Gayla Margolin
Biographic Data
| ID | 121125 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gayla Margolin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gayla |
| FAMILY NAME | Margolin |
| SIGNATURE | MARGOLIN G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Southern California |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1713-0640 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 51 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 303 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 51 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Navigating Cyber Intimate Partner Violence and Conflict: Negative Anticipation and Emotions During Text-Based Versus Face-to-Face Conflict Discussions in Young Adult Couples
Young adult couples frequently use text messages to discuss conflicts within their relationship. While face-to-face conflicts have been shown to elicit more negative anticipation and negative emotions in victims of traditional, offline forms of intimate partner violence (IPV) (e.g., psychological and physical) compared with nonvictims, no study has examined how victims of cyber IPV (C-IPV) experience conflicts, either text-based or face-to-face. …
Discrimination during the Covid-19 pandemic against Asian Americans: Links to sleep and romantic relationships as context
The present study extends emerging research on discrimination and sleep. Findings point to the significance of evaluating discrimination and emotional reactions to racialized events as potential contributors to sleep difficulties among Asian Americans. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved)
Bidirectional Intimate Partner Violence and Covid Stress During the Covid-19 Pandemic
Purpose Recent literature suggests the COVID-19 pandemic had a significant impact on intimate partner violence (IPV) in the U.S. However, the examination of bidirectional IPV is needed. Bidirectional aggression is the most common form of IPV and is associated with more frequent and serious relationship violence. The current study examined COVID stress and pre-COVID bidirectional IPV as independent and interactive risk factors for IPV during COVID…
Anti-Black violence, discrimination, and sleep difficulties amongst racially diverse Americans: The aftermath of the murder of George Floyd
Relationship satisfaction, feelings of closeness and annoyance, and linkage in electrodermal activity
Physiological linkage refers to moment-to-moment, time-linked coordination in physiological responses among people in close relationships. Although people in romantic relationships have been shown to evidence linkage in their physiological responses over time, it is still unclear how patterns of covariation relate to in-the-moment, as well as general levels of, relationship functioning. In the present study with data collected between 2014 and 20…
Loss during Covid-19: Moderating effects of meaning and romantic relationships on anxiety and depressive symptoms
Findings indicate that cumulative pandemic-related loss is associated with anxiety and depressive symptoms, and that meaning in life and romantic relationships may be promising interventional targets; though, these findings may change over the course of the pandemic. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved)
Parent Aggression Exposure and Negative Expectancies in Couple Conversation: Rejection Sensitivity as a Mediator
Purpose Exposure to aggression during childhood or adolescence has been linked to negative outcomes, including poor future romantic relationship functioning. As a step toward understanding such intergenerational influences, the present study investigates whether aggression exposure in the family-of-origin is associated with negative expectancies of romantic partner interactions when facing a challenging couple discussion. Rejection sensitivity is…
Relationship closeness as a protective factor against the sensitizing effect of adversity history
Exposure to adversity has been shown to amplify individuals' sensitivity to stress, increasing the risk of developing mental health problems in adulthood. Romantic relationships can serve as a broad resource in mitigating the negative impacts of adversity and stress on mental health; however, less is known about how everyday moments of closeness with one's romantic partner impact experiences of daily stress for people exposed to adversity. The pr…
Observed parent–adolescent coalitions and family hostilities during family discussions: Associations with marital aggression
This study investigated bidirectional associations between observed parent–youth coalitions—wherein one parent and a child align themselves against the other parent—and family hostilities as they evolved in real‐time during triadic family conflict discussions. Participants were 102 families with an adolescent child (50% girls, M age = 15.3 years, SD = 0.8). Using time‐lagged, multilevel models, we tested immediate, temporal influences from hostil…
A Systematic Review of Respiratory Sinus Arrhythmia in Romantic Relationships
Respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA), an index of the parasympathetic nervous system, has recently gained attention as a physiological component of regulatory processes, social connectedness, and health. Within the context of romantic relationships, studies have operationalized and conceptualized RSA in disparate ways, obscuring a clear pattern of findings. This systematic review synthesizes the rapidly developing literature and clarifies the role …
Feelings of Annoyance and Spoken Anger Words in Couples’ Everyday Lives: The Role of Family-of-Origin Aggression
Little is known about the words that romantic couples use during emotionally heightened moments such as when feeling annoyed with their partner. In the present study, young adult couples received mobile phones that audio-recorded 50% of their day and prompted hourly self-reports of partner-related annoyance. Actor–partner models tested within-person (hourly) and between-person (across the day) associations between feelings of annoyance and spoken…
Does Family Context Moderate the Effects of Discrimination on Emerging Adults' Health
Given the adverse impacts of discrimination on overall well-being, this study tests whether family context, specifically family hostility (FH) and positive family environment (PFE), moderate well-documented associations between discrimination and mental and physical health symptoms. Diverse emerging adults ( n = 345) completed an online questionnaire about perceived discrimination due to a broad range of characteristics, positive and negative qua…
Investigating the momentary association between maternal support and children's fruit and vegetable consumption using ecological momentary assessment
The curvilinear effect of mothers’ parenting stress and attunement on children’s internalizing symptoms: A six wave study of mother–youth dyads across the transition to adolescence
We aimed to test how deviations in a mother's own parenting stress (PS) levels across her child's transition to adolescence contribute to subsequent changes in her child's internalizing symptom levels. We tested both linear and curvilinear effects, as well as the extent to which a child's perception of his or her mother's attunement alters these links. We further explored whether overall maternal PS levels (relative to the other mothers) further …
Dual Versus Single Parental Households and Differences in Maternal Mental Health and Child’s Overweight/Obesity
The interplay of friends and parents in adolescents’ daily lives: Towards a dynamic view of social support
This daily diary study investigated the interplay of perceived friend and parent support in adolescents' everyday lives. Specifically, we tested the interactive effects of friend and parent support on adolescent well-being at both the intra- and inter-individual level. A diverse sample of 119 adolescents ( M age =15.36) completed diary reports for two weeks. Multivariate multilevel models demonstrated that on days adolescents felt more supported …
When it feels good to give: Depressive symptoms, daily prosocial behavior, and adolescent mood
Past research has suggested that engaging in prosocial acts enhances the well-being of the helper, but does prosocial behavior benefit some individuals more than others? The current study implements a daily diary design to test associations between adolescents' daily prosocial behaviors toward relationally close others and mood. The main goal was to investigate whether daily help-giving has unique benefits for adolescents experiencing greater emo…
Longitudinal Associations Between Family Aggression, Externalizing Behavior, and the Structure and Function of the Amygdala
Using longitudinal data from 21 adolescents, we assessed family aggression (via mother, father, and youth report) in early adolescence, externalizing behavior in mid-adolescence, and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) data in late adolescence. Amygdalae were manually traced, and used as seed regions for resting state analyses. Both family aggression and subsequent externalizing behavior predicted larger right amygdala volumes and stronger amygdala-…
Deviant Peers and Adolescent Risky Behaviors: The Protective Effect of Nonverbal Display of Parental Warmth
This study examines whether nonverbal displays of parents' warmth during an in-lab conflict discussion mitigate the links between affiliation with deviant peers and risky behaviors. A sample of 107 youth and their parents participated in a study spanning from mid-adolescence (T1) to late adolescence (T2). At T1, family members discussed a contentious issue, which was coded for parents' nonverbal warmth. At T1 and T2, youth reported on their frien…
Parenting styles, food-related parenting practices, and children's healthy eating: A mediation analysis to examine relationships between parenting and child diet
Compassion in a heartbeat: Physiology during couples’ loss discussions
The physiology of compassion, typically studied in individuals, has not yet been studied dyadically and in the context of close relationships. The current study used dating partners’ discussions of personal losses to simultaneously investigate the physiological profile of compassion in an individual sharing an emotionally salient loss, the “narrator,” and his or her partner, the “listener.” In a given moment, listeners who perceived themselves as…
New Frontiers in Ambulatory Assessment: Big Data Methods for Capturing Couples’ Emotions, Vocalizations, and Physiology in Daily Life
With the increasing use of smartphone technologies and wearable biosensors, we are currently undergoing what many have termed a “data revolution,” where intensive, multichannel data are passively collected over long time frames. Such procedures are transforming the way psychologists conceptualize research and have the potential to spur important advances in the study of close relationships. This proof-of-concept study from the Couple Mobile Sensi…
How discrimination and perspective‐taking influence adolescents' attitudes about justice
Little is known about factors influencing adolescents' justice attitudes. This online study investigates perspective-taking and experiences with discrimination for their associations with adolescents' beliefs about how justice is best served. Participants included 179 ethnically/racially diverse high school students (M age = 16.67 years; SD = 1.02). Higher perspective-taking was associated with less punitive and more restorative attitudes. Youth …
Adolescent Life Stress and the Cortisol Awakening Response: The Moderating Roles of Attachment and Sex
This longitudinal study investigated how past versus current life stresses relate to adolescents' cortisol awakening response (CAR), an index of hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal activity. Ninety-nine adolescents reported previous year life stress at ages 12 and 18. At the second assessment, participants also provided self-reports of parent and peer attachment and 3 days of cortisol samples. Current stress was associated with heightened CAR for both…
Intergenerational Links in Victimization: Prosocial Friends as a Buffer
Analysis of the association between marital relationships and health problems: An interactional perspective
This article reviews the evidence for a relationship between 3 types of marital variables (marital status, marital adjustment, and marital interaction) and health problems (etiology, course/outcome/treatment) as well as the effect that health problems have on marriage. The mechanisms responsible for these associations also are evaluated. The evidence suggest that marital variables affect health status but that the effect is indirect and nonspecif…
The intergenerational transmission of aggression across three generations
A multivariate investigation of dating aggression
Differential consequences provided by mothers and fathers for their sons and daughters
Depression and Marital Disagreement: The Social Construction of Despair
How do couples with and without a depressed spouse cope with conflict? Seven couples in which the husband was depressed, seven in which the wife was depressed and fourteen in which neither was depressed completed measures of marital adjustment and typical conflict behaviour. Following a laboratory discussion, they completed measures of their recall of their own and their spouse's participation and the impact of their spouses on them. Reports by d…
The Relationship Between Daily Marital Interaction, Work, and Health-Promoting Behaviors in Dual-Earner Couples: An Extension of the Work-Family Spillover Model
This article examines the spillover and crossover patterns between an individual's daily work experiences and health-promoting behaviors and daily marital interaction in 49 dual-earner couples. Husbands and wives separately completed daily diaries that included questions about work experiences, health-promoting behaviors, and marital interactions over 42 consecutive days. Pooled time series regression analyses were performed to examine transmissi…
Interactive and Unique Risk Factors for Husbands' Emotional and Physical Abuse of Their Wives
The interplay of friends and parents in adolescents’ daily lives: Towards a dynamic view of social support
This daily diary study investigated the interplay of perceived friend and parent support in adolescents' everyday lives. Specifically, we tested the interactive effects of friend and parent support on adolescent well-being at both the intra- and inter-individual level. A diverse sample of 119 adolescents ( M age =15.36) completed diary reports for two weeks. Multivariate multilevel models demonstrated that on days adolescents felt more supported …
Parenting styles, food-related parenting practices, and children's healthy eating: A mediation analysis to examine relationships between parenting and child diet
Observed sibling interaction: Links with the marital and the mother–child relationship
The Relationship between Dual-Earner Couples' Daily Work Mood and Home Affect
This study explored the spillover and crossover paradigms as explanations for associations between work mood and affect in the home setting. Data from two consecutive work days for 59 dual-earner couples provided evidence for both work-to-home and home-to-work effects. The spillover hypothesis was supported primarily in the effect of work fatigue on later moods at home and the effect of positive home affects on subsequent work moods. The crossove…
How discrimination and perspective‐taking influence adolescents' attitudes about justice
Little is known about factors influencing adolescents' justice attitudes. This online study investigates perspective-taking and experiences with discrimination for their associations with adolescents' beliefs about how justice is best served. Participants included 179 ethnically/racially diverse high school students (M age = 16.67 years; SD = 1.02). Higher perspective-taking was associated with less punitive and more restorative attitudes. Youth …
Communication and Frightening Behavior Among Couples with Past and Recent Histories of Physical Marital Aggression
The present study compares observed communication and couples' reports of husbands' frightening behaviors among couples with no history of husbands' physical marital aggression, a past history of such aggression, and recent history of such aggression. Ninety community couples reported on husbands' physical marital aggression during two visits to the lab, approximately 1.5 years apart. During the second visit, we videotaped couples' discussions of…
A Typology of Maritally Violent Men and Correlates of Violence in a Community Sample
This study empirically tests A. Holtzworth-Munroe and G. L. Stuart's (1994) typology of male batterers in a community sample. Latent class analyses based on severity of physical aggression, generality of violence, and psychopathology partially replicated the Holtzworth-Munroe and Stuart typology by identifying 3 types of violent men: family-only, medium-violence, and generally violent/psychologically distressed. Separate groupings of borderline/d…
Deviant Peers and Adolescent Risky Behaviors: The Protective Effect of Nonverbal Display of Parental Warmth
This study examines whether nonverbal displays of parents' warmth during an in-lab conflict discussion mitigate the links between affiliation with deviant peers and risky behaviors. A sample of 107 youth and their parents participated in a study spanning from mid-adolescence (T1) to late adolescence (T2). At T1, family members discussed a contentious issue, which was coded for parents' nonverbal warmth. At T1 and T2, youth reported on their frien…
Positive and Negative Interactions Observed Between Siblings: Moderating Effects for Children Exposed to Parents' Conflict
This study investigated links between interparental conflict appraisals (specifically threat and self-blame), sibling relationship quality (positive and negative dimensions), and anxiety in sibling pairs comprised of an adolescent and a younger sibling close in age. Sibling relationship quality was measured through behavioral observation. Links between self-blame and anxiety were moderated by sibling relationship quality. In older siblings, posit…
Observed sibling interaction: Links with the marital and the mother-child relationship
The study examines whether the link between the marital relationship and sibling interaction is direct or mediated by the mother-child relationship. Seventy-three same-sex siblings pairs aged 3 years 6 months to 8 years 6 months were observed during free play. Mothers completed questionnaires assessing marital functioning and their relationship with their 2 children. Results indicated that older siblings' negative behavior is linked with negative…
Anti-Black violence, discrimination, and sleep difficulties amongst racially diverse Americans: The aftermath of the murder of George Floyd
Relationship closeness as a protective factor against the sensitizing effect of adversity history
Exposure to adversity has been shown to amplify individuals' sensitivity to stress, increasing the risk of developing mental health problems in adulthood. Romantic relationships can serve as a broad resource in mitigating the negative impacts of adversity and stress on mental health; however, less is known about how everyday moments of closeness with one's romantic partner impact experiences of daily stress for people exposed to adversity. The pr…
Longitudinal Associations Between Family Aggression, Externalizing Behavior, and the Structure and Function of the Amygdala
Using longitudinal data from 21 adolescents, we assessed family aggression (via mother, father, and youth report) in early adolescence, externalizing behavior in mid-adolescence, and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) data in late adolescence. Amygdalae were manually traced, and used as seed regions for resting state analyses. Both family aggression and subsequent externalizing behavior predicted larger right amygdala volumes and stronger amygdala-…
The curvilinear effect of mothers’ parenting stress and attunement on children’s internalizing symptoms: A six wave study of mother–youth dyads across the transition to adolescence
We aimed to test how deviations in a mother's own parenting stress (PS) levels across her child's transition to adolescence contribute to subsequent changes in her child's internalizing symptom levels. We tested both linear and curvilinear effects, as well as the extent to which a child's perception of his or her mother's attunement alters these links. We further explored whether overall maternal PS levels (relative to the other mothers) further …
Compassion in a heartbeat: Physiology during couples’ loss discussions
The physiology of compassion, typically studied in individuals, has not yet been studied dyadically and in the context of close relationships. The current study used dating partners’ discussions of personal losses to simultaneously investigate the physiological profile of compassion in an individual sharing an emotionally salient loss, the “narrator,” and his or her partner, the “listener.” In a given moment, listeners who perceived themselves as…
Adolescent Life Stress and the Cortisol Awakening Response: The Moderating Roles of Attachment and Sex
This longitudinal study investigated how past versus current life stresses relate to adolescents' cortisol awakening response (CAR), an index of hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal activity. Ninety-nine adolescents reported previous year life stress at ages 12 and 18. At the second assessment, participants also provided self-reports of parent and peer attachment and 3 days of cortisol samples. Current stress was associated with heightened CAR for both…
Differential consequences provided by mothers and fathers for their sons and daughters
Ethical and legal considerations in marital and family therapy
Insufficiencies of the APAethical standards for marriage and family therapy have not been fully appreciated. Guidelines regarding therapist responsi-bility, confidentiality, and informed consent sometimes become ambiguous with individual clients, but they are even more complicated when multiple family members are seen together in therapy. Who is the client? How is confidential information handled? Does each family member have an equal right to re…
Ethical and legal considerations in marital and family therapy
Nonparametric strategies to test the independence of behavioral states in sequential data
Nonparametric strategies to test the independence of behavioral states in sequential data
Depression and Marital Disagreement: The Social Construction of Despair
How do couples with and without a depressed spouse cope with conflict? Seven couples in which the husband was depressed, seven in which the wife was depressed and fourteen in which neither was depressed completed measures of marital adjustment and typical conflict behaviour. Following a laboratory discussion, they completed measures of their recall of their own and their spouse's participation and the impact of their spouses on them. Reports by d…
Analysis of the association between marital relationships and health problems: An interactional perspective
This article reviews the evidence for a relationship between 3 types of marital variables (marital status, marital adjustment, and marital interaction) and health problems (etiology, course/outcome/treatment) as well as the effect that health problems have on marriage. The mechanisms responsible for these associations also are evaluated. The evidence suggest that marital variables affect health status but that the effect is indirect and nonspecif…
The intergenerational transmission of aggression across three generations
The Relationship between Dual-Earner Couples' Daily Work Mood and Home Affect
This study explored the spillover and crossover paradigms as explanations for associations between work mood and affect in the home setting. Data from two consecutive work days for 59 dual-earner couples provided evidence for both work-to-home and home-to-work effects. The spillover hypothesis was supported primarily in the effect of work fatigue on later moods at home and the effect of positive home affects on subsequent work moods. The crossove…
A multivariate investigation of dating aggression
Do partners agree about abuse in their relationship?: A psychometric evaluation of interpartner agreement.
This study tested whether partners can be relied on to provide congruent reports about abuse in their relationship. The authors examined whether interpartner agreement (IA) varies as a function of whether the perpetrator is the man or the woman, and by whether the abusive behavior being reported is physical or psychological. Guided by psychometric test theory, the authors examined whether weak IA about specific behaviors can be improved by aggreg…
Interactive and Unique Risk Factors for Husbands' Emotional and Physical Abuse of Their Wives
Observed sibling interaction: Links with the marital and the mother-child relationship
The study examines whether the link between the marital relationship and sibling interaction is direct or mediated by the mother-child relationship. Seventy-three same-sex siblings pairs aged 3 years 6 months to 8 years 6 months were observed during free play. Mothers completed questionnaires assessing marital functioning and their relationship with their 2 children. Results indicated that older siblings' negative behavior is linked with negative…
Observed sibling interaction: Links with the marital and the mother–child relationship
The Effects of Family and Community Violence on Children
This review examines theoretical and empirical literature on children’s reactions to three types of violence—child maltreatment, community violence, and interparental violence. In addition to describing internalizing and externalizing problems associated with exposure to violence, this review identifies ways that violence can disrupt typical developmental trajectories through psychobiological effects, posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), cogniti…
Coparenting: A link between marital conflict and parenting in two-parent families.
The Relationship Between Daily Marital Interaction, Work, and Health-Promoting Behaviors in Dual-Earner Couples: An Extension of the Work-Family Spillover Model
This article examines the spillover and crossover patterns between an individual's daily work experiences and health-promoting behaviors and daily marital interaction in 49 dual-earner couples. Husbands and wives separately completed daily diaries that included questions about work experiences, health-promoting behaviors, and marital interactions over 42 consecutive days. Pooled time series regression analyses were performed to examine transmissi…
A Typology of Maritally Violent Men and Correlates of Violence in a Community Sample
This study empirically tests A. Holtzworth-Munroe and G. L. Stuart's (1994) typology of male batterers in a community sample. Latent class analyses based on severity of physical aggression, generality of violence, and psychopathology partially replicated the Holtzworth-Munroe and Stuart typology by identifying 3 types of violent men: family-only, medium-violence, and generally violent/psychologically distressed. Separate groupings of borderline/d…
Communication and Frightening Behavior Among Couples with Past and Recent Histories of Physical Marital Aggression
The present study compares observed communication and couples' reports of husbands' frightening behaviors among couples with no history of husbands' physical marital aggression, a past history of such aggression, and recent history of such aggression. Ninety community couples reported on husbands' physical marital aggression during two visits to the lab, approximately 1.5 years apart. During the second visit, we videotaped couples' discussions of…
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Violence Exposure in Multiple Interpersonal Domains: Cumulative and Differential Effects
College Students’ Electronic Victimization in Friendships and Dating Relationships: Anticipated Distress and Associations With Risky Behaviors
This study investigated college students’ reports of electronic victimization in friendships and dating relationships. We examined 22 items representing four categories of electronic victimization: hostility, humiliation, exclusion, and intrusiveness. Nearly all participants (92%) reported some electronic victimization in the past year, with males reporting more victimization and females anticipating more distress. Both females and males anticipa…
Correlates and characteristics of adolescents' encoded emotional arousal during family conflict
Associations between adolescents' range of fundamental frequency, cortisol output, and self-reported emotional experience were examined during problem discussions with parents. Participants are a community-based sample of 56 boys and girls in a longitudinal study on conflict exposure. Results reveal that higher aggregate levels of range of fundamental frequency are associated with higher cortisol output and higher levels of self-reported negative…
Electronic Aggression Among Emerging Adults: Motivations and Contextual Factors
The present study used quantitative and qualitative methods to investigate contextual factors and motivations associated with emerging adults' electronic aggression victimization and perpetration with friends and dating partners. Participants ( N = 226) reported online about electronic aggression occurrence and motivations, family risk, support from friends, and emotion regulation. Males reported more victimization than perpetration overall, wher…
Positive and Negative Interactions Observed Between Siblings: Moderating Effects for Children Exposed to Parents' Conflict
This study investigated links between interparental conflict appraisals (specifically threat and self-blame), sibling relationship quality (positive and negative dimensions), and anxiety in sibling pairs comprised of an adolescent and a younger sibling close in age. Sibling relationship quality was measured through behavioral observation. Links between self-blame and anxiety were moderated by sibling relationship quality. In older siblings, posit…
Psychology (47 works) · Developmental psychology (37 works) · Social Psychology (26 works) · Clinical Psychology (22 works) · Attachment and Relationship Dynamics (19 works) · Medicine (19 works) · Social Psychology (17 works) · Poison control (15 works) · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (13 works) · Intimate Partner and Family Violence (13 works)