Nathalie Fontaine

Professeure titulaire
École de criminologie, Université de Montréal

(514) 343-6111, poste 33111
nathalie.fontaine@umontreal.ca

Formation universitaire
Postdoctorat, University College London (2008)
Ph. D. en criminologie, Université de Montréal (2007)

Intérêts de recherche
Développement des troubles de comportement chez les jeunes, traits d’insensibilité émotionnelle, implantation et évaluation de stratégies de prévention et d’intervention en matière de promotion de la santé mentale chez les jeunes.

Étudiants

Valentine Cosentino

Marie-Ange Laramée

Océane Lemire

Alice Potier

Projets en cours

Promotion du développement et de l’adaptation des jeunes : perspectives intégratives des facteurs relationnels, psychiatriques, cognitifs et neuronaux

A mentoring initiative to support the transition to adulthood of young people who have received socio-judicial services: Examination of the factors associated with mentoring relationship quality

A multi-site, prospective study of the role of emotional competence in (mal)adaptive functioning among university students exposed to sexual violence

Publications

Fontaine, N.M.G., Bégin, V., Vitaro, F., Boivin, M., Tremblay, R.E., & Côté, S. (2024). Psychopathic traits in childhood and depression symptoms in adolescence: The mediating role of peer victimization. Journal of Developmental and Life-Course Criminology.

Bégin, V., Vergunst, F., Haeck, C., Vitaro, F., Tremblay, R. E., Côté, S. M., & Fontaine, N. M. G. (2024). Childhood behavior problems and adverse economic outcomes: a 30-year population-based study of intergenerational income mobility. Journal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines, 65(12), 1554–1563.

Bégin, V.**, Fontaine, N.M.G., Vitaro, F., Boivin, M., Tremblay, R.E., & Côté, S.M. (2023). Perinatal and early-life factors associated with stable and unstable trajectories of psychopathic traits across childhood, Psychological Medicine, 53, 379-387.

Bégin, V.**, Fontaine, N.M.G., Vitaro, F., Boivin, M., Tremblay, R.E., & Côté, S.M. (2023). Childhood psychopathic traits and mental health outcomes in adolescence: Compensatory and protective effects of positive relationships with parents and teachers. European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 32 (8), 1403-1413.

Fontaine, N.M.G., Rozéfort, A.**, & Bégin, V.** (2023). Associations between callous-unemotional traits and psychopathology in a sample of adolescent females. Journal of the Canadian Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 32 (1), 14-26.

Dollion, N.**, Grandgeorge, M., Saint-Amour, D., Poitras Loewen, A.H., François, N., Fontaine, N.M.G., Champagne, N., & Plusquellec, P. (2022). Emotion facial processing in children with autism spectrum disorder: A pilot study of the impact of service dogs. Frontiers in Psychology, 13, Article 869452.

Deskalo, A.**, & Fontaine, N.M.G. (2021). Examining callous-unemotional traits and anxiety in a sample of incarcerated adolescent females. Juvenile and Family Court Journal, 72 (1), 73-93.

Darcy, I., & Fontaine, N.M.G. (2020). The Hoosier Vocal Emotions Corpus: A validated set of North American English pseudo-words for evaluating emotion processing. Behavior Research Methods, 52, 901-917.

Tremblay, M.-J.**, Daignault, I.V., Fontaine, N.M.G., Boisvert, I., & Tourigny, M. (2020). Schoolaged children with sexual behavior problems: Untangling the relationship between externalizing behavior problems and non-sexual victimization on the variety and severity of sexual behaviors. Child Abuse & Neglect, 170, 104490.

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