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Michele L. Ybarra is affiliated with Johns Hopkins University in the United States. Their research spans multiple interconnected fields including psychology, social sciences, and health professions. They have contributed notably to the subfields of general health professions, clinical psychology, social psychology, health, and gender studies.

The primary topics covered in their work include adolescent sexual and reproductive health, LGBTQ health, identity, and policy, intimate partner and family violence, HIV/AIDS research and interventions, sexual assault and victimization studies, sexuality, behavior, and technology, as well as suicide and self-harm studies.

Michele L. Ybarra has authored research published in several well-regarded journals, with frequent publications appearing in:

  • Journal of Interpersonal Violence
  • Journal of Adolescent Health
  • Prevention Science
  • PEDIATRICS
  • AIDS and Behavior

Their recent papers include:

  • "Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Perceptions of Health and Well-Being Among Sexual and Gender Minority Adolescents and Emerging Adults" (2021) in LGBT Health
  • "An mHealth Intervention for Pregnancy Prevention for LGB Teens: An RCT" (2021) in PEDIATRICS
  • "Youth Characteristics Associated With Sexual Violence Perpetration Among Transgender Boys and Girls, Cisgender Boys and Girls, and Nonbinary Youth" (2022) in JAMA Network Open
  • "Iterative Development of In This toGether, the First mHealth HIV Prevention Program for Older Adolescents in Uganda" (2020) in AIDS and Behavior

Co-authors frequently collaborating with Michele L. Ybarra include:

  • Kimberly J. Mitchell
  • Elizabeth Saewyc
  • Victoria L. Banyard
  • Kimberly L. Goodman
  • Ida Frugård Strøm

Best Publications

  • Online aggressor/targets, aggressors, and targets: a comparison of associated youth characteristics

    Michele L. Ybarra;Kimberly J. Mitchell

  • Youth Engaging in Online Harassment: Associations with Caregiver-Child Relationships, Internet Use, and Personal Characteristics.

    Michele L. Ybarra;Kimberly J. K. Mitchell

  • Examining the Overlap in Internet Harassment and School Bullying: Implications for School Intervention

    Michele L. Ybarra;Marie Diener-West;Philip J. Leaf

  • Online “predators” and their victims: Myths, realities, and implications for prevention and treatment

    Janis Wolak;Simon David Finkelhor;Kimberly J. Mitchell;Michele L. Ybarra

  • Examining characteristics and associated distress related to Internet harassment: findings from the Second Youth Internet Safety Survey.

    Michele L. Ybarra;Kimberly J. Mitchell;Janis Wolak;David Finkelhor

  • Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale: Review and Revision (CESD and CESD-R).

    William W. Eaton;Corey Smith;Michele Ybarra;Carles Muntaner

  • Linkages between Depressive Symptomatology and Internet Harassment among Young Regular Internet Users

    Michele L. Ybarra

  • Exposure to internet pornography among children and adolescents: a national survey.

    Michele L. Ybarra;Kimberly J. Mitchell

  • Online "predators" and their victims: myths, realities, and implications for prevention and treatment.

    Janis Wolak;David Finkelhor;Kimberly J. Mitchell;Michele L. Ybarra

  • The Relative Importance of Online Victimization in Understanding Depression, Delinquency, and Substance Use:

    Kimberly J Mitchell;Michele L Ybarra;David Finkelhor

  • How risky are social networking sites? A comparison of places online where youth sexual solicitation and harassment occurs.

    Michele L. Ybarra;Kimberly J. Mitchell

  • Help seeking behavior and the Internet: a national survey.

    Michele L. Ybarra;Michael Suman

  • Gender Minority Social Stress in Adolescence: Disparities in Adolescent Bullying and Substance Use by Gender Identity

    Sari L Reisner;Emily A Greytak;Jeffrey T Parsons;Michele L Ybarra

  • Prevalence and frequency of Internet harassment instigation: implications for adolescent health.

    Michele L. Ybarra;Kimberly J. Mitchell

  • The Co-occurrence of Internet Harassment and Unwanted Sexual Solicitation Victimization and Perpetration: Associations with Psychosocial Indicators

    Michele L. Ybarra;Dorothy L. Espelage;Kimberly J. Mitchell

  • Defining and measuring cyberbullying within the larger context of bullying victimization.

    Michele L Ybarra;Danah Boyd;Danah Boyd;Josephine D Korchmaros;Jay Koby Oppenheim

  • Depressive symptomatology, youth Internet use, and online interactions: a national survey

    Michele L. Ybarra;Cheryl Alexander;Kimberly J. Mitchell

  • Reasons, assessments and actions taken: sex and age differences in uses of Internet health information

    Michele Ybarra;Michael Suman

  • Internet-based mental health interventions

    Michele L. Ybarra;William W. Eaton

  • Internet Prevention Messages Targeting the Right Online Behaviors

    Michele L. Ybarra;Kimberly J. Mitchell;David Finkelhor;Janis Wolak

Frequent Co-Authors

Kimberly J. Mitchell
Kimberly J. Mitchell University of New Hampshire
Brian Mustanski
Brian Mustanski Northwestern University
Jeffrey T. Parsons
Jeffrey T. Parsons City University of New York
David Finkelhor
David Finkelhor University of New Hampshire
Elizabeth M. Saewyc
Elizabeth M. Saewyc University of British Columbia
Dorothy L. Espelage
Dorothy L. Espelage University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Margaret Rosario
Margaret Rosario City University of New York
Jennifer Langhinrichsen-Rohling
Jennifer Langhinrichsen-Rohling University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Sari L. Reisner
Sari L. Reisner University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Lisa M. Jones
Lisa M. Jones University of New Hampshire

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