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Rawn KP, Keller PS, Widiger TA. Parent Grandiose Narcissism and Child Socio-Emotional Well Being: The Role of Parenting. Psychol Rep 2023:332941231208900. [PMID: 37855306 DOI: 10.1177/00332941231208900] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/20/2023]
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Previous research has highlighted how parent narcissism relates to parenting broadly. However, research has not examined how facets of grandiose narcissism are associated with parenting tactics, nor how these facets may indirectly affect child development. The current study assesses parenting tactics as intervening variables in associations between facets of grandiose narcissism and child internalizing/externalizing. Participants were 457 parents of a child between six and 18. Parents completed a survey assessing grandiose narcissism, positive and negative parenting tactics, and reported on child internalizing/externalizing behaviors. Higher parent grandiosity and entitlement/exploitation were associated with more negative parenting tactics and less positive parenting tactics. Negative parenting tactics intervened in relations between these facets of grandiose narcissism and child internalizing and externalizing. Conversely, higher levels of leadership/authority were related to more positive parenting tactics. Results suggest that deficits in parenting may be a mechanism for how parent grandiose narcissism relates to child mental health.
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- Kyle P Rawn
- Department of Psychology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, USA
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Rawn KP, Keller PS. Child emotion lability is associated with within-task changes of autonomic activity during a mirror-tracing task. Psychophysiology 2023; 60:e14354. [PMID: 37246804 DOI: 10.1111/psyp.14354] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/04/2022] [Revised: 05/09/2023] [Accepted: 05/09/2023] [Indexed: 05/30/2023]
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Adaptive biological and emotional stress responding are both critical for healthy human development. However, the complex associations between the two are not fully understood. The current study addresses this gap in research by studying associations of child emotion regulation and lability with within-task changes in the biological stress response during a mirror-tracing task. Participants were 59 families including two parents and a child between 5 and 12 years old (52.2% female). Parents reported on family demographics and completed the Emotion Regulation Checklist. Child skin conductance level (SCL) and respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA) were recorded during a baseline task and during a 3-minute mirror-tracing task. Within-task patterns of SCL and RSA during the task were estimated with multilevel modeling (measures within persons). The emotion regulation subscale was unrelated to any facet of SCL/RSA time courses. However, lower emotion lability was related to SCL patterns that changed less during the task and were overall lower. For RSA, lower emotion lability was related to higher initial RSA that significantly decreased during the task. These findings suggest that higher child emotion lability may promote increased physiological arousal of target organs during challenging activities.
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- Kyle P Rawn
- Department of Psychology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, USA
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Keller PS, Rawn KP, Dunsmore JC, Zvolensky M, El-Sheikh M. Parental drinking and observations of parent-child problem-solving discussions: Do drinking motives matter? J Fam Psychol 2023; 37:993-1004. [PMID: 37561503 PMCID: PMC10528253 DOI: 10.1037/fam0001135] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 08/11/2023]
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Alcohol is often used for emotion-regulation purposes, yet there has been little research on how emotion-regulation drinking motives relate to parenting. The present study addresses this gap by investigating possible interactions between parent drinking and drinking motives in the prediction of parenting and child affectivity during a problem-solving interaction. Participants included 199 two-parent families with a child between the ages of 6 and 12 years. Mothers and fathers self-reported their drinking and drinking motivations, and each parent separately took part in a 5-min parent-child problem-solving discussion about a topic that the parent identified as a frequent source of conflict. These discussions were later coded for parent rejection and coercion and child positive and negative affectivity. Father enhancement motives were independently related to father harsh parenting and indirectly related to lower child positive affect and greater child negative affect. Mother drinking to regulate positive and negative emotions interacted with mother drinking in association with mother harsh parenting, father harsh parenting, and child positive and negative affect during father-child interactions. Although the pattern of these interactions differed, the combination of mother greater drinking and coping or enhancement motives tended to have higher harsh parenting, child positive affect, and child negative affect. These findings indicate that parents' emotion-regulation motives for drinking warrant greater attention from researchers to understand the impact of parent drinking on parenting and emotional development of children. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved).
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- Department of Psychology, University of Kentucky
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Keller PS, Widiger TA, El-Sheikh M. Parental Problem Drinking and Maladaptive Personality Features in Children: The Role of Marital Conflict. Child Psychiatry Hum Dev 2023; 54:1336-1346. [PMID: 35278171 DOI: 10.1007/s10578-022-01340-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 02/21/2022] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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The personality characteristics of children of exposed to parental problem drinking have been of interest to clinicians and researchers for several decades, but personality research on this population often focuses on identifying a unique cluster of adult personality traits. The current study adopts a cutting-edge dimensional approach to understanding personality pathology as extreme variants of the five factor model, and examines pathways of risk to personality pathology through marital conflict and emotional insecurity. Participants were 199 two-parent families with a child between the ages of 6 and 12 years. Parents completed questionnaire measures of their problem drinking, marital conflict, child emotional insecurity (i.e., emotional reactivity to conflict), and child maladaptive personality traits. Structural equation models found an indirect pathway from mother and father problem drinking to pathological child disagreeableness, introversion, emotional instability, and compulsivity via greater mother destructive marital conflict behavior and child emotional reactivity to conflict. There was also some evidence that this pathway of effects was stronger for girls than for boys. Findings support the use of a dimensional approach to understanding maladaptive personality among individuals exposed to parental problem drinking.
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Affiliation(s)
- Peggy S Keller
- Department of Psychology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, 40506, USA.
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- Department of Psychology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, 40506, USA
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- Department of Human Development and Family Studies, Auburn University, Auburn, AL, 36849, USA
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Keller PS, Stumbo TM, Rawn KP. Changes in Grandparent-Grandchild Relationships during the COVID-19 Pandemic and Lockdown: Associations with Mental Health in College Students. Journal of Intergenerational Relationships 2023. [DOI: 10.1080/15350770.2023.2166640] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/20/2023]
Affiliation(s)
- Peggy S. Keller
- Department of Psychology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, USA
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Elhusseini S, Rawn K, El-Sheikh M, Keller PS. Attachment and prosocial behavior in middle childhood: The role of emotion regulation. J Exp Child Psychol 2023; 225:105534. [PMID: 36030640 DOI: 10.1016/j.jecp.2022.105534] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/14/2021] [Revised: 08/03/2022] [Accepted: 08/04/2022] [Indexed: 10/15/2022]
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There is a lack of research on the development of prosocial behavior in middle childhood. The current study addressed this gap through the application of attachment theory; attachment security has been shown to promote prosocial behavior in early childhood, and emotion regulation may be an important intervening variable in this association. A sample of 199 children (aged 6-12 years) reported on their attachment internal working models for the mother-child and father-child relationships, parents reported on child emotion regulation and emotional lability/dysregulation, and children completed a sticker donation task to assess their prosocial behavior. Child emotional lability/dysregulation served as an intervening variable in the association between father-child attachment security (communication and trust) and greater sticker donation. Mother-child and father-child attachment security was also associated with child emotion regulation, but emotion regulation was not associated with sticker donation. Findings suggest that secure attachment may foster prosocial behavior toward peers in middle childhood primarily by reducing dysregulated responses to the distress of others.
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- University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506, USA
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Kouros CD, Keller PS, Martín-Piñón O, El-Sheikh M. Bidirectional associations between nightly sleep and daily happiness and negative mood in adolescents. Child Dev 2022; 93:e547-e562. [PMID: 35596680 PMCID: PMC9545079 DOI: 10.1111/cdev.13798] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/19/2021] [Revised: 04/04/2022] [Accepted: 04/12/2022] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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This study examined bidirectional associations between daily happiness and negative mood and subjective and objective sleep measures. Participants were 311 adolescents (Mage = 17.37 years; 51.8% female; 59.2% White/European American, 38.6% Black/African American, 1% Hispanic/Latinx American, 1.4% multi‐racial; 19.3% below poverty line) observed over a 7‐day period (2017–2018) using sleep diaries and actigraphy. Daily negative mood was related to greater subjective sleep/wake problems, and happiness was related to lower subjective sleep/wake problems. Conversely, shorter self‐reported sleep duration was related to higher negative mood the next day. For actigraphy measures, daily negative mood was related to greater sleep duration and efficiency, whereas happiness was related to lower sleep efficiency. Differences in associations based on subjective versus objective sleep measures are discussed.
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- Chrystyna D Kouros
- Department of Psychology, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas, USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, USA
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- Human Development and Family Science, Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama, USA
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- Human Development and Family Science, Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama, USA
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Rawn KP, Keller PS. Habitual use of psychological coping strategies is associated with physiological stress responding during negative memory recollection in humans. Stress 2022; 25:30-39. [PMID: 34821194 DOI: 10.1080/10253890.2021.2007372] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/19/2022] Open
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Research has identified a variety of strategies people use to cope with stress and that the adaptiveness of various strategies depends on the context in which they are used. However, important questions remain about the role of physiological stress response systems in supporting, influencing, or changing from coping strategies. This study works toward addressing this gap by examining associations between skin conductance level (SCL) and habitual use of coping strategies. It was hypothesized that more use of problem-focused strategies would be associated with SCL trajectories that were more stable and decreased less steeply, with the opposite trend hypothesized for more use of emotion-focused strategies. Participants were 188 college students (78% female) who reported their use of 14 coping strategies. SCL was recorded during recall of a negative family memory from childhood for five minutes. Trajectories of SCL during the recall were estimated with multilevel modeling. Greater self-distraction, planning, active coping, use of emotional support, and coping flexibility were related to trajectories of SCL that decreased less steeply and were more stable. Problem-focused coping and coping flexibility are, therefore, related to reduced SCL reactivity and promoting these skills may benefit mental health.
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- Kyle P Rawn
- Department of Psychology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, USA
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Rawn KP, Keller PS. Exposure to intimate partner aggression during childhood is associated with blunted skin conductance recovery following stress in early adulthood. Psychophysiology 2021; 59:e13968. [PMID: 34762295 DOI: 10.1111/psyp.13968] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/02/2021] [Revised: 09/26/2021] [Accepted: 10/26/2021] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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This study examines skin conductance level (SCL) trajectories and childhood exposure to intimate partner aggression (IPA) committed between parents in a sample of college students. Although IPA among parents does not directly involve children, children frequently see or are exposed to IPA first-hand when it occurs. This exposure to IPA increases risks for psychopathology and emotional or behavioral difficulties for children or adolescents later in life. However, research has not yet examined the stress response patterns of individuals exposed to IPA, nor how reactivity to stress may be altered based on this exposure. Participants included 161 college students who completed questionnaires assessing demographics, mental health, and exposure to IPA, and also reported on family functioning and parental drinking habits. Additionally, participants completed a three-minute mirror tracing task followed by a three-minute recovery period while SCL was monitored. Multilevel modeling was used to assess whether frequency or level of exposure to IPA was related to trajectories of SCL. Neither variable was related to SCL trajectories during the mirror-tracing task. However, both frequency and level of exposure were related to SCL trajectories during the recovery period, such that for participants reporting higher levels of either IPA exposure variable, SCL trajectories during recovery declined less rapidly and did not decline to as low of a level compared to participants reporting lower levels of IPA exposure. This blunted SCL recovery may be due to wear and tear from repeated innervation, or a calibrating of the SCL response to adapt to a volatile home environment.
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- Kyle P Rawn
- Department of Psychology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, USA
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This study examined the relations between parental empathy, parenting physical aggression, parental psychological control, and child adjustment in a sample of parents who had their children removed from their custody because of child abuse or neglect. Twenty parents between 24 and 40 years of age (M = 31.15, SD = 4.85; 85% female) with a child aged between 1.5 and 16 years (M = 6.5, SD = 3.88; 70% boys) participated in the study. Our sample was comprised of relatively racially diverse and low-income parents, with 40% from racial minority groups and 70% below the poverty line. Parents were recruited from a local nonprofit organization providing court-mandated parenting classes. Parents reported on their dispositional empathy, physical aggression toward children, psychological control and child internalizing and externalizing symptoms in an interview format. Parents also reported on empathy for their children through a semistructured interview; their empathy was later coded by trained research assistants. Bivariate correlation analyses revealed that parental empathy in the parent-child relationship negatively correlated with parental psychological control. Greater parental psychological control significantly correlated with greater approval of corporal punishment. Moreover, in the subsample of older children (6 years old and above), greater parental dispositional empathy was associated with greater child externalizing symptoms. Further exploratory analyses showed that associations between parental empathy, psychological control, and spanking attitudes differed across parents of boys and of girls. This study highlights the importance of examining empathy specific to the parent-child relationship in addition to dispositional empathy to predict parenting aggression. More importantly, studies should focus on a more covert form of parenting aggression, parental psychological control, in addition to physical aggression.
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- Shuang Bi
- Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, Guangzhou, China
- University of Kentucky, Lexington, USA
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Malone SG, Keller PS, Hammerslag LR, Bardo MT. Escalation and reinstatement of fentanyl self-administration in male and female rats. Psychopharmacology (Berl) 2021; 238:2261-2273. [PMID: 33895852 PMCID: PMC10332850 DOI: 10.1007/s00213-021-05850-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/24/2020] [Accepted: 04/12/2021] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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RATIONALE Escalation of drug intake and craving are two DSM-5 hallmark symptoms of opioid use disorder (OUD). OBJECTIVES This study determined if escalation of intake as modeled by long access (LgA) self-administration (SA) and craving measured by reinstatement are related. METHODS Adult male and female Sprague-Dawley rats were trained to self-administer fentanyl across 7 daily 1-h short access (ShA) sessions, followed by 21 SA sessions of either 1- or 6-h duration (ShA or LgA). Following 14 1-h extinction sessions, Experiment 1 assessed reinstatement induced by either fentanyl (10 or 30 µg/kg) or yohimbine (1 or 2 mg/kg), and Experiment 2 assessed reinstatement induced by a drug-associated cue light. RESULTS Females acquired fentanyl SA faster than males. When shifted to LgA sessions, LgA rats escalated fentanyl intake, but ShA rats did not; no reliable sex difference in the rate of escalation was observed. In extinction, compared to ShA rats, LgA rats initially responded less and showed less decay of responding across sessions. A priming injection of fentanyl induced reinstatement, with LgA rats reinstating more than ShA rats at the 30 µg/kg dose. Yohimbine (1 mg/kg) also induced reinstatement, but there was no effect of access group or sex. With cue-induced reinstatement, LgA females reinstated less than LgA males and ShA females. CONCLUSION Among the different reinstatement tests assessed, escalation of fentanyl SA increased only drug-primed reinstatement, suggesting a limited relationship between escalation of drug intake and craving (reinstatement) for OUD.
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- Samantha G Malone
- Department of Psychology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, USA.
- Biomedical Biological Science Research Building, University of Kentucky, Room 447, 741 S. Limestone, Lexington, KY, 40536-0509, USA.
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Rawn KP, Keller PS, Bi S, Schoenberg N. Salivary Markers of Stress in Grandparents Rearing Grandchildren in Rural Appalachia: The Role of Mental Health, Religiosity, and Social Support. J Intergener Relatsh 2021; 21:19-39. [PMID: 36861060 PMCID: PMC9970288 DOI: 10.1080/15350770.2021.1921653] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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This study examines changes in salivary cortisol and alpha-amylase among grandparents rearing grandchildren in rural Appalachia. Grandparent-caregivers experience greater stress than non-grandparent-caregivers. Participants included 20 grandparent-caregivers and a child for which they cared, who completed questionnaires assessing family functioning and mental health via interview. Grandparent-caregivers provided morning saliva samples once a year for two years. For grandparent-caregivers low in social support and religiosity, grandparent-caregiver depressive symptoms, child depressive symptoms, and child stress were associated with increased grandparent-caregiver salivary alpha-amylase. For grandparent-caregivers high in social support and religiosity, child depressive symptoms, child stress, and child aggression were associated with increased grandparent-caregiver cortisol.
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- Kyle P. Rawn
- Department of Psychology, University of Kentucky
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- Department of Psychology, University of Kentucky
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Keller PS, Catalán N, von Schiller D, Grossart HP, Koschorreck M, Obrador B, Frassl MA, Karakaya N, Barros N, Howitt JA, Mendoza-Lera C, Pastor A, Flaim G, Aben R, Riis T, Arce MI, Onandia G, Paranaíba JR, Linkhorst A, Del Campo R, Amado AM, Cauvy-Fraunié S, Brothers S, Condon J, Mendonça RF, Reverey F, Rõõm EI, Datry T, Roland F, Laas A, Obertegger U, Park JH, Wang H, Kosten S, Gómez R, Feijoó C, Elosegi A, Sánchez-Montoya MM, Finlayson CM, Melita M, Oliveira Junior ES, Muniz CC, Gómez-Gener L, Leigh C, Zhang Q, Marcé R. Global CO 2 emissions from dry inland waters share common drivers across ecosystems. Nat Commun 2020; 11:2126. [PMID: 32358532 PMCID: PMC7195363 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-15929-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/30/2019] [Accepted: 04/03/2020] [Indexed: 12/01/2022] Open
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Many inland waters exhibit complete or partial desiccation, or have vanished due to global change, exposing sediments to the atmosphere. Yet, data on carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from these sediments are too scarce to upscale emissions for global estimates or to understand their fundamental drivers. Here, we present the results of a global survey covering 196 dry inland waters across diverse ecosystem types and climate zones. We show that their CO2 emissions share fundamental drivers and constitute a substantial fraction of the carbon cycled by inland waters. CO2 emissions were consistent across ecosystem types and climate zones, with local characteristics explaining much of the variability. Accounting for such emissions increases global estimates of carbon emissions from inland waters by 6% (~0.12 Pg C y-1). Our results indicate that emissions from dry inland waters represent a significant and likely increasing component of the inland waters carbon cycle.
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- P S Keller
- Department of Lake Research, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research-UFZ, Magdeburg, Germany.
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- Catalan Institute for Water Research (ICRA), Girona, Spain
- Universitat de Girona, Girona, Spain
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- Department of Evolutionary Biology, Ecology and Environmental Sciences, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- Department Experimental Limnology, Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB), Neuglobsow, Germany
- Institute of Biology and Biochemistry, Potsdam University, Potsdam, Germany
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- Department of Lake Research, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research-UFZ, Magdeburg, Germany
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- Department of Evolutionary Biology, Ecology and Environmental Sciences, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- Department of Lake Research, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research-UFZ, Magdeburg, Germany
- Australian Rivers Institute, Griffith University, Nathan, QLD, Australia
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- Department of Environmental Engineering, Bolu Abant Izzet Baysal University, Bolu, Turkey
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- Biology Department, Federal University of Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais, Brazil
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- School of Agricultural and Wine Sciences, Institute for Land, Water and Society, Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga, NSW, Australia
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- INRAE, UR RiverLy, Centre de Lyon-Villeurbanne, Villeurbanne, France
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- Department of Bioscience, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
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- Department of Sustainable Agro-ecosystems and Bioresources, Research and Innovation Centre, Fondazione Edmund Mach, San Michele all'Adige, Italy
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- Department of Aquatic Ecology and Environmental Biology, Institute for Water and Wetland Research, Radboud University, Nijmegen, the Netherlands
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- Department of Bioscience, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
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- Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB), Berlin, Germany
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- Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF), Müncheberg, Germany
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- Biology Department, Federal University of Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais, Brazil
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- Department of Ecology and Genetics, Limnology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
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- Department of Ecology, University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria
- Department of Ecology and Hydrology, University of Murcia, Murcia, Spain
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- Biology Department, Federal University of Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais, Brazil
- Departamento de Oceanografia e Limnologia, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, Brazil
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- INRAE, UR RiverLy, Centre de Lyon-Villeurbanne, Villeurbanne, France
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- Department of Watershed Sciences and Ecology Center, Utah State University, Logan, UT, USA
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- Graham Centre for Agricultural Innovation, Charles Sturt University and New South Wales Department of Primary Industries, Wagga Wagga, NSW, Australia
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- Biology Department, Federal University of Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais, Brazil
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- Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF), Müncheberg, Germany
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- Chair of Hydrobiology and Fishery, Institute of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, Estonian University of Life Sciences, Tartu, Estonia
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- INRAE, UR RiverLy, Centre de Lyon-Villeurbanne, Villeurbanne, France
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- Biology Department, Federal University of Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais, Brazil
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- Chair of Hydrobiology and Fishery, Institute of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, Estonian University of Life Sciences, Tartu, Estonia
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- Department of Sustainable Agro-ecosystems and Bioresources, Research and Innovation Centre, Fondazione Edmund Mach, San Michele all'Adige, Italy
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- Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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- State Key Laboratory of Freshwater Ecology and Biotechnology, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China
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- Department of Aquatic Ecology and Environmental Biology, Institute for Water and Wetland Research, Radboud University, Nijmegen, the Netherlands
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- Department of Ecology and Hydrology, University of Murcia, Murcia, Spain
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- Programa Biogeoquímica de Ecosistemas Dulceacuícolas (BED), Instituto de Ecología y Desarrollo Sustentable (INEDES, CONICET-UNLu), Luján, Argentina
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- Department of Plant Biology and Ecology, University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), Bilbao, Spain
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- Institute for Land, Water and Society, Charles Sturt University, Albury, Australia
- IHE Delft, Institite for Water Education, Delft, the Netherlands
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- Water Research Institute-National Research Council (IRSA-CNR), Montelibretti (Rome), Italy
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- Department of Aquatic Ecology and Environmental Biology, Institute for Water and Wetland Research, Radboud University, Nijmegen, the Netherlands
- Center of Etnoecology, Limnology and Biodiversity, Laboratory of Ichthyology of the Pantanal North, University of the State of Mato Grosso, Cáceres, Brazil
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- Center of Etnoecology, Limnology and Biodiversity, Laboratory of Ichthyology of the Pantanal North, University of the State of Mato Grosso, Cáceres, Brazil
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- Department of Ecology and Environmental Science, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
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- Australian Rivers Institute, Griffith University, Nathan, QLD, Australia
- Institute for Future Environments and School of Mathematical Sciences, Science and Engineering Faculty, Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Brisbane, QLD, Australia
- ARC Centre of Excellence for Mathematical & Statistical Frontiers (ACEMS), Brisbane, QLD, Australia
- Biosciences and Food Technology Discipline, School of Science, RMIT University, Bundoora, VIC, Australia
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- Nanjing Institute of Geography & Limnology (NIGLAS), Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, China
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- Catalan Institute for Water Research (ICRA), Girona, Spain
- Universitat de Girona, Girona, Spain
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Keller PS, Bi S, Schoenberg N. Children being Reared by their Grandparents in Rural Appalachia: A Pilot Study of Relations Between Psychosocial Stress and Changes in Salivary Markers of Inflammation Over Time. J Child Adolesc Trauma 2019; 12:269-277. [PMID: 32318198 PMCID: PMC7163879 DOI: 10.1007/s40653-018-0214-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/11/2023]
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Grandparents in rural Appalachia with primary caregiving responsibilities for their grandchildren often struggle with high levels of stress, inadequate resources, and poor physical and mental health. However, implications for children of being raised by grandparents rarely have been examined, particularly in terms of stress biomarkers. The present study investigated salivary C-reactive protein, interleukin-6, and tumor necrosis factor alpha in a small sample of children (N = 20) aged 5 to 18 years being reared by grandparents in two rural counties in Kentucky, a region well known for its resource scarcity. Saliva samples were collected from children 30 min after waking at two time points spaced one year apart. Grandparents and children completed a series of questionnaires via interview. Children's internalizing symptoms were related to greater markers of inflammation over time. Grandparent stress and poor mental health were also related to greater inflammation, while grandparent positive parenting and religiosity were associated with lower inflammation.
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- Peggy S. Keller
- Department of Psychology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506 USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506 USA
- Present Address: Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX USA
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- Department of Medical Behavioral Science, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY USA
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Elsey T, Keller PS, El-Sheikh M. The role of couple sleep concordance in sleep quality: Attachment as a moderator of associations. J Sleep Res 2019; 28:e12825. [PMID: 30790373 DOI: 10.1111/jsr.12825] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/29/2018] [Revised: 12/10/2018] [Accepted: 12/18/2018] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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Despite most American adults sharing a bed with a romantic partner, sleep research has examined sleep primarily as an individual behaviour. A growing body of research indicates that couple bed sharing may have an impact on sleep quality, but the current study is the first to examine whether such associations may differ based on attachment security. A sample of 179 cohabiting heterosexual couples completed daily sleep diaries and surveys of their attachment security, avoidance and anxiety. Data were analysed using multilevel modelling. Greater attachment security and lower attachment avoidance were associated with greater subjective sleep quality. Greater sleep concordance (time in bed with partners) was associated with better subjective sleep quality for women with lower attachment security and higher attachment avoidance. Findings suggest that couple bed sharing may benefit the subjective sleep quality of women who have lower attachment security.
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- Taylor Elsey
- Department of Developmental Psychology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky
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- Department of Developmental Psychology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky
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- Department of Human Development and Family Studies, Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama
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Bi S, Haak EA, Gilbert LR, El-Sheikh M, Keller PS. Father attachment, father emotion expression, and children's attachment to fathers: The role of marital conflict. J Fam Psychol 2018; 32:456-465. [PMID: 29878811 PMCID: PMC5995134 DOI: 10.1037/fam0000395] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
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The current study examined relations between father attachment to spouses and child attachment to fathers in middle childhood, focusing on father emotion expressions in father-child interactions as mediators and marital conflict as a moderator of relations. Participants were 199 children between 6 and 12 years of age and their fathers. Fathers completed questionnaires about their attachment to their spouses, and both fathers and mothers reported on their marital conflict. Fathers also discussed a difficult topic with their children for 5 min, and fathers' positive and negative emotion expression during the discussions were coded. Children completed questionnaires through an interview about their attachment to their father. Father insecure attachment interacted with marital conflict in predicting more negative emotions and less positive emotions during father-child interactions. Specifically, in the context of higher marital conflict in this community sample, fathers who reported greater preoccupied attachment to their spouses exhibited more negative emotions and less positive emotions when interacting with their children. In turn, more father negative emotions and less positive emotions were associated with children's less secure attachment to fathers. In contrast, father fearful attachment interacted with marital conflict to predict less negative emotion and more positive emotion during interactions with children. (PsycINFO Database Record
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- Shuang Bi
- Department of Psychology, University of Kentucky
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- Department of Psychology, University of Kentucky
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- Department of Human Development and Family Studies, Auburn University
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Haak EA, Keller PS, DeWall CN. Daily variations in attachment anxiety and avoidance: A density distributions approach. Journal of Research in Personality 2017. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jrp.2016.08.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVE Although sleep problems are linked to relationship difficulties, the mechanisms involved have not been empirically demonstrated. The present study considers self-control as such a mechanism. PARTICIPANTS Data were collected from 342 predominantly white, middle-class, married adults. METHOD Participants completed online questionnaires about sleep, marital aggression, and self-control, and a virtual voodoo doll task. RESULTS AND CONCLUSIONS Sleep problems were associated with higher levels of aggression on all measures, and lower self-control mediated these associations. Associations did not depend on participant gender, presence of children in the home, income, or length of marriage.
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- Peggy S Keller
- a Department of Psychology , University of Kentucky , Lexington , Kentucky
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- a Department of Psychology , University of Kentucky , Lexington , Kentucky
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- a Department of Psychology , University of Kentucky , Lexington , Kentucky
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- a Department of Psychology , University of Kentucky , Lexington , Kentucky
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Keller PS, Gilbert LR, Haak EA, Bi S, Smith OA. Earlier school start times are associated with higher rates of behavioral problems in elementary schools. Sleep Health 2017; 3:113-118. [DOI: 10.1016/j.sleh.2017.01.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/13/2016] [Revised: 01/24/2017] [Accepted: 01/26/2017] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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Gilbert LR, Pond RS, Haak EA, DeWall CN, Keller PS. Sleep Problems Exacerbate the Emotional Consequences of Interpersonal Rejection. Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology 2015. [DOI: 10.1521/jscp.2015.34.1.50] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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Keller PS, Smith OA, Gilbert LR, Bi S, Haak EA, Buckhalt JA. Earlier school start times as a risk factor for poor school performance: An examination of public elementary schools in the commonwealth of Kentucky. Journal of Educational Psychology 2015. [DOI: 10.1037/a0037195] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Keller PS, Kouros CD, Erath SA, Dahl RE, El-Sheikh M. Longitudinal relations between maternal depressive symptoms and child sleep problems: the role of parasympathetic nervous system reactivity. J Child Psychol Psychiatry 2014; 55:172-9. [PMID: 24117807 PMCID: PMC3947101 DOI: 10.1111/jcpp.12151] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 07/17/2013] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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BACKGROUND We examined maternal depressive symptoms (MDS) as longitudinal predictors of actigraphy-measured sleep; children's respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA) was tested as a moderator of these relations. METHOD A total of 271 children (145 boys and 126 girls) participated in a three-wave study (M age at T1 = 9.38 years), with a 1-year lag between waves. Children wore actigraphs to derive sleep parameters. RSA reactivity was assessed during a social stress test. RESULTS Contrary to hypotheses, MDS were related to less sleep over time for children exhibiting greater RSA withdrawal. Consistent with hypotheses, MDS were related longitudinally to decreased sleep activity for children exhibiting less RSA withdrawal. CONCLUSIONS Findings illustrate the importance of maternal influences and physiological regulation as predictors of children's sleep.
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- Peggy S. Keller
- Department of Psychology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY
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- Department of Human Development and Family Studies, Auburn University, Auburn, AL
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- School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA
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- Department of Human Development and Family Studies, Auburn University, Auburn, AL
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Keller PS, Blincoe S, Gilbert LR, Dewall CN, Haak EA, Widiger T. Narcissism in Romantic Relationships: A Dyadic Perspective. Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology 2014. [DOI: 10.1521/jscp.2014.33.1.25] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Golding JM, Hodell EC, Dunlap EE, Wasarhaley NE, Keller PS. When a son steals money from his mother: courtroom perceptions of elder financial exploitation. J Elder Abuse Negl 2013; 25:126-48. [PMID: 23473296 DOI: 10.1080/08946566.2013.751816] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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The perception of elder financial exploitation was investigated using community members (N = 104) and undergraduates (N = 143). Participants read an exploitation trial summary; an 85-year-old victim accused her son of stealing her money. Primary results indicated that alleged victims described as healthy rendered more guilty verdicts than those described as having a cognitive deficit; pro-victim judgments were higher for women than men; and younger and older community members' rendered more guilty verdicts than middle-aged mock jurors. The results are discussed in terms of the factors that impact the perception of exploitation in court.
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- Jonathan M Golding
- Department of Psychology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506-0044, USA.
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Kashdan TB, DeWall CN, Pond RS, Silvia PJ, Lambert NM, Fincham FD, Savostyanova AA, Keller PS. Curiosity protects against interpersonal aggression: cross-sectional, daily process, and behavioral evidence. J Pers 2013; 81:87-102. [PMID: 22329537 DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-6494.2012.00783.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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OBJECTIVE Curiosity is the propensity to recognize and seek out new information and experience, including an intrinsic interest in learning and developing one's knowledge. With few exceptions, researchers have often ignored the social consequences of being curious. METHOD In four studies using cross-sectional (N = 64), daily diary (Ns = 150 and 110, respectively), and behavioral experimental (N= 132) designs, we tested the hypothesis that individual differences in curiosity are linked to less aggression, even when people are provoked. RESULTS We showed that both trait and daily curiosity were linked to less aggressive responses toward romantic relationship partners and people who caused psychological hurt. In time-lagged analyses, daily curiosity predicted less aggression from one day to the next, with no evidence for the reverse direction. Studies 3 and 4 showed that the inverse association between curiosity and aggression was strongest in close relationships and in fledgling (as opposed to long-lasting) romantic relationships. That is, highly curious people showed evidence of greater context sensitivity. Intensity of hurt feelings and other personality and relationship variables failed to account for these effects. CONCLUSIONS Curiosity is a neglected mechanism of resilience in understanding aggression.
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Keller PS, Gilbert LR, Koss KJ, Cummings EM, Davies PT. Parental problem drinking, marital aggression, and child emotional insecurity: a longitudinal investigation. J Stud Alcohol Drugs 2012; 72:711-22. [PMID: 21906498 DOI: 10.15288/jsad.2011.72.711] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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OBJECTIVE Marital aggression plays an important role in relations between parental problem drinking and child maladjustment. The purpose of the current study was to apply emotional security theory as a framework for understanding the role of marital aggression. METHOD A community sample of 235 children in kindergarten participated once a year for 3 years. Parents completed measures of parental problem drinking and marital aggression, and children were interviewed about their emotional security reactions to marital conflict vignettes. RESULTS Greater parental problem drinking was directly associated with children's more negative emotional reactions to conflict. Maternal problem drinking predicted increased sad reactions and negative expectations for the future. Paternal problem drinking predicted increases in child anger reactions and negative expectations for the future. Parental problem drinking was also indirectly associated with child reactions via marital aggression. CONCLUSIONS Results confirmed hypotheses that parental problem drinking would be related to child emotional insecurity and that associations would be indirect via greater marital conflict. Findings are interpreted in terms of emotional security theory as a framework for understanding the effects of parental problem drinking on marital aggression and child development.
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- Peggy S Keller
- Department of Psychology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky 40506, USA.
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Keller PS, El-Sheikh M, Granger DA, Buckhalt JA. Interactions between salivary cortisol and alpha-amylase as predictors of children's cognitive functioning and academic performance. Physiol Behav 2011; 105:987-95. [PMID: 22100627 DOI: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2011.11.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/14/2011] [Revised: 10/04/2011] [Accepted: 11/07/2011] [Indexed: 10/15/2022]
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We examined relations between salivary cortisol, alpha-amylase (sAA), and children's cognitive and academic functioning. Of interest were curvilinear and interactive effects of these salivary measures on cognitive and academic performance. Data were based on a sample of 28 boys and 36 girls (ages 8 and 9) in the Southeastern U.S.A. Children provided resting afternoon saliva samples. Children completed standardized tests of Intellectual Ability and schools provided academic achievement information. Regression analyses demonstrated significant curvilinear relations and interactions between cortisol and sAA in the prediction of child functioning. Contrary to current models of interactions among biological systems, findings indicated some of the highest and lowest scores were predicted at moderate levels of physiological arousal. For example, children with moderate sAA and either higher or lower cortisol had low predicted scores for Reading Ability. Children with moderate cortisol and lower sAA had the highest predicted scores for Intellectual Ability. Findings suggest that the study of interactions between biological stress response systems should not be based on models of rectilinear interactions.
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- Peggy S Keller
- Department of Psychology, 012i Kastle Hall, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506, USA.
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Keller PS, El-Sheikh M. Latent change score modeling of psychophysiological data: an empirical instantiation using electrodermal responding. Psychophysiology 2011; 48:1578-1587. [PMID: 21707644 DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8986.2011.01225.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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We examined latent change score (LCS) modeling as an approach to the analysis of children's skin conductance level (SCL) throughout a stressful task-a simulated interadult argument-as it relates to externalizing and internalizing symptoms. LCS is an extension of traditional multilevel modeling (MLM), which allows estimation of proportional growth terms. Children (age 6-12 years; N=150) were from two-parent families. Mothers reported on children's internalizing and externalizing symptoms. Results indicated that the LCS models outperformed the traditional MLM. The use of LCS yielded important novel information regarding profile and pattern of responding for various children and is likely to advance understanding of relations between children's physiological responses and psychopathology symptoms.
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- Peggy S Keller
- Department of Psychology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, USADepartment of Human Development and Family Studies, Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama, USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, USADepartment of Human Development and Family Studies, Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama, USA
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Wood ND, Crane DR, Keller PS. Tracking Marital Adjustment, Hostility, and Physical Functioning Across Time in a Therapy Population: A Biopsychosocial Model. Contemp Fam Ther 2011. [DOI: 10.1007/s10591-011-9164-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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Buckhalt JA, El-Sheikh M, Keller PS, Kelly RJ. Concurrent and longitudinal relations between children's sleep and cognitive functioning: the moderating role of parent education. Child Dev 2009; 80:875-92. [PMID: 19489909 DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2009.01303.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 103] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Relations between children's sleep and cognitive functioning were examined over 2 years, and race and socioeconomic status were assessed as moderators of effects. Third-grade African American and European American children (N = 166; M = 8.72 years) participated at Time 1 and again 2 years later (N = 132). At both Time 1 and Time 2, sleep was examined via self-report and actigraphy. Children were administered selected tests from the Woodcock-Johnson III Tests of Cognitive Abilities, and Stanford Achievement Test scores were obtained from schools. Children's sleep was related to intellectual ability and academic achievement. Results build substantially on an emerging literature supportive of the importance of sleep in children.
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- Joseph A Buckhalt
- Department of Special Education, Rehabilitation, Counseling/School Psychology, 2084 Haley Center, Auburn University, Auburn, AL 36849, USA.
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Keller PS, Cummings EM, Peterson KM, Davies PT. Marital Conflict in the Context of Parental Depressive Symptoms: Implications for the Development of Children's Adjustment Problems. Soc Dev 2009; 18:536-555. [PMID: 20161202 DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9507.2008.00509.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Relations among parental depressive symptoms, overt and covert marital conflict, and child internalizing and externalizing symptoms were examined in a community sample of 235 couples and their children. Families were assessed once yearly for three years, starting when children were in kindergarten. Parents completed measures of depressive symptoms and children's internalizing and externalizing symptoms. Behavioral observations of marital conflict behaviors (insult, threat, pursuit, and defensiveness) and self-report of covert negativity (feeling worry, sorry, worthless, and helpless) were assessed based on problem solving interactions. Results indicated that fathers' greater covert negativity and mothers' overt destructive conflict behaviors served as intervening variables in the link between fathers' depressive symptoms and child internalizing symptoms, with modest support for the pathway through fathers' covert negativity found even after controlling for earlier levels of constructs. These findings support the role of marital conflict in the impact of fathers' depressive symptoms on child internalizing symptoms.
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Klaczynski P, Daniel DB, Keller PS. Appearance idealization, body esteem, causal attributions, and ethnic variations in the development of obesity stereotypes. Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology 2009. [DOI: 10.1016/j.appdev.2008.12.031] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Keiley MK, Keller PS, El-Sheikh M. Effects of physical and verbal aggression, depression, and anxiety on drinking behavior of married partners: a prospective and retrospective longitudinal examination. Aggress Behav 2009; 35:296-312. [PMID: 19434727 PMCID: PMC4096005 DOI: 10.1002/ab.20310] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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In an ethnically diverse sample of 195 married couples, we conducted a latent factor growth analysis to investigate the longitudinal link (4 time points over 4 1/2 years) between marital aggression (physical and verbal aggression self- and partner-reports) and individual internalizing symptoms (depression and anxiety) as they relate to trajectories of alcohol use among husbands and wives. Alcohol use was operationalized as a latent factor with self- and partner reports of problem drinking as measured by the Michigan Alcoholism Screening Test and the Alcohol Dependence Scale. Verbal aggression by husbands or wives, by itself, has no effect on their alcohol use over time. In conjunction with depression, however, verbally aggressive husbands do have elevated drinking levels. The effects of husbands' and wives' physical aggression on their own and their partners' drinking behavior were also significant. This study is one of the first to examine the change over time in alcohol use for marital partners as related to marital aggression and internalizing symptoms. Our results shed light on areas of marital functioning (aggression, internalizing, alcohol use) that have not been investigated in conjunction with each other in a longitudinal design.
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- Margaret K Keiley
- Department of Human Development and Family Studies, Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama 36849, USA.
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Relations between couples' (N = 158) marital aggression and alcohol problems were examined across a two-year period. Alcohol problems and aggression were assessed via self-report and partner-reports. Results support bidirectional relations between marital aggression and problem drinking. T1 wife problem drinking was associated with decreased T2 verbal aggression; T1 husband problem drinking was associated with increased T2 physical aggression. T1 physical aggression predicted increased T2 wife problem drinking; it predicted increased T2 husband problem drinking only when wife problem drinking was low. T1 verbal marital aggression predicted increased T2 husband problem drinking only when husbands engaged in greater problem drinking at T1. Results suggest that problem drinking may prevent couples from adequately handling marital disagreements, and that marital problems may lead to drinking as a form of coping with stress; couples in which the husband engages in greater problem drinking than the wife may be at increased risk. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2009 APA, all rights reserved).
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- Peggy S Keller
- Department of Human Development and Family Studies, Auburn University, USA
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Keller PS, El-Sheikh M. Salivary alpha-amylase as a longitudinal predictor of children's externalizing symptoms: respiratory sinus arrhythmia as a moderator of effects. Psychoneuroendocrinology 2009; 34:633-43. [PMID: 19195789 DOI: 10.1016/j.psyneuen.2008.12.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/29/2008] [Revised: 12/09/2008] [Accepted: 12/29/2008] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Salivary alpha-amylase (sAA) was examined as a predictor of children's externalizing symptoms cross-sectionally when children were in the 3rd grade (T1; N=64) and again in the 5th grade (T2; N=54) and longitudinally over two years. Parasympathetic nervous system (PNS) activity, indexed by respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA), was examined as a moderator of the sAA and child externalizing link. Participants were healthy, typically developing children, 34% of whom were African American and the rest European American. At each time point, saliva samples were collected during afternoon laboratory visits and assayed for sAA. Children's RSA was measured during baseline conditions and in response to an inter-adult argument and a star-tracing task. Cross-sectional associations between sAA and externalizing symptoms at T1 and T2 were moderated by PNS functioning. Longitudinally, sAA was directly associated with changes in externalizing symptoms in a non-linear fashion. Specifically, lower externalizing symptoms were predicted for children with moderate levels of sAA, but higher externalizing was predicted for children with higher or lower levels of sAA. Findings highlight the importance of the contemporaneous assessment of SNS and PNS functioning in the prediction of child psychopathology, and the need to examine curvilinear relations between ANS functioning and behavior.
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- Peggy S Keller
- Department of Psychology, University of Kentucky, KY 40506, United States.
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Cummings EM, Schermerhorn AC, Keller PS, Davies PT. Parental Depressive Symptoms, Children's Representations of Family Relationships, and Child Adjustment. Social Development 2008. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9507.2007.00425.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Children's vagal tone and vagal suppression were examined as moderators of associations between children's sleep disruptions and adjustment problems. A relatively large sample (n = 167) of boys and girls who ranged in age between 8 and 9 years participated with their parents. Sleep was examined via actigraphy in the child's home for seven consecutive days. Children's vagal tone was examined during baseline conditions, and their vagal suppression was assessed in response to an inter-adult argument. In comparison with children exhibiting higher levels of vagal tone, those with lower vagal tone were at increased risk of externalizing problems, depression symptoms and higher body mass index associated with increased sleep disruptions (i.e. lower Sleep Efficiency, increased Wake Minutes and fewer Sleep Minutes). Thus, lower vagal tone functioned as a vulnerability factor for adjustment problems in the context of sleep problems. A higher level of vagal suppression to the inter-adult argument functioned as a protective factor against externalizing behaviors otherwise associated with increased Wake Minutes and reduced Sleep Efficiency. Findings demonstrating the moderating role of vagal functioning in the context of sleep disruptions are novel, and highlight the importance of individual differences in children's physiological regulation for sleep and adjustment.
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- Mona El-Sheikh
- Department of Human Development & Family Studies, Auburn University, Auburn, AL, USA.
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- Mona El-Sheikh
- Department of Human Development and Family Studies, Auburn University, Alabama 36849, USA.
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Keller PS, Cummings EM, Davies PT, Lubke G. Children's behavioural reactions to marital conflict as a function of parents' conflict behaviours and alcohol problems. European Journal of Developmental Psychology 2007. [DOI: 10.1080/17405620600557631] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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El-Sheikh M, Keller PS, Erath SA. Marital conflict and risk for child maladjustment over time: skin conductance level reactivity as a vulnerability factor. J Abnorm Child Psychol 2007; 35:715-27. [PMID: 17503176 DOI: 10.1007/s10802-007-9127-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 79] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/25/2006] [Accepted: 03/05/2007] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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Skin conductance level reactivity (SCLR) was examined as a longitudinal mediator and moderator of relations between parental marital conflict and psychopathology among children and young adolescents. Participants were 157 boys and girls (M age at T1 = 9.31 years; SD = 1.97); there was a 2-year lag between T1 and T2 assessments. At T1, participants' SCLR was assessed in response to lab challenges. Parents completed measures of aggressive marital conflict and child adjustment at T1 and T2. Supportive of moderation effects, T1 marital conflict interacted with T1 SCLR and gender in the prediction of changes in maladjustment. The link between marital conflict and increased internalizing and externalizing symptoms was stronger for girls with higher SCLR than girls with lower SCLR. Marital conflict predicted increased externalizing behaviors for boys with lower SCLR but not higher SCLR, although levels of externalizing behaviors were similar among boys with lower and higher SCLR especially at higher levels of marital conflict. Findings build on the literature by illustrating the importance of examinations of both family risk and youth biological vulnerability for the prediction of psychopathology.
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- Mona El-Sheikh
- Department of Human Development & Family Studies, Auburn University, 203 Spidle Hall, Auburn, AL 36849, USA.
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BACKGROUND Children's physiological reactivity was examined as a moderator of relations between parental dysphoria and child adjustment problems, addressing gaps in the study of child characteristics as risk processes. METHOD One hundred fifty-seven children (86 boys, 71 girls) were assessed twice over a two-year interval. Skin conductance level reactivity (SCLR) to inter-adult argument and problem-solving tasks was observed. RESULTS SCLR moderated longitudinal predictions of children's internalizing, externalizing and social adjustment problems, especially for paternal rather than maternal dysphoria. Higher SCLR predicted greater vulnerability to parental depressive symptomatology. CONCLUSIONS Findings highlight that individual differences in children's physiological reactivity may relate to risk for adjustment problems in the context of parental depressive symptoms.
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- E Mark Cummings
- Department of Psychology, University of Notre Dame, IN 46556, USA.
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El-Sheikh M, Buckhalt JA, Keller PS, Cummings EM, Acebo C. Child emotional insecurity and academic achievement: the role of sleep disruptions. J Fam Psychol 2007; 21:29-38. [PMID: 17371107 DOI: 10.1037/0893-3200.21.1.29] [Citation(s) in RCA: 61] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/14/2023]
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The authors examined children's sleep as an intervening variable in the connection between emotional insecurity in the family and academic achievement. The role of ethnicity (African American and European American) and socioeconomic status (SES) in moderating the examined relations was assessed. One hundred sixty-six children (8- and 9-year-olds) reported their emotional insecurity, and the quantity and quality of children's sleep were examined through actigraphy and self-report. Decreased amount and quality of sleep were intervening variables in the relations between insecurity in the marital relationship and children's achievement. The effects of disrupted sleep on achievement were more pronounced for both African American children and children of lower SES. Results highlight the importance of the contemporaneous examinations of family and sleep functioning in the prediction of child outcomes.
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- Mona El-Sheikh
- Department of Human Development and Family Studies, Auburn University, Auburn, AL 36849, USA. .
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BACKGROUND Research suggests that children exposed to parental drinking problems are at risk for maladjustment. However, the potential impact of drinking problems in a community sample and the processes involved in the relationship between parental drinking and child outcomes have rarely been examined. METHOD A community sample of 235 mothers and fathers of kindergarten children completed measures of problem drinking symptoms, family functioning and child adjustment. RESULTS Model tests indicate that problem drinking was associated with greater marital conflict, and that marital conflict was related to ineffective parenting which was in turn related to poorer child adjustment. CONCLUSIONS Even in a community sample, parental problem drinking behaviors are associated with reduced family functioning that relates to child outcomes.
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Cummings EM, Keller PS, Davies PT. Towards a family process model of maternal and paternal depressive symptoms: exploring multiple relations with child and family functioning. J Child Psychol Psychiatry 2005; 46:479-89. [PMID: 15845128 DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-7610.2004.00368.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 267] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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BACKGROUND Research has focused on maternal dysphoria and child adjustment. However, family process models indicate gaps in the study of paternal dysphoria, broader family functioning, and diverse child outcomes. METHOD A community sample of 235 mothers and fathers of kindergarten children completed measures of depressive symptoms, family functioning and child adjustment. Teachers also provided measures of child adjustment. RESULTS Supportive of pervasive effects even in a community sample, increased parental depressive symptomatology was related to increased marital conflict, insecure marital attachment, less parental warmth, more psychological control in parenting, and multiple child problems. Child gender moderated child outcomes differently for paternal and maternal dysphoria. Marital relations, but not parenting, mediated child outcomes. CONCLUSIONS Marital problems may be especially reactive to parental depressive symptomatology, so that mediational processes affecting child functioning become evident even in family contexts of relatively low risk.
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