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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 ... -
Early influences of microbiota on white matter development in germ-free piglets
(Frontiers, 2021-12-27)Abnormalities in the prefrontal cortex (PFC), as well as the underlying white matter (WM) tracts, lie at the intersection of many neurodevelopmental disorders. The influence of microorganisms on brain development has ... -
Against the Odds: A Structural Equation Analysis of Family Resilience Processes during Paternal Incarceration
(MDPI, 2021-11-04)On any given day, approximately 2.1 million children in Europe have an incarcerated parent. Although research indicates that material hardship is associated with parental incarceration, and particularly paternal incarceration, ... -
Reduction of Risk Factors for ACL Re-injuries using an Innovative Biofeedback Approach: Rationale and Design
(Elsevier, 2021-06)Nearly 1 in 60 adolescent athletes will suffer anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injuries with 90% of these athletes electing to undergo an ACL reconstruction (ACLR) at an estimated annual cost of $3 billion. While ACLR and ... -
Mental Health and Social Development Effects of the Abecedarian Approach
(MDPI, 2021-06-30)The Abecedarian Approach is an early intervention and contains a broad-spectrum adult/child curriculum. The Approach has been studied in three longitudinal randomized controlled trials in the USA, starting in 1972 and ... -
Age differences in functional network reconfiguration with working memory training
(2021-04-15)Demanding cognitive functions like working memory (WM) depend on functional brain networks being able to communicate efficiently while also maintaining some degree of modularity. Evidence suggests that aging can disrupt ... -
Touchscreens for Whom? Working Memory and Age Moderate the Impact of Contingency on Toddlers' Transfer From Video
(2021-02-24)Toddlers exhibit poor transfer between video and real-world contexts. Contingently responsive video such as that found in touchscreen apps appears to assist transfer for some toddlers but not others. This study investigated ... -
Measuring Walsh’s Family Resilience Framework: Reliability and Validity of the Family Resilience Assessment Among Women with a History of Breast Cancer
(Informa UK Limited, 2017-10-03)Walsh’s family resilience framework presents a comprehensive and inclusive lens of family process that may assist clinicians, family service professionals, and health care providers with understanding the functioning of ... -
Illuminating inequality in access: Variation in enrollment in undergraduate engineering programs across Virginia's high schools
(2020-10-06)Background Determining the root causes of persistent underrepresentation of different subpopulations in engineering remains a continued challenge. Because place-based variation of resource distribution is not random and ...
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