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Pamela Qualter is affiliated with the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom and has contributed extensively to research in psychology, social sciences, and health professions. Their academic work mainly focuses on health disparities and outcomes, psychological well-being and life satisfaction, and health, psychology, and well-being. Other notable research topics include child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, early childhood education and development, COVID-19 and mental health, and aging and gerontology research.

The researcher has published numerous papers, among which some recent works include:

  • Loneliness around the world: Age, gender, and cultural differences in loneliness (2020), Personality and Individual Differences
  • Review: Alleviating loneliness in young people - a meta-analysis of interventions (2020), Child and Adolescent Mental Health
  • Associations of loneliness and social isolation with physical and mental health among adolescents and young adults (2021), Perspectives in Public Health
  • Loneliness, Social Isolation, and Chronic Disease Outcomes (2020), Annals of Behavioral Medicine
  • Would the Real Loneliness Please Stand Up? The Validity of Loneliness Scores and the Reliability of Single-Item Scores (2022), Assessment

Pamela Qualter's frequent co-authors include:

  • Neil Humphrey
  • Lily Verity
  • Margarita Panayiotou
  • Manuela Barreto
  • Christina Victor

Their research has been published in multiple venues, with repeated contributions to the following journals:

  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • European Journal of Public Health
  • Personality and Individual Differences
  • BMC Public Health
  • International Journal of Behavioral Development

Pamela Qualter's scholarly impact spans key subfields such as health, general health professions, clinical psychology, social psychology, and education. Their extensive work in these areas reflects a multidisciplinary approach to issues of mental and physical health, particularly focusing on loneliness, social isolation, and their consequences across different age groups and populations.

Best Publications

  • Loneliness Across the Life Span

    Pamela Qualter;Janne Vanhalst;Rebecca Harris;Eeske Van Roekel

  • Loneliness around the world: Age, gender, and cultural differences in loneliness.

    Manuela Barreto;Christina Victor;Claudia Hammond;Alice Eccles

  • Childhood loneliness as a predictor of adolescent depressive symptoms: an 8-year longitudinal study.

    Pamela Qualter;Stephen L. Brown;Penny Munn;Ken J. Rotenberg

  • Trajectories of loneliness during childhood and adolescence: predictors and health outcomes.

    Pamela Qualter;Stephen Lloyd Brown;K J Rotenberg;J Vanhalst

  • Improving emotional intelligence and emotional self efficacy through a teaching intervention for university students.

    Lorraine Dacre Pool;Pamela Qualter

  • Gender Differences in Loneliness across the Lifespan: A Meta–Analysis:

    Marlies Maes;Marlies Maes;Pamela Qualter;Janne Vanhalst;Wim Van den Noortgate

  • Ability Emotional Intelligence, Trait Emotional Intelligence, and Academic Success in British Secondary Schools: A 5 Year Longitudinal Study.

    Pamela Qualter;Kathryn Jane Gardner;Debbie Pope;Jane Margaret Hutchinson

  • The separateness of social and emotional loneliness in childhood.

    Pamela Qualter;Penny Munn

  • Review: Alleviating loneliness in young people - a meta-analysis of interventions.

    Alice M Eccles;Alice M Eccles;Pamela Qualter

  • Empathy and Bullying: Exploring the Influence of Callous-Unemotional Traits

    Luna C. Muñoz;Pamela Qualter;Gemma Padgett

  • Concurrent and incremental validity of three trait emotional intelligence measures

    Kathryn Jane Gardner;Pamela Qualter

  • Loneliness, Social Isolation, and Chronic Disease Outcomes

    Julie Christiansen;Rikke Lund;Pamela Qualter;Christina Maar Andersen

  • Supporting the Development of Emotional Intelligence Competencies to Ease the Transition from Primary to High School

    Pamela Qualter;HE Whiteley;J Hutchinson;DJ Pope

  • Associations of loneliness and social isolation with physical and mental health among adolescents and young adults

    J Christiansen;P Qualter;K Friis;SS Pedersen

  • The Application of Latent Class Analysis for Investigating Population Child Mental Health: A Systematic Review

    Kimberly J. Petersen;Pamela Qualter;Neil Humphrey

  • Emotional self‐efficacy, graduate employability, and career satisfaction: Testing the associations

    Lorraine Dacre Pool;Pamela Qualter

  • Emotional Intelligence: Review of Research and Educational Implications

    Pamela Qualter;Kathryn J. Gardner;Helen E. Whiteley

  • Loneliness trajectories from middle childhood to pre-adolescence: Impact on perceived health and sleep disturbance

    Rebecca Harris;Pamela Qualter;Sarita Jane Robinson

  • Exploring the factor structure of the CareerEDGE employability development profile

    Lorraine Dacre Pool;Pamela Qualter;Peter J. Sewell

  • Loneliness and implicit attention to social threat: A high-performance electrical neuroimaging study

    Stephanie Cacioppo;Munirah Bangee;Stephen Balogh;Carlos Cardenas-Iniguez

  • Relationships between Machiavellianism, emotional intelligence and theory of mind in children

    Alexandra Barlow;Pamela Qualter;Maria Stylianou

  • Reliability and validity of three screening measures of borderline personality disorder in a nonclinical population

    Kathryn Jane Gardner;Pamela Qualter

  • Ability emotional intelligence, trait emotional intelligence and academic success in British secondary schools

    Pamela Qualter;Kathryn Jane Gardner;Debbie Pope;Jane Margaret Hutchinson

Frequent Co-Authors

Neil Humphrey
Neil Humphrey University of Manchester
Susanne S. Pedersen
Susanne S. Pedersen University of Southern Denmark
Ken J. Rotenberg
Ken J. Rotenberg Keele University
Richard E. Tremblay
Richard E. Tremblay University of Montreal
Manuela Barreto
Manuela Barreto University of Exeter
Luc Goossens
Luc Goossens KU Leuven
Elizabeth J. Austin
Elizabeth J. Austin University of Edinburgh
Michel Boivin
Michel Boivin Université Laval
Sarah M. Coyne
Sarah M. Coyne Brigham Young University

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