Christine Dunkel Schetter

The protective role of culture: Familism, depressive symptoms, and stress among U.S.- and foreign-born Latina mothers. Open

Isabel F Almeida, Precious J. Araujo, Karina Corona, Azucena Villalobos, Christine M. Guardino , et al. · 2025

Achieving health equity for U.S. Latinas requires a better understanding of how cultural factors influence mental health, especially during life transitions. This study examined one cultural factor, familism, in relation to depressive symp…

A lifespan approach to biological aging: Early adversity, past-year trauma, and telomere length in women Open

Leah Cha, Gabrielle R. Rinne, Judith Carroll, Madeleine U. Shalowitz, Sharon Landesman Ramey , et al. · 2025

Adverse experiences over the lifespan can increase risk for poor health outcomes, likely operating in part through accelerated biological aging. From a life course perspective, the extent to which adverse experiences in adulthood predict b…

What Predicts Interdependence With Family? The Relative Contributions of Ethnicity/Race and Social Class Open

Emily D. Hooker, Karina Corona, Christine M. Guardino, Christine Dunkel Schetter, Belinda Campos · 2025

OBJECTIVE: Interdependence with family is considered a core element of collectivistic cultures, and it is routinely endorsed by people of ethnic/racial minority backgrounds in the United States. In contrast, a preference for independence f…

Affect synchrony and emotion coregulation are separable processes: Evaluation of relational stress and mother–infant synchrony. Open

Jennifer A. Somers, Gabrielle R. Rinne, Margot E. Barclay, Christine Dunkel Schetter, Steve S. Lee · 2025

Establishing and repairing ruptures in mother-infant positive affect synchrony are thought to support infants' self-regulation and social competence. Yet, despite rich theorizing, little is known about associations between mother-infant po…

Parenting Behavior and Early Childhood Mental Health: Cortisol Awakening Response as a Moderator of Child Internalizing and Externalizing Open

Nicole E. Mahrer, Gabrielle R. Rinne, Christine M. Guardino, Danielle A. Swales, Madeleine U. Shalowitz , et al. · 2025

Certain observable parenting behaviors contribute to the risk of children developing internalizing and externalizing problems. Yet parenting behaviors do not affect all children uniformly and effects may depend on identifiable child charac…

Trauma exposure, contextual stressors, and PTSD symptoms: patterns in racially and ethnically diverse, low-income postpartum women Open

Yasmin B. Kofman, Joni Brown, Christine Dunkel Schetter, Jennifer A. Sumner · 2024

Background Racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic disparities persist in posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), which are partly attributed to minoritized women being trauma-exposed, while also contending with harmful contextual stressors. Howev…

Chronic stress and hair cortisol concentration in mothers: A two‐study investigation Open

Gabrielle R. Rinne, Christine M. Guardino, M. Carmen Luciano Soriano, Christine Dunkel Schetter · 2024

Dysregulation of the hypothalamic‐pituitary‐adrenal (HPA) axis is one mechanism through which chronic stress during pregnancy and parenthood may affect parental, child, and family health. Hair cortisol concentration (HCC) may be well‐suite…

Sleep Quality Predicts Persistence of Parental Postpartum Depressive Symptoms and Transmission of Depressive Symptoms from Mothers to Fathers Open

Darby Saxbe, Christine Dunkel Schetter, Christine M. Guardino, Sharon Landesman Ramey, Madeleine U. Shalowitz , et al. · 2024

BACKGROUND: Early parenthood is a time of chronic sleep disturbance and also of heightened depression risk. Poor sleep quality has been identified both as a predictor of postpartum depressive symptoms and as a consequence. PURPOSE: This st…

Leveraging machine learning to study how temperament scores predict pre-term birth status Open

Erich Seamon, Jennifer A. Mattera, Sarah A. Keim, Esther M. Leerkes, Jennifer L. Rennels , et al. · 2024

Accuracy estimates were generally similar regardless of the comparison groups. Results indicated a slightly higher accuracy and efficiency for IBQR-VSF item-based models vs. factor-level models. Divergent patterns of feature importance (i.…

The Impact of Stress on Father Involvement in Early Infancy: Examining Risk and Protective Factors in Residential and Nonresidential Fathers Open

Alyssa M. Krueger, Kelsey Smith, Arielle Pollock, Christine Dunkel Schetter, Nicole E. Mahrer · 2024

Residential and nonresidential fathers are taking an increasingly greater role in their children’s lives, and father involvement predicts positive child outcomes across development. This study utilized data from a large sample of racially …

Developmental cascades from maternal preconception stress to child behavior problems: Testing multilevel preconception, prenatal, and postnatal influences. Open

Gabrielle R. Rinne, Margot E. Barclay, Jennifer A. Somers, Nicole E. Mahrer, Madeleine U. Shalowitz , et al. · 2024

Although maternal stress during pregnancy and even before conception shapes offspring risk for mental health problems, relatively little is known about the mechanisms through which these associations operate. In theory, preconception and p…

Couple-Level Manifestations of Posttraumatic Stress and Maternal and Paternal Postpartum Relationship Functioning Open

Jordan Thomas, Jennifer A. Somers, Christine Dunkel Schetter, Jennifer A. Sumner · 2024

Objective. Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is linked with impaired intimate relationships in postpartum women, yet less is known about couple-level manifestations of posttraumatic psychopathology and potential associations with relati…

Placental corticotrophin-releasing hormone trajectories in pregnancy: Associations with postpartum depressive symptoms Open

Isabel F. Almeida, Gabrielle R. Rinne, Mary Coussons‐Read, Christine Dunkel Schetter · 2024

Prenatal stress and hair cortisol in a sample of Latina women Open

Iris Becene, Gabrielle R. Rinne, Christine Dunkel Schetter, Jessica P. Hollenbach · 2024

Prenatal mood and anxiety disorders and associated cytokine changes Open

Roberta A. Mancuso, Kharah M. Ross, Eynav Elgavish Accortt, Mary Coussons‐Read, Michele L. Okun , et al. · 2023

Parental Preconception Posttraumatic Stress Symptoms and Maternal Prenatal Inflammation Prospectively Predict Shorter Telomere Length in Children Open

Gabrielle R. Rinne, Judith Carroll, Christine M. Guardino, Madeleine U. Shalowitz, Sharon Landesman Ramey , et al. · 2023

Objective Parental trauma exposure and trauma-related distress can increase the risk of adverse health outcomes in offspring, but the pathways implicated in intergenerational transmission are not fully explicated. Accelerated biological ag…

What predicts interdependence with family? The relative contributions of ethnicity/race and social class. Open

Emily D. Hooker, Karina Corona, Christine M. Guardino, Christine Dunkel Schetter, Belinda Campos · 2023

These findings provide novel evidence for the relevance of both ethnicity/race and social class-two aspects of culture-for family interdependence. They highlight the centrality of interdependence with family among foreign-born Latino/a Ame…

Resilience resources, life stressors, and postpartum depressive symptoms in a community sample of low and middle‐income Black, Latina, and White mothers Open

Melissa Julian, Jennifer A. Somers, Christine Dunkel Schetter, Christine M. Guardino · 2023

Resilience resources refer to factors that protect against the physical and mental health effects of stress exposure. This study used a cross‐sectional design to test whether three individual‐level resilience resources—mastery, self‐esteem…

Exposure therapy acceptability among pregnant Latinas with anxiety: A qualitative content analysis. Open

Carolyn Ponting, Emma Ong, Christine Dunkel Schetter, Denise A. Chavira · 2023

Identified themes provide insights about exposure acceptability among pregnant women and can be used to bettter engage Latinas in anxiety interventions, ultimately improving clinical outcomes. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all ri…

Stress before conception and during pregnancy and maternal cortisol during pregnancy: A scoping review Open

Gabrielle R. Rinne, Jenna Hartstein, Christine M. Guardino, Christine Dunkel Schetter · 2023

Pregnancy-specific anxiety and gestational length: The mediating role of diurnal cortisol indices Open

Kharah M. Ross, Harmeen Mander, Gabrielle R. Rinne, Michele L. Okun, Calvin J. Hobel , et al. · 2023

Maternal Early Life Adversity and Infant Stress Regulation: Intergenerational Associations and Mediation by Maternal Prenatal Mental Health Open

Margot E. Barclay, Gabrielle R. Rinne, Jennifer A. Somers, Steve S. Lee, Mary Coussons‐Read , et al. · 2022

Early life adversity is a potent risk factor for poor mental health outcomes across the lifespan, including offspring vulnerability to psychopathology. Developmentally, the prenatal period is a sensitive window in which maternal early life…

Maternal early life stress is associated with pro-inflammatory processes during pregnancy Open

Adriana S. Méndez Leal, Jennifer A. Silvers, Judith Carroll, Steve W. Cole, Kharah M. Ross , et al. · 2022

Anxiety in pregnancy and length of gestation: Findings from the healthy babies before birth study. Open

Christine Dunkel Schetter, Danny Rahal, Carolyn Ponting, Melissa Julian, Isabel F. Ramos , et al. · 2022

These results support existing evidence indicating that pregnancy anxiety is a reliable risk factor for earlier birth. Findings point to possible screening for clinically significant anxiety symptoms in the first trimester, and pregnancy-s…

Maternal stress and mental health before pregnancy and offspring diurnal cortisol in early childhood Open

Christine M. Guardino, Danny Rahal, Gabrielle R. Rinne, Nicole E. Mahrer, Elysia Poggi Davis , et al. · 2022

The current study investigates whether prepregnancy maternal posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms, depressive symptoms, and stress predict children's cortisol diurnal slopes and cortisol awakening responses (CARs) adjusting for re…

Increases in maternal depressive symptoms during pregnancy and infant cortisol reactivity: Mediation by placental corticotropin-releasing hormone Open

Gabrielle R. Rinne, Jennifer A. Somers, Isabel F. Ramos, Kharah M. Ross, Mary Coussons‐Read , et al. · 2022

Background: Maternal depressive symptoms in pregnancy may affect offspring health through prenatal programming of the hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenal (HPA) axis. The biological mechanisms that explain the associations between maternal prena…

Pregnancy anxiety, placental corticotropin-releasing hormone and length of gestation Open

Isabel F. Ramos, Kharah M. Ross, Gabrielle R. Rinne, Jennifer A. Somers, Roberta A. Mancuso , et al. · 2022

These results indicate that linear changes in pregnancy anxiety and nonlinear changes in pCRH during pregnancy are independent risk factors for shortened gestational length. This study adds to a small but growing body of work on biopsychol…

Maternal depressive symptom trajectories from preconception through postpartum: Associations with offspring developmental outcomes in early childhood Open

Gabrielle R. Rinne, Elysia Poggi Davis, Nicole E. Mahrer, Christine M. Guardino, Julia M. Charalel , et al. · 2022

Pregnancy anxiety and beliefs surrounding motherhood in Latinas: A qualitative study. Open

Isabel F. Ramos, Belinda Campos, Christine Dunkel Schetter · 2022

The present study highlights specific themes that may be important to consider in the context of Latina perinatal health. Such findings set the stage for future investigations examining the experience of anxiety specific to pregnancy in La…

Psychological Interventions for Prenatal Anxiety in Latinas and Black Women: A Scoping Review and Recommendations Open

Carolyn Ponting, Guido G. Urizar, Christine Dunkel Schetter · 2022

Anxiety symptoms are common among pregnant women worldwide. In the United States, prenatal anxiety symptoms tend to be elevated among Black and Latin American women as compared to non-Latina White women. Despite the high prevalence of anxi…

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