A L Miller
Biographic Data
| ID | 24624 |
|---|---|
| NAME | A L Miller |
| GIVEN NAMES | A L |
| FAMILY NAME | Miller |
| SIGNATURE | MILLER A L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Michigan |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9866-0204 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 87 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 273 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 87 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1969 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
A Psychometric Evaluation of the Trauma-Informed Programs and Practices for Schools (TIPPS) Survey
Predictors and correlates of eating in the absence of hunger at age 12 months
Perspectives on a system-oriented trauma-informed approach in schools
students. Findings strengthen our understanding of the supports needed by school professionals to implement a system-wide trauma-informed approach. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved)
Emotion regulation difficulties during pregnancy mediate the relationship between childhood maltreatment and emotional, external, and restraint eating
Infant feeding behavior development to 12 months with typical and slower-flow artificial nipples
Advancing Trauma-Informed Practices for K–12 Schools and Institutions of Higher Education
Trajectories and predictors of maternal eating behaviors across the first year postpartum
A formative study of grandparent caregivers' grandchild feeding responsibilities and practices
Development of the Baby Behaviors when Satiated (Babes) behavioral coding scheme
Coparenting Quality During Covid-19
The aim of this study was to examine potential differences in coparenting quality during the COVID-19 pandemic among mothers and fathers using an embedded mixed methods approach. The objectives were to compare mothers' and fathers' scores on the Coparenting Relationship Scale among 150 mother-father dyads, and to examine mothers' and fathers' perceptions of how COVID-19 influenced their coparenting quality using thematic analysis of 159 mothers' …
Use of a Novel Theory-Based Pragmatic Tool to Evaluate the Quality of Instructor-Led Exercise Videos to Promote Youth Physical Activity at Home
Understanding the use of a pragmatic tool is a first step in the evaluation of InPACT at Home exercise videos. Our preliminary findings suggest that the InPACT at Home videos had low cognitive load. If future research confirms our findings, using a more rigorous study design, then developing a collection of instructor-led exercise videos that induce low cognitive load may help to enhance youth physical activity participation in the home environme…
Weight bias among children and parents during very early childhood
Developmental trajectories of eating behaviors and cross-lagged associations with weight across infancy
Associations of maternal food addiction, dietary restraint, and pre-pregnancy BMI with infant eating behaviors and risk for overweight
Characterization of a Vigorous sucking style in early infancy and its predictive value for weight gain and eating behaviors at 12 months
Food addiction and dietary restraint in postpartum women
Childhood maltreatment history and trauma‐specific predictors of parenting stress in new fathers
For new fathers, parenting stress is a risk factor for impaired early parenting and child maltreatment perpetration. Predictors of parenting stress, including fathers’ own experiences of trauma, could be useful intervention targets to support new fathers. We aim to examine associations between new fathers’ own histories of child maltreatment, and their perinatal mental health, relationships, and parenting stress. We recruited 298 first‐time fathe…
The Feasibility and Challenges of Conducting Online Research to Examine Movement Behavior in Parents and Children During the Covid-19 Pandemic
The global pandemic of COVID-19 shifted the methodology of this research project. The purpose of this perspective article is to discuss the feasibility and challenges of converting an in-person mixed methods study that examined associations among and beliefs about physical activity, motor competence, and perceived competence to an online format with parents and children during the COVID-19 pandemic. Recruitment was conducted through a University …
Video-Sharing Platform Viewing Among Preschool-Aged Children
Free video-sharing platforms such as YouTube are highly popular among young children but may contain low-quality and highly commercialized content. This study aimed to describe the prevalence, duration, and timing of objectively measured mobile YouTube viewing in preschool-aged children and test hypotheses about associations with child individual differences and contextual factors. We analyzed mobile sampling data from 349 English-speaking childr…
Environmental contaminants and child development
Child environmental health (CEH) science has identified numerous effects of early life exposures to common, ubiquitous environmental toxicants. CEH scientists have documented the costs not only to individual children but also to population-level health effects of such exposures. Importantly, such risks are unequally distributed in the population, with historically marginalized communities and the children living in these communities receiving the…
Demographic and psychological factors that predict retention in infant mental health home visiting
The healthfulness of children's meals when multiple media and devices are present
From zero to thrive
Early relational health between caregivers and children is foundational for child health and well‐being. Children and caregivers are also embedded within multiple systems and sectors, or a “child‐serving ecosystem”, that shapes child development. Although the COVID‐19 pandemic has made this embeddedness abundantly clear, systems remain siloed and lack coordination. Fostering relational health amongst layers of this ecosystem may be a way to syste…
Emerging Ideas. How Do Low‐Income Mothers Talk to Children About Weight and Body Shape
OBJECTIVE: Identify mothers' perceptions of how they talk about weight and body shape with their children and examine how approaches vary by mother and child characteristics. BACKGROUND: Youth who report that their parents talk with them about their weight experience poor health. However, very little is known about the content of these conversations. METHOD: Mothers and their 6- to 11-year-old children (N = 188 dyads) participated in a mixed-meth…
Observed behavioral indicators of child satiation at mealtime
Validation of the Children's Eating Behaviour Questionnaire in a low-income preschool-aged sample in the United States
Ecological contexts and early learning
Psychological Empowerment Among Urban Youth
Empowerment‐based strategies have become widely used method to address health inequities and promote social change. Few researchers, however, have tested theoretical models of empowerment, including multidimensional, higher‐order models. We test empirically a multidimensional, higher‐order model of psychological empowerment (PE), guided by Zimmerman's conceptual framework including three components of PE: intrapersonal, interactional, and behavio…
Diurnal cortisol pattern, eating behaviors and overweight in low-income preschool-aged children
Surgency and negative affectivity, but not effortful control, are uniquely associated with obesogenic eating behaviors among low-income preschoolers
Observed emotional and behavioral indicators of motivation predict school readiness in Head Start graduates
Sleep duration and quality are associated with eating behavior in low-income toddlers
Observed self-regulation is associated with weight in low-income toddlers
Selective eating behaviors in children
Exposure to Violence Predicting Cortisol Response During Adolescence and Early Adulthood
Development and preliminary validation of a feeding coparenting scale (FCS)
Higher weight status of only and last-born children. Maternal feeding and child eating behaviors as underlying processes among 4–8 year olds
A portrait of family involvement during Head Start
Observed infant food cue responsivity
Changes in household food insecurity are related to changes in BMI and diet quality among Michigan Head Start preschoolers in a sex-specific manner
Emotion Knowledge Skills in Low‐income Elementary School Children
This short‐term longitudinal study examined relations between emotion knowledge and social functioning in a sample of low‐income kindergarten and 1st graders. Individual differences in spontaneous emotion naming and emotion recognition skills were used to predict children's social functioning at school, including peer‐nominated sociometric status, and child self‐reports of negative experiences with peers in school (peer victimization and rejectio…
Stability and Change in Internal Working Models of Friendship
We examined the role of stability and change in low-achieving urban African American adolescents' internal working models of their close friendships across multiple domains of functioning. We compared three groups of youth defined by their attachment orientation based on two ratings one year apart: (i) stable-secure (secure both years); (ii) stable-insecure (insecure both years); and (iii) changing orientation. We assessed psychological well-bein…
Weight status moderates stress-eating in the absence of hunger associations in children
Family food talk, child eating behavior, and maternal feeding practices
Maternal encouragement and discouragement
Picky eating, pressuring feeding, and growth in toddlers
Longitudinal associations between maternal feeding and overweight in low-income toddlers
Relations between temperament and theory of mind development in the United States and China
The emotional reactivity hypothesis holds that, over the course of phylogeny, the selection of animals with less reactive temperaments supported the development of sophisticated social-cognitive skills in several species, including humans (Hare, 2007). In the ontogenetic human case, an emotional reactivity hypothesis predicts that children with less reactive temperaments will reach certain milestones in theory-of-mind (ToM) development more quick…
Folk Religion in Japan
From zero to thrive
Early relational health between caregivers and children is foundational for child health and well‐being. Children and caregivers are also embedded within multiple systems and sectors, or a “child‐serving ecosystem”, that shapes child development. Although the COVID‐19 pandemic has made this embeddedness abundantly clear, systems remain siloed and lack coordination. Fostering relational health amongst layers of this ecosystem may be a way to syste…
Folk Religion in Japan
On Female Primate Sexual Behavior and Conception
Sibling Jealousy in a Triadic Context with Mothers and Fathers
The current study focused on jealousy between toddler and preschool siblings. Sixty‐two families participated in triadic interaction sessions, in which mothers and then fathers were instructed to focus on one child (older sibling or toddler) while encouraging the other child to play with other toys in the room. Results indicated that child jealousy reactions differed between mothers and fathers, and parents behaved differently with older and youn…
Emotion Regulation in Context
Emotion regulation is an important developmental task of the early years of life. However, situational effects are rarely examined. In this study, we evaluated situational effects on 7‐month‐olds' and their mothers' emotional expression and interactive regulation behavior, individual differences across situations, and intercorrelations within situations. Mother‐infant dyads ( N = 225) were observed interacting during episodes from play, teaching,…
Stability and Change in Internal Working Models of Friendship
We examined the role of stability and change in low-achieving urban African American adolescents' internal working models of their close friendships across multiple domains of functioning. We compared three groups of youth defined by their attachment orientation based on two ratings one year apart: (i) stable-secure (secure both years); (ii) stable-insecure (insecure both years); and (iii) changing orientation. We assessed psychological well-bein…
Emotion Knowledge Skills in Low‐income Elementary School Children
This short‐term longitudinal study examined relations between emotion knowledge and social functioning in a sample of low‐income kindergarten and 1st graders. Individual differences in spontaneous emotion naming and emotion recognition skills were used to predict children's social functioning at school, including peer‐nominated sociometric status, and child self‐reports of negative experiences with peers in school (peer victimization and rejectio…
Ecological contexts and early learning
Observed emotional and behavioral indicators of motivation predict school readiness in Head Start graduates
A portrait of family involvement during Head Start
Enhancing self-regulation as a strategy for obesity prevention in Head Start preschoolers
Clinicaltrials.gov Identifier: NCT01398358
Adolescent Resilience
Resilience theory provides a framework for studying and understanding how some youths overcome risk exposure and guides the development of interventions for prevention using a strengths-based approach. In this article, we describe basic concepts of the theory, such as promotive factors, and distinguish assets and resources that help youths overcome the negative effects of risk exposure. We also present three models of resilience theory—compensato…
Relations between temperament and theory of mind development in the United States and China
The emotional reactivity hypothesis holds that, over the course of phylogeny, the selection of animals with less reactive temperaments supported the development of sophisticated social-cognitive skills in several species, including humans (Hare, 2007). In the ontogenetic human case, an emotional reactivity hypothesis predicts that children with less reactive temperaments will reach certain milestones in theory-of-mind (ToM) development more quick…
Emotion Knowledge, Loneliness, Negative Social Experiences, and Internalizing Symptoms Among Low‐income Preschoolers
Children with poor emotion knowledge (EK) skills are at risk for externalizing problems; less is known about early internalizing behavior. We examined multiple facets of EK and social-emotional experiences relevant for internalizing difficulties, including loneliness, victimization, and peer rejection, in Head Start preschoolers ( N = 134; M = 60 months). Results based on multiple informants suggest that facets of EK are differentially related to…
Low-income women's conceptualizations of emotional- and stress-eating
Surgency and negative affectivity, but not effortful control, are uniquely associated with obesogenic eating behaviors among low-income preschoolers
Diurnal cortisol pattern, eating behaviors and overweight in low-income preschool-aged children
Parenting While Incarcerated
Maternal Sensitivity and Latency to Positive Emotion Following Challenge
The ability to self‐generate positive emotions is an important component of emotion regulation. In this study, we focus on children's latency to express positive emotions following challenging situations and assess whether this ability operates through early maternal sensitivity and children's effortful control. Longitudinal relations between maternal sensitivity, infant negative affect, effortful control, and latency to positive emotion followin…
Exposure to Violence Predicting Cortisol Response During Adolescence and Early Adulthood
Maternal Mobile Device Use During a Structured Parent–Child Interaction Task
Maternal representations of their children in relation to feeding beliefs and practices among low-income mothers of young children
Validation of the Children's Eating Behaviour Questionnaire in a low-income preschool-aged sample in the United States
Higher weight status of only and last-born children. Maternal feeding and child eating behaviors as underlying processes among 4–8 year olds
Context-inappropriate anger, emotion knowledge deficits, and negative social experiences in preschool
This study examined contextually inappropriate (CI) anger in relation to emotion recognition and situation knowledge, negative social experiences, and externalizing behavior among low-income 4-year-olds attending Head Start (n = 134). Approximately 23% showed anger when presented with positive/neutral slides and videos (valence-incongruent CI anger), whereas 40% of children showed anger when presented with negative slides and videos (valence-cong…
Affective tone of mothers' statements to restrict their children's eating
Psychology (81 works) · Developmental psychology (67 works) · Medicine (59 works) · Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet (38 works) · Clinical Psychology (31 works) · Obesity (28 works) · Social Psychology (28 works) · Eating Disorders and Behaviors (27 works) · Child Nutrition and Feeding Issues (22 works) · Psychiatry (20 works)