A5079518614- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Resilience and Mental Health
- Early Childhood Education and Development
- Fashion and Cultural Textiles
- COVID-19 and Mental Health
- Comics and Graphic Narratives
- Youth Development and Social Support
- Art, Politics, and Modernism
- Family Support in Illness
- Optimism, Hope, and Well-being
- Racial and Ethnic Identity Research
- Migration, Health and Trauma
- Cultural Industries and Urban Development
- Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum
- Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction
- Attachment and Relationship Dynamics
- Infant Health and Development
- Crafts, Textile, and Design
- Family and Disability Support Research
- Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving
- Digital Games and Media
- Stress Responses and Cortisol
- Adolescent and Pediatric Healthcare
- Psychological and Temporal Perspectives Research
- Family Dynamics and Relationships
Purdue University West Lafayette
2015-2024
University of Kentucky
2024
University of Washington
2023-2024
Bournemouth University
2020-2023
University of Bristol
2023
Liverpool John Moores University
2017
University of Northampton
2014-2016
Arizona State University
2012-2013
University of California, Davis
2010-2013
University Hospital of Wales
2009
The present study explored early personality and environmental predictors of the development young children's empathy, as well relations empathy to prosocial behavior with peers at a later age. How children manage their own emotions behaviors when under stress--their ego-resiliency--would be expected affect responses others' emotions. Also, socialization experiences, such quality parenting behaviors, have been associated individual differences in empathy-related responding. We examined...
During the transition from high school to college, youths navigate increasingly adult roles, take on new academic and economic responsibilities, forge social networks. We examined longitudinal relations among internalizing symptoms (depression anxiety), perceived support, personality trait of ego-resiliency across three time points at end during first year college ( N = 82). Internalizing were concurrently negatively correlated with support friends family as well ego-resiliency, was...
Longitudinal relations among ego‐resiliency ( ER ), effortful control EC and observed intrusive parenting were examined at 18, 30, 42 months of age N s = 256, 230, 210) using structural equation modeling. Intrusive 18 30 negatively predicted a year later, over above earlier levels. mediated the negative relation between 18‐month when controlling for stability variables. did not predict . The findings suggest that may have effect on children's through its effects abilities to regulate...
Social bonds and supportive relationships are widely recognized as being indispensable to healthy psychological functioning well-being. support is a resource that expected also contribute positively parenting practices. The present study longitudinally examined the relations between mothers' (
Although research demonstrates many negative family outcomes associated with single-parent households, little is known about processes that lead to positive for these families. Using 3 waves of longitudinal data, we examined how maternal dispositional optimism and life stressors are parenting child in 394 single mother African American Confirming prior research, found mothers' childhood adversities, current economic pressure, internalizing problems were lower levels warmth management school...
The present investigation examined the relations between cultural belief of familism and various aspects family functioning child adjustment, including interparental conflict, parenting, children's attachment to school, in a sample 549 two-parent Mexican-origin families. results indicated that parents' familistic values were negatively associated with conflict for both mothers fathers. Parents' also indirectly parenting through marital relationship. Interparental was nurturant-involved...
The goal of this study was to examine physiological and environmental predictors children's sympathy (an emotional response consisting feelings concern or sorrow for others who are distressed in need) whether temperamental effortful control mediated these relations. Specifically, a 192 children (23% Hispanic; 54% male), respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA), measure thought reflect regulation, observed authoritative parenting (both at 42 months) were examined as (at 54 and, turn, 72 84 months)....
Abstract Background Saliva is easily obtainable non-invasively and potentially suitable for detecting both current previous SARS-CoV-2 infection, but there limited evidence on the utility of salivary antibody testing community surveillance. Methods We established 6 ELISAs IgA IgG antibodies to whole spike protein, its receptor binding domain region nucleocapsid protein in saliva. evaluated diagnostic performance, using paired saliva serum samples, correlated mucosal systemic responses. The...
Dispositional optimism is believed to be an important psychological resource that buffers families against the deleterious consequences of economic adversity. Using data from a longitudinal study Mexican-origin (N = 674), we tested family stress model specifying maternal dispositional and pressure affect internalizing symptoms, which, in turn, affects parenting behaviors children's social adjustment. As predicted, had both independent interactive effects on these variables changes over time...
Children's prosocial behavior and personal distress are likely affected by children's temperament as well parenting quality. In this study, we examined bidirectional relations from age 30 to 42 months between ( N = 218) or self‐focused (presumably distressed) reactions a relative stranger's both supportive emotion‐related maternal emotions shyness/inhibition. When controlling for 30‐month behavior, (emotion‐focused problem‐focused) were positively related marginally negatively behaviors...
The Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic has created significant economic, social, and mental health challenges for many parents. However, single mothers (who are typically both primary caregivers wage earners their families) may be especially vulnerable to stress problems during this crisis. Gratitude is strongly linked positive emotions as well been shown amendable in interventions but rarely assessed regard parent well-being. In the present study, we longitudinal relations between life...
Social media plays a dominant role in emerging adults' lives, with evidence showing that it can contribute to elevated levels of psychological distress. However, existing findings are contradictory, insofar as the connection between social use (SMU) and distress remains unclear. To gain better insight into above relationship, we focused on different styles engagement (active social, active non-social, passive) examined whether their impact depression, anxiety stress symptoms is mediated by...
Abstract Early sociodemographic risk, parenting, and temperament were examined as predictors of the activity children's ( N = 148; 81 boys, 67 girls) hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenal axis autonomic nervous system. Demographic risk was assessed at 18 months (T1), intrusive/overcontrolling parenting effortful control 30 (T2), salivary cortisol alpha‐amylase collected 72 (T3) age. T1 predicted lower levels higher mothers' T2. Intrusive/overcontrolling T2 T3, but did not uniquely predict or...
This study examined how parents' optimism influences positive parenting and child peer competence in Mexican-origin families.
We examined the relations of negative emotions in toddlerhood to development ego-resiliency and social competence across early childhood. Specifically, we addressed whether fear anger/frustration 30-month-old children (N = 213) was associated with 4 time points (42 84 months), and, turn, predicted at months. Child negatively intercept 42 months (controlling for prior 18 months) as well slope. Fear did not significantly predict either or slope structural model, although it positively...
We used observed parenting behaviors, along with genetic variants and haplotypes of the serotonin transporter gene (SLC6A4), as predictors children's ego-resiliency during early childhood (N =153). Quality mothers' was at 18 months age reports were collected six time points from to 84 months. Genetic data 72 Observed positively associated initial levels ego-resiliency. Furthermore, although individual (LPR, STin2) not ego-resiliency, S10 haplotype (that combines information these two...
There is growing interest in what helps parents maintain good parenting when they encounter stressors. The United States has the world's highest rate of single-parent households. These families often experience higher adversity and, turn, mental distress. Supportive relationships are widely recognized as indispensable for healthy psychological well-being; however, sources support have not been differentiated research. present study investigated relative roles family and friend predicting...
How Latino youth cope with stressors may have implications for their adjustment. We examined how a temperamental characteristic (effortful control) and contextual factor (economic hardship) were associated youth's coping. Individual differences in effortful control, core facet of self-regulation, contribute to coping as control is consistently linked adaptive behaviors during adolescence. relations economic hardship active sample Mexican-origin (N = 674) across three time points (fifth ninth...
Abstract Children from Latino migrant farmworker (LMFW) families are one of the most educationally disenfranchised and marginalized populations students in United States. These children face similar disadvantages to other low‐income immigrant families, but often experience unique contextual stressors due high mobility that places them at risk for mental health problems, risk‐taking behaviors, poor academic engagement. Despite these vulnerabilities few researchers have focused their efforts...
Ego‐resiliency is an enduring psychological construct reflecting how individuals‐adapt to environmental stressors, conflict, and change which linked positive adjustment. has not been examined in Latino youth, despite their high risk for mental health problems; nor have cultural precursors ego‐resiliency examined. Given these gaps, we whether familism values (supportive, obligation, referent) were associated with and, turn, depressive problems adolescents across two time points ( N = 123,...