Pamela Qualter
School of Psychology
University of Central Lancashire
United Kingdom
Biography
Pamela Qualter is Reader of Developmental Psychology. She is one of the UK’s leading experts in the field of child/adolescent loneliness and an important researcher of social and emotional skills within education. Pamela is currently undertaking a programme of research that examines loneliness during childhood and adolescence. That programme aims to establish whether there are (a) individual differences in the course of loneliness from childhood to early adulthood, (b) risk factors for stable, long-term loneliness, and (c) poor health outcomes for people who experience increasing and stable, prolonged loneliness. Pamela is research active within the area of Psychology. She is a member of the Cognitive Research Group, the Health Psychology Research Group and the Emotions, Credibility and Deception Group.
Research Interest
Psychology.
Publications
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Qualter, P., Brown, S.L., Rotenberg, K.J., Vanhalst, J, Harris, R.A., Goossens, L, Bangee, M., & Munn, P. (2013). Trajectories of Loneliness during Childhood and Adolescence: Predictors and health outcomes. Journal of Adolescence: Special Issue on Loneliness, 36, 1283-1293.
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Qualter, P., Gardner, K.J., Pope, D., Hutchinson, J.M., & Whiteley, H.E (2012). Ability emotional intelligence, trait emotional intelligence, and academic success in British secondary schools: A 5-year longitudinal study. Learning and Individual Differences, 22, 83-91.
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Rotenberg, K.J., Qualter, P., Holt, N., & Harris, R., Barrett, L., & Henzi, P. (in press). Interpersonal trust and playground behaviour. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology.
