Chrystyna D Kouros
Biographic Data
| ID | 136877 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Chrystyna D Kouros |
| GIVEN NAMES | Chrystyna D |
| FAMILY NAME | Kouros |
| SIGNATURE | KOUROS C D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Southern Methodist University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7586-8611 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 39 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Dynamics of Interparental Conflict, Adolescent Emotional Insecurity, and Adolescent Social Maladjustment: A Parallel Process Latent Growth Curve Analysis
Helicopter Parenting Behaviors and Emerging Adult Mental Health: The Mediating Role of Emotion Dysregulation
Helicopter parenting during emerging adulthood, a developmental period highlighting autonomy and self-reliance, can undermine college students’ well-being. The current study examined the mediating role of emotion dysregulation in the association between helicopter parenting and mental health outcomes among college-aged adults. A sample of 790 college students completed questionnaires on perceived helicopter parenting, emotion dysregulation, depre…
Variations in Adaptation Profiles Among Chinese Immigrant Mothers and Their Children: A Dyadic Latent Profile Analysis
Other momentary substance behaviors as predictors of college students’ prescription drug misuse in daily life: An exploratory study
Drawing from data obtained using EMA, findings provide novel insights about the real-world associations between prescription drug misuse and other salient substance behaviors during a developmental period that is important for establishing later substance use and health
Bidirectional associations between nightly sleep and daily happiness and negative mood in adolescents
This study examined bidirectional associations between daily happiness and negative mood and subjective and objective sleep measures. Participants were 311 adolescents (Mage = 17.37 years; 51.8% female; 59.2% White/European American, 38.6% Black/African American, 1% Hispanic/Latinx American, 1.4% multi-racial; 19.3% below poverty line) observed over a 7-day period (2017–2018) using sleep diaries and actigraphy. Daily negative mood was related to …
Couples' perceptions of each other's depressive symptoms: Empathic accuracy and assumed similarity bias
The link between depressive symptoms and relationship functioning has been well-documented. Evidence for affective concordance in depressive symptoms between partners suggests that couples are aware of each other's mood and symptoms; however, there have been no direct tests of the extent to which couples accurately perceive their partner's mental health. The present study assessed spouses' empathic accuracy and assumed similarity bias in rating e…
Dyadic Effects of Fluid Mindset on Psychological Growth in Immigrant Mothers and Their Children: Indirect Effect of Resilience
Immigration research has recently investigated positive adaptation outcomes such as psychological growth. This study tested actor and partner effects between fluid mindset and psychological growth, mediated by resilience, in 200 migrant mother–child dyads from Mainland China to Hong Kong. Mothers’ fluid mindset had significant actor and partner effects on their own and their children’s psychological growth, whereas children’s fluid mindset showed…
Resilience concordance in Chinese mother–child dyads: Moderating effect of depressive symptoms
Based on the cascading resilience model and the developmental systems framework, this study aimed to examine the concordance in resilience among Chinese mother–child dyads in Hong Kong, and to test the moderating effects of mothers’ and children’s depressive symptoms on concordance. Participants for the present study were 133 Chinese mother–child dyads (Child M age = 11.0 years old; SD = 0.21; 51.9% female) living in Hong Kong, who completed meas…
Real-time associations between young adults’ momentary pain and prescription opioid misuse intentions in daily life
Managing pain has been identified (mainly through retrospective reports) as a robust motivator for individuals engaging in prescription opioid misuse. However, surprisingly little work has directly examined whether momentary pain experiences are associated with prescription opioid misuse in daily life. Participants included 297 young-adult college students recruited on the basis of recent prescription drug misuse. Ecological momentary assessment …
Helicopter Parenting, Autonomy Support, and College Students’ Mental Health and Well-being: The Moderating Role of Sex and Ethnicity
Whereas parental involvement is consistently linked with positive child outcomes throughout development, parental involvement that is not developmentally appropriate and intrusive--a style of parenting called helicopter parenting--can be problematic for their child's adjustment and well-being. Helicopter parenting can be particularly harmful during emerging adulthood when young adults are working toward developmental goals of self-reliance and au…
Integrating Developmental Theory and Methodology: Using Derivatives to Articulate Change Theories, Models, and Inferences
Matching theories about growth, development, and change to appropriate statistical models can present a challenge, which can result in misuse, misinterpretation, and underutilization of different analytical approaches. We discuss the use of derivatives --- the change of a construct with respect to changes in another construct. Derivatives provide a common language linking developmental theory and statistical methods. Conceptualizing change in ter…
Spillover between marital quality and parent–child relationship quality: Parental depressive symptoms as moderators.
Using a daily diary method, this study examined concurrent and time-lagged relations between marital and parent-child relationship qualities, providing a test of the spillover and compensatory hypotheses. In addition, this study tested both mothers' and fathers' depressive symptoms as moderators of these daily linkages. Participants were 203 families, in which mothers and fathers completed daily diaries for 15 days. At the end of each reporting d…
The Role of Trauma Symptoms in Nonsuicidal Self-Injury
Reports of traumatic events by individuals who engage in nonsuicidal self-injury (NSSI) are common; yet, evidence for the relation between traumatic events and NSSI is inconclusive. This review explores the thesis that trauma symptoms, rather than the experience of a traumatic event per se, underlie this relation, specifically suggesting that trauma symptoms might serve as a mediator. The literature indicates that self-injury plays an important f…
Trajectories of individual depressive symptoms in adolescents: Gender and family relationships as predictors
Depressive syndrome and disorders increase substantially during adolescence. Little is known, however, about how individual symptoms of depression change over the course of this developmental period. The present study examined within-person changes in symptom severity of each individual symptom of depression, utilizing longitudinal data collected across 6 years of adolescence. Adolescent gender and family relationship variables were tested as pre…
Transactional relations between marital functioning and depressive symptoms
The present study investigated dynamic, longitudinal associations between depressive symptoms and marital processes. Two hundred and ninety-six couples reported on marital satisfaction, marital conflict, and depressive symptoms annually for 3 years. Observational measures of marital conflict were also collected. Results suggested that different domains of marital functioning related to husbands' versus wives' symptoms. For husbands, transactional…
Emotions in marital conflict interactions: Empathic accuracy, assumed similarity, and the moderating context of depressive symptoms
To examine affectivity in marital interaction, 267 couples participated in laboratory-based marital conflicts and afterward rated their own and their spouses' emotions of positivity, anger, sadness, and fear. Actor-Partner Interdependence Models estimated empathic accuracy and assumed similarity effects, with symptoms of depression tested as a moderator. Depressive symptoms moderated spouses' ratings of their partners' negative emotions such that…
Longitudinal Associations Between Husbands' and Wives' Depressive Symptoms
Although concordance between husbands' and wives' mental health problems is often reported, questions remain about the nature of these relations. Extending research in this area, this study examined dynamic-longitudinal pathways among husbands' and wives' depressive symptoms and marital satisfaction as a moderator of associations. Participants were 296 heterosexual couples. Husbands and wives reported on their depressive symptoms and marital sati…
Demand‐withdraw patterns in marital conflict in the home
The present study extended laboratory‐based findings of demand‐withdraw communication into marital conflict in the home and further explored its linkages with spousal depression. U.S. couples ( N = 116) provided diary reports of marital conflict and rated depressive symptoms. Hierarchical linear modeling results indicated that husband demand‐wife withdraw and wife demand‐husband withdraw occurred in the home at equal frequency, and both were more…
Marital Conflict and Children's Emotional Security in the Context of Parental Depression
Evidence has emerged for emotional security as an explanatory variable linking marital conflict to children's adjustment. Further evidence suggests parental psychopathology is a key factor in child development. To advance understanding of the pathways by which these family risk factors impact children's development, the mediational role of emotional security for children with parents who have potentially clinical levels of depression compared to …
Emotions in marital conflict interactions: Empathic accuracy, assumed similarity, and the moderating context of depressive symptoms
To examine affectivity in marital interaction, 267 couples participated in laboratory-based marital conflicts and afterward rated their own and their spouses' emotions of positivity, anger, sadness, and fear. Actor-Partner Interdependence Models estimated empathic accuracy and assumed similarity effects, with symptoms of depression tested as a moderator. Depressive symptoms moderated spouses' ratings of their partners' negative emotions such that…
Longitudinal Associations Between Husbands' and Wives' Depressive Symptoms
Although concordance between husbands' and wives' mental health problems is often reported, questions remain about the nature of these relations. Extending research in this area, this study examined dynamic-longitudinal pathways among husbands' and wives' depressive symptoms and marital satisfaction as a moderator of associations. Participants were 296 heterosexual couples. Husbands and wives reported on their depressive symptoms and marital sati…
Trajectories of individual depressive symptoms in adolescents: Gender and family relationships as predictors
Depressive syndrome and disorders increase substantially during adolescence. Little is known, however, about how individual symptoms of depression change over the course of this developmental period. The present study examined within-person changes in symptom severity of each individual symptom of depression, utilizing longitudinal data collected across 6 years of adolescence. Adolescent gender and family relationship variables were tested as pre…
Couples' perceptions of each other's depressive symptoms: Empathic accuracy and assumed similarity bias
The link between depressive symptoms and relationship functioning has been well-documented. Evidence for affective concordance in depressive symptoms between partners suggests that couples are aware of each other's mood and symptoms; however, there have been no direct tests of the extent to which couples accurately perceive their partner's mental health. The present study assessed spouses' empathic accuracy and assumed similarity bias in rating e…
Marital Conflict and Children's Emotional Security in the Context of Parental Depression
Evidence has emerged for emotional security as an explanatory variable linking marital conflict to children's adjustment. Further evidence suggests parental psychopathology is a key factor in child development. To advance understanding of the pathways by which these family risk factors impact children's development, the mediational role of emotional security for children with parents who have potentially clinical levels of depression compared to …
Real-time associations between young adults’ momentary pain and prescription opioid misuse intentions in daily life
Managing pain has been identified (mainly through retrospective reports) as a robust motivator for individuals engaging in prescription opioid misuse. However, surprisingly little work has directly examined whether momentary pain experiences are associated with prescription opioid misuse in daily life. Participants included 297 young-adult college students recruited on the basis of recent prescription drug misuse. Ecological momentary assessment …
Marital Conflict and Children's Emotional Security in the Context of Parental Depression
Evidence has emerged for emotional security as an explanatory variable linking marital conflict to children's adjustment. Further evidence suggests parental psychopathology is a key factor in child development. To advance understanding of the pathways by which these family risk factors impact children's development, the mediational role of emotional security for children with parents who have potentially clinical levels of depression compared to …
Demand‐withdraw patterns in marital conflict in the home
The present study extended laboratory‐based findings of demand‐withdraw communication into marital conflict in the home and further explored its linkages with spousal depression. U.S. couples ( N = 116) provided diary reports of marital conflict and rated depressive symptoms. Hierarchical linear modeling results indicated that husband demand‐wife withdraw and wife demand‐husband withdraw occurred in the home at equal frequency, and both were more…
Emotions in marital conflict interactions: Empathic accuracy, assumed similarity, and the moderating context of depressive symptoms
To examine affectivity in marital interaction, 267 couples participated in laboratory-based marital conflicts and afterward rated their own and their spouses' emotions of positivity, anger, sadness, and fear. Actor-Partner Interdependence Models estimated empathic accuracy and assumed similarity effects, with symptoms of depression tested as a moderator. Depressive symptoms moderated spouses' ratings of their partners' negative emotions such that…
Longitudinal Associations Between Husbands' and Wives' Depressive Symptoms
Although concordance between husbands' and wives' mental health problems is often reported, questions remain about the nature of these relations. Extending research in this area, this study examined dynamic-longitudinal pathways among husbands' and wives' depressive symptoms and marital satisfaction as a moderator of associations. Participants were 296 heterosexual couples. Husbands and wives reported on their depressive symptoms and marital sati…
Transactional relations between marital functioning and depressive symptoms
The present study investigated dynamic, longitudinal associations between depressive symptoms and marital processes. Two hundred and ninety-six couples reported on marital satisfaction, marital conflict, and depressive symptoms annually for 3 years. Observational measures of marital conflict were also collected. Results suggested that different domains of marital functioning related to husbands' versus wives' symptoms. For husbands, transactional…
Spillover between marital quality and parent–child relationship quality: Parental depressive symptoms as moderators.
Using a daily diary method, this study examined concurrent and time-lagged relations between marital and parent-child relationship qualities, providing a test of the spillover and compensatory hypotheses. In addition, this study tested both mothers' and fathers' depressive symptoms as moderators of these daily linkages. Participants were 203 families, in which mothers and fathers completed daily diaries for 15 days. At the end of each reporting d…
The Role of Trauma Symptoms in Nonsuicidal Self-Injury
Reports of traumatic events by individuals who engage in nonsuicidal self-injury (NSSI) are common; yet, evidence for the relation between traumatic events and NSSI is inconclusive. This review explores the thesis that trauma symptoms, rather than the experience of a traumatic event per se, underlie this relation, specifically suggesting that trauma symptoms might serve as a mediator. The literature indicates that self-injury plays an important f…
Trajectories of individual depressive symptoms in adolescents: Gender and family relationships as predictors
Depressive syndrome and disorders increase substantially during adolescence. Little is known, however, about how individual symptoms of depression change over the course of this developmental period. The present study examined within-person changes in symptom severity of each individual symptom of depression, utilizing longitudinal data collected across 6 years of adolescence. Adolescent gender and family relationship variables were tested as pre…
Integrating Developmental Theory and Methodology: Using Derivatives to Articulate Change Theories, Models, and Inferences
Matching theories about growth, development, and change to appropriate statistical models can present a challenge, which can result in misuse, misinterpretation, and underutilization of different analytical approaches. We discuss the use of derivatives --- the change of a construct with respect to changes in another construct. Derivatives provide a common language linking developmental theory and statistical methods. Conceptualizing change in ter…
Helicopter Parenting, Autonomy Support, and College Students’ Mental Health and Well-being: The Moderating Role of Sex and Ethnicity
Whereas parental involvement is consistently linked with positive child outcomes throughout development, parental involvement that is not developmentally appropriate and intrusive--a style of parenting called helicopter parenting--can be problematic for their child's adjustment and well-being. Helicopter parenting can be particularly harmful during emerging adulthood when young adults are working toward developmental goals of self-reliance and au…
Real-time associations between young adults’ momentary pain and prescription opioid misuse intentions in daily life
Managing pain has been identified (mainly through retrospective reports) as a robust motivator for individuals engaging in prescription opioid misuse. However, surprisingly little work has directly examined whether momentary pain experiences are associated with prescription opioid misuse in daily life. Participants included 297 young-adult college students recruited on the basis of recent prescription drug misuse. Ecological momentary assessment …
Dyadic Effects of Fluid Mindset on Psychological Growth in Immigrant Mothers and Their Children: Indirect Effect of Resilience
Immigration research has recently investigated positive adaptation outcomes such as psychological growth. This study tested actor and partner effects between fluid mindset and psychological growth, mediated by resilience, in 200 migrant mother–child dyads from Mainland China to Hong Kong. Mothers’ fluid mindset had significant actor and partner effects on their own and their children’s psychological growth, whereas children’s fluid mindset showed…
Resilience concordance in Chinese mother–child dyads: Moderating effect of depressive symptoms
Based on the cascading resilience model and the developmental systems framework, this study aimed to examine the concordance in resilience among Chinese mother–child dyads in Hong Kong, and to test the moderating effects of mothers’ and children’s depressive symptoms on concordance. Participants for the present study were 133 Chinese mother–child dyads (Child M age = 11.0 years old; SD = 0.21; 51.9% female) living in Hong Kong, who completed meas…
Bidirectional associations between nightly sleep and daily happiness and negative mood in adolescents
This study examined bidirectional associations between daily happiness and negative mood and subjective and objective sleep measures. Participants were 311 adolescents (Mage = 17.37 years; 51.8% female; 59.2% White/European American, 38.6% Black/African American, 1% Hispanic/Latinx American, 1.4% multi-racial; 19.3% below poverty line) observed over a 7-day period (2017–2018) using sleep diaries and actigraphy. Daily negative mood was related to …
Couples' perceptions of each other's depressive symptoms: Empathic accuracy and assumed similarity bias
The link between depressive symptoms and relationship functioning has been well-documented. Evidence for affective concordance in depressive symptoms between partners suggests that couples are aware of each other's mood and symptoms; however, there have been no direct tests of the extent to which couples accurately perceive their partner's mental health. The present study assessed spouses' empathic accuracy and assumed similarity bias in rating e…
Variations in Adaptation Profiles Among Chinese Immigrant Mothers and Their Children: A Dyadic Latent Profile Analysis
Other momentary substance behaviors as predictors of college students’ prescription drug misuse in daily life: An exploratory study
Drawing from data obtained using EMA, findings provide novel insights about the real-world associations between prescription drug misuse and other salient substance behaviors during a developmental period that is important for establishing later substance use and health
Helicopter Parenting Behaviors and Emerging Adult Mental Health: The Mediating Role of Emotion Dysregulation
Helicopter parenting during emerging adulthood, a developmental period highlighting autonomy and self-reliance, can undermine college students’ well-being. The current study examined the mediating role of emotion dysregulation in the association between helicopter parenting and mental health outcomes among college-aged adults. A sample of 790 college students completed questionnaires on perceived helicopter parenting, emotion dysregulation, depre…
The Dynamics of Interparental Conflict, Adolescent Emotional Insecurity, and Adolescent Social Maladjustment: A Parallel Process Latent Growth Curve Analysis
Psychology (17 works) · Clinical Psychology (11 works) · Psychiatry (11 works) · Social Psychology (11 works) · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (9 works) · Developmental psychology (9 works) · Attachment and Relationship Dynamics (8 works) · Medicine (8 works) · Clinical Psychology (7 works) · Depressive symptoms (7 works)