Audrey-Ann Deneault

Professeure adjointe
Département de psychologie, Université de Montréal

audrey-ann.deneault@umontreal.ca

Formation universitaire
Stage postdoctoral, University of Calgary (2023)
Ph.D. en psychologie expérimentale, Université d'Ottawa (2021)

Intérêts de recherche
Attachement parent-enfant, changement sociaux et adaptation, méthodologie, normes sociales, psychologie sociale, santé mentale, socialisation, relation parent-enfant

Étudiants

Laurence Beaulieu

Mahée Gariépy

Christina Kim-Shin

Dominic Laquerre

Projets en cours

Le rôle des parents pour soutenir la santé mentale des enfants : L'influence de facteurs contemporains

Comment mesurer les comportements parentaux des pères de façon observationnelle? Une revue systématique de la littérature

Youth perceptions of climate change and pro-environmental behaviors: The role of attachment theory and parent-child discussions

Adolescent mental health in the face of climate change: Gaining longitudinal insights from the All Our Families cohort

Détresse climatique et sécurité d’attachement des jeunes francophones en contexte minoritaire : Le rôle des conversations parent-enfant

Connections that Matter: Examining Social Support's Role in Parenting and Its Ripple Effects on Child Mental Health

Publications

Trottier-Dumont, T., Bussière, E.-L., Deneault, A.-A., Madigan, S., Cyr, C. (2025) Attachment in autistic children as measured with the strange situation procedure: a systematic review and a meta-analysis. Attachment & Human Development

Zhu, J., Deneault, A.-A., Turgeon, J., & Madigan, S. (2025). Caregiver and child adverse childhood experiences: A meta-analysis. Pediatrics, e2024068578. https://doi.org/10.1542/2020-000123

Deneault, A.-A., Jenkins, J., & Madigan, S. (2025). Responsiveness in family relationships. In N. Overall, J. Simpson, & J. Lavner (Eds.), Research handbook on couple and family relationships. Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd. https://www.elgaronline.com/edcollchap/book/9781035309269/book-part-9781035309269-20.xml

Madigan, S., Thiemann, R., Deneault, A.-A., Fearon, R. P., Racine, N., Park, J.,Lunney, C. A., Dimitropoulos, G., Jenkins, S., Williamson, T., & Neville, R. D. (2024). Prevalence of adverse childhood experiences in child population samples: A systematic review and meta-analysis. JAMA Pediatrics, 179(1), 19-33. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamapediatrics.2024.4385

Lapolice Thériault, R., Bernier, A., & Deneault, A.-A. (2025). Maternal and paternal parenting stress: Direct and interactive associations with child externalizing and internalizing behavior problems. Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 71, 114-122. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecresq.2024.12.006

Bureau, J. F., Deneault, A.-A., Plamondon, A., & Meins, E. (2025). Classes of child-mother attachment disorganization from infancy to the preschool years. Attachment & Human Development, 27(1), 116–134. https://doi.org/10.1080/14616734.2024.2399349

Bureau, J.-F., Gauthier, A. J., With, S., Deneault, A.-A., Racine, N., Beaudry, S. G., Lorteau, S., & Pelletier, L. G. (2025). Satisfied and secured – An integration of self-determination theory and attachment theory in the environmental domain. European Journal of Investigation in Health, Psychology and Education, 15(4), 62. https://doi.org/10.3390/ejihpe15040062

Trepiak, P., Deneault, A.-A., & Bureau, J.-F. (2025). A systematic review and meta-analysis of parental mentalization in fathers and mothers. Infant Mental Health Journal. http://doi.org/10.1002/imhj.70001

Barriault, S., Deneault, A.-A., Kempe, S., Madigan, S., Lovegrove, A., Dimitropoulos, G.., Riddell, R., & Racine, N. M. (2024). A randomized waitlist control trial of the Make the Connection online program for caregivers of infants and young children: Study protocol. Digital health. 10, 20552076231221053.

Deneault, A.-A., Madigan, S.*, Duschinsky, R., Bakermans-Kranenburg, M. J., Schuengel, C., Van IJzendoorn, M. H., Ly, A., Fearon, R. M. P., Eirich, R., & Verhage, M. L. (2024). Maternal and paternal sensitivity: Key determinants of child attachment security examined through meta-analysis. Psychological bulletin. 150(7), 839–872.

Lorteau, S., Muzzerall, P., Deneault, A.-A., Kennedy, E. H., Rocque, R., Racine, N., & Bureau, J.-F. (2024). Do climate concerns and worries predict energy preferences? A meta-analysis. Energy Policy, 190, 114149.

Borairi, S., Deneault, A.-A., Madigan, S., Fearon, R. M. P., Devereux, C., Geer, M., Jeyanayagam, B., Jenkins, J. (2024). A meta-analytic examination of sensitive responsiveness as a mediator between maternal depression and children’s psychopathology. Attachment & Human Development, 26(4), 273-300. https://doi.org/10.1080/14616734.2024.2359689

Zhu, J., Deneault, A.-A., Seal, H., Madigan, S., & Bureau, J.-F. (2024). A meta-analysis of the association between parental relationship quality and fathers’ sensitivity. Attachment & Human Development. https://doi.org/10.1080/14616734.2024.2441146

Racine, N., Deneault, A.-A., Eccles, H., Hopley, A., Le, M., Labelle, P., Prada, K., & Colman, I. (2024). Prevalence of mental health and substance use difficulties among sexual and gender diverse youth during COVID-19: A meta-analysis. LGBTQ Health. https://doi.org/10.1089/lgbt.2023.0263

Deneault, A.-A., Plamondon, A., Neville, R. D., Eirich, R., McArthur, B. A., Tough, S., & Madigan, S. (2024). Perceived parental distraction by technology and mental health among emerging adolescents. JAMA Network Open, 7(8), e2428261. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2024.28261

Deneault, A.-A., Carone, N., & Madigan, S. (2024). A call to represent the current diversity of family forms in attachment research. Attachment & Human Development. https://doi.org/10.1080/14616734.2024.2441990

Deneault, A.-A., Hammond, S. I., & Madigan, S. (2023). A meta-analysis of childparent attachment and early childhood prosocial behaviors. Developmental Psychology, 59(2), 236-255.

Madigan, S., Fearon, R. M. P., Van IJzendoorn, M. H., Duschinsky, R., Schuengel, C., Bakermans-Kranenburg, M. J., Ly, A., Cooke, J. E., Deneault, A.- A., Oosterman, M., Verhage, M. L. (2023). The first 20,000 Strange Situation Procedures: A meta-analytic review. Psychological Bulletin.

Deneault, A.-A., Bureau, J.-F., Duschinsky, R., Fearon, R. M. P., & Madigan, S. (2023). A meta-analysis of the distribution of preschool and early childhood attachment as assessed in the Strange Situation Procedure and its modified versions. Attachment & Human Development, 25(2), 322-351.

Deneault, A.-A., Duschinsky, R., Van IJzendoorn, M., Roisman, G. I., Ly, A., Fearon, R. M. P., & Madigan, S. (2023). Does child-mother attachment predict and mediate language and cognitive outcomes? A series of meta-analyses. Developmental Review.

Madigan, S., Deneault, A.-A., Racine, N., Park, J., Thiemann, R., Zhu, J., Dimitropoulos, G., Williamson, T., Fearon, R. M. P., Cénat, J. M., McDonald, S., Devereux, C., & Neville, R. D. (2023). Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs): A meta-analysis of prevalence and moderators among half a million adults in 206 studies. World Psychiatry, 22(3), 463-471.

Bureau, J.-F., Bandk, K., Deneault, A.-A., Turgeon, J., Seal, H., & Brosseau-Liard, P. (2023). The PPSQ: Assessing parental, child, and partner’s playfulness in the preschool and early school years. Frontiers in Psychology, 14, 1274160. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1274160

Dinzinger, A., Ismair, S., Brish, K. H., Sperl, W., Deneault, A.-A., Nolte, T., Hitzl, W., & Prieswasser, B. (2023). Mentalizing fathers: Reflective functioning as a mediator between attachment representation and sensitivity. Attachment & Human Development, 25(5), 544–565. https://doi.org/10.1080/14616734.2023.2258354

Racine, N., Deneault, A.-A., Thiemann, R., Turgeon, J., Zhu, J., Cooke, J. E., & Madigan, S. (2023). Intergenerational transmission of parent adverse childhood experiences to child outcomes: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Child Abuse and Neglect, 106479. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chiabu.2023.106479

Deneault, A.-A., Cabrera, N., Ghosh, R., Tölle, A.-S., Seethaler, J., Majdandžić, M., & Reich, S. M. (2022). Challenging parenting behavior in ethnically diverse twoparent families and its association with infants’ social adaptation. Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 58(1), 115-124.

Cooke, J. E., Deneault, A.-A., Devereux, C., Eirich, R., Fearon, R. M. P., & Madigan, S. (2022). Parent sensitivity and child behavioral problems: A metaanalytic review. Child Development, 93(5), 1231-1248.

Deneault, A.-A., Bureau, J.-F., & Yurkowski, K. (2022). Do child-father and childmother preschool attachment predict boys’ and girls’ externalizing behaviors in middle childhood? Developmental Psychology, 58(7), 1360-1370.

Deneault, A.-A., Cabrera, N. J., & Bureau, J.-F. (2022). A meta-analysis on paternal and maternal sensitivity. Child Development, 93(6), 1631-1648.

Trepiak, P., Trepiak, T., Guérin-Marion, C., Kristen, A., & Deneault, A.-A. (2022). A systematic review and meta-analysis of the associations between father and child anxiety and depression. Psychology of Men & Masculinities. Advance online publication.

Lambert, M., Sheldrake, E., Deneault, A.-A., Burke, M., Wheeler, A., & Scratch, S. (2022). Depressive symptoms in individuals with persistent post-concussion symptoms: A systematic literature review and meta-analysis. JAMA Neurology, 5(12), e2248453.

Deneault, A.-A., Bakermans-Kranenburg, M. J., Groh, A. M., Fearon, R. M. P., & Madigan, S. (2021). Child-father attachment in early childhood and behavior problems: A meta-analysis. New Directions in Child and Adolescent Development, 180(2021), 43-66.

Bureau, J.-F., Trepiak, P., Deneault, A.-A., & Boulerice, K. (2021). Stability of father- and mother-child synchrony in a playful setting from preschool to middle childhood: Associations with children’s social adaptation. Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 57(4), 167-177.

Woychuk, V., Bureau, J.-F., & Deneault, A.-A. (2021). Relations fraternelles: Le lien entre les observations en milieu naturel et les rapports des parents [Fraternal relationships: The association between observations in a naturalistic environment and parental report]. Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science / Revue canadienne des sciences du comportement, 53(4), 401-411.

Badovinac, S., Pillai Riddell, R., Deneault, A.-A., Martin, M. J., Bureau, J.-F., & O’Neill, M. C. (2021). Associations between early childhood parent-child attachment and internalizing/externalizing symptoms: A systematic review and narrative synthesis. Marriage and Family Review, 57(7), 573-620.

Deneault, A.-A., & Hammond, S. (2021). Connecting the moral core: Examining moral baby research through an attachment theory perspective. Social Cognition, 39(1), 4-19.

O’Neill, M. C., Pillai Riddell, R., Bureau, J.-F., Deneault, A.-A., Garfield, H., & Greenberg, S. (2021). Longitudinal and concurrent relationships between caregiverchild behaviors in the vaccination context and preschool attachment. PAIN, 162(3), 823-834.

Bureau, J.-F., Deneault, A.-A., Yurkowski, K., Martin, J., Quan, J., Sezlik, S., & Guérin-Marion, C. (2021). The interaction of child–father attachment and child– mother attachment in the prediction of observed coparenting. Psychology of Men & Masculinities, 22(3), 512–520.

Tupper, R., Bureau, J.F., Deneault, A.A., Dixon-Luinenburg, T. et St-Laurent, D. (2020). The contributions of child-mother attachment, maternal parenting stress, and military status to the prediction of child behavior problems. Infant Mental Health Journal, 41(11), 723-737.

Deneault, A.-A., Yurkowski, K., Schmiedel, S., & Bureau, J.-F. (2020). Placer l’enfant au centre de l’évaluation de la qualité de la relation enfant-parent : Les récits d’attachement. In I. Côté, K. Lavoie, & R.-P. Trottier-Cyr (Eds.), La recherche centrée sur l’enfant : Défis éthiques et innovations méthodologiques (pp. 335-359). Presses de l’Université Laval.

Deneault, A.-A., Gareau, A., Bureau, J.-F., Gaudreau, P., & Lafontaine, M.-F. (2020). Fear of failure mediates the effects of parental psychological control on academic outcomes: A latent mediated-moderation model of parents and child gender. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 49(8), 1567-1582.

Deneault, A.-A., Bureau, J.-F., Yurkowski, K., & Moss, E. (2020). Validation of the Preschool Attachment Rating Scales with child-mother and child-father dyads. Attachment and Human Development, 22(5), 491-513.

Sztajerowska, K., Schmiedel, S., & Deneault, A.-A. (2020). L’étiologie des troubles de l’attachement: Un modèle heuristique [The etiology of attachment disorders: A heuristic approach]. Revue Québécoise de Psychologie, 41(2), 67-82.

Bureau, J.-F., Deneault, A.-A., & Yurkowski, K. (2020). Preschool father-child attachment and its relation to self-reported child socioemotional adaptation at elementary school. Attachment and Human Development, 22(1), 90-104.

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