Associate Professor Eleonora Gullone

Biography

Dr Eleonora Gullone is Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology. She is also a Fellow of the Australian Psychological Society, a position that acknowledges her significant contributions to both the discipline of Psychology and to the Society. Professor Gullone is internationally recognised for her contributions to our understanding of the emotional development of children, most prominently the development of normal fear in children and adolescents. Her research has also examined the role played by attachment relationships in children’s wellbeing. More recently, Professor Gullone has extended her work to examine the importance of emotion regulation for children psychological functioning. Other research interests include children’s relationships with animals and the importance of contact with the natural environment for wellbeing. She is also a member of the Academic Mindfulness Interest Group of Oz (AMIGOz), a group interested in furthering our knowledge of the relationship between mental and physical health and mindfulness meditation. Associate Professor Gullone has in excess of 80 publications in refereed national and international journals in these research areas.

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Professional Activities

Associate Professor Gullone is founder of the Australian Psychological Society Interest Group – Psychologists for the Promotion of the Human Animal Bond (PPHAB).This is a group that was developed to further our understanding of positive human-animal interactions and to promote the wellbeing of both human and non-human animals. A major aim of the group is to disseminate knowledge about the bond as well as to investigate ways of promoting it. In recognition of her contributions to our understanding of human relationships with non-human animals, Professor Gullone has been awarded Fellowship of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics.

Research Interests

Specific research areas include the development of normal levels of emotions (e.g. developmental patterns of normal fear), abnormal manifestations of emotions (e.g. internalising disorders including anxiety and depression disorders), emotion regulation, aggression and animal abuse.
Other research is examining:

the universality of theoretical proposals across different cultural groups.
Relations between human and non-human animals
The psychological and physiological correlates of mindfulness meditation

Keywords: emotional development; emotion regulation; self-conscious emotions; children and adolescents; aggression; violence, animal abuse

Postgraduate Research Projects

Richard Chambers:
Mindfulness and emotion regulation.
Liesl Heinrich:
The Personal and Interpersonal Nature of Loneliness in Adolescence: A Study of the Social Context of Mental Disorders
Shaun Watson
An investigation into the relationships between self-conscious emotions, self- concept, and depression in young people: A comparison across cultural groups.
Nick Richardson
Relationship between emotion regulation strategies and internalising disorders in adolescents.

Teaching

Abnormal Psychology: Anxiety Disorders; Personality Disorders
Developmental Psychology
Cross-Cultural Psychology

Collaborations

Academic Mindfulness Interest Group of Oz (A group of academics Australia wide)
Professor Bruce Tonge and Associate Professor Neville King (Monash University)
Dr Sabura Allen, Monash University
Dr Libby Hughes, Monash University

Grant Support

2007-2009: Australian Research Council Discovery Grants: “The development of emotion regulation strategies and their relationships with psychological wellbeing: A long-term follow-up study.
2007: $95,400.00, 2008: $93,500.00, 2009: $91,200.00 (Gullone & King as Principal Investigators).
2003-2005:
Australian Research Council Linkage Project Grant: “Living high but healthy: Impacts of access to nature on health, wellbeing and effective functioning of inner city high-rise residents.” (Principal Investigators: Townsend, Gullone, & St Leger; Industry Partners: Senior, Brown, Haining, Duncan, & Smith).
2003-2005:
Australian Research Council 2002 Discovery Grants: “Emotion development and adolescent depression: An analysis of gender differences. (Gullone, King, & Tonge, as Principal Investigators).
2001: Monash Small Grants Scheme; “An examination of the biophilia hypothesis in children and adolescents.” (Gullone: Principal and Sole Investigator).
1999-2001:
Australian Research Council 1999 Large Grants; "The influence of attachment organisation on the development of internalising disorders: A longitudinal investigation with six-year old children." (Gullone: Principal Investigator, Professor T. Ollendick: Partner Investigator, Associate Professor N. King: Associate Investigator).

Publications

Submitted
Hughes, E.K., & Gullone, E. (submitted). Discrepancies between adolescent, mother, and
father reports of adolescent internalising symptoms and the contribution of parent
psychopathology.

Hughes, E.K., Gullone, E., Dudley, A., & Tonge, B. (submitted). A Case-Control Study of
Emotion Regulation and School Refusal in Children and Adolescents

Hughes, E.K., & Gullone, E. (submitted). Reciprocal relationships between parent and
adolescent internalizing symptoms and the mediating role of the family system.

King, N.J., Heyne, D., Ollendick, T.H., & Gullone, E. (submitted). Test Anxiety in
Children and Adolescents. Behaviour Change.

Under Review
Gullone, E., Hughes, E.K., King, N.J., & Tonge, B. (submitted). A 3-year longitudinal
study from ages 9 to 17 years of two specific emotion regulation strategies.

Jaffe, M., Gullone, E., & Hughes, E. (under review). The role of temperamental dispositions
and parenting experiences in the use of emotion regulation strategies in late
childhood.

King, N.J., Heyne, D., Ollendick, T.H., & Gullone, E. (under review). Test Anxiety in
Children and Youth. Australian Psychologist.

Published

2008
Betts, J., Gullone, E., & Allen, J.S. (2008, in press). Emotion regulation, temperament and
parenting: Predictors of adolescent depression risk status. British Journal of
Developmental Psychology.

Gullone, E., & Robertson, N. (2008). The relationship between bullying and
animal abuse in adolescents: The importance of witnessing animal abuse. Journal
of Applied Developmental Psychology, 29, 371-379.

Hughes, E.K., & Gullone, E. (2008). Internalising symptoms and disorders in families of
adolescents: A review of the literature. Clinical Psychology Review, 28, 92-117.

Thompson, K., & Gullone, E. (2008). Prosocial and antisocial behaviours in
adolescents: An investigation into associations with attachment and empathy.
Anthrozoos, 21, 123-137.

Volant, A., Johnson, J., Gullone, E., & Coleman, G. (2008). The relationship between
family violence and animal abuse. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 23, 1277- 1295.

Wileman, B., Gullone, E., & Moss, S. (2008). Juvenile persistent offender, primary group
deficiency and persistent offending in adulthood: Qualitative analysis. Psychiatry,
Psychology, and Law, 15, 56-69.