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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, ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Associations between Race, Discrimination, Community Violence, Traumatic Life Events, and Psychosis-Like Experiences in a Sample of College Students
(MDPI, 2019-10-01)Self-report tools of psychosis-like experiences contribute to the understanding of psychosis and may aid in identification and prevention efforts across the severity spectrum. Current tools are likely limited by biases, ... -
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 ... -
Childhood Trauma and Dissociative Intimate Partner Violence
(Sage, 2018)The present study assesses childhood abuse/neglect as a predictor of dissociative intimate partner violence (IPV) among 118 partner-abusive men. One third (36%) endorsed dissociative IPV, most commonly losing control (18%), ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Considerations for Implementing Group-Level Prenatal Health Interventions in Low-Resource Communities: Lessons Learned from Haiti
(American College of Nurse-Midwives, 2018)Haiti’s high maternal and infant mortality rates evidence an urgent need for implementation of evidence-based strategies. A potential cost-effective strategy to mitigate high maternal and infant mortality rates is group ... -
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 ... -
Disparities in Diffuse Cortical White Matter Integrity Between Socioeconomic Groups
(Frontiers Media S.A., 2019-06-12)There is a growing literature demonstrating a link between lower socioeconomic status (SES) and poorer neuroanatomical health, such as smaller total and regional gray and white matter volumes, as well as greater white ... -
Effect of collaborative depression treatment on risk for diabetes: A 9-year follow-up of the IMPACT randomized controlled trial
(PLoS ONE, 2018-08-23)Considerable epidemiologic evidence and plausible biobehavioral mechanisms suggest that depression is an independent risk factor for diabetes. Moreover, reducing the elevated diabetes risk of depressed individuals is ... -
Effective Home Visiting Training: Key Principles and Findings to Guide Training Developers and Evaluators
(Springer, 2018-06-23)Purpose Home visiting programs have produced inconsistent outcomes. One challenge for the field is the design and implementation of effective training to support home visiting staff. In part due to a lack of formal training, ... -
Effects of delay fading and signals on self‐control choices by children
The current study is a systematic replication and extension of work by Schweitzer & Sulzer‐Azaroff (1988). The effects of delay fading alone and in combination with signals on choices between larger, delayed reinforcers ... -
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 ... -
Effects of neutral and enthusiastic praise on the rate of discrimination acquisition
(Wiley, 2018)Previous research has shown that praise is an effective reinforcer; however, few researchers have evaluated whether qualitative differences in praise affect responding. The purpose of the current study was to compare the ... -
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 ...