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Donna Cross is affiliated with the Telethon Kids Institute in Australia and has a significant body of research primarily spanning psychology, social sciences, and medicine. Their work encompasses clinical psychology, social psychology, education, general health professions, and pediatrics, perinatology, and child health.

The primary research topics covered in their publications include bullying, victimization, and aggression; child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development; youth development and social support; behavioral and psychological studies; early childhood education and development; infant development and preterm care; and child development and digital technology.

Some recent papers authored or co-authored by Donna Cross include:

  • LAG3: a novel immune checkpoint expressed by multiple lymphocyte subsets in diffuse large B-cell lymphoma, 2020, Blood Advances
  • "Why don't I look like her?" How adolescent girls view social media and its connection to body image, 2022, BMC Women's Health
  • What Works for Whom in School-Based Anti-bullying Interventions? An Individual Participant Data Meta-analysis, 2022, Prevention Science
  • Combining whole-school and targeted programs for the reduction of bullying victimization: A randomized, effectiveness trial, 2020, Aggressive Behavior
  • A Whole-School Approach to Promoting Staff Wellbeing, 2020, The Australian Journal of Teacher Education

Donna Cross has frequently published in the following venues:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • International Journal of Bullying Prevention
  • BMJ Open
  • Prevention Science

Frequent co-authors in their research include Gina Trapp, Hayley Christian, Jacinta Francis, Kevin Runions, and Leanne Lester.

Best Publications

  • Cyberbullying Versus Face-to-Face Bullying A Theoretical and Conceptual Review

    Julian J Dooley;Jacek Pyzalski;Donna S Cross

  • Bullying in school and cyberspace: Associations with depressive symptoms in Swiss and Australian adolescents

    Sonja Perren;Julian Dooley;Thérèse Shaw;Donna Cross

  • Australian covert bullying prevalence study

    Donna Cross;Therese Shaw;Lydia Hearn;Melanie Epstein

  • Social and Ecological Structures Supporting Adolescent Connectedness to School: A Theoretical Model

    Stacey K. Waters;Donna S. Cross;Kevin C. Runions

  • A social–ecological framework for understanding and reducing cyberbullying behaviours

    Donna Cross;Donna Cross;Amy Barnes;Alana Papageorgiou;Kate Hadwen

  • The Relationship Between School Climate and Mental and Emotional Wellbeing Over the Transition from Primary to Secondary School

    Leanne Lester;Donna Cross

  • Bullying in schools and in cyberspace: Associations with depressive symptoms in Swiss and Australian adolescents

    S Perren;J Dooley;T Shaw;D Cross

  • Current Evidence of Best Practice in Whole-School Bullying Intervention and Its Potential to Inform Cyberbullying Interventions.

    Natasha Pearce;Donna Cross;Helen Monks;Stacey Waters

  • Longitudinal impact of the Cyber Friendly Schools program on adolescents' cyberbullying behavior.

    Donna Cross;Donna Cross;Thérèse Shaw;Kate Hadwen;Patricia Cardoso

  • A longitudinal study of the social and emotional predictors and consequences of cyber and traditional bullying victimisation.

    Donna Cross;Donna Cross;Leanne Lester;Amy Barnes

  • Does the nature of schools matter? An exploration of selected school ecology factors on adolescent perceptions of school connectedness.

    Stacey. Waters;Donna. Cross;Therese. Shaw

  • The Relationship between School Connectedness and Mental Health during the Transition to Secondary School: A Path Analysis.

    Leanne Lester;Stacey K Waters;Donna S Cross

  • Three‐year results of the Friendly Schools whole‐of‐school intervention on children’s bullying behaviour

    Donna Cross;Helen Monks;Margaret Hall;Therese Shaw

  • Cyberbullying in the global playground : research from international perspectives

    Qing Li;Donna Cross;Peter K. Smith

  • The Forms of Bullying Scale (FBS): validity and reliability estimates for a measure of bullying victimization and perpetration in adolescence.

    Therese M Shaw;Julian J Dooley;Donna S Cross;Stephen R Zubrick

  • A three-year evaluation of the know your body program in Inner-City schoolchildren

    Ken Resnicow;Lisa Cohn;Jayne Reinhardt;Donna Cross

  • The prevention of anxiety and depression in children from disadvantaged schools.

    Clare M. Roberts;Robert Kane;Brian Bishop;Donna Cross

  • WHO collaborative study on alcohol education and young people: Outcomes of a four-country pilot study

    Cheryl L. Perry;Marcus Grant;Gunilla Ernberg;Ramon U. Florenzano

  • The Power of Peers: Why Some Students Bully Others to Conform

    Sharyn K Burns;Bruce Maycock;Donna S Cross;Graham Brown

  • Bias in Student Survey Findings from Active Parental Consent Procedures.

    Thérèse Shaw;Donna Cross;Laura T. Thomas;Stephen R. Zubrick;Stephen R. Zubrick

  • National Safe Schools Framework: Policy and practice to reduce bullying in Australian schools

    Donna Cross;Melanie Epstein;Lydia Hearn;Phillip Slee

Frequent Co-Authors

Phillip T. Slee
Phillip T. Slee Flinders University
Christina Salmivalli
Christina Salmivalli University of Turku
Linda A. Jackson
Linda A. Jackson Michigan State University
Ashleigh Lin
Ashleigh Lin Telethon Kids Institute
Kay Bussey
Kay Bussey Macquarie University
David A. Mackey
David A. Mackey University of Western Australia
Jennifer L. Hudson
Jennifer L. Hudson University of New South Wales
Caroline Hunt
Caroline Hunt University of Sydney
Cheryl L. Perry
Cheryl L. Perry The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Lauren J. Breen
Lauren J. Breen Curtin University

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