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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2016 - Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA)

Overview

Tina Malti is affiliated with the University of Toronto in Canada. Their research primarily spans psychology and social sciences, with a strong focus on clinical psychology, social psychology, and education. They have contributed extensively to the study of child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, early childhood education and development, as well as issues related to child abuse and trauma.

The main topics covered in their work include:

  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Early Childhood Education and Development
  • Child Abuse and Trauma
  • Bullying, Victimization, and Aggression
  • Neuroendocrine Regulation and Behavior
  • Emotions and Moral Behavior
  • Migration, Health and Trauma

Among recent publications are:

  • "Supporting Child Development Through Parenting Interventions in Low- to Middle-Income Countries: An Updated Systematic Review" (2021) in Frontiers in Public Health
  • "Kindness: a perspective from developmental psychology" (2020) in European Journal of Developmental Psychology
  • "Children and Violence: Nurturing Social-Emotional Development to Promote Mental Health" (2020) in Social policy report
  • "Moral Development in Adolescence" (2021) in Journal of Research on Adolescence
  • "Screening for economic hardship for child welfare-involved families during the COVID-19 pandemic: A rapid partnership response" (2020) in Child Abuse & Neglect

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Tina Malti include:

  • Tyler Colasante
  • Ruth Speidel
  • Marc Jambon
  • Emma Galarneau
  • Joanna Peplak

They have published multiple studies in the following venues:

  • Developmental Psychology
  • The Journal of Genetic Psychology
  • International Journal of Behavioral Development
  • Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology
  • Social Development

Tina Malti's work, grounded in various subfields of psychology, emphasizes clinical aspects as well as social dimensions and educational impact. Their research addresses complex emotional, behavioral, and developmental issues faced by children and adolescents, with implications for mental health, social policy, and intervention strategies.

In recognition of their contributions to psychology, Tina Malti was named a Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA) in 2016.

Best Publications

  • Children's moral motivation, sympathy, and prosocial behavior

    Tina Malti;Michaela Gummerum;Monika Keller;Marlis Buchmann

  • The Relation of Moral Emotion Attributions to Prosocial and Antisocial Behavior: A Meta-Analysis

    Tina Malti;Tobias Krettenauer

  • The multifaceted phenomenon of ‘happy victimizers’: A cross‐cultural comparison of moral emotions

    Monika Keller;Orlando Lourenço;Tina Malti;Henrik Saalbach

  • Group Music Training and Children's Prosocial Skills.

    E. Glenn Schellenberg;Kathleen A. Corrigall;Sebastian P. Dys;Tina Malti

  • The development of moral emotions and moral reasoning.

    Tina Malti;Sophia F. Ongley

  • Moral reasoning and emotion attributions of adolescent bullies, victims, and bully‐victims

    Sonja Perren;Eveline Gutzwiller-Helfenfinger;Tina Malti;Shelley Hymel

  • The Effectiveness of Two Universal Preventive Interventions in Reducing Children's Externalizing Behavior: A Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial.

    Tina Malti;Denis Ribeaud;Manuel P. Eisner

  • The development of moral emotion expectancies and the happy victimizer phenomenon: A critical review of theory and application.

    Tobias Krettenauer;Tina Malti;Bryan W. Sokol

  • School-Based Interventions to Promote Empathy-Related Responding in Children and Adolescents: A Developmental Analysis

    Tina Malti;Maria Paula Chaparro;Antonio Zuffianò;Tyler Colasante

  • Aggressive and prosocial children's emotion attributions and moral reasoning.

    Tina Malti;Luciano Gasser;Marlis Buchmann

  • Children's interpretive understanding, moral judgments, and emotion attributions: Relations to social behaviour

    Tina Malti;Luciano Gasser;Eveline Gutzwiller-Helfenfinger

  • Aggressive and Violent Behavior

    Manuel P. Eisner;Tina Malti

  • The role of moral emotions in the development of children’s sharing behavior.

    Sophia F. Ongley;Tina Malti

  • Children's moral emotions and moral cognition: Towards an integrative perspective

    Tina Malti;Brigitte Latzko

  • Developmental trajectories of sympathy, moral emotion attributions, and moral reasoning: the role of parental support

    Tina Malti;Tina Malti;Nancy Eisenberg;Hyunji Kim;Marlis Buchmann

  • Long-Term Course of Schizophrenic Illness: Bleuler’s Study Reconsidered

    Jiri Modestin;Andreas Huber;Engin Satirli;Tina Malti

  • The Social and Developmental Antecedents of Legal Cynicism

    Amy E. Nivette;Manuel Eisner;Tina Malti;Denis Ribeaud

  • Toward an integrated clinical-developmental model of guilt

    Tina Malti

  • Social judgments and emotion attributions about exclusion in Switzerland.

    Tina Malti;Melanie Killen;Luciano Gasser

  • “Who is worthy of my generosity?” Recipient characteristics and the development of children’s sharing

    Tina Malti;Michaela Gummerum;Sophia Ongley;Maria Chaparro

Frequent Co-Authors

Manuel Eisner
Manuel Eisner University of Cambridge
Denis Ribeaud
Denis Ribeaud University of Zurich
Sonja Perren
Sonja Perren University of Konstanz
Cindy H. Liu
Cindy H. Liu Brigham and Women's Hospital
Melanie Killen
Melanie Killen University of Maryland, College Park
Kenneth H. Rubin
Kenneth H. Rubin University of Maryland, College Park
Ken J. Rotenberg
Ken J. Rotenberg Keele University
Linda Rose-Krasnor
Linda Rose-Krasnor Brock University
David P. Farrington
David P. Farrington University of Cambridge
Nancy Eisenberg
Nancy Eisenberg Arizona State University

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