In this study, Drs. Lengua and Thompson examined growth in effortful control in relation to income, cumulative risk, and adjustment in 306 preschool-age children from families representing a range of income.
Focus Area: Addressing Adversity & Inequity
Emotion regulation, internalizing symptoms and somatic complaints in pediatric survivors of acute lymphoblastic leukemia
In this study, Dr. Lynn Katz and colleagues aimed to examine whether respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA)—a physiological index of children’s emotion regulation—moderates the relation between cancer diagnosis and internalizing problems in children.
Posttraumatic stress and emotion regulation in survivors of intimate partner violence
In this study, Drs. Lynn Katz and Kyrill Gurtovenko examined child’s emotion regulation as a moderator and mother’s emotion regulation as a mediator of the relation between mother PTSS and child adjustment.
Maternal directiveness in childhood survivors of acute lympohoblastic leukemia
In this study, Dr. Lynn Katz tested whether cancer survivorship moderates the relation between maternal directiveness—one aspect of intrusiveness—and children’s internalizing problems.
The Development of Thinking About People: From Behavior to Brain
Dr. Jessica Sommerville investigates the development of thinking about people from infancy through the school years using both behavioral and brain-based methods.
Parental emotion socialization in clinically depressed adolescents: Accepting, dampening and enhancing positive affect
In this study, Dr. Lynn Katz and colleagues compared parental socialization of adolescent positive affect in families of depressed and healthy adolescents.