Catherine Potard

Biographic Data

ID5146230
NAMECatherine Potard
GIVEN NAMESCatherine
FAMILY NAMEPotard
SIGNATUREPOTARD C
AFFILIATIONSLaboratoire de Psychologie des Pays de la Loire
ORCID0000-0002-2913-8834
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS11
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR11
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2014
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX0

  • Family Functioning and Mental Health Among Young Adult LGBP People

    Open AccessP Martins, Baptiste Lignier et al.ARTICLEFamily Relations2026

  • Measures of Social Media Use Motives During Adolescence

    Chloé Ketibian, Céline Combes et al.ARTICLEJournal of Media Psychology…2026

    In recent decades, social media has become an integral part of adolescents’ daily life, reshaping peer interactions. To overcome the limitations of the quantitative approach of adolescents’ social media use when investigating relationships with psychological outcomes, motivational factors have become increasingly popular. The first aim was to review the psychometric properties of existent tools used to measure adolescents’ social media use motive…

  • Mythes sur les Violences Faites aux Femmes

    André Ndobo, Catherine Potard et al.ARTICLEGérontologie et société2025

    Les Violences Faites aux Femmes (VFF) sexuelles ou conjugales, largement répandues y compris chez les personnes âgées, prennent leur source dans des mythes socialement partagés à l’égard des violences et dans des attitudes sexistes. L’objectif de cette étude est d’identifier un éventuel effet de génération dans ce lien entre l’adhésion aux stéréotypes sur les VFF et sur le genre. Trois groupes d’âge (18-24 ans ; 25-64 ans ; plus de 65 ans ; N=96)…

  • Definitions and Measurement Tools for Assessing Parental Reactions to LGB People Coming Out

    Paul Martins, Catherine Potard et al.ARTICLEJournal of Homosexuality2025

    Parental responses to young people's coming out as lesbian, gay or bisexual (LGB) are a crucial experience in identity formation and subsequent mental health outcomes. However, how parents react to coming out varies and remains relatively imprecise in the literature. The aim of the present critical review was to explore and discuss the different definitions and measurement tools used in studies assessing perceived parental reactions to the coming…

  • Parental Attachment, Self-Esteem, Social Problem-Solving, Intimate Partner Violence Victimization in Emerging Adulthood

    Chloé Cherrier, Robert Courtois et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Psychology2023

    Emerging adults can experience conflicts with their dating partner, leading to intimate partner violence (IPV). In order to understand the vulnerability factors involved in IPV victimization, the current study explored a serial multiple mediation model to determine the links between parental attachment (to the father and mother), self-esteem, and social problem solving (SPS) on the three forms of IPV (psychological, physical and sexual). Based on…

  • Dysfunctional Attitudes, Sociotropy–Autonomy, and Intimate Partner Violence Victimization in Emerging Adulthood

    Open AccessChloé Cherrier, Robert Courtois et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2023

    Understanding the dynamics and vulnerability factors involved in intimate partner violence (IPV) victimization among emerging adults is important in order to better prevent it from happening. The current study aimed to investigate the relationships among dysfunctional attitudes, sociotropy-autonomy, and types of IPV victimization (i.e., psychological, physical, and sexual) and severity (i.e., minor or severe) in emerging adulthood. Through an onl…

  • Selflife

    Open AccessSylvie Pires, Hélène Denizot et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2023

    these results suggest that, in addition to providing information about sexual violence, Selflife helped students develop their life skills, thereby empowering them to act when confronted with sexual violence. Its impact on prevalence and on the psychological and psychiatric consequences remains to be assessed

  • Video game players’ personality traits

    Catherine Potard, Audrey Henry et al.ARTICLEPsychology of Popular Media2020

    International audience

  • Examining Relationships Between Sexual Risk–Safety Behaviors and Physical Self-Concept by Gender

    Open AccessCatherine Potard, C Lancelot et al.ARTICLEEmerging Adulthood2018

    Sexual behavior is a normative part of the transition to adulthood, with an intensification of the exploration of the links between self-esteem, sexuality, and physical self-perception. This study examined the relationships between sexual risk–safety behaviors and overall physical self-concept, as well as its subdimensions such as sports ability, body fat, or physical appearance. In total, 652 sexually active undergraduate students completed self…

  • A cross-cultural perspective on the relationship between social anxiety and cigarette use

    Catherine Potard, Andrei HadjiuARTICLEInternational Journal of Culture…2017References: 1

    We investigated the role of culture in the relationship between social anxiety and tobacco dependence in a collectivist country (Republic of Moldova) and an individualist Western country (France). More specifically, we examined this relationship among young French (n = 225) and Moldovan (n = 288) adults aged between 18 and 30 years. Moldovan daily smokers had higher fear of performance and fear of social interaction scores than Moldovan non-smoke…

  • The relationship between parental attachment and sexuality in early adolescence

    Open AccessCatherine Potard, Robert Courtois et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2014

    This study questions the links between the young adolescents quality of attachment to the mother and father (secure, ambivalent or avoidant) and the sexual behaviours reported by early adolescents. Two questionnaires were completed by 312 French middle-school students (mean age: 13.8 years) to test attachment style and sexuality (emotion, intention and relation). Ambivalent attachment was related to greater sexual involvement than to secure attac…