A5079102065- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum
- Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
- Early Childhood Education and Development
- Child Abuse and Trauma
- Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior
- Attachment and Relationship Dynamics
- Mental Health Research Topics
- Bullying, Victimization, and Aggression
- Mental Health Treatment and Access
- Stress Responses and Cortisol
- Digital Mental Health Interventions
- Cognitive Abilities and Testing
- Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior
- Adolescent and Pediatric Healthcare
- COVID-19 and Mental Health
- Parental Involvement in Education
- Gender Roles and Identity Studies
- Prenatal Substance Exposure Effects
- Cognitive Science and Mapping
- Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
- Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
- Infant Development and Preterm Care
- Child and Animal Learning Development
- Family Dynamics and Relationships
University of Illinois Chicago
2019-2024
University of Rochester
2012-2020
Taylor University
2020
Children from different socioeconomic backgrounds have differing abilities to delay gratification, and impoverished children the greatest difficulties in doing so. In present study, we examined role of vagal tone predicting ability gratification both resource-rich resource-poor environments. We derived hypotheses evolutionary models children's conditional adaptation proximal rearing contexts. Study 1, tested whether elevated was associated with shorter children. 2, compared relative across...
Guided by family risk and allostasis theoretical frameworks, the present study utilized a prospective longitudinal design to examine associations among experiences, basal cortisol patterns, cognitive functioning in children. The sample included 201 low-income children living within midsize city Northeastern United States. Children were assessed at ages 2, 3, 4 years. Growth-mixture modeling analyses revealed three patterns (elevated, moderate, low) these remained relatively stable across...
Background Harsh environments are known to predict deficits in children's cognitive abilities. Life history theory approaches challenge this interpretation, proposing stressed cognition becomes specialized solve problems fitness‐enhancing ways. The goal of study was examine associations between early environmental harshness and problem‐solving outcomes across tasks varying ecological relevance. In addition, we utilize an evolutionary model temperament toward further specifying whether hawk...
Guided by the affective spillover hypothesis and differential susceptibility to environmental influence frameworks, present study examined how associations between interparental conflict mothers' parenting practices were moderated serotonin transporter (5-HTT) oxytocin receptor (OXTR) genes. A sample of 201 mothers their 2-year old child participated in a laboratory-based research assessment. Results supported hypotheses within frameworks. With respect OXTR rs53576, with GG genotype showed...
Cognitive models of parenting give emphasis to the central role that parental cognitions may play in socialization goals. In particular, dual process suggest attribution styles affect way parents interpret caregiving situations and enact behaviors, particularly within realm discipline. Although research has documented negative behavioral repercussions dysfunctional child-centered responsibility biases, there is heterogeneity level these associations. Research also demonstrated working memory...
Socioeconomic adversity has been targeted as a key upstream mechanism with robust pathogenic effects on maternal caregiving. Although research demonstrated the negative repercussions of socioeconomic difficulties, little documented potential mechanisms underlying this association. Toward increasing understanding, present study examined how working memory capacity and inhibitory control may mediate associations between risk change in sensitivity across free-play discipline caregiving...
Guided by a domain-specific approach to parenting framework, this research examined differential associations among three domains of (e.g., guided learning, reciprocity, control) and children's executive function. The second aim was examine whether child surgency negative emotionality temperament traits moderated the function in manner consistent with susceptibility theory. sample consisted 160 mothers their 5-year-old children. Results showed that learning positively uniquely associated...
Associations among moral judgments, neighborhood risk, and maternal discipline were examined in 118 socioeconomically diverse preschoolers (Mage = 41.84 months, SD 1.42). Children rated the severity punishment deserved for 6 prototypical transgressions entailing physical psychological harm unfairness. They also evaluated 3 criteria assessing maturity judgments: whether acts considered wrong regardless of rules independent authority, as well unacceptable to alter (collectively called...
Despite evidence that stress exposure increases risk for internalizing symptoms in youth, it remains unclear which youth are most vulnerable. This study examined whether youth's prepandemic late positive potential (LPP), an electrocortical marker of sustained attention to affective stimuli, exacerbated the impact on prospective depression and anxiety from before during COVID-19 pandemic. Participants were 29 (ages 9-16, 82.8% girls) who completed symptom measures words task assess LPP...
Extending dual process frameworks of cognition to a novel domain, the present study examined how mothers' explicit and implicit attitudes about her child may operate in models parenting. To assess attitudes, two separate studies were conducted using same child-focused Go/No-go Association Task (GNAT-Child). In Study 1, model analyses revealed that maternal associated with sensitive/responsive caregiving behaviors concurrently predicted changes over time 2, challenging uniquely linked...
Abstract A considerable body of research has linked parenting to the development children's self-regulation. However, few studies have considered different domains self-regulation, effects early caregiving behaviors, and whether or not influences children equally. Towards this, present investigation tested how maternal insensitivity was associated with difficulties in effortful control childhood their regulation negative emotions during school years. Further, we resting vagal tone may...
Guided by developmental psychopathology and dual-risk frameworks, the present study examined interplay between childhood maltreatment maternal major depression history in relation to neural reward responsiveness youth. The sample consisted of 96 youth (ages 9-16; M = 12.29 years, SD 2.20; 68.8% female) drawn from a large metropolitan city. Youth were recruited based on whether their mothers had depressive disorder (MDD) categorized into two groups: with MDD (high risk; HR; n 56) no...
Abstract Previous research has documented socioeconomic-related disparities in children's working memory; however, the putative proximal caregiving mechanisms that underlie these effects are less known. The present study sought to examine whether of early family socioeconomic status on memory were mediated through experiences caregiving, specifically maternal harsh discipline and responsiveness. Utilizing a psychobiological framework parenting, also tested moderated initial paths between...
Background Adolescent depression carries a high burden of disease worldwide, but access to care for this population is limited. Prevention one solution curtail the negative consequences adolescent depression. Internet interventions prevent can overcome barriers access, few studies examine long-term outcomes. Objective This study compares CATCH-IT (Competent Adulthood Transition with Cognitive Behavioral Humanistic and Interpersonal Training), an internet-based intervention, general health...
Parenting scholars have long been interested in understanding the prevalence, determinants, and child outcomes associated with use of physical discipline. To date, much empirical research this area has utilized self-report measures to assess construct. However, subjective nature participants' explicit reports presents an important confound studying issue. Thus, overarching aim study was provide first test implicit assessment discipline through using a Go/No-go Association Task (GNAT). A...
Background Anxiety is associated with aberrant patterns of cortical thickness in regions implicated emotion regulation. However, few studies have examined differences between individuals anxiety and healthy controls (HCs) across development, particularly during childhood when thinning begins risk increases. A better understanding age-related changes among anxious essential to develop plausible targets for early identification. Methods The current study how age impacted HCs individuals....
Informed by a developmental psychopathology perspective, the present study applied person-based approach to examine whether associations between early sociocontextual experiences (e.g., socioeconomic factors and maternal discipline practices) preschool-age children's delay of gratification vary across profiles temperamental reactivity. In addition, examined direct mediating role set shifting in with within each profile. The sample consisted 160 socioeconomically ethnically diverse mothers...
The error-related negativity (ERN) is an event-related potential that reflects error monitoring. Enhanced ERN indicates sensitivity to performance errors and a correlate of anxiety disorders. In contrast, youth with externalizing problems exhibit reduced ERN, suggesting decreased Anxiety commonly co-occur in youth, but no studies have tested how comorbidity might modulate the ERN. sample (N = 46, ages 7-19) without disorders, this preliminary study examined interactive effect on Results...