Vitaro, Frank Chercheur régulier
Ph.D. Psychologie, Université de Montréal
Université de Montréal

Adresse (travail) :	Groupe de recherche sur l'inadaptation psychosociale chez l'enfant (GRIP) Axe de recherche sur le développement des psychopathologies (ADPP) Université de Montréal 3050 boul. Édouard-Montpetit, local B-234 Montréal, QC H3T 1J7
Téléphone (travail) :	(514) 343-6111 ext. 12561
Télécopieur :	(514) 343-6962
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Département :	Psychoéducation

Intérêts de recherche

Le dépistage, le pronostic et la prévention des problèmes d'adaptation personnelle et sociale chez les enfants et les adolescents. Les relations sociales à l'enfance et problèmes d'adaptation. Liens entre agressivité, délinquance, toxicomanie et gambling à l'adolescence

 Publications

• Articles avec comité de lecture
• Chapitres de livre

 Articles avec comité de lecture

Besnard, T., Varlaan, P., Capuano, F., Poulin, F. & Vitaro, F. (Sous presse). Les pratiques parentales des parents d'enfants en difficultés de comportement: effets de la dyade parent-enfant. Revue Canadienne des Sciences du Comportement.

Besnard, T., Verlaan, P., Capuano, F., Poulin, F. & Vitaro, F. (Sous presse). Les pratiques parentales des pères et des mères et les difficultés de comportement des enfants d'âge préscolaire: différences et similitudes. Revue de psychoéducation.

Brendgen, M., Boivin, M., Barker, E. D., Vitaro, F., Girard, A., Dionne, G., Tremblay, R. E. & Pérusse, D. (Sous presse). Gene-environment processes linking aggression, peer victimization, and the teacher-child relationship. Child Development.

Brendgen, M., Vitaro, F. & Girard, A. (Sous presse). Evaluating gene-environment interplay. Handbook of developmental research methods.

Carbonneau, R., Tremblay, R. E., Vitaro, F., Saucier, J.-F. & Pihl, R. O. (Sous presse). The differential influence of paternal alcoholism and paternal absence on the prevalence of alcohol abuse, psychiatric diagnoses, and social adjustment in preadolescent boys. American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse.

Dussault, F., Brendgen, M., Vitaro, F., Wanner, B. & Tremblay, R. E. (Sous presse). Longitudinal links between impulsivity, gambling problems and depressive symptoms: A transactional model from adolescence to early adulthood. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry.

Fallu, J.-S., Janosz, M., Brière, F., Descheneaux, A., Vitaro, F. & Tremblay, R. E. (Sous presse). Preventing disruptive boys from becoming heavy substance users during adolescence: A longitudinal study of familial and peer-related protective factors. Addictive Behaviors.

Lacourse, É., Baillargeon, R. H., Dupéré, V., Vitaro, F., Romano, E. & Tremblay, R. E. (Sous presse). Two-year predictive validity of conduct disorder subtypes in early adolescence: A latent class analysis of a Canadian longitudinal sample. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry.

Renouf, A., Brendgen, M., Séguin, J. R., Vitaro, F., Boivin, M., Dionne, G., Tremblay, R. E. & Pérusse, D. (Sous presse). Interactive links between theory of mind, peer victimization, and reactive and proactive aggression. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology.

Salvas, M.-C., Vitaro, F., Brendgen, M. & Lacourse, É. (Sous presse). Interplay between friend's aggression and friendship quality in the development of child aggression during the early school years. Social Development.

Seegers, V., Touchette, É., Petit, D., Vitaro, F., Montplaisir, J., Falissard, B. & Tremblay, R. E. (Sous presse). Short sleep duration and body mass index: A prospective longitudinal study in preadolescence. American Journal of Epidemiology.

Vitaro, F., Brendgen, M., Boivin, M., Cantin, S., Dionne, G., Tremblay, R. E., Girard, A. & Pérusse, D. (Sous presse). A monozygotic twin differences study of peer influence on childhood aggression. Child Development.

Vitaro, F. & Wanner, B. (Sous presse). Interplay between personal dispositions and parent gambling in predicting early gambling in children. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors.

Witvliet, M., Brendgen, M., Van Lier, P., Koot, H. & Vitaro, F. (Sous presse). Early adolescent depressive symptoms: Prediction from clique isolation, loneliness, and perceived social acceptance. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology.

Barker, E. D., Vitaro, F., Lacourse, É., Fontaine, N., Carbonneau, R. & Tremblay, R. E. (2010). Testing the developmental distinctiveness of male proactive and reactive aggression with a nested longitudinal experimental intervention. Aggressive Behavior, 36(2), 127-140.

Booij, L., Tremblay, R. E., Leyton, M., Séguin, J. R., Vitaro, F., Gravel, P., Perreau-Linck, E., Lévesque, M. L., Durand, F., Diksic, M., Turecki, G. & Benkelfat, C. (2010). Brain Serotonin Synthesis in Adult Males Characterized by Physical Aggression during Childhood: A 21-Year Longitudinal Study. Plos One, 5(6), e11255-e11263.

Brendgen, M., Lamarche, V., Wanner, B. & Vitaro, F. (2010). Links between friendship relations and early adolescents' trajectories of depressed mood. Developmental Psychology, 46(2), 491-501.

Brezo, J., Bureau, A., Mérette, C., Jomphe, V., Barker, T., Vitaro, F., Hébert, M., Carbonneau, R., Tremblay, R. E. & Turecki, G. (2010). Differences and similarities in the serotonergic diathesis for suicide attempts and mood disorders: A 22-year longitudinal gene-environment study. Molecular Psychiatry, 15(8), 831-843.

Capuano, F., Poulin, F., Vitaro, F., Verlaan, P. & Vinet, I. (2010). Le programme de prévention Fluppy: historique, contenu et diffusion au Québec. Revue de Psychoéducation, 39, 1-26.

Duchesne, S., Larose, S., Vitaro, F. & Tremblay, R. E. (2010). Trajectories of anxiety in a population sample of children: Clarifying the role of children’s behavioral characteristics and maternal parenting. Development and Psychopathology, 22(2), 361-373.

Flanders, J. L., Simard, M., Paquette, D., Parent, S., Vitaro, F., Pihl, R. O. & Séguin, J. R. (2010). Rough-and-tumble play and the development of physical aggression and emotion regulation: A five-year follow-up study. Journal of Family Violence, 25(4), 357-367.

Kleinjan, M., Wanner, B., Vitaro, F., Van den Eijnden, R. J. J. M., Brug, J. & Engels, R. C. M. E. (2010). Nicotine dependence subtypes among adolescent smokers: Examining the occurrence, development, and validity of distinct symptom profiles. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 24, 61-74.

Poulin, F., Capuano, F., Vitaro, F., Verlaan, P., Brodeur, M., Giroux, J. & Gagnon, C. (2010). Le programme de prévention Fluppy: modèle théorique sous-jacent et implantation du devis d'évaluation. Revue de Psychoéducation, 39, 61-84.

Renouf, A., Brendgen, M., Parent, S., Vitaro, F., Zelazo, P. D., Boivin, M., Dionne, G., Tremblay, R. E., Pérusse, D. & Séguin, J. R. (2010). Relations between theory of mind and indirect and physical aggression in kindergarten: Evidence of the moderating role of prosocial behaviors. Social Development, 19(3), 535-555.

Véronneau, M.-H., Vitaro, F., Brendgen, M., Dishion, T. & Tremblay, R. E. (2010). Transactional analysis of the reciprocal links between peer experiences and academic achievement from middle childhood to early adolescence. Developmental Psychology, 46(4), 773-790.

Witvliet, M., van Lier, P. A. C., Brendgen, M., Koot, H. M. & Vitaro, F. (2010). Longitudinal associations between clique membership status and internalizing and externalizing problems during late childhood. Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 39(5), 693-704.

Besnard, T., Capuano, F., Verlaan, P., Poulin, F. & Vitaro, F. (2009). Effet ajouté de la participation des pères à une intervention familiale. Revue de Psycho-Éducation, 38(1), 45-71.

Bou-Hamad, I., Larocque, D., Ben-Hameur, H., Mâsse, L. C., Vitaro, F. & Tremblay, R. E. (2009). Discrete-time survival trees. The Canadian Journal of Statistics, 37(1), 17-32.

Brendgen, M., Vitaro, F., Boivin, M., Girard, A., Bukowski, W. M., Dionne, G., Tremblay, R. E. & Pérusse, D. (2009). Gene-environment interplay between peer rejection and depressive behavior in children. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 50(8), 1009-1017.

Fontaine, N., Carbonneau, R., Vitaro, F., Barker, E. D. & Tremblay, R. E. (2009). Research review: A critical review of studies on the developmental trajectories of antisocial behavior in females. The Journal of Child Psychology & Psychiatry, 50(4), 363-385.

Gatti, U., Tremblay, R. E. & Vitaro, F. (2009). Iatrogenic effect of juvenile justice. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 50(8), 991-998.

Nantel-Vivier, A., Kokko, K., Pastorelli, C., Gerbino, M., Paciello, M., Pihl, R. O., Vitaro, F., Côté, S., Caprara, G. & Tremblay, R. E. (2009). Prosocial development from childhood to adolescence: A multi-informant perspective with Canadian and Italian longitudinal studies. Journal of Child Psychology & Psychiatry, 50(5), 590-598.

Otten, R., Wanner, B., Vitaro, F. & Engels, R. (2009). Disruptiveness, peer experiences, and adolescent smoking: A long-term longitudinal approach. Addiction, 104(4), 641-650.

Pagani, L., Tremblay, R. E., Nagin, D. S., Zoccolillo, M., Vitaro, F. & McDuff, P. (2009). Risk factor models for adolescent verbal and physical aggression toward fathers. Journal of Family Violence, 24(3), 173-182.

van Lier, P. A. C., Vitaro, F., Barker, E. D., Koot, H. M. & Tremblay, R. E. (2009). Developmental links between trajectories of physical violence, vandalism, theft, and alcohol-drug use from childhood to adolescence. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 37(4), 481-492.

Vitaro, F., Brendgen, M. & Arseneault, L. (2009). The discordant MZ-Twin Method: One step closer to the holy grail of causality. International Journal of Behavioral Development, 33(4), 376-382.

Wanner, B., Vitaro, F., Carbonneau, R. & Tremblay, R. E. (2009). Cross-lagged links among gambling, substance use, and delinquency from midadolescence to young adulthood: Additive and moderating effects of common risk factors. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 23(1), 91-104.

Brezo, J., Barker, E. D., Paris, J., Hébert, M., Vitaro, F., Tremblay, R. E. & Turecki, G. (2008). Childhood trajectories of anxiousness and disruptiveness as predictors of suicide attempts. Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine, 162(11), 1015-1021.

Brezo, J., Paris, J., Tremblay, R. E., Vitaro, F. & Turecki, G. (2008). DAPP-BQ: Factor structure in French-Canadians. Journal of Personality Disorders, 22(5), 538-545.

Duchesne, S., Vitaro, F., Larose, S. & Tremblay, R. E. (2008). Trajectories of anxiety during elementary-school years and the prediction of high school noncompletion. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 37(9), 1134-1146.

Gourion, D., Arseneault, L., Vitaro, F., Brezo, J., Turecki, G. & Tremblay, R. E. (2008). Early environment and major depression in young adults: A longitudinal study. Psychiatry Research, 161(2), 170-176.

Leblanc, N., Boivin, M., Dionne, G., Brendgen, M., Vitaro, F., Tremblay, R. E. & Pérusse, D. (2008). The development of hyperactive - impulsive behaviors during the preschool years: The predictive validity of parental assessments. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 36(7), 977-987.

Ouellet-Morin, I., Wigg, K. G., Feng, Y., Dionne, G., Robaey, P., Brendgen, M., Vitaro, F., Simard, L., Schachar, R., Tremblay, R. E., Pérusse, D., Boivin, M. & Barr, C. L. (2008). Association of the dopamine transporter gene and ADHD symptoms in a Canadian population-based sample of same-age twins. American Journal of Medical Genetics Part B (Neuropsychiatric Genetics), 147B(8), 1442-1449.

Vitaro, F., Wanner, B., Brendgen, M. & Tremblay, R. E. (2008). Offspring of parents with gambling problems: Adjustment problems and explanatory mechanisms. Journal of Gambling Studies, 24(4), 535-553.

 Chapitres de livre

Brendgen, M., Vitaro, F. & Lamarche, V. (Sous presse). In schlechter Gesellschaft : Beziehungen mit antisozialen Freunden und ihre Folgen. In B. H. Schuster, H.-P. Kuhn, H. Uhlendorff (Eds.), Entwicklung in sozialen Beziehungen – Heranwachsende in ihrer Auseinandersetzung mit Familie, Freunden und Gesellschaft Stuttgart, Germany : Lucius & Lucius.

Fallu, J.-S., Brière, F., Vitaro, F., Cantin, S. & Borge, A. I. H. (Sous presse). The influence of close friends on adolescent substance use: Does popularity matter? In A. Ittel, H. Merkens, L. Stecher, & J. Zinnecker (Eds.), Yearbook in youth research Wiesbaden, Germany : VS Verlag.

Vitaro, F. (Sous presse). Les enjeux et les défis de la prévention face à la concurrence des problèmes de comportement à l'adolescence. In In L. Guyon, N. April, E. Papineau, S. Kairouz, & L. Chayer (Eds.), Tabac, alcool, drogues et jeux de hasard et d'argent: à l'heure de l'intégration Québec, QC : Presses de l'Université Laval (collection Toxicomanies).

Poulin, F., Cantin, S., Vitaro, F. & Boivin, M. (2009). Amitiés et conduites agressives à l’enfance. In B. H. Schneider, S. Normand, M. Allès-Jardel, M. A. Provost, & G. M. Tarabulsy (Eds), Conduites agressives chez l’enfant: perspectives développementales et psychosociales (pp. 175-198). Québec, QC : Presses de l’Université du Québec.

Poulin, F., Vitaro, F., Verlaan, P. & Capuano, F. (2009). The prevention of violence in Québec: Development of a multimodal program in three phases over 25 years. In D. Pepler, W. Craig, & J. Cummings (Eds.), Rise up for respectful relationships: Prevent bullying (pp. 91-106). Ottawa, ON : National Printers.

Vitaro, F., Boivin, M. & Bukowski, W. M. (2009). The role of friendship in child and adolescent psychosocial development. In In K. H. Rubin, W. W. Bukowski, & B. Laursen (Eds.), Handbook of peer interactions, relationships and groups (pp. 568-588). New York, NY : Guilford Press.