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This project evaluates the effectiveness of the Adult Migrant English Program (AMEP). To date, we have produced five research reports submitted to the Australian Government Department of Home Affairs.
To estimate the prevalence, distribution, and co-occurrence of mental ill-health and substance use among gender and sexuality diverse young people relative to their cisgender and heterosexual peers in Australia using population-level, nationally representative data.
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought unprecedented levels of grief and psychological distress in community samples. We examined unique pandemic grief risk factors, dysfunctional grief, Post-traumatic Stress Disorder symptoms, general psychiatric distress, disrupted meaning, and functional impairment in a treatment-seeking sample of people bereaved from COVID-19 in the United Kingdom.
Father-child attachment during the first five years of life plays a vital role in child health and wellbeing but remains an under-researched area. Recently, self-compassion has emerged as a mechanism through which parent–child attachment may be optimized via its capacity to promote parental mental health and wellbeing, yet little is known about self-compassion among fathers specifically.
Tassie Kids will bring together information about what early childhood services families use across the first five years of a child’s life.
The Kids Research Institute Australia's Human Capability Team has been asked by the Commonwealth Department of Education, Skills and Employment (DESE) to prepare a methodology and project plan to conduct a nationally-representative survey of bullying prevalence among children and young people in Years 4–10.
Young Minds Matter is the largest survey of child and adolescent mental health and wellbeing ever conducted in Australia.
We found that algorithms reduced the amount of missing data and improved within‑individual consistency.
Growing up in socioeconomic disadvantage increases risk of peer bullying at school. Both socioeconomic status and involvement in bullying are predictive of a range of adverse developmental outcomes. However, neither (a) the mechanisms whereby disadvantage increases bullying risk nor (b) the developmental outcomes for which bullying may mediate disadvantage are clear.
Previous studies have shown that when young people witness bullying, perceived social norms of their peer group affect their behavior. However, few studies have examined the specificity of norm misperception (i.e., overestimation of peer antisocial responses and the underestimation of prosocial responses relative to the objective group norm) on specific witness responses (joining in, bystanding or active defending).