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Simon C. Hunter is affiliated with Glasgow Caledonian University in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the fields of Psychology and Social Sciences, with notable contributions in Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science, General Health Professions, and Health.

The main topics of Simon C. Hunter's research include child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, mental health treatment and access, bullying, victimization and aggression, the impact of technology on adolescents, intimate partner and family violence, health disparities and outcomes, and the relationship between COVID-19 and mental health.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Hunter are Stephen Houghton, David Lawrence, Michael J. Kyron, Susan Rasmussen, and Corinne Zadow. These collaborations have contributed to multiple publications across various journals.

Simon C. Hunter has published multiple papers in respected venues, notably including the Journal of Youth and Adolescence, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, Public Health, Journal of Interpersonal Violence, and PsycTESTS Dataset.

  • The Conceptual and Methodological Mayhem of "Screen Time" (2020), International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • Adolescents' longitudinal trajectories of mental health and loneliness: The impact of COVID-19 school closures (2022), Journal of Adolescence
  • Psychosocial outcomes of mental illness stigma in children and adolescents: A mixed-methods systematic review (2020), Children and Youth Services Review
  • Longitudinal trajectories of mental health and loneliness for Australian adolescents with-or-without neurodevelopmental disorders: the impact of COVID-19 school lockdowns (2022), Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry
  • Feasibility of a Web-Accessible Game-Based Intervention Aimed at Improving Help Seeking and Coping Among Sexual and Gender Minority Youth: Results From a Randomized Controlled Trial (2021), Journal of Adolescent Health

Best Publications

  • Lonely in the crowd: Recollections of bullying

    Mechthild Schäfer;Stefan Korn;Peter K. Smith;Simon C. Hunter

  • Help seeking amongst child and adolescent victims of peer-aggression and bullying: the influence of school-stage, gender, victimisation, appraisal, and emotion

    Simon C. Hunter;James M.E. Boyle;David Warden

  • Appraisal and coping strategy use in victims of school bullying.

    Simon C. Hunter;James M.E. Boyle

  • Perceptions and correlates of peer-victimization and bullying.

    Simon C. Hunter;James M. E. Boyle;David. Warden

  • The Conceptual and Methodological Mayhem of "Screen Time".

    Linda K. Kaye;Amy Orben;David A. Ellis;Simon C. Hunter;Simon C. Hunter

  • The Long-Term Effects of Coping Strategy Use in Victims of Bullying.

    Simon C. Hunter;Joaquin Mora-Merchan;Rosario Ortega

  • Virtually impossible: limiting Australian children and adolescents daily screen based media use.

    Stephen Houghton;Simon C Hunter;Michael Rosenberg;Lisa Wood

  • Reciprocal relationships between trajectories of depressive symptoms and screen media use during adolescence

    Stephen Houghton;David Lawrence;Simon C. Hunter;Michael Rosenberg

  • Perceptions of control in the victims of school bullying: the importance of early intervention

    Simon C. Hunter;James M.E. Boyle

  • Video Games for Children and Adolescents With Special Educational Needs

    Kevin Durkin;James Boyle;Simon Hunter;Gina Conti-Ramsden

  • The emotional impact of cyberbullying

    Ana M. Giménez Gualdo;Simon C. Hunter;Kevin Durkin;Pilar Arnaiz

  • Understanding the correlates of face-to-face and cyberbullying victimization among U.S. adolescents: a social-ecological analysis

    Jun Sung Hong;Jungup Lee;Dorothy L. Espelage;Simon C. Hunter

  • The influence of emotional reaction on help seeking by victims of school bullying

    Simon C. Hunter;Mark G. Borg

  • Predictors of addiction treatment providers' beliefs in the disease and choice models of addiction

    Christopher Russell;John B. Davies;Simon C. Hunter

  • The relative influence of neighbourhood incivilities, cognitive social capital, club membership and individual characteristics on positive mental health.

    Russell Jones;Derek Heim;Simon Hunter;Anne Ellaway

  • Perceived Discrimination, Identification, Social Capital, and Well-Being Relationships With Physical Health and Psychological Distress in a U.K. Minority Ethnic Community Sample

    Derek Heim;Simon C. Hunter;Russell Jones

  • Inteligencia emocional percibida e implicación en diversos tipos de acoso escolar

    Paz Elipe;Rosario Ortega;Simon C. Hunter;Rosario Del Rey

  • Psychosocial Mediators and Moderators of the Effect of Peer-Victimization upon Depressive Symptomatology.

    Simon C. Hunter;Kevin Durkin;Derek Heim;Christine Howe

  • Discriminatory peer aggression among children as a function of minority status and group proportion in school context

    Kevin Durkin;Simon Hunter;Kate A. Levin;Dermot Bergin

  • Assessing Callous Unemotional Traits in Children Aged 7- to 12-Years: A Confirmatory Factor Analysis of the Inventory of Callous Unemotional Traits

    Stephen Houghton;Simon C. Hunter;Jedda Crow

  • The multidimensional anxiety scale for children: A further validation with Australian adolescents with and without ADHD

    Stephen Houghton;Simon C. Hunter;Toby Trewin;Ken Glasgow

Frequent Co-Authors

Stephen Houghton
Stephen Houghton University of Western Australia
David Lawrence
David Lawrence University of Western Australia
Jun Sung Hong
Jun Sung Hong Wayne State University
Kevin Durkin
Kevin Durkin University of Strathclyde
Dorothy L. Espelage
Dorothy L. Espelage University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Annemaree Carroll
Annemaree Carroll University of Queensland
Christine Howe
Christine Howe University of Cambridge
Wai Chen
Wai Chen University of Western Australia
Gina Conti-Ramsden
Gina Conti-Ramsden University of Manchester
Paul Flowers
Paul Flowers University of Strathclyde

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