Benjamin L Hankin

Biographic Data

ID1659585
NAMEBenjamin L Hankin
GIVEN NAMESBenjamin L
FAMILY NAMEHankin
SIGNATUREHANKIN B L
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
ORCID0000-0003-2446-0258
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS45
TOTAL CITATIONS175
WORKS AS AUTHOR45
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1998
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX6

  • Fetal Cortisol Exposure and Offspring Socioemotional Development

    Open AccessElla‐Marie P Hennessey, Danielle A Swales et al.ARTICLEDevelopmental Psychobiology2026References: 100

    Glucocorticoids are a commonly proposed pathway through which offspring socioemotional development is shaped by the prenatal environment. However, studies have primarily assessed fetal cortisol exposure indirectly. We examine whether neonatal hair cortisol concentrations, an index of fetal cortisol exposure during the third trimester, are associated with early markers of offspring socioemotional development (negative affectivity and attention to …

  • Developmental changes in youth affect

    Open AccessGeorge Abitante, Julianne M Griffith et al.ARTICLEEmotion2025

    The transition from childhood to adolescence is a period of social-emotional reorganization involving changes in affect. Most research has examined developmental changes in between-person affect. Few studies have investigated developmental changes in associations between individual emotions and the structure of affective experience in youth across developmental age. This study used exploratory graph analysis to assess developmental changes in emo…

  • Early Adolescent Social Anxiety and (mal)Adaptive Responses to Interpersonal Stress

    Open AccessClaire Lane, Caley R Lane et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Early Adolescence2025References: 5

    Anxiety, broadly, has been found to relate to emotion regulation strategy use; however, there is limited understanding of how discrete types of anxiety are associated with emotion regulation. The current study addressed this gap by examining associations between social and physical anxiety symptoms and adolescents’ use of maladaptive and adaptive emotion regulation strategies in response to daily-life interpersonal stress. Participants included 1…

  • Growth following adversity is rare

    Open AccessCavan V Bonner, Benjamin L Hankin et al.ARTICLEJournal of Research in Personality2025Cited by: 1References: 37

    The idea that adversity is necessary for psychological growth pervades cultural narratives and lay theories. We empirically tested this notion with a multi-informant, longitudinal study of children and adolescents ( n = 682). Initial adversity was not associated with change in effortful control and emotional stability, while increasing adversity was negatively correlated with growth. However, a small sub-group of individuals still managed to grow…

  • Neonatal Hair Cortisol and Birth Outcomes

    LillyBelle K Deer, Catherine Demers et al.ARTICLEPsychosomatic Medicine2024

    OBJECTIVE: Prenatal stress physiology is often posited as a predictor of birth outcomes, including gestational age at birth and birthweight. However, research has predominantly relied on indicators in the maternal system, with few studies examining hormones of the fetal system. The current study focuses on fetal cortisol in the third trimester, as measured in neonatal hair, as a biological factor that might be associated with birth outcomes (gest…

  • Biological and behavioral pathways from prenatal depression to offspring cardiometabolic risk

    Open AccessJenalee R Doom, LillyBelle K Deer et al.ARTICLEDevelopmental Psychology2024

    Given prior literature focused on the Developmental Origins of Health and Disease framework, there is strong rationale to hypothesize that reducing depression in the prenatal period will cause improvements in offspring cardiometabolic health. The current review outlines evidence that prenatal depression is associated with offspring cardiometabolic risk and health behaviors. We review evidence of these associations in humans and in nonhuman animal…

  • Major gender differences in relations between life stressor frequency and gray matter in adolescence and emerging adulthood

    Open AccessAlyssa N Fassett-Carman, Harry Smolker et al.ARTICLEDevelopmental Psychology2023

    Adolescence and emerging adulthood is likely a sensitive period for the neural effects of stress due to increasing life stress, onset of stress-related disorders, and continued gray matter (GM) development. In adults, stress is associated with GM differences in the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC), hippocampus, and amygdala, but little is known about these relations, and whether they differ by gender, during adolescence and emerging adulthood. Fur…

  • Daily life positive affect regulation in early adolescence

    Open AccessJulianne M Griffith, Talia S Farrell-Rosen et al.ARTICLEEmotion2022

    Individual differences in positive affect (PA) are related to a host of salient developmental outcomes, including social functioning, physical health, and psychopathology. One factor that may contribute to individual differences in PA involves individual differences in PA regulation, which may be broadly categorized into strategies to enhance PA and strategies to dampen PA. To date, however, factors contributing to individual differences in youth…

  • Implicit Beliefs About Emotions in Youth

    Christopher M Crawford, Julianne M Griffith et al.ARTICLEJournal of Social and Clinical…2021

    Introduction: Individual differences in beliefs about the controllability of emotions are associated with a range of psychosocial outcomes, including depressive symptoms. Less is known, however, about factors contributing to individual differences in these beliefs. The current study examined prospective associations between negative emotionality (NE) and implicit beliefs about emotions, as well as the indirect effect of NE on depressive symptoms …

  • Experiences of Discrimination and Depression Trajectories over Pregnancy

    Open AccessAmanda N Noroña‐Zhou, Amanda Noroña-Zhou et al.ARTICLEWomen s Health Issues2021

  • Affective Benefits of Parental Engagement with Adolescent Positive Daily Life Experiences

    Open AccessJulianne M Griffith, Benjamin L HankinARTICLEJournal of Youth and Adolescence2021Cited by: 2References: 47

  • Individual Differences in Adolescent Coping

    Open AccessSarah E D Perzow, Bethany C Bray et al.ARTICLEJournal of Youth and Adolescence2021References: 66

  • Affective Development from Middle Childhood to Late Adolescence

    Open AccessJulianne M Griffith, Hannah M Clark et al.ARTICLEJournal of Youth and Adolescence2021Cited by: 7References: 52

  • Early pubertal timing predicts onset and recurrence of depressive episodes in boys and girls

    Open AccessElissa Hamlat, Kathleen C McCormick et al.ARTICLEJournal of Child Psychology and…2020

    BACKGROUND: Recurrent depressive episodes during adolescence result in significant impairment and increased risk for subsequent adverse outcomes throughout the life span. Evidence suggests that early pubertal timing predicts the onset of depressive episodes (particularly for girls); however, it is not known if pubertal timing prospectively predicts recurrent depressive episodes in youth. METHODS: = 12.09, SD = 2.35) reported on their pubertal dev…

  • Prenatal Maternal Stress, Child Cortical Thickness, and Adolescent Depressive Symptoms

    Open AccessElysia Poggi Davis, Benjamin L Hankin et al.ARTICLEChild Development2020

    Prenatal maternal stress predicts subsequent elevations in youth depressive symptoms, but the neural processes associated with these links are unclear. This study evaluated whether prenatal maternal stress is associated with child brain development, and adolescent depressive symptoms using a prospective design with 74 mother child pairs (40 boys). Maternal stress was assessed during pregnancy, child cortical thickness at age 7, and depressive sym…

  • Parenting, Effortful Control, and Adolescents’ Externalizing Problem Behavior

    Open AccessMartijn Van Heel, Patricia Bijttebier et al.ARTICLEJournal of Youth and Adolescence2020Cited by: 3References: 42

  • Development and change in attachment

    Open AccessFaaiza Khan, Jia Y Chong et al.ARTICLEJournal of Personality and Social…2020Cited by: 5

    This research examines the contextual factors that facilitate development and change in attachment during later childhood, adolescence, and early adulthood using a longitudinal cohort design involving 690 children (7-19 years old) and their parents. At each wave, a variety of interpersonal variables (e.g., parent-child stress) were measured. We examined alternative developmental processes (i.e., long-term, catalytic, and short-term processes) tha…

  • Longitudinal associations between positive affect and relationship quality among children and adolescents

    Open AccessJulianne M Griffith, Jami F Young et al.ARTICLEEmotion2019

    The broaden-and-build theory of positive emotions suggests that the experience of positive affect (PA) and positive interpersonal experiences should mutually reinforce each other over time, potentiating upward spirals of PA and social well-being. Informed by this upward spirals hypothesis, the present study used parallel process latent growth curve modeling to evaluate co-occurring trajectories of PA and parent- and peer-relationship quality in a…

  • Youth Depression Screening with Parent and Self-Reports

    Open AccessJoseph R Cohen, Felix K So et al.ARTICLEChild Psychiatry & Human…2019

  • Separating within-person from between-person effects in the longitudinal co-occurrence of depression and different anxiety syndromes in youth

    Open AccessErin E Long, Jami F Young et al.ARTICLEJournal of Research in Personality2019References: 60

  • The Longitudinal Association between Self–Esteem and Depressive Symptoms in Adolescents

    Open AccessM Masselink, Eeske Van Roekel et al.ARTICLEEuropean Journal of Personality2018

    Many longitudinal studies have investigated whether self–esteem predicts depressive symptoms (vulnerability model) or the other way around (scar model) in adolescents. The most common method of analysis has been the cross–lagged panel model (CLPM). The CLPM does not separate between–person effects from within–person effects, making it unclear whether the results from previous studies actually reflect the within–person effects or whether they refl…

  • How do attachment styles change from childhood through adolescence? Findings from an accelerated longitudinal Cohort study

    Open AccessJaclyn C Theisen, R Chris Fraley et al.ARTICLEJournal of Research in Personality2018Cited by: 6References: 27

  • NR3C1 methylation as a moderator of the effects of maternal support and stress on insecure attachment development

    Guy Bosmans, Jami F Young et al.ARTICLEDevelopmental Psychology2018References: 4

    We examined the prediction that the interaction between Glucocorticoid Receptor Gene (NR3C1) methylation, stress, and experienced maternal support predicts anxious and avoidant attachment development. This was tested in a general population sample of 487 children and adolescents (44% boys, Mage = 11.84, SDage = 2.4). These children were followed over a period of 18 months. In line with the prediction, we found that NR3C1 methylation moderates the…

  • A meta-analysis of longitudinal associations between substance use and interpersonal attachment security

    Open AccessCatharine E Fairbairn, Donnel A Briley et al.ARTICLEPsychological Bulletin2018Cited by: 13References: 4

    Substance use has long been associated with close relationship distress. Although the direction of influence for this association has not been established, it has often been assumed that substance use is the causal agent and that close relationship distress is the effect. But research seeking to establish temporal precedence in this link has produced mixed findings. Further, theoretical models of substance use and close relationship processes pre…

  • Depression from childhood into late adolescence

    Open AccessBenjamin L Hankin, Jami F Young et al.ARTICLEJournal of Abnormal Psychology2015

    Depression is a debilitating mental illness with clear developmental patterns from childhood through late adolescence. Here, we present data from the Gene Environment Mood (GEM) study, which used an accelerated longitudinal cohort design with youth (N = 665) starting in 3rd, 6th, and 9th grades, and a caretaker, who were recruited from the general community, and were then assessed repeatedly through semistructured diagnostic interviews every 6 mo…