Heather M Chipuer

Biographic Data

ID4262175
NAMEHeather M Chipuer
GIVEN NAMESHeather M
FAMILY NAMEChipuer
SIGNATURECHIPUER H M
AFFILIATIONSGriffith University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS11
TOTAL CITATIONS81
WORKS AS AUTHOR11
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1989
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2009
H-INDEX5

  • Female adoptees' perceptions of contact with their birth fathers

    Nola L Passmore, Heather M ChipuerARTICLEAmerican Journal of Orthopsychiatry2009References: 17

    Qualitative data were analyzed to identify factors associated with adoptees' satisfactions or dissatisfactions in their contact experiences with their birth fathers. Participants were 17 women who had been adopted prior to 2 years of age and had subsequently met their birth fathers. All women completed a questionnaire and 7 also took part in a semistructured interview. Four main themes were identified that affected satisfaction with contact: birt…

  • Sense of place amongst adolescents and adults in two rural Australian towns

    Open AccessGrace H Pretty, Heather M Chipuer et al.ARTICLEJournal of Environmental Psychology2003

  • Determinants of Subjective Quality of Life Among Rural Adolescents

    Open AccessHeather M Chipuer, Paul Bramston et al.ARTICLESocial Indicators Research2003Cited by: 24References: 22

  • Unravelling Subjective Quality of Life

    Open AccessPaul Bramston, Grace Pretty et al.ARTICLESocial Indicators Research2002Cited by: 26References: 11

  • Dyadic attachments and community connectedness

    Open AccessHeather M ChipuerARTICLEJournal of Community Psychology2001Cited by: 17References: 30

    In this article, we explored the belongingness hypothesis by examining the influence of youths' dyadic attachments and community connectedness on their experiences of loneliness. Fifth and sixth graders (N = 187) reported on their attachments to their mothers, fathers, best friends, and their connectedness to their schools and neighborhoods. Self‐reports of global loneliness, loneliness in the school and neighborhood contexts, and emotional and s…

  • Dyadic attachments and community connectedness

    Heather M ChipuerARTICLEJournal of Community Psychology2001

    In this article, we explored the belongingness hypothesis by examining the influence of youths' dyadic attachments and community connectedness on their experiences of loneliness. Fifth and sixth graders (N = 187) reported on their attachments to their mothers, fathers, best friends, and their connectedness to their schools and neighborhoods. Self-reports of global loneliness, loneliness in the school and neighborhood contexts, and emotional and s…

  • Facets of adolescents' loneliness

    Open AccessHeather M Chipuer, Grace H PrettyARTICLEAustralian Psychologist2000Cited by: 4References: 2

    This study investigated dimensions of adolescents' loneliness (general, emotional, social) across gender, grade, and rural and urban localities. Nine hundred and thirty-four youth completed the UCLA Loneliness Scale, and the Emotional and Social Loneliness Scale. Findings indicated that males reported a higher level of general loneliness than females, and that Grade 7 youth reported a lower level of general loneliness than youth in Grades 9 and 1…

  • A review of the sense of community index

    Open AccessHeather M Chipuer, Grace Pretty et al.ARTICLEJournal of Community Psychology1999

    The short form of the Sense of Community Index (SCI) (Chavis, Hogge, McMillan, & Wandersman, 1986) was assessed in terms of the four dimensions of psychological sense of community (PSC) proposed by McMillan and Chavis (1986). Four sets of data were used. They measured PSC in the neighborhood for adults and adolescents, and workplace PSC for adults, using true/false and three-point response formats. Reliabilities for the total SCI scores ranged fr…

  • The Neighbourhood Youth Inventory

    Open AccessHeather M Chipuer, G H Pretty et al.ARTICLEJournal of Community & Applied…1999

    This paper describes the development and validation of an inventory to uncover youths' experiences in their neighbourhoods. The Neighbourhood Youth Inventory (NYI) was developed from conversations with youths in Grades 7, 9 and 11. This paper reports the psychometric analyses of the NYI. Responses from 934 youths (511 urban, 423 rural) to the NYI resulted in a four-factor solution. This solution was stable across responses from youths in Grades 7…

  • Genetic influence on family environment

    Heather M Chipuer, Robert Plomin et al.ARTICLEDevelopmental Psychology1993Cited by: 5References: 2

    The relation between genetic influence on personality (extraversion and neuroticism) and genetic influence on family environment measures was examined. More than 400 pairs of twins were assessed at the average age of 59 years. Trivariate quantitative genetic model-fitting analyses indicated that genetic influence on a Relationship dimension and a Personal Growth dimension of the environmental measure was shared with genetic effects on personality…

  • Structural invariance of cognitive abilities across the adult life span

    K Warner Schaie, Sherry L Willis et al.ARTICLEDevelopmental Psychology1989Cited by: 5References: 4

    Etude mettant a l'epreuve l'equivalence des structures factorielles avec l'âge des reponses de 1621 sujets âges de 22 a 95 ans a 17 tests psychometriques