Blozis, S. A., Ge, X., Xu, S., Natsuaki, M. N., Shaw, D. S., Neiderhiser, J. M., Scaramella, L. V., Leve, L. D., & Reiss, D. (2013). Sensitivity analysis of multiple informant models when data are not missing at random. Structural Equation Modeling, 20, 283–298. PMC: 4162658

by eca5042 | Sep 15, 2022

Missing data are common in studies that involve multiple informants to study relationships among individuals within groups. Structural equation modeling (SEM), routinely implemented, allows for incomplete data so that groups may be retained when at least one member...

Stover, C. S., Connell, C., Leve, L. D., Neiderhiser, J. M., Shaw, D. S., Scaramella, L. V., Conger, R., & Reiss, D. (2012). Fathering and mothering in the family system: Linking marital hostility and aggression in adopted toddlers. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 53, 401–409. PMC: 3279589

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Previous studies have linked marital conflict, parenting, and externalizing problems in early childhood. However, these studies have not examined whether genes account for these links nor have they examined whether contextual factors such as parental personality or...

Rhoades, K. A., Leve, L. D., Harold, G. T., Mannering, A. M., Neiderhiser, J. M., Shaw, D. S., Natsuaki, M. N., & Reiss, D. (2012). Marital hostility and child sleep problems: Direct and indirect associations via hostile parenting. Journal of Family Psychology, 26, 488–498. PMC: 3824960

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Sleep problems in early childhood are relatively common and are associated with later behavioral, affective, and cognitive problems. The current study examined two family process predictors of change in child sleep problems from 9 months to 4.5 years in an adoption...

Massey, S. H., Neiderhiser, J. M., Shaw, D. S., Leve, L. D., Ganiban, J. M., & Reiss, D. (2012). Maternal self-concept as a provider and cessation of substance use during pregnancy. Addictive Behaviors, 37, 956–961. PMC: 3377383

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Self-concept is known to affect motivation to change substance use behaviors, and may be particularly salient during pregnancy. To isolate psychological processes specific to pregnancy from psychological processes associated with the transition to parenthood, we...

Lipscomb, S. T., Leve, L. D., Shaw, D. S., Neiderhiser, J. M., Scaramella, L. V., Ge, X., Conger, R. D., Reid, J. B., & Reiss, D. (2012). Negative emotionality and externalizing problems in toddlerhood: Overreactive parenting as a moderator of genetic influences. Development and Psychopathology, 24, 167–179. PMC: 3270900

by eca5042 | Sep 15, 2022

The current study examines the interplay between parental overreactivity and children’s genetic backgrounds as inferred from birth parent characteristics on the development of negative emotionality during infancy, and in turn, to individual differences in...