomic inequality; peer relations; well-being; network analysis; friendship; longitudinal methods
Using the features and dynamics of the peer system to explain the effects of socioeconomic inequality
Principal investigators: Bukowski, William
Keywords: socioeconomic inequality; peer relations; well-being; network analysis; friendship; longitudinal methods
Understanding affective social competence: links between accurate recognition and expression of emotion and support within friendship from pre-adolescence to young adulthood
Principal investigators: Dirks, Melanie A.
Keywords: social skills; friendship; emotional development
Understanding children's and adolescents' emotional experiences of peer injury and their implications for parental responses
Principal investigators: Recchia, Holly E.
Keywords: narrative; conversation; emotional development; social development; peer relations; parenting; conflict; childhood; adolescence
(S)he's being mean to me: what works for whom when responding to aggression by peers
Principal investigators: Dirks, Melanie A.
Keywords: social skills; peer relationships
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
- Jean-Pascal Lemelin and Alexa Martin-Storey: 6 shared papers
- Alexa Martin-Storey and Caroline Temcheff: 6 shared papers
- Anna Weinberg and Melanie Dirks: 4 shared papers
- Alexa Martin-Storey and Melanie Dirks: 3 shared papers
- Jean-Pascal Lemelin and Caroline Temcheff: 2 shared papers
- Alexa Martin-Storey and Brett Holfeld: 2 shared papers
- Geneviève Gariépy and Melanie Dirks: 2 shared papers
- Melanie Dirks and Brett Holfeld: 2 shared papers
- Jean-Pascal Lemelin and Melanie Dirks: 1 shared paper
- Anna Weinberg and Michele Morningstar: 1 shared paper
- Caroline Temcheff and Melanie Dirks: 1 shared paper
- Michele Morningstar and Melanie Dirks: 1 shared paper
- Child and Adolescent Psychology
- Psychology
- Life Span Development
- Centre de recherche
- Education
- Obstétrique et gynécologie
Co-authors at McGill University, colored by department. Thicker lines mean more shared papers; select anyone to open their profile and their own map.
Anna Weinberg
Psychology
4 shared papers, latest 2025
Alexa Martin-Storey
Life Span Development
3 shared papers, latest 2025
Brett Holfeld
Child and Adolescent Psychology
2 shared papers, latest 2023
Geneviève Gariépy
Centre de recherche
2 shared papers, latest 2019
Jean-Pascal Lemelin
Obstétrique et gynécologie
1 shared papers, latest 2025
Caroline Temcheff
Education
1 shared papers, latest 2023
Michele Morningstar
Psychology
1 shared papers, latest 2022
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