Rachel G Lucas-Thompson
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 375740 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Rachel G Lucas-Thompson |
| NOMBRES | Rachel G |
| APELLIDO | Lucas-Thompson |
| FIRMA | LUCAS-THOMPSON R G |
| AFILIACIONES | Colorado State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7558-2285 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 34 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 47 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 34 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2010 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Understanding how adolescents engage in mindfulness-based intervention
Mindfulness-based intervention (MBI) improves mental health outcomes in adolescents; however, effects tend to be small, and findings have been inconsistent. Engagement (i.e., productive involvement) has been positively associated with outcomes in other types of mental health interventions, suggesting it may play a role in MBI. However, it is unclear how engagement functions in the context of MBI for adolescents. The purpose of this mixed methods …
Supporting Youth Mental Health Through a Health Coaching Intervention with a Mindfulness Component
Does a mindfulness-based intervention strengthen mindfulness stress buffering effects in adolescence? A preliminary investigation
Boosting effects of mindfulness-based intervention with a multi-modal adaptive supplement
Bi-Directional and Time-Lagged Associations between Engagement and Mental Health Symptoms in a Group Mindfulness-Based Mental Health Intervention
There is a high need for accessible avenues for improving mental health among emerging adults, particularly on college campuses. Mindfulness-based intervention (MBI) is a promising avenue for reducing mental health symptoms, but initial discomforts associated with MBI may cause symptoms to fluctuate before decreasing, which presents a barrier to engagement with mindfulness on a daily basis. Consistent mindfulness practice is key for forming habit…
Associations Between Children's Emotion Regulation, Mindful Parenting, Parent Stress, and Parent Coping During the Covid-19 Pandemic
Stress among parents has increased during the COVID-19 pandemic. Research prior to the pandemic indicates that parents of children who struggle with emotion regulation (ER) and who themselves are less mindful report more stress and diminished coping abilities. We know little, however, about these associations in the context of COVID-19. To prevent COVID-related deteriorations in parent well-being and child outcomes and to support parents during t…
Bringing attention to friendship
Observations of parent – adolescent interactions relate to food parenting practices and adolescent disordered eating in adolescents at risk for adult obesity
Adolescent disordered eating and obesity are interrelated and adversely relate to mental and metabolic health. Parental feeding practices have been associated with adolescent disordered eating and obesity. Yet, observable interactions related to food parenting have not been well characterized. To address this gap, N = 30 adolescents ( M ± SD 14 ± 2 year) at risk for adult obesity due to above‐average body mass index (BMI ≥70th percentile) or pare…
The Effect of Mental Activation of One’s Pet Dog on Stress Reactivity
Research suggests that mental activation of human social support may reduce stress reactivity. However, the extent to which social support from pets elicits a similar effect has been less explored. This study aims to determine whether the mental activation of one's pet dog reduces stress reactivity to a subsequent experimental stressor. In a 2 × 2 design, 132 dog-owning participants (M age = 20.14; 80% female) were randomly assigned to one of two…
Is it possible to create a more peaceful society through the teaching and learning of compassion
Within-Person variations in mindfulness mediate effects of daily stressors on psychological distress in adolescence
OBJECTIVE: We tested two competing models linking daily stress, mindfulness, and psychological distress in adolescence: 1) whether daily mindfulness moderates the impact of daily stressors on psychological distress or 2) whether mindfulness mediates the relationship between greater daily stressors and psychological distress. METHODS: Every evening for a week, 138 adolescents completed ecological momentary assessments (EMAs). Daily diaries assesse…
Gendered beliefs and behaviors in couple relationships as predictors of physiological stress functioning
Environmental Physical Activity Cues and Children’s Active vs. Sedentary Recreation
Physical activity (PA) benefits health, and intensive environmental modifications can increase children's PA. Research has not yet addressed if subtle environmental cues, such as posters depicting PA, increase child PA. In the current study, it was hypothesized that children exposed to active posters (vs. nature posters) would spend a larger proportion of free play time engaging with active toys (relative to sedentary toys). Participants were ran…
Feasibility and Acceptability of Accelerometer Measurement of Physical Activity in Pregnant Adolescents
During pregnancy, physical activity relates to better maternal and child mental and physical health. Accelerometry is thought to be effective for assessing free-living physical activity, but the feasibility/acceptability of accelerometer use in pregnant adolescents has not been reported. In this short communication, we conducted secondary analysis of a small pilot study to describe the feasibility/acceptability of accelerometry in pregnant adoles…
Parental emotion coaching moderates the effects of family stress on internalizing symptoms in middle childhood and adolescence
The present study examined the moderating effects of parental meta-emotion philosophy on the relation between family stress and youth internalizing symptoms. A two-study approach was applied to explore these relations in socioeconomically diverse samples with respect to a self-reported parental emotion coaching (EC) and parental emotion dismissing (ED) meta-emotion philosophy in Study 1 ( N = 153; youth ages 10-17 years; 52% female; 49% White, 26…
Learning to BREATHE “Plus”
Incorporating technological supplements into existing group mindfulness-based interventions (MBIs), particularly for use with adolescents, is an important next step in the implementation of MBIs. Yet there is little available content. Herein we present the development and content of a technological supplement for MBIs, which incorporates multiple technological elements to support (a) skill transfer from the group MBI to daily life, (b) the establ…
Interparental Conflict, Attention to Angry Interpersonal Interactions, and Adolescent Anxiety
Objective The goal of this study was to provide the first empirical investigation of associations among interparental conflict, adolescents' attention to emotion in interpersonal interactions, and adolescents' anxiety. Background Previous research suggests that both interparental conflict and attention biases have implications for youth anxiety. Method Adolescents ( n = 60, aged 10–19 years) viewed neutral versus emotional (angry, happy) photo pa…
Marital Conflict in the Context of Novel Stress
Objectives The goal of this study was to investigate associations of the positivity and negativity of couple communication behaviors during a novel stressor, representative of dyadic coping, with diurnal cortisol patterns, an indication of stress physiological functioning. Background Previous research suggests that less positive and more negative couple interactions about reoccurring relationship issues are stressful and, as a result, are associa…
Associations of parental feeding practices and food reward responsiveness with adolescent stress-eating
Adolescents’ experiences of mentor alliance and sense of belonging in a site-based mentoring intervention
Does Organizing Mentor-Mentee Matches into Small Groups Enhance Treatment Effects in a Site-Based Mentoring Program for Adolescents? Results of a Randomized Controlled Trial
Mindfulness-based group intervention in adolescents at-risk for excess weight gain
Couples' Communication Behaviors and Diurnal Cortisol Patterns
Previous research suggests that more negative or less positive couple communication can be stressful and that chronic stress can lead to less healthy patterns of physiological stress functioning. Our goal was to investigate whether couples' observed communication behaviors and reported relationship conflict were related to diurnal cortisol patterns, an important indicator of hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis functioning. Sixty-two couples ( n =…
Unraveling current and future adolescent depressive symptoms
Neurobiological processes are highlighted in animal and theoretical models of the development of depression, but there is mixed empirical evidence about associations between stress physiology and depressive symptoms. Adolescence has been highlighted as a period during which coordination across physiological stress response systems may be particularly important. However, most studies have focused on depressive symptoms and physiological reactivity…
Autonomic nervous system coordination moderates links of negative interparental conflict with adolescent externalizing behaviors
Although negative interparental conflict predicts elevated externalizing problems for children, there are individual differences in this association. Theoretically, children's abilities to coordinate physiological stress across response systems moderate the effects of interparental conflict on developmental outcomes. Past cross-sectional research has demonstrated that poor coordination of sympathetic (SNS) and parasympathetic (PNS) nervous system…
Maternal work early in the lives of children and its distal associations with achievement and behavior problems
This meta-analysis of 69 studies (1,483 effect sizes) used random effects models to examine maternal employment during infancy/early childhood in relation to 2 major domains of child functioning: achievement and behavior problems. Analyses of studies that spanned 5 decades indicated that, with a few exceptions, early employment was not significantly associated with later achievement or internalizing/externalizing behaviors. The exceptions were fo…
Authenticity in College-Aged Males and Females, How Close Others are Perceived, and Mental Health Outcomes
General and food-selection specific parenting style in relation to the healthfulness of parent-child choices while grocery shopping
Eye of the beholder? Maternal mental health and the quality of infant sleep
Associations of parental feeding practices and food reward responsiveness with adolescent stress-eating
Adolescents’ experiences of mentor alliance and sense of belonging in a site-based mentoring intervention
Couples' Communication Behaviors and Diurnal Cortisol Patterns
Previous research suggests that more negative or less positive couple communication can be stressful and that chronic stress can lead to less healthy patterns of physiological stress functioning. Our goal was to investigate whether couples' observed communication behaviors and reported relationship conflict were related to diurnal cortisol patterns, an important indicator of hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis functioning. Sixty-two couples ( n =…
Unraveling current and future adolescent depressive symptoms
Neurobiological processes are highlighted in animal and theoretical models of the development of depression, but there is mixed empirical evidence about associations between stress physiology and depressive symptoms. Adolescence has been highlighted as a period during which coordination across physiological stress response systems may be particularly important. However, most studies have focused on depressive symptoms and physiological reactivity…
Autonomic nervous system coordination moderates links of negative interparental conflict with adolescent externalizing behaviors
Although negative interparental conflict predicts elevated externalizing problems for children, there are individual differences in this association. Theoretically, children's abilities to coordinate physiological stress across response systems moderate the effects of interparental conflict on developmental outcomes. Past cross-sectional research has demonstrated that poor coordination of sympathetic (SNS) and parasympathetic (PNS) nervous system…
Associations of Marital Conflict With Emotional and Physiological Stress
The goal of this study was to explore theoretically suggested but untested links between interparental conflict and stress physiology in late adolescence. A multi‐method study was conducted involving families ( n = 42) who previously participated in the University California, Irvine site of the NICHD Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development; adolescents were 171⁄2 years of age on average. Parent report and observer ratings of conflict, ado…
Parental emotion coaching moderates the effects of family stress on internalizing symptoms in middle childhood and adolescence
The present study examined the moderating effects of parental meta-emotion philosophy on the relation between family stress and youth internalizing symptoms. A two-study approach was applied to explore these relations in socioeconomically diverse samples with respect to a self-reported parental emotion coaching (EC) and parental emotion dismissing (ED) meta-emotion philosophy in Study 1 ( N = 153; youth ages 10-17 years; 52% female; 49% White, 26…
Does Organizing Mentor-Mentee Matches into Small Groups Enhance Treatment Effects in a Site-Based Mentoring Program for Adolescents? Results of a Randomized Controlled Trial
Maternal work early in the lives of children and its distal associations with achievement and behavior problems
This meta-analysis of 69 studies (1,483 effect sizes) used random effects models to examine maternal employment during infancy/early childhood in relation to 2 major domains of child functioning: achievement and behavior problems. Analyses of studies that spanned 5 decades indicated that, with a few exceptions, early employment was not significantly associated with later achievement or internalizing/externalizing behaviors. The exceptions were fo…
Associations of Marital Conflict With Emotional and Physiological Stress
The goal of this study was to explore theoretically suggested but untested links between interparental conflict and stress physiology in late adolescence. A multi‐method study was conducted involving families ( n = 42) who previously participated in the University California, Irvine site of the NICHD Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development; adolescents were 171⁄2 years of age on average. Parent report and observer ratings of conflict, ado…
Authenticity in College-Aged Males and Females, How Close Others are Perceived, and Mental Health Outcomes
Relationship Quality With Parents, Stressful Life Events, and Cortisol Production in Emerging Adulthood
The goal of this study was to examine how the quality of relationships with parents, as well as life stress, is associated with cortisol production across the day among emerging adults; an additional aim was to determine whether relationship quality moderates the association between life stress and cortisol. Participants were 178 college students who reported on parental relationships, daily hassles, and major life events; they gave saliva sample…
Eye of the beholder? Maternal mental health and the quality of infant sleep
College Women Miss the Mark When Estimating the Impact of Full-Time Maternal Employment on Children’s Achievement and Behavior
The goals of the current study were to apply the construct of stereotype accuracy to the domain of college women’s perceptions of the effects of full-time maternal employment on children. Both accuracy/inaccuracy and positive/negative direction were examined. Participants were 1,259 college women who provided stereotyped projections about the effects of full-time employment on children’s IQ scores, formal achievement tests, school grades, and int…
Impact of explained v . unexplained front-of-package nutrition labels on parent and child food choices
Neither MTL nor FuF FOP labels led to food choices with significantly lower saturated fat, sodium or sugar. In-aisle signs explaining the FOP labels were somewhat helpful to consumers in making more healthful dietary decisions. New FOP labelling programmes could benefit from campaigns to increase consumer awareness and understanding of the labels
Adolescent Conflict Appraisals Moderate the Link Between Marital Conflict and Physiological Stress Reactivity
The goal of this study was to advance understanding of how adolescent conflict appraisals contribute uniquely, and in combination with interparental conflict behavior, to individual differences in adolescent physiological reactivity. Saliva samples were collected from 153 adolescents (52% female; ages 10-17 years) before and after the Trier Social Stress Test. Saliva was assayed for cortisol and alpha-amylase. Results revealed interactive effects…
General and food-selection specific parenting style in relation to the healthfulness of parent-child choices while grocery shopping
Unraveling current and future adolescent depressive symptoms
Neurobiological processes are highlighted in animal and theoretical models of the development of depression, but there is mixed empirical evidence about associations between stress physiology and depressive symptoms. Adolescence has been highlighted as a period during which coordination across physiological stress response systems may be particularly important. However, most studies have focused on depressive symptoms and physiological reactivity…
Autonomic nervous system coordination moderates links of negative interparental conflict with adolescent externalizing behaviors
Although negative interparental conflict predicts elevated externalizing problems for children, there are individual differences in this association. Theoretically, children's abilities to coordinate physiological stress across response systems moderate the effects of interparental conflict on developmental outcomes. Past cross-sectional research has demonstrated that poor coordination of sympathetic (SNS) and parasympathetic (PNS) nervous system…
Mindfulness-based group intervention in adolescents at-risk for excess weight gain
Couples' Communication Behaviors and Diurnal Cortisol Patterns
Previous research suggests that more negative or less positive couple communication can be stressful and that chronic stress can lead to less healthy patterns of physiological stress functioning. Our goal was to investigate whether couples' observed communication behaviors and reported relationship conflict were related to diurnal cortisol patterns, an important indicator of hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis functioning. Sixty-two couples ( n =…
Learning to BREATHE “Plus”
Incorporating technological supplements into existing group mindfulness-based interventions (MBIs), particularly for use with adolescents, is an important next step in the implementation of MBIs. Yet there is little available content. Herein we present the development and content of a technological supplement for MBIs, which incorporates multiple technological elements to support (a) skill transfer from the group MBI to daily life, (b) the establ…
Interparental Conflict, Attention to Angry Interpersonal Interactions, and Adolescent Anxiety
Objective The goal of this study was to provide the first empirical investigation of associations among interparental conflict, adolescents' attention to emotion in interpersonal interactions, and adolescents' anxiety. Background Previous research suggests that both interparental conflict and attention biases have implications for youth anxiety. Method Adolescents ( n = 60, aged 10–19 years) viewed neutral versus emotional (angry, happy) photo pa…
Marital Conflict in the Context of Novel Stress
Objectives The goal of this study was to investigate associations of the positivity and negativity of couple communication behaviors during a novel stressor, representative of dyadic coping, with diurnal cortisol patterns, an indication of stress physiological functioning. Background Previous research suggests that less positive and more negative couple interactions about reoccurring relationship issues are stressful and, as a result, are associa…
Associations of parental feeding practices and food reward responsiveness with adolescent stress-eating
Adolescents’ experiences of mentor alliance and sense of belonging in a site-based mentoring intervention
Does Organizing Mentor-Mentee Matches into Small Groups Enhance Treatment Effects in a Site-Based Mentoring Program for Adolescents? Results of a Randomized Controlled Trial
Feasibility and Acceptability of Accelerometer Measurement of Physical Activity in Pregnant Adolescents
During pregnancy, physical activity relates to better maternal and child mental and physical health. Accelerometry is thought to be effective for assessing free-living physical activity, but the feasibility/acceptability of accelerometer use in pregnant adolescents has not been reported. In this short communication, we conducted secondary analysis of a small pilot study to describe the feasibility/acceptability of accelerometry in pregnant adoles…
Parental emotion coaching moderates the effects of family stress on internalizing symptoms in middle childhood and adolescence
The present study examined the moderating effects of parental meta-emotion philosophy on the relation between family stress and youth internalizing symptoms. A two-study approach was applied to explore these relations in socioeconomically diverse samples with respect to a self-reported parental emotion coaching (EC) and parental emotion dismissing (ED) meta-emotion philosophy in Study 1 ( N = 153; youth ages 10-17 years; 52% female; 49% White, 26…
Within-Person variations in mindfulness mediate effects of daily stressors on psychological distress in adolescence
OBJECTIVE: We tested two competing models linking daily stress, mindfulness, and psychological distress in adolescence: 1) whether daily mindfulness moderates the impact of daily stressors on psychological distress or 2) whether mindfulness mediates the relationship between greater daily stressors and psychological distress. METHODS: Every evening for a week, 138 adolescents completed ecological momentary assessments (EMAs). Daily diaries assesse…
Gendered beliefs and behaviors in couple relationships as predictors of physiological stress functioning
Environmental Physical Activity Cues and Children’s Active vs. Sedentary Recreation
Physical activity (PA) benefits health, and intensive environmental modifications can increase children's PA. Research has not yet addressed if subtle environmental cues, such as posters depicting PA, increase child PA. In the current study, it was hypothesized that children exposed to active posters (vs. nature posters) would spend a larger proportion of free play time engaging with active toys (relative to sedentary toys). Participants were ran…
Associations Between Children's Emotion Regulation, Mindful Parenting, Parent Stress, and Parent Coping During the Covid-19 Pandemic
Stress among parents has increased during the COVID-19 pandemic. Research prior to the pandemic indicates that parents of children who struggle with emotion regulation (ER) and who themselves are less mindful report more stress and diminished coping abilities. We know little, however, about these associations in the context of COVID-19. To prevent COVID-related deteriorations in parent well-being and child outcomes and to support parents during t…
Psychology (31 obras) · Clinical Psychology (24 obras) · Developmental psychology (23 obras) · Medicine (18 obras) · Psychiatry (15 obras) · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (14 obras) · Social Psychology (13 obras) · Clinical Psychology (11 obras) · Attachment and Relationship Dynamics (9 obras) · Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions (9 obras)