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The Good Parent: Southern Italian Mothers’ Conceptualization of Good Parenting and Parent–Child Relationships
(SAGE Journals, 2019-04-17)Thirty mothers, ranging in age between 30 and 46 years, participated in seven focus groups aimed at analyzing perceptions and ideas of the characteristics of a good parent and parent–child relationship in southern Italy ... -
The Development and Evaluation of a Statewide Training Center for Home Visitors and Supervisors
(Wiley Periodicals, 2019-03-09)This paper informs practice in community‐based home visiting workforce development by describing the development and evaluation of a university‐based training certificate program for home visitors and supervisors. The ... -
Collective Efficacy as a Key Context in Neighborhood Support for Urban Youth
(Society for Community Research and Action, 2019-03-06)Neighborhood context, including the physical and social environment, has been implicated as important contributors to positive youth development. A transactional approach to neighborhood asserts that place and people ... -
The impact of age on the validity of psychosis-risk screening in a sample of help-seeking youth
(Elsevier B.V., 2019-04)Self-report screening instruments offer promise in furthering early identification of at-risk youth, yet current efforts are limited by false positive rates. Identifying moderators of accuracy is a potential step towards ... -
Effects of head-only or whole-body exposure to very low doses of ⁴ He (1000 MeV/n) particles on neuronal function and cognitive performance
(Elsevier Ltd, 2019-02)On exploratory class missions, astronauts will be exposed to a range of heavy particles which vary in linear energy transfer (LET). Previous research has shown a direct relationship between particle LET and cognitive ... -
Identity Synthesis as a Pathway Linking Parenting and Emerging Adults’ Internalizing Problems
(Springer Nature Switzerland AG., 2019-01-11)Objectives The present study examined identity synthesis as a linking pathway in the association between perceived parenting (autonomy support, dependency-oriented psychological control, and achievement-oriented psychological ... -
Assessing validity of retrospective recall of physical activity in individuals with psychosis-like experiences
(Elsevier B.V., 2019-03)Psychosis-like experiences are present in the general population and may indicate risk for more severe forms of psychosis. They are associated with cognitive impairments, potentially impacting ability to accurately complete ... -
Academic Socialization in the Homes of Black and Latino Preschool Children: Research Findings and Future Directions
(Springer International Publishing, 2018)This chapter provides an overview of what is known about how Black and Latino families prepare their young children for school and what remains to be understood. It provides a synthesis of research presented in this volume, ... -
Longitudinal effects of maternal love withdrawal and guilt induction on Chinese American preschoolers’ bullying aggressive behavior
(Cambridge University Press, 2019-01-10)Bullying has been understudied among preschool children, especially those from Chinese American families. Previous research has also neglected the dimensional effects of psychological control on child bullying development. ... -
Individual Differences and Psychosis-Risk Screening: Practical Suggestions to Improve the Scope and Quality of Early Identification
(Frontiers Media S.A, 2019-02-14)Approaches to identifying individuals at clinical high-risk (CHR) for psychosis currently do not carefully weigh considerations around individual differences. Effective identification depends on awareness of factors beyond ... -
Trauma Exposure and PTSD Among Women Receiving Treatment for Intimate Partner Violence Perpetration
(SAGE journals, 2019-01-07)Trauma exposure and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms have been associated with men’s perpetration of intimate partner violence (IPV), but relatively little research has examined these associations among women ... -
Concerted Cultivation Among Low-Income Black and Latino Families
(Springer Nature Switzerland AG., 2018-12-11)This chapter examines low-income Black and Latino parents’ beliefs and practices about providing an educationally rich environment for their children. More specifically, it focuses on what parents believe about how their ... -
Audiovisual Lexical Retrieval Deficits Following Left Hemisphere Stroke
(MDPI, 2018-11-28)Binding sensory features of multiple modalities of what we hear and see allows formation of a coherent percept to access semantics. Previous work on object naming has focused on visual confrontation naming with limited ... -
Association between sleep, childhood trauma and psychosis-like experiences
(Elsevier B.V, 2018-03-09)Psychosis-like experiences (PLEs), or attenuated positive symptoms of psychosis, present along a severity continuum and have been associated with distressing thoughts and impairments in functioning. Although knowledge of ... -
The association between sleep dysfunction and psychosis-like experiences among college students
(Elsevier B.V, 2017-02)Sleep problems are prominent and pervasive clinical issues experienced by many people with psychotic disorders, often causing distress and functional impairment. Sleep problems are also related to psychosis-like experiences ... -
Validity of a two-item screen for early psychosis
(Elsevier B.V., 2018-12)Well-validated screening tools have been developed to identify people at high risk for psychosis, but these are rarely used outside of specialty clinics or research settings. The development of extremely brief and simple ... -
Everyday Discrimination Prospectively Predicts Inflammation across 7‐Years in Racially Diverse Midlife Women: Study of Women's Health across the Nation
(The Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues, 2014-06-11)Self-reported discrimination has emerged as a predictor of negative psychological and physical health outcomes across racial/ethnic groups. The goals of this study were to determine whether C-reactive protein (CRP), a ... -
Trauma’s Influence on Relationships: Clients’ Perspectives at an Intimate Partner Violence Intervention Program
(Springer Nature Switzerland AG., 2018-10-01)Although individuals who engage in intimate partner violence (IPV) report high rates of trauma exposure, it is unclear whether they perceive a link between trauma exposures and relationship problems, which traumas are seen ... -
Confirmatory factor analyses of the Parent Attributions Questionnaire among Asian immigrant mothers
(SAGE journals, 2018-09-18)The present study examined the factor structure of maternal attributions regarding their caregiving experiences, measured by the Parent Attributions Questionnaire, among Asian immigrant mothers. Chinese and Korean immigrant ... -
Asian American and European American emerging adults’ perceived parenting styles and self-regulation ability
(APA PsysNET, 2018-06)Self-regulation refers to one’s ability to manage one’s emotions and behaviors in response to situational demands and is an important ability during emerging adulthood. Parenting styles play a significant role in children’s ...
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