Trentacosta, C. J., Waller, R., Neiderhiser, J. M., Shaw, D. S., Natsuaki, M. N., Ganiban, J. M., Reiss, D., Leve, L. D., & Hyde, L. W. (2019). Callous-unemotional behaviors and harsh parenting: Reciprocal association across early childhood and moderation by inherited risk. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 47, 811-823. doi: 10.1007/s10802-018-0482-y

by eca5042 | Sep 19, 2022

Callous-unemotional (CU) behaviors increase children’s risk for subsequent antisocial behavior. This risk process may begin in early childhood with reciprocal pathways between CU behaviors and harsh parenting. In a sample of 561 linked triads of biological mothers,...

Sellers, R., Smith, A., Leve, L. D., Nixon, E., Cassell, J., & Harold, G.T. (2019). Utilizing genetically designs to better understand family processes and child development: Implications for adoption and foster care focused interventions. Adoption & Fostering, 43, 351-371.

by eca5042 | Sep 19, 2022

Understanding the interplay between genetic factors and family environmental processes (e.g. interparental relationship quality, positive vs negative parenting practices) and children’s mental health (e.g. anxiety, depression, conduct problems, ADHD) in the contexts...

Sellers, R., Harold, G. T., Smith, A. F., Neiderhiser, J. M., Reiss, D., Shaw, D., Natsuaki, M. N., Thaper, A., & Leve, L. D. (2019). Disentangling nature from nurture in examining the interplay between parent–child relationships, ADHD, and early academic attainment. Psychological Medicine 1-8. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0033291719003593

by eca5042 | Sep 19, 2022

Background: Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is highly heritable and is associated with lower educational attainment. ADHD is linked to family adversity, including hostile parenting. Questions remain regarding the role of genetic and environmental...

Taraban, L., Shaw, D. S., Leve, L. D., Natsuaki, M. N., Ganiban, J., M., Reiss, D., and Neiderhiser, J. M. (2019). Parental depression, overreactive parenting, and early childhood externalizing problems: Moderation by social support. Child Development, 90, e468-485. doi: 10.1111/cdev.13027

by eca5042 | Sep 19, 2022

This study used a large (N = 519), longitudinal sample of adoptive families to test overreactive parenting as a mediator of associations between parental depressive symptoms and early childhood externalizing, and parents’ social support satisfaction as a moderator....

Natsuaki, M. N., Neiderhiser, J. M., Harold, G. T., Shaw, D. S., Reiss, D., & Leve, L. D. (2019). Siblings reared apart: A sibling comparison study of rearing environment differences Developmental Psychology, 55, 1182-1190. doi: 10.1037/dev0000710

by eca5042 | Sep 19, 2022

Cross-fostering studies have been ethically impossible to implement in human populations. We introduce a novel approach to address this barrier: the siblings-reared-apart design. Supplementing the traditional adoption design with a sample of birth families who (a) are...