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View article: A latent class analysis of maternal depressive symptoms over 12 years and offspring adjustment in adolescence.
A latent class analysis of maternal depressive symptoms over 12 years and offspring adjustment in adolescence. Open
We used data from the NICHD Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development and latent class analysis to model patterns of maternal depressive symptoms from infant age 1 month to the transition to adolescence (age 12), and then examined ad…
View article: Intimate partner violence, maternal sensitive parenting behaviors, and children’s executive functioning.
Intimate partner violence, maternal sensitive parenting behaviors, and children’s executive functioning. Open
Despite knowledge that intimate partner violence (IPV) can negatively affect children's socioemotional and behavioral development, less is known about the impact of IPV on children's cognitive development, including whether it influences t…
View article: Independent and Interactive Contributions of Parenting Behaviors and Beliefs in the Prediction of Early Childhood Behavior Problems
Independent and Interactive Contributions of Parenting Behaviors and Beliefs in the Prediction of Early Childhood Behavior Problems Open
This study examined interactions between parenting beliefs and parenting behaviors in the prediction of early childhood externalizing and internalizing symptoms
View article: Early Environmental Correlates of Maternal Emotion Talk
Early Environmental Correlates of Maternal Emotion Talk Open
The primary goal of this study was to examine contextual, child, and maternal factors that are associated with mothers’ early emotion talk in an ethnically diverse, low-income sample.
View article: Cumulative Social Risk, Parenting, and Infant Development in Rural Low-Income Communities
Cumulative Social Risk, Parenting, and Infant Development in Rural Low-Income Communities Open
The extent to which the severity of exposure to social risk is related to parenting and cognitive development in the first 15 months of an infant's life was studied in a representative diverse sample of families in two rural poor regions i…
View article: Relations Among Intimate Partner Violence, Maternal Depressive Symptoms, and Maternal Parenting Behaviors
Relations Among Intimate Partner Violence, Maternal Depressive Symptoms, and Maternal Parenting Behaviors Open
The authors examined the relations among intimate partner violence (IPV), maternal depressive symptoms, and maternal harsh intrusive parenting. Using a cross-lagged, autoregressive path model, they sought to clarify the directionality of t…
View article: Family Violence and Children’s Behavior Problems: Independent Contributions of Intimate Partner and Child-Directed Physical Aggression
Family Violence and Children’s Behavior Problems: Independent Contributions of Intimate Partner and Child-Directed Physical Aggression Open
Using data from a diverse sample of 581 families living in predominantly low-income, rural communities, the current study sought to investigate the longitudinal associations among father-perpetrated intimate partner violence (IPV) and chil…
View article: Intimate partner violence and children’s memory.
Intimate partner violence and children’s memory. Open
The current study was designed to examine the relation between intimate partner violence (IPV) and children’s memory and drew from a socioeconomically and racially diverse sample of children living in and around a midsized southeastern cit…
View article: Paternal Work Characteristics and Father-Infant Interactions in Low-Income, Rural Families
Paternal Work Characteristics and Father-Infant Interactions in Low-Income, Rural Families Open
To examine the implications of paternal occupational conditions for the quality of father-infant interactions, home visits, including interviews and videotaped observations of father-infant interactions, were conducted with 446 fathers liv…
View article: Fathers’ sensitive parenting and the development of early executive functioning.
Fathers’ sensitive parenting and the development of early executive functioning. Open
Using data from a diverse sample of 620 families residing in rural, predominately low-income communities, this study examined longitudinal links between fathers’ sensitive parenting in infancy and toddlerhood and children’s early executive…
View article: Paternal Work Stress and Latent Profiles of Father-Infant Parenting Quality
Paternal Work Stress and Latent Profiles of Father-Infant Parenting Quality Open
The current study used latent profile analysis (LPA) to examine the implications of fathers’ experiences of work stress for paternal behaviors with infants across multiple dimensions of parenting in a sample of fathers living in nonmetropo…
View article: Maternal parenting as a mediator of the relationship between intimate partner violence and effortful control.
Maternal parenting as a mediator of the relationship between intimate partner violence and effortful control. Open
The current study examined the relationship between intimate partner violence (IPV), maternal parenting behaviors, and child effortful control in a diverse sample of 705 families living in predominantly low-income, rural communities. Using…
View article: Predictors of maternal language to infants during a picture book task in the home: Family SES, child characteristics and the parenting environment
Predictors of maternal language to infants during a picture book task in the home: Family SES, child characteristics and the parenting environment Open
This study investigated the contribution of child characteristics and parenting environment to the relationship between family SES/demographic characteristics and maternal language to infants.1157 children were drawn from a representative …
View article: Mothers' and fathers' sensitivity and children's cognitive development in low-income, rural families
Mothers' and fathers' sensitivity and children's cognitive development in low-income, rural families Open
This study examines associations between maternal and paternal sensitive parenting and child cognitive development across the first 3 years of life using longitudinal data from 630 families with co-residing biological mothers and fathers. …
View article: Bidirectional Associations Among Sensitive Parenting, Language Development, and Social Competence
Bidirectional Associations Among Sensitive Parenting, Language Development, and Social Competence Open
Rapid changes in language skills and social competence, both of which are linked to sensitive parenting, characterize early childhood. The present study examines bidirectional associations among mothers’ sensitive parenting and children’s …
View article: Adult attachment style and stress as risk factors for early maternal sensitivity and negativity
Adult attachment style and stress as risk factors for early maternal sensitivity and negativity Open
The current study examined the individual and joint effects of self-reported adult attachment style, psychological distress, and parenting stress on maternal caregiving behaviors at 6 and 12 months of child age. We proposed a diathesis-str…
View article: Association between maternal sensitivity and externalizing behavior from preschool to preadolescence
Association between maternal sensitivity and externalizing behavior from preschool to preadolescence Open
Using data from the longitudinal NICHD Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development (N=1364), this study examined the association between mothers’ sensitivity and children’s externalizing behavior from preschool to preadolescence. Exter…
View article: Modeling multiple risks during infancy to predict quality of the caregiving environment: Contributions of a person-centered approach
Modeling multiple risks during infancy to predict quality of the caregiving environment: Contributions of a person-centered approach Open
The primary goal of this study was to compare several variable-centered and person-centered methods for modeling multiple risk factors during infancy to predict the quality of caregiving environments at six months of age. Nine risk factors…
View article: Interparental aggression, attention skills, and early childhood behavior problems
Interparental aggression, attention skills, and early childhood behavior problems Open
The current study explored longitudinal associations between interparental aggression, the development of child attention skills, and early childhood behavior problems in a diverse sample of 636 families living in predominately low-income,…
View article: Father contributions to cortisol responses in infancy and toddlerhood.
Father contributions to cortisol responses in infancy and toddlerhood. Open
The current study is one of the first to prospectively examine longitudinal associations between observed father caregiving behaviors and child cortisol reactivity and regulation in response to emotional arousal at 7 and 24 months of child…
View article: Parenting and children’s representations of family predict disruptive and callous-unemotional behaviors.
Parenting and children’s representations of family predict disruptive and callous-unemotional behaviors. Open
Data from a large prospective longitudinal study (n = 1,239) was used to investigate the association between observed sensitive parenting in early childhood and children's representations of family relationships as measured by the Family D…
View article: Childhood sexual trauma and subsequent parenting beliefs and behaviors
Childhood sexual trauma and subsequent parenting beliefs and behaviors Open
Using propensity-matched controls, the present study examines the long-term adjustment of women reporting Childhood Sexual Trauma (CST) at or before the age of 14 in terms of parenting efficacy and parenting behavior. Data for these analys…
View article: Salivary Cortisol Mediates Effects of Poverty and Parenting on Executive Functions in Early Childhood: Cortisol and Cognition
Salivary Cortisol Mediates Effects of Poverty and Parenting on Executive Functions in Early Childhood: Cortisol and Cognition Open
In a predominantly low-income population-based longitudinal sample of 1,292 children followed from birth, higher level of salivary cortisol assessed at ages 7, 15, and 24 months was uniquely associated with lower executive function ability…
View article: Developmental Delays in Executive Function from 3 to 5 Years of Age Predict Kindergarten Academic Readiness
Developmental Delays in Executive Function from 3 to 5 Years of Age Predict Kindergarten Academic Readiness Open
Substantial evidence has established that individual differences in executive function (EF) in early childhood are uniquely predictive of children’s academic readiness at school entry. The current study tested whether growth trajectories o…
View article: Intimate Partner Violence in Rural Low-Income Families: Correlates and Change in Prevalence Over the First 5 Years of a Child’s Life
Intimate Partner Violence in Rural Low-Income Families: Correlates and Change in Prevalence Over the First 5 Years of a Child’s Life Open
Despite evidence that individuals living in low-income and rural communities may be at heightened risk for intimate partner violence (IPV), little is known about the prevalence and nature of IPV occurring in these communities. The goal of …
View article: Intimate Partner Violence, Parenting, and Children’s Representations of Caregivers
Intimate Partner Violence, Parenting, and Children’s Representations of Caregivers Open
Children’s representational models of self and relationship quality with caregivers in the context of intimate partner violence (IPV) were investigated using family drawings created by children in their first-grade year. The present study …
View article: 88 <sup>th</sup> Annual Meeting of the American Thyroid Association
88 <sup>th</sup> Annual Meeting of the American Thyroid Association Open
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View article: Mother–child role confusion, child adjustment problems, and the moderating roles of child temperament and sex.
Mother–child role confusion, child adjustment problems, and the moderating roles of child temperament and sex. Open
Role confusion is a deviation in the parent-child relationship such that a parent looks to a child to meet the parent's emotional needs and abdicates, in part, the parental role in exchange for care, intimacy, or peer support from the chil…
View article: Bidirectional effects between parenting sensitivity and child behavior: A cross-lagged analysis across middle childhood and adolescence.
Bidirectional effects between parenting sensitivity and child behavior: A cross-lagged analysis across middle childhood and adolescence. Open
Using a longitudinal, cross-lagged design, this study examined the bidirectional relations between mothers' and fathers' sensitivity and children's externalizing (EXT) and internalizing (INT) behavior from middle childhood into adolescence…