• children’s aggressive behaviour
• social competence
• social cognition
• social information-processing
• peer relations
• friendship

My research interests centre around the study of children’s aggression. In broad terms, I am interested in identifying social factors that contribute to continuities and discontinuities in aggressive and antisocial behaviour, with a particular emphasis on underlying social-cognitive mechanisms. The ultimate objective of this research is to delineate critical developmental pathways that might be amenable to intervention.

Currently, I am investigating differences in the qualitative features of aggressive and nonaggressive children’s friendships. Another line of my research concerns the effects of friends’ characteristics (e.g., aggressiveness) and friendship quality on aspects of social cognition, such as patterns of social information-processing and children’s beliefs regarding the legitimacy of aggressive behaviour.

Chapters in Books

Marini, Z. A., Volk, A., & Dane, A. (2009, in press). Parent-focused interventions for the prevention of bullying: Accommodating children with difficulties regulating emotions. In D. Pepler and W. Craig (Eds.). Rise Up for Respectful Relationships (PREVNet Series, Volume 2).

Marini, Z. A., & Dane, A. V. (2008). Matching interventions to bullying subtypes: Ensuring programs fit the multifaceted needs of children involved in bullying. In D. Pepler & W. Craig (Eds.). An International Perspective on Understanding and Addressing Bullying. PREVNet Series (Volume 1).

Marini, Z. A., Dane, A., & Kennedy, R. (2008, in press). Multiple pathways to bullying: Educational implications of individual differences in temperament and brain function. In M. Ferrari & L. Vuletic (Eds.). The Developmental Relations between Mind, Brain, and Education: Essays in Honor of Robbie Case. New York: Springer.

Papers in refereed journals:

Marini, Z. A., Dane, A., & Volk, A. (2008). What’s a bully–victim? Education.Com – Special Issue on Bullying at School and Online (Guest Editors, S. Hymel and S. Swearer). URL: http://www.education.com/reference/article/Ref_Whats_Bully-victim/

Leenaars, L., Dane, A., & Marini, Z. A. (2008). An evolutionary perspective on indirect victimization in adolescence: The role of attractiveness, dating and sexual behaviour. Aggressive Behaviour, 34, 1-12.

Bosacki, S. L., Dane, A. V., & Marini, Z. A. (2007). Peer relationships and internalizing problems in adolescents: Mediating role of self-esteem. Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties, 12(4), 261–282.

Marini, Z. A., Koruna, B., & Dane, A.V. (2006). Individualizing interventions for students involved in bullying and victimization: Addressing bullying subtypes and bully-victims. Contact, 32(2), 22-41

Bosacki, S.L., Marini, Z. A, .& Dane, A.V. (2006). Voices from the classroom: Pictorial and narrative representations of children’s bullying experiences. Journal of Moral Education, 35, 231-245.

Marini, Z.A, Dane, A.V. Bosacki, S. & YLC-CURA (2006). Direct and indirect bully-victims: Differential psychosocial risk factors associated with adolescents involved in bullying and victimization. Aggressive Behaviour, 32, 551-569

Papers in Refereed Conference Proceedings:

Marini, Z., Dane, A., Vaillancourt, T., Cunningham, L., Short, K., and Mac-CURA (2008, July). Anti-Bullying practices and moral disengagement: Key gender differences. Poster accepted for presentation at the 20th meeting of the International Society for the Study of Behavioural Development (ISSBD), Wuerzburg, Germany

Dane, A., Marini, Z., Vaillancourt, T., Short, K., Cunningham, L., and Mac-CURA (2008, July). Moral Disengagement in Physical, Verbal, Social and Cyber Bullying: Relation to Bully-Victim Status. Poster accepted for presentation at the 20th meeting of the International Society for the Study of Behavioural Development (ISSBD), Wuerzburg, Germany

Leenaars, L., Dane, A. V., Marini, Z. & YLC-CURA (2007, March). Indirect victimization in adolescence as a function of attractiveness, dating and sexual behaviour: An evolutionary perspective. Poster accepted for presentation at the meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Boston, MA.

Dane, A.V., Marini, Z., Bosacki, S. L & YLC-CURA (2006, March). Indirect and Direct Bully-Victim Status: Links with Mother and Father-Adolescent Attachment Security. Poster accepted for presentation at the Society for Research on Adolescence Biennial Meeting, San Francisco, CA.

Marini, Z.A., Dane, A., Bosacki, S. & YLC-CURA (2005, May). The effects of parental attachment and monitoring on the bullying involvement of adolescents bullies, victims, and bully-victims. Paper presented at the Canadian Association for Educational Psychology Conference, Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario.

Kennedy, R. E., & Dane, A. V., & YLC-CURA (2005, April). Emergence of normative beliefs legitimizing antisocial behaviour in adolescents as a function of monitoring, attachment, and temperament. Poster session presented at the Society for Research in Child Development Biennial Meeting, Atlanta, GA.

Marini, Z.A., Dane, Bosacki, S. & YLC-CURA (2005, April). The Effects of Temperament and Attachment on the Bullying Involvement of Adolescent Bullies, Victims and Bully/Victims. Poster presented at the biennial conference of the Society for Research in Child Development, Atlanta, Georgia.

Reker, D. L., & Dane, A. V. (2005, April). Authoritative parenting and temperament: Differential predictors of reactive, proactive, overt, and relational aggression. Poster presented at the Society for Research and Child Development, Atlanta, Georgia.

Dane, A. V, Bosacki, S., Marini, Z & YLC-CURA (2004, July). Direct and Indirect Victimization and Internalizing Problems: Intrapersonal and Interpersonal Mediators. Poster presented at the meeting of the International Society for the Study of Behavioural Development, Ghent, Belgium.

Marini, Z., Bosacki, S., Dane, A. V., & YLC-CURA (2004, July). Direct and indirect bullying: Externalizing risk factors among adolescent bully-victims, bullies and victims. Poster accepted for presentation at the meeting of the International Society for the Study of Behavioural Development, Ghent, Belgium.

Reker, D., & Dane, A. V. (2004, July). Parenting and temperament as differential predictors of reactive and proactive aggression. Poster presented at the meeting of the International Society for the Study of Behavioural Development, Ghent, Belgium.

Dane, A. V., Lawrance, K. A. & McPhee, J. (2003, June). Differences between youth problem gamblers and youth problem gamblers with co-occurring problem behaviours: Implications for research and treatment. Paper accepted for presentation at the meeting of the International Conference on Gambling and Risk Taking, Vancouver, Canada.

Dane, A. V., Bosacki, S. & YLC-CURA (2003, April). Coping and friendship quality in overtly and relationally aggressive adolescents. Poster presented at the meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Tampa, FLA.