Eleonora Gullone
Biographic Data
| ID | 104290 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Eleonora Gullone |
| GIVEN NAMES | Eleonora |
| FAMILY NAME | Gullone |
| SIGNATURE | GULLONE E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Monash University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 119 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 30 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Why Eating Animals Is Not Good for Us
This article focuses on the animal cruelty, health, psychological and social consequences, as well as environmental consequences of an animal-based diet. Animals are intensively bred and raised in factory farms in the most inhumane ways. By far, the greatest numbers of animals reared and killed by humans every year is for human consumption. The numbers are estimated to be greater than 56 billion animals globally. The cruelty involved in the inten…
Augmenting Cognitive Behavior Therapy for School Refusal with Fluoxetine: A Randomized Controlled Trial
Risk Factors for the Development of Animal Cruelty
Research shows that animal cruelty shares many of the aetiologial pathways and risk factors that have been shown for other aggressive behaviors. The shared aetiology not only aids understanding of the co-occurrence that has been documented between animal cruelty and other aggressive and antisocial crimes, it also highlights the dangers over and above those to animals that are lurking where animal cruelty offenders remain unidentified and their cr…
An Evaluative Review of Theories Related to Animal Cruelty
The two dominant theories relating to animal cruelty are critically reviewed. These are (1) the violence graduation hypothesis and (2) the deviance generalization hypothesis. The outcomes indicate very high consistency with the broader antisocial behavior and aggression literature, which is large and very robust. This strongly supports the validity of the animal cruelty theory proposals. Proposals that animal cruelty is one of the earliest indica…
The Emotion Regulation Questionnaire for Children and Adolescents (ERQ–CA): A psychometric evaluation.
Despite the recognized importance of emotion regulation (ER) for healthy psychological development, ER research has focused predominantly on the developmental periods of infancy, early childhood, and adulthood, while the middle childhood to adolescence years have been relatively neglected. An obstacle to ER research during these periods is the paucity of valid age-appropriate measures. This study reports on the psychometric evaluation of the Emot…
Child and Adolescent Emotion Regulation: The Role of Parental Emotion Regulation and Expression
The normative development of emotion regulation strategy use in children and adolescents: A 2‐year follow‐up study
Background: Emotion regulation involves intrinsic and extrinsic processes responsible for managing one’s emotions toward goal accomplishment. Research on emotion regulation has predominantly focused on early developmental periods and the majority of emotion regulation research examining the pre‐adult years has lacked a comprehensive theoretical framework. The current study examined the use of two strategies of emotion regulation during childhood …
Mindful emotion regulation: An integrative review
A Case-Control Study of Emotion Regulation and School Refusal in Children and Adolescents
The current study aimed to investigate emotion regulation (ER) strategy use in a sample of 21 clinic-referred children and adolescents (10-14 years old) presenting with school refusal, all of whom were diagnosed with at least one anxiety disorder. Being the first known study to examine ER and school refusal, hypotheses were guided by previous research on anxiety. It was hypothesized that the school refusal sample would report less healthy ER stra…
Prosocial and Antisocial Behaviors in Adolescents: An Investigation into Associations with Attachment and Empathy
The normal development of empathy has been proposed to be imperative to the healthy emotional and social functioning of youths. In contrast, compromised levels of empathy have been linked to an increased propensity to engage in antisocial behaviors, including animal cruelty. Previous findings have revealed parent attachment to be intrinsically linked to the development of empathy. This association has been shown to play a role in predicting the e…
The clinical significance of loneliness: A literature review
An Investigation into the Association between the Witnessing of Animal Abuse and Adolescents' Behavior toward Animals
Research (Baldry, 2003; Flynn, 1999, 2000a; Henry, 2004) has linked witnessing abuse to nonhuman animals with the committal of such acts. This study reports frequency data based on adolescents' self-reported witnessing of animal abuse and involvement in animal-directed behaviors. The study investigates associations between witnessing abuse and engaging in both positive and negative animal-directed behaviors. 281 adolescents, 12-18 years of age, c…
The Inventory of Parent and Peer Attachment?Revised (Ippa-R) for children: A psychometric investigation
Despite the importance of attachment theory in developmental research, there is an absence of valid and reliable tools with which to assess attachment beyond infancy and prior to late adolescence. To address this issue the present investigation reports on the revision and psychometric evaluation of the Inventory for Parent and Peer Attachment (IPPA, Armsden & Greenberg, 1987), a measure of attachment developed for use with older adolescents and y…
Risk taking and HIV/Aids among young people in Cameroon: Prediction of vulnerability using the adolescent Risk-Taking Questionnaire
The aim of this study was to assess the reliability and validity of the Adolescent Risk-Taking Questionnaires (ARQ) (Gullone, Moore, Moss, & Boyd, 2000) with Cameroon adolescents, and to evaluate the measure as a screening device for those at risk of HIV/AIDS. Participants were 234 adolescents (79 boys, 155 girls) attending schools in Cameroon (mean age 13.6 years). The ARQ scale items, minus the thrill-seeking items (assessed as culturally inapp…
The Children's Treatment of Animals Questionnaire (CTAQ): A Psychometric Investigation
Recognizing the importance of increasing the levels of children's humane behavior toward animals other than humans relates to the developing of valid and reliable measures of such behavior. This study reports the psychometric properties of the Children's Treatment of Animals Questionnaire (CTAQ), which assesses children's humane behavior toward nonhuman animals. The findings, based on self-reports by 61 elementary school children (25 boys; 36 gir…
Promotion of empathy and prosocial behaviour in children through humane education
While the importance of normative levels of empathy and prosocial behaviour is becoming increasingly recognised, it has been suggested that modern western industrialised society is not conducive to the promotion of empathy development in children. Related to this, it has been proposed that one method for contributing to the building of empathy is to encourage direct contact with animals. The rationale for this is the belief that by developing a b…
The proposed benefits of incorporating non-human animals into preventative efforts for Conduct Disorder
Conduct disorder (CD) is among the most intractable mental health problems and has been found to be increasingly prevalent throughout childhood, and into adolescence. Although many of the behaviors that comprise CD have been researched, there has been limited focus on preventative interventions for childhood conduct problems. This article reviews risk factors for the development of CD, which include the characteristics of early-starting conduct-d…
The development of normal fear
The Adolescent Risk-Taking Questionnaire: Development and Psychometric Evaluation
Compared to other life periods, adolescence is characterized by a heightened potential for risky behaviors. This study reports the systematic development and psychometric evaluation of a comprehensive Adolescent Risk-Taking Questionnaire (ARQ). It was developed using reports of 570 adolescents and was psychometrically evaluated with a sample of 925 adolescents between 11 and 18 years of age. Principal components analyses yielded a four-factor ris…
The fear survey schedule for children — ii (fssc-ii): Validity data as a treatment outcome measure
This article extends previous research on the development and evaluation of a fear survey schedule for children. It was predicted that children diagnosed with an anxiety or other internalising disorder would report fewer fears, a lower intensity of fear and different fear content following treatment, whereas the same changes would not be observed in a control group. A total of 34 children, aged 5 to 15 years, who presented with school-refusal beh…
The relationship between perceived family environment and psychological wellbeing: Mother, father, and adolescent reports
Previous research has established a link between adolescents' self-reported levels of wellbeing and their perceptions of family environment. In particular, family environments described as being high in control and conflict but low in cohesion have been related with low self-esteem and high depression. The present study represents an extension of research in this area. Data comprise reports from a sample of 42 nonclinical adolescents and their tw…
The Relationship between Self-Esteem and Parenting Style: A Cross-Cultural Comparison of Australian and Vietnamese Australian Adolescents
Within Western cultures, self-esteem consistently has been demonstrated to be inversely related with parenting styles characterized by low levels of acceptance and high levels of overprotection (i.e., affectionless control). Although in traditional collectivist cultures there may be a preference for this parenting style, within a strong collectivist framework it is not thought to have a negative impact on self-esteem. However, for immigrant adole…
Screening an Australian community sample for risk of postnatal depression
This exploratory study on the transition to motherhood focused on screening a community sample of Australian women to identify those mothers at risk of having postnatal depression. Seventy-one first-time mothers completed the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale approximately 6 weeks after childbirth. The results indicated that 35.2% of the first-time mothers in the sample required further investigation. That is, approximately 35% of the communit…
Fear of Weight Gain: Its Correlates among School-Aged Adolescents
Correlations between fear of weight gain, dieting, risk-taking, and fears associated with adult status were observed for 110 school-aged adolescents
Validity Studies the Comprehensive Quality of Life Scale (Comqol): Instrument Development and Psychometric Evaluation on College Staff and Students
This article describes the development and validation of a new 35-item, multidimensional Comprehensive Quality of Life Scale (ComQol). Psychometric properties of the scale are described. Consistency between the data yielded by the scale and findings reported in the literature are argued to support the validity of the instrument. It is concluded that ComQol constitutes a unique and comprehensive measure of the quality of life construct
Promotion of empathy and prosocial behaviour in children through humane education
While the importance of normative levels of empathy and prosocial behaviour is becoming increasingly recognised, it has been suggested that modern western industrialised society is not conducive to the promotion of empathy development in children. Related to this, it has been proposed that one method for contributing to the building of empathy is to encourage direct contact with animals. The rationale for this is the belief that by developing a b…
Prosocial and Antisocial Behaviors in Adolescents: An Investigation into Associations with Attachment and Empathy
The normal development of empathy has been proposed to be imperative to the healthy emotional and social functioning of youths. In contrast, compromised levels of empathy have been linked to an increased propensity to engage in antisocial behaviors, including animal cruelty. Previous findings have revealed parent attachment to be intrinsically linked to the development of empathy. This association has been shown to play a role in predicting the e…
The Adolescent Risk-Taking Questionnaire: Development and Psychometric Evaluation
Compared to other life periods, adolescence is characterized by a heightened potential for risky behaviors. This study reports the systematic development and psychometric evaluation of a comprehensive Adolescent Risk-Taking Questionnaire (ARQ). It was developed using reports of 570 adolescents and was psychometrically evaluated with a sample of 925 adolescents between 11 and 18 years of age. Principal components analyses yielded a four-factor ris…
The Relationship between Self-Esteem and Parenting Style: A Cross-Cultural Comparison of Australian and Vietnamese Australian Adolescents
Within Western cultures, self-esteem consistently has been demonstrated to be inversely related with parenting styles characterized by low levels of acceptance and high levels of overprotection (i.e., affectionless control). Although in traditional collectivist cultures there may be a preference for this parenting style, within a strong collectivist framework it is not thought to have a negative impact on self-esteem. However, for immigrant adole…
The Children's Treatment of Animals Questionnaire (CTAQ): A Psychometric Investigation
Recognizing the importance of increasing the levels of children's humane behavior toward animals other than humans relates to the developing of valid and reliable measures of such behavior. This study reports the psychometric properties of the Children's Treatment of Animals Questionnaire (CTAQ), which assesses children's humane behavior toward nonhuman animals. The findings, based on self-reports by 61 elementary school children (25 boys; 36 gir…
An Investigation into the Association between the Witnessing of Animal Abuse and Adolescents' Behavior toward Animals
Research (Baldry, 2003; Flynn, 1999, 2000a; Henry, 2004) has linked witnessing abuse to nonhuman animals with the committal of such acts. This study reports frequency data based on adolescents' self-reported witnessing of animal abuse and involvement in animal-directed behaviors. The study investigates associations between witnessing abuse and engaging in both positive and negative animal-directed behaviors. 281 adolescents, 12-18 years of age, c…
The relationship between perceived family environment and psychological wellbeing: Mother, father, and adolescent reports
Previous research has established a link between adolescents' self-reported levels of wellbeing and their perceptions of family environment. In particular, family environments described as being high in control and conflict but low in cohesion have been related with low self-esteem and high depression. The present study represents an extension of research in this area. Data comprise reports from a sample of 42 nonclinical adolescents and their tw…
A Case-Control Study of Emotion Regulation and School Refusal in Children and Adolescents
The current study aimed to investigate emotion regulation (ER) strategy use in a sample of 21 clinic-referred children and adolescents (10-14 years old) presenting with school refusal, all of whom were diagnosed with at least one anxiety disorder. Being the first known study to examine ER and school refusal, hypotheses were guided by previous research on anxiety. It was hypothesized that the school refusal sample would report less healthy ER stra…
The fear survey schedule for children — ii (fssc-ii): Validity data as a treatment outcome measure
This article extends previous research on the development and evaluation of a fear survey schedule for children. It was predicted that children diagnosed with an anxiety or other internalising disorder would report fewer fears, a lower intensity of fear and different fear content following treatment, whereas the same changes would not be observed in a control group. A total of 34 children, aged 5 to 15 years, who presented with school-refusal beh…
Screening an Australian community sample for risk of postnatal depression
This exploratory study on the transition to motherhood focused on screening a community sample of Australian women to identify those mothers at risk of having postnatal depression. Seventy-one first-time mothers completed the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale approximately 6 weeks after childbirth. The results indicated that 35.2% of the first-time mothers in the sample required further investigation. That is, approximately 35% of the communit…
Test anxiety in children and adolescents
This paper selectively reviews the literature on test anxiety in children and adolescents. Following discussion of the deleterious effects of test anxiety and its prevalence in schools, we examine various factors that contribute to the development of this condition. Test anxiety is also considered in relation to childhood anxiety disorders, with concern being noted for reliability and validity of diagnostic practices. With regard to measures of t…
The proposed benefits of incorporating non-human animals into preventative efforts for Conduct Disorder
Conduct disorder (CD) is among the most intractable mental health problems and has been found to be increasingly prevalent throughout childhood, and into adolescence. Although many of the behaviors that comprise CD have been researched, there has been limited focus on preventative interventions for childhood conduct problems. This article reviews risk factors for the development of CD, which include the characteristics of early-starting conduct-d…
Assessing the fears of children with disability using the Revised Fear Survey Schedule for Children: A comparative study
This study compared the self‐reported fears of children with disability using the Fear Survey Schedule for Children ‐ Revised (FSSC‐R). Children with intellectual disability reported a significantly greater number of fears than children with no disability, children with hearing impairment and children with visual impairment. Also the children with intellectual disability reported more idiosyncratic fears related to the unknown, injury and small a…
Fear of Aids: Self-Reports of Australian Children and Adolescents
Using a self-report questionnaire, we assessed fear of AIDS in Australian children and adolescents. Recently, the participants had been subjected to a community education program featuring frightening televised advertisements. A high level of fear was reported by 65.9% of the respondents. Girls reported a significantly greater mean fear than boys. Fear of AIDS was not significantly influenced by developmental factors. Given the design and measure…
Student Perceptions of Permissiveness and Teacher‐instigated Disciplinary Strategies
S ummary . Using a self‐report questionnaire, we examined the perceptions of 616 primary and secondary school students of permissiveness and disciplinary strategies. Acceptability ratings formed the dependent variable. The most acceptable strategy was individual student‐teacher discussion, followed by exclusionary time out, then physical punishment, and least acceptable was permissiveness. Also examined was the influence of the misbehaviour situa…
Test anxiety in children and adolescents
This paper selectively reviews the literature on test anxiety in children and adolescents. Following discussion of the deleterious effects of test anxiety and its prevalence in schools, we examine various factors that contribute to the development of this condition. Test anxiety is also considered in relation to childhood anxiety disorders, with concern being noted for reliability and validity of diagnostic practices. With regard to measures of t…
Acceptability of Alternative Treatments for School Refusal: Evaluations by Students, Caregivers, and Professionals
S ummary . School refusal is a debilitating condition that may be treated in various ways. This study examined the acceptability and perceived effectiveness of alternative treatments for school refusal. A total of 376 people comprising students, parents, and professionals, were required to evaluate several treatment options in relation to a vignette. Despite its potential aversiveness, behavioural management was the most acceptable treatment appr…
Validity Studies the Comprehensive Quality of Life Scale (Comqol): Instrument Development and Psychometric Evaluation on College Staff and Students
This article describes the development and validation of a new 35-item, multidimensional Comprehensive Quality of Life Scale (ComQol). Psychometric properties of the scale are described. Consistency between the data yielded by the scale and findings reported in the literature are argued to support the validity of the instrument. It is concluded that ComQol constitutes a unique and comprehensive measure of the quality of life construct
Assessing the fears of children with disability using the Revised Fear Survey Schedule for Children: A comparative study
This study compared the self‐reported fears of children with disability using the Fear Survey Schedule for Children ‐ Revised (FSSC‐R). Children with intellectual disability reported a significantly greater number of fears than children with no disability, children with hearing impairment and children with visual impairment. Also the children with intellectual disability reported more idiosyncratic fears related to the unknown, injury and small a…
Fear of Weight Gain: Its Correlates among School-Aged Adolescents
Correlations between fear of weight gain, dieting, risk-taking, and fears associated with adult status were observed for 110 school-aged adolescents
Screening an Australian community sample for risk of postnatal depression
This exploratory study on the transition to motherhood focused on screening a community sample of Australian women to identify those mothers at risk of having postnatal depression. Seventy-one first-time mothers completed the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale approximately 6 weeks after childbirth. The results indicated that 35.2% of the first-time mothers in the sample required further investigation. That is, approximately 35% of the communit…
The relationship between perceived family environment and psychological wellbeing: Mother, father, and adolescent reports
Previous research has established a link between adolescents' self-reported levels of wellbeing and their perceptions of family environment. In particular, family environments described as being high in control and conflict but low in cohesion have been related with low self-esteem and high depression. The present study represents an extension of research in this area. Data comprise reports from a sample of 42 nonclinical adolescents and their tw…
The Relationship between Self-Esteem and Parenting Style: A Cross-Cultural Comparison of Australian and Vietnamese Australian Adolescents
Within Western cultures, self-esteem consistently has been demonstrated to be inversely related with parenting styles characterized by low levels of acceptance and high levels of overprotection (i.e., affectionless control). Although in traditional collectivist cultures there may be a preference for this parenting style, within a strong collectivist framework it is not thought to have a negative impact on self-esteem. However, for immigrant adole…
The development of normal fear
The Adolescent Risk-Taking Questionnaire: Development and Psychometric Evaluation
Compared to other life periods, adolescence is characterized by a heightened potential for risky behaviors. This study reports the systematic development and psychometric evaluation of a comprehensive Adolescent Risk-Taking Questionnaire (ARQ). It was developed using reports of 570 adolescents and was psychometrically evaluated with a sample of 925 adolescents between 11 and 18 years of age. Principal components analyses yielded a four-factor ris…
The fear survey schedule for children — ii (fssc-ii): Validity data as a treatment outcome measure
This article extends previous research on the development and evaluation of a fear survey schedule for children. It was predicted that children diagnosed with an anxiety or other internalising disorder would report fewer fears, a lower intensity of fear and different fear content following treatment, whereas the same changes would not be observed in a control group. A total of 34 children, aged 5 to 15 years, who presented with school-refusal beh…
The Children's Treatment of Animals Questionnaire (CTAQ): A Psychometric Investigation
Recognizing the importance of increasing the levels of children's humane behavior toward animals other than humans relates to the developing of valid and reliable measures of such behavior. This study reports the psychometric properties of the Children's Treatment of Animals Questionnaire (CTAQ), which assesses children's humane behavior toward nonhuman animals. The findings, based on self-reports by 61 elementary school children (25 boys; 36 gir…
Promotion of empathy and prosocial behaviour in children through humane education
While the importance of normative levels of empathy and prosocial behaviour is becoming increasingly recognised, it has been suggested that modern western industrialised society is not conducive to the promotion of empathy development in children. Related to this, it has been proposed that one method for contributing to the building of empathy is to encourage direct contact with animals. The rationale for this is the belief that by developing a b…
The proposed benefits of incorporating non-human animals into preventative efforts for Conduct Disorder
Conduct disorder (CD) is among the most intractable mental health problems and has been found to be increasingly prevalent throughout childhood, and into adolescence. Although many of the behaviors that comprise CD have been researched, there has been limited focus on preventative interventions for childhood conduct problems. This article reviews risk factors for the development of CD, which include the characteristics of early-starting conduct-d…
Risk taking and HIV/Aids among young people in Cameroon: Prediction of vulnerability using the adolescent Risk-Taking Questionnaire
The aim of this study was to assess the reliability and validity of the Adolescent Risk-Taking Questionnaires (ARQ) (Gullone, Moore, Moss, & Boyd, 2000) with Cameroon adolescents, and to evaluate the measure as a screening device for those at risk of HIV/AIDS. Participants were 234 adolescents (79 boys, 155 girls) attending schools in Cameroon (mean age 13.6 years). The ARQ scale items, minus the thrill-seeking items (assessed as culturally inapp…
The Inventory of Parent and Peer Attachment?Revised (Ippa-R) for children: A psychometric investigation
Despite the importance of attachment theory in developmental research, there is an absence of valid and reliable tools with which to assess attachment beyond infancy and prior to late adolescence. To address this issue the present investigation reports on the revision and psychometric evaluation of the Inventory for Parent and Peer Attachment (IPPA, Armsden & Greenberg, 1987), a measure of attachment developed for use with older adolescents and y…
The clinical significance of loneliness: A literature review
An Investigation into the Association between the Witnessing of Animal Abuse and Adolescents' Behavior toward Animals
Research (Baldry, 2003; Flynn, 1999, 2000a; Henry, 2004) has linked witnessing abuse to nonhuman animals with the committal of such acts. This study reports frequency data based on adolescents' self-reported witnessing of animal abuse and involvement in animal-directed behaviors. The study investigates associations between witnessing abuse and engaging in both positive and negative animal-directed behaviors. 281 adolescents, 12-18 years of age, c…
Prosocial and Antisocial Behaviors in Adolescents: An Investigation into Associations with Attachment and Empathy
The normal development of empathy has been proposed to be imperative to the healthy emotional and social functioning of youths. In contrast, compromised levels of empathy have been linked to an increased propensity to engage in antisocial behaviors, including animal cruelty. Previous findings have revealed parent attachment to be intrinsically linked to the development of empathy. This association has been shown to play a role in predicting the e…
Mindful emotion regulation: An integrative review
A Case-Control Study of Emotion Regulation and School Refusal in Children and Adolescents
The current study aimed to investigate emotion regulation (ER) strategy use in a sample of 21 clinic-referred children and adolescents (10-14 years old) presenting with school refusal, all of whom were diagnosed with at least one anxiety disorder. Being the first known study to examine ER and school refusal, hypotheses were guided by previous research on anxiety. It was hypothesized that the school refusal sample would report less healthy ER stra…
The normative development of emotion regulation strategy use in children and adolescents: A 2‐year follow‐up study
Background: Emotion regulation involves intrinsic and extrinsic processes responsible for managing one’s emotions toward goal accomplishment. Research on emotion regulation has predominantly focused on early developmental periods and the majority of emotion regulation research examining the pre‐adult years has lacked a comprehensive theoretical framework. The current study examined the use of two strategies of emotion regulation during childhood …
Child and Adolescent Emotion Regulation: The Role of Parental Emotion Regulation and Expression
Psychology (30 works) · Developmental psychology (23 works) · Clinical Psychology (18 works) · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (16 works) · Clinical Psychology (12 works) · Psychiatry (11 works) · Medicine (10 works) · Social Psychology (9 works) · Cognition (7 works) · Human-Animal Interaction Studies (6 works)