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Early-Life Factors and Body Mass Index Trajectories Among Children in the ECHO Cohort Open

Chang Liu, Sy‐Miin Chow, Izzuddin M. Aris, Dana Dabelea, Jenae M. Neiderhiser , et al. · 2025

Importance Identifying atypical body mass index (BMI) trajectories in children and understanding associated, modifiable early-life factors may help prevent childhood obesity. Objective To characterize multiphase BMI trajectories in childre…

Green Space and Internalizing or Externalizing Symptoms Among Children Open

Nissa Towe‐Goodman, Kristen McArthur, Michael T. Willoughby, Margaret M. Swingler, Cara Wychgram , et al. · 2024

Importance Evidence suggests that living near green space supports mental health, but studies examining the association of green space with early mental health symptoms among children are rare. Objective To evaluate the association between…

Green Space and Internalizing or Externalizing Symptoms Among Children Open

Nissa Towe‐Goodman, Kristen McArthur, Michael T. Willoughby, Margaret M. Swingler, Cara Wychgram , et al. · 2024

Importance: Evidence suggests that living near green space supports mental health, but studies examining the association of green space with early mental health symptoms among children are rare. Objective: To evaluate the association betwe…

Birth outcomes in relation to neighborhood food access and individual food insecurity during pregnancy in the Environmental Influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO)-wide cohort study Open

Izzuddin M. Aris, Pi‐I D. Lin, Allison J. Wu, Dana Dabelea, Barry M. Lester , et al. · 2024

Maternal education prospectively predicts child neurocognitive function: An environmental influences on child health outcomes study. Open

Santiago Morales, Maureen E. Bowers, Lauren C. Shuffrey, Katherine Ziegler, Sonya V. Troller‐Renfree , et al. · 2024

A large body of research has established a relation between maternal education and children's neurocognitive functions, such as executive function and language. However, most studies have focused on early childhood and relatively few studi…

Maternal Education Prospectively Predicts Child Neurocognitive Function: An Environmental Influences on Child Health Outcomes Study Open

Santiago Morales, Maureen E. Bowers, Lauren C. Shuffrey, Katherine Ziegler, Sonya V. Troller‐Renfree , et al. · 2024

A large body of research has established a relation between maternal education and children's neurocognitive functions, such as executive function and language. However, most studies have focused on early childhood and relatively few studi…

The effect of hair type and texture on electroencephalography and event‐related potential data quality Open

Ty Lees, Nilàm Ram, Margaret M. Swingler, Lisa M. Gatzke‐Kopp · 2023

Research utilizing event‐related potential (ERP) methods is generally biased with regard to sample representativeness. Among the myriad of factors that contribute to sample bias are researchers' assumptions about the extent to which racial…

Life satisfaction for adolescents with developmental and behavioral disabilities during the COVID-19 pandemic Open

Phillip Sherlock, Maxwell Mansolf, Courtney K. Blackwell, Clancy Blair, David Cella , et al. · 2023

Building an ecological momentary assessment smartphone app for 4- to 10-year-old children: A pilot study Open

Helen M. Milojevich, Daniel Stickel, Margaret M. Swingler, Xinyi Zhang, Jeffery Terrell , et al. · 2023

Objective Ecological momentary assessment (EMA) minimizes recall burden and maximizes ecological validity and has emerged as a valuable tool to characterize individual differences, assess contextual associations, and document temporal asso…

Sociodemographic Differences in COVID-19 Pandemic Experiences Among Families in the United States Open

Kaja Z. LeWinn, Leonardo Trasande, Andrew Law, Courtney K. Blackwell, Traci A. Bekelman , et al. · 2023

Importance Few population-based studies in the US collected individual-level data from families during the COVID-19 pandemic. Objective To examine differences in COVID-19 pandemic–related experiences in a large sociodemographically diverse…

Building an Ecological Momentary Assessment Smartphone App for 4- to 10-Year-Old Children: A Pilot Study Open

Helen M. Milojevich, Daniel Stickel, Margaret M. Swingler, Xinyi Zhang, Margaret A. Sheridan , et al. · 2023

The file "KIDsRawData_0111.RData" is a R data file, in which the "KIDs_data" dataframe contains EMA survey responses of all participants during the study period. The file "iEMA Post-study Caregiver Survey.xlsx" contains caregivers' respons…

Building an Ecological Momentary Assessment Smartphone App for 4- to 10-Year-Old Children: A Pilot Study Open

Helen M. Milojevich, Daniel Stickel, Margaret M. Swingler, Xinyi Zhang, Margaret A. Sheridan , et al. · 2023

The file "KIDsRawData_0111.RData" is a R data file, in which the "KIDs_data" dataframe contains EMA survey responses of all participants during the study period. The file "iEMA Post-study Caregiver Survey.xlsx" contains caregivers' respons…

COVID-19 Stress and Child Behavior: Examining Discrimination and Social Support in Racially Diverse ECHO Cohorts Open

Patricia A. Brennan, Sara S. Nozadi, Monica McGrath, Marie L. Churchill, Anne L. Dunlop , et al. · 2023

Incidence rates of childhood asthma with recurrent exacerbations in the US Environmental influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO) program Open

Rachel L. Miller, Holly B. Schuh, Aruna Chandran, Izzuddin M. Aris, Casper G. Bendixsen , et al. · 2023

Building an ecological momentary assessment smartphone app for 4- to 10-year-old children: A pilot study Open

Helen M. Milojevich, Daniel Stickel, Margaret M. Swingler, Xinyi Zhang, Jeffery Terrell , et al. · 2023

Objective Ecological momentary assessment (EMA) minimizes recall burden and maximizes ecological validity and has emerged as a valuable tool to characterize individual differences, assess contextual associations, and document temporal asso…

Profiles of family-based social experiences in the first 3 years predict early cognitive, behavioral, and socioemotional competencies. Open

W. Roger Mills‐Koonce, Nissa Towe‐Goodman, Margaret M. Swingler, Michael T. Willoughby · 2021

This study utilized latent profile analyses to identify unique configurations of children's family-based social experiences during the first 3 years of life and examine differences across profiles with respect to developmental outcomes at …

Sustained attention in infancy: A foundation for the development of multiple aspects of self-regulation for children in poverty Open

Annie Brandes‐Aitken, Stephen H. Braren, Margaret M. Swingler, Kristin Voegtline, Clancy Blair · 2019

Infant frontal EEG asymmetry moderates the association between maternal behavior and toddler negative affectivity Open

Anjolii Diaz, Margaret M. Swingler, Lin Tan, Cynthia L. Smith, Susan D. Calkins , et al. · 2019

Longitudinal associations between conflict monitoring and emergent academic skills: An event‐related potentials study Open

Elif Isbell, Susan D. Calkins, Veronica T. Cole, Margaret M. Swingler, Esther M. Leerkes · 2018

Identifying the links between specific cognitive functions and emergent academic skills can help determine pathways to support both early academic performance and later academic achievement. Here, we investigated the longitudinal associati…

Attentional fluctuations in preschoolers: Direct and indirect relations with task accuracy, academic readiness, and school performance Open

Elif Isbell, Susan D. Calkins, Margaret M. Swingler, Esther M. Leerkes · 2017

Attentional control fluctuates in the presence of internal and external distractors, wandering on and off a given task. The current study investigated individual differences in attentional fluctuations in 250 preschoolers. Attentional fluc…

Pathways from maternal effortful control to child self-regulation: The role of maternal emotional support. Open

Selin Zeytinoglu, Susan D. Calkins, Margaret M. Swingler, Esther M. Leerkes · 2016

This study examined the direct and indirect pathways from maternal effortful control to 2 aspects of children's self-regulation-executive functioning and behavioral regulation-via maternal emotional support. Two hundred seventy-eight child…

Maternal behavior predicts infant neurophysiological and behavioral attention processes in the first year. Open

Margaret M. Swingler, Nicole B. Perry, Susan D. Calkins, Martha Ann Bell · 2016

We apply a biopsychosocial conceptualization to attention development in the 1st year and examine the role of neurophysiological and social processes on the development of early attention processes. We tested whether maternal behavior meas…

Attentional Predictors of 5‐month‐olds' Performance on a Looking A‐not‐B Task Open

Stuart Marcovitch, Melissa W. Clearfield, Margaret M. Swingler, Susan D. Calkins, Martha Ann Bell · 2015

In the first year of life, the ability to search for hidden objects is an indicator of object permanence and, when multiple locations are involved, executive function (i.e. inhibition, cognitive flexibility and working memory). The current…

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