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Stephen R. Zubrick

Stephen R. Zubrick

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
87
Citations
23154
World Ranking
242
National Ranking
19

Medicine

D-Index
81
Citations
21275
World Ranking
16770
National Ranking
559

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2017 - Fellow of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Science

Overview

Stephen R. Zubrick is affiliated with the Telethon Kids Institute in Australia. Their research primarily spans the field of Social Sciences, with significant contributions to several subfields including Education, General Health Professions, Sociology and Political Science, Clinical Psychology, and Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health.

Their research topics cover various aspects of child and adolescent development and well-being. Key areas include:

  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Early Childhood Education and Development
  • Child Development and Digital Technology
  • Birth, Development, and Health
  • Health disparities and outcomes
  • Employment and Welfare Studies
  • Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet

Among their recent papers are:

  • Racial discrimination and child and adolescent health in longitudinal studies: A systematic review, 2020, Social Science & Medicine
  • Pets Are Associated with Fewer Peer Problems and Emotional Symptoms, and Better Prosocial Behavior: Findings from the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children, 2020, The Journal of Pediatrics
  • The relationship between dog ownership, dog play, family dog walking, and pre-schooler social-emotional development: findings from the PLAYCE observational study, 2020, Pediatric Research
  • Student mental health and dropout from higher education: an analysis of Australian administrative data, 2023, Higher Education
  • School readiness is more than the child: a latent class analysis of child, family, school and community aspects of school readiness, 2020, Australian Journal of Social Issues

Frequent collaborators include:

  • Francis Mitrou
  • Ha Trong Nguyen
  • Catherine L. Taylor
  • Janeen Baxter
  • Hayley Christian

Stephen R. Zubrick has published multiple papers in several prominent venues such as:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal (10 publications)
  • Australian Journal of Social Issues (3 publications)
  • Ergonomics (3 publications)
  • BMJ Open (2 publications)
  • International Journal for Population Data Science (2 publications)

In addition to journal publications, Zubrick has authored books, including a 2022 publication with Springer International Publishing titled Family Dynamics over the Life Course.

In 2017, they were recognized as a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Science.

Best Publications

  • The mental health of young people in Australia: key findings from the child and adolescent component of the national survey of mental health and well‐being

    Michael G. Sawyer;Fiona M. Arney;Peter A. Baghurst;Jennifer J. Clark

  • Smoking and mental illness: results from population surveys in Australia and the United States

    David Lawrence;David Lawrence;Francis Mitrou;Francis Mitrou;Stephen R Zubrick;Stephen R Zubrick

  • Pregnancy, Delivery, and Neonatal Complications in a Population Cohort of Women With Schizophrenia and Major Affective Disorders

    Assen V. Jablensky;Vera Morgan;Stephen R. Zubrick;Carol Bower

  • The Mental Health of Children and Adolescents: Report on the second Australian Child and Adolescent Survey of Mental Health and Wellbeing

    David Lawrence;Sarah Johnson;Jennifer Hafekost;Katrina Boterhoven de Haan

  • Late language emergence at 24 months: an epidemiological study of prevalence, predictors, and covariates.

    Stephen R. Zubrick;Catherine L. Taylor;Mabel L. Rice;David W. Slegers

  • The role of family and maternal factors in childhood obesity

    Lisa Y Gibson;Susan M Byrne;Susan M Byrne;Elizabeth A Davis;Eve Blair

  • The Western Australian Aboriginal Child Health Survey: Measuring the social and emotional wellbeing of Aboriginal children and young people

    Stephen Zubrick;S.R. Silburn;David Lawrence;F.G. Mitrou

  • The Western Australian Aboriginal Child Health Survey: The Health of Aboriginal Children and Young People

    Stephen Zubrick;David Lawrence;Sven Silburn;E Blair

  • Preschool Psychopathology Reported by Parents in 23 Societies: Testing the Seven-Syndrome Model of the Child Behavior Checklist for Ages 1.5-5

    Masha Y. Ivanova;Thomas M. Achenbach;Leslie A. Rescorla;Valerie S. Harder

  • Prevention of Child Behavior Problems Through Universal Implementation of a Group Behavioral Family Intervention

    Stephen R. Zubrick;Kristine A. Ward;Sven R. Silburn;David Lawrence

  • Western Australian Child Health Survey: Developing Health and Well-being in the Nineties

    S.R. Zubrick;S.R. Silburn;A. Garton;P.R. Burton

  • The association between dietary patterns and mental health in early adolescence

    Wendy H Oddy;Monique Robinson;Gina L Ambrosini;Therese A O'Sullivan

  • Language Outcomes of 7-Year-Old Children With or Without a History of Late Language Emergence at 24 Months

    Mabel L. Rice;Catherine L. Taylor;Stephen R. Zubrick

  • The influence of the neighborhood physical environment on early child health and development: A review and call for research

    Hayley Christian;Stephen R Zubrick;Sarah Foster;Billie Giles-Corti

  • Key findings from the second Australian Child and Adolescent Survey of Mental Health and Wellbeing.

    David Lawrence;Jennifer Hafekost;Sarah E Johnson;Suzy Saw

  • International comparisons of behavioral and emotional problems in preschool children: parents' reports from 24 societies.

    Leslie A. Rescorla;Thomas M. Achenbach;Masha Y. Ivanova;Valerie S. Harder

  • Encouraging walking for transport and physical activity in children and adolescents: how important is the built environment?

    Billie Giles-Corti;Sally F. Kelty;Stephen R. Zubrick;Karen P. Villanueva

  • The long-term effects of breastfeeding on child and adolescent mental health: A pregnancy cohort study followed for 14 years

    Wendy H. Oddy;Garth E. Kendall;Garth E. Kendall;Jianghong Li;Jianghong Li;Peter Jacoby

  • Early vocabulary development: The importance of joint attention and parent-child book reading:

    Brad M Farrant;Stephen R Zubrick

  • Introducing the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children

    Ann Sanson;Jan Nicholson;Judy Ungerer;Stephen Zubrick

  • Comparisons of problems reported by youths from seven countries

    Frank C. Verhulst;Thomas M. Achenbach;Jan van der Ende;Nese Erol

Frequent Co-Authors

David Lawrence
David Lawrence University of Western Australia
Fiona J. Stanley
Fiona J. Stanley Telethon Kids Institute
Carol Bower
Carol Bower Telethon Kids Institute
Michael G. Sawyer
Michael G. Sawyer University of Adelaide
Wendy H. Oddy
Wendy H. Oddy University of Tasmania
James G. Scott
James G. Scott QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute
Hayley Christian
Hayley Christian University of Western Australia
Jan M. Nicholson
Jan M. Nicholson La Trobe University
Jianghong Li
Jianghong Li Social Science Research Center Berlin
Andrew J. O. Whitehouse
Andrew J. O. Whitehouse Telethon Kids Institute

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