Department of psychology

Graduate Student Publications

Recent Publications from faculty and students in Child/Adolescent program (2005-2008)

Graduate students denoted with *

• Barlow, M.*, Wildman, B., & Stancin, T. (2005). Mother’s Help-Seeking for Pediatric Psychosocial Problems. Clinical Pediatrics, 44, 161-167.
• Bilfield, S.*, Wildman, B.G., & Karazsia, B*. (2006). Brief report:  The Relationship Between Chronic Illness and Identification and Management of Psychosocial Problems in Pediatric Primary Care. Journal of Pediatric Psychology, 31, 813-817.
• Brumariu*, L. E., & Kerns, K. A. (2008).  Mother-child attachment and social anxiety symptoms in middle childhood.  Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 29, 393 - 402.
• Gentzler, A.*, Contreras-Grau, J., Kerns, K., & Weimer, B.* (2005). Emotional communication between parents and children: Associations with child coping in middle-childhood. Social Development, 14, 591 – 612.
• Gentzler, A. L.*, & Kerns, K. A. (2006). Adult attachment and memory of emotional reactions to negative and positive events. Cognition and Emotion, 20, 20 – 42.
• Karazsia, B. T.*, van Dulmen, M. H. M., Wildman, B. G. (2008). Confirmatory factor analysis of Arnold et al.’s parenting scale across race, age, and sex. Journal of Child and Family Studies.
• Karazsia*, B. T., & van Dulmen, M. H. M. (2008). Regression models for count data: Illustrations using longitudinal predictions of childhood injury. Journal of Pediatric Psychology, 33, 1076 - 1084.
• Karazsia*, B.T., & Wildman, B.G. (in press). The mediating effects of parenting behaviors on maternal affect and reports of children's behavior. Journal of Child and Family Studies.
• Kerns, K. A., Abraham, M. M.*, Schlegelmilch, A.*, & Morgan, T. A. (2007). Mother-child attachment in later middle childhood: Assessment approaches and associations with mood and emotion regulation. Attachment and Human Development, 9, 33 – 53.
• Kerns, K. A., Brumariu,* L. E., & Abraham*, M. M. (2008).  Homesickness at summer camp: Associations with the mother-child relationship, social self-concept, and peer relationships in middle childhood.  Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 52, 473 - 498.
• Kerns, K. A., Schlegelmilch, A.*, Morgan, T. A., & Abraham, M. M.* (2005). Assessing attachment in middle childhood. In K. A. Kerns & R. A. Richardson (Eds.), Attachment in middle childhood (pp. 46 – 70). N. Y.: Guilford.
• Kerns, K. A., Tomich, P. L.*, & Kim, P.* (2006). Normative trends in children’s perceptions of availability and utilization of attachment figures in middle childhood. Social Development, 15,1 – 22.
• Lipko, A. R.*, Dunlosky, J., & Merriman, W. E. (in press). Persistent overconfidence despite practice: The role of task experience in preschoolers' recall predictions. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology
• López, I.*, & Contreras, J. (2005). The best of both worlds? Biculturality, Acculturation and adjustment among young mainland Puerto Rican mothers. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 36,192-208.
• Merriman, W. E., Evey, J. A.* (2005). The nominal passover effect depends on addressee age, speaker goal, and object similarity. Child Development, 76, 1185-1201.
• Merriman, W. E., & Lipko, A. R.* (2008). A dual criterion account of the development of linguistic judgment in early childhood. Journal of Memory and Language, 58, 1012-1031.
• Merriman, W. E., Lipko, A. R.*, & Evey, J. A..* (2008). How children learn to judge whether a word is one they know: A dual criterion account. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 108, 83-98.
• Narang, D.*, & Contreras, J. (2005). The role of dissociation and affective family environment in the intergenerational cycle of child abuse. Child Abuse and Neglect, 29, 683 – 699.
• Ostrowski*, S. A., Christopher, N. C., van Dulmen, M. H. M., & Delahanty, D. L. (2007). Psychophysiological responses and subsequent PTSD symptoms following a child’s traumatic event. Journal of Traumatic Stress, 20, 677 - 787
• Seibert, A. C., & Kerns, K. A. (in press).  Attachment typologies, childhood.  In H. T. Reis & S. K . Sprecher (Eds), Encyclopedia of Human Relationships.  Sage.
• Seibert, A.C., & Kerns, K.A.  (In press).  Attachment figures in middle childhood.  International Journal of Behavioral Development.
• Teichman, J.*, & Contreras-Grau, J. (2006). Acculturation and teaching styles among young mainland Puerto Rican mothers. Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences, 28, 84 – 101.
• van Dulmen, M. H. M., Goncy, E.*, Vest, A., & Flannery, D. J. (in press). Group based trajectory modeling of externalizing behavior problems from childhood through adulthood: Exploring discrepancies in the empirical findings. In J. Savage (Ed.), The development of persistent criminality. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
• van Dulmen, M. H. M., Goncy*, E. A. Haydon, K. C., Collins, W. A. (2008). Distinctiveness of adolescent and emerging adulthood romantic relationship features in predicting externalizing behavior problems. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 37, 336 - 345