Projects per year
Personal profile
Biography
After studying Developmental and Clinical Psychology at the University of Queensland and the University of Oregon (USA) Kay received a PhD from the University of Queensland. She undertook a Postdoctoral Fellowship under the supervision of Professor Bandura at Stanford University, USA. On returning to Australia she accepted an academic appointment at Macquarie University while continuing her collaboration with Professor Bandura at Stanford University as a Visiting Scholar and during frequent informal visits.
Research interests
Kay’s research covers applied and clinically relevant topics involving children and adolescents. Her empirical research draws on a range of methodologies including questionnaires, experimental methods, and vignettes and is theoretically guided by Bandura’s social cognitive theory which considers personal, behavioural, and environmental factors involved in human agency.
Research areas:
- Sociocognitive factors (e.g. self-efficacy, moral disengagement, outcome expectations) involved in offline and cyberbullying
- Mental health outcomes (e.g. anxiety, depression, eating disorders) and coping strategies (coping self-efficacy) associated with victimization from offline and cyberbullying episodes
- The role of moral disengagement (individual, contextual, and collective) in offline and cyberbullying
- Turning bystanders into constructive defenders of victims in bullying
- The development of moral disengagement
- Gender development and gender identity development
- Children’s lie- and truth-telling – developmental antecedents and social consequences
- The role of physical punishment in parenting practices
- Children’s participation in the legal system
- Positive and negative influences of social media on children and adolescents’ social development and body image
Teaching
PSYU1105 Introduction to Psychology (Developmental lectures)
PSYU2235 Developmental Psychology (Moral and Gender Development lectures)
PSYU3339 Applied Child and Adolescent Psychology (Unit Convenor)
PSYH4432 Advanced Issues in Developmental Psychology: Child Abuse and Neglect (Unit Convenor)
PSYM7432 Advanced Issues in Developmental Psychology: Child Abuse and Neglect (Unit Convenor)
Research student supervision
Current
Ph.D.
Aileen Luo: Moral responsibility and mental health
Alexandra Lonegran (Co-Supervisor Deborah Mitchison): Social media and eating disorders
Alison O’Neil: An evaluation of expert reports in child custody cases
Andrew Collins (Associate Supervisor): Empathy
Chanelle Tarabay (Associate Supervisor): Aggression
Emma Jackson: Expanding the multidimensional model of gender identity
Nora Trompeter (Co-Supervisor Deborah Mitchison): Emotion dysregulation and eating disorders
Shireen Bernstein (Associate Supervisor): Internet pornography
Veronica Sheanoda: Gender diverse adolescents’ responses to cyberbullying
A sample of completions
Ph.D.
Catherine Quinn; Frances Doyle; Heidi Brummert Lennings; Josephine Paparo; Kerry Lee; Kimberley Allison; Kirstin Barchia; Lee Zanoni; Nasreen Yassin; Nicole Sokol; Pam Warton; Paul Wagland; Puneet Singh; Rhiannon Fogliati; Sally Fitzpatrick; Talia Carl; Vincent Fogliati
Doctor of Psychology
Anthony Rigney
Mres
Emma Jackson; Eva Lui; Kimberley Allison; Pip Ringland; Veronica Sheanoda; Yee Wah Li
M. Clinical Psychology
Jennifer Gardner M. (Co-Supervisor Deborah Mitchison); Madeleine Clark; Nerolie Muller; Scott Fatt (Co-Supervisor with Deborah Mitchison); Sinead Day (Co-Supervisor with Deborah Mitchison)
Community engagement
Macquarie University Seeding Grant Committee; University Research Committee; University Postgraduate Studies Committee; Departmental Postgraduate Studies Committee; Psychology Department Research Committee; Member of the Centre for Emotional Health, Member of the Centre for Children’s Learning in a Social World; Member of the Roundtable Advisory Group for the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse; Invited member of BRNET (Bully Research Network); Occasional consultant to the Australian Law Reform Commission; Editorial Board of the British Journal of Developmental Psychology and The Psychology of Men and Masculinities Journal; Occasional Reviewer for the following journals among others: Child Development, Developmental Psychology, Aggressive Behavior, Journal of School Violence, Pediatrics, Computers in Human Behavior, Journal of Experimental Child Psychology.
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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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DP22: Reducing Cyberbullying: Turning Bystanders into Constructive Defenders
17/03/22 → 16/03/25
Project: Research
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Prevalence of Eating and Body Image Disorders in Adolescent Australians: Toward Diagnostic Reform
1/05/17 → …
Project: Research
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Unveiling the 'Face' of Eating Disorders in Australia: A Symptom-Based Approach
Mitchison, D., Bussey, K. & Mond, J.
11/01/16 → …
Project: Research
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Reducing peer victimisation in Australian schools through targeted and universal approaches (DEEWR)
Rapee, R., Cross, D., Sharma, C., Bussey, K., Hudson, J., Mihalopoulos, C., Roberts, C. & Titov, N.
26/06/13 → …
Project: Research
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CEH: Centre for Emotional Health
Hudson, J., Norberg, M., Rapee, R., Bussey, K., Carl, T., Chen, J., Cornish, J., Fardouly, J., Forbes, M., Johnco, C., Jones, M., Kangas, M., Kidd, T., Magson, N., McLellan, L., McMahon, C., Meuldijk, D., Oar, E., Peters, L., Richardson, C., Schniering, C., Sherman, K., Sicouri, G. & Wuthrich, V.
1/01/20 → 31/12/22
Project: Other
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An exploration of how adolescents experience and reason their parents' comments on their weight, shape, and eating
Dahill, L. M., Morrison, N. M. V., Touyz, S., Mitchison, D., Bussey, K., Mannan, H. & Hay, P., Oct 2023, In: Journal of Adolescence. 95, 7, p. 1488-1504 17 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Associations among relationship status, gender, and sexual attraction in Australian adolescents' eating pathology
Roberts, S. R., Hay, P., Bussey, K., Trompeter, N., Lonergan, A. & Mitchison, D., Mar 2023, In: International Journal of Eating Disorders. 56, 3, p. 551-561 11 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Associations between parents' body weight/shape comments and disordered eating amongst adolescents over time-a longitudinal study
Dahill, L. M., Hay, P., Morrison, N. M. V., Touyz, S., Mitchison, D., Bussey, K. & Mannan, H., 15 Mar 2023, In: Nutrients. 15, 6, p. 1-14 14 p., 1419.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Broadening gender self-categorization development to include transgender identities
Jackson, E. F. & Bussey, K., Feb 2023, In: Social Development. 32, 1, p. 17–31 15 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Burden and preference-based quality of life associated with bullying in children
Le, L. K-D., Chatterton, M. L., Rapee, R. M., Fitzpatrick, S., Bussey, K., Hudson, J., Hunt, C., Cross, D., Magnus, A. & Mihalopoulos, C., Jan 2023, In: European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. 32, 1, p. 53-62 10 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
1 Citation (Scopus)
Datasets
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Associations Between Moral Disengagement, Negative Self-Evaluation, and Morally Injurious Behavior in Young People - Dataset
Luo, A. (Owner) & Bussey, K. (Contributor), Macquarie University, 8 Jun 2023
DOI: 10.25949/22730207.v1
Dataset
Prizes
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Excellence in Research: Higher Degree Research Supervision (Macquarie University): 2015
Bussey, Kay (Recipient), 2015
Prize: Teaching award
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