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I can still hear my baby crying: The ambiguous loss of American Indian/Alaska Native birthmothers
(Wiley, 2022-09)This study captures the experiences of American Indian/Alaska Native birthmothers who lost a child to adoption and the impact of said loss on their health and wellbeing. Few studies examine the loss experiences of American ... -
The paradox of family support for young mothers: An interpretive phenomenology analysis
(Wiley, 2022-11)Objective: We sought to illuminant the lived experiences of becoming a mother during adolescence within the context of multigenerational family caregiving. Background: Adolescence is a developmental time frame during which ... -
Longitudinal bidirectional relations between children’s negative affectivity and maternal emotion expressivity
(Frontiers, 2022-10-20)Although children’s negative affectivity is a temperamental characteristic that is biologically based, it is framed within and shaped by their emotional environments which are partly created by maternal emotion expressivity ... -
Preschoolers’ attention to and learning from on-screen characters that vary by effort and efficiency: An eye-tracking study
(Frontiers, 2022-12-15)Prior findings are mixed regarding the extent to which children understand others’ effort in early childhood. Especially, little is known about how character effort impacts children’s selective attention and learning. This ... -
SAT patterns and engineering and computer science college majors: an intersectional, state-level study
(2022-11-05)Background Numerous efforts worldwide have been made to increase diversity in engineering and computer science (ECS), fields that pay well and promote upward mobility. However, in the United States (U.S.), females and ... -
Extended Family Caregivers for Persons Living With Dementia
(SAGE, 2022-11-01)Despite changes in the structure of contemporary families, little is known about extended family members—siblings, grandchildren, nieces/nephews, stepkin—who are primary caregivers for a relative living with dementia. ... -
Joint analyses of human milk fatty acids, phospholipids, and choline in association with cognition and temperament traits during the first 6 months of life
(Frontiers, 2022-08-24)Early dietary exposure via human milk nutrients offers a window of opportunity to support cognitive and temperament development. While several studies have focused on associations of few pre-selected human milk nutrients ... -
Dual Caregivers of Persons Living with Dementia: The Added Stress of COVID-19 Pandemic
(SAGE, 2022-02-17)Serving in dual caregiving roles presents challenges and has consequences for caregivers’ physical and mental health. Forty-six dual caregivers in rural southwest Virginia participated in one semi-structured telephone ... -
Contraceptive Needs Among Women Recently Incarcerated at a Rural Appalachian Jail
(Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. Publishers, 2021)Background: Incarceration is associated with negative sexual and reproductive health outcomes. We examined contraceptive needs among women incarcerated at a rural Appalachian jail with emphasis on pregnancy history, recent ... -
Parental Influences on Children’s Ethnic Identity Development
(Institute for Promoting Research & Policy Development, 2021-10)Parental influences on children’s ethnic identity among middle-income Korean-American families (N = 52), including fathers, mothers, and their children were examined. The sample was comprised of 23 boys and 29 girls (M = ... -
Effective parenting in stepfamilies: Empirical evidence of what works
(Wiley, 2022-05-16)Objective The purpose of this study was to examine research evidence about effective childrearing in stepfamilies (i.e., parenting practices that contribute to children's physical, cognitive, and emotional well-being). ... -
Injury prevention for older adults: A dataset of safety concern narratives from online reviews of mobility-related products
(Elsevier, 2022-06)Older adults are among the fastest-growing demographic groups in the United States, increasing by over a third this past decade. Consequently, the older adult consumer prod-uct market has quickly become a multi-billion-dollar ... -
Perceptual and Number Effects on Students’ Initial Solution Strategies in an Interactive Online Mathematics Game
(PsychOpen, 2022-03-31)This study investigated the effects of 1) proximal grouping of numbers, 2) problem-solving goals to make 100, and 3) prior knowledge on students’ initial solution strategies in an interactive online mathematics game. In ... -
Internet Addiction, Cognitive, and Dispositional Factors among US Adults
(Elsevier, 2022-05)While a growing body of literature has examined internet addiction in the context of psychological factors, most of this work has focused on younger populations outside of the United States. A sample of 898 US adults ranging ... -
Human Breast Milk 3’-Sialyllactose Positively Associates with Language Development During Infancy
(2021)Background: Genetic polymorphisms leading to variations in human milk oligosaccharide (HMO) composition have been reported. Alpha-Tetrasaccharide (A-tetra), an HMO, has been shown to only be present (>limit of detection; ... -
Profiling nonhuman primate germline RNA to understand the legacy of early life stress
(Wiley, 2021-09-09)Exposure to stress is a risk factor for perturbed mental health, including impoverished regulation of emotional and physiological responses that accompany anxiety and mood disorders, substance abuse and behavioral disorders. ... -
Advances in Behavioral Remote Data Collection in the Home Setting: Assessing the Mother-Infant Relationship and Infant's Adaptive Behavior via Virtual Visits
(Frontiers, 2021-10-01)Psychological science is struggling with moving forward in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, especially due to the halting of behavioral data collection in the laboratory. Safety barriers to assessing psychological ... -
Dear reviewers: Responses to common reviewer critiques about infant neuroimaging studies
(Elsevier, 2022-02-01)The field of adult neuroimaging relies on well-established principles in research design, imaging sequences, processing pipelines, as well as safety and data collection protocols. The field of infant magnetic resonance ... -
Post-training stimulation of the right dorsolateral prefrontal cortex impairs working memory training performance
(Wiley, 2021-10)Research investigating transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) to enhance cognitive training augments both our understanding of its long-term effects on cognitive plasticity as well as potential applications to ... -
Targeted self-regulation interventions in low-income children: Clinical trial results and implications for health behavior change
(Elsevier, 2021-08-01)Self-regulation, known as the ability to harness cognitive, emotional, and motivational resources to achieve goals, is hypothesized to contribute to health behaviors across the lifespan. Enhancing self-regulation early in ...
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