Paweena Sukhawathanakul

Program affiliation: Lifespan development

Supervisors: Dr. Bonnie Leadbeater

Research interests

Children and adolescents’ peer group relationships, social responsibility and competence, prevention program development and evaluation, quantitative methods. My specific interests include: (a) contextual factors (e.g., family, classroom, school, and neighborhoods) that predict and protect against difficulties in peer relationships (b) covariates of peer victimization trajectories (e.g., depression, aggression, emotion regulation, social responsibility) as precursors of psychosocial adjustment (c) intraindividual, interindividual, and interclass variations in prevention and intervention program effects (d) subtypes and structural stability of peer victimization.

Representative publications and presentations

Leadbeater B. & Sukhawathanakul, P. (Under review). Changing the contexts of peer victimization in early elementary school: The WITS® program evaluation.

Desjardins, T., Yeung, R. S., Sukhawathanakul, P., Leadbeater, B., & MacDonald, S. W. S. (Under review). Factor Structure and Stability of the Social Experience Questionnaire Among Early Elementary School Children.

Yeung, R. S., Desjardins, T., Sukhawathanakul, P., & Leadbeater, B. J. (2009). The WITS program: Creating effective responses from families, peers, and schools to reduce victimization. Promoting Relationships and Eliminating Violence (PRENet) 4th annual AGM and conference in Toronto, ON, Canada.

Sukhawathanakul, P. & Leadbeater, B. (2009). Shifting the focus to parents: An evaluation of a parent- based intervention to reduce alcohol abuse and related harms among university students. Poster presented at the Canadian Psychological Association Annual Convention, Montreal, QC, Canada.

Brache, K., Dyck, T., Murray, K., O'Brien, D. Sukhawathanakul, P., & Tetarenko, C. (2009). Promising promotion around reducing alcohol-related harm in the campus community. Workshop presented at the BC Healthy Minds/Healthy Campuses Project: A community of practice to promote campus mental health conference, Victoria, Canada.

Sukhawathanakul, P. & Leadbeater, B.J. (2008). Talking to university students about alcohol. Visions: BC's Mental Health and Addictions Journal, 4(3), 33-34.