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Dr. Rosemary Mills Member Department of Family Studies University of Manitoba Winnipeg, MB, Canada R3T 2N2 Phone: (204) 474-9432 Fax: (204) 474-7592 Email: rosemary_mills@umanitoba.ca Web: www.umanitoba.ca/faculties/human_ecology/family/Staff/rosemary_mills.shtml |
Dr. Mills is a developmental psychologist and Associate Professor in the Department of Family Studies at University of Manitoba. She received her Ph.D. in Psychology at University of Toronto and was a Postdoctoral Fellow at University of Waterloo for several years before coming to the University of Manitoba. Her research has been concerned with socioemotional development, with particular emphasis on factors contributing to the development of internalizing problems.
Her current research focuses on the development and consequences of unhealthy shame in childhood. A prospective longitudinal study is underway testing the possibility that disproportionate shame is a product of child temperament and shame-promotive parenting, and plays a mediating role in a wide range of health outcomes (psychosocial, cognitive, physical). Parental cognitions associated with shame-promotive parenting are also being explored.
Other studies are focusing on the way parents communicate with their children and how children interpret parental messages. Most if not all theories concerned with the development of adjustment problems in childhood identify parental rejection or negativity as a key factor, but there has been relatively little attention to children's perceptions of parental messages. It is hoped that this work will be useful in the development of resources for promoting effective communication.
RECENT PUBLICATIONS
Mills, R. S. L.
(submitted). Parental control, temperament, and shame in early
childhood. Social Development.
Mills, R. S. L., & Freeman, W. S. (submitted). Parental
proneness to shame and the use of psychological control. Parenting: Science and Practice.
Mills, R. S. L. (2005). Taking stock of the developmental
literature on shame. Developmental
Review, 25, 26-63.
Mills, R. S. L.
(2003). Possible antecedents and developmental implications of
shame in young girls. Infant
and Child Development, 12, 329-349.
Mills, R. S. L.,
Nazar, J., & Farrell, H.
M. (2002). Child and parent perceptions of hurtful
messages.
Journal of Social and Personal Relationships,
19, 723-746.
Mills, R. S. L.
(1998). Paradoxical relations
between perceived power and maternal control. Merrill-Palmer
Quarterly,
44, 523-537.
Mills, R. S. L.,
& Rubin, K. H. (1998).
Are behavioural and psychological control bothdifferentially associated
with childhood aggression and social
withdrawal?
Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science, 30, 132-136.
BOOK CHAPTERS
Mills, R. S. L., & Piotrowski, C.
C. (2000).
Emotional communication and children's learning about conflict.
In
R. S. L. Mills & S. Duck (Eds.),
Developmental
psychology of personal relationships (pp. 71-90). Chichester,
UK: Wiley.
Mills, R. S. L.,
Duncan, K. A., & Amyot, D.
J. (2000). Home-based employment and work- family conflict:
A Canadian study. In C. B.
Hennon,
S. Loker, & R. Walker (Eds.), Gender and
home-based employment
(pp. 137-165). Westport,
CT:
Auburn House.
Mills, R. S. L.
(1999). Exploring the effects
of low power schemas in mothers. In P. D. Hastings & C. C.
Piotrowski
(Eds.), Conflict
as a context
for
understanding maternal beliefs about child rearing and children's
misbehavior.
New Directions for Child
and
Adolescent Development,
86, 61-77.
San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.
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