Identifying Research Domain Criteria (RDoC) constructs in early childhood is essential for
understanding etiological pathways of psychopathology. Our central goal was to identify …

This study investigated whether adolescent vagal stress reactivity to parent–adolescent
conflict moderates the effects of family instability on the development of adolescent …

Abstract Children (6-and 7-year-olds) decided whether to wait for a short delay to win a prize
or for a longer period to win a different prize. Those who chose to take their prize after a …

Background Children growing up in poverty tend to perform worse in school than their more
economically advantaged peers. Aims The current study integrates an educational theory of …

Informed by a developmental psychopathology perspective, the present study applied a
person-based approach to examine whether associations between early sociocontextual …

The present study examined associations between effortful control, a trait marker of self-
regulation, adaptive hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) system functioning (as reflected …

While rates of sexual activity among adolescents have declined, they remain high among
adolescents living in poverty. Risky sexual behaviors are often compounded, placing …

Parenting behaviors are determined by multiple parental and contextual factors. Yet despite
an understanding of the independent processes that result in negative parenting, how these …

This study tested for a relation between risk and child executive function (EF) in an urban
preschool sample. I hypothesized there would be a quadratic relation, a negative relation …

Family disruption, or the separation of children from caregivers, has been well-established in
prior literature as a risk factor for child maladjustment; however, little is known about how …