Department of psychology

Graduate Student Publications

Recent Publications from faculty and students in Child/Adolescent program (2004-2007)

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.
• 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. (2004). Associations between insecure attachment and sexual experiences. Personal Relationships, 11, 249 – 265.
• 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.
• Jarvis, L. H.*, Merriman, W. E., Barnett, M., Hanba, J.*, & Van Haitsma, K. S. (2004). Input that contradicts young children’s word-mapping strategy affects their phonological and semantic interpretation of other words.  Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 47, 392-406.
• Karazsia, B. T.*, van Dulmen, M. H. M., Wildman, B. G. (accepted pending minor revisions). Confirmatory factor analysis of Arnold et al.’s parenting scale across race, age, and sex. 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., 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.
• 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.
• Marazita, J. M.*, & Merriman, W. E. (2004).  Young children’s judgment of whether they know names for objects: The metalinguistic ability it reflects and the processes it involves.  Journal of Memory and Language, 51, 458-472.
• 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., &  Marazita, J. M.* (2004).  Young children’s awareness of their own lexical ignorance: Relations to word mapping, memory processes, and beliefs about change detection.  In D. T. Levin (Ed.), Thinking and seeing: Visual metacognition in adults and children. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
• 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.
• 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. (forthcoming). 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.
• Weimer, B. L.*, Kerns, K. A., & Oldenburg, C. M.* (2004). Adolescents’ interactions with a best friend: Associations with attachment style. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 88, 102 – 120.
• Wildman, B.G., Stancin, T., Golden, C.*, & Yerkey, T.* (2004).  Maternal distress, child behavior and disclosure of psychosocial concerns to a pediatrician. Child:  Health, Care and Development, 30, 385-394.
• Yerkey, T.* & Wildman, B.G. (2004).  Use of information about maternal distress and negative life events to facilitate identification of psychosocial problems in children.  Family Practice: An International Journal, 21, 261-265.