Meredith O'Connor

Publications

• Reducing Inequities in Early Childhood Mental Health: How Might the Neighborhood Built Environment Help Close the Gap? A Systematic Search and Critical Review
• Positive Mental Health and Academic Achievement in Elementary School: New Evidence From a Matching Analysis
• Potential of ‘stacking’ early childhood interventions to reduce inequities in learning outcomes
• Learning outcomes of children with teacher‐identified emerging health and developmental needs
• Better support for children with additional health and developmental needs in school settings: Perspectives of education experts
• Racial discrimination and socioemotional and sleep problems in a cross-sectional survey of Australian school students
• Do risk factors for adolescent internalising difficulties differ depending on childhood internalising experiences?
• Natural history of mental health competence from childhood to adolescence
• Does Positive Mental Health in Adolescence Longitudinally Predict Healthy Transitions in Young Adulthood?
• Epidemiology of positive mental health in a national census of children at school entry
• Can the Neighborhood Built Environment Make a Difference in Children's Development? Building the Research Agenda to Create Evidence for Place-Based Children's Policy
• Parent and teacher perceptions of emerging special health care needs
• Trends in the prevalence and distribution of teacher-identified special health-care needs across three successive population cohorts
• More than a snapshot in time: Pathways of disadvantage over childhood
• The Cumulative Effect of Health Adversities on Children's Later Academic Achievement
• Special Health Care Needs Across the School and Family Contexts: Implications for Service Utilization
• Child and Family Antecedents of Pain During the Transition to Adolescence: A Longitudinal Population-Based Study
• Understanding child disadvantage from a social determinants perspective
• Understanding the impact of special health care needs on early school functioning: A conceptual model
• The unknown citizen: epidemiological challenges in child mental health
• Learning trajectories of children with special health care needs across the severity spectrum
• Early development of emerging and English-proficient bilingual children at school entry in an Australian population cohort
• Predictors of mental health competence in a population cohort of Australian children
• Developmental antecedents of abnormal eating attitudes and behaviors in adolescence
• The English proficiency and academic language skills of Australian bilingual children during the primary school years
• The role of preschool in promoting children's healthy development: Evidence from an Australian population cohort
• Preschool attendance trends in Australia: Evidence from two sequential population cohorts
• Developmental risk factors for eating disorder symptoms in adolescents: Findings from the Australian Temperament Study
• Association Between Adolescent Eudaimonic Behaviours and Emotional Competence in Young Adulthood
• Longitudinal predictors of alcohol-related harms during the transition to adulthood
• Longitudinal antecedents of school bonding in adolescence
• The longitudinal prediction of alcohol consumption-related harms among young adults
• The relationship between positive development and psychopathology during the transition to adulthood: A person-centred approach
• Prevalence and correlates of special health care needs in a population cohort of australian children at school entry
• Stability and Change in Positive Development During Young Adulthood
• Predictors of positive development in emerging adulthood
• Differentiating three conceptualisations of the relationship between positive development and psychopathology during the transition to adulthood
• A research agenda for the future: New challenges for peace psychology in Australia
• The relationship between social capital and depression during the transition to adulthood
• Measuring Positive Childhood Experiences: Testing the structural and predictive validity of the Health Outcomes from Positive Experiences (HOPE) framework
• Effects of racism and discrimination on mental health problems among young people in Victoria, Australia during COVID-19 lockdown
• Inequalities in the distribution of COVID‐19‐related financial difficulties for Australian families with young children
• Leveraging research to drive more equitable reading outcomes: an update
• Data Resource Profile: Melbourne Children’s LifeCourse initiative (LifeCourse)
• Parental history of positive development and child behavior in next generation offspring: A two‐cohort prospective intergenerational study
• Supporting children’s mental health in primary schools: a qualitative exploration of educator perspectives
• The potential of intervening on childhood adversity to reduce socioeconomic inequities in body mass index and inflammation among Australian and UK children: A causal mediation analysis
• Effects of racism and discrimination on mental health among young people in Victoria, Australia, during COVID‐19 lockdown
• Intervention targets for reducing mortality between mid-adolescence and mid-adulthood: a protocol for a machine-learning facilitated systematic umbrella review
• Life course predictors of child emotional distress during the COVID‐19 pandemic: Findings from a prospective intergenerational cohort study
• Academic outcomes of multilingual children in Australia
• Access to and Quality of Neighbourhood Public Open Space and Children’s Mental Health Outcomes: Evidence from Population Linked Data across Eight Australian Capital Cities
• Addressing Child Mental Health Inequities Through Parental Mental Health and Preschool Attendance
• Adolescent School Belonging and Mental Health Outcomes in Young Adulthood: Findings from a Multi-wave Prospective Cohort Study
• The Australian and New Zealand Intergenerational Cohort Consortium: a study protocol for investigating mental health and well-being across generations
• Better together: Advancing life course research through multi-cohort analytic approaches
• Can a teacher-reported indicator be used for population monitoring of oral language skills at school entry?
• Developmental relationships between socio-economic disadvantage and mental health across the first 30 years of life
• Driving Precision Policy Responses to Child Health and Developmental Inequities
• Socioeconomic Disadvantage in Infancy and Academic and Self-Regulation Outcomes
• The Structural Stability of Positive Development Across Young Adulthood
• Life course psychosocial precursors of parent mental health resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic: A three-decade prospective cohort study
• Emotional symptoms and inflammatory biomarkers in childhood: Associations in two Australian birth cohorts
• The impact of multidimensional disadvantage over childhood on developmental outcomes in Australia
• Exposure to adversity and inflammatory outcomes in mid and late childhood
• Inequalities in the Distribution of Childhood Adversity From Birth to 11 Years
• Health service utilisation and unmet healthcare needs of Australian children from immigrant families: A population‐based cohort study
• Household income supplements in early childhood to reduce inequities in children's development
• Is the availability and quality of local early childhood education and care services associated with young children's mental health at school entry?
• Inequities in Children's Reading Skills: The Role of Home Reading and Preschool Attendance
• A Novel 3-Part Approach to Tackle the Problem of Health Inequities in Early Childhood
• Profiles of Mental Health Competence and Difficulties as Predictors of Children’s Early Learning
• A study protocol for community implementation of a new mental health monitoring system spanning early childhood to young adulthood
• Sustaining the use of Positive Education coping skills to meet the challenges of the emerging adulthood period
• Trends in preschool attendance in Australia following major policy reform: Updated evidence six years following a commitment to universal access
• Use of health services by preschool-aged children who are developmentally vulnerable and socioeconomically disadvantaged: testing the inverse care law
• Youth experiences of co-designing a well-being intervention: reflections, learnings and recommendations
• Engaging parents in positive education: Results from a pilot program
• An applied framework for Positive Education
• Causal inference in multi-cohort studies using the target trial framework to identify and minimize sources of bias
• Socioeconomic disadvantage and polygenic risk of overweight in early and mid-life: a longitudinal population cohort study spanning 12 years
• Progressing “Positive epidemiology”: A cross-national analysis of adolescents’ positive mental health and outcomes during the COVID-19 pandemic
• Progressing “Positive Epidemiology”: A Cross-national Analysis of Adolescents’ Positive Mental Health and Outcomes During the COVID-19 Pandemic