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National Ranking
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2021 - Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA)

Overview

Michelle K. Demaray is affiliated with Northern Illinois University in the United States and has a research profile focused on psychology and social sciences, with particular expertise in clinical psychology, social psychology, and education. Their work spans fields that include child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, bullying, victimization, and aggression, as well as youth development and social support.

Demaray's research addresses topics such as COVID-19 and mental health, behavioral and psychological studies, education discipline and inequality, and suicide and self-harm studies. Their contributions have appeared predominantly in journals related to school psychology and social sciences.

Frequent publication venues for Demaray include:

  • Journal of School Psychology
  • School Psychology
  • PsycEXTRA Dataset
  • School Psychology Review
  • International Journal of Bullying Prevention

Recent significant publications by Demaray include:

  • "Deconstructing bullying roles: A longitudinal latent profile analysis of bullying participant behaviors for students in grades 4 through 12," 2021, Journal of School Psychology
  • "COVID-19 Stress and Coping and Associations With Internalizing Problems in 4th Through 12th Grade Students," 2021, School Psychology Review

Other notable papers in the realm of school psychology with related authors include:

  • "Measuring COVID-19-Related Stress Among 4th Through 12th Grade Students," 2021, School Psychology Review
  • "Disability, poverty, and other risk factors associated with involvement in bullying behaviors," 2020, Journal of School Psychology
  • "Past, present, and future of research in school psychology: The biopsychosocial ecological model as an overarching framework," 2020, School Psychology

Demaray has collaborated frequently with several coauthors, including:

  • Christine K. Malecki
  • Julia Ogg
  • Ruth Jeong
  • Kelly N. Clark
  • Morgan A. Eldridge

Their scholarly output is marked by focused investigation into bullying roles and behaviors, emotional and psychosocial development during adolescence, and the impacts of COVID-19 on youth mental health and coping mechanisms.

In recognition of contributions to the field, Demaray was named a Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA) in 2021.

Best Publications

  • What Type of Support Do They Need? Investigating Student Adjustment as Related to Emotional, Informational, Appraisal, and Instrumental Support.

    Christine Kerres Malecki;Michelle Kilpatrick Demaray

  • Measuring perceived social support: Development of the child and adolescent social support scale (CASSS)

    Christine Kerres Malecki;Michelle Kilpatrick Demaray

  • Relationship Between Multiple Sources of Perceived Social Support and Psychological and Academic Adjustment in Early Adolescence: Comparisons Across Gender

    Sandra Yu Rueger;Christine Kerres Malecki;Michelle Kilpatrick Demaray

  • Perceptions of the frequency and importance of social support by students classified as victims, bullies, and bully/victims in an urban middle school

    Michelle Kilpatrick Demaray;Christine Kerres Malecki

  • The Relationship between Perceived Social Support and Maladjustment for Students at Risk.

    Michelle Kilpatrick Demaray;Christine Kerres Malecki

  • Social Support as a Moderator between Victimization and Internalizing-Externalizing Distress from Bullying

    Lisa M. Davidson;Michelle Kilpatrick Demaray

  • Social support as a buffer in the relationship between socioeconomic status and academic performance.

    Christine Kerres Malecki;Michelle Kilpatrick Demaray

  • Critical Levels of Perceived Social Support Associated with Student Adjustment

    Michelle Kilpatrick Demaray;Christine Kerres Malecki

  • The Relationship between Social Support and Student Adjustment: A Longitudinal Analysis.

    Michelle Kilpatrick Demaray;Christine Kerres Malecki;Lisa M. Davidson;Kelly K. Hodgson

  • Social Skills Assessment: A Comparative Evaluation of Six Published Rating Scales.

    Michelle K. Demaray;Stacey L. Ruffalo;John Carlson;R. T. Busse

  • Gender differences in the relationship between perceived social support and student adjustment during early adolescence.

    Sandra Yu Rueger;Christine Kerres Malecki;Michelle Kilpatrick Demaray

  • Students' Ratings of Teacher Support and Academic and Social-Emotional Well-Being.

    Jaclyn E. Tennant;Michelle Kilpatrick Demaray;Christine K. Malecki;Melissa N. Terry

  • New Directions in Social Skills Assessment and Intervention for Elementary and Middle School Students

    Stephen N. Elliott;Christine K. Malecki;Michelle K. Demaray

  • Teachers' Judgments of Students' Academic Functioning: A Comparison of Actual and Predicted Performances

    Michelle K. Demaray;Stephen N. Elliott

  • Cyber victimization in middle school and relations to social emotional outcomes

    Christina F. Brown;Michelle Kilpatrick Demaray;Stephanie M. Secord

  • Families and Schools Together: an experimental analysis of a parent-mediated multi-family group program for American Indian children

    Thomas R. Kratochwill;Lynn McDonald;Joel R. Levin;Holly Young Bear-Tibbetts

  • The Role of Youth's Ratings of the Importance of Socially Supportive Behaviors in the Relationship between Social Support and Self-Concept.

    Michelle Kilpatrick Demaray;Christine Kerres Malecki;Sandra Yu Rueger;Sarah E. Brown

  • Importance Ratings of Socially Supportive Behaviors by Children and Adolescents

    Michelle Kilpatrick Demaray;Christine Kerres Malecki

  • Child and Adolescent Social Support Scale

    C. K. Malecki;M. K. Demaray;S. N. Elliott;P. W. Nolten

  • Bullying Participant Behaviors Questionnaire (BPBQ): Establishing a Reliable and Valid Measure.

    Michelle Kilpatrick Demaray;Kelly Hodgson Summers;Lyndsay N. Jenkins;Lisa Davidson Becker

  • Perceived Social Support by Children with Characteristics of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder.

    Michelle Kilpatrick Demaray;Stephen N. Elliott

  • Stability of peer victimization in early adolescence: effects of timing and duration.

    Sandra Yu Rueger;Christine Kerres Malecki;Michelle Kilpatrick Demaray

Frequent Co-Authors

Christine Kerres Malecki
Christine Kerres Malecki Northern Illinois University
Stephen N. Elliott
Stephen N. Elliott Arizona State University
John H. Kranzler
John H. Kranzler University of Florida
Randy G. Floyd
Randy G. Floyd University of Memphis
Melissa A. Bray
Melissa A. Bray University of Connecticut
Joel R. Levin
Joel R. Levin University of Arizona
Thomas R. Kratochwill
Thomas R. Kratochwill University of Wisconsin–Madison

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