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Tracy Vaillancourt

Tracy Vaillancourt

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Psychology

D-Index
72
Citations
20548
World Ranking
2059
National Ranking
121

Overview

Tracy Vaillancourt is affiliated with the University of Ottawa in Canada and has an extensive research portfolio within the field of psychology, focusing primarily on clinical psychology and related subfields. Their work includes significant contributions to understanding child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, as well as areas concerning autism spectrum disorder research, bullying, victimization, and aggression.

Their recent papers include:

  • School bullying before and during COVID-19: Results from a population-based randomized design, 2021, published in Aggressive Behavior

While the most cited recent papers in related areas come from coauthors such as Sheri Madigan and Ann H. Farrell, these papers contribute context to the broader research landscape around mental health challenges and developmental issues in youth amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

Frequent coauthors who have collaborated extensively with Vaillancourt include:

  • Isabel M. Smith
  • Lonnie Zwaigenbaum
  • Péter Szatmári
  • Eric Duku
  • Connor M. Kerns

Vaillancourt's work has been published repeatedly in several key venues that focus on developmental and clinical psychology issues, including:

  • Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders
  • Aggressive Behavior
  • Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry
  • Autism
  • Development and Psychopathology

Their research spans main fields and subfields such as:

  • Psychology
  • Clinical Psychology
  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Social Psychology
  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
  • Psychiatry and Mental Health

Key thematic topics in Vaillancourt's research include:

  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Autism Spectrum Disorder Research
  • Family and Disability Support Research
  • Bullying, Victimization, and Aggression
  • Child Development and Digital Technology
  • Child Nutrition and Feeding Issues
  • COVID-19 and Mental Health

This range demonstrates a comprehensive focus on developmental and psychological challenges faced by children and adolescents, including the impact of social environments and health crises such as the COVID-19 pandemic.

Best Publications

  • What Can Be Done About School Bullying?: Linking Research to Educational Practice

    Susan M. Swearer;Dorothy L. Espelage;Tracy Vaillancourt;Shelley Hymel

  • The Development of Physical Aggression from Toddlerhood to Pre-Adolescence: A Nation Wide Longitudinal Study of Canadian Children

    Sylvana M. Côté;Tracy Vaillancourt;John C. LeBlanc;Daniel S. Nagin

  • Long-term adult outcomes of peer victimization in childhood and adolescence: Pathways to adjustment and maladjustment.

    Patricia McDougall;Tracy Vaillancourt

  • Bullying: Are Researchers and Children/Youth Talking about the Same Thing?.

    Tracy Vaillancourt;Patricia McDougall;Shelley Hymel;Amanda Krygsman

  • Bullying Is Power

    Tracy Vaillancourt;Shelley Hymel;Patricia McDougall

  • The joint development of physical and indirect aggression: Predictors of continuity and change during childhood

    Sylvana M. Côté;Tracy Vaillancourt;Edward D. Barker;Daniel Nagin

  • Aggression and social status: the moderating roles of sex and peer‐valued characteristics

    Tracy Vaillancourt;Shelley Hymel

  • Comorbidity of internalizing disorders in children with oppositional defiant disorder.

    Khrista Boylan;Tracy Vaillancourt;Michael Boyle;Peter Szatmari

  • Longitudinal links between childhood peer victimization, internalizing and externalizing problems, and academic functioning: Developmental cascades

    Tracy Vaillancourt;Heather L. Brittain;Patricia McDougall;Eric Duku;Eric Duku

  • The Consequences of Childhood Peer Rejection

    Patricia McDougall;Shelley Hymel;Tracy Vaillancourt;Kay Louise Mercer

  • Developmental Trajectories of Symptom Severity and Adaptive Functioning in an Inception Cohort of Preschool Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder

    Peter Szatmari;Stelios Georgiades;Eric Duku;Teresa A. Bennett

  • School climate, peer victimization, and academic achievement: results from a multi-informant study

    Weijun Wang;Tracy Vaillancourt;Heather L. Brittain;Patricia McDougall

  • Intolerance of sexy peers: intrasexual competition among women

    Tracy Vaillancourt;Tracy Vaillancourt;Aanchal Sharma

  • Investigating Phenotypic Heterogeneity in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Factor Mixture Modeling Approach.

    Stelios Georgiades;Peter Szatmari;Michael Boyle;Steven Hanna

  • Examination of bidirectional relationships between parent stress and two types of problem behavior in children with autism spectrum disorder.

    Anat Zaidman-Zait;Anat Zaidman-Zait;Pat Mirenda;Eric Duku;Peter Szatmari;Peter Szatmari

  • Changes in Depression and Anxiety Among Children and Adolescents From Before to During the COVID-19 Pandemic

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  • Places to Avoid: Population-Based Study of Student Reports of Unsafe and High Bullying Areas at School:

    Tracy Vaillancourt;Heather Brittain;Lindsay Bennett;Steven Arnocky

  • Trajectories and predictors of indirect aggression: results from a nationally representative longitudinal study of Canadian children aged 2-10.

    Tracy Vaillancourt;Jessie L. Miller;Joshua Fagbemi;Sylvana Côté

  • A longitudinal confirmatory factor analysis of indirect and physical aggression: evidence of two factors over time?

    Tracy Vaillancourt;Mara Brendgen;Michel Boivin;Richard E. Tremblay

  • Do human females use indirect aggression as an intrasexual competition strategy

    Tracy Vaillancourt

  • Child physical and sexual abuse in a community sample of young adults: Results from the Ontario Child Health Study

    Harriet L. MacMillan;Masako Tanaka;Eric Duku;Tracy Vaillancourt;Tracy Vaillancourt

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter Szatmari
Peter Szatmari University of Toronto
Lonnie Zwaigenbaum
Lonnie Zwaigenbaum University of Alberta
Isabel M. Smith
Isabel M. Smith Dalhousie University
Eric Duku
Eric Duku McMaster University
Susan E. Bryson
Susan E. Bryson Dalhousie University
Pat Mirenda
Pat Mirenda University of British Columbia
Joanne Volden
Joanne Volden University of Alberta
Wendy Roberts
Wendy Roberts University of Toronto
Charlotte Waddell
Charlotte Waddell Simon Fraser University
Mayada Elsabbagh
Mayada Elsabbagh McGill University

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