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Marlene M. Moretti

Marlene M. Moretti

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Psychology

D-Index
40
Citations
6869
World Ranking
8238
National Ranking
558

Overview

Marlene M. Moretti is affiliated with Simon Fraser University in Canada. Their research primarily focuses on the intersection of psychology and social sciences, with a total of 52 publications in psychology and 27 in social sciences. Within these broader fields, their work is predominantly situated in clinical psychology and social psychology, with additional contributions to safety research, sociology and political science, and public health, environmental, and occupational health.

The main topics addressed in Moretti's research include:

  • Attachment and Relationship Dynamics
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Child Welfare and Adoption
  • Child Abuse and Trauma
  • Family and Disability Support Research
  • Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum
  • Family Dynamics and Relationships

Some of their recent publications are:

  • "Attachment goes to court: child protection and custody issues" (2021), published in Attachment & Human Development
  • "A Systematic Review of Primary and Secondary Callous-Unemotional Traits and Psychopathy Variants in Youth" (2020), published in Clinical Child and Family Psychology Review
  • "Pilot randomized controlled trial of an attachment- and trauma-focused intervention for kinship caregivers" (2021), published in Child Abuse & Neglect
  • "Effect of a parenting intervention on decreasing adolescents' behavioral problems via reduction in attachment insecurity: A longitudinal, multicenter, randomized controlled trial" (2021), published in Journal of Adolescence
  • "Patterns and Predictors of Different Youth Responses to Attachment-Based Parent Intervention" (2021), published in Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology

Moretti has published multiple papers in certain journals, including Attachment & Human Development and Child Psychiatry & Human Development, with three papers in each venue. They have also contributed work to Frontiers in Psychology (2 papers), Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry (2 papers), and Clinical Child and Family Psychology Review (1 paper).

Their frequent collaborators include Natalie Goulter, Lavinia Barone, Stephanie G. Craig, Carlos Sierra Hernandez, and Anna Kristen, with collaboration counts ranging from four to eight papers.

Best Publications

  • Adolescent-parent attachment: Bonds that support healthy development.

    Marlene M Moretti;Maya Peled

  • Relating self-discrepancy to self-esteem: The contribution of discrepancy beyond actual-self ratings

    Marlene M Moretti;E Tory Higgins

  • Childhood and Adolescent Depression: Child-report versus Parent-report Information

    M.M. Moretti;S. Fine;G. Haley;K. Marriage

  • Exposure to maternal vs. paternal partner violence, PTSD, and aggression in adolescent girls and boys

    Marlene M. Moretti;Ingrid Obsuth;Candice L. Odgers;Pratibha Reebye

  • Aggressive and antisocial girls: Research update and challenges

    Candice L. Odgers;Marlene M. Moretti

  • Effectiveness of an attachment-focused manualized intervention for parents of teens at risk for aggressive behaviour: The Connect Program.

    Marlene M. Moretti;Ingrid Obsuth

  • Self-other representations and relational and overt aggression in adolescent girls and boys.

    Marlene M. Moretti;Roy Holland;Sue McKay

  • Own versus Other Standpoints in Self-Regulation: Developmental Antecedents and Functional Consequences:

    Marlene M. Moretti;E. Tory Higgins

  • Cognitive bias and depression in psychiatrically disturbed children and adolescents.

    Glenn M. T. Haley;Stuart Fine;Keith Marriage;Marlene M. Moretti

  • Relationship between Depression and Conduct Disorder in Children and Adolescents

    Keith Marriage;Stuart Fine;Marlene Moretti;Glenn Haley

  • Ruminating on Rumination: are Rumination on Anger and Sadness Differentially Related to Aggression and Depressed Mood?

    Maya Peled;Marlene M. Moretti

  • Rumination on Anger and Sadness in Adolescence: Fueling of Fury and Deepening of Despair

    Maya Peled;Marlene M. Moretti

  • Nipping psychopathy in the bud: an examination of the convergent, predictive, and theoretical utility of the PCL-YV among adolescent girls.

    Candice L. Odgers;N. Dickon Reppucci;Marlene M. Moretti

  • Suicidal Ideation in an Adolescent Clinical Sample: Attachment Patterns and Clinical Implications.

    C M A Jocelyne Lessard;Marlene M. Moretti

  • Examining the science and practice of violence risk assessment with female adolescents.

    Candice L. Odgers;Marlene M. Moretti;N. Dickon Reppucci

  • A latent variable modeling approach to identifying subtypes of serious and violent female juvenile offenders.

    Candice L. Odgers;Marlene M. Moretti;Mandi L. Burnette;Preeti Chauhan

  • Sociotropy, autonomy, and self-discrepancy : Status in depressed, remitted depressed, and control participants

    Nichole Fairbrother;Marlene Moretti

  • Internal Representations of Others in Self-Regulation: A New Look at a Classic Issue

    Marlene M. Moretti;E. Tory Higgins

  • The relation of psychopathy to concurrent aggression and antisocial behavior in high-risk adolescent girls and boys

    Stephanie R. Penney;Marlene M. Moretti

  • An attachment-based intervention for parents of adolescents at risk: mechanisms of change

    Marlene M. Moretti;Ingrid Obsuth;Stephanie G. Craig;Tania Bartolo

  • Child Behavior Checklist

    Marlene M. Moretti;Ingrid Obsuth

Frequent Co-Authors

Candice L. Odgers
Candice L. Odgers University of California, Irvine
N. Dickon Reppucci
N. Dickon Reppucci University of Virginia
E. Tory Higgins
E. Tory Higgins Columbia University
Michael E. Lamb
Michael E. Lamb University of Cambridge
Ofra Mayseless
Ofra Mayseless University of Haifa
Miri Scharf
Miri Scharf University of Haifa
Sheri Madigan
Sheri Madigan University of Calgary
Phillip R. Shaver
Phillip R. Shaver University of California, Davis
Dale T. Miller
Dale T. Miller Stanford University
Marian J. Bakermans-Kranenburg
Marian J. Bakermans-Kranenburg ISPA - University Institute of Psychological, Social and Life Sciences

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