A5056957780- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Attachment and Relationship Dynamics
- Mental Health Research Topics
- Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum
- Family Dynamics and Relationships
- Early Childhood Education and Development
- Family and Disability Support Research
- COVID-19 and Mental Health
- Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
- Behavioral Health and Interventions
- Digital Mental Health Interventions
- Resilience and Mental Health
- Sleep and related disorders
- Child Abuse and Trauma
- Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes
- Stress Responses and Cortisol
- Opioid Use Disorder Treatment
- Sleep and Wakefulness Research
- Intimate Partner and Family Violence
- Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior
- Mental Health Treatment and Access
- Autism Spectrum Disorder Research
- Health disparities and outcomes
- Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving
- Sleep and Work-Related Fatigue
Southern Methodist University
2015-2024
University of Wisconsin–Madison
2020-2024
The University of Texas at Dallas
2024
Indiana University
2021
Vanderbilt University
2010-2013
University School of Nashville
2010
University of Notre Dame
2007-2010
Toward greater specificity in the prediction of externalizing problems context interparental conflict, interactions between children's parasympathetic and sympathetic nervous system (PNS SNS) activity were examined as moderators. PNS was indexed by respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA) RSA reactivity (RSA-R) to lab challenges. SNS skin conductance level (SCL) SCL (SCL-R) Moderation hypotheses 3 multi-informant studies with children ranging age 7 9 Studies 1 2 6 12 Study 3. Findings are robust...
Using a daily diary method, this study examined concurrent and time-lagged relations between marital parent-child relationship qualities, providing test of the spillover compensatory hypotheses. In addition, tested both mothers' fathers' depressive symptoms as moderators these linkages. Participants were 203 families, in which mothers fathers completed diaries for 15 days. At end each reporting day, parents independently rated emotional quality their with spouse child that day. Controlling...
Relations between marital aggression (psychological and physical) children's health were examined.Children's emotional insecurity was assessed as a mediator of these relations, with distinctions made against mothers fathers ethnicity (African American or European American), socioeconomic status, child gender examined moderators effects.Participants 251 community-recruited families, multiple reporters each construct.Aggression either parent yielded similar effects for children.Children's...
Extending research based on newlywed couples, this study investigated longitudinal associations between marital satisfaction and depressive symptoms in a community sample of 296 couples established relationships (M = 13.25 years, SD 5.98) with children age 11.05 2.31). Support was found for reciprocal relations relationships. Further extending previous work, the showed that relationship length hostile conflict were significant moderators these linkages. Husbands longer term more vulnerable...
Background: Children's physiological reactivity was examined as a moderator of relations between parental dysphoria and child adjustment problems, addressing gaps in the study characteristics risk processes. Method: One hundred fifty‐seven children (86 boys, 71 girls) were assessed twice over two‐year interval. Skin conductance level (SCLR) to inter‐adult argument problem‐solving tasks observed. Results: SCLR moderated longitudinal predictions children's internalizing, externalizing social...
Abstract Consistent with developmental cascade notions, the present study investigated (a) associations between trajectories of interparental conflict and early externalizing problems during childhood (b) as a pathway by which impacts children's social competence in preadolescence. Participants were 235 children their parents teachers. Children assessed annually for 3 years, beginning when they kindergarten. Parents provided reports child problems. Children's (prosocial behavior, problems)...
Summary Children's sleep problems are common and associated with increased risk for adjustment problems. We examined daily links between children's mood, using a diary method actigraphy. also tested mood as mediator of relations among broader internalizing externalizing symptoms. A community sample 142 children (mean age = 10.69 years; 57% girls; 69% European American, 31% African American) their parents participated. For 1 week, wore actigraphs completed telephone interview about child's...
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The present study extended laboratory-based findings of demand-withdraw communication into marital conflict in the home and further explored its linkages with spousal depression. U.S. couples (N = 116) provided diary reports rated depressive symptoms. Hierarchical linear modeling results indicated that husband demand-wife withdraw wife demand-husband occurred at equal frequency, both were more likely to occur when discussing topics concerned relationship. For patterns, initiator was...
Although concordance between husbands' and wives' mental health problems is often reported, questions remain about the nature of these relations. Extending research in this area, study examined dynamic‐longitudinal pathways among depressive symptoms marital satisfaction as a moderator associations. Participants were 296 heterosexual couples. Husbands wives reported on their satisfaction. Results from dynamic bivariate latent difference score analyses indicated unidirectional longitudinal...
To examine affectivity in marital interaction, 267 couples participated laboratory-based conflicts and afterward rated their own spouses’ emotions of positivity, anger, sadness, fear. Actor—Partner Interdependence Models estimated empathic accuracy assumed similarity effects, with symptoms depression tested as a moderator. Depressive moderated ratings partners’ negative such that was higher lower the context elevated depressive symptoms. The results suggest may influence judgments how...
The present study investigated dynamic, longitudinal associations between depressive symptoms and marital processes. Two hundred ninety-six couples reported on satisfaction, conflict, annually for 3 years. Observational measures of conflict were also collected. Results suggested that different domains functioning related to husbands' versus wives' symptoms. For husbands, transactional relations satisfaction identified: High levels predicted subsequent decreases in decreased elevations over...
Depressive syndrome and disorders increase substantially during adolescence. Little is known, however, about how individual symptoms of depression change over the course this developmental period. The present study examined within-person changes in symptom severity each depression, utilizing longitudinal data collected across 6 years Adolescent gender family relationship variables were tested as predictors trajectories (i.e., intercept slope). Adolescents their mothers (N = 240) first...
The current study examined within‐family relations between mothers’, fathers’, and children's objectively assessed sleep. Participants were 163 children ( M age = 10.45 years; SD 0.62) their parents. For 7 nights, families wore actigraphs to assess sleep duration (minutes), quality (efficiency, long wake episode, total minutes), schedule (wake time). A log bedtime. Multilevel models indicated that minutes, efficiency, time associated with fluctuations in but not same night. of mothers’ was...
Social anxiety interferes with accurate perceptions of others' thoughts and intentions, yet studies examining the association between social cognition have resulted in mixed findings. We examined dimensional levels assessments lower- higher-level cognition. In Study 1 (n = 1485), we found that was negatively related to accuracy an assessment (i.e., theory mind) across all stimuli. However, no consistent lower-level emotion recognition). 2 363), associated another form cognition, empathic...
Child maltreatment is a major public health problem. Although rates vary over time and are influenced by neighborhood characteristics, the unique effects of crime disadvantage on risk not well understood. This study utilized Bayesian spatiotemporal approach to examine factors for substantiated child abuse neglect 9-year period across zip codes in Davidson County, TN. Risk sexual physical decreased from 2008 2016. In contrast, increased 2011 2014, followed rapid decrease risk. Whereas higher...
Helicopter parenting during emerging adulthood, a developmental period highlighting autonomy and self-reliance, can undermine college students’ well-being. The current study examined the mediating role of emotion dysregulation in association between helicopter mental health outcomes among college-aged adults. A sample 790 students completed questionnaires on perceived parenting, dysregulation, depression, social anxiety, alcohol use. Results generally supported hypothesized mediation model,...
Toward greater specificity in the prediction of externalizing problems context interparental conflict, interactions between children's parasympathetic and sympathetic nervous system (PNS SNS) activity were examined as moderators. PNS was indexed by respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA) RSA reactivity (RSA-R) to lab challenges. SNS skin conductance level (SCL) SCL (SCL-R) Moderation hypotheses 3 multi-informant studies with children ranging age 7 9 Studies 1 2 6 12 Study 3. Findings are robust...
Evidence has emerged for emotional security as an explanatory variable linking marital conflict to children's adjustment. Further evidence suggests parental psychopathology is a key factor in child development. To advance understanding of the pathways by which these family risk factors impact development, mediational role children with parents who have potentially clinical levels depression compared whose lower symptomatology was examined (i.e., moderated mediation). Participants included...