Marceau, K., Hajal, N., Leve, L. D., Reiss, D., Shaw, D., Ganiban, J. M., Mayes, L. C., & Neiderhiser, J. M. (2013). Measurement and associations of pregnancy risk factors with genetic influences, postnatal environmental influences, and toddler behavior. International Journal of Behavior Development, 37, 366–375. PMC: 4018759

by eca5042 | Sep 15, 2022

Measuring pregnancy complications is important for developmental studies seeking to clarify genetic and postnatal environmental influences on children’s behavioral development. This study presents a comprehensive measure of pre- and perinatal risk factors, the...

Lipscomb, S. T., Laurent, H., Neiderhiser, J. M., Shaw, D. S., Natsuaki, M. N., Reiss, D., & Leve, L. D. (2013). Genetic vulnerability interacts with parenting and early care education to predict increasing externalizing behavior. International Journal of Behavioral Development, 38, 70–80. PMC: 4109820

by eca5042 | Sep 15, 2022

The current study examined interactions among genetic influences and children’s early environments on their development of externalizing behaviors during the formative early childhood years. The sample included 361 families linked through adoption (birth parents and...

Leve, L. D., Neiderhiser, J. M., Shaw, D. S., Ganiban, J., Natsuaki, M. N., & Reiss, D. (2013). The Early Growth and Development Study: A prospective adoption study of child behavior from birth through middle childhood. Twin Research and Human Genetics, 16, 412–423. PMC: 3572752

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The Early Growth and Development Study is a prospective adoption study of birth parents, adoptive parents, and adopted children recruited in two cohorts (N = 561 triads). The primary study aims are to examine how family, peer, and contextual processes affect...

Leve, L. D., DeGarmo, D. S., Bridgett, D. J., Neiderhiser, J. M., Shaw, D. S., Harold, G. T., Natsuaki, M. N., & Reiss, D. (2013). Using an adoption design to separate genetic, prenatal, and temperament influences on toddler executive function. Developmental Psychology, 49, 1045– 1057. PMC: 3509265

by eca5042 | Sep 15, 2022

Poor executive functioning has been implicated in children’s concurrent and future behavioral difficulties, making work aimed at understanding processes related to the development of early executive function (EF) critical for models of developmental psychopathology....

Laurent, H. K., Leve, L. D., Neiderhiser, J. M., Natsuaki, M. N., Shaw, D. S., Fisher, P. A., Marceau, K., Harold, G. T., & Reiss, D. (2013). Effects of parental depressive symptoms on child adjustment moderated by Hypothalamic Pituitary Adrenal activity: Within- and between-family risk. Child Development, 84, 528–542. PMC: 3532571

by eca5042 | Sep 15, 2022

We investigated child hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) activity as a moderator of parental depressive symptom effects on child problem behaviors in an adoption sample (N = 210 families). Adoptive parents’ depressive symptoms and child internalizing/externalizing...