| Contact Information: | sdbadov@yorku.ca |
| Degrees in Progress: | Ph.D. Clinical-Developmental Psychology) |
| Degrees Completed: | M.A. (Clinical-Developmental Psychology) B.Sc. (Honours Psychology / Neuroscience Double-Major; University of Toronto) |
Research Interests:
My graduate program of research has focused on understanding how children’s ability to regulate their emotions, a key indicator of socioemotional development, develops in the context of interactions with primary caregivers.
My Master’s thesis explored associations between parents’ mental health and parent-preschooler attachment relationships and highlighted parents’ emotional well-being as one of many factors that are important for supporting adaptive child socioemotional development. My dissertation continues this line of research by investigating how factors such as parents’ mental health, physiological stress response, and behaviour interact and contribute to parents’ response to their child’s distress within a pain context.
Shaylea is excited to be starting her pre-doctoral residency in Pediatric and Child Clinical Psychology at Alberta Children’s Hospital in the Fall of 2022.
Honours and Awards:
2022: American Psychological Foundation (APF) National Register Internship Travel Scholarship2019: Canadian Psychological Association Certificate of Academic Excellence
2019: Frederick Banting and Charles Best Canada Graduate Scholarship – Canadian Institutes for Health Research (CIHR)
2018: Ontario Graduate Scholarship
2017: Ontario Graduate Scholarship
2016: Lillian Meighen Wright Maternal-Child Health Graduate Scholarship
2016: CGS-Master’s Scholarship- Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC)
2016: Entrance Scholarship (York University)
Select Publications:
Gennis, H. G., Bucsea, O., Badovinac, S. D., Costa, S., McMurtry, C. M., Flora, D. B., & Pillai Riddell, R. (2022). Child distress expression and regulation behaviors: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Children, 9(2), 174. https://doi.org/10.3390/children9020174
O’Neill, M., Badovinac, S.D., Pillai Riddell, R., Bureau, J.F., Rumeo, C., & Costa, S. (2021). The longitudinal and concurrent relationship between caregiver sensitivity and preschool attachment: A systematic review and meta-analysis. PLOS ONE. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0245061
Badovinac, S.D., Pillai Riddell, R., Deneault, A.A., Martin, J., Bureau, J.F., & O’Neill, M. (2021). Associations between early childhood parent-child attachment and internalizing/externalizing symptoms: A systematic review and narrative synthesis. Marriage & Family Review, 1-48. https://doi.org/10.1080/01494929.2021.1879984
Badovinac, S., Martin, J., Guérin Marion, C., O’Neill, M., Pillai Riddell, R., Bureau, J.F., & Spiegel, R. (2018). Associations between preschool attachment and maternal depression symptoms: A systematic review and meta-analysis. PLOS ONE, 13(10), e0204374.
Badovinac, S., Gennis, H., Pillai Riddell, R., Garfield, H., & Greenberg, S. (2018). Understanding the relative contributions of sensitive and insensitive parent behaviours on infant vaccination pain. Children, 5, 80-93.
Knowledge Translation
Di Lorenzo, M.G., Badovinac, S.D., & Pillai Riddell, R.R. (2021). Psychological Interventions for Acute Pain Management in Children [Fact Sheet Prepared for the Canadian Psychological Association]. Canadian Psychological Association. https://cpa.ca/psychology-works-fact-sheet-psychological-interventions-for-acute-pain-management-in-children/
Published Abstracts:
Badovinac, S., Gennis, H., Pillai Riddell, R., & Garfield, H. (accepted) Predictors of parents’ insensitive behaviours in response to infant vaccination pain. Canadian Journal of Pain.
Gennis, H., Badovinac, S., Pillai Riddell, R., Flanders, D., Weinberg, E., & Garfield, H. (accepted) Parent worry and stress: Critical factors in understanding parent pain ratings during vaccination in the second year of life. Canadian Journal of Pain.
Badovinac, S., Gennis, H., Pillai Riddell, R., & Garfield, H. (2019). Associations Between Parental Psychopathology and Infant Pain-Related Distress Behaviour: Is Infant Temperament a Moderator? Canadian Journal of Pain, 2, A99.
Badovinac, S., Gennis, H., Pillai Riddell, R., & Garfield, H. (2018). Investigating links between distress-promoting parent behaviours and infant pain-related distress during 12-month vaccinations. Canadian Journal of Pain, 2, A75.
Gennis, H., Badovinac, S., Pillai Riddell, R., Katz, J., Garfield, H., & Greenberg, S. (2018). The Effect of the ABCD’s of Pain Management on Parent Pain Ratings: Is Parent Psychopathology Symptomology a Moderator? Canadian Journal of Pain, 2, A90.
Badovinac, S., Gennis, H., & Pillai Riddell, R. (2017) Investigating the relationship between preschooler executive functioning and pain-related distress post-needle. Canadian Journal of Pain, 1, A141.
Gennis, H., Badovinac, S., Pillai Riddell, R. (2017) Establishing the psychometric properties of the OUCHI Tool during two-month infant vaccinations. Canadian Journal of Pain, 1, A113-A114.
Select Poster Presentations:
Badovinac, S., Gennis, H., Pillai Riddell, R., Greenberg, S., & Garfield, H. (2019, June). Associations between insensitive parent behaviours and infant pain-related distress: Is infant temperament a moderator? Poster presented at the International Symposium on Pediatric Pain, Basel, Switzerland.
O’Neill, M., Gennis, H., Badovinac, S., & Pillai Riddell, R. (2019, April). Supporting parent management of infant pain during well-baby vaccinations and other painful procedures: What do health professionals need to know?. Oral symposium presented at the Expanding Horizons for the Early Years Institute on Infant Mental Health, Toronto, Canada.
Badovinac, S., Martin, J., Guérin-Marion, C., O’Neill, M., Pillai Riddell, R., Bureau, J.F., & Spiegel, R. (2019, March). Associations Between Mother-Preschooler Attachment and Maternal Depression and Anxiety: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Poster presented at the Society for Research in Child Development Biennial Meeting, Baltimore, USA.
Badovinac, S., Costa, S., Gennis, H., Pillai Riddell, R., Garfield, H., & Greenberg, S. (2018, September). Predicting infant pain-related distress post-needle: Examining the relative contributions of caregiver factors. Poster presented at the World Congress on Pain, Boston, USA.
Badovinac, S., Gennis, H., Pillai Riddell, R. (2017, July). Investigating the predictive validity of 12-month OUCHI scores for preschool pain-related distress post-needle and parental sensitivity. Poster presented at the International Symposium on Pediatric Pain, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Gennis, H., Badovinac, S., Pillai Riddell, R., Greenberg, S., & Garfield, H. (2017, July) Exploring parental distress-promoting behaviours during six-month vaccinations. Poster presented at the International Symposium on Pediatric Pain, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.