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.
Focus Area: Addressing Adversity & Inequity
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.
Parenting mediates the effects of income and cumulative risk on the development of effortful control
In this study, Dr. Liliana Lengua tested the hypothesis that the effects of income and cumulative risk on the development of effortful control during preschool would be mediated by parenting.